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Title: Fear

Subtitle: Our Ultimate Challenge

Author: Ranulph Fiennes

Narrator: Ranulph Fiennes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-16

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes has climbed the Eiger and Mount Everest. He's crossed both Poles on foot. He's been a member of the SAS and fought a bloody guerrilla war in Oman. And yet he confesses that his fear of heights is so great that he'd rather send his wife up a ladder to clean the gutters than do it himself.

In Fear, the world's greatest explorer delves into his own experiences to try to explain what fear is, how it happens and how he's overcome it so successfully. He examines key moments from history where fear played an important part in the outcomes of great events.

With an enthralling combination of storytelling, research and personal accounts of his own struggles to overcome fear, Sir Ranulph Fiennes sheds new light on one of humanity's strongest emotions.

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Title: Si-renity

Subtitle: How I Stay Calm and Keep the Faith

Author: Si Robertson

Narrator: Vincent Mancuso, Si Robertson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-27-16

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

America's favorite uncle and best-selling author of Si-cology 1, Duck Dynasty's Si Robertson, opens up about how his faith has brought him peace and serenity throughout his many not-so-peaceful adventures.

Si Robertson has gone from chief duck-call maker to beloved star of A&E's Duck Dynasty. Through his transition he has remained untainted by the popularity and money and is the same man he was before stardom - generous, kind, compassionate, and a little bit crazy. Beginning where Si-cology 1 ended, Uncle Si gets much more personal as he talks about his life on the road as one of the show's favorites and how he feels about life after the show.

Si-renity is full of Si-style and hilarious stories as well as an up-close look inside the heart and faith of this loveable fan favorite. Cast members from the show reveal the kindness and compassion Si has for children, the military, and the less fortunate. Full of zany yet honest stories about his day-to-day life on the road, Si narrates the lessons he's learned about living life courageously and joyfully and shares his personal source of peace and love for others - both originating directly from his faith in God.

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Title: I Am Durán

Subtitle: My Autobiography

Author: Roberto Durán

Narrator: Henry Levya

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-20-16

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

They called him Manos de Piedra - Hands of Stone - and he was one of the greatest boxers of all time. Now Roberto Durán tells his unbelievable story, from the streets of Panama to being crowned one of the Four Kings, along with Hearns, Leonard, and Hagler, as he blazed a trail through the golden age of boxing.

Born into abject poverty, barely able to read or write, Durán quickly realized that his fists could both protect him on the streets and put food on the table. His reputation was established on the day when, for a bet, he knocked down a horse with a single punch. At the age of 21, he claimed his first world title, against Ken Buchanan at Madison Square Garden. The legend of Manos de Piedra was born, but his most glorious moment was yet to come.

In 1980 Durán delivered one of the greatest upsets in boxing history by defeating the previously unbeatable Sugar Ray Leonard. But greater fame brought greater distractions, and Durán's endless partying took its toll before the two superstars faced each other again. Here, for the first time ever, Durán confronts the debacle of the rematch that entered sporting folklore and the truth behind the moment he was heard to utter the infamous words "no más" - no more.

Durán's explosive performances in the ring were matched only by the volatility of his life outside it. He lurched from living like royalty to bankruptcy and, after being written off as a boxing also-ran, made a bloody, legendary comeback that gave his career the ultimate ending and finally brought redemption. He came from nothing and changed the world. I Am Durán is the autobiography of one of boxing's most iconic legends.

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Titre: Black or White ? Biographie de Michael Jackson

Auteur: Daniel Ichbiah

Narrateur: Daniel Ichbiah

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 4 hrs and 53 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 08-31-16

Éditeur: DanicArt

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Résumé de l'éditeur:

La version Kindle de ce livre a été n3 du Top 100 en décembre 2014. Cette version Audible correspond à la 3ème édition de ce livre publiée en 2016. Irremplaçable - plus les années passent et plus il nous manque... Comme la déclaré un autre maître de son art, Steven Spielberg : "Tout comme il ny aura jamais dautres Fred Astaire ou dautres Chuck Berry ou dautres Elvis Presley, il ny aura jamais personne de comparable à Michael Jackson. Son talent, sa vivacité et son côté mystérieux font de lui une légende."

