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Witness to egregious inhumanity, not limited to mental/sexual/spiritual abuse of minors through elderly, mind control/manipulation, blackmail/extortion, grand larceny, drugging, human trafficking, cult sanctioned rape, even perversion eliciting suicide.
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De: DaMaris B. Hill
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Spoon River Anthology
- De: Edgar Lee Masters
- Narrado por: Patrick Fraley, Edward Asner
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
From a cemetery in a mythical small town in Illinois, the dead speak about their lives. Each free-verse monologue stands as an epitaph for the person speaking, yet the play is ultimately about life, not death. Featuring 50 performers with specially commissioned original music, this is the only audio version of this landmark classic available.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent American poetry
- De Admiral Pike en 04-14-05
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Breathe
- A Letter to My Sons
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: Imani Perry
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 95
Breathe explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world. Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving of humanity. She admits fear and frustration for her African-American sons in a society that is increasingly racist and at times seems irredeemable. However, as a mother, feminist, writer, and intellectual, Perry offers an unfettered expression of love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful peek into the heart & soul of a mother
- De Treesey en 10-08-19
De: Imani Perry
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When God Weeps
- Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty
- De: Joni Eareckson Tada, Steven Estes
- Narrado por: Joni Eareckson Tada
- Duración: 2 h y 38 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 73
It's easy to trust God when things are going our way and the world makes sense. But when suffering strikes - especially seemingly senseless suffering - we are filled with doubt and stunned by events spiraling beyond our control. In the midst of suffering, we often question the very foundation of our faith - our belief in the God who says he loves us.
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2 out of 5 stars
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only 4 chapters of the book are included!!??
- De Brett en 01-05-19
De: Joni Eareckson Tada, y otros
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The Devils of Loudun
- A True Story of Demonic Possession
- De: Aldous Huxley
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 80
In 1632, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier - accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge - was convicted of being in league with Satan. Then he was burned at the stake for witchcraft. A remarkable true story of religious and sexual obsession, The Devils of Loudun is considered by many to be Brave New World author Aldous Huxley's nonfiction masterpiece.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Strange book strange tale
- De Grant en 09-08-20
De: Aldous Huxley
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Tyrant
- Shakespeare on Politics
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 188
As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too Close for Comfort
- De C. Gross en 05-10-18
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A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat
- English and French Edition
- De: Arthur Rimbaud
- Narrado por: Michael C. Gwynne
- Duración: 1 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
Originally distributed as a self-published booklet, A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud quickly established him to be the "first punk" and a visonary mentor to the Beat poets for both his recklessness and fiery poetry according to famous poet of the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg.
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5 out of 5 stars
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English Version Great - French Missing
- De Earth Lover en 02-21-19
De: Arthur Rimbaud
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Of Love and Other Demons
- De: Gabriel García Márquez
- Narrado por: Christopher Salazar
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
On her 12th birthday, Sierva Maria - the only child of a decaying noble family in an 18th-century South American seaport - is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love/Religion/Family: Making people nuts for years
- De Darwin8u en 09-04-23
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Oedipus the King
- De: Sophocles
- Narrado por: Michael Sheen, full cast
- Duración: 1 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian reference.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Crackles with Fire
- De Aaron en 01-01-05
De: Sophocles
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The Fire Next Time
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Jesse L. Martin
- Duración: 2 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 8,750
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7,528
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7,478
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with this eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad and moving and powerful and beautiful
- De Darwin8u en 09-17-15
De: James Baldwin
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Bushido: The Soul of Japan (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Inazo Nitobé
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
Through a study of the way of the samurai, Nitobe identifies the seven virtues most widely recognized by the Japanese: rectitude, courage, benevolence, politeness, veracity, honor, and loyalty. In sharing these moral guidelines, handed down over generations, Nitobe gives the world unique insight into a previously unexplored code of honor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Contemplative
- De J. Eastman en 02-05-21
De: Inazo Nitobé
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The Moor's Last Sigh
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The performance is enchanting.
- De Kelly en 05-04-18
De: Salman Rushdie
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
- De: James Hogg
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny, Nick McArdle
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 62
A psychological thriller before its time, James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, published in 1824, takes us back to the world of 18th-century Scotland, into a mind haunted by religious obsession, and driven to commit murder. The events are told from several different viewpoints, so that truth and reality appear to dissolve in this disturbing story of the dark legacy of Calvinist doctrine, and how it led one man to madness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A gripping story
- De fred greene en 04-19-18
De: James Hogg
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Nostalgia
- Going Home in a Homeless World
- De: Anthony Esolen
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Alone among the creatures of the world, man suffers a pang both bitter and sweet. It is an ache for the homecoming. The Greeks called it nostalgia. Post-modern man, homeless almost by definition, cannot understand nostalgia. If he is a progressive, dreaming of a utopia to come, he dismisses it contemptuously, eager to bury a past he despises. If he is a reactionary, he sentimentalizes it, dreaming of a lost golden age. In this profound reflection, Anthony Esolen explores the true meaning of nostalgia and its place in the human heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deep and thought provoking.
- De Holly Stockley en 04-24-19
De: Anthony Esolen
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Dragon's Child
- The King Arthur Trilogy, Book 1
- De: M. K. Hume
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 18 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
The future of Britain is at stake. In the turbulent times of the Dark Ages, the despotic Uther Pendragon, High King of Celtic Britain, is nearing death, and his kingdom is being torn apart by the squabbling of minor kings. But only one man can bring the Celts together as a nation and restore peace - King Arthur. Artorex (Arthur) doesn't yet seem like the great man he will grow into. We meet him as a shy, subservient twelve-year-old living in the foster home of Lord Ector, who took in Artorex as a babe to protect him from murderous kin.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Dry, Dull Tale, Marred in "Realism"
- De Steven en 09-21-15
De: M. K. Hume
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Samson Agonistes
- De: John Milton
- Narrado por: David de Keyser, Philip Madoc, Matthew Morgan, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 51 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Samson Agonistes, the 'dramatic poem' by John Milton, was published in 1671, three years before the poet's death. Written in the form of a Greek tragedy, with the Chorus commenting on the action, it follows the biblical story of the blind Samson as he wreaks his revenge on the Philistines who have imprisoned him. A powerful subject, with a personal resonance for the blind Milton, it is a perfect work for the medium of audiobook where poetry and drama can be balanced equally.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unbelievable
- De Anonymous User en 11-06-20
De: John Milton