Lilli de Jong
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Erin Moon
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Janet Benton
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Pregnant, abandoned by her lover, and banished from her Quaker home and teaching position, Lilli de Jong enters a charity for wronged women to deliver her child. She is stunned at how much her infant needs her and at how quickly their bond overpowers her heart. Mothers in her position have no sensible alternative to giving up their children, but Lilli can't bear such an outcome. Determined to chart a path toward an independent life, Lilli braves moral condemnation and financial ruin in a quest to keep herself and her baby alive.
Confiding their story to her diary as it unfolds, Lilli takes listeners from an impoverished charity to a wealthy family's home to the perilous streets of a burgeoning American city. Lilli de Jong is at once a historical saga, an intimate romance, and a lasting testament to the work of mothers. "So little is permissible for a woman," writes Lilli, "yet on her back every human climbs to adulthood."
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What do Abraham Lincoln, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Louis Pasteur, Frederick Douglass, Florence Nightingale, and John D. Rockefeller, Sr., all have in common? They all changed the world - and they were all Christians. Now the little-known stories of faith behind 12 influential people of history are available in one inspiring volume. They Were Christians reveals the faith-filled motivations behind some of the most outstanding political, scientific, and humanitarian contributions of history.
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Great book
- By Amazon Customer on 12-10-18
By: Cristobal Krusen
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The Lives They Left Behind
- Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
- By: Peter Stastny, Darby Penney
- Narrated by: Alex Paul
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients’ belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation. They are skillfully examined here and compared to the written record to create a moving—and devastating—group portrait of twentieth-century American psychiatric care.
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Not really the book I expected
- By B. Shaff on 11-09-17
By: Peter Stastny, and others
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Ida M. Tarbell
- The Woman Who Challenged Big Business - and Won!
- By: Emily Arnold McCully
- Narrated by: Emily Arnold McCully
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell was one of the first investigative journalists and probably the most influential in her time. Her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust, a complicated business empire run by John D. Rockefeller, revealed to readers the underhanded, even illegal practices that had led to Rockefeller's success.
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Excellent!
- By AKA1 on 03-16-19
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One Child
- The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
- By: Mei Fong
- Narrated by: Janet Song
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birthrates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers. Mei Fong has spent years documenting the policy's repercussions on every sector of Chinese society.
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Best Book Club Discussion Ever!!
- By Rachael W. Schettenhelm on 05-01-17
By: Mei Fong
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Hitler's Forgotten Children
- A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity
- By: Ingrid von Oelhafen, Tim Tate
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Hitler’s Forgotten Children is both a harrowing personal memoir and a devastating investigation into the awful crimes and monstrous scope of the Lebensborn program in World War 2. Created by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn program abducted as many as half a million children from across Europe. Through a process called Germanization, they were to become the next generation of the Aryan master race in the second phase of the Final Solution.
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Interesting story.
- By Brad Bowles on 04-08-16
By: Ingrid von Oelhafen, and others
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Rosalind Franklin
- A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Women in History)
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 58 mins
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Rosalind Franklin was what can only be called an overlooked genius. Although she was not fully credited for the feat at the time, her work led to major breakthroughs in our understanding of DNA. In fact, she took the first X-ray photo of DNA in all of its double helix glory. By the time her former colleagues were being showered with accolades for results they made at least partially based on her findings, Franklin would not be around to see it. Sadly, it’s believed that her use of X-ray equipment gave her terminal cancer, cutting her life short at age 37.
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Covers the facts
- By Freda St on 08-21-24
By: Hourly History
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Damnation Island
- Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
- By: Stacy Horn
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse. Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative told through the stories of the poor souls sent to Blackwell's, as well as the period's city officials, reformers, and journalists (including the famous Nellie Bly). Damnation Island re-creates what daily life was like on the island....
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Fascinating!
- By tamborine on 08-06-18
By: Stacy Horn
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Making History
- The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
- By: Richard Cohen
- Narrated by: Richard Cohen
- Length: 26 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as “objective” history? In this “witty, wise, and elegant” (The Spectator), book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses, such as the writers of the Bible, novelists, and political propagandists, influence what becomes the accepted record. Cohen argues, for example, that some historians are practitioners of “Bad History” and twist reality to glorify themselves or their country.
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Missing 20 pages from book
- By Rick, Austin on 04-23-22
By: Richard Cohen
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Unspeakable
- The Story of Junius Wilson
- By: Susan Burch, Hannah Joyner
- Narrated by: Corey Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent 76 years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including 6 in the criminal ward. He had never been declared insane by a medical professional or found guilty of any criminal charge. But he was deaf and Black in the Jim Crow South. Unspeakable is the story of his life.
