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Kaffir Boy
- The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
- By: Mark Mathabane
- Narrated by: Mark Mathabane
- Length: 18 hrs and 33 mins
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Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage....
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Wonderful!
- By Anonymous User on 12-10-2017
By: Mark Mathabane
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Murriyang
- Song of Time
- By: Stan Grant
- Narrated by: Stan Grant
- Length: 10 hrs
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Stan Grant is talking to his country in a new way. In his most poetic and inspiring work yet, the Wiradjuri writer offers us a means of moving beyond the binaries and embracing a path to peace and forgiveness rooted in the Wiradjuri spiritual practice of Yindyamarra–deep silence and respect.
By: Stan Grant
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Michael Jordan
- The Life
- By: Roland Lazenby
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
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The definitive biography of a legendary athlete. The Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. When most people think of him, they think of his beautiful shots with the game on the line, his body totally in sync with the ball - hitting nothing but net....
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Meh
- By Andrew on 20-06-2018
By: Roland Lazenby
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Contesting: The Name It & Claim It Game
- WINeuvers for WISHcraft
- By: Helene Hadsell
- Narrated by: Carolyn Wilman
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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Helene Hadsell was "the woman who won every contest prize she desired". In Contesting: The Name It & Claim It Game, she shares her winning secrets in the vibrant, warm, and folksy manner that was uniquely her....
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Your thoughts create your reality, so choose them wisely. 🦉🤔💬
- By Anonymous User on 10-01-2025
By: Helene Hadsell
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- By: Clayborne Carson - editor, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Narrated by: Levar Burton
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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He was a husband, a father, a preacher - and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform?
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We need more leaders like this!
- By Vivien on 11-04-2018
By: Clayborne Carson - editor, and others
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Burke and Wills
- The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 23 hrs and 43 mins
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The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller....
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Returned
- By Anonymon on 28-11-2017
By: Peter FitzSimons
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Kaffir Boy
- The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
- By: Mark Mathabane
- Narrated by: Mark Mathabane
- Length: 18 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage....
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Wonderful!
- By Anonymous User on 12-10-2017
By: Mark Mathabane
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Murriyang
- Song of Time
- By: Stan Grant
- Narrated by: Stan Grant
- Length: 10 hrs
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Stan Grant is talking to his country in a new way. In his most poetic and inspiring work yet, the Wiradjuri writer offers us a means of moving beyond the binaries and embracing a path to peace and forgiveness rooted in the Wiradjuri spiritual practice of Yindyamarra–deep silence and respect.
By: Stan Grant
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Michael Jordan
- The Life
- By: Roland Lazenby
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
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The definitive biography of a legendary athlete. The Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. When most people think of him, they think of his beautiful shots with the game on the line, his body totally in sync with the ball - hitting nothing but net....
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Meh
- By Andrew on 20-06-2018
By: Roland Lazenby
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Contesting: The Name It & Claim It Game
- WINeuvers for WISHcraft
- By: Helene Hadsell
- Narrated by: Carolyn Wilman
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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Helene Hadsell was "the woman who won every contest prize she desired". In Contesting: The Name It & Claim It Game, she shares her winning secrets in the vibrant, warm, and folksy manner that was uniquely her....
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Your thoughts create your reality, so choose them wisely. 🦉🤔💬
- By Anonymous User on 10-01-2025
By: Helene Hadsell
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- By: Clayborne Carson - editor, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Narrated by: Levar Burton
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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He was a husband, a father, a preacher - and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform?
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We need more leaders like this!
- By Vivien on 11-04-2018
By: Clayborne Carson - editor, and others
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Burke and Wills
- The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 23 hrs and 43 mins
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The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller....
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Returned
- By Anonymon on 28-11-2017
By: Peter FitzSimons
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We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It
- A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood
- By: Tom Phelan
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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In the tradition of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and Alice Taylor’s To School Through the Fields, Tom Phelan’s We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It is a heartfelt and masterfully written memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1940s....
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Growing up in Lovely Laois
- By Anonymous User on 26-08-2022
By: Tom Phelan
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A River in Darkness
- One Man's Escape from North Korea
- By: Masaji Ishikawa, Risa Kobayashi - translator, Martin Brown - translator
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste....
