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  • Bracelets of Grace Audiobook by David W. Berner
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    Title: Bracelets of Grace
    Subtitle: The Vietnam War Story of Major Stanley Horne
    Author: David W. Berner
    Format: Original Recording
    Length: 29 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 04-07-11
    Publisher: David Berner
    Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    This documentary audio focuses on the lasting impact of the Vietnam War era POW-MIA bracelets through the story of one soldier: Major Stanley Horne. In 1968 this fighter bomber was shot down over North Vietnam, and his name was then engraved, like so many others classified as POW or MIA, on metal bracelets distributed to millions. Bracelets of Grace is the story of how America struggled with the war and tried to heal from the scars it left behind.
    29 min
  • Tattoos on the Heart Audiobook by Gregory Boyle
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    Title: Tattoos on the Heart
    Subtitle: The Power of Boundless Compassion
    Author: Gregory Boyle
    Narrator: Gregory Boyle
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 03-09-11
    Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
    Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1830 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    As a pastor working in a neighborhood with the highest concentration of murderous gang activity in Los Angeles, Gregory Boyle created an organization to provide jobs, job training, and encouragement so that young people could work together and learn the mutual respect that comes from collaboration.
    Tattoos on the Heart is a breathtaking series of parables distilled from his 20 years in the barrio. Arranged by theme and filled with sparkling humor and glowing generosity, these essays offer a stirring look at how full our lives could be if we practiced compassion.
    Erudite, down-to-earth, and utterly heartening, these essays about universal kinship and redemption are moving examples of the power of unconditional love in difficult times and the importance of fighting despair. With Gregory Boyle's guidance, we can recognize our own wounds in the broken lives and daunting struggles of the men and women in these parables and learn to find joy in all of the people around us. Tattoos on the Heart reminds us that no life is less valuable than another.
    Critic Reviews:
    One of my favorite books in years. It is lovely and tough and tender beyond my ability to describe. (Anne Lamott)
    Destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality. (The Los Angeles Times)
    Read, and let your life be changed! (Father Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation)
    Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
    7 hr 39 min
  • Moonwalking with Einstein Audiobook by Joshua Foer
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    Title: Moonwalking with Einstein
    Author: Joshua Foer
    Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 03-03-11
    Publisher: Penguin Audio
    Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3152 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    Foer's unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives.
    On average, people squander 40 days annually compensating for things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of memory training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. Even more important, Foer found a vital truth we too often forget: In every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.
    Moonwalking with Einstein draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of memory, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human remembering. Under the tutelage of top "mental athletes", he learns ancient techniques once employed by Cicero to memorize his speeches and by Medieval scholars to memorize entire books. Using methods that have been largely forgotten, Foer discovers that we can all dramatically improve our memories.
    Immersing himself obsessively in a quirky subculture of competitive memorizers, Foer learns to apply techniques that call on imagination as much as determination - showing that memorization can be anything but rote. From the PAO system, which converts numbers into lurid images, to the memory palace, in which memories are stored in the rooms of imaginary structures, Foer's experience shows that the World Memory Championships are less a test of memory than of perseverance and creativity.
    At a time when electronic devices have all but rendered our individual memories obsolete, Foer's bid to resurrect the forgotten art of remembering becomes an urgent quest. Moonwalking with Einstein brings Joshua Foer to the apex of the U.S. Memory Championship and readers to a profound appreciation of a gift we all possess but that too often slips our minds.
    Editorial Reviews:
    Your body may be a temple, but your mind, memory experts say, is a palace, or should be, to master remembering. The Memory Palace is one of the notions that Joshua Foer explores in Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, his entertaining and enlightening account of competing in the U.S. Memory Championships.
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain, who genuinely conveys the authors nerdy and playful persona, Moonwalking began in 2005 when Foer, a 20-something fledging journalist living in his parents basement, covered the New York-based championships and met Ed Cooke, a memory Grand Master and delightfully eccentric brainiac. Cooke convinced Foer to become a contender in the contest, becoming his guru and guide over his year of training. In addition, Foer broadened his training by meeting with memory experts and athletes like Cookes European colleagues, who, Foer says, make their American counterparts seem like Jamaican bobsledders in the Olympics. While Chamberlains curiously random use of accents is a minor distraction, his interpretation of the groups pub games getting and memorizing womens phone numbers and stealing kisses against the clock is plenty funny.
