- Educators (237)
Bestsellers
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The Water Is Wide
- By: Pat Conroy
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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The Water Is Wide is Pat Conroy’s extraordinary memoir based on his experience as one of two teachers in a two-room schoolhouse, working with children the world had pretty much forgotten....
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A powerful look at life of the island peoples.
- By L. W. LARSON on 04-22-23
By: Pat Conroy
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Letters from an Astrophysicist
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Vikas Adam, Piper Goodeve, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world’s largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by unveiling his candid correspondence....
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Dear Neil...
- By Tina G. on 10-14-19
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On Great Fields
- The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
- By: Ronald C. White
- Narrated by: Ronald C. White
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero....
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A true American hero
- By Pt4Texas on 11-15-23
By: Ronald C. White
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The Headmaster
- Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield
- By: John McPhee
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school's headmaster for sixty-six years....
By: John McPhee
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Up Home
- One Girl's Journey
- By: Ruth J. Simmons
- Narrated by: Ruth J. Simmons
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity, no books to read....
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Wonderful Connections!
- By Lynda Dickson on 04-15-24
By: Ruth J. Simmons
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'Tis
- By: Frank McCourt
- Narrated by: Frank McCourt
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
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The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured our hearts in the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes comes of age in 'Tis....
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Marvelous
- By Tony on 02-05-06
By: Frank McCourt
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The Water Is Wide
- By: Pat Conroy
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The Water Is Wide is Pat Conroy’s extraordinary memoir based on his experience as one of two teachers in a two-room schoolhouse, working with children the world had pretty much forgotten....
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A powerful look at life of the island peoples.
- By L. W. LARSON on 04-22-23
By: Pat Conroy
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Letters from an Astrophysicist
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Vikas Adam, Piper Goodeve, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world’s largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by unveiling his candid correspondence....
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Dear Neil...
- By Tina G. on 10-14-19
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On Great Fields
- The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
- By: Ronald C. White
- Narrated by: Ronald C. White
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero....
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A true American hero
- By Pt4Texas on 11-15-23
By: Ronald C. White
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The Headmaster
- Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield
- By: John McPhee
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school's headmaster for sixty-six years....
By: John McPhee
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Up Home
- One Girl's Journey
- By: Ruth J. Simmons
- Narrated by: Ruth J. Simmons
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity, no books to read....
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Wonderful Connections!
- By Lynda Dickson on 04-15-24
By: Ruth J. Simmons
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'Tis
- By: Frank McCourt
- Narrated by: Frank McCourt
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured our hearts in the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes comes of age in 'Tis....
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Marvelous
- By Tony on 02-05-06
By: Frank McCourt
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The Assassination of Barbara O'Neill
- By: Michael O'Neill
- Narrated by: Michael O'Neill
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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How could a 66-year-old grandmother, who gave her life to helping people with their health, become the subject of a malicious smear campaign which resulted in her being classified as a serious threat to public health in Australia?
By: Michael O'Neill
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Good Arguments
- How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard
- By: Bo Seo
- Narrated by: Bo Seo
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Two-time world champion debater and former coach of the Harvard debate team, Bo Seo tells the inspiring story of his life in competitive debating and reveals the timeless secrets of effective communication and persuasion....
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Useful ideas, political though
- By Amazon Customer on 07-23-22
By: Bo Seo
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The One World Schoolhouse
- Education Reimagined
- By: Salman Khan
- Narrated by: Salman Khan
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, has written what is destined to become one of the most influential books about education in our time....
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Inspiring and Revolutionary
- By Brad on 12-08-12
By: Salman Khan
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Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life
- Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life
- By: Joseph Epstein
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years, Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life is an intimate look at one life steeped in radical change....
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How dreary
- By Richard on 05-21-24
By: Joseph Epstein
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Among Schoolchildren
- By: Tracy Kidder
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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We all know what is wrong with today’s schools - or do we? Tracy Kidder spent a year in a fifth grade class in Holyoke, Massachusetts....
By: Tracy Kidder
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Without You, There Is No Us
- My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
- By: Suki Kim
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign....
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The King and I meets Mary Poppins
- By Michael on 02-22-15
By: Suki Kim
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The English Governess at the Siamese Court
- By: Anna Hariette Leonowens
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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This is the Victorian memoir that inspired Broadway's The King and I....
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Great historical and literary work. Well performed
- By El Moro on 02-03-16
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Bertha Maxwell-Roddey
- A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership
- By: Sonya Y. Ramsey
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
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This biography of educational activist and Black studies forerunner Bertha Maxwell-Roddey examines a life of remarkable achievements and leadership in the desegregated South....
