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Title: Sometimes Amazing Things Happen

Subtitle: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

Author: Elizabeth Ford MD

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 108 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn't until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling - to care for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people, the inmates of New York City's jails, including Rikers Island, who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward for care.

These men were broken, without resources or support, and very ill. They could be violent, unpredictable, but they could also be funny and tender and needy. Mostly, they were human and they awakened in Ford a boundless empathy. Her patients made her a great doctor and a better person. While Ford was a psychiatrist at Bellevue she became a wife and a mother. In her book she shares her struggles to balance her personal and professional lives, to care for her children and her patients, and to maintain the empathy that is essential to her practice - all in the face of a complex institution, an exhausting workload, and the deeply emotionally taxing nature of her work. Ford brings humor, grace, and humanity to the lives of the patients in her care and in beautifully rendered prose illuminates the inner workings (and failings) of our mental health and criminal justice systems.

Members Reviews:

It's Way Better Than Its Title (I Promise)

What did you love best about Sometimes Amazing Things Happen?

It's a beautifully honest story about her work, with far more empathy than you usually find in such narratives. "Jailhouse Doc" but for psych, and with a physician you know actually cares enormously about her patients.

What did you like best about this story?

The story is crafted in an unusual fashion, but I like it - unlike other doctor-memoirs, Dr. Ford doesn't alternate between her personal life and medicine, but intertwines them in a way that pushes the story forward.

What does Bernadette Dunne bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

She does a nice job of vocalizing "characters" (real people, or at least composites per the author) with psychosis, which is not an easy task. It's a tough tone and pace to master, and she does a really nice job.

Any additional comments?

I'm not sure who let this title fly, but Dr. Ford is an enormously talented writer. If you're interested in criminal justice, medicine, or psychiatry, read this book.

Thought-Provoking

This book covers Dr. Fords psychiatry rotation in medical school. She says she discovered her calling on that rotation. She went on to become Chief of Psychiatry for Correctional Health Services in New York City. She worked at Bellevue Hospital and Rikers Island. Ford discusses the mentally ill in the jail system. She also includes personal information about the problems of balancing her professional and personal life.

The book is well written and provides the reader with a good overview of the problems of the mentally ill in the correctional system. I came away with reinforcement of my opinion about the need to reform the mental health system both in the need to remove the mentally ill out of the prison population and get the mentally ill homeless off the streets. The book is a worthwhile read.

The book is almost eight and a half hours long. Bernadette Dunne does an excellent job narrating the book.

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Title: Will's Red Coat

Subtitle: The Story of One Old Dog Who Chose to Live Again

Author: Tom Ryan

Narrator: Tom Ryan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-17

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 80 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A true story of acceptance, perseverance, and the possibility of love and redemption as evocative, charming, and powerful as the New York Times best seller Following Atticus.

Drawn by an online post, Tom Ryan adopted Will, a frightened, deaf, and mostly blind elderly dog, and brought him home to live with him and Atticus. The only owners Will ever knew had grown too fragile to take care of themselves or of him. Ultimately Will was left at a kill shelter in New Jersey.

Tom hoped to give Will a place to die with dignity amid the rustic beauty of the White Mountains of his New Hampshire home. But when Will bites him numerous times and acts out in violent displays, Tom realizes he is in for a challenge.

With endless patience and the kind of continued empathy Tom has nurtured in his relationship with Atticus, Will eventually begins to thrive. Soon the angry, hurt, depressed, and near-death oldster has transformed into a happy, gamboling companion with a puppy-like zest for discovery. Will perseveres for two and a half years, inspiring hundreds of thousands of Tom and Atticus' fans with his courage, resilience, and unforgettable heart.

A story of a dog and an indelible bond that is beautiful, heartbreaking, uplifting, and unforgettable, Will's Red Coat honors the promise held in every living creature, at any stage of life.

Members Reviews:

Wildflowers And Drunken Butterfly Dances

An act of kindness leads one on a spiritual journey of a lifetime. A dog at death's door, deaf, blind, thrown away and forgotten learns to rear up and kick his front legs out, learns to circle in drunken butterfly dances of joy: Here I am! I'm alive!

