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Coming Home
- By: Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford - contributor
- Narrated by: Andia Winslow, Brittney Griner
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women’s basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittney’s world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publicly—until now.
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WOW!
- By Anonymous User on 05-08-24
- Coming Home
- By: Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford - contributor
- Narrated by: Andia Winslow, Brittney Griner
It's hard to believe this can happen
Reviewed: 05-17-24
What an amazing book. Brittney shares everything about herself and her horrendous arrest and lock up in Russian prison. I haven't read a true story like this in a long time. I felt sorry for all she had to endure and cried when she finally got released. Thank you, President Biden, for getting her back. This book makes you appreciate democracy and what we have in America. Don't ever allow our great democracy to be lost. And, read this book!
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How We Learn
- Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine...for Now
- By: Stanislas Dehaene
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 10 hrs
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The human brain is an extraordinary machine. Its ability to process information and adapt to circumstances by reprogramming itself is unparalleled and it remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene decodes the brain's biological mechanisms, delving into the neuronal, synaptic, and molecular processes taking place. He explains why youth is such a sensitive period, but assures us that our abilities continue into adulthood and that we can enhance our learning and memory at any age.
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Too pedantic, too didactic
- By RickyF on 12-05-21
- How We Learn
- Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine...for Now
- By: Stanislas Dehaene
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Interesting and informative
Reviewed: 06-09-23
This is a great book about the brain and where we are with our knowledge about how it works. Anyone who wants to learn should read this book.
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On Animals
- By: Susan Orlean
- Narrated by: Susan Orlean
- Length: 10 hrs
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“How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,” writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon, she’s been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals, she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career.
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Learned so Much from this Work
- By Birdman on 10-18-21
- On Animals
- By: Susan Orlean
- Narrated by: Susan Orlean
A light enjoyable book
Reviewed: 07-15-22
This was a fun book to read in the background while doing chores. The author tells her stories about all the animals in her life. I enjoyed listening to it and hope you’re well too.
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Thirst
- 2600 Miles to Home
- By: Heather Anderson
- Narrated by: Heather Costa
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail - a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her job, her marriage, and a dissatisfied life and walked back into those mountains. In her new memoir, Heather shares her distinct message of courage - her willingness to turn away from the predictability of a more traditional life in an effort to seek out what most fulfills her.
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Great accomplishment, flat story
- By Travis M. Smith on 07-11-19
- Thirst
- 2600 Miles to Home
- By: Heather Anderson
- Narrated by: Heather Costa
What a strong lady
Reviewed: 06-02-22
This was a great book. The author had a great story to tell and was an amazing person. The reader did a fantastic job representing the author. What a strong will this lady has in accomplishing what she has done in life. It was great reading about it
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American Wolf
- A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
- By: Nate Blakeslee
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Nate Blakeslee
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s. But in recent decades, conservationists have brought wolves back to the Rockies, igniting a battle over the very soul of the West. With novelistic detail, Nate Blakeslee tells the gripping story of one of these wolves, O-Six, a charismatic alpha female named for the year of her birth.
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An Epic American Story
- By Michael - Audible Editor on 10-17-17
- American Wolf
- A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
- By: Nate Blakeslee
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Nate Blakeslee
Too long
Reviewed: 01-01-18
Excellent true story but it could have been told in a few hours without losing anything. It seemed like I was hearing the same theme over and over throughout the book
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The Martian
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: R. C. Bray
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plainold "human error" are much more likely to kill him first.
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Macgyver on Mars
- By Michael G Kurilla on 06-21-13
- The Martian
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: R. C. Bray
Fantastic story
Reviewed: 05-16-15
This is going to make a great movie. It is a great story of endurance. The reader is perfect for the part.
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Wild
- From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- By: Cheryl Strayed
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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At 22, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State - and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise.” But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.
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Glad I Took the Trip
- By FanB14 on 04-08-13
- Wild
- From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- By: Cheryl Strayed
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
What a great journey
Reviewed: 03-21-15
A great story about endurance and finding oneself. It makes me want to hike the PCT. I wanted to keep reading til the end.
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Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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In Being Mortal, best-selling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit.
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A Walk through the Valley of the Shadow
- By George on 11-02-14
- Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Excellent book
Reviewed: 02-19-15
Wow. I didn't know that old age and dying could be so terrible. This is an eye opener. Good book
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Anatomy of an Epidemic
- Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
- By: Robert Whitaker
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
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In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have become newly disabled by mental illness, with this epidemic spreading most rapidly among our nations children. What is going on?
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The author does not use a fair scientific approach
- By Michael on 08-15-10
- Anatomy of an Epidemic
- Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
- By: Robert Whitaker
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
A good 2 hour book. 14 hours is too much.
Reviewed: 04-07-11
Excellent study and case for the problems with the drugs used to treat mental illness. However, the book is too long. After listening to a few cases for the first couple hours, it was good. Repitition of more cases with similar statistics and results in the next few hours started getting boring. I held on for 10 hours hoping that something new would arise in the book, but it was the same thing over and over, I finally quit the book.
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Room
- A Novel
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him.
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Good book... Buy it in print
- By Caitland on 12-18-10
- Room
- A Novel
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff, Suzanne Toren
Couldn't get past the pee pee and poo poo
Reviewed: 09-25-10
I rarely quit a book, but this one seems to be going nowhere. After an hour of listening to a 5 year old's talk I got very bored and wondered why I should be listening to this. I just couldn't get past it when the boy talked about his yellow peepee and poopoo swirling down the toilet. Does this book have a plot? I came back to the reviews on this site and figure it must REALLY pick up to get such good reviews, so I may try to slog through some more and see if it is as great as others thought. Maybe it just appeals to people who have small children and get use to their "so-cute" broken English. If I make it any further, I will come back to add to this review.
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