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An Observant Wife
- A Novel
- De: Naomi Ragen
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 116
From the joy of their wedding day surrounded by supportive friends and family, Yaakov and Leah are soon plunged into the complex reality of their new lives together as Yaakov leaves his beloved yeshiva to work in the city, and Leah confronts the often agonizing restrictions imposed by religious laws governing even the most intimate moments of their married lives. Adding to their difficulties is the hostility of some in the community who continue to view Leah as a dangerous interloper, questioning her sincerity and adherence to religious laws and spreading outrageous rumors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Story and Characters
- De M. Miller en 12-16-21
- An Observant Wife
- A Novel
- De: Naomi Ragen
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
Poignant and wise
Revisado: 05-31-23
I was thoroughly engrossed in this wonderful work! It is very psychologically, wise, and very poignant throughout.
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No Cure for Being Human
- (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)
- De: Kate Bowler
- Narrado por: Kate Bowler
- Duración: 4 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,129
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,018
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,010
It’s hard to give up on the feeling that the life you really want is just out of reach. A beach body by summer. A trip to Disneyland around the corner. A promotion on the horizon. Everyone wants to believe that they are headed toward good, better, best. But what happens when the life you hoped for is put on hold indefinitely?
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2 out of 5 stars
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I Can’t Listen Anymore
- De Laurie en 10-01-21
- No Cure for Being Human
- (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)
- De: Kate Bowler
- Narrado por: Kate Bowler
Wisdom and humor
Revisado: 10-03-21
I have been taken by Kate Bowler since first reading her New York Times opinion piece a few years ago. I have followed up with her first book, her podcast, and now her new book. She continues to impress me with her wisdom and authenticity while facing her mortality as a young new mom. In addition, her delightful sense of humor and her tender descriptions of her son and his activities touch me deeply.
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A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir
- De: Lev Golinkin
- Narrado por: Daniel Gamburg
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
Lev Golinkin's memoir is the vivid, darkly comic, and poignant story of a young boy in the confusing and often chilling final decade of the Soviet Union. It's also the story of Lev Golinkin, the American man who finally confronts his buried past by returning to Austria and Eastern Europe to track down the strangers who made his escape possible…. and thank them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Touching, moving Memoir
- De Daryl en 04-13-15
Exquisite memoir
Revisado: 11-12-16
This beautifully written memoir by a young Jewish refugee from Soviet Russia is visceral, poignant, insightful, wise and ultimately full of gratitude. I'd recommend it especially for anyone interested in the refugee/immigrant experience.
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Soldier Girls
- The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
- De: Helen Thorpe
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
- Duración: 15 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 290
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 250
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 255
Soldier Girls follows the lives of three women on their paths to the military. These women, who are quite different in every way, become friends, and we watch their interaction and also what happens when they are separated. We see their families, their lovers, their spouses, their children. We see them work extremely hard, deal with the attentions of men on base and in war zones, and struggle to stay connected to their families back home.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Valor Knows No Gender
- De Cynthia en 03-21-15
- Soldier Girls
- The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
- De: Helen Thorpe
- Narrado por: Donna Postel
Compelling story/history well told!
Revisado: 06-02-15
In depth reporting on personal and psychological evolution of subjects told with respect, affection and wisdom.
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The Haj
- De: Leon Uris
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 21 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 878
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 759
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 764
Leon Uris retums to the land of his acclaimed best-seller Exodus for an epic story of hate and love, vengeance and forgiveness. The Middle East is the powerful setting for this sweeping tale of a land where revenge is sacred and hatred noble. Where an Arab ruler tries to save his people from destruction but cannot save them from themselves. When violence spreads like a plague across the lands of Palestine - this is the time of The Haj.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Oversimplification of Middle East problems
- De Jean en 10-01-14
Still timely
Revisado: 08-20-14
If you could sum up The Haj in three words, what would they be?
What an extraordinary work of historical fiction and what brilliant narration!
What other book might you compare The Haj to and why?
None
Have you listened to any of Neil Shah’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
no
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Extreme reaction was of being completely engrossed!
