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Anti Inflammatory Diet
- The Complete Guide with Easy Recipes to Heal the Immune System and Prevent Degenerative Diseases
- By: Brand S. Frith
- Narrated by: Tom Hartnett
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Inside your body, there's a constant warfare. In fact, inside your body, there are probably a few thousand kinds of bacteria, genetic defects, and viruses that can kill you. Thanks to our strong and intelligent body, we usually fight those successfully. But instead of helping our body and providing it with the right tools to defend itself, we often make the battle harder than it should by eating inflammatory foods.
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get the actual book
- By jimsreads on 10-31-22
- Anti Inflammatory Diet
- The Complete Guide with Easy Recipes to Heal the Immune System and Prevent Degenerative Diseases
- By: Brand S. Frith
- Narrated by: Tom Hartnett
get the actual book
Reviewed: 10-31-22
This is a robot voice reading this one.
Seriously, get a real human or just don't make it an audio book.
It was really hard to want to pay attention to this robot when it mispronounced the word Palio.
A good deal of the information seems on par with other diet/healthy eating guidelines, right up to the statement of, "don't eat animal products more than once a week at the most"
I want dietary facts, not opinionated agendas.
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Edison's Concrete Piano
- Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors
- By: Judy Wearing
- Narrated by: Barbara Dellenback
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Highlighting the careers of well-known inventors, this exploration of failure amid greatness reveals the lesser-known and most fascinating facts about their careers, their wackier hobbies, and their big flops alongside great successes. Thomas Edison, for example, not only revolutionized the world with the light bulb but also designed a concrete piano, a nonoperational helicopter made from box kites and piano wire, and a machine to speak to the dead.
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Perfect for a nerd like me!
- By jimsreads on 09-02-22
- Edison's Concrete Piano
- Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors
- By: Judy Wearing
- Narrated by: Barbara Dellenback
Perfect for a nerd like me!
Reviewed: 09-02-22
The information in this book is fairly entertaining if you're a nerd like me. I however, did not enjoy the narrator's voice. It sounded too much like the robot computer generated voice that you would get on tiktok or instagram.
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Taste
- My Life Through Food
- By: Stanley Tucci
- Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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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
Totally Worth it!
Reviewed: 07-20-22
I didn't know who Stanley Tucci was until I saw the movie Julia and Julia. Up until that point he was just a nameless actor that I occasionally noticed in random films. I began to respect him after watching the series Searching for Italy. If you've seen the show, and enjoy it, then you'll really enjoy this read. It begins with his childhood. As toddler playing with his blocks and his mother watching a cookong show where a host was cooking a duck, and all the confusion that a toddler can have about cooking and eating a duck.
Though I don't like the way he pronounces 'crepes' and accordingtomy wife he mispronounced tge wird 'Bocci' I thoroughly enjoy Tucci's ability to articulate coupled with his sense of humor. It inspires me to expand my vocabulary and be better at speaking as well as writing.
There are multiple references to his late wife, And a few of the movies that he has been in where food or cookong was the main focus of the film. Like Julia and Julia, also Big Night, where many of the characters in the film are based on actual people Stanley met at various points throughout his life.
Spoiler alert;
Stanley Tucci is lactose intolerant and thinks that "the best bread in Italy, is in France"
If you know, then you know. Otherwise you'll have to read the book to find out why.
I recommend this book.
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I Am Mine
- Words + Music, Vol. 24
- By: Eddie Vedder
- Narrated by: Eddie Vedder
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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In the summer of 1990, Eddie Vedder left the surf and sun in San Diego to join a group of friends working to put a new band together in the Seattle underground. Within months, they were anything but underground; they’d found their lead singer, and Vedder went on to lead Pearl Jam on a global takeover of ‘90s culture. In this latest edition of Audible’s Words + Music series, Vedder dives deep, reflecting on a life at the intersection of art, sensitivity, and masculinity.
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Thank You
- By George sallis on 11-20-21
- I Am Mine
- Words + Music, Vol. 24
- By: Eddie Vedder
- Narrated by: Eddie Vedder
Pearl jam speaks
Reviewed: 01-04-22
I wasn't floored and impressed with this one, but it's always nice to hear what's going on inside an artist's head. Especially from an artist who I grew up listening to, and their music definitely had an impact on my life.
This was a nice short story and a glance into the life of this talented musician.
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened
- A Mostly True Memoir
- By: Jenny Lawson
- Narrated by: Jenny Lawson
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris - Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives - the ones we'd like to pretend never happened - are in fact the ones that define us. In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor.
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Actually, not for fans of Sedaris and Fey
- By BostonMom on 04-29-12
- Let's Pretend This Never Happened
- A Mostly True Memoir
- By: Jenny Lawson
- Narrated by: Jenny Lawson
Listen to this book!
Reviewed: 12-29-21
...but maybe not with your kids around.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Jenny Lawson's first book.
Let's pretend this never happened : (a mostly true memoir) was her story of growing up dirt poor in rural Texas"
Subjects include;
• Men dying of dildo injuries
• Turkeys that follow you to school & around school
• Getting your arm broken while recto-vaginal inseminating a cow
• why "anorexia is the best disorder to have because at least you look hot while you are killing yourself"
• Pregnancy, that thing that happens after pregnancy
• being a "bleeding heart liberal" in a room full of republicans
• The real fear of giving birth to a republican
• Mind control
• being stabbed in the face by a serial killer that turns out to be the cat
• Your father being a professional taxidermist
• The sensual mystery of womanhood, while you have consumed too many laxatives
• The doctor not reacting when they find a tooth embedded in your back, but not knowing if it was from a dog that bit you or from a malformed conjoined twin.
