Custodians of Wonder
Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
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Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. In Custodians of Wonder, Stein introduces listeners to a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old original soy sauce recipe. In Italy, he learns how to make the world's rarest pasta from one of the only women alive who knows how to make it. And in India, he discovers a family rumored to make a mysterious metal mirror believed to reveal your truest self. From shadowing Scandinavia's last night watchman to meeting a 27th-generation West African griot to tracking down Cuba's last official cigar factory "readers" more than a century after they spearheaded the fight for Cuban independence, Stein uncovers an almost lost world.
Climbing through Peru's southern highlands, he encounters the last Inca bridge master who rebuilds a grass-woven bridge every year. He befriends a British beekeeper who maintains a touching custom of "telling the bees" important news. And he crunches through a German forest to find the official mailman of the only tree in the world with its own address—to which people from across the world have written in hopes of finding love. These are just some of the last custodians preserving age-old rites on the brink of disappearance against all odds. Let Eliot Stein introduce you to all of them.
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- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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In Gioia Diliberto's take on this period of history, we meet Ella Boole, the stern and ambitious leader of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, who campaigned to introduce Prohibition. We also meet Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who served as the top federal prosecutor charged with enforcing Prohibition. Diliberto tells the story, too, of silent film star Texas Guinan, who ran New York speakeasies backed by the mob and showed that Prohibition was not only absurd but unenforceable. And, she follows Pauline Morton Sabin, a glamorous Manhattan aristocrat who mobilized the movement to kill it.
De: Gioia Diliberto
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The Water Knife
- De: Paolo Bacigalupi
- Narrado por: Almarie Guerra
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,032
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,628
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In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, detective, leg breaker, assassin, and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel "cuts" water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet while the poor get nothing but dust.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The fight for water in a drought fueled apocalypse
- De Lore en 09-24-15
De: Paolo Bacigalupi
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Homestand
- Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America
- De: Will Bardenwerper
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15
Batavia, New York—between Rochester and Buffalo—hosted its first professional baseball game in 1897. Despite decades of deindustrialization and evaporating middle-class jobs, the Batavia Muckdogs endured. When Major League Baseball cravenly shut them down in 2020—along with forty-one other minor league teams—the town fought back, reviving the Muckdogs as a summer league team comprised of college players.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The author’s hatred of MLB leadership
- De CaeMike en 07-04-25
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The Sacred Balance (25th Anniversary Edition)
- Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
- De: David Suzuki, Robin Wall Kimmerer - foreword, Bill McKibben - afterword
- Narrado por: David Suzuki, Megan Tooley, Zack Sage
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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The world is changing at a relentless pace. How can we slow down and act from a place of respect for all living things? The Sacred Balance shows us how.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It’s Now or Never
- De Anonymous User en 08-30-24
De: David Suzuki, y otros
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On the Hippie Trail
- Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
- De: Rick Steves
- Narrado por: Rick Steves
- Duración: 4 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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In the 1970s, the ultimate trip for any backpacker was the storied “Hippie Trail” from Istanbul to Kathmandu. A 23-year old Rick Steves made the trek, and like a travel writer in training, he documented everything along the way: jumping off a moving train, making friends in Tehran, getting lost in Lahore, getting high for the first time in Herat, battling leeches in Pokhara, and much more. The experience ignited his love of travel and forever broadened his perspective on the world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nice but a bit tame
- De delacube en 02-16-25
De: Rick Steves
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Hagitude
- Reimagining the Second Half of Life
- De: Sharon Blackie
- Narrado por: Sharon Blackie
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 213
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Western folklore and mythology are rife with brilliantly creative, fulfilled, feisty, and furious role models for aging women, despite our culture's focus on youthfulness. In her exciting new book, mythologist and psychologist Sharon Blackie explores these archetypes, presenting them in a way sure to appeal to contemporary women. Drawing inspiration from these examples, women can reclaim midlife as a liberating, alchemical moment rich with possibility and their elder years as a path to dynamic power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hagitude best attitude
- De LisaBrashear en 11-13-22
De: Sharon Blackie
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Open Socrates
- The Case for a Philosophical Life
- De: Agnes Callard
- Narrado por: Agnes Callard
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 28
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Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant and condescending. We parrot his claim that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” yet take no steps to live examined ones. In Open Socrates, acclaimed philosopher Agnes Callard recovers the radical move at the center of Socrates’ thought, and shows why it is still the way to a good life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great insights on interpersonal philosophising, and how it differs from and interacts with internal philosophising.
- De Brian Pestridge en 06-22-25
De: Agnes Callard
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When We Were Real
- De: Daryl Gregory
- Narrado por: Ari Fliakos
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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JP and Dulin have been the best of friends for decades. When JP finds out his cancer has aggressively returned, Dulin decides it’s the perfect time for one last adventure: a week-long bus tour of North America’s Impossibles, the physics-defying glitches and geographic miracles that started cropping up seven years earlier—right after the Announcement that revealed our world to be merely a digital simulacrum. The outing, courtesy of Canterbury Trails Tours, promises the trip of a (not completely real) lifetime in a (not completely deluxe) coach.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wish the characters were more likable
- De Ulrika en 06-16-25
De: Daryl Gregory
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Cabin
- Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman
- De: Patrick Hutchison
- Narrado por: Patrick Hutchison
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Wit’s End isn’t just a state of mind. It’s the name of a gravel road, the address of a rundown, off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state. To say Hutchison didn’t know what he was getting into is no more an exaggeration than to say he’s a man with nearly zero carpentry skills. Well, used to be. You can learn a lot over six years of renovations. CABIN is the story of those renovations, but it's also a love story; of a place, of possibilities, and of the process of construction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable read. no see, some F-bombs Great experience
- De Richelle's Music en 04-23-25
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One Good Thing
- A Novel
- De: Georgia Hunter
- Narrado por: Eva Feiler, Georgia Hunter
- Duración: 12 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 70
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1940, Italy. Lili and Esti have been best friends since they first met at university. When Esti’s son Theo is born, they become as close as sisters. While a war seethes across borders, life somehow goes on—until Germany invades Italy, and the friends suddenly find themselves in occupied territory. Esti, older and fiercely self-assured, convinces Lili to join the resistance efforts. But when disaster strikes, a critically wounded Esti asks Lili to take a much bigger step: To go on the run with Theo. Protect him while Esti can’t.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved it
- De helene vanderhoff en 04-28-25
De: Georgia Hunter
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The Pilgrimage
- De: Paulo Coelho
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,931
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,633
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Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coehlo's pilgrimage along the road to Santiago. This fascinating parable explores the need to find one's own path. In the end, we discover that the extraordinary is always found in the ordinary and simple ways of everyday people. Part adventure story, part guide to self-discovery, this compelling tale delivers the perfect combination of enchantment and insight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, Favorite Coelho Book So Far!
- De PNW Prime en 01-14-15
De: Paulo Coelho
What stood out the most to me were things I didn't realize and take for granted.
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Awonderful uplifting book!
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The book itself is excellent, but I couldn't make it through the first chapter of the narrator. The narrator reads as though he is reading a particular distasteful essay. The pronunciation and flow is unnatural and stilted. The way you might read a legal document you didn't fully understand, or participate in a diction exercise.
I've honestly never dropped an audiobook before JUST because of the narrator. This is the first.
It's a shame. Stein's engaging stories deserve better. I'll pickup the ebook and finish it that way.
Fascinating Book. Awful Narration.
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