Peace Is a Shy Thing
The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien
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Featuring over one hundred interviews with family, friends, peers, and others—not to mention countless exchanges with Tim O'Brien himself—Peace Is a Shy Thing provides a nearly day-by-day, gripping account of O'Brien's thirteen months as an infantryman in Vietnam and gives equal diligence to reconstructing O'Brien's writing process.
This meticulously researched biography explores the life and journey that turned O'Brien into a literary icon and a household name. It includes an unpublished short story about O'Brien from a college girlfriend, documentation of his comical involvement with the Washington Post's coverage of Watergate, and a 1989 attic exchange between American and Vietnamese writers on the eve of the publication of O'Brien's most beloved book, The Things They Carried, years before the two countries normalized relations.
Peace Is a Shy Thing is as much a history of the era as it is a story of O'Brien's life, from his small-town midwestern mid-century childhood, to winning the National Book Award and his status as literary elder statesman. A story which Vernon, a combat veteran of the Persian Gulf War, and a literary scholar trained by officers and professors of the Vietnam era, is uniquely suited to tell.
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A solid Vietnam war memoir
- De Darwin8u en 04-16-14
De: Tim O'Brien
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The Art Spy
- The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
- De: Michelle Young
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 14
On August 25, 1944, Rose Valland, a woman of quiet daring, found herself in a desperate position. From the windows of her beloved Jeu de Paume museum, where she had worked and ultimately spied, she could see the battle to liberate Paris thundering around her. The Jeu de Paume, co-opted by Nazi leadership, was now the Germans’ final line of defense. Would the museum curator be killed before she could tell the truth—a story that would mean nothing less than saving humanity’s cultural inheritance?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and inspiring story
- De C. E. Hall en 06-07-25
De: Michelle Young
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Nothing but Courage
- The 82nd Airborne's Daring D-Day Mission—and Their Heroic Charge Across the La Fière Bridge
- De: James Donovan
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3
In June 1944, German and American forces converged on an insignificant bridge a few miles inland from the invasion beaches. If taken by the Nazis, the bridge might have gone down in history as the reason the Allies failed on D-Day. The narrow road over it was each side’s conduit to victory. Continued Nazi control over the bridge near an old manoir known as La Fière—one of only two bridges in the region capable of supporting tanks and other heavy armor—would allow the Germans to reinforce their defenses at Utah Beach, one of the five landing areas chosen for Operation Overlord.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De John M. en 06-30-25
De: James Donovan
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Wild Thing
- A Life of Paul Gauguin
- De: Sue Prideaux
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 10
Paul Gauguin's legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention, to celebrate the beauty of an indigenous people and their culture. In this work, Sue Prideaux reveals that while Gauguin was a complicated man, his scandalous reputation is largely undeserved.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gauguin had a momentous life, Peru, Paris, Papeete.
- De Hawaiian 54 en 06-19-25
De: Sue Prideaux
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The Peepshow
- The Murders at Rillington Place
- De: Kate Summerscale
- Narrado por: Nicola Walker
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 15
In this riveting true story, Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie’s victims, the tabloid frenzy that their deaths inspired, and the truth about what happened inside the house. What she finds sheds fascinating light on the origins of our fixation with true crime—and suggests a new solution to one of the most notorious cases of the century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A thoroughly researched time
- De Caitlyn Harrison en 06-03-25
De: Kate Summerscale
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Murder in the Dollhouse
- The Jennifer Dulos Story
- De: Rich Cohen
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
Rich Cohen’s Murder in the Dollhouse is the chilling story of Jennifer Dulos, a beautiful, rich suburban mother who dropped her kids off at the New Canaan Country School one morning and vanished. Her body has never been found. Dulos was in the midst of an ugly divorce—one of the most contentious in Connecticut state history. The couple, a beautiful, highly connected pair, met at Brown University, had five children, and led what appeared to be a charmed life. In the wake of her disappearance, Dulos’s husband and his girlfriend were arrested.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Story
- De History Buff en 07-15-25
De: Rich Cohen
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Desi Arnaz
- The Man Who Invented Television
- De: Todd S Purdum
- Narrado por: Todd S Purdum
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Despite being underestimated due to his accent and origins, Desi Arnaz’s legacy is monumental. Purdum’s biography, enriched with unpublished materials and interviews, reveals the man behind the legend and highlights his enduring contributions to pop culture and television. This book is a must-hear biography about innovation, resilience, and the relentless drive of a man who changed TV forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Desi would love this
- De MAV en 06-20-25
De: Todd S Purdum
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The Old Breed... The Complete Story Revealed
- A Father, a Son, and How WWII in the Pacific Shaped Their Lives
- De: W. Henry Sledge
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 15
The Old Breed... The Complete Story Revealed brings to life an abundance of new material from the original manuscript of Eugene Sledge's classic memoir With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. By interspersing his own personal anecdotes throughout, Henry Sledge takes his father's work and gives it newfound context, sharing memories of conversations between father and son. The result is a flowing narrative that portrays an intimate look at a WWII veteran and his struggles to adapt to civilian life following the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Smaller points
- De Anonymous User en 07-05-25
De: W. Henry Sledge
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Buckley
- The Life and the Revolution That Changed America
- De: Sam Tanenhaus
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 31 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 22
Majestic in its sweep, rich in ideas and argument, and packed with news and revelations, Buckley vividly captures its subject in all his facets and phases—founding editor of National Review, the 20th century’s most influential political journal; syndicated columnist and TV debater; ally of Joseph McCarthy and Barry Goldwater; mentor to Ronald Reagan; wisecracking candidate for mayor of New York; and bestselling novelist and memoirist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A life beyond
- De M. Consol en 07-02-25
De: Sam Tanenhaus
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The Man Made of Smoke
- A Novel
- De: Alex North
- Narrado por: Shane Zaza
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 133
Dan Garvie’s life has been haunted by the crime he witnessed as a child—narrowly escaping an encounter with a notorious serial killer. He has dedicated his life since to becoming a criminal profiler, eager to seek justice for innocent victims. So when his father passes away under suspicious circumstances, Dan revisits his small island community, determined to uncover the truth about his death. Is it possible that the monster he remembers from his childhood nightmares has returned after all these years?
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5 out of 5 stars
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TERRIFIC
- De Ann Gallegos en 05-22-25
De: Alex North
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I Regret Almost Everything
- A Memoir
- De: Keith McNally
- Narrado por: Richard E. Grant
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 182
A memoir by the legendary proprietor of Balthazar, Pastis, Minetta Tavern, and Morandi, taking us from his gritty London childhood in the fifties to his serendipitous arrival in New York, where he founded the era-defining establishments the Odeon, Cafe Luxembourg, and Nell’s. Eloquent and opinionated, Keith McNally writes about the angst of being a child actor, his lack of insights from traveling overland to Kathmandu at nineteen, the instability of his two marriages and family relationships, his devastating stroke, and his Instagram notoriety.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bingeworthy!
- De murphy o'brien en 05-14-25
De: Keith McNally