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Publisher's Summary
'I'll stay with them no matter what happens. Someone who has mercy in his heart for humans has mercy for every living thing.'
When war came to Alaa Aljaleel's hometown, he made a remarkable decision to stay behind, caring for the people and animals caught in the crossfire. While thousands were forced to flee, Alaa spent his days carrying out perilous rescue missions in his makeshift ambulance and building a sanctuary for the city's abandoned cats.
In turn, he created something unique: a place of tranquillity for children living through the bombardment and a glimmer of hope for those watching in horror around the world. As word of Alaa's courage and dedication spread, the kindness of strangers enabled him to feed thousands of local families and save hundreds of animals. But with the city under siege, time was running out for the last sanctuary in Aleppo, and Alaa was about to face his biggest challenge yet....
This is the first memoir about the war in Syria from a civilian who remains there to this day, providing both a shocking insider account as well as an inspiring tale about how one person's actions can make a difference against all odds.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-27-19
An amazing insight
Having followed Alaa and his cat Sanctuary for years on social media it was wonderful to hear more about the background. There are some hard hitting parts to do with the last days in alleppo.
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- l learoyd
- 03-14-19
Insightful
Alaa Aljaleel is a true humanitarian, I'm not particularly in to cats but this story shows how a small act of kindness can grow into something wonderfu. An account of the war in Syria from an unusual perspective, well worth a read or a listen.
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- mandy meyerowitz
- 05-14-19
Life Affirming story
I really enjoyed listening to a story that was tragic and sad yet conveyed hope and positivity in dire circumstances.
Well Done to Alaa Aljaleel for giving a human face to the tragedy that is Syria.
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Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Eddie was beaten by SS thugs, arrested, and sent to a concentration camp with thousands of other Jews across Germany. Every day of the next seven years of his life, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors in Buchenwald, Auschwitz, and finally on a forced death march during the Third Reich’s final days.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone needs to listen to this amazing man
- By Christan Derryberry on 05-12-21
By: Eddie Jaku
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Nujeen
- One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-Torn Syria in a Wheelchair
- By: Nujeen Mustafa, Christina Lamb
- Narrated by: Raghad Chaar
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Prize-winning journalist and the coauthor of smash New York Times best seller I Am Malala, Christina Lamb now tells the inspiring true story of another remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy whose harrowing journey from war-ravaged Syria to Germany in a wheelchair is a breathtaking tale of fortitude, grit, and hope that lends a face to the greatest humanitarian issue of our time: the Syrian refugee crisis.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Impressive memoir
- By Jean on 10-30-16
By: Nujeen Mustafa, and others
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The Accountant's Story
- Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel
- By: Roberto Escobar
- Narrated by: Ruben Diaz
- Length: 9 hrs
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 123
In short, this is Pablo Escobar's story in the words of one of his closest confidants, his brother Roberto. It's all here - the brutal violence inside the world of the drug cartel, dealing with American drug forces and the CIA, the problems the Escobars faced when going up against the Colombian mafia, even Pablo's moments of kindness and compassion. As Roberto points out, although many people view Escobar as a monster, thousands still visit his grave every year to mourn him, and revere him as a savior.
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3 out of 5 stars
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get the unabridged version
- By Erwin on 08-13-09
By: Roberto Escobar
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Love Anyway
- An Invitation Beyond a World That’s Scary as Hell
- By: Jeremy Courtney
- Narrated by: Jeremy Courtney
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 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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Story5 out of 5 stars 44
For all who are displaced. For all who are weary of the way things are. For all who long for a more beautiful world. Preemptive Love founder Jeremy Courtney has seen the very worst of war. He's risked his life saving lives on the front lines. He's come face to face with ISIS, been targeted by death threats, and narrowly escaped airstrikes. Through it all, the most powerful thing he's learned is this: We're not just at war with each other. We're at war with ourselves. But the way things are is not the way they have to be.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfectly Titled Book!!!
- By Brenda on 02-13-20
By: Jeremy Courtney
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I, Rigoberta Menchú
- An Indian Woman in Guatemala
- By: Rigoberta Menchú, Elisabeth Burgos-Debray - Edited by, Ann Wright - Translated by
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 72
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story5 out of 5 stars 56
Now a global best seller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father, and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechistic work as an expression of political revolt, as well as religious commitment. Menchú vividly conveys the traditional beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story of strength
- By Anonymous User on 10-18-22
By: Rigoberta Menchú, and others
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In Order to Live
- A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
- By: Yeonmi Park
- Narrated by: Eji Kim
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5,421
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,779
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4,774
In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto her own most painful and difficult memories. She tells with bravery and dignity for the first time the story of how she and her mother were betrayed and sold into sexual slavery in China and forced to suffer terrible psychological and physical hardship before they finally made their way to Seoul, South Korea - and to freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow. What a story!
