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Jenna Lamia
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Sue Monk Kidd
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When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother", Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina - a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. There, they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters who introduce Lily to a mesmerizing world of bees, honey, and the Black Madonna who presides over their household.
This is a remarkable story about divine female power and the transforming power of love - a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You'll LAUGH, LOVE, and maybe CRY a little
- De Jennifer en 08-08-15
De: Karen White
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The Hollow Ground
- De: Natalie S. Harnett
- Narrado por: Luci Christian
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 534
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 469
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 472
The underground mine fires ravaging Pennsylvania coal country have forced 11-year-old Brigid Howley and her family to seek refuge with her estranged grandparents, the formidable Gram and the black lung-stricken Gramp. Tragedy is no stranger to the Howleys, a proud Irish-American clan who takes strange pleasure in the "curse" laid upon them generations earlier by a priest who ran afoul of the Molly Maguires. The weight of this legacy rests heavily on a new generation, when Brigid, already struggling to keep her family together, makes a grisly discovery in a long-abandoned bootleg mine shaft.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Disfunction makes a good read
- De NHull en 05-30-14
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Promise
- A Novel
- De: Minrose Gwin
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart - one Black, one White; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager - fight for their families' survival in this lyrical and powerful novel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mostly Disappointing
- De Anjoli en 06-15-19
De: Minrose Gwin
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Rush Home Road
- De: Lori Lansens
- Narrado por: Ruby Dee
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 191
When a 70-year-old woman finds a five-year-old girl abandoned on her doorstep, she is thrust into a sorrowful past that can only be conquered with the help of the girl who opened her memory - the very girl she is trying to save. This first novel, according to author Jacquelyn Mitchard, is one of "exquisite power, honesty, and conviction...quite nearly without flaws."
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1 out of 5 stars
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filthy language and violent content
- De Anna en 12-16-11
De: Lori Lansens
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This Side of the Sky
- De: Elyse Singleton
- Narrado por: Myra Taylor, Sharon Washington, Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Award-winning journalist Elyse Singleton delivers what Essence calls “a gem - the perfect book to curl up with.”
Best friends Lilian and Myraleen, two African American women from rural Mississippi, travel to Europe during World War II to act as members of the Women’s Army Corps. During this time of segregation and destruction, both women discover love and heartbreak, triumph and defeat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Breath of Fresh Air
- De Adina Andreu en 07-19-12
De: Elyse Singleton
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A Cup of Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl
- Pearl Spence Novels, Book 1
- De: Susie Finkbeiner
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 227
Ten-year-old Pearl Spence is a daydreamer, playing make-believe to escape life in Oklahoma's Dust Bowl in 1935. The Spences have their share of misfortune, but as the sheriff's family, they've got more than most in this dry, desolate place. They're who the town turns to when there's a crisis or a need. Pearl is proud of her loving, strong family, though she often wearies of tracking down her mentally impaired older sister or wrestling with her grandmother's unshakable belief in a God. Then a mysterious man bent on revenge tramps into her town of Red River.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intense
- De VickyJ en 02-07-21
De: Susie Finkbeiner
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The Sound of Glass
- De: Karen White
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer, Susan Bennett
- Duración: 14 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,463
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,914
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,889
It has been two years since the death of Merritt Heyward's husband, Cal, when she receives unexpected news - Cal's family home in Beaufort, South Carolina, bequeathed by Cal's reclusive grandmother, now belongs to Merritt. Charting the course of an uncertain life - and feeling guilt from her husband's tragic death - Merritt travels from her home in Maine to Beaufort, where the secrets of Cal's unspoken-of past reside among the pluff mud and jasmine of the ancestral Heyward home on the Bluff.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You'll LAUGH, LOVE, and maybe CRY a little
- De Jennifer en 08-08-15
De: Karen White
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The Penny
- A Novel
- De: Joyce Meyer, Deborah Bedford
- Narrado por: Emily Janice Card
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Jenny Blake has a theory about life: big decisions often don't amount to much, but little decisions sometimes transform everything. Her theory proves true the summer she's 14, when she makes the decision to pick up a penny embedded in asphalt and consequently ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job, and meeting someone who changes her life forever: Miss Shaw.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absoultly wonderful
- De Debbie en 08-05-07
De: Joyce Meyer, y otros
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Fallen Angels
- De: Patricia Hickman
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
During the Great Depression, Jeb Nubey is running from the law when he meets three abandoned children. With nowhere else to go the group passes a stormy night in a comforting church. When they are discovered, a case of mistaken identity ensues. It seems the congregation has been waiting for their new pastor, a widower with three kids. Looks like more trouble for Jeb. Yet the chance for a steady job and three squares a day is too good to turn down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Touching
- De Christina en 11-11-04
De: Patricia Hickman
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 521
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 371
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 369
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Avoid this Plague
- De Andre en 05-16-08
De: Louise Erdrich
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Sugar
- De: Bernice L. McFadden
- Narrado por: Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,486
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,307
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,301
Sugar arrives in the small town of Bigelow, Arkansas, like an ominous storm. She saunters down the street in a blonde wig and spiked heels, cigarette dangling between red-painted lips. Without even speaking to her, the women in town hate her. But when she moves in next door to Pearl, a woman who tragically lost her daughter 15 years earlier, the two women bond over tragic pasts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow wow wow
- De brenda transon en 08-27-19
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The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
- A Novel
- De: Susan Gregg Gilmore
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
Bezellia Grove was born into the most prominent of Nashville families, but that didn’t stop her from having an alcoholic mother and a distant, adulterous father. Her nanny, Maizelle, and Nathaniel, the handyman, are the people who have taken care of her since she can remember. She considers them family, but her parents just consider them servants because they are Black. When Bezellia has a clandestine romance with Nathaniel's son, Whites and Blacks unite in fury at the young couple.
