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Becoming
- By: Michelle Obama
- Narrated by: Michelle Obama
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,349
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,107
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,100
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work....
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5 out of 5 stars
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As you’d expect
- By Amazon Customer on 19-11-2018
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Can't Hurt Me
- Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
- By: David Goggins
- Narrated by: David Goggins, Adam Skolnick
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,515
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,183
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,173
For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing, heart wrenching, inspiring true story
- By gary c compton on 07-01-2019
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Educated
- By: Tara Westover
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 626
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 576
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Story5 out of 5 stars 572
Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn’t exist....
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5 out of 5 stars
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LOVE in this family = loyalty to a bipolar father
- By Zoonda on 08-11-2018
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Any Ordinary Day
- Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life
- By: Leigh Sales
- Narrated by: Leigh Sales
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 919
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 822
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 815
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting
- By Mrs. J. C. Bodnarchuk on 06-10-2018
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Becoming
- By: Michelle Obama
- Narrated by: Michelle Obama
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,349
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,107
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,100
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work....
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5 out of 5 stars
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As you’d expect
- By Amazon Customer on 19-11-2018
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Can't Hurt Me
- Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
- By: David Goggins
- Narrated by: David Goggins, Adam Skolnick
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,515
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,183
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,173
For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing, heart wrenching, inspiring true story
- By gary c compton on 07-01-2019
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Educated
- By: Tara Westover
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 626
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 576
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Story5 out of 5 stars 572
Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn’t exist....
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5 out of 5 stars
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LOVE in this family = loyalty to a bipolar father
- By Zoonda on 08-11-2018
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Any Ordinary Day
- Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life
- By: Leigh Sales
- Narrated by: Leigh Sales
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 919
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 822
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 815
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting
- By Mrs. J. C. Bodnarchuk on 06-10-2018
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The Trauma Cleaner
- By: Sarah Krasnostein
- Narrated by: Rachael Tidd
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,424
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,328
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,329
Sandra Pankhurst founded her trauma cleaning business to help people whose emotional scars are written on their houses....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brilliant narrative masterly voiced
- By Philip on 19-04-2018
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Elon Musk
- By: Ashlee Vance
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,680
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,214
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,214
South African-born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity....
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2 out of 5 stars
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An underwhelming narrative of a really cool guy
- By Michael on 17-06-2016
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This Is Going to Hurt
- Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
- By: Adam Kay
- Narrated by: Adam Kay
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 303
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 279
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Story5 out of 5 stars 279
Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for the prudish but well written/read
- By Carron on 11-08-2018
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Reckoning
- A Memoir
- By: Magda Szubanski
- Narrated by: Magda Szubanski
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,006
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 930
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 926
With courage and compassion Magda Szubanski addresses her own frailties and fears and asks the big questions about life, about the shadows we inherit and the gifts we pass on....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Moving and powerful
- By Stan on 11-01-2016
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Shoe Dog
- A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- By: Phil Knight
- Narrated by: Norbert Leo Butz, Phil Knight - introduction
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 770
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 696
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Story5 out of 5 stars 694
Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands....
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5 out of 5 stars
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- By Anonymous User on 17-04-2018
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Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- By: Trevor Noah
- Narrated by: Trevor Noah
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,331
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,243
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,238
The compelling, inspiring (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best audiobook I've listened... Ever!