- By Jfm on 02-01-16
By: Yeonmi Park
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I Only Wanted to Live
- The Struggle of a Boy to Survive Holocaust
- By: Arie Tamir
- Narrated by: Martin Landry
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
When Leosz was only six, his life changed completely. World War II broke out in 1939, sweeping the young boy into the whirlwind of the holocaust. For six long torturous years, Leosz sees and goes through everything: myriads of overcrowded transports headed for concentration camps, life on the streets of occupied Poland as an abandoned child, hiding from cruel Nazis, forced labor under conditions of starvation, and the constant threat of death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A powerful testament to the resilience
- By Jacob Lord on 04-11-23
By: Arie Tamir
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Dancing Bears
- By: Witold Szabłowski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones - translator, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57
For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance. In the tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, award-winning Polish journalist, Witold Szabłowski uncovers remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and in Cuba who, like Bulgaria’s dancing bears, are now free but who seem nostalgic for the time when they were not.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intelligent, entertaining, & insightful
- By Kait on 07-23-19
By: Witold Szabłowski, and others
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled
- Voices from Syria
- By: Wendy Pearlman
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Assaf Cohen, Susan Nezami
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story5 out of 5 stars 92
Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations known as the Arab Spring, in 2011 hundreds of thousands of Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom, democracy, and human rights. The government's ferocious response, and the refusal of the demonstrators to back down, sparked a brutal civil war that over the past five years has escalated into the worst humanitarian catastrophe of our times. Yet despite all the reporting, the video, and the wrenching photography, the stories of ordinary Syrians remain unheard.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful Firsthand Accounts of Syrian Revolution
- By Anonymous User on 04-20-19
By: Wendy Pearlman
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Code Name: Johnny Walker
- The Extraordinary Story of the Iraqi Who Risked Everything to Fight with the U.S. Navy SEALs
- By: Johnny Walker, Jim DeFelice
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 548
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 509
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 508
>In this illuminating and informative memoir, an Iraqi translator who risked his life working with American Sniper author Chris Kyle and the Navy SEALs tells his remarkable and inspiring story, offering a refreshing new perspective on the Iraq War. As the insurgency in Iraq intensified following the American invasion, U.S. Navy SEALs were called upon to root terrorists from their lairs. Unsure of the local neighborhoods and unable to speak the local languages, they came to rely on one man to guide them and watch their backs. He was a "terp" - an interpreter - with a job so dangerous they couldn't even use his real name.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding and real
- By Noel C. Stanhope on 06-05-14
By: Johnny Walker, and others
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Invisible Jews
- Surviving the Holocaust in Poland
- By: Eddie Bielawski
- Narrated by: Norman Gilligan
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Eddie Bielawski was born in the town of Wegrow in Poland in mid-1938. Not a propitious time and place for a Jewish child to be born. As a young child, he sees the Nazi army marching toward Russia. Day and night they marched - soldiers, trucks, tanks, and more soldiers, in a never-ending line - an invincible force. One night, his father had a dream. In this dream, he saw what he had to do: where to build the bunker, how to build it, and even its dimensions. This would be their Noah's Ark, saving them from the initial deluge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surviving not the camps, but being in hiding!
- By Logophile on 04-26-18
By: Eddie Bielawski
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I Shall Not Hate
- A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
- By: Izzeldin Abuelaish
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish---now known simply as the "Gaza doctor"---captured hearts and headlines around the world in the aftermath of horrific tragedy: On January 16, 2009, Israeli shells hit his home in the Gaza Strip, killing three of his daughters and his niece. By turns inspiring and heartbreaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Abuelaish's account of an extraordinary life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A story worth reading, but terrible narration
- By BL Lucas on 04-11-12
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Nazis Knew My Name
- A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz
- By: Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee, David Brewster
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Zoe Carides
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story5 out of 5 stars 32
In March 1942, 25-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young women were deported as some of the first Jews to be sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The SS soon discovered that by putting prisoners in charge of the day-to-day accommodation blocks, they could deflect attention away from themselves. Magda was one such prisoner selected for leadership and put in charge of hundreds of women in the notorious Experimental Block 10. She found herself constantly walking a dangerously fine line: saving lives while avoiding suspicion by the SS.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heart rendering story!
- By Ginger on 12-30-22
By: Magda Hellinger, and others
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The Words of My Father
- Love and Pain in Palestine
- By: Yousef Bashir
- Narrated by: Yousef Bashir
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
A Palestinian American activist recalls his adolescence in Gaza during the Second Intifada and how he made a strong commitment to peace in the face of devastating brutality in this moving, candid, and transformative memoir that reminds us of the importance of looking beyond prejudice, anger, and fear.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this book
- By debby brooks on 09-09-21
By: Yousef Bashir
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An Ordinary Man
- An Autobiography
- By: Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story5 out of 5 stars 112
As his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, the "Oskar Schindler of Africa", refused to bow to the madness that surrounded him. Confronting killers with a combination of diplomacy, flattery, and deception, he offered shelter to more than 12,000 members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged outside with machetes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not An Ordinary Memoir
- By Lori J. Rosendahl on 04-18-06
By: Paul Rusesabagina, and others
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A Train Near Magdeburg
- A Teacher's Journey into the Holocaust
- By: Matthew Rozell
- Narrated by: Nick Cracknell
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 146
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 129
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Story5 out of 5 stars 128
From the author of The Things Our Fathers Saw in the World War II eyewitness history series comes this book, offering the true story behind an iconic photograph taken at the liberation of a death train, deep in the heart of Nazi Germany. It's brought to life by the history teacher who discovered it and went on to reunite hundreds of Holocaust survivors with the actual American soldiers who saved them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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important story
- By Amazon Customer on 04-04-20
By: Matthew Rozell
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The Reluctant Communist
- My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
- By: Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Fredrick