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This book gives listeners a glimpse into the life of someone living with bipolar disorder. It's not a clinical book filled with facts and figures, but a book of humanity.
Spanning childhood to early adulthood, through stories of abuse, being bullied, experimentation with drugs and alcohol, inpatient stays on psych wards, a night in jail, his college days in the fraternity, hitchhiking across America, and his time in a third world country, John gives the listener a personal and up-close look into his life as a manic depressive. The stories are sad, shocking, and at times funny as he shares his antics while at his most manic and delusional.
Throughout his journey, John also struggles with his faith in God. More Than the Madness is a testament of one man's journey to grow closer to God while gaining a better understanding of himself.
John wrote his story to help educate others on mental illness and remove some of the stigma associated with it. It is his hope that listeners will get to know the person behind the diagnosis; take away the labels and meet someone's son, friend, and husband. See that there is More Than the Madness.
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When Edward M. Hallowell was 11, a voice out of nowhere told him he should become a psychiatrist. A mental health professional of the time would have called this psychosis. But young Edward (Ned) took it in stride, despite not quite knowing what "psychiatrist" meant. With a psychotic father, an alcoholic mother, an abusive stepfather, and two so-called learning disabilities of his own, Ned was accustomed to unpredictable behaviour from those around him and to a mind he felt he couldn't always control.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love and connection permeates through this book!
- De Steve Steinmetz en 06-29-18
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The Pact
- Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream
- De: Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt
- Narrado por: Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 212
All too often, we hear about the dangers of male friendships in which peer pressure prevails over common sense. But for George Jenkins, Sampson Davis, and Rameck Hunt, strong and supportive male friendship was a powerful antidote to the temptations and pitfalls of street life. It led three boys to make a vow to be there for one another, to encourage one another every step of the way, until they overcame the odds and became doctors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Inspirational
- De Heather en 04-10-09
De: Drs. Sampson Davis, y otros
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The Pursuit of Happyness (Abridged)
- De: Chris Gardner
- Narrado por: Andre Blake
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 418
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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 Priority List
- A Teacher's Final Quest to Discover Life's Greatest Lessons
- De: David Menasche
- Narrado por: David Menasche
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 105
David Menasche lived for his work as a high school English teacher. His passion inspired his students, and between lessons on Shakespeare and sentence structure, he forged a unique bond with his kids, buoying them through personal struggles while sharing valuable life lessons.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truly Inspiring!!
- De Trish en 07-13-14
De: David Menasche
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The Todd Glass Situation
- A Bunch of Lies about My Personal Life and a Bunch of True Stories about My 30-Year Career in Standup Comedy
- De: Todd Glass, Jonathan Grotenstein
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
Growing up in a Philadelphia suburb in the 1970s was an easy life. Well, easy as long as you didn't have dyslexia or ADD, or were a Jew. And once you added gay into the mix, life became more difficult. So Todd Glass decided to hide the gay part, no matter how comic, tragic, or comically tragic the results. Now, Todd has written an open, honest, and hilarious memoir in an effort to help everyone - young and old, gay and straight - breathe a little more freely.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worth It
- De Heather en 11-17-14
De: Todd Glass, y otros
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They Called Me Number One
- Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
- De: Bev Sellars
- Narrado por: Bev Sellars
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 95
Like thousands of Aboriginal children in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school. These institutions endeavored to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings; forced separation from family, language, and culture; and strict discipline. In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. Joseph's Mission, Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school's lasting effects on her and her family and eloquently articulates her own path to healing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shame on Church and State
- De Susie en 08-22-17
De: Bev Sellars
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My Lobotomy
- A Memoir
- De: Howard Dully, Charles Fleming
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 324
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 209
"In 1960 I was given a transorbital, or 'ice pick' lobotomy. My stepmother arranged it. My father agreed to it. Dr. Walter Freeman, the father of the American lobotomy, told me he was going to do some 'tests'. It took 10 minutes and cost 200 dollars." Assisted by journalist/novelist Charles Fleming, Howard Dully recounts a family tragedy of Sophoclean proportions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Freeman's Folly
- De James Gordon en 10-28-07
De: Howard Dully, y otros
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The Last Rescue
- How Faith and Love Saved a Navy SEAL Sniper
- De: Howard Wasdin
- Narrado por: Daniel Butler
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
The Last Rescue is an unforgettable tale of brokenness and healing, going deep into the firing line of modern warfare, through the agony of broken marriages, and onto a path of redemption and love. With a clear-eyed view of the inevitability of heartache and the power of God's faithfulness, Howard and Debbie remind us that no matter what our circumstances, we should never, ever, give up hope.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrators
- De Trey Lewis en 03-27-15
De: Howard Wasdin
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Indignation
- De: Philip Roth
- Narrado por: Ray Chase
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 414
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 367
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 367
In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, and intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworking neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad - mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees on every corner for his beloved boy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tight, beautiful and also strange and sad.
