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Title: There I Wuz! Volume IV

Subtitle: Adventures from 3 Decades in the Sky, Book 4

Author: Eric Auxier

Narrator: Thomas Block

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-08-18

Publisher: EALiterary Press

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

"The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul." (Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, author of The War in the Air)

We all marvel at the miracle of flight, but without the human pilot, all those pretty metal curves are nothing but inanimate objects lying dead and dormant on the tarmac. In his latest volume of true tales from the sky, Eric "Cap'n Aux" Auxier celebrates these intrepid pilots and their stories.

Once again, Cap'n Aux puts you in the driver's seat at 30,000 feet! More stories, more guest authors, more love, laughs, and tears, in an adventure spanning over three decades in the sky!

In the final volume of this series, Cap'n Aux features over 10 aviation personalities, who spin their own adrenaline-pumping yarns. Only difference is, these tall tales are true!

Eric Auxier is a captain for a major US airline, with over 22,000 hours of flying. He is the author of the Amazon Top 100 Breakthrough novel The Last Bush Pilots, as well as the Code Name: Dodger Young Adult "Spy/Fly" series. He is a columnist for Airways Magazine, and his blog Adventures of Cap'n Aux (capnaux.com) is read by thousands worldwide. There I Wuz! Volume IV is his ninth book; his eighth, Yakuza Connection, received Online Book Club's highest rating.

Members Reviews:

A Must Read!

All Cap'n Aux books are awesome and each with a unique flavor. But this volume with the people, might be my favorite. What's better than reading the stories of real people of aviation. And who doesn't want to know the story behind the flight attendant who decides to end his career with a couple beers and a slide to freedom? So many stories and all equally great! I also have an article in this volume, with an extremely important issue of terrorism of another kind. This will be one of those books that you'll buy many of, and gift them to your friends!

Interesting topics hold you to the end

Cap'n Aux has done it again with stories that will uplift, thrill,educate and inform you. Some great tales covering a wide spectrum in aviation. A great read.

An honest collection of tales from inside of cockpits

I am not a pilot, but that is irrelevant for enjoying this book & series. Anyone with a love for aviation and/or the art of flying will find stories in these volumes to entertain and make you think. For the typical passenger, stories like these help to give us a peek behind the locked door that exists between us and the men/women who wear those 3 or 4 stripes on their uniform shoulders. By the way, the story about losing an engine during a takeoff from the high altitude Mexico City airport, surrounded by mountains, with a plane loaded full of passengers and fuel, is... amazing.

Fun and Inspirational

I read this book before it was published as a proofreader and one of the featured articles. I so enjoyed reading all the other stories from the other authors and featured people. Every story was so fun and enjoyable to read. I kept flipping through the pages as I read every word. Cap'n Aux has put together a great selection of stories that totally kept my interest...it's always fun and inspirational to read others aviation interest, challenges and journey in this industry and profession.

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Title: Ollie Ollie In Come Free: A Memoir of Swallowed Time

Author: Anne Bernard Becker

Narrator: Anne Bernard Becker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-17

Publisher: Author's Republic

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In the 1950's and 60's families are expected to deal with death privately and silently. This is no different for the Bernards, a lively Catholic family that tries to rebuild after the loss of their three oldest children. Yet the deaths haunt the author's emotional development into adulthood with a subtle force she can only uncover in psychoanalysis while mothering her own young children. Ollie Ollie In Come Free is an immersion in the secrets of a young girl's inner life and unexpressed grief. Brimming with memories of Midwestern childhood during an era of social upheaval, it offers moving insights into Anne Bernard Becker's personal healing journey as well as universal themes of loss and growth.

Members Reviews:

Courageous, Heartbreaking and Uniquely Significant

I inhaled this book in just a few days, stopping only to allow my emotional balance to come back. But I've taken over a week to properly write this review because I really want everyone, especially therapists, to read it.

