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- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A “tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at War
“For those who loved the Oscar-winning film CODA, a boarding school for deaf students is the setting for a kaleidoscope of experiences.”—The Washington Post
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Booklist
True biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk
True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they’ll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school’s golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the hearing headmistress, a CODA (child of deaf adult(s)) who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another—and changed forever.
This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.
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“Part tender coming-of-age story, part electrifying tale of political awakening, part heartfelt love letter to Deaf culture, True Biz is wholly a wonder.”—Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere
“Sara Novic is one of the best writers of my generation—not just the novelist of Deaf culture, but of human nature writ large. Do yourself a favor and get this book—it is inimitable.”—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa
“A coming-of-age story that explores the complexities of community and the ways in which language defines us.”—Kirkus Reviews
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Liz McGinnis never imagined herself living in a luxurious gated community like The Palms. Ever since she and her family moved in, she's felt like an outsider amongst the Stepford-like wives and their obnoxiously spoiled children. Still, she's determined to make it work - if not for herself, then for her husband, Phil, who landed them this lavish home in the first place, and for her daughter, Danielle, who's about to enter high school.
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Did the author run out of paper?
- De grandparent en 06-06-16
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The Wrong Sister
- De: T. E. Woods
- Narrado por: Angela Dawe
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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From behind the wheel of her car, Tess Kincaid glimpses a woman walking down a Madison, Wisconsin, street. They've never met, but Tess sees the same features every time she looks in the mirror. Tess introduces herself and discovers that she and her doppelganger, Mimi, have more than appearance in common. They even share the same birthday. Mimi - confident and outgoing where Tess is understated and shy - is convinced they're twins, separated shortly after birth. When a body is discovered in a local marsh, Tess is entangled in a search for the truth....
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Nothing like anything T E Woods has written B4!!!
- De shelley en 03-01-18
De: T. E. Woods
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The Rest of Her Life
- De: Laura Moriarty
- Narrado por: Julia Gibson
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy, the effects of which not only divide Leigh's family, but polarize the entire community.
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Obnoxious musical interludes ruin the story
- De Joan en 12-25-11
De: Laura Moriarty
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The Opposite of Loneliness
- Essays and Stories
- De: Marina Keegan
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. Even though she was just 22 when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation.
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Probably buy the book too.
- De Soupergirl en 09-14-15
De: Marina Keegan
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The Good Sister
- De: Wendy Corsi Staub
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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In New York Times best-selling author Wendy Corsi Staub's electrifying new thriller, a mother races to save her daughter before her darkest nightmare comes true. Sacred Sisters Catholic girls' school has hardly changed since Jen Archer was a student. Jen hoped her older daughter would thrive here. Instead, shy and studious Carley becomes the target of vicious bullies. But the real danger at Sacred Sisters goes much deeper.
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This was an okay book
- De Erica en 05-09-15
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The Other Mother
- De: Rachel Harper
- Narrado por: January LaVoy, William DeMeritt
- Duración: 14 h
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Jenry Castillo is a musical prodigy, raised by a single mother in Miami, who arrives at Brown University on a scholarship—but also to learn more about his late father, Jasper Patterson, a famous ballet dancer who died tragically when Jenry was two. On his search, he meets his estranged grandfather, Winston Patterson, a legendary professor of African American history and a fixture at the Ivy League school, who explodes his world with one question: Why is Jenry so focused on Jasper, when it was Winston’s daughter, Juliet, who was Jenry’s mother’s lover?
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Very good.
- De Roland Harper en 05-22-22
De: Rachel Harper
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A Study in Charlotte
- Charlotte Holmes, Book 1
- De: Brittany Cavallaro
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead, Julia Whelan
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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Jamie Watson has always been intrigued by Charlotte Holmes; after all, their great-great-great-grandfathers were one of the most infamous pairs in history. But the Holmes family has always been odd, and Charlotte is no exception. She's inherited Sherlock's volatility and some of his vices - and when Jamie and Charlotte end up at the same Connecticut boarding school, Charlotte makes it clear she's not looking for friends.
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3.5 ☆s
- De Ashley C en 01-21-18
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The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
- De: Ben Philippe
- Narrado por: James Fouhey
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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Norris is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian, he knows from watching American sitcoms that those three things don’t bode well when you are moving to Texas. Plunked into a new high school, Norris finds himself cataloging everyone he meets: the Cheerleaders, the Jocks, the Loners, and even the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Making a ton of friends has never been a priority for him, and this way he can at least amuse himself until it’s time to go back to Canada, where he belongs. Yet those labels soon become actual people to Norris....
