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Young Woman and the Sea
- How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World
- Narrado por: Gisela Chipe
- Duración: 15 h y 4 m
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The exhilarating true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, and inspire a “wave of confidence and emancipation” for women in sports (Parade).
By age twenty, at the height of the Jazz Age, Trudy Ederle was the most accomplished swimmer in the world. She’d won Olympic gold and set a host of world records. But the greatest challenge remained: the English Channel. Only a few swimmers, none of them women, had ever made the treacherous twenty-one mile crossing. Trudy’s failed first attempt seemed to confirm what many naysayers believed: No woman could possibly accomplish such a thing.
In 1926, Ederle proved them wrong. As her German immigrant parents cheered her, and her sister and fellow swimmer Meg helped fashion both her scandalous two-piece swimsuit and leak-proof goggles, Trudy was determined to succeed. “England or drown is my motto,” she said, plunging into the frigid Channel for her second attempt at the crossing. Fourteen hours later, two hours faster than any man, and after weathering a gale and waves that approached six-feet, she stepped onto Kingsdowne Beach as the most famous woman in the world.
Based on years of archival research that unearthed Ederle’s memory from obscurity, Young Woman and the Sea brings to life the real Trudy Ederle, the challenges that came with her fame, and the historic mark her achievement made for all women athletes who followed.
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With the publication of her first book of poems in her sixty-third year, Amy Clampitt rose meteorically to fame, launching herself from obscurity to the upper ranks of American poetry all but overnight, and living a whirlwind eleven years, until her death in 1994. Years later, as renowned poetry scholar Willard Spiegelman wades into her papers and poems, he discovers a woman of dazzling intellect, staunch progressive politics, and an inexhaustible sense of wonder for the world and the words we’ve invented to describe it.
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Single reader would have been better.
- De D. Steele en 03-20-23
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Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid
- America's Original Gangster Couple
- De: Glenn Stout
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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Before Bonnie and Clyde there were Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid. In the wake of world war, a pandemic, and an economic depression, Margaret and Richard Whittemore, two love-struck working-class kids from Baltimore, reached for the dream of a better life. The couple headed up a gang that in less than a year stole over one million dollars’ worth of diamonds and precious gems—over 10 million dollars today.
De: Glenn Stout
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Crescendo
- The Story of a Musical Genius Who Forever Changed a Southern Town
- De: Allen Cheney, Julie Cantrell - contributor
- Narrado por: Allen Cheney
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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During the Great Depression, Fred Allen is born poor and hungry in the shadow of rural Georgia’s infamous cotton mills. By the time Fred is three years old, he can play hymns on the piano without missing a note. In kindergarten, he amazes adults with Chopin. Terrified that Fred’s genius is proof of a curse, his parents lock away the piano.
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I'm glad I listened to this Book
- De RENDENA en 08-29-22
De: Allen Cheney, y otros
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The Wreck
- A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother
- De: Cassandra Jackson
- Narrado por: Karen Murray
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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There is a secret that young Cassandra Jackson doesn’t know, and it’s evident in the way her father cries her name out in his sleep. Through awkward encounters with family, she comes to realize that she is named after her father's niece, and looks eerily like the child’s mother, both of whom were killed in a car wreck along with her father's beloved mother, and—as she soon discovers—his first wife. Cassandra learns to keep silent about the wreck, but soon learns there is no way to outpace the claw-like grip of her family’s past trauma.
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Compelling and thought provoking
- De EBH3 en 07-02-23
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This Wheel of Rocks
- An Unexpected Spiritual Journey
- De: Sister Marya Grathwohl
- Narrado por: Sister Marya Grathwohl
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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Growing up in the Midwest, Judy Grathwohl never felt she belonged. “I belong out west,” she remembers telling her father. After joining the Sisters of St. Francis in the early 1960s and becoming Sister Marya, she came to realize that she craved a life beyond the traditional path of a Catholic nun. “Something other than dedicating my life to God was summoning me, some other life purpose,” she writes.
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Connection between humans and earth.
- De Margaret en 12-18-23
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Sentence
- Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison
- De: Daniel Genis
- Narrado por: Daniel Genis
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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In 2003, fresh out of NYU, Daniel Genis was working in publishing as his writer father had always expected. But he was also hiding a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and burglary. After he was arrested for robbing people at knifepoint in 2003, Daniel Genis was nicknamed the "apologetic bandit" in the press, given his habit of apologizing to his victims as he took their cash. He was sentenced to 12 years (10 with good behavior).
