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Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town
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Chris Bohjalian
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In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers were about to storm a crack house. Bohjalian and his wife were told to hit the ground for their own protection. While lying on the pavement, Bohjalian's wife suggested that perhaps it was time to move to New England.
Months later they traded in their co-op in Brooklyn for a century-old Victorian house in Lincoln, Vermont (population 975), and Bohjalian began chronicling life in that town in a wide variety of magazine essays and in his newspaper column, "Idyll Banter."
These pieces, written weekly for twelve years and collected here for the first time, serve as a diary of both this writer's life and how America has been transformed in the last decade. Rich with idiosyncratic universals that come with being a parent, a child, and a spouse, Chris Bohjalian's personal observations are a reflection of our own common experience.
"Chris Bohjalian is a terrific columnist—thoughtful and thought-provoking. Just like me! No, really, this guy is good." —Dave Barry, author of Boogers Are My Beat
“The best book I’ve ever read about life in a contemporary village. There’s no doubt that Chris Bohjalian has established himself as one of America’s finest, most thoughtful, and most humane writers.”—Howard Frank Mosher
©2003 Chris Bohjalian (P)2003 Random House, Inc., Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Reseñas de la Crítica
"Bohjalian reads with a gentle, self-deprecating tone....These glimpses of country life are a pleasant diversion for hectic days." —AudioFile
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A happy series of accidents and a doughnut-laden escape upstate take Josh Kilmer-Purcell and his partner, Brent Ridge, to the doorstep of the magnificent (and fabulously for sale) Beekman Mansion. And so begins their transformation from uptight urbanites into the 200-year-old-mansion-owning Beekman Boys. Suddenly Josh---a full-time New Yorker with a successful advertising career---and Brent find themselves weekend farmers, surrounded by nature's bounty and an eclectic cast.
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Selling your dream and name dropping
- De Mark en 09-13-12
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The Longest Road
- Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
- De: Philip Caputo
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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Philip Caputo, who had just turned 70, his wife, and their two English setters took off in a truck hauling an Airstream camper from Key West, Florida, en route via back roads and state routes to Deadhorse, Alaska. The journey took four months and covered 17,000 miles, during which Caputo interviewed more than 80 Americans from all walks of life to get a picture of what their lives and the life of the nation are really about in the 21st century.
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Very Disappointing
- De Amazon Customer en 03-25-18
De: Philip Caputo
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse
- Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
- De: Dan Barry
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual disabilities and all from Texas, lived in an old schoolhouse. Before dawn each morning, they were bussed to a nearby processing plant, where they eviscerated turkeys in return for food, lodging, and $65 a month. They lived in near servitude for more than 30 years, enduring increasing neglect, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse.
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Our Brothers' Keepers?
- De Gillian en 12-01-16
De: Dan Barry
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The Waiting
- The True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave Up
- De: Cathy LaGrow, Cindy Coloma - contributor
- Narrado por: Pamela Klein
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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In the summer of 1928, sixteen-year-old Minka was looking forward to a sewing class picnic. This would be a rare chance to put aside farm chores, don a pretty dress, and enjoy an outing with other girls. It would be a day to remember. And it was - but not in the way Minka had dreamed. Cornered by a stranger in the woods, the young girl was assaulted. Minka still believed that the stork brought babies; she would not discover for months that she was pregnant.
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Captivating and fantastic
- De John alexander en 10-03-19
De: Cathy LaGrow, y otros
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Love and Other Ways of Dying
- Essays
- De: Michael Paterniti
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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In the 17 wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, he brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection. In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge.
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Incredibly intimate voice for humanity
- De Ed Hodges en 01-02-16
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The Great Spring
- Writing, Zen, and This ZigZag Life
- De: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrado por: Natalie Goldberg
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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What does it take to have a long writing life? Drawing on her years of writing, teaching, and practicing Zen, Natalie Goldberg shares the experiences that have opened her to new ways of being alive - experiences that point the way forward in our lives and our writing. The "great spring" of this book title refers to the great rush of energy that arrives when you think no life will ever come again - the early yellow flowering forsythia, for example.
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An enjoyable insight
- De Leigh A en 05-22-23
De: Natalie Goldberg
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Driving on the Rim
- De: Thomas McGuane
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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The unforgettable voyager of this dark picaresque is I. B. "Berl" Pickett, M.D., whose die was probably cast the moment his mother thought to name him after Irving Berlin. Other insults piled on apace thereafter: the spasms of Pentecostal Sunday worship; the social debilitation of following his parents' itinerant rug-shampooing business; the erotic initiation at the hands of his aunt. It's hard to imagine what would have become of him had he not gone to medical school.
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Delightful
- De Roy en 01-05-11
De: Thomas McGuane
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Bettyville
- De: George Hodgman
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself - an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook - in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from the home both treasure - the place where his father's voice lingers, the scene of shared jokes, skirmishes, and, behind the dusty antiques, a rarely acknowledged conflict...
