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"An illuminating look at what it takes to be an Olympian… In this story, passion reigns supreme." —Cosmopolitan
"An emotionally articulate memoir…[and] an intimate insight into the good-hearted and talented young man behind the medals." —Attitude
A deeply personal and inspiring memoir from the celebrated Olympic gold medal diver and LGBTQ+ advocate
Tom Daley is one of the most beloved athletes of our time, having competed as a diver in four Olympics, garnering medals and finally, in 2021 in Tokyo, winning gold. But few people know the realities of his life beyond the pool—his struggles, his secret triumphs and the mindset he needed to cultivate to become a champion.
In this deeply personal book, Tom explores the experiences that have shaped him and the qualities that brought him success and joy—from the resilience he developed competing at a world-class level, to the courage he discovered while reclaiming the narrative around his sexuality, to the perspective that family life has brought him.
Inspiring, candid and compulsively readable, Coming Up for Air offers an intimate window into the life and mindset of an athlete and advocate who has left an indelible imprint on sports.
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Strange choice to become political
- By D & C Kochersberger on 01-27-21
By: John Colapinto
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Stolen
- The Astonishing Odyssey of Five Boys Along the Reverse Underground Railroad
- By: Richard Bell
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 95
Philadelphia, 1825: Five young, free Black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the US. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Should have been a fact based novel
- By Cate F. on 01-11-21
By: Richard Bell
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The Man Who Caught the Storm
- By: Brantley Hargrove
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 233
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 205
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Story5 out of 5 stars 205
In a field of PhDs, Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his life. He chased storms with brilliant tools of his own invention and pushed closer to the tornado than anyone else ever dared. When he achieved what meteorologists had deemed impossible, it was as if he had snatched the fire of the gods. Yet even as he transformed the field, Samaras kept on pushing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tim Samaras Would be Proud
- By Amazon Customer on 05-25-18
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The Seven Longest Yards
- Our Love Story of Pushing the Limits While Leaning on Each Other
- By: Chris Norton, Emily Norton, Mark Tabb - contributor, and others
- Narrated by: Jakob Lewis, Madison Lawrence, John Behrens - foreword
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story5 out of 5 stars 82
Quadriplegics simply do not walk again - yet millions watched as Chris Norton defied incredible odds and took step by impossible step across his graduation stage. With his fiancée, Emily, by his side, those unbelievable steps became the start of an extraordinary journey for them both. Told from both of their unique perspectives, this moving story invites you to find, as Chris and Emily have, that God can transform our lowest points into life's greatest gifts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story of faith, hope and love.
- By Amazon Customer on 09-26-19
By: Chris Norton, and others
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The Most Human
- Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy
- By: Adam Nimoy
- Narrated by: Adam Nimoy
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14
Living with Dad was like living with a stranger—as a kid I often had trouble connecting and relating to him. But I was always proud of him. Even before Star Trek, I’d see him popping up in bit roles on some of my favorite TV shows like Get Smart, Sea Hunt, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. And then one night he brought home Polaroids of himself in makeup and wardrobe for a pilot he was working on. It was December 1964 and nobody had heard of Star Trek. Still, the eight-year-old me had watched enough Outer Limits and My Favorite Martian to understand exactly what I was looking at.
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5 out of 5 stars
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awesomestory
- By Amy Wollenhaupt on 09-12-24
By: Adam Nimoy
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1974
- A Personal History
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Francine Prose
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4 out of 5 stars 12
The first memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close relationship she developed with activist Anthony Russo, one of the men who leaked the Pentagon Papers—and the year when our country changed.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Droning about unremarkable events
- By Eve Harris on 07-14-24
By: Francine Prose
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The New Life
- A Novel
- By: Tom Crewe
- Narrated by: Freddie Fox
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
In the summer of 1894, John Addington and Henry Ellis begin writing a book arguing that homosexuality, which is a crime at the time, is a natural, harmless variation of human sexuality. Though they have never met, John and Henry both live in London with their wives, Catherine and Edith, and in each marriage, there is a third party: John has a lover, a working-class man named Frank, and Edith spends almost as much time with her friend Angelica as she does with Henry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant historical fiction
- By Shrewsie Shrew on 01-15-23
By: Tom Crewe
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Dear Sister
- A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
- By: Michelle Horton
- Narrated by: Michelle Horton
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 197
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 191
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Story5 out of 5 stars 191
In September 2017, a knock on the door upends Michelle Horton’s life: she learns that her sister has just shot her partner and is now in jail. Stunned, Michelle rearranges her life to raise Nikki's two young children alongside her own son. During the investigation that follows, Michelle is shocked to learn that Nikki had been hiding horrific abuse for years. Michelle launches a fight to bring Nikki home, squaring off against a criminal justice system designed to punish the entire family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must listen!
- By Erin Wheeler on 02-04-24
By: Michelle Horton
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Looking Up
- How a Different Perspective Turns Obstacles into Advantages
- By: Michele Sullivan
- Narrated by: Michele Sullivan
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
We’ve all had moments of feeling like we didn’t belong, but imagine being born into a world where fitting in was never an option. Michele Sullivan, who has a rare form of dwarfism, shares how her physical posture taught her the most effective relational posture with others, which helped her become one of the most powerful women in philanthropy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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different narrator needed
- By Evija on 01-17-22
By: Michele Sullivan
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Jailed for Freedom
- By: Doris Stevens
- Narrated by: Karen Commins
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Although half of the population, women were treated as second class citizens in the United States and denied the fundamental right to vote. In 1872, Susan B. Anthony dared to cast her vote in a national election. She was arrested, tried, and convicted of the crime of "voting without having a lawful right to vote". This thrilling, firsthand account from suffragist Doris Stevens details the organized protests that hundreds of courageous women from across the country undertook in DC between 1913 and 1919, as well as the brutal consequences they had to endure.
