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Cactus Country
- A Boyhood Memoir
- De: Zoë Bossiere
- Narrado por: Zoë Bossiere
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Newly arrived in the Sonoran Desert, eleven-year-old Zoë enters a world of giant beetles, thundering javelinas, and gnarled palo verde trees. In Cactus Country RV Park, Zoë has been given a fresh start and a shorter new haircut. Although Zoë doesn’t have the words to express it, he experiences life as a trans boy—and here, others begin to see him as a boy, too. Zoë spends hot days chasing shade and freight trains with an ever-rotating pack of sunburned desert kids, and nights fending off his own questions about the body underneath his baggy clothes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A compelling, tender, harsh, and hopeful story.
- De Carolyn Arnold en 04-04-25
- Cactus Country
- A Boyhood Memoir
- De: Zoë Bossiere
- Narrado por: Zoë Bossiere
A compelling, tender, harsh, and hopeful story.
Revisado: 04-04-25
The feelings of living in a mobile home park in the desert and the feelings of longing to be a boy from a girl’s body are entwined beautifully in this compelling, tender, harsh, and hopeful story. Raised piercing questions about what gender is, questions we can all ask ourselves. Did not want to stop listening!!
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Small Victories
- Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
- De: Anne Lamott
- Narrado por: Anne Lamott
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 475
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 414
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 411
Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us - our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Book Anne has ever done.
- De Craig L. Ervin en 11-14-14
- Small Victories
- Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
- De: Anne Lamott
- Narrado por: Anne Lamott
Wise, vulnerable, & hilarious
Revisado: 05-13-24
Anne Lamott never disappoints, with her warm, wise, honest, helpful and ever hopeful faith in God and the love of each of us. Uplifting and a great guide to personal growth.
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Malibu Rising
- A Novel
- De: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21,429
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18,659
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18,589
Malibu: August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer Mick Riva. The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Malibu Sinking
- De SB en 06-01-21
- Malibu Rising
- A Novel
- De: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
Gripping, original story!
Revisado: 08-11-23
What I love about Taylor Jenkins Reid’s books are the characters I come to know and care about so quickly so I must know what happens to them, and the plots that are both realistic and unpredictable. Together they grab me and I can’t stop listening til the end. Julia Whelan captures the voices of the different characters so well, with her ironic tone always seems perfect. This is my 3rd TJR/Whelan book and I’m so glad there are more!
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The Unpassing
- A Novel
- De: Chia-Chia Lin
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 30
In Chia-Chia Lin’s debut, The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman while the mother, a loving, strong-willed, and unpredictably emotional matriarch, holds the house together. When 10-year-old Gavin contracts meningitis at school, he falls into a deep, nearly fatal coma. He wakes up a week later to learn that his little sister Ruby was infected, too. She did not survive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vivid writing about terrible hardships
- De Carolyn Arnold en 12-16-19
- The Unpassing
- A Novel
- De: Chia-Chia Lin
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
Vivid writing about terrible hardships
Revisado: 12-16-19
This Taiwanese family, transplanted to Alaska by the father, endures hardship and tragedy pretty nonstop, as seen through the innocent and confused child’s eye of the oldest son. It was painful to read, but I was drawn in needing to know how bad it could get, and by the hope that things would get better for these characters I had come to care about. Now that I’m done, I realize what a vivid emotional and physical world the author created, and I’m grateful to have in my bones such clear images of the family and community members and a glimpse of the struggle that this family had on their journey of survival and integration into the U.S.
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Becoming
- De: Michelle Obama
- Narrado por: Michelle Obama
- Duración: 19 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 182,242
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 161,931
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 161,049
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Didn't know what I was getting into
- De Kenneth Woodward en 12-05-18
- Becoming
- De: Michelle Obama
- Narrado por: Michelle Obama
Thank you Michelle!
Revisado: 04-10-19
This memoir only made me admire Michelle Obama more. So good to know what I only had a vague outline of: her upbringing and how she went from south side Chicago to Princeton to Harvard to being a fancy lawyer to choosing more satisfying work for herself, to meeting Barack and her candid account of supporting him in his political ambitions even though it would not have been her first choice for their growing family, to embracing and using her role as FLOTUS to have an effect on issues she cared about. All told beautifully and thoughtfully, with a clear awareness of her family’s important role as the first black family in the White House. Having her read it made me feel like I was really getting to know her.
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