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Title: Tomato Can Blues

Author: Mary Pilon

Narrator: Bobby Cannavale

Format: Original Recording

Length: 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-13

Publisher: The New York Times

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 107 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Charlie Rowan was a small-time cage fighter in rural Michigan who couldn't get a break.

His punches weren't landing. He owed money to impatient people. He needed to start over, but he didn't know how.

Then, at home on the sofa, he came up with a plan.

Original long-form journalism from The New York Times, read by the actor Bobby Cannavale.

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Editorial Reviews:

When small-time cage fighter Charlie Rowan was reported dead from a car crash at age 25, it turned out there was a lot more to the story. In Tomato Can Blues, New York Times sports reporter Mary Pilon investigates aspiring MMA fighter Rowan's failed plan to end his troubles and start life anew by faking his own death. A polished performance from Emmy award-winning actor Bobby Cannavale, known for his portrayal of Gyp Rosetti on Boardwalk Empire, lends a dramatic edge to the story, while well-timed music adds to the mood and pace. A slickly-produced, compelling performance of a well-researched piece of long-form journalism, Tomato Can Blues makes for an intriguing listen.

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Title: The Girl

Subtitle: A Life Lived in the Shadow of Roman Polanski

Author: Samantha Geimer

Narrator: Samantha Geimer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-13

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 36 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In this searing and surprising memoir, Samantha Geimer, "the girl" at the center of the infamous Roman Polanski sexual assault case, breaks a virtual 35-year silence to tell her story and reflect on the events of that day and their lifelong repercussions.

March 1977, Southern California. Roman Polanski drives a rented Mercedes along Mulholland Drive to Jack Nicholson's house. Sitting next to him is an aspiring actress, Samantha Geimer, recently arrived from York, Pennsylvania. She is 13 years old.

The undisputed facts of what happened in the following hours appear in the court record: Polanski spent hours taking pictures of Samantha on a deck overlooking the Hollywood Hills, on a kitchen counter, topless in a Jacuzzi. Wine and Quaaludes were consumed, balance and innocence were lost, and a young girl's life was altered forever - eternally cast as a background player in her own story.

For months on end, the Polanski case dominated the media in the US and abroad. But even with the extensive coverage, much about that day and the girl at the center of it all remains a mystery. Just about everyone had an opinion about the renowned director and the girl he was accused of drugging and raping. Who was the predator? Who was the prey? Was the girl an innocent victim or a cunning Lolita artfully directed by her ambitious stage mother? How could the criminal justice system have failed all the parties concerned in such a spectacular fashion? Once Polanski fled the country, what became of Samantha, the young girl forever associated with one of Hollywood's most notorious episodes? Samantha, as much as Polanski, has been a fugitive since the events of that night more than thirty years ago.

Taking us far beyond the headlines, The Girl reveals a 13-year-old who was simultaneously wise beyond her years and yet terribly vulnerable. By telling her story in full for the first time, Samantha reclaims her identity, and indelibly proves that it is possible to move forward from victim to survivor, from confusion to certainty, from shame to strength.

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Title: Rising Tide

Subtitle: Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, and Dixie's Last Quarter

Author: Randy Roberts, Ed Krzemienski

Narrator: Alan Sklar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-21-13

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The extraordinary story of how Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Joe Namath, his star quarterback at the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to victory and transformed football into a truly national pastime.

During the bloodiest years of the civil rights movement, Bear Bryant and Joe Namath - two of the most iconic and controversial figures in American sports - changed the game of college football forever. Brilliantly and urgently drawn, this is the gripping account of how these two very different men - Bryant a legendary coach in the South who was facing a pair of ethics scandals that threatened his career, and Namath a cocky Northerner from a steel mill town in Pennsylvania - led the Crimson Tide to a national championship.

To Bryant and Namath, the game was everything. But no one could ignore the changes sweeping the nation between 1961 and 1965 - from the Freedom Rides to the integration of colleges across the South and the assassination of President Kennedy. Against this explosive backdrop, Bryant and Namath changed the meaning of football. Their final contest together, the 1965 Orange Bowl, was the first football game broadcast nationally, in color, during prime time, signaling a new era for the sport and the nation.

