Bestsellers
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Connie
- A Memoir
- By: Connie Chung
- Narrated by: Connie Chung
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In a sharp, witty, and definitive memoir like no other, iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist Connie Chung delves into her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry.
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Rampant, ruthless institutional racism and sexism
- By Sarah C on 09-26-24
By: Connie Chung
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The Friday Afternoon Club
- A Family Memoir
- By: Griffin Dunne
- Narrated by: Griffin Dunne
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Griffin Dunne’s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances....
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Not funny but still worthy
- By H. Winslow on 06-17-24
By: Griffin Dunne
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Black Saturday
- An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in Gaza
- By: Trey Yingst
- Narrated by: Trey Yingst
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Fox News war correspondent Trey Yingst shares his gripping, firsthand account of the events of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing war.
By: Trey Yingst
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern American classic....
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Emotional & Powerful
- By Miss Toni on 06-30-13
By: Maya Angelou
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Men Have Called Her Crazy
- A Memoir
- By: Anna Marie Tendler
- Narrated by: Anna Marie Tendler
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women.
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Felt incomplete
- By Anonymous User on 08-21-24
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The Glass Castle
- A Memoir
- By: Jeannette Walls
- Narrated by: Jeannette Walls
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation....
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What's normal?
- By Kmrsy on 11-30-13
By: Jeannette Walls
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Connie
- A Memoir
- By: Connie Chung
- Narrated by: Connie Chung
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In a sharp, witty, and definitive memoir like no other, iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist Connie Chung delves into her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry.
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Rampant, ruthless institutional racism and sexism
- By Sarah C on 09-26-24
By: Connie Chung
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The Friday Afternoon Club
- A Family Memoir
- By: Griffin Dunne
- Narrated by: Griffin Dunne
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Griffin Dunne’s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances....
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Not funny but still worthy
- By H. Winslow on 06-17-24
By: Griffin Dunne
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Black Saturday
- An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in Gaza
- By: Trey Yingst
- Narrated by: Trey Yingst
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Fox News war correspondent Trey Yingst shares his gripping, firsthand account of the events of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing war.
By: Trey Yingst
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern American classic....
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Emotional & Powerful
- By Miss Toni on 06-30-13
By: Maya Angelou
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Men Have Called Her Crazy
- A Memoir
- By: Anna Marie Tendler
- Narrated by: Anna Marie Tendler
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women.
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Felt incomplete
- By Anonymous User on 08-21-24
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The Glass Castle
- A Memoir
- By: Jeannette Walls
- Narrated by: Jeannette Walls
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation....
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What's normal?
- By Kmrsy on 11-30-13
By: Jeannette Walls
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On Writing
- A Memoir of the Craft
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King, Joe Hill, Owen King
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have....
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Who needs a print edition when King reads King?
- By Cather on 11-18-05
By: Stephen King
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Leonardo da Vinci
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering....
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Wish the sample was not from the preface!
- By Chris M. on 11-13-17
By: Walter Isaacson
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The Sing Sing Files
- One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
- By: Dan Slepian
- Narrated by: Dan Slepian
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC’s Dateline recounts his two-decade journey navigating the broken criminal justice system to help free six innocent men.
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Loved this book!!
- By Jennifer on 09-27-24
By: Dan Slepian
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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David Sedaris' new collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes...
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Subtly Funny Musings on Life Experiences
- By FanB14 on 09-03-12
By: David Sedaris
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When Women Ran Fifth Avenue
- Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
- By: Julie Satow
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza.
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Read like a text book for fashion students.
- By JACKI on 06-24-24
By: Julie Satow
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Walden
- Life in the Woods
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Alec Sand
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life describes his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years....
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Excellent book and narration
- By Kindle Customer on 06-14-11
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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
- By: Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea
- Narrated by: Barbara Flynn, Brendan O'Hea, Judi Dench
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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For the very first time, Judi opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra....
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Perfect for fans of Shakespeare
- By Richard A. Nathan on 04-24-24
By: Judi Dench, and others
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Hell
- A Prison Diary 1
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Prisoner FF8282 gazes out from confinement on what he deems must be a glorious summer’s day, rays of sunlight bursting through the barred...
