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Biographies & Memoirs
Audible’s collection of Biographies & Memoirs are written by famous, inspirational and interesting people from around the world. From engaging personal stories written (and read by) your favourite celebrity, to inspiring memoirs on overcoming adversity and the historic life and times of people who've changed the world, Audible has over 20,000 titles you can listen to.Most Popular
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Working Class Boy
- By: Jimmy Barnes
- Narrated by: Jimmy Barnes
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Raw, gritty, compassionate, surprising and darkly funny - Australian legend Jimmy Barnes' unforgettable childhood memoir....
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Bloody good job mate!
- By Ian on 09-04-2020
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Greenlights
- By: Matthew McConaughey
- Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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From the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction....
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Seems like a Whole load of bull
- By Andrew on 09-12-2020
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A Promised Land
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
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A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making - from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy....
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My review
- By Rebecca on 23-11-2020
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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
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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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Amazing, heart wrenching, inspiring true story
- By gary c compton on 07-01-2019
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Working Class Boy
- By: Jimmy Barnes
- Narrated by: Jimmy Barnes
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Raw, gritty, compassionate, surprising and darkly funny - Australian legend Jimmy Barnes' unforgettable childhood memoir....
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Bloody good job mate!
- By Ian on 09-04-2020
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Greenlights
- By: Matthew McConaughey
- Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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From the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction....
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Seems like a Whole load of bull
- By Andrew on 09-12-2020
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A Promised Land
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
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A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making - from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy....
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My review
- By Rebecca on 23-11-2020
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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
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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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Amazing, heart wrenching, inspiring true story
- By gary c compton on 07-01-2019
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The Happiest Man on Earth
- By: Eddie Jaku
- Narrated by: Jacek Koman
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
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Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp....
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Inspiring | Sad | Inspiring | Life Changing
- By Amazon Customer on 12-08-2020
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A Life on Our Planet
- My Witness Statement and Vision for the Future
- By: David Attenborough
- Narrated by: David Attenborough
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary....
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His Life for all of us.
- By Kevin on 07-10-2020
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Turns Out, I'm Fine
- How Not To Fall Apart
- By: Judith Lucy
- Narrated by: Judith Lucy
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Judith Lucy was just great! Sure, the last remaining member of her immediate family had died, she was menopausal, she suspected her career was in the shitter, and it seemed like the world was going to hell in a handbasket - but she was about to move in with the love of her life....
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Homestay with humour
- By Anonymous User on 18-04-2021
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Becoming
- By: Michelle Obama
- Narrated by: Michelle Obama
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
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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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Just brilliant
- By Tony on 12-01-2019
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Working Class Man
- By: Jimmy Barnes
- Narrated by: Jimmy Barnes
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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It’s a life too big and a story too extraordinary for just one book. Jimmy Barnes has lived many lives - from Glaswegian migrant kid to iconic front man, from solo superstar to proud father of his own musical clan....
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Inspirational!
- By Julian on 08-11-2018
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People, Just People (Series 3)
- By: Dermot O'Leary
- Length: 15 hrs
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From an Oscar winner to a bomb disposal expert, Dermot O’Leary interviews people who have lived fascinating lives. He talks to some of the biggest names in the business in TV and film, music, books, sport, fashion and politics....
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Heist with Michael Caine
- By: Michael Caine
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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Sir Michael Caine - perhaps best known as gang leader Charlie Croker in 60s crime caper The Italian Job - tells the stories of remarkable heists and extraordinary robberies from around the world, as remembered by the masterminds, detectives, victims, journalists and witnesses....
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Great Story Fantastic Michael Caine 🌟
- By Anonymous User on 23-07-2020
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Untamed
- Stop Pleasing, Start Living
- By: Glennon Doyle
- Narrated by: Glennon Doyle
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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Part inspiration, part memoir, Untamed explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world and instead dare to listen to and trust in the voice deep inside us....
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Every woman and her daughter should read this
- By Anonymous User on 18-04-2020
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Shootout
- The Battle for North Hollywood
- By: Grant Anderson, Peter McDonnell
- Narrated by: Maureen O'Connell
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
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One typical Friday morning in February 1997, two masked men dressed in body armour and carrying automatic rifles burst into the Bank of America in North Hollywood, California and started shooting....
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Fantastic audiobook
- By Anonymous User on 25-03-2021
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Putin: Prisoner of Power
- By: Misha Glenny
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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On New Year’s Eve 1999, a young Vladimir Putin appeared on Russian TV screens — awkward, self-conscious... and the new President. Two decades later, Putin is still in power, standing self-assured and at ease on the world stage....
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engaging, insightful, very well presented.
- By PJ on 03-01-2021
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Emotional Female
- By: Yumiko Kadota
- Narrated by: Yumiko Kadota
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Yumiko Kadota was a young, gifted medical student - the top of her class - on her way to becoming an outstanding plastic and reconstructive surgeon....