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Needs a better reader
- De Thomas M. Elder en 03-15-22
De: Daniel Genis
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Nothing Stays Put
- The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt
- De: Willard Spiegelman
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey, Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 15 h y 8 m
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With the publication of her first book of poems in her sixty-third year, Amy Clampitt rose meteorically to fame, launching herself from obscurity to the upper ranks of American poetry all but overnight, and living a whirlwind eleven years, until her death in 1994. Years later, as renowned poetry scholar Willard Spiegelman wades into her papers and poems, he discovers a woman of dazzling intellect, staunch progressive politics, and an inexhaustible sense of wonder for the world and the words we’ve invented to describe it.
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Single reader would have been better.
- De D. Steele en 03-20-23
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Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid
- America's Original Gangster Couple
- De: Glenn Stout
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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Before Bonnie and Clyde there were Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid. In the wake of world war, a pandemic, and an economic depression, Margaret and Richard Whittemore, two love-struck working-class kids from Baltimore, reached for the dream of a better life. The couple headed up a gang that in less than a year stole over one million dollars’ worth of diamonds and precious gems—over 10 million dollars today.
De: Glenn Stout
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Hard Landings
- Looking into the Future for a Child with Autism
- De: Cammie McGovern
- Narrado por: Cammie McGovern
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
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Cammie McGovern expands on her number one New York Times piece, "Looking into the Future for a Child with Autism", in this game-changing exploration of what the future holds for the first generation of mainstreamed neurodiverse kids that is coming of age.
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Educational and Informative
- De Susan Riggle Waterson en 01-05-23
De: Cammie McGovern
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Magritte
- A Life
- De: Alex Danchev
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 14 h y 57 m
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In this thought-provoking life of René Magritte (1898-1967), Alex Danchev makes a compelling case for Magritte as the single most significant purveyor of images to the modern world. Magritte’s surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have become an inescapable part of our visual landscape, through such legendary works as The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe), and his celebrated iterations of Man in a Bowler Hat.
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Outstanding Presentation of the Artist & His Art.
- De Regina en 01-06-24
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Across an Angry Sea
- De: Cedric Delves
- Narrado por: Benedick Blythe
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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In early summer 1982 - winter in the South Atlantic - Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a Royal Navy Task Force is assembled and dispatched. This is the story of D Squadron, 22 SAS, commanded by Cedric Delves. The relentless tempo of events defies belief. Raging seas, inhospitable glaciers, hurricane-force winds, helicopter crashes, raids behind enemy lines - the Squadron prevailed against them all, but the cost was high.
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Will Require a Second Listen
- De J.Brock en 12-23-20
De: Cedric Delves
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What Doesn't Kill You
- A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt
- De: Tessa Miller
- Narrado por: Tessa Miller
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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A riveting and candid account of a young journalist's awakening to a life of chronic illness, weaving together her personal story with reporting to shed light on how Americans live with long-term diagnoses today.
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Excellent book
- De LZ en 02-14-21
De: Tessa Miller
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Dorothy Dandridge
- A Biography
- De: Donald Bogle
- Narrado por: Donald Bogle, Matthew J. Turner
- Duración: 26 h y 44 m
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Available once again, the definitive biography of the pioneering Black performer - the first nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award - who broke new ground in Hollywood and helped transform American society in the years before Civil Rights movement - a remarkable woman of her time who also transcended it.
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Serious editing needed
- De Bab's Prince en 02-14-23
De: Donald Bogle
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Every Night Is Saturday Night
- A Country Girl's Journey to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- De: Wanda Jackson, Scott B. Bomar, Elvis Costello - foreword
- Narrado por: Grey Delisle, Elvis Costello
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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Wanda Jackson's debut single, "You Can't Have My Love," reached the Top 10 while she was still a 16-year-old high school student. She hit the road after graduation, playing package shows with Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley, who gave Wanda his ring and asked her to be "his girl."
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Grey DeLisle was the perfect choice to Narrate Wanda Jackson’s Book.
- De Loyana M. Vodicka en 01-23-24
De: Wanda Jackson, y otros
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The Hunter's Daughter
- De: Nicola Solvinic
- Narrado por: Samantha Desz
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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Anna Koray escaped her father’s darkness long ago. When she was a girl, her childhood memories were sealed away from her conscious mind by a controversial hypnosis treatment. She’s now a decorated sheriff’s lieutenant serving a rural county, conducting an ordinary life far from her father’s shadow. When Anna kills a man in the line of duty, her suppressed memories return. She dreams of her beloved father, his hands red with blood, surrounded by flower-decked corpses he had sacrificed to the god of the forest.
