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  • Patrimony Audiobook by Philip Roth
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    Title: Patrimony
    Subtitle: A True Story
    Author: Philip Roth
    Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 10-31-16
    Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
    Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his 86-year-old father - famous for his vigor, his charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections - battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordeal, and, as he does so, discloses the survivalist tenacity that has distinguished his father's long, stubborn engagement with life.
    Philip Roth is hailed by many as the reigning king of American fiction. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, this memoir about love, survival, and memory is one of his most intimate books, but also one of his most intellectually vigorous. Patrimony is Roth's elegy to his father, written with piercing observation and wit at the height of his literary prowess.
    Members Reviews:
    Glimpse of true family emotions
    I became absorbed into the narrator's honest, emotional account of his father's last year's. I was able to identify with his main protagonist, his very complex father.
    I was very moved by the tender, raw emotions laid bare. Very cleverly written; I was very tearful at the conclusion of Philip Roth's moving account of his father's death. I was also aware of the humorous theme running through the story. I recommend highly.
    P.Hopewell
    5 hr 42 min
  • You Will Not Have My Hate Audiobook by Antoine Leiris
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    Title: You Will Not Have My Hate
    Author: Antoine Leiris
    Narrator: Gildart Jackson
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 10-25-16
    Publisher: Penguin Audio
    Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 44 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    Number one international best seller
    "On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hate."
    On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiris' wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, was killed by terrorists while attending a rock concert at the Bataclan Theater in Paris, in the deadliest attack on France since World War II. Three days later Leiris wrote an open letter addressed directly to his wife's killers, which he posted on Facebook. He refused to be cowed or to let his 17-month-old son's life be defined by Hélène's murder. He refused to let the killers have their way: "For as long as he lives, this little boy will insult you with his happiness and freedom." Instantly that short Facebook post caught fire and was reported on by newspapers and television stations all over the world. In his determination to honor the memory of his wife, he became an international hero to everyone searching desperately for a way to deal with the horror of the Paris attacks and the grim shadow cast today by the threat of terrorism.
    Now Leiris tells the full story of his grief and struggle. You Will Not Have My Hate is a remarkable, heartbreaking, and indeed beautiful memoir of how he and his baby son, Melvil, endured in the days and weeks after Hélène's murder. With absolute emotional courage and openness, he somehow finds a way to answer that impossible question: How can I go on? He visits Hélène's body at the morgue, has to tell Melvil that Mommy will not be coming home, and buries the woman he had planned to spend the rest of his life with.
    Leiris' grief is terrible, but his love for his family is indomitable. This is the rare and unforgettable testimony of a survivor and a universal message of hope and resilience. Leiris confronts an incomprehensible pain with a humbling generosity and grandeur of spirit. He is a guiding star for us all in these perilous times. His message - hate will be vanquished by love - is eternal.
    Members Reviews:
    accurate portrayal of grief, hope. beautiful
    Would you consider the audio edition of You Will Not Have My Hate to be better than the print version?
    Absolutely, these words should be read to you.
    What was one of the most memorable moments of You Will Not Have My Hate?
    This section: "Aggravating circumstances are for trials as a way of quantifying loss. But people don't count their tears. and they certainly don't dry them on the sleeves of their anger. Those with no one to blame are alone with their grief. I am one of them. Alone with my son who will soon ask what happened. What would I be telling him if I placed the responsibility for the circumstances on our life at someone else's feet.... "Of course having a culprit, someone to take the brunt of your anger is an open door, a chance to temporarily escape your suffering. And the more oedipus the crime, the more ideal the culprit, the more legitimate your hatred. You think about him in order not to think about yourself. You hate him in order not to hate what is left of your life.
    1 hr 43 min
  • Backstabbing for Beginners Audiobook by Michael Soussan
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    Title: Backstabbing for Beginners
    Subtitle: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy
    Author: Michael Soussan
    Narrator: Maxwell Hamilton
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-20-16
    Publisher: Hachette Audio
    Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 7 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    The year is 1997. Michael Soussan, a fresh-faced young graduate, takes up a new job at the UN's Oil-for-Food program, the largest humanitarian operation in the organization's history. His mission is to help Iraqi civilians survive the devastating impact of economic sanctions that were imposed following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
    As a gaffe-prone novice in a world of sensitive taboos, Soussan struggles to negotiate the increasing paranoia of his incomprehensible boss and the inner workings of one of the world's notoriously complex bureaucracies. But as he learns more about the vast sums of money flowing through the program, it becomes clear that all is not what it seems. Soussan becomes aware that Saddam Hussein is extracting illegal kickbacks, a discovery that sets him on a collision course with the organization's leadership.
