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Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder of George Floyd, Bluff is Danez Smith's powerful reckoning with their role and responsibility as a poet and with their hometown of the Twin Cities. This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical pessimism to wonder and imagine how we can strive toward a new existence in a world that seems to be dissolving into desolate futures.
Smith brings a startling urgency to these poems, their questions demanding a new language and a deep self-scrutiny. A series of ars poetica gives way to "anti poetica" and "ars america" to implicate poetry's collusions with unchecked capitalism. A poem makes clear the consequences of America's acceptance of mass shootings. Another offers the history of Saint Paul's vibrant Rondo neighborhood before and after officials decided to run an interstate directly through it.
Bluff is a kind of manifesto about artistic resilience, even when time and will can seem fleeting, when the places we most love—those given and made—are burning. In this soaring collection, Smith turns to honesty, hope, rage, and imagination to envision futures that seem possible.
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The Coin’s narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Interview of author on podcast piqued interest
- De amybarnard en 08-03-24
De: Yasmin Zaher
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Black River
- De: Nilanjana Roy
- Narrado por: Sharmila Devar
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Teetapur, an unassuming village just a few hours outside of bustling Delhi, is famous for nothing—until one of its children, eight-year-old Munia, is found dead, hanging from the branch of a Jamun tree. In the largely Hindu village, suspicion quickly falls on an itinerant Muslim man, Mansoor. Suspicion ignites like wildfire, fueled by religious tensions that simmer beneath the surface.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good but not a mystery
- De ascot en 10-11-24
De: Nilanjana Roy
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Neighbors and Other Stories
- De: Diane Oliver
- Narrado por: Emana Rachelle
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 21
A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of 22, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and 60s America. In this first and only collection by a masterful storyteller finally taking her rightful place in the canon, Oliver’s insightful stories reverberate into the present day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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mesmerizing
- De Dee in Philly en 02-26-24
De: Diane Oliver
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Modern Poetry
- Poems
- De: Diane Seuss
- Narrado por: Diane Seuss
- Duración: 2 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1
Diane Seuss's signature voice—audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude—has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry, from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college, as an enrapt but ill-equipped student, one who felt poetry was beyond her reach. Many of the poems make use of the forms and terms of musical and poetic craft and contend with the works of writers overrepresented in textbooks and anthologies and those often underrepresented.
De: Diane Seuss
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Smoke Kings
- A Novel
- De: Jahmal Mayfield
- Narrado por: Terrence Kidd
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5
Smoke Kings is a powerful and propulsive novel with a diverse and unforgettable cast of characters. Like Steph Cha's Your House Will Pay it explores decades of racial tensions through a fictional landscape where the line between justice and revenge is blurred.
De: Jahmal Mayfield
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Dead in Long Beach, California
- A Novel
- De: Venita Blackburn
- Narrado por: Lynnette Freeman
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General2.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia2.5 out of 5 stars 15
Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay’s dead body in the wake of his suicide. There’s no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach, California, and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it. Coral pockets the phone. And then she starts responding to texts as her dead brother. Over the course of one week, Coral, the successful yet lonely author of a hit dystopian novel, Wildfire, becomes increasingly untethered from reality. Blindsided by grief and operating with reckless determination, she doubles—and triples—down on posing as her brother.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Literary Work
- De Dr Ag en 02-25-24
De: Venita Blackburn
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The Coin
- A Novel
- De: Yasmin Zaher
- Narrado por: Sarah Agha
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 25
The Coin’s narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Interview of author on podcast piqued interest
- De amybarnard en 08-03-24
De: Yasmin Zaher
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Black River
- De: Nilanjana Roy
- Narrado por: Sharmila Devar
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Teetapur, an unassuming village just a few hours outside of bustling Delhi, is famous for nothing—until one of its children, eight-year-old Munia, is found dead, hanging from the branch of a Jamun tree. In the largely Hindu village, suspicion quickly falls on an itinerant Muslim man, Mansoor. Suspicion ignites like wildfire, fueled by religious tensions that simmer beneath the surface.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good but not a mystery
- De ascot en 10-11-24
De: Nilanjana Roy
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Neighbors and Other Stories
- De: Diane Oliver
- Narrado por: Emana Rachelle
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 21
A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of 22, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and 60s America. In this first and only collection by a masterful storyteller finally taking her rightful place in the canon, Oliver’s insightful stories reverberate into the present day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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mesmerizing
- De Dee in Philly en 02-26-24
De: Diane Oliver
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Modern Poetry
- Poems
- De: Diane Seuss
- Narrado por: Diane Seuss
- Duración: 2 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1
Diane Seuss's signature voice—audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude—has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry, from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college, as an enrapt but ill-equipped student, one who felt poetry was beyond her reach. Many of the poems make use of the forms and terms of musical and poetic craft and contend with the works of writers overrepresented in textbooks and anthologies and those often underrepresented.
De: Diane Seuss
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Smoke Kings
- A Novel
- De: Jahmal Mayfield
- Narrado por: Terrence Kidd
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5
Smoke Kings is a powerful and propulsive novel with a diverse and unforgettable cast of characters. Like Steph Cha's Your House Will Pay it explores decades of racial tensions through a fictional landscape where the line between justice and revenge is blurred.
