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The Children of Hiroshima
- The True Story Of How I Searched For My Family In The Ruins Of The City
- By: Sadako Teiko Okuda
- Narrated by: Ami Okumura Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Sadako Teiko Okuda was living in Osaki-shimo, an island off the mainland of Japan, when the bomb hit Hiroshima on the 6th of August 1945. Even sixty kilometers from the city, it was clear something horrific had happened. There was a blinding flash and the window next to Sadako smashed, a shard of glass leaving a painful burn on her neck. Soon, news came that her niece and nephew who lived in Hiroshima were missing. There was only one thing she could do—leave the relative safety of the island and set off into the city to find them.
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Very descriptive
- By dp clarkson on 19-02-26
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The Children of Hiroshima
- The True Story Of How I Searched For My Family In The Ruins Of The City
- Narrated by: Ami Okumura Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 08-05-25
- Language: English
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The Wife’s Tale
- A Personal History
- By: Aida Edemariam
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A CBC BOOK OF THE YEAR The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman – and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia’s history. A new Wild Swans Featuring exclusive archive recordings from the author and...
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The only book ruined by Audible
- By Helen Price on 26-03-26
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The Wife’s Tale
- A Personal History
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-03-18
- Language: English
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Character Building
- By: Booker T. Washington
- Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In Character Building are 37 addresses that Booker T. Washington gave before students, faculty, and guests at the Tuskegee Institute. These addresses take the form of timeless advice on a number of subjects. These talks are delivered - in the motivational and uplifting manner one would expect from this American icon - on education, ethics, morals, deportment, spirituality, and the dignity of labor.
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Character Building
- Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-02-15
- Language: English
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Lightfoot
- By: Nicholas Jennings
- Narrated by: Nicholas Jennings
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A 2023 ROLLING STONE RECOMMENDED BOOK Shortlisted for the 2017 Legislative Assembly of Ontario Speaker's Book Award Nominated for the 2018 Heritage Toronto Award - Historical Writing: Book “The preeminent account of the late singer's life.” —Rolling Stone The definitive...
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Lightfoot
- Narrated by: Nicholas Jennings
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 31-10-17
- Language: English
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Finding the Raga
- An Improvisation on Indian Music
- By: Amit Chaudhuri
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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By turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Finding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, North Indian music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose principles and practices will alter the listener's notion of what music might - and can - be.
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Finding the Raga
- An Improvisation on Indian Music
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 29-07-21
- Language: English
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The Beast Side
- Living (and Dying) While Black in America
- By: D. Watkins
- Narrated by: Brandon Rubin
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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To many in the age of Obama, America had succeeded in "going beyond race", putting the divisions of the past behind us. And then 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; and then Baltimore blew up; and then gunfire shattered a prayer meeting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Suddenly the entire country awakened to a stark fact: Young Black men are an endangered species.
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Informative and authentic
- By Amazon Customer on 28-02-24
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The Beast Side
- Living (and Dying) While Black in America
- Narrated by: Brandon Rubin
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 15-10-15
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery
- By: Booker T Washington
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Mr. Washington was born a slave. His family, freed after the Civil War, struggled for a livelihood under terrible conditions. Mr. Washington, however, was determined to be educated, and he took advantage of every opportunity to learn available to him. He rose from poverty and ignorance to help found Tuskegee University. This audiobook should be an inspiration to all who listen.
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Up from Slavery
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 18-04-17
- Language: English
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Unraveling Polygamy
- My Path Out
- By: Jay Allred
- Narrated by: Tom Hess
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is an autobiography of my life growing up in a fundamentalist Mormon cult. The story details a life of living polygamy with three wives with struggles, triumphs, and family drama. After forty-five years I found my way out of the cult mentality and peace in a new life experience.
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Fascinating look at polygamy
- By Tina on 17-04-26
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Unraveling Polygamy
- My Path Out
- Narrated by: Tom Hess
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 07-04-25
- Language: English
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We'll Always Have Paris
- Trying and Failing to Be French
- By: Emma Beddington
- Narrated by: Emma Fenney
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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As a bored, moody teenager, Emma Beddington came across a copy of French ELLE in the library of her austere Yorkshire school. As she turned the pages, full of philosophy, sex and lipstick, she realized that her life had one purpose and one purpose only: she needed to be French. Instead of skulking in her bedroom listening to The Smiths or trudging to Betty's Tea Room to buy fondant fancies, she would be free and solitary, sitting outside the Cafe de Flore with a Scottie dog at her feet....
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Boring
- By Paul Burnett on 20-05-16
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We'll Always Have Paris
- Trying and Failing to Be French
- Narrated by: Emma Fenney
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 21-04-16
- Language: English
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
- By: Mary Seacole
- Narrated by: Ayesha Antoine
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands is the bold, witty memoir of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse and businesswoman who defied racism and sexism to care for soldiers during the Crimean War in the 1850s. Writing in her own voice, Seacole recounts her travels across the Caribbean, Central America, and Europe, sharing vivid stories of healing, hardship, and independence.
