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Title: Devil in the Details

Subtitle: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood

Author: Jennifer Traig

Narrator: Melinda Wade

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-06

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 55 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Adhering to the stringent restrictions of ancient Jewish laws gave author Jennifer Traig's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder something of a purpose: Instead of simply washing her hands, she was purifying herself of sin; rather than zealously patting an item, she was laying on hands. At first amused, later baffled, and finally pragmatic, her parents drew up a contract limiting hand-washing, altar-building, and other rituals, but it was the amendment allowing Traig's sister to divulge the odd behavior to the world at large that put a stop to the compulsions. For a while, anyway.

With all the harrowing candor of Running with Scissors and the irresistible details of A Girl Named Zippy, Traig has created a memoir that captures the struggles of OCD sufferers without a hint of self-pity; at the same time, her descriptions of an extraordinary adolescence are smart, no-holds-barred honest, and exceptionally funny.

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Title: Echoes of the Mekong

Author: Peter A. Huchthausen, Nguyen Thi Lung

Narrator: Lloyd James, Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-05

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

After the war, Lung led a difficult and shadowy life under the communist regime until she managed to get the attention of a reporter for United Press International, who published Lung's story and assisted her departure from Vietnam, while Huchthausen sponsored her entry into the United States.

In alternating chapters, Huchthausen and Lung recall the experience of war on the Mekong River while Lung recalls the terrifying years that followed. Echoes of the Mekong casts a fresh light on the American involvement in Vietnam as it follows two people caught in the war from youth to maturity.

Critic Reviews:

"A modern reader, uninformed, could peruse the whole Commedia, satisfied with the mere literal story and entranced by its unparalleled beauty of language and imagery, but he would miss the inspiration of that higher message which so clearly merits the name of divine." (C. H. Grandgent)

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Title: The Tender Bar

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: J.R. Moehringer

Narrator: J.R. Moehringer

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-05

Publisher: Hyperion AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 475 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

At eight years old, suddenly unable to find The Voice on the radio, J.R. turned in desperation to the bar on the corner, where he found a rousing chorus of new voices. Cops, bookies, soldiers, and stumblebums, all sorts of men gathered in the bar to tell their stories and forget their cares. The alphas along the bar, including J.R.'s uncle Charlie, a Humphrey Bogart look-alike; Colt, a Yogi Bear sound-alike and Joey D, a soft-hearted brawler, took J.R. to the beach, to ballgames, and ultimately into their circle. They taught J.R., tended him, and provided a kind of fatherhood-by-committee.

Torn between the stirring example of his mother and the lurid romance of the bar, J.R. tried to forge a self somewhere in the center. But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys. Time and again, the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, heartbreak, and eventually from reality.

In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs, The Tender Bar is suspenseful, wrenching, and achingly funny. A classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys.

Critic Reviews:

"Funny, honest, and insightful." (Booklist)

"[Moehringer's] the best memoirist of his kind since Mary Karr wrote The Liars' Club." (The New York Times)

"In his gimlet-eyed memoir, The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer lovingly and affectingly toasts a boyhood spent on a barstool." (Vanity Fair)

"The Tender Bar will make you thirsty for that life: its camaraderie, its hilarity, its seductive, dangerous wisdom." (Richard Russo)

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Title: Indian Boyhood

Author: Charles Eastman

Narrator: Jim Killavey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-05

Publisher: Jimcin Recordings

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 31 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Charles Eastman, otherwise known as Hakadah, was a full-blooded Sioux who learned the manners and stoical ways of patience and bravery expected of every Indian boy. This book is a first-hand account of his life until the age of 15.

© and (P) Jimcin Recordings

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Title: Broken on the Back Row

Subtitle: A Journey Through Grace and Forgiveness

Author: Sandi Patty

Narrator: Sandi Patty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-05

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 63 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Sandi Patty, the most awarded female vocalist in contemporary Christian music, saw her stellar career go into a tailspin. Now she tells the story of her long road to restoration. From the agony of divorce nearly 10 years ago, Sandi has moved from center stage to the back row of the church balcony and back into the spotlight. This book is the heart-touching narrative of her years as an acclaimed recording artist balancing her role as adoring mother of four children, her fall from public acclaim, and the steps she worked through with her church and pastor to find forgiveness and peace...all under the harsh glare of national media attention.

©2005 Sandi Patty (P)2005 Oasis Audio LLC

Critic Reviews:

"Inspiring....This memoir is a powerful testimony to the joy of forgiveness." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Population

Subtitle: 485

Author: Michael Perry

Narrator: Michael Perry

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-05

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 79 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This audio also includes eight wise and witty essays selected from Perry's new book, Off Main Street. Whether fighting fires, playing nurse to a murderer, hitting the road with a truck driver, or meditating on Elvis and osmosis, Perry shows us that his small-town roots have not limited his worldview; in fact, they've enlarged it in some of the subtlest, most observant, and memorable ways possible. This collection is a diverse and generous survey of the author's talents as a journalist, penetrating observer, and rural-bred storyteller of Wisconsin.

