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An Extravagant Hunger
- The Passionate Years of M. F. K. Fisher
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Exploring Fisher's lonely and formative time in Europe with her first husband; her subsequent divorce and remarriage to her creative spark plug, Dillwyn Parrish, and his tragic suicide; and the child she carried from an unnamed father, the story of M. F. K. Fisher's life becomes as vibrant and passionate as her prolific words on wine and cuisine.
Letters and journal entries piece together a dramatic life, but An Extravagant Hunger steps further, bridging the gaps between personal notes and her public persona, filling in the silences by offering an engaging and unprecedented depth of intuitive commentary. With a passion of her own, Anne Zimmerman is the careful witness, lingering beside M. F. K. Fisher through her most dramatic and productive years.
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A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking - what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives. It's a lively and unpredictable array of women; what they have in common with one another (and us) is a powerful relationship with food.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, but don't think the book's premise...
- De Jay Quintana en 09-15-17
De: Laura Shapiro
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Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty
- An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother
- De: Kate Hennessy
- Narrado por: Randye Kaye
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a prominent Catholic, writer, social activist, and cofounder of a movement dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor. Her life has been revealed through her own writings as well as the work of historians, theologians, and academics. What has been missing until now is a more personal account from the point of view of someone who knew her well.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Great content.HORRIBLE Narration. Cannot listen.
- De Christian en 04-21-17
De: Kate Hennessy
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In the Great Green Room
- The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
- De: Amy Gary
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 65
The extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children's classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown. Margaret's books have sold millions of copies all over the world, but few people know that she was at the center of a children's book publishing revolution.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Excruciatingly boring
- De Melissa S. en 01-31-19
De: Amy Gary
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Reading My Father
- A Memoir
- De: Alexandra Styron
- Narrado por: Alexandra Styron
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 38
Alexandra Styron's parents—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie’s Choice and his political activist wife, Rose—were, for half a century, leading players on the world’s cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist’s life. It is also a tale of filial love, beautifully written with humor, compassion, and grace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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William Styron Ranks...
- De Douglas en 12-22-13
De: Alexandra Styron
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The Dark Flood Rises
- A Novel
- De: Dame Margaret Drabble
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 124
Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the sudden death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a floodplain in the West Country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Observed By An Exceptional Writer
- De Sara en 03-22-17
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Cooking as Fast as I Can
- A Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
- De: Cat Cora
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
In Cooking as Fast as I Can, Cat Cora reveals, for the first time, coming-of-age experiences from early childhood sexual abuse to the realities of life as a lesbian in the Deep South. She shares how she found her passion in the kitchen and went on to attend the prestigious Culinary Institute of America and apprentice under Michelin-star chefs in France. After her big break as a cohost on the Food Network's Melting Pot, Cat broke barriers by becoming the first-ever female Iron Chef.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen for a chef
- De Nikki en 04-10-24
De: Cat Cora
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
- The Journals of Alice Walker
- De: Alice Walker, Valerie Boyd - editor
- Narrado por: Aunjanue Ellis, Alice Walker, Janina Edwards
- Duración: 22 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
From National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s 50 years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women’s activist, and intellectual.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must-read for any creative artist!!
- De amazonluver en 04-30-22
De: Alice Walker, y otros
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The Voice is All
- The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
- De: Joyce Johnson
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
In The Voice Is All, Joyce Johnson - coauthor of the classic memoir Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac - brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show how, caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities. Looking more deeply than previous biographers into how Kerouac's French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider's vision of America, she tracks his development from boyhood through the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in the composition of On the Road.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kerouac's Voice
- De Robert L. Stofel en 09-26-12
De: Joyce Johnson
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Mother Daughter Me
- A Memoir
- De: Katie Hafner
- Narrado por: Katie Hafner
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner's remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions. Dreaming of a "year in Provence" with her mother, Katie urges Helen to move to San Francisco to live with her and Zoe, Katie's teenage daughter. Katie and Zoe had become a mother-daughter team, strong enough, Katie thought, to absorb the arrival of a 77-year-old woman set in her ways....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listen and be swept away!