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Incredible. Could not stop.
- By Anonymous User on 03-01-2024
By: Masaji Ishikawa, and others
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Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
- By: Herbie Hancock, Lisa Dickey
- Narrated by: Herbie Hancock
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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In Herbie Hancock legendary jazz musician and composer Herbie Hancock reflects on a thriving career that has spanned seven decades. A true innovator, Hancock has had an enormous influence....
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An honest account of the man and his work; very digestible and easy to follow.
- By Luke on 12-11-2024
By: Herbie Hancock, and others
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Shaq Uncut
- My Story
- By: Shaquille O'Neal, Jackie MacMullan
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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From growing up in difficult circumstances and getting cut from his high-school basketball team to his larger-than-life basketball career, Shaq lays it all out in Shaq Uncut....
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A interesting story
- By Jacob on 01-03-2017
By: Shaquille O'Neal, and others
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Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
- By: Deneys Reitz
- Narrated by: John Maytham
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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In 1899, Deneys Reitz, then aged seventeen, enlisted in the Boer army to fight the British. He had learnt to ride, shoot and swim almost as soon as he could walk. When he fought as a member several Boer commandos, he made full use of these skills and the endurance he acquired during the war.
By: Deneys Reitz
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- By: Frederick Douglass
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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This memoir written by writer, orator, and former slave Frederick Douglass describes, in gripping detail, the circumstances of his upbringing, his brutal treatment at the hands of slave-owners, and his narrow escape from Maryland to freedom....
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Very informative and well written
- By Anonymous User on 31-10-2022
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Remembering Shanghai
- A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
- By: Isabel Sun Chao, Claire Chao
- Narrated by: Rachel Yong, Claire Chao, Isabel Sun Chao
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations, from vibrant Shanghai to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity and loss against the epic backdrop of a country in turmoil....
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Emotional Family Story
- By Mark Henwood on 31-12-2021
By: Isabel Sun Chao, and others
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Above the Ground
- A True Story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland
- By: Dan Lawton
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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In 1978, the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland, known as The Troubles, had reached a boiling point.
By: Dan Lawton
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From Holocaust to Harvard
- A Story of Escape, Forgiveness, and Freedom
- By: John G. Stoessinger
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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When John Stoessinger was ten years old, Adolf Hitler annexed his homeland of Austria, ripping the boy from his home and his friends in Vienna....
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Good story with many facets
- By Vicky on 29-03-2023
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Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
- By: Yossi Klein Halevi
- Narrated by: Yossi Klein Halevi
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative audiobook....
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Tell Me Again
- A Memoir
- By: Amy Thunig
- Narrated by: Amy Thunig, Clementine Ford
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding that the story of her birth be retold....
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Complex, moving and beautiful
- By Norman J Walsh on 03-11-2022
By: Amy Thunig
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My Infamous Life
- The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy
- By: Albert "Prodigy" Johnson, Laura Checkoway
- Narrated by: Albert "Prodigy" Johnson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
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From one of the greatest rappers of all time, the memoir of a life cut short, a revealing look at the dark side of hip hop’s Golden Era....
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The stories, The History, The culture.
- By Anonymous User on 25-07-2024
By: Albert "Prodigy" Johnson, and others
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Finding Fish
- By: Antwone Q. Fisher
- Narrated by: Alton Fitzgerald White
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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A miraculous true story of one courageous man's journey from abandonment and abuse to extraordinary success, here is a modern-day, African-American Oliver Twist you will never forget....
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My Bondage and My Freedom
- An American Icon in His Own Words
- By: Frederick Douglass
- Narrated by: Raymond Hearn
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
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Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) gives a firsthand account of his life from birth through his time spent in slavery, his escape to freedom in 1838, and his transition from bondage to liberty.
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My Place
- By: Sally Morgan
- Narrated by: Melodie Reynolds
- Length: 17 hrs
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In 1982, Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother's birthplace....
