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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: Peter Riegert
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For 60 years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the federal district of Sitka, a temporary safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the district is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end.
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- De Ann E O'Connor en 10-16-17
De: Michael Chabon
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
- De: Dinaw Mengestu
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
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Ethiopian émigré Dinaw Mengestu is a skilled observer of people who offers a colorful debut work of fiction. Insightful and swiftly paced, this novel evokes past and present in the course of its compelling narrative. It's the `70s, and one D.C. neighborhood is undergoing big changes. In the mix is Ethiopian grocery owner Sepha Stephanos - a man with a complex past who fled his homeland after seeing his father brutalized by themilitary. He hopes for new prospects in D.C.'s gentrification process.
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- De Lisbeth en 11-22-11
De: Dinaw Mengestu
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The Confessions of Al Capone
- De: Loren D. Estleman
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 19 h y 37 m
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In 1944 Al Capone, the most notorious Mob boss in history, has already been released from prison. Though Capone is no longer the enormously powerful force who dominated Chicago’s underworld for years, he is still a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI chief knows that if he can somehow manage to get Capone to reveal details of crimes he and his Outfit committed, the Bureau has a good chance of nailing key members who now are active in the wartime black market.
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Interesting story
- De Michael en 02-07-17
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Shadow and Light
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- De: Jonathan Rabb
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
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Berlin, between the two world wars. When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. With the help of Fritz Lang (the German director) and Alby Pimm (leader of the most powerful crime syndicate in Berlin), Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin's sex and drug trade.
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Masterful
- De Buzz en 03-25-11
De: Jonathan Rabb
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Crimes by Moonlight
- Mysteries from the Dark Side
- De: Charlaine Harris - author/editor
- Narrado por: Natalie Ross
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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In number-one New York Times best-selling author Charlaine Harris’s "Dahlia Underground,” venerable vampire Dahlia Lynley-Chivers survives an attack by an anti-vampire terrorist group, only to show them they tried to blow up the wrong bloodsucker. Bailey Ruth Raeburn, a ghost assigned to assist humans in trouble, steps into the middle of a marital dispute with surprising twists in Carolyn Hart’s “Riding High”....
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Pleasantly surprised
- De Bonnie en 08-06-11
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Laguna Heat
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- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
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Laguna: a place where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violence - with a fiery vengeance - and where homicide cop Tom Shephard unravels a grisly mystery. It reaches back across 40 years of sordid sex, blackmail, and suicide into the dark corners of his own past.
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Fabulous
- De Stacy en 02-24-09
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The Patriots
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- De: Sana Krasikov
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren, George Guidall
- Duración: 22 h y 58 m
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Florence Fein grows up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, in a family that is gaining a foothold in the middle class. At City College she becomes engaged politically with the left-leaning student groups, and eventually, in the midst of the Depression, she takes a job with a trade organization that has a position for her in Moscow. There, she falls in love with another expatriate American and has a son. Soon after, Florence is sent to a work camp and her son to an orphanage.
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Point of View of characters, past and present collide
- De Angela Adams en 01-29-19
De: Sana Krasikov
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Bitter Spirits
- Roaring Twenties, Book 1
- De: Jenn Bennett
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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Aida Palmer performs a spirit medium show onstage at Chinatown's illustrious Gris-Gris speakeasy. However, her ability to summon (and expel) the dead is more than just an act. Winter Magnusson is a notorious bootlegger who's more comfortable with guns than ghosts. Unfortunately for him, he's the recent target of a malevolent hex that renders him a magnet for hauntings. After Aida's supernatural assistance is enlisted to banish the ghosts, her spirit-chilled aura heats up as the charming bootlegger casts a different sort of spell on her.
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Cute paranormal romance set in the 1920s
- De Karissa Eckert en 08-13-17
De: Jenn Bennett
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Midnight Cowboy
- De: James Leo Herlihy
- Narrado por: Michael Urie
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Midnight Cowboy is considered by many to be one of the best American novels published since World War II. The main story centers around Joe Buck, a naive but eager and ambitious young Texan, who decides to leave his dead-end job in search of a grand and glamorous life he believes he will find in New York City. But the city turns out to be a much more difficult place to negotiate than Joe could ever have imagined. He soon finds himself and his dreams compromised. Buck's fall from innocence and his relationship with the crippled street hustler Ratso Rizzo form the novel's emotional nucleus.
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Superb
- De Macala Shon en 01-26-21
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Library of the Dead
- Will Piper Series, Book 1
- De: Glenn Cooper
- Narrado por: Pete Bradbury
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died - a postcard that announced their date of death. In desperation, the FBI assigns the case to maverick agent Will Piper, once the most accomplished serial-killing expert in the bureau's history, now on a dissolute spiral to retirement.