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Thought provoking read for anyone working in healthcare
- By Anonymous User on 07-04-2021
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The Halifax Slasher
- By: Nick Baker, John Woolf
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Carolyn Pickles retraces the true story of how 11 people came to be brutally cut with a deadly sharp implement, in a spate of attacks that left a town in a state of fear and police mystified about the identity of the attacker....
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really interesting
- By Anonymous User on 12-11-2020
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Radicalized
- By: Max Kutner
- Narrated by: Max Kutner
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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In 2017, Devon Arthurs went from neo-Nazism to Islamic extremism, and he allegedly murdered his two roommates in defense of his new Muslim faith....
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It’s a great podcast with a great story
- By Aubrey Botes on 07-10-2020
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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
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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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- By Anonymous User on 17-04-2018
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West Cork
- By: Audible Original
- Length: 8 hrs
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This much we do know: Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered days before Christmas in 1996, her broken body discovered at the edge of her property near the town of Schull in West Cork, Ireland....
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Missing first four episodes!!!
- By Barron's girl on 07-06-2020
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The Trauma Cleaner
- By: Sarah Krasnostein
- Narrated by: Rachael Tidd
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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Sandra Pankhurst founded her trauma cleaning business to help people whose emotional scars are written on their houses....
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Heartbreaking from every view. A lesson in empathy
- By Stephanie on 23-04-2018
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Nut Jobs
- Cracking California's Strangest $10 Million Dollar Heist
- By: Marc Fennell
- Narrated by: Marc Fennell
- Length: 4 hrs
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It’s the $10 million heist you’ve never heard of. In a matter of months, dozens of truckloads disappeared from American highways. But what were they carrying? Nuts....
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Can’t stop listening
- By Anonymous User on 28-06-2020
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My Year of Living Vulnerably
- By: Rick Morton
- Narrated by: Rick Morton
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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In early 2019, Rick Morton, author of acclaimed, best-selling memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt, was diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder. So, over the course of 12 months, he went on a journey to rediscover love. To get better. Not cured, not fixed. Just better....
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Essential
- By Perry Duffin on 24-03-2021
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This Is Going to Hurt
- Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
- By: Adam Kay
- Narrated by: Adam Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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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. Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line....
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Not for the prudish but well written/read
- By Carron on 11-08-2018
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The Storyteller
- Tales of Life and Music
- By: Dave Grohl
- Narrated by: Dave Grohl
- Length: 10 hrs
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Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities, I have decided to tell these stories just as I have always done, in my own voice....
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The Gulag Archipelago
- By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson, Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
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A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork....
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Must listen!
- By Callum on 28-06-2019
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
- By: Eric Jorgenson, Tim Ferriss
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval’s wisdom and experience from the last 10 years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections....
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Real Crime
- By: Bernard P Achampong, Thomas Glasser
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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Britain's most chilling crimes are brought sensationally to life in this compelling new series....
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Addictive
- By Anonymous User on 08-08-2018
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Sincerely, X
- By: Audible Originals, June Cohen
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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Some stories are too sensitive, painful or potentially damaging to share publicly - unless they can be shared anonymously....
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The Messenger
- By: Shiv Malik
- Narrated by: Shiv Malik
- Length: Not Yet Known
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When investigative journalist Shiv Malik was betrayed by a source he considered a friend, he spent almost fifteen years tracking down the truth about what happened....
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Raw and very real
- By Reads With Wolves on 25-11-2020
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The Code Breaker
- Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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The best-selling author of Leonardo da Vinci returns with a gripping account of how the pioneering scientist Jennifer Doudna, along with her colleagues and rivals, launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and enhance our children....
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By far the best book I have ever listened
- By A Bienadarma on 22-03-2021
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Lost Connections
- Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
- By: Johann Hari
- Narrated by: Johann Hari
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Chasing the Scream, a radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety....
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Some good ideas, a lot of incomplete science.
- By Michael H on 17-06-2019
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Phosphorescence
- On awe, wonder & things that sustain you when the world goes dark
- By: Julia Baird
- Narrated by: Julia Baird
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times....
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essentially a biography
- By Yvonne O'Shea on 18-07-2020
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Come Out, Come Out
- By: Mo Welch
- Narrated by: Mo Welch
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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Come Out, Come Out is a podcast about coming out of the closet, and it’s also a funny, joyful exploration of love, sex and the pursuit of happiness....
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Had Potential
- By Elise S. on 27-02-2021
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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
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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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Best audiobook I've listened... Ever!
- By Nyasha on 18-12-2016
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Escape From Jonestown
- By: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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Forty years ago, on Nov. 18, 1978, 914 members of a ‘utopian’ society deep in the Guyana jungle, known as Jonestown, drank a lethal elixir of Flavor-Aid and cyanide....
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A detailed and very personal account.
- By Joeline on 14-05-2019
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Zero Negativity
- The Power of Positive Thinking
- By: Ant Middleton
- Narrated by: Ant Middleton
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Letting you into areas of his life he’s never talked about before, in Zero Negativity, Ant will show you how to embrace failure and use it to your advantage....
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Bit repetitive really
- By matthew sworder on 20-11-2020