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Sharon Stone
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Sharon Stone
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New York Times Best Seller
Sharon Stone tells her own story: a journey of healing, love, and purpose.
“Not your typical Hollywood autobiography. Brutally honest, restless and questing.” (O, The Oprah Magazine)
Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life and writes about her slow road back to wholeness and health. In a business that doesn’t accept failure, in a world where too many voices are silenced, Stone found the power to return, the courage to speak up, and the will to make a difference in the lives of men, women, and children around the globe.
Over the course of these intimate pages, as candid as a personal conversation, Stone talks about her pivotal roles, her life-changing friendships, her worst disappointments, and her greatest accomplishments. She reveals how she went from a childhood of trauma and violence to a career in an industry that in many ways echoed those same assaults, under cover of money and glamour. She describes the strength and meaning she found in her children, and in her humanitarian efforts. And ultimately, she shares how she fought her way back to find not only her truth, but her family’s reconciliation and love.
Stone made headlines not just for her beauty and her talent, but for her candor and her refusal to “play nice,” and it’s those same qualities that make this memoir so powerful. The Beauty of Living Twice is a book for the wounded and a book for the survivors; it’s a celebration of women’s strength and resilience, a reckoning, and a call to activism. It is proof that it’s never too late to raise your voice and speak out.
©2021 Sharon Stone (P)2021 Random House AudioListeners also enjoyed...
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Critic reviews
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“A candid, heartfelt, poignant memoir, written with grace and humor.” (Harlan Coben, best-selling author of The Boy From the Woods)
“In this courageous, daring and tender-hearted memoir, Sharon Stone interrogates her own trauma and a myriad of losses and discovers the gift of clear seeing. The Beauty of Living Twice is so much more than a celebrity tell-all. It is an act of reckoning, contrition, and above all, love.” (Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance)
“Elegantly written with her wicked sense of humor on full display, the memoir is catnip for fans who have never managed to crack the exterior of the elusive star.” (Vogue)
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I Was Better Last Night
- A Memoir
- By: Harvey Fierstein
- Narrated by: Harvey Fierstein
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Harvey Fierstein’s legendary career has transported him from community theater in Brooklyn, to the lights of Broadway, to the absurd excesses of Hollywood and back. He’s received accolades and awards for acting in and/or writing an incredible string of hit plays, films, and TV shows.
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Loved it
- By Mary Ellen Guadagno on 03-09-22
By: Harvey Fierstein
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My Voice
- A Memoir
- By: Angie Martinez, J. Cole - foreword
- Narrated by: Angie Martinez
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In her current reign at Power 105.1 and for nearly two decades at New York's Hot 97, Angie Martinez has had one of the highest rated radio shows in the country. After working her way up as an intern, she burst on the scene as a young female jock whose on-air "Battle of the Beats" segment broke records and became a platform for emerging artists like a young Jay Z. Angie quickly became known for intimate, high-profile interviews, mediating feuds between artists, and taking on the most controversial issues in hip-hop.
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Excellent read, precise imagery, very impressed
- By Tiesha Hogue on 06-05-17
By: Angie Martinez, and others
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An Illuminated Life
- Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege
- By: Heidi Ardizzone
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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What would you give up to achieve your dream? When J. P. Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene in 1905 to organize his rare book and manuscript collection, she had only her personality and a few years of experience to recommend her. Ten years later, she had shaped the famous Pierpont Morgan Library collection and was a proto-celebrity in New York and the art world, renowned for her self-made expertise, her acerbic wit, and her flirtatious relationships. Born to a family of free people of color, Greene changed her name and invented a Portuguese grandmother to enter White society.
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A Remarkable Woman
- By HistoryNerd on 01-25-22
By: Heidi Ardizzone
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
- A Memoir
- By: Carrie Brownstein
- Narrated by: Carrie Brownstein
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, the book Kim Gordon says "everyone has been waiting for" and a New York Times Notable Book of 2015 - a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life - and finding yourself - in music. Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one the most important movements in rock history.
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fussy
- By Ex on 01-09-16
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Run Towards the Danger
- Confrontations with a Body of Memory
- By: Sarah Polley
- Narrated by: Sarah Polley
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In this extraordinary book, Sarah Polley explores what it is to live in one’s body, in a constant state of becoming, learning, and changing. Each of these six essays captures a piece of Polley’s life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a “reciprocal pressure dance.”
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Really Just a Book About Her Diffcult Moments
- By Andrew on 03-11-22
By: Sarah Polley
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A Mother's Reckoning
- Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
- By: Sue Klebold
- Narrated by: Andrew Solomon, Sue Klebold
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill 12 students and a teacher and wound 24 others before taking their own lives. For the last 16 years, Sue Klebold, Dylan's mother, has lived with the indescribable grief and shame of that day. How could her child, the promising young man she had loved and raised, be responsible for such horror? And how, as his mother, had she not known something was wrong?
