His Eye Is on the Sparrow
An Engagement in Black and White
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Ann Pearlman
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Once again Ann Pearlman, author of Infidelity: A Love Story nominated for a Pulitzer and the National Book award and inspiration for a Lifetime movie returns to memoir in His Eye Is on the Sparrow: An Engagement in Black and White. It is the early 60s and Ann, who is Jewish, and Ty, who is Black, are college students excited to meet each other's families. Along the way they encounter potentially violent racially charged situations as their parents cope with children in the forefront of changes yet to come. Ty and Ann learn about their lovers' community and families as they struggle with the interracial relationship. And we, the listeners, have a window into exactly how far we've come in the last half century in America. Or have we?
Ann Pearlman is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction books, including Getting Free: Women and Psychotherapy and Keep the Home Fires Burning: How to Have an Affair with Your Spouse, Inside the Crips, The Christmas Cookie Club, and A Gift for My Sister. Her memoir, Infidelity, was nominated for a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize and made into a Lifetime movie by Lionsgate. Also an artist, she recently illustrated a short story, Other Lives, which is available as an e-book.
This is a short audiobook published by Shebooks - high quality fiction, memoir, and journalism for women, by women.
©2013 Ann Pearlman (P)2015 Audible, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Grad student Will Dillard has largely buried memories of the summer he spent at a camp intended to "cure" homosexuality. But when he finds out a horror movie based on the camp is hitting theaters, he's forced to face his past - and his role in another camper's death. As he recounts the events surrounding his "failed rehabilitation", Will strikes out on an impromptu road trip back home to Mississippi, eventually returning to the abandoned campgrounds to solve the mysteries of that pivotal summer.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A story full of heart and healing
- De ZippyBippy en 05-06-18
De: Nick White
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Notes on a Banana
- A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression
- De: David Leite
- Narrado por: David Leite
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Reminiscing about the people and events that shaped him, David looks back at the highs and lows of his life, from his rejection of being gay and his attempt to "turn straight" through Aesthetic Realism, a cult in downtown Manhattan, to becoming a writer, cookbook author, and web publisher, to his 23-year relationship with Alan, known to millions of David's readers and listeners as "The One", which began with (what else?) food.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finished it in a day!
- De Kathryn en 08-23-17
De: David Leite
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Glorious
- De: Bernice L. McFadden
- Narrado por: Alfre Woodard
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 256
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 189
Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of Bernice L. McFadden's rich imagination, this is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success, ruin, and revival offers a candid portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Gruesome violence
- De Marilyn en 11-22-11
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Trading Dreams at Midnight
- De: Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- Narrado por: Shari Peele
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Diane McKinney-Whetstone, the award-winning and best-selling author of Tumbling, presents Trading Dreams at Midnight - - an Essence Book Club Recommended Read. Back in 1984, 15-year-old Neena's mother left and never came back. And now Neena is following in her footsteps.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hard to follow
- De Nevada en 08-13-10
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Gathering of Waters
- De: Bernice L. McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 188
Gathering of Waters is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi - a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation. Money is personified in this haunting story, which chronicles its troubled history following the arrival of the Hilson and Bryant families. Tass Hilson and Emmett Till were young and in love when Emmett was brutally murdered in 1955. Anxious to escape the town, Tass marries Maximillian May and relocates to Detroit
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!!
- De Dr. Allen en 07-26-16
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X
- A Novel
- De: Ilyasah Shabazz, Kekla Magoon
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, Ilyasah Shabazz
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Malcolm Little's parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but from what he can tell, that's nothing but a pack of lies - after all, his father's been murdered, his mother's been taken away, and his dreams of becoming a lawyer have gotten him laughed out of school. There's no point in trying, he figures, and lured by the nightlife of Boston and New York, he escapes into a world of fancy suits, jazz, girls, and reefer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very well written
- De jeff en 06-29-15
De: Ilyasah Shabazz, y otros
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Speak No Evil
- A Novel
- De: Uzodinma Iweala
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi, Julia Whelan
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 757
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 690
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 690
On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, DC, he's a top student and a track star at his prestigious private high school. Bound for Harvard in the fall, his prospects are bright. But Niru has a painful secret: He is queer - an abominable sin to his conservative Nigerian parents. No one knows except Meredith, his best friend, the daughter of prominent Washington insiders - and the one person who seems not to judge him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So incredibly sad
- De Amazon Kunde en 02-08-20
De: Uzodinma Iweala
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Paradise
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORRISON AT HER MOST COMPLEX
- De Kennedi Hill en 11-07-19
De: Toni Morrison
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The Great Failure
- A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth
- De: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrado por: Natalie Goldberg
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23
"The Great Failure is a boundless embrace, leaving nothing out. I wanted to learn the truth, to become whole. If I could touch the dark nature in someone else, I could know it in myself." So begins Natalie Goldberg in this candid exploration of her life. Here, Goldberg makes sense of primary relationships between father and daughter, teacher and student, and exemplifies the accomplishment available when creating daily writing practices.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you have been let down by anyone. Listen
- De Mia en 04-19-18
De: Natalie Goldberg
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Marrow
- De: Tarryn Fisher
- Narrado por: Audra Pagano
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 558
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 498
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 497
Margo is not like other girls. She lives in a derelict neighborhood called the Bone, in a cursed house, with her cursed mother, who hasn't spoken to her in over two years. She lives her days feeling invisible. It's not until she develops a friendship with her wheelchair-bound neighbor, Judah Grant, that things begin to change. When a neighborhood girl, seven-year-old Neveah Anthony, goes missing, Judah sets out to help Margo uncover what happened to her. What Margo finds changes her, and with a new perspective on life she's determined to find evil and punish it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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HUH?? I'm so confused LOL
- De ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 en 09-15-16
De: Tarryn Fisher
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Second House from the Corner
- De: Sadeqa Johnson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 652
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 601
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 601
Felicia Lyons, a stressed-out stay-at-home mom, struggles to sprint ahead of the demands of motherhood while her husband spends long days at the office. Felicia taps, utters mantras, and breathes her way through most situations, but on some days, like when the children won't stop screaming her name or arguing over toy trucks and pretzel sticks, she wonders what it would be like to get in her car and drive away.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No ending to any of the situations that opened.