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Not What I Expected
- By noladel on 09-27-24
By: Jeffrey Archer
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Once upon a Time
- The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
- By: Elizabeth Beller
- Narrated by: Emily Tremaine
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A quarter of a century after the plane crash that claimed the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren, the magnitude of this tragedy remains fresh. Yet, Carolyn is still an enigmatic figure, a woman whose life in the spotlight was besieged with misogyny and cruelty.
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Exaggeratingly Fawning
- By NedNickelson on 05-22-24
By: Elizabeth Beller
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American Ramble
- A Walk of Memory and Renewal
- By: Neil King
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Neil King Jr.’s desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. By the spring of 2021, events had intervened that gave his desire greater urgency....
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Had Potential Failed to Execute
- By L. Mortensen on 04-15-23
By: Neil King
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The Pigeon Tunnel
- Stories from My Life
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall....
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A Global Literary Treasure
- By Darwin8u on 09-16-16
By: John le Carré
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Knife
- Meditations After an Attempted Murder
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him.
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Triumph of Life
- By Donna Ponte on 04-17-24
By: Salman Rushdie
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Eat, Pray, Love
- One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone....
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An Inner Journey within an External One
- By YoginiZora on 07-20-06
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Reasons to Stay Alive
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Matt Haig
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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At the age of 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again.
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Beware of Tuesdays and October. I cried laughing
- By colin on 12-05-23
By: Matt Haig
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The Lives of Lee Miller
- By: Antony Penrose
- Narrated by: Esther Wane, Adam Grayson
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Antony Penrose's tribute to his mother, Lee Miller, brings to life a uniquely talented woman and the turbulent times in which she lived.
By: Antony Penrose
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Red Comet
- The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
- By: Heather Clark
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 45 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art....
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Amazing!
- By Blurryface on 10-28-20
By: Heather Clark
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Dream Chasing
- My Four Decades of Success and Failure with Walt Disney Imagineering
- By: Bob Weis
- Narrated by: Bob Weis
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Dream Chasing is a recounting by author Bob Weis of four decades of creating and seeing to completion challenging projects, leading teams from the top secret, high-tech corridors of Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) to the highest levels of The Walt Disney Company.
By: Bob Weis
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Mostly What God Does
- Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
- By: Savannah Guthrie
- Narrated by: Savannah Guthrie
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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If you ever struggle with your connection to God (or whether you even feel connected to a faith at all!), you're not alone. Especially in our modern world, with its relentless, never-ending news cycle, we can all grapple with such questions....
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A Wonderful Treasure!
- By e. taylor on 02-22-24
By: Savannah Guthrie
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Purgatory
- A Prison Diary 2
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Long days of boredom in confinement, the general inefficiency of prison bureaucracy and a critically over-stretched prison service. The...
By: Jeffrey Archer
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Tokyo Vice
- An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
- By: Jake Adelstein
- Narrated by: Jake Adelstein
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up....
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Memoir, crime story and travelogue in one package
- By Steven on 02-07-10
By: Jake Adelstein
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The Distance Between Us
- A Memoir
- By: Reyna Grande
- Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border....
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opened my eyes to the beauty of our stories
- By Evelyn on 09-18-20
By: Reyna Grande
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What Remains
- A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
- By: Carole Radziwill
- Narrated by: Carole Radziwill
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
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What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince, Anthony Radziwill....
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I just couldn’t finish this book
- By Cheryle Medeiros on 10-11-15
By: Carole Radziwill
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The Rulebreaker
- The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
- By: Susan Page
- Narrated by: Susan Page
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Rulebreaker, Susan Page conducts 150 interviews and extensive archival research to discover that Walters was driven to keep herself and her family afloat after her mercurial and famous impresario father attempted suicide.
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Very well written and very interesting
- By Anonymous User on 04-29-24
By: Susan Page
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These Precious Days
- Essays
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Ann Patchett
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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“Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart....
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Heartfelt Essays, Beautifully Performed
- By Brent Holcomb on 11-23-21
By: Ann Patchett
New releases
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Connie
- A Memoir
- By: Connie Chung
- Narrated by: Connie Chung
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Connie Chung is a pioneer. In 1969 at the age of 23, this once-shy daughter of Chinese parents took her first job at a local TV station in her hometown of Washington, D.C. and soon thereafter began working at CBS news as a correspondent. Profoundly influenced by her family’s cultural traditions, yet growing up completely Americanized in the United States, Chung describes her career as an Asian woman in a white male-centered world.
