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Title: Here's the Bright Side

Subtitle: Of Failure, Fear, Cancer, Divorce, and Other Bum Raps

Author: Betty Rollin

Narrator: Pam Ward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-07

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Rollin writes of lessons learned and happiness gained: about men, friends, power, and more. She tells us about fair - and foul - weather friends, the usefulness of fear, and the positive outcomes of failure, divorce, and widowhood, as well as her own evolving joy as a cancer survivor. Poignant, timely, and universal, Here's the Bright Side is a unique and inspirational view of how people often find surprising light in darkness.

Critic Reviews:

"[Rollin] eschews Pollyanna-ish advice for personal examples and research findings on people who've endured tragedies, weather-related upheavals, and aging issues....Excellent." (Library Journal) "While there is nothing new about finding a silver lining in a cloud, this thought is only comforting if it comes from a credible source; and here, Rollin's voice is comforting....Rollin is not religious....but she is relentlessly positive." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Good news..

Here's the bright side: If you've ever dreamed of writing a book, but had absolutely nothing to say, this book will be a huge inspiration for you. The author prattles on and on in a series of unrelated and boring antic dotes, all the while quoting other authors and their books. I agree that it can be uplifting to hear other survivors success stories, but this is more like a list of people she has known or heard about who have been fortunate enough to overcome their obstacle and learn from it. They aren't even complete stories.

I have tried repeatedly to listen to this book, but have yet to get more than half way through it. At one point the author relates how she was fired from Vogue magazine, not because she was a bad writer, but because she "didn't know anything". She still doesn't. And her style is annoying.

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Title: Six Lessons for Six Sons

Subtitle: An Extraordinary Father, a Simple Formula for Success

Author: Joe Massengale, David Clow

Narrator: full cast

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-06

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Part inspiring memoir, part practical motivation for building strong families and careers, Six Lessons for Six Sons is the rags-to-riches story of an exceptional father and the principles that helped him raise himself and his family from poverty in post-slavery America a century ago to thriving careers all over the United States today.

Critic Reviews:

"The book is inspiring, and Massengale's 'regular guy' voice and emphasis on honesty and values will resonate for many readers". (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

The great Massengale book.

Great book that was written by my late uncle. This book is full of wisdom and life learning experiences.

As an Asian American with a self imposed pressure instilled ...

As an Asian American with a self imposed pressure instilled by my culture - failure is taboo. This book will alleviate your personal struggles with failure and will allow you to understand its necessity and value in your life. Inspiring.

Three Stars

It was a gift for my son

Satisifed Customer

Wonderful book. Arrived promptly, in excellent condition, affordable price! I would purchase from seller again. So sorry for such a late review!

YO OPRAH, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

Joe Massengale is a remarkable man who's led an extraordinary rags-to-riches-to-rags-back-to-riches life...from fearing for his own poverty-stricken life in the days of lynchings, to working his way up to owning his own race horses in Hollywood. His biography alone would make an inspiring, thoroughly readable book -- but having it woven through such valuable lessons, and memorable object lessons, all in service of passing on hard-earned down-to-earth wisdom on something as crucial as character-development...well it makes this book all the more important. And how refreshing to have a "good for you" book that's so well-written! David Clow not only writes elegantly, but knows how to get out of Joe Massengale's way to let his subject's own distinctive voice come through clearly. That Joe Massengale happens to be African-American makes me wonder why Oprah Winfrey hasn't devoted an hour to him yet, but let me hasten to add - his lessons are UNIVERSALLY relevant. You do NOT have to be any particular color to "get" this wisdom, nor to need it. Turning children into responsible adults is the hardest and most important job in the world, no matter your color, age, station in life...or gender. Yes, I'm saying even moms can get something valuable from ths book. So could kids, single adults, you name it - anyone with an interest in the being, and shaping, productive, respected members of society. Only perfect people need not learn these lessons, and if you think you're perfect you need this book more than anyone! Need I mention, as I glance at the calendar, that this would make a HECK of a Father's Day gift?