- De Tina en 03-12-16
De: Sadeqa Johnson
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The Hollow Ground
- De: Natalie S. Harnett
- Narrado por: Luci Christian
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 534
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 469
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 472
The underground mine fires ravaging Pennsylvania coal country have forced 11-year-old Brigid Howley and her family to seek refuge with her estranged grandparents, the formidable Gram and the black lung-stricken Gramp. Tragedy is no stranger to the Howleys, a proud Irish-American clan who takes strange pleasure in the "curse" laid upon them generations earlier by a priest who ran afoul of the Molly Maguires. The weight of this legacy rests heavily on a new generation, when Brigid, already struggling to keep her family together, makes a grisly discovery in a long-abandoned bootleg mine shaft.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disfunction makes a good read
- De NHull en 05-30-14
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A Woman's Worth
- De: Tracy Price-Thompson
- Narrado por: various
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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In Kenya, when a young American man falls in love with the sophisticated daughter of an African chief, their marriage is strong. But tradition will soon put their union to the supreme test. Gripping and soulful, A Woman's Worth is a tale of cultural divisions, emotional wounds, and a love that struggles to transcend them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome
- De Amazon Customer en 09-23-09
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The Lost Family
- A Novel
- De: Jenna Blum
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 93
In 1965 Manhattan, patrons flock to Masha’s to savor its brisket bourguignon and impeccable service and to admire its dashing owner and head chef Peter Rashkin, the most eligible bachelor in town. But Peter does not care for the parade of eligible women who come to the restaurant hoping to catch his eye. Running Masha’s consumes him, as does his terrible guilt over surviving the horrors of the Nazi death camp while his wife, Masha - the restaurant’s namesake - and two young daughters perished. Then exquisitely beautiful June Bouquet, an up-and-coming young model, appears at the restaurant, piercing Peter’s guard.
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5 out of 5 stars
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STIMULATES THE HEART, MIND AND IMAGINATION
- De Miss Manners en 07-01-18
De: Jenna Blum
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Sanctuary Cove
- A Cavanaugh Island Novel, Book 1
- De: Rochelle Alers
- Narrado por: Nicole Small
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 412
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 364
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 368
Still reeling from her husband’s untimely death, Deborah Robinson needs a fresh start. So she decides to pack up her family and return to her grandmother’s ancestral home on Cavanaugh Island. The charming town of Sanctuary Cove holds happy memories for Deborah, and, after she spies a gorgeous stranger in the local bakery, it promises the possibility for a bright future. Dr. Asa Monroe is at a crossroads. Ever since the loss of his family, he has been traveling from one town to another. When he meets Deborah, the beautiful bookstore owner with the sunny smile, Asa believes he has finally found a reason to stay in one place.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not Good, Clean Fun
- De Cheryl en 12-20-12
De: Rochelle Alers
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Orange Mint and Honey
- De: Carleen Brice
- Narrado por: Cherise Booth
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
After grad school, Shay Dixon feels like she's had enough for awhile. Inspired by her spiritual adviser - a soul-soothing blues player named Nina Simon - Shay calls her estranged mother Nona for the first time in years, and shocks herself by asking if it would be okay to come home for a while.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One For The Money
- De DiaRose en 09-25-17
De: Carleen Brice
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American Street
- De: Ibi Zoboi
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 799
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 712
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 715
On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie - a good life. But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola's mother is detained by US immigration, leaving Fabiola to navigate her loud American cousins - Chantal, Donna, and Princess - the grittiness of Detroit's West Side, a new school, and a surprising romance all on her own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A lot to unpack
- De AudioBookHoe en 07-18-17
De: Ibi Zoboi
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre His Eye Is on the Sparrow
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- T. Humphries
- 07-23-23
Very enjoyable short love story
I really enjoyed this love story and you will too. Great quick read for the ride to and from work.
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