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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
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"In an understated performance, Simon Vance details one of the stunning tragedies arising from the tsunami that struck Japan in 2011...Vance's steady pacing, crisp enunciation, and careful inflection enhance the weight of the story, which moves between reportage and interviews, and ultimately reveals unsettling truths about this particular disaster." — AudioFile Magazine
Masterfully narrated by Simon Vance, winner of 14 Audie Awards and 61 Earphone Awards, comes the heartbreaking true story of a natural disaster and the resilience of Japan.
the definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan—by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat Darkness
On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than eighteen thousand people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned.
It was Japan’s greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways.
Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. There he encountered stories of ghosts and hauntings, and met a priest who exorcised the spirits of the dead. And he found himself drawn back again and again to a village that had suffered the greatest loss of all, a community tormented by unbearable mysteries of its own.
What really happened to the local children as they waited in the schoolyard in the moments before the tsunami? Why did their teachers not evacuate them to safety? And why was the unbearable truth being so stubbornly covered up?
Ghosts of the Tsunami is a soon-to-be classic intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the accounts of those who lived through it. It tells the story of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and the struggle to find consolation in the ruins.
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"In an understated performance, Simon Vance details one of the stunning tragedies arising from the tsunami that struck Japan in 2011. He expertly balances the details of the author's heavily researched investigation and the emotionally charged survivors' stories. ...Vance's steady pacing, crisp enunciation, and careful inflection enhance the weight of the story, which moves between reportage and interviews, and ultimately reveals unsettling truths about this particular disaster." -AudioFile
"A lively and nuanced narrative by the British journalist Richard Lloyd Parry, the longtime and widely respected correspondent in Tokyo for the London Times. Though in part he presents vivid accounts of what was a very complex event, with this book he wisely stands back . . . to consider the essence of the story . . . Heartbreaking." —Simon Winchester, The New York Review of Books
"A wrenching chronicle of a disaster that, six years later, still seems incomprehensible . . . Any writer could compile a laundry list of the horrors that come in the wake of a disaster; Lloyd Parry's book is not that . . . Lloyd Parry writes about the survivors with sensitivity and a rare kind of empathy; he resists the urge to distance himself from the pain in an attempt at emotional self-preservation." –Michael Schaub, NPR.org
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A natural disaster that reads like true crime
"The tsunami makes this a classic of disaster literature; Richard Lloyd Parry’s status as an outsider in Japan despite decades of residency make this feel like True Crime. Every fact he investigates and brings to light leads to deeper questions. As with all truly great nonfiction, Simon Vance’s performance has all the suspense and character development of a novel. If you loved Isaac’s Storm or Unbroken, this is the next listen for you."
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During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island, yet again confronting racism and consigned to a woefully understaffed facility, dubbed “the pest house” where “no one left alive.”
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Not Really About TB
- De RobinWinsor en 08-23-24
De: Maria Smilios
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A Light in the Dark
- Surviving More Than Ted Bundy
- De: Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Kathy Kleiner Rubin
- Narrado por: Roxana Ortega
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another unlocked door and murdered again. Then, he turned the knob to my bedroom and found it was open. I remember the attack vividly. But Bundy wasn’t my first brush with death, and he wasn’t my last.
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The strength to persevere
- De Jude Garcia en 02-04-24
De: Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, y otros
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Dead Mountain
- The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
- De: Donnie Eichar
- Narrado por: Donnie Eichar
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over what really happened.
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Mystery & Intrigue In The Ural Mountains
- De Sara en 06-30-15
De: Donnie Eichar
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Pathogenesis
- A History of the World in Eight Plagues
- De: Jonathan Kennedy
- Narrado por: Jonathan Kennedy
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, Professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead, it is the humble microbe that wins wars and topples empires.