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Title: Letters to My Daughters

Author: Mary Matalin

Narrator: Mary Matalin

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-04

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In Letters to My Daughters, famed political consultant and TV personality Mary Matalin shares the moral, ethical, and occasionally comic life lessons gleaned from her mother's experiences and her own. These letters range from the spiritual to the practical, from giving life to accepting death, from civic to personal responsibility, from looking and feeling good to dealing with those pesky boys, and more.

Here's a sampling of the mother wisdom within:

Filled with a belief in the values that keep families strong, and her trademark sense of humor, Matalin's letters are the perfect companion for any mother looking for a fellow traveler on the road to raising good daughters.

Critic Reviews:

"Most of the advice is loving, humorous, and generally open-ended....Matalin's engaging, sensible tone will appeal to many moms and daughters." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Great Read!

Really enjoyed reading Mary Matalin's book 'Letters to my Daughters'. I hope that my daughters will read this book too. Great advice and perspective on all facets of life. Mary's outlook is one that I share and enjoyed reading about. In many ways, her life is very similar to mine when we were growing up so I can totally relate.

Five Stars

Terrific. Very much Mary.

Five Stars

a look into the life of a really interesting woman.

Five Stars

a great gift to share with your daughters

Wonderful Book to share and read

After I read and enjoyed this book ,I purchased the cd for my daughter and granddaughter to share.

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Title: Animals and Other Stories

Author: Jay Allison

Narrator: various

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-00

Publisher: Jay Allison Productions

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This radio series is a collection of short pieces reflecting on life, love, and death among the species. It contains monologues, montages, portraits, and dreams. Some are funny, some are strange, some enlightening, some sobering:

©2000 Jay Allison

Members Reviews:

random opinions about animals

What would have made Animals and Other Stories better?

If any of it were actually based on facts about animals

Would you ever listen to anything by Jay Allison again?

Probably not.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

I was annoyed and incredulous. This book's stories have nothing to do with facts or truths about animals. It is a hodge-podge of mostly unqualified people giving you opinions of what they think animals are like in ridiculously melodramatic language. (As an example, there was a super long drawn out story where some lady went to a slaughterhouse and heard the animals telling her that they were glad they were going to slaughtered so they could be eaten by her...????) If you want to hear a bunch of randos give you their impressions of how animals are in their heads, by all means purchase this book. If you actually want to learn anything interesting or real about animals, I suggest that you purchase something by an author like David Attenborough.

Not bad but not good

These are a batch of VERY short radio spots, a few minutes each. They were marginally interesting, but unimpressive.

unusual, touching

Each piece in this collection is fulfilling on several levels: emotional, structural, descriptive, and thought-provoking. Each story's way of being told (as either meditation or reflection or monologue or dream) matches the mood and atmosphere of the particular animal in that story. I particularly liked the memories of the older horse, the reasoning and understanding of cattle, and the prayer of the man who provided a home for orphan cats.

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Titolo: LSD. Il mio bambino difficile

Sottotitolo: Riflessioni su droghe sacre, misticismo e scienza

Autore: Albert Hofmann

Narratore: Alberto Molinari

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 7 hrs and 2 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 02-03-17

Editore: Audible Studios

Categoria: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Riepilogo Editore:

Sebbene l'LSD abbia già compiuto più di settant'anni, è tuttora dominante presso l'opinione pubblica una visione distorta di questo principio attivo psicotropo. Questo libro del suo scopritore contribuisce a fare chiarezza.

"Ci sono esperienze di cui la maggior parte delle persone evita di parlare perché non si conformano alla realtà quotidiana e sfidano ogni spiegazione razionale. Non sono eventi esterni particolari, bensì accadimenti delle nostre vite interiori, che vengono generalmente respinti come creazioni della nostra fantasia ed esclusi dalla memoria. L'immagine familiare del nostro mondo subisce d'improvviso una trasformazione insolita, stupefacente o allarmante; la realtà ci appare in una nuova luce, assume un significato particolare. Esperienze del genere possono essere leggere e fugaci come un soffio d'aria, oppure fissarsi profondamente nelle nostre coscienze. In questo libro desidero offrire un quadro completo dell'LSD, della sua origine, dei suoi effetti e delle sue possibilità d'impiego; nonché avvertire dei pericoli che sono associati a un consumo che non tenga conto della natura straordinaria dell'azione di questa sostanza."