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4 out of 5 stars
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History from someone who lived it!
- By Margaret M. Clifford on 08-25-20
By: Doris Stevens
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But You Seemed So Happy
- A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits
- By: Kimberly Harrington
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4 out of 5 stars 36
In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour, Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Contrived
- By BekkaLu on 10-06-23
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The Lighthouse Effect
- How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World
- By: Steve Pemberton
- Narrated by: Rick N. Jones
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 83
Our culture is adrift in division and distrust, and we need everyday heroes more than ever. Drawing from his own remarkable journey, Steve Pemberton shares stories of the ordinary people who quietly change lives and bring change to their communities. Compelling and insightful, this book will inspire you and renew your hope for the future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Life Story
- By Randee on 12-18-21
By: Steve Pemberton
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First Freedom
- By: David Harsanyi
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 106
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Story5 out of 5 stars 106
For America, the gun is a story of innovation, power, violence, character, and freedom. From the founding of the nation to the pioneering of the West, from the freeing of the slaves to the urbanization of the 20th century, our country has had a complex and lasting relationship with firearms. Now, in First Freedom, nationally syndicated columnist and veteran writer David Harsanyi explores the ways in which firearms have helped preserve our religious, economic, and cultural institutions for more than two centuries.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Must-Read/Must-Listen
- By Nathan on 01-22-19
By: David Harsanyi
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The Longest Line on the Map
- By: Eric Rutkow
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4 out of 5 stars 19
The Pan-American Highway is the longest road in the world, running the length of the Western Hemisphere from Prudhoe Bay in Alaska to Tierra del Fuego in South America. Many adventurers have journeyed the highway’s distance, but the road itself still remains shrouded in mystery. Historian Eric Rutkow chronicles the full story of the highway’s long, winding path to construction, which reshaped foreign policy, cost US taxpayers a billion dollars, consumed countless lives over a 150-year period, and changed the destinies of two continents.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Comes Up Short of What Might Have Been
- By Mortimer on 01-20-19
By: Eric Rutkow
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Butch Cassidy
- The True Story of an American Outlaw
- By: Charles Leerhsen
- Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Story4 out of 5 stars 74
For more than a century the life and death of Butch Cassidy have been the subject of legend, spawning a small industry of mythmakers and a major Hollywood film. But who was Butch Cassidy, really? Charles Leerhsen, best-selling author of Ty Cobb, sorts out the facts from folklore and paints a “compelling portrait of the charming, debonair, ranch hand-turned-outlaw” (Ron Hansen, author of The Kid) of the American West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a beautiful story beautifully told
- By Marc Marschark on 10-15-20
By: Charles Leerhsen
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My Vanishing Country
- A Memoir
- By: Bakari Sellers
- Narrated by: Bakari Sellers
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,818
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,579
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,571
What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America’s forgotten Black working-class men and women. Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What America Needs NOW!!!
- By Unknown on 05-22-20
By: Bakari Sellers
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Go Gently
- Actionable Steps to Nurture Yourself and the Planet
- By: Bonnie Wright
- Narrated by: Bonnie Wright
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Go Gently is a guide for sustainability at home that offers simple, tangible steps toward reducing our environmental impact by looking at what we consume and the waste we create, as well as how to take action for environmental change. The title reflects Bonnie Wright’s belief that the best way to change our planet and ourselves is through a gentle approach, rather than a judgmental one. This is a book of do’s rather than don’ts. It’s also an invitation to Wright’s followers to join her on this journey to sustainability.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book
- By gingerpeach on 11-19-24
By: Bonnie Wright
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- Jay Ponton
- 11-19-24
Inspirational story!
Very honest reveal of a gifted athlete and an all around good person! So much accomplished at such a young age. Will look towards the future with great anticipation.
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- Robert P. Setter
- 07-14-23
Admirably honest
While the structure may not be the most original, Tom manages to paint a picture of the part of his life everyone wants to know that is genuine, honest, and relatable. He is clearly a force for good, and the world would do well to listen to anything more he has to say in the future.
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- Mitchell Berkman
- 07-18-22
Great Autobiography!
It was a great listen and and I felt I learned so much about him and a little about myself as well. Thank you Tom for your candid humor and sharing your story so far.
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- just relax
- 01-15-23
Fantastic
This was a wonderful account of Tom’s life, truly enjoyable. Tom is a true champion, in sports and life !
I know he will have a wonderful life ahead !
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- D. Fountain
- 09-07-22
As always, Tom Daley is a force
An insightful and deeply personal narrative of Daley's journey through the Olympics. I enjoyed every minute!
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- JK
- 07-27-22
Another Winner From Daley!
Tom Daley has been in the public eye since his preteen years. Now pushing thirty and having competed in four Olympic games as a diver, he is rather unique in sports. He is obviously quite intelligent, not that that's unique, but he's also very articulate with a capability found more commonly in professionals in entertainment or academia. This autobiographical book is broken into chapters of traits, not strictly chronological. Daley has a voice made for broadcasting, and I saw in an interview that he would like to get into media commentary. If this fine book is an example of his ability, I expect we'll see him doing just that. Highly recommended.
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- Troy
- 04-28-23
Not as good as I hoped
I love Tom Daley, but his reading of book was so robotic, it was hard to connect, care, and even finish.
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