American Snake Pit
Hope, Grit, and Resilience in the Wake of Willowbrook
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"We have a situation that borders on a snake pit." - Robert F. Kennedy
In 1987, following a public outcry about its questionable medical practices, Staten Island's Willowbrook State School for people with intellectual disabilities closed its doors for good.
Flat broke and almost finished with graduate school, Dan Tomasulo - now a core faculty member at Columbia University's Spirituality Mind Body Institute - was hired to relocate Willowbrook's most severely disabled inhabitants into a groundbreaking community-based group home.
American Snake Pit is the story of the disregarded souls who ended up in Tomasulo's care; of the eccentric, resilient staff who helped make such a momentous success possible; and, most of all, of one man's persistent struggle to give voices to those who could not advocate for themselves.
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Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age 15, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. Then, when Liz's mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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unbelievably inspiring
- De Amazon Customer en 03-17-12
De: Liz Murray
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For Whom The Minivan Rolls
- Aaron Tucker Mystery, Book 1
- De: Jeffrey Cohen
- Narrado por: Damon Abdallah
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Aaron Tucker isn't a detective. So he's baffled when the richest guy in his New Jersey town insists that Aaron, and Aaron alone, investigate the disappearance of his wife, who has inexplicably vanished from their home in the middle of the night. Funny, down-to-earth, lovable, and resourceful, Aaron Tucker, family man and freelance writer, reluctantly says yes, and continuously wishes he hadn't.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Funny, Great Narration, Weak Mystery
- De Karen K en 07-16-15
De: Jeffrey Cohen
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That Darkness
- De: Lisa Black
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Maggie's latest case is an unidentified female in her early teens, discovered in a local cemetery. More shocking than the girl's injuries - for Maggie at least - is the fact that no one has reported her missing. She and the detectives assigned to the case (including her cop ex-husband) are determined to follow every lead, run down every scrap of evidence. But the monster they seek is watching every move, closer to them than they could possibly imagine.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slow and Boring
- De viv en 06-08-16
De: Lisa Black
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Notes on a Banana
- A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression
- De: David Leite
- Narrado por: David Leite
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
Reminiscing about the people and events that shaped him, David looks back at the highs and lows of his life, from his rejection of being gay and his attempt to "turn straight" through Aesthetic Realism, a cult in downtown Manhattan, to becoming a writer, cookbook author, and web publisher, to his 23-year relationship with Alan, known to millions of David's readers and listeners as "The One", which began with (what else?) food.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finished it in a day!
- De Kathryn en 08-23-17
De: David Leite
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Finding Fish
- A Memoir
- De: Antwone Q. Fisher
- Narrado por: Thomas Penny
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 92
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Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his midteens he escaped and enlisted in the navy, where he became a man of the world, raised by the family he created for himself. Finding Fish shows how, out of this unlikely mix of deprivation and hope, an artist was born.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book will not disappoint you.
- De Joseph en 10-16-16
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The Portable Veblen
- De: Elizabeth Mckenzie
- Narrado por: Julia Gibson
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 197
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 176
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 177
An exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contributor. The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that's as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Set in and around Palo Alto amid the culture clash of new money and old (antiestablishment) values, and with the specter of our current wars looming across its words, The Portable Veblen is an unforgettable look at the way we live now.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not what it was cracked up to be
- De Linda en 02-03-16
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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
- De: Juliann Garey
- Narrado por: Dan Butler
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 497
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 455
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In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Psychosis or Syphilis?
- De Vira en 04-02-13
De: Juliann Garey
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The Wrong Sister
- De: T. E. Woods
- Narrado por: Angela Dawe
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,470
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,263
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,255
From behind the wheel of her car, Tess Kincaid glimpses a woman walking down a Madison, Wisconsin, street. They've never met, but Tess sees the same features every time she looks in the mirror. Tess introduces herself and discovers that she and her doppelganger, Mimi, have more than appearance in common. They even share the same birthday. Mimi - confident and outgoing where Tess is understated and shy - is convinced they're twins, separated shortly after birth. When a body is discovered in a local marsh, Tess is entangled in a search for the truth....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nothing like anything T E Woods has written B4!!!
