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The Heroine's Journey
- Woman's Quest for Wholeness
- By: Maureen Murdock
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance31
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Story30
The Heroine’s Journey describes contemporary woman’s search for wholeness in a society where she has been defined according to masculine values. Drawing on cultural myths and fairy tales, ancient symbols and goddesses, and the dreams of contemporary women, Murdock illustrates the need for — and the reality of — feminine values in Western culture.
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Very good
- By Anonymous on 22-06-25
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The Heroine's Journey
- Woman's Quest for Wholeness
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 06-12-21
- Language: English
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A Princess of Mars
- By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Narrated by: Macleod Andrews
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance12
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A Princess of Mars was the first book by Edgar Rice Burroughs to feature the character John Carter. It led to an 11-book series featuring his adventures and became the basis for the 2012 movie. Carter is a war-weary former military captain during the Civil War who is inexplicably transported to Mars. He quickly (and reluctantly) becomes embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions among the inhabitants of the planet.
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A Princess of Mars
- Narrated by: Macleod Andrews
- Series: Barsoom, Book 1
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-02-16
- Language: English
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Furies
- Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 16 bestselling, award-winning authors
- By: Margaret Atwood, Ali Smith, Emma Donoghue, and others
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Charles Armstrong, Gabrielle Glaister, and others
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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'Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler' Red Magazine 'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror 'Where power and feminist rage meet' Stylist ______________________________ A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers...
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Epic
- By Amazon Customer on 31-08-24
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Furies
- Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed - feminist tales from 16 bestselling, award-winning authors
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Charles Armstrong, Gabrielle Glaister, Katie Leung, Laura Aikman
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 08-03-23
- Language: English
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The Trip to Echo Spring
- On Writers and Drinking
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance64
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Story64
In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America's finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these men were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to A Moveable Feast.
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Auto-tune????
- By HeyDon't. on 01-07-19
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The Trip to Echo Spring
- On Writers and Drinking
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 30-04-19
- Language: English
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The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
- By: Robert Jordan, Teresa Patterson
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance33
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Story34
Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan has captivated millions around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. In this series companion book, the listener will learn about the exotic beasts used by the Seanchan and hear of the rise and fall of Artur Hawking, and peruse the deeper story of the War of the Shadow. Here is the tale of the founding of the White Tower, and the creation of the Ajahs. The inner workings of the closed country, Shara, are revealed, as is the existence of a hitherto unknown continent, The Land of the Madmen.
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Insignificant facts
- By Harald Nygaard on 20-01-25
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The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-09-19
- Language: English
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The Sunday Sessions
- By: Philip Larkin
- Narrated by: Philip Larkin
- Length: 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance56
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Story52
A collection of Larkin's best-known poems, read by the poet. The Sunday Sessions consists of 26 poems, the contents of two tapes recorded by Philip Larkin in Hull in February 1980 - reportedly, each on a Sunday, after lunch with John Weeks, a sound engineer and colleague of the poet. The tapes contain work from Larkin's first major collection, The North Ship as well as poems from his best-known collections, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows.
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The Sunday Sessions
- Narrated by: Philip Larkin
- Length: 46 mins
- Release date: 29-10-15
- Language: English
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A Little History of Poetry
- By: John Carey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance40
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Story40
What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work - over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. This little history is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world’s greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago to those being written today. Carey looks at poets whose works shape our views of the world.
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Name Checking Exercise
- By John M on 10-07-20
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A Little History of Poetry
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Series: Little Histories Series
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 21-04-20
- Language: English
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One Aladdin Two Lamps
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Dana Haqjoo, Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance17
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Story17
Brought to you by Penguin. I can change the story because I am the story. With her execution looming, a woman is fighting for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One...
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Thoughtful, well researched and fascinating
- By MarjB on 10-01-26
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One Aladdin Two Lamps
- Narrated by: Dana Haqjoo, Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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Tolkien and the Great War
- The Threshold of Middle-earth
- By: John Garth
- Narrated by: John Garth
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance32
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Story31
A new biography exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Lord of The Rings. “To be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than in 1939 … by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.” So J.R.R. Tolkien...
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I cannot rate this book highly enough.
- By mr a thomson on 15-08-19
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Tolkien and the Great War
- The Threshold of Middle-earth
- Narrated by: John Garth
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 28-04-11
- Language: English
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Wise Women
- Myths and stories for midlife and beyond
- By: Sharon Blackie, Angharad Wynne
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Sharon Blackie
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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Story20
From early childhood, we learn about the world and its possibilities through myths and fairy tales. The heroines, though, tend to be golden-haired princesses, and the evil-doers often older women. But from midlife onwards, women today are searching for positive versions of themselves, and this dazzling array of not-to-be-messed-with characters provides them. They outwit monsters, test and mentor younger heroines, embody the cycles and seasons of the earth, weave the world into being - and almost always have the last laugh.
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Why is an actress in her 30s narrating this?
