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Wavewalker
- A Memoir of Breaking Free
- By: Suzanne Heywood
- Narrated by: Suzanne Heywood
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 110
Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time and no state showed any interest in what was happening to the children. Suzanne fought her parents, longing to return to England and to education and stability. This memoir covers her astonishing upbringing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wild story well told by the person who lived to tell the tale!
- By Lauren Havlick on 12-27-23
- Wavewalker
- A Memoir of Breaking Free
- By: Suzanne Heywood
- Narrated by: Suzanne Heywood
Making space for learning
Reviewed: 08-23-24
This book is about the power of learning. Sometimes you have to fight to get an education. Please persevere.
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Blind Descent
- Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
- By: Brian Dickinson
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Former Navy Air Rescue swimmer Brian Dickinson was roughly 1,000 feet from the summit of Mount Everest, also known as "the death zone", when his Sherpa became ill and had to turn back, leaving Brian with a difficult decision: Should he continue to push for the summit or head back down the mountain? After carefully weighing the options, Brian decided to continue toward the summit, alone. Four hours later, Brian solo summited the highest peak in the world. But the celebration was short lived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing true story of courage, faith and perseverance
- By Rabid Reader on 06-02-16
- Blind Descent
- Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
- By: Brian Dickinson
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
Another heroic Christian
Reviewed: 08-03-24
The best part was when he went blind and had to not give up. That was trivialized and veiled in the heroism of answering a challenge and fining faith. Subjugating facts into delusions made the story weird. Two stars is a gift.
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The Last of the President's Men
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Campbell Scott
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 511
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 456
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 445
Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book, The Last of the President's Men. Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Disturbing portrayal of Nixon
- By Jean on 11-17-15
- The Last of the President's Men
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Alex Butterfield inspired Cassidy Hutchison
Reviewed: 12-05-23
The truth unfolds if someone has the hand in their pocket holding heart felt warmth.
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Becoming Odyssa
- Adventures on the Appalachian Trail
- By: Jennifer Pharr Davis
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pharr Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 423
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 373
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 372
After graduating from college, Jennifer isn't sure what she wants to do with her life. She is drawn to the Appalachian Trail, a 2,175-mile footpath that stretches from Georgia to Maine. Though her friends and family think she's crazy, she sets out alone to hike the trail, hoping it will give her time to think about what she wants to do next. The next four months are the most physically and emotionally challenging of her life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just read WILD again.
- By Candice Philpot on 10-02-20
- Becoming Odyssa
- Adventures on the Appalachian Trail
- By: Jennifer Pharr Davis
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pharr Davis
Good going
Reviewed: 11-29-23
Did I miss it? Or was there zero passages when the author said she pulled strength within? Maybe when she said she was beautiful in her body at the very end?
Why did the author call herself a girl when she was over 21?
Is it necessary to call notice your inner strength and call yourself a woman to be satisfied with your life? Why not try and find out.
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The Woman in Me
- By: Britney Spears
- Narrated by: Michelle Williams, Britney Spears - introduction
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 29,620
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 28,051
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Story5 out of 5 stars 28,037
In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Lack of transparency
- By Lori K on 10-31-23
- The Woman in Me
- By: Britney Spears
- Narrated by: Michelle Williams, Britney Spears - introduction
Radiant wisdom
Reviewed: 10-25-23
We all knew the over sexualizing a female body was harmful. We too are to blame for harming Britney.
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They Called Us Exceptional
- And Other Lies That Raised Us
- By: Prachi Gupta
- Narrated by: Prachi Gupta
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 156
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 146
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Story5 out of 5 stars 147
Prachi Gupta’s family embodied the American Dream: a doctor father and a nurturing mother who raised two high-achieving children with one foot in the Indian American community, the other in Pennsylvania’s white suburbia. But their belonging was predicated on a powerful myth: that Asian Americans have perfected the alchemy of middle-class life, raising tight-knit, ambitious families that are immune to hardship.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good good
- By Wild on 08-29-23
- They Called Us Exceptional
- And Other Lies That Raised Us
- By: Prachi Gupta
- Narrated by: Prachi Gupta
Good good
Reviewed: 08-29-23
Prachi Gupta writes about facts well. Feelings, she’s not so out about. So it’s funny that this memoir seems like it is her life when it’s really about the others around her. Even the memory of rape is told in terms of her bother’s lack of acceptance.