- De Barbara Quick en 06-02-22
De: Katie Hafner
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This Close to Happy
- A Reckoning with Depression
- De: Daphne Merkin
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 58
This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I should be the last person to recommend this book
- De Mariaposa en 03-04-17
De: Daphne Merkin
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Bonjour, Happiness!
- Secrets to Finding Your Joie de Vivre
- De: Jamie Cat Callan
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 61
As a young girl, Jamie Cat Callan was fascinated by her French grandmother. Though she had little money, Jamie's grand-mère ate well, dressed well, and took joy in simple, everyday pleasures. As Jamie journeyed through France as an adult, she gained more insight into the differences between French and American women. French women - whether doctors, shop owners, or housewives - don't worry about being thin enough, young enough, or accomplished enough.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a delight
- De Jan Kovac en 02-28-16
De: Jamie Cat Callan
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Labyrinths
- Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl, and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis
- De: Catrine Clay
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 31
Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. But the strict rules of proper Swiss society at the beginning of the 20th century dictated that a woman of Emma's stature - one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland - travel to Paris to "finish" her education, to prepare for marriage to a suitable man. Engaged to the son of one of her father's wealthy business colleagues, Emma's conventional and predictable life was upended when she met Carl Jung.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Carl plays center stage
- De Sparrowhawk en 12-23-16
De: Catrine Clay
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An Apple a Day
- A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia
- De: Emma Woolf
- Narrado por: Emma Woolf
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 110
I haven't tasted chocolate for over ten years and now I'm walking down the street unwrapping a Kit Kat. Remember when Kate Moss said, 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'? She's wrong: chocolate does. At the age of 32, after ten years of hiding from the truth, Emma Woolf finally decided it was time to face the biggest challenge of her life. Addicted to hunger, exercise and control, she was juggling a full-blown eating disorder with a successful career, functioning on an apple a day.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A memoir of a silver spoon, maybe.
- De S. covely en 06-05-16
De: Emma Woolf
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Funny in Farsi
- A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
- De: Firoozeh Dumas
- Narrado por: Firoozeh Dumas
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,085
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,653
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,653
In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The melting pot, next generation
- De Jerry en 02-15-08
De: Firoozeh Dumas
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House of Dreams
- The Life of L.M. Montgomery
- De: Liz Rosenberg, Julie Morstad - illustrator
- Narrado por: Susan Hanfield
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Maud who adored stories. When she was fourteen years old, Maud wrote in her journal, "I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them." Not only did Maud grow up to own lots of books, she wrote twenty-four of them herself as L. M. Montgomery, the world-renowned author of Anne of Green Gables. For many years, her lifelong struggles with anxiety and depression, her "year of mad passion" and her difficult married life were buried deep within her unpublished personal journals....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Home’o’dreams
- De Steve G. en 02-25-20
De: Liz Rosenberg, y otros
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Zelda Fitzgerald
- The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess
- De: Sally Cline
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 74
Zelda Fitzgerald was the mythical American Dream Girl of the Roaring Twenties who became, in the words of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, "the first American flapper." Their romance transformed a symbol of glamour and spectacle of the Jazz Age. When Zelda cracked up, not long after the stock market crash of 1929, Scott remained loyal to her through a nightmare of later breakdowns and final madness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The Beautiful and the Bungled
- De Silverthorne en 12-08-17
De: Sally Cline
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Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust
- De: Planaria Price, Helen Reichmann West
- Narrado por: Ilyana Kadushin
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Meet Barbara Reichmann, once known as Gucia Gomolinska: smart, determined, independent, and steadfast in the face of injustice. A Jew growing up in predominantly Catholic Poland during the 1920s and ’30s, Gucia studies hard, makes friends, falls in love, and dreams of a bright future. Her world is turned upside down when Nazis invade Poland and establish the first Jewish ghetto of World War II in her town of Piotrko´w Trybunalski.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Nordic Artisan en 07-09-18
De: Planaria Price, y otros