"Will's Red Coat" is perhaps even more deeply heartfelt than the more philosophical "Following Atticus" (which was truly brilliant), as it is about sunlight and shadow, life and death, serving without ego, and the simple joys of living each moment here and now, second by glorious second.

What lovely prose! Ryan captures the beauty of their surroundings and infuses every dying leaf with jubilant color, every wildflower with spine-tingling fragrances that are enough to make Will circle with joy, using what vision remains him to spy each petal.

This is a fairy tale of a story: a backyard that opens to an Enchanted Forest, a wild bear who is smitten with the three, apple-taking beavers, a spider who needs a prompt every now and then to respect their space as they respect hers. It's a story of compassion on every level, of empathy lived and shared.

There's a word in Japanese that means, "to repair with gold"--a technique of fixing broken pottery with melted gold which makes the broken even more valuable than the whole. And how fragile we all are. How very, very beautiful.

What a journey I've just been on with Tom, Atticus, and the irrepressible Will. One I will never forget.

Short and Succinct

I absolutely loved Tom's first book, Finding Atticus.

I really struggled with this book. I am the sole dissenter, it seems. I quit two hours before the end.

I didn't like his flowery writing and the extreme anthropomorphism--you will never convince me any dog appreciates beauty of the mountain scenery. Perhaps, just perhaps, the dog is feeling his owner's high?

I hated the fact he took in a dog that bit him daily and he laughed at it.

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Title: When You Find out the World Is Against You

Subtitle: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments

Author: Kelly Oxford

Narrator: Eva Kaminsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-17

Publisher: Harper Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 75 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The famed Internet personality - named one of Rolling Stone's Funniest People on Twitter and creator of the viral #notokay for women to share their stories of sexual assault - and best-selling author of Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar turns her laser-like wit to anxiety, parenthood (or "the sheer insanity of being in charge of the safety and livelihood of three people besides myself"), popular culture, and more in this razor sharp essay collection.

Like Chelsea Handler, David Sedaris, Dave Barry, and Patton Oswalt, Kelly Oxford - the Canadian native and Los Angeles transplant - has won legions of fans with her comedic skill, down-to-earth voice, and bull's-eye observations on the absurdity of modern life. For example:

"Congratulations, America, I finally get a green card & now I may have to move back to Canada. Trump in the final two for president. Surreal."

"Dear parents of preteen boys, tell them they'll get ED by 18 if they watch Internet porn, then buy them some porno mags. Thank you, Women."

"I'm not going to have a coffee this morning, with the intent of blaming all my screw-ups on the missed coffee."

"1 good piece of news today: 7yo told me there is a secret war going on between muffins and cupcakes & I haven't stopped thinking about it."

Dishing about her kids, her move to America (and what she really thinks about life in LA), her marriage, and how she copes (or not) with anxiety and depression, When You Find out the World Is Against You is Kelly at her honest and most disarmingly funny best. Filled with biting, wise, and laugh-out-loud insights, this vastly entertaining collection of vignettes will make you think as much as it will make you laugh.

Members Reviews:

Meh....

only intermittently funny. insights good but not great. There's so much of this out there now. So many wonderful women writers. I would skip this one.

last chapter was chilling

I found the book after reading her tweets. Her story inspired many woman to tell there story of abuse.

I couldn't get past the extraneous noise

This book looked like it would be funny and enjoyable. I simply couldn't concentrate on it enough to tell. I was easily sidetracked by the narrator because the recording wasn't the best - one can hear breathing and mouth noises. Maybe try re-recording it or cleaning up the audio?

Autobiographical books should be narrated by the author

I really enjoy Kelly Oxford's writing for its witticisms, candour, and Canadian references. Stories in this collection included all of that but it felt wrong to not have her narrate. The narrator isn't awful but she mispronounced "toque" which is ironic in the Canadian joke context that it was used. Also when the author references makes fun of her own voice it would be nice to hear it. I love autobiographical books by comedic voices like NPH, Mindy Kaling, Amy Shumer, Trevor Noah, etc. And they all narrated themselves which made the audio book more appealing than reading the actual paper book

Love this love you!

I absolutely loved every minute of this book, Kelly is beautifully hilarious and so honest can't recommend enough x

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Title: Indian Creek Chronicles

Subtitle: A Winter in the Bitterroot Wilderness

Author: Pete Fromm

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this contemporary classic established Fromm as one of the West's premier voices.

