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Title: Exploration Fawcett

Subtitle: Journey to the Lost City of Z

Author: Lt. Col. P. H. Fawcett

Narrator: Robin Sachs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-10-10

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 61 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This is the true story of the real Colonel Fawcett, whose life was the inspiration for the best-selling book The Lost City of Z and an upcoming movie starring Brad Pitt. A thrilling account, it tells of Colonel Fawcett and his mysterious disappearance in the Amazon jungle, which is now considered one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century.

The mystic and legendary British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett disappeared in the unknown and unexplored territory of Brazils Mato Grosso in 1925. For ten years, he had wandered the forests and death-filled rivers in search of a fabled lost city. Finally, convinced that he had discovered the location, he set out for the last time with two companions, one of whom was his eldest son, to destination Z, never to be heard from again.

This thrilling and mysterious account of Fawcetts 10 years of travels in deadly jungles and forests in search of a secret city was compiled by his younger son from manuscripts, letters, and logbooks. What happened to him afterward remains a mystery.

Critic Reviews:

[A] tale of great adventurea stirring and sensitive record, well written by a true explorer. (

New York Times)

[A] book of great powershould be read by everyone. (

Daily Telegraph)

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Title: Betrayed

Author: Lyndsey Harris

Narrator: Liz Holliss

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-10

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A mother. A daughter. A family torn apart.

For the first few years of her life, Sarah Harris was a normal, happy, popular little girl. But from the age of six she was targeted by a vicious, manipulative but invisible enemy - and her life became a living hell. Before long she was suspended from school, alienated from her friends, completely bewildered and utterly terrified. Her happy childhood had been destroyed forever.

For her mother, Lyndsey, it was a life beyond her worst nightmares. Her little girl, the daughter she loved so much, seemed to have transformed overnight - into a child she hardly recognised. A child she almost feared. Suddenly, Lyndsey was fighting to keep her family together - and to save her daughter's sanity.

But then the horrific truth started to become clear. And both Lyndsey and Sarah discovered they had been the innocent victims of the most horrifying betrayal imaginable.

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Title: The Ticking Is the Bomb

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: Nick Flynn

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-09

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In 2007, during the months before Nick Flynn's daughter's birth, his growing outrage and obsession with torture, exacerbated by the Abu Ghraib photographs, led him to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men depicted in the photos. Haunted by a history of addiction and a longing to connect with his mother who committed suicide, Flynn artfully interweaves in this memoir passages from his childhood, his relationships with women, and his growing obsession - a questioning of terror, torture, and the political crimes we can neither see nor understand in post 9/11 American life.

The time bomb of the title becomes an unlikely metaphor and vehicle for exploring the fears and joys of becoming a father. Here is a memoir of profound self-discovery, of being lost and found, of painful family memories and losses, of the need to run from love, and of the ability to embrace it again.

Nick Flynn is an award-winning poet and author most recently of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.

Editorial Reviews:

Does Nick Flynns book, The Ticking Is the Bomb, really qualify as a memoir? Yes, if we accept Gore Vidals definition: a memoir is how one remembers one's own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked. So, yes, a memoir and, by turns, a dream, a hallucination, or the painting of one mans internal landscape a la Salvador Dali.

This is not to infer that any of the facts recounted here by Flynn are hazy, in particular the facts surrounding the horrific prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib in 2004 or the 2007 revelation that torture was sanctioned by the United States. The grisly details of these public stories are woven together with tales of domestic terror from Flynns personal history throughout the book: the violent suicide of his mother, the mental illness and subsequent homelessness of his father, alongside less grave memories of teaching jobs, past relationships, and the happy anticipation of the birth of his first child.

The surrealistic quality of the book is further established by Flynns disordered use of dates to pin the events of his life to some invisible calendar, by his fluid movement between what is most ugly and most beautiful in human behavior, and by the voice of narrator Scott Brick, whose benthic voice pulls you down, down, down into the warm water.

Brick invites us to sit on the couch as Nick paws through a box of unsorted photos, sliding each one onto our laps and intoning meaningfully, 1987, Boston, or, 2008, Wrong Ocean. You follow his voice into the room where Flynn, sick to his stomach, listens to an ex-detainee of Abu Ghraib painfully relive the details of his torture. You follow his voice to Vietnam, with Flynns stepfather Travis, a Vietnam Vet, and watch as Travis kisses the hand of a My Lai survivor and begs her forgiveness. Much later, you follow the sound of him singing softly in his daughters small bedroom, in their haphazardly renovated barn, reminding Lulu that all you need is love.