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©2015 Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore S.r.l. Tradotto da Roberto Fedeli (P)2017 Audible GmbH

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Title: A Year of Medical Thinking

Author: S.K. Reid

Narrator: Rachael Tidd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-23-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

An inauspicious encounter in a doctor's surgery during a routine follow-up for IVF initiated a descent into a labyrinth of questioning and uncertainty. Those first words ushered out of the doctor's mouth started a year where the author's mind was consumed by medical research, medical terms, hospital visits, medication and explanations. The diagnosis was breast cancer.

Filled with reflections on life, motherhood, friendship and the future, A Year of Medical Thinking chronicles one woman's ordinary life as it is catapulted into a quest for meaning and restored health. S. K. Reid has shared her personal experiences in this book in a way that speaks to all. The book focuses on the shift that occurs in the mind after a potentially life threatening diagnosis; the loss of control, security and hope prompts philosophical and spiritual reflections on life.

Guaranteed to strike a chord with anyone who has received a diagnosis of a life-threatening disease, listeners are reminded about the importance of sharing stories, talking about grief and never giving up in the face of adversity.

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Title: Evolving Through Adversity

Subtitle: How to Overcome Obstacles, Discover Your Passion, and Honor Your True Self

Author: Seconde Nimenya

Narrator: Brenda Stoelb

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-16

Publisher: Made for Success

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

How can we evolve through adversity and change our lives? It is one of life's great questions. In Evolving Through Adversity: How to Overcome Obstacles, Discover Your Passion, and Honor Your True Self, author Seconde Nimenya answers the above question and demonstrates that the best way to overcome adversity is to go through it. Through her own life story, Seconde explains how to apply this theory by what she calls the RRU (reflect, rectify, and unite) model. Her personal credo to evolve through all adversity and achieve any desired outcome is to take time to reflect on who you are, then assess your situation, rectify what you don't like, and reinforce or unite what you do like.

Seconde details her life story, from walking hundreds of miles to school across mountains to being struck by lightning and having to hide in the bushes when a civil war erupted in her native country. Then she underwent culture shock as she came to North America and realized how her cultural background both helped and hindered her in evolving into the woman she wanted to be.

Seconde's story serves as a source of reflection for listeners about their own lives. Listeners of this book will be inspired and empowered first to achieve their personal peace and then to help create peace in their communities and their world. They will learn how they can evolve past adversity; forgive themselves and others; and discover, love, and honor who they are.

Members Reviews:

A ride through life

In this book full of highs and lows of the author's life, Seconde Nimenya brings us on a journey through childhood, early adulthood, marriage, immigration and culture shock. On the way, we (along with her) are confronted with hardships of life and the realities of two worlds apart not only in terms of distance but also culture, lifestyle and times. At the end we really get to understand what it is to Evolve Through Adversity.

The connectedness of experience

It was a great pleasure to read Seconde's book. I especially enjoyed reading about her growing up in Burundi. I could also relate to the struggle of balancing work and family, and of moving and living in a foreign country (Norway and England for me).

Thought provoking read

Seconde does a wonderful job describing her life in Africa as a child then moving to the west as a young adult with a new family. She explores the cultural differences as a woman that she encounters and her journey trying to find her self along the way. She has added thought provoking questions at the end of each chapter to help you relate her story to your own.

Five Stars

I loved the inspirational way Seconde told her story and at the same time involved the reader to reflect.

New Book Tells Inspiring Story of Migration and Self-Realization

Seconde Nimenya has lived a fascinating multicultural life on two continents, and now she shares her story in her part-memoir, part self-help book Evolving Through Adversity. She even reveals in the book that she once had an addiction to self-help books, so I'm not surprised she wrote one, although it is different than any I've ever read before because her experiences differ so much from most American self-help authors.

Seconde was born and grew up in Burundi, a place I daresay most readers have never heard of--I admit I hadn't.

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Title: The Gardens That Mended a Marriage

Author: Karen Moloney

Narrator: Linda Roper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-08-16

Publisher: moloney minds ltd

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The Gardens that Mended a Marriage offers the promise of paradise. It tells the story of how the writer and her husband, an architect, built a contemporary Moorish house on the top of a mountain and created a Persian garden, following the recipe laid down in the Koran for a paradise on earth.