By: Sonya Y. Ramsey
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A Man of Contradictions
- A Life of A. L. Rowse
- By: Richard Ollard
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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A.L. Rowse, who died in 1997, was the author of a vast number of books, all of them readable and most of them fiercely arrayed against what he considered to be declining moral standards....
By: Richard Ollard
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Ghost Girl
- The True Story of a Child in Peril and the Teacher Who Saved Her
- By: Torey Hayden
- Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound....
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BEST BOOK
- By Cherish on 09-27-15
By: Torey Hayden
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A Safe Place for Joey
- By: Mary MacCracken
- Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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From best-selling author and teacher Mary Maccracken comes the engaging and inspiring story of five troubled children she fought to bring back from the brink....
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Excellent!
- By Terri Hart on 06-26-15
By: Mary MacCracken
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Miseducated
- A Memoir
- By: Brandon P. Fleming, Cornel West - foreword
- Narrated by: Brandon P. Fleming, Landon Woodson
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Miseducated is an inspiring memoir of one man’s transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate - all by the age of 27....
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so glad I lasted through the first parts...
- By Elizabeth L. on 01-19-22
By: Brandon P. Fleming, and others
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The Light of the World
- A Memoir
- By: Elizabeth Alexander
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Alexander
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband, who was just 50....
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Eloquently written, moving and beautiful memoir
- By Natalie Tomich on 04-22-15
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Scan Artist
- How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed-Reading Worked
- By: Marcia Biederman
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The best-known educator of the 20th century was a scammer in cashmere. "The most famous reading teacher in the world," as television hosts introduced her, Evelyn Wood had little classroom experience....
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There was a lot to this lady than just reading
- By J.T. on 10-17-19
By: Marcia Biederman
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The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers
- Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor
- By: Amy Hollingsworth
- Narrated by: Amy Hollingsworth
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers focuses on Mr. Rogers' spiritual legacy, but it is much more than that. It shows us a man who, to paraphrase the words of St. Francis of Assisi, "preached the gospel at all times; when necessary he used words"....
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An amazing man
- By Travis Cox on 12-09-23
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Reversed
- A Memoir
- By: Lois E. Letchford
- Narrated by: Lois Letchford
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Lois Letchford’s dyslexia came to light at the age of 39 when she faced teaching her seven-year-old, nonreading son Nicholas. Examining her reading failure caused her to adapted and change lessons for her son. The results were dramatic....
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Heartfelt
- By Amazon Customer on 04-07-24
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American Woman
- The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden
- By: Katie Rogers
- Narrated by: Karen Murray, Katie Rogers
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden—from a White House correspondent for The New York Times....
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Women to emulate
- By Madeline Sinclair on 03-26-24
By: Katie Rogers
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How I Learned to Understand the World
- A Memoir
- By: Hans Rosling, Dr. Anna Paterson, Fanny Härgestam
- Narrated by: Simon Slater, Christina Delaine
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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How I Learned to Understand the World is Hans Rosling’s own story of how he became a revolutionary thinker, and takes us from the swelter of an emergency clinic in Mozambique, to the World Economic Forum at Davos....
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Very good follow-up to Factfulness
- By Dave on 01-08-23
By: Hans Rosling, and others
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Rescuing Socrates
- How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation
- By: Roosevelt Montás
- Narrated by: Roosevelt Montás
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook narrated by Dominican-born scholar Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life - and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds....
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Excellent defense of a crucial part of education
- By Nom de Guerre on 01-24-22
By: Roosevelt Montás
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Poor
- Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief
- By: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around....
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Great listen
- By Anonymous User on 08-21-23
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Testing Education
- A Teacher's Memoir
- By: Kathy Greeley
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on a teaching career ranging nearly forty years, Greeley details how schools went from learning communities infused with excitement, intellectual stimulation, and joy to sterile spaces of stress, intimidation, and fear.
By: Kathy Greeley
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Just Another Kid
- By: Torey Hayden
- Narrated by: Tara Ochs
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Just Another Kid is a beautiful illustration of nurturing concern, not only for a few emotionally disturbed children, but for one woman facing a personal battle....
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Usual Torey story
- By Lorna on 02-22-14
By: Torey Hayden
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God, Country, Notre Dame
- The Autobiography of Theodore M. Hesburgh
- By: Theodore M. Hesburgh, Jerry Reedy
- Narrated by: John Sipple
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In these memoirs, Father Theodore Hesburgh chronicles the transformation of Notre Dame into a major teaching and research institution....
