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Aileen Huynh
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Shirley Le
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I looked at the streets of Yagoona through eyes stinging with melted Maybelline liquid liner. Yagoona looked back at me, the wannabe hipster who dreamed of moving to a share house in the inner west, and cackled.
Funny Ethnics catapults listeners into the sprawling city-within-a-city that is Western Sydney and the world of Sylvia Nguyen: only child of Vietnamese refugee parents, unexceptional student, exceptional self-doubter. It's a place where migrants from across the world converge, and identity is a slippery, ever-shifting beast. Jumping through snapshots of Sylvia's life—from childhood to something resembling adulthood—this novel is about square pegs and round holes, those who belong and those on the fringes. It's a funhouse mirror held up to modern Australia revealing suburban fortune tellers, train-carriage preachers, crumbling friendships and bad stand-up comedy.
In Funny Ethnics, Shirley Le uses a coming-of-age tale to reveal a side of Australia so ordinary that it's entirely bizarre.
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Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston "Tuffy" Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions from his idea, Cap'n Crunch: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito. His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and his wife, Yolanda, he married from jail over the phone. Shrewdly comical as this dazzling novel is, it turns acerbically sublime when the frustrated Tuffy agrees to run for City Council.
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5 out of 5 stars
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High Larry Us!
- De Amazon Customer en 07-24-23
De: Paul Beatty
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Homesick for Another World
- Stories
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan, Richard Poe
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 307
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 272
There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Funny, Dynamic Writing
- De Sofia Macht en 06-13-18
De: Ottessa Moshfegh
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The Library of Lost Things
- De: Laura Taylor Namey
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
From the moment she first learned to read, literary genius Darcy Wells has spent most of her time living in the worlds of her books. There, she can avoid the crushing reality of her mother’s hoarding and pretend her life is simply ordinary. But when a new property manager becomes more active in the upkeep of their apartment complex, the only home Darcy has ever known outside of her books suddenly hangs in the balance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved it!
- De reader of books en 10-12-19
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Summer Hours
- A Novel
- De: Amy Mason Doan
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Becc was the good girl. A dedicated student. Aspiring reporter. Always where she was supposed to be. Until a secret affair with the charming Cal one summer in college cost her everything she held dear: her journalism dreams; her relationship with her best friend, Eric; and her carefully imagined future. Now, Becc’s past is back front and center as she travels up the scenic California coast to a wedding - with a man she hasn’t seen in a decade. As each mile flies by, Becc can’t help but feel the thrilling push and pull of memories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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LOVED IT
- De Margaret en 04-30-20
De: Amy Mason Doan
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Lakewood
- A Novel
- De: Megan Giddings
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 402
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 352
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 353
When Lena Johnson’s beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the Black millennial drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical expenses. A free place to live. All Lena has to do is participate in a secret program - and lie to her friends and family about the research being done in Lakewood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fact or Fiction
- De Penda K en 06-09-20
De: Megan Giddings
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Boy Swallows Universe
- A Novel
- De: Trent Dalton
- Narrado por: Stig Wemyss
- Duración: 16 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 568
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 496
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 497
Eli Bell’s life is complicated. His father is lost, his mother is in jail, and his stepdad is a heroin dealer. The most steadfast adult in Eli’s life is Slim - a notorious felon and national record holder for successful prison escapes - who watches over Eli and August, his silent genius of an older brother. Exiled far from the rest of the world in Darra, this 12-year-old boy with an old soul and an adult mind is trying to follow his heart, learn what it takes to be a good man, and train for a glamorous career in journalism. But life insists on throwing obstacles in Eli’s path.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful adventure both on paper and in audio
- De David en 06-17-20
De: Trent Dalton
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Saguaro
- De: Carson Mell
- Narrado por: Carson Mell
- Duración: 3 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Saguaro chronicles the life of rock legend Bobby Bird as he finds himself rolled up in barbiturates, at sea with satanic cults, finding true love, selling out, and coming back. Bird may be many things - a legend in pink cotton, a living history in tattoos, the very embodiment of rock and roll - but he isn’t a bad man. At least not all the time. He made his name as a crooner, revered as a singer with soul, a soul he quickly sold without ever considering the implications.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funny and profound
- De Andrew Cahak en 01-05-25
De: Carson Mell
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The Answer Is No
- A Short Story
- De: Fredrik Backman, Elizabeth DeNoma - translator
- Narrado por: Stacy Gonzalez
- Duración: 1 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,051
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 989
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 989
Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator doesn’t get Backman’s satire or rhythm
- De joey1603 en 12-01-24
De: Fredrik Backman, y otros
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Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- De: Trevor Noah
- Narrado por: Trevor Noah
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 215,949
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 195,366
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 194,398
In this award-winning Audible Studios production, Trevor Noah tells his wild coming-of-age tale during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa. It’s a story that begins with his mother throwing him from a moving van to save him from a potentially fatal dispute with gangsters, then follows the budding comedian’s path to self-discovery through episodes both poignant and comical.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book and perfect narration
- De MarilynArms en 12-15-16
De: Trevor Noah
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: James Franco
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,194
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17,153
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17,128
Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
- De Keith en 11-20-15
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Stranded
- De: Chris Bruno, David Howard Lee, Shukri R. Abdi
- Narrado por: Taraji P. Henson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Blake Griffin, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 7 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,887
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,839
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,839
Separated by 10 years, 3,000 miles, and the unrelenting stresses of adulthood, best friends Janet and Serena plan a 40th birthday girls’ trip to reconnect. But after a massive crash, they’re the only survivors to wash ashore on an uncharted Caribbean Island. Armed with only the clothes on their backs and zero survival skills, they fight to overcome hunger, thirst, deadly wildlife—and most terrifyingly—decades of accrued resentment. Can they find their way home, or will they kill each other first?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Get ready to Laugh
- De Lasheree McFarlane en 11-08-24
De: Chris Bruno, y otros
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The Best Man's Ghostwriter
- De: Matthew Starr
- Narrado por: Glen Powell, Nicholas Braun, Ashley Park, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,985
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,928
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,928
A bad best man’s speech can ruin a wedding. Why do we plan every detail of a perfect day and then give the groom’s idiot best friend five minutes of total power? Enter Nate (Glen Powell), a speechwriter-for-hire who helps people write incredible best man speeches. To keep the best man from embarrassing himself (and the newlyweds), Nate uses his list of don’ts: Don’t mention the exes, don’t be rated R, and don’t bum everyone out. Nate’s system never fails. That is, until he meets Dan (Nicholas Braun).
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5 out of 5 stars
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SO GOOD
- De Csutty en 09-23-24
De: Matthew Starr