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A poignant rendering of our neglected history
- By Christy McDonald, Sydney Australia on 19-08-2018
By: Sally Morgan
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Growing Up Indian in Australia
- By: Aarti Betigeri - editor
- Narrated by: Preeti Maharaj, Hardeep Dhanoa, Priya Sarat Chandran, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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'Indian-Australian' is not a one-size-fits-all descriptor. Given the depth and richness of diversity of the Indian subcontinent, it is fitting that its diaspora is similarly varied. Growing Up Indian in Australia reflects and celebrates this vibrant diversity.
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Be Careful Who You Love
- Inside the Michael Jackson Case
- By: Diane Dimond
- Narrated by: Diane Dimond
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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The explosive, definitive account of Michael Jackson’s fall from grace has now been updated with four new fascinating chapters. Award-winning journalist Diane Dimond first broke the story of the King of Pop’s battles against child molestation charges from 1993 to 2005....
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Well researched and an interesting read
- By Fi on 12-10-2022
By: Diane Dimond
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The Worlds I See
- Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
- By: Fei-Fei Li
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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The Worlds I See is the moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution.
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Beautiful book. Inspiring. Human. Humble. Grateful.
- By Zims on 19-08-2024
By: Fei-Fei Li
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The Seventh Shrine
- Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey: From the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop
- By: Orland Bishop
- Narrated by: Julie Sears
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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When I navigate the currents of the soul, I find myself within my ancestral pool. I find myself swimming in their grief, and the longing during the great event and initiation called the Middle Passage....
By: Orland Bishop
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Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia
- By: Samantha Faulkner
- Narrated by: Laila Thaker, Kiwat Kennell, Kaylynn Zaro, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia, compiled by poet and author Samantha Faulkner, showcases the distinct identity of Torres Strait Islanders through their diverse voices and journeys.
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Beautiful stories from Torres Strait Islander people
- By Jess on 05-11-2024
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Problem Child
- By: Terrell Carter, Stacy Thunes
- Narrated by: Terrell Carter
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Problem Child is the unbelievably true story of Terrell Carter, an American musician and actor who grew up in Buffalo, New York, in a dysfunctional family, each member crazier than the next....
By: Terrell Carter, and others
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Frederick Douglass
- Prophet of Freedom
- By: David W. Blight
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era....
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Great man
- By Omar Shubeilat on 14-01-2023
By: David W. Blight
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....
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Beautiful
- By Anonymous User on 25-10-2024
By: Alexandra Fuller
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Eddie Would Go
- The Story of Eddie Aikau, Hawaiian Hero and Pioneer of Big Wave Surfing
- By: Stuart Holmes Coleman
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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From surfer and writer Stuart Holmes Coleman, Eddie Would Go is the compelling story of Eddie Aikau's legendary life and legacy, a pipeline into the exhilarating world of surfing, and an important chronicle of the Hawaiian Renaissance and the emergence of modern Hawaii.
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Return to Sri Lanka
- By: Razeen Sally
- Narrated by: Razeen Sally
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
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Razeen Sally was born to a Sri Lankan Muslim father and a Welsh mother. Just before his teens, a political conflict tore his family apart and he left Sri Lanka, barely going back for thirty years. When he finally returned ‘home’, he spent much of the next decade crisscrossing the island, trying to understand this paradoxical place. Blessed with nature’s bounty and an easy, pleasure-loving people, it was nevertheless scarred by ethnic conflict and the violence of civil war.
By: Razeen Sally
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What Grandma Taught Me
- A Worldwide Tribute to Grandmothers and Their Legacies
- By: Keiko Izushi, Paula Henstridge
- Narrated by: Scotty Kwas
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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This is a book about legacy—the legacy of a special group of women who have earned the title of “Grandma.” It is a collection of memories and stories about grandmothers from all around the world to honor the gifts they have given and the legacies they share down the generations. Grandmothers give us a sense of peace, safety, strength, and unconditional love. They allow us to be whoever we want to be when we are living in the safety of their world. Grandmothers teach us through love and through example how to draw on our own resources and strengths to live our best lives.