Michael Jackson n'avait rien de commun. Rien. De toutes les stars apparues depuis plusieurs décennies, il demeure la plus fascinante, celle qui échappe le plus à lanalyse immédiate. Bourré de talent, capable de mettre en scène des spectacles dune qualité rarissime, décrire des tubes à jamais mémorables, de déhancher son corps dune manière ahurissante, Michael Jackson a séduit le public par ses qualités dartiste. En contrepartie, ce même public a dû accepter les excentricités hors norme dun personnage à jamais inclassable, sorte de héros décalé dun conte de fées qui aurait déraillé en chemin. Que penser d'un personnage capable de reproduire un pas de danse à peine l'avait-il observé, d'une culture si étendue qu'il connaissait dans le détail l'histoire des châteaux de France, d'organiser une fête dont les principaux invités étaient ses singes, qui durant tout son mariage avec Lisa Marie ne s'est jamais montré à elle sans maquillage ! L'histoire retiendra l'essentiel : Billie Jean, le clip de Thriller, l'album Dangerous, le Moonwalk...

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Title: Born Bright

Subtitle: A Young Girl's Journey from Nothing to Something in America

Author: C. Nicole Mason

Narrator: Robin Eller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-16-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 28 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Born Bright, C. Nicole Mason's powerful memoir, is a story of reconciliation, constrained choices, and life on the other side of the tracks. Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles, California, Mason was raised by a beautiful but volatile 16-year-old single mother. Early on, she learned to navigate between an unpredictable home life and school, where she excelled. By high school, Mason was seamlessly straddling two worlds. The first, a cocoon of familiarity where street smarts, toughness, and the ability to survive won the day. The other, foreign and unfamiliar with its own set of rules, not designed for her success. In her Advanced Placement classes and outside of her neighborhood, she felt unwelcomed and judged because of the way she talked, dressed, and wore her hair. After moving to Las Vegas to live with her paternal grandmother, she worked nights at a food court in one of the mega casinos while finishing school. Mason would eventually board a plane for Howard University, alone and with $200 in her pocket.

Critic Reviews:

"This firsthand account of a passage out of poverty will inspire readers interested in the strength of the human spirit in overcoming formidable obstacles." (

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Title: Mad Girl

Author: Bryony Gordon

Narrator: Bryony Gordon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-16

Publisher: Headline

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Bryony Gordon has OCD.

It's the snake in her brain that has told her ever since she was a teenager that her world is about to come crashing down: that her family might die if she doesn't repeat a phrase five times, or that she might have murdered someone and forgotten about it. It's caused alopecia, bulimia, and drug dependency. And Bryony is sick of it. Keeping silent about her illness has given it a cachet it simply does not deserve, so here she shares her story with trademark wit and dazzling honesty.

A hugely successful columnist for the Telegraph, a best-selling author, and a happily married mother of an adorable daughter, Bryony has managed to laugh and live well while simultaneously grappling with her illness. Now it's time for her to speak out. Writing with her characteristic warmth and dark humour, Bryony explores her relationship with her OCD and depression as only she can.

Mad Girl is a shocking, funny, unpredictable, heart-wrenching, raw and jaw-droppingly truthful celebration of life with mental illness.

Critic Reviews:

"What a book! I read this like a thriller, I was so gripped. I feel comforted by this book; by the honesty, insight, compassion, and the beautiful writing. Mad Girl is going to be seismic." (Marian Keyes)

"I loved it. A brilliant fast and funny and frank look at something that absolutely needs to be talked about in this way." (Matt Haig)

"Funny, warm and fearlessly honest. This book is a must for anyone who's ever lost their mind but was too polite to mention it." (Sali Hughes)

"A powerful and intimate look at the way our minds can torment us, this honest and rather beautiful book will bring comfort to those who fear they are alone in their madness." (Cathy Rentzenbrink)

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Title: Summary of Lab Girl: by Hope Jahren | Includes Analysis

Author: Instaread

Narrator: Sam Scholl

Format: Unabridged

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-16

Publisher: Instaread

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Summary of Lab Girl by Hope Jahren | Includes Analysis

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In her memoir Lab Girl, Hope Jahren describes the life she's lived and the knowledge she's learned as a scientist trying to find her way in the world. Focusing mostly on a period of professional development that stretches from 1997 to 2008, the bulk of the narrative follows Jahren from her first appointment as a professor in Atlanta to her current job at the University of Hawaii. Navigating personal and professional challenges including bipolar disorder, meager budgets, and sexist work environments, Jahren and her eccentric lab manager, Bill, learn a lot about themselves, each other, and the mysterious lives of plants.

