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The Woman with a Purple Heart
- By: Diane Hanks
- Narrated by: Libby McKnight
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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Annie Fox will stop at nothing to serve her country. But what happens when her country fails her? In November 1941, Annie Fox, an Army nurse, is transferred to Hickam Field, an air force base in Honolulu. The others on her transport plane are thrilled to work in paradise, but Annie sees her new duty station as the Army's way of holding the door open to her retirement. But serving her country is her calling and she will go wherever she is told.
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This could have been an amazing historical novel but the narrator was so bad that it ruined the importance of the story line.
- By CTJ on 04-07-24
- The Woman with a Purple Heart
- By: Diane Hanks
- Narrated by: Libby McKnight
The bravery of the nurses!
Reviewed: 10-26-24
It was a terrific book, bringing to life the bravery of these amazing nurses.
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Skyscraper Lullaby
- By: James Fritz
- Narrated by: Stephanie Hsu, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Arian Moayed
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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As they recount the events surrounding the disappearance of their toddler—one with a tendency to bite—two parents cope with grief in vastly different ways. While the father wrestles with feelings of guilt, the mother is convinced she’s spotted the boy in frightening TV news reports...though let’s just say he looks nothing like the precocious little boy they remember from a decade ago.
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Interesting
- By Ronda on 12-18-22
- Skyscraper Lullaby
- By: James Fritz
- Narrated by: Stephanie Hsu, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Arian Moayed
more please but in podcast format
Reviewed: 02-07-23
I loved it. it was effed up and delicious and sinful... Audible we want more effed up fictional stories like this but in podcast format. The story wasn't able to be explored properly nor too it's full potential. More fiction podcasts!
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The Butterfly Effect
- By: Jon Ronson
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Join best-selling author Jon Ronson as he traces the story of one very strange butterfly effect: What happened after a teen in Brussels figured out how to make porn free and easily accessible on the internet. Traveling from the tech world of Silicon Valley to the San Fernando Valley, where most porn films were made, you learn the consequences of free porn, which turn out to be mysterious, shocking, sad, and, at times, even surprisingly sweet. A 7-part series takes you on a journey to places you'll never expect. [Explicit]
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Incredible story; couldn't stop listening
- By Leigh on 02-01-18
well done!
Reviewed: 05-05-22
loved the layers and intersectionality of this podcast it drives deep into the porn industry and it's consumers. The consumers and the stories done on them about why they want a certain fantasy are my favorite thing about this show. I hope a second season is done!!!
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Shadow Warrior
- William Egan Colby and the CIA
- By: Randall B. Woods
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 21 hrs and 38 mins
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As a World War II commando, a Cold War spy, and CIA director under Presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. A quintessential member of the greatest generation, Colby embodied the moral and strategic ambiguities of the postwar world, and confronted many of the dilemmas about power and secrecy that America still grapples with today.
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Fascinating. I want to read more, about Colby’s life and his death.
- By Cynthia C. on 06-20-23
- Shadow Warrior
- William Egan Colby and the CIA
- By: Randall B. Woods
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
Who murdered William Colby ?
Reviewed: 09-22-21
Fascinating life! Who could've done it? And WHY? The narrator is perfect! What an amazing man!!! Im fascinated by the CIA and the eccentric spies who worked there.
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The Lying Life of Adults
- By: Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein - translator
- Narrated by: Marisa Tomei
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, is looking more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Will she turn out like her despised Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father have spent their whole lives avoiding and deriding? There must be a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is.
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Disappointed
- By Kay on 09-02-20
- The Lying Life of Adults
- By: Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein - translator
- Narrated by: Marisa Tomei
Not a fan!
Reviewed: 07-05-21
Silted. language and a 15yr old girl who seems a bit too mature in any culture. . . just didn't engage me.
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Fauci
- By: Michael Specter
- Narrated by: Michael Specter
- Length: 3 hrs
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Pushkin Industries presents Fauci: the first-ever audio biography of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the most prominent voices in the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Written and narrated by New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter, Fauci combines Specter’s unparalleled reporting with exclusive new interviews and archival audio of Dr. Fauci; his wife, Christine Grady, RN, PhD; key colleagues; and peers.
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A struggle
- By Chuck K on 10-05-20
- Fauci
- By: Michael Specter
- Narrated by: Michael Specter
FAUCI A true medical hero. First AIDS, now COVID!
Reviewed: 10-13-20
I worked 7 yrs at NIH in the '70s. Even then Fauci was a straight up hero.
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Melania and Me
- The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady
- By: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
- Narrated by: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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In this candid and emotional memoir, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff takes you into Trump Tower and the White House to tell the funny, thrilling, and heartbreaking story of her intimate friendship with one of the most famous women in the world, a woman few people truly understand. How did Melania react to the Access Hollywood tape and her husband’s affair with Stormy Daniels? Does she get along well with Ivanka? Why did she wear that jacket with "I really don’t care, do u?" printed on the back? Is Melania happy being First Lady? Wolkoff has some ideas....
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AUTHOR IS AN ENGAGING NARRATOR
- By k on 09-02-20
- Melania and Me
- The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady
- By: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
- Narrated by: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
First Lady & First Grifter
Reviewed: 09-13-20
This is a compelling 1st person view of the betrayal by Melania of a woman who trusted & loved her unconditionally. Melania is as transactional & narcissistic as her husband.
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A Bookshop in Berlin
- The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
- By: Françoise Frenkel, Patrick Modiano - foreword
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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In 1921, Françoise Frenkel - a Jewish woman from Poland - fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin’s first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations. Françoise’s dream finally shatters on Kristallnacht in November 1938, as hundreds of Jewish shops and businesses are destroyed.
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Fine memoir. Narrator a bit over the top.
- By Justine Kauffman on 12-09-19
- A Bookshop in Berlin
- The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
- By: Françoise Frenkel, Patrick Modiano - foreword
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
Amazing
Reviewed: 04-11-20
Inspiring and compelling it felt as if I were with her on her journey to safety.
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Educated
- A Memoir
- By: Tara Westover
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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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.
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The Other Side of Idaho's Mountains
- By Darwin8u on 03-28-18
- Educated
- A Memoir
- By: Tara Westover
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Amazing
Reviewed: 06-18-19
one of the most compelling autobiographies I've ever read or listen to. Her journey her struggle is an inspiration to all of us conflicted by crazy families we could never fit into or understand. she is an inspiration!
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Kushner, Inc.
- Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
- By: Vicky Ward
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Vicky Ward - introduction
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are the self-styled prince and princess of America. Their swift, gilded rise to extraordinary power in Donald Trump’s White House is unprecedented, unconstitutional, and dangerous. In Kushner, Inc., investigative journalist Vicky Ward digs beneath the myth the couple has created that depicts themselves as the voices of reason in an otherwise crazy presidency and reveals that Jared and Ivanka are not just the president’s chief enablers, they are, like him, disdainful of rules, of laws, and of ethics.
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Great story but narrator was a disaster
- By Lmaris on 03-20-19
- Kushner, Inc.
- Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
- By: Vicky Ward
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Vicky Ward - introduction
Jervanka are morally bankrupt
Reviewed: 04-21-19
This power couple are appalling. As patheticly inept as both their fathers; equally dim bulbs.
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