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  • Society's Child: My Autobiography

    "Wonderful - Highly Recommend"

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    Would you consider the audio edition of Society's Child to be better than the print version?

    How can you possibly beat a well-read autobiography about a musician when that artist performs the songs as she tells the story. Well-read, naturally beautifully performed.

    Just lovely.


    What was one of the most memorable moments of Society's Child?

    When she described how she came up with her hit "At Seventeen."


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    Society's Child: My Autobiography

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    Janis Ian was catapulted into the spotlight in 1966 at the age of 15, when her soul-wrenching song "Society's Child" became a hit. But this was only the beginning of a long and illustrious career. In Society's Child, Janis Ian provides a relentlessly honest account of the successes and failures - and the hopes and dreams - of an extraordinary life.

    Kathleen says: "Wonderful - Highly Recommend"
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    The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

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    Terrific hatchet job. Entertaining and full of obscure and senseless observations of Murdochian thought and behavior. Great narration too.

  • The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty
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    "beyond the vines"

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    This book provided a very deep dive into the history of the Mondavi family, and its rise and fall in the wine business. Full of details, you get a great taste of the family dynamics as well as a glimpse into how the wine industry works. Solid narration and well flowing story.

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    "it's always day one"

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    Well detailed history of Jeff Bezos and the company he built, with a clear sense that it ain't over yet. Even with 20/20 hindsight, I think few people saw the power of the web in the way Bezos did.

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    "how one person can lever his influence"

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    Not a rehash of business rag articles, but stories based upon the author's first hand knowledge during the time he actually worked for Steve Jobs. Solid narration.
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  • Society's Child: My Autobiography

    "Fascinating story. Couldn't stop l..."

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    I really didn't know much about Janis Ian or her music. I was familiar with a couple of her hits. I listened to this mainly because it got rave reviews from other listeners. This isn't the typical book I listen to on a regular basis. I am more the business book and self-help type but decided I wanted a break. Her story was extremely fascinating and provided a wonderful glimpse into what it is like to make it and not make it in the music world.

    She tells her story, and its a life with wild ups and downs, in such an open and honest way. She is a fantastic story teller/narrator, which makes sense as she is a singer songwriter. This has been one of my favorite audiobooks. Love the fact that in the audiobook you get to hear her music all along the way.

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    Janis Ian was catapulted into the spotlight in 1966 at the age of 15, when her soul-wrenching song "Society's Child" became a hit. But this was only the beginning of a long and illustrious career. In Society's Child, Janis Ian provides a relentlessly honest account of the successes and failures - and the hopes and dreams - of an extraordinary life.

    Kathleen says: "Wonderful - Highly Recommend"

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    Janis Ian was catapulted into the spotlight in 1966 at the age of 15, when her soul-wrenching song "Society's Child" became a hit. But this was only the beginning of a long and illustrious career. In Society's Child, Janis Ian provides a relentlessly honest account of the successes and failures - and the hopes and dreams - of an extraordinary life.

    Kathleen says: "Wonderful - Highly Recommend"
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    jeff says: "AMAZING read"
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    Mike says: "A Good Listen"
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    Toru says: "interesting insight into interwar period!"

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  • Walt Disney: The Mouse That Roared: Legends of Animation
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    Walt Disney: The Mouse That Roared: Legends of Animation

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    • By Jeff Lenburg
    • Narrated By Al Kessel
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    Best known for creating Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney is one of the 20th century's most honored and important icons of animation. Nominated for 63 Academy Awards, he produced many cartoons and feature films considered classics today. Walt Disney: The Mouse That Roared delves into this man's colorful life, explaining the inspiration for his classic creations and revolutionary animation techniques.

  • Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966–2012: A Fortune Magazine Book
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    Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966–2012: A Fortune Magazine Book

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    • By Carol J. Loomis
    • Narrated By Susan Boyce, Barry Press
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    When Carol Loomis first mentioned a little-known Omaha hedge-fund manager in a 1966 Fortune article, she didn’t dream that Warren Buffett would one day be considered the world’s greatest investor - nor that she and Buffett would become close personal friends. Now Loomis has collected and updated the best Buffett articles Fortune published between 1966 and 2012, including thirteen cover stories and a dozen pieces authored by Buffett himself. Loomis has provided commentary about each major arti­cle that supplies context and her own informed point of view.

  • Roger Ailes: Off Camera
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    Roger Ailes: Off Camera

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    • By Zev Chafets
    • Narrated By Erik Synnestvedt
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    As the creator and leader of Fox News, the most influential news network in the country, Roger Ailes is the quintessential man behind the curtain. To liberals, Ailes is an evil genius who helped polarize the country by breaking the mainstream media’s long monopoly on what constitutes news. To conservatives, he’s a champion of free speech and fair reporting whose values and view of America reflect their own. But no one doubts that Ailes has transformed journalism. Yet for all that fame and infamy, very few people know the real person behind the headlines.

