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Title: B. I. A. P.: Baghdad International Airport

Author: Brian L. Gordon

Narrator: Michael Karl Orenstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-17

Publisher: Brian Gordon

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Though Americans have seen plenty of news updates on the Iraq War since 2003, few know what its like to actually live through the harsh conditions on a daily basis.

In his memoir, B.I.A.P.: Baghdad International Airport, two-tour Iraq War veteran Sergeant Brian L. Gordon shows readers the constant challenges soldiers face on the ground in the Middle East.

Serving first in 2003, Gordon drives a truck delivering bulk fuel and must regularly dodge rocket-propelled grenades and IEDs. His unit also takes on heavy firefights and rocket launcher attacks while manning the water point at the Euphrates River.

Though his division is eventually investigated for conspiracy to sabotage their own vehicles (in order to remain safely back at base), Gordon bravely serves a second tour in 2004 with a new unit, this time delivering tanks and artillery in and out of northern Iraq. This assignment will test him and his comrades to their limits when a mission turns into a twenty-one-day hostage situation at Baghdad International Airport.

B.I.A.P.: Baghdad International Airport gives readers the opportunity to experience the life of a combat soldier struggling with PTSD, striving to serve his country and protect the lives of his comrades.

Members Reviews:

B.I.A.P should be required reading for all membesr of Congress and every candidate running for President in the U.S.

B.I.A.P should be required reading for all members of Congress and every candidate running for President in the U.S. Sergeant Gordon provides a riveting account of his two tours of duty in Iraq. This is a very personal account of the actual affects of war on our military soldiers that live it every day and every night. War is, indeed, Hell and it does not end for the soldiers just because they are no longer in the military or not in a combat zone.

Soldiers like Brian Gordon represent the best of America

I was at BIAP around the same time frame as the author (We were billeted in the Crack House ;-)). He has written an honest, no holds barred memoir of his deployments. He writes in gut-wrenching detail about his experiences and those of his soldiers; so vividly that I found myself going back there, the sights, the sounds, and the smells around that FOB. Not to spoil it for everyone else, but I also received the admonishment: "Don't get complacent; that's when things go wrong." Well, I did and it happened.

Everyone in America needs to read this book, especially our elected leaders. This is a story of hardship, heartache and sacrifice, and the agony of having to make split second decisions. You cannot definitely confirm someone is an insurgent or an innocent civilian in the heat of battle. Our country has put the onus of making that distinction on those on the tip of the spear. They have made decisions and have done things in our name which they will carry forever. They are our sons and daughters.

Soldiers like Brian Gordon represent the best of America, and I miss them.

Sergeant Gordon gives an excellent detailed account of what it's like to be a ...

Sergeant Gordon gives an excellent detailed account of what it's like to be a young soldier driving the Army's largest Vehicles across the the hostile desert in Iraq. In just about every discomfort possible. the dull monotony is interrupted by the occasional enemy attacks. The Chaos of being ambushed while in convoy cannot be anticipated or entirely planned for.

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Title: Les Berbères et Moi: Part Seven

Author: Magdalena Wasiura

Narrator: Deanna Delaney

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-17

Publisher: Cv Publications

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

New projects and new ideas along with matchmaking in Timdgrass are just a small part of part seven of Les Berbères et moi.

What is all the fuss about kissing? The author explains zina and how Shari'ah punishes you for that. You feel the blisters on the authors hands when she beats the dirt out of sheep skin as well as the discomfort and cold during her night voyage to Casablanca.

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Title: Creating my own Nemesis

Subtitle: The Autobiography of the Man Who Designed Alton Towers Big Rides, and Brought the Theme Park to Britain

Author: John Wardley

Narrator: John Wardley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-17

Publisher: John Wardley

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The autobiography of the man who brought the theme park concept to Britain and created some of the world's most thrilling rides and attractions. He talks about his early beginnings in the theater, circus, and magical cabaret, his time working on some of the most incredible special effects in the James Bond films (including the famous bus crash scene in Live and Let Die), and how he became associated with Madame Tussauds, the world's most famous wax museum. This led to the development of Chessington World of Adventures, then Alton Towers.

