Jackie Kai Ellis
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A Stew or a Story
- An Assortment of Short Works by M.F.K. Fisher
- Written by: M.F.K. Fisher
- Narrated by: Carolyn Cook
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A Stew or a Story covers five decades of Fisher's writing for such notable and diverse publications as Gourmet....
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A Stew or a Story
- An Assortment of Short Works by M.F.K. Fisher
- Narrated by: Carolyn Cook
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-16
- Language: English
- "M.F.K. Fisher’s stories intertwined food and life in such a natural way that it would make you wonder if they were not just one after all. Her writing, so ripe and sharp, was the inspiration behind my own book, The Measure Of My Powers."
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Letter to My Daughter
- Written by: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning....
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Maya Stories
- By Andrea Richards on 2018-07-16
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Letter to My Daughter
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2008-10-13
- Language: English
- "When I listened to this book, narrated by Dr. Angelou herself, I loved it. I loved her voice: smooth and grounded, like a tree beside water. And I loved learning about a woman who, through her experiences, had earned the wisdom she imparted."
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The Year of Magical Thinking
- Written by: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Year of Magical Thinking, Didion explores with electric honesty and passion a private yet universal experience....
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Not Necessarily What I'd Hoped For
- By Anonymous User on 2020-09-14
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The Year of Magical Thinking
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-30
- Language: English
- "A stunning and heartbreaking story of loss. Joan Didion writes, as she did, in a journalistic style making it even more haunting, reminding me of my own moments of grief and the objective detachment I needed to summon the courage to 'look.'"
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A Moveable Feast
- The Restored Edition
- Written by: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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This new special edition of Hemingway's classic memoir of his early years in Paris in the 1920's presents the original manuscript as the author intended it to be published at the time of his death....
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I want to give it a 10
- By Roberta W on 2022-12-13
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A Moveable Feast
- The Restored Edition
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2009-07-14
- Language: English
- "In Paris, I still see glimpses of Hemingway lost in scribbled pages or big cafés. I read this in the months before first moving to Paris, as if it were a primer on a city whose light evaded me. And now Paris belongs to me as deeply as it did to him."
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My Life in France
- Written by: Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found "her true calling"....
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What an amazing life!
- By Anonymous User on 2023-06-20
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My Life in France
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2006-04-14
- Language: English
- "Before moving to Paris, or studying pastry, I played this audiobook while baking in my teeny kitchen for hours, utterly inspired by this bold woman searching for her place in a new world of gastronomy. It was the start of a dream come true."
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Le Petit Prince
- Written by: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Narrated by: Bernard Giraudeau
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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"Le premier soir, je me suis donc endormi sur le sable à mille milles de toute terre habitée. J'étais bien plus isolé qu'un naufragé sur un radeau...
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loved it!
- By DAVID GABRIEL SALEM on 2019-09-23
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Le Petit Prince
- Narrated by: Bernard Giraudeau
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-01
- Language: French
- "Every time I reread this children's book I am amazed by the wisdom it holds. I've been taught lessons on love from tamed foxes and roses on faraway planets, and it reminds me that wisdom knows no age, as souls also don't seem to have one either."
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The Measure of My Powers
- A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris
- Written by: Jackie Kai Ellis
- Narrated by: Jackie Kai Ellis
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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This is the story of one woman's journey to find herself. Armed with nothing but a love of food and the words of the 20th-century food writer M.F.K. Fisher, she travels from France to Italy, then the Congo, and back again. Along the way, she goes to pastry school in Paris, eats the most perfect apricots over the Tuscan hills, watches a family of gorillas grazing deep in the Congolese brush, has her heart broken one last time on a bridge in Lyon, and, ultimately, finds a path to life and joy.
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Inspiring!
- By Anonymous User on 2018-07-10
A stunning debut for fans of Eat, Pray, Love
On the surface, Jackie Kai Ellis's life was the one that every woman — herself included — wanted. She was in her late twenties and married to a handsome man, she had a successful career as a designer, and a home that she shared with her husband. But instead of feeling fulfilled, happy, and loved, each morning she'd wake up dreading the day ahead, searching for a way out. Depression clouded every moment, the feelings of inadequacy that had begun in childhood now consumed her, and her marriage was slowly transforming into one between two strangers — unfamiliar, childless, and empty. In this darkness, she could only find one source of light: the kitchen. It was the place where Jackie escaped, finding peace, comfort, and acceptance. This is the story of how, armed with nothing but a love of food and the words of the great 20th century food writer M.F.K. Fisher, one woman begins a journey — from France to Italy, then the Congo and back again — to find herself.