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The Magnificent Elmer My Life with Elmer Bernstein, Pearl Bernstein Gardner

The Magnificent Elmer

by Pearl Bernstein Gardner...

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Written by his wife of twenty years, The Magnificent Elmer is the first book about Elmer ...

Unabridged: 3 hr 48 min
Narrator: Lorna Raver
Published: 12/01/2014
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Drinking with Miss Dutchie A Memoir, Ed Breslin

Drinking with Miss Dutchie

by Ed Breslin

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When Ed Breslin bought a new dog, Miss Dutchie, he wasn’t expecting his beloved pe...

Unabridged: 5 hr 37 min
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Published: 03/15/2011
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Not Becoming My Mother and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way, Ruth Reichl

Not Becoming My Mother

by Ruth Reichl

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Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her mother's life-and gives voice to the unarticu...

Unabridged: 1 hr 34 min
Narrator: Ruth Reichl
Published: 04/21/2009
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Ten Minutes from Normal, Karen Hughes

Ten Minutes from Normal

by Karen Hughes

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"The rule of thumb in any White House is that nobody is indispensable except the presiden...

Abridged: 7 hr 28 min
Narrator: Karen Hughes
Published: 09/14/2004
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Cosmopolitan A Bartender's Life, Toby Cecchini

Cosmopolitan

by Toby Cecchini

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Cosmopolitan is a memoir of the bartending life structured as a day in the life of Passer...

Abridged: 2 hr 28 min
Narrator: Toby Cecchini
Published: 10/07/2003
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The Poet's Guide to Life The Wisdom of Rilke, Ulrich Baer

The Poet's Guide to Life

by Ulrich Baer

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“You have to live life to the limit, not according to each day but by plumbing its ...

Abridged: 3 hr 6 min
Narrator: Ulrich Baer
Published: 03/22/2005
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Learning to Sing Hearing the Music in Your Life, Clay Aiken

Learning to Sing

by Clay Aiken

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“My mother prophesied years ago that my voice would take me places. She was certain...

Abridged: 2 hr 23 min
Narrator: Clay Aiken
Published: 11/16/2004
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All Rivers Run to the Sea Memoirs, Elie Wiesel

All Rivers Run to the Sea

by Elie Wiesel

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In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his child...

Abridged: 1 hr 27 min
Memoirs of Elie Wiesel
Narrator: Elie Wiesel
Published: 01/24/2006
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Saying Thanks and Beyond Is Saying Thank You Enough, Ralph Mosgrove

Saying Thanks and Beyond

by Ralph Mosgrove

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A simple response of “Thank You’ seems inadequate when you are on the receivi...

Unabridged: 48 min
Narrator: Andrew Lock
Published: 03/25/2020
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21 Things You Forgot About Being a Kid A Partial Guide to Better Understanding Our Children and Ourselves, Rick Stevenson

21 Things You Forgot About Being ...

by Rick Stevenson

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Did anyone ever say to you, "Enjoy high school... those are the best years of your life!"...

Unabridged: 5 hr 5 min
Narrator: Rick Stevenson
Published: 09/08/2019
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So You Want to live on Sark Running a Guest House on a Small Feudal Island, Chris Davies Curtis

So You Want to live on Sark

by Chris Davies Curtis

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In 1965 Ken and Chris Davies bought a two acre property on the small feudal Island of Sar...

Unabridged: 2 hr 57 min
Narrator: Chris Davies Curti...
Published: 01/15/2020
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China Cuckoo How I Lost a Fortune and Found a Life in China, Mark Kitto

China Cuckoo

by Mark Kitto

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‘China Cuckoo’ is the charming true story of a witty and eccentric sinophile ...

Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min
Narrator: Mark Kitto
Published: 05/01/2020
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Bringing Mom Home How Two Sisters Moved Their Mother Out of Assisted Living to Care For Her Under One Amazingly Large Roof, Susan Soesbe

Bringing Mom Home

by Susan Soesbe

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Sisters Claire and Susan have been noticing their independent, introverted mother is sort...