    On March 8, 2004, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Soussan becomes the first insider to call for "an independent investigation" of the UN's dealings with Saddam Hussein. One week later a humiliated Kofi Annan appointed Paul Volcker to lead a team of international investigators, whose findings resulted in hundreds of prosecutions in multiple countries, many of which are still ongoing.
    Backstabbing for Beginners is at once a witty tale of one man's political coming of age and a stinging indictment of the hypocrisy that prevailed at the heart of one of the world's most idealistic institutions.
    Members Reviews:
    Don't let the title fool you...
    Any additional comments?
    This is an intriguing inside tale of the United Nations' Iraqi "Oil for Food" program that is interesting enough but add to that a very well written story and superb narration and you have a great story...perfect for audio.
    Eye-opener history made entertaining
    I read this book a few years back and am enjoying it just as much this time through on audio. The narrator is incredible. The Oil-For-Food program is in the dim past for me, and a great reminder of the greed, bureaucratic bungling and often very funny office politics and personalities behind the scenes. I just read online about the movie, but can't imagine it will be as good as the book, skeptic that I am.
    An incredible, perspective changing, listen
    Soussan's brilliant text is performed extremely well Maxwell Hamilton, who, (despite one questionable Australian accent for the head of the Australian Wheat Board) is great. The text itself is such an insight into the laughable world of lies, deceit and bigoted egos that block those with true passion and determination to change the lives of people who need it most. My personal favourite parts of the text - when Soussan explains how incredibly smart Saddam was, albeit shockingly corrupt, to mastermind the downfall of integrity of most first world countries of the world and the U.N. Members and chairmen of countries you wouldn't believe would partake in dodgy dealings are the first to be whistle-blown by Soussan; Not just the US and Russia - but Australia, France, New Zealand and plenty of others are all in on it.
    Cracking yarn. An absolute must.
    Interesting, well read and quite eye opening
    Very interesting, and jauntily read with some wry humour, without getting into a huge blame game or cynicism at the end.
    14 hr 25 min
  • Unorthodox Hörbuch von Deborah Feldman
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    Titel: Unorthodox
    Autor:: Deborah Feldman
    Erzähler: Anita Hopt
    Format: Unabridged
    Spieldauer: 11 hrs and 51 mins
    Sprache: Deutsch
    Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-16-16
    Herausgeber: Audiobuch Verlag OHG
    Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:
    Selten hat eine Autorin ihre Befreiung aus den Fesseln religiöser Extremisten so lebensnah, so ehrlich, so analytisch klug erzählt wie Deborah Feldman. Feldman wuchs in der ultra-orthodoxen, chassidischen Satmar-Gemeinde in Williamsburg, einem Stadtteil von New York, auf. Schon als Kind störte sie die strikte Unterwerfung unter die strengen Lebensgesetze der Sekte, die Ausgrenzung, die ärmliche Lebensweise und die Unterordnung der Frau. Ihr Gerechtigkeitsempfinden und ihr Wissenshunger haben sie angetrieben, ihren Alltag zu hinterfragen. In "Unorthodox" schildert Feldman das harte Leben in der Gemeinde, angefangen von den Kindertagen bis hin zu ihrer Zwangsehe. Und sie erzählt, wie sie den Mut fand, zusammen mit ihrem Sohn aus dieser Enge auszubrechen - hinein in eine ihr völlig unbekannte Welt.
    Zu diesem Titel erhalten Sie eine PDF-Datei, die nach dem Kauf automatisch Ihrer Bibliothek hinzugefügt wird.
    ©2016 Secession (P)2016 Audiobuch Verlag OHG
    11 hr 51 min
  • Uncovered Audiobook by Leah Lax
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    Title: Uncovered
    Subtitle: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
    Author: Leah Lax
    Narrator: Donna Postel
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-13-16
    Publisher: Tantor Audio
    Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 19 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    In Uncovered, Leah Lax tells her story - beginning as a young teen who left her liberal, secular home for life as a Hasidic Jew and ending as a 40-something woman who has to abandon the only world she's known for 30 years in order to achieve personal freedom.
    In understated, crystalline prose, Lax details her experiences with arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and motherhood during her years with the Hasidim and explores how her creative, sexual, and spiritual longings simmered beneath the surface throughout her time there. The first memoir to tell of a gay woman who spent years in the Hasidic fold, Uncovered is the moving story of Lax's journey toward finding a home where she truly belongs.