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Rampant, ruthless institutional racism and sexism
- By Sarah C on 09-26-24
By: Connie Chung
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The Sing Sing Files
- One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
- By: Dan Slepian
- Narrated by: Dan Slepian
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2002, Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC’s Dateline, received a tip from a Bronx homicide detective that two men were serving twenty-five years to life in prison for a 1990 murder they did not commit. Haunted by what the detective had told him, Slepian began an investigation of the case that eventually resulted in freedom for the two men and launched Slepian on a two-decade personal and professional journey into a deeply flawed justice system fiercely resistant to rectifying—or even acknowledging—its mistakes and their consequences.
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Loved this book!!
- By Jennifer on 09-27-24
By: Dan Slepian
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Agatha Christie’s Marple
- Expert on Wickedness
- By: Mark Aldridge, Agatha Christie, Lucy Foley
- Narrated by: Jane Slavin
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness, ‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark Aldridge looks at nearly a century of St Mary Mead’s most famous resident and uses his own detective skills to uncover new information about Miss Jane Marple’s appearances on page, stage, screen and beyond. Drawing on a range of material, some of which is newly discovered and previously unpublished, this book explores everything about Miss Marple, from her origins in a series of short stories penned by Christie, to the recent bestselling HarperCollins collection Marple: Twelve New Stories.
By: Mark Aldridge, and others
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Question 7
- By: Richard Flanagan
- Narrated by: Richard Flanagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave laborer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die.
By: Richard Flanagan
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Jane Austen at Home
- A Biography (250th Birthday Edition)
- By: Lucy Worsley
- Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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This telling of the story of Jane's life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the places and spaces that mattered to her. It wasn't all country houses and ballrooms, but a life that was often a painful struggle. Jane famously lived a 'life without incident', but with new research and insights Lucy Worsley reveals a passionate woman who fought for her freedom. A woman who far from being a lonely spinster in fact had at least five marriage prospects, but who in the end refused to settle for anything less than Mr Darcy.
By: Lucy Worsley
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Life, Camera, Action
- By: Mitchell Burns
- Narrated by: Mitchell Burns
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Mitchell Burns never wanted to be a miner. Growing up in a Queensland coal mining town with parents in the industry, pursuing his passion for photography just didn't feel like an option. So, he went in the only direction he knew – straight into the mines.
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Loved the book and narration
- By Tyson on 09-15-24
By: Mitchell Burns
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Connie
- A Memoir
- By: Connie Chung
- Narrated by: Connie Chung
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Connie Chung is a pioneer. In 1969 at the age of 23, this once-shy daughter of Chinese parents took her first job at a local TV station in her hometown of Washington, D.C. and soon thereafter began working at CBS news as a correspondent. Profoundly influenced by her family’s cultural traditions, yet growing up completely Americanized in the United States, Chung describes her career as an Asian woman in a white male-centered world.
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Rampant, ruthless institutional racism and sexism
- By Sarah C on 09-26-24
By: Connie Chung
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The Sing Sing Files
- One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
- By: Dan Slepian
- Narrated by: Dan Slepian
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2002, Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC’s Dateline, received a tip from a Bronx homicide detective that two men were serving twenty-five years to life in prison for a 1990 murder they did not commit. Haunted by what the detective had told him, Slepian began an investigation of the case that eventually resulted in freedom for the two men and launched Slepian on a two-decade personal and professional journey into a deeply flawed justice system fiercely resistant to rectifying—or even acknowledging—its mistakes and their consequences.
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Loved this book!!
- By Jennifer on 09-27-24
By: Dan Slepian
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Agatha Christie’s Marple
- Expert on Wickedness
- By: Mark Aldridge, Agatha Christie, Lucy Foley
- Narrated by: Jane Slavin
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness, ‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark Aldridge looks at nearly a century of St Mary Mead’s most famous resident and uses his own detective skills to uncover new information about Miss Jane Marple’s appearances on page, stage, screen and beyond. Drawing on a range of material, some of which is newly discovered and previously unpublished, this book explores everything about Miss Marple, from her origins in a series of short stories penned by Christie, to the recent bestselling HarperCollins collection Marple: Twelve New Stories.
By: Mark Aldridge, and others
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Question 7
- By: Richard Flanagan
- Narrated by: Richard Flanagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave laborer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die.