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Nuanced look at a complicated case of injustice
- By Karla on 08-06-24
By: Susan Burch, and others
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Pogrom
- Kishinev and the Tilt of History
- By: Steven J. Zipperstein
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was "nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself." In three days of violence, 49 Jews were killed and 600 raped or wounded, while more than 1,000 Jewish-owned houses and stores were ransacked and destroyed.
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good analysis of the 1903 event
- By John Newquist on 08-10-19
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The Mark of a Giant
- 7 People Who Changed the World
- By: Ted Stewart, Chris Stewart
- Narrated by: Art Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Throughout the course of history, civilization has been blessed by strong-minded men and women who have impacted our world in extraordinary ways. Their imprint upon humanity is beyond dispute. And many would contend that they were no less than the result of Divine Providence - a gift of God to the human race. The Mark of a Giant examines the lives and contributions of seven men and women who changed the world: Abraham of Ur, Pericles, the Apostle Paul, Sir Isaac Newton, Marie Curie, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mother Teresa.
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So Good!!
- By momof4 on 05-11-15
By: Ted Stewart, and others
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The Professor and the Madman
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Part history, part true-crime, and entirely entertaining, listen to the story of how the behemoth Oxford English Dictionary was made. You'll hang on every word as you discover that the dictionary's greatest contributor was also an insane murderer working from the confines of an asylum.
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Perfect example of a quality audible book.
- By Jerry on 07-07-03
By: Simon Winchester
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- Katy Orr-Dove
- 02-25-18
This Book Is Everything
If you are a woman at any stage of life...teen to elderly...this should be required reading. I left this book wanting to scream of the injustices done to women and children for the sake of appearances. All Christians should be required to read this as well, to better understand forgiveness of our fellow man. Loved it.
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- Evelyn
- 09-13-17
informative and depressing
I enjoyed the historical setting and the culture of the Friends. The writing was good . The story was interesting but way too sad. The dwelling on the sad events and the constant description of nursing babies made me fast forward sometimes.
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- JOANN
- 02-02-19
Page turning tale of unwed mother in 1800’s Philly
Vivid portrait of time (late 1800’s) place (Philadelphia area) and circumstance (unwed mother). I was ready to put my coat on and rush to Germantown to save her & her baby! Deftly put and diligently researched. A big hit at our book club. Recommending this book to everyone.
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- gloria ruenitz
- 05-30-21
Magnificent book.
I just finished reading Lilli De Jong. Wow! So heart wrenching, poetic, my goodness the language is truly magnificent. The light portrayed inside this young woman unstoppable.
I could not put it down. Truly touched my heart and that of so many young women/Mother’s that have suffered the wrath of unfairness and inequality through the ages.
Highly recommend. Well researched as a historic novel. The narrator was wonderful too, her speech so eloquent.
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- Elise
- 10-21-18
Well written,beautifully read ,Informative
I was totally captivated by Lillie’s story- I found myself yelling at her to go her father in spite of her fears. I loved that the author drew on facts from the actual setting in Philadelphia and from the Quaker religion. Thank you Ms. Benton!
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- A
- 07-21-18
Fabulous!
Wonderful story. Exceptionally well written! I loved the author’s note at the end explaining the history of wet nurses, morality in the 1800s and Quaker beliefs.
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- Rebecca Smith
- 08-29-24
The Bravery of Mothers
Incredible journey of perseverance and determination as well as a commitment to preservation of self in spite of circumstances.
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- Charla Wilson
- 04-15-21
A Beautifully told story
This story is about a young Quaker girl that has a baby out of wedlock in the mid 1800s in Pennsylvania. Lilli was in love with the baby’s father and planned to marry him, but due to unfortunate circumstances she gave birth without being married. She was cast out of her home and ends up scrambling to survive and keep her baby alive. It is heartbreaking how difficult the struggles that Lilli and women like her have had to endure. It may seem unusual to describe such a story as beautiful, but it was truly told in a beautiful way. I absolutely loved it!
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- cheryl james
- 09-20-18
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I loved everything about this book. Incredible story about a mothers love for her child.
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- Cheryl
- 08-27-20
One of the best historical fictions ever!!
Just to let you know, I’m a literary snob. This book is extraordinarily well written and researched. The plot is an old one, the plight of the unwed mother, but the author’s protagonist gave a fresh and convincing take on it. I could not stop listening!
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