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Correspondents
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Necar Zadegan, Assaf Cohen
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
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The world is Rita Khoury’s oyster. The bright and driven daughter of a Boston-area Irish Arab family that has risen over the generations from poor immigrants to part of the coastal elite, Rita grows up in a 1980s cultural mishmash. Corned beef and cabbage sit on the dinner table alongside stuffed grape leaves and tabouleh, all cooked by Rita’s mother, an Irish nurse who met her Lebanese surgeon husband while working at a hospital together. The unconventional yet close-knit family bonds over summers at the beach, wedding line dances, and a shared obsession with the Red Sox.
Rita charts herself an ambitious path through Harvard to one of the best newspapers in the country. She is posted in cosmopolitan Beirut and dates a handsome Palestinian would-be activist. But when she is assigned to cover the America-led invasion of Baghdad in 2003, she finds herself unprepared for the war zone. Her lifeline is her interpreter and fixer Nabil al-Jumaili, an equally restless young man whose dreams have been restricted by life in a deteriorating dictatorship, not to mention his own seemingly impossible desires. As the war tears Iraq apart, personal betrayal and the horrors of conflict force Rita and Nabil out of the country and into twisting, uncertain fates. What lies in wait will upend their lives forever, shattering their own notions of what they are entitled to in a grossly unjust world.
Epic in scope, by turns satirical and heartbreaking, and speaking sharply to America’s current moment, Correspondents is a whirlwind story about displacement from one’s own roots, the violence America promotes both abroad and at home, and the resilience that allows families to remake themselves and endure even the most shocking upheavals.
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Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn't there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than 70 years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once mentioned the family she left behind when she moved to America after World War II. With the help of Paul, a charming Parisian student, she sets out to uncover the truth.
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A new favorite of mine
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On All Fronts
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Clarissa Ward is a world-renowned conflict reporter. In this strange age of crisis where there really is no front line, she has moved from one hot zone to the next. With multiple assignments in Syria, Egypt, and Afghanistan, Ward, who speaks seven languages, has been based in Baghdad, Beirut, Beijing, and Moscow. She has seen and documented the violent remaking of the world at close range. With her deep empathy, Ward finds a way to tell the hardest stories. On All Fronts is the riveting account of Ward’s singular career and of journalism in this age of extremism.
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Insights gained!
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Neither Present Time
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Can a house save the lives of the people who live in it? Can an inscription written in a book over 60 years ago change the fates of people not even born when it was written? Beryl Gray is solid and dependable - her partner, Claire, thinks so, her family thinks so, her colleagues think so. She has a job she likes as a university librarian. Her life seems settled, content - except nothing is as it seems. Aggie Bishop's last girlfriend left her three years ago and she hasn't had a date since. She now takes care of her great-aunt Cory who doesn't want to be taken care of.
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A beautiful instant classic!
- By MissLynn on 04-15-21
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Red's Hot Honky-Tonk Bar
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Unruly Red knows she’s no one’s idea of a sweet old granny. But with one long-distance phone call, the fortysomething bar owner with the tattoos and tight jeans is suddenly responsible for two young grandchildren she hardly knows.
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In an idyllic Los Angeles neighborhood, where generations enjoy deep roots in old homes, the O’Rourke family fits right in. Miriam and Craig are both artists and their four children carry on the legacy. When their teenage son, Nick, is diagnosed with schizophrenia, a tumultuous decade ensues in which the family careens off the conventional course. Like the 10 Biblical plagues, they are hit by one catastrophe after another: violence, evictions, arrests, a suicide attempt, a near-drowning - even cancer and a brain tumor - play against the backdrop of a wild teenage bacchanal.
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So Beautifully Written
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A Wild and Precious Life
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In this memoir, which she began before passing away in 2017 and completed by her co-writer, Edie recounts her childhood in Philadelphia, her realization that she was a lesbian, and her active social life in Greenwich Village's electrifying underground gay scene during the 1950s. Edie was also one of a select group of trailblazing women in computing, working her way up the ladder at IBM and achieving their highest technical ranking while developing software.
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An American girl finds her prince in this "fun and dishy" (People) royal romance inspired by Prince William and Kate Middleton. American Bex Porter was never one for fairy tales. Her twin sister Lacey was always the romantic, the one who daydreamed of being a princess. But it's adventure-seeking Bex who goes to Oxford and meets dreamy Nick across the hall - and Bex who finds herself accidentally in love with the heir to the British throne. Nick is wonderful, but he comes with unimaginable baggage.
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I deserve a medal for getting to the endless end.
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Annabelle McKay knows she shouldn’t have any complaints. She’s been in a stable marriage that’s lasted almost three decades and has provided her with two wonderful children and thousands of family dinners around a sturdy oak table. Other wives envy the fact that Grant is not the type of man who would ever cheat on her or leave her for a younger woman. The trouble is Annabelle isn’t sure she wants to be married to Grant anymore. The trouble is she’s still in love with someone else.
