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Matilda
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Kate Winslet
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a menacing, kid-hating headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It'll take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves and Matilda may be just the one to do it!
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Another Winner
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 12-21-16
- Matilda
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Kate Winslet
Kate's voice is spectacular.
Reviewed: 12-25-24
The story is brilliant for young and old. The whole family has listened over and over again, dozens of times over the years.
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Four Thousand Weeks
- Time Management for Mortals
- By: Oliver Burkeman
- Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon.
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Make TIME for this one...
- By Ethan Babbage on 08-12-21
- Four Thousand Weeks
- Time Management for Mortals
- By: Oliver Burkeman
- Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
Listening a second time it's so good.
Reviewed: 08-28-21
Revelations in our everyday habits as modern Americans. Brilliant, helpful, already applying his thinking to my days. Not a how-to book at all like the other time management books I've read.
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Tell Me Lies
- By: J. P. Pomare
- Narrated by: Aimee Horne
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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Psychologist Margot Scott has a picture-perfect life: a nice house in the suburbs, a husband, two children and a successful career. On a warm spring morning Margot approaches one of her clients on a busy train platform. He is looking down at his phone, with his duffel bag in hand as the train approaches. That’s when she slams into his back and he falls in front of the train. Margot’s clients all lie to her, but one lie cost her family and freedom.
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Utterly Compulsive! That Ending OMG
- By Tracy on 03-05-20
- Tell Me Lies
- By: J. P. Pomare
- Narrated by: Aimee Horne
nail biter
Reviewed: 02-06-21
Love the narrator with her beautiful Australian accent, beautifully delivered, great fun psychological thriller story.
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Midnight Son
- By: James Dommek Jr., Josephine Holtzman, Isaac Kestenbaum
- Narrated by: James Dommek Jr.
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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James Dommek, Jr., an Alaska Native writer and musician, sheds new light on a real-life mystery that pits Native American folklore against the US justice system. In the vast Alaskan Arctic, legend has it there once lived a mythic tribe—Iñukuns—that only existed in rumors and whispers. This changed forever when an actor-turned-fugitive, Teddy Kyle Smith, had an encounter that brought Iñukuns from myth to reality. Smith was an aspiring actor with a promising career until it all came quickly crashing down with a gunshot, a manhunt, bloodshed, and other frightful events.
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It’s an Inuit Thing. You possibly don’t understand it.
- By Amazon Customer on 11-13-19
- Midnight Son
- By: James Dommek Jr., Josephine Holtzman, Isaac Kestenbaum
- Narrated by: James Dommek Jr.
fresh voice and story
Reviewed: 11-09-19
a complete surprise of a story with a compelling narrator and honest delivery. what pleasure.
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Energy
- A Human History
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford.
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No more accents, please!
- By Ned Gulley on 08-30-18
- Energy
- A Human History
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
history but not future
Reviewed: 04-25-19
long, involved, very interesting on the history, not very thorough on the forward look at energy.
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Becoming
- By: Michelle Obama
- Narrated by: Michelle Obama
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
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In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.
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Didn't know what I was getting into
- By Kenneth Woodward on 12-05-18
- Becoming
- By: Michelle Obama
- Narrated by: Michelle Obama
Takes a while, but she tells it as only she can
Reviewed: 12-30-18
she spent a lot of time on her childhood, which is relevant later and it's good to know but made the book longer than I otherwise would have chosen. some authors read their own books and really should not, but she did a wonderful job and it was good to hear the Quaver and tones in her voice at particular parts.
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Facts and Fears
- Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
- By: Trey Brown, James R. Clapper
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
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When he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper had been President Obama's senior intelligence advisor for six and a half years, longer than his three predecessors combined. He led the US Intelligence Community through a period that included the raid on Osama bin Laden, the Benghazi attack, the leaks of Edward Snowden, and Russia's influence operation on the 2016 US election.
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Speaking Straight, Unbiased Truth to Power
- By Cynthia on 05-29-18
- Facts and Fears
- Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
- By: Trey Brown, James R. Clapper
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
takes a while but worthwhile
Reviewed: 07-17-18
As someone with no background or specific interest in history, I wasn't sure I could wade through all the early years of Clapper's life and career. I started listening to understand where we are today as a country, and I had a long drive and plenty of time. But the history was a good education for me, and without which my trust in his conclusions would not have been built. Worth the time investment.
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Less
- By: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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You are a failed novelist about to turn 50. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: Your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes - it would be too awkward - and you can't say no - it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. Question: How do you arrange to skip town? Answer: You accept them all.
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Endearing, funny, but sometimes overly clever
- By Lili on 07-30-17
- Less
- By: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
slow but nice
Reviewed: 05-19-18
took a while to warm up to the protagonist, but worth the trip I thought.
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The Elephant in the Room
- A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the "Alt-Right"
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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'But Hillary is a known Luciferian,' he tried. 'She's not a known Luciferian,' I said. 'Well, yes and no,' he said. In The Elephant in the Room, Jon Ronson, the New York Times best-selling author of The Psychopath Test, Them, and So You've Been Publicly Shamed, travels to Cleveland at the height of summer to witness the Republican National Convention.
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As Others See Us--
- By Gillian on 10-26-16
- The Elephant in the Room
- A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the "Alt-Right"
- By: Jon Ronson
- Narrated by: Jon Ronson
An interesting window into the new Trump world.
Reviewed: 11-12-16
For those of us confounded by Trumps election, a funny little education. A short listen, a brief window.
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