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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over 40 years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
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Enlightening!
- De Gotta Tellya en 09-11-16
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-28-16
- Idioma: Inglés
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White Poverty
- How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
- De: Reverend Dr. William Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove - contributor
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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One of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, continue to think of poverty—along with issues like welfare, unemployment, and food stamps—as solely a Black problem. Why is this so? What are the historical causes? And what are the political consequences that result?
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Cannot be antiracist without the ties that bind
- De marwalk en 08-25-24
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White Poverty
- How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-06-24
- Idioma: Inglés
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Así no es [It's Not Like That]
- No creas todo lo que te dicen sobre meritocracia, clase media, clasismo, salarios e ingresos [Don't Believe Everything They Tell You About Meritocracy, Middle Class, Classism, Salaries and Income]
- De: Viri Ríos, Ray Campos
- Narrado por: Kerygma Flores
- Duración: 3 h y 37 m
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Así no es desmitifica conceptos equivocados y devela verdades incómodas que demasiados mexicanos creen, pero que son falsas. Ideas que asumimos sobre meritocracia, clase media, clasismo, salarios e impuestos, pero que son escandalosamente erradas. Burdas mentiras que sirven para justificar las más grandes injusticias de México.
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informativo
- De Cliente de Amazon en 09-04-24
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Así no es [It's Not Like That]
- No creas todo lo que te dicen sobre meritocracia, clase media, clasismo, salarios e ingresos [Don't Believe Everything They Tell You About Meritocracy, Middle Class, Classism, Salaries and Income]
- Narrado por: Kerygma Flores
- Duración: 3 h y 37 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-13-24
- Idioma: Español
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Poverty, by America
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-27-23
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Poverty, by America
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-21-23
- Idioma: Inglés
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A Mother's Job
- From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight for Her Tragic Daughter
- De: Ann Cusack, Joe Cusack, Joy Dove
- Narrado por: Melanie Crawley
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. Despite her health problems, the powers-that-be callously halted benefit payments for the mum-of-nine. With no money coming in, Jodey killed herself, aged just 42. Another DWP letter pronouncing her "fit to work" was sent to her home three days after her tragic death. A Mother's Job is the story of how Jodey's mum Joy Dove, 67, took on the system—and won justice for her daughter.
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Bravery
- De Takeyla D. en 08-08-24
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A Mother's Job
- From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight for Her Tragic Daughter
- Narrado por: Melanie Crawley
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-22-22
- Idioma: Inglés
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.
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Former Property Manager
- De Charla en 05-18-16
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-01-16
- Idioma: Inglés
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- De: Andrea Elliott
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
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Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani’s childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, New York City’s homeless crisis has exploded, deepening the chasm between rich and poor. She must guide her siblings through a world riddled by hunger, violence, racism, drug addiction, and the threat of foster care.
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Narration is completely over the top
- De Heather en 10-14-21
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-05-21
- Idioma: Inglés
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- De: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
- Narrado por: Stephanie Land
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie's years spent in service to upper-middle-class America as a "nameless ghost" who quietly shared in her clients' triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets.
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Very engaging
- De NMwritergal en 01-24-19
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- Narrado por: Stephanie Land
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-22-19
- Idioma: Inglés
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Unequal Childhoods
- Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
- De: Annette Lareau
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their children's hectic schedules of "leisure" activities; and here are families with plenty of time but little economic security.
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Essential reading for everyone
- De Jared en 10-09-12
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Unequal Childhoods
- Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-14-11
- Idioma: Inglés
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- De: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country.
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NO PDF! NO CHARTS!
- De P. Dean en 06-02-23
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-21-23
- Idioma: Inglés
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Rethinking Rescue
- Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets
- De: Carol Mithers
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 9 h
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Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets unites the causes of animal welfare and social justice, moving between Weise's story and that of the US rescue movement: from the dog's twentieth-century transition from property to family to the rise of the no-kill campaign to stop shelter euthanasia and the contradictions that hampered those efforts.
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Rethinking Rescue
- Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 9 h
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-20-24
- Idioma: Inglés
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Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal: Would he defer a prestigious fellowship and spend a year helping to create an organization to bring health care to homeless citizens? That year turned into O’Connell’s life’s calling. Tracy Kidder spent five years following Dr. O’Connell and his colleagues as they work with thousands of homeless patients, some of whom we meet in this illuminating book.