Critic Reviews:

"An absorbing personal account...Entertaining nonfiction." (

School Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

An engaging read about wilderness, human beings, bobcat... and salmons!

A very engaging read that takes you from home to the snowy Montana. You live Pete's adventure with him and see his transformation from a young student to an (almost ;-) rugged mountaineer. I particularly appreciated the way Pete explained its relation to the wilderness. At the end of the book, I was outraged with him at the way 'outsiders' behaved with it's beloved environment.

Indian Creek Chronicles

One reason I enjoyed this so much is that the young Pete Fromm (at his age in the book) reminded me so much of myself as a college student: adventurous, dreamy, loving the outdoors, reading all the "mountain man" books I could find, yet naive and self-sensitive about what others thought about me. That last trait is very un-mountian man-like, and therein lies the enigma that is so fun for a reader to explore in his author. His was not quite the "wilderness" you might expect in places like Alaska, and he certainly was not "alone" as the subtitle suggests; hunters and government men came and went all too often. Yet he comes to oneness with his Nature and discovers a self-purpose he never envisioned. The two most compelling scenes: the bobcat's death and the eclipse. I devoured the book.

Pete's Foolish, but Wonderful Adventure

I can't help but admire the young Pete Fromm. A brilliant yet foolish 19-20 year old with not even summer mountain man wilderness experience accepts an experimental baby salmon minding position in the heart of the Idaho area of the Bitter Root for seven months over winter. Pete Fromm had endless intellectual curiosity and thank goodness, a true survivor's portion of common sense that saved him several times.

Pete's adventure took place in the later 1970's when he was 19 or 20. Not around 1990 as written in the Publishers blurb above. This book wasn't published until 1993.

After a very brief orientation Pete was left with his winter home-- a canvas tent fixed to a platform. There was an inadequate wood stove. He was given an old truck that would get him to the nearest phone ten miles away until the snow was too deep. He was told he needed about seven cords of wood to make it through the winter and he better get it together soon because it would be close to impossible when the snow arrived. For awhile the nearby hunting camps were still working and Pete had occasional visits with people in those camps. After the camps closed he was alone except for his puppy who also grew up over the next six+ months. He did have a few short less than monthly visits from wardens with his mail and packages, but that was it for months.

There are some really cranky reviews here about the killing of animals. It was clear to me that Pete did not kill for fun.

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Title: The Calling

Subtitle: A Life Rocked by Mountains

Author: Barry Blanchard

Narrator: Barry Blanchard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-17

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

With heart-pounding descriptions of avalanches and treacherous ascents, Barry Blanchard chronicles his transformation from a poor Native American/white kid from the wrong side of the tracks to one of the most respected alpinists in the world. At 13 he learned to rappel when he joined the 1292 Lord Strathcone's Horse Army Cadets. Soon kicked out for insubordination, he was already hooked on climbing and saw alpinism as a way to make his single mother proud and end his family's cycle of poverty. He describes early climbs attempted with nothing to guide him but written trail descriptions and the cajones of youth. He slowly acquired the skills, equipment and partners necessary to tackle more and more difficult climbs, farther and farther afield: throughout the Canadian Rockies, into Alaska and the French Alps and on to Everest, Peru, and the challenging mountains in Pakistan. From each he learned lessons that only nature and extreme endeavor can teach. This is the story of the culture of climbing in the days of punk rock, spurred on by the rhythm of adrenaline and the arrogance of youth. It is also a portrait of the power of the mountains to lift us.

Members Reviews:

Riveting

The content and performance were excellent. I felt at times like a participant rather than the audience.

Phenomenal. gripping and inspiring book!

Phenomenal. gripping and inspiring book! It will make any adventurer long to be in the mountains!

Amazing stories!!

I didn't want it to end! Amazing climbing and life stories told perfectly by the author himself.

riveting account that conjured all my emotions.

I listened to this book while running and found myself bursting out in laughter one minute and wiping tears from my eyes the next!

I loved it.

An exciting, inspiring, vivid and honest storytelling of his life. Hilarious and emotional. Easily relatable for any climber, and probably still enjoyable for anyone who likes adventure. Being from Calgary myself and being familiar with a bunch of the mountains mentioned just added to the experience. Highly recommended!