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Sad, but, Ultimately, Self-Serving
- By Gillian on 02-19-16
By: Sue Klebold
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Live in Love
- Growing Together Through Life's Changes
- By: Lauren Akins, Mark Dagostino
- Narrated by: Lauren Akins, Thomas Rhett
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Live in Love is a deeply personal memoir that offers inspiring guidance for anyone looking to keep romance alive, balance children and marriage, express true faith, and live a life of purpose.
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AMAZING!!!
- By Kasha Ross on 08-28-20
By: Lauren Akins, and others
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But Enough About Me
- A Memoir
- By: Burt Reynolds, Jon Winokur
- Narrated by: Burt Reynolds
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Scandalous, sentimental, frank, and sincere - the ultimate inside account of a television and film icon. Burt Reynolds has been a Hollywood leading man for six decades, known for his legendary performances, sex-symbol status, and storied Hollywood romances. In his long career of stardom, during which he was number one at the box office for five years in a row, Reynolds has seen it all. But Enough About Me will tell his story through the people he’s encountered on his amazing journey.
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Burt's story!
- By Heartbern on 11-27-15
By: Burt Reynolds, and others
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In Such Good Company
- Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox
- By: Carol Burnett
- Narrated by: Carol Burnett
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Who but Carol Burnett herself has the timing, talent, and wit to pull back the curtain on the Emmy Award-winning show that made television history for 11 glorious seasons? In Such Good Company delves into little-known stories of the guests, sketches, and antics that made the show legendary as well as some favorite tales too good not to relive again. Carol lays it all out for us, from the show's original conception to its evolution into one of the most beloved primetime programs of its generation.
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I Love Her But.....
- By OhMamaOh on 01-23-17
By: Carol Burnett
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Eat a Peach
- A Memoir
- By: David Chang, Gabe Ulla
- Narrated by: David Chang
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious—an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped shape, and how he discovered that success can be much harder to understand than failure. Full of grace, candor, grit, and humor, Eat a Peach chronicles David Chang’s switchback path. Along the way, Chang gives us a penetrating look at restaurant life, in which he balances his deep love for the kitchen with unflinching honesty about the industry’s history of brutishness and its uncertain future.
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So many threads coming into a wonderful tapstery.
- By Suzie on 09-12-20
By: David Chang, and others
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Hitchcock's Blondes
- The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession
- By: Laurence Leamer
- Narrated by: Sharmila Devar
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Alfred Hitchcock was fixated—not just on the dark, twisty stories that became his hallmark, but also by the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The director of North by Northwest, Rear Window, and other classic films didn’t much care if they wore wigs, got their hair coloring out of a bottle, or were the rarest human specimen—a natural blonde—as long as they shone with a golden veneer on camera. The lengths he went to in order to showcase (and often manipulate) these women would become the stuff of movie legend.
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Probably Most Effective If You’ve Never Seen a Hitchcock Film
- By Robbie on 02-01-24
By: Laurence Leamer
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The Lucky Ones
- A Memoir
- By: Zara Chowdhary
- Narrated by: Zara Chowdhary
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2002, Zara Chowdhary is sixteen years old and living with her family in Ahmedabad, one of India’s fastest-growing cities, when a gruesome train fire claims the lives of sixty Hindu right-wing volunteers and upends the life of five million Muslims. Instead of taking her school exams that week, Zara is put under a three-month siege, with her family and thousands of others fearing for their lives as Hindu neighbors, friends, and members of civil society transform overnight into bloodthirsty mobs, hunting and massacring their fellow citizens.
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Life under Modi
- By C. C. Kissinger on 08-09-24
By: Zara Chowdhary
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Hope
- A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland
- By: Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Mary Jordan, and others
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie, Marisol Ramirez, Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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Two victims of the infamous Cleveland kidnapper share the story of their abductions, their decade in captivity, and their final, dramatic rescue. On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry made headlines around the world when she fled a Cleveland area home and called 911, saying: “Help me, I’m Amanda Berry...I’ve been kidnapped, and I’ve been missing for 10 years". A horrifying story rapidly unfolded. Ariel Castro, a local school bus driver, had separately lured Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight to his home, where he kept them chained in the basement.
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A moving read.
- By caroline on 04-28-15
By: Amanda Berry, and others
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Rebel Rising
- A Memoir
- By: Rebel Wilson
- Narrated by: Rebel Wilson
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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This “beautiful, brave book,” (Jenna Bush Hager, the Today show) is the story of Rebel Wilson’s remarkable personal transformation, from a painfully shy child in Australia who literally had to be dragged to drama classes and achieved break-out success in the US through iconic roles in Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids, and Isn’t It Romantic.
