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An Indian-American Woman's Magical Journey from Broken to Beautiful
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A riveting memoir of truth and beauty.
When 16-year-old Mytrae Meliana and her family emigrate from India to the US, she is determined to avoid the arranged marriage her family expects her to have, and to create her own destiny. But when she falls in love with an American man, her family drags the talented graduate student back to India and keeps her hostage.
Mytrae suddenly finds herself heartbroken and trapped in her homeland, where women's fates are decided for them. But that isn’t her only challenge. She must decide: live a lie and keep the secret she’d rather forget, or dare to break with centuries-old tradition and forge a path of her own.
This searing, sensual memoir by an award-winning writer is about how family loves and wounds each other, about how immigrants are torn between cultures, and about leaving everything to find yourself. At times heartbreaking, at times triumphant, Brown Skin Girl is a testament to freedom, love, and the magic that finds you when you follow your heart.
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
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Oto leaves for boarding school with one plan: Excel and escape his cruel home. Falling in love with his roommate was certainly not on the agenda, but fear and shame force him to hide his love and true self. Back home, weighed down by the expectations of their wealthy and powerful family, the love of Oto's twin sister wavers, and, as their world begins to crumble around them, Oto must make drastic choices that will alter the family's lives for ever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing
- De Mary P Browne en 09-20-21
De: Buki Papillon
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The Teller of Secrets
- A Novel
- De: Bisi Adjapon
- Narrado por: Anniwaa Buachie
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Young Esi Agyekum is the unofficial "secret keeper" of her family, as tight-lipped about her father's adultery as she is about her half-sisters' sex lives. But after she is humiliated and punished for her own sexual exploration, Esi begins to question why women's secrets and men's secrets bear different consequences. It is the beginning of a journey of discovery that will lead her to unexpected places. Against a fraught political climate, Esi fights to carve out her own identity, and learns to manifest her power in surprising and inspiring ways.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hmm took a while to grasp
- De LATOYA LEWIS en 06-25-24
De: Bisi Adjapon
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Family Secrets
- A Novel
- De: Nancy Thayer
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Though Diane Randall’s jewelry business is a great success, her marriage is not, and she finds herself growing lonely as her children near adulthood. Meanwhile, her eighteen-year-old daughter Julia is falling dangerously in love, and Diane’s mother, Jean, is relishing her newfound freedom as a single woman in Europe. Distracted by their individual concerns, the three women are ill-prepared for the crisis that suddenly appears on Diane’s doorstep in the form of a handsome FBI agent asking about an explosive secret that’s laid buried for decades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nancy! Is there a sequel? What?
- De PattieLynn en 12-02-22
De: Nancy Thayer
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The Story Hour
- De: Thrity Umrigar
- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 788
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 713
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 708
An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage. Moved by her plight, Maggie treats Lakshmi in her home office for free, quickly realizing that the despondent woman doesn't need a shrink; she needs a friend.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A stellar performance almost carried the book...
- De Daryl en 03-04-15
De: Thrity Umrigar
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The Great Failure
- A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth
- De: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrado por: Natalie Goldberg
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23
"The Great Failure is a boundless embrace, leaving nothing out. I wanted to learn the truth, to become whole. If I could touch the dark nature in someone else, I could know it in myself." So begins Natalie Goldberg in this candid exploration of her life. Here, Goldberg makes sense of primary relationships between father and daughter, teacher and student, and exemplifies the accomplishment available when creating daily writing practices.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you have been let down by anyone. Listen
- De Mia en 04-19-18
De: Natalie Goldberg
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Before We Visit the Goddess
- De: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan, Priya Ayyar, Vikas Adam
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 793
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 726
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 729
The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her generosity soon proves dangerous after the girl makes a single unforgivable misstep. Years later, Sabitri's own daughter, Bela, haunted by her mother's choices, flees abroad with her political refugee lover - but the America she finds is vastly different from the country she'd imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Worth a Credit
- De Texastanya en 08-27-16
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Secret Daughter
- De: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 947
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 806
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 806
Debut novelist Shilpi Somaya Gowda pens this compelling tale about two families, worlds apart, linked by one Indian child. After giving birth to a girl for a second time, impoverished Kavita must give her up to an orphanage. The baby, named Asha, is adopted by an American doctor and raised in California. But once grown, Asha decides to return to India.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read
- De Stephanie en 06-08-11
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Custody
- A Novel
- De: Nancy Thayer
- Narrado por: Angela Dawe
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 157
