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Work Like Any Other
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Roscoe T. Martin, the son of an Alabama coal foreman, set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the 20th century: electricity. It became his training, his life's work. But when his wife, Marie, inherits her father's failing farm, Roscoe has to give it up, with great cost to his pride and sense of self, to rescue the farm for the sake of his marriage and his family.
Realizing he might lose them all if he doesn't improve the place, he enlists the help of his black farmhand, Wilson, and begins to use his skills as an electrician to siphon energy from the state, ushering in a period of bounty and happiness on land that had been falling to ruin. Even the love of Marie and their child seems back within Roscoe's grasp. Then a young man working for the power company is electrocuted after stumbling on Roscoe's illegal lines, and everything changes: Roscoe is arrested for manslaughter; Wilson is leased to a coal mine; the farm once more starts to deteriorate without electricity; and Marie abandons her husband as he goes to trial, leaving him to face his 20-year sentence alone.
No longer an electrician or even a farmer, an unmoored Roscoe must now carve out his place in a violent new world. Climbing the ranks from dairy hand to librarian to "dog boy", an inmate who aids the guards to track down escapees, he is ultimately forced to ask himself once more if his work is just work or if the price of his crimes - for him and his family - is greater than he ever let himself believe.
Gorgeously spare and brilliantly insightful, Work Like Any Other announces a major work from an incredible young talent - a deeply affecting story of dispossession, injustice, and redemption that explores the lengths to which the broken among us push forward.
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Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably fractured.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read!
- De S. Clay en 11-01-17
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I Will Send Rain
- A Novel
- De: Rae Meadows
- Narrado por: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 47
Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, and in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934, and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, is struggling as the earliest storms of the Dust Bowl descend. The wheat harvests are drying out, and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We've seen pictures of the Dust Bowl
- De Henwhisperer en 10-12-16
De: Rae Meadows
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Leopard at the Door
- De: Jennifer McVeigh
- Narrado por: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 385
After six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, but the beloved home she'd longed for is much changed. Her father's new companion - a strange, intolerant woman - has taken over the household. The political climate in the country grows more unsettled by the day and is approaching the boiling point. And looming over them all is the threat of the Mau Mau, a secret society intent on uniting the native Kenyans and overthrowing the whites.
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5 out of 5 stars
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IMPERIALISM
- De Haberwoman en 08-02-18
De: Jennifer McVeigh
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Now & Then
- De: Jacqueline Sheehan
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
Anna O’Shea has failed at marriage, shed her job at a law firm, and she’s trying to re-create herself when she and her recalcitrant nephew are summoned to the past in a manner that nearly destroys them. Her twenty-first-century skills pale as she struggles to find her nephew in nineteenth-century Ireland. For one of them, the past is brutally difficult, filled with hunger and struggle. For the other, the past is filled with privilege, status, and a reprieve from the crushing pain of present-day life. For both Anna and her nephew, the past offers them a chance at love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved This Book
- De Janina en 03-07-17
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Two Roads
- De: Joseph Bruchac
- Narrado por: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
It's 1932, and 12-year-old Cal Black and his pop have been riding the rails for years after losing their farm in the Great Depression. Cal likes being a "knight of the road" with Pop, even if they're broke. But then Pop has to go to Washington, DC - some of his fellow veterans are marching for their government checks, and Pop wants to make sure he gets his due - and Cal can't go with him. Pop tells Cal something he never knew before: Pop is actually a Creek Indian, which means Cal is, too. And Pop has decided to send Cal to a government boarding school for Native Americans in Oklahoma.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story
- De Sandra Cavender en 05-11-23
De: Joseph Bruchac
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The Poet of Tolstoy Park
- De: Sonny Brewer
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
This book is based on the true life of Henry Stuart. When the 67-year-old former professor finds out he is dying of tuberculosis, he vows to “learn in solitude how to save myself.” He sets off for Fairhope, Alabama, with only the writings of his beloved Tolstoy for company. There, the barefoot poet builds himself a small hut and slowly becomes an inspiration for the rest of the utopian town. When his last few months become his last few years, Henry’s attempt to understand death becomes a lesson on life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De Jimmy Oaks en 03-23-15
De: Sonny Brewer
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Elmet
- De: Fiona Mozley
- Narrado por: Gareth Bennett Ryan
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 538
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 500
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 499
In this atmospheric and profoundly moving debut, Cathy and Daniel live with their father, John, in the remote woods of Yorkshire, in a house the three of them built themselves. John is a gentle brute of a man, a former enforcer who fights for money when he has to, but who otherwise just wants to be left alone to raise his children. When a local landowner shows up on their doorstep, their precarious existence is threatened, and a series of actions is set in motion that can only end in violence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Strains credibility
- De DM en 01-06-18
De: Fiona Mozley
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White Dog Fell from the Sky
- De: Eleanor Morse
- Narrado por: Carla Mercer-Meyer
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 118
Botswana, 1976: Isaac Muthethe thinks he is dead. Smuggled across the border from South Africa in a hearse, he awakens covered in dust, staring at blue sky and the face of White Dog. Far from dead, he is, for the first time, in a country without apartheid. A medical student in South Africa, he was forced to flee after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpectedly Stunning Work!
