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Reconnected
- How 7 Screen-Free Weeks with Monks and Amish Farmers Helped Me Recover the Lost Art of Being Human
- By: Carlos Whittaker
- Narrated by: Carlos Whittaker
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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Blending wisdom from the past, practices of intentionality and community, and Whittaker's signature engaging communication style, Reconnected will inspire and equip you to reset your life in a tech-saturated world. It's time to take back control of your life from technology and recover the lost art of being human. You were made for more. This is how you start living again.
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Your voice matters
- By Anonymous User on 10-08-24
- Reconnected
- How 7 Screen-Free Weeks with Monks and Amish Farmers Helped Me Recover the Lost Art of Being Human
- By: Carlos Whittaker
- Narrated by: Carlos Whittaker
How to live again
Reviewed: 09-30-24
Absolute must-read for all of us who find ourselves on our phones for hours every day. We need to be reminded - beckoned - to live again. Loved it, Carlos!!
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The Distance Between Us
- A Memoir
- By: Reyna Grande
- Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border. Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling...unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries.
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opened my eyes to the beauty of our stories
- By Evelyn on 09-18-20
- The Distance Between Us
- A Memoir
- By: Reyna Grande
- Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
Incredible immigrant story
Reviewed: 07-19-24
Beautifully written and narrated! Some of it is so horrifying that I hoped it was factionalized, but I knew it was real. Worth reading and discussing.
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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Superior non-fiction
- By Lila on 05-20-11
- The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
Like listening to a beautiful documentary
Reviewed: 04-01-24
This book is so well researched and performed. Don’t miss out on hearing the often sweet and sometimes brutal stories of these Great Migrators.
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A Fever in the Heartland
- The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrated by: Timothy Egan
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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The Roaring Twenties—the Jazz Age—has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths of America was a charismatic charlatan named D.C. Stephenson.
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This is a must read!
- By V. Richmond on 04-14-23
- A Fever in the Heartland
- The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrated by: Timothy Egan
Harrowing, horrifying, heartrending
Reviewed: 01-05-24
This is the kind of history we need to know and learn about. Who knew Indiana in the 1920s had the largest KKK membership per capita? And it shows the depths of power corruption.
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Mere Christianity
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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One of the most popular and beloved introductions to the concept of faith ever written, Mere Christianity has sold millions of copies worldwide. This audiobook brings together C. S. Lewis' legendary radio broadcasts during the war years, in which he set out simply to "explain and defend the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times."
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Clear Christianity
- By Andrew on 07-17-17
- Mere Christianity
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
A Christian essential
Reviewed: 07-01-23
Easy to listen to and read. Lewis explains hard concepts in understandable ways. A must read.
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Love Lives Here
- Finding What You Need in a World Telling You What You Want
- By: Maria Goff, Bob Goff - foreword
- Narrated by: Maria Goff
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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This is a book about discovering what we really need. There are a lot of second-best options, but we weren't made to live a second-best life. Finding what we actually need is different than what we are often offered. There are many books full of opinions, steps and programs. This isn't one of them. This is about craving the things that matter. Things that don't just work, but last.
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What a joy to finally meet "Sweet Maria"!
- By D. Niki Barton on 03-24-17
- Love Lives Here
- Finding What You Need in a World Telling You What You Want
- By: Maria Goff, Bob Goff - foreword
- Narrated by: Maria Goff
Read this!!
Reviewed: 06-05-23
get it, listen to it, live it. you won't regret the time you spent with Sweet Maria!
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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
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The prize-winning and best-selling author of Say Nothing presents a grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling.
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Full Account of the Sackler Conspiracy
- By Edward Bisch on 04-13-21
- Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
Journalism at its finest
Reviewed: 12-11-22
This story doesn’t seem real. Yet document after document proves that it is. Some of the best journalism I have ever seen, coming from a former journalist. Profound, sad, and so comprehensive.
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Just Mercy
- A Story of Justice and Redemption
- By: Bryan Stevenson
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.
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Made me question justice, peers and myself.
- By Kristy VL on 04-17-15
- Just Mercy
- A Story of Justice and Redemption
- By: Bryan Stevenson
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
Should be required reading
Reviewed: 09-27-22
I know some schools are encouraging or including this book in their curriculum, but it should be more widespread. Thank you, Bryan, for making your life’s work about life and dignity.
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Inside Jobs
- Tales from a Time of Quarantine
- By: Ben H. Winters
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello, Kevin T. Collins, Ellen Archer
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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Three offbeat stories of crime and conundrum, set in the present moment, from the New York Times best-selling, Edgar Award-winning author of Underground Airlines and The Last Policeman.
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Modern fun.
- By Jesse on 05-02-20
- Inside Jobs
- Tales from a Time of Quarantine
- By: Ben H. Winters
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello, Kevin T. Collins, Ellen Archer
Starts ok, trails off
Reviewed: 06-20-22
The first story was entertaining and unpredictable. We enjoyed that. But the other two short stories were a struggle to finish, especially the last one. The stories also got progressively more profane.
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What the Night Sings
- A Novel
- By: Vesper Stamper
- Narrated by: Deborah Grausman, Vesper Stamper
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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After losing her family and everything she knew in the Nazi concentration camps, Gerta is finally liberated, only to find herself completely alone. Without her Papa, her music, or even her true identity, she must move past the task of surviving and onto living her life. In the displaced persons camp where she is staying, Gerta meets Lev, a fellow teen survivor who she just might be falling for, despite her feelings for someone else.
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EXCELLENT!
- By Kenneth Jennings on 11-18-22
- What the Night Sings
- A Novel
- By: Vesper Stamper
- Narrated by: Deborah Grausman, Vesper Stamper
Loveliness in suffering
Reviewed: 03-10-19
This was a fascinating book. Audio helps because it plays some of the music pieces referred to in the book. Every chapter had a phrase or two that was simply beautiful. I recommend for 15 and older.
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