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A Man of Two Faces
- A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
- De: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrado por: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son.
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If you don't like coddled, cry-babies, then avoid
- De Wayne A. Curto en 12-30-23
- A Man of Two Faces
- A Memoir, a History, a Memorial
- De: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrado por: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Incisive, brilliant, raw and powerful
Revisado: 07-14-24
I love authors reading their own work and this potent memoir in the author's own reading is the very best of this precious genre. Nguyen pulls no punches and exposes himself over and over again, like only a true writer can. I share no identities with him other than American of the 1970s generation and yet I learned so much from him. This is a true gem, not to be missed.
My only regret/irritance is that Audible bleeped out the name he gave Donald Trump, and that annoys me. Why not have the option of un-edited or PG version, Audible?
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Everything Happens for a Reason
- And Other Lies I've Loved
- De: Kate Bowler
- Narrado por: Kate Bowler
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
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Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God's disapproval. At 35, everything in her life seems to point toward "blessing". She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son. Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer.
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Please give me back the lost hours of my life!
- De Charles en 03-24-19
- Everything Happens for a Reason
- And Other Lies I've Loved
- De: Kate Bowler
- Narrado por: Kate Bowler
Wisdom about life and mortality
Revisado: 06-28-24
I love it when authors read their own work well and this is an extraordinary example of that. Plus it offers many gems of wisdom that I appreciate - my favorite being that living for the future instead of in the present is arrogance. I'm a historian of medicine so I really get that. I will be looking for more from this author. I'm not even Christian but I wasn't at all triggered or excluded by her very Christian memoir.
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
- How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
- De: Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. By freeing yourself from your parents' emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you'll learn how to create positive new relationships so you can build a better life.
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Astonishing information.
- De K J Sunflower en 07-20-16
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
- How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
- De: Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD
- Narrado por: Marguerite Gavin
Very useful information with a passable narrator
Revisado: 06-05-24
I have very high standards for narrators and I don't love this one, but it's been very useful for me to be able to listen to this book while driving, cooking, etc. And the book is extraordinarily useful for those of us described by its title.
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The Fox Wife
- A Novel
- De: Yangsze Choo
- Narrado por: Yangsze Choo
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman’s identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they’ve remained tantalizingly out of reach—until, perhaps, now.
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Brilliant storyteller!
- De BAE en 02-16-24
- The Fox Wife
- A Novel
- De: Yangsze Choo
- Narrado por: Yangsze Choo
Too long
Revisado: 06-05-24
I love historical fiction, and I think this work has many strengths. My favorite genre of audiobook is when the author reads their own work, and Choo is a fabulous narrator. All that said, I think this book should have been trimmed down. I'm about 3/4 of the way through and I think I'll do the unthinkable for me and just lay it aside. The main character's obsessions are wearying, and her emotional volatility is too much. I like the parallel story of the calm detective Bao, but I think in the part with the Fox Woman Choo tried too hard to maintain constant tension and energy, and I find myself as a reader needing a break. I should note that friends love this book, and I'm a difficult critic because I'm a writer myself, so I always ask a lot of my reading. I'm going to listen to Choo's other novels and give her another chance. She has lovely details and character development that I hope I'll be able to delight in more in another story.
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Sorry for Your Loss
- De: Michael Cruz Kayne
- Duración: 1 h y 23 m
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A sidesplitting, heartrending look at life—and death. This powerfully personal production, recorded live from the Minetta Lane Theatre, cuts through the platitudes, directly reaching out to anyone who has ever experienced loss—or will. So...everyone.
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A Must Listen for the Grieving
- De Chris en 09-25-23
Remarkable candor about profound grief
Revisado: 02-18-24
I too feel lonely with a particular kind of grief that few people can understand. I appreciate this show very much and want to thank its creator Michael as well as Audible for including it for free in my premium membership.
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Your Child Is Not Broken
- Parent Your Neurodivergent Child Without Losing Your Marbles
- De: Heidi Mavir
- Narrado por: Heidi Mavir
- Duración: 3 h y 5 m
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An unapologetic, deeply moving manual for parents of neurodivergent children from Heidi Mavir, a late-identified, neurodivergent adult and parent to an autistic/ADHD teenager. This updated edition includes information on Pathological Demand Avoidance, Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria, an interview with Heidi's son Theo and more. Follow Heidi's irreverent and brutally honest story of her fight to be seen, heard and supported, while swimming against a tide of parent blame, ableist stereotypes and the weight of other people’s opinions.
