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Estambul [Istanbul]
- Ciudad y recuerdos [City and Memories]
- By: Orhan Pamuk, Rafael Carpintero
- Narrated by: Jordi Varela
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Estambul es un retrato, en ocasiones panorámico y en otras íntimo y personal, de una de las ciudades más fascinantes de la Europa que mira a Asia. Pero es también una autobiografía, la del propio Orhan Pamuk. La historia da comienzo con el capítulo de su infancia, donde Pamuk nos habla sobre su excéntrica familia y su vida en un polvoriento apartamento - «los apartamentos Pamuk», así los denomina - en el centro de la ciudad.
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Estambul [Istanbul]
- Ciudad y recuerdos [City and Memories]
- Narrated by: Jordi Varela
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 15-11-18
- Language: Spanish
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Defiant Dreams
- The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education
- By: Sola Mahfouz, Malaina Kapoor
- Narrated by: Ariana Delawari
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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At age eleven, Sola Mahfouz was told she could no longer attend school. The Taliban threatened that any girl who dared to continue their education would have acid thrown in their face, be kidnapped, or worse. Confined to the walls of her home, Sola watched as the few freedoms of childhood were stripped away. She was forbidden to play, to sing, even to laugh. Her early teenage years were consumed by restrictions. Realising that she would have to either succumb to this life or find a way out, she decided on the latter.
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Excellent book
- By R M on 29-03-25
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Defiant Dreams
- The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education
- Narrated by: Ariana Delawari
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 01-06-23
- Language: English
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Rita Moreno
- A Memoir
- By: Rita Moreno
- Narrated by: Rita Moreno
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In this luminous memoir, Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from a young girl with simple beginnings in Puerto Rico to Hollywood legend—and one of the few performers, and the only Hispanic, to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and two Emmys. Born Rosita Dolores Alverio in the idyll of Puerto...
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A wonderful, painful & exciting life!
- By CHRIS R on 06-02-22
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Rita Moreno
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Rita Moreno
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 05-03-13
- Language: English
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Black History For Beginners
- By: Denise Dennis
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Any misunderstandings between Blacks and Whites in today's society tend to stem from the misconceptions about Blacks that have been allowed to thrive throughout the ages. The only way to help abolish stereotypes is to help present a more complete picture of the Black people throughout history. Black History for Beginners covers a rich but often ignored history and chronicles the Black struggle from capture and enslavement in Africa through the civil rights movement and up to today and the new and different kinds of struggles that Black people face today.
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Interesting but why is it only looking at America?
- By Anna on 28-07-25
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Black History For Beginners
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-08-21
- Language: English
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Model Minority Gone Rogue
- How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off script
- By: Qin Qin
- Narrated by: Irene Chen
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR AND 2025 ACT BOOK OF THE YEAR We all grow up with rules. Do this, be this, don't be that. Qin Qin was all about the rules: do your homework, be good, don't rock the boat. She was the model daughter, model student and model minority. But doing...
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Honest, raw and insightful
- By Anonymous on 24-05-24
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Model Minority Gone Rogue
- How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off script
- Narrated by: Irene Chen
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 27-03-24
- Language: English
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قصة سنغافورة - مذكرات لي كوان يو
- By: لي كوان يو
- Narrated by: محمد العبار
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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عند استقلال سنغافورة، كانت عائدات القاعدة العسكرية البريطانية تمثل ثلاثة أرباع دخلها القومي، مما عزز بعض التشاؤم حول قدرة الدولة الصغيرة على النمو بمفردها. لكن...
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قصة سنغافورة - مذكرات لي كوان يو
- Narrated by: محمد العبار
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 13-02-25
- Language: Arabic
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Jew(ish)
- A Primer, a Memoir, a Manual, a Plea
- By: Matt Greene
- Narrated by: Matt Greene
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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What does it mean to be Jew(ish) in 2020? Caught between tradition and modernity, between a Jewish family and a non-Jewish son, Matt Greene ponders the big questions concerning identity, religion, family and Seinfeld. When his son was born to a non-Jewish mother, Matt began to consider the upbringing he'd put behind him - the sense of not belonging, the forbidden foods, the holidays that felt more like punishments.
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Loved it. Classic Jewish humour for all
- By kristina on 12-02-22
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Jew(ish)
- A Primer, a Memoir, a Manual, a Plea
- Narrated by: Matt Greene
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
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The Broken Circle
- A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan
- By: Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller
- Narrated by: Lameece Issaq
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Before the Soviet invasion of 1980, Enjeela Ahmadi remembers her home - Kabul, Afghanistan - as peaceful, prosperous, and filled with people from all walks of life. But after her mother, unsettled by growing political unrest, leaves for medical treatment in India, the civil war intensifies, changing young Enjeela’s life forever. Amid the rumble of invading Soviet tanks, Enjeela and her family are thrust into chaos and fear when it becomes clear that her mother will not be coming home.
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Raw and brave
- By Amazon Customer on 14-09-24
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The Broken Circle
- A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan
- Narrated by: Lameece Issaq
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-03-19
- Language: English
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Sam Cooke
- The Truth
- By: B.G. Rhule, Joanna Katsune
- Narrated by: B.G. Rhule
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The only biography of Sam Cooke that his family has claimed as being both truthful and inclusive of not only his life, but his death. Today, Sam Cooke's music has enjoyed a cultural resurgence, yet the movies that try to tell his story fall short, mostly because they fail to also include the stories told by his family and closest friends.
