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Sura Siu
About this listen
To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren’t human - that was miraculous.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast - elderly people, children, babies - now live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn’t know when or if she will ever leave. Trying not to think of the life she once had, she works in the camp’s tiny library, taking solace in pages bursting with color and light, love and fairness. And she isn’t the only one.
George waits each morning by the door, his arms piled with books checked out the day before. As their friendship grows, Tama wonders: Can anyone possibly read so much? Is she the reason George comes to the library every day?
Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s elegant and true love story about her grandparents for listeners of all ages sheds light on a shameful chapter of American history.
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Ariel Burger first met Elie Wiesel at age 15. They studied together and taught together. Witness chronicles the intimate conversations between these two men over decades as Burger sought counsel on matters of intellect, spirituality, and faith while navigating his own personal journey from boyhood to manhood, from student and assistant to rabbi and, in time, teacher. In this profoundly hopeful, thought-provoking, and inspiring audiobook, Burger takes us into Elie Wiesel's classroom, where the art of listening and storytelling conspire to keep memory alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Touching and enlightening
- By Yakira Colish on 03-12-19
By: Ariel Burger
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You Are the One
- A Bold Adventure in Finding Purpose, Discovering the Real You, and Loving Fully
- By: Kute Blackson
- Narrated by: Kute Blackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 481
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 429
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Story5 out of 5 stars 425
Kute Blackson comes from a long line of spiritual leaders and works with people from all walks of life, offering his own uniquely powerful process to transform lives from the inside out. His inspirational and life-changing YouTube videos, seminars, and conferences are known throughout the world, but it's his trademark transformation experiences that sets him apart. Whether it's about forgiveness, confronting inner demons, letting go of self-hatred or the scars of the past, those hard-earned, sweat-proof lessons Blackson instills in his clients are right here.
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1 out of 5 stars
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dont waste yout time!
- By ashleigh torres on 03-10-20
By: Kute Blackson
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Redemption Song
- A Novel
- By: Bertice Berry
- Narrated by: E. Kane
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story5 out of 5 stars 36
Owner of a small African American bookshop, Miss Cozy has an unique gift: Customers who walk through her door rarely leave without a book that speaks directly to their life. But when Josephine - "Fina" - and Ross arrive in search of an obscure, unpublished manuscript written by a slave woman, Miss Cozy knows that all her visions have been leading her to this magical day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must Read
- By Amazon Customer on 12-18-19
By: Bertice Berry
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What Women Fear
- Walking in Faith that Transforms
- By: Angie Smith
- Narrated by: Pam Turlow
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 67
From a challenge of faith to a means of transformation: Did God really say you couldn't eat from any tree in the garden? This seed of doubt planted so long ago bears the fruit of fear on some level every day - the idea that our actions could ruin something beautiful and God might not have control over things. In What Women Fear, acclaimed writer and speaker Angie Smith admits, "Fear is a major part of my testimony," as she talks openly about significant struggles she has experienced. Giving a voice to the problem, she says, "I truly believe every single one of us struggles with some type of fear...."
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5 out of 5 stars
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So refreshing!
- By Alison Smith on 03-12-14
By: Angie Smith
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The Mystery
- Finding True Love in a World of Broken Lovers
- By: Lacey Sturm
- Narrated by: Lacey Sturm
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 101
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story5 out of 5 stars 91
Rock princess Lacey Sturm wants to share her journey from heartbreak to wholeness with young women. In The Mystery, Sturm helps listeners understand that any loving relationship begins with knowing your own identity in Christ. And yet, so many people have learned to define love through their own dysfunctional family, unhealthy relationships, the romances and wrecked relationships of mainstream pop culture, or, sadly, through pornography. Is it any wonder so many people end up brokenhearted, divorced, abused, abusive, or even suicidal?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! Incredibly moving.
- By Mae on 12-30-19
By: Lacey Sturm
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Shoutin' in the Fire
- An American Epistle
- By: Danté Stewart
- Narrated by: Danté Stewart
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 164
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 150
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Story5 out of 5 stars 148
In Shoutin’ in the Fire, Danté Stewart gives breathtaking language to his reckoning with the legacy of white supremacy - both the kind that hangs over our country and the kind that is internalized on a molecular level. Stewart uses his personal experiences as a vehicle to reclaim and reimagine spiritual virtues like rage, resilience, and remembrance - and explores how these virtues might function as a work of love against an unjust, unloving world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Poetic. Narrative. Vulnerable. Heartbreaking. Hopeful.
- By A. Smith on 10-13-21
By: Danté Stewart
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Safely Home
- By: Randy Alcorn
- Narrated by: Steve Sever
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 620
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 495
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Here is a soul-stirring story of two college friends who reconnect after 20 years. One is living life apart from God, in comfortable corporate America; the other is living for Christ under intense persecution in China. This challenging book will convince readers to live in the light of eternity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Will this be the day that I die?