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Fr Ted for sainthood
- By Shannon Canaday on 03-05-24
By: Theodore M. Hesburgh, and others
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The Battle for Room 314
- My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School
- By: Ed Boland
- Narrated by: Ed Boland
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a 20-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable to help them....
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Did you like the book? Yes But...
- By Ms Madden on 03-06-16
By: Ed Boland
New releases
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The Headmaster
- Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield
- By: John McPhee
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school's headmaster for sixty-six years. John McPhee portrays a remarkable man "at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who...created enduring schools through their own individual energies, maintained them under their own absolute rule, and left them forever imprinted with their own personalities."
By: John McPhee
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The Assassination of Barbara O'Neill
- By: Michael O'Neill
- Narrated by: Michael O'Neill
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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How could a 66-year-old grandmother, who gave her life to helping people with their health, become the subject of a malicious smear campaign which resulted in her being classified as a serious threat to public health in Australia? This book exposes the hypocrisy of the organization Friends of Science in Medicine who act as 'friends of science', but are in reality pharmaceutical apologists and the 'Enemies of Truth in Medical Science'. Barbara became collateral damage in the war on any dissent from mainstream medical dogma.
By: Michael O'Neill
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I'd Rather Go Out Smiling
- By: Donn Weinholtz
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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"I'd Rather Go Out Smiling" delves into the author's emotional journey following the loss of multiple family members in the 1990s. It's an exploration of grief, aiming to authentically portray the lives of those passed, beyond traditional memorials. The narrative emphasizes the solace found in shared experiences of loss, underscoring the need for more literature on coping with death, and infuses gentle humor as a healing mechanism. It blends real conversations and recollections, providing a heartfelt and insightful perspective.
By: Donn Weinholtz
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MARK TWAIN
- Whispers of the Enchanted Quill
- By: Morghan Knight
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a literary titan who straddled the American 19th and 20th centuries. More than just a humorist, Twain was a multifaceted author, essayist, social critic, and entrepreneur whose legacy transcends mere entertainment. His prose shimmered with wit, his satiric scalpel deftly exposing the societal hypocrisies of his time. Yet, his empathy for the marginalized and disenfranchised pulsed beneath the surface, lending depth and nuance to his narratives. Twain's literary landscape is vast and varied. He immortalized the idyllic boyhood ...
By: Morghan Knight
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Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life
- Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life
- By: Joseph Epstein
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies—those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Brooks Adams—were justified by their authors living in interesting times, harboring radically new ideas, or participating in great events. Joseph Epstein qualifies on none of these counts. His life has been quiet, lucky in numerous ways, and far from dramatic. But it has also been emblematic of the great changes in our country since World War II. Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life is an intimate look at one life steeped in radical change.
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How dreary
- By Richard on 05-21-24
By: Joseph Epstein
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A Place Called Home
- Quilting a Life of Joy on the Colorado Plateau
- By: Janet Ross
- Narrated by: Terry Ross
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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A Place Called Home: Quilting a Life of Joy on the Colorado Plateau is a place-based creative non-fiction memoir at its heart. It is a collection of stories about how finding my “place” was essential to finding my happiness. It is a template for others to find their own happiness within natural and human communities, inspired by a love of a place that calls them home.
By: Janet Ross
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The Headmaster
- Frank L. Boyden of Deerfield
- By: John McPhee
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Starting in 1902 at a country school that had an enrollment of fourteen, Frank Boyden built an academy that has long since taken its place on a level with Andover and Exeter. Boyden, who died in 1972, was the school's headmaster for sixty-six years. John McPhee portrays a remarkable man "at the near end of a skein of magnanimous despots who...created enduring schools through their own individual energies, maintained them under their own absolute rule, and left them forever imprinted with their own personalities."
By: John McPhee
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The Assassination of Barbara O'Neill
- By: Michael O'Neill
- Narrated by: Michael O'Neill
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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How could a 66-year-old grandmother, who gave her life to helping people with their health, become the subject of a malicious smear campaign which resulted in her being classified as a serious threat to public health in Australia? This book exposes the hypocrisy of the organization Friends of Science in Medicine who act as 'friends of science', but are in reality pharmaceutical apologists and the 'Enemies of Truth in Medical Science'. Barbara became collateral damage in the war on any dissent from mainstream medical dogma.
