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- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani’s parents left the United States for Iran to join the revolution. But the promise of those early heady days in Tehran was warped by the rise of the Islamic Republic. With the new regime came international isolation, cultural devastation, and profound personal loss for Neda. Her father was arrested and her mother was forced to make a desperate escape, pregnant and with Neda in tow.
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I learned so much. Great pacing, felt like I time-traveled
- De Jess Fuchs en 02-07-22
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The Boy Kings of Texas
- A Memoir
- De: Domingo Martinez
- Narrado por: Emilio Delgado
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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A lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980s, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become "real" Americans, even at the expense of their shared family history. This is really un-mined territory in the memoir genre that gives in-depth insight into a previously unexplored corner of America.
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It was Okay
- De DebKoo en 05-17-13
De: Domingo Martinez
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Pieces of Me
- Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters
- De: Lizbeth Meredith
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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In 1994, Lizbeth Meredith said good-bye to her four- and six year-old daughters for a visit with their noncustodial father only to learn days later that they had been kidnapped and taken to their father's home country of Greece. Twenty-nine and just on the verge of making her dreams of financial independence for her and her daughters come true, Lizbeth now faced a $100,000 problem on a $10 an hour budget.
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You really won't want to stop listening!
- De Artist's Eye en 07-17-18
De: Lizbeth Meredith
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The Lightless Sky
- A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World
- De: Gulwali Passarlay
- Narrado por: Assaf Cohen, Susan Duerden
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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In 2006, after his father was killed, Gulwali Passarlay was caught between the Taliban, who wanted to recruit him, and the Americans, who wanted to use him. To protect her son, Gulwali's mother sent him away. The search for safety would lead the 12-year-old across eight countries, from the mountains of Eastern Afghanistan through Iran and Europe to Britain. Over the course of 12 harrowing months, Gulwali endured imprisonment, hunger, cruelty, brutality, loneliness, and terror - and nearly drowned crossing the Mediterranean Sea.
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A Face for Refugees
- De Daryl en 12-10-16
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The Hour I First Believed
- A Novel
- De: Wally Lamb
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 25 h y 9 m
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When high-school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives. But when Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right.
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excellent all around yarn
- De G. en 01-10-09
De: Wally Lamb
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Twentynine Palms
- A True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave
- De: Deanne Stillman
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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August 2, 1991, Twentynine Palms, California: a troubled Marine who has recently returned from the Gulf War savagely murders two young girls. One was about to turn 16, the other 21. Exquisitely and inexorably, Deanne Stillman uses this tragedy as a prism through which she examines a rootless culture of fatherless families, shattered dreams, and relentless violence. She also traces the family histories of each murder victim back for generations, in one case to the Donner Party and the other to a shack in the Philippines.
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Ugh...
- De Ashley en 11-03-20
De: Deanne Stillman
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The Naked Don't Fear the Water
- An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
- De: Matthieu Aikins
- Narrado por: Nick Nikon
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler’s road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better future.
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Great story, horrible narration
- De AB en 02-25-22
De: Matthieu Aikins
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The House at Sugar Beach
- A Memoir
- De: Helene Cooper
- Narrado por: Helene Cooper
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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At once a deeply personal memoir and an examination of a violent and stratified country, The House at Sugar Beach tells of tragedy, forgiveness, and transcendence with unflinching honesty and a survivor's gentle humor. And at its heart, it is a story of Helene Cooper's long voyage home.
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Can't recommend it
- De Taryn en 03-25-16
De: Helene Cooper
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Daring to Drive
- A Saudi Woman's Awakening
- De: Manal al-Sharif
- Narrado por: Lameece Issaq
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.