By: Richard Flanagan
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Jane Austen at Home
- A Biography (250th Birthday Edition)
- By: Lucy Worsley
- Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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This telling of the story of Jane's life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the places and spaces that mattered to her. It wasn't all country houses and ballrooms, but a life that was often a painful struggle. Jane famously lived a 'life without incident', but with new research and insights Lucy Worsley reveals a passionate woman who fought for her freedom. A woman who far from being a lonely spinster in fact had at least five marriage prospects, but who in the end refused to settle for anything less than Mr Darcy.
By: Lucy Worsley
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Life, Camera, Action
- By: Mitchell Burns
- Narrated by: Mitchell Burns
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Mitchell Burns never wanted to be a miner. Growing up in a Queensland coal mining town with parents in the industry, pursuing his passion for photography just didn't feel like an option. So, he went in the only direction he knew – straight into the mines.
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Loved the book and narration
- By Tyson on 09-15-24
By: Mitchell Burns
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Wish I Was Here
- By: M. John Harrison
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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M. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest bodies of fiction of any living British author, encompassing space opera, speculative fiction, fantasy, and magical and literary realism. But is there even an M. John Harrison and if so, where do we find him? This is the question the author asks in this memoir-as-mystery, turning for clues to forty years of notetaking: “A note or it never happened. A note or you never looked.” Are these notebooks records of failed presence?
By: M. John Harrison
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Paris in Ruins
- Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
- By: Sebastian Smee
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the "Terrible Year" by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans-then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army after bloody street battles and the burning of central Paris.
By: Sebastian Smee
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Trey Yingst
- The Biography
- By: University Press
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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University Press returns with a short biography of Trey Yingst. From the battle-scarred streets of Gaza to the heart of Washington D.C., the story of Trey Yingst is the story of a relentless pursuit of truth, where the stakes are - literally - life and death. This compelling narrative delves into Yingst’s dangerous career, often balancing on the razor's edge, and the unwavering belief that every human story matters. Raised with an innate sense of justice and empathy in a small town in Pennsylvania, Trey set out on a path that would lead him to witness some of the most pivotal and ...
By: University Press
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Becoming Elizabeth Arden
- The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire
- By: Stacy A. Cordery
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Elizabeth Arden was a household name on six continents and a millionaire several times over before her death in 1966. Arden counted British royalty and social elites from the overlapping worlds of New York, Hollywood, London, and Paris among her clients. She revolutionized skin care and cosmetics, making it acceptable for all women to embrace glamour and wear makeup—not just actresses and prostitutes. She created a successful international business empire before women gained the vote and at a time when virtually no woman owned or ran a national company.
By: Stacy A. Cordery
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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At the end of summer 1839, the light changing and autumn in the air, Henry David Thoreau and his brother John clambered into their 15-foot-long homemade boat on an adventure north. They traveled the rivers from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. Henry was two years out of Harvard, and his brother John was a few years older. They wound their way up the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by day and camped along the shores at night.
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The World She Edited
- Katharine S. White at The New Yorker
- By: Amy Reading
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 20 hrs and 59 mins
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In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker’s midtown office and left with a job as an editor. The magazine was only a few months old. Over the next thirty-six years, White would transform the publication into a literary powerhouse. This exquisite biography brings to life the remarkable relationships White fostered with her writers and how these relationships nurtured an astonishing array of literary talent.
By: Amy Reading
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A Cup of Water Under My Bed
- A Memoir
- By: Daisy Hernández
- Narrated by: Daisy Hernández
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and men who seduce you with pastries, while one tía bemoans that her niece is turning out to be “una india” instead of an American. Another auntie instructs that when two people are close, they are bound to become like uña y mugre, fingernails and dirt, and that no, Daisy’s father is not godless. He’s simply praying to a candy dish that can be traced back to Africa.
By: Daisy Hernández
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Getting Away with Murder
- My Unexpected Life on Page, Stage and Screen
- By: Lynda La Plante
- Narrated by: Lynda La Plante, Helen Mirren, Simon Callow, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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The memoir covers La Plante's entire life, from her youth growing up in Merseyside to studying at RADA alongside Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt. It explores "the exasperation [La Plante] felt at the limited roles available for female actors" - something that led to her writing "Widows" and "Prime Suspect" for television.
