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Roger Guenveur Smith
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Ernest J. Gaines
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During the Great Depression, Jeb Nubey is running from the law when he meets three abandoned children. With nowhere else to go the group passes a stormy night in a comforting church. When they are discovered, a case of mistaken identity ensues. It seems the congregation has been waiting for their new pastor, a widower with three kids. Looks like more trouble for Jeb. Yet the chance for a steady job and three squares a day is too good to turn down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Touching
- De Christina en 11-11-04
De: Patricia Hickman
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The Sweet By and By
- A Novel
- De: Todd Johnson
- Narrado por: Becky Ann Baker, Adriane Lenox, Robin Miles, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Among the longleaf pines and family farms of eastern North Carolina, days seem to pass without incident for Margaret Clayton and Bernice Stokes until they discover each other in a friendship that will take them on the most important journey of their lives. Margaret, droll and whip smart, has a will of iron that never fails her even when her body does, while Bernice, an avid country-music fan, is rarely lucid.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great 2/3 of a book.
- De Tracy en 07-09-12
De: Todd Johnson
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- De: Maya Angelou
- Narrado por: Maya Angelou
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,567
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8,424
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,391
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age - and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. But years later, she learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Emotional & Powerful
- De Miss Toni en 06-30-13
De: Maya Angelou
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Paradise
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 212
In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORRISON AT HER MOST COMPLEX
- De Kennedi Hill en 11-07-19
De: Toni Morrison
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A Gathering of Old Men
- De: Sally Darling, Ernest J. Gaines
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Michelle-Denise Woods
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 236
When Sheriff Mapes is summoned to a sugarcane plantation to find a dead Cajun farmer, he knows who committed the crime. Mapes finds himself powerless, however, when nearly 20 elderly black men confess to the murder. Can justice be served, or will the dead man's brutish father pass judgment his way?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Complex and engaging.
- De David Robbins en 09-02-08
De: Sally Darling, y otros
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Gloria
- De: Kerry Young
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Jamaica, 1938. Gloria Campbell is sixteen years old when a single violent act alters the course of her life forever. Taking along her younger sister, she flees their hometown to forge a new life in Kingston. But in a capital city awash with change, a black woman is still treated as a second-class citizen. From a room in a boarding house and a job at a supply store, Gloria finds her way to a house of ill repute on the edge of the city, intrigued by the glamorous, financially independent women within.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome story! And Robin Miles is a star!!
- De atlfolk en 06-23-18
De: Kerry Young
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Where I'm Calling From
- Selected Stories
- De: Raymond Carver
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story. Where I'm Calling From, his last collection, encompasses classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Love Carver, But Dietz Ruins It With Reading
- De Noirbat en 05-10-18
De: Raymond Carver
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This Side of the Sky
- De: Elyse Singleton
- Narrado por: Myra Taylor, Sharon Washington, Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Award-winning journalist Elyse Singleton delivers what Essence calls “a gem - the perfect book to curl up with.”
Best friends Lilian and Myraleen, two African American women from rural Mississippi, travel to Europe during World War II to act as members of the Women’s Army Corps. During this time of segregation and destruction, both women discover love and heartbreak, triumph and defeat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Breath of Fresh Air
- De Adina Andreu en 07-19-12
De: Elyse Singleton
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
- Stories
- De: Raymond Carver
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story and instantly became both the recognized master of the form and one of our best-loved fiction writers. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Humanity at the Breaking Point
- De Darwin8u en 03-31-19
De: Raymond Carver
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Hotel Paradise
- Emma Graham, Book 1
- De: Martha Grimes
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 15 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 70
A once-fashionable, now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in an attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A 12-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice cream sodas, and decaying lakefronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, 40 years before. Like all important events in the past, there are repercussions and ramifications in the present.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Took a while, but ...
- De Barrel Racer en 10-13-16
De: Martha Grimes
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Song of the Trees
- De: Mildred D. Taylor
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
With the depression bearing down on her family, there isn't much that Cassie Logan can count on anymore. But there is one thing that hasn't changed - the whispering trees outside her window. Cassie's trees, which have stood for centuries, are a great source of comfort to her. But they are also worth a lot of money. With Cassie's daddy gone to lay tracks for the railroad, it seems like no one can stop Mr. Andersen from forcing Big Ma to sell their valuable trees. How can Cassie sit by and watch them disappear?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful show of brooking no refusal!
- De Missy en 06-14-23
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- De: Betty Smith
- Narrado por: Kate Burton
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,211
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,856
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,819
A moving coming-of-age story set in the 1900s, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn follows the lives of 11-year-old Francie Nolan, her younger brother Neely, and their parents, Irish immigrants who have settled in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Johnny Nolan is as loving and fanciful as they come, but he is also often drunk and out of work, unable to find his place in the land of opportunity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Book: flawless. SKIP THE RECORDED INTRO!!
