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My Mama, Cass
- A Memoir
- By: Owen Elliot-Kugell
- Narrated by: Owen Elliot-Kugell
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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To the rest of the world, Cass Elliot was a rock star; A charismatic, wisecracking singer from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted band, The Mamas & The Papas; A legend of Laurel Canyon, decked out in her custom-made Muumuus, glittering designer jewelry, blessed with a powerful, instantly identifiable singing voice which helped define the sound of the 1960s counterculture movement. But to Owen Elliot-Kugell, she was just Mom. In her long-awaited memoir, Owen Elliot-Kugell shares the groundbreaking story of her mom as only a daughter can tell it.
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Touching
- By Erin Sears on 06-10-25
- My Mama, Cass
- A Memoir
- By: Owen Elliot-Kugell
- Narrated by: Owen Elliot-Kugell
Terrible. A kid trying to make money off her mom.
Reviewed: 12-22-24
When your mom is famous and you are not you try to live off her fame.
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The Waiting
- Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch, Book 6
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver, Madison Lintz
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles. Meanwhile, Ballard’s badge, gun, and ID are stolen.
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Too Political and Preachy! Is there a story here?
- By jason f mccullough on 10-17-24
- The Waiting
- Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch, Book 6
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver, Madison Lintz
Michael Connelly continues his woke rants
Reviewed: 10-20-24
You would think that Michael Connelly would realize that his rants through his story alienates half his audience. Until he decides to change his ways his is the last book of his I will buy.
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Out of the Darkness
- The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers
- By: Ian O'Connor
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Aaron Rodgers is among the two or three most talented players to ever hold the most important job in American team sports–quarterback. He also stands as the most mysterious and polarizing figure in the modern-day national pastime that is professional football. From his controversial Covid stance to his methods of spiritual awakening to his estrangement from his family to his high-profile romances to his devastating Achilles injury a mere four plays into his New York Jets career, Rodgers has long dominated the NFL’s news cycle.
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Author seems clueless as to what draws a lot of people to Aaron
- By Amy on 09-12-24
- Out of the Darkness
- The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers
- By: Ian O'Connor
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
Author is a hack
Reviewed: 09-05-24
Unauthorized with good reason. The author sets out to shame Aaron on oh so many things and fails big time. I hope Aaron comes out with a true biography so we can learn the truth. FYI this comes from a Bears fan so I have no dog in this fight.
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The Actor's Life
- A Survival Guide
- By: Jenna Fischer
- Narrated by: Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Jenna Fischer's Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hometown of St. Louis. She was determined, confident, and ready to work hard. So, what could go wrong? Uh, basically everything. The path to being a professional actor was so much more vast and competitive than she’d imagined. It would be eight long years before she landed her iconic role on The Office, nearly a decade of frustration, rejection, and doubt. If only she’d had a handbook for the aspiring actor. Or, better yet, someone to show her the way. Jenna wants to be that person for you.
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OMG THE INTRO! lol
- By Katelyn on 12-22-17
- The Actor's Life
- A Survival Guide
- By: Jenna Fischer
- Narrated by: Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson
Drink every time she says artist
Reviewed: 07-08-24
This truly is a book for actors, I had thought it was a joke. Its so funny to me that actors take themselves so seriously and that everyone else can't understand. We artists, oh please. I was disappointed in the author, I expected better.
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Growing Up Fisher
- Musings, Memories, and Misadventures
- By: Joely Fisher
- Narrated by: Joely Fisher
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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Actress, director, entertainer Joely Fisher invites listeners backstage into the intimate world of her career and family with this hilarious, irreverent, down-to-earth memoir filled with incredible, candid stories about her life, her famous parents, and how the loss of her unlikely hero, sister Carrie Fisher, ignited the writer in her.
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Not what I thought it would be but I loved it.
- By Kristopher's Korner on 01-15-18
- Growing Up Fisher
- Musings, Memories, and Misadventures
- By: Joely Fisher
- Narrated by: Joely Fisher
Piece of trash
Reviewed: 03-18-24
Not only is the author not entertaining, but her stories are plain and what you expect from a spoiled brat growing up. Stay clear of this unless you are a fan of her mother.