By: Michael O'Neill
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I'd Rather Go Out Smiling
- By: Donn Weinholtz
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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"I'd Rather Go Out Smiling" delves into the author's emotional journey following the loss of multiple family members in the 1990s. It's an exploration of grief, aiming to authentically portray the lives of those passed, beyond traditional memorials. The narrative emphasizes the solace found in shared experiences of loss, underscoring the need for more literature on coping with death, and infuses gentle humor as a healing mechanism. It blends real conversations and recollections, providing a heartfelt and insightful perspective.
By: Donn Weinholtz
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MARK TWAIN
- Whispers of the Enchanted Quill
- By: Morghan Knight
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a literary titan who straddled the American 19th and 20th centuries. More than just a humorist, Twain was a multifaceted author, essayist, social critic, and entrepreneur whose legacy transcends mere entertainment. His prose shimmered with wit, his satiric scalpel deftly exposing the societal hypocrisies of his time. Yet, his empathy for the marginalized and disenfranchised pulsed beneath the surface, lending depth and nuance to his narratives. Twain's literary landscape is vast and varied. He immortalized the idyllic boyhood ...
By: Morghan Knight
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Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life
- Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life
- By: Joseph Epstein
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies—those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Brooks Adams—were justified by their authors living in interesting times, harboring radically new ideas, or participating in great events. Joseph Epstein qualifies on none of these counts. His life has been quiet, lucky in numerous ways, and far from dramatic. But it has also been emblematic of the great changes in our country since World War II. Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life is an intimate look at one life steeped in radical change.
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How dreary
- By Richard on 05-21-24
By: Joseph Epstein
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A Place Called Home
- Quilting a Life of Joy on the Colorado Plateau
- By: Janet Ross
- Narrated by: Terry Ross
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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A Place Called Home: Quilting a Life of Joy on the Colorado Plateau is a place-based creative non-fiction memoir at its heart. It is a collection of stories about how finding my “place” was essential to finding my happiness. It is a template for others to find their own happiness within natural and human communities, inspired by a love of a place that calls them home.
By: Janet Ross
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Testing Education
- A Teacher's Memoir
- By: Kathy Greeley
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In Testing Education, Kathy Greeley recounts the impact of education reform from a teacher's point of view. Based on a teaching career ranging nearly forty years, Greeley details how schools went from learning communities infused with excitement, intellectual stimulation, and joy to sterile spaces of stress, intimidation, and fear. In this ultimately hopeful memoir, Greeley asks us to learn from the past to reimagine the future of public education.
By: Kathy Greeley
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iBaby
- A Memoir
- By: Idell Koury
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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How does a poor, Hispanic girl living in the projects of New Mexico grow up to work on Capitol Hill, meet a U.S. President, and become a state James Madison Fellow? Idell Koury can tell you how—through the grace of Jesus Christ. Idell, lovingly nicknamed ”I Baby” by her father, had an unstable childhood with a father who would disappear for longs periods of time and a mother whose methods of coping to deal with her painful past were the only way she knew to deal with her pain. But God had His hand on her whether she was in foster care or seeking refuge in one of her half-sibling’s ...
By: Idell Koury
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Reading Lessons
- The Books We Read at School, the Conversations They Spark and Why They Matter
- By: Carol Atherton
- Narrated by: Emma Cunniffe
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Over her twenty-five-year career, English teacher Carol Atherton has taught generations of students texts that will be familiar to many of us from our own schooldays. But while the staples of exam syllabuses and reading lists remain largely unchanged, their significance – and their relevance - evolves with each class as they encounter them for the first time. Each chapter of Reading Lessons invites us to take a fresh look at these novels, plays and poems, revealing how they have shaped our beliefs, our values, and how we interact as a society.
By: Carol Atherton
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The Oxford Diaries: A Student Travelogue
- By: J.A. Jernay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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For fans of all things traditionally British… Eccentric professors. Black dinner gowns. Leather chairs in old libraries. It’s the mid-1990s. Age nineteen, J.A. Jernay arrives at Oxford University as an innocent abroad and begins keeping a meticulously written diary of his experiences. Plunging into nearly a thousand years of English literature and history, this young American leads the reader through daily life at the world’s third-oldest university. From drinking warm beer at back-alley pubs to standing for dinner in a formal black gown at the college dining hall— From punting on ...
By: J.A. Jernay
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A Heart Blown Open
- The Life & Practice of Zen Master Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi
- By: Keith Martin-Smith
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
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A Heart Blown Open chronicles the extraordinary journey of Zen master Jun Po Denis Kelly Roshi, whose life landed him in prison long before he landed in a monastery. Experience the successes and failures that led him to found an entirely new form of Buddhism called Mondo Zen. Starting from an abusive and alcoholic home in Wisconsin, Kelly becomes a major force in the counterculture of the 1960s and one of its biggest manufacturers of LSD. He ends up on the run for five years before serving time in a federal prison, and then goes on to spend six years in a Zen monastery. In his fiftieth year...
