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I'll Just Be Five More Minutes
- And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain
- By: Emily Farris
- Narrated by: Emily Farris
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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I'll Just Be Five More Minutes is a personal essay collection of laugh-out-loud-funny, tear-jerking, and at times cringey true stories of Emily's experiences as a neurodivergent woman. With the newfound knowledge of her ADHD, Emily candidly reexamines her complicated relationships (including one with a celebrity stalker), her money problems, the years she spent unknowingly self-medicating, and her hyperfixations (two words: decorative baskets). A memoir-in-essays both entertaining and enlightening, I'll Just Be Five More Minutes is for people with ADHD, as well as those who know and love them.
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Hilarious and relatable
- By Nora on 05-06-24
By: Emily Farris
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Literary Theory for Robots
- How Computers Learned to Write
- By: Dennis Yi Tenen
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking listeners on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories, and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi Tenen provides crucial context for recent developments in AI, which holds important lessons for the future of humans living with smart technology.
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Maybe better in print
- By Amazon Customer on 03-02-24
By: Dennis Yi Tenen
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My Side of the River
- A Memoir
- By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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Born to Mexican immigrants south of the Rillito River in Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth had the world at her fingertips. She was preparing to enter her freshman year of high school as the number one student when suddenly, her own country took away the most important right a child has: the right to have a family. When her parents’ visas expired and they were forced to return to Mexico, Elizabeth was left responsible for her younger brother, as well as her education.
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Inspirador!
- By Pilar Mejia on 04-13-24
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For the Love of Books
- Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters and More
- By: Graham Tarrant
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland banned in China? Who was the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? What was Truman Capote superstitious about? Here is a light-hearted book about books and the people who write them for all lovers of literature. A treasure trove of compelling facts, riveting anecdotes, and extraordinary characters, For the Love of Books is a book about books - and the inside stories about the people who write them.
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Celebration of literature
- By Amanda on 04-18-21
By: Graham Tarrant
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Young Eliot
- From St. Louis to The Waste Land
- By: Robert Crawford
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Quoting extensively from Eliot's poetry and prose as well as drawing on new interviews, archives, and previously undisclosed memoirs, Crawford shows how the poet's background in Missouri, Massachusetts, and Paris made him a lightning rod for modernity. Most impressively, Young Eliot reveals the way he accessed his inner life—his anguishes and his fears—and blended them with his omnivorous reading to create his masterpieces "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and The Waste Land.
By: Robert Crawford
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If Love Could Kill
- The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence
- By: Anna Motz
- Narrated by: Anna Motz
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Women can be murderers and child abusers. They can commit acts of extreme and sadistic brutality. And those who do, are outcasts from society and from womanhood itself. They are seen as monsters and angels of death: and must be kept at a safe distance. Anna Motz is a renowned clinical and forensic psychologist in London and New York. Writing with candor, compassion, and a clear-eyed perspective, she explores in depth the shockingly underexamined psychological underpinnings of female violence.
By: Anna Motz
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Significant Others
- A Novel
- By: Zoë Eisenberg
- Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg, Jennifer Robideau
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Roommates since college, Jess and Ren have built a strong—if at times codependent—friendship. Now navigating their late thirties, the women co-own a weathered beachfront home, comother a rescued shelter pup and have inadvertently centered their lives around each other. Jess is clever and driven with a lucrative career running her own real estate brokerage. Magnetic but aimless, Ren has been making margaritas at the same local dive and teaching dance classes at the same run-down gym for well over a decade.
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Fantastic Depiction of Female Friendship in Hawaii
- By Amazon Customer on 05-17-24
By: Zoë Eisenberg
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My Beloved Life
- A Novel
- By: Amitava Kumar
- Narrated by: Amitava Kumar
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Jadunath Kunwar’s beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. In 1935 in a village near George Orwell’s birthplace, Jadu’s mother, while pregnant with him, nearly dies from a cobra bite. When we see Jadu again, he is in college, meeting the Sherpa who first summited Everest and wondering what it means to be modern. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, and as changes big and small sweep across India, Jadu finds meaning in the most unexpected places.
By: Amitava Kumar
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A Sign of Her Own
- By: Sarah Marsh
- Narrated by: Fannie Marion
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone.
By: Sarah Marsh
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Driving Home Naked
- And Other Misadventures of a Country Veterinarian
- By: Melinda G. McCall D.V.M.
