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Maeve Higgins
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Maeve Higgins
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Deeply funny, moving, and urgent writing about a country that can feel broken into pieces and the light that shines through the cracks, from Irish comedian Maeve Higgins, author of Maeve in America.
As an eternally curious outsider, Maeve Higgins can see that the United States is still an experiment. Some parts work well and others really don’t, but that doesn't stop her from loving the place and the people that make it. With piercing political commentary in a sweet and salty tone, these essays unearth answers to the questions we all have about this country we call home; the beauty of it all and the dark parts too.
Maeve attends the 2020 Border Security Expo to better understand the future of our borders, and finds herself at The Alamo surrounded by queso and homemade rifles. A chance encounter with a statue of a teenage horseback rider causes her to interrogate the purpose of monuments, this sends her hurtling through the past, connecting Ireland’s revolutionary history with the struggles of Black Americans today. And after mistaking edibles for innocent candies, Maeve gets way too high at Paper Source.
Most of all, Maeve wants to leave this country and this planet better than she found it. That may well be impossible, but it certainly means showing love. Lots of it, even when it's difficult to do so. Threaded through these pieces is love for strangers, love for friends who show up right on time, love for trees, love for Tom Hardy, love for those with differing opinions, love for the glamorous older women of Brighton Beach with tattooed eyeliner and gold jewelry, love for everybody on this train.
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The Good Girls
- An Ordinary Killing
- By: Sonia Faleiro
- Narrated by: Sonia Faleiro
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned. Fourteen-year-old Lalli was an incorrigible romantic. They grew up in Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in Western Uttar Pradesh crammed into less than one square mile of land. It was out in the fields, in the middle of mango season, that the rumors started. Then one night in the summer of 2014 the girls went missing; and hours later they were found hanging in the orchard.
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Absolutely heartbreaking
- By Bradley T. Collins on 05-18-21
By: Sonia Faleiro
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Chasing the Thrill
- Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt
- By: Daniel Barbarisi
- Narrated by: Daniel Barbarisi
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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When Forrest Fenn was given a fatal cancer diagnosis, he came up with a bold plan: He would hide a chest full of jewels and gold in the wilderness, and publish a poem that would serve as a map leading to the treasure's secret location. But he didn't die, and after hiding the treasure in 2010, Fenn instead presided over a decade-long gold rush that saw many thousands of treasure hunters scrambling across the Rocky Mountains in pursuit of his fortune.
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Wonderful Adventure!
- By Smartypants on 05-25-21
By: Daniel Barbarisi
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All the Lives We Ever Lived
- Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
- By: Katharine Smyth
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death - a calamity that claimed her favorite person - she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Through her inventive, highly personal reading of To the Lighthouse, Smyth guides us toward a new vision of Woolf’s most demanding and rewarding novel.
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Surprised I Finished This
- By Amazon Customer on 03-25-22
By: Katharine Smyth
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A Place in the World
- Finding the Meaning of Home
- By: Frances Mayes
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Though Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on the idea of home, from the earliest imprint of four walls to the startling discoveries of feeling the strange ease of homes abroad, friends’ homes, and even momentary homes that spark desires for other lives. From her travels across Italy to the American South, France, and Mexico, Mayes examines the connective tissue among them through the homes she’s inhabited.
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Lovely meditation on the meaning of home
- By Pamela F Roper on 02-19-23
By: Frances Mayes
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My Time Will Come
- A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption
- By: Ian Manuel, Bryan Stevenson - foreword
- Narrated by: Ian Manuel
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1991, Ian Manuel, then 14, was sentenced to life without parole for a non-homicide crime. In a botched mugging attempt with some older boys, he shot Debbie Baigrie, a young white mother of two, in the face. But as Bryan Stevenson has insisted, none of us should be judged only by the worst thing we have ever done. Capturing the fullness of his humanity, here is Manuel’s powerful testimony of growing up homeless in Central Park Village in Tampa, Florida - a neighborhood riddled with poverty, gang violence, and drug abuse - and of his efforts to rise above his circumstances.
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How Long Will We Let This Go On!
