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Stories on Reproductive Freedom
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Edited by Shelly Oria—author and editor of Indelible in the Hippocampus—this explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, plays, and more, explores the universality of human reproductive experiences, as well as their distinct individuality.
An enlisted sailor must choose between her military career and keeping an unexpected pregnancy. A mother of three decides to become a surrogate, but is unprepared for everything that happens next. A trans man’s pregnancy forces them to approach their key relationships in a new way. A woman’s choice to live a child-free life is put to the test when her husband’s dying wish is for them to become parents. Forced sterilization camps line the borders of America in a dystopian future that may not be far off.
In their own unique and unforgettable way, each storyteller examines our crisis of access to care in ways that are at turns haunting, heartbreaking, and outright funny.
This collection is a collaboration with the Brigid Alliance, a nationwide service that arranges and funds confidential and personal travel support to those seeking abortion care.
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- De: Krys Malcolm Belc
- Narrado por: Krys Malcolm Belc
- Duración: 4 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet, when his partner Anna adopted Samson, the legal documents listed Belc as "the natural mother of the child." The Natural Mother of the Child journeys both toward and through common perceptions of what it means to have a body and how that body can influence the perception of a family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Kathryn Bradley en 03-04-23
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All of This
- A Memoir of Death and Desire
- De: Rebecca Woolf
- Narrado por: Rebecca Woolf
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 169
After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage, writer Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband. Two weeks after telling him she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died. In All of This, Woolf chronicles the months before her husband’s death—and her rebirth after he was gone. With rigorous honesty and incredible awareness, she reflects on the end of her marriage: how her husband’s illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity and her own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellentt!
- De S. DAWN HANSCOM en 11-26-22
De: Rebecca Woolf
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The Stuff that Never Happened
- A Novel
- De: Maddie Dawson
- Narrado por: Teri Clark Linden
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 80
Annabelle McKay knows she shouldn’t have any complaints. She’s been in a stable marriage that’s lasted almost three decades and has provided her with two wonderful children and thousands of family dinners around a sturdy oak table. Other wives envy the fact that Grant is not the type of man who would ever cheat on her or leave her for a younger woman. The trouble is Annabelle isn’t sure she wants to be married to Grant anymore. The trouble is she’s still in love with someone else.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don’t pass this one up.
- De Lauren en 03-10-20
De: Maddie Dawson
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He Came in with It
- A Portrait of Motherhood and Madness
- De: Miriam Feldman
- Narrado por: Ann Richardson
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
In an idyllic Los Angeles neighborhood, where generations enjoy deep roots in old homes, the O’Rourke family fits right in. Miriam and Craig are both artists and their four children carry on the legacy. When their teenage son, Nick, is diagnosed with schizophrenia, a tumultuous decade ensues in which the family careens off the conventional course. Like the 10 Biblical plagues, they are hit by one catastrophe after another: violence, evictions, arrests, a suicide attempt, a near-drowning - even cancer and a brain tumor - play against the backdrop of a wild teenage bacchanal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Beautifully Written
- De Michael en 08-01-22
De: Miriam Feldman
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With or Without You
- De: Caroline Leavitt
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
After almost 20 years together, Stella and Simon are starting to run into problems. An up-and-coming rock musician when they first met, Simon has been clinging to dreams of fame even as the possibility of it has grown dimmer, and now that his band might finally be on the brink again, he wants to go on the road, leaving Stella behind.
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4 out of 5 stars
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not my cup of tea
- De Grekis en 12-23-20
De: Caroline Leavitt
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I Can Barely Take Care of Myself
- Tales from a Happy Life Without Kids
- De: Jen Kirkman
- Narrado por: Jen Kirkman
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 538
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 487
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 488
"You'll change your mind." That's what everyone says to Jen Kirkman - and countless women like her - when she confesses she doesn't plan to have children. But you know what? It's hard enough to be an adult. You have to dress yourself and pay bills and remember to buy birthday gifts. You have to drive and get annual physicals and tip for good service. Some adults take on the added burden of caring for a tiny human being with no language skills or bladder control.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Funny. Not fall down laughing funny, but funny
- De david en 05-22-13
De: Jen Kirkman
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Finding Chika
- A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
- De: Mitch Albom
- Narrado por: Mitch Albom
- Duración: 4 h y 54 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,062
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,788
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,780
Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the 40-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. But at age five, Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says "no one in Haiti can help you with."
