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David Colacci
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JD Jackson
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F.X. Toole
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F. X. Toole knew boxing. Between bouts, he wrote, and two years before his death he published this collection of stories, giving listeners an unprecedented look at the gritty life around the ring. He tells of a cutman with a sweet tooth, young fighters with dreams of celebrity, and a talented boxer who goes to Atlantic City for his biggest bout, only to be humiliated by the prejudices of a callous promoter. In "Million $$$ Baby", the inspiration for the Oscar-winning Clint Eastwood film, an aged trainer takes on a female fighter, guiding her through disappointment, pain, and tragedy. And in "Rope Burns", Toole realizes his epic vision, showing that even the purest fighter can succumb to the pressures of the world outside the sport. Throughout these stories, boxing's violence is redeemed by the respect these men and women share, as they strap on gloves and prepare their bodies for the ultimate test.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,888
Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beware of Mysterious Sexy Women with Big Suitcases
- De Jefferson en 02-13-11
De: Walter Mosley
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The Last Detail
- A Novel
- De: Darryl Ponicsan
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Unlike other branches of the armed services, the Navy draws its police force from the ranks as temporary duty - Shore Patrol. In this funny, bawdy, moving audiobook set during the height of the Vietnam War, two career sailors in transit in Norfolk, Virginia - Billy "Bad-Ass" Buddusky and Mule Mulhall - are assigned to escort 18-year-old Larry Meadows from Norfolk to the brig in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he is to serve an eight-year sentence for petty theft. It's good duty, until the two old salts realize the injustice of the sentence and are oddly affected by the naive innocence of their young prisoner.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprising ending
- De bella en 09-11-20
De: Darryl Ponicsan
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Tom Clancy's Net Force #5: Point of Impact
- De: Netco Partners
- Narrado por: J. K. Simmons
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force. It's the rich man's drug of choice - and it's being sold on the Internet for a thousand dollars a capsule. A potent mixture of smart drugs, psychedelics, angel dust, and steroids, it can turn a 50-year-old into a raging beast of aggression and sexual desire. Now it's up to the Net Force to find the source of this dangerous designer drug.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Characters
- De Eric C. Firkin en 12-13-24
De: Netco Partners
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The Residue Years
- De: Mitchell S. Jackson
- Narrado por: Corey Allen
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America’s whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the ’90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that’s nothing less than extraordinary. The Residue Years switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dense in cultural details
- De Angel en 12-04-15
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Pronto
- De: Elmore Leonard
- Narrado por: Alexander Adams
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,544
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,359
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,356
The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they're putting word out on the street that Arno's skimming profits from "Jimmy Cap" Capotorto - which he is, but everybody does it. He was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so Harry figures now's a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry's tricky - the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal's custody - but not careful.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great character, even better dialogue!
- De Ron en 11-15-11
De: Elmore Leonard
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All Involved
- A Novel
- De: Ryan Gattis
- Narrado por: Anthony Rey Perez, Marisol Ramirez, Jim Cooper, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 164
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 163
A propulsive and ambitious novel as electrifying as The Wire, from a writer hailed as the West Coast's Richard Price—a mesmerizing epic of crime and opportunity, race, revenge, and loyalty, set in the chaotic streets of South Central LA in the wake of one of the most notorious and incendiary trials of the 1990s. At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth officer. Less than two hours later, the city exploded in violence that lasted six days. In nearly 121 hours, fifty-three lives were lost. But there were even more deaths unaccounted for: violence that occurred outside of active rioting sites by those who used the chaos to viciously settle old scores.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Multiple Narrative Since the Poisonwood Bible
- De Alan McCarron en 04-22-15
De: Ryan Gattis
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Of Mice and Minestrone
- Hap and Leonard: The Early Years (Hap and Leonard)
- De: Kathleen Kent - introduction, Kasey Lansdale - contributor, Joe R. Lansdale
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Hap Collins looks like a good ol’ boy. But even in his misspent youth, his best pal is Leonard Pine, who is Black, gay, and the ultimate outsider. Inseparable friends, Hap and Leonard climb into the boxing ring, visit their families, get in bar fights, and just go fishing - all the while confronting racists, righting wrongs, and eating a whole lot of delicious food.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wringing every last drop
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 04-08-23
De: Kathleen Kent - introduction, y otros
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Flood
- A Novel (Burke, Book 1)
- De: Andrew Vachss
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 428
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 323
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 328
Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her - so she can kill him with her bare hands. In this thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegade private eye teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to follow a child's murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every alley is blind and the penthouses are as dangerous as the basements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Noir!