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Title Should Be Georgeville-It's All About George
- De Sara en 10-08-15
De: George Hodgman
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Lassoing the Sun
- A Year in America's National Parks
- De: Mark Woods
- Narrado por: Corey M. Snow
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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Many childhood summers, Mark Woods piled into a station wagon with his parents and two sisters and headed to America's national parks. Mark's most vivid childhood memories are set against a backdrop of mountains, woods, and fireflies in places like Redwood, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon national parks. On the eve of turning 50, and a little burned out, Mark decided to reconnect with the great outdoors. He'd spend a year visiting the national parks.
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great narrator, lackluster story, wonderful themes
- De MT en 08-21-18
De: Mark Woods
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Silver Like Dust
- One Family's Story of America's Japanese Internment
- De: Kimi Cunningham Grant
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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Kimi’s Obaachan, her grandmother, had always been a silent presence throughout her youth. Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to Ojichan’s (grandfather’s) stories for the thousandth time, Obaachan was a missing link to Kimi’s Japanese heritage, something she had had a mixed relationship with all her life. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, all Kimi ever wanted to do was fit in, spurning traditional Japanese cuisine and her grandfather’s attempts to teach her the language.
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A New LIfe
- De Kindle Customer en 08-14-12
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Walking to Listen
- 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
- De: Andrew Forsthoefel
- Narrado por: Andrew Forsthoefel
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen". He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt.
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Transcends the typical trekking story
- De barefoot rabbit en 08-07-18
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On Hitler's Mountain
- Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
- De: Irmgard A. Hunt
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden - just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat - Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating, and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under an evil but persuasive leader. As she grew older, the harsh reality of war - and a few brave adults who opposed the Nazi regime - aroused in her skepticism of National Socialist ideology and the Nazi propaganda she was taught to believe in.
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A rare and very much appreciated perspective.
- De tabounds en 12-28-17
De: Irmgard A. Hunt
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Nothing Daunted
- The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
- De: Dorothy Wickenden
- Narrado por: Dorothy Wickenden, Margaret Nichols
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, close friends from childhood and graduates of Smith College, left home in Auburn, New York, for the wilds of northwestern Colorado. Bored by their soci-ety luncheons, charity work, and the effete young men who courted them, they learned that two teach-ing jobs were available in a remote mountaintop schoolhouse and applied—shocking their families and friends.
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Not as Described
- De Sara en 08-10-14
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The Lioness
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Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebras storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests—including Katie’s best friend, Carmen Tedesco, and Terrance Dutton, the celebrated Black actor who stars alongside Katie in the highly controversial film Tender Madness—will spend their days taking photos.
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AMAZING!
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De: Chris Bohjalian
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Six Women of Salem
- The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
- De: Marilynne K. Roach
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
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Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the 20 who were executed and the five who perished in prison, 207 individuals had been accused, 74 had been "afflicted", 32 had officially accused their fellow neighbors, and 255 ordinary people had been inexorably drawn into that ruinous and murderous vortex, and this doesn't include the religious, judicial, and governmental leaders.
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Robotic Reader
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Finding Everett Ruess
- The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
- De: David Roberts
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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The definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age twenty have earned him a large and devoted cult following.
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I so badly wanted to like it...
- De M. Edvalson en 11-12-14
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Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes
- The Official Biography
- De: Rob Wilkins
- Narrado por: Rob Wilkins
- Duración: 16 h y 8 m
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At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong. At 66, Terry had lived a life full of achievements: becoming one of the UK's best-selling writers, winning the Carnegie Medal and being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Following his untimely death from Alzheimer's disease, the mantle of completing Terry's memoir was passed to Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author's literary estate.
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The honesty of someone who knew and loved him well
- De Amanda Richards en 10-05-22
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Somewhere Sisters
- A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
- De: Erika Hayasaki
- Narrado por: VyVy Nguyen
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Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, each knowing little about the other’s existence, until they were reunited as teenagers, against all odds. Award-winning journalist Erika Hayasaki spent years and hundreds of hours interviewing each of the birth and adoptive family members and tells the girls’ incredible story from their perspectives, challenging conceptions about adoption and what it means to give a child a good life.
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Not anticipated
- De Bajagringa en 12-22-23
De: Erika Hayasaki
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The Red Lotus
- A Novel
- De: Chris Bohjalian
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: An American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met.
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- De Taryn en 03-29-20
De: Chris Bohjalian
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The Lioness
- A Novel
- De: Chris Bohjalian
- Narrado por: January LaVoy, Grace Experience, Gabrielle De Cuir
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Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebras storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests—including Katie’s best friend, Carmen Tedesco, and Terrance Dutton, the celebrated Black actor who stars alongside Katie in the highly controversial film Tender Madness—will spend their days taking photos.
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AMAZING!
- De Julie Linker en 05-18-22
De: Chris Bohjalian
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Six Women of Salem
- The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
- De: Marilynne K. Roach
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
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Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the 20 who were executed and the five who perished in prison, 207 individuals had been accused, 74 had been "afflicted", 32 had officially accused their fellow neighbors, and 255 ordinary people had been inexorably drawn into that ruinous and murderous vortex, and this doesn't include the religious, judicial, and governmental leaders.
