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Space Between the Stars
- My Journey to an Open Heart
- Narrated by: Deborah Santana
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana - a 30-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a White mother and a Black father - the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King - her life was charged with its own drama long before she married.
In this beautiful, haunting memoir, Deborah Santana shares for the first time her early experiences with racial intolerance, her romantic involvement with musician Sly Stone and the suffering she endured in that relationship, and her adventures in the freewheeling 1960s. Yet it is her spiritual awakening that is the core of this story. The civil rights movement was the foundation of her growth, the Woodstock era the backdrop of her love with Carlos. The couple was drawn indelibly together by a search for truth and spirituality, but while yearning to be filled with God’s light, they were pulled dangerously toward a manipulative cult. They eventually disengage themselves from the guru and reclaim control of their lives, putting their love for each other before the cult’s increasingly strenuous demands.
Space Between the Stars is a moving account of self-discovery, rendered in raw, beautiful prose, by a woman whose heart has remained pure even in times of despair. As Deborah Santana talks frankly about her lifelong fight against racial injustice and her deep-seated loyalty to her family, ultimately it is the struggle to remain a spiritual and artistic force in her own right, in the shadow of one of the world’s most revered musicians, that shines through as her most indomitable pursuit.
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"Santana could've easily produced a thin tale of gossip and name-dropping in the pop music life. Instead, she has written a balanced, open memoir of a life that hasn't been without its missteps." (Publishers Weekly)
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 165
Galadrielle Allman went to her first concert as an infant in diapers, held in her teenage mother’s arms. Playing was her father - Duane Allman, who would become one of the most influential and sought-after musicians of his time. Just a few short years into his remarkable career, he was killed in a motorcycle accident at the age of 24. His daughter was two years old. Galadrielle was raised in the shadow of his loss and his fame. It took her many years to accept that his life and his legacy were hers, and when she did, she began to ask for stories - from family, fellow musicians, friends - and they began to flow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finding her celestial father
- By W Perry Hall on 05-07-14
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Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome
- A Memoir of Humor and Healing
- By: Reba Riley
- Narrated by: Reba Riley
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 360
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 321
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 317
In a debut memoir that is funny and earnest, Riley invites questioners, doubters, misfits, and curious believers to participate in the universal search to heal what life has broken. Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome takes you by the hand and reminds you that sometimes you first have to be lost in order to be found.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't get past the first chapter.
- By L. Lieske on 08-13-16
By: Reba Riley
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Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me
- A Memoir... of Sorts
- By: Ian Morgan Cron
- Narrated by: Ian Morgan Cron
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 139
"When I first discovered the grainy picture in my mother’s desk—me as a towheaded two year old sitting in what I remember was a salmon-orange-stained lifeboat—I was overwhelmed by the feeling that the boy in the boat was not waving and laughing at the person snapping the photo as much as he was frantically trying to get the attention of the man I am today. The boy was beckoning me to join him on a voyage through the harrowing straits of memory."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Please don't miss this one!
- By Cookie on 01-28-12
By: Ian Morgan Cron
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The Great Failure
- A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth
- By: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrated by: Natalie Goldberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story5 out of 5 stars 21
"The Great Failure is a boundless embrace, leaving nothing out. I wanted to learn the truth, to become whole. If I could touch the dark nature in someone else, I could know it in myself." So begins Natalie Goldberg in this candid exploration of her life. Here, Goldberg makes sense of primary relationships between father and daughter, teacher and student, and exemplifies the accomplishment available when creating daily writing practices.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you have been let down by anyone. Listen
- By Mia on 04-19-18
By: Natalie Goldberg
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Our Gen
- A Novel
- By: Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 80
The Gen—short for Sexagenarian—is an upscale 55-plus community located in the bucolic suburbs of Philadelphia. Main character Cynthia befriends the Gen’s two other Black residents, Bloc and Tish, as well as Lavia, who everyone assumes is from India. They regularly convene to smoke weed, line dance, and debate politics and philosophy as the wine goes down like silk. Their camaraderie is exhilarating. But beneath the fun and froth, storms gather. With its walls of windows gushing light and air, the Gen becomes the catalyst for secrets to be exposed.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Nope
- By Kindle Customer on 05-26-23
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The Art of Leaving
- A Memoir
- By: Ayelet Tsabari
- Narrated by: Ayelet Tsabari
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
An intimate memoir in essays by an award-winning Israeli writer who travels the world, from New York to India, searching for love, belonging, and an escape from grief following the death of her father when she was a young girl. With fierce, emotional prose, Ayelet Tsabari crafts a beautiful meditation about the lengths we will travel to try to escape our grief, the universal search to find a place where we belong, and the sense of home we eventually find within ourselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Emotional Masterpiece
- By Alex on 04-16-20
By: Ayelet Tsabari
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This Time for Me
- A Memoir
- By: Alexandra Billings, Joanne Gordon
- Narrated by: Alexandra Billings
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 97
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 88
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Story5 out of 5 stars 88
Born in 1962, Alexandra Billings grew up in a decade in which being herself was illegal. When she started transitioning in 1980, the word “Transgender” didn’t exist. With no Trans role models and no path to follow, Alexandra did what her family, teachers, and even friends said was impossible: Alexandra forged ahead. Spanning five decades, from profound lows to exhilarating highs, This Time for Me captures the events of a pioneering life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glittering & Moving
- By Brook Neilson on 04-21-22
By: Alexandra Billings, and others
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Spiritual Graffiti
- Finding My True Path
- By: MC YOGI
- Narrated by: MC YOGI
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 143
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 131
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Story5 out of 5 stars 131
Before he was one of the most well-known yoga teachers in North America and an international hip-hop artist, MC YOGI was a juvenile delinquent who was kicked out of three schools, sent to live at a group home for at-risk youth, arrested for vandalism, and caught up in a world of drugs, chaos, and carelessness. Through Technicolor stories of graffiti and guns, mystics and musicians, love, loss, and finding his soul's purpose, MC YOGI's journey is saturated in spiritual wisdom, illuminating the potential for transformation within us all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a crazy adventure!