By: Lynda La Plante
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A Piece of Work
- Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories
- By: Simon Russell Beale
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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Simon Russell Beale is one of Britain's most recognisable and well-loved actors. He has played many roles on stage, film, television and radio - ranging from Winston Churchill to Stalin, George Smiley to King Arthur. But ever since his appearance at school as a glamorous Desdemona, complete with false eyelashes that rendered him half-blind, he has been captivated by Shakespeare.
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Finding Oz
- How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story
- By: Evan I. Schwartz
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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Finding Oz tells the remarkable tale behind one of the world’s most enduring and best loved stories. Offering profound new insights into the true origins and meaning of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 masterwork, it delves into the personal turmoil and spiritual transformation that fueled Baum’s fantastical parable of the American Dream.
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Oz
- By Kindle Customer on 09-27-24
By: Evan I. Schwartz
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Michelangelo
- Enigmatic Artist, Renaissance Genius
- By: Leo Lexicon
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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Immerse yourself in the life and legacy of one of the most extraordinary figures in the history of art, Michelangelo Buonarroti. "Michelangelo: Enigmatic Artist, Renaissance Genius" offers a comprehensive and captivating exploration of the artist's life, revealing the man behind the masterpieces that have defined the Renaissance and continue to inspire the world today. Born in 1475 in the small town of Caprese, Michelangelo's journey from a modest upbringing to becoming a towering figure of Western art is nothing short of remarkable. His story is one of relentless pursuit of perfection, ...
By: Leo Lexicon
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Sobre literatura y vida
- By: Anton Chejov, Jesús García Gabaldón - traductor
- Narrated by: Israel Elejalde
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Autor irrepetible, forjador de un nuevo modo de ver y contar, maestro del cuento, la literatura en Chéjov se filtra en cada palabra que esculpía, más allá de su obra de ficción: "la literatura es mi amante". Amor, vida y literatura. Eso es lo que el lector disfrutará con esta compilación de cartas y aforismos en los que la figura de Chéjov aumenta, crece y nos atraviesa porque quizá no haya mejor lectura que internarse en la mente, en las palabras secretas, en la sensibilidad de un genio.
By: Anton Chejov, and others
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Locker Room Talk
- A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside
- By: Melissa Ludtke
- Narrated by: Melissa Redmond
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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While sportswriters rushed into Major League Baseball locker rooms to talk with players, MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn barred the lone woman from entering along with them. That reporter, twenty-six-year-old Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke, charged Kuhn with gender discrimination, and after the lawyers argued Ludtke v. Kuhn in federal court, she won. Her 1978 groundbreaking case affirmed her equal rights, and the judge's order opened the doors for several generations of women to be hired in sports media.
By: Melissa Ludtke
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With Every Great Breath
- New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023
- By: Rick Bass
- Narrated by: Rick Bass
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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For acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction. Activism is a necessary part of the environmental movement, but so is the time-honored celebration of the beauty that inspires us.
By: Rick Bass
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La hermana menor
- Un retrato de Silvina Ocampo
- By: Mariana Enriquez
- Narrated by: Mara Brenner
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Un retrato emocionante de una de las mejores cuentistas argentinas. La escritora argentina Silvina Ocampo es una de las figuras más exquisitas, talentosas y extrañas de la literatura en español. Hija de una familia aristocrática, autora de libros que, al decir de Roberto Bolaño, parecen provenir de "una limpia cocina literaria", en torno a ella se han urdido mitos que envuelven no solo su obra, revalorizada con entusiasmo en los últimos años, sino también su vida privada.
By: Mariana Enriquez
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How to Think Like a Poet: The Poets That Made Our World and Why We Need Them
- How to Think Series
- By: Dai George
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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How did the greatest poets in history make the world anew? And what can we learn from the magic, wisdom and humour of their poetry? From the genius of the Ancient Greeks through to the love poetry and metaphysics of the Renaissance, through to the New York poets of the 20th century, this is the ultimate guide to the greatest writers of the human age.
By: Dai George
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La batalla por el templo [The Battle for the Temple]
- By: Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum
- Narrated by: Mauricio Pérez Castillo
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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La Batalla por el Templo es un viaje a la vida de Jacobo Grinberg narrado por él mismo, desde su infancia y juventud, pasando por la enfermedad de su madre —misma que lo motivó a dedicarse al estudio del cerebro y la conciencia—, hasta su vínculo con su esposa, Lizette, y su hija, Estusha. Así como sus momentos más formativos y clave a lo largo de su trayectoria laboral, sus largos años de trabajo a lado de chamanes como Pachita, cabalistas en Israel y demás sabios de tradiciones antiguas, que lo llevaron a ser el extraordinario hombre que fue.
