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Title: The Stowaway

Subtitle: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica

Author: Laurie Gwen Shapiro

Narrator: Jacques Roy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-18

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The spectacular true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica.

It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War was over, and American optimism was higher than the stock market. What better moment to launch an expedition to Antarctica, the planet's final frontier? This was the moon landing before the 1960s. Everyone wanted to join the adventure. Rockefellers and Vanderbilts begged to be taken along as mess boys, and newspapers across the globe covered the planning's every stage.

The night before the expedition's flagship launched, Billy Gawronski - a skinny, first-generation New York City high schooler desperate to escape a dreary future in the family upholstery business - jumped into the Hudson River and snuck aboard.

Could he get away with it?

From the grimy streets of New York's Lower East Side to the rowdy dance halls of sultry Francophone Tahiti, all the way to Antarctica's blinding white and deadly freeze, Laurie Gwen Shapiro's The Stowaway takes you on the unforgettable voyage of a gutsy young stowaway who became an international celebrity, a mascot for an up-by-your-bootstraps age.

Critic Reviews:

"Shapiro has rescued from oblivion a wondrous tale of exploration.

The Stowaway is a thrilling adventure that captures not only the making of a man but of a nation." (David Grann, best-selling author of

Killers of the Flower Moon)

"

The Stowaway proves that fact is stranger and funnier and more amazing than fiction. Laurie Gwen Shapiro artfully draws the reader into the tale of Billy Gawronski, a dreamer and adventurer. Through the wild story of his travels to Antarctica, we see history come vividly to life." (Susan Orlean, best-selling author of

Rin Tin Tin)

"Laurie Gwen Shapiro wrote

The Stowaway like a Jack London novel: with a sense of adventure, wonderful detail, a lineup of intriguing characters, and above all a great story. This is the best of nonfiction." (Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of

Paper)

Members Reviews:

A Nice Little Story About A Nice Young Man...

In the Afterword, Laurie Gwen Shapiro states that Billy Gawronski's story could be something so outlandish that a novelist could've written it. It has it all: a young man's plucky relentlessness, the roaring 20s, Antarctica, etc. And it's true it has all that -but- Shapiro wrote it, not a novelist, and she takes all the fun out of it. In her hands, The Stowaway is just a nice story about a good kid.

Don't expect adventure and exploration. Billy doesn't make the cut and has to sail home while the good stuff takes place. Then the book simply becomes a story of him doing a few interviews, kicking around, and asking his parents for money.

Don't get me wrong. Gawronski is a fine young man, it's just that the story drags and doesn't hit the highs it could've hit. I'm glad that adventure got in his blood and, after a sorry marriage, he went on to serve his country.

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Title: When They Call You a Terrorist

Subtitle: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Author: Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele

Narrator: Patrisse Khan-Cullors

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-18

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 32 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The emotional and powerful story of one of the cofounders of Black Lives Matter and how the movement was born. When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele is the essential audiobook for every conscientious American.

From one of the cofounders of the Black Lives Matter movement comes a poetic audiobook memoir and reflection on humanity. Necessary and timely, Patrisse Cullors' story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love. Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, a threat to America. But in truth, they are loving women whose life experiences have led them to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful.

In this meaningful, empowering account of survival, strength, and resilience, Patrisse Cullors and asha bandele seek to change the culture that declares innocent black life expendable.

This program is read by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and includes a bonus conversation.

Critic Reviews:

"Steeped in humanity and powerful prose.... This is an eye-opening and eloquent coming-of-age story from one of the leaders in the new generation of social activists." (

Publishers Weekly)

"With great candor about her complex personal life, Khan-Cullors has created a memoir as compelling as a page-turning novel." (

Booklist)

"This remarkable book reveals what inspired Patrisse's visionary and courageous activism and forces us to face the consequence of the choices our nation made when we criminalized a generation. This book is a must-read for all of us." (Michelle Alexander, author of

The New Jim Crow)

Members Reviews:

Everyone should listen!

Would you listen to When They Call You a Terrorist again? Why?

Yes, as a white person, it has given me a much better understanding and therefore more empathy of the reality in which black people live. Some of the scenes reminded me of what it might be like to live in a country with war on our soil; our fellow Americans live in constant fear. It is a piece of art, beautifully written.

What did you like best about this story?

A deeper understanding of America's history, present and future.

Have you listened to any of Patrisse Khan-Cullorss other performances before? How does this one compare?

No, I have not.

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

Cry and laugh.

Any additional comments?

Listen to this book. You will not regret it.

