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Title: The Telling

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: Zoe Zolbrod

Narrator: Zoe Zolbrod

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-31-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Zoe Zolbrod remained silent about her early childhood molestation for nearly a decade. When she finally decided to tell, she wasn't sure what to expect or what to say. Through a kaleidoscopic series of experiences - Zolbrod hitchhikes with a boyfriend from one coast to another, hangs out in a strip club in Philadelphia, meets and marries her husband, and gives birth to her children - she traces the development of her sexuality, her relationships with men, and the cultivation of her motherhood in the shadow of her childhood sexual abuse. Bolstered with research, Zolbrod argues passionately for the empowerment of sexual abuse victims and the courage it takes to talk about it.

The Telling is an intimate examination of one woman's reckoning with a past she can't always explain and a life lived in search for the right words.

Zoe Zolbrod's work has appeared in Salon, The Nervous Breakdown, The Weeklings, and the Rumpus, where she serves as the Sunday editor. Her debut novel, Currency, won a 2010 Nobbie Award and received an honorable mention by Friends of American Writers. Zolbrod lives in Evanston, Illinois, with her husband and children.

Critic Reviews:

"Evocative, fiercely intelligent, and beautifully constructed. In telling her story, Zolbrod becomes a time traveler, making elegant leaps from early childhood to her unconventional coming of age to the embattled but deep satisfactions of her own motherhood. The Telling is a necessary memoir in every way." (Emily Rapp, author of The Still Point of the Turning World)

Members Reviews:

Intelligent, Generous Memoir

The Telling is and is not a memoir about childhood sexual abuse; itâs a rigorously intelligent exploration of selfhoodâof what it means to negotiate concurrent, contradictory loci: insider and outsider, powerful and powerless, narrator and subject.

But itâs not a stodgy read. Zolbrodâs enticing renderings of people sheâs knownâthe fringe anarcho-punks and strippers in West Philly, the anti-circumcision activist/artist in Chicago, her athletically colicky infant sonâwill turn your pages for hours, as will her decidedly tactile images. The afternoon will disappear unnoticed until you lift your eyes from the text, realizing you crave, well, an orange soda like the one she drank at a middle school make-out party, or for your own skin to feel âcrispy and cleanâ the way hers did after an overdue campsite shower when she was in her 20s.

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What distinguishes the book most, however, is its inherent generosity, the empathy with which she regards the victimized cousin who victimized her, the friends and lovers sheâs known, the families of her childhood and adulthood, the child she was, and the children sheâs raising. This bookâs compassionate intimacy, like its images, will linger in your skin.

the memoir works as a whole and as a series of exquisite chapter-essays (some stand easily on their own

The Telling, by Zoe Zolbrod, is beautifully-crafted and necessary. Woven with her own elegantly written story of child sexual abuse, Zolbrod includes statistics, achieving balance between narrative and resource. Anyone wanting to understand this complex issue will benefit from reading The Telling. Its journey is a deft navigation through the intricacies of the human psyche. In form, the memoir works as a whole and as a series of exquisite chapter-essays (some stand easily on their own.).

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Titel: Alexander von Humboldt: Bis ans Ende der Welt (Abenteuer & Wissen)

Autor:: Robert Steudtner

Erzähler: Frauke Poolman

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 19 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-14-16

Herausgeber: Headroom Verlag

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Peitschende Stürme, lauernde Jaguare, die gefräßigen Alligatoren des Orinoco - nichts kann den jungen preußischen Forschungsreisenden Alexander von Humboldt davon abhalten, seine Studien über die Zusammenhänge der Natur voranzutreiben. Seit er ein Kind war, hat er von dieser Expedition geträumt.

Begleitet von seinem treuen Freund, dem französischen Botaniker Aimé Bonpland, unternimmt Humboldt zwischen 1799 und 1804 seine so berühmte wie gefährliche Amerikareise und legt dabei abertausende Kilometer zurück, auf dem Rücken von Maultieren, im Kanu oder zu Fuß.

Der Autor und Filmemacher Werner Biermann hat sich rund 200 Jahre später auf die Spuren des großen Abenteurers und Wissenschaftlers begeben und erzählt von seinen Erlebnissen und aufregenden Begegnungen in den Tiefen des amerikanischen Kontinents.