I believe the immense power of this book lies in three things: the author's unflinching honesty, her egoless and detailed portrayal of her life events and her ability to recreate her childhood as it evolvedâso that the reader experiences the world of a six-year old and a twelve-year old radically differently, just as the growing author did. For example, I, just like little Anne, was confused by her grandfather's attention. Was it abuse or affection? Only later, as Anne grew older, did she (and I) come to understand his actions. This is a masterful literary feat, but, more important, it's an amazing gift to us readers because it allows us to once again see the world through the eyes of a growing child.

This book is also noteworthy for what it doesn't have. Anne doesn't espouse a philosophy or belief system. She doesn't wrap things up neatly in a pink bow of hope. Rather the hope came, for me, in realizing how much healing had taken place in the author's life to allow her to write as honestly and clearly as she did.

I've been fascinated by psychology and what makes us tick since I entered college more than fifty years ago. And in all that time, I've never read a book so raw and honest and well written. Wall's The Glass Castle and McCourt's Angela's Ashes come close. But Ollie Ollie In Come Free reaches a new depth.

I'm recommending this book to every therapist, social worker and professor I know. I'd love to see it become required reading for everyone studying counseling, education and psychotherapy. I also recommend it to everyone who is raising children, teaches children or who needs to look back at their own childhood with compassion and insight.

By sharing her world with such courage and grace, Anne has given us all a unique and wondrous gift.

Heartwarming Memoir

This book left me wanting more. I didn't wan't it to end. Anne Bernard Becker has woven a tapestry of family nuances and suppressed feelings in a manner totally relatable to so many of us who were raised in families where unspeakable pain was never mentioned, let alone dealt with in any real way.

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Title: Normal Secrets

Subtitle: A Search for Identity, Growth, Love, and Motorcycles: A Memoir

Author: Walter F. Kern

Narrator: Conner Goff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-17

Publisher: Silverton Agency

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

I grew up in Normal, Illinois, but had lived in New Jersey for more than 30 years when my father died at the age of 84. I was 54 at the time and soon learned that family secrets had been kept from me. Strange deaths, tragedies, indiscretions, and relationships lay in my past, totally hidden. It took me seven years to uncover these secrets from personal interviews, genealogical studies, public records, and cutting-edge scientific work done by worldwide experts.

Along the way, I trace my own life path from wanting to be a mechanic to gaining a master's degree at MIT and working at a famous research laboratory. I also tell my own 50-year love story. The secrets are now known, and I thought it was time at the age of 79 that I should write this memoir to tell you all about my Normal Secrets.

Members Reviews:

Normal (Illinois) Secrets

Why should you read this book? Let me count the ways!

If you live in, or are from, Illinois. If you live in, or are from, McLean County. If you want to know what it was like growing up in the 40's. If you attend, or attended, Normal Community High School. If you love vintage cars. If you ride, or would like to ride, Motorcycles. If you attended college in Missouri, or if you attended MIT. If you are searching for some hidden family secret. All this, and more. "Normal Secrets" was written by my high school classmate (NCHS class of 1956), Walter Kern. I cannot begin to count the memories that flooded over me as I read this. Even if you don't have any of the above attachments, I still believe you will find this an enjoyable read.

Walter Kern has written a fascinating memoir beginning with his ...

Walter Kern has written a fascinating memoir beginning with his childhood growing up in Normal, Illinois (hence the name of his book) to earning his bachelorâs degree at Missouri School of Mines & Metallurgy, meeting Jane, the woman who would become his wife. On graduation, he accepted a job with Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey; Bell required their technical employees to have a masterâs degree and sent him to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a year to earn a masterâs degree in electrical engineering. He spent most of his working career at Bell.

When he was 51, he and Jane became interested in motorcycling and this became a new passion for both of them. His memoir also covers secrets that he only resolved later in life.

I enjoyed it because I lived part of it with Walter ...

I enjoyed it because I lived part of it with Walter and his sister... ) It brought back lots of memories and some things we didn't know.... and the "secret" was a real surprise! He writes a story about life as he lived it.... and even for those who are not "far from Normal", Normal, IL that is... it is an interesting read.:)

Really enjoyed the book

Really enjoyed the book! I was in the Spokeswomen with Jane and truly enjoyed learning so much about her. She was a wonderful person!

