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Francisco Cantú
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Francisco Cantú
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Named a Top 10 Book of 2018 by NPR and The Washington Post
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Current Interest
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Nonfiction Award
The instant New York Times best seller
"A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." (Esquire)
For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape he loves, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive.
Plagued by a growing awareness of his complicity in a dehumanizing enterprise, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when an immigrant friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the full extent of the violence it wreaks, on both sides of the line.
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- The Sheldon Horowitz Series, Book 1
- De: Derek B. Miller
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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Twelve-year old Sheldon Horowitz is still recovering from the tragic loss of his mother only a year ago when a suspicious traffic accident steals the life of his father near their home in rural Massachusetts. It is 1938, and Sheldon, who was in the truck, emerges from the crash an orphan hell-bent on revenge. He takes that fire with him to Hartford, where he embarks on a new life under the roof of his buttoned-up Uncle Nate.
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Absolutely wonderful story.
- De George Thomas en 12-11-21
De: Derek B. Miller
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Bone Dust White
- De: Karin Salvalaggio
- Narrado por: Amy McFadden
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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Someone is knocking at the door to Grace Adams' house, and he won't stop. Grace thinks she knows who it is, but when she goes to her second floor window for a look she sees a woman she doesn't recognize. The woman isn't alone for long before a man emerges from the dark of the surrounding woods, stabs her, and leaves her for dead. Trying to help, Grace goes to the woman and is shocked to find that it's her mother Leanne - a woman who abandoned her 11 years before.
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at times hard to follow
- De cindy en 03-03-15
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The Company You Keep
- De: Neil Gordon
- Narrado por: Donald Corren, Hillary Huber, Kirby Heyborne, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 51 m
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Set against the rise and fall of the radical antiwar group the Weather Underground, The Company You Keep is a sweeping American saga about sacrifice, the ecstatic righteousness of youth, and the tension between political ideals and family loyalties. When Jason Sinai, one of the last Vietnam-era fugitives still wanted on murder charges for a robbery gone wrong in 1974, encounters a young newspaper reporter in search of a story, he must abandon years of safe underground life for the dangerous life of the road.
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Audiobook of the Year
- De connie en 05-13-12
De: Neil Gordon
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The Naked Don't Fear the Water
- An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
- De: Matthieu Aikins
- Narrado por: Nick Nikon
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler’s road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better future.
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Great story, horrible narration
- De AB en 02-25-22
De: Matthieu Aikins
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America Made Me a Black Man
- A Memoir
- De: Boyah J. Farah
- Narrado por: Preston Butler III
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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Born in Somalia and raised in a valley among nomads, Boyah Farah grew up with a code of male bravado that helped him survive deprivation, disease, and civil war. Arriving in America, he believed that the code that had saved him would help him succeed in this new country. But instead of safety and freedom, Boyah found systemic racism, police brutality, and intense prejudice in all areas of life, including the workplace. He learned firsthand not only what it meant to be an African in America, but what it means to be African American.
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Who edited the audio?
- De Vincent E. Rogers en 12-09-22
De: Boyah J. Farah
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The Quiet Game
- De: Greg Iles
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 20 h
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When former prosecutor Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, he doesn't find the peace he desperately craves. He finds that his own father is being blackmailed by a corrupt ex-cop. And when Penn investigates, he uncovers a murderous secret - and the small town's violent past.
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Complex and Good Courtroom Drama!
- De R. Pontiflet en 02-09-15
De: Greg Iles
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The Silent History
- De: Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, Kevin Moffett
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman, LJ Ganser
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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It begins as a statistical oddity: a spike in children born with acute speech delays. Physically normal in every way, these children never speak and do not respond to speech; they don't learn to read, don't learn to write. As the number of cases grows to an epidemic level, theories spread. Maybe it's related to a popular antidepressant; maybe it's environmental. Or maybe these children have special skills all their own.
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A Thought-Provoking Premise
- De Doug - Audible en 03-31-15
De: Eli Horowitz, y otros
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A Girl's Guide to Missiles
- Growing Up in America's Secret Desert
- De: Karen Piper
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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The China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware. It was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were Karen Piper's parents, her sister, and - when she needed summer jobs - herself.