- De Snoodely en 03-06-14
De: Andrew Vachss
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Missing Links
- De: Rick Reilly
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 221
Missing Links is the story of four middle-class buddies who live outside Boston and play golf together at Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Links and Deli, not so fondly known as Ponky. An 18-hole garbage dump with hazards that include a concrete river surrounded by a chain-link fence and the pillars of the elevated train that runs through the course, it is reputed to be the worst golf course in America.
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3 out of 5 stars
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"F" word is pervalent in the story...
- De Todd and Gabriela en 09-04-11
De: Rick Reilly
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This Might Get a Little Heavy
- A Memoir
- De: Ralphie May, Nils Parker
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 251
There was a time when Ralphie May was one of the biggest stand-up comedians in the country, both by ticket sales and by tonnage. While some things changed - Ralphie lost half his body weight - others did not: He will be remembered as one of the most successful comics of his time. Completed just months before his untimely passing, in This Might Get a Little Heavy, Ralphie takes listeners on a behind-the-scenes tour of his life and career, one that winds across the country, over obstacles, beyond heartbreak, and through the golden age of stand-up.
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5 out of 5 stars
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brilliant and tragic
- De Timothy Trujillo en 08-12-18
De: Ralphie May, y otros
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Already Dead
- De: Charlie Huston
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 886
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 578
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 575
From the Battery to the Bronx, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe Pitt is one of them, and he's not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus that's eating at him isn't his idea of a good time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Pleasant Surprise
- De Flavius Krakdaddius en 12-23-09
De: Charlie Huston
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Rabbit
- The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
- De: Patricia Williams, Jeannine Amber
- Narrado por: Patricia Williams
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 7,395
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,649
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6,652
One of five children, Pat watched as her alcoholic mother struggled to get by on charity, cons, and petty crimes. At age seven, Pat was taught to roll drunks for money. At 12, she was targeted for sex by a man eight years her senior; by 13, she was pregnant. By 15, Pat was a mother of two. Alone at 16, Pat was determined to make a better life for her children. But with no job skills and an eighth-grade education, her options were limited. She learned quickly that hustling and humor were the only tools she had to survive.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story but dry reading
- De SpazzyMaggee en 11-03-17
De: Patricia Williams, y otros
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Manchild in the Promised Land
- De: Claude Brown
- Narrado por: Cary Hite
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 208
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 185
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 184
Published during a literary era marked by the ascendance of Black writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Alex Haley, this thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown’s childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful and revealing
- De Anonymous User en 05-20-20
De: Claude Brown
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The Purple Don
- An Illuminati Novel
- De: SLMN
- Narrado por: L. Steven Taylor
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Joey Diamonds is on the verge of being a “made” man, with ice-cold blue eyes that pierce through the hearts of women...and men. After being disowned by his Mafia family, losing the love of his life, and realizing the world at large is his enemy, Joey throws extreme caution to the wind on his journey of self-debauchery in the name of fame and fortune. The Purple Don is the story of how self-destruction is never simply an internal state, and everyone around can be destroyed in the process.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This was a good story!
- De tracey en 04-18-24
De: SLMN
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Nigger
- An Autobiography
- De: Dick Gregory, Dr. Christian Gregory - introduction, Robert Lipsyte
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi, Dr. Christian Gregory
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,291
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,152
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,144
Fifty-five years ago, in 1964, an incredibly honest and revealing memoir by one of the America's best-loved comedians and activists, Dick Gregory, was published. With a shocking title and breathtaking writing, Dick Gregory defined a genre and changed the way race was discussed in America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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PLEASE don't pass this book up!
- De D en 05-06-20
De: Dick Gregory, y otros
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Highfire
- A Novel
- De: Eoin Colfer
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,002
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 891
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 892
In the days of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs - now he hides from swamp tour boats and rises only with the greatest reluctance from his La-Z-Boy recliner. Laying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent fire breather has been reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-shirt, and binging Netflix in a fishing shack. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts far and wide as Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie - now he goes by Vern.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun
- De Alex Sumner en 02-28-20
De: Eoin Colfer