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The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty. It all started back home in Virginia, with the blue sweater, a gift that quickly became her prized possession - until the day she outgrew it and gave it away to Goodwill. Eleven years later in Africa, she spotted a young boy wearing that very sweater, with her name still on the tag inside.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Heartfelt Testament
- De Gallantly Rabbit! en 01-23-11
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No Greater Love
- De: Levi Benkert, Candy Chand
- Narrado por: Kelly Ryan Dolan
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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Levi Benkert was playing with his children in the park when he received an urgent phone call from a friend asking him to drop everything and fly to Ethiopia to help organize a rescue orphanage for children destined to be murdered as part of a tribal superstition known as "mingi". In tribal culture, children and infants with even the slightest defect are considered "cursed" and are killed by their own parents, who fear allowing the children to live will cause bad luck to descend on the village. Moved by his friend's story, Levi packed his bags and left.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- De Amazon Customer en 01-22-18
De: Levi Benkert, y otros
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Find Me Unafraid
- Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
- De: Kennedy Odede, Jessica Posner
- Narrado por: Korey Jackson, Mandy Siegfried, P.J. Ochlan (foreword)
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. With a foreword by Nicholas Kristof.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A difficult and rewarding listen
- De R. MCRACKAN en 08-23-18
De: Kennedy Odede, y otros
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The International Bank of Bob
- Connecting Our World One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time
- De: Bob Harris
- Narrado por: Bob Harris
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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Hired by ForbesTraveler.com to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on Earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs create such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: He would turn his own good fortune into an effort to make lives like theirs better.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderfully entertaining and accessible book
- De Tim en 01-15-14
De: Bob Harris
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Bend, Not Break
- A Life in Two Worlds
- De: Ping Fu, MeiMei Fox
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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Ping Fu knows what it’s like to be a child soldier, a factory worker, and a political prisoner. To be beaten and raped for the crime of being born into a well-educated family. To be deported with barely enough money for a plane ticket to a bewildering new land. To start all over, without family or friends, as a maid, waitress, and student. Ping Fu also knows what it’s like to be a pioneering software programmer, an innovator, a CEO, and Inc. magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A true account as good as any Horatio Alger story!
- De Roy B. Paschal en 01-14-13
De: Ping Fu, y otros
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It Happened on the Way to War
- A Marine's Path to Peace
- De: Rye Barcott
- Narrado por: Rye Barcott
- Duración: 14 h y 36 m
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In 2000 Rye Barcott spent part of his summer living in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He was a college student heading into the Marines, and he sought to better understand ethnic violence - something he would likely face later in uniform. He learned Swahili, asked questions, and listened to young people talk about how they survived in poverty he had never imagined.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not What You Think It Is
- De Hailey en 10-01-12
De: Rye Barcott
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The Fox Hunt
- A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America
- De: Mohammed Al Samawi
- Narrado por: Assaf Cohen
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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Born in the Old City of Sana’a, Yemen, to a pair of middle-class doctors, Mohammed Al Samawi was a devout Muslim raised to think of Christians and Jews as his enemy. But when Mohammed was 23, he secretly received a copy of the Bible, and what he read cast doubt on everything he’d previously believed. After connecting with Jews and Christians on social media, and at various international interfaith conferences, Mohammed became an activist, making it his mission to promote dialogue and cooperation in Yemen. Then came the death threats....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging and informative memoir
- De Mark en 08-02-18
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Dreams from My Father
- A Story of Race and Inheritance
- De: Barack Obama
- Narrado por: Barack Obama
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a Black African father and a White American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a Black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful
- De Gene R. en 10-26-21
De: Barack Obama
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Miracle on Voodoo Mountain
- A Young Woman's Remarkable Story of Pushing Back the Darkness for the Children of Haiti
- De: Megan Boudreaux
- Narrado por: Hayley Cresswell
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
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"It took months of God waking me up in the middle of the night before I realized I was the one He was calling to leave my comfortable American life and move to Haiti." Miracle on Voodoo Mountain is the inspirational memoir of an accomplished and driven 24-year-old who quit her job, sold everything, and moved to Haiti, by herself - all without a clear plan of action. Megan Boudreaux had visited Haiti on a few humanitarian trips but each trip multiplied the sense that someone needed to address the devastation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Serving a Limitless God
- De Debbie en 10-22-15
De: Megan Boudreaux
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Street of Eternal Happiness
- Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
- De: Rob Schmitz
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas, and opportunity. Marketplace's Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighborhood, forging deep relationships with ordinary people who see in the city's sleek skyline a brighter future, and a chance to rewrite their destinies.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Deserving of better audio
- De Rachael en 02-19-18
De: Rob Schmitz
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God's Double Agent
- The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom
- De: Bob Fu, Nancy French
- Narrado por: Hayden Lee
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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God’s people are hiding in plain sightTens of millions of Christians live in China today, leading double lives to hide from a government that relentlessly persecutes them. By day, Bob Fu was a teacher in a communist school; by night, he was a preacher in an underground house church network. This edge-of-your-seat book tells the true story of Fu’s conversion to Christianity, his arrest and imprisonment for starting an illegal house church, his harrowing escape, and his subsequent rise to prominence in the United States as an advocate for his oppressed brethren.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a great book, very informative.
