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Pemi Aguda
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A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties.
In this beguiling collection of 12 imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, ’Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before.
In “Manifest”, a woman sees the ghost of her abusive mother in her daughter’s face. Shortly after, the daughter is overtaken by wicked and destructive impulses. In “Breastmilk”, a wife forgives her husband for his infidelity. Months later, when she is unable to produce milk for her newborn, she blames herself for failing to uphold her mother’s feminist values and doubts her fitness for motherhood. In “Things Boys Do”, a trio of fathers finds something unnatural and unnerving about their infant sons. As their lives rapidly fall to pieces, they begin to fear that their sons are the cause of their troubles. And in “24, Alhaji Williams Street”, a teenage boy lives in the shadow of a mysterious disease that’s killing the boys on his street.
These and other stories in Ghostroots map emotional and physical worlds that lay bare the forces of family, myth, tradition, gender, and modernity in Nigerian society. Powered by a deep empathy and glinting with humor, they announce a major new literary talent.
©2024 'Pemi Aguda (P)2024 Audible Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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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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The Art of War
- De: Sun Tzu
- Narrado por: Aidan Gillen
- Duración: 1 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41,966
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34,776
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34,357
The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The actual book The Art of War, not a commentary
- De Nemo71 en 12-31-19
De: Sun Tzu
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Say No More
- De: Caroline Overington
- Narrado por: Anna Skellern
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,491
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,460
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,460
Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Seriously, that was the ending?
- De alicia in athens en 02-13-25
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Master of Salt & Bones
- De: Keri Lake
- Narrado por: Stefanie Kay, Ryan West
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 657
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 620
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 620
When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born. Funny how things changed over time, how the fairytale twisted into something far more crooked—and darker—than I ever imagined. In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for me. He never was.
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 STARS
- De AudioObsessed en 03-12-23
De: Keri Lake
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Fahrenheit 451
- De: Ray Bradbury
- Narrado por: Tim Robbins
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32,985
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29,356
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29,312
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
- De Joel en 03-27-17
De: Ray Bradbury
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My Friends
- A Novel
- De: Hisham Matar
- Narrado por: Hisham Matar
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written
- De Anonymous User en 06-24-24
De: Hisham Matar
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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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Small Rain
- A Novel
- De: Garth Greenwell
- Narrado por: Garth Greenwell
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind. This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value—art, memory, poetry, music, care—are thrown into sharp relief.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Masterpiece
- De Herluf Kanstrup en 09-22-24
De: Garth Greenwell
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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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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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My Friends
- A Novel
- De: Hisham Matar
- Narrado por: Hisham Matar
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written
- De Anonymous User en 06-24-24
De: Hisham Matar
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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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Small Rain
- A Novel
- De: Garth Greenwell
- Narrado por: Garth Greenwell
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind. This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value—art, memory, poetry, music, care—are thrown into sharp relief.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Masterpiece
- De Herluf Kanstrup en 09-22-24
De: Garth Greenwell
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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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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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We Were the Universe
- A Novel
- De: Kimberly King Parsons
- Narrado por: Kristen Sieh, Justis Bolding
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 11
The trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit’s best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for an idyllic weekend in the Montana mountains. They’ll soak in hot springs, then sneak a vape into a dive bar and drink too much, like old times. Instead, their getaway only reminds Kit of everything she’s lost lately: her wildness, her independence, and—most heartbreaking of all—her sister, Julie, who died a few years ago.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The author’s use of detail is exceptional
- De Jane Roth en 06-17-24
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Behind You Is the Sea
- A Novel
- De: Susan Muaddi Darraj
- Narrado por: Rasha Zamamiri, Ali Nasser
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families—the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars—Palestinian immigrants who’ve all found a different welcome in America. Their various fates and struggles cause their community dynamic to sizzle and sometimes explode: The wealthy Ammar family employs young Maysoon Baladi, whose own family struggles financially, to clean up after their spoiled teenagers. Meanwhile, Marcus Salameh confronts his father in an effort to protect his younger sister for “dishonoring” their name.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The humanity of the characters
- De samer en 01-12-25
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Bluff
- Poems
- De: Danez Smith
- Narrado por: Danez Smith
- Duración: 2 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- De Andre en 10-28-24
De: Danez Smith
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The Anthropologists
- De: Aysegül Savas
- Narrado por: Kathryn Aboya
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 35
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structure their days? Whom can they consider family? As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, gathers footage from the neighborhood like an anthropologist observing local customs. “Forget about daily life,” chides her grandmother on the phone. “We named you for a whole continent and you’re filming a park.”
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3 out of 5 stars
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Can't say it's good
- De Moraz en 12-22-24
De: Aysegül Savas
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Beautyland
- De: Marie-Helene Bertino
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 214
At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she's different: she possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of earthlings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unforgettable
- De Amazon Customer en 02-04-24
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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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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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Rakesfall
- De: Vajra Chandrasekera
- Narrado por: Shiromi Arserio
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelid and Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey throughout the ages.
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I Do Not Come to You by Chance
- De: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
- Narrado por: Nene Nwoko
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Being the opara of the family, Kingsley Ibe is entitled to certain privileges—a piece of meat in his egusi soup, a party to celebrate his graduation from university. But times are bad in Nigeria. Now he worries that without a "long-leg"—someone who knows someone who can help him—his degrees will do nothing. When a tragedy befalls his family, Kingsley learns the hardest lesson of all: education may be the language of success in Nigeria, but it's money that does the talking. When Kingsley turns to his Uncle Boniface for help, he learns that charity may come with strings attached.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narration
- De Simisola Akintuyi en 10-21-24
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Martyr!
- A Novel
- De: Kaveh Akbar
- Narrado por: Arian Moayed
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 966
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 895
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 895
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best novels I have ever read/heard.
- De James en 04-06-24
De: Kaveh Akbar
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The Immortal King Rao
- De: Vauhini Vara
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 15 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 85
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmers. King Rao will grow up to be the most accomplished tech CEO in the world and, eventually, the leader of a global, corporate-led government. In a future in which the world is run by the Board of Corporations, King’s daughter, Athena, reckons with his legacy—literally, for he has given her access to his memories, among other questionable gifts.
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4 out of 5 stars
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it didn't have a resolution.
- De Cooper Travis en 06-24-22
De: Vauhini Vara
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The Villain's Dance
- De: Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Roland Glasser - translator
- Narrado por: Amir Abdullah
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Zaire. Late 90's. Mobutu's thirty-year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, the stubbornly homeless Sanza has fallen in with a trio of veteran street kids led by the devious Ngungi. A chance encounter with the mysterious Monsieur Guillaume seems to offer a way out . . . Meanwhile in Angola, Molakisi has joined thousands of fellow Zairians hoping to make their fortunes hunting diamonds, while Austrian Franz finds himself roped into writing the memoirs of the charismatic Tshiamuena, the "Madonna of the Cafunfo Mines."
De: Fiston Mwanza Mujila, y otros