Alive at the End of the World
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Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confronts our everyday apocalypses.
In haunted poems glinting with laughter, Saeed Jones explores the public and private betrayals of life as we know it. With verve, wit, and elegant craft, Jones strips away American artifice in order to reveal the intimate grief of a mourning son and the collective grief bearing down on all of us.
Drawing from memoir, fiction, and persona, Jones confronts the everyday perils of white supremacy with a finely tuned poetic ear, identifying moments that seem routine even as they open chasms of hurt. Viewing himself as an unreliable narrator, Jones looks outward to understand what’s within, bringing forth cultural icons like Little Richard, Paul Mooney, Aretha Franklin, and Diahann Carroll to illuminate how long and how perilously we’ve been living on top of fault lines. As these poems seek ways to love and survive through America’s existential threats, Jones ushers his audiences toward the realization that the end of the world is already here―and the apocalypse is a state of being.
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An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side". Unsettling, heart-wrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities. Ada begins her life in the south of Nigeria as a troubled baby and a source of deep concern to her family.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just ok.
- De Alexa en 07-02-18
De: Akwaeke Emezi
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My Soul to Keep
- De: Tananarive Due
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James
- Duración: 18 h y 17 m
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When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, David makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago, he and other members of an Ethiopian sect traded their humanity so they would never die, a secret he must protect at any cost.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Book I Can't Keep
- De Mistsofjade en 07-19-20
De: Tananarive Due
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Bone
- De: Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon - foreword
- Narrado por: Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon
- Duración: 1 h y 36 m
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From navigating the oft competing worlds of religion and desire, to balancing society’s expectations with the raw experience of being a woman in the world; from detailing the experiences of growing up as a first generation black British woman, to working through situations of dependence and abuse; from finding solace in the echoing caverns of depression and loss, to exploring the vulnerability and redemption in falling in love, each of the raw and immediate poems in Daley-Ward’s bone resonates to the core of what it means to be human.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Visceral,blood hot, thrilling poetry-prose
- De Pam en 12-28-22
De: Yrsa Daley-Ward, y otros
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You Better Be Lightning
- De: Andrea Gibson
- Narrado por: Andrea Gibson
- Duración: 1 h y 58 m
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You Better Be Lightning ranges from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- De Rikki B. en 01-31-23
De: Andrea Gibson
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The Confessions of Max Tivoli
- De: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrado por: Brian Keeler
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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Max Tivoli is uniquely cursed. His mind ages normally, but he is born with the withered body of a 70-year-old man, and his body ages in reverse. Despite this torment, Max manages three times to cross paths with Alice, the woman who captures his heart. Because he appears to be a different person each time they meet, Max has three chances for true love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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odd premise, but it works!
- De Sean Dunnahoo en 03-03-04
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An American Dream
- De: Norman Mailer
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, author Norman Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An American Dream grabs the listener by the throat and refuses to let go.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mailers Immodest masterpiece
- De W C Woods en 07-02-20
De: Norman Mailer
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Everything Is Illuminated
- De: Jonathan Safran Foer
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 110
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With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man—also named Jonathan Safran Foer—sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astounding reading
- De bookworm123abc en 02-10-23
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Going to Meet the Man
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their heads above water.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Punch in the gut
- De Rebecca en 05-08-17
De: James Baldwin
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Hark! The Herald Angels Scream
- De: Christopher Golden - editor, Joe R. Lansdale, Scott Smith, y otros
- Narrado por: Charles Constant, Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 146
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That there is darkness at the heart of the Yuletide season should not surprise. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is filled with scenes that are unsettling. The hideous children - Want and Ignorance - beneath the robe of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. In the finest versions of this story, the best parts are the terrifying parts. Best-selling author and editor Christopher Golden shares his love for Christmas horror stories with this anthology of all-new short fiction from some of the most talented and original writers of horror today.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Some good, some clunkers. Some fun, none scary.
- De Max Trivial en 12-24-18
De: Christopher Golden - editor, y otros
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Magical Negro
- Poems
- De: Morgan Parker
- Narrado por: Morgan Parker
- Duración: 1 h y 33 m
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Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. Focused primarily on depictions of black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics - of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Waste of time
- De Lida en 07-19-20
De: Morgan Parker
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A Fraction of the Whole
- De: Steve Toltz
- Narrado por: Colin McPhillamy, Craig Baldwin
- Duración: 25 h y 11 m
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Stewing in an Australian prison, Jasper Dean reflects on his relationship with his dead father and recounts the many zany adventures they shared together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Funny and Thought-provoking Tale of Human Nature
- De Asha Ember en 01-27-10
De: Steve Toltz
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Angel of Harlem
- De: Kuwanna Haulsey
- Narrado por: Brenda Pressley
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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Inspired by the extraordinary events of Dr. May Chinn’s life, Angel of Harlem is a deeply affecting story of love and transcendence. Weaving seamlessly scenes from the battlefields of the Civil War, during which her father escaped from slavery, to the Harlem living rooms and kitchen tables where May is sometimes forced to operate on her patients, this fascinating novel lays bare the heart of a woman who changed the face of medicine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really Enjoyed!
- De Amazon Customer en 08-08-19
De: Kuwanna Haulsey
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The Vine of Desire
- De: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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Anju and Sudha formed an astounding, almost psychic connection during their childhood in India. When Anju invites Sudha, a single mother in Calcutta, to come live with her and her husband, Sunil, in California, Sudha foolishly accepts, knowing full well that Sunil has long desired her. As Sunil's attraction rises to the surface, the trio must struggle to make sense of the freedoms of America - and of the ties that bind them to India and to one another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vine of desire
- De Mz Shantay en 03-27-21
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Fury
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Salman Rushdie
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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The world renowned author of The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie is a Whitbread Award winner and recipient of the Booker Prize. His first truly American novel, Fury is a metaphorically rich black comedy that reflects the pressure-cooker of modern life. Malik Solanka, irascible doll-maker and retired historian of ideas, suffers the pain of wanting without knowing exactly what it is he wants.
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5 out of 5 stars
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surprisingly good
- De David en 11-21-07
De: Salman Rushdie
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The Gods of Tango
- A Novel
- De: Carolina De Robertis
- Narrado por: Carolina De Robertis
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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February 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, carrying only a small trunk and her father's cherished violin, leaves her Italian village for a new home, and a new husband, in Argentina. Arriving in Buenos Aires, she discovers that he has been killed, but she remains: living in a tenement, without friends or family, on the brink of destitution. Still, she is seduced by the music that underscores life in the city: tango, born from lower-class immigrant voices, now the illicit, scandalous dance of brothels and cabarets.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A rousing tale
- De Jean en 07-24-15
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Alive at the End of the World
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- JBHarris
- 07-21-23
Loved!
I am a fan of his work and enjoyed this work in its entire complexity
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