Growing up in Minnesota, Hope feels starved for human connection. Her parents and her three older brothers are quiet, distant, and seemingly emotionless. The only sure love in her life is the feeling she experiences in her father's laboratory, a place where she feels happy and curious.

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Title: The Only Woman in the Room

Subtitle: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club

Author: Eileen Pollack

Narrator: Gayle Hendrix

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Named one of the notable nonfiction books of 2015 by The Washington Post.

A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computer science.

In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set out to find the answer. A successful fiction writer, Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and '70s dreaming of a career as a theoretical astrophysicist. Denied the chance to take advanced courses in science and math, she nonetheless made her way to Yale. There, despite finding herself far behind the men in her classes, she went on to graduate summa cum laude, with honors, as one of the university's first two women to earn a bachelor of science degree in physics. And yet, isolated, lacking in confidence, starved for encouragement, she abandoned her ambition to become a physicist.

Years later, spurred by the suggestion that innate differences in scientific and mathematical aptitude might account for the dearth of tenured female faculty at Summer's institution, Pollack thought back on her own experiences and wondered what, if anything, had changed in the intervening decades.

Based on six years interviewing her former teachers and classmates as well as dozens of other women who had dropped out before completing their degrees in science or found their careers less rewarding than they had hoped, The Only Woman in the Room is a bracingly honest, no-holds-barred examination of the social, interpersonal, and institutional barriers confronting women - and minorities - in the STEM fields. This frankly personal and informed book reflects on women's experiences in a way that simple data can't, documenting not only the more blatant bias of another era but all the subtle disincentives women in the sciences still face.

The Only Woman in the Room shows us the struggles women in the sciences have been hesitant to admit and provides hope for changing attitudes and behaviors in ways that could bring far more women into fields in which even today they remain seriously underrepresented.

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Title: But You Did Not Come Back

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Judith Perrignon, Sandra Smith - translator

Narrator: Karen Cass

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 53 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

"You might come back, because you're young, but I will not come back." (Marceline Loridan's father to her, 1944)

A runaway best seller in France, But You Did Not Come Back has already been the subject of a French media storm and hailed as an important new addition to the library of books dealing with the Holocaust. It is the profoundly moving and poetic memoir by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, who, at the age of 15, was arrested in occupied France along with her father. Later, in the camps, he managed to smuggle a note to her, a sign of life that made all the difference to Marceline - but he died in the Holocaust while Marceline survived.

In But You Did Not Come Back, Marceline writes back to her father, the man whose death overshadowed her whole life. Although her grief never diminished in its intensity, Marceline ultimately found her calling working as both an activist and a documentary filmmaker. But now, as France and Europe in general face growing anti-Semitism, Marceline feels pessimistic about the future. Her testimony is a memorial, a confrontation, and a deeply affecting personal story of a woman whose life was shattered and never totally rebuilt.

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Title: Fifty Years in the Church of Rome

Author: Charles Chiniquy

Narrator: Dan Kassis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 31 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-08-16

Publisher: DelmarvaPublications.com

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This is an excellent look at the religious system of the Catholic Church from the inside.

Charles Chiniquy was born at Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada, to Roman Catholic parents. He studied at the college of Nicolet in Canada; after graduation he entered the priesthood (at an early age) and continued therein until he was an old man. At the age of 49 he left the Roman church, taking his congregation with him, and became a Presbyterian minister. His encounters with the inner workings of the Roman church are enlightening and could come only from someone who was embedded in such a system for so many years. He later published a number of books and tracts on temperance and about his life and experiences in the Catholic Church, some of which became very popular and were translated into several languages.

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