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Ok towards the end
- De JoAnn en 05-23-23
De: Glenn Cooper
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A small Midwestern town is having an identity crisis: should they have a new techno-savvy name or a name honoring the freedmen who founded the town? Or is the current name just fine? They call in a professional naming consultant, famous for naming Apex bandages, guaranteed to match any skin color. But even he is losing his faith in monikers.
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Just not entertaining
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The year is 1985. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs, playing too much Dungeons and Dragons, and trying to catch glimpses of nudity on late-night cable TV. After a tragic mishap on his first day of high school, when Benji reveals his deep enthusiasm for the horror movie magazine Fangoria, his social doom is sealed for the next four years.
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nostalgic
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The Noble Hustle
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The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whitehead’s hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as “Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins.”
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Not Beowulf
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Zone One
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In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan.
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Tomorrow needs a marketing rollout.
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Well-crafted story
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Dull, dull, DULL!
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The Colossus of New York
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Just not entertaining
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The year is 1985. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs, playing too much Dungeons and Dragons, and trying to catch glimpses of nudity on late-night cable TV. After a tragic mishap on his first day of high school, when Benji reveals his deep enthusiasm for the horror movie magazine Fangoria, his social doom is sealed for the next four years.
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nostalgic
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Not Beowulf
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In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan.
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Tomorrow needs a marketing rollout.
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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
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Beautiful
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Dogeaters follows a diverse set of characters through Manila, each exemplifying the country’s sharp distinctions between social classes. Celebrated novelist and playwright Jessica Hagedorn effortlessly shifts from the capital’s elite to the poorest of the poor. From the country’s president and first lady to an idealist reformer, from actors and radio DJs to prostitutes, seemingly unrelated lives become intertwined.
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a heartbreaking coming of age story
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What a rare pleasure
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In his highly anticipated second novel, Family Life, he delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision. We meet the Mishra family in Delhi in 1978, where eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju play cricket in the streets, waiting for the day when their plane tickets will arrive and they and their mother can fly across the world and join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more: When automatic glass doors open before them, they feel that surely they must have been mistaken for somebody important.
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A Moving Family Drama
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Excellent if you forgive pronunciation
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Dream and reality overlap in Divorcing, a book in which divorce is not just a question of a broken marriage but names a rift that runs right through the inner and outer worlds of Sophie Blind, its brilliant but desperate protagonist. It's a rift that encompasses not just forced exile and estrangement from her adopted country, but a profound rupture and alienation from her husband, her family, her Jewish identity, and her own fractured self. Can the rift be mended?
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What Estrella knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death.
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Chicano storytelling for real
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Corregidora
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Here is Gayl Jones' classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the 19th-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.
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a powerfully hard read performed wonderfully
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A Summons to Memphis
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Born in 1917, Tennessee author Peter Taylor won the Pulitzer Prize for this exceptional work of literature. The well-to-do Carver family moves to Memphis from Nashville, where they become embroiled in a domestic dispute over the widower patriarch's decision to remarry.
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- B. Injasoulian
- 08-22-19
Brilliant, textured, mind-bending
My son and I listened to this book on a road trip after loving Underground Railroad. What a treat! Starting a third CW book today.
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- Lora S.
- 12-14-16
Part mystery, part philosophy, part political
The Intuitionist is a strange book – part mystery, part philosophical musing, part political something.
The parallel that struck me in listening to it was with Brett Easton Ellis’ Glamorama. In Glamorama (another strange book), it comes to the point where everyone in the book is a model, or connected with modeling in some way or other. In The Intuitionist, the inescapable connection is with elevators. Almost every character is an elevator inspector or someone who depends directly on elevators or the elevator inspectors in some way. Even the only school mentioned is the Institute for Vertical Transport – a school whose entire curriculum is geared around inspecting and maintaining elevators.
Lila Mae Watson is the first black woman to become an elevator inspector in a famous city that has to be New York. In her time and place, there are two schools of thought regarding the best way to inspect elevators – empiricism and intuitionism. Empiricists look at the nuts and bolts and cables of elevators to see if they are properly installed and maintained. Intuitionists apparently just sense what is going on – feel the vibes, as it were – and know if something is wrong and what it is. Lila Mae is an Intuitionist, and she is never wrong.
The problem is, a new elevator in a new city building crashes – goes into freefall and is utterly destroyed – less than twenty-four hours after she has inspected it and passed it as ok. This happens in the thick of an election for the head of the elevator inspectors’ union, a contest between an empiricist candidate (the incumbent) and an intuitionist candidate. In this world, somewhat contrary to the usual practice, to be head of the union is also to be head of the municipal department of elevator inspectors. At first, it appears that the elevator has been sabotaged by the empiricists and that Lila Mae has been set up to take the fall for the failure.
