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Title: After the Eclipse

Subtitle: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

Author: Sarah Perry

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-17

Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 28 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her ultimate mission to know the woman who gave her life.

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Title: No Joy

Subtitle: A Recon Marine's Tales of (Self) Destruction

Author: David Rose

Narrator: Scott Sowers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-17

Publisher: TalkingBook

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 38 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Picked up by a larger publisher: as a consequence; the retitled, second, and final edition of the cult hit, Spent Shell Casings.

"Going to war was a finite window to touch the vanquished barbaric world modern reality has so woefully blighted out."

Joining the Marines in 2002, David Rose signed up to go fight ... and to go die. On this grim path, rather than finding a violent death, he would find family, purpose, and a brotherhood amid the misfit world of the war fighter.

No Joy sees David recounting madcap tales of Muay Thai bouts in seedy garages, a bizarre stint as a street cop, being on the other side of the badge, becoming a veteran of the psych ward, and more. It's an irreverently told story that doesn't just tell one man's tale, but speaks to the necessary question: What really draws modern young men to war?

Members Reviews:

Gritty and Dirty and Fun

A real kick-you-in-the-ass piece of military literature. Glad this is out and I hope it's doing well. This narrator is awesome too. Damn!

Authentic Military Experience

Awesome books and seriously great chapter in a recon marine's life. Would recommend this to anyone.

Damn! This is seriously awesome!

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Great narrator in Scott Sowers. Blew my head off. So realistic and gritty. I wasn't in the marine corps but this seems legit.

Holly Hell! This is great

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Super realistic portrayal of veteran life. Amazing narration by Scott Sowers. 2 thumbs up!

Not your typical war novel

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Wonderful story! This is a very unique take on life in the marine corp. The narrator did an excellent job with this as well. Two thumbs up!

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Title: HELP

Author: Simon Amstell

Narrator: Simon Amstell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-17

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 32 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Comedy, Tragedy, Therapy

Simon Amstell did his first stand-up gig at the age of 13. His parents had just divorced, and puberty was confusing. Trying to be funny solved everything.

Read by Simon Amstell, and interspersed with footage from his stand-up tours, HELP is the hilarious and heartbreaking account of Simon's ongoing compulsion to reveal his entire self onstage. To tell the truth so it can't hurt him anymore. Loneliness, anxiety, depression - this book has it all. And more.

From a complicated childhood in Essex to an Ayahuasca-led epiphany in the Amazon rainforest, this story will make you laugh, cry and then feel happier than you've ever been.

Members Reviews:

Super Enjoyable

A great mix of background and stand up comedy clips. Great insight into depression, anxiety, and coming to terms with yourself. Very enjoyable. Definitely will relisten.

thank you, Simon

Loved this book.

Full of humour and grace.

Highly relatable, insightful, and inspiring.

Thank you, Simon Amstel, for writing it.

Simon Amstell is my personal god

there's a comfort knowing I'm not alone in the gay experience. I wish more people thought like him

Wonderful!

I am normally a bit reticent about autobiographies but thoughtId give this a go as it has had such wonderful reviews. They are all deserved. This is a lovely book and beautifully read with extracts from live shows cut in.

Mind Expanding Fun

Amstell takes us on a journey of soul searching and maturation via his career trajectory, dating, travels, psychotherapy, and some illegal psychedelic drugs. I wished it was a bit longer, but laughed heartily throughout. I liked how he clarified through his experiences that no earthly person could possibly have the road map for your individual life when they themselves struggle enough knowing their own proper life path. Also, Amstell highlights the enduring value of stories to transmit wisdom and knowledge. His interesting voice narration easily held my attention.

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Title: Little Soldiers

Subtitle: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve

Author: Lenora Chu

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-17

Publisher: Harper Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 50 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing Up Bébé, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China's widely acclaimed yet insular education system - held up as a model of academic and behavioral excellence - that raises important questions for the future of American parenting and education.

When students in Shanghai rose to the top of international rankings in 2009, Americans feared that they were being "out-educated" by the rising super power. An American journalist of Chinese descent raising a young family in Shanghai, Lenora Chu noticed how well-behaved Chinese children were compared to her boisterous toddler. How did the Chinese create their academic superachievers? Would their little boy benefit from Chinese school?

Chu and her husband decided to enroll three-year-old Rainer in China's state-run public school system. The results were positive - her son quickly settled down, became fluent in Mandarin, and enjoyed his friends - but she also began to notice troubling new behaviors. Wondering what was happening behind closed classroom doors, she embarked on an exploratory journey, interviewing Chinese parents, teachers, and education professors and following students at all stages of their education.