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4 out of 5 stars
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light southern fiction
- De suzanne en 02-08-13
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
- A Novel
- De: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Narrado por: Marisol Ramirez, Almarie Guerra, Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 638
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 569
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 567
Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister, Cassandra, enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. When their mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the city's guerrilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona's mysterious ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Maybe better to read this book than listen???
- De Amazon Customer en 12-12-18
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I Will Send Rain
- A Novel
- De: Rae Meadows
- Narrado por: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, and in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934, and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, is struggling as the earliest storms of the Dust Bowl descend. The wheat harvests are drying out, and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains.
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1 out of 5 stars
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While I really disliked this book...
- De NMwritergal en 08-17-16
De: Rae Meadows
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Nowhere is a Place
- De: Bernice McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 297
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 303
Nothing can mend a broken heart quite like family. Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most important, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family's past. Like many family histories, it is fractured and stubbornly reluctant to reveal its secrets. But Sherry is determined to know the full story. In a few days' time, her extended family will gather for a reunion, and Sherry sets off across the country with her mother, Dumpling, to join them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Mother and Daughter Tear. It. Up.
- De Susie en 01-15-14
De: Bernice McFadden
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Gathering of Waters
- De: Bernice L. McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 188
Gathering of Waters is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi - a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation. Money is personified in this haunting story, which chronicles its troubled history following the arrival of the Hilson and Bryant families. Tass Hilson and Emmett Till were young and in love when Emmett was brutally murdered in 1955. Anxious to escape the town, Tass marries Maximillian May and relocates to Detroit
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!!
- De Dr. Allen en 07-26-16
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Tar Baby
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Desiree Coleman
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 265
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So good that I'm writing my first Audible review!
- De BL en 12-10-11
De: Toni Morrison
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The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
- De: Tiffany Baker
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 507
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 235
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 237
Truly Plaice, an overly large and ungainly girl, is the polar opposite of her sister, Serena Jane, the epitome of feminine perfection. With their parents dead, Truly and Serena Jane are separated: Serena Jane to live a life of privilege as the future May Queen and Truly to live on the outskirts of town, the subject of constant abuse and humiliation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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meh...
- De Victoria en 02-25-09
De: Tiffany Baker
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Future Home of the Living God
- A Novel
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Louise Erdrich
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 873
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 795
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 795
The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backward, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant.
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3 out of 5 stars
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“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”
- De Mel en 11-27-17
De: Louise Erdrich
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
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The Mermaid Chair
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrado por: Eliza Foss
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 899
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 499
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 503
Inside the church of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion.
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4 out of 5 stars
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THE MER
- De Louis Buckley en 04-11-05
De: Sue Monk Kidd
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The Invention of Wings
- A Novel
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrado por: Jenna Lamia, Adepero Oduye, Sue Monk Kidd
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,210
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17,188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17,190
From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women. Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world - and it is now the newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.
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2 out of 5 stars
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If it Weren't True, I Wouldn't Have Believed it
- De FanB14 en 03-04-14
De: Sue Monk Kidd
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The Help
- De: Kathryn Stockett
- Narrado por: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 45,683
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30,697
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 30,668
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a great surprise!
- De Jan en 12-02-09
De: Kathryn Stockett
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La Vida Secreta de las Abejas
- Novela [The Secret Life of Bees] (Texto Completo)
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrado por: Cristina Arsuaga
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Esta es una novela notable sobre el poder divino femenino, una historia que las mujeres compartiran y pasaran a sus hijas por generaciones.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spanish translation
- De Luisa en 09-12-10
De: Sue Monk Kidd
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The Book of Longings
- A Novel
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò, Sue Monk Kidd
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,951
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,208
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,178
In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. An encounter with 18-year-old Jesus changes everything.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Made me cringe
- De Joan en 05-08-20
De: Sue Monk Kidd
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The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
- A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
For years, Sue Monk Kidd was a conventionally religious woman. Then, in the late 1980s, she experienced an unexpected awakening, and began a journey toward a feminine spirituality. With the exceptional storytelling skills that have helped make her name, Kidd tells her very personal story of the fear, anger, healing, and freedom she experienced on the path toward the wholeness that many women have lost in the church.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My wife was right!!