- De Kathi en 03-15-13
De: Eleanor Morse
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Mudbound
- De: Hillary Jordan
- Narrado por: Ezra Knight, Kate Forbes, Joseph Collins, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,300
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 983
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 989
Hillary Jordan's mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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May this South never rise again.
- De Betty en 03-25-12
De: Hillary Jordan
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 513
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 364
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 362
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Avoid this Plague
- De Andre en 05-16-08
De: Louise Erdrich
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Hell at the Breech
- De: Tom Franklin
- Narrado por: Larry Pine
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat. His outraged friends - mostly poor cotton farmers - form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe responsible. The hooded members wage a bloody year-long campaign of terror that culminates in a massacre where the innocent suffer alongside the guilty.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pull up them breeches, son
- De W Perry Hall en 02-04-14
De: Tom Franklin
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A Sweetness to the Soul
- De: Jane Kirkpatrick
- Narrado por: Susan Denaker
- Duración: 17 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Based on historical characters and events, A Sweetness to the Soul recounts the captivating story of young, spirited Oregon pioneer Jane Herbert who at the age of 12 faces a tragedy that begins a life-long search for forgiveness and love. In the years that follow, young Jane finds herself involved in an unusual and touching romance with a dreamer 16 years her senior, struggles to make peace with an emotionally distant mother, and fights to build a family of her own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected Treat
- De Sarah D. en 12-15-11
De: Jane Kirkpatrick
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The House Girl
- A Novel
- De: Tara Conklin
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,252
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,099
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,104
The year is 2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. The year is 1852: Josephine is a 17-year-old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco farm - an aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell. It is through her father, renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina discovers a controversy rocking the art world: Art historians now suspect that the revered paintings of Lu Anne Bell, an antebellum artist known for her humanizing portraits of the slaves who worked her Virginia tobacco farm, were actually the work of her house slave, Josephine.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Jeanette Finan en 02-21-13
De: Tara Conklin
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American War
- A Novel
- De: Omar El Akkad
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,341
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,127
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,121
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best listen in years
- De odin en 04-08-17
De: Omar El Akkad
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
- De: Allan Gurganus
- Narrado por: Barbara McCulloh
- Duración: 49 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and fans alike fell in love with the voice of 99-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heroines in American literature. Lucy married at the turn of the 20th century, when she was 15 and her husband was 50. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dated.
- De edie butler en 04-06-21
De: Allan Gurganus
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
- De: David Wroblewski
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 21 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 828
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 747
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 753
Filled with breathtaking scenes, the elemental north woods, the sweep of seasons, an iconic American barn, a fateful vision rendered in the falling rain. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a meditation on the limits of language and what lies beyond, a brilliantly inventive retelling of an ancient story, and an epic tale of devotion, betrayal, and courage in the American heartland.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Devastatingly Dark Story
- De Knitme23 en 02-07-15
De: David Wroblewski
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Cataloochee
- De: Wayne Caldwell
- Narrado por: Scott Sowers
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 34
Debut novelist Wayne Caldwell's Cataloochee -a rich, vivid, arresting work beginning at the dawn of Reconstruction - sprawls across the succeeding generations like the vast green mountains of its rural North Carolina setting. Best-selling author Charles Frazier calls it "a brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America." This enthralling saga evokes the full color spectrum of mountain life, from lights to darks and every shade in between.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love It!
- De Cynthia J. Hakansson en 02-27-09
De: Wayne Caldwell
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Winter Collection
- Six Historical Short Stories (A Timeless Romance Anthology, Book 1)
- De: Sarah M. Eden, Heidi Ashworth, Annette Lyon, y otros
- Narrado por: Karen Peakes
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 112
Six award-winning authors have contributed brand new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Winter Collection. A collection unlike any other, listeners will love this compilation of six sweet historical romance novellas, set in varying eras, yet all with one thing in common: Romance.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Winter
- De Manila J. Dobbs en 08-12-23
De: Sarah M. Eden, y otros
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- Nicole Del Sesto
- 01-18-17
Not like the others
This seemed like it was going to be a book like any other and at first I didn’t think I was going to like it, in fact I thought about abandoning it. But there was something about it that drew me in and it didn’t take long before I was completely in love. Poor hapless Roscoe reminded me a lot of Stoner; this totally lovable person who bumbled his way into a circumstance he didn’t seem destined for.
It’s not particularly original, and had I not loved the book so much I would have scored that lower. It was a beautiful book, I thought the ending fitting. It’s 5 stars and a 2016 favorite for me.
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