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Mary Akers
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Whether it's a young co-ed who has lived her life succumbing to passion and authority, a woman struggling with the intense demands of motherhood, or a newlywed whose new mirror-filled home proves too much for her fragile psyche, these thirteen stories-edgy and alluring-inexorably peel back the layers of the women they portray.
By turns lyrical and haunting, plainspoken and frank, award-winning writer Mary Akers' finely crafted debut collection Women Up on Blocks explores the price women pay when they allow the roles of wife, mother, daughter, or lover to define them.
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- De ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 en 09-15-16
De: Tarryn Fisher
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Her Body and Other Parties
- Stories
- De: Carmen Maria Machado
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 650
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 560
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 567
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- De Anonymous User en 11-17-17
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Hemlock Grove
- or, The Wise Wolf
- De: Brian McGreevy
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 427
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 387
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 386
The body of a young girl is found mangled and murdered in the woods of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania, in the shadow of the abandoned Godfrey Steel Mill. A manhunt ensues - though the authorities aren’t sure if it's a man they should be looking for.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very similar to the TV show
- De Erin en 01-01-14
De: Brian McGreevy
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Lit
- A Memoir
- De: Mary Karr
- Narrado por: Mary Karr
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,002
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 743
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 739
Lit follows Mary Karr's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness - and her astonishing resurrection. Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting poet produces a son they adore. But she can't outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in "The Mental Marriott" awakens her to the possibility of joy, and leads her to an unlikely faith.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Finally! One for the "Win" column
- De Kim en 03-22-10
De: Mary Karr
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The Portable Veblen
- De: Elizabeth Mckenzie
- Narrado por: Julia Gibson
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 197
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 176
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 177
An exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contributor. The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that's as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Set in and around Palo Alto amid the culture clash of new money and old (antiestablishment) values, and with the specter of our current wars looming across its words, The Portable Veblen is an unforgettable look at the way we live now.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not what it was cracked up to be
- De Linda en 02-03-16
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Make Something Up
- Stories You Can't Unread
- De: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrado por: Chuck Palahniuk, Scott Sowers, Rich Orlow, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 486
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 437
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 434
For years Chuck Palahniuk has reserved his best storytelling for his readings, often choosing to read a new short story instead of whatever novel he is supposed to be promoting. Make Something Up compiles these previously unpublished tales for the very first time, plus the Byliner social media insta-classic "Phoenix" and Palahniuk's most notable pieces from Playboy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Plenty of shock, just not enough Palahniuk awe
- De Darwin8u en 06-10-15
De: Chuck Palahniuk
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Battleborn
- De: Claire Vaye Watkins
- Narrado por: Ali Ahn, Morgan Hallett, Laura Knight Keating, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful magnificent stories beautifully told
- De Pedro Ramirez en 12-03-15
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How to Survive a Summer
- A Novel
- De: Nick White
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 12 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
Grad student Will Dillard has largely buried memories of the summer he spent at a camp intended to "cure" homosexuality. But when he finds out a horror movie based on the camp is hitting theaters, he's forced to face his past - and his role in another camper's death. As he recounts the events surrounding his "failed rehabilitation", Will strikes out on an impromptu road trip back home to Mississippi, eventually returning to the abandoned campgrounds to solve the mysteries of that pivotal summer.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A story full of heart and healing
- De ZippyBippy en 05-06-18
De: Nick White
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Rabbit, Run
- De: John Updike
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 911
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 664
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 666
Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his - or any other - generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is 26 years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty - even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness, and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Thinking Man's Novel
- De L. Berlyne en 01-12-09
De: John Updike
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Arcadia
- De: Lauren Groff
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 377
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 326
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 324
Lauren Groff’s acclaimed debut novel The Monsters of Templeton was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Arcadia opens in the late 1960s with a group of young idealists forming a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change in unimaginable ways.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Luscious prose, intimate and realistic
- De Kathleen en 03-22-12
De: Lauren Groff
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Unabridged Selections)
- De: Edited by David Sedaris
- Narrado por: David Sedaris, Mary-Louise Parker, Cherry Jones
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 364
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 222
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great stories but only 5 of 17 are included
- De Terri Kirk en 07-13-12
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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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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The Vine of Desire
- De: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
Anju and Sudha formed an astounding, almost psychic connection during their childhood in India. When Anju invites Sudha, a single mother in Calcutta, to come live with her and her husband, Sunil, in California, Sudha foolishly accepts, knowing full well that Sunil has long desired her. As Sunil's attraction rises to the surface, the trio must struggle to make sense of the freedoms of America - and of the ties that bind them to India and to one another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vine of desire
- De Mz Shantay en 03-27-21
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She's Come Undone
- De: Wally Lamb
- Narrado por: Linda Stephens
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,124
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,850
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,866
Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly-up.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Really disappointing narrator!
- De Jessica Williams en 01-21-12
De: Wally Lamb
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Trading Dreams at Midnight
- De: Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- Narrado por: Shari Peele
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Diane McKinney-Whetstone, the award-winning and best-selling author of Tumbling, presents Trading Dreams at Midnight - - an Essence Book Club Recommended Read. Back in 1984, 15-year-old Neena's mother left and never came back. And now Neena is following in her footsteps.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hard to follow
- De Nevada en 08-13-10
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A Death in Kitchawank, and Other Stories
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: T. C. Boyle
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T. C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. Here are 14 new tales previously unpublished in book form. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed Bag
- De AuntGert en 09-22-20
De: T. C. Boyle
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You Know When the Men Are Gone
- De: Siobhan Fallon
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 102
In Fort Hood housing, like all army housing, you get used to hearing through the walls. You learn too much. And you learn to move quietly through your own small domain. You also know when the men are gone. As Siobhan Fallon shows in this collection of loosely interconnected short stories, each woman deals with her husband's absence differently.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You know when you've got a great read!
- De Pamela Harvey en 01-22-11
De: Siobhan Fallon