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When Women Ran Fifth Avenue
- Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
- De: Julie Satow
- Narrado por: Karen Murray
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 103
In When Women Ran Fifth Avenue, journalist Julie Satow draws back the curtain on three visionaries who took great risks, forging new paths for the women who followed in their footsteps. This stylish account, rich with personal drama and trade secrets, captures the department store in all its glitz, decadence, and fun, and showcases the women who made that beautifully curated world go round.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Read like a text book for fashion students.
- De JACKI en 06-24-24
- When Women Ran Fifth Avenue
- Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
- De: Julie Satow
- Narrado por: Karen Murray
Fascinating textile history!
Revisado: 07-04-24
The story of three women who helped shape 20th century fashion. Fascinating detail about Fifth Ave stores where I shopped
while in college!
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How to Say Babylon
- A Memoir
- De: Safiya Sinclair
- Narrado por: Safiya Sinclair
- Duración: 16 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 539
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 516
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 516
Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and a militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, was obsessed with the ever-present threat of the corrupting evils of the Western world outside their home, and worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure. For him, a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The ability of Safia to both tell a gut wrenching story while making beautiful art with her words.
- De Grandchampion en 07-21-24
- How to Say Babylon
- A Memoir
- De: Safiya Sinclair
- Narrado por: Safiya Sinclair
Heartbreaking and inspirational
Revisado: 06-23-24
The narration by Safiya is filled with precision, poetry, and emotion. She lifts her story off the page and we see the beauty of the sea and flowers, the stark love of her mother and siblings, and her father’s gradual transition to cruelty. What a gift this book is!
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Up Home
- One Girl's Journey
- De: Ruth J. Simmons
- Narrado por: Ruth J. Simmons
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 112
Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity, no books to read. Yet despite this—or, in her words, because of it—Simmons would become the first Black president of an Ivy League university. The former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M, Texas’s oldest HBCU, Simmons has inspired generations of students as she herself made history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring memoir
- De S. Fox en 04-13-25
- Up Home
- One Girl's Journey
- De: Ruth J. Simmons
- Narrado por: Ruth J. Simmons
Beautiful Voice and Soul
Revisado: 01-14-24
Dr Simmons reads her own prose with elegance and verve.
Her history is full of love and striving. As a college administrator, I am hoping for part two!!
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Prophet Song
- De: Paul Lynch
- Narrado por: Gerry O'Brien
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 693
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 604
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 604
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother of four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Painfully powerful Tale.
- De Tom en 01-30-24
- Prophet Song
- De: Paul Lynch
- Narrado por: Gerry O'Brien
Booker Prize Winner
Revisado: 01-06-24
This novel serves as a sharp warning to us all. It CAN happen here. Lynch draws from histories of dictatorships such as those in Nazi Germany to show both the slow, encroaching nature of authoritarianism and the profound difficulty of making a decision in such a circumstance. Narrator was appropriately intense but mispronounced “she”
consistently.
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Returning Light
- Thirty Years on the Island of Skellig Michael
- De: Robert L. Harris
- Narrado por: Robert L. Harris
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
In 1987, Robert Harris happened upon an unusual job posting in the local paper—a new warden service was being set up on the island of Skellig Michael, and the deadline was imminent. Just weeks later he was on his way to set up camp in one of Ireland’s most remote locations, unaware that he would be making that same journey every May for the next 30 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful!
- De Elizabeth B. en 11-19-23
- Returning Light
- Thirty Years on the Island of Skellig Michael
- De: Robert L. Harris
- Narrado por: Robert L. Harris
Beautiful!
Revisado: 11-19-23
Meditative, inspiring, wonderful to listen while walking, knitting etc. I have recommended to my Irish book club!
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The Wager
- A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, David Grann
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,762
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,095
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,092
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of all the oceans,” it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Gasping for Air
- De Jean Engle en 04-19-23
- The Wager
- A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, David Grann
Terrific story
Revisado: 06-25-23
Suspenseful and so well -researched. Narrator rather hyper at time. :-) eager to read other Grann books
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Finding Me
- A Memoir
- De: Viola Davis
- Narrado por: Viola Davis
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 41,897
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 38,400
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 38,214
In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely beautifully Written❤️
- De Love bug23 en 05-02-22
- Finding Me
- A Memoir
- De: Viola Davis
- Narrado por: Viola Davis
Funny and sad
Revisado: 06-25-23
Viola brings it to the reading of her memoir! Brava! Brava! Brava! Brava! Brava! Brava!
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