The book is a long letter to her mother who we never meet. So the whole thing boils down to social skills of the loved and isolated in a family.
I suggest more Mr. Rogers and Jhumpa Lahiri.
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You Can't Buy Love Like That
- Growing Up Gay in the Sixties
- By: Carol E. Anderson
- Narrated by: Carol E. Anderson
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
A young lesbian girl grows beyond fear to fearlessness as she comes of age in the '60s amid religious, social, and legal barriers. Carol Anderson grows up in a fundamentalist Christian home in the '60s, a time when being gay was in opposition to all social and religious mores and against the law in most states. Fearing the rejection of her parents, she hides the truth about her love orientation, creating emotional distance from them for years, as she desperately struggles to harness her powerful attractions to women while pursuing false efforts to be with men.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love and authenticity in her own words
- By Chuck R. on 01-15-20
- You Can't Buy Love Like That
- Growing Up Gay in the Sixties
- By: Carol E. Anderson
- Narrated by: Carol E. Anderson
Write Another
Reviewed: 06-09-23
No matter what. A bunch of lesbians had to learn to make their own lives. This memoir is about one small life. It is an interesting throw back to when people thought a closet existed.
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Missoula
- Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò, Scott Brick
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,864
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,309
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,289
From best-selling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana - stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Without Consent
- By Cynthia on 05-02-15
- Missoula
- Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò, Scott Brick
This book SERVES RAPISTS
Reviewed: 06-04-23
If you want a book about he consequences of ignorance and aggression by rapists, and the “system,” try “Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape.” If you want a book about rape in a small corrupt town, try, “The Winners,” by Frederick Backman.
“Missoula” by Jon, is the worst book I’ve read on rape so far. He defines rape “victims” in the first chapter using statistics about rapees. The victims Jon chose to make his subjects are the 18-25 year old college/university age women. By positioning rape receivers as women he then dumps story upon story into the mindless narrative of “What else can happen to the targets of rape?”
Do not waste your time on this book unless you want to learn to be a rapist.
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Unfollow
- A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
- By: Megan Phelps-Roper
- Narrated by: Megan Phelps-Roper
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,191
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,927
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,912
At the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful, honest and engaging
- By C.B.E. on 11-28-19
- Unfollow
- A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
- By: Megan Phelps-Roper
- Narrated by: Megan Phelps-Roper
The Light of Privilege
Reviewed: 01-04-23
The hero/victim/villain exists in all of us. This book is written by someone skirting all of these. It seems like it was a necessary book for the writer to write because learning and love helped for her Megan Phelps-Roper. It just seems odd that she did not find questions about fear, resilience, and divinity as interesting as all of that early torturous fundamentalism. Somehow, I wanted more heart.
The path out of the church is different than the walk in freedom. Again, this might have provided more insight. Maybe in the next book?
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Solo
- What Running Across Mountains Taught Me About Life
- By: Jenny Tough
- Narrated by: Jenny Tough
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Growing up in the Canadian Rockies, the mountains have always been home for Jenny Tough. Travelling the world, she's always discovered commonalities with mountains—and mountain people. Her major project is to run solo and unsupported across a mountain range on every continent where indigenous mountain people live isolated from the outside, urban world. Running solo and unsupported comes with obvious logistical as well as physical challenges, but running is also a common language.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bravery
- By Wild on 11-25-22
- Solo
- What Running Across Mountains Taught Me About Life
- By: Jenny Tough
- Narrated by: Jenny Tough
Bravery
Reviewed: 11-25-22
How does a person decide to run through 5 different mountain ranges? How does a person save their own life when on the face of a cliff, or in a fast cold river, or “alone” while men help her out of danger?
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