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Title: This Will Be My Undoing

Subtitle: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

Author: Morgan Jerkins

Narrator: Morgan Jerkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-18

Publisher: Harper Audio

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins' highly anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman today - perfect for fans of Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me, and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists.

Morgan Jerkins is only in her 20s, but she has already established herself as an insightful, brutally honest writer who isn't afraid of tackling tough, controversial subjects. In This Will Be My Undoing, she takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to "be" - to live as, to exist as - a black woman today? This is a book about black women, but it's necessary listening for all Americans.

Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement, black women are objectified, silenced, and marginalized, with devastating consequences, in ways both obvious and subtle that are rarely acknowledged in our country's larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing, Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social, cultural, and historical story of black female oppression that influences the black community as well as the white, male-dominated world at large.

Whether she's writing about Sailor Moon; Rachel Dolezal; the stigma of therapy; her complex relationship with her own physical body; the pain of dating when men say they don't "see color"; being a black visitor in Russia; the specter of "the fast-tailed girl" and the paradox of black female sexuality; or disabled black women in the context of the "Black Girl Magic" movement, Jerkins is compelling and revelatory.

Members Reviews:

A Compelling And Necessary Voice For Our TImes

After reading and admiring her work online for years, I was still not fully prepared for what she is capable of when given the space of a book to show us her world through a critical, unflinching, but ultimately generous lens. She seeks neither permission nor absolution and deftly explores what it means to long for belonging without ever considering self-compromise to attain it. Her trenchant observations on race, gender, love, work, and all the pitfalls and pleasures of living inside a body in this world make her a welcome and necessary voice for our generation.

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Title: Garbage Bag Suitcase

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: Shenandoah Chefalo

Narrator: Coleen Marlo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-18

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Shenandoah Chefalo is on a wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug- and alcohol-addicted parents. She endures numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness.

Finally at the age of 13, Shen had had enough. After being abandoned by her mother for months at her grandmother's retirement community, she asks to be put into foster care.

Surely she would fare better at a stable home than living with her mother?

It turns out that it was not the storybook ending she had hoped for. When a car accident lands her in the hospital with grave injuries and no one comes to visit her during her three-week stay, she realizes she is truly all alone in the world.

Overcoming many adversities, Shen became part of the three percent of all foster care children who get into college, and the one percent who graduate. Despite her numerous achievements in life though, she still suffers from the long-term effects of neglect, and the coping skills that she adapted in her childhood are not always productive in her adult life.

Garbage Bag Suitcase is not only the inspiring and hair-raising story of one woman's journey to overcome her desolate childhood, but it also presents grass-root solutions on how to revamp the broken foster care system.

Members Reviews:

Foster Care -- From The Inside

Heartbreaking... but with an unexpected happy ending. Every American should read this, especially parents who have successfully raised kids and have an empty-nest but still have energy and love to give. Consider foster parenting, or adopting an older child or teenager or sibling group. The need is VAST. The alienation and loneliness and lost potential of these 'forgotten young people' is astounding and SO unnecessary... Many of them just need some adult attention and loving support and the structure of a family to thrive. Read Shenandoah's story...

[And nowadays, almost always, there are state subsidies available, plus support groups and professionals, free medical insurance, and often, free college -- so, if you are a good person with a big heart, don't let financial considerations hold you back...]

Google for national and local 'Foster Care Adoption information'

A poignant and compelling memoir that has inspired me to ...

A poignant and compelling memoir that has inspired me to take action to improve the lives of foster kids in our country. Chefalo presents her own harrowing story of adversity and triumph (she is one of the 1% of foster kids who make it through college successfully) - as well as shocking statistics about foster care (a striking correlation between foster care and ultimate incarceration). I applaud her for telling her story so vividly, and inspiring us all to help make a change.

Must read for care-ers of children!