    Foer focuses first on the construction basics of The Memory Palace, a technique derived from the ancient Greek poet Simonides that takes advantage of the minds visual and spatial bent.
    9 hr 33 min
  • Unbroken Audiobook by Laura Hillenbrand
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    Title: Unbroken
    Subtitle: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
    Author: Laura Hillenbrand
    Narrator: Edward Herrmann
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 14 hrs
    Language: English
    Release date: 11-16-10
    Publisher: Random House Audio
    Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 36428 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood.
    Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.
    The lieutenant's name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he'd been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.
    Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.
    In her long-awaited new book, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit. Telling an unforgettable story of a man's journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.
    Critic Reviews:
    "
    Unbroken is wonderful twice over, for the tale it tells and for the way its told. A better book than
    Seabiscuit, it manages maximum velocity with no loss of subtlety. [Hillenbrand has] a jewelers eye for a detail that makes a story live." (
    Newsweek)
    "A master class in narrative storytellingExtraordinarily moving...A powerfully drawn survival epic." (
    The Wall Street Journal)
    "Ambitious and powerful Hillenbrand is intelligent and restrained, and wise enough to let the story unfold for itself. Her research is thorough, her writing crystalline.
    Unbroken is gripping in an almost cinematic way." (
    The New York Times Book Review)
    Members Reviews:
    Indescribable
    This is one of the best told stories I have encountered either in print or as an audible offering. Hillenbrand goes beyond a strict narrative of wartime experiences and transports us into the lives of people we will never know, but feel that we do. Over and over I found myself literally praying for the safety and rescue of Louis and his colleagues, even though obviously the outcomes were decided over 60 years ago - the sense of immediacy was ever present. Intensively researched, the attention to detail successfully avoids the sense of being drowned in statistics, but allows the awareness of "Man, I never knew that". Adding to the story telling experience is Edward Herrmann's flawless reading. I have been strongly recommending this book to all of my friends - one does not have to be a history buff or a fan of war stories to recognize and appreciate the humanity at the center of the story.
    14 min
  • The Glass Castle Audiobook by Jeannette Walls
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    Title: The Glass Castle
    Subtitle: A Memoir
    Author: Jeannette Walls
    Narrator: Jeannette Walls
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-28-10
    Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
    Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9061 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly.
    Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict". Cooking a meal that would be consumed in 15 minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever.
    Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town - and the family - Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home.
    What is so astonishing about Jeannette Walls is not just that she had the guts and tenacity and intelligence to get out, but that she describes her parents with such deep affection and generosity. Hers is a story of triumph against all odds, but also a tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that despite its profound flaws gave her the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
    For two decades, Jeannette Walls hid her roots. Now she tells her own story. A regular contributor to MSNBC.com, she lives in New York and Long Island and is married to the writer John Taylor.
    Critic Reviews:
    "Jeannette Walls has carved a story with precision and grace out of one of the most chaotic, heartbreaking childhoods ever to be set down on the page. This deeply affecting memoir is a triumph in every possible way, and it does what all good books should: it affirms our faith in the human spirit." (Dani Shapiro, author of
    Family History)
    "
    The Glass Castle is the saga of the restless, indomitable Walls family, led by a grand eccentric and his tempestuous artist wife. Jeannette Walls has survived poverty, fires, and near starvation to triumph. She has written this amazing tale with honesty and love." (Patricia Bosworth, author of
    Anything Your Little Heart Desires and
    Diane Arbus: A Biography)
    "Just read the first pages of
    The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, and I defy you not to go on. It's funny and sad and quirky and loving. I was incredibly touched by it." (Dominick Dunne, author of
    The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper)
    Members Reviews:
    What's normal?
    When I began listening to this memoir, I became disgusted and enraged; I almost stopped a couple of hours in, but I kept at it and I'm very glad I did. Like many other people who've commented on this book, I thought of the parents as selfish and the treatment of the children as child abuse. But you get a little further in and you start thinking mom is bipolar and dad is a genius whose brain got pickled in the womb. This doesn't justify their behavior; it simply helps to explain some of it.
