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Title: Cruel to Be Kind

Subtitle: Saying No Can Save a Child's Life

Author: Cathy Glass

Narrator: DeNica Fairman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-17

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 59 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Cruel to Be Kind is the true story of Max, age six. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes.

Fostering Max gets off to a bad start when his mother, Caz, complains and threatens Cathy even before Max has moved in. Cathy and her family are shocked when they first meet Max. But his social worker isn't the only one in denial; his whole family are, too.

Members Reviews:

A++

Cathy Glass is an inspiration. She is a miracle worked in the life of these kids and alot of time the parents of the kids she cares for. I never expected this story to end like it did but sad as it was the kids were and will be okay thanks to her and other kind ppl like her.

Could not put it down

Enjoyed it. Max story interested me. Glad did so well. Want to read more of Cathy Glass books and see how Max and his sisters and family do.

amazing

like always Kathy's books are amazing once you start reading them you can't put it down this one is just as great as all her other ones keep them coming

Another great book by Cathy!

Fell in love with her passion for children years ago and still get excited when a new book is about to be released! Finished in just over a day - thanks for another fantastic book Cathy!!

Good foster care story with gripping tale

Cathy Glass tells of a challenging foster care story in England. She takes on an intellectual young boy who is obese and has a mother resistant to changing his situation. The troubles of the family interfere with Cathy's attempts to help the boy in many ways. An interesting riveting read. Recommended.

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Title: Single, Gay, Christian

Subtitle: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity

Author: Wesley Hill - foreword, Gregory Coles

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 34 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Let's make a deal, you and me. Let's make promises to each other. I promise to tell you my story. The whole story. I'll tell you about a boy in love with Jesus, who, at the fateful onset of puberty, realized his sexual attractions were persistently and exclusively for other guys. I'll tell you how I lay on my bed in the middle of the night and whispered to myself the words I've whispered 1000 times since: "I'm gay." I'll show you the world through my eyes.

I'll tell you what it's like to belong nowhere. To know that much of my Christian family will forever consider me unnatural, dangerous, because of something that feels as involuntary as my eye color. And to know that much of the LGBTQ community that shares my experience as a sexual minority will disagree with the way I've chosen to interpret the call of Jesus, believing I've bought into a tragic, archaic ritual of self-hatred.

But I promise my story won't all be sadness and loneliness and struggle. I'll tell you good things, too, hopeful things, funny things, like the time I accidentally came out to my best friend during his bachelor party. I'll tell you what it felt like the first time someone looked me in the eyes and said, "You are not a mistake." I'll tell you that joy and sorrow are not opposites, that my life has never been more beautiful than when it was most brokenhearted.

If you'll listen, I promise I'll tell you everything, and you can decide for yourself what you want to believe about me.

Members Reviews:

entertaining yet challenging story

kept me on the edge of my seat. great for a Christian unfamiliar with the struggles of gay Christians. yes, Cole is a great model of what it means to be gay AND Christian.

Not a groundbreaking book

First of all, let me say this: I'm a celibate gay Catholic. The problem with this book is that it is redundant. It fails to inspire the reader. The author has no victory in his life and deep down he sounds so unhappy. I'm not sure how this book helps other single gay christians neither do I understand the purpose of it being written?

Not Terrible

If was nice to hear the authors perspective as a gay Christian growing up in the evangelical church. I do however have a more progressive view about homosexuality and the church then even he does, which surprised me. Worth the read to help move the conversation forward.

Relevant and beautifully written

Review: single, Gay, christian

This is an inspirational story for anyone - gay or straight - wanting to know more about the struggles of a suffering minority, and how, through Christ and intimate friendships, gay Christians can find not only strength to endure, but also realistic hope for a wonderfully fulfilled life of love.

While my personal adolescent journey through college was quite different, Gregory Coles beautifully articulates a strikingly similar struggle with the fears, longings, anger, and heart-wrenching questions that I myself have wrestled with throughout my years of celibacy in pursuit of Christ.

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Title: Gray Matter

Subtitle: A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power of PrayerOne Patient at a Time

Author: David I. Levy MD, Joel Kilpatrick - contributor

Narrator: Larry Wayne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Two Words Publishing, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 24 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A perfect blend of medical drama and spiritual insight, Gray Matter is a fascinating account of Dr. David Levy's decision to begin asking his patients if he could pray for them before surgery. Some are thrilled. Some are skeptical. Some are hostile, and some are quite literally transformed by the request.