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Titel: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Vom Himmel zu den Sternen(Abenteuer & Wissen)

Autor:: Robert Steudtner

Erzähler: Frauke Poolman

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 27 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-13-16

Herausgeber: Headroom Verlag

Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

31.Juli 1944. Zweiter Weltkrieg. Der weltberühmte Schriftsteller und Flugpionier Antoine de Saint-Exupéry startet zu einem Aufklärungsflug über Südfrankreich. Er wird nie zurückkehren. Was ist ihm an jenem Tag widerfahren? Wurde er abgeschossen? Versagte die Technik? Oder hat er sich vielleicht das Leben genommen? Mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert lang bleibt sein Schicksal ein großes Rätsel - bis ein Fischer aus Marseille in seinem Netz ein silbernes Armband mit einer geheimnisvollen Gravur findet. Wer war der Mann, der mit seinem Buch "Der kleine Prinz" bis heute ein Millionenpublikum verzaubert?

Lino von Gartzen gehört zu den Tauchern und Forschern, die das Geheimnis um den Tod von Antoine de Saint-Exupéry gelüftet haben. Seine aufregende Spurensuche in den Tiefen des Mittelmeeres führte ihn zu einem verschollenen Prinzen und löste nach über einem halben Jahrhundert endlich das Rätsel um Saint-Exupérys Verschwinden.

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Titre: L'Education Nationale, la plus vaste entreprise de désobéissance du pays (Titiou, Nadia et les sales gosses - Saison 1)

Auteur: Titiou Lecoq, Nadia Daam

Narrateur: slate.fr

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 53 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 11-30-16

Éditeur: Slate.fr

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Tous les mois, Titiou Lecoq et Nadia Daam, auteures, journalistes et mères de sales gosses, mèneront une conversation sur la parentalité. Qu'est-ce qu'on fait du (ou des) résultat(s) quand on a eu l'idée saugrenue de se reproduire ? Elles inviteront chaque semaine des spécialistes de la question, par exemple des rabbins et des conteurs.

Premier épisode :

Être parent, c'est un curieux mélange entre transmettre des valeurs, ce sur quoi on a décidé qu'on ne transigerait pas, et accepter son enfant tel qu'il est. Ça peut paraître évident, mais ça demande un véritable travail sur soi. Titiou Lecoq et Nadia Daam s'entretiennent sur le sujet avec Caroline Boudet, auteure de La Vie réserve des surprises.

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Title: Rasputin

Subtitle: The Biography

Author: Douglas Smith

Narrator: P. J. Ochlan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-16

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. The spectre of the lustful Siberian holy man and peasant still casts its eerie shadow over Russia's bloody 20th century.

Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and guardian of the sickly heir to the throne. His debauchery and sinister political influence are the stuff of legend, and the downfall of the Romanov dynasty was laid at his feet. Even during his lifetime Rasputin was shrouded in myth, and his true story remains obscure today.

Douglas Smith's Rasputin separates fact from fiction to reveal the true life of one of history's most alluring figures. Rasputin draws on a wealth of forgotten documents from archives in seven countries and is the most thoroughly researched biography ever written. Demolishing the caricature of the holy devil, Smith's account presents Rasputin in all his complexity - man of God, voice of peace, loyal subject, adulterer, drunkard. More than just the story of an extraordinary life, Rasputin offers a fascinating portrait of the twilight of Imperial Russia as it lurched towards catastrophe.

Members Reviews:

Narrator

Book ruined by the narrator. Is this a made up accent? Verbal emphasis in all the wrong places.

More (and less) to Rasputin than The Boney M song

I'm fairly ignorant when it comes to history so a lot of this was new to me and I got a lot out of it. I've learnt a lot about Rasputin, Russian society before the revolution and some of the causes of the revolution and also the Orthodox Christian church. But boy is this a long book! You have to concentrate hard and I found the narrator's style a little odd and robotic. But I reccommend.

A good piece but overly long.

I understand the need to explain the historical context of a person but I do feel there was a bit too much about 'other' people ; it felt like the history of the Romanovs more than anything else. The murder of Rasputin was a very small section of the book and warranted further examination. The conclusion was nigh on non-existent. Still, a good book if looking for a more general history book. Could have been tightened by cutting down the length by half.

Definitive biography on Rasputin

Douglas Smith has taken every story we know about Rasputin and delved into the facts like an historical detective. He has found discrepancies on dates and a lot of 'fake news'.

It is a fascinating, thorough read, which also imparts much about the desperation and susceptibility of the Russian Empress and society at the time.

it is a well researched biography

More of a treatise than a biographical novel. well detailed and attempts to create good imagery of early 19th century Russia / Europe in audience's mind. I must say I enjoyed it ... rather I was able to easily endure a voluminous book. monotonous voice-over adds feel to the serious topic this book deals with.