Award-winning biographer Randy Roberts and sports historian Ed Krzemienski showcase the moment when two thoroughly American traditions - football and Dixie - collided. A compelling story of race and politics, honor and the will to win, Rising Tide captures a singular time in America. More than a history of college football, this is the story of the struggle and triumph of a nation in transition and the legacy of two of the greatest heroes the sport has ever seen.

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Title: The Boss Always Sits in the Back

Author: Jon D'Amore

Narrator: Jon D'Amore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-10-13

Publisher: JMD

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This isn't "just another mob story." It's a suspenseful, exciting, and entertaining account of one of the greatest scams to hit Las Vegas...a scam that has never been exposed before, and one that changed history and gambling laws across America forever!

Through the eyes of the author, who grew up in that world, and the words of his Godfather, an underboss who told his story before he died, The Boss Always Sits in the Back details the demise of the mobsters who ran northern New Jersey.

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Title: Long Walk to Freedom, Vol. 1

Subtitle: 1918-1962

Author: Nelson Mandela

Narrator: Michael Boatman, Kofi Annan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-13

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his beginning in the Transkei to his being taken to Robben Island, this is the remarkable story of how a man rose so far, only to be sentenced to life imprisonment.

Emotive and compelling, this is the story of an epic life. This audiobook includes a foreword written and read by Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandela's Presidential Oath of Office, an afterword from Sharon Gelman, and an interview with Long Walk to Freedom collaborator Richard Stengel.

Critic Reviews:

"Burns with the luminosity of faith in the invincible nature of human hope and dignity...Unforgettable" (Andre Brink)

"Enthralling...Mandela emulates the few great political leaders such as Lincoln and Gandhi, who go beyond mere consensus and move out ahead of their followers to break new ground" (Donald Woods in the Sunday Times)

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Title: Almost Home

Subtitle: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope

Author: Kevin Ryan, Tina Kelley, Cory Booker (foreword)

Narrator: Kevin Ryan, Tina Kelley, Cory Booker, Karla Mosley, Capathia Jenkins, Stephanie J. Block

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 21 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Inside the lives of homeless teens - moving stories of pain and hope from Covenant House.

Almost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from across the United States and Canada as they confront life alone on the streets. Each eventually finds his or her way to Covenant House, the largest charity serving homeless and runaway youth in North America. From the son of a crack addict who fights his own descent into drug addiction, to a teen mother reaching for a new life, their stories veer between devastating and inspiring as they each struggle to find a place called home. This book:

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Title: Long Way Back to the River Kwai

Subtitle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival in World War II

Author: Loet Velmans

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-05-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The astounding memoir of a World War II veteran who spent three and a half years in the slave-labor camps made famous by The Bridge on the River Kwai.

Loet Velmans was 17 when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seamans Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies - now Indonesia - where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave-labor camps, building a railroad through the dense jungle on the Burmese-Thailand border so the Japanese could invade India. Some 200,000 POWs and slave laborers died building this Death Railway. Velmans, though suffering from malaria, dysentery, malnutrition, and unspeakable mistreatment, never gave up hope. Fifty-seven years later he returned to revisit the place where he should have died and where he had buried his closest friend. From that emotional visit sprung this stunning memoir.

Long Way Back to the River Kwai is a simply told but searing memoir of World War II - a testimonial to one mans indomitable will to live that will take its place beside the Diary of Ann Frank, Bridge over the River Kwai, and Ediths Story.

Editorial Reviews:

While many know the fiction from having seen the movie Bridge On the River Kwai, few alive know the facts. Loet Velmans, a 17-year-old Dutch émigré was beaten, enslaved, and set to work on the Burmese railroad in camps where as many as 200,000 died. His memoir, performed with a tone of reasonableness that belies the storys outrage, is one of a mental and emotional struggle. With a return to the River Kwai 57 years after an indomitable spirit allowed him to survive as a catalyst, Velmans searches for an answer to a paradox of humanity: How can one group of people impose near-unimaginable, inhumane horrors on another?/p>

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Title: Wallace

Subtitle: The Underdog Who Conquered a Sport, Saved a Marriage, and Championed Pit Bulls - One Flying Disc at a Time

Author: Jim Gorant

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 81 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Today, Wallace is a champion; but in the summer of 2005, he was living in a shelter, a refugee from a suspicious pit bull-breeding operation. Then Andrew Roo Yori entered the picture. A scientist and shelter volunteer, Roo could immediately see that Wallace was something special. While on his honeymoon, Roo learned that Wallace was about to be put down. Roo and his wife franticly fought to keep Wallace alive until they could return home to adopt him - even though they already had two dogs.