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5 out of 5 stars
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BUY READ AND RECOMMEND THIS BOOK
- De The Birds. en 11-05-19
De: Mitch Albom
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The Fourth Child
- A Novel
- De: Jessica Winter
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
The author of Break in Case of Emergency follows up her the “extraordinary debut” (The Guardian) with a moving novel about motherhood and marriage, adolescence and bodily autonomy, family and love, religion and sexuality, and the delicate balance between the purity of faith and the messy reality of life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just OK - Considered Bailing
- De Madeleine Homan en 04-18-21
De: Jessica Winter
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No Hiding in Boise
- De: Kim Hooper
- Narrado por: Devon Sorvari, Stephanie Willing, Hillary Huber, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Angie is awakened by a midnight call from an officer with the Boise Police Department and thinks there must be a misunderstanding. The officer tells her that her husband was involved in a shooting at a local bar, but how can that be when her husband is sleeping right next to her? But when she turns to wake him, he isn’t there. Tessa is the 23-year-old bartender who escapes to a backroom storage closet during the shooting. When it comes to light that five people were killed, she is burdened with the question of why she survived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fantastic audio involving contemporary issues
- De Barbara S en 07-07-21
De: Kim Hooper
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The Undocumented Americans
- De: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Narrado por: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,042
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 902
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 895
Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized the story she'd tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell. So she wrote her immigration lawyer's phone number on her hand in Sharpie and embarked on a trip across the country to tell the stories of her fellow undocumented immigrants—and to find the hidden key to her own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Raw, heartbreaking - we can do better by others
- De RapaciousReader en 04-11-20
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She Wouldn't Change a Thing
- De: Sarah Adlakha
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
When 39-year-old Maria Forssmann wakes up in her 17-year-old body, she doesn’t know how she got there. All she does know is she has to get back: to her home in Bienville, Mississippi, to her job as a successful psychiatrist and, most importantly, to her husband, daughters, and unborn son.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very Religious
- De G Crawford en 11-18-21
De: Sarah Adlakha
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The Last Post
- De: Renée Carlino
- Narrado por: Avery Caris, Stephen Dexter
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 42
Laya Marston’s husband, Cameron, a daredevil enthusiast, was the complete opposite of her, ready and willing to dive off a cliff-face or parachute across a canyon - and Laya loved him for it. But she was different: pragmatic, regimented, devoted to her career and to supporting Cameron from the sidelines of his death-defying feats. Opposites attract, right? But when Cameron dies tragically, Laya becomes lost in denial, living in the delusion that Cameron will come back to her.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I really wanted to like this
- De Amazon Customer en 12-21-21
De: Renée Carlino
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Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?
- Confessions of a Gay Dad
- De: Dan Bucatinsky
- Narrado por: Dan Bucatinsky
- Duración: 5 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 868
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 797
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 796
In 2005, Dan Bucatinsky and his partner, Don Roos, found themselves in an L.A. delivery room, decked out in disposable scrubs from shower cap to booties, to welcome their adopted baby girl - launching their frantic yet memorable adventures into fatherhood. Two and a half years later, the same birth mother - a heroically generous, pack-a-day teen with a passion for Bridezilla marathons and Mountain Dew - delivered a son into the couple’s arms.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Parenting Book with Humor and Heart
- De The Reading Date en 02-05-14
De: Dan Bucatinsky
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The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
- A Novel
- De: Donna Freitas
- Narrado por: Kristen Sieh
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 84
Rose Napolitano is fighting with her husband, Luke, about prenatal vitamins. She promised she’d take them, but didn’t. He promised before they got married that he’d never want children, but now he’s changed his mind. Their marriage has come to rest on this one question: Can Rose find it in herself to become a mother? Rose is a successful professor and academic. She's never wanted to have a child. The fight ends, and with it their marriage.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Amateurish and Frustrating Book
- De Nerd en 06-04-21
De: Donna Freitas
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Your Voice in My Head
- A Memoir
- De: Emma Forrest
- Narrado por: Emma Forrest
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 350
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 326
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 324
Emma Forrest, a British journalist, was just 22 and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. In a cycle of loneliness, damaging relationships, and destructive behavior, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding, and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist--a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the dangerous tide after she tried to end her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great, quick read
- De Amazon Customer en 02-12-21
De: Emma Forrest
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In the Time of Our History
- De: Susanne Pari
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Twelve months after her younger sister Anahita's death, Mitra Jahani reluctantly returns to her parents' home in suburban New Jersey to observe the Iranian custom of "The One Year." Ana is always in Mitra's heart, though they chose very different paths. While Ana, sweet and dutiful, bowed to their domineering father's demands and married, Mitra rebelled, and was banished.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable
- De J. E. Jordan en 05-23-23
De: Susanne Pari
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Impossible
- De: Nancy Werlin
- Narrado por: Emily Durante
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 43
Lucy Scarborough is 17 when she discovers that the women of her family have been cursed through the generations, forced to attempt three seemingly impossible tasks or to fall into madness upon their child's birth. How can Lucy succeed when all of her ancestors have tried and failed? But Lucy is the first girl who won't be alone as she tackles the list. She has her fiercely protective foster parents beside her. And she has Zach, whose strength amazes her more each day. Do they have enough love and resolve to overcome an age-old evil?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!!
- De S. McGowan en 04-03-11
De: Nancy Werlin