Now in its seventh edition, the book answers many questions about how enormous theme park rides are conceived and developed, and the fascinating stories behind them, including his most famous ride, NEMESIS at Alton Towers.

Members Reviews:

Virtual towers online creator

An excellent read through of an inspirational book. From the creator of viral towers online game on Facebook, a recreation of the great park itself

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Title: 2D Surgical Hospital

Author: Lorna Griess

Narrator: Mandy Kaplan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-17

Publisher: XlibrisUS

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This book is about living and working in a mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) in South Vietnam. It talks about the hospital itself, the setting, how we lived, how we coped with less-than-good circumstances, the type of patients we received, the equipment we worked with and the emotional highs and lows that were part of every day. The stories are true. Some of the dates and numbers of things may be off a little; that was a long time ago. Names have not been used to protect the wonderful, dedicated people with whom I worked and lived with.

Members Reviews:

Nice to finally see it get some recognition

I served in this unit the same time Ms. Giess did. Nice to finally see it get some recognition. Nice overview of the 2d Surg. Recommend. Joe Roberts

i really enjoyed reading this book

i really enjoyed reading this book. The author described her life as an army nurse during the Viet Nam war. It is extremely well written. I am a fan of any and all war veterans and i thank her for having this work published.

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Very well written, reminds me of my time incountry ('68 '69.)

Great Job.

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Title: Life in the Garden

Author: Penelope Lively

Narrator: Helen Lloyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-17

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This audiobook is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother's garden in a sloping Somerset field, then two successive Oxfordshire gardens of her own and the smaller urban garden in the North London home she lives in today. It's also a wise, engaging exploration of gardens in literature, from Paradise Lost to Alice in Wonderland.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Nice essays and beautiful illustrations.

Two Stars

A tad boring for me

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Title: Lulu's Christmas Story

Subtitle: A True Story of Faith and Hope During the Great Depression

Author: Ludmilla Bollow

Narrator: Liz Terry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-17

Publisher: Beacon Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Christmas is eagerly awaited by Lulu, a young girl living in a small Wisconsin town during the Great Depression. Anticipation is transformed into anxiety when Daddy loses his job, doubts about Santa flicker, and that Shirley Temple doll seems further away than ever. Mama reveals her own brutal Christmas as an orphan, adding new worries. But it's Lulu's deep faith and vibrant hope that keeps her looking forward to each new day and the glorious gift of Christmas.

In her touching memoir, Ludmilla Bollow, an award-winning playwright and novelist, recounts the year before her family's toughest Christmas. There's a haunting encounter with freaks at a circus sideshow, the heartbreaking loss of the town's recluse who was committed to finding true love, a disastrous Thanksgiving at Grandma's, and, of course, the long-awaited Christmas! Lulu's spirit of love and joy radiates throughout this emotional recall of family life during hard times.

Members Reviews:

A Wonderful Book to Treasure and Share Imagine opening a book ...

A Wonderful Book to Treasure and Share

Imagine opening a book and finding your own 8-year old self there, a dearly familiar town recreated with its inhabitants and seasons vividly described, and the narrator's account of a year in her life during the Great Depression releasing torrents of personal memories of that time and place. Such was my experience with Lulu's Christmas Story because I grew up in that town, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and am a few years younger than the author. However, you need not have grown up in Manitowoc or even in Wisconsin to have this story resonate as powerfully as it did for me. Lulu's story, told in her endearing 8-year old voice, will recall one's own childhood longings, insecurities, small triumphs. The reader will recognize one's own relatives, the dear and not-so-dear, and reflect on one's own family's struggles and hardships. It will make you smile and touch you deeply. I gave the book to my grandchildren who often ask what my life was like as a child and sent copies to high school classmates who were as enthralled as I was and passed it on to other classmates who in turn sent copies to their children and grandchildren.. It is a beautifully written book of recaptured time, a moving book for the present time and for all ages.

Shirley Genins

I really appreciated this historical biography which was told in ...

I really appreciated this historical biography which was told in a 2nd/3rd grade voice. This story takes place during the depression and vividly relates the strong family relationship and neighborlyness which made the lack of money and jobs bearable. A very warm endearing story. Not necessarily I just for Christmas. I think children from 3 rd or 4 th grade could appreciate it although it is very touching as an adult title.