Each chapter focuses on a specific case, opening with a detailed description of the patient's diagnosis and the procedure that will need to be performed, followed by the prayer request. From there, listeners follow as Dr. Levy performs the operation, and then we wait - right alongside Dr. Levy, the patients, and their families - to see the final results.

Dr. Levy's musings on what successful and unsuccessful surgical results imply about God, faith, and the power of prayer are honest and insightful. As we see him come to his ultimate conclusion that, no matter what the results of the procedure are, "God is good," we cannot help but be truly moved and inspired.

Members Reviews:

Hope Filled Surgery

Any additional comments?

Unashamedly Christian content.

Regardless of the outcome in surgery Dr. Levy is instrumental in offering hope to his patients.

A few may find it preachy as he spends some time on a Christian approach to dealing with unforgiveness and bitterness.

Gray Matter makes for engaging reading and is more than just a collection of surgical stories: this book details Dr Levy's own journey with faith and learning to trust God while he interacts with, prays over, and operates on his patients.

Neurosurgical RN review

As an RN if over 40 years with ICU and Neurosurgery specialties at University if Iowa Hospitals and clinics, I was so impressed with this book! Never has a book captured the spiritual and physical power of behind the scenes! A must read, not too technical for a lay person, but just enough technicalities to empower a medical professional to be enraptured.

Inspiring, Heartwarming, Thrilling!

Dr. Levy tells shares inspirational journey on cultivating the habit of praying in his practice.

He tells engaging and heart warming stories through his many medical cases and surgeries.

If youre looking for a inspiring, heartwarming page-turner, this is the book for you!

Inspiring!

Dr. Levy's story was amazing! His manner of seeing patients as human beings, is refreshing! The love and caring that he shows by helping them reach a relationship with God is truly inspiring! As a pediatric nurse of 28 years, I also pray for my patients, for their healing and prior to procedures, even when I am performing them, say starting an IV...I always put my hands in God's hands, and then thank Him for His help and guidance! I had my never thought of praying "with" my patients and their families. This book has enlightened me of the possibility of assisting these people in finding their relationship with God. On a more personal note, I also have an opportunity to grow closer to God by forgiveness. I, too, have felt physical illnesses, that I have not been able to find medical reasons for. I will be using Dr. Levy's approach as a guide in asking for forgiveness. My eyes and heart have been opened to the possibility that therein is where my problems lie. Thank you, so much, Dr.

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Title: Saving My Assassin

Author: Virginia Prodan

Narrator: Matilda Novak

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Two Words Publishing, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

"I should be dead. Buried in an unmarked grave in Romania. Obviously, I am not. God had other plans."

At just under five feet tall, Virginia Prodan was no match for the towering six-foot-ten-inch, gun-wielding assassin the Romanian government sent to her office to take her life. It was not the first time her life had been threatened - nor would it be the last.

As a young attorney under Nicolae Ceausescu's brutal communist regime, Virginia had spent her entire life searching for the truth. When she finally found it in the pages of the most forbidden book in all of Romania, Virginia accepted the divine call to defend fellow followers of Christ against unjust persecution in an otherwise ungodly land.

For this act of treason, she was kidnapped, beaten, tortured, placed under house arrest, and came within seconds of being executed under the orders of Ceausescu himself. How Virginia not only managed to elude her enemies time and again but also helped expose the appalling secret that would ultimately lead to the demise of Ceausescu's evil empire is one of the most extraordinary stories ever told.

A must-listen for all generations, Saving My Assassin is the unforgettable account of one woman's search for truth, her defiance in the face of evil, and a surprise encounter that proves without a shadow of a doubt that nothing is impossible with God.

Members Reviews:

Saving My Assassin--A powerful true story

Would you consider the audio edition of Saving My Assassin to be better than the print version?

Listening to the book pulled my focus to the scenes and feelings that Virginia Prodan conveys in the story of her childhood in an unpleasant home and then life and career as an attorney under the Romanian dictatorship. There are a few twists in the story on the way to the scene with the assassin and that is not the end. I read the print version when it came out and was so pleased to see the audio version that I had to get it as well. The two narrators are very good for this book.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Saving My Assassin?

The house arrest scenes when people seem to enter even with the guards present. To comment about the assassin might spoil the book.

Have you listened to any of Matilda Novaks other performances before? How does this one compare?