What she discovered is a military-like education system driven by high-stakes testing, with teachers posting rankings in public, using bribes to reward students who comply, and shaming to isolate those who do not. At the same time, she uncovered a years-long desire by government to alleviate its students' crushing academic burden and make education friendlier for all. The more she learns, the more she wonders: Are Chinese children - and her son - paying too high a price for their obedience and the promise of future academic prowess? Is there a way to appropriate the excellence of the system but dispense with the bad? What, if anything, could Westerners learn from China's education journey?

Chu's eye-opening investigation challenges our assumptions and asks us to consider the true value and purpose of education.

Members Reviews:

An Interesting examination of Educational Systems

The author is born in Philadelphia and raised in Houston. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in journalism. Her grandparents fled China during the Cultural Revolution and immigrated to the United States. Chu notes the irony that 50 years ago Mao conducted his anti-intellectual purge and now Shanghai schools top the world in math, reading, and science and the USA is only in the middle of the pack.

Chu and her husband live in Shanghai for his work at a news agency. They have a young son who goes to the local school. His skills in math and Chinese language excelled but Chu noted behavioral changes that lead her to examine the educational system in China and the USA.

The book is well written and researched. It is written in the journalistic style. The author noted that the Chinese schools give less attention to the poor students and spend time and resources on the high achievers. She stated the U.S. system is No Child Left Behind. She noted the Chinese schools are rote memorization then they allow them to explore more complex applications after they have achieved a certain level of understanding.

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Title: Feel Good 101

Subtitle: The First Book by Emma Blackery

Author: Emma Blackery

Narrator: Emma Blackery, Holly Bourne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 27 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This book won't change your life, but it might just help you change it yourself.

Only you can take the steps you need to help yourself become the strong, independent, fearless person you dream of being. It took me a long time - and a lot of real lows, excruciating heartaches and countless mistakes - to get there. The sole purpose of this book's existence is the hope that it may speed up that journey to happiness for you.

In Feel Good 101, YouTube's most outspoken star, Emma Blackery, is finally (over)sharing all her hard-learned life lessons. From standing up to bullies and bad bosses to embracing body confidence and making peace with her brain, Emma speaks with her trademark honesty about the issues she's faced - including her struggles with anxiety and depression. This is the book Emma wishes she'd had growing up...and she's written it for you.

Includes an exclusive interview with Holly Bourne, author of Am I Normal Yet? and What's A Girl Gotta Do?

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Members Reviews:

Necessary Book for Teens and Fans of Emma Blackery

Every teenager should read this book. Lots of relatable topics throughout the book. Very well done.

So damn good!

Extremely relatable for all teens and young adults, filled to the brim with life lessons and advice for a better you!

Part Autobiography, Part Advice Book

It's really a bit of both, and quite good as each. It does cover some heavier topics, and there's a mild amount of swearing, but I'd really recommend this book to a very wide range of readers. From the 13-14 year old who's just now growing into, dealing with, and learning about some of the topics this book goes over all to the 40-50's parents who could use a bit of insight and understanding to the stages of life their children may be going through.

Quite a good listen, I'll certainly be going back over it again.

Amazing book!!

Wonderfully written and read! Great advice! Emma is a beautiful soul and I think this book reflects that perfectly!

Life Changing

I know the blurb says that this book wont' change your life but it makes a big, positive difference in how you see the world.

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Title: The Tender Bar

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: J. R. Moehringer

Narrator: Adam Grupper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The New York Times best seller and one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2005. In the tradition of This Boy's Life and The Liar's Club, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man and his romance with a bar.

J. R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J. R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J. R. would strain to hear in that plummy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. Though J. R.'s mother was his world, his rock, he craved something more, something faintly and hauntingly audible only in The Voice.

At eight years old, suddenly unable to find The Voice on the radio, J. R. turned in desperation to the bar on the corner, where he found a rousing chorus of new voices. The alphas along the bar - including J. R.'s uncle Charlie, a Humphrey Bogart look-alike; Colt, a Yogi Bear sound-alike; and Joey D, a softhearted brawler - took J. R. to the beach, to ballgames, and, ultimately, into their circle. They taught J. R., tended him, and provided a kind of fathering by committee. Torn between the stirring example of his mother and the lurid romance of the bar, J. R. tried to forge a self somewhere in the center. But when it was time for J. R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys. Time and again the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, heartbreak - and, eventually, reality.