Except it wasn't as easy as that. The land slipped down the mountain, the neighbors sued, the town hall went into paralysis and wouldn't allow them to finish the house. The Spanish builder turned out to be incompetent, the lawyer disinterested and the project manager seriously ill. In between times, she visited gardens all over the world for ideas and tended her precious vegetable patch in north London and waited. Through all this, they argued, made up, disagreed about the garden, argued again, invested a lot of money and almost gave up.

But over the years they came to understand that a significant shift happens in a relationship when you let go. It was the creation of the garden that taught them. Nature will allow you to sculpt her land, nurture her plants and take control only if you agree to her conditions. So it is with a marriage. You can fight human nature only to a certain extent. It's a trade-off. Accepting that fact is the real recipe for a paradise on earth.

Dr Karen Moloney is a business psychologist, leadership coach and a futurist. She travels the world meeting remarkable business people and helping them become even more remarkable. At least, that's her day job. But by night, she's a writer.

She has written a novel, a business book, a funny self-help book about guilt written with her sister called I Should Shag More, and this one - gardening as a metaphor for marriage.

Members Reviews:

Definitely a love story!

Funny, witty, sometimes sad story about gardens and relationships - and people who create something special for both. Maloney's descriptions of gardens all over the world make me want to dig up my own plot and start over. The book is inspiring and fun.

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Title: I'm Too Young to Have Breast Cancer!:

Subtitle: Regain Control of Your Life, Career, Family, Sexuality, and Faith

Author: Beth Leibson-Hawkins

Narrator: Heather Elizabeth Lynn Farrar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-12

Publisher: Regnery Publishing

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Not every face of breast cancer has laugh lines and graying hair....

Currently, in the United States alone, nearly 250,000 women under age 40 are living with breast cancer. This year, approximately 11,000 women under age 40 will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and close to 1,300 will die. For women in their 20s and 30s, being diagnosed with breast cancer is a vastly different experience than for their older counterparts.

I'm Too Young considers how breast cancer affects young women's lives: their career goals, health insurance coverage, career changes, education, and shifting work/life priorities. It shows us women dating during treatment and after, coming to terms with their altered bodies and sexuality, and making decisions about breast reconstruction. It tells the stories of a young mother explaining her diagnosis and treatment to her young daughter, a woman deciding whether to risk becoming pregnant after fighting the disease, and one determining whether to have her daughter tested for the breast cancer gene. And it looks at women struggling to gain strength from their religions in the face of spiritual crisis.

Through the gift of shared experiences, freelance writer Beth Leibson-Hawkins offers comfort and companionship, and brings hope to a younger generation of breast cancer survivors.

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Title: The Gardens That Mended a Marriage

Author: Karen Moloney

Narrator: Linda Roper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-08-16

Publisher: moloney minds ltd

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The Gardens that Mended a Marriage offers the promise of paradise. It tells the story of how the writer and her husband, an architect, built a contemporary Moorish house on the top of a mountain and created a Persian garden, following the recipe laid down in the Koran for a paradise on earth.

Except it wasn't as easy as that. The land slipped down the mountain, the neighbors sued, the town hall went into paralysis and wouldn't allow them to finish the house. The Spanish builder turned out to be incompetent, the lawyer disinterested and the project manager seriously ill. In between times, she visited gardens all over the world for ideas and tended her precious vegetable patch in north London and waited. Through all this, they argued, made up, disagreed about the garden, argued again, invested a lot of money and almost gave up.

But over the years they came to understand that a significant shift happens in a relationship when you let go. It was the creation of the garden that taught them. Nature will allow you to sculpt her land, nurture her plants and take control only if you agree to her conditions. So it is with a marriage. You can fight human nature only to a certain extent. It's a trade-off. Accepting that fact is the real recipe for a paradise on earth.

Dr Karen Moloney is a business psychologist, leadership coach and a futurist. She travels the world meeting remarkable business people and helping them become even more remarkable. At least, that's her day job. But by night, she's a writer.

She has written a novel, a business book, a funny self-help book about guilt written with her sister called I Should Shag More, and this one - gardening as a metaphor for marriage.

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