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The Holocaust
- An Unfinished History
- De: Dan Stone
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone—Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London—reveals how the idea of “industrial murder” is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways.
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One of the best NF books I've ever listened to
- De Aaron.Johnson en 02-23-24
- The Holocaust
- An Unfinished History
- De: Dan Stone
- Narrado por: John Sackville
Informative
Revisado: 04-25-25
I appreciated the layout of Dan Stone’s THE HOLOCAUST. Each chapter in the audiobook was about an hour long, describing events leading up to The Holocaust, during and after. The information was enough to be informative and interesting without intricate details that would have made me zone out.
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Murder Between Friends
- De: Liz Lawson
- Narrado por: Briggon Snow, Elena Rey, Sophie Amoss
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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Grace, Henry, and Ally grew up together on the same block. They used to be best friends--until Grace's testimony put Henry's brother, Jake, away for killing their English teacher. Now, two years later, Ally and Henry hate Grace, and Grace is doubting what she thinks she saw that night.
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Bland
- De Pink Amy en 04-25-25
- Murder Between Friends
- De: Liz Lawson
- Narrado por: Briggon Snow, Elena Rey, Sophie Amoss
Bland
Revisado: 04-25-25
Despite enjoying listening to the audiobook MURDER BETWEEN FRIENDS, it wasn’t a very good book.
One unlikable POV
One semi sympathetic yet thoughtless POV
One boring POV
I guessed the killer the when this character was first introduced because s/he seemed opposite as described.
Annoyances:
-unless one is reckless, wants to get caught or revels in sex, s/he wouldn’t write the dates, times and places in a daily planner. This should have been a nonstarter, instead it wasn’t the red herring it was meant to be.
-Ally’s extreme vitriol toward Grace was so over the top she was unsympathetic, not well-rounded.
-How difficult is texting someone, “I can’t make it” or “I can’t talk”, especially when people had said they felt hurt by Grace annoying them.
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Hitler's Furies
- German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
- De: Wendy Lower
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
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Wendy Lower’s stunning account of the role of German women on the World War II Nazi eastern front powerfully revises history, proving that we have ignored the reality of women’s participation in the Holocaust, including as brutal killers. The long-held picture of German women holding down the home front during the war, as loyal wives and cheerleaders for the Führer, pales in comparison to Lower’s incisive case for the massive complicity, and worse, of the 500,000 young German women she places, for the first time, directly in the killing fields of the expanding Reich.
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Terrifying and shocking!
- De Amazon Customer en 09-12-24
- Hitler's Furies
- German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
- De: Wendy Lower
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
Skip it
Revisado: 04-22-25
I would have taken this book more seriously if the writer, on multiple occasions, hadn’t referenced women wearing Nazi garb as possible “role playing” apropos of nothing.
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The Holocaust
- A New History
- De: Laurence Rees
- Narrado por: Eric Vale
- Duración: 19 h y 28 m
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Laurence Rees has spent 25 years meeting the survivors and perpetrators of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. In this sweeping history, he combines this testimony with the latest academic research to investigate how history's greatest crime was possible. Rees argues that while hatred of the Jews was at the epicenter of Nazi thinking, we cannot fully understand the Holocaust without considering Nazi plans to kill millions of non-Jews as well.
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FANTASTIC BOOK, BUT HORRIBLE READING
- De Aspen en 08-31-17
- The Holocaust
- A New History
- De: Laurence Rees
- Narrado por: Eric Vale
Outstanding
Revisado: 04-15-25
My education never included European History, so I never formally studied the Holocaust. Being of Ashkenazi descent, I THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK as a child and several times as an adult. I’ve seen SCHINDLER’S LIST at least five times, so I wasn’t completely ignorant on the topic.
Laurence Rees did a fantastic job describing THE HOLOCAUST, including a number of first hand accounts which offered depth to the facts. I appreciated his journalistic approach, avoiding adjectives that were quite obvious considering the horrific atrocities the Nazis perpetrated. His writing, while professional, kept my interest with enough information to educate me without too much detail to bog down the narrative.
THE HOLOCAUST should be required reading for every politician, because I’m pretty sure most don’t know as much as they think they do.
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The Price She Pays
- Confronting the Hidden Mental Health Crisis in Women's Sports—from the Schoolyard to the Stadium
- De: Tiffany Brown PhD, Katie Steele, Erin Strout - contributor
- Narrado por: Charlotte Moore-Lambert
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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Behind the scenes, female athletes are suffering from disordered eating and substance use; depression and anxiety; emotional and sexual abuse; racism and discrimination; self-harm, and even suicide ideation. When global tennis star Naomi Osaka and gymnastics world champion Simone Biles took breaks from competing to tend to their mental health, many were compelled to ask: What is causing this mental health crisis in women’s sports? In The Price She Pays, Katie Steele and Dr. Tiffany Brown illuminate where we are going wrong—and how we can correct course.
