Giovanni's Room
A Novel (Vintage International)
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James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel with a new introduction.
Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. With sharp, probing insight, James Baldwin's classic narrative delves into the mystery of love and tells a deeply moving story that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
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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 1,497
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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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Hitchhikers
- De: Ben H. Winters
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 3 h y 27 m
- Grabación Original
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Annie has always had high hopes for her future. But the reality of her life just isn’t measuring up. She loves her fiancé, Greg–doesn’t she? She’s going to get her degree and open her own business–won’t she? Then, a strange old woman shows up outside her house, and she seems to know a lot about Annie. An awful lot. Annie could tell the old woman to get lost. Yet there’s something about her Annie just can’t shake. And what she learns could change her life forever–but is it the life she envisioned?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing
- De Curtis Hawk en 03-14-25
De: Ben H. Winters
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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 662
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 625
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 32,991
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29,361
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29,317
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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The House on the Water
- A Novella
- De: Margot Hunt
- Narrado por: Taylor Schilling
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16,365
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15,065
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15,017
Every year, Caroline Reed takes a trip with her best friend, Esme Lamont. They’re usually accompanied by their spouses - but this year, everything’s changed. Esme has just gone through a bitter divorce, and Caroline's wondering if her own marriage is reaching its breaking point as she and her husband, John, cope with the discovery that their son has been abusing drugs. Still, the inseparable duo books a weeklong stay at a beach-front home in Shoreham, Florida, inviting Esme’s brother, Nick, and his new husband. After a blissful first night in the vacation home, tragedy strikes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Story
- De David M. Wilcox en 12-04-20
De: Margot Hunt
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He Who Fights with Monsters 2
- A LitRPG Adventure (He Who Fights with Monsters, Book 2)
- De: Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
- Narrado por: Heath Miller
- Duración: 22 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 29,178
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 25,563
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 25,508
But Jason Asano is settling into his new life. Now, a contest draws young elites to the city of Greenstone to compete for a grand prize. Jason must gather a band of companions if he is to stand a chance against the best the world has to offer. While the young adventurers are caught up in competition, the city leaders deal with revelations of betrayal as a vast and terrible enemy is revealed. Although Jason seems uninvolved, he has unknowingly crossed the enemy’s path before.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Contrary to common reviews
- De Karen en 05-21-21
De: Shirtaloon, y otros
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Brain Damage
- De: Freida McFadden
- Narrado por: Megan Tusing
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,461
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,334
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,333
As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who Else Laughed, Cried, and Shuddered?
- De Jennifer Chichester en 09-16-22
De: Freida McFadden
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Mary Jane
- De: Amy Herzog
- Narrado por: Rachel McAdams, April Matthis, Brenda Wehle, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 16 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 252
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 243
Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in Mary Jane, a poignant and intimate drama following a single mother’s journey caring for her chronically ill young son. Set in New York City, the play unfolds in two parts—Mary Jane's small Queens apartment and a pediatric hospital. With unflinching honesty and unexpected humor, we witness Mary Jane's tireless devotion, her interactions with medical professionals, and her struggle to maintain her sense of self.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Amazing performance
- De Andrew Reynolds en 12-28-24
De: Amy Herzog
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The Grandmother
- De: Jane E. James
- Narrado por: Anna Cordell, Max Dinnen
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,747
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,680
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,680
Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not too outlandish
- De Jackie H en 12-14-24
De: Jane E. James
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Little and Often
- A Memoir
- De: Trent Preszler
- Narrado por: Matt Bomer
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 312
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 294
Trent Preszler thought he was living the life he always wanted, with a job at a winery and a seaside Long Island home, when he was called back to the life he left behind. After years of estrangement, his cancer-stricken father had invited him to South Dakota for Thanksgiving. It would be the last time he saw his father alive. Preszler’s only inheritance was a beat-up wooden toolbox that had belonged to his father, who was a cattle rancher, rodeo champion, and Vietnam War Bronze Star Medal recipient. This family heirloom befuddled Preszler.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So good
- De Trevor Stanco en 04-28-21
De: Trent Preszler
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A New Night
- The Dead Soul Series, Book 2
- De: R. I. Polsgrove
- Narrado por: Rick Murphy
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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Ryane and Quinn settle into life together. Quinn is attentive and gentle with her. Ryane learns more about him and his world. But then she uncovers a shocking secret about one of his past kills. It will test the limits of love and friendship.