  • House of Getty
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    House of Getty

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    • By Russell Miller
    • Narrated By Joel Saunders
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    The tormented saga of the Getty family reads like the script for Dynasty, interweaving boardroom battles, sex, money, drugs, power, crime, tragedy, and family intrigue. At the center stands the figure of John Paul Getty, the grandfather, an eccentric oil billionaire believed to have been the richest man in the world. Married and divorced five times, he had five sons, and yet was cheated of his dearest ambition-to found an oil dynasty. His angelic youngest son died at age twelve after years of illness.

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  • Painfully Rich
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    Painfully Rich

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    • By John Pearson
    • Narrated By Martin Dew
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    Oil tycoon J. Paul Gerry created the greatest fortune in America - and came close to destroying his own family in the process. Of his four sons who reached manhood, only one survived relatively unscathed. One killed himself, one became a drug-addicted recluse and the third had to bear the stigma all his life of being disinherited in childhood. The unhappiness continued into the next generation, with the name Getty, as one journalist put it, 'becoming synonymous for family dysfunction'.

  • The Savage Way: Successfully Navigating the Waves of Business
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    The Savage Way: Successfully Navigating the Waves of Business

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    • By Frank Savage
    • Narrated By George Washington III
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    Frank Savage's is an unlikely success story. Raised in segregated Washington, DC, by his mother, a hairdresser and entrepreneur with little formal education, Savage's career has taken him around the world as a globetrotting financier. From his first banking job at Citibank to his current position as Chairman Emeritus of Howard University, The Savage Way shares the life and business lessons he learned along the way.

  • I Was a Mad Man: How I Marched up Madison Avenue
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    I Was a Mad Man: How I Marched up Madison Avenue

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    • By Richard Gilbert
    • Narrated By Daniel Thomas May
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    When the Greatest Generation came marching home, they buckled right down to work. Marching Up Madison Avenue is the story of one of those men. Richard L. Gilbert, born in New York, devoted Giants fan in the cheap seats of Coogan s Bluff; CCNY grad; soldier, returned home in 1946. He needed a job. He found one in advertising. You don t know his name (yet) but you ll recognize his work. In a 40-year career Richard Gilbert and his intrepid staff of copywriters, designers, and artists at Gilbert Advertising changed how Americans thought.

  • Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy
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    Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy

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    • By John Wood
    • Narrated By Sean Pratt
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    The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive’s quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books What’s happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of 35, Wood quit a lucrative career to found the nonprofit Room to Read. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the Andrew Carnegie of the developing world", he strove to bring the lessons of the corporate world to the nonprofit sector - and succeeded spectacularly.

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  • Exposure: Inside the Olympus Scandal: How I Went from CEO to Whistleblower
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    • Michael Woodford

    Exposure: Inside the Olympus Scandal: How I Went from CEO to Whistleblower

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    • By Michael Woodford
    • Narrated By Roy McMillan
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    Shortly after Michael Woodford was made President and CEO of Olympus, his dream job turned into a nightmare. After discovering a series of bizarre mergers and acquisitions deals totalling $1.7 billion, he turned to his fellow executives and within weeks he was fired in a boardroom coup that shocked the international business world. Woodford went straight to the press - becoming the first CEO of a multinational to blow the whistle on his own company.

    Sumit says: "Intriguing insight into corporate Japan with gaps."
  • The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything
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    The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything

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    • By Jason Kelly
    • Narrated By Brett Barry
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    What do Dunkin' Donuts, J. Crew, Toys "R" Us, and Burger King have in common? They are all currently or just recently were owned, operated, and controlled by private equity firms. The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything takes the listener behind the scenes of these firms: their famous billionaire founders, the overlapping stories of their creation and evolution, and the outsized ambitions that led a group of clever bankers from small shops into powerhouse titans of capital.

    Arman says: "Enjoyable story, not so enjoyable narration"
  • Laker Girl
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    Laker Girl

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    The life story of Jeanie Buss could only have been written in Hollywood. Her father, Jerry Buss, emerged from a childhood of financial struggle to improbably become one of California’s most successful real estate developers. Though her life was not without turmoil - l her parents divorced when she was still a child - Jeanie’s world was forever changed for the better when her father bought the Los Angeles Lakers in 1979. By the time Jeanie was 19, she was already a high-ranking executive with World Team Tennis.

  • Amazing People of Russia - Volume 1: Inspirational Stories
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    Amazing People of Russia - Volume 1: Inspirational Stories

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    • By Charles Margerison
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    Russia is the largest country in the world and covers more than one eighth of the globe's inhabited land mass. So, it stands to reason that it has been home to many amazing people. The Amazing People Club takes you on a virtual historical journey into the lives of some of these inspirational contributors to this nation. Famous for her many lovers, Catherine the Great was also a strong leader who inspired loyalty and respect rather than fear and oppression - indeed she did not do things in a traditional manner.