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On Time
- Finding Your Pace in a World Addicted to Fast
- By: Catherine Blyth
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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On Time by Catherine Blyth reveals why time sped up, why there never seems to be enough and how to make it yours again. We have more time than ever - so why do we feel time poor? The short answer is that our world is addicted to fast. And we have become its servant. Instead of grasping the liberating potential of technology, many of us are locked in to a doomed race to outpace hurry. The more we value time, the less we feel we have.
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On Time
- Finding Your Pace in a World Addicted to Fast
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-06-17
- Language: English
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We Are Not Such Things
- A Murder in a South African Township and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation
- By: Justine van der Leun
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
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A Making a Murderer set in South Africa - a gripping true-crime story of murder and the justice system in the shadow of apartheid. In 1993, in the final, fiery days of apartheid, a 26-year-old white American activist called Amy Biehl was murdered by a group of young black men in a township near Cape Town. Four men were tried and convicted of the murder and sentenced to 18 years in prison. A few years later, they had been freed.
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Essential reading for those interested in SA
- By Evan O'Q on 01-03-23
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We Are Not Such Things
- A Murder in a South African Township and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 30-06-16
- Language: English
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George MacDonald
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself." So wrote C. S. Lewis of George MacDonald, the Scottish pastor and novelist who had a profound impact on Lewis' own literary and spiritual career. Here Lewis gathers 365 of MacDonald's most inspirational lines, prefacing them with details of the effects MacDonald had on Lewis himself.
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A good bed time listen
- By George Arthur Hughes on 25-11-18
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George MacDonald
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 21-08-14
- Language: English
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City Kid
- By: Mary MacCracken
- Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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From the author of international bestsellers A Circle of Children and Lovey comes an inspiring true story of a gifted teacher's determination to understand the ‘rotten' city kid everyone has given up on. Sitting quiet and withdrawn at a battered school desk, Luke had the looks of a shy angel - and a past that special needs teacher Mary MacCracken could barely believe. Already Luke had been picked up 24 times by the police. He'd set over a dozen major fires, and had a staggering record of thefts.
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Brilliant in so many ways!
- By Jackie on 03-03-19
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City Kid
- Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 28-08-14
- Language: English
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The Genius in My Basement
- By: Alexander Masters
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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As Aristotle understood it, ‘there is no great genius without a mixture of madness’ and he may well have had a point: Einstein routinely forgot his way home when out walking the streets of Vienna, Nietzsche wound up in an insane asylum and Bobby Fischer, the chess prodigy, now scrambles around the world, seeking residency in any country reckless enough to let him through immigration.Simon Philips Norton, the subject of The Genius in my Basement, is not mad – not by a long shot – but he is certainly mixed up.
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Marmite
- By Mark H on 16-09-12
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The Genius in My Basement
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 26-10-11
- Language: English
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My Dear Ones: One Family and the Final Solution
- By: Jonathan Wittenberg
- Narrated by: Jonathan Wittenberg
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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A family's story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the face of unspeakable horror and cruelty perpetrated by the Nazi regime against the Jewish people. Growing up in the safety of England, far away from his family's past, Jonathan Wittenberg had never asked too many questions about his ancestors, although his father had told him Hitler had murdered millions of people and turned thousands of them into bars of soap, including several of Jonathon's relatives.
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An inspiring creation
- By MR H on 14-01-18
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My Dear Ones: One Family and the Final Solution
- Narrated by: Jonathan Wittenberg
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 19-05-16
- Language: English
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The Front Runner
- By: Matt Bai
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart seemed like a no-brainer for the Democratic party's presidential nomination. He was articulate, dashing and refreshingly progressive and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. However, he was also a deeply private man, uneasy when attention moved away from his political views to his personal life. Then, in one tumultuous week, it all came crashing down.
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The Front Runner
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 10-01-19
- Language: English
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Unconquerable: The Invictus Spirit
- By: Boris Starling
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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The Invictus Games change lives and save lives. Created and spearheaded by Prince Harry, for whom this is a very personal cause, the games are for current and former servicemen and women who have been wounded, injured or sick. Most races are about who gets to the finish line first. At the Invictus Games, even making the start line is an achievement beyond measure. Triple amputees, cancer survivors, multiple sclerosis patients, PTSD sufferers and many more all compete.
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Heartwarming & inspiring stories, beautifully told
- By Kirstiekirst on 16-10-17
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Unconquerable: The Invictus Spirit
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 21-09-17
- Language: English
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Tales of a Tiller Girl
- By: Irene Holland
- Narrated by: Kate Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene's story will transport listeners back to a more innocent, simple way of life. This is the story of a little girl who loved to dance. Growing up in London in the 1930s, dancing was so much more to Irene than just a hobby. It was her escape and it took her off into another world away from the harsh realities of life.
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Tales of a Tiller Girl
- Narrated by: Kate Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 31-07-14
- Language: English
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Amazing Entrepreneurs & Business People: A2 (Collins Amazing People ELT Readers)
- By: Fiona MacKenzie - editor, Helen Parker -adaptor
- Narrated by: Collins
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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The inspiring stories of six people who changed history. Contents: Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who started a bank which made his family rich; Cornelius Vanderbilt, who became one of the richest people in the USA; W. K. Kellogg, who started the world's biggest cereal company; Elizabeth Arden, who built the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics company; Walt Disney, who started the famous entertainment company; Soichiro Honda, who started the Honda motorbike and car company.
