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Running from the Mirror
- A Memoir
- De: Howard Shulman
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5
Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that attacked his face, devouring his nose, lips, lower right eyelid, tear ducts, and palate. Abandoned at the hospital by his parents, he became a ward of New Jersey under the care of a state-employed surgeon who experimentally rebuilt his face.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This memoir has it all.
- De Hilary Smith en 01-20-25
- Running from the Mirror
- A Memoir
- De: Howard Shulman
- Narrado por: David de Vries
This memoir has it all.
Revisado: 01-20-25
I love memoir and have read too many to number and rarely write a review. This book made me laugh & cry, incredible moving story of resilience, searching for what’s missing and discovering what matters most in life. Also a wonderful story of letting go and forgiveness.
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Sex Object
- A Memoir
- De: Jessica Valenti
- Narrado por: Jessica Valenti
- Duración: 4 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 478
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 423
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 422
Sex Object explores the painful, funny, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valenti's adolescence and young adulthood in New York City, revealing a much shakier inner life than the confident persona she has cultivated as one of the most recognizable feminists of her generation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It's not always easy being a full-time feminist
- De Cynthia en 06-26-16
- Sex Object
- A Memoir
- De: Jessica Valenti
- Narrado por: Jessica Valenti
Fabulous! Brave, articulate, authentic.
Revisado: 01-09-25
Highly recommended! Please read if you are a woman, mother, daughter, sister or have a wife, partner, friend, mom, sister, daughter!
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Knocking on Heaven's Door
- The Path to a Better Way of Death
- De: Katy Butler
- Narrado por: Katy Butler
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 141
Like so many of us, award-winning writer Katy Butler always assumed her aging parents would experience healthy, active retirements before dying peacefully at home. Then her father suffered a stroke that left him incapable of easily finishing a sentence or showering without assistance. Her mother was thrust into full-time caregiving, and Katy became one of the 24 million Americans who help care for aging parents. In an effort to correct a minor and non - life threatening heart arrhythmia, doctors outfitted her father with a pacemaker.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A better way to narrate a book about death?
- De MAUREEN en 10-21-13
- Knocking on Heaven's Door
- The Path to a Better Way of Death
- De: Katy Butler
- Narrado por: Katy Butler
Invaluable -
Revisado: 11-04-23
A must read for anyone who will someday die! So, everyone can gain a deeper understanding of choices to make or will be made for you without you realizing the repercussions those choices might have.
With my 94.5 mother nearing her final years, this book could have been more prescient. Highly recommend.
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The Sociopath Next Door
- De: Martha Stout
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 8,024
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,360
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,343
We are accustomed to think of sociopaths as violent criminals, but in The Sociopath Next Door, Harvard psychologist Martha Stout reveals that a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people, one in 25, has an often undetected mental disorder, the chief symptom of which is that that person possesses no conscience. He or she has no ability whatsoever to feel shame, guilt, or remorse. One in 25 everyday Americans, therefore, is secretly a sociopath.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
- De Robert en 08-28-11
- The Sociopath Next Door
- De: Martha Stout
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
Fascinating read
Revisado: 08-29-23
Different than I expected and thoroughly enjoyed. So many insights into the human condition. Fascinating to learn more deeply about having a conscience. Confirmed unfortunately more people than expected don’t have one which explains much. Why one can never understand some amoral behaviors of others, that part is just absent.
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American Kingpin
- The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
- De: Nick Bilton
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 19,763
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 17,808
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 17,759
In 2011, a 26-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine website hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything - drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons - free of the government's watchful eye. It wasn't long before the media got wind of the new website where anyone - not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackers - could buy and sell contraband detection-free.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An honest portrait of DPR
- De Victor en 05-18-17
- American Kingpin
- The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
- De: Nick Bilton
- Narrado por: Will Damron
Incredible story, hard to put down.
Revisado: 03-03-23
Highly recommend this book, exhaustive research in a compelling story and the take down of a brilliant yet foolish young man who crossed every ethical & moral line for a false ideal of freedom.