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Title: A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea

Subtitle: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

Author: Melissa Fleming

Narrator: Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 55 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The stunning story of a young woman, an international crisis, and the triumph of the human spirit.

Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight - just debris from the ship's wreckage and floating corpses all around - 19-year-old Doaa Al Zamel floats with a small inflatable water ring around her waist and clutches two children, barely toddlers, to her body. The children had been thrust into Doaa's arms by their drowning relatives, all refugees who boarded a dangerously overcrowded ship bound for Sweden and a new life. For days Doaa floats, prays, and sings to the babies in her arms. She must stay alive for these children. She must not lose hope.

Doaa Al Zamel was once an average Syrian girl growing up in a crowded house in a bustling city near the Jordanian border. But in 2011 her life was upended. Inspired by the events of the Arab Spring, Syrians began to stand up against their own oppressive regime. When the army was sent to take control of Doaa's hometown, strict curfews, power outages, water shortages, air raids, and violence disrupted everyday life. After Doaa's father's barbershop was destroyed and rumors of women being abducted spread through the community, her family decided to leave Syria for Egypt, where they hoped to stay in peace until they could return home. Only months after their arrival, the Egyptian government was overthrown, and the environment turned hostile for refugees.

In the midst of this chaos, Doaa fell in love with a young opposition fighter who proposed marriage and convinced her to flee to the promise of safety and a better future in Europe. Terrified and unable to swim, Doaa and her young fiancé handed their life savings to smugglers and boarded a dilapidated fishing vessel with 500 other refugees, including 100 children. After four horrifying days at sea, another ship, filled with angry men shouting insults, rammed into Doaa's boat, sinking it and leaving the passengers to drown.

That is where Doaa's struggle for survival really begins.

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea is an emotionally charged, eye-opening true story that represents the millions of unheard voices of refugees who risk everything in a desperate search for the promise of a safe future. Melissa Fleming sheds light on the most pressing humanitarian crisis of our time and paints a vivid, unforgettable portrait of the triumph of the human spirit.

Members Reviews:

Piwerful

This is a story that will capture your attention and not let you go even after it concludes. I hated every time I had to put it down. Excellent relevant read.

Highly recommend.

One woman's story

One woman of the hundreds and thousand of women men and children who have attempted to cross to safety. It is devastating and real. The background story ensure that you dooa as a person, the harrowing travels show you her bravery and the tears you shed for her and with her make her whole. I can't imagine the horrible images she saw, or the depth of the pain she felt, but I know that she is a stronger person than I will ever be.

She left her family with the man who worked so hard to win her heart and watched him and 500 others die painful, horrific deaths when their boat sank.

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Title: Diary of a Fat Girl

Subtitle: How I Lost 140 Pounds, Overcame Binge Eating Disorder, and Learned to Love Myself After Weight Loss Surgery

Author: Lisa Sargese

Narrator: Lisa Sargese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-17

Publisher: Lisa Sargese

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

If you're ready to shed more than just the weight, listen to one woman's remarkable journey of self-discovery and healing. In Diary of a Fat Girl you gain an intimate view into how one woman overcame her past and began anew. Through Lisa Sargese's heart-wrenching (but often laugh-out-loud funny) memoir, you'll be inspired to discover your inner strength and drive to triumph in your own life challenges.

Diary of a Fat Girl is a must-listen for anybody who has struggled with body image, self-harm, self-hatred, abusive relationships, low self-esteem, binge eating disorder, bulimia, or a lack of self-love. You'll be inspired to see yourself in a whole new way by listening to this amazing book.

She knew what she needed to do...she just couldn't. Lisa felt that she should know better than to hate herself for being fat. As a professor of women's studies she knew she should love herself just as she is was - all 420 pounds of herself.

But the truth was, she couldn't manage to love herself, try as she might.

And even after two lap band weight loss surgeries, she still suffered from binge eating disorder. In Lisa's words, she could eat "two whole pizzas, three Entenmann's cakes, and a two-liter bottle of soda in a three hour binge" all to punish herself for existing.

Something had to change. Lisa's second lap band weight loss surgery had failed over a decade earlier. But she was too poor and too defeated to attempt a third.

