Carrie Blair
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Sorrow and Bliss
- A Novel
- By: Meg Mason
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in a pied-à-terre in Paris. Now she lives in a gated community in Oxford, the only person she knows without a PhD, a baby or both, in a house she hates but cannot bear to leave. But she must leave, now that her husband Patrick—the kind who cooks, throws her birthday parties, who loves her and has only ever wanted her to be happy—has just moved out.
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Very Disappointed -- 2.75 Stars
- By Sharlotte on 06-07-21
- Sorrow and Bliss
- A Novel
- By: Meg Mason
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
Tragic & Beautiful!
Reviewed: 10-01-24
Great story & writing…..Also best narration EVER!, on point!… listened due to recommendation by my all-time fave author, Barbara Kingsolver….
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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
New perspective-Women
Reviewed: 02-13-24
Loved the story, the settings, the historical education, the perspective & narration was excellent as well.
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Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- By: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.
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Making my 3 adult daughters read this
- By Teresa H. on 04-07-22
- Lessons in Chemistry
- A Novel
- By: Bonnie Garmus
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
Excellent Lesson
Reviewed: 05-01-23
Very nice, concise story and lesson!, including chemistry, and women’s rights history, super entertaining, would be good vacation read.
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The Best Strangers in the World
- Stories from a Life Spent Listening
- By: Ari Shapiro
- Narrated by: Ari Shapiro
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In his first book, broadcaster Ari Shapiro takes us around the globe to reveal the stories behind narratives that are sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking, but always poignant. He details his time traveling on Air Force One with President Obama, or following the path of Syrian refugees fleeing war, or learning from those fighting for social justice both at home and abroad.
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Interesting life…….
- By Amy birnbach on 06-05-23
- The Best Strangers in the World
- Stories from a Life Spent Listening
- By: Ari Shapiro
- Narrated by: Ari Shapiro
Best Connections
Reviewed: 04-20-23
I just LOVED this book!, Much more insightful connections, Community engagement, and relevant intentions woven throughout. Not just a collection of stories or memoir…
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Stillness Is the Key
- By: Ryan Holiday
- Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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All great leaders, thinkers, artists, athletes, and visionaries share one indelible quality. It enables them to conquer their tempers. To avoid distraction and discover great insights. To achieve happiness and do the right thing. Ryan Holiday calls it stillness - to be steady while the world spins around you. In this book, he outlines a path for achieving this ancient, but urgently necessary way of living.
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Needs to be read by a professional voice talent
- By Kindle Customer on 10-08-19
- Stillness Is the Key
- By: Ryan Holiday
- Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
Stoicism revived
Reviewed: 01-18-23
Love the perspective, reminders, and history….Thank you Ryan for the Hope ! I appreciate it & shared.
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Radical Candor
- Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
- By: Kim Scott
- Narrated by: Kim Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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From the time we learn to speak, we're told that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. When you become a manager, it’s your job to say it--and your obligation. Author Kim Scott was an executive at Google and then at Apple, where she developed a class on how to be a good boss. She has earned growing fame in recent years with her vital new approach to effective management, Radical Candor. Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly.
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Good book but hard to listen to.
- By Chris on 02-02-18
- Radical Candor
- Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
- By: Kim Scott
- Narrated by: Kim Scott
Needs narrator
Reviewed: 12-05-22
Probably good information, but author is not good narrator, couldn’t get into it, barely first chapt.
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The Four Pivots
- Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
- By: Shawn A. Ginwright PhD
- Narrated by: Shawn A. Ginwright PhD
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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We need a fundamental shift in our values—a pivot in how we think, act, work, and connect. Despite what we’ve been told, the most critical mainspring of social change isn’t coalition building or problem analysis. It’s healing: deep, whole, and systemic, inside and out. Here, Shawn Ginwright, PhD, breaks down the common myths of social movements—a set of deeply ingrained beliefs that actually hold us back from healing and achieving sustainable systemic change.
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Loved! Perfect for the newly minted PhD student interested in social justice
- By Tracee M. Tomlinson on 09-23-24
- The Four Pivots
- Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
- By: Shawn A. Ginwright PhD
- Narrated by: Shawn A. Ginwright PhD
Excellent, Enlightening perspective!
Reviewed: 04-14-22
Love this book!, Shawn’s perspective, voice & approach…. Totally applicable to advocacy, work, & Life!…. Thank you for showing up as yourself, & sharing knowledge on how we can All do this a little better!
Highly recommended! 🤗
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The Round House
- A Novel
- By: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Gary Farmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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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
Perfection
Reviewed: 01-19-22
Excellent story, characters, dialogue, narration….My fave Erdrich & best book I’ve read (listened to) in a long time….❤️
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Taste
- My Life Through Food
- By: Stanley Tucci
- Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the kitchen table. He shared the magic of those meals with us in The Tucci Cookbook and The Tucci Table, and now he takes us beyond the savory recipes and into the compelling stories behind them. Taste is a reflection on the intersection of food and life, filled with anecdotes about his growing up in Westchester, New York.
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Should include a pdf of recipes
- By Jen Griffin on 10-23-21
- Taste
- My Life Through Food
- By: Stanley Tucci
- Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
Very Tasteful!
Reviewed: 11-16-21
Delicious life journey of food, drink, family & friends!
With Stanley as your Delightful & humorous host.
Will also need hardcover for recipes, & world restos to try….
Highly recommend.
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Daisy Jones & The Six
- A Novel
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late '60s, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s 20, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne.
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I wanted to love this book...
- By Stine on 03-17-19
- Daisy Jones & The Six
- A Novel
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer, Pablo Schreiber
Too many narrators
Reviewed: 06-25-19
Didn’t like the format, too many narrators, too much transition, took away from story
Cumbersome, busy
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