Full and Satisfied

I LOVED "When They Call You a Terrorist", this book is a definite must read. I mean I could feel my soul crying out, needing more, and at the end completely satisfied and full. Thank you for sharing what some many have also experienced.

Must Read

This is a must read book. Patrisse tells a story much like my own in the wake of childhood trauma, but seeing the differences in how we were both treated was incredibly eye-opening. This is the book you need to begin your journey as an ally seeking to help end white supremacy. Read it. Read it again. And again. Listen. And help.

Absolute must read

One of the best books Ive read in years. Powerful, heartbreaking, inspiring. Beautifully written and captures you from the first word.

This book pulls at your heart strings

I was moved by the experiences that Patrice had to face and how her team kept showing up and continued to do so.

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Title: On Pills and Needles

Subtitle: The Relentless Fight to Save My Son from Opioid Addiction

Author: Rick Van Warner

Narrator: Traber Burns

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-18

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

When Rick Van Warner found himself searching abandoned buildings and dangerous streets looking for his missing son, he had no idea that the synthetic, pill-form heroin that had snared his teen was already killing so many. In the years of pain and heartache that followed, as he tried to save his son from opioid addiction, Van Warner discovered what the American public is just now becoming aware of: Opioids prescribed for even minor pain relief are so addictive that even a few days of use can create dependency. On Pills and Needles is a memoir that also serves as a wake-up call and crash course in opioid addiction. Through his harrowing personal story, Van Warner exposes the common causes of opioid addiction, effective and ineffective ways it has been treated, and how families can walk alongside loved ones who are dealing with the daily realities of addiction.

Members Reviews:

I lived this life

This was a book of heart and heartache. Your devotion to your son was truly amazing. My exhusband was a heartache only someone like this father could understand. I lived the chasing into places i should of never been. and the horrid feeling of is tonight going to be the night of a ending phone call. And after 20 years of trying and hope mine did not come to be.

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Title: Getting Off

Subtitle: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction

Author: Erica Garza

Narrator: Joy Osmanski

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-18

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A courageous account of one woman's unflinching and ultimately hopeful journey through sex and porn addiction.

A fixation on porn and orgasm, strings of failed relationships and serial hook-ups with strangers, inevitable blackouts to blunt the shame - these are not things we often hear women share publicly, and not with the candor, eloquence and introspection Erica Garza brings to Getting Off.

What sets this courageous and riveting account apart from your typical misery memoir is the absence of any precipitating trauma beyond the garden variety of hurt we've all had to endure in simply becoming a person - reckoning with family, learning to be social, integrating what it means to be sexual. Whatever tenor of violence or abuse Erica's life took on through her behavior was of her own making, fueled by fear, guilt, self-loathing, self-pity, loneliness, and the hopelessness those feelings brought on as she runs from one side of the world to the other in an effort to break her habits - from East Los Angeles to Hawaii and Southeast Asia, through the brothels of Bangkok and the yoga studios of Bali to disappointing stabs at therapy and 12-steps back home.

In this remarkable audiobook, Garza draws an evocative, studied portrait of the anxiety that fuels her obsessions as well as the exhilaration and hope she begins to feel when she suspects she might be free of them. And yet there is no false or prepackaged sense of redemption here. Even her relationship with the man she will ultimately marry seems credibly, painfully rocky as it finds its legs with several false starts. Erica's increasing sense of self-acceptance and peace by journey's end feels utterly earned and absent of recovery platitudes.

In exploring the cultural taboos surrounding sex and porn from a female perspective, Garza offers a brave and necessary voice to our evolving conversations about addiction and the impact that Internet culture has had on us all.

Members Reviews:

Fascinating venture into the mid of a highly sexual woman

I found this book to be very honest, raw, and very interesting. Extremely well written and superbly narrated. As a man who has crossed paths with women like Erica this really helped explain much. Women are complicated so every time I read a book or meet a woman with such astounding honesty and insight I learn and understand more (last one was Wild). Despite the title this book this isnt a series of graphic descriptions about raunchy sex, if thats what youre looking for then skip it. In my opinion this book is about the need to balance sexuality, whether youre a man or a woman, the porn addition is just one part of the whole picture. I look forward to reading more from Erica, and not just about sex. Shes clearly very intelligent and Im sure shell use that talent writing about all types of subjects.

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose

I struggle with how to write a review of "Getting Off." From a literary aspect I highly commend the author, Erica Garza. Her writing skill is dazzling and amazing. I applaud her personal openness and honesty in telling her story. So refreshing. I also highly commend the superb Audible narration of Joy Osmanski. I was intensely captivated by Garza's story from start to finish. I literally devoured it. Nevertheless,in the end I was left immensely disappointed.