- De shelley en 03-01-18
De: T. E. Woods
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Lifted by the Great Nothing
- De: Karim Dimechkie
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Max doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. He lives with his father, Rasheed, who is enamored of his concept of American culture - baseball and barbeques - and tries to shed his Lebanese heritage completely.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Cheyenne en 06-13-15
De: Karim Dimechkie
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Loving Day
- De: Mat Johnson
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 166
On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures in the grass outside; when he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of the teenage girl he meets at a comics convention, he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl is his daughter, and she thinks she's white.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Teen lit with heavy erotic imagery
- De Itinerant T en 08-26-15
De: Mat Johnson
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It's Kind of a Funny Story
- De: Ned Vizzini
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 895
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 781
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 778
Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life-which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Really bad story
- De Nora en 08-20-18
De: Ned Vizzini
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No Safe Secret
- De: Fern Michaels
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 342
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From her silver Mercedes to her designer kitchen, Molly's life is gleaming and beautiful - at least on the surface. Married to Tanner, a top cosmetic dentist, she has a wonderful daughter finishing high school and twin stepsons from Tanner's first marriage. No one in her exclusive neighborhood in Goldenhills, Massachusetts, knows what living with the demanding Tanner is really like. They know even less about the life she left behind in Florida almost two decades ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All the stars I can give...
- De Courtney en 05-21-16
De: Fern Michaels
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The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club
- True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life
- De: Laurie Notaro
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 68
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Introducing Laurie Notaro, the leader of the Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club. Every day she fearlessly rises from bed to defeat the evil machinations of dolts, dimwits, and creepy boyfriends - and that's before she even puts on a bra. For the past 10 years, Notaro has been entertaining Phoenix newspaper readers with her wildly amusing autobiographical exploits and unique life experiences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sweet and funny
- De Julia Valentin en 12-19-20
De: Laurie Notaro
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True Biz
- A Novel
- De: Sara Novic
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan, Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges listeners into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they’ll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school’s golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the hearing headmistress.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good story with added features both intriguing and informational
- De A Signing Mom en 05-15-22
De: Sara Novic
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The Turner House
- De: Angela Flournoy
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 667
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 599
The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over 50 years. Their house has seen 13 children grown and gone - and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. The house still stands despite abandoned lots, an embattled city, and the inevitable shift outward to the suburbs. But now, as ailing matriarch Viola finds herself forced to leave her home and move in with her eldest son, the family discovers that the house is worth just a 10th of its mortgage.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The narrator's performance made the difference.
- De KT en 06-11-15
De: Angela Flournoy
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The Scoop
- Godmothers, Book 1
- De: Fern Michaels
- Narrado por: Natalie Ross
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 264
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Teresa "Toots" Amelia Loudenberry has crammed a great deal of living - not to mention eight much-loved husbands - into her varied and rewarding life. Newly single, Toots is ready to taste life again, and fate has just handed her the perfect opportunity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GREAT FUN
- De Linda Louise en 03-12-12
De: Fern Michaels
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- Peter Berridge
- 07-16-18
Twice in three days!
During long drives this week, I tuned into Dan's book, American Snake Pit. I'm a regular Audible subscriber and usually listen to part of a book, sometimes the whole book, and rarely the same book twice. This is the first time I've listened to the same book twice in three days. American Snake Pit is riveting, educating, hilarious and poignant. The narrator does an excellent job and Dan's writing creates a vivid mental picture that draws you in. It was during the return trip home when I played the book for my sister, a pediatric nurse. I found myself looking forward to her discovery of each chapter - she loved it. So much so that she just purchased her first Audible book - American Snake Pit.
We laughed and were moved by this incredible story of challenge and transformation. I can't wait to see the movie!
Pete
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