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There Is Nothing For You Here
- Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Fiona Hill
- Narrated by: Fiona Hill
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
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A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia—and draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places.
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Excellent book on populism, Putin, Trump and us
- By Erin on 10-08-21
- There Is Nothing For You Here
- Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Fiona Hill
- Narrated by: Fiona Hill
Extraordinary woman
Reviewed: 08-06-22
Analytic and narrative at once. I admired her at the hearings even more after this book.
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The Murmur of Bees
- By: Sofia Segovia, Simon Bruni - translator
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family, because when the uncannily gifted child closes his eyes, he can see what no one else can - visions of all that’s yet to come, both beautiful and dangerous.
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One of the best books I listened to ever!
- By Vmcg on 05-11-19
- The Murmur of Bees
- By: Sofia Segovia, Simon Bruni - translator
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, Angelo Di Loreto
Poetry and Space Between fantasy and Reality
Reviewed: 06-28-20
AMAZING. FANTASY YET VERY PROFOUND. Gentle sad yet empowering. We’re all one. Bees and Humans. Recommend highly.
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The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
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The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.
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eye opening
- By Michael Stansberry on 05-23-18
- The Overstory
- By: Richard Powers
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Outstanding. Poetry and an important narrative
Reviewed: 02-02-20
All characters are unique and powerfully impressive. Best I’ve read for a long tine. Ending is I guess all it could be. 23 hours and I want more.
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The Mueller Report
- The Findings of the Special Counsel Investigation
- By: Robert S. Mueller III, Special Counsel's Office U.S. Department of Justice
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett, Victor Bevine
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
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The wait is over. After a two-year investigation, the results of The Mueller Report have been released to the public. Now listen to an audio version of one of the most talked about government documents in history. These are the redacted findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team, which was tasked with investigating Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, including exploring any links or coordination between President Donald J. Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government.
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Mueller Report
- By Abby B on 04-22-19
- The Mueller Report
- The Findings of the Special Counsel Investigation
- By: Robert S. Mueller III, Special Counsel's Office U.S. Department of Justice
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett, Victor Bevine
Thank you Audible
Reviewed: 06-16-19
Really invaluable. I think I’ll listen again and refer to the pdf file. Important listen. As Mueller said his testimony is all there.
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Mission Critical
- By: Mark Greaney
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
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Court Gentry's flight on a CIA transport plane is interrupted when a security team brings a hooded man aboard. They want to kick Gentry off the flight but are overruled by CIA headquarters. The mystery man is being transported to England where a joint CIA/MI6 team will interrogate him about a mole in Langley. When they land in an isolated airbase in the UK, they are attacked by a hostile force who kidnaps the prisoner. Only Gentry escapes. His handlers send him after the attackers, but what can one operative do against a trained team of assassins?
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Greaney at his Best (with Jay Snyder)!!!!
- By shelley on 02-20-19
- Mission Critical
- By: Mark Greaney
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
Best by far
Reviewed: 05-19-19
I’ve read all the gray man books ( or listened). This one is the best by far. Gray has some flashes of color. Really good.
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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
Must read
Reviewed: 05-11-19
Exquisites human and wonderful book. OK I’m white but I needed to hear how African American kids and families deal with all the hate and yet learn to hear and trust. Don’t miss this book.
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That Old Cape Magic
- A Novel
- By: Richard Russo
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father’s ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura’s best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations here, his parents’ respite from the hated Midwest.
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Instantly-recognizable Richard Russo book
- By Fred Pike on 10-04-09
- That Old Cape Magic
- A Novel
- By: Richard Russo
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Wonderful
Reviewed: 03-17-19
Perhaps you have to be retired, or older to fully appreciate this book. I read the negative reviews but decided to try and I’m so happy and at peace that I did. Excellent story and portrayal with humor and eccentricities. Enjoy.
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Divestment
- By: Helene Wecker
- Narrated by: Widdi Turner
- Length: 29 mins
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When Gerda Kohl moves from the home in which she raised her family to a posh new retirement center, she must decide what to take with her and what to leave behind. This includes not only photographs, furniture, and mementos but weightier items, too - warring daughters, rebellious grandchildren, and the ghosts of a past that seems increasingly more real than the present.
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a very short story on downsizing
- By S. Kraft on 07-30-19
- Divestment
- By: Helene Wecker
- Narrated by: Widdi Turner
Aging
Reviewed: 03-09-19
Sad but true picture of aging, and the minds sliding between now and then. And the confusion of where we are now.
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The Round House
- A Novel
- By: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Gary Farmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and 13-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared.
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Heavy in My Heart
- By Mel on 01-02-13
- The Round House
- A Novel
- By: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Gary Farmer
Extraordinary
Reviewed: 03-08-19
I’ve listened to books by Erdrich a few years ago and really thought they were poetry and wisdom. This book is by far the best.
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The Golem and the Jinni
- A Novel
- By: Helene Wecker
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
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Helene Wecker's dazzling debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who appear mysteriously in 1899 New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a strange man who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York Harbor. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian Desert. Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop.
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Enchanting Debut Novel - Delicious!
- By Tango on 04-26-13
- The Golem and the Jinni
- A Novel
- By: Helene Wecker
- Narrated by: George Guidall
Awesome
Reviewed: 02-23-19
Can’t wait for the best in the series to be released on Audible. With the same narrator please. Brilliant book.
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