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Title: Managing Bubbie

Author: Russel Lazega

Narrator: Russel Lazega, J.J. Crowne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-27-17

Publisher: Author's Republic

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A multi-cast audio book featuring Tony and Golden Globe winner Linda Lavin, The Love Boat's Gavin Macleod, Tony and Emmy nominated Lainie Kazan, The Nanny's Renée Taylor, Grammy nominated Judy Tenuta and many more.

Her devoted family only wants the best for their Bubbie. Mostly they want to ensure that their matriarch's twilight years are spent in comfort, safety, and serenity. But how do you manage an aging, immutably stubborn Holocaust survivor who has risen above the squalor of Poland's ghettos; fled across the war-torn German wilderness; and survived the winter-ravaged Pyrenees alone on foot with three children? You probably don't.

Managing Bubbie is the heartrending, hilarious family memoir by Russel Lazega that recounts the frequently hectic, ever-exhausting trials of one Jewish family in Miami Beach as they try to oversee the care of the elderly, unmanageable Lea Lazega. As they scramble for an acceptable assisted living facility and struggle to get her medication in line, they discover the difficulties of controlling a woman who time and again eluded catastrophe by refusing to be told what to do.

A tapestry of an American family in the 1980s, Managing Bubbie also revisits the Holocaust period to mine the love, hope, and humor that emerged from the deepest despair. Anyone who savors a soft heart with a sharp funny bone will laugh, cry, and commiserate with the confounded family who must manage their beloved, impossible Bubbie.

Members Reviews:

Four Stars

A fun read

Well done.

Love this book. Well written. Enjoyed her story.

Great book.

The guy who wrote the book on P.I.P. (litigation of no-fault claims be health care providers when car insurance companies don't pay medical bills) tries his hand and non-fiction with a touching tribute to his grandmother. Russell Lazega is a true Renaissance Man. Great book.

Interesting read

I loved this book. It was written extremely well. I felt as though the characters were my friend. It was an easy book to get into.

Good book, easy read

Good book, easy read. Hard to believe what some people go through and the strength they find within themselves. Well written going between modern day humor and the past horrors.

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Titre: Pablo Escobar, mon père

Auteur: Juan Pablo Escobar

Narrateur: François Delaive

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 13 hrs

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 11-23-17

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Ce que la série Narcos ne vous a pas dit...

Entre la myriade de livres écrits, et la série déjà culte Narcos, nous pensions que tout avait déjà été dit sur l'ascension fulgurante et la descente aux enfers de Pablo Escobar, le plus grand trafiquant de stupéfiants de tous les temps. Mais ces versions ont toujours été racontées d'un point de vu extérieur, incapables de dévoiler la véritable intimité du personnage, occultant bien souvent une partie de la vérité.

Aujourd'hui, vingt ans après une chasse à l'homme acharnée, son fils lève le voile sur un des personnages les plus marquants du vingtième siècle. Découvrez le portrait d'un homme tout en contradiction, généreux avec les autres, père de famille aimant, et également capable d'actes d'une violence et d'une cruauté inouïe. À travers les yeux de son fils, plongez dans l'univers intérieur d'un homme célébré par certains comme un Robin des Bois à la main généreuse, et craint par d'autres comme le chef impitoyable de la plus grande mafia de l'histoire de l'humanité.

À la mort d'Escobar, son fils, encore adolescent, jura de le venger. Mais Escobar Junior réalisa vite qu'il s'agissait pour cela de suivre les traces de son père - quelque chose qu'aucun des deux n'avaient jamais souhaité. Une fois le cœur apaisé, il décida de dénoncer l'héritage de Pablo Escobar. Il ne s'agit pas là de l'histoire d'un fils en quête de rédemption, mais de son regard éclairé sur les conséquences de la violence, et sa tentative d'y mettre un terme.

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©2017 Hugo Roman. Traduit de l'espagnol par Arthur Desinge (P)2017 Audible Studios

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Title: - [The Story of My Life]

Author: Helen Keller

Narrator: - - Xinkebiaoheji

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-17

Publisher: BOVCM

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Please note: This audiobook is in Mandarin.

