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Breaking Night
- A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
- Narrated by: Liz Murray
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Publisher's summary
Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age 15, Liz found herself on the streets when her family finally unraveled. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep.
When Liz's mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a New York Times scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League.
Breaking Night is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-17-12
unbelievably inspiring
Would you listen to Breaking Night again? Why?
After listening to this detailed autobiography, one has to simply ask oneself: After all, are my circumstances really that bad? Am I really gonna blame my parents' divorce, mum's illness, my brothers stupidity for loosing all our family's saving...am I really really gona blame them for the mental state I am in? Or should I just look, like Liz Murray did, at what possibilities I have and to chose every moment another empowering choice?
The story made me rethink my own opinions and it let me question my own capability.
I would def. recomment this book to everyone who simply seeks for inspiration and hope that things can turn well, despite all your difficulties.
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- Madison
- 08-03-16
Best Book I Have Ever Listened To!
This book is narrated by the author and she does an absolutely amazing job! Her story is so heartfelt and compelling. I am surprised she wasn't crying while recording. This book was so inspiring to me, that I ran my 1st marathon after listening to her book. It is beyond motivational. Her true life story is so unfortunate and her outcome is so magical for a lack of better reference. I cannot do this book justice. A MUST LISTEN for everyone. A great family book. Really puts life into perspective. I wish I could go on and on! I am so proud of her, she is the epitome of a fighter! What a wonderfully courageous human being!
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- Rodney
- 08-22-16
Simply phenomenal!
I loved ever minute of this book. The poverty Liz experienced brought back memories but most off all, her resilience is paradigm shifting!
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- Teri
- 09-07-16
Completely inspired!
As a 53 year old woman that has gone through a huge life upheaval of losing my business and career of 29 years, my marriage of 30 years, my home, my car, my father to cancer, I am completely inspired by Liz Murray's tenacity to not let her circumstances define her life or her future. Thank you, Liz for sharing your story. I am anxious to use your example and inspiration to not let my circumstances define my life or my future. Bless you, sweet girl.
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- K. Labidi
- 08-04-11
inspiring story, very good writing
This book - the writing and the story it tells - is remarkable. I was inspired by the author and look forward to learning more about and from her in the future.
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- Reuven Nisser
- 11-03-11
Lovely And Thought Provoking
Liz is a wonderful author. She doesn't only wright of her life, she gives insight into her feelings. She lets you understand her. This book kept me transfixed from the first sentence. She is also one of the best narrators I have ever heard. Her voice is soft, warm and ful of emotions. Yes, I did feel for her, though I knew the ending all along. No, this is not an easy listen. However, it's worth it. If you look at the summary and think it is intersting, go for the book. If you liked The Glass Castle, this is the book for you.
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- Bill Beaulac
- 09-15-16
Inspirational as well as deeply personal, but ...
I dealt with a couple issues that prevented me from giving this book the glowing reviews it has been receiving. Although Liz does a wonderful job narrating her work/life, I found many of her early childhood experiences, while talking in the first person, not to be the thoughts and feelings of a child her age at the time. Rather, many of them seem to be thoughts that were developed as an adult in retrospect. Not to take away from, or minimize, Liz's tragic childhood years, but it just did not seem to be the voice of a child that I was listening to although she was seeming to present it as such. Secondly, and this is strictly a personal preference, while I found the first and last thirds of the book incredibly interesting and almost fast paced, the middle third of the book (her high school years) to begin to drag and the theme becoming almost repetitive. Although I realize that her life at that time was a daily grind, the read started to grind and I actually sped up the narration a click.
That being said; although this was a tough listen, it gives a vivid image of what life is like for too many children in our country and I would highly recommend it to most anyone. The author, narrating her own life, makes it all the more personal and powerful. This is a book of helplessness conquered by hope, inadequacy overcome by tenacity, and pain dissolved via redemption.
Finally, this book should speak to any and all of those that propagate the victim mentality so prevalent in our culture today. If more people would be willing run the same race that Liz Murray persevered through, they, too, could meet their goals and find happiness.
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us" (Hebrews 12:1)
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- Daryl
- 07-06-12
Incredible story
Where does Breaking Night rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
It was an incredible read. Liz pulls no punches about the realities of her life, but does so in a way that expresses sympathy and compassion for the people in her life who have hurt her.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Breaking Night?
Liz's determination to get back to school. I could just hear it in her voice
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I think Liz Murray reading her own book both added to and took away from the listening experiences. Liz is quite obviously not a trained narrator, but no one can tell their own story better than they themselves can. While the narration lacks polish, the autobiography itself carries this one through.
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- John F DePalma
- 08-24-16
Very inspiring story!!!
Very inspiring story....I was very impressed with how Liz overcame so many obstacles and untimely graduated from Harvard. I plan to share with others.
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- Faye
- 07-12-16
well told story
loved this book. she did a great job telling her story. gives a great inside understanding to teen homelessness. recommending this book to others.
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- By Bananna on 11-19-22
By: David Ambroz
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The Less People Know About Us
- A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
- By: Axton Betz-Hamilton
- Narrated by: Laurie Winkel
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In this powerful true crime memoir, an award-winning identity theft expert tells the shocking story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and nearly destroyed her family. Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in small-town Indiana in the early '90s. When she was 11 years old, her parents both had their identities stolen. Their credit ratings were ruined, and they were constantly fighting over money. This was before the age of the Internet, when identity theft became more commonplace, so authorities and banks were clueless and reluctant to help Axton's parents.