De: R. I. Polsgrove
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
- A Novel (Vintage International)
- De: James Baldwin, Roxane Gay - introduction
- Narrado por: Roxane Gay, Joe Morton
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Haunting
- De DAN en 08-22-24
De: James Baldwin, y otros
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The Parlour Wife
- De: Foluso Agbaje
- Narrado por: Precious Mustapha
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
With the announcement of World War Two and a change that sends shockwaves through her family, Kehinde is forced to put aside her dreams of writing and become the third wife of Mr Ogunjobi. Kehinde makes her peace by selling snacks at a small market. When she gets the chance to assist the leader of the Lagos Women’s Market Association, fighting for the rights the British are trying to take away, Kehinde finally feels useful again. But if her husband finds out he’ll abandon her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good listen
- De Anonymous User en 12-03-24
De: Foluso Agbaje
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You're Embarrassing Yourself
- Stories of Love, Lust, and Movies
- De: Desiree Akhavan
- Narrado por: Desiree Akhavan
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7
Writer, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan shares the stories she was told to shut up about—hilarious, horny, heartbreaking tales of a life in pursuit of art, love, and a better haircut.
De: Desiree Akhavan
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Another Country
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 16 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 815
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 683
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 682
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way. Another Country is a work that is as powerful today as it was 40 years ago - and expertly narrated by Dion Graham.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Powerful and sad
- De Kenneth en 04-10-09
De: James Baldwin
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Little and Often
- A Memoir
- De: Trent Preszler
- Narrado por: Matt Bomer
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 312
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 296
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 294
Trent Preszler thought he was living the life he always wanted, with a job at a winery and a seaside Long Island home, when he was called back to the life he left behind. After years of estrangement, his cancer-stricken father had invited him to South Dakota for Thanksgiving. It would be the last time he saw his father alive. Preszler’s only inheritance was a beat-up wooden toolbox that had belonged to his father, who was a cattle rancher, rodeo champion, and Vietnam War Bronze Star Medal recipient. This family heirloom befuddled Preszler.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So good
- De Trevor Stanco en 04-28-21
De: Trent Preszler
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A New Night
- The Dead Soul Series, Book 2
- De: R. I. Polsgrove
- Narrado por: Rick Murphy
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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Ryane and Quinn settle into life together. Quinn is attentive and gentle with her. Ryane learns more about him and his world. But then she uncovers a shocking secret about one of his past kills. It will test the limits of love and friendship.
De: R. I. Polsgrove
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
- A Novel (Vintage International)
- De: James Baldwin, Roxane Gay - introduction
- Narrado por: Roxane Gay, Joe Morton
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Haunting
- De DAN en 08-22-24
De: James Baldwin, y otros
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The Parlour Wife
- De: Foluso Agbaje
- Narrado por: Precious Mustapha
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
With the announcement of World War Two and a change that sends shockwaves through her family, Kehinde is forced to put aside her dreams of writing and become the third wife of Mr Ogunjobi. Kehinde makes her peace by selling snacks at a small market. When she gets the chance to assist the leader of the Lagos Women’s Market Association, fighting for the rights the British are trying to take away, Kehinde finally feels useful again. But if her husband finds out he’ll abandon her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good listen
- De Anonymous User en 12-03-24
De: Foluso Agbaje
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You're Embarrassing Yourself
- Stories of Love, Lust, and Movies
- De: Desiree Akhavan
- Narrado por: Desiree Akhavan
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7
Writer, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan shares the stories she was told to shut up about—hilarious, horny, heartbreaking tales of a life in pursuit of art, love, and a better haircut.
De: Desiree Akhavan
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Another Country
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 16 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 815
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 682
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way. Another Country is a work that is as powerful today as it was 40 years ago - and expertly narrated by Dion Graham.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Powerful and sad
- De Kenneth en 04-10-09
De: James Baldwin
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Notes of a Native Son
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,337
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,149
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,145
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of Black life and Black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful Essayist
- De Andre en 09-30-16
De: James Baldwin
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Nothing Personal
- De: James Baldwin, Imani Perry, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 1 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 92
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James Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of listeners.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The timing… 1/20/25
- De Leslie en 01-20-25
De: James Baldwin, y otros
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The Fire Next Time
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Jesse L. Martin
- Duración: 2 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 8,889
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7,646
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7,596
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with this eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad and moving and powerful and beautiful
- De Darwin8u en 09-17-15
De: James Baldwin
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Just Above My Head
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 20 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 355
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 311
The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that inflames his nonfiction work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful poignant story
- De Africa en 12-02-18
De: James Baldwin
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Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Volume 1
- James Baldwin Reading from Giovanni's Room
- De: Calliope Author Readings, James Baldwin
- Narrado por: James Baldwin
- Duración: 15 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 14
James Baldwin gives an electrifying reading about a young gay American in Paris recalling a dramatic and transforming incident from his boyhood, as he struggles to accept his sexual identity.
