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The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out - with military precision - an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.
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The reader sounds like a robot
- De C. Fox en 05-12-19
De: Kathleen Belew
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Inside the Kingdom
- Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia
- De: Robert Lacey
- Narrado por: Robert Lacey
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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Best-selling author Robert Lacey tells us what happened in the Middle East's oil-rich powerhouse---while we weren't looking.
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Inside the Kingdom
- De Ibrahim en 03-19-10
De: Robert Lacey
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
- Stories from Rwanda
- De: Philip Gourevitch
- Narrado por: Philip Gourevitch
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable audiobook chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority.
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Things you'd never imagine
- De LEE en 12-27-19
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A Storm of Witchcraft
- The Salem Trials and the American Experience
- De: Emerson W. Baker
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers - mainly young women - suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an invisible spirit, the community began a hunt to track down those responsible for the demonic work.
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Wow....riveting and tragic
- De TeamDowager en 10-23-15
De: Emerson W. Baker
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United States of Jihad
- Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists
- De: Peter Bergen
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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Since 9/11, more than 300 Americans - born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere - have been indicted or convicted of terrorism charges. Some have taken the fight abroad: An American was among those who planned the attacks in Mumbai, and more than 80 US citizens have been charged with ISIS-related crimes. Others have acted on American soil, as with the attacks at Fort Hood, at the Boston Marathon, and in San Bernardino. What motivates them, how are they trained, and what do we sacrifice in our efforts to track them?
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More multi-culty dreck
- De Peter en 02-06-16
De: Peter Bergen
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
- De: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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With élan and erudition - and with winning enthusiasm - Henry Louis Gates Jr. gives us a corrective yet loving homage to Rogers' work. Relying on the latest scholarship, Gates leads us on a romp through African, diasporic, and African American history in question-and-answer format. Among the 100 questions: Who were Africa's first ambassadors to Europe? Who was the first black president in North America? Did Lincoln really free the slaves? Who was history's wealthiest person? What percentage of white Americans have recent African ancestry?
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great book
- De Anthony Costello en 06-14-18
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Blood at the Root
- A Racial Cleansing in America
- De: Patrick Phillips
- Narrado por: Patrick Phillips
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips tells Forsyth's tragic story in vivid detail and traces its long history of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia. Recalling his own childhood in the 1970s and '80s, Phillips sheds light on the communal crimes of his hometown and the violent means by which locals kept Forsyth all white well into the 1990s.
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when is white history month?
- De Bailey en 03-06-18
De: Patrick Phillips
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Where the Jews Aren't
- The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called Birobidzhan. The idea of an autonomous Jewish region was championed by Jewish Communists, Yiddishists, and intellectuals, who envisioned a haven of post-oppression Jewish culture. By the mid-1930s tens of thousands of Soviet Jews, as well as about a thousand Jews from abroad, had moved there.
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The Jewish World of Our Ancestors
- De Roberta L. Ruben en 06-16-18
De: Masha Gessen
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Malcolm X
- A Life of Reinvention
- De: Manning Marable
- Narrado por: G. Valmont Thomas
- Duración: 22 h y 4 m
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Of the great figure in 20th-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins' bullets at age 39. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better lives and stronger communities while establishing the template for the self-actualized, independent African American man.
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invites further reading on Malcolm X
- De connie en 05-14-11
De: Manning Marable
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The Terror Years
- From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
- De: Lawrence Wright
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer, Lawrence Wright
- Duración: 17 h y 24 m
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With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection draws on several articles he wrote while researching that book as well as many that he's written since, following where and how al-Qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread.
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Contains much old material from "Looming Tower"
- De peter en 09-21-16
De: Lawrence Wright
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Neighbors
- The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
- De: Jan T. Gross
- Narrado por: Rory Barnett
- Duración: 3 h y 22 m
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One summer day in 1941, half of the Polish town of Jedwabne murdered the other half, 1,600 men, women, and children, all but seven of the town's Jews. Neighbors tells their story. This is a shocking, brutal story that has never before been told. It is the most important study of Polish-Jewish relations to be published in decades and should become a classic of Holocaust literature. Jan Gross pieces together eyewitness accounts and other evidence into an engulfing reconstruction of the horrific July day remembered well by locals but forgotten by history.
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interesting
- De A. Adams en 10-11-20
De: Jan T. Gross
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A Thousand Hills
- Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
- De: Stephen Kinzer
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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Paul Kagame grew up as a wretched refugee. He and a group of comrades, determined to force their way back home after a generation of exile, designed one of the most audacious covert operations in the history of clandestine war. Then, after taking power, they amazed the world by stabilizing and reviving their devastated country.