    10 hr 25 min
  • The Other Wes Moore Audiobook by Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley (afterword)
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    Title: The Other Wes Moore
    Subtitle: One Name, Two Fates
    Author: Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley (afterword)
    Narrator: Wes Moore
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 04-27-10
    Publisher: Random House Audio
    Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1147 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.
    In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore.
    Wes just couldn't shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen?
    That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that has lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own: Both had grown up in similar neighborhoods and had had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; they'd hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives, they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies.
    Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.
    Editorial Reviews:
    In The Other Wes Moore, author Wes Moore narrates his memoir of two little boys who become very different men. Both African American, fatherless, exposed to crime at an early age, Wes Moore, the author, and Wes Moore, the other, share both a name and a history, but live very different lives today. This book is an examination of why, as well as a call to action.
    Moore narrates his book and his voice is solid and rich tones deepened by the streets, and consonants and vowels shaped and buffed by a good education. Proud, but never boastful, Moore tells his story of education, military service, and leadership. And, in a somber and respectful voice, he tells a parallel story: one of crime, broken families, and incarceration the life of the other Wes Moore.
    The memoir is part self-examination and part anthropological and sociological study of inner-city America. Throughout, Moore searches for the answer to the question: What made the difference? Why did he become a White House fellow and serve his country in Afghanistan while the other Wes Moore was charged with killing a police officer and now serves a life sentence?
    The author offers no pat answers, no quaint life lessons just hard truths. He is neither sympathetic nor judgmental he makes no excuses for the tragic loss of Sergeant Bruce Prothero, the police officer the other Wes Moore was eventually convicted of killing.
    6 hr 12 min
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Audiobook by Rebecca Skloot
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    Title: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Author: Rebecca Skloot
    Narrator: Bahni Turpin, Cassandra Campbell
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 02-02-10
    Publisher: Random House Audio
    Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9852 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells, taken without her knowledge, became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first immortal human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than 60 years.
    If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons - as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings.
    HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bombs effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.
    Now, Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the colored ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henriettas small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia, a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo, to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.
    Henrietta's family did not learn of her immortality until more than 20 years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family, past and present, is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.
    Editorial Reviews:
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is both a story of scientific progress and a biography of the poor Southern family whose matriarch, Henrietta Lacks, made that progress possible. It is also a critical exploration of the interplay between science, race, class, and ethics in the United States. Finally, it is, at times, the personal narrative of Rebecca Skloot, a reporter who worked for 10 years to learn these stories and to tell them. Cassandra Campbells performance captures the full range of tone in these elegantly woven narratives. She delivers what the story demands of her, uniting several storytelling styles into one single, dynamic voice.
    In her narration, Campbell makes particularly masterful use of distance and proximity. At some points in the story, she has the cool tone of an investigative reporter, duly noting the gruesome evidence of patient mistreatment at the Hospital for the Negro Insane in the 1950s or the horrors of medical malpractice in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. When she tells the stories of the members of the Lacks family, her voice is warm and compassionate, but still carries the distinct distance of a biographer/observer.
    12 hr 30 min
  • The Happiness Project Audiobook by Gretchen Rubin
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    Title: The Happiness Project
    Author: Gretchen Rubin
    Narrator: Gretchen Rubin
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 12-29-09
    Publisher: HarperAudio
    Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3343 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
    Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.
    In this lively and compelling account of that year, Rubin carves out her place alongside the authors of best-selling memoirs such as Julie and Julia, The Year of Living Biblically, and Eat, Pray, Love. With humor and insight, she chronicles her adventures during the 12 months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier.
    Rubin didn't have the option to uproot herself, nor did she really want to; instead she focused on improving her life as it was. Each month she tackled a new set of resolutions: give proofs of love, ask for help, find more fun, keep a gratitude notebook, forget about results. She immersed herself in principles set forth by all manner of experts, from Epicurus to Thoreau to Oprah to Martin Seligman to the Dalai Lama to see what worked for her - and what didn't. Her conclusions are sometimes surprising - she finds that money can buy happiness, when spent wisely; that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that "treating" yourself can make you feel worse; that venting bad feelings doesn't relieve them; that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference - and they range from the practical to the profound.
