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Title: A Brain Tumour's Travel Tale

Author: Claire Bullimore

Narrator: Claire Bullimore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-15

Publisher: Claire Bullimore

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This is the diary of Claire Bullimore, a person who was diagnosed at the age of 25 with a life threatening intraventricular meningioma - in other words, a brain tumor the size of a grapefruit! It is not always easy for a person from the outside to see what is really happening to someone affected by a traumatic experience such as this. The book shows the true emotion of a person dealing with the hardships of a brain tumor, surgery, recovery, and then the scars inside and out. Written as a series of diary entries, this book will make you feel like you are there going through the journey. There is love, friendship, and courage - you will cry, laugh, and find things you didn't know before. This book can help families and friends or other outsiders to see what a brain tumor survivor really wants you to know.

Members Reviews:

Lovely inspiring story

Would you consider the audio edition of A Brain Tumour's Travel Tale to be better than the print version?

Did read the print version but it was good to hear Claire's voice

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Made me laugh and cry

Any additional comments?

It shows the emotional and physical issues which come from having a brain tumour. Great way of raising awareness about brain tumours

fabulous

Fantastic patient perspective on life with brain tumour. Recovery and rehab can be challenging but it is worth all the hard work! Well done Aunty M

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Title: Overcoming My Cowardice: A Story of Restoration of Drug Addictions

Author: Rafael Beltran

Narrator: Steve Ryan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-15

Publisher: Rafael Beltran

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A story of a man whose life is trapped by drug addiction, until the power of God rescues him and changes his life forever.

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Título: Venciendo Mi Covardia: Un Historia De Resturacion De Addictos A Las Drogas [Overcoming My Cowardice: A Story of Restoration of Drug Addicts]

Autor: Rafael Beltran

Narrador: Mauricio Perez

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 22 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 07-01-15

Editor: Rafael Beltran

Categorías: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Resumen del editor:

Autor Rafael Beltran escritor, poeta y evangelista el guerrero del amor.

Esta historia es de un hombre que a cosecuencia a las drogas destrulle su familia pero el poder dios es tan poderoza que lo rescata y cambia su vida y lo deja de las drogas.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Title: Heading for a Total Eclipse

Author: John Philip Drury

Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In this touching and humorous essay, John Philip Drury recounts coming of age during the Vietnam era. With a low draft number and an exit from college looming, Drury faces the imminent possibility of fighting in a war that he opposes. In the meantime he tries and abandons a dream to become a songwriter, labors mightily to lose his virginity, and looks to the adult world around him for models of what he most wants to be - an artist. Heading for a Total Eclipse takes a look at a young man's attempt to maintain his integrity during a turbulent era and in the face of impossible choices.

Ploughshares, the literary magazine of Emerson College

Members Reviews:

Very good

Very touching coming of age story, very well written and flowed very well. Reminded me of being at that age.

Woven story

I was a little kid during the time that this story took place and I was immediately taken back to that time in my life. I remember the draft card burning and the protest as well as those who felt they had a duty to go. It was a good look back at characters going through all of this woven in with the total eclipse.

Terrific short memoir set against the backdrop of Vietnam--Now I've got to read the book it's from!

This review is for the audio version, though I've also read the text version. I first listened to this on a long road trip this past summer, which was fitting as the frame story for this personal narrative a road trip the author went on with a friend to see a total eclipse in 1970, and I've since re-listened to it on short a shorter trip. This vignette is the opening chapter of Drury's memoir The Bad Soldier, so says the blog of Ploughshares, who published the ebook version. As I mentioned, the story about the overnight road trip to view the eclipse is only the frame of the story. Like memory, this short memoir skips around in time flashing back to events leading up to the road trip and foreshadowing ones that happen afterwards. The structure is never confusing, though. Instead it makes the narrative richer because of all the connections we're able to see. The emotional crux of the story is the decision the author faces about whether or not to enlist during Vietnam. I won't tell you any more except to say that I'm glad this excerpt is an excerpt because, while it is complete and rich in itself, I want to keep reading and find out what happens after the end of this story. Except, I will say this, I absolutely love the maxim young Drury develops for himself, and I'm adding it to my personal file of favorite quotations.