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Mixed messages
- De Pink Amy en 04-15-25
- The Price She Pays
- Confronting the Hidden Mental Health Crisis in Women's Sports—from the Schoolyard to the Stadium
- De: Tiffany Brown PhD, Katie Steele, Erin Strout - contributor
- Narrado por: Charlotte Moore-Lambert
Mixed messages
Revisado: 04-15-25
THE PRICE SHE PAYS is a well-intentioned book on the difficulties girls and young women pay to succeed in sports, from intramural to the NCAA. The writers make the case for female needs to feel safe, supported and encouraged from coaches, parents and teammates.
By illustrating vignettes of athletes who have encountered troubles along the way the writers illustrate their points of view. I found myself wanting more depth and breadth of information such as mental health history and family dynamics. I also would have liked to know how teammates experienced similar situations, particularly for NCAA athletes.
On one hand I know that girls and boys have different needs and that they respond differently to the same circumstances, though outliers obviously exist. On the other hand the way the information was presented seemed to imply that girls couldn’t handle the way boys are coached. I wish that writers had focused on the different motivations for the genders.
Where THE PRICE SHE PAYS lost me was on transgender access to girl’s sports and locker rooms. Riley Gaines addresses the discomfort some female athletes felt with a biological male in their locker rooms in her memoir SWIMMING AGAINST THE CURRENT. I’m old enough to remember when Title IX began and the excitement I felt that I could participate in more sports. It didn’t matter that I wasn’t athletic or that I disliked playing sports. To me it was about not being told I wasn’t allowed. Even so, the fight for equality in sport still exists and scholarships are hard to come by.
I don’t recommend this book.
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The House of My Mother
- A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
- De: Shari Franke
- Narrado por: Shari Franke
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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Shari Franke’s childhood was a constant battle for survival. Her mother, Ruby Franke, enforced a severe moral code while maintaining a façade of a picture-perfect family for their wildly popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers, which documented the day-to-day life of raising six children for a staggering 2.5 million subscribers. But a darker truth lurked beneath the surface—Ruby’s wholesome online persona masked a more tyrannical parenting style than anyone could have imagined.
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A remarkable young woman!
- De Amazon Customer en 01-08-25
- The House of My Mother
- A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
- De: Shari Franke
- Narrado por: Shari Franke
Outstanding
Revisado: 04-07-25
I’ll admit it. I was skeptical. I wasn’t certain a young woman like Shari Franke could capture my interest. Whether written by Shari or a ghost writer, THE HOUSE OF MY MOTHER captivated me from the beginning and never let go.
Though our circumstances were vastly different, I can Shari’s feelings and thoughts as she gains awareness that words her mother wielded, sharp as razor blades, were untrue. Through self-exploration, therapy and a few supportive friendships, Shari begins to realize her worth and goodness.
Shari is more forgiving than her parents and her rapist have rights to expect. Though she understand the fifty-year-old man who forced her into a sexual relationship was wrong, she never uses the word rape, perhaps for legal reasons, perhaps because she still partially blames herself, I hope by now she realizes it was all his fault.
Shari is a very good narrator too and I enjoyed listening to her voice.
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My Friend Anne Frank
- The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
- De: Hannah Pick-Goslar, Dina Kraft
- Narrado por: Alix Dunmore
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942, Hannah and Anne's lives abruptly changed forever.
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the missing piece to Anne’s story and the complete picture of Hannah’s
- De Wilson en 07-13-23
- My Friend Anne Frank
- The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
- De: Hannah Pick-Goslar, Dina Kraft
- Narrado por: Alix Dunmore
Remarkable beyond words
Revisado: 04-04-25
MY FRIEND ANNE FRANK is the touching story of Hannah Pick-Gosslar’s life, including her friendship with next door neighbor Anne Frank.
Called Hannah Lee (Hannahly?) by family and friends, she gives the perspective of a Holocaust survivor who lost her parents and grandparents. Hannah became a surrogate mother to her toddler sister at age thirteen. Mature beyond her years, Hannah, in a more “privileged” position than Anne due to her grandfather’s work in the Zionist movement , often cared for the younger children in the orphanage rather than having been sent to a concentration camp.
What struck me about Hannah and her family was their lack of complaint for the unfairness of the situation during the Nazi regime. Perhaps they survived by focusing on gratitude rather than the dignity they deserved.
While Anne’s writing was mature beyond her years, her behavior in hiding was age appropriate as the youngest in the attic. Hannah had to step up to mother her sister, which she did with the competence of an adult.