You will never see foster care the same way after reading this book. Prepare to be angry at the neglect imposed upon the author but stay with her as she comes through unimaginable trials only to use the to make a difference in this broken world. Hurting people hurt people is a truth that, when understood, can help one to make sense out of the chaos although not excusing it. This is a must read for teachers and care givers of all varieties.

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Title: Secret Slave

Author: Anna Ruston

Narrator: Faye Adele

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-18

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

You're not going home. You're not going anywhere. You're mine now.

Growing up in a deeply troubled family, 15-year-old Anna felt lost and alone in the world. So when a friendly taxi driver befriended her, Anna welcomed the attention, and agreed to go home with him to meet his family. She wouldn't escape for over a decade.

Held captive by a sadistic pedophile, Anna was subjected to despicable levels of sexual abuse and torture. The unrelenting violence and degradation resulted in numerous miscarriages, and the birth of four babies.... each one stolen away from Anna at birth.

Her salvation arrived 13 years too late, but despite her shattered mind and body, Anna finally managed to flee. This is her harrowing, yet uplifting, true story of survival.

Contains mature themes.

Members Reviews:

Life as a Muslim Sex Slave in England.

Now I know not all Muslim men treat their wives in the manner that is depicted in this book. However it is clear to me that in Muslim culture and law in this story, women are not full human beings. They are possessions of the men that own them. They start out owned by their father and are then owned by their husband. If the owner is a good and decent man, the woman will have a good and decent life. If he is like the brutal savage depicted in this book, her life will be a sheer hell of beatings, isolation, loneliness and deprivation. There will be no outside help offered or accepted and no escape because every member of the extended family is part of the culture of oppression and silence. Not only does the extended family passively allow abuse, but they actively participate and assist in the oppression of other family members and the captivity of this poor slave. The book also illustrates two other truths of this culture. The brute who enslaved Anna and the rest of his family regard the white European as filthy scum who deserve only to be subjected, manipulated and used. And so Anna , already a "throwaway" teenager is plucked off the street and imprisoned for the simple reason she can be and her slave master can get away with it simply because he is a Muslim man and she is a white nonMuslim female and that makes it acceptable to the entire society she is enslaved within. Even after forcibly converting her to Islam, she remains the lowest rung on the social ladder of this warped extended family and wider society. She is a sex slave. Not only does her captor use her sadistically and frequently, but his brothers, and his other male relatives do as well and her slave master has a regular stream of other Muslim men who pay to takes turns abusing her with impunity. And no one in this larger Muslim community thinks there is anything wrong with this. He is her slave master, and she is his slave and that is the way it should be. And yet even though she is savagely beaten on many occasions, delivers four babies who are immediately taken away from her and sold to other Muslims, the English hospital staff, social workers, post office workers, in fact the entire English society external to this horrific abuse can be silenced by a single phrase "It's our custom!" Now if you are an ordinary white male of Christian background, imagine how your wife, sister and mother would react if you dragged home an unwilling 15 years old girl begging for help and release, locked her in a room and repeatedly beat and raped her.

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Title: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (AmazonClassics Edition)

Author: Harriet Ann Jacobs

Narrator: Adenrele Ojo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-18

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Despite being born into slavery, Linda Brent enjoys a happy childhood - until the deaths of her parents and kind mistress leave her an orphan and the property of the lascivious Dr. Flint. Linda becomes the target of his unwanted advances, which she temporarily evades by bearing the children of another man. But when Dr. Flint threatens to sell her children unless she submits, Linda hatches a desperate plan to escape, working to secure her children's freedom as well as her own.

Using the character Linda Brent to narrate her own life story, Harriet Ann Jacobs reveals the unparalleled struggles of an enslaved woman. Her harrowing account of perseverance and unimaginable bravery continues to enlighten and inspire to this day.

AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from iconic authors. Ideal for anyone who wants to hear a great work for the first time or revisit an old favorite, these new editions open the door to the stories and ideas that have shaped our world.