Which date, or place, or event will prove to be the most critical in shaping Flynns life? Is he destined for a tragedy similar to those hes witnessed all his life, or a happy ending? We are compelled to keep listening for the answers.

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Title: Chief

Subtitle: My Life in the LAPD

Author: Daryl F. Gates, Diane K. Shah

Narrator: Daryl F. Gates

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-09

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department describes his life and career as head of one of the world's largest police forces. He looks back at the headline-making events in which he played a pivotal role: the Watts riots, shootouts with the Black Panthers and the SLA, the investigations into the death of Marilyn Monroe and the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and the infamous video-taped beating of Rodney King.

©2009 Daryl F. Gates; (P)2009 Phoenix

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Title: Mosaic

Subtitle: A Chronicle of Five Generations

Author: Diane Armstrong

Narrator: Deidre Rubenstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-09

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 189 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Mosaic is compelling storytelling at its best - from the fascinating details of Polish-Jewish culture and the rivalries and dramas of family life, to its moving account of lives torn apart by war and persecution, this an extraordinary story of a family, and of one woman's journey to reclaim her heritage.

Critic Reviews:

"Although it has the epic sweep and emotional depth of a 19th-century novel, Diane Armstrong's absorbing family memoir centers around the 20th-century Holocaust that consumed the lives of six million European Jews....Her skillful blending of vibrant individual voices across the generations makes this memoir a touching tribute to the healing powers of storytelling as well as to the unquenchable human spirit." (Amazon.com review)

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Title: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume 1, 1660-1663

Author: Samuel Pepys

Narrator: Kenneth Branagh

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-09

Publisher: Hodder Headline Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Pepys' Diary is one of the most celebrated journals of all time. Such is the wit and style of Pepys' writing that listeners to this selection from the early years of the diary will gain not only a unique view of 17th century London life but also a vivid picture of Pepys the man as he strives to establish himself in his career and in society.

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Title: America Anonymous

Subtitle: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life

Author: Benoit Denizet-Lewis

Narrator: David Drummond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-09

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Through the riveting stories of Americans in various stages of recovery and relapse, Denizet-Lewis shines a spotlight on our most misunderstood health problem and breaks through the shame and denial that still shape our cultural understanding of it - and hamper our ability to treat it. Are Americans more addicted than people in other countries, or does it just seem that way? Can food or sex be as addictive as alcohol and drugs? And will we ever be able to treat addiction with a pill?

These are just a few of the questions Denizet-Lewis explores during his remarkable journey inside the lives of men and women struggling to become, or stay, sober. As the addicts in this book stumble, fall, and try again to make a different and better life, Denizet-Lewis records their struggles---and his own---with honesty and empathy.

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Title: If Only They Could Talk

Author: James Herriot

Narrator: Christopher Timothy

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-09

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

When the newly qualified vet, James Herriot, arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, he has no idea of the new friends he will meet or adventures that lie ahead.

From the author whose books inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small, this first volume of unforgettable memoirs chronicles James Herriot's first years as a country vet, with the signature storytelling magic that has made him a favourite the world over.

Here is a book for all those who find laughter and joy in animals, and who know and understand the magic of wild places and beautiful countryside.

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Title: Southern Fried Divorce

Subtitle: A Woman Unleashes Her Hound and His Dog in the Big Easy

Author: Judy Conner

Narrator: Cynthia Darlow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-08

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This often sweet, occasionally angry, but mostly hilarious true story of one Southern woman's swim through the murky waters of marriage and divorce is a quirky gem. Judy Conner refers to her former husband simply as "That X," which is perfectly understandable considering some of the antics he pulled. Although the stories of her X are sometimes humiliating, they are always funny. And Conner makes one thing perfectly clear. She and her X shared a love - albeit a surreal one - that was completely true.

©2004 Judy Conner (P)2004 Recorded Books, LLC

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Title: Well Enough Alone

Author: Jennifer Traig

Narrator: Jennifer Traig

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-24-08

Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

What she does have is hypochondria. Jenny Traig's inquiry into her ailment is not only an uproariously funny account but also a literary tour of hypochondria, past and present: the implied hypochondria of the Talamud, the flatulence-obsessed 18th century, and the malady's current unfortunate lack of a celebrity spokesperson.

At the same time, Traig provides an intimate look at the complement of minor conditions that have concealed her essential health and driven her persistent self-diagnosis: the eczema, the shaky hands, and, worst of all, the bad hair.

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