Showing results for "odyssey" in Biographies & Memoirs
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A Personal Odyssey
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell's life-long education in the school of hard knocks, a journey that took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place.
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Perfect for a Frustrated Academic
- By Dominic on 03-11-25
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A Personal Odyssey
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 17-11-06
- Language: English
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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017
- By: Daniel Mendelsohn
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2018 From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic...
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Intriguing insight into the story of the Odyssey
- By SJ on 18-03-21
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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-09-17
- Language: English
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Killing Time
- An 18-year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom
- By: John Hollway, Ronald M. Gauthier
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a prominent white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola Prison and confined to his cell for 23 hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial had been mishandled and would step up to the plate against the powerful DA’s office. But who would fight for Thompson’s innocence when he didn’t have an alibi for the night of the murder and there were two key witnesses to confirm his guilt?
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totally captivating!
- By R.S on 31-08-17
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Killing Time
- An 18-year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 23-02-13
- Language: English
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Odyssey Moscow
- One American’s Journey from Russian Optimist to Prisoner of the State
- By: Michael Calvey
- Narrated by: Michael Calvey, Arthur Morey
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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It is dawn on Thursday, 14 February 2019, and armed FSB agents are raiding Michael Calvey’s Moscow apartment. He is being arrested for a crime that never happened.
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Odyssey Moscow
- One American’s Journey from Russian Optimist to Prisoner of the State
- Narrated by: Michael Calvey, Arthur Morey
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 22-04-25
- Language: English
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Brooklyn Odyssey
- My Journey Out of Hasidism
- By: Schneur Zalman Newfield
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn as a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Orthodox Jewish community, Zalman Newfield was raised in an atmosphere of strict gender segregation, rigorous religious education, and nearly all-consuming ritual practices. Trained to be a Lubavitch emissary, he traveled around the world doing Jewish outreach to help usher in the messianic redemption. However, after exposure to the wider world, he abandoned the faith of his youth.
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Brooklyn Odyssey
- My Journey Out of Hasidism
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 25-03-26
- Language: English
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Ulysses’s Odyssey
- Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire
- By: Louis L. Picone
- Narrated by: Joseph Pavia
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In May 1877, Ulysses S. Grant, after two terms in the White House, embarked on an extraordinary three-year journey that defined a pivotal moment in the Gilded Age. Driven by a lifelong passion for travel and unburdened by a fixed itinerary, Grant set out to explore the world, his wanderlust sustained by modest means. Louis L. Picone’s Ulysses’s Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire masterfully chronicles this unprecedented adventure, illuminating its historical significance and Grant’s enduring legacy.
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Ulysses’s Odyssey
- Ulysses S. Grant’s World Tour at the Dawn of American Empire
- Narrated by: Joseph Pavia
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-04-26
- Language: English
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An Odyssey
- A Father, a Son, and an Epic
- By: Daniel Mendelsohn
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday A Kirkus Best Memoir of 2017 Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's...
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An Odyssey
- A Father, a Son, and an Epic
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 12-09-17
- Language: English
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Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (Revised and Expanded Edition)
- Books That Changed the World
- By: Alberto Manguel
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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No one knows whether Homer was a real person, but there is no doubt that the epic poems assembled under his name are foundations of Western literature. The Iliad and the Odyssey—with their tales of the Trojan War, Achilles, Odysseus and Penelope, the Cyclops, the beautiful Helen of Troy, and the petulant gods—have inspired us for over two and a half millennia and influenced writers from Plato to Virgil, Pope to Joyce, and Dante to Margaret Atwood.
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Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (Revised and Expanded Edition)
- Books That Changed the World
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 15-07-25
- Language: English
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Red Sauce Brown Sauce
- A British Breakfast Odyssey
- By: Felicity Cloake
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance45
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The charming and joyful follow-up book from ‘the nation’s taster in chief,’ Felicity Cloake. If there’s one thing that truly unites Britain, from Aberdeen to Aberystwyth, St Ives to St Pancras, it’s an obsession with breakfast. We all have an opinion on the merits of brown sauce versus...
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A lovely book, makes you full just listening to it
- By Anonymous on 11-08-23
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Red Sauce Brown Sauce
- A British Breakfast Odyssey
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 09-06-22
- Language: English
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Island Infernos
- The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944
- By: John C. McManus
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 25 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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In Fire and Fortitude—winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History—John C. McManus presented a riveting account of the US Army's fledgling fight in the Pacific following Pearl Harbor. Now, in Island Infernos, he explores the Army’s dogged pursuit of Japanese forces, island by...