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A wonderful program trying to help the most vulnerable in our city
- De LindaLeeLG en 02-21-24
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Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-17-23
- Idioma: Inglés
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A Paradise of Small Houses
- The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
- De: Max Podemski
- Narrado por: Rob Greenbaum
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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The Philadelphia row house. The New York tenement. The Boston triple-decker. Every American city has its own iconic housing style, structures that have been home to generations of families and are symbols of identity and pride. Max Podemski, an urban planner for the city of Los Angeles and lifelong architecture buff, has spent his career in and around these buildings. Deftly combining his years of experience with extensive research, Podemski walks the listener through the history of our dwelling spaces.
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Insightful, informative, excellent narration
- De Matisse en 08-29-24
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A Paradise of Small Houses
- The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
- Narrado por: Rob Greenbaum
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-26-24
- Idioma: Inglés
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The Divide
- Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
- De: Jason Hickel
- Narrado por: Jonathan Cowley
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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Sixty percent of humanity - some four-point-three billion people - live in debilitating poverty. The standard development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right, combined with aid from rich countries. But anthropologist Jason Hickel argues that this approach misses the broader political forces at play. Global poverty - and the growing divide between "developing" and "developed" countries - has to do with how the global economy has been designed over the course of 500 years. Global inequality doesn't just exist; it has been created.
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eye-opening
- De Dumuzi-apsu en 03-05-19
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The Divide
- Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
- Narrado por: Jonathan Cowley
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-13-18
- Idioma: Inglés
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Damnation Island
- Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
- De: Stacy Horn
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse. Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative told through the stories of the poor souls sent to Blackwell's, as well as the period's city officials, reformers, and journalists (including the famous Nellie Bly). Damnation Island re-creates what daily life was like on the island....
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Fascinating!
- De tamborine en 08-06-18
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Damnation Island
- Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-15-18
- Idioma: Inglés
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Delta Epiphany
- Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi
- De: Ellen B. Meacham
- Narrado por: Rosemary Benson
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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In Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi, Ellen B. Meacham tells the story of Kennedy's visit to the Mississippi Delta, while also examining the forces of history, economics, and politics that shaped the lives of the children he met in Mississippi in 1967 and the decades that followed.
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Overall very good but leaves you with one very wrong impression
- De Natalie Stockard en 06-07-24
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Delta Epiphany
- Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi
- Narrado por: Rosemary Benson
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-19-18
- Idioma: Inglés
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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When Orwell went to England in the 30's to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experiences. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked crouching, as the miners did, through a one- to three-mile passage too low to stand up in. He watched the back-breaking, dangerous labor of men whose net pay then averaged $575 a year.
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Frederick Davidson's a Great Reader
- De Debali en 01-11-09
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-15-08
- Idioma: Inglés
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The White Man's Burden
- Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
- De: William Easterly
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Man's Burden is his widely anticipated counterpunch - a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West's economic policies for the world's poor.
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A Bit Repetitive
- De Amazon Customer en 04-27-19
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The White Man's Burden
- Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-04-17
- Idioma: Inglés
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Profit and Punishment
- How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
- De: Tony Messenger
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger offers the first humane, journalistic expose of an American tragedy: modern-day debtor's prisons and how they've destroyed the lives of poor Americans.
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Politically motived and bias
- De Amazon Customer en 04-07-22
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Profit and Punishment
- How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-07-21
- Idioma: Inglés
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Masterless Men
- Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
- De: Keri Leigh Merritt
- Narrado por: Keri Leigh Merritt
- Duración: 17 h y 32 m
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With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor whites could not compete - for jobs or living wages - with profitable slave labor. Though impoverished whites were never subjected to the daily violence and degrading humiliations of racial slavery, they did suffer tangible socioeconomic consequences as a result of living in a slave society.
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A Story Seldom Told
- De Tigerron Wells en 05-04-20
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Masterless Men
- Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
- Narrado por: Keri Leigh Merritt
- Duración: 17 h y 32 m
- Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-12-19
- Idioma: Inglés
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Task Force Hammer
- Expeditionary Force, Book 17
- De: Craig Alanson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 22 h y 9 m
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The Merry Band of Pirates stopped the enemy from stealing a Sentinel, and destroyed its Elder starship, so why weren’t the Pirates planning a victory party? The enemy was not what they thought it was. It was much, much worse.
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no spoilers
- De brian en 09-14-24
De: Craig Alanson
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Not Till We Are Lost
- Bobiverse, Book 5
- De: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There’s anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs just wanting to get away from it all. But it all pales compared to what Icarus and Daedalus discover on their 26,000-year journey to the center of the galaxy.
