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Budd Schulberg
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The classic book that shaped two generations' view of the movie business and introduced the archetypal Hollywood player Sammy Glick. He's got a machete mouth and a genius for double-cross.
As Budd Shulberg - author of the screenplay On the Waterfront - follows Sammy's relentless upward progress, he creates a virtuoso study in character that manages to be hilariously appalling yet deeply compassionate.
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Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
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Classic Vonnegut
- De Michael Carrato en 08-17-06
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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32 Candles
- A Novel
- De: Ernessa T. Carter
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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Davie—an ugly duckling growing up in small-town Mississippi—is positive her life couldn’t be any worse. She has the meanest mother in the South, possibly the world, and on top of that, she’s pretty sure she’s ugly. Just when she’s resigned herself to her fate, she sees a movie that will change her life— Sixteen Candles. But in her case, life doesn’t imitate art.
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2 High Fives - for Monkey Night
- De Nevada en 10-03-12
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Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations
- De: Peter Evans, Ava Gardner
- Narrado por: William Hope
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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This wickedly candid memoir that Ava Gardner dared not publish during her lifetime offers a revealing self-portrait of the film legend's life and loves in Hollywood's golden age. Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood's great stars during the 1940s and '50s, an Oscar-nominated leading lady who co-starred with Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, and Humphrey Bogart, among others. But this riveting account of her storied life and career had to wait for publication until after her death, so concerned was Gardner with its frankness.
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Secret and Unapproved
- De CanyonCat en 10-19-13
De: Peter Evans, y otros
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A Key to the Suite
- A Novel
- De: John D. MacDonald
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
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A classic novel by John D. MacDonald with an exclusive introduction written and read by Dean Koontz. Floyd Hubbard arrives at a convention at a busy beach-town hotel with a mission from the top brass: ax a long-time manager in the sales team who has been slacking off for too long. Hubbard’s a loyal company man, but his background is engineering, not cold-blooded corporate warfare. Little does Hubbard realize that the first grenade has already been lobbed - and he’s the target.Cory Barlund has heard more than her fair share of odd requests in her years as a high-class call girl, so this one’s right up her alley...
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Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
- De Lifeisshort en 01-23-15
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Babylon Sisters
- De: Pearl Cleage
- Narrado por: Pearl Cleage
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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Catherine, busy working with refugee and immigrant women through her small firm, Babylon Sisters, has taken on a powerful new client. She doesn't have much time for Phoebe's complicated questions of paternity - that is, until Phoebe's real father, B. J., a renowned investigative reporter, shows up in town to work on a story connected to Catherine.
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Sister Love
- De Florence Graydon en 03-26-21
De: Pearl Cleage
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A Flash of Green
- A Novel
- De: John D. MacDonald
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 16 h y 17 m
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A classic novel by John D. MacDonald with an exclusive introduction written and read by Dean Koontz. A Flash of Green tells the gripping story of small-town corruption and two people brave enough to fight back, featuring many of the themes John D. MacDonald explored better than anyone in his legendary career as a leading crime novelist. The opportunists have taken over Palm City. Silent and deadly, like the snakes that infest the nearby swamps, they lay hidden from view, waiting for the right moment to strike. Political subterfuge has already eased the residents toward selling out.
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Disjointed depressing
- De Carol I. Meeds en 11-18-22
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From Here to Eternity
- De: James Jones
- Narrado por: Elijah Alexander
- Duración: 36 h y 50 m
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Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart and blood...and, possibly, their death.
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Genius on Every Level
- De aaron en 06-13-13
De: James Jones
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Mortal Friends
- De: Jane Stanton Hitchcock
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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When the latest victim of the "Beltway Basher" is found in the woods of Montrose Park, Reven Lynch's favorite jogging spot, her crime-loving antenna goes up. The murder makes Reven and her best friend, Violet Bolton, reconsider their running route - but that's not the only change in Reven's routine.
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Kept me guessing
- De Anonymous User en 12-30-21
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BUtterfield 8
- De: John O'Hara, Lorin Stein - introduction
- Narrado por: Gretchen Mol
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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A masterpiece of American fiction and a best seller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. One Sunday morning, Gloria wakes up in a stranger's apartment with nothing but a torn evening dress, stockings, and panties. When she steals a fur coat from the wardrobe to wear home, she unleashes a series of events that can only end in tragedy.