- By tldward on 09-19-17
By: MC YOGI
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Dancing with Max
- A Mother and Son Who Broke Free
- By: Emily Colson, Charles Colson
- Narrated by: Emily Colson
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
The true story of a single mother's love and perseverance, her son's autism diagnosis with its challenges and gifts, and their triumph together over life's toughest obstacles. Journey with Emily Colson - daughter of Chuck Colson - as she takes you from her darkest days of pain to her adventure through life. With candor and wit, she shares about her personal battles and heartbreak when, as a suddenly single mother, she discovered her only child has autism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a spectacular book
- By Cameron Gerken on 05-05-20
By: Emily Colson, and others
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You Bring the Distant Near
- By: Mitali Perkins
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan, Shivali Bhammer, Priya Ayyar, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 67
From a grandmother worried that her children are losing their Indian identity, to a daughter wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair, to a granddaughter social activist fighting to preserve Bengali tigers, Perkins weaves together the threads of a family growing into an American identity. Here is a sweeping story of five women at once intimately relatable and yet entirely new.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cultural facination
- By sophia on 02-20-18
By: Mitali Perkins
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Apocalypse Child
- A Life in End Times - a Memoir
- By: Flor Edwards
- Narrated by: Flor Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
For the first 13 years of her life, Flor Edwards grew up in the Children of God. The group's nomadic existence was based on the belief that, as God's chosen people, they would be saved in the impending apocalypse that would envelop the rest of the world in 1993. Flor would be 13 years old. The group's charismatic leader, Father David, kept the family on the move, from Los Angeles to Bangkok to Chicago, where they would eventually disband, leaving Flor to make sense of the foreign world of mainstream society around her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A truly unique background and story
- By Asaph on 04-13-18
By: Flor Edwards
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Tell Me How to Be
- A Novel
- By: Neel Patel
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 98
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 98
Renu Amin always seemed perfect: doting husband, beautiful house, healthy sons. But as the one-year anniversary of her husband’s death approaches, Renu is binge-watching soap operas and simmering with old resentments. She can’t stop wondering if, thirty-five years ago, she chose the wrong life. In Los Angeles, her son, Akash, has everything he ever wanted, but as he tries to kickstart his songwriting career and commit to his boyfriend, he is haunted by the painful memories he fled a decade ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb read!
- By Ketal C Patel on 12-16-21
By: Neel Patel
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Together Tea
- By: Marjan Kamali
- Narrated by: Negin Farsad
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Darya has discovered the perfect gift for her daughter's 25th birthday: an ideal husband. Mina, however, is fed up with her mother's endless matchmaking and grading of Iranian American bachelors. After Darya's last ill-fated attempt to find Mina a husband, mother and daughter embark on a journey to Iran, where the two women gradually begin to understand each other. But after Mina falls for a young man and Darya is tempted by an American musician, will this mother and daughter's appreciation for each other survive?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Astonishingly Deep, Intense, Beautiful!
- By Gillian on 05-07-14
By: Marjan Kamali
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Bridge to Haven
- By: Francine Rivers
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes
- Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,509
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,137
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,127
To those who matter in 1950s Hollywood, Lena Scott is the hottest rising star to hit the silver screen since Marilyn Monroe. Few know her real name is Abra. Even fewer know the price she' s paid to finally feel like she' s somebody. To Pastor Ezekiel Freeman, Abra will always be the little girl who stole his heart the night he found her, a wailing newborn abandoned under a bridge on the outskirts of Haven.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Francine Rivers is the best for a reason.
- By Candace on 05-06-14
By: Francine Rivers
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Fairyland
- A Memoir of My Father
- By: Alysia Abbott
- Narrated by: Alysia Abbott
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 104
A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and 80s San Francisco with an openly gay father. After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst of revolution, bustling with gay men in search of liberation - few of whom are raising a child. Steve throws himself into San Francisco's vibrant cultural scene.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great representation of the time
- By AvidReader22 on 06-07-19
By: Alysia Abbott
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The Seasons of My Mother
- By: Marcia Gay Harden
- Narrated by: Marcia Gay Harden
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 44
In this poetic and inspiring memoir, one of America’s most revered actresses uses the imagery of flowers and the art of Ikebana to depict the unique creative bond that she has had with her mother throughout the years - and how, together, they are facing her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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eloquent writing
- By LA Adams on 06-27-19