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Awakened
Finding Clarity in a Noisy World
2025
EN
Discover True Clarity Amidst the ChaosIn a world brimming with constant noise and distractions, finding clarity can feel like chasing a fleeting dream. "Awakened: Finding Clarity in a Noisy World" offers you a transformative path towards rediscovering peace and purpose amidst the chaos of modern life.Immerse yourself in a journey that begins with understanding the true essence of clarity and the profound impact of living mindfully. Each chapter serves as a beacon, guiding y...
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Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
- Narrated by
- Daniel Everett
Unabridged
10 hours 45 min
2017
EN
Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977—with his wife and three young children—intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding: The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for color. They have no concept of war or of personal property. They live entirely in the present. Everett became obsessed with their language and its cult...
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- Narrated by
- Lisa Flanagan
Unabridged
8 hours 12 min
2021
EN
A riveting family drama evocative of Angela’s Ashes and The Glass Castle**, about a woman who discovers the shocking secret at the center of her mother’s life.**Justine had always been told that her mother came from royal blood. The proof could be found in her mother’s elegance, her uppercrust London accent—and in a cryptic letter hinting at her claim to a country estate. But beneath the polished ...
My Hijacking
A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering
- Narrated by
- Laurel Lefkow
Unabridged
12 hours 54 min
2023
EN
In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970.On September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha Hodes and her thirteen-year-old sister were flying unaccompanied back to New York City from Israel when their plane was hijacked by members of the Popular Front ...