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Best Most Comprehensive Work on Rwanda
- De Greg en 07-30-10
De: Stephen Kinzer
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Gangster Warlords
- De: Ioan Grillo
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps 500 body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit men to gun down 41 police officers and prison guards in two days. In Southern Mexico a meth maker is venerated as a saint while enforcing Old Testament justice on his enemies. A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock star, unleashing guerrilla attacks, strong-arming governments, and taking over much of the world's trade in narcotics, guns, and humans.
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Good analysis and interpretation, but...
- De James H. McDonald en 10-30-19
De: Ioan Grillo
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Cult Insanity
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In Cult Insanity, Spencer reveals the outrageous behavior of her brother-in-law Ervil---a self-proclaimed prophet who determined he was called to set the house of God in order---and how he terrorized their colony. Claiming to be God's avenger and to have a license to kill in the name of God, Ervil ordered the murders of friends and family members, eliminating all those who challenged his authority. Cult Insanity is a riveting, terrifying memoir of polygamist life under the tyranny of a madman.
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Not as good as the First
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Favorite Wife
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She had no choice in the matter - none of the girls did. Her mission was to give birth to and raise many children in devoted service to a shared husband. Susan was 15 years old when she became the sixth wife of Verlan LeBaron, one of the leaders of a rogue Mormon cult, who was engaged in a blood feud with his brother that from 1972 to 1988 claimed up to two dozen lives. In this gripping and eloquent book, Susan Ray Schmidt tells the story of growing up on the inside and of her ultimate escape with her children from an oppressive and violent life.
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If you have 22 hours to kill...
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Deliver Us
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Over a three-decade span, more than 20 women - many teenagers - died mysteriously in the small towns bordering Interstate 45, a 50-mile stretch of highway running from Houston to Galveston. The victims were strangled, shot, or savagely beaten.
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Creepy creepy creepy
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When Kentucky blueblood Drew Thornton parachuted to his death in September 1985 - carrying thousands in cash and 150 pounds of cocaine - the gruesome end of his startling life blew open a scandal that reached to the most secret circles of the US government. The story of Thornton and “The Company” he served, and the lone heroic fight of State Policeman Ralph Ross against an international web of corruption, is one of the most portentous tales of the 20th century.
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Good story if you're from the area
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Shattered Dreams
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Irene Spencer did as she felt God commanded in marrying her brother-in-law, Verlan LeBaron, becoming his second wife. When the government raided the fundamentalist, polygamous Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona, Irene and her family fled to Verlan's brothers' Mexican ranch. They lived in squalor and desolate conditions in the Mexican desert with Verlan's six brothers, one sister, and numerous wives and children.
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Eye Opening... Difficult Listen... Honest
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Evidence of Love
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Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the North Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires. On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage.
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FINALLY!!!
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Cult Insanity
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In Cult Insanity, Spencer reveals the outrageous behavior of her brother-in-law Ervil---a self-proclaimed prophet who determined he was called to set the house of God in order---and how he terrorized their colony. Claiming to be God's avenger and to have a license to kill in the name of God, Ervil ordered the murders of friends and family members, eliminating all those who challenged his authority. Cult Insanity is a riveting, terrifying memoir of polygamist life under the tyranny of a madman.
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Favorite Wife
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Deliver Us
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Over a three-decade span, more than 20 women - many teenagers - died mysteriously in the small towns bordering Interstate 45, a 50-mile stretch of highway running from Houston to Galveston. The victims were strangled, shot, or savagely beaten.
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Creepy creepy creepy
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The Bluegrass Conspiracy
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When Kentucky blueblood Drew Thornton parachuted to his death in September 1985 - carrying thousands in cash and 150 pounds of cocaine - the gruesome end of his startling life blew open a scandal that reached to the most secret circles of the US government. The story of Thornton and “The Company” he served, and the lone heroic fight of State Policeman Ralph Ross against an international web of corruption, is one of the most portentous tales of the 20th century.
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Good story if you're from the area
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De: Sally Denton
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Wasted
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In 1995, Austin, Texas was rocked by the brutal murder of Regina Hartwell. Even though Regina's body was burned beyond recognition, police had two suspects within days. One was the beautiful ex-cheerleader who was the object of Regina's desire. The other was a man who would take the fall for murder . . . In this new edition of her bestselling book Wasted, true crime master Suzy Spencer chronicles a fatal love triangle as three lives are driven out of control by sexual desire, drugs, and shocking childhood demons.