Unabridged: 5 hr
Narrator: Susan Soesbe
Published: 09/28/2018
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Selma's Story a 21st Century Memoir, Selma Mendelsohn

Selma's Story

by Selma Mendelsohn

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Rooted in the late 19th Century, growing and flourishing in the 20th Century, and bearing...

Unabridged: 5 hr 56 min
Narrator: Tom Kimball
Published: 11/03/2018
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May Cause Drowsiness and Blurred Vision The Side Effects of Bravery, Gloria Squitiro

May Cause Drowsiness and Blurred ...

by Gloria Squitiro

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#1 AMAZON BEST SELLER IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA AND AUSTRALIA!"A bundle of ideas&rdquo...

Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min
C'mon funk #1
Narrator: Liz Porter
Published: 10/18/2019
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The Walkthrough Insider Tales from a Life in Strategy Guides, Doug Walsh

The Walkthrough

by Doug Walsh

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The Walkthrough offers a rare peek behind the curtain of the secretive video game in...

Unabridged: 3 hr 11 min
Narrator: Jason Arnold
Published: 07/09/2019
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Redefining Family A Birthmother's Path to Wholeness, A. K. Snyder

Redefining Family

by A. K. Snyder

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“This story is necessary in terms of bringing the beauty and agony of adoption out ...

Unabridged: 4 hr 9 min
Own Your Path #1
Narrator: A. K. Snyder
Published: 01/09/2020
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Adventures of the Horse Doctor's Husband, Justin B. Long

Adventures of the Horse Doctor's ...

by Justin B. Long

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When he wedded a veterinarian, chasing horses down the Interstate wasn't in the vows&hell...

Unabridged: 6 hr 35 min
Adventures of the Horse Doctor's Husband #1
Narrator: Justin B. Long
Published: 01/11/2020
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Which Path 55 Life Lessons, Kevin Avy

Which Path 55 Life Lessons

by Kevin Avy

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An impactful book filled with decades of applicable real life wisdom. Which Path 55 Life ...

Unabridged: 1 hr 31 min
Narrator: Scott Smith
Published: 10/06/2018
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Leah Day's Goddess Quilts Journey into Love and Light through Art Quilting, Leah Day

Leah Day's Goddess Quilts

by Leah Day

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This is the story of Leah Day’s goddess quilts.Leah’s creative journey began ...

Unabridged: 2 hr 1 min
Narrator: Leah Day
Published: 12/01/2019
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Son of My Soul - The Adoption of Christopher, Debra Shiveley Welch

Son of My Soul - The Adoption of ...

by Debra Shiveley Welch

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Winner of FaithWriter's Gold Seal of Approval - Outstanding Read, Books&Authors Excellenc...

Unabridged: 4 hr 5 min
Narrator: Jessica Bodreau
Published: 06/26/2018
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Lunchmeat & Life Lessons Sharing a Butcher's Wisdom, Mary B. Lucas

Lunchmeat & Life Lessons

by Mary B. Lucas

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Mary B. Lucas inspires audiences worldwide by sharing advice from the smartest man she ev...

Unabridged: 2 hr 43 min
Narrator: Mary B. Lucas
Published: 12/21/2013
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Minger's Tale, A - Beginnings, RBN Bookmark

Minger's Tale, A - Beginnings

by RBN Bookmark

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The eldest of three siblings to Irish working class parents living in Manchester, England...

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min
Narrator: Jonathon Carley
Published: 12/20/2018
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Take Off Your Shoes One Man's Journey from the Boardroom to Bali and Back, Ben Feder

Take Off Your Shoes

by Ben Feder

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The "Eat, Pray, Love" for busy executives, "Take Off Your Shoes" invites the reader to jo...