Revised edition: Previously published as Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Members Reviews:

for they allow us to gain a better understanding of how far our society has come

This autobiography was assigned to me when I was a junior in high school. Three years later, as a sophomore in college, I was asked to read the book again for my class on Black Thought and Literature. I wish that I had taken the time to slow down and analyze Frederick Douglass' narrative from a literal, analytical, and figurative perspective. Had I done that the first time aroundâas opposed to treating the book as another required reading that I needed to speed-read throughâI believe that my understanding would have been more in-depth and meaningful. The emotion and conviction with which the author writes is not only poetic and moving, but captivating as well. The imagery, combined with Douglass' views on religion's role in the enslavement of black bodies, masterfully paints a story that (in combination with other narratives) has, unfortunately, been lost throughout time. In fact, many Black writers during this period refused to publish their experiences for fear that they will be caught and returned to slavery. In other cases, some writers used pen names to add some anonymity to their experiences. Nevertheless, such works should be cherished and valued; for they allow us to gain a better understanding of how far our society has come, and how much more needs to be done to ensure a future where everyone is equal (in the truest sense of the word).

Very insightful

I think many people dont realize the true character of the horrors of day to day life for the slave. This book tells it in the first person in all its ugliness, cruelty and unfairness. A must read for anyone interested in history and the human condition. The descriptions of what some ministers and missionaries did to slaves are horrifying. Douglass makes a strong polemic about the hypocrisy of the so called christianity as practiced at the time, particularly in the south, which in douglass' case was maryland. The book is a bit heavy on bible quotes and religious exhortations, but this was truly felt by the author. Imminently readable.

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Title: Maybe Esther

Author: Katja Petrowskaja

Narrator: Emma Gregory

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-18

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The poignant, searching, haunting story of one family's entanglement with 20th-century history.

Katja Petrowskaja's family story is impossible to untangle from the history of 20th-century Europe. There is her great-uncle, who shot a German diplomat in Moscow in 1932 and was sentenced to death. (Could this act have had more significance than anyone at the time understood?)

There is her Ukrainian grandfather, who disappeared during World War II and reappeared without explanation 41 years later. (How was it that he then went back to normal family life, as though nothing had happened?)

And there is her great-grandmother (was she really called Esther?) who was too old and frail to leave Kiev when the Jews there were ordered to leave and was brutally killed by the Nazis on the street.

Taking the listener from Moscow to Kiev to Warsaw to Berlin and deep into archives, pieced-together conversations and memories, Maybe Esther is a journey into language, memory, philosophy, history and trauma and a singular, beautiful, unforgettable work of literature.

Critic Reviews:

"Rarely is research into family history this exciting, this moving. If this were a novel it would seem exaggerated and unbelievable. This is why it is great literature." (Der Spiegel)

"Modern German literature is richer for this intelligent, flamboyant and extremely original voice." (Die Zeit)

"Katja Petrowskaja's family now have a home: this book. She ties today with yesterday and draws it all together to be carried over into the future as the literature of tomorrow." (Frankfurter Rundschau)

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Title: On the Frontlines of the Television War

Subtitle: A Legendary War Cameraman in Vietnam

Author: Terry Irving - editor, Yasutsune Hirashiki

Narrator: Tetsuro Shigemastsu, Eric Pollins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-18

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

On the Frontlines of the Television War is the story of Yasutsune "Tony" Hirashiki's 10 years in Vietnam - beginning when he arrived in 1966 as a young freelancer with a 16mm camera but without a job or the slightest grasp of English and ending in the hectic fall of Saigon in 1975 when he was literally thrown on one of the last flights out. His memoir has all the exciting tales of peril, hardship, and close calls as the best of battle memoirs but it is primarily a story of very real and yet remarkable people: the soldiers who fought, bled, and died, and the reporters and photographers who went right to the frontlines to record their stories and memorialize their sacrifice.