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Don’t pass this one up.
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The Summerhouse
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Three best friends, all with the same birthday, are about to turn 40. They plan to share this momentous occasion together at a summerhouse in Maine, taking stock of their lives and loves, their wishes and choices. But none of them expect the gift that awaits them at the summerhouse: the chance for each of them to turn their "what might have beens" into reality.
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Not worth it
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Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
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Striking in their emotional immediacy, the stories in Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self are based in a world where inequality is reality but where the insecurities of adolescence and young adulthood, and the tensions within family and the community, are sometimes the biggest complicating forces in one's sense of identity and the choices one makes.
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things we do to oursekves
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Spare
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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on.
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Gutterball!
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Surfside Sisters
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A Nantucket woman returns home to find that reunions aren’t always simple, in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author. Keely Green always dreamed of leaving the beautiful shores of Nantucket to become a writer. Now she’s a bestselling novelist living in New York City, attending glamorous cocktail parties, mingling with the literary elite, and dating a charming pediatric surgeon. But a moment of clarity strikes when Keely’s boyfriend suddenly wants to settle down and her editor rejects her latest novel.
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Too fluffy!
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By: Nancy Thayer
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- KrisS
- 02-10-21
Multidimensional
I enjoyed this novel very much. The storytelling and multiple characters are richly developed. The narration was excellent
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- Pam Losely
- 11-09-19
Well worth the listen!
What I take with me from this book is the vivid portrayal of the characters. Being able to get a glimpse into the lives and emotions of people experiencing war and transition was eye opening. My wish is that no one would have to go through it in person. I appreciated the authors ability to bring the characters to life to the reader. The flow of the narrative was very well done. I would highly recommend this book.
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- sarah h templeton
- 02-24-24
So wonderful
Another perfect (and yet totally different) quilt of stories and relationships and ideas and history. MORE!
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- Sheila
- 10-30-19
Loved it!
The author's descriptions of people, places, personalities during war, dictatorships, displacement, fear as well as the hopes , new beginnings, joy of intermingling cultures and languages kept me enthralled. I did not want the story to end!
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- Catherine
- 07-22-21
Excellent and timely.
If you want a better understanding of the Middle East and the long history of Arabic people in this country check out this book. You may, as I did learn a lot!
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- Jayne
- 09-07-24
Learning experience!
The author exposed me to subjects I am unfamiliar with and for that I am grateful. What the people in Iraq went thru along with the Syrians and Lebanese during the war while we watched on TV hearing a completely different point of view is heart breaking. Where is our humanity?
Another inside look I got thru listening to the Correspondents was a glimpse at a crowd shooter, his addiction to violent games and his families denial.
Georgia just had a 14 year old walk into a school and kill 4 people with 9 more hospitalized. The shooter’s family was in complete denial. Why do we allow secrets to overrule healthy emotional honesty in in our families?
Is it social media?
I do recommend Correspondents for others who are on a journey to read between the lines and become aware of how we can be a compassionate society to all people.
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- Book Buddy
- 10-13-19
Keep Going, It Is Worth It
It took about 9 hours before I got into the book. Found the woman narrating the book extremely annoying, like she was smiling or winking as she spoke, child-like. Her Massachusetts accent was very annoying, sounded more like a strong New York accent to me, she should have dropped it completely. As the reading went on the accent did not improve but the narration did. Narration by the man was well done.
I think moving the chapters around would allowed for a faster connection to the characters, the book itself started with the wrong story, a silly beginning, like a romance novella to what becomes a moving book. I really liked Christodora by same author and Correspondents was written well enough that I decided to push through. Then finally the stories began to coalesce and have meaning.
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- Holly
- 03-05-21
Engaging story about difficult topics
I was completely drawn into the book by the complex stories of migration, loss, and the calamitous US invasion of Iraq. The sweeping historical arc of the book coupled with richly drawn characters pulled me into the lives of the protagonists. The narrators did a fabulous job of voicing the characters, most of whom spoke several languages. I highly recommend Correspondents!
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- Regina
- 10-22-19
This Book Brought Me To My Knees
I sobbed listening to parts of this book, it is so well written that I FELT the loss and pain of the characters. I do not ever remember reacting so strongly to a novel. Some of the events described here are horrendous and things I had not known before. War is ugly, brutal and all about money and power. Everyone suffers, there are, ultimately, no winners. Thank you, Tim Murphy, for this lesson in humanity.
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- Iggie
- 08-15-19
The Arab American Dream
Immediately engrossed in the vibrant and often touching Khoury family saga, i was soon impressed how it segued and pitted the Americanness of that saga against the repressed history of the War in Iraq (which part 2 really brought back to life in full complexity). Part 3 sprawled out in many interesting directions, suggesting surprising ways nations/families/individuals might find redemption.
Only downside, I found the some of performed accents annoying and distracting.
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56 people found this helpful