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Titolo: Eva Braun

Autore: Roberta Dalessandro

Narratore: Alice Pagotto, Marcello Pozza

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 38 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 01-22-18

Editore: GoodMood

Categoria: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Riepilogo Editore:

Eva Braun era una giovane donna di Monaco che proveniva da una famiglia borghese come molte altre. L'incontro con Adolf Hitler, l'uomo più potente della Germania nazista, condizionò la sua esistenza e tutte e sue scelte. Eva nutrì per il Fuhrer un amore incondizionato, nonostante lui la tenesse lontana da Berlino e dalla sua vita politica e si rifiutasse di prenderla in moglie o anche solo di mostrarsi pubblicamente insieme a lei.

Eppure Eva scelse sempre di mettere il suo amore davanti a ogni cosa; alla fine della guerra, mentre il mondo scopriva gli aberranti crimini compiuti per volere del suo amante, pur potendo fuggire, Eva scelse di seguire Hitler fino alla fine, e di condividere con lui il suo destino di morte.

La vita di Eva Braun resta sospesa tra luci e ombre, tra cieco amore e follia, che lacerano la figura di questa donna che fu una vittima ma anche una silente complice della pazzia di Adolf Hitler. Questo audioBook racconta le vicende della vita di Eva Braun e la contestualizza nel periodo storico in cui visse, che come sappiamo, fu tra i più bui del ventesimo secolo. È inoltre arricchito da contributi originali rinvenuti dopo la seconda guerra mondiale.

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Title: Confessions of a Basketball Junkie

Author: Dirk Dunbar

Narrator: Dirk Dunbar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-18

Publisher: Author's Republic

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Dirk Dunbar's Confessions of a Basketball Junkie is a compelling audiobook that offers a personal glimpse into the archetypal journey that we are all destined to navigate - from the call, departure, and tribulations to the return to the place and person we are meant to be. Filled with poetry and athletic anecdotes, mystical and humorous experiences, and truth-seeking explorations into our local and planetary purpose, this masterful memoir affirms the grandeur of being at home in the universe.

While evoking the wonders of childhood, memories of growing up, and the joys of parenting, Dunbar reveals the challenge and value of a living a well-examined life. He takes us through remarkably relatable experiences that traverse the culture and "feel" of his small Northern Michigan birthplace to people and places in Iceland, Germany, Greece, and Egypt. The voyage ends with his post-basketball life as a teacher, parent, and author/activist in Maine and Florida, highlighting how we are all the sum of our experiences and relationships.

In ways that stimulate tolerance and spiritual growth, this delightful account of the human spirit captures the passion of Jesus and Buddha and the wisdom of Native Americans and Daoists, as well as offers unique insights into literature, film, and music. All this while recapping a phenomenal yet injury-filled basketball career that is captivating, painful, and inspiring. The ideas are big, but simply and profoundly expressed. This audiobook is sure to touch athletes, incite seekers, and enthrall human-interest listeners worldwide.

"A walk in the woods never lies," Dirk Dunbar says upfront in Confessions of a Basketball Junkie, and this autobiography by the pro athlete, humanities professor, musician, and sometime mystic demonstrates the point. In easygoing, familiar language that belies the depth of his knowledge, Dunbar here retraces the many paths of his life as a promising NBA star, a finely tuned philosopher, and a devoted friend and family man.

Members Reviews:

Nice read

Nice read.

This one by Dirk Dunbar has it all

Dirk Dunbarâs Confessions of a Basketball Junkie is a moving tale filled with great passion about the life and times of an athlete and philosopher. Besides the engaging joys and frustrations described on and off the basketball court, the scholarly theories and perspectives are presented in a very thorough and academically grounded manner. Dunbar offers readers a lot to consider and presents us with a wealth of information as well as the twists and turns involving lifeâs journey that I am certain others will relate to, learn from, and enjoy reading about. It is obvious the author has spent years studying and researching, and countless hours of pouring over a lifetime of notes, journals, and experiences. The material is presented in a way that anyone can understand and appreciate. The fusion of personal experience, poetry, and academic theory is provocative, uplifting, and offers everything a sincere memoir should. I especially enjoyed the chapter entitled The Seaside, Solitude and Soul Searching, but also connected with the authorâs time in high school. The narrative voice is convincingâvery familiar and easy to follow.

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Title: Oprah: Love, Power and Passion

Author: Raymond Sturgis

Narrator: JD Kelly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-18

Publisher: Books with Voices

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Icon Oprah Winfrey has embraced her role as one of the most positive and powerful people on earth, and there seem to be no end in sight. Oprah has battled criticism, lawsuits, and competition, only to emerge victorious with only a few scratches. Her humanitarianism is remarkable and her commitment to education and conquering personal setbacks has inspired people to better themselves and community.