The great books about Vietnam journalism have been about print reporters, still photographers, and television correspondents, but if this was truly the first "television war", then it is time to hear the story of the cameramen who shot the pictures and the reporters who wrote the stories that the average American witnessed daily in their living rooms. An award-winning sensation when it was released in Japan in 2008, this book been completely re-created for an international audience.

In 2008, the Japanese edition was published by Kodansha in two hardback volumes and titled I Wanted to Be Capa. It won the 2009 Oya Soichi Nonfiction Award - a prize usually reserved for much younger writers - and Kodansha almost doubled their initial print run to meet the demand. In that period, he was interviewed extensively, a documentary was filmed in which he returned to the people and places of his wartime experience, and a dramatization of his book was written and presented on NHK Radio. A Kodansha paperback was published in 2010 with an initial printing of 17,000 copies and continues to sell at a respectable pace.

Critic Reviews:

"Tony Hirashiki is an essential piece of the foundation on which ABC was built. From the day he approached the Bureau Chief in Saigon with a note pinned to his shirt saying he could shoot pictures to the anxious afternoon of 9/11 when we lost him in the collapse of the Twin Towers (and he emerged covered in dust clutching his precious beta tapes), Tony reported the news with his camera and in doing so, he brought the truth about the important events of our day to millions of Americans." (David Westin, Former President of ABC News)

Members Reviews:

I recommend it to anyone interested in the Vietnam War from ...

I could not put this book down. I recommend it to anyone interested in the Vietnam War from an eyewitness who covered it with his lens till the end.

I encourage journalism students to read this book.

Great insights from the Vietnam War

Yasutsune, aka Tony, Hirashiki provides great insights from the ground in Vietnam. I value Tony as a colleague at ABC News and a wonderful storyteller here!

Thank you

Thank you for writing this Tony-San (and Terry!)...it brought back so many memories of those years.

For everyone else, just read this memoir by one of the best cameramen (and person!) who ever was.

Great book!

Outstanding in every way. Gives an insight I was never aware of about the Vietnam War. An absolute MUST READ.

How the News Was Covered in Southeast Asia and What It Cost

So many years after leaving ABC News in 1990, On the Frontlines of the Television War comes as a revelation.

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Title: Lee Harvey Oswald - In His Own Words

Author: Geoffrey Giuliano

Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-18

Publisher: Icon Audio Arts

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Criminals

Publisher's Summary:

For the first time ever, we can now go deep inside the mind of the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy. In this never before heard collection of ultra rare interviews and a press conferrence with Oswald, we gain great insight into the mysterious life and time of one of history's most misunderstood and iconic characters.

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Title: The Killing Game

Subtitle: The True Story of Rodney Alcala, the Game Show Serial Killer

Author: Alan R. Warren

Narrator: Michael Goodrick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-12-18

Publisher: Something Weird Media

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Criminals

Publisher's Summary:

In 1968 young girls went missing in California and New York, massive searches started and soon bodies became to turn up! This is the story of Rodney Alcala, the charming, good looking photographer that was in NYU studying under Roman Polanski, and even once had won on the popular TV game show Dating Game, but now he is wanted for rape, torture, and murder of several young girls!

He would make the girls suffer until they passed out, rape them, and when they came to, he would beat them again before killing them! Alan R. Warren, best-selling True Crime Author and Radio Show host, takes you through each step of the story in shocking details including lots of details from the trials and the appeals that have been going on for over 20 years while Alcala is on Death Row!

Members Reviews:

Narrator problematic

The narrator had problems with pronunciation, spoke in a staccato clip and sometimes affected manner that detracted from the overall seriousness of the subject matter.

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Titolo: Il pesce che scese dall'albero

Autore: Francesco Riva

Narratore: Francesco Riva

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 2 hrs and 13 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 12-20-17

Editore: Mondadori Libri S.p.A.