- By Nyasha on 18-12-2016
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Yes Please
- By: Amy Poehler
- Narrated by: Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,268
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,134
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,131
In Amy Poehler's highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- By Stacey Baines on 14-09-2015
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What I Know for Sure
- By: Oprah Winfrey
- Narrated by: Oprah Winfrey
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 475
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 407
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 409
The inspirational wisdom of Oprah Winfrey, collected for the first time in a beautiful book....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved every minute
- By Joyce on 29-11-2015
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The Crossroad
- By: Mark Donaldson
- Narrated by: David Tredinnick
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 837
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 778
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Story5 out of 5 stars 776
On 2 September, 2008, in a valley in eastern Afghanistan, Trooper Mark Donaldson made a split-second decision that would change his life....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- By craig on 07-01-2016
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The Virgin Way
- How to Listen, Learn, Laugh, and Lead
- By: Richard Branson
- Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 462
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 406
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 401
In September 2012, a YouGov poll conducted in Britain found that the person British workers would most like as their manager was Sir Richard Branson....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story but dull narrator
- By Sair on 01-09-2017
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Beastie Boys Book
- By: Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 121
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 105
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Story5 out of 5 stars 104
Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip-hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Illest Communication
- By caine brimble on 17-11-2018
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Finding Ultra
- Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
- By: Rich Roll
- Narrated by: Rich Roll
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 212
An incredible but true account of achieving one of the most awe-inspiring midlife physical transformations ever
In October 2006, the night before he was to turn forty, Rich experienced a chilling glimpse of his future.....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Makes you reassess so much
- By Sean on 20-07-2017
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Saga Land
- By: Richard Fidler, Kári Gíslason
- Narrated by: Richard Fidler, Kári Gíslason
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 106
A gripping blend of family mystery, contemporary stories and the beautiful and bloody Viking tales, set against the starkly stunning landscape of Iceland....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Iceland is the most beautiful place in earth
- By madison on 04-11-2017
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Working Class Boy
- By: Jimmy Barnes
- Narrated by: Jimmy Barnes
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 731
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 679
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Story5 out of 5 stars 677
Raw, gritty, compassionate, surprising and darkly funny - Australian legend Jimmy Barnes' unforgettable childhood memoir....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Raw & honest autobiography
- By M. O'Brien on 27-09-2017
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Steve Jobs
- The Exclusive Biography
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker, Walter Isaacson (introduction)
- Length: 25 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 648
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 578
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Story5 out of 5 stars 576
From best-selling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs....
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book
- By Dory on 10-06-2017
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Mentors
- How to Help and Be Helped
- By: Russell Brand
- Narrated by: Russell Brand
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Russell Brand explores the idea of mentoring and shares what he's learned from the guidance of his own helpers, heroes and mentors....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Little underwhelmed with this.
- By Justin on 02-03-2019
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Bossypants
- By: Tina Fey
- Narrated by: Tina Fey
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 860
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 771
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 770
Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funny, make your daughter listen.
- By Skye woodward on 11-06-2015
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The Warren Buffett Way
- 3rd Edition
- By: Robert Hagstrom
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 341
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 297
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 294
Warren Buffett remains one of the most sought-after and watched figures in business today....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great advice
- By Bradley on 16-12-2016
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I Can't Make This Up
- Life Lessons
- By: Neil Strauss - contributor, Kevin Hart
- Narrated by: Kevin Hart
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 950
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 860
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 854
Superstar comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words....
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5 out of 5 stars
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29 year old female photographer
- By Stacey on 11-06-2017
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Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies
- By: Kitty Flanagan
- Narrated by: Kitty Flanagan
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 194
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 192
One of Australia’s favourite and most multitalented entertainers provides hilarious and honest life advice in this candid collection of cautionary tales....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kitty, You Are A Hoot
- By Grohlpatrol on 04-11-2018
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The Game
- By: Neil Strauss
- Narrated by: Neil Strauss
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 391
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 331
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 330
The Game recounts the incredible adventures of the everyday man who transforms himself from a shy, awkward writer into the quick-witted, smooth-talking Style....
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5 out of 5 stars
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love Neil
- By Amazon Customer on 05-03-2019
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Ghost Empire
- By: Richard Fidler
- Narrated by: Richard Fidler
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 380
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 360
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 359
Ghost Empire is a rare treasure - an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, realised by a master storyteller....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it.
- By Fjp on 23-04-2017
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Loose Units
- By: Paul F. Verhoeven
- Narrated by: Paul F. Verhoeven
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Part father-son story, part true crime, Loose Units is a race through the underbelly of policing as ex-cop John Verhoeven tells all to his son Paul about the crimes, the characters and the pitch-black humour....
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Total Recall
- My Unbelievably True Life Story
- By: Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Narrated by: Stephen Lang, Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Length: 23 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 776
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 688
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Story5 out of 5 stars 690
One of the most anticipated autobiographies of this generation, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Recall is the candid story of one of the world's most remarkable world leaders....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Motivation in a book!!
- By Tom Reilly on 10-07-2015
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My Thoughts Exactly
- By: Lily Allen
- Narrated by: Lily Allen
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 336
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 304
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Story5 out of 5 stars 300
I'm a people-pleaser. I'm spoilt. I'm needy. I contradict myself. I try to do good. I want to do good. I'm impassioned. I'm observant. Most importantly, I tell the truth. And this is my story....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lily Allen as told by Lily (and read by Lily too!)
- By pip lincolne on 23-09-2018
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How Not to Be a Boy
- By: Robert Webb
- Narrated by: Robert Webb
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 324
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 304
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 303
Rules for being a man: don't cry. Love sport. Play rough. Drink beer. Don't talk about feelings....