- De Wild Wise Woman en 09-04-11
De: Betty Smith
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The Sound and the Fury
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,869
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,408
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,406
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hang in
- De W.Denis en 07-11-05
De: William Faulkner
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Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
- De: Susan Gregg Gilmore
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 248
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 217
In the latest novel from Susan Gregg Gilmore, sometimes you have to return to the place where you began to arrive at the place where you belong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected but........
- De Coach "J" en 03-11-16
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- De: Ernest J. Gaines
- Narrado por: Tonya Jordan
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 480
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 402
This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s. Miss Jane Pittman has "endured," has seen almost everything and foretold the rest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At great listen
- De Susan en 11-11-08
De: Ernest J. Gaines
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A Lesson Before Dying
- De: Romulus Linney
- Narrado por: Rick Foucheux, Keith Glover, Jamahl Marsh, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 23 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 83
A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The two men forge a bond as they come to understand what it means to resist and defy one's fate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Altogether was amazing!!
- De Fred S. en 08-02-19
De: Romulus Linney
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Drowning Ruth
- A Novel
- De: Christina Schwarz
- Narrado por: Blair Brown
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 960
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 432
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 428
Winter, 1919. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War. Finding herself suddenly overwhelmed, she flees Milwaukee and retreats to her family's farm on Nagawaukee Lake, seeking comfort with her younger sister, Mathilda, and three-year-old niece, Ruth. But very soon, Amanda comes to see that her old home is no refuge—she has carried her troubles with her. On one terrible night almost a year later, Amanda loses nearly everything that is dearest to her when her sister mysteriously disappears and is later found drowned beneath the ice that covers the lake.
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4 out of 5 stars
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surprisingly good
- De lookingin2you en 07-31-03
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Midwives
- A Novel
- De: Chris Bohjalian
- Narrado por: Kate Burton
- Duración: 4 h y 36 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 597
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 486
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 486
The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Reddington, Vermont, for 15 years. But one treacherous winter night, in a house isolated by icy roads and failed telephone lines, Sibyl takes desperate measures to save a baby's life. She performs an emergency Caesarean section on its mother, who appears to have died in labor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Why Abridged
- De Patricia B Tripoli en 11-06-13
De: Chris Bohjalian
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Black and Blue
- De: Anna Quindlen
- Narrado por: Ruth Ann Phimister
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 320
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 256
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 256
When 19-year-old Fran married Bobby Benedetto, she never dreamed that she would find herself in an abusive relationship. Every time her New York City policeman husband hit her, she would think of convincing reasons to stay. Now, with her 10-year-old son in tow, she is running for her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Quindlen Jewel
- De Carol T. Carr en 09-11-12
De: Anna Quindlen
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- De: Ernest J. Gaines
- Narrado por: Tonya Jordan
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 480
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 402
This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s. Miss Jane Pittman has "endured," has seen almost everything and foretold the rest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At great listen
- De Susan en 11-11-08
De: Ernest J. Gaines
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We Were the Mulvaneys
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Scott Shina
- Duración: 22 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 365
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 283
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 289
Judd is the youngest of the four Mulvaney children - three boys and a girl - on their parents’ lush farm in upstate New York. In his childhood, Judd is swept along by the sheer energy of the Mulvaneys and their wealth of beloved family stories. But now, 30 years old, Judd looks back through his memories to tell the secrets that eventually ripped apart the fabric of his storybook family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overlooked Masterpiece
- De Jason en 10-26-12
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A Lesson Before Dying
- De: Romulus Linney
- Narrado por: Rick Foucheux, Keith Glover, Jamahl Marsh, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 23 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 83
A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The two men forge a bond as they come to understand what it means to resist and defy one's fate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Altogether was amazing!!
- De Fred S. en 08-02-19
De: Romulus Linney
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Drowning Ruth
- A Novel
- De: Christina Schwarz
- Narrado por: Blair Brown
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 960
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 432
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 428
Winter, 1919. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War. Finding herself suddenly overwhelmed, she flees Milwaukee and retreats to her family's farm on Nagawaukee Lake, seeking comfort with her younger sister, Mathilda, and three-year-old niece, Ruth. But very soon, Amanda comes to see that her old home is no refuge—she has carried her troubles with her. On one terrible night almost a year later, Amanda loses nearly everything that is dearest to her when her sister mysteriously disappears and is later found drowned beneath the ice that covers the lake.