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Wildly Uneven
- De David P en 08-27-15
De: John O'Hara, y otros
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Bright Lights, Big City
- De: Jay McInerney
- Narrado por: Daniel Passer
- Duración: 5 h y 11 m
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The tragicomedy of a young man in New York City, a writer, never named, who works as a fact-checker for a prestigious magazine. He struggles with the reality of his mother's death, alienation, and the seductive pull of drugs and a vibrant nightlife.
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Curiously, mundanely real
- De Amber en 01-07-12
De: Jay McInerney
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The Tiger
- A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
- De: John Vaillant
- Narrado por: John Vaillant
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren’t random: The tiger is apparently engaged in a vendetta. Injured, starving, and extremely dangerous, the tiger must be found before it strikes again.
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Thy Fearful Symmetry
- De Mel en 02-16-13
De: John Vaillant
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City of Nets
- A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
- De: Otto Friedrich, Glen David Gold - foreword
- Narrado por: P.J. Ochlan
- Duración: 25 h y 57 m
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In 1939, 50 million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering....
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Disjointed and flawed
- De A. N. Onymous en 01-18-22
De: Otto Friedrich, y otros
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
- How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
- De: Peter Biskind
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 23 h y 41 m
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Easy Rider, Raging Bulls follows the wild ride that was Hollywood in the 70s - an unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (both on screen and off) and a climate where innovation and experimentation reigned supreme.
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Great Dish, Sketchy Analysis
- De Dubi en 12-14-13
De: Peter Biskind
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Adventures in the Screen Trade
- De: William Goldman
- Narrado por: Kiff VandenHeuvel
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the best-selling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films...into the plush offices of Hollywood producers...into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and more.
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Stone cold Hollywood classic with one of the better Narrations you’ll ever hear
- De Anonymous User en 10-14-22
De: William Goldman
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Pictures at a Revolution
- Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
- De: Mark Harris
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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Here is the epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Dolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde - and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood and America forever.
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Would It Be Too Much To Ask?
- De Casey Keller en 12-31-08
De: Mark Harris
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The Boy Who Would Be King
- De: Ryan Holiday
- Narrado por: Ryan Holiday, Siri Ellis, Alan Blazek
- Duración: 2 h y 24 m
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From the number-one New York Times best-selling author and creator of The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday comes one of the most incredible stories in all of history. A young boy, out of nowhere, is chosen to be the emperor of most of the known world. What he learns, what he does, who he is, will echo in eternity.
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WTF is this....
- De AL en 05-02-21
De: Ryan Holiday
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The Tiger
- A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
- De: John Vaillant
- Narrado por: John Vaillant
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It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren’t random: The tiger is apparently engaged in a vendetta. Injured, starving, and extremely dangerous, the tiger must be found before it strikes again.
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Thy Fearful Symmetry
- De Mel en 02-16-13
De: John Vaillant
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City of Nets
- A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
- De: Otto Friedrich, Glen David Gold - foreword
- Narrado por: P.J. Ochlan
- Duración: 25 h y 57 m
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In 1939, 50 million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering....
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Disjointed and flawed
- De A. N. Onymous en 01-18-22
De: Otto Friedrich, y otros
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
- How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
- De: Peter Biskind
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 23 h y 41 m
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Easy Rider, Raging Bulls follows the wild ride that was Hollywood in the 70s - an unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (both on screen and off) and a climate where innovation and experimentation reigned supreme.
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Great Dish, Sketchy Analysis
- De Dubi en 12-14-13
De: Peter Biskind
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Adventures in the Screen Trade
- De: William Goldman
- Narrado por: Kiff VandenHeuvel
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the best-selling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films...into the plush offices of Hollywood producers...into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and more.
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Stone cold Hollywood classic with one of the better Narrations you’ll ever hear
- De Anonymous User en 10-14-22
De: William Goldman
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Pictures at a Revolution
- Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
- De: Mark Harris
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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Here is the epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Dolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde - and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood and America forever.
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Would It Be Too Much To Ask?