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5 out of 5 stars
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5/5
- By Anonymous User on 29-11-2017
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Back, After the Break
- By: Osher Günsberg
- Narrated by: Osher Günsberg
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 287
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 264
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Story5 out of 5 stars 262
Osher Gunsberg, one of Australia's most loved celebrities, opens up in a powerful, dark, funny, and heart-wrenching memoir about life, love, and living with mental illness....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring and thought provoking
- By Kirilie on 26-08-2018
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Life and Laughing
- My Story
- By: Michael McIntyre
- Narrated by: Michael McIntyre
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 365
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 341
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 342
Michael McIntyre has become Britain’s biggest comedy star....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Heart warming, not funny.
- By Atreides on 31-10-2014
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 109
Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just beautiful
- By Anonymous User on 06-04-2018
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The Good Cop
- By: Justine Ford
- Narrated by: Peter Hosking
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 90
In an incredible 25-year career as a homicide detective, Ron Iddles' conviction rate was 99 percent. Yet that only partly explains why Iddles is known to cops and crims alike as 'The Great Man'....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great life great story
- By Glenys Holmes on 22-01-2019
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The Price of Fortune
- The Untold Story of Being James Packer
- By: Damon Kitney
- Narrated by: Damon Kitney, Paul English
- Length: 15 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
In his biography, The Price of Fortune, one of the nation's richest and most psychoanalysed men opens up in an attempt to make sense of his rollercoaster life and to tell the human story of being James Douglas Packer....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Perhaps it was the narration that let it down.
- By Chris Williams on 03-12-2018
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Eggshell Skull
- By: Bri Lee
- Narrated by: Bri Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 162
A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness cannot mitigate the seriousness of the crime....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A moving listen
- By Kindle Customer on 16-09-2018
New Releases
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Try This at Home
- Adventures in Songwriting
- By: Frank Turner
- Narrated by: Frank Turner
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Taking 36 songs from his back catalogue, folk-punk icon Frank Turner explores his songwriting process. Find out the stories behind the songs forged in the hedonistic years of the mid-2000s North London scene, the ones perfected in Nashville studios and everything in between. Some of these songs arrive fully formed, as if they've always been there; some take graft and endless reworking to find 'the one'. In exploring them all, Turner reflects with eloquence, insight and self-deprecating wit on exactly what it is to be a songwriter.
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My Life with Murderers
- Behind Bars with the World’s Most Violent Men
- By: Professor David Wilson
- Narrated by: David Wilson
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Professor David Wilson has spent his professional life working with violent men - especially men who have committed murder. Aged 29 he became, at that time, the UK's youngest ever prison governor in charge of a jail, and his career since then has seen him sat across a table with all sorts of killers: sometimes in a tense interview; sometimes sharing a cup of tea (or something a little stronger); sometimes looking them in the eye to tell them that they are psychopaths.
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Escaping into My Imagination, Book I
- By: Travis Breeding
- Narrated by: Betty Johnston
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Travis shares extreme detail in how he escapes into his imagination to create a make-believe world that serves him great purpose in coping with the confusing social world. Escaping into imagination is an excellent tool that he uses to thrive with autism and be successful in life. Learn the ins and outs of his make-believe world. You will also learn the pros and cons of having a make-believe world. Escape into imagination can be a thriving tool for autistic people that gets us through each day. Listen to find out more.
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Life in the Third Reich
- Daily LIfe in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
- By: Paul Roland
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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Germany was a deeply divided nation when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in 1933. As the shadow of the swastika lengthened, its citizens quickly came to realize that the Nazis' brutal programme was not optional. Everyone was expected to play their part in "national revival", especially those chosen as sacrificial victims. Life in the Third Reich draws on the recollections of those who lived through the rise and fall of one of the most vicious and sadistic regimes the world has ever seen.
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When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back
- By: Naja Marie Aidt, Denise Newman
- Narrated by: Katherine Manners
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's 25-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back is about losing a child. It is about formulating a vocabulary to express the deepest kind of pain. And it's about finding a way to write about a reality invaded by grief, lessened by loss. Faced with the sudden emptiness of language, Naja finds solace in the anguish of Joan Didion, Nick Cave, C. S. Lewis, Mallarmé, Plato and other writers who have suffered the deadening impact of loss.