- De Darwin8u en 08-22-16
De: Philip Roth
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Dancing For the Devil
- One Woman's Dramatic and Divine Rescue from the Sex Industry
- De: Anny Donewald, Carrie Gerlach Cecil
- Narrado por: Anny Donewald
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
The daughter of an NCAA Championship-winning basketball coach and a stay-at-home mom, Anny Donewald had a seemingly blessed childhood. Then, at thirteen, one of her father’s players sexually abused her, and Donewald embarked on a path toward self-destruction. When Donewald was convinced to compete in an amateur night at a strip club, she found herself drawn into a world of drugs, money, and flesh peddlers in Michigan and Chicago - and eventually Las Vegas’ hottest XXX clubs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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blunt
- De nicole en 05-23-15
De: Anny Donewald, y otros
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The Wrong End of the Table
- A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In
- De: Ayser Salman, Reza Aslan - foreword
- Narrado por: Ayser Salman, Assaf Cohen
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Part memoir and part how-not-to guide, The Wrong End of the Table is everything you wanted to know about Arabs but were afraid to ask, with chapters such as “Tattoos and Other National Security Risks,” “You Can’t Blame Everything on Your Period; Sometimes You’re Going to Be a Crazy Bitch: and Other Advice from Mom,” and even an open letter to Trump. This is the story of every American outsider on a path to find themselves in a country of beautiful diversity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not what I was looking for
- De Amazon Customer en 09-01-22
De: Ayser Salman, y otros
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Finding Fish
- A Memoir
- De: Antwone Q. Fisher
- Narrado por: Thomas Penny
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 84
Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his midteens he escaped and enlisted in the navy, where he became a man of the world, raised by the family he created for himself. Finding Fish shows how, out of this unlikely mix of deprivation and hope, an artist was born.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book will not disappoint you.
- De Joseph en 10-16-16
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Out of a Far Country
- A Gay Son's Journey to God. A Broken Mother's Search for Hope
- De: Christopher Yuan
- Narrado por: Christopher Yuan, Nancy Wu
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 527
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 479
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 478
Christopher Yuan, the son of Chinese immigrants, discovered at an early age that he was different. He was attracted to other boys. As he grew into adulthood, his mother, Angela, hoped to control the situation. Instead she found that her son and her life were spiraling out of control - and her own personal demons were determined to defeat her. Years of heartbreak, confusion, and prayer followed before the Yuans found a place of complete surrender, which is God's desire for all families.
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5 out of 5 stars
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phenomenal testimony!
- De Daniel en 06-01-16
De: Christopher Yuan
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Here's the Story
- Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice
- De: Maureen McCormick
- Narrado por: Maureen McCormick
- Duración: 5 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 542
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 434
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 433
Marcia Brady, eldest daughter on television's The Brady Bunch, had it all. But what viewers didn't know about the always sunny, perfect Marcia was that offscreen, her real-life counterpart, Maureen McCormick was living a very different - and not so wonderful - life. Maureen tells the shocking and inspirational true story of the beloved teen and the woman she became.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping
- De Chris en 08-12-14
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Bare Bones
- I'm Not Lonely If You're Reading This Book
- De: Bobby Bones
- Narrado por: Bobby Bones
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,686
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,266
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,251
Growing up poor in Mountain Pine, Arkansas, with a young, addicted mom, Bobby Estell fell in love with country music. Abandoned by his father at the age of five, Bobby saw the radio as his way out - a dream that came true in college when he went on air at the Henderson State University campus station broadcasting as Bobby Bones while simultaneously starting The Bobby Bones Show at 105.9 KLAZ.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A look inside the narcissist life of Bobby Bones.
- De Selena en 05-20-16
De: Bobby Bones
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A Bad Idea I'm About to Do
- True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure
- De: Chris Gethard
- Narrado por: Chris Gethard
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 159
Chris Gethard has often found himself in awkward situations most people, including you, probably would have safely avoided. The good news is now, thanks to this book, you can enjoy the painfully funny consequences of his unfortunate decisions at a safe distance. A Bad Idea I'm About to Do invites listeners to join Chris as he navigates an adolescence and adulthood mired in hilariously ill-fated nerdom, and to take comfort in the fact that - as his experiences often prove - things could always be much, much worse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!!!
- De Amber G en 10-02-20
De: Chris Gethard
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Ginger Kid
- Mostly True Tales from a Former Nerd
- De: Steve Hofstetter
- Narrado por: Steve Hofstetter
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 324
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 299
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 298
In Ginger Kid, popular comedian Steve Hofstetter grapples with life after seventh grade...when his world fell apart. Formatted as a series of personal essays, Steve walks his listeners through awkward early dating, family turbulence, and the revenge of the bullied nerds. This YA nonfiction is sure to be the beloved next volume for the first generation of Wimpy Kid fans who are all grown up and ready for a new misfit hero.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it.
- De Justin en 06-28-18
De: Steve Hofstetter
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Born Bright
- A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America
- De: C. Nicole Mason
- Narrado por: Robin Eller
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Born Bright, C. Nicole Mason's powerful memoir, is a story of reconciliation, constrained choices, and life on the other side of the tracks. Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles, California, Mason was raised by a beautiful but volatile 16-year-old single mother. Early on, she learned to navigate between an unpredictable home life and school, where she excelled. By high school, Mason was seamlessly straddling two worlds.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Solid Book
- De Daryl en 11-06-16
De: C. Nicole Mason