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The woman king

de Dana stevens ...

The African Kingdom of Dahomeyisat a crossroads.A new king, Ghezo, has taken power, just as his enemy, the powerful Oyo Empire, begins to kidnap and sell his people to theEuropean slaveships.TheOyoarmy is large and powerful,but theyoung king has his own fearsomeweapon:aneliteforceoffemalesoldiers, the Agojie, led by ageneral,Nanisca.Now,they are all that Stand Between The Oyo ... Leer más

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The African Kingdom of Dahomeyisat a crossroads.A new king, Ghezo, has taken power, just as his enemy, the powerful Oyo Empire, begins to kidnap and sell his people to theEuropean slaveships.TheOyoarmy is large and powerful,but theyoung king has his own fearsomeweapon:aneliteforceoffemalesoldiers, the Agojie, led by ageneral,Nanisca.Now,they are all that Stand Between The Oyo
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Camera Man

Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century

de Dana Stevens ...

Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPRIn this genre-defying work of cultural history, the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton’s unique creative genius in the context of his time.Born the same year as the film industry in 1895, Buster Keaton began his career as the child star of a family slapstick act reputed to be ... Leer más

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Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPRIn this genre-defying work of cultural history, the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton’s unique creative genius in the context of his time.Born the same year as the film industry in 1895, Buster Keaton began his career as the child star of a family slapstick act reputed to be
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Min far hade en dröm : memoarer

de Barack Obama, Steven Dana ...

Traducido por Thomas Engström ...

I Min far hade en dröm berättar USAs förre president Barack Obama djupt personligt om sin uppväxt i ett USA som fortfarande präglades av raslagar. Berättelsen tar sin början när han får reda på att fadern, som han aldrig lärt känna, har dött i en bilolycka. Faderns plötsliga död får honom att reflektera över sitt liv och vad som gjort honom till den han är. När han reser till Kenya för att möta ... Leer más

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I Min far hade en dröm berättar USAs förre president Barack Obama djupt personligt om sin uppväxt i ett USA som fortfarande präglades av raslagar. Berättelsen tar sin början när han får reda på att fadern, som han aldrig lärt känna, har dött i en bilolycka. Faderns plötsliga död får honom att reflektera över sitt liv och vad som gjort honom till den han är. När han reser till Kenya för att möta
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Camera Man

Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century

de Dana Stevens ...

Narrado por Dana Stevens ...

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12 hora 11 minutos

Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPRIn this genre-defying “new kind of history” (The New Yorker), the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton’s unique creative genius in the context of his time.Born the same year as the film industry in 1895, Buster Keaton began his career as the child star of a family slapstick act ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

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Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPRIn this genre-defying “new kind of history” (The New Yorker), the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton’s unique creative genius in the context of his time.Born the same year as the film industry in 1895, Buster Keaton began his career as the child star of a family slapstick act
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Bad Dirt

Wyoming Stories 2

de Annie Proulx ...

Narrado por William Dufris ...

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7 hora 1 minutos

Annie Proulx follows the success of Close Range with another remarkable collection of stories. Bad Dirt is filled with the vivid characters for which Proulx has become known.In "The Contest," the male population of Elk Tooth, Wyoming, vows to put aside their razors for two seasons, ante up ten dollars each, and wait to see who has the longest beard on July 4. Deb Sipple, the moving protagonist of ... Leer más

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Annie Proulx follows the success of Close Range with another remarkable collection of stories. Bad Dirt is filled with the vivid characters for which Proulx has become known.In "The Contest," the male population of Elk Tooth, Wyoming, vows to put aside their razors for two seasons, ante up ten dollars each, and wait to see who has the longest beard on July 4. Deb Sipple, the moving protagonist of
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Starkweather

The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America

de Harry N. MacLean ...

Narrado por William DeMeritt ...

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13 hora 11 minutos

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the modern age of AmericaOn January 21, 1958, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather changed the course of crime in the United States when he murdered the parents and sister of his fourteen-year-old girlfriend (and possible accomplice), Caril Ann Fugate, in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They ... Leer más

$42.99 USD

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The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the modern age of AmericaOn January 21, 1958, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather changed the course of crime in the United States when he murdered the parents and sister of his fourteen-year-old girlfriend (and possible accomplice), Caril Ann Fugate, in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They
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The Crossing

El Paso, the Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story

de Richard Parker ...

Narrado por Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

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13 hora 41 minutos

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A Southwest Book of the Year “Top Pick” “American history did not begin in the Northeast. It began in the Southwest,’ Parker asserts, in this sweeping history.” —The New Yorker A revelatory work of Southwest history that recenters the American origin story two-thousand miles west of Plymouth Rock, in El Paso, Texas—heart of Indigenous power and resistance, ... Leer más

$32.99 USD

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A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A Southwest Book of the Year “Top Pick” “American history did not begin in the Northeast. It began in the Southwest,’ Parker asserts, in this sweeping history.” —The New Yorker A revelatory work of Southwest history that recenters the American origin story two-thousand miles west of Plymouth Rock, in El Paso, Texas—heart of Indigenous power and resistance,
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Everywhere An Oink Oink

An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years In Hollywood

de David Mamet ...

Narrado por Jim Frangione ...

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6 hora 19 minutos

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares his “smart, addictive, hilarious, and insightful” (Breitbart) tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies.David Mamet went to Hollywood on top—a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares his “smart, addictive, hilarious, and insightful” (Breitbart) tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies.David Mamet went to Hollywood on top—a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the
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The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024

de Padma Lakshmi, Jaya Saxena ...

Narrado por Eunice Wong, Soneela Nankani, Ali Nasser, Cary Hite, Chanté McCormick, Shaun Taylor-Corbett ...

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9 hora 58 minutos

A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi.“Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we make and assign meaning.” The essays in this year’s Best ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

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A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi.“Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we make and assign meaning.” The essays in this year’s Best
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America First

Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War

de H. W. Brands ...

Narrado por Mark Bramhall ...

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14 hora 33 minutos

**Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator and popular hero Charles Lindbergh.“An immersive account of America’s fierce debate about joining World War ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

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**Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator and popular hero Charles Lindbergh.“An immersive account of America’s fierce debate about joining World War
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The Blazing World

A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689

de Jonathan Healey ...

Narrado por Oliver Hembrough ...

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19 hora 42 minutos

AN ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative” history (The New York Times) of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. • “Recapture[s] a lost moment when a radically democratic commonwealth seemed possible.”—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker“[Healy] makes a convinci... ... Leer más

$27.99 USD

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AN ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative” history (The New York Times) of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. • “Recapture[s] a lost moment when a radically democratic commonwealth seemed possible.”—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker“[Healy] makes a convinci...
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When the Sea Came Alive

An Oral History of D-Day

de Garrett M. Graff ...

Narrado por Garrett M. Graff, Edoardo Ballerini ...

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19 hora 42 minutos

Winner of the 2025 Audie Award for Multi-Voiced PerformanceA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Absolutely gripping.” —The Washington Post • “A masterpiece of oral history…stirring, surprising, grim, joyous, moving, and always riveting.” —Evan ThomasFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most complete and up-to... ... Leer más

$34.99 USD

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Winner of the 2025 Audie Award for Multi-Voiced PerformanceA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Absolutely gripping.” —The Washington Post • “A masterpiece of oral history…stirring, surprising, grim, joyous, moving, and always riveting.” —Evan ThomasFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most complete and up-to...
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