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Title: Livet m ha mening [Man's Search for Meaning]

Author: Viktor E. Frankl

Narrator: Anderz Eide

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-17

Publisher: Viatone

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

"Til syvende og sist burde vi mennesker ikke sprre hva meningen med livet er, men heller innse at det er oss selv som blir spurt."

Dette er én av konklusjonene som Viktor E. Frankl trekker i logoterapien, som han utviklet p bakgrunn av sine tre r som konsentrasjonsleirfange. nsket om f teoriene sine utbredt gav ham meningen med livet, og gjorde iflge ham selv at han overlevde de umenneskelige vilkrene. I logoterapien blir viljen til mening framhevet som menneskets viktigste drivkraft, i motsetning til Freuds viljen til lyst og Adlers viljen til makt. Den bygger p den moderne eksistensialismen, som tar utgangspunkt i menneskets frie valg og ansvar framfor oppfatte det som maskinelt og determinert av arv og milj.Logoterapien, som i dag utves p flerfoldige klinikker verden over, beskrives klart og enkelt i bokens andre halvdel, mens frste del beskriver Frankls opplevelser som konsentrasjonsleirfange - en beskrivelse som er spesielt rystende p grunn av framstillingens nkterne og analyserende form.

Livet m ha mening (Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen) er en av f bker som kontant har vrt p markedet siden utgivelsen i 1947. Den er gjenopptrykt i utallige opplag, og p bibliotekene str man fortsatt i k for lne den. Den er solgt i millionopplag verden over, og er listet som en av de ti mest innflytelsesrike bkene i USA.

Please note: This audiobook is in Norwegian.

Critic Reviews:

"Denne mannen opplevde ubegripelig lidelse og skrev deretter den definitive boken om lykke." (Huffington Post)

"Hvis du bare leser en bok i r, br det vre denne boken av Frankl." (Los Angeles Times)

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Title: The Recruit

Author: Jonathan Reaper

Narrator: Craig Watkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-17

Publisher: Jonathan Reaper

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A journal written in real time of one Marine's time at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island 20+ years ago. Live in the moment with him as he recalls his experiences from a journal written during the time.

Members Reviews:

Great read; especially for current and former military

The Recruit is a realistic account of boot camp. Reading the journal entries brought back a lot of memories. Great read; especially for current and former military. SEMPER FI!

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Title: Fixed

Subtitle: Dope Sacks, Dye Packs and the Long Welcome Back

Author: Doug Piotter

Narrator: Doug Piotter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-17

Publisher: Author's Republic

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

An entertaining look at addiction, crime, punishment and recovery.

Fixed is a darkly comedic memoir spanning Doug Piotter's unsupervised youth, drug and alcohol addiction, bank robbery, life in prison, and ultimately release and re-entry into a new and sober orbit.

With the perspective gained from more than two decades of sobriety, he gives an account of his debauched life with irreverence and humor.

Members Reviews:

Couldn't put it down...

I began reading the âLook Insideâ version of Dougâs book on Amazon during my lunch breakâonce I had reached the end of that "free ride" [somewhere in mid-chapter 7], I was so engaged in his story that I immediately purchased the Kindle version and continued reading the book on my iPhone, undeterred by the fact that lunch break was far behind me and there were âwork relatedâ tasks to be attended to. I couldnât stop reading â and by mid-afternoon I had found myself converting my laugh-out-loud reactions to some of Dougâs descriptions of his real life experiences into loud coughing fits so that my co-workers would not become suspicious about what I was up toâ

Doug is a grand story teller. He has an authentic voice, and he is honest and forthcoming about where he has been, and what he has learned on his journey through this life - I found his story relatable and compelling. I give this book an unabashed âtwo thumbs upâ!