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A great read, but…
- De Dennis Atanassov en 09-10-24
De: Dennis E. Taylor
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
- De: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 16 h y 7 m
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When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.
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Bad ending and Immaturity
- De The Story Adict en 09-13-17
De: Sarah J. Maas
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Here One Moment
- De: Liane Moriarty
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee, Geraldine Hakewill
- Duración: 15 h y 53 m
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Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future—age 103!—and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all.
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Boring narrator
- De Fitness Guru Shauna en 09-10-24
De: Liane Moriarty
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Task Force Hammer
- Expeditionary Force, Book 17
- De: Craig Alanson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 22 h y 9 m
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The Merry Band of Pirates stopped the enemy from stealing a Sentinel, and destroyed its Elder starship, so why weren’t the Pirates planning a victory party? The enemy was not what they thought it was. It was much, much worse.
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no spoilers
- De brian en 09-14-24
De: Craig Alanson
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Not Till We Are Lost
- Bobiverse, Book 5
- De: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There’s anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs just wanting to get away from it all. But it all pales compared to what Icarus and Daedalus discover on their 26,000-year journey to the center of the galaxy.
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A great read, but…
- De Dennis Atanassov en 09-10-24
De: Dennis E. Taylor
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
- De: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 16 h y 7 m
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When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.
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Bad ending and Immaturity
- De The Story Adict en 09-13-17
De: Sarah J. Maas
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Here One Moment
- De: Liane Moriarty
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee, Geraldine Hakewill
- Duración: 15 h y 53 m
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Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future—age 103!—and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all.
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Boring narrator
- De Fitness Guru Shauna en 09-10-24
De: Liane Moriarty
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Book 1
- De: J.K. Rowling
- Narrado por: Jim Dale
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!
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A great reading of the wrong book
- De P en 11-24-15
De: J.K. Rowling
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The Women
- A Novel
- De: Kristin Hannah
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
- Duración: 14 h y 57 m
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Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
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Great story
- De AJ Frithiof en 02-08-24
De: Kristin Hannah
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Atomic Habits
- An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- De: James Clear
- Narrado por: James Clear
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.
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start here, if you are looking to achieve in life
- De NL en 10-22-18
De: James Clear
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All the Colors of the Dark
- De: Chris Whitaker
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.
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Best book of 2024
- De Jmo930 en 07-04-24
De: Chris Whitaker
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It Ends with Us
- De: Colleen Hoover
- Narrado por: Olivia Song
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true.
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Not what I expected.
- De Love2Read en 01-23-20
De: Colleen Hoover
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A Court of Mist and Fury
- De: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 23 h y 16 m
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Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she’s now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people. As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre’s hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different people: one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin.
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Shippers will either Love it or Hate it
- De Natalie C en 05-05-16
De: Sarah J. Maas
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Book 2
- De: J.K. Rowling
- Narrado por: Jim Dale
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors - and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone... Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true.
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Jim Dale is wonderful!
- De ladigolfer en 12-31-15
De: J.K. Rowling
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Book 3
- De: J.K. Rowling
- Narrado por: Jim Dale
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves... But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss...
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Jim Dale at his best
- De rottndachs en 01-12-16
De: J.K. Rowling
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Good Energy
- The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
- De: Casey Means MD, Calley Means
- Narrado por: Casey Means MD
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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Our ability to prevent and reverse these conditions—and feel incredible today—is under our control and simpler than we think. The key is our metabolic function—the most important and least understood factor in our overall health. As Dr. Casey Means explains in this book, nearly every health problem we face can be explained by how well the cells in our body create and use energy. To live free from frustrating symptoms and life-threatening disease, we need our cells to be optimally powered so that they can create “good energy,” the essential fuel that impacts every aspect of our wellbeing.
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overzealous author
- De Anonymous User en 05-20-24
De: Casey Means MD, y otros
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It Starts with Us
- A Novel
- De: Colleen Hoover
- Narrado por: Colin Donnell, Olivia Song
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life.
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Good narration. Story was meh.
- De Cynthia en 10-19-22
De: Colleen Hoover
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Fourth Wing
- Empyrean, Book 1
- De: Rebecca Yarros
- Narrado por: Rebecca Soler, Teddy Hamilton
- Duración: 21 h y 22 m
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Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.