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Notes on a Silencing
- A Memoir
- De: Lacy Crawford
- Narrado por: Lacy Crawford
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,374
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,215
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,209
When Notes on a Silencing hit bookstores in the summer of 2020, even amidst a global pandemic, it sent shockwaves through the country. Not only did this intimate investigative memoir usher in a media storm of coverage, but it also prompted the elite St. Paul's School to issue a formal apology to the author, Lacy Crawford, for its handling of her report of sexual assault by two fellow students nearly 30 years ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everything about this book is magnificent
- De swimmergal en 08-15-20
- Notes on a Silencing
- A Memoir
- De: Lacy Crawford
- Narrado por: Lacy Crawford
Brilliant, brutal, a must read
Revisado: 02-15-23
Brilliant, brutal, incredible telling of traumatic assault & it’s aftermath within a system that protects itself & the perpetrators full stop with no apparent consideration for the epic damage, subversion of Justice & discarding of the children it proclaims to protect.
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Broken (in the Best Possible Way)
- De: Jenny Lawson
- Narrado por: Jenny Lawson
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,505
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,218
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,200
As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken (in the Best Possible Way), Jenny brings listeners along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way. With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The perfect follow up
- De Anonymous User en 04-07-21
- Broken (in the Best Possible Way)
- De: Jenny Lawson
- Narrado por: Jenny Lawson
3.5
Revisado: 02-07-23
Loved the authentic voice regarding depression & anxiety, had a difficult time with all the stories. Would have loved more telling of struggles with mental health & coping & maybe less of the silly stories, although many were quite humorous.
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Midnight in Washington
- How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
- De: Adam Schiff
- Narrado por: Adam Schiff
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,654
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,297
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,282
In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat this posed to the United States. But as he led the probe into Donald Trump’s abuses of presidential power, Schiff came to the terrible conclusion that the principal threat to American democracy now came from within. In Midnight in Washington, Schiff argues that the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected
- De Lynn en 10-18-21
- Midnight in Washington
- How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
- De: Adam Schiff
- Narrado por: Adam Schiff
A 4 alarm warning for our democracy’s peril.
Revisado: 10-30-21
Adam Schiff narration of the Trump years, the two impeachment and Jan 6th show Trumps merciless attack on our democracy and all the complicit players, primarily the GOP but many Trump appointed the high office and betrayed those positions. He describes Trump and his administration’s corruption but the damage it has caused and the danger it reveals. Democracy is not a given, it can be lost and almost was, many continue to work against what our country stands for. Instead doing all they can to gain power, at any costs.
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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- De: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrado por: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 9,079
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7,909
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7,865
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Full Account of the Sackler Conspiracy
- De Edward Bisch en 04-13-21
- Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- De: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrado por: Patrick Radden Keefe
Epic truth telling.
Revisado: 10-18-21
Incredible reporting of a family dynasty motivated by greed for years and years. A refusal to apologize or take any responsibility for hundreds of thousand dead in their wake. Turning a blind eye to the devastation their drugs have caused. The book includes important history of the family through the century and details the influence that was gained with wealth and power. And with that power they influenced politicians and government agencies that refused to stop them. The lies and greed is shocking and despicable. The comparison to a foreign drug cartel was apt. Highly recommend this thorough and well written book.
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Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- De: John Carreyrou
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 39,198
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 34,734
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 34,665
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extreme retaliation against former employees
- De LEE en 05-29-18
- Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- De: John Carreyrou
- Narrado por: Will Damron
Five star reporting
Revisado: 10-03-21
A fabulous investigative story regarding Elizabeth Holmes and the company she founded Theranos. Truly shows the absolute need for a free press. Despite roadblocks, threats, legal actions Carreyrou and his sources stayed on this important story and reported the truth. The incredible courage of Tyler Schultz, grandson of former Secretary of State and Theranos board member George Schultz is inspiring and gives me hope. Well done.
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