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My Natural Methodism
- Experience Becomes Words
- By: Richard Brantley
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Richard Brantley’s culminating monograph knits intellectual and spiritual autobiography with literary criticism. His measuring of faith in experience (empiricism) versus the experience of faith (evangelicalism)—fostered by parents steeped in literature—prefigured his career-long approach. A combination of personal commitment and professional dynamism sets a model for subjective as well as objective interpretation. Grappling with the sources of both taste and judgment seems called for in these dangerous times. Brantley’s memoir/lit-crit hybrid delivers art and life alike. What Others...
By: Richard Brantley
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My Natural Methodism
- Experience Becomes Words
- By: Richard Brantley
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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Richard Brantley’s culminating monograph knits intellectual and spiritual autobiography with literary criticism. His measuring of faith in experience (empiricism) versus the experience of faith (evangelicalism)—fostered by parents steeped in literature—prefigured his career-long approach. A combination of personal commitment and professional dynamism sets a model for subjective as well as objective interpretation. Grappling with the sources of both taste and judgment seems called for in these dangerous times. Brantley’s memoir/lit-crit hybrid delivers art and life alike. What Others...
By: Richard Brantley
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Honoring Professor William Leo Hansberry (1894-1965)
- An Intellectual Libation For The Architect Of America’s African Studies Department
- By: Kaba Hiawatha Kamene
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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“I open this book on the Life and Works of Professor William Leo Hansberry by honoring this Master Teacher, a Jegna (an African term for a Master Teacher). Many of today’s African studies programs are based directly and/or indirectly on Professor Hansberry’s lifetime dedication to his African studies program at Howard University(1923-1959). The multi-faceted life of Dr. Hansberry demonstrates the trials, tribulations and triumphs of an architect of America’s future Black Studies Departments. His work demonstrates that the missing pages of World History and Culture is African History...
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An English Education Scholar Study: Meeting Louise Rosenblatt
- By: David R. Wellens
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 16 mins
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An important part of the education of a researcher is to better know the scholars who have informed your own work. A giant to those in the field of English Education is Louise M. Rosenblatt. Her Reader Response Theory, Transactional Analysis and contributions to the understanding of Reading Theory and the Teaching of Literature cannot be overstated. This Scholar Study will provide an overview of the choice of this scholar, details of the education and significant contributions of this scholar, notable publications and, in addition, reflections and implications for my own work going forward.
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Virtual Voice meshed very well with this particular text.
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By: David R. Wellens
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To the Beat Of Leadership
- A Story of High and Low Notes
- By: Dr. Mervin Jenkins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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Dr. Mervin Jenkins—hip-hop artist, educator, husband, and father—takes readers on a journey in leadership unlike any other. It is a story of a reluctant learner/leader and how his lived experiences, sometimes referenced as “sword in the stone” moments, have contributed to his life’s purpose. His life transformation from average to spectacular did not come without its share of crucial and heartfelt moments. Dr. Jenkins took a pair of things that many said could never coexist, hip-hop and “traditional” education, and made the melding of the two his life’s work. In To the Beat ...
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The WATS Journey
- A Personal Narrative
- By: Gary S. Maxey
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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A captivating and very readable account of the Christian missionary experiences of a family serving in Nigeria for more than thirty years and helping to birth what has become the largest nondenominational seminary in Africa, with 800 pastors in training from more than 100 denominations. The author starts with both the goods news and the bad news about the challenges of modern Nigeria, and carries the reader through the development of one of Africa’s most strategic theological schools, West Africa Theological Seminary. In the Introduction, Dr. Timothy Tennent, president of Asbury ...
By: Gary S. Maxey
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Please I Can to the Toilet Go?
- The Memoirs of a Supply Teacher
- By: Guy Newmountain
- Narrated by: Andrew Sykes
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Ever wondered what it’s like to be a supply teacher? This is the book for you! Artist and illustrator Guy Newmountain, a time-served teacher at the chalk-face for 25 years and a familiar sight to thousands of pupils across the spectrum from nursery to sixth form, tells a succession of school-related anecdotes with a healthy dose of self-deprecating humour. Some are hysterically funny and a few sad; others heart-stopping and deadly serious…
By: Guy Newmountain