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The rain begins with a single drop
- De Sara en 07-01-17
De: Manal al-Sharif
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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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Powerful
- De Gene R. en 10-26-21
De: Barack Obama
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Good Muslim Boy
- De: Osamah Sami
- Narrado por: Osamah Sami, David Tredinnick
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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Meet Osamah Sami: a schemer, a dreamer and a madcap antihero of spectacular proportions whose terrible life choices keep leading to cataclysmic consequences...despite his best laid plans to be a good Muslim boy. By the age of 13, Osamah had survived the Iran-Iraq war, peddled fireworks and chewing gum on the Iranian black market, proposed 'temporary marriage' not once but three times, and received countless floggings from the Piety Police....
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Funny, heartwarming and one of the best
- De Sylvia Green en 07-26-17
De: Osamah Sami
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Baltimore Blues
- Tess Monaghan, Book 1
- De: Laura Lippman
- Narrado por: Deborah Hazlett
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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Unemployed at 29, Tess Monaghan is willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent—including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl "Rock" Paxton. In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety—and his noontime trysts with Rock's fiancée—make the case front page news...and point to Rock as the likely murderer. But trying to prove her friend's innocence could prove costly to Tess.
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I'm on #8 - This series is almost unique
- De connie en 02-19-12
De: Laura Lippman
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Mislaid
- A Novel
- De: Nell Zink
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The couple are mismatched from the start - she's a lesbian, he's gay - but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind.
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Misbegotten, mishandled, misfired novel
- De Julie W. Capell en 02-07-16
De: Nell Zink
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The Pursuit of Happyness (Abridged)
- De: Chris Gardner
- Narrado por: Andre Blake
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
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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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Very Good Story!
- De Lito Da Critic en 06-02-06
De: Chris Gardner
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Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero. Kendra's family raised their children to thrive in this harsh landscape, forever at the mercy of wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Most of all, the Atleework children were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. But it came at a price.
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The best memoir I've read
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The Net Beneath Us
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Everything Left to Remember
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Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to remember her favorite drink, her favorite song, and—perhaps most heartbreaking of all—Steph herself. Steph watches as the woman who loved and raised her slips away before getting the chance to tell her story, and so Steph makes a promise: her mother will walk it, and she will write it.
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So beautiful!! Found Solace
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Valeria Cossati never suspected how unhappy she had become with the shabby gentility of her bourgeois life—until she begins to jot down her thoughts and feelings in a little black book she keeps hidden in a closet. This new secret activity leads her to scrutinize herself and her life more closely, and she soon realizes that her individuality is being stifled by her devotion and sense of duty toward her husband, daughter, and son.
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UNSETTLING
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Philip Roth
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"I don't want you to rehabilitate me," Philip Roth said to his only authorized biographer, Blake Bailey. "Just make me interesting." Granted complete independence and access, Bailey spent almost 10 years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and listening to Roth's own breathtakingly candid confessions. Tracing Roth's path from realism to farce to metafiction to the tragic masterpieces of the American Trilogy, Bailey explores Roth's engagement with nearly every aspect of postwar American culture.
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moved
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The Yellow House
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In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant - the postwar optimism seemed assured. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities.
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Great book. I wish the pictures had been included.
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Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero. Kendra's family raised their children to thrive in this harsh landscape, forever at the mercy of wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Most of all, the Atleework children were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. But it came at a price.
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The best memoir I've read
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The Net Beneath Us
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So beautiful!! Found Solace
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Valeria Cossati never suspected how unhappy she had become with the shabby gentility of her bourgeois life—until she begins to jot down her thoughts and feelings in a little black book she keeps hidden in a closet. This new secret activity leads her to scrutinize herself and her life more closely, and she soon realizes that her individuality is being stifled by her devotion and sense of duty toward her husband, daughter, and son.
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UNSETTLING
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Philip Roth
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"I don't want you to rehabilitate me," Philip Roth said to his only authorized biographer, Blake Bailey. "Just make me interesting." Granted complete independence and access, Bailey spent almost 10 years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and listening to Roth's own breathtakingly candid confessions. Tracing Roth's path from realism to farce to metafiction to the tragic masterpieces of the American Trilogy, Bailey explores Roth's engagement with nearly every aspect of postwar American culture.