No, but the narration for this book was appropriate for this book.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

The "creepy" sensation for the tense parts of the book is reoccurring and lasts a while after the book is finished. There were only a couple of tears this time with the audio, but I had read the print version before.

Any additional comments?

I recommend this book highly for a small look into life in a dictatorship and as a memoir with a positive outcome. This book might be really good for students. Virginia Prodan has studied, trained, and practiced law under two very different systems of government and is a very passionate speaker.

Truly a fascinating story

Who can imagine a 100 pound woman standing against a corrupt government like she did. Her life was on the line every day.

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Title: China Marine

Subtitle: An Infantryman's Life After World War II

Author: E. B. Sledge, Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

China Marine is the sequel to E. B. Sledge's critically acclaimed memoir, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa.

Picking up where his previous memoir leaves off, Sledge, a young marine in the First Division, traces his company's movements and charts his own difficult passage to peace following his horrific experiences in the Pacific. He reflects on his duty in the ancient city of Peiping (now Beijing) and recounts the difficulty of returning to his hometown of Mobile, Alabama, and resuming civilian life haunted by the shadows of close combat.

Distinguished historians have praised Sledge's first book as the definitive rifleman's account of World War II, ranking it with the Civil War's Red Badge of Courage and World War I's All Quiet on the Western Front. Although With the Old Breed ends with the surrender of Japan, marines in the Pacific were still faced with the mission of disarming the immense Japanese forces on the Asian mainland and reestablishing order. For infantrymen so long engaged in the savage and surreal world of close combat, there remained the personal tasks of regaining normalcy and dealing with suppressed memories, fears, and guilt.

Critic Reviews:

"A quite satisfactory conclusion to its thoroughly satisfactory predecessor." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

What happens after the fight is done?

E. B. Sledge wrote the incredible combat time, âWith the Old Breed.,â which gave readers a front seat view of the life of a combat Marine. But it wasnât the whole story. âChina Marineâ finishes his story, showing the life of a Marine after combat. Sledgeâs life was forever changed by his wartime service, and this book details his trials after the war. It is the last of four books that âThe Pacificâ was based upon. A great read for any Marine or military historian.

China Marine by E.B.Sledge

The book was an excellent finale to Sledgehammer's previous book "With the Old Breed: Pelilu and Okinawa" He finally was able to put the demons of war to rest.

Dr. Sledge was my biology/ornithology/philosophy professor at the U. of Montevallo. I knew Jeanne & his family. A true gentleman, patriot and human being. It seems that his father was as well.

Thanks Dr. Sledge

E.B. Sledge writes an good account of his experiences in China.

E.B. Sledge writes a good account about his time in Peking. I enjoyed reading "With the Old Breed", followed by this book because it gives me his story, but also, the story of, and experiences of so many of the young men who fought for the U.S. during WWII. In this case, despite the battles these men experienced in the war, their work was not done, and they were transported to Peking during a tumultuous period in China.

Five Stars

Nothing beats first person experiences

Must read for all Americans.

Dr. Sledge was a fine American. His books help me to appreciate what my uncles Bill and Arnold sacrificed for us in Okinawa serving in the Corp. They both survived and made it to old age. Semper Fi Bill and Arnie.

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Title: Pathfinder Pioneer

Subtitle: The Memoir of a Lead Bomber Pilot in World War II

Author: Raymond E. Brim

Narrator: John Pruden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In this engaging audiobook, we see how an 18-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 30,000 feet in the air over Nazi Germany, piloting a Flying Fortress in the first wave of America's air counteroffensive in Europe.

Like thousands of other young Americans, Ray Brim was plucked by the US Army to be a combat flyer and was quickly pitted against the hardened veterans of the Luftwaffe. Brim turned out to have a natural knack for flying, however, and was assigned to the select squadron developing lead Pathfinder techniques while experimenting with radar. He was among the first to test the teeth of the Luftwaffe's defenses, and once those techniques had been honed, thousands of other bomber crews would follow into the maelstrom, from which 80,000 never returned.

Pathfinder Pioneer gives us vivid insights into the genesis of the American air campaign, told with the humor, attention to detail, and humility that captures the heart and soul of our Greatest Generation.

Members Reviews:

A Good Recounting of WW2 Bomber Missions

A good recounting of a B17 captain's time on missions and a life story. I would recommend as a good recounting of a bomber tour in the 8th Airforce in Europe and the training before and a life afterwards. A bit spoiled by sloppy editing and a lot wrong facts which a good editor should have picked up.