    Critic Reviews:
    "Fascinating and insightful" (Booklist)
    Members Reviews:
    inspiring book
    loved the book. i fond it extremely moving and inspiring. it is one of a kind.
    Wow!!!
    Since I was a little girl in a yeshiva kindergarten, I have been fascinated with chasidim. This book was an answer to many of my feelings. I loved the wonderful narration.
    13 hr 41 min
  • The Awakening of H.K. Derryberry Audiobook by Andy Hardin, Jim Bradford
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    Title: The Awakening of H.K. Derryberry
    Subtitle: My Unlikely Friendship with the Boy Who Remembers Everything
    Author: Andy Hardin, Jim Bradford
    Narrator: Milton Bagby
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-13-16
    Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
    Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 49 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    The Awakening of HK Derryberry is the inspiring story of how one man was willing to step out of his upper-middle-class world into the life of a young, disabled boy with a dismal future. Little did Jim Bradford know the transformational potential of that friendship - for HK and himself.
    HK Derryberry came into the world with the odds stacked heavily against him. He was taken from his unmarried mother's womb three months prematurely when she was killed in a car wreck. After 96 days of seesawing between life and death, HK's grandmother took him home.
    One Saturday morning Jim Bradford, a successful businessman in his mid-fifties, happens into Mrs. Winner's Chicken and Biscuits and sees a nine-year-old's head pressed down against a black plastic boom box with a crooked antenna and three strips of silver duct tape stretched across the battery cover. He can't help but notice the long, white plastic braces on each of the child's legs. Mr. Bradford learns that HK's grandmother is forced to bring him to the fast-food restaurant where she works, leaving him to sit alone all day at a small table, with only his boom box for company. On subsequent Saturdays Jim feels drawn back to the restaurant to meet with HK and begins spending every weekend with him.
    Eventually it becomes apparent that buried beneath HK's severe disabilities is one spectacular ability. He is diagnosed with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM), which involves superlative powers of recollection that enable him to remember everything that has happened to him since the age of three. Less than 100 people have been diagnosed with HSAM, but none of them have the physical disabilities of HK Derryberry.
    Members Reviews:
    touching and inspiring!
    This is what happens when someone chooses to get involved in someone else's life rather than just continue on with the ease of retirement and comfortable living well-earned.
    The author notices a young boy hanging out in a diner for many hours on end and takes an interest. The boy is blind and one leg is shorter than the other. Spending so much time alone has stunted his social skills also, so people shy away from him. His caretaker grandmother lives hand to mouth, and has no resources to give him more.
    The crux is not about solving problems with money (although that always helps), but rather getting to know people and really caring. Many lives were changed for the better as a result of this man's odd curiosity about a little, strange boy. Retirement didn't end up as he had planned, but he wouldn't trade it for the world.
    The story is heartening and touching, but is written a tad amateurishly, hence the loss of one star. The narration is wonderful, the narrator perfectly delivering the man's age and temperament. This is a delightful story to warm the cockles of your heart.
    Inspirational
    This was a good book about a boy and man who change each others life. the narrator was good the story did lose some of appeal because it became too sappy. Made me feel like I was reading those chicken soup books. the best part was I Google's HK found video, soo cool. Don't do this til after book. you'll spoil the book.
    HK--You little pick-pocket!
    Wonderful, beautiful, true story reminding us all of what's really important.
    5 hr 48 min
  • The Outrun Audiobook by Amy Liptrot
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    Title: The Outrun
    Author: Amy Liptrot
    Narrator: Tracy Wiles
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-01-16
    Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
    Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 30 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    At the age of 30, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life.
    As she spends her mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, her days tracking Orkney's wildlife, and her nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy discovers how the wild can restore life and renew hope.
    Members Reviews:
    I want to start over at the beginning.
    I need to move to Scotland. it's settled. obviously an island. will need a snorkel
    Slow to Start But Picks Up Brilliantly
    What did you love best about The Outrun?
    The narrator's recovery among her native Orkney islands. She made recovery a combo of hard work, being one with nature, and the healing power of the sea
    What did you like best about this story?
    It didn't grab me from the first - her alcoholism and downward spiral were dull and uninspiring. She told me nothing new. But her return home really picked up the pacing of the book. Counting the birds was terrific.
    Which character as performed by Tracy Wiles was your favorite?
    The narrator of course.
    Whats the most interesting tidbit youve picked up from this book?
    Life on the Orkneys. I may visit.
    3.5 stars
    Oh, the Merry Dancers!
    There was a level of honesty reached with the writing of this memoir that must have been difficult to put to paper. That, I admire. Among the brutal honesties are details of living beauties she seeks in place of the drink. What a beautiful journey through the recovery process!