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Title: This is My Body

Subtitle: Women Talk About Their Relationships with Their Bodies

Author: June Stevens Westerfield

Narrator: Becky Doughty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-16

Publisher: June Stevens Westerfield

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Have you ever struggled with your body image or felt as if you don't measure up? If you said yes, you are not alone. In This is My Body 25 women share their deepest truths about their relationships with their bodies and their journeys to self-acceptance and love. These stories are poignant and relate-able.

Members Reviews:

Great book

Very good book, everyone should read these stories

Five Stars

Really nice to read about people that are learning to be happy in their skin!

Great inspirational read

Real. Honest. Great inspirational read...

A Must Read. Real Women. Real Stories.

I couldn't wait to read this. This is My Body is about 4eal women living day to day with their own personal body issues. I laughed, I cried, I related to so much. Maybe every story isn't yours. But you will find your self shaking your head up and down more often than you realize.

I related to so many emotions. I can't wait for June to do a part 2, part 3, and so on.

This book just isn't for over weight women. It's for all women. Men..... borrow or buy your own. It's alway good to learn what your lady friends are dealing with.

Westerfieldâs painful, powerful and provocative book is a must-read for all women.

June Stevens Westerfieldâs, This is My Body, is a remarkably illuminating, beautifully crafted account of courageous women revealing their own experience with body self-hatred.

This is My Body will deeply transform one's negative sense of self to that of an accepting, forgiving, gentle, loving, nurturing, respectful, and trustworthy friend.

Westerfield has designed an eye-opening, empowering and heart wrenching inspirational testament to start the dialogue for women on their healing journey by sharing their experience, strength and hope.

Westerfieldâs painful, powerful and provocative book is a must-read for all women. Clearly, This is My Body should be required in schools across the globe, as well as, given to students with their college and university welcome packets.

Everyone knows Taryn Brumfitt, the founder of Body Image Movement and director and writer of Embrace; and now, Iâd like to introduce everyone to June Stevens Westerfield, the brilliant creator of This is My Body.

Thank you, Ms. Westerfield, for your amazing contribution to help eradicate the negative effects on self-esteem and body image with what I hope is the first volume of many of This is My Body. Brava!

Copyright © 2016 by Diane Morasco

Review first appeared in Blogcritics.

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Title: The Boy Behind the Curtain

Author: Tim Winton

Narrator: Tim Winton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-16

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtain reveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Winton's imagination at work and play.

In Tim Winton's fiction, chaos waits in the wings, and ordinary people are ambushed by events and emotions beyond their control. Winton's own life has also been shaped by havoc.

The extraordinarily powerful true stories that make up The Boy Behind the Curtain take us behind the scenes, revealing the accidents, both serendipitous and traumatic, that have influenced his view of life and fuelled his distinctive artistic vision. They show the unexpected links between car crashes and religious faith, between surfing and writing, and how going to the wrong movie at the age of eight opened him up to a life of the imagination. And in writing about class, fundamentalism, asylum seekers, guns and the natural world, he presents not only the concerns that have made him the much-loved writer he is but some of what unites the life and the work.

By turns impassioned, funny, joyous, astonishing, this is Winton's most personal book to date, an insight into the man who's held us enthralled for three decades and helped us reshape our view of ourselves. Behind it all, from risk-taking youth to surprise-averse middle age, has been the crazy punt of staking everything on becoming a writer.

Members Reviews:

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greaat to hear this read by the author .memorable tone anc language. story very entertainingl.

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Title: Twopence to Cross theMersey

Author: Helen Forrester

Narrator: Liane-Rose Bunce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This major best-selling memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool is one of the most harrowing but uplifting books you will ever hear. When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in 1930, she and her six siblings were forced into utmost poverty and slum surroundings in Depression-ridden Liverpool. The running of the household and the care of the younger children all fell on 12-year-old Helen.

With very little food or help from her feckless parents, Helen led a life of unrelenting drudgery and hardship. Writing about her experiences later in life, Helen Forrester shed light on an almost forgotten part of life in Britain. Written with good humour and a lack of self-pity, Forrester's memoir of these grim days is as heart-warming as it is shocking.

Members Reviews:

Resilient little girl!

What did you love best about Twopence to Cross theMersey?

That baby Edward loved her so unconditionally when no one else could.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Twopence to Cross theMersey?

When Helen came to the realization that there would be no more upper class living, and that her needs were to be met by herself, in the best way she knew how, as a child with no loving guidance, and with her siblings survival in her own hands-with minimal earnings in which to do it.

Any additional comments?

I shiver when I think of Helen being so cold, and I ache when I think of her hunger pangs. And my Mommy arms long to hold her and tell her that she matters, and that I know life was difficult but that the feeling of gratitude for all she accomplished and endured, comes to mind with the very thought of the misery of her childhood.Trying to figure out why there are 8 children on the cover. There were 7 siblings.

