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Lady Clementine
- A Novel
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,318
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,060
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,046
In 1909, Clementine steps off a train with her new husband, Winston. An angry woman emerges from the crowd to attack, shoving him in the direction of an oncoming train. Just before he stumbles, Clementine grabs him by his suit jacket. This will not be the last time Clementine Churchill will save her husband. Lady Clementine is the ferocious story of the ambitious woman beside Winston Churchill, the story of a partner who did not flinch through the sweeping darkness of war, and who would not surrender either to expectations or to enemies.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not a fan
- By Chris Hedges on 02-18-20
- Lady Clementine
- A Novel
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
Loved it
Reviewed: 02-20-23
An overlooked hero whose brilliance, determination, compassion and remarkable insights certainly helped end WWII.
I love reading Benedict’s historical fiction because it leads me to read these remarkable women’s biographies.
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The Only Woman in the Room
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,081
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,015
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,978
Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich"s plans while at her husband"s side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.
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5 out of 5 stars
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incredible true story about heddy Lamar
- By S. Loew on 01-26-19
- The Only Woman in the Room
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Powerful and engrossing
Reviewed: 02-01-23
Loved it. What a remarkable woman. Story is well told. Terrific author. Have read almost all of her books.
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My Greatest Save
- The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper
- By: Briana Scurry, Wayne Coffey
- Narrated by: Briana Scurry
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story5 out of 5 stars 61
A deeply moving and painfully honest memoir from the trailblazing World Cup-winning, Olympic gold medalist, and US Women’s soccer goalie Briana Scurry, My Greatest Save is a story of triumph, tragedy, and redemption from a woman who has broken through barriers her entire life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A true Olympian
- By Caitlin Fry on 08-02-22
- My Greatest Save
- The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper
- By: Briana Scurry, Wayne Coffey
- Narrated by: Briana Scurry
Riveting and truly Inspiring
Reviewed: 10-05-22
Briana Scurry is a champion. In soccer and more importantly in life!
What a remarkable life story. Highly recommend this book.
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Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- By: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36,057
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31,547
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31,472
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Making my 3 adult daughters read this
- By Teresa H. on 04-07-22
- Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- By: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
Loved it
Reviewed: 08-15-22
We are reading it for our book club in September and it is the perfect first book to kick off our year. Every woman who has worked outside the home especially if she started her career in the 70s or 80s will identify with each character and every sexist setback and marvel at how we got through those Mad Men days. Cheers and appreciation for this insightful, courageous book. This story needed to be told.
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Greenlights
- By: Matthew McConaughey
- Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 178,603
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 157,629
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Story5 out of 5 stars 156,608
I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this!
- By Nancy on 10-21-20
- Greenlights
- By: Matthew McConaughey
- Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey
Had to get past the family violence and the swearing….
Reviewed: 09-04-21
But finished it and loved it. It was honest and transparent and will give the reader a kick in the pants to take risks and live life. There is a poetry and humility to every story. I will listen to it again, especially the last chapter and take notes. 2020 may have been the most consequential year in our lives.
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The Night Portrait
- A Novel of World War II and da Vinci"s Italy
- By: Laura Morelli
- Narrated by: Reba Buhr, Christa Lewis, Paul Woodson, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 442
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 385
Milan, 1492: When a 16-year-old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace—and against those who want her out. Soon, she finds herself sitting before Leonardo da Vinci, who wants to ensure his own place in the palace by painting his most ambitious portrait to date. Munich, World War II: After a modest conservator unwittingly places a priceless Italian Renaissance portrait into the hands of a high-ranking Nazi, she risks her life to recover it, working with an American soldier, part of the famed Monuments Men team, to get it back.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Marvelous masterpiece
- By Theresa on 11-04-20
- The Night Portrait
- A Novel of World War II and da Vinci"s Italy
- By: Laura Morelli
- Narrated by: Reba Buhr, Christa Lewis, Paul Woodson, P.J. Ochlan
Loved the beauty of this book
Reviewed: 03-09-21
Against the backdrop of Nazi Germany and 15th century Italy, two remarkable women emerge to show us why art matters so deeply to our souls. Researched, crafted and woven together this is a gorgeous book. Be patient with it because like a beautiful work of art, it takes time to reveal and capture the reader.
