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This haunting memoir tells the brutal story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of an innocent victim whose childhood was dominated by violence, devastation, and conflicts between the teachings of her culture and the realities of war. The youngest in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was 12 years old when U.S. helicopters landed in her village. She was raped and "ruined" for marriage by Viet Cong soldiers, imprisoned and tortured by the South Vietnamese, and sentenced to death by the Viet Cong. Ultimately fleeing to the U.S. with her children, she finally found peace, and in 1986, she was reunited with her family in Vietnam. The story of her homecoming, interwoven with her memories of the war years, paints a vivid picture of a noble, optimistic woman and her native country.
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- De heatherhg en 07-01-07
De: Le Ly Hayslip, y otros
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Tears of the Desert
- A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
- De: Halima Bashir, Damien Lewis
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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Halima Bashir was born into the Zaghawa tribe, whose customs have remained unchanged for centuries, in the remote western deserts of Sudan in the region of South Darfur. Halima's father named his daughter after the traditional medicine woman of the village, and she grew up in a happy and close-knit childhood environment. Her father became a wealthy man by his tribe's standards, so he could afford to send Halima to school and university. Halima went on to study medicine, and at 24 she returned to her tribe and began practicing as their first ever qualified doctor.
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A story that takes you there
- De Justicepirate en 05-22-17
De: Halima Bashir, y otros
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Fire Road
- The Napalm Girl's Journey Through the Horrors of War to Faith, Forgiveness, and Peace
- De: Kim Phuc Phan Thi, Ashley Wiersma
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine-year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames - before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It's a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and violence of the Vietnam War. Kim was left for dead in a morgue; no one expected her to survive the attack. Napalm meant fire, and fire meant death.
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- De Rex Michael Dillon en 01-27-19
De: Kim Phuc Phan Thi, y otros
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Dreams in a Time of War
- A Childhood Memoir
- De: Ngugi wa'Thiong'o
- Narrado por: Hakeem Kae-Kazim
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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Of Kenya's largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu, Ngugi wa Thiongo was born in 1938 in the backlands of his country (Kiambu district) to a father whose four wives bore him two dozen or so children. Ngugi was the fifth child of the third wife. His father was a peasant farmer forced to become a squatter after the British Imperial Act of 1915. Before going off to school, he had what was then considered a bizarre and inexplicable thirst for learning....
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An escape through education
- De Tango en 06-17-12
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Between Two Worlds
- Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
- De: Zainab Salbi, Laurie Becklund
- Narrado por: Josephine Bailey
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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Zainab Salbi was 11-years-old when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, her family often forced to spend weekends with Saddam where he watched their every move. As a palace insider, Zainab offers a singular glimpse of what it is like to come of age under a dictator and provides an intimate portrait of the man she was taught to call "uncle". She watched as Saddam pitted friends, spouses, and even children against each other to compete for his approval.
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An excellent history lesson
- De Ella en 12-01-09
De: Zainab Salbi, y otros
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Infidel
- De: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Narrado por: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
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This New York Times best-seller is the astonishing life story of award-winning humanitarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali. A deeply respected advocate for free speech and women's rights, Hirsi Ali also lives under armed protection because of her outspoken criticism of the Islamic faith in which she was raised.
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Tough, Candid Assessment
- De Paul Mullen en 02-18-08
De: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Death Is Hard Work
- A Novel
- De: Khaled Khalifa, Leri Price - translator
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
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Abdel Latif, an old man from the Aleppo region, dies peacefully in a hospital bed in Damascus. His final wish, conveyed to his youngest son, Bolbol, is to be buried in the family plot in their ancestral village of Anabiya. Though Abdel was hardly an ideal father, and though Bolbol is estranged from his siblings, this conscientious son persuades his older brother Hussein and his sister Fatima to accompany him and the body to Anabiya, which is - after all - only a two-hour drive from Damascus. There's only one problem: Their country is a war zone.
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The bleakness of living in a war-torn country!
- De Susan en 03-20-19
De: Khaled Khalifa, y otros
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An American Bride in Kabul
- De: Phyllis Chesler PhD
- Narrado por: Janet Metzger
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a half-century. Drawing upon her personal diaries, Chesler recounts her ordeal, the nature of gender apartheid - and her longing to explore this beautiful, ancient, and exotic country and culture.
