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John Donald O'Shea
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Erin O'Shea
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The Story of an America that no longer exists.
What was it like to live in America 90 years ago?
Have you ever needed to use an outhouse at two in the morning?
Bathed in a corrugated metal tub with water heated on a wood-burning stove?
Read at night by kerosine lamp?
Fell to your knees in the early morning and prayed that your father might find a job that day?
Has your mother darned socks and made clothes for you from flour sacks?
Have you ever subsisted for days on a diet of just oatmeal?
The memoirs collected in this book tell of an America where families and neighbors relied on their faith, and came together to help each other survive America's longest and deepest economic depression. These are memories of ordinary Americans of a time now nearly forgotten.
Today we have electricity, central heating, air conditioning, indoor plumbing, television and computers. As you listen to this book, you will find yourself asking, "Are these the things that really matter?""
©2021 John Donald O'Shea (P)2021 John Donald O'SheaLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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As foreclosure fragments her family, five-year-old Mildred and her three siblings find refuge with her grandparents enjoying a modest retirement. When the "little heathens" flush the seniors and their child-rearing skills out of retirement, the grandparents deploy tough but loving bedtime schedules, Bible and prayer routines, and plenty of character-building chores. Having no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Makes you appreciate today's living
- De Susan en 03-11-11
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Money Secrets of the Amish
- Finding True Abundance in Simplicity, Sharing, and Saving
- De: Lorilee Craker
- Narrado por: Lorilee Craker
- Duración: 4 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
Take one thoroughly modern gal with a recessionary income problem, mix with the practices of a culture that has proved to be recession-proof, and what have you got? A financial planner in a straw hat. When writer Lorilee Craker learned that the Amish are not just surviving but thriving in the economic downturn, she decided to find out why.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pure Listening Pleasure!
- De Yaz en 08-04-11
De: Lorilee Craker
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Once Upon a Town
- The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen
- De: Bob Greene
- Narrado por: Fritz Weaver
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
During World War II, American soldiers from every city and walk of life rolled through North Platte, Nebraska, on troop trains, en route to Europe and the Pacific. The tiny town transformed its modest railroad depot into the North Platte Canteen, a place where soldiers could enjoy coffee, music, home-cooked food, magazines, and friendly conversation during a stopover that lasted only a few minutes.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Long Tale of a Truly Inspiring Short Tale
- De Suzy en 02-25-11
De: Bob Greene
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Amish Values for Your Family
- What We Can Learn from the Simple Life
- De: Suzanne Woods Fisher
- Narrado por: Mimi Black
- Duración: 4 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
For listeners who long for strong families that know how to truly enjoy life together, there is much to learn from the Amish. Values like community, forgiveness, simple living, obedience, and more can be your family legacy - without selling your car, changing your wardrobe, or moving out to farm country. In Amish Values for Your Family, bestselling author Suzanne Woods Fisher shows how you can adopt the wisdom of the Amish when it comes to family matters. In this inspiring and practical audio book listeners will find charming true stories interlaced with solid, biblical advice....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Completely awesome!
- De Seth W. Hudson en 03-19-15
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The Duggars: 20 and Counting!
- Raising One of America's Largest Families - How They Do It
- De: Michelle Duggar, Jim Bob Duggar
- Narrado por: Michelle Duggar
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 185
The Duggars: 20 and Counting! is a behind-the-scenes look at the supersize family that fascinates millions of television viewers around the world. From Idaho to Istanbul, people want to know how Arkansas parents Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar efficiently and lovingly manage 19 happy, home-schooled children without going into debt—or losing their minds!
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5 out of 5 stars
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entertaining
- De Marina brooks en 09-09-24
De: Michelle Duggar, y otros
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They Called Me Number One
- Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
- De: Bev Sellars
- Narrado por: Bev Sellars
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 100
Like thousands of Aboriginal children in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school. These institutions endeavored to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings; forced separation from family, language, and culture; and strict discipline. In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. Joseph's Mission, Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school's lasting effects on her and her family and eloquently articulates her own path to healing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shame on Church and State
- De Susie en 08-22-17
De: Bev Sellars
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- De: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 22 h y 40 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 13,998
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12,367
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12,309
From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superior non-fiction
- De Lila en 05-20-11
De: Isabel Wilkerson
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Our Brothers' Keepers?