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Heartwarming...but profuse profanity.
- De Dajah B. en 01-28-19
De: Ben Philippe
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Symptoms of Being Human
- De: Jeff Garvin
- Narrado por: Tom Phelan
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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Riley Cavanaugh is many things: punk rock. Snarky. Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as a girl. But Riley isn't exactly out yet. And between starting a new school and having a congressman father running for reelection in über-conservative Orange County, the pressure - media and otherwise - is building up in Riley's life.
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Read this, right now!!
- De LOVE_Reading_LOVE_Audiobooks! en 03-02-16
De: Jeff Garvin
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The Good Goodbye
- De: Carla Buckley
- Narrado por: Ali Ahn, Suzy Jackson, Eva Kaminsky
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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Two cousins, Rory and Arden, lie unconscious in a hospital burn unit. The fire, which broke out in their shared college dorm room, killed another student, and the police want answers. Tension between Rory and Arden's parents was already at an all-time high before the fire, owing to a recent financial crisis and the decline of the family business. As the parents huddle anxiously in the waiting room, carefully avoiding the subject of their own unraveling relationships, disturbing truths come to light.
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I could not stop listening.
- De Amy Davis en 05-29-16
De: Carla Buckley
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The Wangs vs. the World
- De: Jade Chang
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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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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Spectacular
- De Barbara en 10-11-16
De: Jade Chang
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The Finishing School
- A Novel
- De: Joanna Goodman
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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One spring night in 1998, the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamour, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain. Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no secret that she had a selfish streak and had earned as many enemies as allies in her tenure at the school.
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this book was just ok
- De Josh Fields en 02-26-20
De: Joanna Goodman
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Magnolia Wednesdays
- De: Wendy Wax
- Narrado por: Käthe Mazur
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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At 41, Vivian Armstrong Gray's life as an investigative journalist is crumbling. Humiliated after taking a bullet in her backside during an exposé, Vivi learns that she's pregnant, jobless, and very hormonal. This explains why she says "yes" to a dreadful job covering suburban living back home in Georgia, a column she must write incognito. Down South, it's her sister's ballroom dance studio that becomes her undercover spot where she learns about the local life - and where unexpected friendships develop.
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Painful. And not in a good way.
- De Kate en 01-24-13
De: Wendy Wax
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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
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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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A Thought-Provoking Premise
- De Doug - Audible en 03-31-15
De: Eli Horowitz, y otros
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Loving Day
- De: Mat Johnson
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures in the grass outside; when he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of the teenage girl he meets at a comics convention, he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl is his daughter, and she thinks she's white.
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Teen lit with heavy erotic imagery
- De Itinerant T en 08-26-15
De: Mat Johnson
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Zagreb, 1991. Ana Jurić is a carefree 10-year-old, living with her family in a small apartment in Croatia's capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering Ana's idyllic childhood. Daily life is altered by food rations and air raid drills, and soccer matches are replaced by sniper fire. Neighbors grow suspicious of one another, and Ana's sense of safety starts to fray. When the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous world.
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A perfectly timed departure from the predictable template.
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Really addictive!
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On the Rooftop
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- De: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
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At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they’ve become a bona fide girl group whose shows are the talk of the Jazz-era Fillmore.
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Margot Lee's mother is ignoring her calls. Margot can’t understand why, until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. Determined to discover the truth, Margot unravels her single mother’s past as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother, Mina.
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Audio Recording Terrible, distracting
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L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He’s harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage. Their three daughters - Claudia, a television chef with a hard-hearted attitude.
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DNF and wanted to return this book!
- De Diana S. en 09-12-21
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Outlawed
- De: Anna North
- Narrado por: Cynthia Farrell
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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The day of her wedding, 17-year-old Ada’s life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women.
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Interesting idea
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Zagreb, 1991. Ana Jurić is a carefree 10-year-old, living with her family in a small apartment in Croatia's capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering Ana's idyllic childhood. Daily life is altered by food rations and air raid drills, and soccer matches are replaced by sniper fire. Neighbors grow suspicious of one another, and Ana's sense of safety starts to fray. When the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous world.
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A perfectly timed departure from the predictable template.
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De: Sara Novic
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Sankofa
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- De: Chibundu Onuzo
- Narrado por: Sara Powell
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Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother - the only parent who raised her - is dead. Searching through her mother's belongings one day, Anna finds clues about the African father she never knew. His student diaries chronicle his involvement in radical politics in 1970s London. Anna discovers that he eventually became the president - some would say dictator - of a small nation in West Africa. And he is still alive.
