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Becoming Wise
- An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
- By: Krista Tippett
- Narrated by: Krista Tippett
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 818
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 722
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 711
In Becoming Wise, Tippett distills the insights she has gleaned from this luminous conversation in its many dimensions into a coherent narrative journey, over time and from mind to mind, into what it means to be human. The book is a master class in living, individually and collectively, curated by Tippett and accompanied by a delightfully ecumenical dream team of a teaching faculty. Wisdom emerges through the raw materials of the everyday.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A bit of an interview clip show
- By Adam Shields on 08-26-16
- Becoming Wise
- An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
- By: Krista Tippett
- Narrated by: Krista Tippett
Wake up to a warm embrace
Reviewed: 02-16-21
Krista Tippett’s reflections on the human experience evoke reverence and grace. Her interviews in this audio book are perfect for this moment. From grief, to nature, to religion and depression, she provides insights that are worthy of many listens.
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The Dead Hour
- By: Denise Mina
- Narrated by: Heather O'Neill
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 124
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
In the brilliant sequel to Field of Blood, reporter Paddy Meehan is riding high on the success of solving the Brian Wilcox case. Then she meets a mysterious blonde who later turns up dead.
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2 out of 5 stars
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total disappointment
- By Dana on 02-16-07
- The Dead Hour
- By: Denise Mina
- Narrated by: Heather O'Neill
So many twists
Reviewed: 03-29-20
I love Denise Mina’s characters and Paddy Meehan is my favorite. Paddy is vulnerable and so relatable. She is a young woman with intelligence and coming into her own.
As with all of Denise Mina’s books there are intricate details and storylines which come together in ways you may not imagine but are so fun to go along with.
I didn’t really like the performance
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Cut and Run
- A Light-Hearted Dark Comedy
- By: Ben Acker, Ben Blacker
- Narrated by: Meg Ryan, D’Arcy Carden, Sam Richardson, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 19,438
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17,273
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Story4 out of 5 stars 17,217
Samantha is a professional seductress and con artist with a heart of gold. If she talked about her work, she’d tell you she only pilfers organs for medical research and that she only takes one kidney, and she only steals those kidneys from dishonest people. It’s hell on her social life. Abe is the doctor and Sam's partner in crime. He isn’t much of a criminal. Except for the kidney stealing. But he’s using that money to fund his research that he anticipates will be able to cure diabetes. So, all for a good cause...? You decide. Of course, it's hell on his social life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dumb and funny
- By R. MCRACKAN on 02-01-20
- Cut and Run
- A Light-Hearted Dark Comedy
- By: Ben Acker, Ben Blacker
- Narrated by: Meg Ryan, D’Arcy Carden, Sam Richardson, Rachel Bloom, Ed Begley Jr., Thomas Lennon, Eugene Cordero, full cast
Easily my favorite audible book
Reviewed: 03-09-20
The narrators could not be better and make this delightful comedy sing. For my money at Begley Junior is phenomenal and gives a performance worth listening to. The story is just fun
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The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
- By: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 251
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 252
Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives she might have had if she'd been born in different eras. During the course of her treatment, Greta cycles between her own time and alternate lives in 1918, where she is a bohemian adulteress, and 1941, which transforms her into a devoted mother and wife. As her final treatment looms, questions arise: What will happen once each Greta learns how to remain in one of the other worlds?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Time Travel via Electroconvulsive Therapy
- By Mel on 07-06-13
- The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
- By: Andrew Sean Greer
- Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
Achingly beautiful
Reviewed: 11-09-19
Greer describes depression, loss, our choices about how we live and love with magical clarity. The narrator is simply enchanting and adds so much character and texture.
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Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13,960
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12,077
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Story5 out of 5 stars 12,042
In Being Mortal, best-selling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Walk through the Valley of the Shadow
- By George on 11-02-14
- Being Mortal
- Medicine and What Matters in the End
- By: Atul Gawande
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Life Changing
Reviewed: 10-24-19
Atul Gawande's book, Being Mortal, awakens us to the fact that we cannot deny death. It's there. We need to have the courage to understand how we want to live with dignity and to the fullest. Letting go and living fully is hard to accept. Dr. Gawande shares the stories of patients, his father and his life as a doctor to help us understand that it may be difficult to give and take in advice that is not about fighting to the end. This book is so humbling and beautiful.
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Super Attractor
- Methods for Manifesting a Life Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
- By: Gabrielle Bernstein
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Bernstein
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,937
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,804
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,754
Ready to turn what you want into the life that you live? The number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Universe Has Your Back shows you how. In Super Attractor, Gabrielle Bernstein lays out the essential methods for manifesting a life beyond your wildest dreams. This book is a journey of remembering where your true power lies. You'll learn how to co-create the life you want. You'll accept that life can flow, that attracting is fun, and that you don't have to work so hard to get what you want.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not a huge fan
- By Pamela H on 09-30-19
- Super Attractor
- Methods for Manifesting a Life Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
- By: Gabrielle Bernstein
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Bernstein
A nice message but ....
Reviewed: 10-21-19
It is simplified approach two full catastrophe living which is great. But I find even the description of super a tractor a bit full of hubris for me.
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
- A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
- By: Lori Gottlieb
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43,578
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 38,386
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38,249
One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
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2 out of 5 stars
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It was like a hallmark movie being waterboarded into my ears for 15 hours
- By Amazon Customer on 10-01-19
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
- A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
- By: Lori Gottlieb
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
This book blossoms. It’s not a self-help book and yet you’ll learn more about yourself through the beautiful storytelling
Reviewed: 06-16-19
This book blossoms,offering the reader a reminder that life is fragile. Each of the stories (including her own as a therapist and patient), reminds us that there are choices that we make about how we live and whether we examine what hurts. It’s beautifully read and even more, I learned more about myself in the process. I didn’t want it to end.
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White Teeth
- A Novel
- By: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Lenny Henry, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Ray Panthaki, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 766
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 661
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Story4 out of 5 stars 654
At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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4.68 stars....a modern classic
- By ibillinsly@gmail on 06-06-18
- White Teeth
- A Novel
- By: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Lenny Henry, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Ray Panthaki, Arya Sagar
The characters came to life
Reviewed: 11-25-18
Wow, such fun to listen to the narration. This book entwines stories across generations and delves into race, immigration, love and identity. It's incredible how deeply these characters unfold. The narration draws you in and adds so much. Cannot recommend this enough!
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- By: Gail Honeyman
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66,325
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 59,901
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59,646
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Please be warned
- By N. Thompson on 06-20-17
- Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- By: Gail Honeyman
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
The wonder that is life
Reviewed: 08-11-18
This book captures the heart, mind and soul. It is so beautifully written and the audible narration brings the words and quirky characters to life. This story brought me to the brink of tears so many times only to warm my heart. We are all flawed and there is so much suffering. But this beautiful book reminds one of perseverance and the power of friendship. What a wonderful book!
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