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DNF on chapter 10 when Piper is 10
- De NMwritergal en 08-15-18
De: Karen Piper
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Iron Lake
- Cork O'Connor, Book 1
- De: William Kent Krueger
- Narrado por: David Chandler
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
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Anthony Award-winning author William Kent Krueger crafts this riveting tale about a small Minnesota town’s ex-sheriff who is having trouble retiring his badge. Cork O’Connor loses his job after being blamed for a tragedy on the local Anishinaabe Indian reservation. But he must set aside his personal demons when a young boy goes missing on the same day a judge commits suicide—and no one but O’Connor suspects foul play.
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Great New Series
- De Lia en 06-01-18
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Near Death
- A Thriller
- De: Glenn Cooper
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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Milan, Italy, today. It is the most serious crisis that the world has ever faced. Bewildered, young and old, believers and atheists are asking all the same distressing questions: What will they do now that the greatest dream of humanity has turned into a nightmare? What will happen when the countdown clock winds to zero?
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Not quite dead...yet
- De Matthew en 11-24-15
De: Glenn Cooper
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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 Abduction
- De: Mark Gimenez
- Narrado por: Buck Schirner
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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Ben Brice lives alone in the New Mexico wilderness where he battles memories of Vietnam with oceans of Jim Beam. Miles away in Texas, his estranged son, John, an internet geek-turned-billionaire, half watches his daughter Gracie’s soccer game while conducting business on his cell phone. When her mother Elizabeth arrives, the coach reports that her uncle has already collected Gracie. But Gracie has no uncle - she was kidnapped.
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So tired of liberal tripe in every novel!
- De James en 10-14-20
De: Mark Gimenez
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The Devil's Highway
- A True Story
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In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.
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My Favorite Author to Listen to
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Welcoming the Stranger
- Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate
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In this audiobook, World Relief immigration experts Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. They put a human face on the issue and tell stories of immigrants' experiences in and out of the system. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths and misconceptions about immigration and show the limitations of the current immigration system. Ultimately, they point toward immigration reform that is compassionate, sensible, and just.
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The Back Channel
- A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
- De: William J. Burns
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Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time - from the bloodless end of the Cold War to the collapse of post-Cold War relations with Putin’s Russia, from post-9/11 tumult in the Middle East to the secret nuclear talks with Iran. In The Back Channel, Burns recounts, with novelistic detail and incisive analysis, some of the seminal moments of his career.
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A Definitive look at Diplomacy
- De Jean en 07-19-19
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How to Hide an Empire
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We are familiar with maps that outline all 50 states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire", exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories - the islands, atolls, and archipelagos - this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, author Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light.
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How to beat a straw man to death
- De Susan en 01-25-20
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Evicted
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.
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Former Property Manager
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Know My Name
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She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral. Now, she reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power of words.
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Just, thank you.
- De Alysha DeShaé en 09-25-19
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In this audiobook, World Relief immigration experts Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. They put a human face on the issue and tell stories of immigrants' experiences in and out of the system. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths and misconceptions about immigration and show the limitations of the current immigration system. Ultimately, they point toward immigration reform that is compassionate, sensible, and just.
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A reasoned voice
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We are familiar with maps that outline all 50 states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire", exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories - the islands, atolls, and archipelagos - this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, author Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light.
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She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral. Now, she reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power of words.
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Line Becomes a River
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An important introduction to THE BORDER
I finished this book over a month ago. I put books to rest by writing my thoughts on them in online reviews, or just for myself. It's almost impossible to contain the impact of this book in a review. Francisco Cantú has been heavily criticized for his dispatches from the border. He's a bilingual chameleon who can pass as Euro-American. He's a former agent who betrayed his Latino heritage, in spite of leaving the job. He's a man plagued by nightmares. He's a watchman of a land remote from any reach of sanity and morality.
For me he contains and translates the code of borderland as a language of pain. He does not offer solutions. Cantú simply bears witness for a people that we stubbornly warehouse with dehumanizing metaphors, with law enforcement, with drug war, with brutality and an unfathomable will to allow them to disappear into a wasteland maintained by our collective fear. One of the most haunting chapters describes the drug war killings along the border. There's a message in each mutilation, a forensic folk code intended to frighten the living into alignment with the machines that drive drug trade. This brutality seems elemental. There is another brutality we don't readily accept. Machines that drive nationhood, wealth and politics no less perpetuate the suffering and death of innocent people.
