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The Taqwacores
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- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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Originally self-published on photocopiers and spiralbound by hand, The Taqwacores has now come to be read and listened to as a manifesto for Muslim punk rockers and a Catcher in the Rye for young Muslims.
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A Good Country
- A Novel
- By: Laleh Khadivi
- Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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A timely novel about the radicalization of a Muslim teen in California - about where identity truly lies, and how we find it. Laguna Beach, California, 2010. Reza Courdee, a 14-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner.
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A very important contribution
- By Mia on 05-29-17
By: Laleh Khadivi
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The Complete Lockpick Pornography
- By: Joey Comeau
- Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton
- Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
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Combining two novellas into one volume, this collection explores the effects of prejudice and the ramifications of violence with a slightly unhinged sense of humor and unexpected tenderness. Lockpick Pornography, originally published in 2005, is a gender-queer adventure story that was not widely available until now. We All Got It Coming presents the experiences of a young couple dealing with the aftermath of an act of violence. From kidnapping the son of a "family values" politician to violent confrontation, these are characters who fight back.
By: Joey Comeau
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Bad Kid
- A Memoir
- By: David Crabb
- Narrated by: David Crabb
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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Discovering George Michael's Faith confirmed for David Crabb what every bully already knew: He was gay. What saved him from high school was finding a group of outlandish friends who reveled in being outsiders. David found himself enmeshed with misfits: wearing black, cutting class, staying out all night, drinking, tripping, chain-smoking, idolizing the Pet Shop Boys - and learning lessons about life and love along the way.
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I wish I could give this audiobook 1,000 stars
- By Kari Delaney on 02-01-23
By: David Crabb
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Domestic Violets
- A Novel
- By: Matthew Norman
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 11 hrs
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Tom Violet always thought that by the time he turned 35, he’d have everything going for him. Fame. Fortune. A beautiful wife. A satisfying career as a successful novelist. A happy dog to greet him at the end of the day. The reality, though, is far different. He’s got a wife, but their problems are bigger than he can even imagine. And he’s written a novel, but the manuscript he’s slaved over for years is currently hidden in his desk drawer while his father, an actual famous writer, just won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His career, such that it is, involves mind-numbing corporate buzzwords....
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What a rollicking ride!
- By Pamela Harvey on 08-13-11
By: Matthew Norman
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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
- By: Juliann Garey
- Narrated by: Dan Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years.
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Psychosis or Syphilis?
- By Vira on 04-02-13
By: Juliann Garey
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The Chosen
- By: John G. Hartness
- Narrated by: Andrew McFerrin
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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What do you get when you mix a couple of immortals, a snotty archangel, the Father of Lies, a redneck street preacher and a couple of wiseass waitresses from Texas?
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Good Story Bad Ending
- By Mario on 05-13-15
By: John G. Hartness
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Chelsea Girls
- A Novel
- By: Eileen Myles
- Narrated by: Eileen Myles
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles's 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed "lesbianity," and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York.
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fascinatingly skanky
- By Megon J. Walker on 07-15-16
By: Eileen Myles
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The Wangs vs. the World
- By: Jade Chang
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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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
- By Barbara on 10-11-16
By: Jade Chang
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How It Went Down
- By: Kekla Magoon
- Narrated by: Cherise Boothe, Shari Peele, Kevin R. Free, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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When 16-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white. In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up. Day by day, new twists further obscure the truth. Tariq's friends, family, and community struggle to make sense of the tragedy, and to cope with the hole left behind when a life is cut short.
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gives perspective on race.
- By J. Carey on 08-17-17
By: Kekla Magoon
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Marlena
- A Novel
- By: Julie Buntin
- Narrated by: Emma Galvin
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Everything about 15-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts - first drink, first cigarette, first kiss - while Marlena's habits harden and calcify.
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A Brilliant, Agonizing Portrait of a Young Woman
- By Sudi on 06-06-17
By: Julie Buntin
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- undrwo
- 01-03-17
astonishingly good
I loved this book. It was an interesting peek into a punk subculture I feel like I grazed and never fully fell into, at once a window into a reality a mile away from mine and so intensely relatable as a story about young adults finding their feet and straddling the line between extreme self-consciousness and just not giving a shit about anything. At points it was hard to listen to, and at points it was heartbreaking, but I flew through it almost without pressing pause at all.
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- David
- 07-21-17
irreverent but fun
It's pure punk, irreverent and disrespectful while being shockingly relevant. A fascinating look at both punk and Islam.
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- Ashley
- 04-29-16
Thought Provoking, not very sophisticated
Some very offensive content, not for those easily triggered. Providing a new view of Islam, Knight creates a fantasy college house that is just as Muslim as it is punk. Minor knowledge of Islam necessary.
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- Mark
- 05-03-11
Quick, fun, interesting listen
I thoroughly loved the book. Finished it in two days. I was a white Mormon kid (still white), and it's amazing how similar my high school and college experiences were: from doing stupid stuff like throwing things at people from moving cars and yelling nonsense to weird-out passers-by to the music and political debates with housemates.
The big climax at the punk show is a little too rushed and Knight gets some of the song titles wrong (some were wrong in a good way because the real titles wouldn't have conveyed the right vibe and some were just wrong), but these things are so minor that if anything, they help keep the book from feeling too polished. This is a messy book, and that's the right fit for the characters.
I suspect the audio version will improve the book for some. It helped me because the occasional recitations of prayers and Arabic/Islamic words and references might've tripped me up but the narrator handled them so smoothly that they added to the vibe, even if I didn't understand the exact meaning (there was nothing you couldn't figure out in context).
I'd like a whole book just on the female character of Ravia (sp?). She was fascinating in her riot grrrl take on Islam. The debates on Islam were interesting with multiple takes on teachings about not having dogs, beating women, violence, drinking alcohol, etc.
And I made a playlist on my iPod of all the songs mentioned in the book. Some good music -- how did I not notice the genius of the Descendents' "Suburban Home" before?
If you want an endorsement, I can think of nothing higher than that some real kids started a band named after one of the fictional groups in the book and then wrote a song based on the fictional lyrics that open the book. The group: Vote Hezbollah. The song: "Muhammad Was a Punk Rocker."
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- Bret
- 06-14-15
Loved it!
An entertaining and inspiring fictional account of how Muslim punk could look in practice. Knight redefines Islam in an age that all religions need to do so.
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- Joseph
- 06-06-22
As-salamu alaykum
Just finished the book, Michael Muhammad Knight helped me find Islam. I’m a burnt out punk from upstate NY, but the Masjid in Amsterdam took my Shahada and the Taqwacores taught me to pray. Alhamdulillah.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-13-16
good conversations. not so good story.
I wish the author didn't for a cop out ending for a novel with such amazing conversations.
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