In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs, The Tender Bar is suspenseful, wrenching, and achingly funny. A classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys.

Members Reviews:

The more you read the more you like!

The author and narrator do a great job of making you feel like you are right there in the bar and in the heart of the story ! Loved it and didnt want it to end

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Title: The Last Fighter Pilot

Subtitle: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II

Author: Don Brown, Melanie Sloan - foreword, Captain Jerry Yellin - contributor, Captain Jerry Yellin - foreword

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-31-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 68 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

On the morning of August 15, 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin flew the last combat mission of World War II out of Iwo Jima. Today, Captain Yellin is a sharp, engaging, 93-year-old veteran whose story is brought to life by best-selling author Don Brown (Treason).

From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and a small group of fellow fighter pilots flew dangerous bombing and strafing missions out of Iwo Jima over Japan. Even days after America dropped the atomic bombs - on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9 - the pilots continued to fly. Though Japan had suffered unimaginable devastation, the emperor still refused to surrender.

Best-selling author Don Brown sits down with Yellin to tell the incredible true story of the final combat mission of World War II. Nine days after Hiroshima, on the morning of August 15, Yellin and his wingman First Lieutenant Philip Schlamberg took off from Iwo Jima to bomb Tokyo. By the time Yellin returned to Iwo Jima, the war was officially over - but his young friend Schlamberg would never get to hear the news. The Last Fighter Pilot is a harrowing first-person account of war from one of America's last living World War II veterans.

Members Reviews:

Great listen!

A fantastic and fascinating book. Great account of the end of the war through a unique set of eyes.

Yes, Jerry Yelling was The Last Fighter Pilot.

I love listening to first hand accounts of the War in the Pacific.

For me, Yellin's account of the last months of the war over Toko.

He is honest and loyal to his feelings as he shares the sadness of losing men in his squadron, close friends all.

Sledge wrote the book considered to be the template for all first hand accounts of the War in the Pacific. I place Yellin next to Sledge because both men share their unadulterated feelings about war and their wars.

WFM

A wonderful story for a great man

yhis story surprised me by how historical the research was and hpw well written it is. I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone who is interested in yhe true story of an American hero and maan of the greatest generation.

The last fighter pilot

Waste of my time i do not recommend it unless u r a militsry history buff

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Title: The Last Jew of Treblinka

Subtitle: A Survivors Memory, 1942-1943

Author: Solon Beinfeld - translator, Chil Rajchman, Samuel Moyn - preface, Claire Bloom - director

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-04-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Quickly becoming a cornerstone of Holocaust historiography, this is a devastatingly stark memoir from one of the lone survivors of Treblinka.

Why do some live while so many others perish? Tiny children, old men, beautiful girls - in the gas chambers of Treblinka, all are equal. The Nazis kept the fires of Treblinka burning night and day, a central cog in the wheel of the Final Solution.

In the tradition of Elie Wiesel's Night and Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz and The Drowned and the Saved, Rajchman provides the only survivors' record of Treblinka. Originally written in Yiddish in 1945 without hope or agenda other than to bear witness, Rajchman's account shows that sometimes the bravest and most painful act of all is to remember.

Members Reviews:

Profoundly Significant and Historically Sobering

Sometimes hearing the truth is difficult. However, failing to learn from history's most blatently horrific sins to ensure they are not repeated is an equally awful atrocity. There is no better witness than an eye witness who lives to tell the story. A powerful testament to a dark time in history and the triumphant spirit of this special and unique human being.

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Title: Sting-Ray Afternoons

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: Steve Rushin

Narrator: Greg Baglia

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-03-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 101 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A wild and bittersweet memoir of a classic '70s childhood.

It's a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings for five consecutive hours of cartoons and advertising jingles that they'll be humming all day. A father - one of 3M's greatest and last eight-track-salesman fathers - traveling across the country on the brand-new Boeing 747, providing for his family but wanting nothing more than to get home.

It's Steve Rushin's story: of growing up within a '70s landscape populated with Bic pens, Mr. Clean and Scrubbing Bubbles, lightsabers, and those oh-so-coveted Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes. Sting-Ray Afternoons paints an utterly fond, psychedelically vibrant, laugh-out-loud-funny portrait of an exuberant decade. With sidesplitting commentary, Rushin creates a vivid picture of a decade of wild youth, cultural rebirth, and the meaning of parental, brotherly, sisterly, whole lotta love.

