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Ellen Vaughn
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Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe savagely speared her husband, Jim, and his four colleagues. Incredibly, prayerfully, Elisabeth took her toddler daughter, snakebite kit, Bible, and journal...and lived in the jungle with the stone-age people who killed her husband. Compelled by her friendship and forgiveness, many came to faith in Jesus. This courageous, no-nonsense Christian went on to write dozens of books, host a long-running radio show, and speak at conferences all over the world. She was a pillar of coherent, committed faith; a beloved and sometimes controversial icon.
In this authorized biography, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot, best-selling author Ellen Vaughn uses Elisabeth’s private, unpublished journals, and candid interviews with her family and friends, to paint the adventures and misadventures God used to shape one of the most influential women in modern church history. It’s the story of a hilarious, sensual, brilliant, witty, self-deprecating, sensitive, radical, and surprisingly relatable person utterly submitted to doing God’s will, no matter how high the cost.
For Elisabeth, the central question was not, “How does this make me feel?” but, simply, “Is this true?” If so, then the next question was, “What do I need to do about it to obey God?”
“My life is on Thy Altar, Lord - for Thee to consume. Set the fire, Father! Bind me with cords of love to the Altar. Hold me there. Let me remember the Cross.” (Elisabeth Elliot, age 21)
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Elisabeth Elliot
- A Life
- By: Lucy S. R. Austen
- Narrated by: Pamela Almand
- Length: 25 hrs and 56 mins
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Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) is one of the most widely known Christians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. After the death of her husband, Jim, and four other missionaries at the hands of Waorani tribesmen in Ecuador, Elliot famously returned to live among the same people who had killed her husband. Her legacy, however, extends far beyond these events. In the years that followed, Elliot became a prolific writer and speaker, touching the lives of countless people around the world. Author Lucy S. R. Austen takes listeners on an in-depth journey through the life of Elisabeth Elliot.
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Beautifully written biography of Elisabeth Elliott
- By Ashley HC on 01-11-25
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Jane Austen at Home
- A Biography
- By: Lucy Worsley
- Narrated by: Ruth Redman
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Take a trip back to Jane Austen's world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austen's childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses - both grand and small - of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her life.
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As a Devoted Janeite - I loved this book!
- By Dorothy on 07-17-17
By: Lucy Worsley
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Crossing the Borders of Time
- A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
- By: Leslie Maitland
- Narrated by: Leslie Maitland
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
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Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees—the last two under risk of Nazi deportation. In 1942 they made it onto the last boat to escape France before the Germans sealed the harbors. Then, barred from entering the United States, they lived in Cuba for almost two years before immigrating to New York.
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I didn't want it to end..absolutely wonderful!
- By Ellen on 05-07-12
By: Leslie Maitland
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Boys in the Trees
- A Memoir
- By: Carly Simon
- Narrated by: Carly Simon
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Simon's memoir reveals her remarkable life, beginning with her storied childhood as the third daughter of Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster; her musical debut as half of The Simon Sisters, performing folk songs with her sister, Lucy, in Greenwich Village; to a meteoric solo career that would result in 13 top 40 hits, including the number-one song "You're So Vain".
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Gorgeous and Sad
- By Adele in CBus on 11-30-15
By: Carly Simon
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I Have Something to Tell You
- A Memoir
- By: Chasten Buttigieg
- Narrated by: Chasten Buttigieg
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Throughout the past year, teacher Chasten Glezman Buttigieg has emerged on the national stage, having left his classroom in South Bend, Indiana, to travel cross-country in support of his husband, former mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Pete's groundbreaking presidential campaign. Through Chasten's joyful, witty social media posts, the public gained a behind-the-scenes look at his life with Pete on the trail - moments that might have ranged from the mundane to the surprising, but that were always heartfelt.
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A common yet inspiring and hopeful story
- By Steph on 09-03-20
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Confessions
- A Life of Failed Promises
- By: A. N. Wilson
- Narrated by: A. N. Wilson
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life, his experience of sexual abuse, his catastrophic mistakes in love (sacred and profane) and his life in Grub Street—as a prolific writer. The audiobook begins with his heart-torn present-day visits to Katherine, now for decades his ex-wife, who has slithered into the torments of dementia. At every turn of this reminiscence, Wilson is baffled by his earlier self—whether he is flirting with unsuitable lovers or with the idea of the priesthood.
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Atomic bomb and other gems
- By Charles on 11-27-23
By: A. N. Wilson
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Two Roads Home
- Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
- By: Daniel Finkelstein
- Narrated by: Daniel Finkelstein
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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Beloved British journalist Daniel Finkelstein tells the extraordinary story of the years before his mother met his father—years of war and trials they barely survived. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi crimes. He relocated his family to safety in Amsterdam, where they knew Anne Frank. But in those years safety was an illusion: Anne Frank famously went into hiding and Daniel's mother, Mirjam, also still a child, was sent to Bergen-Belsen with her mother and sisters.