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Excellent story telling
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Never Leave Me
- An Obsessive Husband, an Unfaithful Wife, a Brutal Murder
- De: John Glatt
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In a quiet community of million-dollar homes and shiny SUVs, the Nyce family projected the very image of success. Dr. Jonathan Nyce, an asthma sufferer, had achieved medical breakthroughs that made him rich - and offered hope to countless people. Michelle's beauty made her an object of desire. And adultery was her husband's worst nightmare.
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- De Crafts consumer en 04-21-22
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The Murderer Next Door
- Why the Mind is Designed to Kill
- De: David M. Buss
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As acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, "People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils never forget." Though we may like to believe that murderers are pathological misfits and hardened criminals, the vast majority of murders are committed by people who, until the day they kill, would seem to be perfectly normal.
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Stays with me
- De Ellen en 03-02-09
De: David M. Buss
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House of Evil
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- De: John Dean
- Narrado por: John Glouchevitch
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In the heart of Indianapolis in the mid-1960s, through a twist of fate and fortune, a pretty young girl came to live with a 37-year-old mother and her seven children. What began as a temporary childcare arrangement between Sylvia Likens's parents and Gertrude Baniszewski turned into a crime that would haunt cops, prosecutors, and a community for decades to come. When police found Sylvia's emaciated body, with a chilling message carved into her flesh, they knew that she had suffered tremendously before her death.
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Horrific
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The Devil in Pew Number Seven
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Rebecca never felt safe as a child. In 1969, her father, Robert Nichols, moved to Sellerstown, North Carolina, to serve as a pastor. There he found a small community eager to welcome him - with one exception. Glaring at him from pew number seven was a man obsessed with controlling the church. Determined to get rid of anyone who stood in his way, he unleashed a plan of terror that was more devastating and violent than the Nichols family could have ever imagined.
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Compelling
- De Christi S en 05-10-12
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The Lost Years
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Kristina, the second of four children, begins by telling how a little sip of vodka sipped secretly at a party her parents were giving started her on a pathway to addiction. In that instant, alcohol became her pathway to comfort. Over the next eight years, she sank further into addiction, moving on to cocaine and methamphetamines. In telling her story, she gives a brutally honest description of her addiction and crimes.
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well-written, accessible, with odd Narrator Choice
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The Colony
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- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
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In 1866, 12 men and women and one small child were forced aboard a leaky schooner and cast away to a natural prison on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Two weeks later, a dozen others were exiled, and then 40 more, and then 100 more. Tracked by bounty hunters and torn screaming from their families, the luckless were loaded into shipboard cattle stalls and abandoned in a lawless place where brutality held sway. Many did not have leprosy, and most of those who did were not contagious.
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Interesting
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The Polygamist’s Daughter
- A Memoir
- De: Anna LeBaron, Leslie Wilson - contributor
- Narrado por: Anna LeBaron
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"My father had more than 50 children." So begins the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist and murderer Ervil LeBaron. With her father wanted by the FBI for killing anyone who tried to leave his cult - a radical branch of Mormonism - Anna and her siblings were constantly on the run with the other sister-wives. Often starving and always desperate, the children lived in terror. Even though there were dozens of them together, Anna always felt alone.
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Bait and Switch
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De: Anna LeBaron, y otros
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Behind Blue Curtains
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- De: Lizzy Hershberger, M. Maeve Eagan
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 4 h y 33 m
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When Lizzy Hershberger turns fourteen, her schooling ends at eighth grade, and she has no choice but to leave home to work as an unpaid maid for another family. To avoid being rejected by her ultra-conservative Swartzentruber Amish family and community, Lizzy is forced to abandon her dreams because they are “too worldly.” After being raped by an Amish deacon over two dozen times, Lizzy makes her first attempt at “jumping the fence” to pursue a non-Amish lifestyle. But without any modern life experience or education, Lizzy must decide whether the risks of this unpredictable and ...
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Such bravery and truth
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My Prison Without Bars
- The Journey of a Damaged Woman to Someplace Normal
- De: Taylor Evan Fulks
- Narrado por: Em Eldridge
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
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My Prison without Bars is a courageous and harrowing journey through the catacombs of hell, from the mind and voice of a little girl, living with her own monster underneath her bed. Written in first person, this novel is not a memoir, but more a psychological thriller based on true events; chronicling one woman's attempt to claw her way out of the darkness of Child Sexual Abuse, while struggling to find normal, in a not-so-normal world. It is poignant, dark and graphic; not for the faint of heart.
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My life
- De PMOUSAABR en 03-08-16
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The Family Next Door
- The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the 13 Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue
- De: John Glatt
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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On January 14, 2018, a 17-year-old girl climbed out of the window of her Perris, California home and dialed 911 with shaking fingers. Struggling to stay calm, she told the operator that she and her 12 siblings - ranging in age from two to 29 - were being abused by their parents. When the dispatcher asked for her address, the girl hesitated. "I've never been out," she stammered.
