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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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Sapiens
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us....
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Thought-provoking
- By Anonymous User on 30-08-2017
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- By: Bill Gates
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, shares what he has learnt in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address climate problems....
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Great, wasn't on the edge of my seat though.
- By Amazon Customer on 18-03-2021
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Come As You Are: Revised and Updated
- The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
- By: Emily Nagoski PhD
- Narrated by: Emily Nagoski, Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times best seller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life....
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Must read for everybody
- By Anonymous User on 09-03-2021
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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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Sapiens
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us....
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Thought-provoking
- By Anonymous User on 30-08-2017
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- By: Bill Gates
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, shares what he has learnt in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address climate problems....
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Great, wasn't on the edge of my seat though.
- By Amazon Customer on 18-03-2021
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Come As You Are: Revised and Updated
- The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
- By: Emily Nagoski PhD
- Narrated by: Emily Nagoski, Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times best seller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life....
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Must read for everybody
- By Anonymous User on 09-03-2021
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Unf--k Your Brain
- By: Faith G. Harper PhD LPC-S ACS ACN
- Narrated by: Faith G. Harper PhD LPC-S ACS ACN
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
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A no-nonsense and helpful guide on how to cope with a slew of mental-health issues that are hell-bent on ruining the lives of millions of people worldwide....
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frustrating to listen to
- By Anonymous User on 06-10-2020
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48 Laws of Power
- By: Robert Greene
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....
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Just try 3 Laws
- By Tom on 23-04-2018
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Dark Emu
- Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?
- By: Bruce Pascoe
- Narrated by: Bruce Pascoe
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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A completely accessible, compelling and riveting account of pre-invasion Aboriginal agricultural systems....
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Important book, but read critically
- By Anonymous User on 21-08-2019
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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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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
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A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization....
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Not what I expected but brilliant!
- By Michael on 27-11-2015
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Man's Search for Meaning
- By: Viktor E. Frankl
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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Internationally renowned psychiatrist, Viktor E. Frankl, endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps....
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An unmissable masterpiece
- By Davide on 17-06-2015
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Raising Boys in the 21st Century
- How to Help Our Boys Become Open-Hearted, Kind and Strong Men
- By: Steve Biddulph
- Narrated by: Steve Biddulph
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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The most popular guide ever about raising boys is back, significantly updated to help raise sons in a world that offers gender equality, respect, and a whole new kind of man but is still haunted by toxic masculinity....
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life changing for parents
- By Caroline on 23-06-2019
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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure into the darker side of human nature, where strangers are never simple and misreading them can have disastrous consequences....
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A book with no ending...
- By Anonymous User on 23-10-2019
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The Art of War
- By: Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu....
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And you thought he ran a solid bordello?
- By Anonymous User on 08-06-2017
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Fry's English Delight (Series 1)
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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National treasure and renowned wit Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these celebrated programmes....
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Fun and interesting
- By JBO on 06-08-2018
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Humankind
- A Hopeful History
- By: Rutger Bregman
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd, Rutger Bregman
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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It’s a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians....
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Kindness is Proven and Affirmed
- By Catherine on 26-07-2020
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Outliers
- The Story of Success
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful....
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Where are the female outliers?
- By laura on 26-04-2019
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The Miracle Typist
- By: Leon Silver
- Narrated by: Robbie McGregor
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Conscripted into the Polish army as Hitler’s forces draw closer, Jewish soldier Tolek Klings vows to return to his wife, Klara, and son, Juliusz. However, the army is rife with anti-Semitism, and Tolek is relentlessly tormented....
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amazing
- By Anonymous User on 21-04-2021
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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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Men at Work
- Australia's Parenthood Trap
- By: Annabel Crabb
- Narrated by: Annabel Crabb
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
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When New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world....
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Culture change
- By Anonymous User on 23-10-2019
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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
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The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium and Oxycontin, by the prize-winning, best-selling author of Say Nothing....
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the best-selling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges....
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This is a powerful book by a truly insightful author.