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4 out of 5 stars
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surprisingly good
- De lookingin2you en 07-31-03
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Midwives
- A Novel
- De: Chris Bohjalian
- Narrado por: Kate Burton
- Duración: 4 h y 36 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 597
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 486
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 486
The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Reddington, Vermont, for 15 years. But one treacherous winter night, in a house isolated by icy roads and failed telephone lines, Sibyl takes desperate measures to save a baby's life. She performs an emergency Caesarean section on its mother, who appears to have died in labor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Why Abridged
- De Patricia B Tripoli en 11-06-13
De: Chris Bohjalian
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Black and Blue
- De: Anna Quindlen
- Narrado por: Ruth Ann Phimister
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 320
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 256
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 256
When 19-year-old Fran married Bobby Benedetto, she never dreamed that she would find herself in an abusive relationship. Every time her New York City policeman husband hit her, she would think of convincing reasons to stay. Now, with her 10-year-old son in tow, she is running for her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Quindlen Jewel
- De Carol T. Carr en 09-11-12
De: Anna Quindlen
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- De: Ernest J. Gaines
- Narrado por: Tonya Jordan
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 480
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 402
This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s. Miss Jane Pittman has "endured," has seen almost everything and foretold the rest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At great listen
- De Susan en 11-11-08
De: Ernest J. Gaines
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We Were the Mulvaneys
- De: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrado por: Scott Shina
- Duración: 22 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 365
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 283
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 289
Judd is the youngest of the four Mulvaney children - three boys and a girl - on their parents’ lush farm in upstate New York. In his childhood, Judd is swept along by the sheer energy of the Mulvaneys and their wealth of beloved family stories. But now, 30 years old, Judd looks back through his memories to tell the secrets that eventually ripped apart the fabric of his storybook family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overlooked Masterpiece
- De Jason en 10-26-12
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
- De: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 326
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 283
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 282
At the age of 12, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti - to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Narrator
- De Luis en 04-03-16
De: Edwidge Danticat
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A Gathering of Old Men
- De: Sally Darling, Ernest J. Gaines
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Michelle-Denise Woods
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 236
When Sheriff Mapes is summoned to a sugarcane plantation to find a dead Cajun farmer, he knows who committed the crime. Mapes finds himself powerless, however, when nearly 20 elderly black men confess to the murder. Can justice be served, or will the dead man's brutish father pass judgment his way?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Complex and engaging.
- De David Robbins en 09-02-08
De: Sally Darling, y otros
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The Heart of a Woman
- De: Maya Angelou
- Narrado por: Maya Angelou
- Duración: 3 h y 1 m
- Versión resumida
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General5 out of 5 stars 665
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 543
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 540
In the fourth volume of her autobiography, The Heart of a Woman, Angelou's turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous New York City. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, her love for writing blazes anew. Her compassion and commitment lead her to respond to the fiery times by becoming the northern coordinator of Martin Luther King's history-making quest. A tempestuous, earthy woman, she promises her heart to one man only to have it stolen, virtually on her wedding day, by a passionate African freedom fighter.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ripoff - Summary of the Book
- De Raquel en 10-26-20
De: Maya Angelou
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Tara Road
- A Novel
- De: Maeve Binchy
- Narrado por: Katherine Borowitz
- Duración: 17 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,762
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,135
Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. By a chance phone call, Ria meets Marilyn, a woman from New England unable to come to terms with her only son's death and now separated from her husband. The two women exchange houses for the summer with extraordinary consequences, each learning that the other has a deep secret that can never be revealed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Material good - quality, not-so-much
- De B. W. en 09-05-08
De: Maeve Binchy
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Mother of Pearl
- De: Melinda Haynes
- Narrado por: Nana Visitor
- Duración: 16 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 113
Twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade is a Black man who was orphaned as a child. 15-year-old Valuable Korner is a White girl who might as well have been orphaned. Petal, Mississippi, circa 1956, seems an unlikely spot for these two to connect, but a friendship forged across race lines is just one of many miracles waiting to happen in this small Southern town.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narrator problem??
- De Nana en 06-23-11
De: Melinda Haynes
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Gap Creek
- The Story of a Marriage
- De: Robert Morgan
- Narrado por: Kate Forbes
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 83
Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man", they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just 17 she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better. But Julie and Hank's new life in the valley, in the last years of the 19th century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best books...love it!!!
- De mountaingal en 01-30-23
De: Robert Morgan
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Sea Glass
- De: Anita Shreve
- Narrado por: Judith Ann Gantly
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 170
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
Honora and Sexton are just settling into their new marriage, and have just bought their beloved New Hampshire house, when the economy crashes and everything in their world changes. Anita Shreve presents a "literary novel of the caliber and craft of Edith Wharton or Henry James," says the Baltimore Sun.
