Ralph Alswang
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Tribe
- On Homecoming and Belonging
- By: Sebastian Junger
- Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15,225
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13,060
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12,986
Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians - but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the incredibly intimate bonds of platoon life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The most profound book on the subject
- By joseph on 05-26-16
- Tribe
- On Homecoming and Belonging
- By: Sebastian Junger
- Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
Important read for our times
Reviewed: 08-17-21
This book is even a more important read now then when first written. Put Tribe on the top of your list for your next listen. You will be inspired.
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Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- By: John Carreyrou
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 39,158
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 34,704
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Story5 out of 5 stars 34,635
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extreme retaliation against former employees
- By LEE on 05-29-18
- Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- By: John Carreyrou
- Narrated by: Will Damron
Lessons for us all
Reviewed: 12-29-18
Lesson for us all about life and business choices. You will not be able to stop listing. We just listen to the book on long car trip and my 13yr daughter & 16yr old son kept asking to listen to more. Sparked many great family conversations and ethics, morality, ego,
Power and greed!
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Avid Reader
- A Life
- By: Robert Gottlieb
- Narrated by: Robert Gottlieb
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 180
After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon & Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and edited Catch-22 and The American Way of Death, among other best sellers. At Knopf, Gottlieb edited an astonishing list of authors, including Toni Morrison, John Cheever, Doris Lessing, and John le Carré - not to mention Bruno Bettelheim and Miss Piggy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Lifetime of Reading and Editing
- By David P on 12-06-16
- Avid Reader
- A Life
- By: Robert Gottlieb
- Narrated by: Robert Gottlieb
Lover of life
Reviewed: 10-12-16
Gottlieb has open the door to his life as creative literary legend. Make time for the book and you will receive insights in publishing and literature that will open your mind to what is possible when you live life true to interests and passions.
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13,960
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12,077
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Story5 out of 5 stars 12,042
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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
Journey we all are on
Reviewed: 09-29-16
This important read for us all.The topics raised confront us in different ways and different ages and times in our lives. It has helped me think about my own process. I will better able to support family and friends as we all go through it and ultimately make the best decisions for ourselves. Please listen and share. One of the most important books of my life.
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32 Yolks
- From My Mother's Table to Working the Line
- By: Eric Ripert, Veronica Chambers
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,019
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 888
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 881
In an industry where celebrity chefs are known as much for their salty talk and quick tempers as their food, Eric Ripert stands out. The winner of four James Beard Awards, co-owner and chef of a world-renowned restaurant, and recipient of countless Michelin stars, Ripert embodies elegance and culinary perfection. But before the accolades, before he even knew how to make a proper hollandaise sauce, Eric Ripert was a lonely young boy in the south of France whose life was falling apart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Every aspiring cook needs to read this
- By PatrickV on 07-01-16
- 32 Yolks
- From My Mother's Table to Working the Line
- By: Eric Ripert, Veronica Chambers
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Making of life and chef
Reviewed: 08-21-16
This is great listen! It is a compelling life story that show journey to having and making successful life. Must read for foodies and wonderful listen for families who love food and cooking.
Put 32 Yolks on the top of your reading list.
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The Sun Also Rises
- By: Ernest Hemingway, Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: William Hurt
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6,033
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,139
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,132
A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, The Sun Also Rises introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. In his first great literary masterpiece, Hemingway portrays an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great actor, terrible reader, kills classic
- By Kerry on 09-14-14
- The Sun Also Rises
- By: Ernest Hemingway, Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: William Hurt
Betrayal
Reviewed: 07-17-16
Hemingway first novel which launched the modern literary movement of the 20th century. The understanding of disillusion and incredible use language.
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Girls & Sex
- Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
- By: Peggy Orenstein
- Narrated by: Peggy Orenstein
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,008
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 853
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 848
A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow's women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over 70 young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, renowned journalist Peggy Orenstein goes where most others fear to tread, pulling back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important possibilities of girls' sex lives in the modern world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read for anyone who has a daughter
- By Erin on 04-01-16
- Girls & Sex
- Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
- By: Peggy Orenstein
- Narrated by: Peggy Orenstein
Must read!
Reviewed: 05-23-16
This is must read for us all raising teenagers who coming into the world of there own sexual person and how to find the best way understand and navigate this important part of all our lives.
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The Boys in the Boat
- Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- By: Daniel James Brown
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 42,967
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 38,859
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Story5 out of 5 stars 38,742
The number one New York Times best-selling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany, the inspiration for the PBS documentary The Boys of '36, broadcast to coincide with the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 80th anniversary of the boys' gold medal race. Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times - the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dear Publishers of Audio Books
- By Lynn on 08-04-14
- The Boys in the Boat
- Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- By: Daniel James Brown
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
What a life
Reviewed: 04-11-16
Would you listen to The Boys in the Boat again? Why?
This is the book the whole family will enjoy. Amazing journey these boys took. Many life lessons to talk about as a family. Put it at the top of your list
What other book might you compare The Boys in the Boat to and why?
Unbroken, Seabiscuit
Have you listened to any of Edward Herrmann’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Yes. His performances are always amazing
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Through it all
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Between the World and Me
- By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 31,167
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 27,519
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Story5 out of 5 stars 27,334
Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race”, a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of Black women and men - bodies exploited through slavery and segregation and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a Black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Heartfelt Self-aware Literary Masterpiece
- By T Spencer on 07-30-15
- Between the World and Me
- By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Understanding
Reviewed: 02-14-16
Please listen to this book with family and friends. Share your thoughts and insights about family and our lives. Through this we all can make our worlds better place for us to live! Thank you Mr. Coates for writing to your son. We all benefit from your wisdom of the journey.
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Bridge of Spies
- A True Story of the Cold War
- By: Giles Whittell
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 834
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 748
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 742
Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first prisoner exchange of the nuclear age? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that electrifying moment on February 10, 1962, when their fates helped to define the conflicts and lethal undercurrents of the most dangerous years of the cold war.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bridge of Spies
- By BookReader on 09-28-15
- Bridge of Spies
- A True Story of the Cold War
- By: Giles Whittell
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Must Read History Book
Reviewed: 12-29-15
What did you love best about Bridge of Spies?
This is important part of American History that I believe few people really understand. Listening to this book will make time FLY!
Who was your favorite character and why?
The book is full of amazing characters and that come from all parts of the Cold War world.
What about Giles Whittell’s performance did you like?
He makes every person in the book come to life.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
We could not stop listening to the book.
Any additional comments?
Gives great sense of the political times between America and Soviet Union and about how the two nations viewed each other and how the Cold War started.
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