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Educated
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University
“Extraordinary . . . an act of courage and self-invention.”—The New York Times
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST: National Book Critics Circle’s Award In Autobiography and John Leonard Prize For Best First Book • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award • Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
“Beautiful and propulsive . . . Despite the singularity of [Westover’s] childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?”—Vogue
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Time, NPR, Good Morning America, San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, The Economist, Financial Times, Newsday, New York Post, theSkimm, Refinery29, Bloomberg, Self, Real Simple, Town & Country, Bustle, Paste, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, LibraryReads, Book Riot, Pamela Paul, KQED, New York Public Library
Critic reviews
“Westover has somehow managed not only to capture her unsurpassably exceptional upbringing, but to make her current situation seem not so exceptional at all, and resonant for many others.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Westover is a keen and honest guide to the difficulties of filial love, and to the enchantment of embracing a life of the mind.”—The New Yorker
“An amazing story, and truly inspiring. It’s even better than you’ve heard.”—Bill Gates
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THE MAN WHO FORGOT RAY BRADBURY
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intense!
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1 out of 5 stars
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Aweful
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2 out of 5 stars
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In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.
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Didn't know what I was getting into
- By Kenneth Woodward on 12-05-18
By: Michelle Obama
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Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- By: Trevor Noah
- Narrated by: Trevor Noah
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In this award-winning Audible Studios production, Trevor Noah tells his wild coming-of-age tale during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa. It’s a story that begins with his mother throwing him from a moving van to save him from a potentially fatal dispute with gangsters, then follows the budding comedian’s path to self-discovery through episodes both poignant and comical.
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Great book and perfect narration
- By MarilynArms on 12-15-16
By: Trevor Noah
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Sociopath
- A Memoir
- By: Patric Gagne Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Patric Gagne Ph.D.
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in a way she didn’t understand. She suspected it was because she didn’t feel things the way other kids did. Emotions like fear, guilt, and empathy eluded her. For the most part, she felt nothing. And she didn’t like the way that “nothing” felt.
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Fascinating and Perfect Performance!
- By ScoobaRubio on 04-05-24
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
- A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
- By: Lori Gottlieb
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43,252
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 38,087
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One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
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2 out of 5 stars
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It was like a hallmark movie being waterboarded into my ears for 15 hours
- By Amazon Customer on 10-01-19
By: Lori Gottlieb
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All the Light We Cannot See
- A Novel
- By: Anthony Doerr
- Narrated by: Zach Appelman
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is 12, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Afraid to Write a "Less-Than-Positive" Review
- By Elizabeth on 08-06-14
By: Anthony Doerr
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Just Mercy
- A Story of Justice and Redemption
- By: Bryan Stevenson
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 18,222
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Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Made me question justice, peers and myself.
- By Kristy VL on 04-17-15
By: Bryan Stevenson
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Good Morning, Monster
- A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
- By: Catherine Gildiner
- Narrated by: Deborah Burgess
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3,259
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,829
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,817
In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner presents five of what she calls her most heroic and memorable patients. Among them: A successful, first-generation Chinese immigrant musician suffering sexual dysfunction; a young woman whose father abandoned her at age nine with her younger siblings in an isolated cottage in the depth of winter; and a glamorous workaholic whose narcissistic, negligent mother greeted her each morning of her childhood with "Good morning, Monster". Each patient presents a mystery, one that will only be unpacked over years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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some things shouldn't be consumed
- By Jess on 12-28-22
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- Briteney A Mercer
- 10-11-18
Couldn’t stop listening
Such a great book! Heartfelt, thoughtful and extremely well written. I have recommended it to all my friends.
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- Darren Sapp
- 10-24-18
Wow!
Westover's enlightenment is told in a heartwrenching yet eloquent fashion. Outstanding narration. I listened to this in just a few days.
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- John
- 09-22-18
Extraordinary, gripping, and very harrowing
I recommend this book very strongly, but not for the faint of heart. This is a journey unlike any i have read before. It was entirely captivating, but also like a horrible an accident that you can’t take your eyes off. Family ties and extreme family abuse come packaged together. The author escapes eventually but the price she pays is almost impossible to toll. A very hard life leads to some very hard truths.
It’s very well written and really generous to her family’s extremism, although I’m sure they (mostly) don’t see it that way. Thank you Tara westover!
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- anna
- 08-06-18
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As a former mormon I really identified with this story. Although, her upbringing was way outside of the norm, and not representative of Mormons on the whole, I could see reflections of her experience in my own life. I loved seeing Tara triumph despite all of the obstacles in her way
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- Amy Schafer
- 03-25-22
Amazing
I can’t say enough about this book! It was wonderful! Having been raised Mormon myself, I could relate to her in so many ways. The indoctrination that starts at such an early age in that religion and then to have crazy fanatical parents on top of that, holy CRAP!
The book was amazing and insightful and should be read in every classroom in the America to show that we can all overcome !
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- kl
- 08-12-19
A hard listen for me
What this dear little girl had to endure while growing up was too terrible. Can’t believe anyone could live as these parents, dragging 7 children through life as they did and all in the name of God. Nothing about them was Godly. This is NOT Mormonism.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-23-18
I’m recommending this book to everyone!!
Amazing! I wanted to cry and just hug Tara throughout her story. What an incredible , strong woman. I loved that she vilifies no one and tells her story with love, trying so hard to understand the impossible to understand. Her life is entirely unimaginable to me and probably to all who read about it. Her experiences will stay with me for a long time.
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-04-19
WOW
This was a very good book. I am going to submit as a read for our book club. There are so many discussion points. This young woman's journey through a very controlling dangerous life and her sucesses, failures, new beginnings, and becoming aware. Fantastic book
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- BJMQ
- 05-30-18
Mesmerizing
The story itself is riveting. The writing clear and compelling. The depth of understanding tragic and aware. I loved it!
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- Gale L Mott
- 11-18-18
Real
This book is fascinating...thank you for sharing your life. I think this helps the understanding of "functional" mental illness.
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