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Mother American Night is the wild, funny, heartbreaking, and often unbelievable (yet completely true) story of an American icon. Born into a powerful Wyoming political family, John Perry Barlow wrote the lyrics for thirty Grateful Dead songs while also running his family’s cattle ranch. He hung out in Andy Warhol’s Factory, went on a date with the Dalai Lama’s sister, and accidentally shot Bob Weir in the face on the eve of his own wedding. Despite being a freely self-confessed acidhead, he served as Dick Cheney’s campaign manager during Cheney’s first run for Congress.
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Self Righteous Tool!
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Henry Threadgill has had a singular life in music. At 79, the saxophonist, flautist, and celebrated composer is one of three jazz artists (along with Ornette Coleman and Wynton Marsalis) to have won a Pulitzer Prize. In Easily Slip into Another World, Threadgill recalls his childhood and upbringing in Chicago, his family life and education, and his brilliant career in music.
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Eloquent and too long
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I Cried to Dream Again
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There is perhaps no crime more disturbing than the abuse of a child—and no court cases as upsetting as those in which juveniles who have faced abuse are tried for fighting back. In this gripping memoir Sara Kruzan, a survivor of childhood abuse and sex trafficking, tells the honest, disturbing, and ultimately empowering story of her journey from abuse to incarceration without parole for killing her abuser to finally gaining her liberation.
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A True Warrior
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Sacrifice
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When Green Beret Bryan Black was killed in an ambush in Niger in 2017, his wife, Michelle, saw her worst nightmare become a reality. She was left alone with her grief and with two young sons to raise. But what followed Bryan's death was an even more difficult journey for the young widow. After receiving very few details about the attack that took her husband's life, it was up to Michelle to find answers. It became her mission to learn the truth about that day in Niger - and Sacrifice is the result of that mission.
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A story of honor, heroism and courage
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A Place in the World
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Though Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on the idea of home, from the earliest imprint of four walls to the startling discoveries of feeling the strange ease of homes abroad, friends’ homes, and even momentary homes that spark desires for other lives. From her travels across Italy to the American South, France, and Mexico, Mayes examines the connective tissue among them through the homes she’s inhabited.
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Lovely meditation on the meaning of home
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Into the Deep
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The legendary explorer of the Titanic shares inside stories of danger, suspense, and discovery - plus previously untold stories about his own dyslexia and how it has shaped his life.
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A Study of the Ego
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Mind in Motion
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In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas.
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In this mesmerizing memoir-in-essays, New York Times best-selling author Erica Bauermeister renovates a trash-filled house in eccentric Port Townsend, Washington, and in the process takes listeners on a journey to discover the ways our spaces subliminally affect us. A personal, accessible, and literary exploration of the psychology of architecture, this book is designed for homeowners, remodelers, and those who are simply curious about how our built environments shape who we become.
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Wonderful book for anyone home shopping
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I Always Knew
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I Always Knew is an intimate and vivid portrait of Chase-Riboud’s life as told through the letters she wrote to her mother, Vivian Mae, between 1957 and 1991. In candid detail, Chase-Riboud tells her mother about her life in Europe, her work as an artist, her romances, and her journeys around the world, from Western and Eastern Europe to the Middle East, Africa, the Soviet Union, China, and Mongolia.
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Captivating!
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Hell in the Heartland
- Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls
- De: Jax Miller
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
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On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, 16-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the Freeman family trailer was in flames and both girls were missing. While rumors of drug debts, revenge, and police collusion abounded in the years that followed, the case remained unsolved, and the girls were never found.
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Remember it's unsolved
- De Carol en 09-16-20
De: Jax Miller
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How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls
- Animal Movement and the Robots of the Future
- De: David Hu
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
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Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? In How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls, David Hu takes listeners on an accessible, wondrous journey into the world of animal motion. From basement labs at MIT to the rain forests of Panama, Hu shows how animals have adapted and evolved to traverse their environments, taking advantage of physical laws with results that are startling and ingenious.