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A Fabulous Creation
- How the LP Saved Our Lives
- By: David Hepworth
- Narrated by: David Hepworth
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The era of the LP began in 1967, with Sgt Pepper; The Beatles didn’t just collect together a bunch of songs, they Made an Album. Henceforth, everybody else wanted to Make an Album. The end came only 15 years later, coinciding with the release of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. By then the Walkman had taken music out of the home and into the streets, and the record business had begun trying to reverse engineer the creative process in order to make big money. Nobody would play music or listen to it in quite the same way ever again.
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Try This at Home
- Adventures in Songwriting
- By: Frank Turner
- Narrated by: Frank Turner
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Taking 36 songs from his back catalogue, folk-punk icon Frank Turner explores his songwriting process. Find out the stories behind the songs forged in the hedonistic years of the mid-2000s North London scene, the ones perfected in Nashville studios and everything in between. Some of these songs arrive fully formed, as if they've always been there; some take graft and endless reworking to find 'the one'. In exploring them all, Turner reflects with eloquence, insight and self-deprecating wit on exactly what it is to be a songwriter.
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My Life with Murderers
- Behind Bars with the World’s Most Violent Men
- By: Professor David Wilson
- Narrated by: David Wilson
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Professor David Wilson has spent his professional life working with violent men - especially men who have committed murder. Aged 29 he became, at that time, the UK's youngest ever prison governor in charge of a jail, and his career since then has seen him sat across a table with all sorts of killers: sometimes in a tense interview; sometimes sharing a cup of tea (or something a little stronger); sometimes looking them in the eye to tell them that they are psychopaths.
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Escaping into My Imagination, Book I
- By: Travis Breeding
- Narrated by: Betty Johnston
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Travis shares extreme detail in how he escapes into his imagination to create a make-believe world that serves him great purpose in coping with the confusing social world. Escaping into imagination is an excellent tool that he uses to thrive with autism and be successful in life. Learn the ins and outs of his make-believe world. You will also learn the pros and cons of having a make-believe world. Escape into imagination can be a thriving tool for autistic people that gets us through each day. Listen to find out more.
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Life in the Third Reich
- Daily LIfe in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
- By: Paul Roland
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Germany was a deeply divided nation when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in 1933. As the shadow of the swastika lengthened, its citizens quickly came to realize that the Nazis' brutal programme was not optional. Everyone was expected to play their part in "national revival", especially those chosen as sacrificial victims. Life in the Third Reich draws on the recollections of those who lived through the rise and fall of one of the most vicious and sadistic regimes the world has ever seen.
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When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back
- By: Naja Marie Aidt, Denise Newman
- Narrated by: Katherine Manners
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's 25-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back is about losing a child. It is about formulating a vocabulary to express the deepest kind of pain. And it's about finding a way to write about a reality invaded by grief, lessened by loss. Faced with the sudden emptiness of language, Naja finds solace in the anguish of Joan Didion, Nick Cave, C. S. Lewis, Mallarmé, Plato and other writers who have suffered the deadening impact of loss.
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A Fabulous Creation
- How the LP Saved Our Lives
- By: David Hepworth
- Narrated by: David Hepworth
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The era of the LP began in 1967, with Sgt Pepper; The Beatles didn’t just collect together a bunch of songs, they Made an Album. Henceforth, everybody else wanted to Make an Album. The end came only 15 years later, coinciding with the release of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. By then the Walkman had taken music out of the home and into the streets, and the record business had begun trying to reverse engineer the creative process in order to make big money. Nobody would play music or listen to it in quite the same way ever again.
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Thirty Thousand Bottles of Wine and a Pig Called Helga
- A Not So Perfect Tree Change
- By: Todd Alexander
- Narrated by: Josh Brennan
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Todd and Jeff have had enough of the city. Sick of the daily grind and workaday corporate shenanigans, they throw caution to the wind and buy 100 acres in the Hunter Valley, intent on living a golden bucolic life and building a fabulous B&B, where they can offer the joys of country life to heart-weary souls. Todd will cook; Jeff will renovate. They can make wine and grow their own food and live the dream. How hard can it be?
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Happy Old Me
- How to Live A Long Life, and Really Enjoy It
- By: Hunter Davies
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Part memoir, part self-help, Happy Old Me is a fitting, heart-felt tribute to the love of his life and a surprisingly amusing and informative book about an age, and stage in life, which we might all reach someday. The third book in Hunter Davies' much-loved memoir series, which includes The Co-Op's Got Bananas and A Life in the Day.
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The Pianist of Yarmouk
- By: Aeham Ahmad
- Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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One morning on the outskirts of Damascus, two starving friends were walking through their war-ravaged city. They entered a once familiar street that had now been turned to rubble - concrete bridges towered over them like tombs, and houses were turned inside out. One of them, Aeham, turned to the only comfort he had left - his piano - and composed a song of hope. It was a song that would reach beyond the rubble and bring a message of solidarity to his fellow Syrians and all those suffering the devastation of war.