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Members Reviews:

Nostalgic--A Compendium of Throwbacks!

If you were born in the fifties or sixties, you might enjoy this review of all the trivia you grew up with. It will bring make memories, and remind you how far we've come, for better or worse. Find a spot in your backyard and settle in for an enjoyable ride back to your past. It seems a lot of our lives across America during this time were extremely similar, despite no Internet and limited television. Uncanny, actually. I could relate to everything in this book despite growing up in a different state.

I LOVED THIS BOOK! Perfect narration, too.

Trying to be like A Christmas Story

I felt like the author was shooting for the same feeling that Jean Shepherd created in A Christmas Story, but it falls short.

I grew up in the same time period the author writes about and could relate on some levels, but it didn't engender the same feelings.

There is a bit too much attention paid to commercials and other media to the point it becomes distracting.

Overall it was a pleasant effort and I don't regret listening.

My only complaint

The narrator mispronounces Edina. :(. Its E Dine A...not E Deen A. A wonderful nostalgic trip!

Uneven, quirky, nostalgic, heartfelt

This book was really all over the road for me...the hyper attention to period brands, the rhythm of the narrator...I almost quit the book several times in annoyance. But at some point I decided to forge ahead and eventually the book settled into an actual memoir and not just an infomercial for period products and norms.

It seems a bit odd that the author, now over 50, can manage to recall, in moment to moment detail, events from when he was six to around 14. But it was great to read about a family with both the usual sibling rivalries but also lovingly crafted portraits of his parents. I think this book is both a love letter to his parents, and to the period he grew up in...from Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, to Sting-Ray bikes, to the Mary Tyler Moore show, its all in there.

Both the book and the narrator grew on me, and I came to enjoy the book quite a bit after an initially rocky start.

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Title: Love and Trouble

Subtitle: A Midlife Reckoning

Author: Claire Dederer

Narrator: Claire Dederer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-17

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 99 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocious, sexy, hilarious memoir about going off the rails at midlife and trying to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become.

Claire Dederer is a happily married mother of two, ages nine and 12, when she suddenly finds herself totally despondent and, simultaneously, suffering through a kind of erotic reawakening. This exuberant memoir shifts between her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of mysterious new hungers and herself as a teenager - when she last experienced life with such heightened sensitivity and longing.

From her hilarious chapter titles ("How to Have Sex with Your Husband of Seventeen Years") to her subjects - from the boyfriend she dumped at 14 the moment she learned how to give herself an orgasm, to the girls who ruled her elite private school ("when I left Oberlin I thought I had done with them forever, but it turned out...they also edited all the newspapers and magazines, and wrote all the books"), to raising a teenage daughter herself - Dederer writes with an electrifying blend of wry wit and raw honesty. She exposes herself utterly, and in doing so captures something universal about the experience of being a woman, a daughter, a wife.

Critic Reviews:

"When I got my hands on Claire Dederer's new book, I instantly turned off my phone, cancelled all my appointments, curled up in bed, and read all day in grateful - and thoughtful - abandon. As always, I was delighted with what I found in her writing. Dederer is not only a brilliant author, but an honest and brave one, who is not afraid to deep-dive into her own history and her own heart in order to examine what it really means to be a woman right now.

Love and Trouble is a book caused me to think differently about marriage, about intimacy, about middle-age, and especially about what it means to have once been a sexually adventurous teenage girl. I saw myself all over these pages, and a think a lot of other readers will, as well." (Elizabeth Gilbert)

Members Reviews:

This was a waste of my time and added no value.

The story narrowed the world rather than broadening it. What it discussed is not new. I'd suggest (unasked for of course) that the author find something to be about that is bigger than her own ego, a past life, or the chip on her shoulder. I forced myself to finish the book on speed 3x so I could lay it to rest.

Clipped and to the point.

Sense of humor and raw display of honesty spoken with a voice that makes you want to keep listening and become Claire's friend. .

Refreshing, original, painfully honest and well written

Listening to this book is worth your time, especially for women of the boomer generation. It examines the sexual dilemmas of feminists who grew up in 70's, their role as mothers to ensure "safety or freedom" for their daughters. There are also funny anecdotes about the vicissitudes of author promoting their books in the boondocks,

Disturbing yet beautifully written and insightful

Being one year younger than Claire, I can relate both to her young self in the 70s 80s and 90s and in my 40s with honestly the scare of getting older.