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Sam Cooke
- The Truth
- Narrated by: B.G. Rhule
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-11-22
- Language: English
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The Tears of a Man Flow Inward
- Growing Up in the Civil War in Burundi
- By: Pacifique Irankunda
- Narrated by: Pacifique Irankunda
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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A prizewinning young author tells the moving story of growing up during Burundi’s ethnic civil war in this powerful memoir hailed as “a jewel of a book” (Margaret MacMillan). “There’s nothing like a great love song, and Pacifique Irankunda sings a beautiful one here to his homeland and...
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The Tears of a Man Flow Inward
- Growing Up in the Civil War in Burundi
- Narrated by: Pacifique Irankunda
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 29-03-22
- Language: English
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House of Stone
- A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
- By: Anthony Shadid
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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When Anthony Shadid—one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya as the region erupted—was freed, he went home, not to Boston, Beirut, or Oklahoma, where he was raised by his Lebanese American family, but to an ancient estate built by his great-grandfather, a place filled with memories of a lost era when the Middle East was a world of grace, grandeur, and unexpected departures.
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House of Stone
- A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 28-02-12
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
- Written by Himself
- By: Frederick Douglass
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery, as he and his family were no longer in any danger from the reception of his work. In this engrossing narrative he recounts early years of abuse; his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves.
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Strangely voiced reading
- By Mister Peridot on 23-05-15
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The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
- Written by Himself
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 07-02-12
- Language: English
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The Black Box
- Writing the Race
- By: Henry Louis Gates Jr
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jr's legendary Harvard course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, these writers used words to create a liveable world – a “home” – for Black people destined to live in a bitterly racist society.
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The Black Box
- Writing the Race
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-03-24
- Language: English
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While the World Watched
- A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
- By: Carolyn Maull McKinstry
- Narrated by: Felicia Bullock
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Fifteen-year-old Carolyn Maull McKinstry was just a few feet away when the Klan - planted bomb that killed four of her friends exploded in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. It was one of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, a sad day in American history…and the turning point in a young girl's life.
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Brave Beyond Belief
- By Amazon Customer on 11-03-22
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While the World Watched
- A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
- Narrated by: Felicia Bullock
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 30-12-12
- Language: English
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A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses
- By: Larry Haun
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of Fine Homebuilding's best-loved authors, Larry Haun, comes a unique story that looks at American home building from the perspective of twelve houses he has known intimately. Part memoir, part cultural history, A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses takes the reader house by house over an arc of 100 years.
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A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 13-09-11
- Language: English
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Nga Kete Matauranga
- Maori Scholars at the Research Interface
- By: Jacinta Ruru, Linda Waimare Nikoa
- Narrated by: Jacinta Ruru, Linda Waimare Nikoa
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In this beautiful and transformative book, 24 Māori academics share their personal journeys, revealing what being Māori has meant for them in their work. Their perspectives provide insight for all New Zealanders into how mātauranga is positively influencing the Western-dominated disciplines of knowledge in the research sector. It is a shameful fact, says co-editor Jacinta Ruru in her introduction to Nga Kete Mātauranga, that in 2020, only about five percent of academic staff at universities in Aotearoa New Zealand are Māori.
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Nga Kete Matauranga
- Maori Scholars at the Research Interface
- Narrated by: Jacinta Ruru, Linda Waimare Nikoa
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 13-07-22
- Language: English
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Bloods, Crips, and Starship
- How I Learned to Lead Self in a Black and White Country
- By: Norman A. Coulter Jr.
- Narrated by: Norman Anthony Coulter Jr.
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Suspended between gang boundaries drawn with red and blue rags, young Norman Anthony Coulter Jr. navigated Inglewood and South Central Los Angeles like a Viking unsure of what lay west. Always slow to “throw” punches in the face of provocation, he later found that the world at large was not any different from the ‘hood. People seek safety by assimilating into tribes. But our true selves allow us to align our behaviors with our core beliefs whereas false versions of ourselves take on the identity of the tribe.
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Bloods, Crips, and Starship
- How I Learned to Lead Self in a Black and White Country
- Narrated by: Norman Anthony Coulter Jr.
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 27-04-23
- Language: English
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The Timothy Leary Project
- Inside the Great Counterculture Experiment
- By: Jennifer Ulrich
- Narrated by: Leslie Howard
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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The first collection of Timothy Leary's (1920-1996) selected papers and correspondence opens a window on the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present. The man who coined the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out," Leary cultivated interests that ranged across experimentation with hallucinogens, social change and legal reform, and mysticism and spirituality, with a passion to determine what lies beyond our consciousness.
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The Timothy Leary Project
- Inside the Great Counterculture Experiment
- Narrated by: Leslie Howard
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 13-08-24
- Language: English
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The Home Place
- Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
- By: J. Drew Lanham
- Narrated by: J. Drew Lanham
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina - a place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere else" - has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, listeners meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be "the rare bird, the oddity".
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Outstanding except for account of killing deer
- By Sophie on 10-07-22
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The Home Place
- Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
- Narrated by: J. Drew Lanham
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-03-19
- Language: English
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I Am a Bacha Posh
- My Life as a Woman Living as a Man in Afghanistan
- By: Ukmina Manoori, Stephanie Lebrun, Peter E. Chianchiano - translator
- Narrated by: Ariana Delawari
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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"You will be a son, my daughter." With these stunning words Ukmina learned that she was to spend her childhood as a boy. In Afghanistan there is a widespread practice of girls dressing as boys to play the role of a son. These children are called bacha posh: literally "girls dressed as boys." This practice offers families the freedom to allow their child to shop and work - and in some cases, it saves them from the disgrace of not having a male heir. But in adolescence, religion restores the natural law.
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Troubles being a girl but haveing to dress as a man
- By Robin Beattie on 11-06-24
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I Am a Bacha Posh
- My Life as a Woman Living as a Man in Afghanistan
- Narrated by: Ariana Delawari
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-10-14
- Language: English
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