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What Needs to Be Said
- Speak Your Truth, Release Shame, Find Oneness
- By: Alex Reegan
- Narrated by: Alex Reegan
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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As a trans man born into an evangelical Christian family that prevented his true identity from emerging, Alex spent years struggling with depression, anxiety, and addiction, trying to break free of the oppressive beliefs that bound him. After years of fighting—for his life, his freedom, and his truth—Alex learnt to surrender and come home to himself. In this part memoir, part self-help audiobook, Alex weaves his own story with healing guidance for you to take away and implement in your own life.
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Authentic, Enlightening, and Divine
- By darnell on 08-15-24
- What Needs to Be Said
- Speak Your Truth, Release Shame, Find Oneness
- By: Alex Reegan
- Narrated by: Alex Reegan
Timely!
Reviewed: 07-28-23
The author shares honest, heartfelt stories at a time we so desperately need them. The practical guidance to self-discovery is a great tool for those who want to take the next steps.
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The Violin Conspiracy
- A Novel (Good Morning America Book Club)
- By: Brendan Slocumb
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Brendan Slocumb
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
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Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music.
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Enjoyable But Flawed
- By woodbridge98 on 02-12-22
- The Violin Conspiracy
- A Novel (Good Morning America Book Club)
- By: Brendan Slocumb
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Brendan Slocumb
Lived Experience
Reviewed: 07-02-23
I sincerely appreciate the opportunity to read and consider the lived experience of both the main character and the author. Well done.
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The Nightingale
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
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The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France—a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.
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HEARTBREAKINGLY POIGNANT AND INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL
- By PatrioticMimi on 02-17-15
- The Nightingale
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Polly Stone
This book will take you to another world
Reviewed: 09-14-20
Ms Hannah does a beautiful job of taking the reader to another place and time. The love, horror, heartbreak, loss and survival of the French women and children during and after World War 2 is tangible.
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Far from the Tree
- Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
- By: Andrew Solomon
- Narrated by: Andrew Solomon
- Length: 40 hrs and 37 mins
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A brilliant and utterly original thinker, Andrew Solomon's journey began from his experience of being the gay child of straight parents. He wondered how other families accommodate children who have a variety of differences: families of people who are deaf, who are dwarfs, who have Down syndrome, who have autism, who have schizophrenia, who have multiple severe disabilities, who are prodigies, who commit crimes, who are transgender.
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A Gripping Masterpiece
- By C. Beaton on 12-14-12
- Far from the Tree
- Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
- By: Andrew Solomon
- Narrated by: Andrew Solomon
Worth it
Reviewed: 02-28-20
This is not a quick listen, but it is worth every minute it takes. Enjoy!
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It's Not What It Looks Like
- By: Molly Burke
- Narrated by: Molly Burke
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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Close your eyes and get ready to see the world in a new and more positive way. As a child in Toronto, Molly Burke was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa and became completely sightless as a teenager. Now an award-winning YouTube star and global influencer, Molly shares what it’s like to be a purple-haired, pink-obsessed fashion and makeup lover in a seeing world. She speaks with authenticity and candor about how she tackles the preconceived notions we have around blindness; Molly has made it her mission to make us see her - and ourselves- in a wholly empowering way.
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Authentic, heart-wrenching, infinitely hopeful
- By B Halliday on 08-02-19
- It's Not What It Looks Like
- By: Molly Burke
- Narrated by: Molly Burke
A Great Read for All Ages!
Reviewed: 08-28-19
Molly's story touches so many topics. it reall y can reach just about anyone! I listened to this with my 13 year old daughter and 17 year old son. All of us came away with several helpful "nuggets" and were thoroughly entertained.
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The Hate U Give
- By: Angie Thomas
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name.
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This Book Changed My Entire Perspective
- By Wendi on 01-14-18
- The Hate U Give
- By: Angie Thomas
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
This should be required reading...for EVERYONE!
Reviewed: 07-24-19
The history of racial inequality is long and ugly. White people need to stop claiming ignorance and start reading books like this. Maybe we can all look forward to a better world...together.
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The Racketeer
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five.... Nothing is as it seems and everything’s fair game in this wickedly clever new novel from John Grisham, the undisputed master of the legal thriller.
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Garbage
- By cristina on 11-29-12
- The Racketeer
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
Kept me Guessing Until the End!
Reviewed: 01-13-16
In true Grisham form the story had me on my toes and wondering until the very end. The twists and turns kept me interested throughout the story!
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Sycamore Row
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Michael Beck
- Length: 20 hrs and 46 mins
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Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his Black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. The second will raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly?
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The Grisham we all loved from the 90's!
- By CBlox on 10-23-13
- Sycamore Row
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Michael Beck
Wow! The Full Circle of Healing!
Reviewed: 01-11-16
A story of pain and shame, but also restitution forgiveness and healing. I pray that such beauty from ashes truly can come out of the horrors of our past.
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Go Set a Watchman
- A Novel
- By: Harper Lee
- Narrated by: Reese Witherspoon
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, best-selling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic To Kill a Mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.
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To Kill A Mockingbird vs Go Set A Watchman
- By Sara on 07-15-15
- Go Set a Watchman
- A Novel
- By: Harper Lee
- Narrated by: Reese Witherspoon
I Wish There Were Five More Sequels!!
Reviewed: 01-11-16
It is so refreshing to revisit Miss Jean Louise Finch after all these years. Ms. Lee does an outstanding job of guiding the reader through the delicate and painful balance that Scout and Atticus must find as the world around them changes and she becomes an adult. Well done!
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The Summons & The Brethren
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Frank Muller, Michael Beck
- Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
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The Summons: Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi. Now the judge is a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. The Brethren: They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. In prison these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong. Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich, very fast.
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A Double Pack of Edge of Your Seat Suspense
- By Paul Luthi on 03-23-13
- The Summons & The Brethren
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Frank Muller, Michael Beck
Summons Outstanding Brethren Missing the Intrigue!
Reviewed: 01-11-16
The Summons leads the reader on the guessing game with the surprise finish that one has come to expect of Grisham. There is plenty of excitement, and revisiting some beloved old characters just adds to the thrill. The Brethren is a decent enough story, but rather slow. It is tough to stay interested and involved at times. Not Grisham's best.
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