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Helen Keller: A Life from Beginning to End
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Rosalind Franklin was what can only be called an overlooked genius. Although she was not fully credited for the feat at the time, her work led to major breakthroughs in our understanding of DNA. In fact, she took the first X-ray photo of DNA in all of its double helix glory. By the time her former colleagues were being showered with accolades for results they made at least partially based on her findings, Franklin would not be around to see it. Sadly, it’s believed that her use of X-ray equipment gave her terminal cancer, cutting her life short at age 37.
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Romantic Outlaws
- The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
- De: Charlotte Gordon
- Narrado por: Susan Lyons
- Duración: 22 h y 31 m
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Charlotte Gordon's new work is a fresh look at the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, who together comprise one of the most illustrious and inspiring mother-daughter pairs in history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Tons of info, poor format choice.
- De Gotta Tellya en 02-06-17
De: Charlotte Gordon
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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
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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with anxiety and depression, her "year of mad passion" and her difficult married life were buried deep within her unpublished personal journals....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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A Century of Wisdom
- Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor
- De: Caroline Stoessinger, Vaclav Havel - foreword
- Narrado por: Linda Korn
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Before her death at 110, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer was an eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one. She had seen it all, surviving the Theresienstadt concentration camp, attending the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, and along the way coming into contact with some of the most fascinating historical figures of our time. As a child in Prague, she spent weekends and holidays in the company of Franz Kafka (whom she knew as “Uncle Franz”), and Gustav Mahler, Sigmund Freud, and Rainer Maria Rilke were friendly with her mother.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring
- De Janet en 01-17-20
De: Caroline Stoessinger, y otros
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Frontier Grit
- The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
- De: Marianne Monson
- Narrado por: Caroline Shaffer
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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Discover the stories of 12 women who heard the call to settle the West and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journeys. As a slave Clara watched helplessly as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter as a free woman six decades later. As a young girl, Charlotte hid her gender to escape a life of poverty and became the greatest stagecoach driver who ever lived. As a Native American, Gertrude fought to give her people a voice and to educate leaders about the ways and importance of America's native people.
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2 out of 5 stars
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only ok
- De Jane Orr en 06-14-21
De: Marianne Monson
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Metaphysical Animals
- How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
- De: Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachae Wiseman
- Narrado por: Alex Dunmore
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war’s darkest revelations.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Book about nothing
- De Gerardo Naranjo Gonzalez en 06-14-22
De: Clare Mac Cumhaill, y otros
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The American Spirit
- Who We Are and What We Stand For
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 4 h y 13 m
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Over the course of his distinguished career, David McCullough has spoken before Congress, colleges and universities, historical societies, and other esteemed institutions. Now, at a time of self-reflection in America following a bitter election campaign that has left the country divided, McCullough has collected some of his most important speeches in a brief volume designed to identify important principles and characteristics that are particularly American.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Our New "OLD MAN ELOQUENT" Rides Again
- De Ray en 04-21-17
De: David McCullough
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I Am Dynamite!
- A Life of Nietzsche
- De: Sue Prideaux
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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Nietzsche wrote that all philosophy is autobiographical, and in this vividly compelling, myth-shattering biography, Sue Prideaux brings listeners into the world of this brilliant, eccentric, and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work. I Am Dynamite! is the essential biography for anyone seeking to understand history's most misunderstood philosopher.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating; tragic
- De Cineaste21 en 12-30-18
De: Sue Prideaux
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Tales of Wonder
- De: Huston Smith
- Narrado por: Michael McConnohie
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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Huston Smith, the man who brought the world's religions to the West, was born almost a century ago to missionary parents in China during the perilous rise of the Communist Party. Smith's lifelong spiritual journey brought him face-to-face with many of the people who shaped the 20th century. His extraordinary travels around the globe have taken him to the world's holiest places, where he has practiced religion with many of the great spiritual leaders of our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Takes of wonder for sure, by a wonderful man.
- De Dr. D. Brian Austin en 04-03-19
De: Huston Smith
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Eleanor and Hick
- The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
- De: Susan Quinn
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
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In 1932 Eleanor Roosevelt entered the claustrophobic, duty-bound existence of the first lady with dread. By that time she had put her deep disappointment in her marriage behind her and developed an independent life - now threatened by the public role she would be forced to play. A lifeline came to her in the form of a feisty campaign reporter for the Associated Press: Lorena Hickok. Over the next 30 years, until Eleanor's death, the two women carried on an extraordinary relationship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Icon who was real.
- De Francine Fields en 08-17-17
De: Susan Quinn
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Georgette Heyer
- Biography of a Bestseller
- De: Jennifer Kloester
- Narrado por: Phyllida Nash
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international best seller, read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today's best-selling authors. Despite her enormous popularity, she never gave an interview or appeared in public. Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, when she was 17 in order to amuse her convalescent brother. It was published in 1921 to instant success, and 90 years later it has never been out of print.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heyer as a person
- De Jerri C en 06-15-15
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Fully Alive
- Discovering What Matters Most
- De: Timothy Shriver
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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At a time when we are all more rudderless than ever, we look for the very best teachers and mentors to guide us. In Fully Alive, an unusual and gripping memoir, Timothy Shriver shows how his teachers have been the world's most forgotten minority: people with intellectual disabilities. In these pages we meet the individuals who helped him come of age and find a deeper and more meaningful way to see the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eye opening book
- De Robert J. Herman en 06-05-15
De: Timothy Shriver
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I Can See Clearly Now
- De: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
- Narrado por: Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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For many years, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer’s fans have wondered when he would write a memoir. Well, Wayne has finally done just that! However, he has written it in a way that only he can - with a remarkable take-home message for his longtime followers and new readers alike - and the result is an exciting new twist on the old format. Rather than a plain old memoir, Wayne has gathered together quantum-moment recollections.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not seeing so clear
- De char en 03-27-14
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Pearl Buck in China
- Journey to The Good Earth
- De: Hilary Spurling
- Narrado por: Hilary Spurling
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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The author of the much honored two-volume biography of Henri Matisse unearths the life and work of the Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels in the 1930's and 40's were the first written for a Western audience to describe ordinary life in the still secret China of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very good
- De M. Brandman en 06-15-10
De: Hilary Spurling
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Helen Keller: A Life from Beginning to End
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- Steven Ray Hill
- 02-19-20
So awesome!
I used to complain about how much my feet hurt until I met an amputee.
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- Elizabeth Williams
- 02-06-24
Superficial review
Read Wiki entry and save your money. Does not address complexities of Keller’s life. It is an outline for a book.
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