- By Kindle Customer on 05-06-21
By: Ian Manuel, and others
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Little Sister
- My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood
- By: Lana Wood
- Narrated by: Lana Wood
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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On the night of November 29, 1981, Natalie Wood disappeared from her yacht, the Splendour, while visiting Catalina Island with her husband, Robert “R.J.” Wagner and their friend, Christopher Walken. The beloved movie star’s tragic drowning shook America, inspiring troves of magazine covers and media pieces. What was originally believed to be an open-and-shut case of accidental drowning has been called into question over the years, and in 2011 the investigation was reopened. In 2018, at the urging of the public, it was reclassified as “suspicious.”
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I loved this book. Bless Lana Wood
- By Vianne on 11-15-21
By: Lana Wood
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I Take My Coffee Black
- Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
- By: Tyler Merritt, Jimmy Kimmel - foreword
- Narrated by: Jimmy Kimmel, Tyler Merritt, James Iglehart, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Tyler Merritt's video "Before You Call the Cops" has been viewed millions of times. He's appeared on Jimmy Kimmel and Sports Illustrated and has been profiled in the New York Times. The viral video's main point - the more you know someone, the more empathy, understanding, and compassion you have for that person - is the springboard for this book. By sharing his highs and exposing his lows, Tyler welcomes us into his world in order to help bridge the divides that seem to grow wider every day.
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Beautiful message and a social game changer
- By Marie on 11-07-21
By: Tyler Merritt, and others
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See You in the Piazza
- New Places to Discover in Italy
- By: Frances Mayes
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Frances Mayes
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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Best-selling and beloved author Frances Mayes discovers the hidden pleasures of Italy in a sumptuous travel narrative that crisscrosses the country, with inventive new recipes celebrating Italian cuisine.
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Bravo Cassandra Campbell
- By John Genzale on 05-20-19
By: Frances Mayes
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The Wild Silence
- A Memoir
- By: Raynor Winn
- Narrated by: Raynor Winn
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband, Moth. After walking 630 miles homeless along The Salt Path, the windswept and wild English coastline now feels like their home. And despite Moth's terminal diagnosis, against all medical odds, he seems revitalized in nature - outside, they discover that anything is possible. Now, life beyond The Salt Path awaits. As they return to four walls, the sense of home is illusive and returning to normality is proving difficult - until an incredible gesture by someone who reads their story changes everything.
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Another great book!!
- By Anthony Mayfield on 01-04-23
By: Raynor Winn
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On the Trail of the Serpent
- The Epic Hunt for the Bikini Killer
- By: Richard Neville, Julie Clarke
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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Charles Sobhraj remains one of the world's great con men, and as a serial killer, the story of his life and capture endures as legend. Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father, Sobhraj grew up deprived of a sense of identity, moving to France before being imprisoned and stripped of his multiple nationalities.
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EXHILARATING
- By Jeffrey W. Rudisel on 05-01-21
By: Richard Neville, and others
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Let Me Not Be Mad
- My Story of Unraveling Minds
- By: A. K. Benjamin
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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What do doctors actually think about when you list your problems in the consulting room? Are they really listening to you? Is the connection all in your head? Every day for 10 years - even while his hospital became the set for a reality television series - clinical neuropsychologist A. K. Benjamin confronted these questions, and this book is his attempt to tell the truth about what happens in these rooms in hospitals the world over.
By: A. K. Benjamin
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Denali
- A Man, A Dog, and the Friendship of a Lifetime
- By: Ben Moon
- Narrated by: Ben Moon
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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When Ben Moon moved from the Midwest to Oregon, he hadn’t planned on getting a dog. But when he first met the soulful gaze of a rescue pup in a shelter, Ben instantly felt a connection, and his friendship with Denali was born. The two of them set out on the road together, on an adventure that would take them across the American west and through some of the best years of their lives. But when Ben was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at age 29, he faced a difficult battle with the disease, and Denali never once left his side until they were back out surfing and climbing crags.
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Definitely added to my list of favorites!
- By elissa on 01-30-20
By: Ben Moon
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The Travelers
- A Novel
- By: Regina Porter
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish-American background but hews to his father’s meandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries Claudia Christie. Claudia’s mother - Agnes Miller Christie - is a beautiful African-American woman who survives a chance encounter on a Georgia road that propels her into a new life in the Bronx. Soon after, her husband, Eddie Christie, is called to duty on an air craft carrier in Vietnam.
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Each character is quite a character.
- By Anonymous User on 01-01-22
By: Regina Porter
DELIGHTFUL!
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Maeve's Secret Is Out
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Worth reading twice.
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Maeve does it again!
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