There is not much a person can say about Oprah Winfrey, she has conquered the world, and will be in the hearts and souls of people forever. This book is a poetic journey for the Queen of Television and radio.

Although many writers comprised their works on the controversy and fabrications surrounding Oprah Winfrey, none will come close to the kindness Raymond Sturgis dedicates to her.

Members Reviews:

Worst book I have purchased

My opinion only: I found this book badly written and a waste of time. Gossip, gossip, gossip. I prefer facts and why waste time and energy to talk about gossips instead of all the great thing this women has accomplished, every one knows that no one is perfect and that this women has change television for one thing. To spend more time talking about this book would be a waste of time.

Highly Recommendable....Wonderful Talent

This book is a quality read, the only problem is when the author paraphrase or quote people regarding parenting and government is when the book goes off track and have some errors. However, the book is a quality read and I cannot wait to read more from this author. When this author stick to his work and talent this book elevates to the highest plateau.

Big waste of my money>>>who is this guy?

Its nothing about Oprah..waste of time and money... I cannot believe others gave it four stars...I d like my money back.

Crap

Waste of the 99cents and the hour I spent skimming over it.

I was expecting more about Oprah and her life, not stupid quotes

Oprah Winfrey would Love this Book!

I love this dedication to the Queen of entertainment and television. I wonder if Oprah Winfrey knows how beautiful Raymond Sturgis poetically express the beauty of her life and contribution to humanity.

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Title: Journey of the Heart

Author: Richard Crystal

Narrator: Doug Greene

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-23-17

Publisher: Beacon Audiobooks

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Remarkably moving and uplifting, Journey of the Heart is not only a primer on how people can mentally and emotionally prepare themselves for a life-saving, risky medical procedure, but a blueprint for all generations on navigating uncertainty, triumphing against odds, chasing and finding love, and living life to its fullest, with the backdrop of all that is Hollywood.

At age 62, TV producer, writer, and brother of show business icon Billy Crystal, experiences chest pain while playing golf and learns he needs an aortal valve replacement. Without the highly innovative and challenging surgery, he would die. Facing his own mortality, Richard successfully undergoes the surgery. During his days and nights of recovery in the hospital, he revisits his past and a flood of memories rush in, allowing him to rediscover the dramatic events that shaped his life. He uses his life-affirming memories to accelerate the healing process.

Members Reviews:

Loved the book

Loved the book. Well written and wove an important "now" event with great life stories that allowed me to see more of the writers journey. The ups as well as the downs. Since I have a personal history of spending 6 months in Long beach NY when i came to America as an 8 year old, this book brought back many of my first memories of coming to America. Flipping cards, the local movie theatre, learning English, being thrown into the local culture. Fun ride for me as well as getting to know the author better Definitely recommend it.

This is a really good book to read--it "wakes you up

This is a really good book to read--it "wakes you up." Mr. Crystal tells more than a story about a colorful, interesting life. The "more" is his identification of so many emotions through so many human experiences--emotions and experiences that we all have in one way or another. Fear, love, friendship, joy, achievements, insecurities, learning, growing, sadness, family--I can go on and on. But he writes about all of this in a simple way that captures you; and then he takes you along in the story of his life. Again, the "more" is that this is the kind of story that will stick with you and that will leave you thinking deeply about your own similar journey--and that is a pleasure. Mr. Crystal has succeeded where many writers fail--he weaves the past into later events and then creates a vision for the future in a very thoughtful way. You will learn something about yourself when you have finished reading this story--and it will make you happy!

Really Good Read That I Couldn't Put Down Till I Finished

This was one of those books I really couldn't set aside. Yes, it's about Richard Crystal's heart surgery and interesting to hear how he dealt with that and so helpful if you are about to face surgery or just have, but there is much more here. If you are a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar fan, you'll love the section about him and their friendship. If you have ever experienced a bit of a sibling rivalry, the book will resonate for you in surprising ways. If you grew up in the New York/Long Island area in the magical 1950s, you'll have some delightful nostalgic moments. This book is for you if you love stories of opportunity - being in the right place at the right time and also making your own opportunities.

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Title: Donald Trump

Author: Ron Shillingford

Narrator: Michael Goldsmith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-17

Publisher: Ron Shillingford

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Today, immersed in cult of celebrity, the public are amazed and transfixed by the image and the soundbites of stars like Donald Trump. But the public aren't always aware the person presented to them was shaped by life experiences. This story presents the un-sanitized version of Donald Trump's life and experiences. There's nothing more dramatic and instructive than real life.