Pointed, Powerful, Passionate and Personal

Grabs your attention immediately and holds you throughout the whole story. Doug tells it like it was and is and pulls no punches, doing so in direct, simple, honest and humorous ways. Personal journey from very difficult childhood to early horrific adulthood to prison purgatory and finally to personal redemption. The only thing better than reading Dougâs book is to hear him tell these stories in person. I have had that pleasure to hear his passionate, believable presentation. You must read this phenomenal, personal journey. You will be amazed and inspired by Doug.

Engaging, fast-paced and funny as hell

I have to admit, I havenât finished a book in years, but I finished this one. Piotterâs writing style is colorful, engaging, fast-paced and funny as hell. His trip through the depths of hell and back could have been dark and depressing, but his choice to add humor and vivid descriptions to the proceedings makes all the difference. As I was reading, the subject matter and illustrations made me think of Hunter S. Thompson, William Burroughs or Jack Kerouac.

But Piotter has his own unique style. He has a particular talent for relating ridiculous vignettes from his life that will make you laugh out loud. His father Ill Willâs misbegotten attempt to sell a bullhorn collection to a local high school comes to mind. As does the Volkswagen bug that mysteriously follows Piotter and his friends home one night. (Youâll have to read the book to find out why it was following them.)

In addition to all the humor and mayhem, thereâs a great message here about redemption and recovery. I highly recommend this book, and if you donât want to take my word for it, check out the Kirkus review.

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Title: It Happened to Audrey

Subtitle: A Terrifying Journey from Loving Mom to Accused Baby Killer

Author: Jill Wellington, Audrey Edmunds

Narrator: Lynde Houck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-17

Publisher: Beacon Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Audrey Edmunds was a happily married young mother of two with a baby on the way; the neighborhood soccer mom in a small Wisconsin town providing casual childcare when the unthinkable happened. An infant died in her care at the same time the unknown science of Shaken Baby Syndrome hit the media. Swept up in a media frenzy, Edmunds was accused of killing the child through SBS. She was stripped from her children and husband and sent to prison where she would fight for freedom 13 years before she was finally exonerated after updated science showed her innocence. Audrey was and is an all-American mother from the Heartland who shares her story of hope and redemption in the face of unrelenting odds. It Happened to Audrey includes questions that challenge all listeners to think of the possibilities in today's ever-changing world. Edmunds is ultimately released from prison in the middle of a blizzard and reunited with her now grown children.

(Audrey Edmunds with Jill Wellington)

Members Reviews:

A Riveting Read

This is a shocking and amazing story! It is so hard to believe this could happen in the US! I recommend every daycare provider read it. This travesty was a combination of a very biased judge won over by an evil prosecutor, both who couldnât stand to be proven wrong even when new medical evidence became available! Their wrong-headedness all but ruined many lives with absolutely no accountability. My heart goes out to this family, especially Audrey who remained strong and determined throughout. A great read at the expense of a lot of people. Shame on the WI legal system!

Humhum

I loved this book. I have a son currently in prison for the same thing. He has been there for 6 years and we are in the Appeals process. He has 3 children that he too has left behind and we are legal guardians of two of them. We make the 3 hour drive each way and take his 3 children to visit. I cried reading this book knowing that our son is going through the same thing that Audrey went through. I too continue to pray everyday that this horrible nightmare will end soon. Audrey gives me hope that the truth will eventually come out. Thank you Audrey for your story, you are a strong woman and your daughters should be very proud. God Bless you and your girls.

Good Story, Frustraing Situation!!

I am not finished reading this saga. It has been a good read so far as I am 3/4 of the way through. It is eye opening to see how our judicial system works,.It certainly is not balanced. I found myself very angry that the parents were not even considered. It also is a shame that Audrey could not sue them for bringing a sick child for her to care for or find some way or reason to sue them. I hope when I get to the end of this story I get to read that the parents of this baby pay dearly!!!

An Important Story, Well Told

This book tells an important story in an engaging voice.

Audrey Edmunds's case is a milestone in the evolving debate about shaken baby syndrome. She was convicted in the late 1990s, along with Louise Woodward (the "Boston nanny") and thousands of other infant care providers. The reversal of her conviction a decade later has heralded a new era in legal awareness about the unreliability of the diagnosis.