But after more than 10 years of suffering daily binges, unbearable feelings, abusive relationships, and failing physical health, she knew she couldn't continue as she had been.

In 2006 she underwent gastric bypass surgery and began the long and difficult journey to health and happiness for the first time in her life.

Members Reviews:

Triggers

This book was good, at first I was so annoyed at the story but then realized it was triggering emotions towards things I didn't even think about... some parts of the book - felt like it was saying my story... I'm glad I finished the book.. and with the writer the best of luck getting to her goal..

Interesting but recording quality wasnt all there

for anyone who's struggled with a weight problem and currently facing bariatric surgery this is a warts-&-all account of one person's journey.

it puts an interesting perspective, raises some thoughts. however the recording quality was a bit odd in places.

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Title: Hot Lights, Cold Steel

Subtitle: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years

Author: Michael J. Collins MD

Narrator: John Pruden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-14-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 120 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

When Michael Collins decided to become a surgeon, he was totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. But compared to his fellow residents, Collins felt inadequate and unprepared. All too soon the euphoria of beginning his career as an orthopedic resident gave way to the feeling he was a counterfeit, an imposter who had infiltrated a society of brilliant surgeons.

This story of Collins' four-year surgical residency traces his rise from an eager but clueless first-year resident to accomplished chief resident in his final year. With unparalleled humor he recounts the disparity between people's perceptions of a doctor's glamorous life and the real thing: a succession of run-down cars that are towed to the junkyard, long weekends moonlighting at rural hospitals, a family that grows larger every year, and a laughable income.

Members Reviews:

great for a medical mind

It is a great book for a medical mind. There were many large medical words that intrigued me and the story is very personal to anyone worried about medical school, in their training, or reflecting on the past.

Just OK

Any additional comments?

I really tried to like this doctor, but in the end I didn't. He spells out an interesting journey of trying to figure out how to be a good human being while trying to become a good surgeon. Some of the stories are gruesome so beware if you don't have a strong stomach for this kind of thing. I didn't mind that so much as the uncaring for some patient's pain and fear.

A cut above the rest

I have a weakness for medical "coming of age" books and have read a lot of them. I have followed a surprisingly large number of physicians' memoirs of their education. This book is outstanding in its genre. The author is sometimes vulnerable, sometimes proud but always honest. The book covers the three years from when he begins his residency in Orthopedics at the Mayo Clinic and leaves there three years later to go into private practice. He's at his best when he describes his patients and his failures as well as his successes. I was stunned to find that twice I was near to tears and there were times when I laughed out loud at his down to earth humor and observations f the people around him. The book is not only about medicine, it is about family, about struggles to live on a Resident's salary and the sacrifices that the family must make to get through the three-year residency. This is one of the best books, of the hundreds, literally, that I have listened to.

Review

I noticed many stories repeated in later chapters. So it seemed like it needed more editing.

Fantastic

Loved the book! Just the right balance of humor and seriousness to drive home the underlying themes. Mikes daydreams have a 'style' similar to the ones Ralphie has in "A Christmas Story" which were hilarious! The narrator helps make the most of the book as well!

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Title: Blue on Blue

Subtitle: An Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops

Author: Charles Campisi, Gordon Dillow - contributor

Narrator: Danny Campbell, Charles Campisi - prologue

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-17

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 72 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

One of the most authentic and consistently illuminating portraits of police work ever, Blue on Blue describes the fascinating inner workings of the world's largest police force and Chief Charles Campisi's unprecedented two decades putting bad cops behind bars.

From 1996 through 2014, Charles Campisi headed NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau, working under four police commissioners and gaining a reputation as hard-nosed and incorruptible. When he retired, only one man on the 36,000-member force had served longer. During Campisi's IAB tenure, the number of New Yorkers shot, wounded, or killed by cops every year declined by 90 percent, and the number of cops failing integrity tests shrank to an equally startling low.

But to achieve those exemplary results, Campisi had to triple IAB's staff, hire the very best detectives, and put the word out that bad apples wouldn't be tolerated.