- By Johnny Excitement on 01-17-08
By: Randy Alcorn
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Stonefather
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Emily Janice Card
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,044
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,625
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,622
When Runnel leaves his mountain valley to head for the great city of the water mages, he has no idea of his own magical talents. But he soon finds that without meaning to, he complicates and then endangers the lives of everyone he comes to know and care about. For when it comes to magic, there are rules and laws, and the untrained mage-to-be must be careful not to tap into deep forces and ancient enmities. Otherwise, other people might end up paying the price for his mistakes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Familiar and unique--a breath of fresh air
- By Scott on 03-10-09
By: Orson Scott Card
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Renia's Diary
- A Holocaust Journal
- By: Elizabeth Bellak, Renia Spiegel, Sarah Durand, and others
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4 out of 5 stars 63
The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English. Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in Southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939, Renia began a diary. By the fall of 1939, Renia and her younger sister, Elizabeth (née Ariana), were staying with their grandparents in Przemysl just as the German and Soviet armies invaded Poland. Cut off from their mother, who was in Warsaw, Renia and her family were plunged into war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Faith, Hope & Love is captured in a diary of a girl as war came to Poland
- By M.G. Mitchell on 09-28-19
By: Elizabeth Bellak, and others
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Songmaster
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 707
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 528
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 529
Kidnapped at an early age, Ansset has been raised in isolation at a mystical retreat called the Songhouse. His life is filled with music, and having only songs for companions, he develops a voice that is unlike any other. But Ansset's voice is both a blessing and a curse, for it reflects all the hopes and fears of his audience, and, by magnifying their emotions, can be used either to heal or to destroy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Terrible and Beautiful
- By hopalong on 12-17-06
By: Orson Scott Card
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The Republic of Imagination
- America in Three Books
- By: Azar Nafisi
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4 out of 5 stars 50
Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love
- By Rebecca on 05-29-16
By: Azar Nafisi
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My Mother's Secret
- Based on a True Holocaust Story
- By: J. L. Witterick
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 473
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 416
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 415
Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people until 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland is a death sentence, but Franciszka and Helena do exactly that. In their tiny home in Sokal, they hide a Jewish family in a loft above their pigsty, a Jewish doctor with his wife and son in a makeshift cellar under the kitchen, and a defecting German soldier in the attic - each party completely unknown to the others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WONDERFUL!!!
- By Robyn Collins on 02-29-16
By: J. L. Witterick
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Freedom Is an Inside Job
- Owning Our Darkness and Our Light to Heal Ourselves and the World
- By: Zainab Salbi
- Narrated by: Zainab Salbi
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
By all appearances, Zainab Salbi has had an impressive life. Growing up as the daughter of Saddam Hussein’s personal pilot, she eventually became a celebrated humanitarian and activist. Yet, as she was helping thousands of women in war-torn countries, Salbi’s personal life was coming to a crisis. In Freedom Is an Inside Job, Salbi explores her own riveting journey to wholeness - and how embarking on such a journey enables each of us to create the world we want to live in. After years of working as a successful CEO and change-maker, Salbi realized that if she wanted to confront and heal the shadows of the world, she needed to face her own shadows first.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transformative
- By DREA on 11-03-18
By: Zainab Salbi
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Loveable
- Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life
- By: Kelly Flanagan
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 154
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Story5 out of 5 stars 131
It's time to remember. Dr. Kelly Flanagan is known to millions for the letters he writes to his children and shares on his blog. Loveable is written to the little one in each of us, who is all too ready to be reminded: You are enough, you are not alone, and you matter. In Loveable, Dr. Flanagan reveals the core insight gleaned from his years of clinical work - you are here for a reason, yet you cannot truly awaken to it until you have first embraced your truest, worthiest self and then allow yourself to be truly embraced by others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rediscover YOU!
- By Hmm on 03-25-17
By: Kelly Flanagan
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And There Was Light
- The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
- By: Jacques Lusseyran
- Narrated by: Andre Gregory
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 245
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 248
When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the three most important books in my life
- By William R. Stevenson on 12-12-15
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- Frank
- 05-06-23
Very engaging and entertaining
This book is well written. I enjoyed the content and conversation the book shares.
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- Meredith Brace
- 05-24-23
True, Japanese Americans story
Kudos to this author for telling the truth about what her maternal grandparents went through in the incarceration camps thanks to FDR‘s brilliant idea. Glad to see a book published that’s not hiding the facts under the rug and reminding us that hate is still a driving force in America that people need to continue to fight against.
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