Editorial Reviews:

Population: 485 is a pleasant respite from our fast-paced lives where emails come flying in every few minutes, friends you don't remember you had fill your computer with silly updates, and kids can manipulate a computer program but can't start a conversation. Michael Perry's collection of essays, performed here pleasantly by the author himself, is a considerate look at some of the stories we let go unnoticed all around us. With his witty and empathetic styling, Perry brings listeners back to a time of small towns and tall tales, when the most dangerous vigilante was an old lady with a pistol and a Bible.

Critic Reviews:

"This is a quietly devastating book; intimate and disarming and lovely." (Esquire)

"Tragic at times, funny at others, Perry's memoir will appeal to anyone curious about small-town life." (Booklist)

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Title: My Life in the Middle Ages

Subtitle: A Survivor's Tale

Author: James Atlas

Narrator: James Atlas

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-05

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

My Life in the Middle Ages is a portrait of what that unnerving experience is like. A collection of unified pieces about the pleasures and pathos that attend the threshold of old age, it charts an original course between reportage and confession. Drawn from the author's own life, from the testimony of parents, children, teachers, and friends, from the books he's read and the life that he chose, and that chose him, My Life in the Middle Ages is a comic and poignant memoir that's both personal and generational.

Whether he is struggling with God (or trying to find out if he believes in one), celebrating the books he's loved and regretting those he'll never read, leafing through the snapshots in his family album and marveling at the passage of time, or parsing the fine points of success and failure, James Atlas is always alert to the surprises of everyday life.

At once pensive and funny, lighthearted and profound, My Life in the Middle Ages is a tale of survival, but also a meditation on how it feels to flourish, and how to live.

Critic Reviews:

"A humorous, eloquent, and poignant look at the aging process." (Booklist)

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Title: The Last Season

Subtitle: A Team in Search of Its Soul

Author: Phil Jackson

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 10-26-04

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 127 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In The Last Season: A Team In Search of Its Soul, Jackson tells the full inside story of the season that proved to be the final ride of this great Lakers dynasty. From its beginnings in the off-season, with the signing of the future Hall-of-Famers Karl Malone and Gary Payton and the enormous expectations it created, and the bombshell news of the felony sexual-assault charges against Kobe Bryant, one of the league's marquee superstars, Jackson describes the many challenges that arose during this turbulent season. Juggling enormous egos with enormous sums at stake, managing difficult relationships and public feuds, facing injuries, contract disputes, and team meltdowns, all in the shadow of the Kobe Bryant trial-slash-media circus, Phil Jackson somehow guided his team through to its fourth NBA Finals in his five years as its coach. There, finally, his team ran out of road, a failure Jackson examines with the same deep honesty and wisdom he brings to bear on the rest of this amazing season.

Few seasons in memory can rival this one for drama, and fewer coaches rival Phil Jackson in the ability to write about it with such wisdom and clarity. The combination has produced, in The Last Season, a book of tremendous human drama and timeless appeal, rich in lessons about coaching and about life.

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Title: Inside the Kingdom

Subtitle: My Life In Saudi Arabia

Author: Carmen bin Ladin

Narrator: Shohreh Aghdashloo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-04

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 213 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In 1974, Carmen, half-Swiss and half-Persian, married into the bin Ladin family. She was young and in love, an independent European woman about to join a complex clan and a culture she neither knew nor understood. In Saudi Arabia, she was forbidden to leave her home without the head-to-toe black abaya that completely covered her. Her face could never be seen by a man outside the family. And according to Saudi law, her husband could divorce her at will, without any kind of court procedure, and take her children away from her forever.

Carmen was an outsider among the bin Ladin wives, their closets full of haute couture dresses, their rights so restricted that they could not go outside their homes, not even to cross the street, without a chaperone. The author takes us inside the hearts and minds of these women, always at the mercy of the husbands who totally control their lives, and always convinced that their religion and culture are superior to any other. And as Carmen tells of her struggle to save her marriage and raise her daughters to be freethinking young women, she describes this family's ties to the Saudi royal family and introduces us to the ever loyal bin Ladin brothers, including one particular brother-in-law she was to encounter: Osama.

In 1988, in Switzerland, Carmen bin Ladin separated from her husband and began one of her toughest battles: to gain the custody of her three daughters. Now, with her candid memoir, she dares to pull off the veils that conceal one of the most powerful, secretive, and repressive countries in the world, and the bin Ladin family's role within it.

Critic Reviews:

"The gravity of the events Carmen writes of, her insider's perspective, and her engaging style make this memoir a page-turner." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Let's Roll!

Author: Ken Abraham, Lisa Beamer

Narrator: Lisa Helm

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-03

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 89 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Lisa is now telling that story, and much more. She explores the tragic events of that day, revealing some information never before published. She also looks at the life of her husband, telling how and why he was prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice and the reason for her hope, courage, and quiet personal strength. This is Todd and Lisa's story, but it's also ours, for all of us who long to have the personal qualities of a real hero. This book shows us what they are and how to develop them. The phrase, "Let's Roll" were the last words the GTE Airfone operator heard from Todd before the crash. They have become a rallying cry for all Americans to move ahead, despite pain and suffering, with hope, courage, and strength.

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