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Devolves into political advocacy
- De Mark Fackler en 04-29-23
De: Jonathan Kennedy
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Unmask Alice
- LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
- De: Rick Emerson
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD's fearsome reputation, fueling support for the War on Drugs. Five million copies later, Go Ask Alice remains a divisive bestseller, outraging censors and earning new fans, all of them drawn by the book's mythic premise: A Real Diary, by Anonymous.
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I’m from Pleasant Grove where rumors of Jay’s Journal are alive and well
- De Ruby Tuesday en 10-06-22
De: Rick Emerson
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Out Cold
- A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia
- De: Phil Jaekl
- Narrado por: Matt Kugler
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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In Out Cold, science writer Phil Jaekl chronicles the underappreciated story of human innovation with cold, from Ancient Egypt, where it was used to treat skin irritations, to 18th-century London, where scientists used it in their first explorations of suspended animation. Throughout history, physicians have used cold to innovate life extension, enable distant space missions, and explore consciousness.
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Left cold.
- De Lars en 09-12-22
De: Phil Jaekl
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The Black Angels
- The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
- De: Maria Smilios
- Narrado por: Gina Daniels
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island, yet again confronting racism and consigned to a woefully understaffed facility, dubbed “the pest house” where “no one left alive.”
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Not Really About TB
- De RobinWinsor en 08-23-24
De: Maria Smilios
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A Light in the Dark
- Surviving More Than Ted Bundy
- De: Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Kathy Kleiner Rubin
- Narrado por: Roxana Ortega
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another unlocked door and murdered again. Then, he turned the knob to my bedroom and found it was open. I remember the attack vividly. But Bundy wasn’t my first brush with death, and he wasn’t my last.
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The strength to persevere
- De Jude Garcia en 02-04-24
De: Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, y otros
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Dead Mountain
- The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
- De: Donnie Eichar
- Narrado por: Donnie Eichar
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over what really happened.
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Mystery & Intrigue In The Ural Mountains
- De Sara en 06-30-15
De: Donnie Eichar
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Pathogenesis
- A History of the World in Eight Plagues
- De: Jonathan Kennedy
- Narrado por: Jonathan Kennedy
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, Professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead, it is the humble microbe that wins wars and topples empires.
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Devolves into political advocacy
- De Mark Fackler en 04-29-23
De: Jonathan Kennedy
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Unmask Alice
- LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
- De: Rick Emerson
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD's fearsome reputation, fueling support for the War on Drugs. Five million copies later, Go Ask Alice remains a divisive bestseller, outraging censors and earning new fans, all of them drawn by the book's mythic premise: A Real Diary, by Anonymous.
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I’m from Pleasant Grove where rumors of Jay’s Journal are alive and well
- De Ruby Tuesday en 10-06-22
De: Rick Emerson
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Out Cold
- A Chilling Descent into the Macabre, Controversial, Lifesaving History of Hypothermia
- De: Phil Jaekl
- Narrado por: Matt Kugler
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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In Out Cold, science writer Phil Jaekl chronicles the underappreciated story of human innovation with cold, from Ancient Egypt, where it was used to treat skin irritations, to 18th-century London, where scientists used it in their first explorations of suspended animation. Throughout history, physicians have used cold to innovate life extension, enable distant space missions, and explore consciousness.
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Left cold.
- De Lars en 09-12-22
De: Phil Jaekl
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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April 25, 1986 in Chernobyl was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the science that spawned it, but also our understanding of the planet’s delicate ecology. With the images of the abandoned homes and playgrounds beyond the barbed wire of the 30-kilometer Exclusion Zone, the rusting graveyards of contaminated trucks and helicopters, the farmland lashed with black rain, the event fixed for all time the notion of radiation as an invisible killer.
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Midnight in Chernobyl is the book to listen to.
- De NH en 03-21-19
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Boys Enter the House
- The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind
- De: David Nelson
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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As investigators brought out the bagged remains of several dozen young men from a small Chicago ranch home and paraded them in front of a crowd of TV reporters and spectators, attention quickly turned to the owner of the house. John Gacy was an upstanding citizen, active in local politics and charities, famous for his themed parties and appearances as Pogo the Clown. But in the winter of 1978-79, he became known as one of many so-called “sex murderers” who had begun gaining notoriety in the random brutality of the 1970s.
