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The English American
- A Novel
- By: Alison Larkin
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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This AudioFile Earphones Award-winning recording of Alison Larkin's best-selling autobiographical novel about an adopted English woman who finds her birth parents and herself in the US is followed by an exclusive interview with the author. In addition to being a best-selling novelist and comedienne, Alison Larkin is also the award-winning narrator of over 200 audiobooks.
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Heartwarming, thought-provoking and funny
- By KatMari on 24-05-18
"Heartwarming, thought-provoking and funny"
This is a great story written and narrated by Alison Larkin. It deftly handles some really weighty issues, like identity and cross-cultural differences, with a wonderful lightness of touch. It's funny and moving all at once. I especially loved the warm and unflinching honesty of the protagonist. Perhaps because this work is semi-based on Larkin's real life experience, the whole result is a completely authentic and real heroine. Larkin is an accomplished narrator of many books already, and she lends her vocal skills to her own words beautifully.
I listened to this over 4 days and didn't want to stop! I hope Alison Larkin writes more, she's a real talent.
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Out of the Wreckage
- A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
- By: George Monbiot
- Narrated by: George Monbiot
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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A toxic ideology rules the world of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better world. George Monbiot shows how new findings in psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology cast human nature in a radically different light: as the supreme altruists and cooperators.
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A rather sketchy map towards a new political era
- By grimnortherner on 21-05-18
"Smartest book on politics I've ever come across"
This book is like a cross between Malcolm Gladwell, Naomi Klein and 12 Rules for Life. It has taught me so much about the current political situation, and I’ve found myself bringing up the things I've learnt in conversations all the time.
It’s also incredibly engaging. It’s a hopeful look at politics, and a smart perspective on the future - with amazing insight in to how to life your life well. The best current affairs book I’ve listened to!
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Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- By: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- Narrated by: Simon Slater
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.
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Not really suitable for an audio book
- By Mr. Philip Relph on 18-04-19
"8 hours that will change your world view!"
Hans Rosling is a brilliant lecturer who will update your world view. This book will change any long-held beliefs attained from an outdated high school or university degree. Factfulness takes you through an interesting story of how the world has changed from developed/developing to a multi-tiered system that exists in societies all over the world.
With a multitude of anecdotes and facts they beautifully weave a story that will both enhance your world knowledge and intrigue you in how the world works.
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The Line Becomes a River
- By: Francisco Cantú
- Narrated by: Francisco Cantú
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Line Becomes a River, written and read by Francisco Cantú. How does a line in the sand become a barrier that people will risk everything to cross? Francisco Cantú was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012. He worked the desert along the Mexican border, at the remote crossroads of drug routes and smuggling corridors, tracking humans through blistering days and frigid nights across a vast terrain. He detains the exhausted and the parched.
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Compassionate and humane...
- By Jack Williamson on 04-06-18
"Compassionate and humane"
Francisco Cantú is a third-generation Mexican-American who worked as a US Border Patrol agent for almost four years. Subverting the stereotype somewhat, he is compassionate and empathetic towards the ‘crossers’ he encounters. His prose is lyrical, beautiful and dream-like and the book is peppered with statistics and historical context, so I really learned a lot about life both sides of the border.
The final third, where he details the tragic case of a close friend being deported away from his wife and children, is heartbreaking and illustrates the need for stories about those who are often voiceless to be humanely told.
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He Said/She Said
- By: Erin Kelly
- Narrated by: Jonathan Broadbent, Helen Johns
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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In the hushed aftermath of a total eclipse, Laura witnesses a brutal attack. She and her boyfriend, Kit, call the police, and in that moment it is not only the victim's life that is changed forever. Fifteen years on, Laura and Kit live in fear. And while Laura knows she was right to speak out, the events that follow have taught her that you can never see the whole picture: something - and someone - is always in the dark....
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A PAGE TURNER THAT MAKES YOU THINK
- By mary on 08-05-17
"A slow, simmering psychological thriller"
I was completely absorbed in this book and couldn’t stop listening - the large twist towards the end of the book completely threw me and made me question the way I had interpreted everything thus far.
Exploring ideas of obsession, anxiety, and crippling paranoia under both the literal and metaphorical guise of an all-encompassing and blinding solar eclipse, He Said/She Said forces you to constantly question who is telling the truth, which in turn makes you question your own preconceived ideas of certain types of people and situations.
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Paper Ghosts
- By: Julia Heaberlin
- Narrated by: Antonia Campbell-Hughes
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Having lived his life suspected of being a serial killer, Carl Louis Feldman begins his journey into old age at a nursing home in Texas. Though he was never charged with any crimes, the staff aren’t sorry to see him go when his estranged daughter arrives to take her father on what could be his last road trip. When Carl protests that this is not his daughter at all, the nurses are all too ready to excuse it as a product of his steadily deteriorating mind. But were those old suspicions about him true? And if he is an honest man, who has just driven him away from safety?
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Paper Ghosts That Enfold You With Their Story
- By Simon on 20-04-18
"Heaberlin does it again"
Black Eyed Susans was a standout listen for me a few years ago so anticipation and expectations were high for Julia Heaberlin's next offering. And there was absolutely no room for disappointment as I sped through Paper Ghosts. The central characters - one man abandoned in a decrepit retirement home and a young woman hell-bent on avenging her sister's presumed murder - present us with an interesting initial set-up and are also completely unique protagonists (a rare thing for a commercial thriller). I loved the turns this audiobook took, the fierce independence of young Grace and the deep American South setting.
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Man's Search for Meaning
- By: Viktor E. Frankl
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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Man’s Search for Meaning is the chilling yet inspirational story of Viktor Frankl’s struggle to hold on to hope during the unspeakable horrors of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering, but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose.
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Potentially life changing...
- By Jim Vaughan on 02-12-12
"The power of perspective"
A book to return to again and again, whenever you feel your sense of perspective slipping.
This is the story of a concentration camp prisoner whose humanity and intellect saw him through the worst of all times. The author states at the beginning that it is a book about humanity, not a record of the Holocaust, and the lightness of the writing is an incredible achievement. His central idea is that whatever horrors life throws at us, our thoughts remain our own. Whatever happens, we should be able to put our problems aside and focus on what is decent and humane and brilliant about the world around us. Compared to what Frankl and his generation went through we live in easy, care-free times. If he could keep his humanity and decency intact, the rest of us have no excuse.
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The Disaster Artist
- By: Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
- Narrated by: Greg Sestero
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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In 2003, an independent film called The Room - starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau - made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles.
Described by one reviewer as 'like getting stabbed in the head', the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Over a decade later, The Room is an international cult phenomenon whose legions of fans attend screenings featuring costumes, audience rituals, merchandising, and plastic spoons.
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A must, whether you've seen the movies or not...
- By Thomas Guest on 05-06-18
"A hilarious, emotive, and surprisingly complex story"
So The Room is almost certainly the worst film ever released. But behind this car crash is a hilarious, emotive, and surprisingly complex story about delusion, optimism, denial and friendship. I absolutely loved it.
Tommy Wiseau is a strange man of uncertain Eastern European origins, but he carries a deep obsession with Hollywood and the American dream. Greg Sestero, the protagonist and narrator, both follows and supports Tommy’s pursuit to become the movie star he always knew he would be. Whilst the laughs come thick and fast it soon becomes apparent the extent to which these two men really needed each other. As a narrator Greg imitates Tommy fantastically well - I don’t think I’ve ever finished a book so quickly. Oh, hi Mark.
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