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It's Okay
- By john burke on 04-21-24
By: Rebel Wilson
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- Joanne
- 04-10-21
Brilliant, beautiful, devastating, brave
This is a must read. Sharon Stone reaches right into the heart of love, grief, and trauma and embodies the transcendence of forgiveness. She is fearless as she shares her truth. And this has provided another stepping stone to healing for this reader.
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- SeReGa
- 05-14-21
Hit by A Stone
An honest, sometimes gut wrenching memoir, as told by Stone herself. Sharon stone bears all, from her childhood traumas, to the perils of being a beautiful woman in a male dominated industry. I always liked Sharon Stone, but damn she literally and figuratively lays it all out in the open. Not many people can do that, and I applaud her. Note - this is not a happy glamour celebrity tale and deals with some very serious issues.
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- Elisa R. Goodman
- 05-08-21
Years of Living Dangerously
After hearing Sharon Stone recently interviewed by Oprah for 'Super Soul Sunday', I uploaded her new book. On a road trip last weekend, I popped in this Audible for the journey. I love the intimacy of memoir and Sharon's bravely revealing book packed a wallop. I recently sent out a newsletter for my business where sometimes I discuss any current Audible books I am loving. Here's what I wrote:
"The Beauty of Living Twice" is quite extraordinary. Although I was a casting director for many years, I didn't really know her back story other than she was a devotee of the famous acting teacher, Roy London. She was a working-class girl with Irish roots living outside of Amish country in Pennsylvania. Her honest exploration of her family's long-held secrets gives you a new perspective into this woman's not-so-idyllic life.
Apart from her known beauty as a mega-wattage model & super-star, she is a down-to-earth, bright, strong, resilient, articulate, hard-working feminist – as well as a mother of three adopted boys – who is now standing up and speaking out on incest and abuse from her family lineage. She grew up thinking her mother didn't love her - and came to find out that wasn't true. Her mom was guarding long-held secrets. She got married at 16 to escape an unspoken life. She tried to instill a cold work ethic of self-sufficiency and integrity for her daughter's to survive. Sharon just didn't know why.
She generously shares lessons learned from healing her own near-death experience – recovering from a brain aneurysm in 2000 - a humbling experience with 1% survival odds. She has definitely used her practice of Buddhism, as well as her basic instincts to heal, to survive the misogyny of the Hollywood system, and to fully appreciate her journey in life, in love, her mom, her family, and her foray into adoption as a single mom– as well as do what she can to help heal the suffering of so many broken souls on the planet suffering with HIV/Aids, homelessness, incest and human sex trafficking – as well as other causes that matter to her. She is the real deal.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-27-21
Deepest truth
Thank you for sharing, iI will treasure this book of your life, much respect
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- Anonymous User
- 12-14-21
Crying or Trying
It seemed as if Ms. Stone would begin to cry at the beginning of her childhood and adult anecdotes and recover with the sentence ending period. I don't doubt that tears came previously from sadness, pain and grief. It seemed like she was trying to relive those moments for emphasis. The middle section of her story was slow listening for me. Overall I enjoyed the reading of and the messages within her story with those two exceptions. She has lived and is living an exceptional life.
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- Ana
- 04-08-21
Courageous heart
To listen to the ebb and flow of Sharon’s journey with the emotive echo of the experience is to journey with her, in solidarity & in grace. Courage, tenacity, and pure grit are woven through her narrative & emblazoned on us all is the transmission she brings of choosing love. Timely & true is the resonance I feel having shared the space with her raspy voice tempered with a humor outrageous in its alacrity. Listening at times with tears and with tingles of recognition. Thank you for baring your heart & allowing each of us to cheer you on in this dance of life.
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- Janie
- 08-05-21
Excellent story of strength courage survival and forgivenes
I picked this book up in the airport bookstore and didn’t buy it because it was only available as an expensive hardback. Then I found it on audible and listened almost non-stop. One of the best autobiographical works I’ve read.
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- Kindle Customer
- 01-17-22
Brutally, Beautifully Honest
I enjoyed hearing the story of a woman who I have grown up watching in movies. I am a child of the '70s. And I experienced too many of the same things that she talks so bravely & honestly about. I appreciate her vulnerability. God bless her & her family!
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- Mary Jane Morgan
- 01-19-22
Love
Thank you for sharing your story. I've listened and read your book. It was healing for me. I also, am a strong Woman! URNNUF❤️
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MaryJane Morgan
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- Daisy Hill
- 06-08-21
great book
thank you for your courage and strength I'm sure many people will be inspired by your story
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