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Chaos Monkeys - Revised Edition
- Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
- By: Antonio Garcia Martinez
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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One of Silicon Valley’s most audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio García Martínez. After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, García Martínez joined Facebook’s nascent advertising team. Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company’s monetization strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter. In Chaos Monkeys, this gleeful contrarian unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and online marketing and reveals how it is invading our lives and shaping our future.
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Best Non-fiction (and entertaining frolic) I’ve listened to in years!
- By Martha Mangan on 09-22-19
- Chaos Monkeys - Revised Edition
- Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
- By: Antonio Garcia Martinez
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
5 Solid Stars
Reviewed: 05-17-21
This is one of the best books I have read for a long time. Smart, witty, inspiring and captivating. It will be one of historic references about Silicon Valley in future. Thank you for this great book.
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Is There Still Sex in the City?
- By: Candace Bushnell
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, Is There Still Sex in the City? gathers Bushnell’s signature short, sharp, satirical commentaries on the love and dating habits of middle-aged men and women as they continue to navigate ever-modernizing relationships. Throughout, Bushnell documents 21st-century dating phenomena, such as the “Unintended Cub Situation” in which a sensible older woman suddenly becomes the love interest of a much younger man, and what it’s really like to go on Tinder dates as a 50-something divorcee.
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Loved it!!!
- By Judith on 08-09-19
- Is There Still Sex in the City?
- By: Candace Bushnell
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Boring
Reviewed: 08-25-19
I had a great expectation but it became boring and tiring from the middle of the book. I still waited to finish the book. If you expect the similar degree of excitement and fun like SNC you’ll be very disappointed. Sorry.
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The Case for Trump
- By: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: David Lertham
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over 16 well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democrat with a quarter-billion-dollar war chest, and a hostile media and Washington establishment to become president of the US—and an extremely successful president.
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Fascinating!!
- By Wayne on 03-07-19
- The Case for Trump
- By: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: David Lertham
A Great Book
Reviewed: 04-20-19
Really enjoy listening to this book. The narrator is very good. I give all 5 stars. Thank you!
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The Old Money Book: How to Live Better While Spending Less
- Secrets of America's Upper Class
- By: Byron Tully
- Narrated by: Moe Egan
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The Old Money Book details how anyone from any background can adopt the values, priorities, and habits of America's upper class in order to live a richer life. This entertaining and informative work reveals for the first time, the core values that shape the discreet - but truly affluent - Old Money way of life. Author Byron Tully then details how old money does it, offering time-tested strategies about everything from clothes and cars to finances and furnishings.
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Subpar.
- By Alexey Bulankov on 05-23-17
- The Old Money Book: How to Live Better While Spending Less
- Secrets of America's Upper Class
- By: Byron Tully
- Narrated by: Moe Egan
Common sense
Reviewed: 10-08-18
Nothing really special. A lot of common sense. Some stores are felt dated. The narrator sounds like a bot.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
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In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- By Cathy Lindhorst on 08-27-17
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
A really great book
Reviewed: 09-05-18
I just couldn't stop listening to the book once I started. The story is fascinating. The narrator performs very well. I have to say there aren't many good quality books like this now. I will listen to it again. Very enjoyable. Thank you.
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Alone Time
- Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude
- By: Stephanie Rosenbloom
- Narrated by: Stephanie Rosenbloom
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of the prospect of solitude, but time alone can be both rich and restorative, especially when travelling. Through on-the-ground reporting and recounting the experiences of artists, writers, and innovators who cherished solitude, Stephanie Rosenbloom considers how being alone as a traveler - and even in one's own city - is conducive to becoming acutely aware of the sensual details of the world - patterns, textures, colors, tastes, sounds - in ways that are difficult to do in the company of others.