- By ALC on 20-10-24
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Wise Women
- Myths and stories for midlife and beyond
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Sharon Blackie
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 03-10-24
- Language: English
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Fair Rosaline
- THE DARK, CAPTIVATING AND SUBVERSIVE UNTELLING OF SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET
- By: Natasha Solomons
- Narrated by: Natasha Solomons, Sheila Atim
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance6
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Was the greatest love story of all time a lie? Romeo Montague is handsome and charming and the first time he sees young Rosaline Capulet, who has secretly snuck into his family's masquerade summer ball, he falls instantly in love. At first Rosaline is unsure of Romeo's attentions but with her...
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A brilliant flip of the Romeo and Juliette script!
- By Sabrina Moutarde on 15-08-23
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Fair Rosaline
- THE DARK, CAPTIVATING AND SUBVERSIVE UNTELLING OF SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET
- Narrated by: Natasha Solomons, Sheila Atim
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-08-23
- Language: English
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The Position of Spoons
- and other intimacies, a collection of essays from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author
- By: Deborah Levy
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Brought to you by Penguin. From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writer In The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy invites the reader into the interiors of her world, sharing her most...
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Interesting!
- By L2See on 19-09-25
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The Position of Spoons
- and other intimacies, a collection of essays from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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Straight Acting
- The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
- By: Will Tosh
- Narrated by: Will Tosh
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance19
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Story19
'Fluent and witty . . . confident . . . highly readable' Kathryn Hughes, GUARDIAN 'Brilliant - so vivid and so sharp, fantastically clever and consistently fascinating' KATHERINE RUNDELL, author of Super-Infinite Was Shakespeare gay? The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might...
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Utterly absorbing
- By Sam Bilton on 09-07-25
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Straight Acting
- The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Will Tosh
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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If I Had Lunch with C. S. Lewis
- Exploring the Ideas of C. S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life
- By: Alister McGrath
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Have you ever wondered…whether God exists? whether life has meaning? Whether pain and suffering have a purpose? This audiobook is my invitation to sit down with C. S. Lewis and me to think about some of the persistent questions and dilemmas every person faces in life. We’ll explore Lewis’s thoughts on everything from friendships to heaven, from the reasons for faith to the power of stories.
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The perfect introduction to C.S. Lewis
- By Rasmus on 26-07-18
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If I Had Lunch with C. S. Lewis
- Exploring the Ideas of C. S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 29-12-13
- Language: English
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Of Mice and Men audiobook
- By: Anna B
- Original Recording
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Performance9
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Audiobook of the great novella by John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, an American classic taught in many schools but also a frequent target of censoring, read by professional narrator and actress Anna Butterworth
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Very enjoyable
- By Jojo on 09-05-25
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The Teachings of Don Juan
- A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
- By: Carlos Castaneda
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall132
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Performance107
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Story107
For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms. Originally published as Castaneda’s master’s thesis in anthropology, Teachings documents Castaneda’s supposed apprenticeship with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer, don Juan Matus. Dividing the work into two sections, Castaneda begins by describing don Juan’s philosophies, then continues with his own reflections.
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Altered States and Strange Encounters in a Shamans World
- By Jim Vaughan on 15-02-15
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The Teachings of Don Juan
- A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-06-10
- Language: English
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Updike
- By: Adam Begley
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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A masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike - a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work. In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America.
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Waspish about the Eastwick WASP?
- By Welsh Mafia on 06-09-15
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Updike
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-11-14
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies
- How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
- By: Elizabeth Winkler
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may...
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Compelling
- By Colliedog on 02-07-23
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies
- How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 09-05-23
- Language: English
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The Bronte Cabinet
- Three Lives in Nine Objects
- By: Deborah Lutz
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Brontë sisters, drawn from the objects they possessed. In this unique and lovingly detailed biography of a literary family that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries, Victorian literature scholar Deborah Lutz illuminates the complex and fascinating lives of the Brontës through the things they wore, stitched, wrote on, and inscribed.
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Fascinating concept - shame about the inaccurate pronunciations !
- By Melanie on 14-03-16
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The Bronte Cabinet
- Three Lives in Nine Objects
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-08-15
- Language: English
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Before You Leap
- A Frog's-Eye View of Life's Greatest Lessons
- By: Kermit the Frog
- Narrated by: Matt Vogel, Eric Jacobson, Peter Linz, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Kermit the Frog is back with a revised and updated edition of his bestselling memoir - the perfect gift for the new grad in your life! In Before You Leap, the world's most famous frog shares his own story in a funny, heartfelt manner about his life and yours. After telling the tale of his humble swamp beginnings, remarkable career in show business, and about all the amazing people and pigs he's met along the way, Kermit shares his advice on many of life's milestones, including:
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Every thing.
- By Kindle Customer on 22-02-26
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Before You Leap
- A Frog's-Eye View of Life's Greatest Lessons
- Narrated by: Matt Vogel, Eric Jacobson, Peter Linz, Bill Barretta, Dave Goelz
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 09-09-25
- Language: English
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