Categoria: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Riepilogo Editore:

Alle elementari Francesco è un disastro: non ricorda i mesi dell'anno, confonde le lettere e non riesce proprio a imparare le tabelline. L'ora di matematica - la sua bestia nera - la passa a disegnare, relegato in fondo all'aula. Finché arriva la maestra Diana, che capisce tutto: quello scolaro non è né pigro né poco intelligente, forse è dislessico. I test confermano in pieno i sospetti, ma la supermaestra ha già escogitato un piano strategico: il bambino non studierà leggendo i libri, ma ascoltando e, per esercitare la memoria, recitando.

La strada non è sempre in discesa: non tutti gli insegnanti sono così preparati e ingegnosi, non tutti capiscono che, per lui, la calcolatrice non è il rimedio alla fatica di moltiplicazioni e divisioni, ma uno strumento indispensabile come sono gli occhiali per un miope. Ci vuole ostinazione, e anche qualche battaglia, per affermare i propri diritti. Ma intanto Francesco è diventato così bravo a recitare da entrare in un'accademia teatrale. E al momento di realizzare il suo primo spettacolo, mette in scena la storia più bella che conosce: quella di un bambino che, con la sua creatività e il suo talento, ha annientato l'orco-dislessia. Un'idea che porterà più di una sorpresa.

Un audiolibro dedicato ai tanti ragazzi che si sentono stupidi perché sono lenti a leggere, scrivere o fare i calcoli, e non sanno che la dislessia non è una malattia, ma solo un diverso modo di funzionare del cervello. Un modo che può rivelarsi originale e a volte geniale, come è stato per Einstein, Agatha Christie, Walt Disney, Mika e tantissimi altri. Prefazione di Giacomo Stella.

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Title: Al Capone's Beer Wars

Subtitle: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition

Author: John J. Binder

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-21-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Criminals

Publisher's Summary:

Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been-until now-a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire period from 1920 to 1933. Author John J. Binder, a recognized authority on the history of organized crime in Chicago, discusses all the important bootlegging gangs in the city and the suburbs and also examines the other major rackets, such as prostitution, gambling, labor and business racketeering, and narcotics.

A major focus is how the Capone gang-one of 12 major bootlegging mobs in Chicago at the start of Prohibition-gained a virtual monopoly over organized crime in northern Illinois and beyond. Binder also describes the fight by federal and local authorities, as well as citizens' groups, against organized crime. In the process, he refutes numerous myths and misconceptions related to the Capone gang, other criminal groups, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and gangland killings.

What emerges is a big picture of how Chicago's underworld evolved during this period. This broad perspective goes well beyond Capone and specific acts of violence and brings to light what was happening elsewhere in Chicagoland and after Capone went to jail.

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Critic Reviews:

This is a truly comprehensive history of crime in Chicago during Prohibition that will appeal to true-crime readerships and that will make an excellent addition to library collections for its coverage of an era." (Foreword Reviews)

Members Reviews:

A Worthy Doctoral Dissertation On The Chicago Beer Wars

Author John Binder has compiled what amounts to a doctoral dissertation in his book Al Capone's Beer Wars. This book is not a rehash of the high and low profile murders that you find in other books. The murders are mentioned but we are spared the numerous details leading up to them. Sometimes, myself included, the reader may feel he is being told more than he wants to learn regarding the beer wars. However, that is my problem and not the fault of the author. The book is neatly organized into eight chapters and photographs are spaced throughout the book. Many of the photos I have never seen before. Page 104 has a photo of the Murder Twins John Scalise and Albert Anselmi appearing as younger men which I have never seen previously. Page 262 contains a photo of the victims of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre with a number on each one to identify them. I have often wondered which two were the beneficiaries of the shotgun blasts to the face in addition to being peppered with machine gun bullets. Numerous books differ as to who the actual shooters were in this infamous incident and author Binder reviews each possibility and comes to the conclusion that Fred "Killer" Burke (Thomas A. Camp) was most certainly one of the shooters.

Author Binder sums up by handing out grades to Jim Colosimo, Johnny Torrio, and Al Capone. A few "what ifs" are also mentioned that could have significantly changed the history of prohibition in Chicago.