Peta Baird
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The Happiest Man on Earth
- By: Eddie Jaku
- Narrated by: Jacek Koman
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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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. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on a Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country.
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Inspiring | Sad | Inspiring | Life Changing
- By Amazon Customer on 12-08-2020
- The Happiest Man on Earth
- By: Eddie Jaku
- Narrated by: Jacek Koman
Beautiful and poignant
Reviewed: 17-03-2021
Thank you Eddie, my new dear friend. So many life lessons... I will listen to this each year to remember and learn again.
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More Than a Woman
- By: Caitlin Moran
- Narrated by: Caitlin Moran
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A decade ago, Caitlin Moran thought she had it all figured out. Her instant bestseller How to Be a Woman was a game-changing take on feminism, the patriarchy and the general ‘hoo-ha’ of becoming a woman. Back then, she firmly believed ‘the difficult bit’ was over and her 40s were going to be a doddle. If only she had known: when middle age arrives, a whole new bunch of tough questions need answering.
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The best/only good thing to happen in 2020
- By Britt M. on 07-09-2020
- More Than a Woman
- By: Caitlin Moran
- Narrated by: Caitlin Moran
Best book I read all year!
Reviewed: 13-11-2020
So funny and true. I am firmly middle aged and proudly part of the Hag Brigade.
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Too Much Lip
- By: Melissa Lucashenko
- Narrated by: Tamala Shelton
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Wisecracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two things - her hometown and prison. But now her Pop is dying, and she’s an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley. Kerry plans to spend 24 hours, tops, over the border. She quickly discovers, though, that Bundjalung country has a funny way of grabbing on to people. Old family wounds open as the Salters fight to stop the development of their beloved river.
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gritty poetic vernacular
- By Julian Wood on 08-06-2020
- Too Much Lip
- By: Melissa Lucashenko
- Narrated by: Tamala Shelton
Gritty and with heart
Reviewed: 09-11-2020
I loved the writing style and story. So much insight into the heartbreak of intergenerational trauma within Aboriginal communities. Thank you for writing it.
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Clean Slate
- An Audible Original Novella
- By: Zoë Foster Blake
- Narrated by: Stephen Curry
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Original Recording
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Cam and Holly have a picture-perfect marriage and life: a beautiful house in the suburbs and two adorable little boys. Cam has sold his successful marketing agency to look after the boys while Holly goes full throttle on her career post-maternity leave, and everything’s peachy. ‘Til Cam discovers Holly has been having an affair with a colleague. Heartbroken but pragmatic, Cam sees the situation as an opportunity to confess his own infidelity with his 21-year-old assistant.
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I really disliked this
- By Anonymous User on 01-11-2020
- Clean Slate
- An Audible Original Novella
- By: Zoë Foster Blake
- Narrated by: Stephen Curry
Ordinary writing
Reviewed: 28-10-2020
This felt like a creative writing course project. I wish I could be more positive but there are soma y
amazing writers that never get published and this did because the author is famous.
7 people found this helpful
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The World's Worst Teachers
- By: David Walliams
- Narrated by: David Walliams
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Millions of young listeners have loved the World's Worst Children tales. Now they will revel in this delightfully dreadful collection of the most gruesome grown-ups ever: The World's Worst Teachers. Think your teachers are bad? Wait till you meet this lot. These 10 tales of the world's most splendidly sinister teachers will have you running for the school gates. Dr Dread teaches science and is half man, half monster. Watch out for the ghastly Miss Seethe. She is always furious and she's on a detention rampage.
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Great story, well narrated
- By Helen on 30-08-2019
- The World's Worst Teachers
- By: David Walliams
- Narrated by: David Walliams
awesome
Reviewed: 25-09-2019
The best book in the history of the galaxy,! I loved every chapter and laughed lots.at the jokes
3 people found this helpful
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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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Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia’s most beloved performers, tells her story. In this extraordinary memoir, Magda describes her journey of self-discovery from a suburban childhood, haunted by the demons of her father’s espionage activities in wartime Poland and by her secret awareness of her sexuality, to the complex dramas of adulthood and her need to find out the truth about herself and her family.
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Moving and powerful
- By Stan on 11-01-2016
- Reckoning
- A Memoir
- By: Magda Szubanski
- Narrated by: Magda Szubanski
Beautifully written
Reviewed: 22-06-2018
A story of love, loss, and history repeating itself. She is a really insightful and eloquent writer.
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Stranger Here
- How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My Head
- By: Jen Larsen
- Narrated by: Dani Cervone
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Stranger Here is the brutally honest, surprisingly hilarious story of one woman's journey from one extreme of the weight spectrum to the other, and of the unexpected emotional chaos it created. Insightful and unsparing in her self-examination, Larsen depicts the exhilarating highs and devastating lows she experienced as a result of her weight loss, the incredible joy of finally beginning to look like the image of herself she's always carried inside her head, and the crushing pain and confusion of feeling like a stranger in her own body after losing the weight that has always defined her.
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Started out well but ended a bit aimless
- By Peta Baird on 14-06-2018
- Stranger Here
- How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My Head
- By: Jen Larsen
- Narrated by: Dani Cervone
Started out well but ended a bit aimless
Reviewed: 14-06-2018
I liked the book at the start, the examination of the author's psychology and motivations as shepves through her weight loss journey. But the second half of the book got aimless and branched off into too many themes and subplots, like the useless trip to Chicago.