While the early minutes of Campisi's absorbing account bring us into the real world of cops, showing, for example, the agony that every cop suffers when he fires his gun, later chapters spotlight a harrowing series of investigations that tested IAB's capacities, forcing detectives to go undercover against cops who were themselves undercover, to hunt down criminals posing as cops, and to break through the "blue wall of silence" to verify rare - but sometimes very real - cases of police brutality.

Told in an edge-of-the-seat way by a born storyteller, Blue on Blue puts us in the scene, allowing us to listen in on wiretaps and feel the adrenaline rush of drawing in the net. It also reveals new threats to the force, such as the possibility of infiltration by terrorists. Ultimately, the book inspires awe for the man who, for almost two decades, was entrusted with the job of making sure the words "New York's Finest" never rang hollow.

A truly revelatory account, Blue on Blue will forever change the way you view police work.

Members Reviews:

Citizens of New York Should Read this....

It was interesting to read how law enforcement polices itself and the steps that have been taken to ensure the quality of personnel they have among the ranks. This day in age we hear enough about police officer killings that becomes increases tension and creates division among the population. Any time someone is killed by law enforcement is a tragedy - regardless of innocence. However, police are humans in a dynamic situation that is not black and white. I found it refreshing to hear how the NYPD IAB does "integrity" checks on cops who are under suspicion and those who are not. I think that form of prevention goes a long way in keeping cops honest.

I know this book was written by a former IAB chief who is proud to have served the city of New York. Some people might think he has a bias. I think you will find Campisi quite unbiased in fact when it comes to cops breaking any laws.

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Title: All the Lives I Want

Subtitle: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers

Author: Alana Massey

Narrator: Alana Massey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 32 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

From columnist and critic Alana Massey, a collection of essays examining the intersection of the personal with pop culture through the lives of pivotal female figures - from Sylvia Plath to Britney Spears - in the spirit of Chuck Klosterman, with the heart of a true fan.

Mixing Didion's affected cool with moments of giddy celebrity worship, Massey examines the lives of the women who reflect our greatest aspirations and darkest fears back onto us. These essays are personal without being confessional and clever in a way that invites listeners into the joke. A cultural critique and a finely wrought fan letter, interwoven with stories that are achingly personal, All the Lives I Want is also an exploration of mental illness, the sex industry, and the dangers of loving too hard. But it is, above all, a paean to the celebrities who have shaped a generation of women - from Scarlett Johansson to Amber Rose, Lil' Kim, Anjelica Huston, Lana Del Rey, Anna Nicole Smith, and many more. These reflections aim to reimagine these women's legacies and, in the process, teach us new ways of forgiving ourselves.

Critic Reviews:

"With brutal honesty, sly wit, and natural suspicion toward our most commonly held cultural assumptions, Alana Massey renders each and every subject she lands on a million times more interesting. From Sylvia Plath to Princess Diana, Fiona Apple to Amber Rose, Massey examines the most complicated and confusing female celebrities to shape the modern psyche, gracefully reflecting our shared sympathies, blind spots, and vulnerabilities along the way." (Heather Havrilesky, author of How to Be a Person in the World)

"Through the prism of female icons and celebrities, both deified and demonized, All the Lives I Want offers a poignant and often hilarious dissection of how pop culture shapes and consumes the women it elevates. Embedded in personal anecdote, Massey draws vital attention to, and urges celebration of, (the overlooked) sites of resistance therein. Massey's work, with prose both poignant and acerbic, is an invocation towards empathy-a call to women to be generous with ourselves and each other. We do ourselves a great favor to listen to her." (Natasha Lennard, columnist and contributor at The New York Times, The Nation, The Intercept, and Fusion)

"Alana Massey's writing often makes me uncomfortable, and sometimes makes me feel like resisting - but it also makes me laugh, and always makes me think, and always - certainly - makes me feel. Her prose is to brutal honesty what a mandolin is to a butter knife: she's sharper; she slices thinner; she shows the cross-section of a truth so deftly - so powerfully and cannily - it's hard to look away, and hard not to feel that something has shifted in you for having read her." (Leslie Jamison, New York Times best-selling author of The Empathy Exams)

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I literally couldn't stop listening. I've never heard of this author before (I happened upon her looking for a new book), & man was I pleasantly surprised. This chick is well read, knows her culture and the history behind each of the "lives", and perfectly weaves her backstory inside of every page.