    Overall, a well written and read book.
    What made the experience of listening to The Outrun the most enjoyable?
    Hearing about the birds on Orkney and other islands.
    What was one of the most memorable moments of The Outrun?
    Can't think of 1.
    Have you listened to any of Tracy Wiless other performances? How does this one compare?
    No.
    Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
    Hearing about some of Amy's experiences with depression and some of her thoughts, I can relate to.
    Any additional comments?
    Overall, this book is well written and read and I found her journey to becoming and remaining sober interesting, but I found it a little boring at the end and I feel awkward saying that about a story that is actually real life.
    An important listen, but a little haphazard
    Dealing with an addiction is no mean feat, it's an illness as Amy Liptrot explains in this memoir where she battles alcoholism. Some of the incidents are truly horrifying, not because of what she does to herself, but more so what the illness does to her and as a result her life spirals downwards. And while that part I can truly engage with, the random long explanations about her newfound passions for astronomy, sea and bird life seems to go off in a tangent.
    You can definitely recognise her addictive personality manifesting in new hobbies, and obsessing in the same way. And at least that's healthier, but as a reader, I seemed to lose concentration on her rural lifestyle. Very good insight into mental health and addiction though.
    6 hr 47 min
  • The Bridge to Brilliance Audiobook by Nadia Lopez, Rebecca Paley
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    Title: The Bridge to Brilliance
    Subtitle: How One Principal in a Tough Community Is Inspiring the World
    Author: Nadia Lopez, Rebecca Paley
    Narrator: Nadia Lopez, Adenrele Ojo
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 08-30-16
    Publisher: Penguin Audio
    Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 28 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    The inspirational account of the creation of a path-breaking inner-city middle school in Brooklyn, New York, by the magnetic young principal who rocketed to national fame via Humans of New York.
    When 13-year-old Vidal Chastanet told photographer Brandon Stanton that his principal, Ms. Lopez, was the person who most influenced his life, it was the pebble that started a whirlwind for Nadia Lopez and her small, new public school in one of Brooklyn's most wretched communities. The posting on Stanton's wildly popular site, Humans of New York (HONY), went megaviral. Lopez - not long before on the verge of quitting - found herself in the national spotlight and headed for a meeting with Obama as well as the beneficiary of a million-dollar IndieGoGo campaign for the school. Here is her first-person account of what it took to get to that moment.
    Mott Hall Bridges Academy isn't just a hallway inside a typically underserved public school in one of New York City's most underprivileged communities - it is a school that glows with energy and excitement. Lopez tells the kids every day that they're extraordinary and that she loves them. When trouble stirs, she asks, "Would I have been proud to see what happened in that classroom? No? Then why did it happen?" She tells her teachers, "Don't tell me our scholars can't learn, because if you can't teach them, then I'll come teach your class for a couple of weeks."
    Everything was an uphill battle - to get the school launched, to recruit faculty and students, to solve a million new problems every day, from violent crime to vanishing supplies, but Lopez illustrates how leadership often means just picking the right people to support you. In middle school, one year lost with an unengaged teacher is a year that can send a kid down a terrible path. And then, of course, there is the educational system itself, how "teaching to the test" is an enormous problem, particularly in schools with kids who are already disadvantaged and underprepared.
    The Bridge to Brilliance is an audiobook filled with common sense and caring that will carry her message to classrooms far from Brooklyn. As she says modestly, "There are hundreds of Ms. Lopezes around this country doing good work for kids. This honors all of them."
    With an introduction read by the author.
    Members Reviews:
    Phenomenal!
    I absolute loved this book! The messages it gives are so meaningful for anyone in any human service, education, or really any other job position. Empathy, understanding, and listening are things that everyone should take more time to do.
    Don't give on them!
    I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The perseverance of this principal is needed is needed in certain areas of our country. Her desire for the students became their desire for themselves. Sometimes you don't know what you want until others show you the possibilities.
    Ms. Lopez's /Mott Hall Bridges story is incredible
    I bought the hard cover book, audible book. I loved it and couldn't put it down! I underlined a lot of text in that book! I am recommending this book to everyone that will listen to me! Ms. Lopez and her staff are doing amazing things at Mott Hall Bridges! I am so glad she shared her story and perspective on education/community. I agree with you Ms.