Dreadful Liverpool accent!

Read this book years ago and decided to listen to it, I couldn't get past the first chapter. The narrators accent was appaling . At least get a liverpuddlian to read it not someone who is trying and failing badly to sound like they come from there. Completely spoilt the book.

Narrator is the worst ever

Could not even get passed first 10 minutes as narrator mocking the worst Liverpool accent I have ever heard

A good insight into the history of social deprivation.

I read this book twenty years ago when studying on a social care course. Second time around it still aroused all the same feelings of sadness, the disbelief of child poverty and how we now are very critical of our educational system and take it for granted.

I found the Liverpool accent of the narrator slightly irritating .

a truly heartfelt story of deprivation & poverty.

well written and compelling; amazing how the children all survived. makes you want to go to the next book to see what happens next for Helen and her siblings.

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Title: A Season in Hell

Subtitle: My 130 Days in the Sahara with Al Qaeda

Author: Robert R. Fowler

Narrator: David H. Lawrence XVII

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

For decades, Robert R. Fowler was a dominant force in Canadian foreign affairs. In one heart-stopping minute, all of that changed. On December 14, 2008, Fowler, acting as the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy to Niger, was kidnapped by Al Qaeda, becoming the highest-ranked UN official ever held captive. Along with his colleague Louis Guay, Fowler lived, slept, and ate with his captors for nearly five months, gaining rare first-hand insight into the motivations of the world's most feared terror group. Fowler's capture, release, and subsequent media appearances have helped shed new light on foreign policy and security issues as we enter the second decade of the "War on Terror."

A Season in Hell is Fowler's compelling story of his captivity, told in his own words, but it is also a startlingly frank discussion about the state of a world redefined by clashing civilizations.

Critic Reviews:

"Narrator David H. Lawrence's fine delivery takes listeners behind today's headlines. Fowler, a Canadian diplomat and U.N. envoy, and his colleague, Louis Guay, were kidnapped in 2008 by Al Qaeda in Niger and then moved to Mali. Fowler's back was badly injured, food was scarce, and he worried about drinking the water. Lawrence vividly recounts Fowler's descriptions of the desert, his abductors, and his fear. He does an outstanding job with the many accents and personalities of the principal characters and differentiates the terrorists - some fairly reasonable and others cruel. It's moving to hear how Fowler and Guay support each other, with Fowler noting that many hostages had worse conditions, often going it alone. He concludes with a summary of thoughtful suggestions for peace in the future." (AudioFile Magazine)

Members Reviews:

Fascinating

I couldn't imagine a more informative detailed account of James Fowlers ordeal. I learned a lot about AQID Muslim extremists,their misguided beliefs and violent behaviors. A must read.

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Title: A Body, Undone

Subtitle: Living On after Great Pain

Author: Christina Crosby

Narrator: Christina Crosby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a 17-mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her 50th birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. In that instant, she was paralyzed.

In A Body, Undone, Crosby puts into words a broken body that seems beyond the reach of language and understanding. She writes about a body shot through with neurological pain, disoriented in time and space, incapacitated by paralysis and deadened sensation. To address this foreign body, she calls upon the readerly pleasures of narrative, critical feminist and queer thinking, and the concentrated language of lyric poetry. Working with these resources, she recalls her 1950s tomboy ways in small-town rural Pennsylvania, and records growing into the 1970s through radical feminism and the affirmations of gay liberation.

Deeply unsentimental, Crosby communicates in unflinching prose the experience of "diving into the wreck" of her body to acknowledge grief, and loss, but also to recognize the beauty, fragility, and dependencies of all human bodies. A memoir that is a meditation on disability, metaphor, gender, sex, and love, A Body, Undone is a compelling account of living on, as Crosby rebuilds her body and fashions a life through writing, memory, and desire.

Members Reviews:

Terrific Book

This covers so many parts of a story, of many stories, events, times, and emotions. It works. I wondered how they would put it all together, but Crosby did it. A complicated job made seemingly easy.

must read

A wonderful and touching book. The story of a courageous woman.

Good narrative on what it's like to live with pain

Well written. Good narrative on what it's like to live with pain.

Crosby has great insight & a wonderful sense of humor despite her ...

Very well written. Dr. Crosby has great insight & a wonderful sense of humor despite her ordeal.

Catastrophe

Beautifully written. Honest portrayal of relentless suffering after a freak accident: a horror story, not a neat narrative with a satisfying resolution as the author, an English literature professor explains.