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What we really needed to know about the Gacy murders.
- De Aaron en 03-02-24
De: David Nelson
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People Who Eat Darkness
- The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
- De: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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Lucie Blackman - tall, blond, 21 years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl involving Japanese policemen, British private detectives, and Lucie’s desperate but bitterly divided parents. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult or snatched by human traffickers? Who was the mysterious man she had gone to meet? And what did her work as a hostess in the notorious Roppongi district of Tokyo really involve?
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This is the audiobook against I rate all others.
- De El_Ron en 03-08-13
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The Radium Girls
- The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
- De: Kate Moore
- Narrado por: Angela Brazil
- Duración: 15 h y 52 m
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The year was 1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous - the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls. As the years passed, the women began to suffer from mysterious and crippling illnesses.
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A simple way to improve the robotic narration
- De B. C. French en 06-07-17
De: Kate Moore
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Over My Dead Body
- Unearthing the Hidden History of American Cemeteries
- De: Greg Melville
- Narrado por: Will Tulin
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower over the grassy acres, he came to realize what a rich story the place told of his town and its history. Thus was born Melville’s lifelong curiosity with how, where, and why we bury and commemorate our dead. Melville’s Over My Dead Body is a lively (pun intended) and wide-ranging history of cemeteries, places that have mirrored the passing eras in history but have also shaped it.
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excellent read!
- De KJ en 03-05-23
De: Greg Melville
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Tremors in the Blood
- Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector
- De: Amit Katwala
- Narrado por: Paul Bellantoni
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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As new forms of lie detection gain momentum in the present day, Tremors in the Blood reveals the incredible truth behind the creation of the polygraph, through gripping true-crime cases featuring explosive gunfights, shocking twists, and high-stakes courtroom drama. Touching on psychology, technology, and the science of the truth, Tremors in the Blood is a vibrant, atmospheric thriller and a warning from history: beware what you believe.
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Incredible Book
- De Christine en 01-04-24
De: Amit Katwala
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Hell in the Heartland
- Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls
- De: Jax Miller
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
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On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, 16-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the Freeman family trailer was in flames and both girls were missing. While rumors of drug debts, revenge, and police collusion abounded in the years that followed, the case remained unsolved, and the girls were never found.
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Remember it's unsolved
- De Carol en 09-16-20
De: Jax Miller
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Data Baby
- My Life in a Psychological Experiment
- De: Susannah Breslin
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of 128 children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year psychological experiment that predicts who she and her cohort will grow up to be. Decades later, trapped in an abusive marriage to a man with a violent history and battling breast cancer, she starts to wonder how growing up under a microscope shaped the person she became and her life choices. Is she the narrator of the story of her life, or is something else?
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There should be a law. Oh wait there is.
- De all our stories en 05-31-24
De: Susannah Breslin
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Waco Rising
- David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias
- De: Kevin Cook
- Narrado por: Gary Tiedemann
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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In 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children. America is still picking up the pieces, and we still haven't heard the full story.
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Thought Provoking
- De HankieG en 05-28-23
De: Kevin Cook
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Cannibalism
- De: Bill Schutt
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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Eating one's own kind is a completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons related to famine, burial rites, and medicine. Cannibalism has also been used as a form of terrorism and as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, Bill Schutt takes us on a tour of the field, exploring exciting new avenues of research and investigating questions like why so many fish eat their offspring and some amphibians consume their mothers' skin.