    7 hr 53 min
  • Critical Care Audiobook by Theresa Brown
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    Title: Critical Care
    Subtitle: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
    Author: Theresa Brown
    Narrator: Coleen Marlo
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 08-16-16
    Publisher: Tantor Audio
    Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 25 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    In her former career as an English professor, Theresa Brown had been shielded from the harsh reality of death. That all changed the day she decided to become an oncology nurse. In Critical Care, Theresa writes powerfully and honestly about her first year on the hospital floor. With great compassion and a disarming sense of humor, she shares the trials and triumphs of her patients and comes to realize that caring for a patient means much more than simply treating a disease. Deeply moving and, at times, sobering, Critical Care sheds light on the issues of mortality and meaning in our lives.
    Critic Reviews:
    "What Theresa Brown has managed to do with [
    Critical Care] is precisely what the best of nurses do with their patients focus always on the heart of what matters. I loved this book." (Pauline Chen, M.D., author of
    Final Exam)
    Members Reviews:
    Excellent all the way around!
    I read this book years ago and it was a real eye opener. I listened to it again as I have been a caretaker several times since then and I really appreciate the care given by the selfless nurses. The author is truly an example of how all nurses should treat their patient's.
    A revealing insight into a chemo nurse perspective
    Having been a cancer patient and chemo recipient myself I found this book answering many of the questions I had about my angel nurses and their side of my treatment. All of my nurses, from the time of my diagnosis, surgery and chemo were kind, caring and supportive. This book was well written and the narrator was excellent. I love books written in the first person speaking the truth of their experiences and feelings of the events from their own perspective. I couldn't put it down.
    So interesting!
    Any additional comments?
    I enjoy Theresa Brown's writing and the narration by Coleen Marlo was lovely. I would absolutely recommend.
    5 hr 24 min
  • Navigating Life Audiobook by Margaux Bergen
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    Title: Navigating Life
    Subtitle: Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me
    Author: Margaux Bergen
    Narrator: Margaux Bergen
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 08-02-16
    Publisher: Penguin Audio
    Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    An inspiring, piercingly honest user's guide to life, written for the author's daughter and given to her on her first day of college, reflecting tough lessons about family, work, and marriage.
    You learn a few useful things at school - the three Rs come in handy, and it's good to know how to perform under pressure and wait your turn - but most of what matters, what makes you into a functioning human being, able to hold your own in conversation, find your path, know what to avoid in relationships, and secure a meaningful job, no teacher will ever tell you. This diamond-sharp, gut-punchingly honest book of hard-earned wisdom is one mother's effort to equip her daughter for survival in the real world.
    Margaux Bergen began writing this book when her daughter, Charlotte, turned nine and gave it to her right after graduation from high school, when she was setting off for her first day of college. "I am not writing this to groom or guide you to professional or academic success," she wrote. "My goal is rather to give you tools that might help you engage with the world and flourish.... Think of this as a kind of developing bath-time wisdom."
    Wise, heartbreakingly funny, and resonantly true, Navigating Life has invaluable lessons for students of life of all ages. It will challenge you to lead a more meaningful life and to tackle the bumps along the way with grace, grit, style, and ingenuity. What The Blessings of a Skinned Knee did for the early years of parenting, Navigating Life does for the next far more perilous chapter, when new graduates are cast out on the high seas and have to learn to swim and find their way by themselves.
    Critic Reviews:
    "I absolutely loved this beautiful book! It's wise, wry, bracingly honest and so gripping I couldn't put it down. Clearly whip smart, Margaux Bergen has one of those rare voices that pulls you in and makes you want to keep reading." (Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother)
    Members Reviews:
    Beautiful and personal book that pulls back the curtain of motherhood
    This book made me feel like I had an insider's view of a mother's world. I felt lucky to experience such a personal and vulnerable story - reading thoughts and feelings that we are never able to know about other people unless they share honestly and openly. I watched a mother grow and learn as she raised her three children - and in doing so, I learned from her lessons and experiences. Bergen's writing stye was so enthralling that I enjoyed every page, even when the topics were difficult and honest. At the end of the book, I literally turned it over and started reading from the beginning, appreciating it from a different angle.
    What a fantastic read -- buy for yourselves and for family and friends.
    A gem of a book for anyone looking to navigate the inlets and isthmuses of life. Full of charm, humor, and thoughtfulness.
    Nuggets of Wisdom
    I really enjoyed the nuggets of wisdom sprinkled throughout this book. This truly is the advice you wish your mom told you. It's an inspiration to do the same for my children. Most of her single liners are spot on. There were moments I got a little lost in the story telling but the author still hits you with an amazing takeaway every few paragraphs. Love!
    Navigating Life was my favorite book of the summer
    Navigating Life was my favorite book of the summer.
    4 hr 38 min

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