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Sem tinta [No Dyes]
- By: Camila Balthazar
- Narrated by: Camila Balthazar
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
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Sem tinta mostra que, dentro da transição de cabelo, cabem outras transições: do receio à aceitação; do preconceito inicial à mudança de visão; da descoberta dos fios brancos à descoberta de si mesma. Isso inclui um olhar aprofundado sobre os padrões de beleza a que as mulheres estão submetidas há séculos, muitas vezes sem se darem conta.
By: Camila Balthazar
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Goethe
- His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem that Made Our World
- By: A. N. Wilson
- Narrated by: A.N. Wilson
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
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Goethe was the inventor of the psychological novel, a pioneer scientist, great man of the theatre and a leading politician. As A. N. Wilson argues in this groundbreaking biography, it was his genius and insatiable curiosity that helped catapult the Western world into the modern era. A N. Wilson tackles the life of Goethe with characteristic wit and verve. From his youth as a wild literary prodigy to his later years as Germany’s most respected elder statesman, Wilson hones in on Goethe’s undying obsession with the work he would spend his entire life writing – Faust.
By: A. N. Wilson
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The Shape of Further Things
- By: Brian W. Aldiss
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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"We are infinitely rich, yet we mess about with penny-in-the-slot machines," writes Brian W. Aldiss in this autobiographical work written over the course of one month. From his Oxfordshire home, he ruminates on dreams, education, the role of technology in our lives, the rise and function of science fiction, and a variety of other topics. The Shape of Further Things is a window into the life and mind of a Science Fiction Grand Master.
By: Brian W. Aldiss
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A Daughter of Isis
- The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
- By: Nawal El Saadawi
- Narrated by: Nadia Albina
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world’s greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. In poignant and moving prose we learn about her relationships with her family, her traumatic experience of female genital mutilation at seven years old and escaping suitors at ten and her journey from the rural Egyptian village of her birth to metropolitan Cairo to study medicine.
By: Nawal El Saadawi
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В середине века
- By: Сергей Снегов
- Narrated by: Сергей Чонишвили
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
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"В середине века" - книга-исповедь Сергея Александровича Снегова, вместившая в себя практически восемнадцать лет, проведенных им в тюрьмах, лагерях и ссылках. Сергея Александровича арестовали в 1936 году в Ленинграде, и как особо важного преступника, отвезли в Москву, на Лубянку, в самую знаменитую политическую тюрьму Советского Союза. Следствие длилось долгих десять месяцев. В 1937 году Военная Коллегия Верховного Суда СССР приговорила Снегова к десяти годам тюремного заключения, по обвинению в антисоветской деятельности, терроризме и создании контрреволюционной организации.
By: Сергей Снегов
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Il garibaldino che fece il Corriere della Sera
- Vita e avventure di Eugenio Torelli Viollier
- By: Massimo Nava
- Narrated by: Marcello Ilacqua
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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"Lei sa la differenza fra un piccolo e un grande giornale? Il grande giornale è quello che pubblica anche le notizie che dispiacciono. S’intende, la notizia che ci dispiace la si commenta come più ci piace." — Eugenio Torelli Viollier Dalla Napoli borbonica alla Milano post-unitaria, dalla fondazione del "Corriere" alla battaglia per difenderne l’indipendenza, la straordinaria avventura dell’uomo che dopo l’Italia provò a fare gli italiani."Nacqui a Napoli, il 26 marzo 1842.
By: Massimo Nava
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Die Leuchttürme der Stevensons
- By: Sabine Weiß
- Narrated by: Konstantin Marsch
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
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Vom schwarzen Schaf der Familie zum weltberühmten Schriftsteller - ein packendes Hörbuch über eine Leuchtturmbauer-Dynastie und die frühen Jahre Robert Louis Stevensons, Autor von DIE SCHATZINSEL und DR. JEKYLL UND MR. HYDE. Schottland, 1868. Der fast 18-jährige Robert Louis Stevenson träumt von einem Leben als Schriftsteller. Eine Zeitlang lässt sein Vater ihn gewähren, doch als Robert sein Studium vernachlässigt und sich unstandesgemäß verliebt, muss er Edinburgh verlassen.
By: Sabine Weiß