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Good story
- By MC on 01-02-19
- Alone Time
- Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude
- By: Stephanie Rosenbloom
- Narrated by: Stephanie Rosenbloom
An enchanting and uplifting book
Reviewed: 08-23-18
I enjoy this book so much that I listened to it twice. I just came back from my solo trip to Switzerland. I had a fabulous time. I thought about the author’s experience in the book during my trip, especially when I scrolled down the alleyway in the old town of Zurich in a beautiful summer night. I immensely enjoyed my solitude and try to let it linger as long as it can. This book shows you how to live a happy and meaningful life. Appreciate it in every little way. Thank you, Stephanie.
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Billionaire at the Barricades
- The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump
- By: Laura Ingraham
- Narrated by: Laura Ingraham
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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Americans didn’t just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or will his opponents in the media, protester class, and political establishment block his efforts and choke off the movement he represents?
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The unlikelist US president!
- By Wayne on 11-15-17
- Billionaire at the Barricades
- The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump
- By: Laura Ingraham
- Narrated by: Laura Ingraham
A great book. I’ll recommend to anyone.
Reviewed: 02-04-18
Really enjoyed listening to this book. Learned a lot about political insight. Thank you, Laura Ingraham.
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Women Who Work
- Rewriting the Rules for Success
- By: Ivanka Trump
- Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney, Ivanka Trump
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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After appearing on The Apprentice years ago and receiving a flood of letters from young women asking for guidance, I realized the need for more female leaders to speak out publicly in order to change the way society thinks and talks about "women who work". So I created a forum to do just that. This book evolves the conversation that started on IvankaTrump.com, where so many incredible women (and men!) have shared their experiences, advice, ambitions, and passions.
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For privileged women
- By Jessie J Boyle on 05-06-17
- Women Who Work
- Rewriting the Rules for Success
- By: Ivanka Trump
- Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney, Ivanka Trump
The Women Who Work
Reviewed: 12-23-17
I absolutely love this book. Very inspiring and empowering. It makes me feel tall and strong to face my work and life. I have learned many insightful tips from the book. “Lead with grace. Prove smart is sexy... Dream and do” becomes my daily mantra. Thank you, Ivanka!
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Raising Trump
- By: Ivana Trump
- Narrated by: Ivana Trump, Alison Fraser, Charles Pound, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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In Raising Trump, Ivana Trump reflects on her extraordinary life and the raising of her three children - Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka - and recounts the lessons she taught her children as they were growing up. As her former husband takes his place as the 45th president of the United States, his children have also been thrust into the media spotlight - but it is Ivana who raised them and proudly instilled in them what she believes to be the most important life lessons: loyalty, honesty, integrity, and drive.
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Raising Trump
- By Marilyn Spero on 11-01-17
- Raising Trump
- By: Ivana Trump
- Narrated by: Ivana Trump, Alison Fraser, Charles Pound, Kirby Heyborne, Kathleen McInerney
Rising Trump
Reviewed: 12-16-17
A great book and really fun to listen. I only knew about Ivana Trump from the press when growing up but had my doubt because I saw how wonderful her 3 children had become. Share her work ethic and value. She’s a true classic and intelligent beauty, a wonderful mother and great lady. Wish her and her family all the best.
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My (Underground) American Dream
- My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive
- By: Julissa Arce
- Narrated by: Julissa Arce
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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On the surface, Arce's story sounds like a how-to manual for achieving the American dream: growing up in an apartment on the outskirts of San Antonio, she worked tirelessly, achieved academic excellence, and landed a coveted job on Wall Street, complete with a six-figure salary. The level of professional and financial success that she achieved was the very definition of the American dream. But in this brave new memoir, Arce digs deep to reveal the physical, financial, and emotional costs of the stunning secret.
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I usually binge watch tv, this is the first time I’ve binged-Listened a book <3
- By Amazon Customer on 10-01-18
- My (Underground) American Dream
- My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive
- By: Julissa Arce
- Narrated by: Julissa Arce
A great book
Reviewed: 12-09-17
I listened twice and cried all the way through. I had a very similar experience and truly understand what Julissa Arce had been through in her life. Julissa, Thank you for speaking up and sharing your story with the world. You have my full admiration and are truly inspirational. Let’s help those undocumented and hard working immigrants. Empower ourselves with education no matter how hard the life is.
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