By: Keiko Izushi, and others
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The White Peril
- A Family Memoir
- By: Omo Moses
- Narrated by: Kevin Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Omo Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather's sermons and the writings of his father, the civil rights activist Bob Moses. The result is a powerful chorus of voices that spans 3 generations of an African American family, all shining a light on the Black experience, all calling fiercely for racial justice. This book is at once a coming-of-age story, a multigenerational family memoir, an epic father-son road trip, a searing account of the Black male experience, and a work that powerfully revives Rev. Moses’s demand for liberation.
By: Omo Moses
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Beautiful Stranger
- A Story of Faith and Overcoming Adversity
- By: Barbara Bagwell
- Narrated by: Paul Nicholls
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of a girl's struggle to accept her disabilities and how she came to understand God's Word and to live her life for Him.
By: Barbara Bagwell
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Del Rio
- A Memoir
- By: J. Orville Young, Christine Eames
- Narrated by: James Young
- Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the Upper Snake River Valley in rural Idaho, this story is about relationships. Beginning in the 1970’s and spanning four generations of life on the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River, it is a study of friendship, fatherhood, and a dog named Bradley. It is a tale of love and loss through the eyes of the author.
By: J. Orville Young, and others
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Traces of Enayat
- By: Iman Mersal, Robin Moger - translator
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Cairo, 1963: four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age twenty-seven. For the next three decades, it's as if Enayat never existed at all. Years later, when celebrated Egyptian poet Iman Mersal stumbles upon Enayat's long-forgotten Love and Silence in a Cairo book stall, she embarks on a journey of reflection and rediscovery that leads her ever closer to the world and work of Enayat al-Zayyat.
By: Iman Mersal, and others
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Return to Sri Lanka
- By: Razeen Sally
- Narrated by: Razeen Sally
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Razeen Sally was born to a Sri Lankan Muslim father and a Welsh mother. Just before his teens, a political conflict tore his family apart and he left Sri Lanka, barely going back for thirty years. When he finally returned ‘home’, he spent much of the next decade crisscrossing the island, trying to understand this paradoxical place. Blessed with nature’s bounty and an easy, pleasure-loving people, it was nevertheless scarred by ethnic conflict and the violence of civil war.
By: Razeen Sally
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What Grandma Taught Me
- A Worldwide Tribute to Grandmothers and Their Legacies
- By: Keiko Izushi, Paula Henstridge
- Narrated by: Scotty Kwas
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a book about legacy—the legacy of a special group of women who have earned the title of “Grandma.” It is a collection of memories and stories about grandmothers from all around the world to honor the gifts they have given and the legacies they share down the generations. Grandmothers give us a sense of peace, safety, strength, and unconditional love. They allow us to be whoever we want to be when we are living in the safety of their world. Grandmothers teach us through love and through example how to draw on our own resources and strengths to live our best lives.
By: Keiko Izushi, and others
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The White Peril
- A Family Memoir
- By: Omo Moses
- Narrated by: Kevin Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Omo Moses deftly interweaves his own life story with excerpts from both his great-grandfather's sermons and the writings of his father, the civil rights activist Bob Moses. The result is a powerful chorus of voices that spans 3 generations of an African American family, all shining a light on the Black experience, all calling fiercely for racial justice. This book is at once a coming-of-age story, a multigenerational family memoir, an epic father-son road trip, a searing account of the Black male experience, and a work that powerfully revives Rev. Moses’s demand for liberation.
By: Omo Moses
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Beautiful Stranger
- A Story of Faith and Overcoming Adversity
- By: Barbara Bagwell
- Narrated by: Paul Nicholls
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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The story of a girl's struggle to accept her disabilities and how she came to understand God's Word and to live her life for Him.
By: Barbara Bagwell
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Del Rio
- A Memoir
- By: J. Orville Young, Christine Eames
- Narrated by: James Young
- Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in the Upper Snake River Valley in rural Idaho, this story is about relationships. Beginning in the 1970’s and spanning four generations of life on the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River, it is a study of friendship, fatherhood, and a dog named Bradley. It is a tale of love and loss through the eyes of the author.