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Holy Shit
- By Jason Wiking on 02-19-20
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American Daughter
- A Memoir
- By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale, Elissa Wald
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marno
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The sharp and surprising true story of a woman who finally sets out to understand her past, and the mother she had one day hoped to forget. Full of unexpected twists and unbelievable revelations, American Daughter is an immersive memoir that will have you on the edge of your seat to the very last minute.
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Amazing memoir
- By talltower4 on 09-02-21
By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale, and others
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Acceptance
- A Memoir
- By: Emi Nietfeld
- Narrated by: Julia Knippen
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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As a homeless teenager writing college essays in her rusty Toyota Corolla, Emi Nietfeld was convinced that the Ivy League was the only escape from her dysfunctional childhood. But upward mobility required crafting the perfect resilience narrative. She had to prove that she was an “overcomer,” made stronger by all that she had endured. The truth was more complicated. And though Emi would go on to graduate from Harvard and become a software engineer at Google, she found that success didn’t necessarily mean safety.
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Wow
- By Amazon Customer on 11-05-22
By: Emi Nietfeld
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Too Close to the Falls
- A Memoir
- By: Catherine Gildiner
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Welcome to the childhood of Catherine McClure Gildiner. It is the middle of the 1950s in Lewiston, New York, a small and sleepy American town very near Niagara Falls. No one is divorced. Mothers wear high heels to the beauty salon and children pop Pez candy and swing from vines over a local gorge. But at the tender age of four, it becomes clear to her Cathy's parents that their rambunctious daughter is no ordinary child and they soon put her "to work" at her father's pharmacy.
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Brilliant and funny and touching.
- By Kindle Customer on 11-07-19
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Tightrope
- Americans Reaching for Hope
- By: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Narrated by: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America". The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the 20th century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents.
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Conservatives hate liberals will love
- By vic on 02-03-20
By: Nicholas D. Kristof, and others
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A Place Called Home
- A Memoir
- By: David Ambroz
- Narrated by: David Ambroz
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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There are millions of homeless children in America today and in A Place Called Home, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up homeless in New York for eleven years and his subsequent years in foster care, offering a window into what so many kids living in poverty experience every day.
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moving
- By Bananna on 11-19-22
By: David Ambroz
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The Less People Know About Us
- A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
- By: Axton Betz-Hamilton
- Narrated by: Laurie Winkel
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In this powerful true crime memoir, an award-winning identity theft expert tells the shocking story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and nearly destroyed her family. Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in small-town Indiana in the early '90s. When she was 11 years old, her parents both had their identities stolen. Their credit ratings were ruined, and they were constantly fighting over money. This was before the age of the Internet, when identity theft became more commonplace, so authorities and banks were clueless and reluctant to help Axton's parents.
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Holy Shit
- By Jason Wiking on 02-19-20
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The Convent
- The Shocking True Story of Surviving and Evil Nun's Care Home from Hell
- By: Marie Hargreaves
- Narrated by: Dorothy Lawrence
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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When a fancy car pulls up outside six-year-old Marie's home in 1959, her dad tells her she is going on holiday. But little does she know she will not see her home again for four long years. Her family cannot afford to keep her at home. Marie tells the story of how she was taken away from a poor but happy and loving home life to live in a convent - away from everyone and everything she holds dear. Her hair is bluntly chopped, her clothes are taken away and her name is changed. Then a horrific ritual of physical, sexual and mental abuse begins.
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Stunning Book
- By madameEmily on 10-09-21
By: Marie Hargreaves
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My Prison Without Bars
- The Journey of a Damaged Woman to Someplace Normal
- By: Taylor Evan Fulks
- Narrated by: Em Eldridge
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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My Prison without Bars is a courageous and harrowing journey through the catacombs of hell, from the mind and voice of a little girl, living with her own monster underneath her bed. Written in first person, this novel is not a memoir, but more a psychological thriller based on true events; chronicling one woman's attempt to claw her way out of the darkness of Child Sexual Abuse, while struggling to find normal, in a not-so-normal world. It is poignant, dark and graphic; not for the faint of heart.
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My life
- By PMOUSAABR on 03-08-16
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The Wild Truth
- By: Carine McCandless
- Narrated by: Carine McCandless, Matt Gardner, Shelly McCandless
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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In April 1992, a young man named Chris McCandless walked into the Alaskan wilderness, where he survived for more than 100 days before perishing in an abandoned bus. For over twenty years his story has captivated millions, and yet only one person knew the truth behind his remarkable journey - until now.
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Not at all like Into the Wild!
- By Sandra Westphal on 10-30-16
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Three Little Words
- A Memoir
- By: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
- Narrated by: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in 14 different foster homes. As her mother spirals out of control, Ashley is left clinging to an unpredictable, dissolving relationship, all the while getting pulled deeper and deeper into the foster-care system. In this inspiring, unforgettable memoir, Ashley finds the courage to succeed - and in doing so, discovers the power of her own voice.
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Been there, done that
- By Sher from Provo on 01-16-12
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Everything Is Fine
- A Memoir
- By: Vince Granata
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Vince Granata remembers standing in front of his suburban home in Connecticut the day his mother and father returned from the hospital with his three new siblings in tow. He had just finished scrawling their names in orange chalk on the driveway: Christopher, Timothy, and Elizabeth. Twenty-three years later, Vince was a thousand miles away when he received the news that would change his life - his younger brother, Tim, propelled by unchecked schizophrenia, had killed their mother in their childhood home.