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Audio Thursday: Cicely Tyson 'Just as I am' The Perfect Gift for Black History Month

Audio Tuesday brings a gift in the form of an awakening of a spirit. Prepare yourself for the journey of a lifetime. Download Just as I Am: A Memoir Audiobook by Cicely Tysoncom from: AudiobooksNow Synopsis “In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only exceeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of history.” –President Barack Obama, 2016 Presidential Medal of Honor ceremony 'Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. Here, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. I am a daughter and mother, a sister, and a friend. I am an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams. I am a woman who has hurt as immeasurably as I have loved, a child of God divinely guided by...

Audio Wednesday - Autobiography: Mathew Mcconaughey

Todays Audiobook is from a author that you might be familiar with, one that you might have even seen on the big screen. Either way your here and want to know more. Take an in depth look into he autobiography a man, an actor a father who knows a little something about timing. Greenlights - Audiobook Download - $10 from: AudiobooksNow Synopsis From the Academy Award®–winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction “Unflinchingly honest and remarkably candid, Matthew McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did—and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.”—Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about success...