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Becoming
- By: Michelle Obama
- Narrated by: Michelle Obama
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.
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Didn't know what I was getting into
- By Kenneth Woodward on 12-05-18
- Becoming
- By: Michelle Obama
- Narrated by: Michelle Obama
Powerful, healing, inspiring
Reviewed: 03-05-19
One of the best audio books I’ve ever listened to. Michelle Obama is a magnificent writer and storyteller. I didn’t realize how much I needed to revisit the hope and possibility of change that existed during the Obama administration. Something broke in me after the results of the 2016 election. Michelle‘s book re-connected me with the transformative power of believing in the beauty of our dreams: of believing we can become whoever it is we were meant to be as long as we never give up trying, listening, learning, and starting again. In her story, I experienced something else too — something I didn’t even realize how much I needed until it was happening: healing. I wish I could thank her personally for that, and for sharing the contents of her heart with such startling candor. Maybe someday I’ll get that chance. Buy this book now and press play. Don’t delay for a moment. I promise you’ll be grateful you did.
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Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- By: Trevor Noah
- Narrated by: Trevor Noah
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In this award-winning Audible Studios production, Trevor Noah tells his wild coming-of-age tale during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa. It’s a story that begins with his mother throwing him from a moving van to save him from a potentially fatal dispute with gangsters, then follows the budding comedian’s path to self-discovery through episodes both poignant and comical.
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Great book and perfect narration
- By MarilynArms on 12-15-16
- Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- By: Trevor Noah
- Narrated by: Trevor Noah
Excellent!
Reviewed: 02-24-19
One of the best audiobooks I’ve ever listened to. Compelling, vulnerable, honest, moving. Trevor Noah is an excellent writer and admirable human. We are lucky to have him.
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Bad Kid
- A Memoir
- By: David Crabb
- Narrated by: David Crabb
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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Discovering George Michael's Faith confirmed for David Crabb what every bully already knew: He was gay. What saved him from high school was finding a group of outlandish friends who reveled in being outsiders. David found himself enmeshed with misfits: wearing black, cutting class, staying out all night, drinking, tripping, chain-smoking, idolizing the Pet Shop Boys - and learning lessons about life and love along the way.
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I wish I could give this audiobook 1,000 stars
- By Kari Delaney on 02-01-23
- Bad Kid
- A Memoir
- By: David Crabb
- Narrated by: David Crabb
Listened to the entire book in one sitting
Reviewed: 08-10-18
I can’t remember the last time an author so directly captured my own lived experience through their words. I am stunned by this memoir. I want everyone I care about to read it.
Unflinching in its honesty. Aching in its evocation of first love. And searing in its examination of loss. These characters became fully realized to the extent that I was in no way prepared to say good-bye to them at the book’s conclusion.
Perhaps that is David’s greatest achievement with this work: his sorrow at the ending of these relationships somehow becomes our own.
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