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Title: Tell Me More

Subtitle: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say

Author: Kelly Corrigan

Narrator: Kelly Corrigan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-18

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 34 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A powerful book about the phrases we can't live without from the New York Times best-selling author of Glitter and Glue, who has been hailed as "the poet laureate of the ordinary" (The Huffington Post).

Members Reviews:

This is one author's story about how she comes to terms with phrases that are ubiquitous in our lives

This book is a gem and it is also very difficult to describe. The author reflects on phrases we all use in life which are:

- It's Like This

- Tell Me More

- I Don't Know

- I Know

- No

- Yes

- I Was Wrong

- Good Enough

- I Love You

- No Words at All

- Onward

- This Is It

For instance, in the "I Know" chapter, she reflects with raw emotion her relationship with Liz who she became very close to but who dies way too young. She reflects on how knowing people takes time and she wished she could have told Liz and would have known then that every important conversation she would have for the rest of her life would have a little bit to do with Liz. The chapter, for me, was about coming to terms with "knowing." One poignant thing the author says that resonated with me is one I find to be so true --> "You can't be really loved if you can't bear to be really known."

In the "I Was Wrong" chapter, one of the things she talks about is realizing how wrong she was by not visiting her grandmother Cleta more than once in all the two years she lived near her in Baltimore.

This author's story is about how she comes to terms with each of these phrases that are ubiquitous in our lives. However, its written like a great rambling autobiography of the various chapters of her life. I really loved this, yet I have such a hard time describing this book because the message to the reader is subtle and taught through the author's own experiences.

Amazing!

Kelly says the things we are all thinking and feeling but in such better wording than I ever could. Love her and I was thrilled to get to meet her in person on her book tour for this book. To hear her read some pages and give back story was such an amazing experience! If I would have known she narrates the audible version I would have been all over that. Reading her books is like having a great conversation with a girlfriend.

Meet Kelly, My New Best Friend

This book is like meeting someone who will be your best friend and sharing that friendship. This is real life.

Fantastic book, as are the rest of Kelly Corrigan's ...

Fantastic book, as are the rest of Kelly Corrigan's books. Read this book in a day. Couldn't put it down. love everything Kelly has to say. Always a pleasure to read her, even better to see her speak if you have the opportunity.

Kelly Delivers Again

Kelly Corrigan delivers again. You'll laugh, cry and feel everything in between. Most of all, you'll be better at saying 12 things we could all be better at saying.

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Title: A River in Darkness

Subtitle: One Man's Escape from North Korea

Author: Martin Brown - translator, Risa Kobayashi - translator, Masaji Ishikawa

Narrator: Brian Nishii

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-18

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 155 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The harrowing true story of one man's life inand subsequent escape fromNorth Korea, one of the world's most brutal totalitarian regimes.

Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work, education for his children, and a higher station in society. But the reality of their new life was far from utopian.

In this memoir translated from the original Japanese, Ishikawa candidly recounts his tumultuous upbringing and the brutal thirty-six years he spent living under a crushing totalitarian regime, as well as the challenges he faced repatriating to Japan after barely escaping North Korea with his life. A River in Darkness is not only a shocking portrait of life inside the country but a testament to the dignityand indomitable natureof the human spirit.

Members Reviews:

Awful! And I don't mean the book . . .

This memoir is a horrifying saga on so many levels: personal, familial, communal, political, institutional, national, and global. Masaji Ishikawa, with his elegant yet understated prose, has changed my world view forever. How can one person treat another with such stark cruelty? How can one person endure such circumstances? How can governments and institutions get away with such blatant lies and abject misconduct? No doubt, I will never again think of myself as hungry, thirsty, stifled, scared, or mistreated without thinking of Mr. Ishikawa and silently rebuking myself. Gratitude is my mantra for 2018. (Would love to follow up and know how he is managing.)

Great read

Very good book. Its hard to imagine what these people are going through. In our time even.

Heartbreaking

It is hard to love a story of so much unresolved heartbreak. So much suffering by so many people.

an important story of humanity

Beautifully written and narrated, this is a story all humans should hear or read at least once.

Fantastic story we should all read and remember!

This book was captivating, heartbreaking, and enlightening. I'm so thankful that Masaji Ishikawa survived and is telling his story! I hope he has dreams come true and is able to work wonders and miracles through the outcome of this book. Masaji, I am so sorry for all you've been through. As I read your book, I only wished I could have fed, clothed and sheltered your family. Your story made me realize how blessed I've been, in even the hardest times. I pray you find peace in your remaining years. Thank you for being brave and sharing your story - I believe God saved you for this reason!

