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Uncle Tom's Cabin
- De: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Narrado por: Buck Schirner
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 848
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 851
Eliza Harris, a slave whose child is to be sold, escapes her beloved home on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky and heads North, eluding the hired slave catchers. Aided by the underground railroad, Quakers, and others opposed to the Fugitive Slave Act, Eliza, her son, and her husband George run toward Canada. As the Harrises flee to freedom, another slave, Uncle Tom, is sent "down the river" for sale. Too loyal to abuse his master's trust, too Christian to rebel, Tom wrenches himself from his family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent narrator
- De need to fiddle with it en 04-26-09
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- De: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Narrado por: Buck Schirner
Everyone should read this!
Revisado: 01-01-23
The narrator was very good. Every American should read this book. I'm not young and wish I'd read it decades ago.
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The Cape Ann
- A Novel
- De: Faith Sullivan
- Narrado por: Karissa Vacker
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15
A disarmingly involving portrait of a family struggling to stay together through the Great Depression, The Cape Ann is an unforgettable story of life from a child's-eye view. Lark Erhardt, the six-year-old narrator of The Cape Ann, and her fiercely independent mother dream of owning their own house; they have their hearts set on the Cape Ann, chosen from a house catalog. But when Lark's father's gambling threatens the down payment her mother has worked so hard to save, Lark's mother takes matters into her own indomitable hands.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An all-time favorite finally on audiobook!
- De Nyx en 05-02-19
- The Cape Ann
- A Novel
- De: Faith Sullivan
- Narrado por: Karissa Vacker
ending
Revisado: 12-30-22
i loved this book..... the story flowed and had much to say about the human condition but I thought the final scene was poor. If I were to recommend it to someone, I would tell them to rip off or delete the final chapter.
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The Vikings
- De: Kenneth W. Harl, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Kenneth W. Harl
- Duración: 17 h y 59 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,007
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,454
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,429
As raiders and explorers, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of western Europe. Now, in a series of 36 vivid lectures by an honored teacher and classical scholar, you have the opportunity to understand this remarkable race as never before, studying the Vikings not only as warriors, but in all of the other roles in which they were equally extraordinary - merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great topic, awful presentation
- De MortonC en 04-14-19
- The Vikings
- De: Kenneth W. Harl, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Kenneth W. Harl
start again
Revisado: 04-19-22
I learned so much that I am going to start listening to it again but more slowly!
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The Monsters We Make
- A Novel
- De: Kali White
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,819
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,622
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,618
It's August 1984, and paperboy Christopher Stewart has gone missing. Hours later, 12-year-old Sammy Cox hurries home from his own paper route, red-faced and out of breath, hiding a terrible secret. Crystal, Sammy's 17-year-old sister, is worried by the disappearance but she also sees an opportunity: the Stewart case has echoes of an earlier unsolved disappearance of another boy, one town over. Crystal senses the makings of an award-winning essay, one that could win her a scholarship - and a ticket out of their small Iowa town.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Secrets abound, sneaking in and out of the pages
- De The Nerdy Gourmet en 08-20-20
- The Monsters We Make
- A Novel
- De: Kali White
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
almost real! breaks your heart
Revisado: 12-31-21
this book should be made into a movie. breaks your heart. so very very real.
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The Ninth Hour
- A Novel
- De: Alice McDermott
- Narrado por: Euan Morton
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 968
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 862
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 871
On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove - to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife - "that the hours of his life belong to himself alone". In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, appears unbidden to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Profoundly Thought Provoking
- De Sara en 01-17-18
- The Ninth Hour
- A Novel
- De: Alice McDermott
- Narrado por: Euan Morton
this is a great book which i am sorry that i read.
Revisado: 04-09-21
I hated this book as I read it though i know that is well written.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- De: Harriet Ann Jacobs
- Narrado por: Mia Ellis
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 506
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 444
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 442
Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom for herself and her children. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery. Deemed too shocking for reading audiences at the time, the book was shelved before it was published in 1861 near the start of the Civil War.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Will not finish it....
