Michael S Rottman
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45,954
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41,579
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41,408
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- De Cathy Lindhorst en 08-27-17
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
Exceptional storytelling from start to finish!
Revisado: 07-28-18
Listening to this book was a joy from start to finish! Amor Towles wove an entertaining, we'l written tale and Nicholas Guy Smith made it come to life with such skill. But, perhaps I'm just a sucker for being read to! This was the last audible book to see me through 10 months of lengthy commuting. I can't imagine how I would have managed without it.
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With the End in Mind
- Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
- De: Kathryn Mannix
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Carling, Kathryn Mannix
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 205
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 187
Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. But with changes in the way we understand medicine come changes in the way we understand death. Once a familiar and gentle process, death has come to be something from which we shy away, preferring to fight it desperately than to accept its inevitability. Palliative care has a long tradition in Britain, where Dr. Kathryn Mannix has practiced it for 30 years. In this book, she shares beautifully crafted stories from a lifetime of caring for the dying.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful book!
- De Randall Roth en 01-29-18
- With the End in Mind
- Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
- De: Kathryn Mannix
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Carling, Kathryn Mannix
Fantastic!
Revisado: 04-27-18
I adored this book. As a United Church of Christ minister serving a church in Massachusetts, I appreciate greatly Dr. Mannix's beautiful and thoughtful approach to re-educating us about dying. Her work in palliative care and her writing about it are as much lessons in chaplaincy as medicine. I intend to pilot a book study with my Bible Study group this summer with an eye to an "All Church Read" in the fall. The need to talk about dying, learning about the process of dying, and doing the soul work of dying long before we arrive at the edge of life is critical for human beings living in an age of polarization and disconnection. Thank you, Dr. Mannix! How I would have loved working with you in my days as a nurse! I have lived an arc of caring ministry from ob/gyn nurse to ordained minister with much caring in between. I, too have accompanied both the birthing and the dying and recognized the profound and precious similarities. And I am grateful for every moment. I am a better minister for having read this book!
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