There follows a long round of encounters with gangland thug types related to both sides of the struggle, and another sabotage. There are also some flashbacks to Lila Mae’s time in school at the Institute for Vertical Transport, and a lot of reflecting on the theory of elevators, especially as put forth by the hero of the Intuitionists, a certain James Fulton, and the Black Box he proposed as the perfect elevator. Lila Mae is unexpectedly drawn into an attempt to find Fulton’s missing notebooks relating to this Black Box, and in the process, she uncovers the real meaning both of the failed elevator and of the violence surrounding it, and it’s not what she, or we, thought it was.
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- Don Eckford
- 06-15-17
Excellent
Solidly voiced; layered; dynamic; a new classic coming of age tale; a new classic American novel
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-11-23
Great Pace and Premise
I really liked the pace of this novel, it made it easy to read in just a few sittings. That being said, I felt that at times the story moved too fast and didn’t allow certain characters to fully develop over the pages. However, the premise of the story is great as it developed. Also, the story lacked some clarity at certain parts but that could be a stylistic choice of Whitehead to let the reader do some world building based on their own analysis.
Overall it was a great book I was just expecting a more spectacular climax. I would definitely read it again and probably will in the near future to see what things I missed. The racial allegory was supreme. One of the best debut novels that I’ve read.
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- Jean Rolandelli
- 06-01-20
hmmm, unusual but interesting
I was confused but willing to venture forth. I may have missed a critical point early on.
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- Calliope
- 11-05-18
Had potential, but too remote and unengaging
This book with an interesting premise starts out as a kind of speculative fiction mystery about industrial espionage, and it ends up with some strange allegories about racism and sexism, and people's past and future desire to ascend. OK, that's kind of strange but could still be interesting - but I found Whitehead's writing style to be so passive and distant, everything that happened and everyone involved were really uninteresting.
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- Mary Lane
- 03-03-21
A real original
This book was one of the most original things I've read in a long time.
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- Tim
- 05-02-13
Different Floors
"The Intuitionist" is a top notch read. It's pretty much about elevator inspectors, which one of them is black and also a woman when race was an issue back then. The different floors in the department is not a straight forward read, but more like different dreams in each floor for Lila Mae. It's really hard to explain it. The entire story feels like a metaphor for racism at the time. It's not like The Help or The Color Purple, but its more subtle. Great writing from Colson Whitehead.
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- Holly
- 01-12-23
Slow Start
Not enough character development at the beginning, but stick it out. Great story. Made me think about Ellison’s Invisible Man (would love to teach the two as a unit).
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- Anna
- 02-22-20
The Perfect Elevator to Where?
In Arabian and Muslim mythology a djinn is an intelligent spirit of lower rank than the angels, able to appear in human and animal forms with an ability to possess humans. While a genie is a spirit of Arabian folklore, traditionally depicted imprisoned within a bottle or oil lamp, and capable of granting wishes when summoned.
Subtle linguistic plays on words makes poetry out of Colson Whitehead's debut novel. The mechanisms of an elevator are genies: velocity, hoisting motor, selector, and grip shoes. "All of them energetic and fastidious, describing seamless verticality to Inspector Lila Mae in her mind's own tongue". Djinns appear later, at the end of the novel, as "dust whirling in the shafts of afternoon light", emanating from a dumb waiter. The hand elevator is primitive, yet contains all the same principles of verticality. It does not rise as high as the ill fated Number Eleven, but it also has far less to fall.
From the first description of Lila Mae Watson's hair that "parts in the middle and cups her round face like a thousand hungry fingers", it is clear that she is tightly bound in all ways. What is not entirely clear until the end of the novel is who Lila Mae should trust. Neither genies nor djinns surround her; no angels or magic lamps either. Lila Mae is caught in a web of black and white, strung with deceit held together by self-hatred and racial tension. A solipsist, which is just a fancy way of saying she's alone, Lila Mae climbs across the filaments of an imagined reality.
"White people's reality is built on what things appear to be--- that's the business of Empiricism." Lila Mae prefers to close her eyes, imagine the impossible mechanisms that allow for verticality, an ascension to somewhere better. "Intuitionism is communication. That simple. Communication with what is not-you." In her eagerness to ascend, Lila Mae forgets to make friends. "After three years she doesn't owe any favors and no one owes her any back, which was how she liked it up 'til now." Her position as the inspector of a failed elevator leaves her in a precarious spot, more so because she is the first "colored" woman in her position.
In the end Lila Mae prevails. She will be a "citizen of the city to come and the frail devices she had devoted her life to were weak and would all fall one day like Number Eleven." Her ascent is assured by the secrets of which Lila Mae is keeper. Inspite of her secret victory, however, this story makes me despair for the deep cynicism that lurks in Whitehead's beautiful words.
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