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Catch and Kill
- Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
- By: Ronan Farrow
- Narrated by: Ronan Farrow
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 18,998
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16,874
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Story5 out of 5 stars 16,781
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book
- By Jonathan Knodel on 10-16-19
- Catch and Kill
- Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
- By: Ronan Farrow
- Narrated by: Ronan Farrow
The bravest book I have ever read
Reviewed: 10-26-19
Rowan Farrow has opened our eyes, minds and hearts to the flawed organizations and unresponsive justice systems that spin crimes of sexual assault into lies about the victims....With the rich and powerful men getting a pass for decades. First the flawed systems protect those that commit sexual assaults and then they distort the victims of these crimes into women who are crazy, not performing well, or liars. It stops now. Protect the free press. Speak up for yourself and for others. If all men would call out other men immediately when they see or hear of sexual abuse, it would end quickly.
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The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
- By: Todd Zwillich
- Narrated by: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18,838
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17,010
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16,957
Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth. It"s the scenario used in 1950s cartoons and horror movies about traveling to outer space. Houbolt had another idea: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. LOR would link two spacecraft in orbit while the crafts were travelling at 3,600 miles an hour around the moon. His plan was ridiculed and considered unthinkable.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Caveat Emptor: Bone to Pick
- By Judah Family on 07-05-19
- The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon
- By: Todd Zwillich
- Narrated by: Todd Zwillich, Angelo Di Loreto
Fascinating and highly relevant!
Reviewed: 07-11-19
This is a terrific and little known account of a real life David and Goliath miracle at NASA. The tenacity
of John Houbolt, mid level NASA engineer, made the safe landing on the moon possible 50 years ago. This type of courage has application for anyone -
personally or professionally - who needs to step up in a daunting environment with data and conviction. I highly recommend. Well done!
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Evil Eye
- By: Madhuri Shekar
- Narrated by: Nick Choksi, Harsh Nayyar, Annapurna Sriram, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32,651
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29,870
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29,737
Pallavi is an aspiring writer living in California. Her mother, Usha, is thousands of miles away in Delhi - and obsessed with finding her daughter a husband. In Madhuri Shekar’s ingenious Evil Eye, hilarious back-and-forth via phone and social media takes a shocking, supernatural twist when Pallavi meets the perfect man - leading to a climactic showdown that will leave listeners on the edges of their seats.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Holy Crap!
- By Avid Reader on 05-03-19
- Evil Eye
- By: Madhuri Shekar
- Narrated by: Nick Choksi, Harsh Nayyar, Annapurna Sriram, Bernard White, Rita Wolf
Terrific! Engaging!
Reviewed: 05-27-19
A top notch, extremely well performed Audible book that made me laugh out loud, understand the Indian culture better, and thoroughly entertain me. Every character was engaging and the story line had the right twists and turns.
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Big Magic
- Creative Living Beyond Fear
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26,794
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23,502
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23,356
People of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Biggest Inspiration In a Long Time
- By Gillian on 09-23-15
- Big Magic
- Creative Living Beyond Fear
- By: Elizabeth Gilbert
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
My all time and forever favorite book
Reviewed: 11-08-15
I am a writer, speaker, and a consultant. So I"ve read many books,taken many courses, and heard many authors speak. This is my favorite book and teacher in the world and like Ann Patchett, if I could give her a big hug and kiss, I too would tell her that I love her. Elizabeth Gilbert has given the world a treasure and frankly has written one of the best business books ever. Creativity is the essence of leadership and no one writes about the regenerative power of creativity like Ms. Gilbert.
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