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An Exceptional Book
- De Elaine Fresco en 04-16-19
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang
- De: Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot
- Narrado por: Stephen Park
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education". Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea.
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Riveting!!
- De Iread en 11-12-20
De: Chol-hwan Kang, y otros
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Shalimar the Clown
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Aasif Mandvi
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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When Maximilian Ophuls is murdered outside his daughter's home by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, it appears to be a political killing. Ophuls is the former U.S. ambassador to India and America's leading figure in counter-terrorism. But there is much more to Ophuls and his assassin, a mysterious man calling himself "Shalimar the Clown", than meets the eye. One woman is at the center of their shared history, a history of betrayal and deception.
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Incredible
- De Barry en 12-07-05
De: Salman Rushdie
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Wild Swans
- Three Daughters of China
- De: Jung Chang
- Narrado por: Joy Osmanski
- Duración: 22 h y 52 m
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Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular best seller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival.
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Accurate, moving and chilling
- De David en 12-15-12
De: Jung Chang
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Behind Enemy Lines
- The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany
- De: Marthe Cohn, Wendy Holden
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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Marthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their terrified parents. But soon her homeland was also under Nazi rule. As the Nazi occupation escalated, Marthe's sister was arrested and sent to Auschwitz and the rest of her family was forced to flee to the south of France. Always a fighter, Marthe joined the French Army and became a member of the intelligence service of the French First Army.
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Amazing story of a fighter and survivor
- De Magalie Busch en 05-06-19
De: Marthe Cohn, y otros
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Tea with Hezbollah
- Sitting at the Enemies' Table - Our Journey Through the Middle East
- De: Ted Dekker, Carl Medearis
- Narrado por: George K. Wilson
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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Is it really possible to love one's enemies? That's the question that sparked a fascinating and, at times, terrifying journey into the heart of the Middle East during the summer of 2008. It was a trip that began in Egypt, passed beneath the steel-and-glass high-rises of Saudi Arabia, then wound through the bullet-pocked alleyways of Beirut and dusty streets of Damascus, before ending at the cradle of the world's three major religions: Jerusalem.
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Over the top great book
- De Robert en 07-22-10
De: Ted Dekker, y otros
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The Home That Was Our Country
- De: Alia Malek
- Narrado por: Alia Malek
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parents' decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people who lived in the Tahaan building, past and present, Alia portrays the Syrians—the Muslims, Christians, Jews, Armenians, and Kurds—who worked, loved, and suffered in close quarters, mirroring the political shifts in their country
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Syria as never read before
- De rami hachwi en 09-17-18
De: Alia Malek
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Inside the Kingdom
- My Life In Saudi Arabia
- De: Carmen bin Ladin
- Narrado por: Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
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On September 11, 2001, Carmen bin Ladin heard the news that the Twin Towers had been struck. She instinctively knew that her brother-in-law was involved in these horrifying acts of terrorism, and her heart went out to America. She also knew that her life and the lives of her daughters would never be the same again.
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An inside view of the Saudi women's life
- De Richard en 08-04-04
De: Carmen bin Ladin
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Sold
- De: Patricia McCormick
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
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Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family.
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Perfectly Haunting....
- De Theodore en 01-13-13
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Tisha
- The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
- De: Robert Specht, Anne Purdy
- Narrado por: Caroline McLaughlin
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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The author tells the story as told to him of Anne Hobbs, a woman who went to Alaska in the 1920s to teach, but who had trouble due to her kindness to the Indians there.
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Life is Better than Fiction
- De Betababe en 01-12-18
De: Robert Specht, y otros
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The Bonjour Effect
- The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
- De: Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect, Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. They offer up all the lessons they learned and explain the most important aspect of all: the French don't communicate, they converse.
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Terrible French pronunciation
- De CA en 01-24-19
De: Julie Barlow, y otros
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First They Killed My Father
- A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
- De: Loung Ung
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.
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Brutal, Heartbreaking
- De Gillian en 01-27-15
De: Loung Ung
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A Long Way Home
- De: Saroo Brierley
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia. Despite his gratitude, Brierley always wondered about his origins. One day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for and set off to find his family.
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Hard book to rate... 3 or 4?
