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At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen". He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transcends the typical trekking story
- De barefoot rabbit en 08-07-18
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Braver Than You Think
- Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother's) Lifetime
- De: Maggie Downs
- Narrado por: Rachel Fulginiti
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
As a child, Maggie Downs often doubted that she would ever possess the courage to visit the destinations her mother dreamed of one day seeing. "You are braver than you think," her mother always insisted. That statement would guide her as, over the course of one year, Downs backpacked through seventeen countries - visiting all the places her mother, struck with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, could not visit herself - encountering some of the world's most striking locales while confronting the slow loss of her mother.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not Ypur Typical Ttavel Destinations
- De Pammerpower en 06-12-20
De: Maggie Downs
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The Ungrateful Refugee
- What Immigrants Never Tell You
- De: Dina Nayeri
- Narrado por: Dina Nayeri
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp. Eventually, she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University. In this book, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, bringing us inside their daily lives and taking us through the different stages of their journeys, from escape to asylum to resettlement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story of resilience and compassion
- De PAH en 09-06-19
De: Dina Nayeri
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All the Way to the Tigers
- De: Mary Morris
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
In February 2008 a casual afternoon of ice skating derailed the trip of a lifetime. Mary Morris was on the verge of a well-earned sabbatical, but instead she endured three months in a wheelchair, two surgeries, and extensive rehabilitation. On Easter Sunday, when she was supposed to be in Morocco, Morris was instead lying on the sofa reading Death in Venice, casting her eyes over these words again and again: "He would go on a journey. Not far. Not all the way to the tigers." Disaster shifted to possibility and Morris made a decision.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Memoir
- De Janet G. Zinn en 07-05-21
De: Mary Morris
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Stories I Tell Myself
- Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson
- De: Juan F. Thompson
- Narrado por: Juan F. Thompson
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 298
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 262
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 257
Hunter S. Thompson, "smart hillbilly"; boy of the South; born and bred in Louisville, Kentucky; son of an insurance salesman and a stay-at-home mom; public school-educated; jailed at 17 on a bogus petty robbery charge; member of the US Air Force (airman second class); copy boy for Time; writer for The National Observer; et cetera.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hunter Remembered
- De Karen Loucks Rinedollar en 03-31-16
De: Juan F. Thompson
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A Wild and Precious Life
- A Memoir
- De: Edie Windsor, Joshua Lyon
- Narrado por: Donna Postel, Joshua Lyon
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 86
In this memoir, which she began before passing away in 2017 and completed by her co-writer, Edie recounts her childhood in Philadelphia, her realization that she was a lesbian, and her active social life in Greenwich Village's electrifying underground gay scene during the 1950s. Edie was also one of a select group of trailblazing women in computing, working her way up the ladder at IBM and achieving their highest technical ranking while developing software.
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5 out of 5 stars
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🏳️🌈 Wow! 🏳️🌈
- De Natalia Zimnoch en 10-15-19
De: Edie Windsor, y otros
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Let's Take the Long Way Home
- A Memoir of Friendship
- De: Gail Caldwell
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 220
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 142
In Let's Take the Long Way Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell offers a powerful and moving memoir about her coming-of-age in mid-life and her extraordinary friendship with Caroline Knapp, the author of Drinking: A Love Story. Though they are more different than alike, these two fiercely private, independent women quickly relax into a friendship more profound than either of them expected. They grow increasingly inseparable until, in 2003, Caroline is diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uniquely wonderful book
- De Lucie en 09-07-10
De: Gail Caldwell
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The Great Spring
- Writing, Zen, and This ZigZag Life
- De: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrado por: Natalie Goldberg
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
What does it take to have a long writing life? Drawing on her years of writing, teaching, and practicing Zen, Natalie Goldberg shares the experiences that have opened her to new ways of being alive - experiences that point the way forward in our lives and our writing. The "great spring" of this book title refers to the great rush of energy that arrives when you think no life will ever come again - the early yellow flowering forsythia, for example.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An enjoyable insight
- De Leigh A en 05-22-23
De: Natalie Goldberg
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To Shake the Sleeping Self
- A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
- De: Jedidiah Jenkins
- Narrado por: Jedidiah Jenkins
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,869
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,859
On the eve of turning 30, terrified of being funneled into a life he didn’t choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent 16 months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and reflections drew hundreds of thousands of followers, all gathered around the question: What makes a life worth living? In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Jed narrates his adventure - the people and places he encountered on his way to the bottom of the world - as well as the internal journey that started it all.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Different that I expected
- De Sabrina en 02-21-20
De: Jedidiah Jenkins
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The Sum of Our Days
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and as full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul while sharing her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory - and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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She does not disappoint
- De ChiChi's Rule en 06-01-22
De: Isabel Allende
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Fairyland
- A Memoir of My Father
- De: Alysia Abbott
- Narrado por: Alysia Abbott
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and 80s San Francisco with an openly gay father. After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst of revolution, bustling with gay men in search of liberation - few of whom are raising a child. Steve throws himself into San Francisco's vibrant cultural scene.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great representation of the time
- De AvidReader22 en 06-07-19
De: Alysia Abbott
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Ordinary Light
- A Memoir
- De: Tracy K. Smith
- Narrado por: Tracy K. Smith
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 162
Tracy K. Smith has a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest in a family of five children raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmother's home, she returns to California with a new sense of what it means for her to be Black: from her mother's memories of picking cotton as a girl in her father's field for pennies a bushel to her parents' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply spoken - poetic
- De CarolynneRHarris en 04-27-15
De: Tracy K. Smith