Great story with historical significance relevant for all ages.

Great story, easy to read with good historical reference. This is a book I have recommended to my 82 year old mother in-law and have considered having my 7 year old daughter read (although I'll probably wait to give it to her due to the Santa spoiler).

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Title: So Close to Death Yet So Far Away

Subtitle: P.O.T.S.

Author: Derek C. Evans

Narrator: Eddie Leonard Jr.

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-17

Publisher: Derek Chad Evans

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Growing up Derek Evans was a good student and athlete in a middle-class suburban area in southeastern Pennsylvania. The future looked bright for Derek. After waking up from a nap during his shift as a lifeguard at the age of 17, everything changed. After months of not feeling right and several doctors' visits, it was determined that Derek was beginning to suffer from a dysautonoima disorder called Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (P.O.T.S.).

P.O.T.S., sometimes referred to as an invisible illness, is a very unknown yet destabilizing and bizarre syndrome. Derek's next eight years became a health roller coaster ride amid remission, relapses, emergency room and doctors' visits, and several different medications. Despite all this, Derek managed to keep his illness a secret from almost everyone, in fear of being judged and not understood.

In October of 2016, Derek worked as an Assistant Branch Manager at Hertz Rent-A-Car. He collapsed inside a body shop during a sales call and woke up in an ambulance being transported to the hospital. After this life-changing incident, Derek decided enough was enough and was determined to make major changes. Besides a new career, Derek found a passion to let the truth out about his illness. It was time to bring awareness.

In this book, you will find the story of Derek's battle with P.O.T.S. as well as interviews with mothers of children with P.O.T.S., doctors' opinions on the illness, and stories of many others suffering from P.O.T.S. You will begin to see life from the eyes of a person suffering from the invisible illness, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. Although over one million people worldwide have been diagnosed, there is still little known about P.O.T.S. What is known by those who have it, is at times, they feel like they are so close to dying, yet told they are so far away.

Members Reviews:

Excellent read

This book gave an excellent example of a young person experiencing postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and how their life changed.

This book helped me so much!

I suffer from pots syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome and I feel like my life is just existing in bed alone. I would listen to this audiobook every night and it would give me hope and made me feel good that I could relate to the authors Journey through this illness. I'll be read listening to this at least three or four times :-) thank you Derek for writing this!

Great Concept-Needs Awareness

My daughter has POTS. Some grammar errors but great concept. Glad to see someone write a book to bring awareness.

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Title: Jim Beckwourth and Jim Bridger: The Lives and Legacies of America's Most Famous Mountain Men

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Mark Norman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-17

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Includes accounts of both men

Includes online resources and a bibliography

Includes a table of contents

Exploration of the early American West, beginning with Lewis and Clark's transcontinental trek at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, was not accomplished by standing armies, the era's new steam train technology, or by way of land grabs. These came later, but not until pathways known only to a few of the land's indigenous people were discovered, carved out, and charted in an area stretching from the eastern Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and the present-day borders of Mexico and Canada. Even the great survey parties, such as Colonel William Powell's exploration of the Colorado River, came decades later. The first views of Western America's enormity by white Americans were seen by individuals of an entirely different personality, in an era that could only exist apart from its home civilization. The American mountain man, with his myriad of practical skills, could endure isolation in a way most could not. He lived in constant peril from the extremes of nature and from the hostilities of cultures unlike his own. In an emergency, assistance was rarely available, and he rarely stayed in one place long enough to build even a simple shelter.

Travel in the American West relied upon a specific calendar, and to ignore it could be fatal, as many discovered, to their misfortune. Winter in the mountainous regions of the Rocky Mountains and Cascades was lethally cold to explorer and settler alike, but desert areas and grass plains presented difficulties as well. The network of rivers flowing west of the Mississippi on both sides of the continental divide served as early highways to the Wyoming and Montana regions, the Oregon Territory, Utah and Colorado, and the California southwest. Some were placidly tranquil, while others raged through the extreme elevations, all but defying navigation. Contact with indigenous tribes was problematic enough with linguistic and cultural barriers, but to survive, there required a sensitivity to tribal food sources and sacred areas when traveling. The profession of trapping was, in itself, a trespass on Native American resources, and yet the mountain man's existence was fueled, in part, by the tangible rewards of the fur trapping trade.

