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Vikas Adam
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Named an ELLE BEST BOOK OF 2024
Named a BEST or MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR by Readers’ Digest, Elle Magazine, CondeNast Traveler, Publishers’ Weekly, Indigo, ZibbyMag, Goodreads, BookBub & more
“A deeply moving, layered portrait of the hopes, dreams and fears a family carries as ‘other’ in the face of the modern American Dream."" -- Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push and The Whispers
Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple.
For the most part, these differences among the five members of the Shah family are minor irritants, arguments between parents and children, older and younger siblings. But one Saturday night, the twelve-year-old son is arrested. The fallout from that event will shake each family member’s perception of themselves as individuals, as community members, as Americans, and will lead each to consider: how do we define success? At what cost comes ambition? And what is our role and responsibility in the cultural mosaic of modern America?
For readers of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett and Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, A Great Country explores themes of immigration, generational conflict, social class and privilege as it reconsiders the myth of the model minority and questions the price of the American dream.
©2024 Shilpi Somaya Gowda (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers
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It’s spring 1999, and 25-year-old Lia Cope and her prickly 73-year-old grandmother, Mineko, are sharing a bedroom in Curtain, Texas, the ranching town where Lia grew up and Mineko began her life as a Japanese war bride. Both women are at a turning point: Mineko, long widowed, moved in with her son and daughter-in-law after a suspicious fire destroyed the Cope family ranch house, while Lia, an architect with a promising career in Austin, has unexpectedly returned under circumstances she refuses to explain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank you.
- De Geraldine L. Lowry en 09-02-24
De: Amanda Churchill
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Same Bed Different Dreams
- A Novel
- De: Ed Park
- Narrado por: Daniel K. Isaac, Dominic Hoffman, Shannon Tyo
- Duración: 18 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 22
In 1919, far-flung patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, though, and after Japan’s defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the tragic North-South split that remains today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Different
- De MOL en 12-10-24
De: Ed Park
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Find Me in California
- A Novel
- De: Kerry Lonsdale
- Narrado por: Amanda Leigh Cobb
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
Raised by her fiercely passionate and free-spirited grandmother, Julia Hope has never gone without love. But as she tends to her only living relative during her final days, Julia struggles to overcome her fear of being alone. A thousand miles away, Matt Gatlin has managed to avoid the coldhearted grandmother with whom he once lived. But after twelve years of her being blessedly out of sight, she needs him. His resentments still raw, Matt packs up his car and reluctantly heads to California to confront a bitter past he thought was long gone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It was mystical and mysterious yet believable and real. Loved this story. It would make a great movie!
- De R. L. Roeck en 08-12-24
De: Kerry Lonsdale
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Allow Me to Introduce Myself
- A Novel
- De: Onyi Nwabineli
- Narrado por: Nneka Okoye
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 14
Anuri Chinasa has had enough. And really, who can blame her? She was the unwilling star of her stepmother’s social media empire before “momfluencers” were even a thing. For years, Ophelia documented every birthday, every skinned knee, every milestone and meltdown for millions of strangers to fawn over and pick apart. Now, at twenty-five, Anuri is desperate to put her way-too-public past behind her and start living on her own terms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of one
- De Nwachineke en 02-23-25
De: Onyi Nwabineli
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Happy Hour
- De: Marlowe Granados
- Narrado por: Bronwyn Szabo
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 31
Refreshing and wry in equal measure, Happy Hour is an intoxicating novel of youth well spent. Isa Epley is all of 21 years old and already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. She arrives in New York City for a summer of adventure with her best friend, one newly blonde Gala Novak. They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them from having a good time.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wanted to like it.