Hannah’s years after the Holocaust ended are equally remarkable. Her life’s mission became an educating the world about Anne Frank and the Shoah which she did into her 90’s. I wish I could have met her.
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The Girls We Sent Away
- De: Meagan Church
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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It’s the 1960s in North Carolina, and Lorraine Delford has it all—an upstanding family, a perfect boyfriend, and an idyllic home complete with a white picket fence. Yet every time she looks through her father’s telescope, she dreams of leaving it all behind to go to space. It’s ambitious, but Lorraine has always been exceptional.
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Very predictable
- De Old dog learning new trick en 05-13-24
- The Girls We Sent Away
- De: Meagan Church
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
Unsatisfying
Revisado: 04-02-25
THE GIRLS WE SENT AWAY is a deeply unsatisfying, depressing look at the pregnancy of a would be valedictorian during the 1960s. For all of Loraine’s ambition and intelligence, her passivity outweighed her dreams.
We’ve all read or seen stories about girls who were sent away to unethical and/or homes to hide their pregnancy, forced to give relinquish their babies not just in the United States, throughout the world. The boys and men who impregnated them went on as if their sperm never caused the girls’ situations. When children were seen and not heard, sometimes girls were never seen. They went from their fathers’ rule to their husbands’.
While Loraine may have been typical teen for the time, her passivity made her boring. I first thought she was a Mary Sue, not like other girls, in her ambitions toward the sciences, which would have been more interesting.
A nonfiction look into forced adoption would likely be more interesting.
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True Life in Uncanny Valley
- De: Deb Caletti
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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Eleanor, like so many others, is used to watching her famous father from afar. To the world, Hugo Harrison is the brilliant and charismatic tech genius whose AI inventions seem to create a better new reality. But to Eleanor, whose mother had an affair with Hugo years ago, he is something even more intriguing, and dangerous—a secret. When Eleanor’s spying leads her to a posting for a live-in summer nanny job for Hugo's young son—her half-brother—she knows she has to apply. This is finally her chance to learn about her father, his family, and the life that could have been hers.
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Flawed but good
- De Pink Amy en 03-22-25
- True Life in Uncanny Valley
- De: Deb Caletti
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
Flawed but good
Revisado: 03-22-25
Elinor goes undercover as the nanny for the child of the father she never knew. What could possibly go wrong?
I really enjoyed TRUE LIFE IN UNCANNY VALLEY, but aspects of the book prevented me from giving a higher score.
The first chunk of the book started off as Elinor’s stream of consciousness thoughts about sexism, racism, homophobia and how those isms apply to her life. Although I agree with all of her position, preachy books, even if I agree with the issues preached, annoy me. I don’t know any teenagers who are constantly talking about their white privilege with peers or thinking about it as often as Elinor. If Deb Caletti had lightened up on that aspect, I would have rated higher.
The stream of consciousness manner of introducing characters didn’t hold my interest because nothing happened except a lot of thinking. Once Elinor got the nanny job, TRUE LIFE IN UNCANNY VALLEY took off as did my enjoyment.
Elinor seemed to have too much knowledge about child development and their needs for someone with a resume of one babysitting job from which she was fired.
Stepmom Aurora was my favorite character.
Though flawed, I recommend TRUE LIFE IN UNCANNY VALLEY.
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Nothing Bad Happens Here
- De: Rachel Ekstrom Courage
- Narrado por: Lindsey Dorcus
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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A carefree New England vacation is just what sixteen-year-old Lucia needs to chase her sadness away. At least, according to her mom, who whisks them away for the summer with her ridiculously wealthy new boyfriend. Nothing bad happens in Nantucket, a charming island with cobblestone streets and million-dollar cottages. But when Lucia stumbles upon the body of a teenage girl on a beach, the discovery reopens old wounds from her past. With the dead girl's identity a mystery, Lucia takes it upon herself to investigate and crosses paths with Selah and her pack of devil-may-care besties.
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Thrilling and Chilling
- De Anthony en 03-25-25
- Nothing Bad Happens Here
- De: Rachel Ekstrom Courage
- Narrado por: Lindsey Dorcus
Fast paced
Revisado: 03-20-25
Elin Hilderbrand turned me on to Nantucket books, so when I saw that NOTHING BAD HAPPENS HERE by Heather Ekstrom Courage was set on the island, I knew I had to read.
Courage’s wordbuilding was the strongest aspect of the story and I’ll look for more of her novels.
Lucia, narrator and main character, still mourning the death of her best friend, has terrible judgment. I can’t remember a character with such awful senses about people and situations.
Most of the other characters were questionable and highly imperfect.
The pacing of the story and excellent narration kept me listening to the audiobook late than I should have.
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