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min
Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Published: 04/04/2019
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Against the Wind: Memoir of a Dissident Dubliner N/A, James A O'Brien

Against the Wind: Memoir of a Dis...

by James A O'Brien

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Set in Dublin during the years of the Second WorldWar and in England during the post-war ...

Unabridged: 4 hr 1 min
Narrator: Gary Furlong
Published: 07/31/2019
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The Old Man and Me Extraordinary Tales of an Ordinary Childhood. . .Post-WWII, R C Larlham

The Old Man and Me

by R C Larlham

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This is a book of short stories about growing up on a small farm in post -WWII America. T...

Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min
Narrator: Karl Leuba
Published: 12/22/2014
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My Grape Escape, Laura Bradbury

My Grape Escape

by Laura Bradbury

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In My Grape Escape, twenty-six-year-old Laura steps off the path to a prestigious legal c...

Unabridged: 7 hr 51 min
Grape Series #4
Narrator: Hope Newhouse
Published: 01/09/2020
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Don't Forget Me A Lifeline of HOPE for Those Touched by Substance Abuse and Addiction, Steve M. Grant

Don't Forget Me

by Steve M. Grant

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Don't Forget Me is a survival manual and a lifeline for those whose lives have been touch...

Unabridged: 3 hr 47 min
Narrator: Peter Lerman
Published: 05/26/2020
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Hog Fever, Episodes 15, Richard LaPlante; Terence Stamp; Kevin Godley

Hog Fever, Episodes 15

by Richard LaPlante; Teren...

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Midway between the satire of Spinal Tap and the pathos of American Beauty lies the schizo...

Unabridged: 2 hr 33 min
Narrator: a full cast
Published: 12/01/2015
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All There Is Love Stories from StoryCorps, David Isay

All There Is

by David Isay

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StoryCorps travels America, collecting and preserving the stories of our lives. Each conv...

Unabridged: 56 min
Narrator: Various
Published: 02/02/2012
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Farewell, My Subaru One Man's Search for Happiness Living Green Off the Grid, Doug Fine

Farewell, My Subaru

by Doug Fine

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Like many Americans, Doug Fine enjoys his creature comforts, but he also knows full well ...

Unabridged: 4 hr 14 min
Narrator: Doug Fine
Published: 04/11/2008
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Headstrong Surviving a Traumatic Brain Injury without Losing My Mind, Donna Valentino

Headstrong

by Donna Valentino

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On an uncharacteristically warm February day in Texas, a young couple sets off in search ...

Unabridged: 3 hr 27 min
Narrator: Tonia King
Published: 08/15/2016
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The Art of Being There Creating Change, One Child at a Time, Duncan Campbell

The Art of Being There

by Duncan Campbell

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The powerful and inspiring story of a man who, instead of despairing over his own impover...

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min
Narrator: Jim Seybert
Published: 07/12/2016
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On the Shoulders of Giants, Vol 3: Basketball Comes to Harlem, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

On the Shoulders of Giants, Vol 3...

by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Best-selling author and NBA all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar takes listeners o...

Unabridged: 2 hr 26 min
Narrator: Bob Costas
Published: 08/14/2009
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On the Shoulders of Giants, Vol 2: Master Intellects and Creative Giants, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

On the Shoulders of Giants, Vol 2...

by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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New York Times best-selling author and NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar examines som...

Unabridged: 2 hr 21 min
Narrator: Jesse L. Martin
Published: 05/29/2009
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The Clothing of Books, Jhumpa Lahiri

The Clothing of Books

by Jhumpa Lahiri

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How do you clothe a book? In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize–winni...

Unabridged: 59 min
Narrator: Jhumpa Lahiri
Published: 11/15/2016
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Remember the Bra Lady, Krissa Palmer

Remember the Bra Lady

by Krissa Palmer

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Krissa Palmer celebrates, in her book of essays, being an imperfect parent of three sons....

