Guitar Breaks
A Guitar's Journey Through 1950s USA
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John Hamilton
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Listen to the journey of "Rose", a Fender Stratocaster, through 1950s USA. Her story unfolds through the experiences of her owners.
Cliff, a country picker with Hank Williams, has a backstage musical encounter with a young Elvis. Josh, a songwriter recording with legendary producer Sam Phillips at Sun Studios, argues civil rights strategies with Martin Luther King. Zac, a young New York-based blues guitarist who works with Big Joe Turner and Muddy Waters, joins Buddy Holly during the final stages of his ill-fated Winter Dance Party tour in 1959.
This composite of Zelig meets Forrest Gump gives listeners insight into 1950s American social and music culture and a glimpse of the early forms of rock, country, and soul music that would revolutionize the youth of that generation.
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- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories—a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. In the newest collection of stories by the Mystery Writers of America, each author weaves a fresh tale surrounding the eerie feeling that comes when a stranger enters our midst, featuring stories by prolific mystery writers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrators are outstanding here.
- De Jennifer Baratta She/Her en 05-16-21
De: Michael Koryta
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Tuff
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
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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Slumberland
- A Novel
- De: Paul Beatty
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, a little know avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the city's dreamy streets ruminating about race, sex, love, Teutonic gods, the prevent defense, and Wynton Marsalis in search of his artistic - and spiritual - other.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gen Xr's Delight
- De Amazon Customer en 07-01-22
De: Paul Beatty
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The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
- De: Stanley Booth
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 17 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 85
Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones’ inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool, in 1969. He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway - a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the end of a generation’s dreams of peace and freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superlative rendering of a singular story.
- De Laura Davis en 11-28-15
De: Stanley Booth
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Player Piano
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,311
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,069
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,077
Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut – wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Genuine 5-Stars
- De R.A. en 06-07-19
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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Devil in a Blue Dress
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- De: Walter Mosley
- Narrado por: Michael Boatman
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,389
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,899
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,888
Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beware of Mysterious Sexy Women with Big Suitcases
- De Jefferson en 02-13-11
De: Walter Mosley
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Invisible Man
- A Novel
- De: Ralph Ellison
- Narrado por: Joe Morton
- Duración: 18 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 8,990
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,015
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8,011
Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching—yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which is destined to have a great deal said about it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How Did This Escape Me?
- De E. Pearson en 11-23-11
De: Ralph Ellison
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Night Shift
- Night Tales, Book 1
- De: Nora Roberts
- Narrado por: Kate Rudd
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,214
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,091
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,080
Her voice was like whiskey, smooth and potent, but it was her contradictions that fascinated Detective Boyd Fletcher - the vulnerability beneath her tough-as-nails facade.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bad Narrator
- De Skye en 07-12-15
De: Nora Roberts
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Joplin's Ghost
- De: Tananarive Due
- Narrado por: Lizan Mitchell
- Duración: 21 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 229
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 157
Bram Stoker Award finalist Tananarive Due crafts chilling tales of suspense.
In Joplin's Ghost, 24-year-old R&B phenomenon Phoenix Smalls is on the cusp of fame and fortune. But she is haunted by the spirit of Jazz legend Scott Joplin. After a series of sultry, erotic encounters with the ghost, and with the pressures of stardom closing in on her, Phoenix begins to fear for her life and career.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sweeping--a fabulous read
- De Dinisle en 12-24-06
De: Tananarive Due
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The One-in-a-Million Boy
- De: Monica Wood
- Narrado por: Chris Ciulla
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,641
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,399
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,406
For years, guitarist Quinn Porter has been on the road, chasing gig after gig, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness records-obsessed son. When the boy dies suddenly, Quinn seeks forgiveness for his paternal shortcomings by completing the requirements for one of his son's unfinished Boy Scout badges. For seven Saturdays Quinn does yard work for Ona Vitkus, the spry 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant the boy had visited weekly.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- De Justin en 10-20-16
De: Monica Wood
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Midnight Cowboy
- De: James Leo Herlihy
- Narrado por: Michael Urie
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 112
Midnight Cowboy is considered by many to be one of the best American novels published since World War II. The main story centers around Joe Buck, a naive but eager and ambitious young Texan, who decides to leave his dead-end job in search of a grand and glamorous life he believes he will find in New York City. But the city turns out to be a much more difficult place to negotiate than Joe could ever have imagined. He soon finds himself and his dreams compromised. Buck's fall from innocence and his relationship with the crippled street hustler Ratso Rizzo form the novel's emotional nucleus.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb
- De Macala Shon en 01-26-21