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Fun, entertaining, hilarious, and informative
- De Susan T en 11-04-19
De: David Hu
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The One Man
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- De: Andrew Gross
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 12 h y 47 m
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1944. Physics professor Alfred Mendel and his family were trying to flee Paris when they were caught and forced onto a train, along with thousands of other Jewish families. At the other end of the long, torturous train ride, Alfred is separated from his family and sent to the men’s camp, where all of his belongings are tossed on a roaring fire. His books, his papers, his life’s work. The Nazis have no idea what they have just destroyed. And without that physical record, Alfred is one of only two people in the world with his particular knowledge. Knowledge that could start a war, or end it.
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You gotta have a STRONG stomach.
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- Wendy
- 05-08-20
brilliant and so well researched !!
loved this book ...learned so much...the author is a remarkable woman...I read it in two long sittings ...could not put it down ....want a sequel
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- Amelia
- 02-25-19
incredibly powerful
I love the way that Lauren tells the story of the twins authentically and helps you feel like you are right there next to them following their journey. she also weaves in a lot of explanation about many facets of immigration history and recent events, which is incredibly helpful for many of us who have a hard time understanding it all. She explains it clearly and simply, which I deeply appreciate! This book has helped me feel more informed about the current situation of migrants coming to the US from the south and giving me the courage and confidence to speak out more about this issue and address all the misinformation out there. thank you Lauren for writing this book 2 help all of us better understand the facts and advocate for the change that needs to happen!
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- Jessi Colgrove
- 12-14-19
A Changed Perspective
It's easy to let conservative values take over...build the wall! I read this book because it was chosen for One Book One Lincoln and my friend highly recommended it. I found my beliefs and values being shifted as I listened and greatly appreciated hearing the other side of an issue. The book introduces illegal immigration in a neutral way that leaves the listener to draw their own conclusions but I began to see the border crisis as less of a national security issue and more of a humanitarian crisis. A great listen if you are looking to educate yourself on current issues.
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- Terry
- 10-10-17
Powerful insights of real migration issues!
Lauren wrote this story like a novel. It sucked me in, made me squirm, and triggered an aray of mixed emotions. She depicted the harsh reality of a migrate's home they run away from and the challenges faced in the world they escape to. Craftily written and narrated. I highly recommend!
“AUDIBLE 20 REVIEW SWEEPSTAKES ENTRY”
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- Cherilyn Parsons
- 10-22-17
Terrific, important book and great audio recording
This book was a page turner in terms of story while also conveying a larger political and social context. It’s excellently written, and the audio was smooth, appealing, and convincing. Highly recommended.
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- Richard Adams
- 07-17-18
Must read, we must also do something
A remarkable story. Detailed family relations, agony, loss, suffering and triumph. Donald must be stopped and Ms Markham gives us a call to action. Let go!
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- JoJo
- 12-09-22
Detailed
I learned so much from listening to this story. This would be great for everyone in education to read. Thank you to the Flores twins and their family.
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- Maria Walts
- 01-25-19
A vivid portray of the external and internal challenges immigrants in America face
As an immigrant myself and a law student who works at an immigration law firm, I know a thing or two about the country conditions in many Latin American countries and the realities immigrants face. When I began reading this book, I could not put it down. Markham’s beautiful ability to balance the brothers’ personal story while also acknowledging the country conditions was impressive. Reading about the immigrant experience is always a humbling experience for me. While I have faced my personal trauma, I am certainly aware that I have been given countless opportunities that others will never have. That being said, I think what really sets this literature apart from other immigrant memoirs I’ve read was that she didn’t delicate the brothers as the “perfect victims” instead she allowed the reader to emphasize and relate to the brothers as we saw them face both external and internal challenges. I think it is important for people to understand that immigrants, regardless of their status are humans and deserve compassion.
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- A.M
- 03-06-20
Thank you
Thank you for writing this book. My heart is broken and I feel so sad for all the children that have to endure that experience.
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- Stephen L.
- 08-06-19
Everyone US citizen should read this book .
Read this book, open your eyes to the rest of the world. Two thumbs up.
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