A small group of individuals have come down to us as famous figures from the fur trapping era of the 19th century, but explorer and guide Jim Bridger is the most distinguished of the lot. This is because he remained in a dangerous and vast Western wilderness long after the fur trade's demise in addition to powers of observation enabling him to create accurate maps decades after passing through any terrain. Blessed with a rare gift for mentally recording every landscape through which he passed in minute detail, many modern transportation routes have sprung from what was first etched in sand with the point of Bridger's stick, including major interstate highways and railroad lines.

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Title: Train to Nowhere

Subtitle: One Woman's War: Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator

Author: Anita Leslie

Narrator: Deryn Edwards

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-17

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Train to Nowhere is a war memoir seen through the sardonic eyes of Anita Leslie, a funny and vivacious young woman who reports on her experiences with a dry humour, finding the absurd alongside the tragic.

Daughter of a baronet and first cousin once removed of Winston Churchill, she joined the Mechanised Transport Corps as a fully trained mechanic and ambulance driver during WWII, serving in Libya, Syria, Palestine, Italy, France and Germany. Ahead of her time, Anita bemoaned 'first-rate women subordinate to second-rate men' and, as the English army forbade women from serving at the front, joined the Free French Forces in order to do what she felt was her duty.

Writing letters in Hitler's recently vacated office and marching in the Victory parade contrast with observations of seeing friends murdered and a mother avenging her son by coldly shooting a prisoner of war. Unflinching and unsentimental, Train to Nowhere is a memoir of Anita's war, one that, long after it was written, remains poignant and relevant.

With a new introduction by Penny Perrick.

Critic Reviews:

"Train to Nowhere is the most gripping piece of war reportage I have ever read: particularly affecting is her account of the Battle of Colmar, where her descriptions are almost too unbearable to take in. What a writer! Her observations, mixed with dry humour and compassion, place her at the heart of the conflict and somehow apart from it, as a good historian should be. Remarkable." (Joanna Lumley)

"Anita Leslie's dispassionate account of her own extraordinary role in World War II is a rediscovered gem, and her harrowing description of the fighting in Alsace particularly stands out as one of the finest pieces of war reporting to come out of that or any other conflict.... This is a remarkable book." (Ray Moseley, Pulitzer Prize-nominated war correspondent and author of Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II)

"A vivid memoir, beautifully crafted, by a remarkable woman at a unique period in modern history. A young cousin of Winston Churchill, she operated as an ambulance driver from 1940-1945 on the front lines in Africa, Arabia and Europe enduring with humour all the hardships and privations entailed in war by service personnel without rank. Her skills of observation are penetrating and make this book a marvellously accessible account of WWII. Unputdownable." (Mary S. Lovell, international best-selling author of The Mitford Girls)

Members Reviews:

An Absorbing Memoir

This book was first published in 1948. Anita Theodosia Moira Leslie (Nov 21, 1914-Nov 5, 1985) was born in Ireland and was the daughter of a baronet and a cousin of Winston Churchill via his mother. Jennie Churchill was Anitas great aunt. Anita followed many of her peers in volunteering for active service in World War II. She served in the mechanized Transport Corp as a mechanic and ambulance driver. (Princess Elizabeth also served as mechanic and ambulance driver but had to stay in England). Anita served in the Middle East and Egypt and then in Italy, Northern France and Germany. She was award the Croix de Guerre, the French Military Award given to foreign military personnel who served in France during WWII.

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Title: Churchill & Orwell

Subtitle: The Fight for Freedom

Author: Thomas E. Ricks

Narrator: Piers Hampton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930s - Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century, they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. In a crucial moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter, seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north.

It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930s, democracy was discredited in many circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism but saw in Hitler and Mussolini 'men we could do business with', if not in fact saviours. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom - that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted.

In the end Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The glorious climax of Churchill and Orwell is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940s to triumph over freedom's enemies. And though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Taken together, in Thomas E.