- De Sarai en 09-14-21
De: Marlowe Granados
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Women of Good Fortune
- De: Sophie Wan
- Narrado por: Catherine Ho
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 20
Bride-to-be Lulu is about to marry Shanghai’s most eligible bachelor. She just has one secret: she isn't in love and is only marrying him under pressure to fix her family’s financial issues. But for Lulu and her two best friends, her upcoming nuptials may offer a different opportunity entirely…
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a cute story
- De L. Katz en 03-08-24
De: Sophie Wan
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The Adversary
- A Novel
- De: Michael Crummey
- Narrado por: Mary Lewis
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos. That ruthless act of sabotage is the opening salvo in a battle between the man and woman who own Mockbeggar's largest mercantile firms, each fighting for the scarce resources of the north Atlantic fishery, each seeking a measure of revenge on the person they despise most in the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Meandering
- De C GAUDIO en 12-09-24
De: Michael Crummey
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The Light Over Lake Como
- A Novel
- De: Roland Merullo
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 11
It’s 1945. The Nazi occupation of Italy is in its closing days. But risk is ever present. It’s been nearly two years since Sarah Zinsi found tenuous sanctuary in Switzerland. Unmoored in a foreign land, she heeds a rumor that her village on the Lake Como shore has been liberated. Clutching her young daughter, Sarah navigates the arduous mountain trek back home to be with Luca Benedetto, the father of her child.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love the WW II setting
- De Jeanne en 01-01-25
De: Roland Merullo
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A Council of Dolls
- A Novel
- De: Mona Susan Power
- Narrado por: Isabella Star LaBlanc
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 77
From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls they carried….
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5 out of 5 stars
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Valuable Perspective, told with gentleness
- De Liza Michaelson en 10-21-24
De: Mona Susan Power
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Our Hideous Progeny
- A Novel
- De: C.E. McGill
- Narrado por: Florence Howard
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 223
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 221
The 1850s are a time of discovery, and London is ablaze with the latest scientific theories and debates, especially when a spectacular new exhibition of dinosaur sculptures opens at the Crystal Palace. Mary is keen to make her name in this world of science alongside her geologist husband, Henry—but despite her sharp mind and sharper tongue, without wealth and connections their options are limited.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible
- De M en 07-19-23
De: C.E. McGill
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Rednecks
- De: Taylor Brown
- Narrado por: Ramiz Monsef
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Award-winning novelist Taylor Brown brings to life one of the most compelling events in twentieth-century American history, reminding us of the hard-won origins of today’s unions. Rednecks is a propulsive, character-driven tale that’s both a century old and blisteringly contemporary: a story of unexpected friendship, heroism in the face of injustice, and the power of love and community against all odds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History Comes Alive
- De Donald B. Eager en 06-14-24
De: Taylor Brown
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A Woman of Pleasure
- De: Kiyoko Murata, Juliet Winters Carpenter - translator
- Narrado por: Susan Momoko Hingley
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13
Based on real-life events in Meiji-era Japan, award-winning and critically acclaimed veteran writer Kiyoko Murata re-creates in stunning detail the brutal yet vibrant lives of women in the red-light district at the turn of the twentieth century—the bond they share, the survival skills they pass down, and the power of owning one's language.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved!
- De Christian George en 05-23-24
De: Kiyoko Murata, y otros
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Perfectly Ordinary People
- De: Nick Alexander
- Narrado por: Mary Jane Wells, David de Vries, Helen Lloyd, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
Ruth’s childhood was a happy one, and her family—on her mother’s side—large and loving. But her father’s French origins have always remained a mystery. Now, with aged relatives beginning to die, Ruth decides to research her father’s family before it’s too late. When she discovers a series of long-lost cassettes, everything she thought she knew about them shatters. The tapes expose an unimaginable truth–an epic wartime story of hidden love and sacrifice, stretching back to occupied France.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Moving story
- De Michelle en 01-30-25
De: Nick Alexander
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre A Great Country
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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- Pat
- 12-03-24
reader is excellent
pretty negative and preaching, but I kept listening because the reader was so excellent and interesting
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-21-24
Incredible story
This book was so layered with so many different nuances for people to consider. The author did such a lovely job of illustrating, the complexities of different ethnicities, different occupations, and different caste systems… and there were several other social justice issues, but she cleverly gave each a different view so that it made you think about that person’s life experience. It’s a good lesson to consider one another’s journey instead of being so quick to judge or make assumptions.
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- C Schoeneck
- 03-27-24
Get ready!
Wow! Shilpi gives us another novel interwoven with thought-provoking topics like ethnicity and race in America, prejudice, social justice and what it means to be in community. Thank you again!
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