    As an added bonus, this recording includes a sampling of Gretchen's podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin. In this episode, "Choose the Bigger Life", Gretchen and her sister, Elizabeth Craft, discuss happiness, good habits, and whether Gretchen is going to get a dog.
    Critic Reviews:
    "Packed with fascinating facts about the science of happiness and rich examples of how she improves her life through changes small and big. The Happiness Project made me happier by just reading it." (Bookpage.com)
    Members Reviews:
    Disappointed
    I had great hopes for this audio book. Unfortunately I was disappointed. The author seems like a very nice person and writes in a very casual conversational style. The problem is this book reads more like a diary or blog of a person's journey to find happiness. Cool right? That's what the book is supposed to be about. The problem is that my listening of this book felt like I was on the author's journey towards happiness and she did not take me along for the ride.
    I think in spending several hours listening to this audio book I didn't learn anything on how to personally become more happy even though I learned all about the author's life and her struggles toward happiness, criticism and relationships especially with her sister and husband. We learn all about the author being an attorney and a writer and her internal struggles.
    I wanted this book to be good, but unfortunately I left disappointed.
    10 hr 15 min
  • An Unquiet Mind Audiobook by Kay Redfield Jamison
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    Title: An Unquiet Mind
    Author: Kay Redfield Jamison
    Narrator: Kay Redfield Jamison
    Format: Abridged
    Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 12-08-09
    Publisher: Random House Audio
    Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 905 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments.
    ©1995 Kay Redfield Jamison; (P)2010 Random House
    Critic Reviews:
    "From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American Universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic depression, and how it shaped her life. With vivid prose and wit, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the 'melancholy star of the imagination,' and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death." (Amazon.com review)
    Members Reviews:
    It Says Unabridged. That is incorrect.
    I downloaded this title today, so I'd have a copy when I return the borrowed paper book version I have. It quickly became apparent that there are parts missing, so I began reading along and this is certainly *not* the Unabridged version.
    On a single page several paragraphs were chopped in half. The book, which has four parts, has been whittled down to three. Someone, somewhere, has a very loose definition of unabridged.
    Still, I'm enjoying what I hear. I just wonder what I'm going to miss from the continuation of the audiobook.
    Loved this book
    Richly written description of the very difficult life lead by a suffering manic-depressive. I highly recommend this book. Its not just a study on the illness, you get this great insight from a brilliant woman and its a riveting story of her life.
    Heavily Abridged!!!
    Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
    This book is five stars, but the audiobook is roughly half of the paper book. Well done, read by Jamison herself, but leaves out a lot of what makes the book great. You still get the core of the story, and it makes sense, but you loose all the little details and other pieces that make this a wonderful story.
    She co-wrote the "bible" on bipolar disorder
    The first book I read by Jamison was "Manic Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression" that she wrote with Frederick Goodwin. 1262 pages. Although huge and technical, it is surprisingly readable. (I skipped all the parts comparing the drawbacks of different studies) It's the bible of bipolar disorder.
    So this book was quite a change, a short and very personal book. I'm glad I heard it aloud and I'm glad she read it herself. I disagree with the people who found her voice dull and unemotional. That's what therapists sound like. If you listen carefully, you can hear the tiniest cracks in her voice when she talks about the losses in her life. Not unemotional. Dignified and subtle and heartbreaking.
    One thing she says in the book that might interest Audible listeners is that she lost her ability to read when she was on a high dose of lithium. She'd read a paragraph, have no idea what it said, then have to read it again. And again. She had to have her boyfriend read aloud to her. Lowering her dose apparently helped improve her reading, enough to read and distill shelves full of difficult technical articles into "only" 1262 pages.
    2 hr 46 min
  • Terrorism in the UK Audiobook by Daniel Obachike
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    Title: Terrorism in the UK
    Subtitle: The 4th Bomb
    Author: Daniel Obachike
    Narrator: Theo Chalmers, Daniel Obachike
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 49 mins
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-02-09
    Publisher: World Wide Multi Media
    Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes
    Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
    Publisher's Summary:
    It all began when he contacted the investigators to explain that he had witnessed two dark cars holding up the bus prior to the explosion. Somebody didn't like his story, and for seven months he found himself harassed by secret-service personnel.
    Join the author as he explains the incredible story he uncovered in this specially recorded interview, in association with Edge Media TV.
    49 min

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