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Anurag Mathur
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This hilarious novel describes one year spent on a small university campus in the United States by an Indian student. His English is comically Indian, and his initial notions of America are absurdly inadequate and stereotyped. The theme of the novel is his comic discovery of America and his own growth and maturing through the diverse adventures he encounters.
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Southern housewife Linwood Breedlove Scott was happily content in her comfortable 30-year marriage, but when her husband cleans out their bank accounts and runs off with a stripper, her life takes a hilarious, yet touching, right turn into reality. With no place to go but home, she's forced back to her eccentric family she escaped by marrying at 19. But despite her newly dependent situation, Lin begins to stand on her own two feet and wake up to the joys - and perils - of life as a single woman.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Haywood Smith is royal with this book!
- De Dave en 12-09-12
De: Haywood Smith
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Jane Bites Back
- De: Michael Thomas Ford
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen is still surrounded by the literature she loves, but now it's because she's the owner of Flyleaf Books in a sleepy college town in Upstate New York. Every day she watches her novels fly off the shelves along with dozens of unauthorized sequels, spin-offs, and adaptations. Jane may be undead, but her books have taken on a life of their own.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Utterly Rediculous
- De Tenaya en 05-29-10
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London Fields
- De: Martin Amis
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 21 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 204
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The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts; or the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch. As Nicola leads her suitors towards the precipice, London--and, indeed, the whole world--seems to shamble after them in a corrosively funny novel of complexity and morality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Big chewy novel, excellent narration
- De Sand en 08-21-14
De: Martin Amis
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The Lost Weekend
- De: Charles Jackson
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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It is 1936, and on the East Side of Manhattan, a would-be writer named Don Birnam decides to have a drink. And then another, and then another, until he's in the midst of what becomes a five-day binge. A classic tale of one man's struggle with alcoholism, this revolutionary novel remains Charles Jackson's best-known book - a daring autobiographical work that paved the way for contemporary addiction literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a terrific audiobook!
- De Bill en 11-10-14
De: Charles Jackson
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Midnight Cowboy
- De: James Leo Herlihy
- Narrado por: Michael Urie
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Midnight Cowboy is considered by many to be one of the best American novels published since World War II. The main story centers around Joe Buck, a naive but eager and ambitious young Texan, who decides to leave his dead-end job in search of a grand and glamorous life he believes he will find in New York City. But the city turns out to be a much more difficult place to negotiate than Joe could ever have imagined. He soon finds himself and his dreams compromised. Buck's fall from innocence and his relationship with the crippled street hustler Ratso Rizzo form the novel's emotional nucleus.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb
- De Macala Shon en 01-26-21
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One Amazing Thing
- De: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrado por: Purva Bedi, Soneela Nankani, Neil Shah
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 129
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Winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry and an American Book Award for her short stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores themes of women, immigration, and her vibrant Indian culture to great effect. Divakaruni expands on these ideas in One Amazing Thing, a project long in the making and full of electric prose.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An ok way to kill some time
- De R.Reader en 11-07-12
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- A Novel
- De: Deborah Moggach
- Narrado por: Juliet Mills
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 268
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When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: “Can’t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.” His prayer is seemingly answered when Ravi’s entrepreneurial cousin sets up a retirement home in India, hoping to re-create in Bangalore an elegant lost corner of England. Several retirees are enticed by the promise of indulgent living at a bargain price, but upon arriving, they are dismayed to find that restoration of the once sophisiticated hotel has stalled....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Screenwriters Changed it for the Better
- De Carole T. en 06-05-12
De: Deborah Moggach
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Everybody's Son
- A Novel
- De: Thrity Umrigar
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 413
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During a terrible heat wave in 1991 - the worst in a decade - 10-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects, alone, for seven days, without air conditioning or a fan. With no electricity, the refrigerator and lights do not work. Hot, hungry, and desperate, Anton shatters a window and climbs out. Cutting his leg on the broken glass, he is covered in blood when the police find him. Juanita, his mother, is discovered in a crack house less than three blocks away, nearly unconscious and half-naked.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging and insightful
- De Amazon Customer en 07-12-17
De: Thrity Umrigar
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Don't Let Him Know
- De: Sandip Roy
- Narrado por: Tania Rodrigues
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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In a boxy apartment building in an Illinois university town, Romola Mitra, a newly arrived young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit finds that letter and thinks he has discovered his mother's secret. But secrets have their own secrets sometimes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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another great book by Roy
- De Amazon Customer en 04-27-15
De: Sandip Roy
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Gold Dust
- De: Kimberley Freeman
- Narrado por: Jennifer Vuletic
- Duración: 18 h y 50 m
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Three women linked by their blood, their dreams...and their sins. From Leningrad in the '70s to America and London in the present day, Kimberley Freeman's new novel follows the lives of two sisters, Lena and Natalia, and their cousin, Sofi, as they move away from Russia and all they have known. Despite promising to always take care of each other, a pact to meet every winter is shattered as their lives change and long-held resentments begin to surface. Can that resentment turn to hatred? To murder?
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4 out of 5 stars
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It's just not the same without Caroline Lee
- De Maria en 12-04-17
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The Atomic City Girls
- A Novel
- De: Janet Beard
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 488
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 432
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In November 1944, 18-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn't officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has sprung up in a matter of months - a town of trailers and segregated houses, 24-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained. They know they are helping to win the war, but must ask no questions and reveal nothing to outsiders.
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1 out of 5 stars
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disappointing
- De Justinmud en 07-07-18
De: Janet Beard
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The World We Found
- De: Thrity Umrigar
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 109
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Best-selling author and PEN and Beyond Margins Award finalist Thrity Umrigar’s acclaimed novels “resonate with rich prose and vibrant depictions of India” ( Booklist). In The World We Found, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta - once friends at the University of Bombay - reconnect 30 years later when Armaiti is diagnosed with cancer. Coming together, all four women are forced to reexamine their lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good story but performance not so much!
- De Alisha en 09-13-15
De: Thrity Umrigar
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Another Country
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 16 h y 14 m
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Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way. Another Country is a work that is as powerful today as it was 40 years ago - and expertly narrated by Dion Graham.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Powerful and sad
- De Kenneth en 04-10-09
De: James Baldwin
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Guapa
- De: Saleem Haddad
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. One night Rasa's grandmother - the woman who raised him - catches them in bed together. The following day Rasa is consumed by the search for his best friend, Maj, a fiery activist and drag queen star of the underground bar Guapa, who has been arrested by the police.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Guapa
- De Mah Maass en 08-25-16
De: Saleem Haddad
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Inscrutable Americans
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- ili pika
- 06-13-23
Filled with outdated sexist humor
Title says it all, I listened for about an hour and then quit. In that time, it was revealed that the protagonist's view of Americans was based on reading Playboy magazine. No longer funny, if it ever was.
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- V. Taras
- 02-02-25
light, I bit outdated, fun and interesting nonetheless
it's a good example of flight, fun, and somewhere insideful writing. Don't expect too much, but I did thoroughly enjoy the audiobook and listened it in two days working around the house. highly recommend
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