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Title: Angels Go to Heaven

Subtitle: My Mother's Life and Death Struggle with Leukemia

Author: Candy O'Donnell

Narrator: Michelle Bourque

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-15

Publisher: Candy O'Donnell

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Leukemia is a terrible disease!

It rips families apart at the core. When leukemia takes hold, families can keep it together for only so long. This is the story of my mother's battle with leukemia and how she endured this disease in the early 1980s. We were without a cure and hope as she withered away before us.

Members Reviews:

Very little to do with the title

I downloaded the book because I wanted to hear about the mothers struggle with leukemia. There was almost nothing in the book about that. I found it very dull and boring even though I am a horse lover also. Not sure why the book has the title it does,it's very missleading.

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Title: The Hooligan's Return

Author: Norman Manea, Angela Jianu - translator

Narrator: Victor Bevine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-30-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

At the center of The Hooligan's Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea's book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative work, traversing time and place, life and literature, dream and reality, past and present. Autobiographical events merge with historic elements, always connecting the individual with the collective destiny. Manea speaks of the bloodiest time of the 20th century and of the emergence afterward of a global, competitive, and sometimes cynical modern society.

Both a harrowing memoir and an ambitious epic project, The Hooligan's Return achieves a subtle internal harmony as anxiety evolves into a delicate irony and a burlesque fantasy. Beautifully written and brilliantly conceived, this is the work of a writer with an acute understanding of the vast human potential for both evil and kindness, obedience and integrity.

Members Reviews:

Three Stars

Some parts are better than other. Not a consistently good book over all.

A Remarkable Memoir!

Norman Manea: The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir, transl. Angela Jianu, 2003

This memoir presented me with an alternative life of sorts, since it was written by an author two years older than I and born in Suceava, Romania -- birthplace of my father and perhaps his own parents. Norman Manea, the author of several novels in Romanian as well as this memoir, was born in Suceava in 1936 and lived in Romania till he moved to the United States in 1988. He was apparently inspired to write the present book when presented with the prospect of a return visit to Romania in 1997 with the man who had hired him to teach at Bard College, its president, Leon Botstein.

This memoir is a deeply (and often painfully) introspective work with many flashbacks and other displacements of time, as well as dream sequences of dialogue with people not (or no longer) physically present. It makes frequent references to other Romanian authors I will be exploring, most especially to Mihail Sebastian, whose own memoir was titled Journal: 1935-1944, and whose own scandalous literary association with the right-wing Nae Ionescu gave birth to Sebastian's "sparkling" essay titled How I became a Hooligan.

The theme of associations with people of brutally compromised honesty (and bare survivors thereof), and the distrust and air of unreality, and anti-Semitism -- and real danger--engendered thereby, necessarily permeates Manea's memoir. For it has been written by a Jewish Romanian who endured Transnistria, liberation by the Russians, Ceaus'escu's repressive regime, and the gray post-communist era that persisted through the end of the 20th century, where his book ends at May 2, 1997, after a return from the aforementioned visit to his native land, and back "home" in the relative safety (and loneliness) of New York City (where the book began).

Finally, this hauntingly beautiful book is presented as a tribute to the Romanian language, in which Norman Manea writes his works, wherever else he may have to be, and he has been blessed with a graceful translation into English for our benefit. I assume he still teaches at Bard College and lives with his wife in New York City.

A great autobiography

This is a wonderful, if difficult book. It cronicles the author's life.

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Title: Up from the Hills

Subtitle: N.C. Hanks: His Story

Author: John Hanks

Narrator: John Hanks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-25-15

Publisher: John Hanks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The autobiography of Nymphus Coridon (N. C.) Hanks with notes by John Hanks, great nephew; Joseph E. (Jay) Hanks, brother; and Lori K. Hanks Hill, grandniece. Cory tells how he rose from the depths of hell to the pinnacle of human experience, sharing his victory with the world. You will never look at your troubles the same way again.

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Title: I Survived: Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome

Author: Trevor Clinger

Narrator: Al Remington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-17-15

Publisher: Trevor Clinger

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

An autobiographical and inspirational record about one of the rarest and most abnormal heart conditions. This book describes my true story of the struggles and processes I used to survive this ferocious syndrome.