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The Things They Carried
- De: Tim O'Brien
- Narrado por: Bryan Cranston
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13,264
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11,819
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,785
Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Heavy Load
- De Mel en 10-28-13
- The Things They Carried
- De: Tim O'Brien
- Narrado por: Bryan Cranston
Takes you so close to the raw emotions
Revisado: 12-08-13
Would you consider the audio edition of The Things They Carried to be better than the print version?
I hadn't read this so I can't say. However, the audio experience was engrossing.
What about Bryan Cranston’s performance did you like?
The pacing and phrasing, the matter of fact delivery that still conveyed great affect.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Many did.
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I Kiss Your Hands Many Times
- Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary
- De: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
- Narrado por: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Marianne Szegedy-Maszák’s parents, Hanna and Aladár, met and fell in love in Budapest in 1940. He was a rising star in the foreign ministry - a vocal anti-Fascist who was in talks with the Allies when he was arrested and sent to Dachau. She was the granddaughter of Manfred Weiss, the industrialist patriarch of an aristocratic Jewish family that owned factories. Though many in the family had converted to Catholicism decades earlier, when the Germans invaded Hungary in March 1944, they were forced into hiding.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Quite The Slog Fleshing Out The Family Tree
- De Sara en 01-23-15
- I Kiss Your Hands Many Times
- Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary
- De: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
- Narrado por: Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
A compelling true story, magnificently written
Revisado: 12-08-13
Would you listen to I Kiss Your Hands Many Times again? Why?
Yes. There are so many historical details and personal elements that it's difficult to fully absorb in one reading/listening experience. Also, it's so lovingly crafted that it's poignancy is worth re-experiencing.
Who was your favorite character and why?
The author and her parents feelings and emotions make them all favorites.
What about Marianne Szegedy-Maszak’s performance did you like?
It is relaxed yet conveys great feeling.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It didn't make me laugh or cry but it did haunt me and stay with me. It was fully engaging.
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The Presidents Club
- Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
- De: Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 22 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,451
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,254
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,259
The Presidents Club was born at Eisenhower’s inauguration when Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover first conceived the idea. Over the years that followed - and to this day - the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The world’s most exclusive fraternity is a complicated place: its members are bound forever because they sat in the Oval Office and know its secrets, yet they are immortal rivals for history’s favor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Engaging subject, but fact-checking needed
- De loix en 04-25-12
- The Presidents Club
- Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
- De: Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
who knew
Revisado: 12-12-12
What did you love best about The Presidents Club?
The Presidents appear to be men working hard to do their jobs. They are portrayed in human terms with all their strengths and weaknesses.
What did you like best about this story?
The amount of cooperation between the Presidents.
Have you listened to any of Bob Walter’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
NA
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No. It's too long.
Any additional comments?
no
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The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- De: John M. Barry
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 19 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,859
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,372
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,356
In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision between modern science and epidemic disease.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book but very disturbing...
- De Tim en 01-15-09
- The Great Influenza
- The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- De: John M. Barry
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
It could happen again . . .
Revisado: 11-30-12
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, I enjoyed the scientific history of the early vaccines. The history of the policy decisions of the Wilson administration was fascinating. And the description of the devastation of the influenza epidemic was mind boggling. The history of the development of modern medical education was unknown to me even though I went to medical school in Baltimore (U of Maryland) and was dimly aware of the role John's Hopkins played.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Great Influenza?
The story of the epidemic in Philadelphia.
Which character – as performed by Scott Brick – was your favorite?
I actually didn't enjoy the "acting" by the reader.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I felt sorry for the researcher, I can't bring his name to mind, who left his fund raising job in Philadelphia, returned to the lab without success and eventually died of yellow fever in South America.
Any additional comments?
I thought the reader was a little slow in his delivery.
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Last Call
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- De: Daniel Okrent
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 426
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 428
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces, including the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement and the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Thorough Historical Review
- De Pierre en 11-12-12
- Last Call
- The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
- De: Daniel Okrent
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
Prohibition preceded by the 13th Ammendment
Revisado: 10-09-12
Would you consider the audio edition of Last Call to be better than the print version?
No
What was one of the most memorable moments of Last Call?
How we drank. The influence of the Anti Saloon League.
Which character – as performed by Richard Poe – was your favorite?
None. I didn't like his narrative style. Too slow.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
No
Any additional comments?
No
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