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How to Treat People
- A Nurse’s Notes
- By: Molly Case
- Narrated by: Molly Case
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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As a teenager Molly case is admitted to hospital for an operation that will save her life. Nearly a decade later, she finds herself in the operating theatre again, this time as a trainee nurse. In How To Treat People, Molly brings together these extraordinary moments, when the professional and the personal become inseparable. She introduces us to patients with whom we share the pain, the fear but also the life-affirming moments of illness.
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The Forgotten Child
- The Powerful True Story of a Boy Abandoned as a Baby and Left to Die
- By: Richard Gallear
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s a freezing winter’s night in 1954. A baby boy, a few hours old, is left by his mother, wrapped in nothing but two sheets of newspaper and hidden amongst the undergrowth by a canal bank. An hour later, a late-shift postman is walking wearily home when he hears a faint cry. He finds the newspaper parcel and discovers the newborn, white-cold and whimpering, inside. After being rushed to hospital and against all odds, the baby survives. He’s baptised by the hospital chaplain as Richard.
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What Is This Thing Called Love?
- By: Chris Neill
- Narrated by: Chris Neill
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In What Is This Thing Called Love? Neill subverts our age’s obsession with introspective memoir and drills down into the fertile landscape of not only his own life but the lives of his neighbours and friends, too. Through a hilarious, keen-eyed exploration of his own abundant failings and cock-ups, you’ll be introduced to his distinctive worldview - simultaneously take-no-prisoners yet benign and benevolent....
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Still I Shine
- Refugee to Radio, Living the American Dream
- By: Vildana Sunni Puric
- Narrated by: Vildana Sunni Puric
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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From the ruins of refugee camps to a makeshift attic turned home, life hasn't always been crystal clear for one of the nation's capital's hottest radio personalities and influencers, Sunni and the City.... In her topsy-turvy journey, Sunni walks us through the raw challenges of her life as an immigrant, chasing the American dream, being haunted by the past, finding a new identity, and building a future.
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Traveling Mercies
- Some Thoughts on Faith
- By: Anne Lamott
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, and humor, Anne Lamott takes us on a journey through her often troubled past to illuminate her devout but quirky walk of faith. In a narrative spiced with stories and scripture, with diatribes, laughter, and tears, Lamott tells how, against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself. She shows us the myriad ways in which this sustains and guides her, shining the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary life and exposing surprising pockets of meaning and hope.
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26 Marathons
- What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
- By: Meb Keflezighi, Scott Douglas
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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26 Marathons offers the wisdom Meb has gleaned about life, family, identity, and faith in addition to tips about running, training, and nutrition. He shows runners of all levels how to apply the lessons he's learned to their own running and lives. Equal parts inspiration and practical advice, 26 Marathons provides an inside look at the life and success of one of the greatest runners living today.
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The Making of Us
- Who We Can Become When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned
- By: Sheridan Voysey
- Narrated by: Sheridan Voysey
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Life had not gone according to plan for Sheridan Voysey and his wife, Merryn. When infertility ended their dream of becoming parents, they uprooted their lives and relocated from Australia to Oxford, England. Following the example of many a seeker, Sheridan decided to pair his spiritual journey with a literal one: a 100-mile pilgrimage along the northeast coast of England. Part travel memoir, part pilgrim’s journal, The Making of Us is a quiet story of trust in God’s leading for our lives, no matter where our paths take us.
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Red Means Go
- The Story About My Life
- By: Joanne Balducci
- Narrated by: Miranda West
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Red Means Go is the amazing story of a young woman, Joanne Balducci from Bayside, Queens. The oldest among her four siblings, all boys except her, she learns at an early age to handle responsibility and be a strong leader against all odds and ill will.
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BlueGhost Reveille
- By: John W. Harris
- Narrated by: John W. Harris
- Length: 3 hrs
- Unabridged
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These are the recollections of a draftee assigned to an infantry platoon in an air cavalry troop. BlueGhost Reveille follows me as a 22-year-old as I became a squad leader and then Platoon Sergeant during the war in Vietnam. The pieces of this audiobook are as factual as 50-year-old memories will allow. There is no intentional fiction in this work. The stories are about everyday life during this year in a combat unit. Some pieces are mundane, some are humorous, and the parts about going to serious war will get your heart up in your throat.