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Hell in the Pacific
- By Gary T. on 08-04-26
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Island Infernos
- The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 25 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-11-21
- Language: English
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American Shaolin
- Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
- By: Matthew Polly
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall82
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Performance77
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Growing up a 90-pound weakling tormented by bullies in the schoolyards of Kansas, young Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become the toughest fighter in the world, like Caine in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu. While in college, Matthew decided the time had come to pursue this quixotic dream before it was too late. Much to the dismay of his parents, he dropped out of Princeton to spend two years training with the legendary sect of monks who invented kung fu and Zen Buddhism.
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A Hidden Gem!
- By C. Carey on 15-09-25
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American Shaolin
- Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 18-12-18
- Language: English
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Where Men Win Glory
- The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man’s haunting journey. Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible...
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Where Men Win Glory
- The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 15-09-09
- Language: English
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The Liberator
- One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
- By: Alex Kershaw
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance54
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The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe - from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau. From...
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Captivating
- By John Burke on 02-10-20
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The Liberator
- One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 30-10-12
- Language: English
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Alias Fortezza
- A Hacker's Odyssey
- By: David Schrooten, Freke Vuijst
- Narrated by: Boris Hiestand, Freke Vuijst
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2012, 21-year-old Dutch hacker David Schrooten was living at his parents’ house in the Netherlands and spending most of his time online. When he wasn’t squabbling with fellow hackers, he was making plans to visit his Romanian girlfriend. His life turned upside-down when Interpol agents arrested him at an airport in Romania on international hacking charges involving $63 million in damages. Soon Schrooten found himself extradited to the United States, a country where he had never been before.
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felt for the lad
- By Amazon Customer on 23-03-19
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Alias Fortezza
- A Hacker's Odyssey
- Narrated by: Boris Hiestand, Freke Vuijst
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 28-02-19
- Language: English
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The Grove
- A Nature Odyssey in 19 ½ Front Gardens
- By: Ben Dark
- Narrated by: Ben Dark
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Beyond the garden wall lies a wealth of cultivated plants, each with a unique tale to tell. In The Grove, award-winning writer and head gardener Ben Dark reveals the remarkable secrets of 20 commonly found species—including the rose, wisteria, buddleja, box and the tulip—encountered in the front gardens of one London street over the course of year.
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One of my favourite garden books
- By Alison on 19-08-23
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The Chancellor
- The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
- By: Kati Marton
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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‘An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader’ WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful – and elusive – woman in the...
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Biased.
- By Magdalena on 01-12-21
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The Chancellor
- The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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A Long Voyage to the Moon
- The Life of Naval Aviator and Apollo 17 Astronaut Ron Evans (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
- By: Geoffrey Bowman
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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As command module pilot of Apollo 17, the last crewed flight to the moon, Ron Evans combined precision flying and painstaking geological observation with moments of delight and enthusiasm. As a patriotic American in charge of command module America, Evans was nicknamed “Captain America” by his fellow crew members.
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A Long Voyage to the Moon
- The Life of Naval Aviator and Apollo 17 Astronaut Ron Evans (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight)
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-12-21
- Language: English
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Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965
- By: Francis French, Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: John Gagnepain
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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It was a time of bold new technology, historic moments, and international jousting on the final frontier. But it was also a time of human drama, of moments less public but no less dramatic in the lives of those who made the golden age of space flight happen. These are the moments and the lives that Into That Silent Sea captures, a book that tells the intimate stories of the men and women, American and Russian, who made the space race their own and gave the era its compelling character.
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Very informative and engaging
- By A. DONALDSON on 26-09-18
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Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965
- Narrated by: John Gagnepain
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 18 hrs
- Release date: 07-04-16
- Language: English
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Where the Falcon Flies
- A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic
- By: Adam Shoalts
- Narrated by: Adam Shoalts
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL OUTBOOK AWARD FOR JOURNEYS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 SPEAKER'S BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR THE BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK COMPETITION FOR ADVENTURE TRAVEL From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the...
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Where the Falcon Flies
- A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic
- Narrated by: Adam Shoalts
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 03-10-23
- Language: English
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Destiny and Power
- The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- By: Jon Meacham
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 25 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance27
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this “illuminating” (USA Today) biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. “Destiny and Power reflects the qualities of both subject and biographer: judicious, balanced, deliberative, with a...
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Bush
- By Dukebox on 17-03-26
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Destiny and Power
- The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 25 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 10-11-15
- Language: English
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