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Most engaging and important audiobook I ever listened to.
- By Kathleen M. Allen on 04-11-24
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Jackie, Janet & Lee
- The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- By: J. Randy Taraborrelli
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
- Length: 20 hrs and 16 mins
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If the Bouvier women personified beauty, style, and fashion, it was their lust for money and status that drove them to seek out powerful men, no matter what the cost to themselves or to those they stepped on in their ruthless climb to the top. Based on hundreds of new interviews with friends and family of the Bouviers, among them their own half brother, as well as letters and journals, J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an extraordinary psychological portrait of two famous sisters and their ferociously ambitious mother.
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Terrible narration! No way to give no stars.
- By Linda on 02-19-18
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Left on Tenth
- A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir
- By: Delia Ephron
- Narrated by: Delia Ephron
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry’s death, she decided to make one small change in her life - she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell.
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Cover to cover in a day
- By Ginny Kubek on 04-24-22
By: Delia Ephron
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Boy Erased
- A Memoir
- By: Garrard Conley
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a 19-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to "cure" him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life.
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Not What I’d Hoped
- By JayJay on 06-22-18
By: Garrard Conley
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Life Undercover
- Coming of Age in the CIA
- By: Amaryllis Fox
- Narrated by: Amaryllis Fox
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her 10 years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in 16 countries while marrying and giving birth to a daughter. Life Undercover is exhilarating, intimate, fiercely intelligent - an impossible-to-pause record of an extraordinary life, and of Amaryllis Fox's astonishing courage and passion.
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Book of the year...
- By Mr Dangerous on 10-16-19
By: Amaryllis Fox
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- Sharon Hodde Miller
- 07-20-23
Narrator is a bit too saccharine
I really loved this biography, but I hope Volume 2 has a different narrator. I don’t think this narrator understood the tone that was needed.
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- julie
- 12-10-20
Refreshingly honest
It is so refreshing to listen to an honest rendition of a life story instead of a pedestal placing accounting. The coming of age, relationship, and career struggles were engrossing. It was overall a very encouraging book as it reminded me that I don’t have to be perfect or famous to be loved and used by God. The narrator’s ability to convey emotion made me feel like I was in the room with Elizabeth while she was telling me about her day or listening to her say the words as she was writing them in her diary. Will seek out both the author and narrator in the future.
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- J. Johnson
- 06-20-22
Fascinating study of Elizabeth Elliott’s life.
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book! I have known about Elizabeth Elliott most of my life but this book fills in the details of her character.
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- April Hernandez
- 05-09-22
EXCELLENT
Excellent book! I would definitely recommend this to everyone I know. It was very well done!
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- Whalesurvivor 1
- 07-03-22
Exceptionally well-written & Inspirational
I came to tackle this new work without any thought of how it could change me for the better and grateful that it has. Thank you, Ellen!
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- Roelien
- 04-02-24
A life lived dedicated to the call of Christ.
I liked the voice over and enjoyed the annotation on her voice.
I loved that the life in the jungle was real and it was not made look pretty or easy. Elizabeth devotion to the Lord and obedience to his voice stood out.
And the shear strength that she got to keep staying in the jungle while alone showed her to be someone that never gave up. Which most of us lack in today even the missionaries and cross-cultural workers.
This biography is full and rich and I will listen to it again to glean from the nuggets of her life lessons and suffering as a single mother and woman.
Thank you.
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- BPop
- 07-03-24
Inspiring
What a powerful life in Elizabeth Elliot and so well written. Thank you for your great care in telling her story.
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- Derek's mama
- 04-07-21
inspiring
As a Christian, as a former missionary, as a mother of daughters, I feel like this book is essential reading
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- Ferris Reed
- 07-06-22
Very Thought Provoking
Shabshab's narration was a distraction at times, but not enough to limit the value of the book. Vaughn' did a great job of conveying Elizabeth's evolution as a person and more importantly in her faith. It's interesting how self-serving she and Jim look to have been and a good reminder for us all...her processing of these events and decisions was so powerful and one of the best interpretations of "why" ever. Much to be learned here.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-13-22
A Woman Every Christian Should Know
This was an amazing read and gives you a glimpse into who the real Elizabeth was. Her story of patience, perseverance, suffering, and being the hands and feet of God will make you think deeper of your own life. I would suggest this book to anyone who wants to get a clearer understanding of Elizabeth and a deeper understanding of what true obedience to Christ looks like.
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