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Title: Why Can't Everything Just Stay the Same?

Subtitle: And Other Things I Shout When I Can't Cope

Author: Stefanie Preissner

Narrator: Stefanie Preissner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-17

Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

From the creator of hit TV series Can't Cope/Won't Cope.

As a child, being in new places made Stefanie Preissner ill, which was why her family holidayed in the same apartment on the same island off the Spanish coast for nine years in a row. And why, at Christmas, she wrote lengthy letters to Santa (note: letters, plural) begging him not to bring any surprises. She hated change. Of all descriptions. But change happens, no matter what we do.

Here, in her first audiobook, Stefanie looks at the ways in which her life has changed. From birthdays, to friendships, to Christmas homecomings, to social media (she's more JOMO than FOMO), to the importance of asking WWNSD? (What Would Nicole Scherzinger Do?) when faced with big decisions, to the changes you can't prevent, like when someone breaks up with you, Why Can't Everything Just Stay the Same? is the hilarious and honest account of one woman's journey through the biggest change of all: adulthood.

Critic Reviews:

"Honest, witty and poignant observations on life that are both heart breaking and heartwarming." (Amy Huberman)

"It's Stefanie's life, but her struggles are universal. Insecurity? Check. Anger? Check. Weight issues? Big fat check. Stefanie shines a light on human frailty and human strength, proving they are not opposites, but often walk hand-in-hand. Her clear-headed compassion rings true. We all 'have demons way deeper than donuts', but we can control our fate. We can choose to eat or sweat. Stefanie lets us see her sweat - both literally and figuratively - and the result is an inspiring, thoroughly enjoyable book." (Nell Scovell, creator of Sabrina the Teenage Witch)

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

This book is touching funny and brilliant. Loved it

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Title: 101 Amazing Facts About Benedict Cumberbatch

Author: Jack Goldstein

Narrator: Kent Harris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-17

Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Are you a fan of leading British actor Benedict Cumberbatch? Whether he's playing Sherlock, a Star Trek villain or one of his many other roles, the ever down-to-earth Cumberbatch has endeared himself to fans across the world with his quirky style and amazing acting abilities.

This fantastic audiobook contains everything you need to know about Ben, from his upbringing to awards he has won, music that he likes and so much more. Whether you're a new fan or you've been following him since his first forays into the entertainment world, this is the perfect book for you!

Members Reviews:

It's OK

As much as I hate to give any book a tepid review, I have to do so on this one. Didn't learn much new about Benedict Cumberbatch, and it's a bit out of date. However, it's a slim volume, so it's probably worth the price. If you want more in-depth info about Benedict, you'll have to invest a bit more money in another book. :)

Good, but too short!

It was a good book, but it was to short! A lot of the facts in here you could've found on the internet to. Overall it was a good book. ;-)

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Title: Stop the Clocks

Subtitle: Thoughts on What I Leave Behind

Author: Joan Bakewell

Narrator: Helen Bourne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-29-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has been a teacher, a copywriter, a studio manager, a broadcaster, a journalist, the government's Voice of Older People and chair of the theatre company Shared Experience. She has written four radio plays, two novels and an autobiography - The Centre of The Bed. Now in her 80s, she is still broadcasting.

Though it may look as though she is now part of the establishment - a Dame, President of Birkbeck College, a Member of the House of Lords as Baroness Bakewell of Stockport - she's anything but and remains outspoken and courageous. In Stop the Clocks, she muses on all she has lived through and how the world has changed and considers the things and values she will be leaving behind.

Stop the Clocks is a audiobook of musings, a look back at what she was given by her family in the times in which she grew up - ranging from the minutiae of life such as the knowledge of how to darn and how to make a bed properly with hospital corners to the bigger lessons of politics, of lovers, of betrayal.

She talks of the present, of her family, of friends and literature - and talks, too, of what she will leave behind. This is a thoughtful, moving and spirited book as only could be expected from this extraordinary woman.

Members Reviews:

Stop the clocks

As usual, Joan Bakewell writes in a delightful way and her life history through her own eyes is a pleasure to read. Her views are important and sometimes controversial which makes for interesting reading

Stop the dandelion clocks.

This is not a memoir so much as a trip down memorabilia lane (or âreviewing my timesâ as Bakewell calls it). Thereâs a lot of stuff about her, erm, stuff - but one discovers little about her life other than how things have changed. Hospital corner bed-making compared to duvets. Old gramophone records compared to ear buds. Six oâclock tea compared to nouvelle cuisine. And so it goes on. Weightier matters, when we get to them, are discussed perfunctorily.

