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Stasiland
- Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
- By: Anna Funder
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 316
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany. In a country where the headquarters of the secret police could become a museum literally overnight, and one in 50 East Germans were informing on their fellow citizens, there are thousands of captivating stories.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important book
- By Jane on 01-27-10
- Stasiland
- Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
- By: Anna Funder
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
yup highly interesting story to visit but you...
Reviewed: 03-08-19
yep, highly interesting story to visit but you wouldn't want to live there. I can recommend this everybody schoolchildren to Grandma. it's the most human interest story I've heard in a long time.
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The Library Book
- By: Susan Orlean
- Narrated by: Susan Orlean
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,995
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 3,512
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,503
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm. As one fireman recounted later, “Once that first stack got going, it was good-bye, Charlie.” The fire was disastrous: It reached 2,000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed 400,000 books and damaged 700,000 more.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Had To Turn It Off
- By Meg on 01-17-19
- The Library Book
- By: Susan Orlean
- Narrated by: Susan Orlean
super account of everything to do with libraries
Reviewed: 12-11-18
yes it is a super account of everything to do with libraries. listen to it.
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Aroused
- The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
- By: Randi Hutter Epstein MD
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty, and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies control with hormones. Armed with a healthy dose of wit and curiosity, Randi Hutter Epstein takes us on a journey through the unusual history of these potent chemicals and their discovery, from the London laboratory where the concept of hormones was identified to a basement filled with jarred brains to a canine sex lab.
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1 out of 5 stars
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expected info, got propaganda.
- By Kindle Customer on 02-20-19
- Aroused
- The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
- By: Randi Hutter Epstein MD
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
there were anecdotes but could have been meatier
Reviewed: 10-08-18
Such a subject is fraught with politics of organ donating, which I suppose is why the depiction of the subject matter felt a little light. And a bit preachy. But if you didn't already know that your body chemistry trumps your brain chemistry, here's a fine and well-researched account of it.
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Cabin Pressure: The Complete Series 3
- By: John Finnemore
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch, Roger Allam, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,422
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,302
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,297
Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Roger Allam star in the first series of the hit sitcom about the tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MJN keeps flying, I keep laughing
- By SJS on 10-30-12
OMG OMG Benedict!
Reviewed: 09-12-18
yes it is Benedict and he is one of the characters in this four character ship in a bottle show. cheap radio. But it's hitting all the spots with me and I don't bark out loud laughing too often.
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Fascism
- A Warning
- By: Madeleine Albright
- Narrated by: Madeleine Albright
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,563
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,045
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,008
At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, believed that democracy had triumphed politically once and for all. Yet nearly 30 years later, the direction of history no longer seems certain. A repressive and destructive force has begun to reemerge on the global stage - sweeping across Europe, parts of Asia, and the United States - that to Albright, looks very much like fascism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Warning!
- By JAL on 04-19-18
- Fascism
- A Warning
- By: Madeleine Albright
- Narrated by: Madeleine Albright
just fine, needed to be said.
Reviewed: 09-05-18
it was just fine, and it needed to be said, and the topic really leads the discussion so it wasn't super scintillating. of course I can't be really knowledgeable about every world leader cross history so it was important that I hear more about those that fit the category in the fascist Spectrum.
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The Perfectionists
- How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,975
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,719
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,704
The New York Times best-selling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Somewhat less than perfect
- By enya keshet on 06-19-18
- The Perfectionists
- How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
oh I'm just going to have to listen to it again
Reviewed: 08-09-18
oh oh oh I'm going to have to listen to it again it was too scintillating. I must love consumer products that are more finely tuned and balanced and with sharper edges and better packaging. Because really this book is all about you know rough-hewn individually created things and then the break from that too a world of perfectly machined parts that are interchangeable machine parts. And this must and this must have a relation with measuring the deepest most microscopic parts of matter... just read it.
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The Last Black Unicorn
- By: Tiffany Haddish
- Narrated by: Tiffany Haddish
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36,608
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32,580
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32,431
Tiffany can't avoid being funny: it's just who she is. But The Last Black Unicorn is so much more than a side-splittingly hilarious collection of essays - it's a memoir of the struggles of one woman who came from nothing and nowhere. A woman who was able to achieve her dreams by reveling in her pain and awkwardness, showing the world who she really is, and inspiring others through the power of laughter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting...
- By The2ndhorseman on 12-24-17
- The Last Black Unicorn
- By: Tiffany Haddish
- Narrated by: Tiffany Haddish
I loved it! just real and unflinching and funny.
Reviewed: 06-29-18
I loved it just real and unflinching and funny, funnier than precious. worth your time I think.
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: Series 7
- By: John Finnemore
- Narrated by: full cast, John Finnemore
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 145
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 128
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Story5 out of 5 stars 128
Six more episodes of BBC Radio 4's multi-award-winning sketch show, written by and starring John Finnemore. John Finnemore, writer and star of Cabin Pressure and John Finnemore's Double Acts, returns for a seventh series of his hugely acclaimed Souvenir Programme, which won him Radio Broadcaster of the Year at the 2016 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards. Expect sketches! Expect songs! They're what made up the previous series, so it seems a pretty safe bet that that's what will be in this series as well.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Some great moments
- By Gudrun on 05-29-18
- John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: Series 7
- By: John Finnemore
- Narrated by: full cast, John Finnemore
typically funny and quotable
Reviewed: 05-06-18
this is as good as any of the others. funny, and great performances. 15 words.
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The End of Average
- How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
- By: Todd Rose
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,222
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,044
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,040
Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how close we come to it or how far we deviate from it. The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings—reveal something meaningful about our potential is so ingrained in our consciousness that we don't even question it. That assumption, says Harvard's Todd Rose, is spectacularly—and scientifically—wrong.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Good intentions, terrible execution
- By Kristofer Jarl on 05-06-19
- The End of Average
- How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
- By: Todd Rose
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
very interesting sorry to ding our reader
Reviewed: 10-30-17
very interesting I'll have to think about the main points I'm seriously consider buying it when it comes out in paperback. not very happy with the male stentorian reader.
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Believe Me
- A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens
- By: Eddie Izzard
- Narrated by: Eddie Izzard
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,879
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,630
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,616
Over the course of a 30-year career, Eddie Izzard has proven himself to be a creative chameleon, inhabiting the stage and film and television screens with an unbelievable fervor. Born in Yemen and raised in Ireland, Wales, and postwar England, he lost his mother at the age of six. In his teens he dropped out of university and took to the streets of London as part of a two-man escape act; when his partner went on vacation, Izzard kept busy by inventing a one-man act, and thus a career was ignited.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My three least favorite words: "End of footnote."
- By David H. Lawrence XVII on 06-20-17
- Believe Me
- A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens
- By: Eddie Izzard
- Narrated by: Eddie Izzard
a very nice little song and dance about him
Reviewed: 10-26-17
a very nice little song events about him and his vast powerful beyond words pathology. but you're getting it from his perspective so he thinks it's him doing it. hence the title.
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