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Hunger of Memory
- The Education of Richard Rodriguez
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a "minority student" who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation - from his past, his parents, his culture - and so describes the high price of "making it" in middle-class America.
Provocative in its positions on affirmative action and bilingual education, Hunger of Memory is a powerful political statement, a profound study of the importance of language...and the moving, intimate portrait of a boy struggling to become a man.
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In this eye-opening chronicle, Kushner tells the story of her vibrant relationship to the Bible and along the way illustrates how the differences in translation affect our understanding of our culture's most important written work.
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a sobering read
- By Amazon Customer on 03-28-17
By: Aviya Kushner
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Tales of Wonder
- By: Huston Smith
- Narrated by: Michael McConnohie
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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Huston Smith, the man who brought the world's religions to the West, was born almost a century ago to missionary parents in China during the perilous rise of the Communist Party. Smith's lifelong spiritual journey brought him face-to-face with many of the people who shaped the 20th century. His extraordinary travels around the globe have taken him to the world's holiest places, where he has practiced religion with many of the great spiritual leaders of our time.
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Takes of wonder for sure, by a wonderful man.
- By Dr. D. Brian Austin on 04-03-19
By: Huston Smith
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The Faith Club
- A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew - Three Women Search for Understanding
- By: Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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After September 11, Ranya Idliby, an American Muslim of Palestinian descent, faced constant questions about Islam, God, and death from her children, the only Muslims in their classrooms. Inspired by a story about Muhammad, Ranya reached out to two other mothers to write an interfaith children's book that would highlight the connections between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Wow I'm so glad I read this. I had no idea.
- By Michelle Pierce on 05-06-15
By: Ranya Idliby, and others
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Butterfly in the Typewriter
- The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of a Confederacy of Dunces
- By: Cory MacLauchlin
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. In Butterfly in the Typewriter, Cory MacLauchlin draws on scores of new interviews with friends, family, and colleagues as well as full access to the extensive Toole archive at Tulane University, capturing his upbringing in New Orleans, his years in New York City, his frenzy of writing in Puerto Rico, his return to his beloved city, and his descent into paranoia and depression.
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Worth it! Good biography. Informative.
- By French Quarter on 07-09-13
By: Cory MacLauchlin
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Letters to a Young Teacher
- By: Jonathan Kozol
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
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In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first-grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca's likably irreverent questioning, also revealing his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools.
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A must read for new teachers
- By Santiago on 03-31-10
By: Jonathan Kozol
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Things I've Been Silent About
- By: Azar Nafisi
- Narrated by: Naila Azad
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's political revolution.
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Family portrait in the frame of history
- By Galina COS on 07-02-16
By: Azar Nafisi
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Acts of Faith
- The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
- By: Eboo Patel
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Acts of Faith is a remarkable account of growing up Muslim in America and coming to believe in religious pluralism, from one of the most prominent faith leaders in the United States. Eboo Patel's story is a hopeful and moving testament to the power and passion of young people - and of the world-changing potential of an interfaith youth movement.
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Waited three years for this audiobook
- By Eva on 08-29-13
By: Eboo Patel
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Reading Like a Writer
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Nanette Savard
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters and discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire listeners to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart.
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Practical, literate, generous
- By Gare on 04-13-08
By: Francine Prose
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The Imam's Daughter
- My Desperate Flight to Freedom
- By: Hannah Shah
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Hannah Shah is an Imam's daughter. She lived the life of a devout Muslim in a family of Pakistani Muslims in England, but behind the front door, she was a caged butterfly. For many years, her father abused her in the cellar of their home. At 16, she discovered a plan to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage, and she gathered the courage to run away. Relentlessly hunted by her angry father and brothers, who were intent on executing an "honor" killing, she moved from house to house in perpetual fear to escape them.
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only half of the story is in Audible!
- By ellen on 02-09-11
By: Hannah Shah
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To Sir, with Love
- By: E. R. Braithwaite
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers whom the system has mostly abandoned. When his efforts to reach these troubled students are met with threats, suspicion, and derision, Braithwaite takes a radical new approach. He will treat his students as people poised to enter the adult world.
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Great book!
- By Lionsroar on 12-08-18
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- Kari R.
- 04-30-24
Disagree with Many of Author’s Claims
Narrator did fantastic job! But that was the only 5-star for me. As an immigrant and bicultural individual, I was very surprised at the author’s claims in this book. I especially disagree with his arguments regarding bilingualism and bilingual education. For me and many of my colleagues (that also happen to be immigrants and read this book) it was disappointing to see how he presents and endorses assimilation, rather than acknowledging that systemic racism and oppression are inherently what drive us assimilate, many times unknowingly. Immigrants who choose to break away from enclaves and integrate into American society, by means of education, business, or both, eventually learn that to encounter success we must camouflage as the norm (whites). However, that does not mean we need to give up who we are, but instead we learn to codeswitch, we learn to adapt our behaviors, shape-shift, etc. We eventually can become fluently bicultural—which is beautiful! Weaving between two worlds and paving our own paths. I would never agree with anyone who says anything about changing or letting go of any part of my identity, and especially not my name, as the author did. Aside from disagreeing with much of his arguments and point of view, I enjoyed reading about his early experiences at school as a newcomer and thought it was something special, that many could benefit from seeing through the eyes of a child who has been displaced from all that is familiar—Especially in this day and age. Sadly, he drew different conclusions than I expected, and I wish he would have had supports available to him when he was young—this may have saved him a lot of frustration and potentially given him more guidance and understanding. I think it needs to be highlighted that this is entirely his personal opinions and the conclusions he’s drawn from his own experiences and that they do not represent how all of us think and feel.
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- DBF
- 12-07-22
Book reads very well
It reads like a book meant to be read out loud, and the voice work is also strong. Easy to listen to and retain details.
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- Asuncion Torres
- 03-02-24
His perspective on bilingual education
I enjoyed reading his perspective would like to sit down and talk to him even though that was not his intention Hos intention was to write to people he would never meet
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- Norma
- 11-28-18
Powerful
A very real book of a few of the realities that many Mexican Americans face.
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- Nathan
- 06-22-23
Worthy investment of time
Overall, I very much like this book. The middle third, I found, was a little bogged down with discussion of Spanish versus English usage. It picked up afterwards, however. I do wish that Rodriguez would have spent more time on the pleasure of learning. The way he paints his story is one almost strictly of external validation, but it is hard to imagine that someone would put in so, so many hours reading, simply so that someone else could acknowledge his effort. And it seems more implausible that someone would go to the effort of getting a PhD in renaissance literature only in order to receive accolades of others. There are many other prestigious professions for him to go into that would not require nearly as much thought and reflection. I wish you spoke more about that. That said, I appreciated his nuanced perspective on affirmative action. I wish they were more about his experience as a gay man but I guess I will have to read Late Victorians for that. The narrator did a very good job.
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- Latarsha
- 08-06-18
Great book
I struggled reading on my own, but listening was awesome. Author shared a great perspective.
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- Jonas Jay Ortiz
- 09-19-23
Very informative
Great book, needs to heard/read to understand his pov that he has. Sort of a minority within a minority. Very well written. A must read if you are a Chicano
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