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Educated
- A Memoir
- De: Tara Westover
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 126,675
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 111,655
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 111,267
Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Other Side of Idaho's Mountains
- De Darwin8u en 03-28-18
- Educated
- A Memoir
- De: Tara Westover
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
Hard-won integrity
Revisado: 06-13-18
This memoir intelligently portrays the painful contradictions involved in belonging to and loving a patriarchal fundamentalist poor family. The author pursues a sense of self through academic curiosity and attainment while remaining connected to her family of origin. The story is so well told and enlightening that it becomes universal as an exploration of balancing self and community, especially when the community is patriarchal and fundamentalist. This is a terrific book.
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Killer's Payoff
- 87th Precinct, Book 6
- De: Ed McBain
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 81
It’s like an old-time gangster movie: A speeding car, a blazing gun…and suddenly a guy walking down the street without a care in the world is lying in the gutter without a head on his shoulders. But who pulled the high-powered trigger that turned Sy Kramer from a blackmailer into a chalk outline? Was it the politician’s wife with a pornographic past? The soda-pop tycoon desperate to keep a business-busting bungle bottled up? Or was it whoever was paying Kramer a small fortune to hide what must’ve been one very big bad?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Language
- De JPL en 06-16-23
- Killer's Payoff
- 87th Precinct, Book 6
- De: Ed McBain
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
McBain hits it again
Revisado: 04-16-15
I've enjoyed listening to the Ed McBain 37th precinct books from my library and interlibrary loan system. But when I ran out of books that were available from that source, I was so happy to see that audible has so many of the titles. They also have them with the series number in the series included in the listing, so I've been going through them all from the beginning. They are great, and this one is no exception. McBain fans: dig in!
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Getting Unstuck
- Breaking Your Habitual Patterns and Encountering Naked Reality
- De: Pema Chödrön
- Narrado por: Pema Chodron
- Duración: 3 h y 24 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,489
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,512
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,453
On Getting Unstuck, Pema Chodron introduces a rare Tibetan teaching she received from her teacher, Dzigar Kontrul Rinpoche, and one that has become critical to her practice. Here, she unveils the mystery of an ineffable quality; a "pre-emotional" feeling that arises in us, brings us discomfort, and causes us to react by escaping the discomfort, often with harmful habits. With Getting Unstuck, she offers us a first look at "both the itch and the scratch": what Tibetan Buddhists call shenpa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'm Still Scratching...But...
- De Kryton2725 en 05-28-08
- Getting Unstuck
- Breaking Your Habitual Patterns and Encountering Naked Reality
- De: Pema Chödrön
- Narrado por: Pema Chodron
i love this book
Revisado: 09-16-14
If you could sum up Getting Unstuck in three words, what would they be?
inspiring entertaining comforting
What did you like best about this story?
i love the way that pema provides insight into buddhist teaching through personal examples and examples from those she has taught. she is truly humble and has a gift for rendering complex teachings into words that invite us to develop compassion for ourselves and others.
What about Pema Chodron’s performance did you like?
there is something about her voice that i find to be comforting and deeply challenging. i also like the way that she responds to the questions and answers at the end of each section.
What did you learn from Getting Unstuck that you would use in your daily life?
she teaches about how to recognize the machinations of ego and how to get around this. this audiobook is like the spray bottle that can help to clean up your depression.
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