At the end of the second section of the book, Cantú quotes the work of poet and essayist Cristina Rivera Garza. Her book Dolerse, "to be in pain", crystalized the horror that Cantú has watched over as an agent. Fear and pain have risen above all other human emotions and needs, to dictate a reality that threatens to destroy our humanity. "This reality... makes us- individually and as a society-- crazy, isolated, filled with distrust for our fellow human beings, the people who share our neighborhoods, our cities, our country, our borders, our intractably and intimately interwoven global community-- the people with whom we share our very lives."
The third section of the book is Cantú's relationship with José and his family. This takes place after he leaves border patrol. Cantú is working in a coffee house, and each day his friendship with José grows from simple exchanges of conversation, food and kindness. One day José does not show up for work. After three weeks Cantú comes to know that this uncharacteristic absence from daily work, familial and community responsibility, is because José's mother in Oaxaca is gravely ill. José, a cornerstone of Cantú's daily existence, is missing, and without papers he is unlikely to return.
This connection deepens in José's absence, as Cantú makes an effort to work with José's boss, family and lawyer to secure his lawful return to a good life. Thirty years embedded within a community, José had become an integral and positive force through his dedication to a simple job, a church, his wife and his children. No one wants to abandon their life to the chance of a border propped on both sides by inhuman forces. Unfortunately all effort is lost with the verdict of José's trial. He is sentenced to a life now committed to getting back to his family, no matter the certain costs, or potential grizzly death. For José, love trumps all other forms of power.
In the epilogue Cantú goes against the safety notices all along the North American side of Big Bend National Park. He enjoys an excursion to the other side on horseback that culminates with a delicious breakfast in beautiful Boquillas. When he asks the border merchant and guide about safety, he responds, "Here the law comes from the people. We look out for one another, me entiendes?" Later as Cantú swims the Rio Grande, he is surveyed by two long nosed gars, prehistoric fish present in North America for about 100 million years. "The waters of the river flowed pale and brown, liquid earth washing over [him] like so many human hands, like a skin unending... until finally, for one brief moment, [he] forgot in which country [he] stood. All around [him] the landscape trembled and breathed as one."
If I could change one thing about this book, it would be to include an extensive bibliography for further reading. Don't just read The Line Becomes a River. Read Cristina Rivera Garza, Jesús Valles, Javier Zamora, Sonia Guiñansaca, Vanessa Angélica Villareal, Sara Uribe and many more. The border that separates North America from the rest of the continent separates us from a shared humanity. Don't look away. Dive deeper into the river.
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- 07-19-20
To understand crossing the border.
Very intense life of border agent of Hispanic decent and putting a human face on the illegal immigrants crossing the border. Couldn't wait to get back to listening to this story. Thoroughly enjoyed listening. Highly recommend anyone who wants to understand why those south of the US border want to cross while risking their lives.
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- Bart Butell
- 05-18-18
immigration unleashed
gripping story about the real world of Mexican immigration. the border wall what a joke. Trump should read this book
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- 07-30-18
A Very Human Story
Every person that lives in the borders of the U.S. needs to hear this book!
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- 03-01-18
Such a powerful message
I don't know what the answers are, but this book begs for answers for this painful, angry subject. more people in power need to see these people as people, not things to be dealt with.
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- Brenda
- 07-19-18
profound in soul, stories, suffering
As a white American I am sad that I did not know the stories Now I do
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- Mykel Moreno
- 01-24-19
Excellent listen!
Great book! Narrator was listenable. Very informative. I will recommend to anyone who seeks knowledge and understanding about the border of U.S. and Mexico.... and then some.
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- Crystal Zevon
- 04-29-19
Every American should listen to this
Most Americans have a skewed view toward what actually happens at the border. This memoirs from a former border patrol agent is not only riveting, but sheds light on the realities facing migrants and those whose job it is to detain and deport them. I was in tears many times while listening to this story.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-12-18
Required reading
This telling book would be amazing discussion for high schoolers to voters . Especially compelling with the new immigration issues. Heartbreaking.
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- Diana
- 07-16-18
Timely
This is something we all need to read and absorb today as we are encouraged to forget our humanity and ignore/demonize our fellow human beings.
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