Unabridged: 4 hr 3 min
Narrator: Krissa Palmer
Published: 12/13/2016
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A Train through Time A Life, Real and Imagined, Elizabeth Farnsworth

A Train through Time

by Elizabeth Farnsworth

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How much of our memory is constructed by imagination? And how does memory shape our lives...

Unabridged: 3 hr 4 min
Narrator: Elizabeth Farnswor...
Published: 02/14/2017
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Dizzy, Jonah Winter

Dizzy

by Jonah Winter

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An acclaimed biographer for children, Jonah Winter brings historical figures to life for ...

Unabridged: 13 min
Narrator: Kevin R. Free
Published: 02/15/2008
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The Hue and Cry at Our House A Year Remembered, Benjamin Taylor

The Hue and Cry at Our House

by Benjamin Taylor

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The award-winning memoir of one tumultuous year of boyhood in Fort Worth, Texas, opening ...

Unabridged: 3 hr 40 min
Narrator: Benjamin Taylor
Published: 05/23/2017
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Its Not Yet Dark, Simon Fitzmaurice

Its Not Yet Dark

by Simon Fitzmaurice

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In 2008, Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with Lou Gehrigs disease. He was given four year...

Unabridged: 3 hr 10 min
Narrator: Alan Smyth
Published: 08/01/2017
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So Close to Amazing Stories of a DIY Life Gone Wrong . . . and Learning to Find the Beauty in Every Imperfection, KariAnne Wood

So Close to Amazing

by KariAnne Wood

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This is a book celebrating the incredible, awesome, special individual within each of us....

Unabridged: 4 hr 17 min
Narrator: KariAnne Wood
Published: 09/05/2017
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Will & I A Memoir, Clay Byars

Will & I

by Clay Byars

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What would you have left if you awoke and were told you would be paralyzed from the eyes ...

Unabridged: 4 hr 18 min
Narrator: Paul Woodson
Published: 06/21/2016
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One Sip at a Time Learning to Live in Provence, Keith Van Sickle

One Sip at a Time

by Keith Van Sickle

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Can a two-career couple really pick up stakes and move to Provence? Keith and Val had a ...

Unabridged: 2 hr 7 min
Narrator: Alexander Cendese
Published: 08/01/2017
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Nicotine, Gregor Hens

Nicotine

by Gregor Hens

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Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a lifelong addiction, from t...

Unabridged: 5 hr
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
Published: 05/30/2017
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Now Everyone Will Know The Perfect Husband, His Shattering Secret, My Rediscovered Life, Maggie Kneip

Now Everyone Will Know

by Maggie Kneip

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After a fairy-tale courtship in 1980s New York City, Maggie's young marriage shatters whe...

Unabridged: 3 hr 34 min
Narrator: Gabra Zackman
Published: 01/31/2017
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The Peach Tree Limb, Jim Dobkins

The Peach Tree Limb

by Jim Dobkins

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Remember the movie Stand by Me? The Peach Tree Limb is a collection of fifty anecdotes ab...

Unabridged: 3 hr 32 min
The Peach Tree Trilogy #1
Narrator: Claton Butcher
Published: 02/06/2018
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Steering Through It Navigating Life-Threatening Illness  Acceptance, Survival, and Healing, Lynn McLaughlin

Steering Through It

by Lynn McLaughlin

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A life-threatening illness crushes the world around you, and around those you love. How d...

Unabridged: 2 hr 30 min
Narrator: Marnye Young
Published: 08/14/2018
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The Cost of Living A Working Autobiography, Deborah Levy

The Cost of Living

by Deborah Levy

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To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and ha...

Unabridged: 2 hr 54 min
Narrator: Henrietta Meire
Published: 09/11/2018
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How Can Half the Country Be So Stupid? A Memoir and Guide to Friendship Between Political Opposites, Julie Ethan

How Can Half the Country Be So St...

by Julie Ethan

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Julie Ethan and her husband, Larry, were religious conservatives raising five children an...

Unabridged: 1 hr 52 min
Narrator: Kate Elliott
Published: 10/01/2020