- By Daniel Rimmer on 27-10-2018
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Debutante: Race, Resistance and Girl Power
- By: Nakkiah Lui, Miranda Tapsell
- Narrated by: Nakkiah Lui, Miranda Tapsell
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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They’re wearing ball gowns, they’re debutantes... and they’re black. The debs’ ball is a controversial colonial export but can it be empowering too? Australia’s most celebrated young playwright Nakkiah Lui and actress Miranda Tapsell put on their hats and gloves to find out.....
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A step back into an untold history
- By Hannah McCauley on 17-06-2020
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present....
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Grateful Christian
- By Dave on 19-03-2019
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The Obstacle Is the Way
- The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
- By: Ryan Holiday
- Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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There is a formula for success that's been followed by the icons of history...a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities....
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Great content, narrator needs coaching
- By Oliver on 26-11-2017
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A Carnivore's Crisis with Rachel Khoo
- By: Rachel Khoo
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Wrestling with your conscience when you have a burger? Concerned that you should switch to almond milk lattes? Rachel Khoo is worried too. The chef and broadcaster trained in French cuisine and her career has been built on the motto: “Butter makes everything better"....
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Complete waste of time
- By Anonymous User on 02-08-2020
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The Rise of the Iron Men With Misha Glenny
- By: Misha Glenny
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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The future of democracy is uncertain. Populist world leaders are dominating headlines and creating a new kind of politics that challenges democratic values and the liberal order....
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to much bias
- By Anonymous User on 24-08-2020
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The Greatest Secret
- By: Rhonda Byrne
- Narrated by: Rhonda Byrne
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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The Greatest Secret, the long-awaited major work by Rhonda Byrne, lays out the next quantum leap in a journey that will take the listener beyond the material world and into the spiritual realm, where all possibilities exist....
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The whole book is basically about Awareness
- By Janina quinn on 16-01-2021
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Quarterly Essay 80: The High Road
- What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand
- By: Laura Tingle
- Narrated by: Aimee Horne
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
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Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. But why, despite being so close, do we know so little about each other? And is there such a thing as national character? Find out....
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Mispronunciations and name-calling?
- By CS on 03-01-2021
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Quarterly Essay 76: Red Flag
- Waking Up to China's Challenge
- By: Peter Hartcher
- Narrated by: Peter Hartcher
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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In this gripping account, Peter Hartcher shows how Beijing stepped up its campaign for influence, over hearts and minds, mineral and agricultural resources, media outlets and sea lanes....
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Great Informative Essay
- By Howling Fantods on 17-12-2019
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Women Don't Owe You Pretty
- By: Florence Given
- Narrated by: Florence Given
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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Women Don't Owe You Pretty is the ultimate audiobook for anyone who wants to challenge the out-dated narratives supplied to us by the patriarchy....
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I Couldn't return this to audible fast enough
- By cottagedweller on 20-06-2020
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Real Crime: Locked Up for Life
- By: Julian Druker
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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Some crimes are so horrific they attract the harshest punishment possible: a sentence that means the guilty will die behind bars. From ‘the Crossbow Cannibal’ to Moors murderer Myra Hindley, journalist Julian Druker explores the cases of eight criminals with whole life orders....
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Change the name..
- By Jodie Ingrey on 17-05-2020
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
- And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
- By: Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
- Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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How does trauma affect a child's mind - and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope....
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Don't let the title put you off! Read this book
- By Melanie Maher on 19-06-2020
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The Mindful Athlete
- Secrets to Pure Performance
- By: George Mumford, Phil Jackson - foreword
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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Michael Jordan credits George Mumford with transforming his on-court leadership of the Bulls, helping Jordan lead the team to six NBA championships....
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pamphlet book
- By Michael Velsigne on 10-12-2019
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....
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Book contains out of date information and opinions
- By Anonymous User on 14-11-2019
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This Naked Mind
- Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life
- By: Annie Grace
- Narrated by: Annie Grace
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Millions of people worry that drinking is affecting their health, yet are unwilling to seek change because of the misery and stigma associated with alcoholism and recovery....
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Unoriginal and irritating
- By NicholasT on 11-02-2020
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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
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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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A different Perspective
- By Anonymous User on 04-10-2018