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Title: The Boy Who Loved Too Much

Subtitle: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness

Author: Jennifer Latson

Narrator: Heather Auden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

What would it be like to see everyone as a friend?

Twelve-year-old Eli D'Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions, making him irrepressibly friendly, indiscriminately trusting, and unconditionally loving toward everyone he meets. It also makes him enormously vulnerable. Eli lacks the innate skepticism that will help his peers navigate adolescence more safely - and vastly more successfully.

Journalist Jennifer Latson follows Eli over three critical years of his life as his mother, Gayle, must decide whether to shield Eli entirely from the world and its dangers or give him the freedom to find his own way and become his own person. By intertwining Eli and Gayle's story with the science and history of Williams syndrome, the book explores the genetic basis of behavior and the quirks of human nature. More than a case study of a rare disorder, however, The Boy Who Loved Too Much is a universal tale about the joys and struggles of raising a child, of growing up, and of being different.

Critic Reviews:

"Always empathetic and consistently insightful, Jennifer Latson's deep dive into Eli's life not only illuminates an under-known condition, but made me rethink the very nature of human connection. I cannot recommend this book highly enough." (Kate Bolick, author of

Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own)

Members Reviews:

Amazing read

Fantastic insight not only for parents but also for researchers who are interested in the complex disorder that is Williams syndrome. The author could have highlighted that there is more individual variability, she seems to downplay this aspect although even research shows that. Overall a wonderful book worth reading that gives amazing insight into the ups and downs of having a child with Williams syndrome. Although there might have been some more focus on the ups. I love that she highlights that the social connection in WS may be as tough as in autism because more research is needed on this area.

I'd highly recommend reading this book with tissues nearby

Incredibly informative book on WS. Gayle and Eli's story truly captured my heart. I'd highly recommend reading this book with tissues nearby.

Good

Very interesting topic with a lot of explaining, organized well,. Sometimes detailed historical, biological, psychological information related to Williams. Overall I liked it

A Boy to Love

The story of Eli is beautifully told in a sympathetic but not pitying way. Williams Syndrome is understandable due to the explanations every few chapters. I was especially interested in the comparisons between it and autism. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in genetic disorders or even the story of a mother coping with a child who is disabled.

Five Stars

Excellent book about a real boy who has Williams Syndrome. Very enlightening.

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Title: Surpassing Certainty

Subtitle: What My Twenties Taught Me

Author: Janet Mock

Narrator: Janet Mock

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-17

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 240 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Riveting, rousing, and utterly real, Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world - without a road map to guide her.

The journey begins a few months before her 20th birthday. Janet Mock is adjusting to her days as a first-generation college student at the University of Hawaii and her nights as a dancer at a strip club. Finally content in her body, she vacillates between flaunting and concealing herself as she navigates dating and disclosure, sex and intimacy, and, most important, letting herself be truly seen.

Under the neon lights of Club Nu, Janet meets Troy, a yeoman stationed at Pearl Harbor naval base, who becomes her first. The pleasures and perils of their union serve as a backdrop for Janet's progression through her early 20s with all the universal growing pains - falling in and out of love, living away from home, and figuring out what she wants to do with her life.

Despite her disadvantages, fueled by her dreams and inimitable drive, Janet makes her way through New York City while holding her truth close. She builds a career in the highly competitive world of magazine publishing - within the unique context of being trans, a woman, and a person of color.

Long before she became one of the world's most respected media figures and lauded leaders for equality and justice, Janet was a girl taking the time she needed to just be - to learn how to advocate for herself before becoming an advocate for others. As you witness Janet's slow-won success and painful failures, Surpassing Certainty will embolden you, shift the way you see others, and affirm your journey in search of self.

Members Reviews:

excellent read.

Inspirational vulnerable relatable Janet is a good reader and writer I recommend this to anyone who doesn't know what it means to go through tough times and come out on top

A queen.

Janet is a woman whom I greatly admire. Her writing has and will continue to make a massive impact on the lives of trans people, and I'm very grateful to have such an incredible person to look up to.

Honest and Moving

Janet's memoir gives you an appreciation for the growing pains we experience in our twenties.

Wonderful Read

I'm ready for a 3ed book, this one was better then Refining Realness!! I am in awe of how Janet Mock expresses herself, this book was a serious page turner.