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Sloppy Journalism
- De R. Squyres en 08-21-19
De: John Glatt
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When the Clock Broke
- Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
- De: John Ganz
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 15 h y 17 m
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With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a “kinder, gentler America.” Instead, it was a period of rising anger and domestic turmoil, anticipating the polarization and resurgent extremism we know today. In When the Clock Broke, the acclaimed political writer John Ganz tells the story of America’s late-century discontents.
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Amazing history of the early 90s
- De Aaron R. Isaacson en 06-25-24
De: John Ganz
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- Sue Smith
- 07-05-22
Great story, tolerable narrator
Having read Jon Krakauer's *Under the Banner of Heaven,* I was highly motivated to listen to this well reviewed book. Terrific content! However, the narrator's slow, light voice lacked all authority, even when sped up to 1.10 rate. Her voice is much better suited to children's literature.
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- cmptr
- 07-26-22
Fascinating story...terrible narration
This well-researched story of why several Mormon women and children were murdered on a road in Mexico is engrossing, going back to the founding of the LDS church and its historical splinterings and internal debates over polygamy and other doctrinal issues. The intersections of this history with Mexican politics, American society, and international drug cartels are grim. The quality of Sally Denton's writing and research kept me listening to the end. HOWEVER...this narrator did not seem to care about this story at all. Her flat narration, bored tone, and frequent mispronunciation of Spanish words made me grit my teeth all the way through the book.
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- C. Sizemore
- 10-25-22
Great story, terrible narrator
The headline says it all. Narrator vacillates between computer voice and stumbling through sentences. This book deserves better. Proceed at your own risk.
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- Jennifer Murray
- 07-13-22
Excellent blend of Mormon history and true crime
Seamlessly blends Mormon history with lesser-known aspects of polygamous clans in Mexico and their connections to Mexican politics, El Chapo Guzman, and the famous NEXVIUM cult. A must for fans of Under the Banner of Heaven.
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- Rachelle
- 05-15-24
Incredible
What an amazing story. I’ve read nearly all the literature about Mormon Fundamentalism and this one really is top notch. Up there with Under the Banner of Heaven. The flow of the story along with the wealth of information was just incredible.
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- Laura FitzSimmons
- 10-27-22
Crisp woven and bizarre facts
At first I thought the narration was too passive, but I was wrong. This book is so well written and researched that a more forceful performance would be a distraction.
Fascinating.
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- Spencer
- 07-06-22
perfect for fans of Under the Banner of Heaven
Great book about a recent event that was covered entirely without nuance at the time. What happened when a Mormon family was slaughtered in Mexico is still not known but there is a lot more to the story than we will ever know.
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-13-22
fascinating and gruesome true story of Mormons
An interesting story about a Mormon group who live in Mexico and have various fraught relationships with cartels and locals. I found the most interesting part to be the history of Mormonism, which I knew nothing about. The modern history is pretty gruesome and I couldn't always follow why things happened, but it is eye-opening .
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- JBSmoove2
- 07-16-23
If You Ever Wondered Why the Nixvm Guy Attracted the Attention of the Feds
Sometimes you encounter world events that confuse you. You take the time to notice that something out of the ordinary is happening, but you don’t really dig too deeply into why that thing is happening. Such is the case with so-called cult leader Keith Raniere, an infamous, 1980s-early-90s multilevel marketing scammer who somehow remained essentially ignored by the feds while he bilked Canadian billionaire heiresses out of 100 million dollars. The feds weren’t even interested in him as he brought third-rate Hollywood actresses into his organization. Yet, when he gets involved with a bunch of Mormons down in Mexico who are calling attention to the fact that United States policies created an unstable, war-like state of affairs, just south of the border, and the US government jumps into action.
The man is convicted, and likely will spend the rest of his life in jail, so commenting on his activities is useless. What is interesting is that the only reason why he’s in jail appears to be the fact that he was intimately involved in calling attention (flamboyantly) to the dangerous state of affairs in Chihuahua, Mexico. One assumes that he would still be bilking Canadian billionaire heiresses out of their money, getting loopy Hollywood actresses to do things most people wouldn’t think about doing, and otherwise living the life of Riley, had he not convinced Mexican Mormons to protest the hell-scape US policy created in their neighborhood.
Everything else about the book is boring.
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- Jessica Baier
- 07-06-22
More surface level than I would have expected
It’s a good oral history of Mormonism, but I was expecting a deeper dive into the experience of those who have left, plural wives without legal rights, children from these families, etc. The book left me wanting to hear more from the women who have actually been there.
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