This can be beneficial for medical professionals and patients that deal with this syndrome. This chronicle of my diagnosis of Wolff-White-Parkinson Syndrome can provide people whom possess this syndrome with inspiration and hope.

I combined this true story of my experience with this syndrome using inspirational thoughts and religious insight. There are some interesting twists and short true stories that are involved with this suffering. I hope those that suffer from this syndrome can relate to my struggle.

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Title: One in a Million: A True Story of Friendship

Subtitle: Bitter Memories, Book 6

Author: Sue Julsen

Narrator: Elaine Baden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-15

Publisher: Sue Julsen Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

One in a Million is a short story about an amazing man, who changed the direction my life was heading and brought me back from a never-ending abyss. After I'd attempted suicide I met David, another patient in the psych ward, who was suffering from deep depression. He'd been admitted on a suicide prevention watch. However, holding a heartbreaking secret, David had a good reason to be depressed.

Becoming instant friends, David shared his secret with me. Leaving the hospital, he began to show me life through his eyes. With his demons controlled, this young man loved life and saw beauty in everything around him. David only wanted to be there for his friends and to help others.

But no one could help David. No one could change what was to come for my dear friend.

One in a Million is a true story of friendship and love between two friends who help each other deal with spirals of emotions, good and bad.

Members Reviews:

The True Story of Friendship

What did you love best about One in a Million: A True Story of Friendship?

I loved the author describes Davids love for life and natures beauty. Highly Recommend!!!

What other book might you compare One in a Million: A True Story of Friendship to and why?

I have not read anything that comes close to this emotional story.

Which scene was your favorite?

My favorite scene is where Sarah and David finds a dead plant tossed aside and how he brings it back to life, which astounds Sarah. The author has done a fantastic job of describing the true meaning of friendship!!!!

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

True story of friendship.

Any additional comments?

One in a Million is a true story of friendship and the narrator does a splendid job of describing the characters, as she expresses emotion, and describes the story with the right amount of inflection in her voice.

The narrator has done a fantastic job bringing the story to life. I highly recommend this audio book about an awesome friendship. !!!!!

One In a Million: A True Story: Bitter Memories,

Would you listen to One in a Million: A True Story of Friendship again? Why?

No I think maybe because I had already read this short story, so it was boring.

What three words best describe Elaine Badens voice?

soft, clear, boring

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

the end

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Title: My Quarter Life Experience

Author: Michael McCain

Narrator: Korbid Thompson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-27-15

Publisher: Maximize Publishing Inc

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

My Quarter Life Experience is a book about Michael's life as a child. Ripped out of his family and taken into foster care, molestation, and finally deliverance. This a look at 25 years of what life has been like for Michael. In Michael's own words "I am taking a step back in time to confront some issues as well as set a hallmark for what the next 50 years of my life will be."

My Quarter Life Experience is a book for those ready to hear the truth about foster care, molestation, battles with depression, teen homelessness, forgiveness and the process of family healing. This book talks about the many trials the author has faced and how he was able to pull through them all and end out on top. In every case he was a statistic but flipped the script to make things work in his favor and so can you!

Dr. Michael McCain is also the author of The Prayerology series, The Newborn Entrepreneur, Diary of an Ex-Husband and The Millionaires Class.

Members Reviews:

WOW!

This book was read in just a few hours! I commend the author for staying afloat during those trying times. Im waiting to finish this story with part 2! Great GREAT read!!

My Quarter Exp.

Great read.would recommend to each and everyone going through trials and tribulations.He made it. That's part of his life one needs prayer.

In Tears

This book really opens up some things and takes your on a journey through the authors life. You can help but feel and see the sentiment through the story being told here. I admire this author for taking time to write about their life and help others who suffered the same thing to heal. The message of this book is very clear. I also like the fact that they included examples of other people in the book who went through the same and became a success. Great read overall.

superficial and written poorly

The writer calls himself "doctor," yet makes numerous grammatical errors. I would guess he has some mail order doctor of divinity diploma. His sad saga is superficial and fails to make an emotional impact.