Ambitious, brilliant, and engaged to a wonderful guy, Kelly MacLeod feels like her dreams are coming true when she lands a prestigious appointment as a judge in the Massachusetts Family Court. A passionate advocate on behalf of children of divorce, she can at long last put her fierce intellect to good use in the courtroom. But a chance meeting with a charismatic man forever changes Kelly’s life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tempered and Forged by the Kiln of Experience
- De Empress Karen en 10-04-18
De: Nancy Thayer
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The Star Side of Bird Hill
- De: Naomi Jackson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
Two sisters, ages 10 and 16, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados, after their mother can no longer care for them. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live, for the summer of 1989, with their grandmother, Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah. Dionne spends the summer in search of love, testing her grandmother's limits, and wanting to go home. Phaedra explores Bird Hill, where her family has lived for generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My absolute favorite book of all time
- De Eme en 07-16-15
De: Naomi Jackson
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Love Walked In
- De: Marisa de los Santos
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 385
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 290
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 294
Award-winning poet Marisa de los Santos crafts an irresistibly touching debut novel. Love Walked In is a contemporary tale, steeped in nostalgic, cinematic charm, of love in all its forms. Unapologetically idealistic about love, Cornelia Brown appears to catch the break of a lifetime when the dashing Martin Grace, her own personal Cary Grant, comes strolling into her life. But it is Martin's connection to 11-year-old Clare Hobbes that touches Cornelia's heart in ways she never imagined.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dreadful audio quality
- De Marenghi en 09-16-11
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East of the Sun
- De: Julia Gregson
- Narrado por: Tania Rodrigues
- Duración: 19 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 113
Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Indian history takes a back seat to 3 young women
- De Richard en 05-24-16
De: Julia Gregson
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Unabridged Selections)
- De: Edited by David Sedaris
- Narrado por: David Sedaris, Mary-Louise Parker, Cherry Jones
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 364
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 222
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great stories but only 5 of 17 are included
- De Terri Kirk en 07-13-12
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One True Thing
- De: Anna Quindlen
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 581
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 466
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 466
A young woman sits in jail, accused of the mercy killing of her dying mother. She didn't do it, but she thinks she knows who did. In the last months of her life, Ellen Gulden's mother revealed startling secrets that challenged everything Ellen believed about her family. Now, in jail, Ellen believes those secrets will tell her who had the courage to end her mother's suffering.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quindlen's writing skills shine in One True Thing.
- De Bonny en 08-26-13
De: Anna Quindlen
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Diamond Head
- A Novel
- De: Cecily Wong
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu, Samantha Chen, Angela Lin, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 113
Told through the eyes of the Leongs' secret-keeping daughters and wives and spanning the Boxer Rebellion to Pearl Harbor to 1960s Hawaii, Diamond Head is a breathtakingly powerful tale of tragic love, shocking lies, poignant compromise, aching loss, heroic acts of sacrifice, and miraculous hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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- De Gina en 09-06-15
De: Cecily Wong
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Up a Road Slowly
- De: Irene Hunt
- Narrado por: Jaselyn Blanchard
- Duración: 4 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
Julie would remember her happy days at Aunt Cordelia’s forever. Running through the spacious rooms, singing on rainy nights in front of the blazing fireplace. There were rides in the woods on Peter the Great, the races with Danny Trevort. Maybe best of all were the precious moments alone in her room at night, gazing at the sea of stars. But there was sadness too - the painful jealousy Julie felt after her sister got married, the tragic death of a schoolmate, and the bitter disappointment of her first love. Sometimes it all seemed like too much to handle.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Coming of age in mid century
- De Mary A. Kozy en 01-17-21
De: Irene Hunt
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How to Be an American Housewife
- A Novel
- De: Margaret Dilloway
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington, Emily Durante
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 238
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 197
How to Be an American Housewife is a novel about mothers and daughters and the pull of tradition. It tells the story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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big disappointment
- De Kirsten en 04-12-12
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The Book Club
- De: Mary Alice Monroe
- Narrado por: Deanna Hurst
- Duración: 14 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 333
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 283
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 286
Discover this moving story of five remarkable friends as Mary Alice Monroe, the New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House, explores the power of friendship with tenderness and honesty.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Beware: Title Is Deceptive !!
- De Fran Foster en 02-07-16
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- Anonymous User
- 11-06-23
Just Beautiful.
I really wanted to read a book that relating to me, my culture, my gender, and my family. And wow did it really speak to me. Mytrae despite sacrificing and suffering through so much pain, found a way to bring love and forgiveness to us all. She truly is a wonderful human being, and is such a strong soul to be sharing a story like hers. Thank you Mytrae, for not only enlightening people on our culture and traditions, but allowing women all over the world to empower their voice.
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