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Title: White American Youth

Subtitle: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement - and How I Got Out

Author: Christian Picciolini

Narrator: Christian Picciolini, Joan Jett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, realized the error of his ways and abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist.

As he stumbled through high school, struggling to find a community among other fans of punk rock music, Christian Picciolini was recruited by a now notorious white power skinhead leader and encouraged to fight with the movement to "protect the white race from extinction." Soon, he had become an expert in racist philosophies, a terror who roamed the neighborhood, quick to throw fists. When his mentor was arrested and sentenced to 11 years in prison, 16-year-old Picciolini took over the man's role as the leader of an infamous neo-Nazi skinhead group.

Seduced by the power he accrued through intimidation, and swept up in the rhetoric he had adopted, Picciolini worked to grow an army of extremists. He used music as a recruitment tool, launching his own propaganda band that performed at white power rallies around the world. But slowly, as he started a family of his own and a job that for the first time brought him face to face with people from all walks of life, he began to recognize the cracks in his hateful ideology. Then a shocking loss at the hands of racial violence changed his life forever, and Picciolini realized too late the full extent of the harm he'd caused.

Raw, inspiring, and heartbreakingly candid, White American Youth tells the fascinating story of how so many young people lose themselves in a culture of hatred and violence and how the criminal networks they forge terrorize and divide our nation.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

Critic Reviews:

"

White American Youth takes the reader into the depths of the hate movement and sheds a valuable light on the mindset of those who can be lured into this dark world. Christian's astonishing change of heart is a testament to our endless capacity for personal transformation." (Lonnie Nasatir, regional director, Anti-Defamation League)

"Christian's journey exemplifies how hate and violence are unsustainable, and tolerance, forgiveness, and love are the only ways forward. If Christian can change, there is hope for all humankind - a compelling and extraordinary story." (Jane Rosenthal, Co-Founder, Tribeca Film Festival)

Members Reviews:

A book truly needed in this time

What this book says if what everyone needs to hear. What Christian says of his life story offers lessons literally everyone can learn from and hopefully take to heart in order to make this place better and happier. Amazing work!

Gr8 Reading...

Another great Book on par with "Romantic Violence". Informative, Recommended reading.

Thank you Mr. Picciolini!

Can I give this a 10?

Well written, raw, and real. Congrats Christian for overcoming the hate that is so deeply rooted in so many.

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Title: Fatwa: Hunted in America

Author: Pamela Geller

Narrator: Pamela Geller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-17

Publisher: Dangerous Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 33 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Her critics have called her 'the most dangerous woman in America,' 'far-right hate queen,' and 'the anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead.'

Her admirers say she is 'the Joan of Arc of the counter-jihad movement,' 'one of the top world experts in radical Islam, sharia, and Islamic supremacism,' and 'a wonderful fighter for liberty.'

Now, in Fatwa: Hunted in America, Pamela Geller recounts her unlikely journey from New York City career girl to a fearless human rights and free speech activist reviled by the enemies of freedom the world over. 'I assumed my freedom,' she writes. 'Never for one moment did I think that it could be taken from me. But all that changed on one day.'

That day was September 11, 2001, when the global jihad struck America with murderous force. The United States of America and the free world were never the same again.

Neither was Pamela Geller.

In this book, Geller shares how she launched her blogging career, defended abused Muslim girls, stood against the advance of sharia, and fought for the freedom of speech a freedom crumbling in this age of jihad.

Geller recounts the battle to defeat the sinister Ground Zero mosque project; the ISIS attack at Geller's Mohammed Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland, Texas; the fatwa and plot to behead her; and the relentless vilification she faces from a mainstream media hell-bent on defaming and destroying everyone who stands for freedom against jihad terror and sharia oppression.

Pamela Geller writes: 'Any lover of freedom would have been tarred the same way I was, and many have been. I am but a proxy in this terrible, long war. What has happened to me is what happens, in small and large ways, to every American who stands for freedom.'

One person can make a difference. And what a remarkable difference Pamela Geller has made. At last, in Fatwa: Hunted In America, she tells her story.

Members Reviews:

Excellent inspiring fact based book

I thought I knew. The book humbled me. So many red pills so many subjects well described.

I really appreciated the accurate description and unbound criticism of the leftist Jews who are hellbent to destroy America. I recommend it to anyone wanting to save Western Civilization.

