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What do Abraham Lincoln, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Louis Pasteur, Frederick Douglass, Florence Nightingale, and John D. Rockefeller, Sr., all have in common? They all changed the world - and they were all Christians. Now the little-known stories of faith behind 12 influential people of history are available in one inspiring volume. They Were Christians reveals the faith-filled motivations behind some of the most outstanding political, scientific, and humanitarian contributions of history.
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Great book
- De Amazon Customer en 12-10-18
De: Cristobal Krusen
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J. D. Salinger: A Life
- De: Kenneth Slawenski
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
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One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now comes a new biography that Peter Ackroyd in the Times of London calls "energetic and magnificently researched" - a book from which "a true picture of Salinger emerges". Filled with new information and revelations garnered from countless interviews, letters, and public records, J. D. Salinger: A Life presents an extraordinary life that spanned nearly the entire 20th century.
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Kierkegaard
- A Single Life
- De: Stephen Backhouse
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
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An accessible, expert introduction to one of the greatest minds of 19th century. Whether you're completely new to him, or if you're already familiar with his work, Kierkegaard: A Single Life presents a fresh understanding of his life and thought. Kierkegaard was a brilliant and enigmatic loner whose ideas permeated culture, shaped modern Christianity, and influenced people as diverse as Franz Kafka and Martin Luther King Jr. Though few people today have read his work, that lack of familiarity with the real Kierkegaard is changing with this biography by scholar Stephen Backhouse.
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Great!
- De Will en 07-11-17
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C.S. Lewis
- A Biography of Friendship
- De: Colin Duriez
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
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An Oxford student of C.S. Lewis' said he found his new tutor interesting and was told by J.R.R. Tolkien, "Interesting? Yes, he's certainly that. You'll never get to the bottom of him." You can learn a great deal about people by their friends and nowhere is this more true than in the case of C.S. Lewis, the remarkable academic, author, popularizer of faith - and creator of Narnia. He lost his mother early in life and became estranged from his father, much to his regret.
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It's a Great Concept
- De James en 08-13-20
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My Rebbe
- De: Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
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Part biography, part memoir, part manual for great leadership, My Rebbe explores the evolution of Chabad's global success, its central beliefs and practices, the Rebbe's personal history, and his vision to inspire change. This moving narrative, written by one of today's most influential Jewish thinkers, will motivate listeners to contemplate their own mission in the world and aspire toward meaningful living.
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Exceeds Expectations
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Making History
- The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
- De: Richard Cohen
- Narrado por: Richard Cohen
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There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as “objective” history? In this “witty, wise, and elegant” (The Spectator), book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses, such as the writers of the Bible, novelists, and political propagandists, influence what becomes the accepted record. Cohen argues, for example, that some historians are practitioners of “Bad History” and twist reality to glorify themselves or their country.
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Missing 20 pages from book
- De Rick, Austin en 04-23-22
De: Richard Cohen
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Georgette Heyer
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- De: Jennifer Kloester
- Narrado por: Phyllida Nash
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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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Heyer as a person
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
- De: Gerald Martin
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
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In his novels and short stories, Gabriel García Márquez has transformed the particulars of his own life and the lives of his fellow Colombians into wondrous fiction. While telling the story of the sloppily dressed, skinny young man who rose from obscurity as a provincial journalist to international fame as the progenitor of a new literature, Gerald Martin also considers the tensions in García Márquez's life between celebrity and the personal quest for literary quality, between politics and writing, and between the seductions of power, solitude, and love.
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Great content, somewhat disappointing narrator.
- De Paola Herrington en 01-08-13
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
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Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
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The Road to Monticello
- The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
- De: Kevin J. Hayes
- Narrado por: David Baker
- Duración: 25 h y 59 m
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Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer - a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president.
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Very Boring Book
- De Greg en 05-13-14
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Rosalind Franklin
- A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Women in History)
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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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The Search for God and Guinness
- A Biography of the Beer That Changed the World
- De: Stephen Mansfield
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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The history of Guinness, one of the world's most famous brands, reveals the noble heights and generosity of a great family and an innovative business. It began in Ireland in the mid-1700s. The water in Ireland, indeed throughout Europe, was famously undrinkable, and the gin and whiskey that took its place devastated civil society. It was a disease-ridden, starvation-plagued, alcoholic age.
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Quaint little evangelical pamphlet
- De ethan gage en 10-30-19
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Manifesto
- On Never Giving Up
- De: Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrado por: Bernardine Evaristo
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From the best-selling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism.
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Glorious performance and inspiring story
- De Maggi Morehouse en 01-25-22
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre J.R.R. Tolkien
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- john
- 08-21-15
A great story marred by an awful narration
Would you try another book from Wyatt North and/or David Glass?
For the life of me, I cannot understand why the producers chose this narrator, and then stuck with him throughout production. Nasal, high pitched, using an odd rhythm and accenting all the wrong places in the flow of the story. Terrible reading. I have 400 some audio books and I'm never had to just abandon a book like this because of the narrator. How hard could it have been to get a good one? Or even a less bad one?
Would you be willing to try another one of David Glass’s performances?
No, no, no, no, no. Don't understand how he got into the business.
Was J.R.R. Tolkien worth the listening time?
No, because of the narration. I will read the book instead as I am a huge Tolkien fan.
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- Katherine Walden
- 10-11-17
Nice History of Tolkien
Good account of Tolkien's life, including the Inkling era. However, I wasn't impressed with the last two chapters that had nothing to do with Tolkien and were just previews of the author's biography on the current pope.
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- yanks45a1
- 06-08-18
Insight into a Genius Mind
A Life Inspired gives insight into what and who allows J.R.R. Tolkien to create the characters and worlds of Middle Earth. From his world of Oxford and "words" Tolkien creates a mixture of myth and fantasy. The voice of this book explains where Tolkien gets titles for villages and kingdoms. Tolkien would not let the discouragement of WWI to destroy his optimism thoughout his writing.
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- Lori
- 05-19-18
The narration was tolerable at 1.25
The biography was clear and concise, but the narration is one of the worst I've heard. Having said that, if I had set it to 1.25 to begin with, the beginning wouldn't have been as hard to listen to.
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- Lori from Utah
- 06-15-15
Informational
I like the book because I was able to learn more about Tolkien. I wanted him to go more in detail on the Lord of the rings. I would suggest the Book to any hard-core Lord of the rings fans.
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- Jessica Freeland
- 12-07-15
So interesting...
I have always been a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien and learning more of what inspired his works makes the series all the more special.
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- Sandy Hair
- 11-26-22
I’ve been pronouncing “Tolkien” wrong all these years.
A very informative biography and light literary analysis of Tolkien’s famous works. I had no idea about the conflict between Lewis and him about the philosophy of allegory. Great listen. Now I’ve got to reread the “Fellowship of the Rings.” Thank you Audible.
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- H Walker
- 08-19-16
it says Tolkien so I bought it. Not much to it.
it was ok. not new, nothing deep.
but why are the last few chapters on Pope Francis?
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- Bill
- 03-09-17
Good in formation......BUT.......
For such a short book it has plenty of information in it that is very interesting. Here is where the BUT comes in.......the narrator is beyond poor.....sounds like a robot very very poor and takes away from the book because of it.
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-05-15
college level report on Tolkien
Generic biography, about as thorough as it can be for being so short. *NOTE* this audio includes about 30 minutes of a book on pope Francis so it is even shorter than listed.
It would have been better if the author put more perspective on Tolkien and his times. This work comes across as "just the facts" without much pointed out as to why the facts are of interest.
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