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Ruined it at the end
- De Kimberly Ames en 12-07-17
De: Bill Schutt
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Goodbye Hello
- Processing Grief and Understanding Death Through the Paranormal
- De: Adam Berry
- Narrado por: Adam Berry
- Duración: 7 h
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Death affects us all—not just at the end of our lives, but every day. And yet, it’s one of the most feared and misunderstood things we face. But what if there was a way to know more and use that knowledge to inform our daily lives? The first of its kind, Goodbye Hello blends supernatural research with psychology to explore death and grief. Written by paranormal investigator and star of Kindred Spirits and Ghost Hunters Adam Berry, this book will not only entertain but offer comfort to those struggling to come to terms with loss, grief, and the end of life.
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Entertaining and informative
- De Rebecca en 09-27-23
De: Adam Berry
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Waiting for an Echo
- The Madness of American Incarceration
- De: Christine Montross
- Narrado por: Christine Montross
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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Dr. Christine Montross has spent her career treating the most severely ill psychiatric patients. Several years ago, she set out to investigate why so many of her patients got caught up in the legal system when discharged from her care - and what happened to them therein. Waiting for an Echo is a riveting, rarely seen glimpse into American incarceration. It is also a damning account of policies that have criminalized mental illness, shifting large numbers of people who belong in therapeutic settings into punitive ones.
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life changing
- De Diana Kiesel en 08-05-20
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Ghosts of the Tsunami
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- This is Diana
- 07-22-21
Excellent and sad
The book was a story of humanity ensconced in politics, nature, grief, love, and spirituality...in the end we have a choice to heal or stay in trauma. May those lost rest in peace as those left behind be in peace.
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- Julian Honeycutt
- 06-28-19
Could have been longer
I enjoyed the book. The author did a wonderful job at giving an emotional and vivid account of the tragedy in Japan. The narrator did a very nice job. I appreciated the fact that while he didn’t speak Japanese his pronunciation in no way detracted from the story (not often the case). My small gripe with the story is I wish there’d been more finality or an epilogue to conclude the story.
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- Stephanie Lee
- 08-03-23
Sad, but great cultural insight.
I loved this book. The narrator was great. A story that needed to be told. Also an interesting delve into the culture and politics of Japan.
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- Snezhana
- 08-12-21
Important story written with deep respect
It’s hard to describe a story on a tragedy “beautiful”, but that was my impression upon finishing it. The level of respect the author has for all the victims is felt, and his anger at the injustices helps lift the voices of those who have suffered. It’s an honor being able to hear the strength in the survivors, from children, to parents, to priests.
It’s also an important lesson. NEVER think “this will never happen to me” and ignore common sense. It is always better being safe than sorry and being prepared to face an emergency. Especially if you are supposed to be keeping children safe.
He details the physical things that happened regarding the tragedy, how people reacted, and the emotions people have/had in regards to it. The reader is thrown into the water that day, into the yellow hat of an elementary school child, or into the mud covered shoes of a mother desperately looking for any sign of her child. You are there in the moment desperately hoping they are able to succeed.
It’s not someone “spooky story” you might hear on YouTube with dramatized voice and music. The ghosts aren’t a Halloween attraction. They are the real grief and pain left over from the tragedy. It’s hard not to cry for these people doing whatever they can to live another day with the guilt of being alive.
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- Eric K. Dickinson
- 03-27-23
Moving
So very moving. Bravo. That is how to relate such a massive story. I could hear the individuals.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-24-23
Not many ghosts
Not what I expected from the title. Still interesting and a must read, just expected actually experiences of the tsunami.
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- mattLo
- 07-13-24
sad
there are times in listening to the book, I get emotional, I feel for the parents who lost so much during nthe tsunami
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- Laura Rose
- 01-14-20
Tragic but beautifully told.
Great cultural insights, haunting stories, and a little justice for grieving parents balance out the sadness.
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- David
- 08-01-23
Goosebumps
Superb. Chilling. Poignant. Perfect. Unbelievably tragic story told with so much empathy. This book deserves more than 5 stars.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-01-19
Not just water
Like other people on earth elsewhere, I never really understood what happened on that fateful day. Not until I listened to this heart wrenching story.
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