- De Karen M. Curry en 11-17-20
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- De: Harriet Ann Jacobs
- Narrado por: Mia Ellis
very accessible and important book!
Revisado: 06-23-20
A very important book. I am so glad that I have finally read it. Seeing slavery on the inside makes our nation's history real.
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Dying Games
- Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Mystery, Book 6
- De: Steve Robinson
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 595
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 512
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 511
Washington, DC: Twin brothers are found drowned in a Perspex box, one gagged and strapped to a chair. It's the latest in a series of cruel and elaborate murders with two things in common: the killer has left a family history chart at each crime scene, and the victims all have a connection to genealogical sleuth Jefferson Tayte. Hoping his insight and expertise will help solve the case, the FBI summon Tayte back to the capital. But as he struggles to crack the clues, the killer strikes again - and again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderful Suspense Mystery Surprise!!
- De Wayne en 11-06-17
- Dying Games
- Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Mystery, Book 6
- De: Steve Robinson
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
not his best by far. oh well.
Revisado: 09-20-19
Great story but dragged at parts. too much amateur psychology. JT's indecisiveness was boring and didn't ring true.
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The Wasted Vigil
- De: Nadeem Aslam
- Narrado por: Basil Sands
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 11
Five disparate lives come together at the intersection of decades of invasion, occupation, and violence. There's Marcus, an English expat who was married to an outspoken Afghani doctor--she was murdered by the Taliban--and opens his home to the others, the house itself a strange and beautiful monument to the inconceivable losses his family suffered...
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1 out of 5 stars
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Despicable, The Audible Equivalent of a Snuff Film
- De Paul en 03-19-18
- The Wasted Vigil
- De: Nadeem Aslam
- Narrado por: Basil Sands
Poor reader marred the story.
Revisado: 05-02-14
What disappointed you about The Wasted Vigil?
I found the story very over-drawn and anti-Moslem. Predictable and overly-violent.
If you’ve listened to books by Nadeem Aslam before, how does this one compare?
I thought the reader was poor. The voices he employed when the characters spoke were inconsistent and caricatures. Nearly offensive.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
There was some lovely writing along the way and many interesting details about Afghan life. I took them as true though I don't know if they are.
Any additional comments?
I will never buy an audiobook read by Basil Sands.
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The Hare with Amber Eyes
- A Hidden Inheritance
- De: Edmund de Waal
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,233
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,050
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,046
The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned like a comet” in 19th-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox. The renowned ceramicist Edmund de Waal became the fifth generation to inherit this small and exquisite collection of netsuke. Entranced by their beauty and mystery, he determined to trace the story of his family through the story of the collection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A vagabond through history, clutching a tiny carvi
- De SB Price en 01-19-12
- The Hare with Amber Eyes
- A Hidden Inheritance
- De: Edmund de Waal
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
Excellent narration !
Revisado: 02-14-13
Would you consider the audio edition of The Hare with Amber Eyes to be better than the print version?
I haven't read the print version but I think the proper pronunciation of terms in German and Japanese added alot to the reading. Mr Maloney did a sensitive reading........ he expressed emotions in his voice that he read on the page. It brought it alive and made the listener smile and cry in turn. He also varied the pace to the fit with what he was reading.
What other book might you compare The Hare with Amber Eyes to and why?
I would compare it to The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion because it is a memoir that focuses on one particular part of the memoirist's life. Both writers could skillfully tell us the facts and then plunge us into despair or joy by their reaction to those facts.
Which character – as performed by Michael Maloney – was your favorite?
He was always speaking as Edmund de Waal.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I've listened to it twice and will probably revisit it in a few years. I also bought the print version so I can see the photographs and copy out some sections that were particularly meaningful to me.
Any additional comments?
A fantastic book!
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