Jylene Livengood
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The Primary Solution
- Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes
- De: Nick Troiano
- Narrado por: Pete Simonelli, Nick Troiano - introduction
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 15
Congress has become an unproductive and unaccountable mess. Polls show that only twenty percent of Americans think it’s doing a good job—yet ninety percent of incumbents are reelected. This shocking discrepancy is a natural outcome of our system of party primaries and their polarizing incentives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relevance
- De Cary Hattabaugh en 03-21-24
- The Primary Solution
- Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes
- De: Nick Troiano
- Narrado por: Pete Simonelli, Nick Troiano - introduction
important and a road forward
Revisado: 04-06-25
A bit repetitive, but I can see why the author felt the need to hammer home his points with so many examples that it would be difficult to ignore.
The best, and worth every minute reading, every penny spent, is the pragmatic and workable path described to help. I like that this is offered as a tool to help allow other solutions, not as a magic cure, but I am absolutely convinced that election reform is crucial for the United States.
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Haunt Sweet Home
- De: Sarah Pinsker
- Narrado por: Jennifer Blom, Jess Nahikian, Matt Godfrey, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 26
When aimless twenty-something Mara lands a job as the night-shift production assistant on her cousin’s ghost hunting/home makeover reality TV show Haunt Sweet Home, she quickly determines her new role will require a healthy attitude toward duplicity. But as she hides fog machines in the woods and improvises scares to spook new homeowners, a series of unnerving incidents on set and a creepy new coworker force Mara to confront whether the person she's truly been deceiving and hiding from all along—is herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very fun
- De Jylene Livengood en 03-24-25
- Haunt Sweet Home
- De: Sarah Pinsker
- Narrado por: Jennifer Blom, Jess Nahikian, Matt Godfrey, Robb Moreira
very fun
Revisado: 03-24-25
nice twist on the classic ghost story, with a very satisfying end. Good for YA to adult.
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Evil Geniuses
- The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
- De: Kurt Andersen
- Narrado por: Kurt Andersen
- Duración: 16 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,182
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,009
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,001
During the 20th century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge, secure, and contented middle class emerged. All boats rose together. But then the New Deal gave way to the Raw Deal. Beginning in the early 1970s, by means of a long war conceived of and executed by a confederacy of big business CEOs, the superrich, and right-wing zealots, the rules and norms that made the American middle class possible were undermined and dismantled.
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3 out of 5 stars
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History through a far left lens
- De Josh en 09-03-20
- Evil Geniuses
- The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
- De: Kurt Andersen
- Narrado por: Kurt Andersen
part 3 should be required reading
Revisado: 03-22-25
approachable, friendly tone. This is not a hard read, but it does cover crucial social and political actions that lead to the current experience in the United States.
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Everything Is Tuberculosis
- The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
- De: John Green
- Narrado por: John Green
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 799
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 767
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 767
In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unsanitized glimpse into inequality
- De Amazon Customer en 03-23-25
- Everything Is Tuberculosis
- The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
- De: John Green
- Narrado por: John Green
excellent and approachable
Revisado: 03-22-25
TB is a deeply human disease, that is terrifically complex to understand and treat ...or terrifically simple if you can solve for systemic violence.
This is a marvelous book that gives you the science, but also the humanity and meaning of this disease.
interesting, compelling, warm and hopeful. I hope many, many people read Everything is TB.
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Botanical Curses and Poisons
- The Shadow-Lives of Plants
- De: Fez Inkwright
- Narrado por: Leslie Howard
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
In both history and fiction, some of the most dramatic, notorious deaths have been through poisonings. Concealed and deliberate, it's a crime that requires advance planning and that for many centuries could go virtually undetected. And yet there is a fine line between healing and killing: The difference lies only in the dosage!
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2 out of 5 stars
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The narrator
- De Amazon Customer en 05-23-22
- Botanical Curses and Poisons
- The Shadow-Lives of Plants
- De: Fez Inkwright
- Narrado por: Leslie Howard
pleasing poison
Revisado: 01-12-25
this is, oddly but pleasingly, a calming and soothing book about poison. The narrator has a lovely voice and the writing is interesting and informative and personal. The poetic interludes are apt and fitting.
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Troubled
- A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
- De: Rob Henderson
- Narrado por: Rob Henderson
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 397
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 369
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 369
Rob Henderson was born to a drug-addicted mother and a father he never met, ultimately shuttling between ten different foster homes in California. When he was adopted into a loving family, he hoped that life would finally be stable and safe. But divorce, tragedy, poverty, and violence marked his adolescent and teen years, propelling Henderson to join the military upon completing high school.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a terrifying threat to progressive world view b.s.
