Beverly H. Schnetzler
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- By: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world. Lansing describes how the men survived a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains.
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The best book I've had
- By Thomas Allen on 09-17-08
- Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- By: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Terrifying heart pounding moments
Reviewed: 11-18-24
The ups and downs, fateful moments left my heart pounding. T is impossible to imagine the sheer determination of the men on this journey, or their desire to accomplish the mission. It is a spellbinding tale.
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The Sentence
- By: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading "with murderous attention", must solve the mystery of this haunting.
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Addictive and surprising
- By Amazon Customer on 11-25-21
- The Sentence
- By: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Doesn’t disappoint!
Reviewed: 03-27-23
Louise Erdrich has done it again! She helps us reach deep inside and find ourselves.
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Hamnet
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
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A masterpiece
- By Molly-o on 08-03-20
- Hamnet
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
Excellent production
Reviewed: 01-25-23
O’Farrell’s words are the best descriptive expressions of emotions, settings, and characters I’ve read in many years.
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The Tenth Muse
- A Novel
- By: Catherine Chung
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be. But in becoming a mathematician, she must face the most human of problems - who is she? What is the cost of love, and what is the cost of ambition? On her quest to conquer the Riemann hypothesis, the greatest unsolved mathematical problem of her time, she turns to a theorem with a mysterious history that holds both the lock and key to her identity and to secrets long buried during World War II in Germany.
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Captivating and beautiful
- By Kindle Customer on 02-21-20
- The Tenth Muse
- A Novel
- By: Catherine Chung
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Hang in with this book! Worth the read.
Reviewed: 10-25-21
It is an inspirational read for women especially. Description of the choices a smart and ambitious woman makes, along with the consequences and life story with joys and regrets. It is easy to read but took a while to grab my full attention.
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Caste
- The Origins of Our Discontents
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
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In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.
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Brilliant, articulate, highly listenable.
- By GM on 08-05-20
- Caste
- The Origins of Our Discontents
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
Humanity at Peace
Reviewed: 01-15-21
If everyone read just the epilogue of this book, and took it to heart and action, it could change the world as we know it.
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