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Really addictive!
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At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they’ve become a bona fide girl group whose shows are the talk of the Jazz-era Fillmore.
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Basic
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Margot Lee's mother is ignoring her calls. Margot can’t understand why, until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. Determined to discover the truth, Margot unravels her single mother’s past as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother, Mina.
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Audio Recording Terrible, distracting
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- Narrado por: Frankie Corzo
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L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He’s harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage. Their three daughters - Claudia, a television chef with a hard-hearted attitude.
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DNF and wanted to return this book!
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Outlawed
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For Susan Green, messy emotions don’t fit into the equation of her perfectly ordered life. She has a flat that is ideal for one, a job that suits her passion for logic, and an “interpersonal arrangement” that provides cultural and other more intimate benefits. But suddenly confronted with the loss of her mother and the news that she is about to become a mother herself, Susan’s greatest fear is realized. She is losing control.
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Adorable story, AMAZING Narration.
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Lucky Armstrong is a tough, talented grifter who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. She’s ready to start a brand-new life, with a new identity - when things go sideways. Lucky finds herself alone for the first time, navigating the world without the help of either her father or her boyfriend, the two figures from whom she’s learned the art of the scam. When she discovers that a lottery ticket she bought on a whim is worth millions, her elation is tempered by one big problem: Cashing in the winning ticket means she’ll be arrested for her crimes.
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Not Lucky for me
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You Have a Match
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When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it’s mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already: Avid photographer. Injury-prone tree climber. Best friend to Leo and Connie...although ever since the B.E.I. (Big Embarrassing Incident) with Leo, things have been awkward on that front.
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Daughter Loved It
- De Love Being a Mom en 01-15-21
De: Emma Lord
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Everything Inside
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In these eight powerful, emotionally absorbing stories, a romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends; a marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences; a young woman holds on to an impossible dream even as she fights for her survival; two lovers reunite after unimaginable tragedy, both for their country and in their lives; a baby's christening brings three generations of a family to a precarious dance between old and new; a man falls to his death in slow motion, reliving the defining moments of the life he is about to lose.
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I liked it but I wanted to like it more than I did.
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The Sign for Home
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Arlo Dilly is young, handsome, and eager to meet the right girl. He also happens to be DeafBlind, a Jehovah’s Witness, and under the strict guardianship of his controlling uncle. His chances of finding someone to love seem slim to none. And yet, it happened once before: Many years ago, at a boarding school for the Deaf, Arlo met the love of his life—a mysterious girl with onyx eyes and beautifully expressive hands which told him the most amazing stories. But tragedy struck, and their love was lost forever.
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Best book I’ve read in a long time
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Deaf Utopia
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Before becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a pair of Deaf twins born to a multi-generational Deaf family in Queens, New York. At the hospital one day after he was born, Nyle “failed” his first test—a hearing test—to the joy and excitement of his parents.
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ASL is more important as a curriculum than foreign languages in American schools
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Group
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The refreshingly original and “startlingly hopeful” (Lisa Taddeo) debut memoir of an over-achieving young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to group therapy and gets psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers - and finds human connection, and herself.
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Unrealistic and Unethical
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Infinite Country
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Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family.
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Disappointed
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De: Patricia Engel
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His Only Wife
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Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. She is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. Afi knows who he is, of course—Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claims is inappropriate. But Afi is not prepared for the shift her life takes when she is moved from her small hometown of Ho to live in Accra, Ghana’s gleaming capital, a place of wealth and sophistication where she has days of nothing to do but cook meals.
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Storyline okay, audible performance horrible
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De: Peace Adzo Medie
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The Island of Missing Trees
- A Novel
- De: Elif Shafak
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- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish.
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WOW! What a great story and narration!
- De Marcy en 12-02-21
De: Elif Shafak
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Give Me a Sign
- De: Anna Sortino
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Robbins
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that’s what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes—when you don’t feel “deaf enough” to identify as Deaf or hearing enough to meet the world’s expectations. But this summer, Lilah is ready for a change. When Lilah becomes a counselor at a summer camp for the deaf and blind, her plan is to brush up on her ASL. Once there, she also finds a community. There are cute British lifeguards who break hearts but not rules, a YouTuber who’s just a bit desperate for clout, the campers Lilah’s responsible for (and overwhelmed by)—and then there’s Isaac.
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Amazing!