Blood Curdling Truth

A well delivered revelation of the evil of Islam and the leftist compliance with sharia

Powerful, Eye Opening Revelations!

Five stars across the board! From her personal life in the beginning to the helping of young Muslim girls in dire straits, to put it mildly (FGM and death to put it bluntly). To the halal meat disclosure cover ups, advertising cover ups, and most of all not only death threats, to her but an actual attempt to take her life. WOW! I thought I knew a little something about whats going on! And Pamela is delivering the truth of the situation...hard core FACTS. The time for FEELINGS OVER FACTS must be challenged. You can check for yourself. And I dont mean left leaning fact checkers like Snopes and politifact, etc. Also, we only need to look overseas to see our future if we keep acting like everything is ok and believing EVERYTHING a Linda Sarsour says.

Lets see...whos taking the course of action thats healthy for my children, grand daughter, family and America? Linda Sarsour...or...Pamela Geller. No doubt its Pamela Geller. Those who claim they really care, this book is a must read/listen.

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Title: The Only Girl in the World

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: Maude Julien

Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 103 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

For listeners of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman rising above an unimaginable childhood.

Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor - raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood, and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness". Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment.

But Maude's parents could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on the lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbid as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity.

By turns horrifying and magical, The Only Girl in the World is a story that will grip you from the first minute and leave you spellbound, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.

Critic Reviews:

"A disturbing, engrossing memoir.... A startling testament of survival." (

Kirkus)

"This is not the umpteenth book about a miraculously saved victim. It is much more, and much better.... One of the most fascinating things about this memoir is the extraordinary resistance Maude developed...her ability to create a world for herself." (

Le Journal du Dimanche)

"A harrowing yet achingly beautiful tale of a girl imprisoned by her brutal, fanatic family, but whose yearning for wonder and love ultimately drives her toward the improbable light of the world....

The Only Girl in the World is a story of resilience unlike any I have ever read." (Mira Bartók, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

The Memory Palace)

Members Reviews:

Disturbing

This was disturbing but well written. Id love to hear more explanation of what was actually mentally wrong with her father. It feels a bit voyeuristic because its listening to hours of torture and brainwashing. It is definitely worth the time to hear this strong womans story.

Incredible story!

One of the best memoirs I have ever read. Perfect narration!

I would like to know more about the demented father. Perhaps another book will be written.

Unbelievable story

First time writing a review but this book deserves it. This story is unbelievable, I couldnt stop listening and was soooo sad when it was over. My favorite type of books are memoirs so if you like them too you should buy it.

Heartbreaking

I am speechless after listening to this memoir. Truly heartbreaking, you feel for Maude her whole childhood. Choosing to read/listen to this book will bring you many tears and empathy for her and her pets. I am so proud of her for her breakthroughs and bravery.

Devastating and Brilliant

Heartbreaking story but brilliantly written and read. Highly recommend if you enjoy being immersed and emotional.

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Title: Should the Tent Be Burning Like That?

Subtitle: A Professional Amateur's Guide to the Outdoors

Author: Bill Heavey

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 45 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Maybe the best way to explain Bill Heavey's writing is to note that both Ted Nugent and the Wall Street Journal - two entities rarely seen in the same sentence - like it. For more than 20 years, Heavey has staked a claim as one of America's best sportsmen writers. In feature stories and his Field & Stream column A Sportsman's Life, he has taken audiences across the country and beyond to experience his triumphs and failures as a suburban dad who happens to love hunting and fishing.

This new collection gathers together a wide range of his best work - tales that are odes to the notion that enthusiasm is more important than skill and testaments to the enduring power of the natural world. Whether he's hunting mule deer in Montana, draining cash on an overpriced pistol, or ruminating on the joys and agonies of outdoor gear, Heavey always entertains and enlightens with honesty and wit.

Members Reviews:

one of the best storytellers of all time!

There are few authors that can write a story in a way that feels more like a dirty joke your uncle is telling you than words from an unknown person. Bill Harvey is the neighbor, friend, and local bar fly that everyone knows, and he invites you to sit down for a laugh.

Funny and Interesting!

Typical Bill.. funny and well written stories about the average hunter.. Very good read. Buy it.

Must read for any outdoor fanatic!

Must read for any outdoorsman/outdoorswoman. Specifically hunting and fishing. Bill Heavey is one of the best writers of today. So easy to read or listen to you will find yourself wanting more and more.

entertaining

A fun selections of stories. Bill's self depreciating sense of humor is entertaining. the narration is well done.