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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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Superior non-fiction
- By Lila on 05-20-11
- The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
Excellent Narrator
Reviewed: 10-24-24
The narrator beautifully portrays a range of characters & gets the Southern accents just right!
Profound content, well-researched. Warm & compassionate tone.
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Heavy
- By: Kiese Laymon
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame, joy, confusion, and humiliation. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we’ve been.
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Be prepared
- By Amy Eberle on 10-30-18
- Heavy
- By: Kiese Laymon
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
Beautifully Read and Written
Reviewed: 08-03-24
Mr. Laymon illuminates the recent and ongoing inequities in the American South. The struggles with poverty, hunger, sexual violence & bias in justice and authority were especially poignant.
Enlightening read.
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Tiny Habits
- The Small Changes That Change Everything
- By: BJ Fogg PhD
- Narrated by: BJ Fogg PhD
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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A habit expert from Stanford University shares his breakthrough method for building habits quickly and easily. With Tiny Habits you’ll increase productivity by tapping into positive emotions to create a happier and healthier life. Dr. Fogg’s new and extremely practical method picks up where Atomic Habits left off.
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Downloadable PDF access
- By Kevin L. on 01-17-20
- Tiny Habits
- The Small Changes That Change Everything
- By: BJ Fogg PhD
- Narrated by: BJ Fogg PhD
Awesome & Easy to Understand & Do
Reviewed: 05-26-24
Loved Dr Fogg’s narration. Great content. Easy to immediately do & create great new habits like potty squats and gratitude habits ❤️
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Through the Groves
- A Memoir
- By: Anne Hull
- Narrated by: Anne Hull
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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Anne Hull grew up in rural Central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the orange groves her father’s family had worked for generations. The ground trembled from the vibrations of bulldozers and jackhammers clearing land for Walt Disney World. “Look now,” her father told her as they rode through the mossy landscape together. “It will all be gone.” But the real threat was at home, where Hull was pulled between her idealistic but self-destructive father and her mother, a glamorous outsider from Brooklyn struggling with her own aspirations.
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Excellent coming of age in the Deep South memoir
- By Southern Cook on 03-20-24
- Through the Groves
- A Memoir
- By: Anne Hull
- Narrated by: Anne Hull
Excellent coming of age in the Deep South memoir
Reviewed: 03-20-24
Great narration & such evocative memories of growing up in the 60s & 70s. Highly recommend. Great book.
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Deacon King Kong
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
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In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird.
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Masterpiece
- By Linda G McDonough on 05-17-20
- Deacon King Kong
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Great narrator brings multiple characters to life
Reviewed: 02-18-24
Somehow this talented male narrator created men and women of different New York and southern backgrounds to distinct life
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American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.
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An American Tragedy
- By Edith on 12-13-07
- American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
Excellent narrator
Reviewed: 08-04-23
Great voice of narrator. Made a very long story w lots of characters very clear. Enjoyed it very much
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The Kneeling Man
- My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- By: Leta McCollough Seletzky
- Narrated by: Leta McCollough Seletzky
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis’s Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound with a borrowed towel. This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days leading up to the murder. But he also had another identity: an undercover Memphis police officer reporting on the activities of this group, which was thought to be possibly dangerous and potentially violent. This kneeling man is Leta McCollough Seletzky’s father.
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Wonderful story!!
- By tmac0423 on 10-17-23
- The Kneeling Man
- My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- By: Leta McCollough Seletzky
- Narrated by: Leta McCollough Seletzky
Beautifully Read by daughter
Reviewed: 06-11-23
A thoroughly researched account of the career and life challenges of a black Memphis police officer assigned to monitor a “radical” grassroots Memphis group, The Invaders. Book also tracks Mac McCulloughs later career struggles with racism in the Memphis Police Department & later, the CIA.
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
- By: Lisa See
- Narrated by: Ruthie Ann Miles, Kimiko Glenn, Alex Allwine, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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The thrilling new novel from number-one New York Times best-selling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been abandoned and adopted by an American couple.
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***EXCELLENT*** Six stars if I could !!
- By ROBIN on 04-10-17
Beautifully read
Reviewed: 05-24-23
Audio added a lot to this story with generations of characters. I enjoyed listening to it.
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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
- By: Peter Guralnick
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 29 hrs and 32 mins
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The music that Phillips shaped in his tiny Memphis studio, with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical day.
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Good Rockin' Tonight!
- By tru britty on 11-16-15
Excellent
Reviewed: 05-07-23
Balanced, in-depth look into Sam Phillips life and legacy. I learned so much about Sam’s pre-Elvis days and his mission to make the music business more fair and diverse.
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Greetings from Utopia Park
- Surviving a Transcendent Childhood
- By: Claire Hoffman
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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When Claire Hoffman's alcoholic father abandons his family, his desperate wife, Liz, tells five-year-old Claire and her seven-year-old brother, Stacey, that they are going to heaven - Iowa - to live in Maharishi's national headquarters for Heaven on Earth. For Claire's mother, Transcendental Meditation - the Maharishi's method of meditation and his approach to living the fullest possible life - was a salvo that promised world peace and enlightenment just as their family fell apart.
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Very good book
- By Amazon Customer on 06-15-16
- Greetings from Utopia Park
- Surviving a Transcendent Childhood
- By: Claire Hoffman
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Good, balanced memoir
Reviewed: 08-03-20
I liked how the author presented all sides of the issue re Maharishi and TM. Great read .
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