- De Casey Keller en 12-31-08
De: Mark Harris
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The Boy Who Would Be King
- De: Ryan Holiday
- Narrado por: Ryan Holiday, Siri Ellis, Alan Blazek
- Duración: 2 h y 24 m
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From the number-one New York Times best-selling author and creator of The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday comes one of the most incredible stories in all of history. A young boy, out of nowhere, is chosen to be the emperor of most of the known world. What he learns, what he does, who he is, will echo in eternity.
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WTF is this....
- De AL en 05-02-21
De: Ryan Holiday
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On the Waterfront
- De: Budd Schulberg
- Narrado por: Rebecca Pidgeon, Hector Elizondo, Bruce Davison, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 51 m
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Terry Malloy, the "seemingly soulless street survivor," unwittingly lures a rebellious longshoreman to his death in Budd Schulberg's searing drama about the New York waterfront, the racketeering unions controlling it, and the kid who "coulda been a contender."
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A classic stage play with a sensitive message.
- De Regina en 07-21-24
De: Budd Schulberg
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Average is Over
- Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
- De: Tyler Cowen
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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The widening gap between rich and poor means dealing with one big, uncomfortable truth: If you're not at the top, you're at the bottom. The global labor market is changing radically thanks to growth at the high end and the low. About three quarters of the jobs created in the United States since the great recession pay only a bit more than minimum wage. Still, the United States has more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever, and we continue to mint them.
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Disappointing analysis of future
- De JKBart en 12-10-13
De: Tyler Cowen
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All the King's Men
- De: Robert Penn Warren
- Narrado por: Michael Emerson
- Duración: 20 h y 52 m
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The fictionalized account of Louisiana's colorful and notorious governor, Huey Pierce Long, All the King's Men follows the startling rise and fall of Willie Stark, a country lawyer in the Deep South of the 1930s. Beset by political enemies, Stark seeks aid from his right-hand man Jack Burden, who will bear witness to the cataclysmic unfolding of this very American tragedy.
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Beautifully presented
- De Cheimon en 10-12-08
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
- De: Richard Hofstadter
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
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This book throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.
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Fifty years later, still valid today
- De David Evan Glasser en 11-13-18
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The Choice
- Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
- De: Dr. Edith Eva Eger
- Narrado por: Tovah Feldshuh
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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A powerful, moving memoir - and a practical guide to healing - written by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, an eminent psychologist whose own experiences as a Holocaust survivor help her treat patients and allow them to escape the prisons of their own minds. The Choice weaves Eger's personal story with case studies from her work as a psychologist. Her patients and their stories illustrate different phases of healing and show how people can choose to escape the prisons they construct in their minds and find freedom, regardless of circumstance.
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One Of The Most Powerful Books I Have Read in My Lifetime!
- De R. F. Wood en 05-11-18
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The Score Takes Care of Itself
- My Philosophy of Leadership
- De: Bill Walsh, Craig Walsh, Steve Jamison
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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Drawn from a series of deeply revealing conversations with coauthor Steve Jamison, The Score Takes Care of Itself offers Walsh's best leadership principles illustrated by anecdotes from his entire career. Additional insights and perspective are provided by his son Craig Walsh. The book will delight football fans and guide the vast business audience eager to learn how Bill Walsh motivated individuals and crafted winning teams.
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Thank you Bill Walsh
- De Jason Comely en 01-31-13
De: Bill Walsh, y otros
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It Can't Happen Here
- De: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip. The suspiciously fascist Windrip is offering to save the nation from sex, crime, welfare cheats, and a liberal press. But after Windrip wins the election, dissent soon becomes dangerous for Jessup. Windrip forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States into a totalitarian state.
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The Rise of American Authoritarianism
- De David S. Mathew en 11-21-16
De: Sinclair Lewis
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Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition)
- Advice from Dear Sugar
- De: Cheryl Strayed
- Narrado por: Cheryl Strayed, Steve Almond - introduction
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Tiny Beautiful Things collects the best of Dear Sugar in one volume, bringing her wisdom to many more readers. This tenth-anniversary edition features six new columns and a new preface by Strayed. Rich with humor, insight, compassion—and absolute honesty—this book is a balm for everything life throws our way.