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I highly recommend this book
- Jimsreads
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How Not to Die
- Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
- By: Michael Greger MD FACLM, Gene Stone
- Narrated by: Michael Greger MD FACLM
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
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The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle. In How Not to Die, Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of NutritionFacts.org, examines the fifteen top causes of premature death in America-heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson's, high blood pressure, and more-and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescription pills and other pharmaceutical and surgical approaches, freeing us to live healthier lives.
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A stunningly important book
- By Being on 12-29-15
- How Not to Die
- Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
- By: Michael Greger MD FACLM, Gene Stone
- Narrated by: Michael Greger MD FACLM
Not as healthy as it sounds
Reviewed: 12-06-21
This book is clearly slanted. I can agree with the concept of eating more fruit and vegetables while consuming less meat overall, but never once does this book refer wild caught, free range, or grass fed or even non-factory farmed meat as an alternative to basic junk food.
Although this book is loaded with plentiful information about how healthy vegetables are and in what specific ways they are healthy, the vast majority of comparisons in this book regarding meat are junky high fat meat products such as Jimmy Dean sausage, Twinkies, McDonald's, Burger King and other fast food meat products. Now there is a generalization that this is how Americans tend to eat however, it is not how all Americans tend to eat, And without addressing those issues and alternative meat qualities, the author is pushing a slanted/lop sided argument. We already know that organic grown vegetables are vastly superior to fast food. I was hoping for a better comparison, to find out why even grass-fed meat may be equally bad to consume and this book does not address that at all.
Wildly disappointed in this read.
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Columbine
- By: Dave Cullen
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
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"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror..." So begins a new epilogue, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders". It is a false script, seized upon by a generation of new killers. In the wake of Newtown, Aurora, and Virginia Tech, the imperative to understand the crime that sparked this plague grows more urgent every year. What really happened April 20, 1999? The horror left an indelible stamp on the American psyche, but most of what we "know" is wrong.
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Everything You Know About Columbine is False
- By Kensai77 on 06-10-18
- Columbine
- By: Dave Cullen
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
Graphic and Detailed!
Reviewed: 10-07-21
The mass shooting at Colorado’s Columbine High School, on April 20th 1999. The perpetrators of the shooting, Columbine High seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed thirteen people—twelve students and one teacher—and injured another two-dozen, before taking their own lives.
The author outlines the very graphic details of the actual shooting step by step as it happened. However, the story does jump around a bit. It starts out with the shooting and goes into details of each person's life and brings you right back to the shooting again. So while the shooting is going on, you get to appear into the lives and interactions of these students and their families as well of off-campus events that lead up to this horrific massacre
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The Hidden Life of Trees
- What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World
- By: Peter Wohlleben
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? Research is now suggesting trees are capable of much more than we have ever known. In The Hidden Life of Trees, forester Peter Wohlleben puts groundbreaking scientific discoveries into a language everyone can relate to.
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Tree Hugger
- By Darwin8u on 04-18-19
- The Hidden Life of Trees
- What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World
- By: Peter Wohlleben
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
Read This Book!
Reviewed: 10-18-20
all the questions that you've ever had about trees are answered.
Do they feel pain?
Do they think?
And so many more!
this book blew my mind in every possible way, you won't be disappointed. Shocked for sure but not disappointed.
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A River Runs Through It
- By: Norman Maclean
- Narrated by: Ivan Doig
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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A River Runs Through It is a universal story of family love and a lyrical masterpiece, as beautiful as the great trout rivers of western Montana upon which it is set. Its beauty is especially evident through the "near-perfect match" of reader Ivan Doig and author Norman MacLean.
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Lyrical - wonderfully done
- By John on 05-27-05
- A River Runs Through It
- By: Norman Maclean
- Narrated by: Ivan Doig
zzzzz
Reviewed: 10-11-20
it was great to have on in the background as I tried to fall asleep.
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I'm somewhat in disbelief that I spent 4 hours of my life listening to this and still trying to figure out what it was about. I know there's a bunch of hidden metaphors but the book basically was about fishing
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Dodging Energy Vampires
- An Empath's Guide to Evading Relationships That Drain You and Restoring Your Health and Power
- By: Christiane Northrup M.D.
- Narrated by: Christiane Northrup M.D.
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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Highly sensitive people - or empaths - see life through the eyes of compassion and caring. They were born that way. As a result, they carry a tremendous amount of inner light. But they’re also the favored prey of “vampires” who feed off empaths’ energy and disrupt their lives on every level - physical, emotional, and financial.
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I Wish She Had Written This Book Years Ago
- By Marcia on 04-24-18
- Dodging Energy Vampires
- An Empath's Guide to Evading Relationships That Drain You and Restoring Your Health and Power
- By: Christiane Northrup M.D.
- Narrated by: Christiane Northrup M.D.
Read this to keep the Vampires away
Reviewed: 03-12-20
This book gets into the dynamics of vampire-empath relationships and explained how vampires use others energy to fuel their own dysfunctional lives. Once you recognize the patterns of behavior that mark these #relationships, you’ll be empowered to identify the vampires in your life too.
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