- De E. S. en 12-03-23
De: Sue Monk Kidd
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The Mermaid Chair
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrado por: Eliza Foss
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 899
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 499
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 503
Inside the church of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion.
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4 out of 5 stars
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THE MER
- De Louis Buckley en 04-11-05
De: Sue Monk Kidd
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The Invention of Wings
- A Novel
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrado por: Jenna Lamia, Adepero Oduye, Sue Monk Kidd
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,210
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17,188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17,190
From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women. Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world - and it is now the newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.
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2 out of 5 stars
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If it Weren't True, I Wouldn't Have Believed it
- De FanB14 en 03-04-14
De: Sue Monk Kidd
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The Help
- De: Kathryn Stockett
- Narrado por: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 45,683
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30,697
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 30,668
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a great surprise!
- De Jan en 12-02-09
De: Kathryn Stockett
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La Vida Secreta de las Abejas
- Novela [The Secret Life of Bees] (Texto Completo)
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrado por: Cristina Arsuaga
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Esta es una novela notable sobre el poder divino femenino, una historia que las mujeres compartiran y pasaran a sus hijas por generaciones.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spanish translation
- De Luisa en 09-12-10
De: Sue Monk Kidd
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The Book of Longings
- A Novel
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò, Sue Monk Kidd
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,951
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,208
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,178
In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. An encounter with 18-year-old Jesus changes everything.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Made me cringe
- De Joan en 05-08-20
De: Sue Monk Kidd
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The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
- A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 28
For years, Sue Monk Kidd was a conventionally religious woman. Then, in the late 1980s, she experienced an unexpected awakening, and began a journey toward a feminine spirituality. With the exceptional storytelling skills that have helped make her name, Kidd tells her very personal story of the fear, anger, healing, and freedom she experienced on the path toward the wholeness that many women have lost in the church.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My wife was right!!
- De E. S. en 12-03-23
De: Sue Monk Kidd
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Firstlight
- The Early Inspirational Writings of Sue Monk Kidd
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrado por: Kate Forbes
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 33
In Firstlight, best-selling author Sue Monk Kidd offers readers an intimate glimpse into the early years of her journey as both writer and spiritual seeker. Drawn from the author's early writings for Guideposts and, to a lesser extent, other publications, this selection of personal reflections and essays is organized around 13 spiritual motifs and interwoven to create a compelling narrative about the author's spiritual awakening.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worthy Read
- De Cliff B en 01-20-12
De: Sue Monk Kidd
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- De: Rebecca Wells
- Narrado por: Judith Ivey
- Duración: 14 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,137
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 997
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 990
When Vivi and Siddalee Walker, an unforgettable mother-daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a "tap-dancing child abuser", the fallout is felt from Louisiana to New York to Seattle. Siddalee, a successful theater director with a huge hit on her hands, panics and postpones her upcoming wedding to her lover and friend, Connor McGill. Vivi's intrepid gang of lifelong girlfriends, the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As usual the book is better than the movie
- De Denzil and Judy's Account en 03-25-10
De: Rebecca Wells
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Room
- A Novel
- De: Emma Donoghue
- Narrado por: Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,315
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7,228
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,194
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good book... Buy it in print
- De Caitland en 12-18-10
De: Emma Donoghue
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Water for Elephants
- De: Sara Gruen
- Narrado por: David LeDoux, John Randolph Jones
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22,882
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Why we think it’s a great listen: Some books are meant to be read; others are meant to be heard – Water for Elephants falls into the second group, and is one of the best examples we have of how a powerful performance enhances a great story. Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Rosie the bull elephant?