A beautiful and hard story continues

Janet Mock introduced us to her growth as a person and public figure in "Redefining Realness". Where that book was an intro into what it meant to be trans, to be in the public eye and the hardships she experienced, "Surpassing Certainty" is a look into the vulnerable parts of her. The fears that were scrubbed from her first book form the basis for a story where you weep, fall in love, feel protective and want to admonish. Her reading and recounting of these private moments being you closer to a woman who has all eyes on her in our current public sphere.

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Title: Theft by Finding

Subtitle: Diaries: Volume One

Author: David Sedaris

Narrator: David Sedaris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting interminably in a coffee-bar queue.' (Brian Logan, Guardian review of An Evening with David Sedaris)

The point is to find out who you are and to be true to that person. Because so often you can't. Won't people turn away if they know the real me? you wonder. The me that hates my own child, that put my perfectly healthy dog to sleep? The me who thinks, deep down, that maybe The Wire was overrated?

For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny events he witnesses. Anyone who has attended a live Sedaris event knows that his diary readings are often among the most joyful parts of the evening. But never before have they been available in print or audio.

Now, in Theft by Finding, Sedaris brings us his favourite entries. From the family home in Raleigh, North Carolina, we follow Sedaris as he sets out to make his way in the world. As an art student and then a teacher in Chicago, he works at a succession of very odd jobs, meeting even odder people, before moving to New York to pursue a career as a writer - where instead he very quickly lands a job in Macy's department store as an elf in Santaland....

Tender, hilarious, illuminating, and endlessly captivating, Theft by Finding offers a rare look into the mind of one of our generation's greatest comic geniuses.

Members Reviews:

I'm a big fan but this one is boring

I'm a massive fan of David Sedaris and I listen to his other books again and again. However this one is just an endless list of observations and events in chronological order. None of the great storytelling that he is known for.

Also, because it is chronological, it lingers forever in his early years of addiction, poverty and hopelessness. I don't know if I'll make it past chapter one!

Different in every way

No real storyline, but small snaps from diaries

so you need to know all his previous books. Not funny but maybe interessant for some people.

Big fan Sedaris fan but this is just dull

There's ten years of diaries here and they become boring fairly quickly. It's a long audio book and there's none of the lightness of story of his other work. In fact as they're diaries, there's no story at all.

this is very much simply the inside of his head without much humour. As he's depressed, broke and a heavy drug user for all the parts I listened to, it's also fairly depressing

There is an interest in seeing what interests him - what he remembers and comments on. You can see how those themes come out in his more structured work.

But as his other books areso autobiographical anyway, i found this repetitive and dull. I tried really hard but i could only get through a few hours before wanting to throw it out the window. if you're looking for story any of his other works are superb.

How can you not love David Sedaris??

I love David Sedaris so I enjoyed this book immensely. Very funny and excellent narration as usual by David. Would highly recommend

insightful

an insightful delve into the past of a well loved writer and broadcaster. highly recommended

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Title: Did You Hear Me Crying?

Subtitle: Child Abuse True Stories

Author: Cassie Moore

Narrator: Ana Clements

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-17

Publisher: Child Abuse True Stories

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 43 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In this shocking memoir, Cassie Moore gives a very open and honest description of how she suffered and survived a lifetime of abuse. She describes the sexual, physical and emotional abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepfather and mother, who then sold her into marriage at the age of 16; the heartbreak she suffered when she naively left her 22 month old baby behind when she fled to London with the man she fell in love with, only to be abused by him for a further 23 years; the self-loathing, depression and despair she felt during those lonely years; and the enormous sacrifices she had to make to save herself and start a new life.

Members Reviews:

Amazing

This was an amazing story, I cannot imagine going through what she did. The narrator did a wonderful job, I spent any extra time I had listening to the book. Well done Cassie, well done. Thank you for sharing your story.

very sad and frustrating

The author's story is a very sad one as a strong minded loud women, it was hard listening to how long men abused this poor women, but i did enjoy listening to it.

sad but wonderful story of an overcomer

loved this book. brave soul, lovely auther. what a story. would recomend to anyone who thinks they cant go on you can overcome.

Well I guess its just another memoir.

Just the same thing as most memoirs, but its ok little boring at some points.

Proof that there will always be hope. What an incredibly sad story but with a beautiful ending!

Recommended to anyone whom has gone through either emotional or physical abuse. Nobody deserves this treatment ever!