- De Jan en 06-22-14
De: Saroo Brierley
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Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
- De: Mary Mapes Dodge
- Narrado por: Christine Marshall
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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Set in the Netherlands, the beautiful land of windmills, tulips, and wooden shoes, the story concerns the experiences of the impoverished Brinker family, including the thrilling race for the silver skates. The good deeds of the Brinker children, Hans and Gretel, help to restore their father's health and bring about their own good fortune.
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Wonderful Story
- De Kindle Customer 13 en 05-02-22
De: Mary Mapes Dodge
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Sold
- De: Patricia McCormick
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
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Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family.
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Perfectly Haunting....
- De Theodore en 01-13-13
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Tisha
- The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
- De: Robert Specht, Anne Purdy
- Narrado por: Caroline McLaughlin
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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The author tells the story as told to him of Anne Hobbs, a woman who went to Alaska in the 1920s to teach, but who had trouble due to her kindness to the Indians there.
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Life is Better than Fiction
- De Betababe en 01-12-18
De: Robert Specht, y otros
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The Bonjour Effect
- The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
- De: Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau
- Narrado por: Teri Schnaubelt
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect, Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. They offer up all the lessons they learned and explain the most important aspect of all: the French don't communicate, they converse.
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Terrible French pronunciation
- De CA en 01-24-19
De: Julie Barlow, y otros
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First They Killed My Father
- A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
- De: Loung Ung
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.
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Brutal, Heartbreaking
- De Gillian en 01-27-15
De: Loung Ung
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A Long Way Home
- De: Saroo Brierley
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia. Despite his gratitude, Brierley always wondered about his origins. One day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for and set off to find his family.
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Hard book to rate... 3 or 4?
- De Jan en 06-22-14
De: Saroo Brierley
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Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
- De: Mary Mapes Dodge
- Narrado por: Christine Marshall
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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Set in the Netherlands, the beautiful land of windmills, tulips, and wooden shoes, the story concerns the experiences of the impoverished Brinker family, including the thrilling race for the silver skates. The good deeds of the Brinker children, Hans and Gretel, help to restore their father's health and bring about their own good fortune.
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Wonderful Story
- De Kindle Customer 13 en 05-02-22
De: Mary Mapes Dodge
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Homeless Bird
- De: Gloria Whelan
- Narrado por: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Duración: 3 h y 33 m
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Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly faces her arranged marriage with hope and courage. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled—her life has been sold for a dowry. Can she forge her own future, even in the face of time-worn tradition? Perfect for schools and classrooms, this universally acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning novel by master of historical fiction Gloria Whelan is a gripping tale of hope that will transport listeners of all ages.
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A touching and beautiful story
- De C. King en 03-08-24
De: Gloria Whelan
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Peace Child
- An Unforgettable Story of Primitive Jungle Treachery in the 20th Century
- De: Don Richardson
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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In 1962, Don and Carol Richardson risked their lives to share the gospel with the Sawi people of New Guinea. Peace Child tells their unforgettable story of living among these headhunters and cannibals who valued treachery through fattening victims with friendship before the slaughter. God gave Don and Carol the key to the Sawi hearts via a redemptive analogy from their own mythology.
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Great first-hand missionary account
- De Don Lance en 03-29-09
De: Don Richardson
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Red Scarf Girl
- A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
- De: Ji-li Jiang
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution. Soon school is suspended and students are getting caught up in the fervor of Mao’s extreme politics. When Ji-li’s family is accused of capitalist crimes, all of her beautiful dreams burst like soap bubbles. Because Ji-li’s grandfather was a landlord, her family is harassed and humiliated. Their home is searched, and they live in constant fear. Nonetheless, Ji-li remains loyal to her beloved Chairman Mao....
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- De Sharon en 10-02-15
De: Ji-li Jiang
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Princess
- A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
- De: Jean Sasson
- Narrado por: Catherine Byers
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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Princess describes the life of Princess Sultana Al Sa'ud, a princess in the royal house of Saudi Arabia. Hidden behind her black veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, and her country. Sultana tells of appalling oppressions, everyday occurrences that in any other culture would be seen as shocking human rights violations: 13-year-old girls forced to marry men five times their age; young women killed by drowning, stoning, or isolation in the "women's room". Princess is a testimony to a woman of indomitable spirit and courage.
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Good story but...
- De Jay Friedman en 07-25-14
De: Jean Sasson
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Uprising
- De: Margaret P. Haddix
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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The year is 1910, and the working conditions at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory are deplorable. Bella, Yetta, and Jane all become passionately involved in a workers' strike: then bear witness to a catastrophic fire that changes everything.