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Ehhhhh
- De Mike V en 07-13-24
De: Nicola Solvinic
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The Great Swim
- De: Gavin Mortimer
- Narrado por: Randye Kaye
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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Despite the tensions of a world still recovering from World War I, during the summer of 1926, the story that enthralled the public revolved around four young American swimmers - Gertrude Ederle, Mille Gade, Lillian Cannon, and Clarabelle Barrett - who battled the weather, each other, and considerable odds to become the first woman to conquer the brutal waters of the English Channel. The popular East Coast tabloids from New York to Boston engaged in rivalries nearly as competitive as the swimmers themselves.
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terrific, slice of history book
- De D. Littman en 03-24-13
De: Gavin Mortimer
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Ten Days in a Madhouse
- De: Nellie Bly
- Narrado por: Suzie Althens
- Duración: 2 h y 50 m
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No one could protect her once she was inside. No friend would hear her if she screamed. A brilliant undercover journalist and actress, Nellie Bly is admitted into Blackwell's Island asylum in New York as a homeless "crazy" lady. What will she be in 10 days?
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Pioneer of Immersion Journalism
- De Rochelle en 07-04-15
De: Nellie Bly
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Jerome Robbins, by Himself
- Selections from His Letters, Journals, Drawings, Photographs, and an Unfinished Memoir
- De: Jerome Robbins, Amanda Vaill
- Narrado por: David Pittu, Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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Amanda Vaill, Jerome Robbins biographer and authority, drawing on the vast and closely held Robbins archives, has put together a selection of his writings, giving us a sense of his extraordinary range as a thinker and artist, as well as a surprising and revealing glimpse into the mind and heart of this towering cultural giant.
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Authoritative Text on Robbins' Legacy
- De Russell Ricard en 12-14-19
De: Jerome Robbins, y otros
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The Officer's Daughter
- A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness
- De: Elle Johnson
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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When she was sixteen, Elle Johnson lived in Queens with her family; she dreamed of being best friends with her cool cousin Karen from the Bronx. Coming from a family of black law enforcement officers, Elle felt that Karen would understand her in a way no one else could. Elle’s father was a highly protective parole officer; her uncle, Karen’s dad, was a homicide detective. One night, Karen was shot and killed in a robbery gone wrong. The NYPD and FBI launched a manhunt to find the killers, and the subsequent trials and media circus marked the end of Elle's childhood innocence.
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Incredible memoir about trauma and forgiveness
- De Laurence E. Walsh en 06-20-22
De: Elle Johnson
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His Masterly Pen
- A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
- De: Fred Kaplan
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 24 h y 4 m
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As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the life of Thomas Jefferson and his contributions as a writer.
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Jefferson Condemned by his own Masterly Pen
- De SVAtlanta en 02-15-23
De: Fred Kaplan
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Young Woman and the Sea
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- Ben Anderson
- 07-29-24
An exceptional historical recounting of an amazing accomplishment!
I highly enjoyed this book finishing it in a little over one day. I saw it out after watching the movie based upon the book. Both were very entertaining. Of course the book was so much more than the movie. Many historical facts certainly of interest to anyone who swims in any endurance sport. Truly a movie about an athletic feet and even more so, breaking gender barriers. Inspirational!
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- Michelle
- 05-26-24
The description of just how treacherous the channel was, and how many people had attempted to cross.
Loved everything. The enormity of the impact Gertrude Ederle had on history is astounding, yet she is relatively unknown today. I hope with the movie and this book gaining popularity will change that. This should be required reading in schools. Definitely not boring!
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- Stan
- 12-28-23
What for? Are two words that will stick with me the rest of my life. You must find out why they are crucial to Trudy’s success.
I read this book purely out of curiosity. I knew nothing about the story or the woman who made history. The barriers she broke down, the tenacity, and resilience are second to none. I want my granddaughters particularly to read this book! Every one should but especially young girls.
The narrator is so good! She captures the drama and the voice of Trudy.
The only thing I’d skip is the so called evolution of the English Channel. It is an unnecessary part of the narrative but it was easy to fast forward. The first chapter of the book and the shocking story will capture you. Then Ride the wave. Enjoy the trip. It is grand. You will feel you are swimming along with this remarkable woman!
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- Steve Adams
- 07-04-24
A very plucky woman
This wonderful book introduces the modern reader to Gertrude Ederle. She was the OG of American women’s swimmers at a time when women were discouraged from athletics and exertion that did not involve housework or having babies. If you have an interest in swimming, women’s sports and American history in the early 20th century, this is your book. The narrator was fantastic, as well.
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