De: Jahmal Mayfield
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The Book of Love
- A Novel
- De: Kelly Link
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 23 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 135
In the acclaimed first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Held me hostage for way too long without payoff
- De Fay en 12-25-24
De: Kelly Link
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Don't Call Us Dead
- Poems
- De: Danez Smith
- Narrado por: Danez Smith
- Duración: 1 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 58
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved here on earth. Smith turns then to desire, mortality - the dangers experienced in skin and body and blood - and a diagnosis of HIV positive. "Some of us are killed / in pieces", Smith writes, "some of us all at once."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this with all my heart
- De Elle en 06-24-20
De: Danez Smith
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Ghostroots
- Stories
- De: Pemi Aguda
- Narrado por: Délé Ogundiran, Ore Apampa-Araba
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 11
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties.
De: Pemi Aguda
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Reboot
- A Novel
- De: Justin Taylor
- Narrado por: Justin Taylor
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 10
David Crader is a has-been. A former child actor from the hit teen drama Rev Beach, he now rotates between his new roles as deadbeat dad, part-time alcoholic, and occasional videogame voice actor. But when David is summoned to Los Angeles by Grace, his ex-wife and former co-star, he suddenly sees an opportunity for a reboot—not just of the show that made him famous, but also of his listless existence.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Diminishing Rewards
- De Laurence R. Baker en 02-06-25
De: Justin Taylor
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Homie
- Poems
- De: Danez Smith
- Narrado por: Danez Smith
- Duración: 1 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 89
Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Poignant!
- De Khamiyra en 03-03-20
De: Danez Smith
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Someone Like Us
- A Novel
- De: Dinaw Mengestu
- Narrado por: Junior Nyong'o
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 15
After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah—a photographer whose way of seeing the world shows him the possibility of finding not only love but family. Now, five years later, with his marriage to Hannah on the verge of collapse, he returns to the close-knit immigrant Ethiopian community of Washington, DC, that defined his childhood. At its center is Mamush’s stoic, implacable mother, and Samuel, the larger-than-life father figure whose ceaseless charm and humor have always served as a cover for a harder, more troubling truth.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I did not enjoy this
- De MarcB en 09-17-24
De: Dinaw Mengestu
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The Black Utopians
- Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
- De: Aaron Robertson
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5
How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand its possibilities and preserve its beauty? What, in other words, does utopia look like in black? These questions animate Aaron Robertson’s exploration of Black Americans' efforts to remake the conditions of their lives. Writing in the tradition of Saidiya Hartman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robertson makes his way from his ancestral hometown of Promise Land, Tennessee, to Detroit—the city where he was born, and where one of the country’s most remarkable Black utopian experiments got its start.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic History
- De J. Ogbar en 02-02-25
De: Aaron Robertson
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The Bluestockings
- A History of the First Women's Movement
- De: Susannah Gibson
- Narrado por: Fenella Fudge
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12
In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated, a clever woman—if there were such a thing—would never make a good wife. But a circle of women called the Bluestockings did something extraordinary: Coming together in glittering salons to discuss and debate as intellectual equals with men, they fought for women to be educated and to have a public role in society. In this intimate and revelatory history, Susannah Gibson delves into the lives of these pioneering women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fascinating book almost ruined by the reader
- De braingirl en 08-13-24
De: Susannah Gibson
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Great Expectations
- A Novel
- De: Vinson Cunningham
- Narrado por: Aaron Goodson
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 31
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in this “coming of age story that captures the soul of America” (The Washington Post), the debut novel from The New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Vinson Cunningham.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not the political story I expected
- De Aeroduncan en 12-19-24
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Praiseworthy
- De: Alexis Wright
- Narrado por: Jacqui Katona
- Duración: 36 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious cloud heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. A crazed visionary looks to donkeys to solve the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife, seeking solace from his madness, follows the dance of butterflies and scours the internet to find out how her Aboriginal/Chinese family could be repatriated to China. One of their sons, named Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, powerful book full of poetry
- De Guy en 11-11-24
De: Alexis Wright
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The Empusium
- A Health Resort Horror Story
- De: Olga Tokarczuk
- Narrado por: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Natasha Soudek
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 59
September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone—or something—seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Never ending Misogyny
- De Nina O en 10-11-24
De: Olga Tokarczuk
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Godwin
- A Novel
- De: Joseph O'Neill
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton, Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 18
Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter. His half-brother Geoff, born and raised in the United Kingdom, is a desperate young soccer agent. He pulls Mark across the ocean into a scheme to track down an elusive prospect known only as “Godwin”—an African teenager Geoff believes could be the next Lionel Messi.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Netherland.
- De Amazon Customer en 10-31-24
De: Joseph O'Neill
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- Andre
- 10-28-24
Wow!
Wow! What a book. Powerful, poignant, and profound, Bluff riveted me. Smith’s voice is raw and urgent. It sings and growls. The book contains many great lines I want to hear or read again. One of the best poetry books of 2024.
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