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- De ljm en 07-06-24
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Outcast
- De: Rosemary Sutcliff
- Narrado por: Johanna Ward
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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When a Roman ship is wrecked on the coast of Britain, Beric, the infant son of a Roman soldier, is the only survivor. Beric grows up with a Briton tribe, but to his foster people he remained an alien, one of the Red Crests. So when bad times come, the tribe holds him responsible and casts him out.
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When Romans ruled Brits
- De Skipper en 10-21-20
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Inflation
- What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It
- De: Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis, Elizabeth Ames
- Narrado por: Carol Monda
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
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Inflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It explains what’s behind the worst inflationary storm in more than forty years—one that is dominating the headlines and shaking Americans by their pocketbooks. The cost-of-living explosion since the COVID pandemic has raised alarms about a possible return of a 1970’s-style “Great Inflation.” Some observers even fear a descent into the kind of Weimar-style hyperinflation that has torn apart so many nations. Is this true? If so, what should be done? How should we prepare for the future?
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- De Brandy E. Young en 05-03-22
De: Steve Forbes, y otros
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A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England
- De: Sue Wilkes
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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Immerse yourself in the vanished world inhabited by Jane Austen's contemporaries. Packed with detail and anecdotes, this is an intimate exploration of how the middle and upper classes lived from 1775, the year of Austen's birth, to the coronation of George IV in 1820. Sue Wilkes skillfully conjures up all aspects of daily life within the period, drawing on contemporary diaries, illustrations, letters, novels, travel literature, and archives.
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A fantastic companion to Regency novels
- De Nicole en 07-08-24
De: Sue Wilkes
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A Grain of Salt
- The Science and Pseudoscience of What We Eat
- De: Dr. Joe Schwarcz
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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Of all the dietary and nutritional claims pitched to us, what can we believe? How does cinnamon affect your health? How splendid is Splenda? Should you buy farmed, wild, or canned food? What's fishy about fish-oil supplements? Will a diet of Twinkies and M&M's lead to weight loss? Water from a tap or from a plastic bottle - which should you choose, and which is better for the environment? Should you carry your groceries home in plastic or brown paper? We all have questions, and Dr. Joe Schwarcz has the answers, some of which will astonish you.
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Excellent! Science-baced nutritional information.
- De Amazon Customer en 02-05-20
De: Dr. Joe Schwarcz
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24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
- 24 Hours in Ancient History Series, Book 1
- De: Philip Matyszak
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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In this entertaining and enlightening guide, best-selling historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to the people who lived and worked there. In each hour of the day we meet a new character - from emperor to slave girl, gladiator to astrologer, medicine woman to water-clock maker - and discover the fascinating details of their daily lives.
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Took me back to Latin class and the origin of word
- De tony harris en 05-19-20
De: Philip Matyszak
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Culinary Reactions
- The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking
- De: Simon Quellen Field
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
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When you're cooking, you're a chemist! Every time you follow or modify a recipe you are experimenting with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams. In your kitchen you denature proteins, crystallize compounds, react enzymes with substrates, and nurture desired microbial life while suppressing harmful microbes. And unlike in a laboratory, you can eat your experiments to verify your hypotheses.
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Culinary Reactions - The Chemical Formulas to Cook
- De Vicente Gard en 06-06-19
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There Are No Children Here
- The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
- De: Alex Kotlowitz
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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This national best-seller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are 11 and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang influences, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and neglectful bureaucracies. Immersed in their lives for two years, Kotlowitz brings us this classic rendering of growing up poor in America’s cities.
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A DEPRESSING ACCOUNT OF REAL LIFE IN THE U.S.
- De The Louligan en 03-04-15
De: Alex Kotlowitz
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- Gingerfox
- 07-04-20
Very interesting book
It’s amazing how all the pieces of the puzzle fit. One missing piece would have stopped the next tragedy but that clearly didn’t happen. It’s a book that explains most of the information we already new. I have always believed Americans played a part in how this tragedy unfolded. Look at American Foreign policy during the decades before and after 911, they did play a part in all of this.