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Erotica with Dragons
- De Trev en 05-13-23
De: Rebecca Yarros
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Book 4
- De: J.K. Rowling
- Narrado por: Jim Dale
- Duración: 20 h y 36 m
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The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter - but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at Hallowe'en, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is amazed to find his name is one of those that the magical cup picks out. He will face death-defying tasks, dragons and Dark wizards, but with the help of his best friends, Ron and Hermione, he might just make it through - alive!
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“Harreeeeeeeeee”
- De D.S.G. en 01-06-18
De: J.K. Rowling
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Don't Believe Everything You Think
- Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering
- De: Joseph Nguyen
- Narrado por: Joseph Nguyen
- Duración: 2 h y 16 m
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Learn how to overcome anxiety, self-doubt, and self-sabotage without needing to rely on motivation or willpower. In this audiobook, you'll discover the root cause of all psychological and emotional suffering and how to achieve freedom of mind to effortlessly create the life you've always wanted to live. Although pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. This audiobook offers a completely new paradigm and understanding of where our human experience comes from, allowing us to end our own suffering and create how we want to feel at any moment.
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thinly veiled new age religion
- De Alex Z. en 09-18-22
De: Joseph Nguyen
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The Glitch
- De: Leeanne Slade
- Narrado por: Sam Claflin, Daisy Edgar Jones
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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Five Years Earlier: Henry Dunne knows three things: that agreeing to host this raucous house party was a terrible idea, that he absolutely cannot show up to his nursing shift tomorrow with a hangover, and that the beautiful redhead in the corner will be sleeping in his bed tonight.
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This is NOT a Romcom!
- De Amazon Customer en 08-16-24
De: Leeanne Slade
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A Court of Wings and Ruin
- De: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrado por: Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Duración: 25 h y 9 m
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Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin’s actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre but for everything—and everyone she holds dear.
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Jennifer Ikeda declined to continue with theseries
- De JP en 05-04-17
De: Sarah J. Maas
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The God of the Woods
- A Novel
- De: Liz Moore
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.
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Good story telling
- De Ri en 07-12-24
De: Liz Moore
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The Housemaid
- De: Freida McFadden
- Narrado por: Lauryn Allman
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out...and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: The Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of....
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One Big Cliche’
- De Karen Brow en 08-03-22
De: Freida McFadden
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Nexus
- A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
- De: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrado por: Vidish Athavale
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
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For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world.
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Where is Derek Perkins?
- De Whereismycake en 09-13-24
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The Anxious Generation
- How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
- De: Jonathan Haidt
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt, Jonathan Haidt
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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There is no bigger public health story now than the collapse in youth mental health. The numbers are terrifying and dominate our headlines. There has been much debate over how we got here, and what to do next, and bestselling author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt is at the white-hot center of that discourse. Haidt has spent his career speaking wisdom and truth into the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the perfect storm contributing to a public health emergency for Gen Z.
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A Parenting Book for the 2020's
- De Looks and feels great. Even has little pads to prevent scratching en 03-29-24
De: Jonathan Haidt
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Book 5
- De: J.K. Rowling
- Narrado por: Jim Dale
- Duración: 26 h y 28 m
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Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord's return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the Dark forces. Harry must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort's savage assaults on his mind. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time...
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Jim Dale is the BEST!
- De Leigh en 07-03-19
De: J.K. Rowling
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By Any Other Name
- A Novel
- De: Jodi Picoult
- Narrado por: Billie Fulford-Brown, Laura Benanti, Jodi Picoult, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 25 m
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Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing field isn’t level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits the play to a festival under a male pseudonym.
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Shakespeare’s wealth of works penned by a female
- De Brendolynne en 08-27-24
De: Jodi Picoult
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Iron Flame
- Empyrean, Book 2
- De: Rebecca Yarros
- Narrado por: Rebecca Soler, Teddy Hamilton
- Duración: 28 h y 16 m
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Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College―Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves.
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I wish I could throw this book off a cliff.
- De Rebekah L Johnson en 11-10-23
De: Rebecca Yarros
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48 Laws of Power
- De: Robert Greene
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 23 h y 6 m
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.
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You don't have to be a psychopath to like this.
- De Gaggleframpf en 02-25-16
De: Robert Greene
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Book 6
- De: J.K. Rowling
- Narrado por: Jim Dale
- Duración: 18 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark: there is a Death Eater amongst them. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort's darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny...
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Masterful Narration Continues
- De Gina en 05-13-16
De: J.K. Rowling