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5 out of 5 stars
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surprising -
- De Dorothy en 03-21-03
De: Anita Shreve
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House of Sand and Fog
- De: Andre Dubus III
- Narrado por: Andre Dubus III, Fontaine Dollas Dubus
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,027
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 606
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 610
In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity. Kathy Nicolo is a troubled young woman whose house is all she has left, and who refuses to let her hard-won stability slip away from her. Sheriff Lester Burdon becomes obsessed with helping her fight for justice.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I suspect I am going to be in the minority . . .
- De BogKid en 01-12-04
De: Andre Dubus III
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The Deep End of the Ocean
- De: Jacquelyn Mitchard
- Narrado por: Dana Ivey
- Duración: 3 h y 7 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 121
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 120
Both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, The Deep End of the Ocean imagines every mother's worst nightmare - the disappearance of a child - as it explores a family's struggle to endure, even against extraordinary odds. Filled with compassion, humor, and brilliant observations about the texture of real life, here is a story of rare power, one that will touch listeners' hearts and make them celebrate the emotions that make us all one.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great reading, but way too much cut out
- De Peter Darling en 03-09-17
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Jewel
- De: Bret Lott
- Narrado por: Celia Weston
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome. Jewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In this story of a woman's devotion to the child who is both her burden and God's singular way of smiling on her, Bret Lott has created a mother-daughter relationship of matchless intensity and beauty, and one of the finest, most indomitable heroines in contemporary American fiction.
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Unnesesary & overuse of the phrase 'Nigga Women'
- De Ashley N. Wilkins en 04-18-18
De: Bret Lott
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Rapture of Canaan
- De: Sheri Reynolds
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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Novelist Sheri Reynolds weaves lyrical prose and folksy dialogue into her spellbinding tales. The Rapture of Canaan, a New York Times best-seller, is the moving story of a teenaged girl clashing with her harshly controlled world. Growing up in a closed religious community deep in the rural South, 15-year-old Ninah Huff painstakingly and obediently follows her church’s many rules—she knows that public humiliation follows the smallest transgression
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really good story
- De mctoria en 08-15-24
De: Sheri Reynolds
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The Measure of a Man
- A Spiritual Autobiography
- De: Sidney Poitier
- Narrado por: Sidney Poitier
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,589
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,146
In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Sidney Poitier here explores these elements of character and personal values to take his own measure: as a man, as a husband and a father, and as an actor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful
- De Alfred en 10-29-08
De: Sidney Poitier
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- Carol
- 11-30-05
An emotionally gripping story...
Skillfully written, deeply emotional, and well worth my time. Very eye opening and exquistely eye-opening. This story unlike anything I had read or heard, but now in retrospect, I am very appreciative of the opportunity to have come across this marvellously written piece of work.
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- Shana K Curtis
- 03-20-15
A great book for teach in valuable life lessons
I really enjoyed this book, but I would have preferred the unabridged version. I felt like I was missing out on some important details. I listened to this version and filled in the gaps with the actual text. Overall, it's a wonderful story to reflect on the ideas of justice and one's obligation to his or her family/community. I would definitely recommend this book. Lots of lessons!
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- Jennifer Amezquita
- 08-23-17
Beautiful yet heartbreaking
I loved it. Summer reading was completed about three times. I will listen to again.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-26-23
Incomplete
The book is missing so many parts of the story there are sentences being cut out
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- Barb
- 04-30-19
Too abridged
I got this for use in my class, but it is too extremely abridged, so I really can't use it at all. It wouldn't be a problem if I was just reading for enjoyment, but this is different. It's my fault. I should have read the reviews before I got it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-12-18
Timeless story about the American justice system
Loved the story.
Narrator needed better emotional characterization and dynamics on voices, but I got used to it after first chapter.
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- Vincent
- 04-09-15
Wonderful read...
Wonderful and very touching...need to be in the hands and heads of our young people...really enjoyed...couldn't stop reading...
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- Jamie Lynn
- 11-29-21
Injustice.
Set in the 1940′s, this is a remarkable story that highlights the lack of justice during that time (even though the justice system today has a LONG way to go). This book shows how important it is to stay true to yourself. To never give someone else the opportunity to take and shatter your personal dignity; that you came into this world alone and, unavoidably, you will leave the exact same way.
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-20-20
Great Book and Great Reading
The book is a really powerful book. This audible reading is extremely well done. I think I enjoyed the book a lot more because of Audible.
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- Nael
- 10-03-22
Not Full Version
This is an edited version of the novel. Too many skips to keep up with if you have the original text. Better just listening, instead of following along.
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