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Interstellar
- The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
- By: Avi Loeb
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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In the New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb, the longest serving Chair of Harvard’s Astronomy Department, presented a theory that shook the scientific community: our solar system, Loeb claimed, had likely been visited by a piece of advanced alien technology from a distant star. This provocative and persuasive argument opened millions of minds internationally to the vast possibilities of our universe and the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth.
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Postcolonial intersectional astrophysics
- By Amazon Customer on 09-02-23
- Interstellar
- The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
- By: Avi Loeb
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Terrible
Reviewed: 01-21-24
Yet another quack pushing his political views. Stay away from this unless you follow the MSM.
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Control Freak
- My Epic Adventure Making Video Games
- By: Cliff Bleszinski
- Narrated by: Kurt Kanazawa
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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Video games are dominating the planet. In 2020, they brought in $180 billion dollars globally—nearly $34 billion in the United States alone. So who are the brilliant designers who create these stunning virtual worlds? Cliff Bleszinski—or CliffyB as he is known to gamers—is one of the few who’ve reached mythical, rock-star status. In Control Freak, he gives an unvarnished, all-access tour of the business.
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5 star book, but obnoxious
- By Rodney on 06-10-23
- Control Freak
- My Epic Adventure Making Video Games
- By: Cliff Bleszinski
- Narrated by: Kurt Kanazawa
I always thought cliifyb was an ass and he is
Reviewed: 01-09-24
Cliffyb was always a flashy wannabe in the gaming world. He can't touch John Carmack or John Romero and he knows it so that is why had to try and use flash to get attention. He seems to be a creeper dating a 19 year old when he was 30, that on again off again relationship was worrisome. I just don't like the guy.
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The Uranium Club
- Unearthing Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program
- By: Miriam E. Hiebert, Timothy W. Koeth - foreword
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Tim Koeth peered into the crumpled brown paper bag; inside was a surprisingly heavy black metal cube. He recognized the mysterious object instantly—he had one just like it sitting on his desk at home. It was uranium metal, taken from the nuclear reactor that Nazi scientists had tried—and failed—to build at the end of World War II. This unexpected gift, wrapped in a piece of paper inscribed with a few cryptic but crucial lines, would launch Koeth, a nuclear physicist and professor, and his colleague Miriam Hiebert, a cultural heritage scientist, on an odyssey to trace the tale of these cubes.
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Jump on the bandwagon
- By Roland on 01-04-24
- The Uranium Club
- Unearthing Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program
- By: Miriam E. Hiebert, Timothy W. Koeth - foreword
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
Jump on the bandwagon
Reviewed: 01-04-24
This book started out fantastic until the authors decided to play their political card which just ruined the entire book. STOP giving your personal views when its a book on the Nazi nuclear program!
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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
- A Memoir
- By: Matthew Perry
- Narrated by: Matthew Perry
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence. In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes listeners onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction. Candid, self-aware, and told with his trademark humor, Perry vividly details his lifelong battle with the disease and what fueled it despite seemingly having it all.
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Mad at myself for getting sucked in
- By betty on 11-03-22
- Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
- A Memoir
- By: Matthew Perry
- Narrated by: Matthew Perry
A train wreck, was not expecting that
Reviewed: 12-03-23
Its kind of strange that in the beginning of this book he says he should be dead. And now he is. This is more a story about addition than a Hollywood star. Yes, there are stories about all the women he was with and all the surgeries he had because of addition. It really is a sad story, something that no one should strive for. I hope at the end he really did find peace.
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Breaking Twitter
- Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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BREAKING TWITTER takes readers inside the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time—Elon Musk—and the company that represents our culture’s dearest hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to the mission-driven team Musk surrounded himself with, this is the full story from all sides.
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Neither insightful nor exciting.
- By Sutherland Junge on 11-18-23
- Breaking Twitter
- Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
I don't know what happened to Ben
Reviewed: 11-25-23
He used to be a very good writer, now it seems he just make things up. I will not be getting any of his books again.
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