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Pachinko
- By: Min Jin Lee
- Narrated by: Sandra Oh, Min Jin Lee
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger. When she discovers she is pregnant–and that her lover is married–she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty.
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Interesting history but no connection
- By Julia McBride on 11-30-24
- Pachinko
- By: Min Jin Lee
- Narrated by: Sandra Oh, Min Jin Lee
Great story that touches your heart
Reviewed: 01-08-25
A story of sacrifice and overcoming - sorrow and joy. A triumph from the author, amazing story telling.
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Invested
- Changing Forever the Way Americans Invest
- By: Charles Schwab
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In this deeply personal memoir, Schwab describes his passion to have Main Street participate in the growing economy as investors and owners, not only earners. Schwab opens up about his dyslexia and how he worked around and ultimately embraced it, and about the challenges he faced while starting his fledgling company in the 1970s. A year into his grand experiment in discounted stock trading, living in a small apartment in Sausalito with his wife, Helen, and new baby, he carried a six-figure debt and a pocketful of personal loans.
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Seeing through the entrepreneur’s eyes
- By Gregory Albiani on 10-14-19
- Invested
- Changing Forever the Way Americans Invest
- By: Charles Schwab
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Good lesson in building a successful business and abiding by founding principles
Reviewed: 02-25-24
Great insight into the fine financial institution by the founder himself, giving great inside perspective towards building a successful organization which is faithful to the customers and leader in innovation in the industry. Charles Schwab shares his professional journey with ups and downs in running the company with great advice to entrepreneurs who can learn from his experiences. A thoroughly engaging book with facets of great leadership examples.
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Breakout Nations
- In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
- By: Ruchir Sharma
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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After a decade of rapid growth, the world’s most celebrated emerging markets are poised to slow down. Which countries will rise to challenge them? To identify the economic stars of the future, we should abandon the habit of extrapolating from the recent past and lumping wildly diverse countries together. We need to remember that sustained economic success is a rare phenomenon. As an era of easy money and easy growth comes to a close, China in particular will cool down.
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Great overview of developing economies
- By Konstantin on 02-11-13
- Breakout Nations
- In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
- By: Ruchir Sharma
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Mixture of thorough research and speculation
Reviewed: 01-26-24
While the author has done a lot of research on many countries economics in writing this book, some events changed the course of what was foreseen in the book and eventually several of the predictions made in the book did not come true as the author anticipated. However I commend the authors deep research and his depth of understanding global economics and interplay with social and political scenarios I empathize with him that it’s truly difficult to predict the breakout nations since there is constant change in the global economic and political paradigm. While some countries like Turkey, Nigeria, Sri Lanka were predicted to do well they struggled at the end of the decade. Much later than this book was written the global coronavirus pandemic blew all bets into oblivion and many a country suffered. Only now few years after the pandemic few nations are able to recover economically better than the others. The slowdown in China eventually has caught up to it and India under new government has done better than the author anticipated. This book is a succinct lesson in economics and history but based on the principles alone not all outcomes stand as predicted.
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