De: Calliope Author Readings, y otros
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Nobody Knows My Name
- More Notes of a Native Son
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 5 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name records the last months of this famed American writer's 10-year self-exile in Europe, his return to America and to Harlem, and his first trip south at the time of the school integration battles. It contains Baldwin's controversial and intimate profiles of Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, and Ingmar Bergman. And it explores such varied themes as the relations between blacks and whites, the role of blacks in America and in Europe, and the question of sexual identity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent on all counts!
- De Stephen York en 12-03-17
De: James Baldwin
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If Beale Street Could Talk
- A Novel
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,757
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,298
Told through the eyes of Tish, a 19-year-old girl in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and is imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions - affection, despair, and hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrator did her thing, I love it!!!
- De Vicky en 03-22-16
De: James Baldwin
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Going to Meet the Man
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their heads above water.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Punch in the gut
- De Rebecca en 05-08-17
De: James Baldwin
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Fifty Famous Stories Retold
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Cliff Roles
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Legendary tales of the lives of famous people and historic episodes. Of these 50 stories, some have historical value, some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths, and others are intended only to amuse. A few of these stories are from very ancient sources and are current in the literature of many lands, while many of more recent origin have come to us through the ballads and folk tales of the English people. Nearly all are frequently alluded to in poetry and prose.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Kids Love the Stories
- De Peter en 05-05-13
De: James Baldwin
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Lie with Me
- A Novel
- De: Philippe Besson, Molly Ringwald - translator
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 3 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during their last year of high school. Without ever acknowledging they know each other in the halls, they steal time to meet in secret, carrying on a passionate, world-altering affair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Memoir or fiction, either way it's enthralling.
- De Keith G en 05-08-19
De: Philippe Besson, y otros
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James Baldwin
- A Biography
- De: David Leeming
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 17 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 567
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 503
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 496
This is a biography of James Baldwin, author, one-time preacher, and civil rights activist. He chose David Leeming, a close friend and colleague, to write his biography and granted him access to his correspondence. Leeming traces his life from his birth in Harlem in 1924 to his self-imposed exile in Europe, his later years as political activist, and his public funeral in 1987.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great biography of a great man
- De Diogenes of Sinope en 10-16-16
De: David Leeming
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No Name in the Street
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 5 h
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 409
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This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent '60s and early '70s displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain - the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood, and his return to the American South to confront a violent America face-to-face.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A strange and terrible vehicle
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-20
De: James Baldwin
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Giovanni's Room
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- Michael
- 01-02-25
Beautiful language and pacing - I couldn’t stop till it was done
This is a beautiful book, written in 1956. Never before have I understood the strength of desire and the impossible place society demands of us.
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- Jennifer Knox
- 01-04-25
Heartbreaking
For this book to be nearly 70 years old, a lot of these problems are still relevant to this day. Such a heartbreaking and tragic story. Hats off to Baldwin!
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- Melissa Miles
- 02-24-25
Metaphor
James Baldwin does a remarkable job in creating metaphors throughout this saga of homo and heterosexuality. Powerful book.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-02-25
Masterpiece
Very well written, poetic masterpiece of literature! James Baldwin writes in a way that is so beautifully constructed that it makes reader/listener fall in love with the very words and the characters. The book was ahead of its time and therefore one almost forgets the era in which it was actually written. It feels so contemporary that one forgets just how revolutionary it actually was! His positive and unapologetic dipiction of gay love is enriching and powerful. A must read or listen! Bravo James Baldwin!🎉🏳️🌈
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- Joann Gilles
- 01-28-25
The production felt like listening to dramatic radio. Thoroughly enjoyable. Baldwin’s writing is beautiful.
Felt a little dated, but, of course it is of another time. Things have changed so much.
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- Charisse Paradiso
- 09-07-24
Outstanding Narration
Matt Bomer's range of talent is evident in every piece of art of which he takes part. " Giovanni's Room" is no exception. His narration transports one into the story. Bien joué.
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- JCTHIEM
- 09-09-24
Finally got to it.
This has been in my wishlist for quite some time. I held off as many books from this era, especially those centered around love and relationships I find daunting to read. To my surprise I found this quite good. Having lived in Europe for a number of years I found the setting quite familiar and relatable. Characters came to life as they though they could be contemporary characters for the most part. given the books historical notoriety in the community I'm very pleased it's aged as well as it has.
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