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Robotic Reader
- De DangerousBlossom en 12-15-18
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Finding Everett Ruess
- The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
- De: David Roberts
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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The definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age twenty have earned him a large and devoted cult following.
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I so badly wanted to like it...
- De M. Edvalson en 11-12-14
De: David Roberts
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Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes
- The Official Biography
- De: Rob Wilkins
- Narrado por: Rob Wilkins
- Duración: 16 h y 8 m
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At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong. At 66, Terry had lived a life full of achievements: becoming one of the UK's best-selling writers, winning the Carnegie Medal and being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Following his untimely death from Alzheimer's disease, the mantle of completing Terry's memoir was passed to Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author's literary estate.
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The honesty of someone who knew and loved him well
- De Amanda Richards en 10-05-22
De: Rob Wilkins
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Somewhere Sisters
- A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
- De: Erika Hayasaki
- Narrado por: VyVy Nguyen
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, each knowing little about the other’s existence, until they were reunited as teenagers, against all odds. Award-winning journalist Erika Hayasaki spent years and hundreds of hours interviewing each of the birth and adoptive family members and tells the girls’ incredible story from their perspectives, challenging conceptions about adoption and what it means to give a child a good life.
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Not anticipated
- De Bajagringa en 12-22-23
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The Red Lotus
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: An American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they met.
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- De Taryn en 03-29-20
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A Christmas Journey
- De: Anne Perry
- Narrado por: Terrence Hardiman
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It's Christmas and the well-born guests who have gathered at Applecross for a delicious weekend of relaxation are warmed by roaring fires, mistletoe, and gorgeously wrapped gifts. It's scarcely the setting for misfortune, and no one - not even that clever young aristocrat and budding sleuth Vespasia Cumming-Gould - anticipates the tragedy that is to darken this light-hearted holiday house party. But soon one young woman lies dead, a suicide, and Vespasia must uncover the heartbreaking truth behind the tragedy.
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Never tire of Anne Perry
- De Joan en 12-22-17
De: Anne Perry
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Love & Saffron
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- De: Kim Fay
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr, Cassandra Campbell, Mark Bramhall, y otros
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When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter—as well as a gift of saffron—to fifty-nine-year-old Imogen Fortier, a life-changing friendship begins. Joan lives in Los Angeles and is just starting out as a writer for the newspaper food pages. Imogen lives on Camano Island outside Seattle, writing a monthly column for a Pacific Northwest magazine, and while she can hunt elk and dig for clams, she’s never tasted fresh garlic--exotic fare in the Northwest of the sixties.
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Beautiful read
- De Amazon Customer en 12-08-24
De: Kim Fay
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Meet Me in Another Life
- A Novel
- De: Catriona Silvey
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Two strangers in a foreign city, Thora and Santi meet in a chance encounter. At once, they recognize in each other a kindred spirit - someone who is longing for more in life than the cards they’ve been dealt. Before their friendship can blossom, though, a tragic accident cuts their story short.
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Half way through, it’s an arduous read.
- De coppercent7 en 07-29-21
De: Catriona Silvey
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If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now
- Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie
- De: Christopher Ingraham
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400 - the community he made famous as “the worst place to live in America” in a story he wrote for the Washington Post.
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Wish this would have been better.
- De cjgammill en 10-05-20
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The Flight Attendant
- A Novel
- De: Chris Bohjalian
- Narrado por: Erin Spencer, Grace Experience, Mark Deakins
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them and the accompanying self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece the previous night back together, counting the minutes until she has to catch her crew shuttle to the airport. She quietly slides out of bed, careful not to aggravate her already pounding head, and looks at the man she spent the night with.
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Good story but 1 reader got on my nerves
- De Bernadette en 04-15-18
De: Chris Bohjalian
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One of Us Knows
- A Thriller
- De: Alyssa Cole
- Narrado por: Susan Dalian
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can’t refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Having been dormant for years, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island, but she’s determined not to ruin their opportunity.
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Pronouns? No thank you. Fiction for story not politics
- De Anonymous User en 05-16-24
De: Alyssa Cole
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- Jim Barstow
- 01-21-04
There are better choices
I hoped this would be similar other books of this genre like "It Takes a Village Idiot" or Noel Perrin's series. (Life in a rural setting from an ousider's perspective...) Unfortunately, the writer is a little pretentious and the reader is annoying. I'm not quite sure what it is that is annoying except that there is a little too much inflection or drama in his voice. The text varies between statistic laden lecture to cutesy anecdote.
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- P. Edwards
- 04-11-04
So glad to be able to listen to this!
I'm a big fan of Chris Bohjalian, mostly because of his articles in the Burlington Free Press as I've only listened to one of his books (Buffalo Soldier - also very good). I moved from Vermont to Connecticut 3 years ago, and since then have missed his column. This book is a collection of his columns, all of which show true insight into the Vermont that I know and love. If you want to know what it's like to live in Vermont, listen to or read to one of Chris Bohjalian's books. It's obvious he loves his subject matter, and he does a great job taking you there.
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