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Amazing Entrepreneurs & Business People: A2 (Collins Amazing People ELT Readers)
- Narrated by: Collins
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 13-07-17
- Language: English
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Ranger Games
- A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime
- By: Ben Blum
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
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A tense true-crime story about an all-American soldier boy turned bank robber. Alex Blum was a clean-cut all-American kid with one unshakeable goal in life: to serve his country in the military. He was accepted into the elite Rangers regiment, but on the first day of his leave before deployment to Iraq, Alex got into his car with two fellow soldiers and two strangers, drove to a local bank in Tacoma and committed armed robbery. The Blum family was devastated and mystified. How could he have done such a thing?
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Brilliant...and beyond!
- By Jackie on 04-09-20
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Ranger Games
- A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 12-09-17
- Language: English
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Bodacious: The Shepherd Cat
- By: Suzanna Crampton
- Narrated by: Shane O’Brien
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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Written from the perspective of Bodacious the cat, this is a beautifully written memoir of Bodacious’s life on the farm and everything that entails - early mornings, frosty starts, beautiful sunrises, adventurous rare-breed Zwartbles sheep, hard work, entertaining animals, mouthwatering food, kind people and idyllic country living with its highs and lows.
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Not what I was expecting,sample not representative
- By AnAmaaazonCustomer on 15-05-24
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Bodacious: The Shepherd Cat
- Narrated by: Shane O’Brien
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 22-06-18
- Language: English
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The Wife's Tale
- A Personal History
- By: Aida Edemariam
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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A hundred years ago, a girl was born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar. Before she was 10 years old, Yetemegnu was married to a man two decades her senior, an ambitious poet-priest. Over the next century her world changed beyond recognition. She witnessed Fascist invasion and occupation, Allied bombardment and exile from her city, the ascent and fall of Emperor Haile Selassie, revolution and civil war. She endured all these things alongside parenthood, widowhood and the death of children.
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The Wife's Tale
- A Personal History
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-03-18
- Language: English
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Some Sunny Day
- By: Dame Vera Lynn
- Narrated by: Virginia Lewis-Jones
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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Born Vera Welch on 20 March, 1917 in the East End of London, Dame Vera Lynn's career was set from an early age - along with her father, who also did a 'turn', she sang in Working Men's Clubs from just seven years old. She had a successful radio career with Joe Loss and Charlie Kunz in the 1920s and '30s, but it was with World War II that she became the iconic figure that captured the imagination of the national public.
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Spoilt by the reading.
- By Shirley on 07-11-09
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Some Sunny Day
- Narrated by: Virginia Lewis-Jones
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 20-09-09
- Language: English
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This Fight Is Our Fight
- The Battle to Save Working People
- By: Elizabeth Warren
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Warren
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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In this passionate book, one of America’s leading progressive voices empowers those who wish for a fairer society. This Fight Is Our Fight lays out the many wrongs Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren seeks to right and builds on her meme, ‘Nevertheless, she persisted’, which spread across the world as a rallying cry for the millions who wish to fight back.
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Ace!
- By David Corkill on 29-06-17
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This Fight Is Our Fight
- The Battle to Save Working People
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Warren
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-05-17
- Language: English
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The Bling Ring
- By: Nancy Jo Sales
- Narrated by: Kathleen Mary Carthy
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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It’s 19 September, 2010, and 21-year-old Rachel Lee has emerged from Los Angeles Superior Court, having just been sentenced to four years behind bars. A few months earlier, she had been running the Bling Ring: a gang of rich, beautiful, wild-living Valley teens who idolised celebrity, designer labels, and luxury brands, who, in 2009, became the most audacious thieves in recent Hollywood history.
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The Bling Ring
- Narrated by: Kathleen Mary Carthy
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 23-05-13
- Language: English
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The Mighty Franks
- A Memoir
- By: Michael Frank
- Narrated by: Michael Frank
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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A story at once extremely strange and entirely familiar - about families, innocence, art and love. This hugely enjoyable, totally unforgettable memoir is a classic in the making. 'My aunt called our two families the Mighty Franks. But, she said, you and I, Lovey, are a thing apart. The two of us have pulled our wagons up to a secret campsite. We know how lucky we are. We're the most fortunate people in the world to have found each other, isn't it so?'
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My favourite book of the year
- By gro bennett on 01-06-18
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The Mighty Franks
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Michael Frank
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 15-06-17
- Language: English
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Little Labours
- By: Rivka Galchen
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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A droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists and brief essays about babies. One August day a baby was born, or, as it seemed to Rivka Galchen, a puma moved into her apartment. Her arrival felt supernatural; she seemed to come from another world. And suddenly the world seemed ludicrously, suspiciously, adverbially sodden with meaning. But Galchen didn't want to write about the puma. She had never been interested in babies or in mothers before. Now everything seemed directly related to them.
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Little Labours
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 04-05-17
- Language: English
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The Porcelain Thief
- By: Huan Hsu
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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In 1938, with the Japanese army approaching from Nanking, Huan Hsu's great-great grandfather, Liu, and his five granddaughters were forced to flee their hometown on the banks of the Yangtze River. But before they left, a hole was dug as deep as a man and as wide as a bedroom, in which was stowed the family heirlooms. Among their antique furniture, jade, and scrolls was Liu's prized porcelain collection, one he had amassed over many years and which contained priceless imperial items.
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In-depth hunt for family heirlooms
- By Mr. Richard Coleman on 03-08-15
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The Porcelain Thief
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 26-03-15
- Language: English
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Maybe Esther
- By: Katja Petrowskaja
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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The poignant, searching, haunting story of one family's entanglement with 20th-century history. Katja Petrowskaja's family story is impossible to untangle from the history of 20th-century Europe. Taking the listener from Moscow to Kiev to Warsaw to Berlin and deep into archives, pieced-together conversations and memories, Maybe Esther is a journey into language, memory, philosophy, history and trauma and a singular, beautiful, unforgettable work of literature.
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Maybe Esther
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 30-01-18
- Language: English
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