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever driven home from work wearing nothing but a pair of rubber boots? For Dr. Melinda McCall, a large animal veterinarian in rural Virginia, this is living the dream. Caring for cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, llamas, and the occasional alpaca, unusual mishaps and mind-blowing adventures abound. Getting caught driving home naked after a tough day at work is just another day at the office for Dr. Melinda.
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Engaging, heart felt, interesting, fun!
- By Debra Riddick Flaherty on 05-05-24
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You Are Here
- A Novel
- By: Karin Lin-Greenberg
- Narrated by: Jennifer Aquino
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The inhabitants of a small town have long found that their lives intersect at one focal point: the local shopping mall. But business is down, stores are closing, and as the institution breathes its last gasp, the people inside it dream of something different, something more. A keenly perceptive and deeply humane portrait of a community in transition, ultimately illuminating the magical connections that can bloom from the ordinary wonder of our everyday lives, You Are Here brings this diverse group of characters vividly to life.
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Narration was unbearable
- By S. M. Lake on 06-05-23
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The Art of Libromancy
- On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century
- By: Josh Cook
- Narrated by: Justin Price
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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With Amazon's growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader's hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face.
By: Josh Cook
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Everything Is Perfect
- By: Maxine Fawcett
- Narrated by: Anna Downes
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Cassie Prince lives in a beautiful beach suburb with her successful husband Jon and their children Ellie and Danny. Life is perfect, right? Except now she's reached her mid-forties, she can't help wondering what happened to the fun-loving, sexy and accomplished woman she used to be. This isn't what was promised. She's panicking about ageing, bored in her marriage, exhausted by her demanding kids, and increasingly torn by news of her sick mother back in England. So Cassie does what she's always done - buries her feelings and ignores her problems (and does some more online shopping).
By: Maxine Fawcett
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How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi
- Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite
- By: Dr. Chris Balakrishnan, Matt Wasowski
- Narrated by: Dr. Chris Balakrishnan, Isabel Pask, Maggie Thompson, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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For 20 years, Nerd Nite has delivered to live audiences around the world, the most interesting, fun, and informative presentations about science, history, the arts, pop culture, you name it. There hasn’t been a rabbit hole that their army of presenters hasn’t been afraid to explore. Finally, after countless requests to bring Nerd Nite to more fans across the globe, co-founders and college pals Matt Wasowski and Chris Balakrishnan are bringing listeners the quirky and accessible science content that they crave in book form.
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Disappointing
- By Anonymous User on 04-04-24
By: Dr. Chris Balakrishnan, and others
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Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart
- And Other Stories
- By: GennaRose Nethercott
- Narrated by: GennaRose Nethercott, January LaVoy, Gabra Zackman, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous yearning: the hunger to be held, and seen, and known. And the terror, too: to be loved too well, or not enough, or for long enough. To be laid bare before your sweetheart, to their horror. To be recognized as the monstrous thing you are. In these lush, strange stories, GennaRose Nethercott explores human longing in all its diamond-dark facets to create a collection that will redefine what you see as a beast, and make you beg to have your heart broken.
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Folklore for the Modern Age
- By Annie on 03-06-24
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Days of Wonder
- A Novel
- By: Caroline Leavitt
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, Stephanie Willing, Steve Quinn
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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As a teenager, for a moment, Ella Fitchburg found love—yearning, breathless love—that consumed both her and her boyfriend, Jude, as they wandered the streets of New York City together. But her life was unexpectedly upended when she was accused of trying to murder Jude’s father, an imperious superior court judge, and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. When she learns she’s pregnant shortly after sentencing, she reluctantly decides to give up the child. Ella is released after serving six years. While she is desperate to turn the page on a new life, she can’t seem to let go of her past.
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Love Caroline Leavitt’s work!
- By Writer Gal on 05-17-24
By: Caroline Leavitt
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Dinner on Monster Island
- Essays
- By: Tania De Rozario
- Narrated by: Tania De Rozario
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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Tania De Rozario was just twelve years old when she was gay-exorcised. Convinced that her boyish style and demeanor were a sign of something wicked, her mother and a pair of her church friends tried to “banish the evil” from Tania. That day, the young girl realized that monsters weren’t just found in horror tales. They could lurk anywhere—including your own family and community—and look just like you. Dinner on Monster Island is Tania’s memoir of her life and childhood in Singapore—where she discovered how difference is often perceived as deviant, damaged, disobedient, and sometimes, demonic.
By: Tania De Rozario