- De Charles en 09-21-15
De: Bob Fu, y otros
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I Like Giving
- The Transforming Power of a Generous Life
- De: Brad Formsma
- Narrado por: Brad Formsma
- Duración: 3 h y 36 m
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When you choose to live a generous life, you start to change, and so does the world around you. Something incredible happens when giving becomes your own idea, not something you do out of duty or obligation.When you move from awareness to action, miracles happen. As you make giving a lifestyle, you'll realize you're not only loving life more, you're also creating a more generous world - a better world for all of us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wolrd Changing Words
- De Jay en 09-24-18
De: Brad Formsma
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Without You, There Is No Us
- My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
- De: Suki Kim
- Narrado por: Janet Song
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields - except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST).
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4 out of 5 stars
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The King and I meets Mary Poppins
- De Michael en 02-22-15
De: Suki Kim
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Kidnapped by the Taliban
- A Story of Terror, Hope, and Rescue by SEAL Team Six
- De: Dilip Joseph
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 5 h y 53 m
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An American physician in rural Afghanistan faces the unimaginable. Dilip Joseph dreams of life as a medical humanitarian. In 2009 his dream comes true as he joins the staff of Colorado-based Morning Star Development, a nonprofit community and economic development organization. On December 5, 2012, Dr. Joseph and two native colleagues, en route from a medical clinic in an Afghan village to Kabul, find themselves face-to-face with four men carrying AK-47s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Good Story
- De The Paramedic en 04-27-15
De: Dilip Joseph
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Schuyler's Monster
- A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter
- De: Robert Rummel-Hudson
- Narrado por: Johnathan McClain
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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When Schuyler Rummel-Hudson was 18 months old, a question about her lack of speech by her pediatrician set in motion a journey that continues today. When she was diagnosed with bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria (an extremely rare neurological disorder), her parents were given a name for the monster that had been stalking them from doctor to doctor, and from despair to hope, and back again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must-read for medical parents & those who ❤them
- De Kelly A. Wolske en 05-23-18
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The Power of a Plant
- A Teacher's Odyssey to Grow Healthy Minds and Schools
- De: Stephen Ritz, Suzie Boss
- Narrado por: Stephen Ritz
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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In The Power of a Plant, globally acclaimed teacher and self-proclaimed CEO (Chief Eternal Optimist) Stephen Ritz shows you how, in one of the nation's poorest communities, his students thrive in school and in life by growing, cooking, eating, and sharing the bounty of their green classroom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thanks For The Power Of A Plant
- De Pedalingfree en 05-08-21
De: Stephen Ritz, y otros
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River Town
- Two Years on the Yangtze
- De: Peter Hessler
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 14 h y 36 m
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In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Peter Berkrot Again?
- De Abstraction en 07-10-11
De: Peter Hessler
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The Honor Was Mine
- De: Elizabeth Heaney MA LPC
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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When therapist Elizabeth Heaney left her private practice to counsel military service members and their families, she came face-to-face with unheard-of struggles and fears. Emotions run deeply - and often silently - in the hearts of combat veterans in this eye-opening portrait of the complex, nuanced lives of service personnel, who return from battling the enemy and grapple with readjusting to civilian life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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About the Counselor, Not the Soldiers
- De Debbie en 04-03-20
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Beyond Good Intentions
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- David Mont
- 06-11-19
Very Insightful!
If you are into humanitarian work, NGOs or international health programs this book is a must!
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- ken
- 05-02-14
Don't waste your time!
Would you try another book from Tori Hogan and/or Robin Miles?
Never!
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Narrator was fine, it was the content that sucked!
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Beyond Good Intentions?
Just too much to list.
Any additional comments?
When I bought this book I was expecting so much more than just someone whinning about America GIVING food and money to a Country much older than America and should be much much more established. America has given Billions of dollars in aid to Africa and now according to this author they(Africa) want's to DICTATE to those countries giving it aid how and what to give? Are you kidding me! Yes we should teach the less fortunate how to fish instead of just giving them the fish, but no way in heck do you have the right to tell someone or a country how and what to GIVE you. What kinda of a "special" moron are you? Geez, then to re-patriot these folks to America, WHY in the sam hill would we do that? I/We fought for what America is today and now you just want to give it away? Like heck! Author is just TOTALLY clueless to the WORLD!
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