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F$&kery is my new favorite word
- De Alicia en 09-20-24
- Your Child Is Not Broken
- Parent Your Neurodivergent Child Without Losing Your Marbles
- De: Heidi Mavir
- Narrado por: Heidi Mavir
Thank you for this book!!
Revisado: 10-22-23
I think this book will make an extraordinary difference for my family. I am profoundly grateful to you Heidi, and to Theo, for bravely sharing your own story. And I now have a sense of just how deeply my ableism runs. That alone is an invaluable lesson but I also learned the extremely important difference between the medical model and the social model of neuro divergence, and that again is a game changer for me. I can't thank you enough!!
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Little Pa
- A Short Story
- De: Hemley Boum
- Narrado por: Tony Tambi
- Duración: 59 m
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Zacharias is his maternal grandfather’s namesake, though he has never met said grandfather or any other extended family members. He represses questions he has as a way of trying to protect himself and his mother, Dorothée, who is prone to bouts of depression. But he cannot ignore his reality forever and in adolescence, Zacharias begins to commit small acts of rebellion leading to a final act that goes horribly wrong and leads him to exile and a new life where he promises himself never to look back.
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Hard to follow
- De C.D.P en 03-10-25
- Little Pa
- A Short Story
- De: Hemley Boum
- Narrado por: Tony Tambi
Just what I needed to hear
Revisado: 05-22-23
This is the second time in a matter of weeks that Audible has popped just what I needed to hear on my home page, and free! I saw myself in Little Pa and ached for him and for his mother. The story is languid and attentive. The ending confused me somewhat but I very much enjoyed this story.
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Reinvent Your Life With Mel Robbins
- De: Mel Robbins
- Narrado por: Mel Robbins
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Reinvention doesn’t have to be hard—it can be simple and fun. Buckle up and start your journey to a better life with motivational powerhouse and best-selling phenomenon Mel Robbins!
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Excellent Advice but....
- De Trisha en 01-21-23
- Reinvent Your Life With Mel Robbins
- De: Mel Robbins
- Narrado por: Mel Robbins
Inspiring, informative, entertaining
Revisado: 05-15-23
Talk about signs! Audible popped this onto my front page of the app just when I needed it. I didn't even know about Mel Robbins and I am so deeply grateful for her wisdom and knowledge! This is the best gift ever.
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Horse
- A Novel
- De: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrado por: James Fouhey, Lisa Flanagan, Graham Halstead, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack.
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Love Geraldine Brooks
- De Regina en 06-25-22
- Horse
- A Novel
- De: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrado por: James Fouhey, Lisa Flanagan, Graham Halstead, Katherine Littrell, Michael Obiora
Stunning work of historical fiction
Revisado: 03-08-23
This book is a masterpiece. My father-in-law who has a PhD in US history and is a voracious reader recommended it to me as one of the best books he's ever read, and I (also a PhD in history and a university professor of history) think this is one of the best historical fictions I've ever read. Having read some of the books that Brooks consulted in her research for this novel, I could hear the historians' scholarship in her work, but this did not bother me at all. On the contrary, it gave me more confidence in her fictionalized portrayals of real historical figures, including the ones that she had to manufacture from several sources and a paucity of sources (specifically in the lives of enslaved people). It is also a work that speaks directly to our current times of battling against anti-Black racism in the US.
One note: narrators are uneven. Michael Obiora is great for Theo (with a British accent), but his American accents are horrendous. Katherine Littrell is fantastic as Jess, and James Fouhey is superb (for Jarrett), but I didn't care for Lisa Flanagan's narration. Her parts are relatively small so it didn't affect my enjoyment of the book. I should note that I am *very* picky about voice actors.
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Help Me to Find My People
- The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery
- De: Heather Andrea Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant “information wanted” advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide listeners back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Williams explores the usually unsuccessful journeys toward reunification.
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Vulnerability and Grief
- De Kathy in CA en 07-29-16
- Help Me to Find My People
- The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery
- De: Heather Andrea Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
Important and well researched book
Revisado: 01-27-23
I appreciate Williams' work so much and feel so grateful to have been able to listen to this book among the free titles in Audible premium. I suppose it's among the free titles because of the numerous annoying patches in the production, but Robin Miles is still a superb narrator and the book is so important. That's why I still give it five full stars - the faults were in production alone. I listened straight through despite the sad content. As a White American who cares about racial justice this type of scholarship is essential. Thank you Dr. Williams!
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