Najwa left Afghanistan on September 9th and that is a really important date in Afghanistan. This is the day al Qaeda carried out the attack on the Northern alliance leader Ahmad shah Massoud. He was practically the only resistance left in Afghanistan against the Taliban and a force that would have assisted the Americans. Did his assassination play a part in her decision to leave? He also warned the world that something big is happening in Afghanistan and people need to pay attention but was ignored.
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- Julie Schwalb
- 04-10-16
A must read
A fascinating account I could not stop listening. Brilliantly narrated the stories of Najwa and Omar are heartbreaking and insightful.
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- J
- 12-30-23
Wow
Truly crazy to hear the life of the Bin Laden family from the Bin Laden family. It blows my mind he put his family in harms way to continue his violence. It is sad to hear that many of his wives and children’s fates are unknown, and many of them so young. Awful human being, but humanizes his innocent family.
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- Curatina
- 04-14-10
Fascinating. I could not stop listening.
This book is not a literary work, but rather the memories of Najwa and Omar, two people who knew Osama Bin Laden not as a hero or a villain, but as a husband and father. He was a man they both loved in different ways, but also became a man they had to break with in order to survive.
Najwa's strength is the strength of love and determination to bend her will to her husband's and make the best of increasingly difficult circumstances for herself and her children. Omar's story is that of a young boy who grew up idolizing his hero father, but also being extremely disturbed by the hardships his father made him suffer -- sometimes carelessly, and sometimes deliberately. Although there are vivid recollections of attacks and violence as well as severe deprivation, what fascinates is Omar's inner journey from violence and retaliation toward peace and reconciliation. That he was able to survive the constant messages justifying hatred and killing and retain his love of all of god's creation -- both animal and human, is remarkable.
Please listen with an open heart and mind to the lives of these people. There were a few turning points that might have averted the 9/11 attacks that are probably unknown the common man in the west before this book. The book deeply conveys that no matter how misguided we may consider Osama Bin Laden, he is a man convinced of his own righteousness and the justice of his mission. His family as well as the rest of the world, bears the scars of that obsession.
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- Anne
- 03-27-12
Bin Laden's Son Speaks
If you could sum up Growing Up bin Laden in three words, what would they be?
It changes nothing
What did you like best about this story?
The yearning of Omar Bin Laden when he describes his childhood and the relationship with his father touched me. As an adult, the yearning for a father persists despite his ability to look at and judge his father with suprising objectivity.
What about Mel Foster’s performance did you like?
The performance was good overall but there were times when I felt as ifI was listening to italics and could not determine if they were the author's or the narrator's
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
no
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- Pam Hare
- 02-14-12
One of the best books that I have listened to.
If you could sum up Growing Up bin Laden in three words, what would they be?
Captivating.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Najwa bin Laden. She is such an insightful, strong woman.
Which scene was your favorite?
Najwa bin Laden's joy with the birth of each of her children, and how she supported her children without
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I have not come to the 9-11 part yet, but it is refreshing to feel compassion for the family of such an evil man. I haven't cried yet. 45 minutes left to go though.
Any additional comments?
This is the 4th book of Jean Sassons that I have read or listen too. She is an excellent writer of others experiences.
The narration of this book is excellent.
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- john
- 01-06-16
Well this explains it
What did you like best about Growing Up bin Laden? What did you like least?
The confirmation of my own opinion of this family. With regard to the actual book itself, nothing.
What did you like best about this story?
The explanation of why these people are polluting the earth. Inbred by the constant marrying of first cousins. Cruelty of marrying children to children and then breeding dozens of children for jihad.
What aspect of Mel Foster’s performance would you have changed?
nothing
Any additional comments?
If you want an explanation of why the world is in the mess it is in then read this. Multiply the bin Laden family by hundreds of thousands and you will have your answer.
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- Joy
- 01-01-11
True grit and painful to hear
It must have been painful to write this book- it details one man's descent into extremist madness and the horrific toll it took on his wives and children. This book is a great read and gives some insight into a culture so different from our own; where husbands are king and wives and children are subjugated and raised according to the father's whims and beliefs. Thank God for America, I wouldn't last very long over there.....!
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- Mom of colorful imaginations
- 05-25-19
Very amazing, stunning, and interesting
I'm sure every US citizen is curious about Osama's family. Very well written and portrayed.
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- Amanda V
- 03-01-20
Interesting listen
Fascinating story about the lives of Najwa and Omar Bin Laden. It was interesting to hear their versions of lire with bin laden.
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