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Short Stories to Tell Your Boss
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Pamela Hershey
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Marc D. Crepeaux
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This audiobook is a salute and celebration of the modern American worker. Generations of unrecognized heroes who wash our cars, mow our lawns, bake our bread, douse our fires, take our garbage, teach our kids, grow our food, build our houses, mend our roads, and defend our freedom. The American Dream is still there for all of them, hidden in plain sight, riddled with confusion and abandonment.
In an America full of unemployment, late fees, foreclosures, bankruptcy, and loss of hope…. There are consequences.
This short story collection includes some of the pale misery behind faults in the American economy. Find a cab driver who lost his way, a down and out executive who stumbles onto a Voodoo curse in New Orleans, a nurse who pays the price for rescuing a man once thought loved, and a horrific, dystopian future. Discover new hope after cancer. Follow a paratrooper to manhood as he approached the deadly ground. Help the underemployed win at a game where reality TV meets nature at the crossroads of technology.
The stories in this collection contain clues, breadcrumbs dropped along a path to help you on your way.
Can you find them?
©2017 Rusty Wheels Media, LLC. (P)2018 Rusty Wheels Media, LLC.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Before the A-Team, there was Travis McGee
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-12-16
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Marrow
- De: Tarryn Fisher
- Narrado por: Audra Pagano
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 558
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 498
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 497
Margo is not like other girls. She lives in a derelict neighborhood called the Bone, in a cursed house, with her cursed mother, who hasn't spoken to her in over two years. She lives her days feeling invisible. It's not until she develops a friendship with her wheelchair-bound neighbor, Judah Grant, that things begin to change. When a neighborhood girl, seven-year-old Neveah Anthony, goes missing, Judah sets out to help Margo uncover what happened to her. What Margo finds changes her, and with a new perspective on life she's determined to find evil and punish it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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HUH?? I'm so confused LOL
- De ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 en 09-15-16
De: Tarryn Fisher
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Stories
- All-New Tales
- De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, Al Sarrantonio - editor, Joe Hill, y otros
- Narrado por: Anne Bobby, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 890
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 695
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 695
The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Something for Everyone
- De Nicole en 05-24-17
De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, y otros
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Bullet in the Brain
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 281
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 251
Anders is an angry, cynical man. A book critic known for his scathing reviews, he finds any excuse to dismiss, belittle, or insult. This afternoon is no more agitating than the next. Angers finds himself in a long line at the bank, waiting to reach a teller. Even after two men - wearing masks and carrying guns - take control of the building, Anders is unfazed. It's this behavior that lands him with a pistol against his stomach and a man screamingin his face. And when the bank robber, indignant over Anders' behavior, shoots the book critic in the head, his mind floats through the memories of his life, settling on one particular event....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Perfect Example
- De Sarah en 08-01-17
De: Tobias Wolff
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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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Our Story Begins
- New and Selected Stories
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Anthony Heald
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 136
Wolff here returns with fresh revelations - about biding one's time, or experiencing first love, or burying one's mother - that come to a variety of characters in circumstances at once everyday and extraordinary. A retired Marine enrolls in college while her son trains for Iraq. A lawyer takes a difficult deposition. An American in Rome indulges the Gypsy who's picked his pocket.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- De chris en 04-11-08
De: Tobias Wolff
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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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Burned
- De: Ellen Hopkins
- Narrado por: Laura Flanagan
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 403
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 341
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 339
Raised in a stern, abusive Mormon household, a teenage girl starts to question her religion and struggles to find her destiny.
Her father is abusive, her mother is submissive, and her church looks the other way. Confused and angry, Pattyn Von Stratten acts out and is sent to live with an aunt on a Nevada ranch. She finds the love and acceptance she craves, with disturbing consequences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I cried
- De Anonymous User en 04-28-17
De: Ellen Hopkins
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Crank
- De: Ellen Hopkins
- Narrado por: Laura Flanagan
- Duración: 4 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,326
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,128
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,123
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, she meets a boy who introduces her to crank. At first she finds it freeing, but soon Kristina's personality disappears inside the drug. What began as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul, and her life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good just not for kids
- De Cindy Brown en 10-21-08
De: Ellen Hopkins
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Nearly Normal
- Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself
- De: Cea Sunrise Person
- Narrado por: Cea Sunrise Person
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 127
In her best-selling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhood - her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family. But her struggles do not end when she leaves her family at the age of 13 to become a model. Honest and daring, Nearly Normal reveals the many ways that Cea's unconventional childhood continues to reverberate through the years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This one is just not for me
- De Pamela Plimpton en 03-15-19
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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
- De: Juliann Garey
- Narrado por: Dan Butler
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 497
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 455
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 454
In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Psychosis or Syphilis?
- De Vira en 04-02-13
De: Juliann Garey
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Lifted by the Great Nothing
- De: Karim Dimechkie
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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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
Max doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. He lives with his father, Rasheed, who is enamored of his concept of American culture - baseball and barbeques - and tries to shed his Lebanese heritage completely.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Cheyenne en 06-13-15
De: Karim Dimechkie
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Shadow Show
- All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
- De: Sam Weller - editor, Mort Castle - editor
- Narrado por: George Takei, Edward Herrmann, Kate Mulgrew, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 163
Ray Bradbury - peerless storyteller, poet of the impossible, and one of America's most beloved authors - is a literary giant whose remarkable career spanned seven decades. Now 26 of today's most diverse and celebrated authors offer new short works in honor of the master; stories of heart, intelligence, and dark wonder from a remarkable range of creative artists.
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5 out of 5 stars
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THE MAN WHO FORGOT RAY BRADBURY
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-27-17
De: Sam Weller - editor, y otros
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Man Alive
- A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
- De: Thomas Page McBee
- Narrado por: Thomas Page McBee
- Duración: 3 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life - one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who almost killed him. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood and tells us how a brush with violence sent him on the quest to untangle a sinister past and freed him to become the man he was meant to be.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth a listen
- De Kade en 05-30-18
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The Wangs vs. the World
- De: Jade Chang
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 455
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 419
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 417
Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he's just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go to China and attempt to reclaim his family's ancestral lands - and his pride. Outrageously funny and full of charm, The Wangs vs. the World is an entirely fresh look at what it means to belong in America - and how going from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings one family together in a way money never could.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spectacular
- De Barbara en 10-11-16
De: Jade Chang
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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
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 72
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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4 out of 5 stars
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A Thought-Provoking Premise
- De Doug - Audible en 03-31-15
De: Eli Horowitz, y otros