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Narrated by:
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Peter Francis James
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Ed Sala
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By:
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Larry Brown
About this listen
Walter James has no face. Braiden Chaney has no arms or legs. They lost them 22 years ago, in Vietnam. Now, in the course of one long night in a V.A. hospital, these two soldiers, one black, the other white, reveal how they came to be where they are and what they can only hope to become.
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 990
Hillary Jordan's mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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May this South never rise again.
- By Betty on 03-25-12
By: Hillary Jordan
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Manchild in the Promised Land
- By: Claude Brown
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 199
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 176
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Story5 out of 5 stars 175
Published during a literary era marked by the ascendance of Black writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Alex Haley, this thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown’s childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful and revealing
- By Anonymous User on 05-20-20
By: Claude Brown
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- By: Ernest J. Gaines
- Narrated by: Tonya Jordan
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 480
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 402
This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s. Miss Jane Pittman has "endured," has seen almost everything and foretold the rest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At great listen
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By: Ernest J. Gaines
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The Rabbit Factory
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Story4 out of 5 stars 157
Marshall Karp is an acclaimed playwright known for his witty sense of humor and crackling dialogue. His debut novel The Rabbit Factory stars the irreverent LAPD detective duo of Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. Dean Lamaar is the architect of an entertainment empire and the creator of iconic characters like Rambunctious Rabbit and McGreedy the Moose.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bizarre but engaging mystery.1st-rate performance.
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By: Marshall Karp
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Tishomingo Blues
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Things are going along okay with Dennis' gig at the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, "the Casino Capital of the South", until the day he looks down from the high-dive platform and witnesses a mob hit, Dixie style.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Leonard
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By: Elmore Leonard
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A Gathering of Old Men
- By: Sally Darling, Ernest J. Gaines
- Narrated by: Peter Francis James, Michelle-Denise Woods
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 235
When Sheriff Mapes is summoned to a sugarcane plantation to find a dead Cajun farmer, he knows who committed the crime. Mapes finds himself powerless, however, when nearly 20 elderly black men confess to the murder. Can justice be served, or will the dead man's brutish father pass judgment his way?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Complex and engaging.
- By David Robbins on 09-02-08
By: Sally Darling, and others
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All My Friends are Going to be Strangers
- By: Larry McMurtry
- Narrated by: John Randolph Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 131
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 106
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Story4 out of 5 stars 103
Danny Deck - Emma's friend from Terms of Endearment - is a promising young writer losing touch with his talent and drifting from Texas to California because "that's where all the writers are." Set in the early 60s, this is a very funny (and raunchy) satire of life in Texas and California and a true and American portrait of an artist as a young man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Favorite audio book ever
- By melanie christner on 06-01-16
By: Larry McMurtry
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In Dubious Battle
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 526
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 461
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This 1936 novel—set in the California apple country—portrays a strike by migrant workers that metamorphoses from principled defiance into blind fanaticism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best story - ever ! Awesome narrator !!!!!!!!!
- By Inventing Mostly on 03-07-15
By: John Steinbeck
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On Drinking
- By: Charles Bukowski
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 118
Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer’s best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed “dirty old man”, Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some of his darkest moments, as well as some of his most joyful and inspired. In On Drinking, Bukowski expert Abel Debritto has collected the writer’s most profound, funny, and memorable work on his ups and downs with the hard stuff.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Don't read this sober
- By Lowball on 03-02-19
By: Charles Bukowski
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Johnny Got His Gun
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This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered - not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives. This is no ordinary novel. This is the story of a young American soldier terribly maimed in World War I - he "survives" armless, legless, and faceless, but with his mind intact.
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5 out of 5 stars
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READ THE INTRODUCTION LAST
- By Carollynn7 on 11-27-11
By: Dalton Trumbo
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 531
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 416
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 419
An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution; a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tucci's performance of "Postman" is exquisite!
- By Christopher on 06-25-12
By: James M. Cain
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Fallen Angels
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- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 368
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 317
With starred reviews from School Library Journal, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews, this moving novel by acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers is a modern classic. In the late 1960s, Richie Perry is growing up fast on the battlefields of Vietnam. But in the war-torn jungle, every moment is a struggle to survive. All Richie wants is to make it out alive.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good entertainment for Young Adults
- By Amazon Customer on 06-26-20
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Rabbit
- The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
- By: Patricia Williams, Jeannine Amber
- Narrated by: Patricia Williams
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6,582
One of five children, Pat watched as her alcoholic mother struggled to get by on charity, cons, and petty crimes. At age seven, Pat was taught to roll drunks for money. At 12, she was targeted for sex by a man eight years her senior; by 13, she was pregnant. By 15, Pat was a mother of two. Alone at 16, Pat was determined to make a better life for her children. But with no job skills and an eighth-grade education, her options were limited. She learned quickly that hustling and humor were the only tools she had to survive.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story but dry reading
- By SpazzyMaggee on 11-03-17
By: Patricia Williams, and others
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Hard Rain Falling
- By: Don Carpenter
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 125
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The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary connement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class - married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But they will meet again....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Well Read, American Noir Novel from The 1960s
- By Frank Donnelly on 01-19-20
By: Don Carpenter
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- Troy Dube
- 05-30-24
This one grips you
Larry Brown is one of my favorite authors. Joe is one ive read several times, and i finally read Dirty Work. It started out interesting enough but at some point i realized I began really caring about the characters. Larry Brown is so good at building believable characters you have little in common with and somehow come to understand. its a tragedy Brown is no longer with us to continue writing. The worlds he created feel real, and tragic, and shocking, and uniquely beautiful.
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- Dog Mom
- 08-29-12
Wow
What did you love best about Dirty Work?
I'm not often a fan of short stories but this one packed a helluva punch in a little package. Not a tear jerker, the ending left me with the sense a huge rock had been dumped in the pit of my stomach. Needless to say, it took days to digest.
Excellent narration only added to the story.
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- Charles V.
- 06-04-16
Dirty Work
Just as everything Larry Brown wrote Dirty Work is a rough ride, not for the faint of heart, but well worth the trip.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-09-21
what a waste of time
8 chapters of garbage. what happened to good war stories? I wish I could get a refund
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