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As he struggles to be a good officer, Ted Conover angers inmates, dodges blows, works to balance decency with toughness, and participates in prison rituals - strip frisks, cell searches, cell "extractions" - that exact a toll on inmates and officers alike. The tale begins with the corrections academy and ends with the flames and smoke of New Year's Eve on Conover's floor of the notorious B-Block. Along the way, Conover also recounts the history of Sing Sing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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THE BEST BOOK ON PRISON LIFE I HAVE EVER READ!!!
- De Steve en 06-27-09
De: Ted Conover
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The Reluctant Communist
- My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
- De: Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Fredrick
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 7 h
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In January of 1965, 24-year-old US Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence. Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where for 40 years he suffered under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes the world has known. This fast-paced, harrowing tale, told plainly and simply by Jenkins (with journalist Jim Frederick).
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent history and human story
- De Anonymous User en 09-16-21
De: Charles Robert Jenkins, y otros
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Strange Stones
- De: Peter Hessler
- Narrado por: George Backman
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
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Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage - a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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funny, entertaining
- De Katherine en 08-02-13
De: Peter Hessler
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Report from Engine Co. 82
- De: Dennis Smith
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 2 h y 55 m
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Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters battling unimaginable death and destruction every day. Dennis Smith worked as a firefighter in the South Bronx, New York City, and the graphic detail and gripping prose of this firefighting classic drives the most important, accomplished, terrifying audiobook ever published on firefighting.
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2 out of 5 stars
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stog was good
- De Bagladybl en 08-24-21
De: Dennis Smith
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The Pursuit of Happyness (Abridged)
- De: Chris Gardner
- Narrado por: Andre Blake
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
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At the age of 20, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm, Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him part of the city's working homeless with his toddler son.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Good Story!
- De Lito Da Critic en 06-02-06
De: Chris Gardner
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse
- Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
- De: Dan Barry
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual disabilities and all from Texas, lived in an old schoolhouse. Before dawn each morning, they were bussed to a nearby processing plant, where they eviscerated turkeys in return for food, lodging, and $65 a month. They lived in near servitude for more than 30 years, enduring increasing neglect, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Our Brothers' Keepers?
- De Gillian en 12-01-16
De: Dan Barry
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- De: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 22 h y 40 m
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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superior non-fiction
- De Lila en 05-20-11
De: Isabel Wilkerson
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The Lobster Chronicles
- Life on a Very Small Island
- De: Linda Greenlaw
- Narrado por: Linda Greenlaw
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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After 17 years at sea, Linda Greenlaw figured it was time to take a break from her career as a swordboat captain. She felt she needed to return to Isle au Haut - a tiny island seven miles from the Maine coast with a population of 70 year-round residents, 30 of whom were her relatives. She would pursue a simpler life; move back in with her parents and get to know them again; become a professional lobsterman; and find a guy, build a house, have kids, and settle down. But all doesn't go as planned.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Was this narration sped up?
- De Linda Vanaman en 10-12-15
De: Linda Greenlaw
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What's So Funny?
- My Hilarious Life
- De: Tim Conway, Jane Scovell, Carol Burnett - foreword
- Narrado por: Tim Conway, Carol Burnett, Dick Hill, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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Six-time Emmy Award-winning funnyman Tim Conway, best known for his characters on The Carol Burnett Show, offers a straight-shooting and hilarious memoir about his life on stage and off as an actor and comedian. In television history, few entertainers have captured as many hearts and made as many people laugh as Tim Conway. There's nothing in the world that Tim Conway would rather do than entertain - and in his first-ever memoir, What's So Funny?, that's exactly what he does.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not narrated by Tim
- De Bob Murdock en 05-05-14
De: Tim Conway, y otros
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I Invented the Modern Age
- The Rise of Henry Ford and the Most Important Car Ever Made
- De: Richard Snow
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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In many ways, Henry Ford's story is well-known; in many more ways, it is not. Richard Snow masterfully weaves together a fascinating narrative of Ford's rise to fame through his greatest invention, the Model T. A highly pleasurable listen, filled with scenes and incidents from Ford's life, I Invented the Modern Age shows Richard Snow at the height of his powers as a popular historian and reclaims from history Henry Ford, the remarkable man who, indeed, invented the modern world as we know it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Complicated Man
- De Jean en 11-23-13
De: Richard Snow
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Signals: New and Selected Stories
- De: Tim Gautreaux
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with 12 new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina, and even in midwinter Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith, and the pros and cons of tight-knit communities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfection! Amazing writer/amazing reader
- De Monique en 01-08-19
De: Tim Gautreaux
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Saltwater Cowboy
- The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire
- De: Tim McBride, Ralph Berrier Jr.
- Narrado por: Wes Talbot
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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In 1979, Wisconsin native Tim McBride hopped into his Mustang and headed south. He was 21, and his best friend had offered him a job working as a crab fisherman in Chokoloskee Island, a town of fewer than 500 people on Florida's Gulf Coast. Easy of disposition and eager to experience life at its richest, McBride jumped in with both feet. But this wasn't a typical fishing outfit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great made even better by the fact it's non fictio
- De Porkchop en 01-11-18
De: Tim McBride, y otros
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Confessions of a Crap Artist
- De: Philip K. Dick
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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Jack Isidore doesn’t see the world like most people. According to his brother-in-law, Charley, he’s a crap artist, obsessed with his own bizarre theories and ideas, which he fanatically records in his many notebooks. He is so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But while Fay and Charley Hume put on a happy face for the world, they prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack’s but a great deal uglier.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The moods of the mass can't be fathomed...
- De Darwin8u en 05-21-18
De: Philip K. Dick
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The Upside
- A Memoir
- De: Abdel Sellou
- Narrado por: Ray Chase
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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In 1992, Count Phillippe Pozzo di Borgo, on the heels of his wife's diagnosis with a terminal illness, suffered a paragliding accident that left him a quadriplegic. Forty-two years old, trapped inside his luxurious Paris town house, he was an outcast for the first time in his life. Abdel, an unemployed Algerian immigrant who had been an outcast for his entire existence, would become Phillipe's unlikely caretaker. Quick-thinking, unsentimental, and more than a little wild, Abdel surprises both himself and his employer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved it
- De RockyDog en 01-31-19
De: Abdel Sellou
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The King of California
- J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
- De: Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 19 h y 29 m
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J. G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions, and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields". The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s, drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story of California Ag history
- De Jean en 08-11-14
De: Mark Arax, y otros
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Detroit
- An American Autopsy
- De: Charlie LeDuff
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age - mass production, automobiles, and blue-collar jobs - Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, foreclosure, and dropouts. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark and the righteous indignation that only a native son can possess, journalist Charlie LeDuff sets out to uncover what has brought low this once-vibrant city, his city.
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3 out of 5 stars
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WOW
- De Avid Reader and Listener en 07-09-13
De: Charlie LeDuff