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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- A Novel
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (German for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism - but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive.
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A hopeful perspective on a harrowing time
- By melyssa57 (A Page Before Bedtime dot com) on 10-10-18
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- A Novel
- By: Heather Morris
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
The determination, hope, and love Lali and Gupta had to survive in the concentration camp.
Reviewed: 11-15-24
I was appalled be the treatment of the prisoners in the camp. Man’s inhumanity to others. In another sense, I was astonished by the kindness and love the prisoners Had for each other. A story of hate and love in which love prevails. The change in voices was well done except for the women’s voices.
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The Women
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
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Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
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Great story
- By AJ Frithiof on 02-08-24
- The Women
- A Novel
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah
The women who served in Vietnam
Reviewed: 05-29-24
I enjoyed the book very much, I was in high school and college during the war and remember the protests. I began to realize that the vets were not acknowledged when they returned home.so many alcoholics and drug abusers and suffering from PTSD and other illnesses. I did not know about the nurses in Nam. Although I love to watch MASH and knew there were women in Korea. I hcried throughout tha book any reasons. I’m happy women are being acknowledge today but we still have a long way to go.
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A Song for You
- My Life with Whitney Houston
- By: Robyn Crawford
- Narrated by: Robyn Crawford
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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Whitney Houston is as big a superstar as the music business has ever known. She exploded on the scene in 1985 with her debut album and spent the next two decades dominating the charts and capturing the hearts of fans around the world. One person was there by her side through it all - her best friend, Robyn Crawford.
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Excellent!!! Thank you Robyn!!!
- By Aaron on 11-13-19
- A Song for You
- My Life with Whitney Houston
- By: Robyn Crawford
- Narrated by: Robyn Crawford
Friendship
Reviewed: 04-23-24
I learned a lot about Robyn and Whitney’s friendship. Sad how drugs destroyed the friendship and lives. Whitney had a poor self images and consistently trying to prove herself
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Pesos
- The Rise and Fall of a Border Family
- By: Pietro La Greca Jr., Rebecca Paley - contributor
- Narrated by: Tony Dalton
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Pietro La Greca Sr. was an intimidating Napolitano con man dubbed “Mexico’s real-life Don Corleone”. He ran Mexico’s biggest money-laundering scheme during the worst economic period in the country’s history. His was a world of fast cars, mansions on the water, and VIP treatment at Las Vegas casinos. His exploitation of Mexico’s financial free fall made him a wealthy man. But while he was running his criminal empire, his son, Pietro Jr., a.k.a. Picho, was learning his father’s tricks—if only to bring the man down.
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A Must Read Story
- By April Wells on 11-04-22
- Pesos
- The Rise and Fall of a Border Family
- By: Pietro La Greca Jr., Rebecca Paley - contributor
- Narrated by: Tony Dalton
Family
Reviewed: 11-14-23
This was a fascinating story. It speaks to resiliency of a young man who had an abusive life and how he rose above it. The love he had for his mother and abuelo and vice versa was his saving grace. I loved the narrator’s voice.
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The Beach House: Coming Home
- A Novel
- By: Georgia Bockoven
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Fourteen years ago Melinda Campbell was 15 and a half, pregnant, and terrified. Desperate to protect her baby from a malicious grandfather and needed at home to take care of her own critically ill father, Melinda made the most generous, heart-wrenching choice of all: adoption. Now she's living the successful life her father struggled to give her but missing her daughter with a longing that shadows every joy.
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Engaging
- By Linda Brugger on 06-08-17
- The Beach House: Coming Home
- A Novel
- By: Georgia Bockoven
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Great story
Reviewed: 10-06-23
I enjoyed the story. I love stories with a happy ending. I enjoyed the change in voices of the narrator..
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
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This is the next installment in a six volume autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In A Song Flung Up to Heaven Maya Angelou describes her poignant encounters with Martin Luther King, Jr.; her work with the civil rights movement; and witnessing the Watts riots. Battered by the loss of revered black leaders, it takes writer James Baldwin to finally force her out of isolation with a dinner party that inspired her to write.
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best book I have listened to
- By Cynthia on 03-18-03
- A Song Flung Up to Heaven
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
Maya at her best
Reviewed: 08-09-23
I loved the book. I learned much about the African culture. It was amazing how a single mother raised a boy to be a man and there was not many single mothers.The strength to survive of Maya Angelou amazed me. I could listen to her read forever.
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Shutter
- By: Ramona Emerson
- Narrated by: Charley Flyte
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases—she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won’t let her sleep and who sabotage her personal life.
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This is why you cannot trust good reviews
- By Prabhakar J. on 10-23-22
- Shutter
- By: Ramona Emerson
- Narrated by: Charley Flyte
Shutter
Reviewed: 08-01-23
I enjoyed the story especially the knowledge of Navajo customs. The narrator used different voices when telling the story. That was very interesting.
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Our Missing Hearts
- A Novel
- By: Celeste Ng
- Narrated by: Lucy Liu, Celeste Ng
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn’t know what happened to her—only that her books have been banned—and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him.
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Listen to the sample
- By Sunny White on 10-11-22
- Our Missing Hearts
- A Novel
- By: Celeste Ng
- Narrated by: Lucy Liu, Celeste Ng
Missing children
Reviewed: 03-20-23
The story moved slowly. I did not realize that children were being separated from families still. I was aware of the separation after WWII with Asian families and present day separation at our borders. The bias and racism that continues today is scary. I enjoyed the narration.
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Greenlights
- By: Matthew McConaughey
- Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries.
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Love this!
- By Nancy on 10-21-20
- Greenlights
- By: Matthew McConaughey
- Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey
Live life
Reviewed: 01-13-23
The book was humorous, entertaining, and thought provoking. For me it was spiritual also, turning red lights into green lights, Matthew McConaughey has a superb voice. It was so easy to imagine the story and I was able to get lost in the story.
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