By: J. Orville Young, and others
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Traces of Enayat
- By: Iman Mersal, Robin Moger - translator
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Cairo, 1963: four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age twenty-seven. For the next three decades, it's as if Enayat never existed at all. Years later, when celebrated Egyptian poet Iman Mersal stumbles upon Enayat's long-forgotten Love and Silence in a Cairo book stall, she embarks on a journey of reflection and rediscovery that leads her ever closer to the world and work of Enayat al-Zayyat.
By: Iman Mersal, and others
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Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
- Convert Maker
- By: Cheryl C.D. Hughes
- Narrated by: Scott Russell
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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This in-depth work by historian Cheryl C. D. Hughes lets listeners inhabit the postwar America where Bishop Fulton Sheen thrived, in order to reveal what made him such a magnetic figure in his own era. It peers into the complex lives of the celebrities and fallen stars who saw in the warm, brilliant bishop a sign of God’s grace, and it offers a study in the inner dynamics of conversion.
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Thugs to Riches
- From Halfway Gangster to Big-Shot Businessman, the Mr. Z Story
- By: Mr. Z
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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This is the life story of a naughty and rebellious boy who grew up in extreme poverty in the dusty alleys of the Jewish ghetto in Tehran, made his way to a kibbutz in Israel, went through hair-raising adventures in the underworld of Berlin, smuggled people from East Berlin and was expelled from the city as well as from West Germany, and after many hardships achieved impressive success in the United States.
By: Mr. Z
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Fearless
- By: Mohinder Amarnath, Rajender Amarnath - contributor
- Narrated by: Shubhankar
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
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An iconic figure in the world of cricket in the 1970s and 1980s, Mohinder Amarnath started his career as a batsman who was found suspect against short-pitched fast bowling and finished it as one of the finest and bravest players of pace. He is still remembered with awe for hooking fearsome pace attacks on bouncy Caribbean and Australian tracks-without wearing a helmet. Grit, guts and gumption defined Amarnath's rollercoaster career. According to both Sunil Gavaskar and Imran Khan, Amarnath was the best batsman of their era.
By: Mohinder Amarnath, and others
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Ruskin Park
- Sylvia, Me and the BBC
- By: Rory Cellan-Jones
- Narrated by: Rory Cellan-Jones
- Length: 8 hrs
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Rory Cellan-Jones knew he was the child of a love affair between two BBC employees. But until his mother, Sylvia, died and he found a file labelled 'For Rory' he had no idea of their beginnings or ending. Or why his peculiarly isolated childhood had so tested the bond between him and Sylvia, who was single-parenting two sons in a one-bedroom fl at while working full time through the Fifties and Sixties. 'For Rory,' his mother had written on the file before she died, 'in the hope that it will help him understand how it really was ...'
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Zuversicht
- Wahre Geschichten vom Weitermachen und Wachsen in schwierigen Zeiten
- By: Katharina Afflerbach
- Narrated by: Katharina Afflerbach
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Lass dich inspirieren – von kraftvollen Geschichten aus dem wahren Leben! Die Angst einer Mutter um ihre Kinder, als die Ahrtal-Flut ihr Leben bedroht, Bettina, die nach einem schweren Arbeitsunfall monatelang im Krankenhaus liegt und um ihr Leben kämpft, Astrid, die alkoholabhängig und obdachlos wird, Cora, die häusliche Gewalt erlebt, oder Eltern, die sich um ihre schwer erkrankten Kinder sorgen – Katharina Afflerbach erzählt in ihrem neuen Buch die bewegenden wahren Geschichten von Menschen, die durch schwere Zeiten gehen und ihren eigenen Weg zur Zuversicht hin finden.
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Whispers in the Wind
- The Silent Haunting of the Mango Tree
- By: Dr. O Patricia Dixon
- Narrated by: madeline smith
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In the heart of a small Jamaican community in Kingston, a majestic mango tree stands as a silent witness to generations of whispered secrets and haunting tales. “Whisper in the Wind: The Silent Haunting of the Mango Tree” weaves together a tapestry of stories, blending the mystical with the real. Through the eyes of the author, her siblings, and the elders, listeners are drawn into a world where the line between fiction and reality blurs.