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A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice
Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and freedom, birth and death. Most of all, The Collection Plate explores both how we collect and erase the voices, lives, and innocence of underrepresented bodies - and behold their pleasure, pain, and possibility.
Both formally exciting and a delight to read, The Collection Plate is a testament to Allen’s place as the voice of a generation - and a witness to how we come into being in the 21st century.
©2021 Kendra Allen (P)2021 HarperCollins PublishersLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Visceral,blood hot, thrilling poetry-prose
- De Pam en 12-28-22
De: Yrsa Daley-Ward, y otros
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New American Best Friend
- De: Olivia Gatwood
- Narrado por: Olivia Gatwood
- Duración: 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 13
One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a series of odes: odes to the body, to tough women, to embracing your own journey in all its failures and triumphs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Amazing poetry, but the music
- De Keaira en 07-29-19
De: Olivia Gatwood
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Everything Is Illuminated
- De: Jonathan Safran Foer
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 96
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man—also named Jonathan Safran Foer—sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astounding reading
- De bookworm123abc en 02-10-23
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You Better Be Lightning
- De: Andrea Gibson
- Narrado por: Andrea Gibson
- Duración: 1 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 136
You Better Be Lightning ranges from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- De Rikki B. en 01-31-23
De: Andrea Gibson
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Any Man
- A Novel
- De: Amber Tamblyn
- Narrado por: Glenn Davis, Robin Miles, Therese Plummer, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 499
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 455
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 454
In this electric and provocative debut novel, Amber Tamblyn blends genres of poetry, prose, and elements of suspense to give shape to the shocking narratives of victims of sexual violence, mapping the destructive ways in which our society perpetuates rape culture, brilliantly brought to life through a multi-voice performance featuring Glenn Davis, Ben Foster, Marc Maron, Jason Ritter, John Roberts, Russ Tamblyn, Amber Tamblyn, January Lavoy, Phoebe Strole, Robin Miles, Thérèse Plummer, Dan Bittner, James Fouhey, and Michael Crouch.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I've been finished with this for hours
- De Bill en 06-29-18
De: Amber Tamblyn
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Sula
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,742
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,738
Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good against evil and a riotous story to boot
- De Karen en 04-11-11
De: Toni Morrison
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We Want Our Bodies Back
- Poems
- De: Jessica Care Moore
- Narrado por: Jessica Care Moore
- Duración: 2 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 17
Over the past two decades, Jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet, performer, publisher, activist, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving, original stanzas that speak to both Black women’s creative and intellectual power, and express the pain, sadness, and anger of those who suffer constant scrutiny because of their gender and race.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just beautiful.
- De @oil_house_ (IG) en 02-25-21
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The Star Side of Bird Hill
- De: Naomi Jackson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
Two sisters, ages 10 and 16, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados, after their mother can no longer care for them. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live, for the summer of 1989, with their grandmother, Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah. Dionne spends the summer in search of love, testing her grandmother's limits, and wanting to go home. Phaedra explores Bird Hill, where her family has lived for generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My absolute favorite book of all time
- De Eme en 07-16-15
De: Naomi Jackson
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Land of Love and Drowning
- De: Tiphanie Yanique
- Narrado por: Cherise Boothe, Korey Jackson, Rachel Leslie, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 188
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 173
In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a particular magic that will either sink or save them. Chronicling three generations of an island family from 1916 to the 1970s, Land of Love and Drowning is a novel of love and magic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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TW: incest
- De Carrissa en 04-12-17
De: Tiphanie Yanique
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There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
- De: Morgan Parker
- Narrado por: Morgan Parker
- Duración: 1 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 109
The only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé is God, and God is a black woman sipping rosé and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly laughing in the therapist's office, feeling unloved, being on display, daring to survive. Morgan Parker stands at the intersections of vulnerability and performance, of desire and disgust, of tragedy and excellence. Unrelentingly feminist, tender, and ruthless, these poems are an altar to the complexities of black American womanhood in an age of non-indictments and déjà vu.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just no.
- De Janice en 07-08-20
De: Morgan Parker
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Rapture of Canaan
- De: Sheri Reynolds
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Novelist Sheri Reynolds weaves lyrical prose and folksy dialogue into her spellbinding tales. The Rapture of Canaan, a New York Times best-seller, is the moving story of a teenaged girl clashing with her harshly controlled world. Growing up in a closed religious community deep in the rural South, 15-year-old Ninah Huff painstakingly and obediently follows her church’s many rules—she knows that public humiliation follows the smallest transgression
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really good story
- De mctoria en 08-15-24
De: Sheri Reynolds
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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
- Versión completa
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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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Godshot
- A Novel
- De: Chelsea Bieker
- Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 183
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 165
Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for.
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4 out of 5 stars
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flawless novel, not the best narration
- De Adrienne en 05-05-20
De: Chelsea Bieker
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An Altar in the World
- A Geography of Faith
- De: Barbara Brown Taylor
- Narrado por: Barbara Brown Taylor
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 451
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 382
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 382
From simple practices such as walking, working, and getting lost to deep meditations on topics like prayer and pronouncing blessings, Taylor reveals concrete ways to discover the sacred in the small things we do and see. Something as ordinary as hanging clothes on a clothesline becomes an act of devotion if we pay attention to what we are doing and take time to attend to the sights, smells, and sounds around us. Making eye contact with the cashier at the grocery store becomes a moment of true human connection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sorry Audible.
- De Evert en 07-19-13
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Freshwater
- De: Akwaeke Emezi
- Narrado por: Akwaeke Emezi
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 727
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 643
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 640
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side". Unsettling, heart-wrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities. Ada begins her life in the south of Nigeria as a troubled baby and a source of deep concern to her family.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just ok.
- De Alexa en 07-02-18
De: Akwaeke Emezi
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Love Story
- The Hand That Holds Us from the Garden to the Gates
- De: Nichole Nordeman
- Narrado por: Nichole Nordeman
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
The best-selling album has inspired a heart-melting audio book. In Love Story, one of Christian music’s most remarkable singer-songwriters brings to listeners her proven gift for mining the gritty soil of everyday experience and emerging with poignant gems of spiritual insight. Based on the songs of the popular album, Music Inspired by The Story, Dove Award winner Nichole Nordeman takes us inside some of the pivotal moments of the people of Scripture, revealing a very human side that we’ve rarely glimpsed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very relatable and eloquent
- De Terah Crockett en 06-30-22
De: Nichole Nordeman
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Mother Tongue
- De: Demetria Martinez
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
A nameless El Salvadoran man, fleeing torture and imprisonment, arrives in the United States - his only hope for asylum. The American woman who has volunteered to help him is searching for something to add meaning to her life. When these two lonely people meet, their haunting relationship fulfills their hearts' desires, but it also gives life to their darkest dreams.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Story
- De Alexa :3 en 09-26-24