Iâm not quite sure of this bookâs intended audience; certainly not the young who wonât be remotely interested. And as far as oldies are concerned, itâs all very ho-hum without the ha ha. Not that these sorts of books have to be funny but Bakewell doesnât have anything startlingly original to say either. For me, the recognition factor alone was simply not enough to engage. As for the authorâs praise of dandelions, there I cannot agree with her at all. They are the nastiest of little weeds; so hard to pull out that they have become epidemic. No thank you, Joan.

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Titolo: Solo per un giorno

Autore: Massimiliano Boni

Narratore: Donato Sbodio

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 4 hrs and 47 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 06-16-17

Editore: Audible Studios

Categoria: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Riepilogo Editore:

Massimiliano Boni non è un eroe, se non per un giorno in un anno. Questa è la storia degli altri trecentosessantaquattro. In quel tempo fa due cose: corre e scrive. Poi, certo: lavora, legge, si occupa della famiglia, ricorda, rimpiange, sogna. Ma queste altre cose accadono di lato: al centro, corre e scrive. Si prepara alla maratona e tiene un diario. Non è spavaldo, in nessuna delle due sfide.

Sa di non essere più un principiante, ma non ancora un campione. Abbassa la testa, cerca di imparare dai grandi e da chi gli viaggia a fianco. Lo accompagnano, tra gli altri, un amico straniero, la nonna "Baccajella", Murakami Haruki, Cormac McCarthy, la memoria di uno sciatore chiamato Roberto Grigis e la fantasia di un nuovo figlio in arrivo.

È uno di noi, uno di voi, una delle migliaia di figure smilze e colorate che vediamo ansimare mentre le superiamo motorizzati, domandandoci: "Chi glielo fa fare?". Porta questo interrogativo a un livello più profondo. Scava dentro le proprie tracce per trovare il solco di un impegno che comprende molto più dell'allenamento per una gara. Ne fa una questione di fede: nelle proprie possibilità, nella legge umana e, infine, in quella divina.

Il suo linguaggio si scioglie avanzando verso il traguardo dove la vita è in agguato, come sempre comica e tragica, pronta a dare in modo inatteso e a togliere quel che ci si aspettava. In entrambe le sue sfide Boni è un outsider, ma arriva in fondo. La fatica avvera i desideri.

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Title: Truevine

Subtitle: An Extraordinary True Story of Two Brothers and a Mother's Love

Author: Beth Macy

Narrator: Amy Finegan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

The year was 1899, as the old people told the story, the place a sweltering tobacco farm in Truevine, Virginia, the heart of the Jim Crow South, where everyone they knew was either a former slave or a child or grandchild of slaves.

The Muse brothers, George and Willie, were just six and nine years old, but they worked the fields from dawn to dark. Until a white man offered them candy and stole them away to become circus freaks. For the next 28 years, their distraught mother struggled to get them back. But were they really kidnapped? And how did their mother, a barely literate black woman in the segregated South, manage to bring them home? And why, after coming home, would they want to go back to the circus?

At the height of their fame, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a prebroadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the colour of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even ambassadors from Mars.

The result of hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Truevine, by author and journalist Beth Macy, tells the extraordinary story of what really happened to the Muse brothers for the first time. It is an unforgettable story of cruelty and exploitation but also of loyalty, determination and love.

Critic Reviews:

"Macy is a gifted storyteller and a dogged researcher and readers will be riveted by Harriet Muse's struggle to find her sons." (The New York Times)

"A sturdy, passionate, and penetrating narrative. This first-rate journey into human trafficking, slavery, and familial bonding is an engrossing example of spirited, determined reportage." (Kirkus)

Members Reviews:

Alternative, still relevant view of Jim Crow Era

While this story is primarily about the albino, African American Muse Brothers and their enforced circus careers at the hands of unscrupulous con men, the main focus of the story is on their mother and the African American community of Roanoke. We meet interesting characters, many with painful stories, but most are inspirational, strong and to be admired. As a subplot, we are given a glimpse inside the American sideshow. We rarely get to find out much about the Brothers themselves, until the last chapter, but that's down to a lack of information.

While many of the stories are interesting, I lose track of who people are, am unaware of their significance and some lead nowhere and lack the depth and further exploration they deserve. This book sounds too journalistic for me , the author HAS to tell us everyone's age, she projects too much of herself into it, which just isn't my cup of tea. I also found the narration a bit hit n miss, the choice of character voices made me cringe, frankly.