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
- Narrated by: Ayesha Antoine
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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The Endless Country
- A Personal Journey Through Turkey's First Hundred Years
- By: Sami Kent
- Narrated by: Ojan Genc, Sami Kent
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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This audio edition includes an Epilogue read by the author, Sami Kent. 'Captivating. Kent effortlessly weaves travels that are close to his heart into a bigger story of Turkey’s past and present' – Mishal Husain 'A rich, spellbinding book: dense with people, stories, history, colour, lived...
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Much to learn
- By JPW on 24-11-24
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The Endless Country
- A Personal Journey Through Turkey's First Hundred Years
- Narrated by: Ojan Genc, Sami Kent
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 27-06-24
- Language: English
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Please Live
- The Chechen Wars, My Mother and Me
- By: Lana Estemirova
- Narrated by: Lana Estemirova
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Powerful . . . a coming-of-age story with a twist' Guardian 'Heart-wrenching . . . We need accounts like this haunting, compelling book' Telegraph 'A profound and moving tribute . . . It is Lana's inside perspective on what it was like to grow up within this society...
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beautiful
- By Dr. J. Lane on 14-08-25
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Please Live
- The Chechen Wars, My Mother and Me
- Narrated by: Lana Estemirova
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 19-06-25
- Language: English
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Connie
- A Memoir
- By: Connie Chung
- Narrated by: Connie Chung
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In a sharp, witty memoir, iconic trailblazer and legendary journalist Connie Chung pulls no punches in detailing her storied career as the first Asian woman to break into an overwhelmingly white, male-dominated television news industry—"an absorbing look at a pioneering news figure" (TIME)...
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Delightful listen....honest.thought provoking.
- By Jackie on 19-01-25
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Connie
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Connie Chung
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 17-09-24
- Language: English
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Rory and Ita
- By: Roddy Doyle
- Narrated by: John Kavanaugh, Kate Binchy
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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Rory and Ita, Roddy Doyle's first nonfiction book, tells, largely in their own words, the story of his parents' lives from their first memories to the present. Born in 1923 and 1925 respectively, they met at a New Year's Eve dance in 1947 and married in 1951. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods, the people, the politics, idyllic times in the Wexford countryside for Ita, for Rory, his apprenticeship as a printer.
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Enjoyable
- By Linda Keogh on 07-03-22
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Rory and Ita
- Narrated by: John Kavanaugh, Kate Binchy
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-12-05
- Language: English
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Unstoppable
- Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend
- By: Joshua M. Greene
- Narrated by: Michael Orenstein
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Unstoppable is the ultimate immigrant story and an epic David-and-Goliath adventure. While American teens were socializing in ice cream parlors, Siggi was suffering beatings by Nazi hoodlums for being a Jew and was soon deported along with his family to the darkest place the world has ever known: Auschwitz. Siggi used his wits to stay alive, pretending to have trade skills the Nazis could exploit to run the camp. After two death marches and near starvation, he was liberated from camp Mauthausen and went to work for the US Army hunting Nazis.
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Unstoppable
- Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend
- Narrated by: Michael Orenstein
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 22-04-21
- Language: English
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Outlaw Culture
- Resisting Representations
- By: Bell Hooks
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore Bell Hooks's electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As Hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a "powerful site for intervention, challenge and change." And intervene, challenge, and change is what hooks does best.
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Outlaw Culture
- Resisting Representations
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 21-03-23
- Language: English
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Bound for the Promised Land
- Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
- By: Kate Clifford Larson
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history - a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the century since her death, next to nothing has been written about this extraordinary woman aside from juvenile biographies. The truth about Harriet Tubman has become lost inside a legend woven of racial and gender stereotypes.
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not very interesting
- By Kalpna B. on 27-12-21
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Bound for the Promised Land
- Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 12-11-15
- Language: English
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The Revolt of the Cockroach People
- By: Oscar Zeta Acosta
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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The further adventures of “Dr. Gonzo” as he defends the “cucarachas”— the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood...
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a life changing book
- By Anonymous on 13-04-21
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The Revolt of the Cockroach People
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Series: "Dr. Gonzo", Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 02-04-19
- Language: English
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While the World Watched
- A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
- By: Carolyn Maull McKinstry
- Narrated by: Felicia Bullock
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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Fifteen-year-old Carolyn Maull McKinstry was just a few feet away when the Klan - planted bomb that killed four of her friends exploded in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. It was one of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, a sad day in American history…and the turning point in a young girl's life.
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Brave Beyond Belief
- By Amazon Customer on 11-03-22
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While the World Watched
- A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
- Narrated by: Felicia Bullock
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 30-12-12
- Language: English
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Soldier
- The Life of Colin Powell
- By: Karen DeYoung
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 23 hrs and 12 mins
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Over the course of a lifetime of service to his country, Colin Powell became a national hero, a beacon of wise leadership and, according to polls, “the most trusted man in America.” From his humble origins as the son of Jamaican immigrants to the highest levels of government in four...
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Soldier
- The Life of Colin Powell
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 23 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 10-10-06
- Language: English
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