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De: Anna Sortino
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The Christie Affair
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- De: Nina de Gramont
- Narrado por: Lucy Scott
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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London, 1925: In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O’Dea became Archie Christie’s mistress, luring him away from his devoted and well-known wife, Agatha Christie. The question is, why? Why destroy another woman’s marriage, why hatch a plot years in the making, and why murder? How was Nan O’Dea so intricately tied to those 11 mysterious days that Agatha Christie went missing?
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Terrific Book!
- De robin hayes en 02-11-22
De: Nina de Gramont
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- A Signing Mom
- 05-15-22
A good story with added features both intriguing and informational
I really appreciated the way the author and contributors to this audible version of the book utilized the print version’s access to a visual language and gave it a component that let us know- as listeners- that we were not getting the whole story because we were not seeing the beauty and totality of the visual language.
I have worked alongside the Deaf community for more than three decades and I’m still heartbroken about many of the issues brought forward in this story. I hope it compels readers to learn more about ASL and Deaf culture. The final notes on all the Schools for the Deaf that have closed tore at my heart. I fervently hope that we do not lose all residential schools for the Deaf as they are such a critical part of the care and keeping of this cherished culture.
I wish there was more info on BlackASL, but it’s a start.
I enjoyed the author’s delineations of the various roles and backgrounds people have within the Deaf community. It is critical that folks don’t assume “Deaf” is a monolith; like any culture, the members are not homogenous.
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- Hannah Goblin
- 01-17-23
An amazing book
This was a great introduction to deaf culture for me. I especially loved the history woven throughout the book.
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- lean
- 08-23-22
Excellent!!
Incredible story, highly informative, beautifully read. I had very little knowledge about the deaf community before listening to this book, and now I am interested to know more. I highly recommend it!
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- Angela Smith
- 09-03-22
Great Read
True to the community and culture of the very people whose language I borrow and use daily to educate younger members of this same community.
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- Alexa Rushing
- 02-01-23
An interesting experience
I started to read this book with my eyes and struggled to understand what was going on based on the author's choice to not use quotation marks. Normally if I'm struggling to follow along in a book, I give up and move on. On second thought, it occurred to me that this had to be the authors intent to challenge her readers to put themselves of the shoes of the characters who have undoubtedly struggled to keep up in a world that was not designed to accommodate them. Since I had agreed this read this for a book club and the deadline was approaching, I had to think fast and went to Audible.
Immediately, I found myself enraptured by the characters, the pieces about Deaf History, the lessons in ASL, and was completely invested in the story, needing to seeing how the storylines intertwined.
All of this to say, I'm glad I stuck with it and will most likely go back again to the physical book. How lucky are we as hearing people to have audiobooks to support our understanding when our learning style requires another way of taking in information!? Definitely not taking that for granted ever again...
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- Jenalee Paige
- 06-04-23
Enjoyable Read
I loved reading about Deaf culture and the short bit of history that was provided in this book. It was interesting to hear the perspective of Deaf schools, rather than mainstreaming all students. The characters were fun, but something about the plot didn’t keep me as engaged as I was hoping for. I felt like the plot wasn’t fast moving until the end, where all the action seemed to take place. I recommend this for the Deaf culture, but not so much for the story itself.
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- Natalie Koonce Bornfleth
- 08-02-23
Not for Audio
I almost exclusively read via audiobooks, I read across several genre and love complicated timelines and creates written plots ,so this was a first for me…I couldn’t follow along on audiobook. The transitions from characters were ok, following dialogue was difficult and transition to end of chapter textbook style resources was confusing. This book is amazing and some of the most important learning I’ve experienced in awhile, I ran out and bought the book at my local indy bookstore and am blazing through it!
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- AK
- 06-10-22
Great read
I’m a hearing parent of a Deaf child with a cochlear implant. I appreciated all the different perspectives and learning more about the culture and history.
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- Eileen Akabertie
- 04-13-22
Enjoyable but jumped a shark.
I truly enjoyed the different family experiences. A first it felt like too much, character development in the beginning was a tad daunting but once I knew everyone it was OK. I felt that Slash in the end was unnecessary for the story being told. And February just leaving the "cylinders" behind is beyond reprehensible. Mel being jealous was ok, but it was disappointing to have it be warranted. Enjoyable but the story just took it a little too far in the end.
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- kat
- 07-12-22
Weird sound artifacts in the recording
The book was great, but the audio had weird clicking/brushing sounds like something was touching the microphone. Wasn’t all the time, but definitely distracting when it happened. Narrator was great otherwise.
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