Once Wallace made it home, Roo knew the dog needed a mission, and serendipity led them to the world of competitive dog Frisbee. It seemed like a terrible idea; large and heavy with thick muscles that can make them look less than graceful,pit bulls are everything that most Frisbee dogs arent. But that was fine with Roo - because part of his mission was to change peoples minds about pit bulls. Overcoming everything from injuries to prejudice against the breed, the unlikely pair persevered to become world champions.

Movingly told by best-selling author Jim Gorant,Wallacewill capture the hearts of animal lovers everywhere - and help rescue this popular breeds unfairly tarnished reputation.

About the author: Jim Gorant has worked as a magazine editor and writer for 20 years and is currently a senior editor at Sports Illustrated. His work has appeared in such magazines as Mens Health, GQ, and Outside. He is also the author of The New York Times best seller The Lost Dogs. He lives in New Jersey.

Critic Reviews:

Having detailed the fate of Michael Vick's dogs in the heartrending and immaculately researchedNew York TimesbestsellingThe Lost Dogs,Sports Illustratedsenior editor Gorant describes the life story of another pit bull - Wallace, a rescue dog who went on to win or place impressively in dozens of local, national, and international doggie disc-catching competitions. The aim, though, was to clear up misunderstandings about the breed while letting Wallace have some fun. (Library Journal)

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Title: Heart Warriors

Subtitle: A Family Faces Congenital Heart Disease

Author: Amanda Rose Adams

Narrator: Amanda Rose Adams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-16-12

Publisher: Amanda Rose Adams

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Fifty percent of the author's royalties will be given directly to the Children's Heart Foundation, Colorado Chapter to help this fledgling chapter make its annual giving goals and fund congenital heart disease research. By purchasing this audiobook you are helping the author help a cause profoundly close to her heart, and for that she thanks you with all of her heart.

Five months pregnant, Amanda Adams and her husband were given two abysmal choices regarding her pregnancy: force her baby to fight for his life through countless invasive and dangerous surgeries, or perform a late term abortion. Despite the fact that Liam was missing half his heart, Amanda chose life.

Amanda's emotional plate was full as she found herself redefining the usual expectations a mother has for her child. Instead of wondering where he'd go to college, she wondered if he would survive his first birthday. The eventual acceptance of Amanda's grief helped her accept her new role as a powerful advocate. Over the course of seven years, together, as a family, Amanda and her husband helped Liam endure 12 heart surgeries, each time taking him to the brink of death.

Heart Warriors is Amanda's personal and emotional story that initiates a powerful dialogue about infant mortality and hope. Includes a Parent's/Family Field Guide.

Amanda Rose Adams is a "Heart Mom" and a powerful voice within the congenital heart disease (CHD) community by working closely with cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, and nurses from Harvard University, Baylor University, University of Southern California, University of Illinois, and CU Boulder Medical. She founded two CHD organizations, organizes medical conferences for Hypoplastic Right Hearts, attends medical advisory board meetings and national chapter presidents meetings for the Children's Heart Foundation, and chaired the Congenital Heart Walk in Colorado. As a pioneer of CHD advocacy, she is also firmly rooted in the social network of CHD parents.

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Title: Darby's Rangers

Subtitle: We Led the Way

Author: William O. Darby

Narrator: Don Leslie

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-12

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Darby's Rangers is a memoir of William O. Darbys battalion's combat in North Africa and Italy.

This is the exciting true story of a legendary leader and the men who fought by his side in World War II, told in his own words.

The summer of 1942 was an unforgettable time for the World War II Allies. Until that year, defeat had followed defeat. Pearl Harbor came first for the United States, and then the loss of the Philippines; Britain had its Dunkirk and had lost Singapore; and the Soviet Union was fighting a desperate battle against the Nazi Army on its entire Western front.

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