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At the age of 20, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm, Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him part of the city's working homeless with his toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving from shelters, "HO-tels", and soup-lines.
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There was a time when Ralphie May was one of the biggest stand-up comedians in the country, both by ticket sales and by tonnage. While some things changed - Ralphie lost half his body weight - others did not: He will be remembered as one of the most successful comics of his time. Completed just months before his untimely passing, in This Might Get a Little Heavy, Ralphie takes listeners on a behind-the-scenes tour of his life and career, one that winds across the country, over obstacles, beyond heartbreak, and through the golden age of stand-up.
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brilliant and tragic
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Doug Stanhope is one of the most critically acclaimed and stridently unrepentant comedians of his generation. What will surprise some is that he owes so much of his dark and sometimes uncomfortably honest sense of humor to his mother, Bonnie.
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Not my thing.
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When journalist Steve Lopez sees Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles' skid row, he finds it impossible to walk away. More than 30 years ago, Ayers was a promising classical bass student at Juilliard - ambitious, charming, and also one of the few African-Americans there - until he gradually lost his ability to function, overcome by schizophrenia.
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Fantastic Audiobook
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When high-school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives. But when Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right.
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excellent all around yarn
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Marcia Brady, eldest daughter on television's The Brady Bunch, had it all. But what viewers didn't know about the always sunny, perfect Marcia was that offscreen, her real-life counterpart, Maureen McCormick was living a very different - and not so wonderful - life. Maureen tells the shocking and inspirational true story of the beloved teen and the woman she became.
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Growing up in a Philadelphia suburb in the 1970s was an easy life. Well, easy as long as you didn't have dyslexia or ADD, or were a Jew. And once you added gay into the mix, life became more difficult. So Todd Glass decided to hide the gay part, no matter how comic, tragic, or comically tragic the results. Now, Todd has written an open, honest, and hilarious memoir in an effort to help everyone - young and old, gay and straight - breathe a little more freely.
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Donald Thornton was a ditchdigger who wanted more for his six daughters. "I love you better than I love life," he assured his children. "But I'm not always gonna be around to look after you, and no man's gonna come along and offer to take care of you, because you ain't light-skinned. That's why you gotta be able to look after yourselves. And for that you gotta be smart."
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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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Absolutely beautifully Written❤️
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Unemployed at 29, Tess Monaghan is willing to take any freelance job to pay the rent—including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy, Darryl "Rock" Paxton. In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz's death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer's notoriety—and his noontime trysts with Rock's fiancée—make the case front page news...and point to Rock as the likely murderer. But trying to prove her friend's innocence could prove costly to Tess.
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- Lito Da Critic
- 06-02-06
Very Good Story!
I actually enjoyed this book. It kept my attention from the beginning to the end. The narrator does and excellent job with the narration of this book which really means alot when it comes to listening to an audiobook.
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- Anna
- 12-11-11
Great Listen!!!
What did you love best about The Pursuit of Happyness?
I loved all of it. I will be listening to it again. Some of it was more than I wanted to hear but I really did enjoy the story.
Which scene was your favorite?
I was happy he finally got to meet his real father and learn he had more family before it was to late.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Very much so and more.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-06-18
Awesome details not seen in the movie!
Well worth the read. Lots of insight into Chris Gardner’s life where he just lays it all out there and keeps it real in a transparent yet comical manner. He gives you those extra details not found in the movie as he walks you through his perilous journey in which he eventually overcame with triumph! A must listen / read!
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- Kindle Customer
- 07-01-18
Great Narrator!
Loved it! Touching story. Couldn't wait to get back to listening whenever I had to stop.
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- Juan L.
- 05-14-18
Empowering
Is this the right book? I thought to myself at the beginning. it seemed nothing like what the movie appeared to be. To be fair, I have yet to see the movie, just clips on YouTube.
None the less, I gained valuable knowledge and vision ona personal level. I believe we can all benefit from this reading.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-15-24
Loved it
This book was easy to follow and a very inspiring. From beginning to end he never gives up.
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- Myron
- 06-03-07
Great audio book
This book was great, 100x better than the movie, but remember Chris Gardner and his incredible story is the 'exception' not the rule. Despite all good intintions, things could have gone horribly wrong. Chris Gardner did the best with what he had, fortunately things went more right than wrong. Hopefully he gave back to those who helped him.
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- Violeta
- 03-23-20
inspiring
the second book I ve read from Chris, he is a master of life . ty
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- Pauline
- 10-03-15
Best book I've even red
This is honestly the best book I've ever red. I decided to read it since I love the movie, but the book is even better. It's super inspirational, and for someone who is kinda scared about the future, because she doesn't know what she wants to do, it calms me down. This book gives way more stories than the movie did and the voice over is great too!
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- Paula
- 10-22-07
Nothing Like the Movie
Good book but it is nothing like the movie. Read it for the self help insporational book it is not because you saw the heart wrenching movie.
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