- De Randall en 07-22-07
De: Sara Gruen
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When the Heart Waits
- Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Blending her own experiences with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of "active waiting." Full of wisdom, poise, and grace, Kidd’s words will encourage us along our spiritual journey, toward becoming who we truly are.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love her writing style of blending personal and theoretical
- De Vicki Mooza Lanier en 12-24-24
De: Sue Monk Kidd
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
- A Novel
- De: Fannie Flagg
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,516
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Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women - of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Rut - -who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better as audiobook
- De Janice en 11-02-11
De: Fannie Flagg
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The Lovely Bones
- De: Alice Sebold
- Narrado por: Alice Sebold
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,142
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,388
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,401
When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and her own adjustment to the strange new place where she finds herself. With love, longing, and a growing understanding, Susie watches her family as they cope with their grief. This story of seemingly unbearable tragedy is transformed into a suspenseful and touching narrative about family, memory, love, heaven, and living.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Kim en 12-10-09
De: Alice Sebold
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The Lives of Bees
- The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild
- De: Thomas D. Seeley
- Narrado por: William Hope
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Humans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia, yet only in recent decades have biologists begun to investigate how these industrious insects live in the wild. The Lives of Bees is Thomas Seeley’s captivating story of what scientists are learning about the behavior, social life, and survival strategies of honey bees living outside the beekeeper’s hive - and how wild honey bees may hold the key to reversing the alarming die-off of the planet’s managed honey bee populations.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Lives of Bees - Read the Book Instead
- De JonathanG en 06-05-19
De: Thomas D. Seeley
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Picking Cotton
- Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
- De: Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Erin Torneo, Ronald Cotton
- Narrado por: Richard Allen, Karen White
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 523
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Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape and eventually identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken - but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After 11 years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Listen for the story not the writing
- De Professor Sombrero en 06-13-09
De: Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, y otros
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The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
- A Novel
- De: Fannie Flagg
- Narrado por: Fannie Flagg
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop with his mother, Ruth, church-going and proper, and his Aunt Idgie, the fun-loving hell-raiser. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Cafe, known far and wide for its fun and famous fried green tomatoes. And as Bud often said of his childhood to his daughter, Ruthie, "How lucky can you get?"
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truly lovely!!!
- De Emily M. en 11-03-20
De: Fannie Flagg
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Call Your Daughter Home
- De: Deb Spera
- Narrado por: Robin Miles, Adenrele Ojo, Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14,432
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12,970
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 12,873
It's 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina, and three women have come to a crossroads. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters. Retta, a first-generation freed slave, comes to Gertrude's aid by watching her children, despite the gossip it causes in her community. Annie, the matriarch of the influential Coles family, offers Gertrude employment at her sewing circle, while facing problems of her own at home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lovely story/perfect narration
- De christi mccoy en 07-08-19
De: Deb Spera
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The Book Thief
- De: Markus Zusak
- Narrado por: Allan Corduner
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33,749
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29,109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29,085
It's just a small story really, about, among other things, a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist: books.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glad I took a chance.
- De Robert en 08-20-11
De: Markus Zusak
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Total5 out of 5 stars
- Sharon Ackerman
- 06-12-09
Good book
This is a great book. It is a wonderful story and I love the way the narrator reads it. The movie is really good, and I saw it first, but the book is so much better - as is usually the case.
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- Susan
- 07-03-10
The Secret Life of Bees
This audio book is delightful and inspiring. I enjoyed the gentle rhythm of the book. This is a presentation of powerful women who live a life of integrity and wisdom.
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- alena
- 03-21-11
"All those Mommas..."
This is a lovely story, the color of golden honey. I actually listened to the whole thing in one day. A beautiful, fistful of unconditional love. I highly recommend it, especially if you're home alone.
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- Laurel
- 04-30-15
Secret Lives
We all have secret lives - but there is a universality of humanity that makes us all the same. Their is a beautiful poignancy about this book that takes me back to haunt my own childhood. The narrator does such an exquisite job that it genuinely feels as if Lily is telling her own story with the beautiful simplicity of a 14 year old girl struggling to survive in an all too common reality.
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- Sara
- 04-18-17
LOVE Jenna Lamia
Listened to this book prior to watching the movie. I loved it! Loved Lily's character and the entertainment of the Boatwright sisters. I'm a sucker for southern pre WWII stories. Wonderful depiction of a summer in the south.
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- Alice
- 04-04-15
Unexpected depth
I didn't know what to expect when I began listening to the Secret Lives of Bees. What a story unfolded! I didn't expect to be drawn in to this story in many ways. But... I was.
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- Caryl
- 05-25-15
Excellent Writing!
I loved the bare thoughts coming from Lily; the authentic and loving August. I thoroughly enjoyed the descriptive writing. Though I don't believe in their form of worship, I loved that these women were so devoted to it, and so strong. I was pulled in and became part of this group of women, feeling their joys and sorrows and aching. The audible performance was perfect.
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- loveliv1309
- 12-26-16
An absolutely beautiful book!
I love this narrator and every book she narrates comes to life in the most wonderful way! This book was an uplifting story of finding your way which we all can relate to. Beautifully written one of my top ten favorites!
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-11-12
Enjoyable
Love Jemma Lamia as she tends to bring anything she reads to life. The book was great and I am now looking forward to seeing the movie.
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- Jwyattkozi
- 09-03-19
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This book was soooo amazing, I cried at the end, and at other parts, because it was so good.
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