- De Gillian en 12-01-16
De: Dan Barry
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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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General4 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 130
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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2 out of 5 stars
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Not as Described
- De Sara en 08-10-14
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The Good Good Pig
- The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 398
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 351
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 351
A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uplifting memoir of a pig + autobiography
- De Diana en 04-04-19
De: Sy Montgomery
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Labor Day
- De: Joyce Maynard
- Narrado por: Wilson Bethel
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 476
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 395
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 396
In a manner evoking Ian McEwan's Atonement and Nick Hornby's About a Boy, acclaimed author Joyce Maynard weaves a beautiful, poignant tale of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery as seen through the eyes of a young teenage boy - and the man he later becomes - looking back at an unexpected encounter that begins one single, long, hot, life-altering weekend.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good story but anti clamatic
- De Nana en 11-25-13
De: Joyce Maynard
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Invisible Jews
- Surviving the Holocaust in Poland
- De: Eddie Bielawski
- Narrado por: Norman Gilligan
- Duración: 2 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Eddie Bielawski was born in the town of Wegrow in Poland in mid-1938. Not a propitious time and place for a Jewish child to be born. As a young child, he sees the Nazi army marching toward Russia. Day and night they marched - soldiers, trucks, tanks, and more soldiers, in a never-ending line - an invincible force. One night, his father had a dream. In this dream, he saw what he had to do: where to build the bunker, how to build it, and even its dimensions. This would be their Noah's Ark, saving them from the initial deluge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surviving not the camps, but being in hiding!
- De Logophile en 04-26-18
De: Eddie Bielawski
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The Good Food Revolution
- Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities
- De: Will Allen, Charles Wilson - with, Eric Schlosser - foreword
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur "Genius Award" winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed - and heal - broken communities. An eco-classic in the making, The Good Food Revolution is the story of Will's personal journey, the lives he has touched, and a grassroots movement that is changing the way our nation eats.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This story teaches how to take back the soil
- De Shawn Borup en 11-09-19
De: Will Allen, y otros
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The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- De: William Anderson
- Narrado por: John Morgan, Tish Hicks
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder is a vibrant, deeply personal portrait of this revered American author, illuminating her thoughts, travels, philosophies, writing career, and dealings with family, friends, and fans as never before. This is a fresh look at the adult life of the author in her own words. Gathered from museums, archives, and personal collections, the letters span over 60 years of Wilder's life, from 1894 to 1956, and shed new light on Wilder's day-to-day life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain
- De Sara en 06-29-16
De: William Anderson
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A Thousand Acres
- De: Jane Smiley
- Narrado por: C. J. Critt
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 665
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 547
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 556
Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a tangle of love, jealousy, and fear when their father, Larry Cook, grows too old to manage the family's fertile thousand-acre farm. As each couple struggles with their own tragedies and challenges, they know their father is judging them in light of the weighty inheritance that hovers within their reach.
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1 out of 5 stars
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good book bad reader
- De C. Carlson en 08-07-08
De: Jane Smiley
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Laughing Without an Accent
- Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
- De: Firoozeh Dumas
- Narrado por: Firoozeh Dumas
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 308
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 178
In the best-selling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Iranian American in Southern California. Now she again mines her rich Persian heritage in Laughing Without an Accent, sharing stories both tender and humorous on being a citizen of the world, on her well-meaning family, and on amusing cultural conundrums, all told with insights into the universality of the human condition. (Hint: It may have to do with brushing and flossing daily.)
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1 out of 5 stars
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Sigh
- De Sara en 01-29-14
De: Firoozeh Dumas
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The Bucolic Plague
- How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir
- De: Josh Kilmer-Purcell
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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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2 out of 5 stars
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Selling your dream and name dropping
- De Mark en 09-13-12