- De Anonymous User en 04-04-24
- Troubled
- A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
- De: Rob Henderson
- Narrado por: Rob Henderson
remarkable
Revisado: 12-13-24
This is a great memoir, and an insightful piece of modern anthropology. I keep wishing that we'd had this book when I was in school.
This is also incredibly valuable for understanding some of what is happening politically in the US. Five stars across the board, and the author just went on my list of people who I wish I could talk to and learn from.
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Yellow Bird
- Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
- De: Sierra Crane Murdoch
- Narrado por: Sierra Crane Murdoch
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 407
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 347
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 348
When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher “KC” Clarke, had disappeared from his reservation worksite, she became particularly concerned. No one knew where Clarke had gone.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story, dull narration
- De Sophia Loch en 08-16-20
- Yellow Bird
- Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
- De: Sierra Crane Murdoch
- Narrado por: Sierra Crane Murdoch
riveting American story
Revisado: 12-02-24
This is a huge, engaging, compelling story. Its spine is a murder and the real mystery related, but its heart is the women at its center, Lissa Yellowbird. This could not have been a novel - fiction would have forced a tidy structure while this is a sprawling epic. Trying to describe this book would be futile. Reading it is amazing.
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The Hatak Witches
- De: Devon A. Mihesuah
- Narrado por: Kyla García
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
After a security guard is found dead and another wounded at the Children's Museum of Science and History in Norman, Oklahoma, Detective Monique Blue Hawk and her partner Chris Pierson are summoned to investigate. They find no fingerprints, no footprints, and no obvious means to enter the locked building.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story.
- De H.C. en 03-12-25
- The Hatak Witches
- De: Devon A. Mihesuah
- Narrado por: Kyla García
journey from crime to discovery
Revisado: 11-19-24
An interesting story told in a genuine, personable voice as the storyteller takes with him. highly recommend.
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The Bone Picker
- Native Stories, Alternate Histories
- De: Devon A. Mihesuah
- Narrado por: Charley Flyte
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3
Under the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. It is the Hattak fullih nipi foni, the bone picker, who comes to tear off rotting flesh with his fingernails. Only the Choctaws who adhere to the old ways will speak of him. The frightening bone picker is just one of many entities, scary and mysterious, who lurk behind every moment of this spine-tingling collection of Native fiction, written by award-winning Choctaw author Devon A. Mihesuah.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Native American story and voice.
- De pat en 12-09-24
- The Bone Picker
- Native Stories, Alternate Histories
- De: Devon A. Mihesuah
- Narrado por: Charley Flyte
a different viewpoint
Revisado: 11-19-24
After reading through Graham Jones ' marvelous, spooky works, I have been delving into indigenous horror stories. Among other things, it's understood that part of the horror is the experience of being overrun and subjugated, and the way that different cultures from the US dominant expresses this. This book dishes up subtle stories that are involving, not heavy handed, but give a lot to think about.
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Why We Did It
- A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
- De: Tim Miller
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,667
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,487
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,476
As one of the strategists behind the famous 2012 RNC “autopsy,” Miller conducts his own forensic study on the pungent carcass of the party he used to love, cutting into all the hubris, ambition, idiocy, desperation, and self-deception for everyone to see. In a bracingly honest reflection on both his own past work for the Republican Party and the contortions of his former peers in the GOP establishment, Miller draws a straight line between the actions of the 2000s GOP to the Republican political class's Trumpian takeover, including the horrors of January 6th.
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5 out of 5 stars
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No, Tim!
- De Lori Renard en 06-30-22
- Why We Did It
- A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
- De: Tim Miller
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
I despair for my country and maybe my species
Revisado: 11-03-24
First, let's say up front that Tim Miller is witty, funny, and clever. If you listen/read this book, you will be entertained.
Second, my takeaway is that a huge number of people willingly embrace a functional cult out of a combination of unreflective resentment, greed, ego, and pandering in exchange to the high they get out of hurting half or more of the country. especially since these star struck vandals are willing to suffer too, then cast it as dedication.
Personally, I think that most of the people Miller writes about need decades of therapy, deprogramming, ethics classes, and a huge dose of learning history from the first and second level sources instead of Fox news coloring books.
Hilarious, compulsively readable, and terrifying.
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