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A Spoonful of Sugar
- De Mel en 08-15-12
De: Cheryl Strayed
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: the New Translation
- De: Marcus Aurelius
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 4 h y 3 m
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius The New Translation of a Classic Philosophical Text, Known for Self-Help to Self-Examination From the Foreword: "Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was a Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher who reigned from 161 AD to 180 AD, alongside his adoptive brother, Lucius Verus. Known as one of the Five Good Emperors, he would be the last ruler of the Pax Romana (Roman Peace), a two hundred year Golden Age of relative peace and stability. His greatest surviving work, Meditations, was written in private and for himself, a kind of self-help journal with philosophical ...
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- De grad student guy en 04-14-24
De: Marcus Aurelius
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Meditations
- A New Translation
- De: Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays - translator
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
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A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. With bite-size insights and advice on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity and interacting with others, Meditations has become required reading not only for statesmen and philosophers alike, but also for generations of readers who responded to the straightforward intimacy of his style.
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- De bilbo0316 en 06-10-24
De: Marcus Aurelius, y otros
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Lives of the Stoics
- The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
- De: Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
- Narrado por: Ryan Holiday
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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From the best-selling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics, and what the ancients can teach us about happiness, success, resilience, and virtue. In Lives of the Stoics, Holiday and Hanselman present the fascinating lives of the men and women who strove to live by the timeless Stoic virtues of Courage. Justice. Temperance. Wisdom. Organized in digestible, mini-biographies of all the well-known - and not so well-known - Stoics, this book vividly brings home what Stoicism was like for the people who loved it and lived it.
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Awful narration
- De Jordan Bailey en 10-03-20
De: Ryan Holiday, y otros
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Hollywood: The Oral History
- De: Jeanine Basinger, Sam Wasson
- Narrado por: Timothy Andrés Pabon, Marni Penning
- Duración: 28 h y 49 m
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From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood from its beginnings to its present day. Gleaned from nearly three thousand interviews, involving four hundred voices from the industry, Hollywood: The Oral History, lets a listener “listen in” on candid remarks from the biggest names in front of the camera—Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Harold Lloyd—to the biggest behind it—Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Jordan Peele, as well as the lesser known individuals that shaped what was heard and seen on screen.
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Picky, Picky!
- De Patrick en 12-22-22
De: Jeanine Basinger, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre What Makes Sammy Run?
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- MFDG
- 07-30-20
Excellent Audible reading, Great story
I won't say much about the story since no one will read it based solely on my review (or will they??). I purchased a copy of the 2nd printing from eBay after seeing it recommended as one of the top reads related to sociopathic behavior. After getting about 1/3/ of the way through reading, I decided to use a credit on the Audible to listen to when reading wasn't an option.
The narrator, Chris Andrew Ciulla, is excellent at giving voice to the characters. He found what I think are the proper characterizations for Sammy etc. A highly recommended Audible purchase.
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- Stanley L. Miller
- 01-29-25
More Relevant Than Ever
Sammy, the selfish schemer, is all too alive and well these days. Schulberg’s writing is spot-on, only occasionally dated. The author’s foreword and afterword provide interesting context. Very enjoyable!
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- Anonymous User
- 12-28-20
An American Classic
Sammy Glick is your prototype for the American Anti-Hero. Well written story and narrated wonderfully.
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- P. Crowe
- 09-24-20
Excellent Narration
I loved this book because the narrator did such a great job of creating a unique voice for each character. Well done!
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- Stewart Gooderman
- 07-23-18
Not much of a scandal anymore
I wanted to read this books because it was (supposedly) such a scandal when it was first published, and also to see how similar the 1964 musical is to the source material.
At this point, Shulberg's postscript to the novel, written many years later was more of an eye opener than the novel itself. It pointed out that what was scandalous behavior back in the 1930s has become so commonplace today that the book won't even raise an eyebrow. And it doesn't. The listen isn't boring, but it isn't jaw dropping either. The Sammy Glick's of today are far more sinister and evil than the Sammy of then. Schulberg's Glick almost becomes laughable when compared to today's thugs.
The two short stories that were expanded to become the novel are included here and actually serve as bookends to the novel.
Steve Lawrence's portrayal as Glick in the 1964 musical comes across as far thuggish than in the novel and by 1964 that was absolutely necessary in order for audiences to relate to the character.
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- Ryan
- 01-08-24
Disappointing
The overall story was underwhelming and left me wanting more. Powered through it, but disappointing end.
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