Listen to Most Popular Audiobooks in Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

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Title: My So Called Lungs

Author: Joe Richman, Laura Rothenberg

Narrator: Barbara Bogaev, Joe Richman, Laura Rothenberg

Format: Original Recording

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-17

Publisher: Soundprint

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Laura Rothenberg is 21 years old, but, as she likes to say, she already had her mid-life crisis a couple of years ago; and even then it was a few years late. Laura has cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that affects the lungs and other organs. People with CF live an average of 30 years. Producer Joe Richman gave Laura a tape recorder. Laura kept an audio diary of her battle with the disease and her attempts to lead a normal life with lungs than often betrayed her. Laura died on March 20, 2003.

The Soundprint documentary series features the best work of top radio producers. The award winning documentaries are renowned for drawing the listener into the story with compelling interviews, authentic voices and rich sound. From memoirs to science, health and popular culture, Soundprint creates a powerful experience the listener will not soon forget. Here are some related Soundprint documentaries:

Fear on the Inside: Diary of Domestic Violence Produced by: Dan Collison

Reaching for Power Through Pain Produced by: Njemile Rollins

Soundprint Executive Producer: Moira Rankin

Technical Director: Anna Maria de Freitas

Managing Producer: Sesh Kannan

Audio Engineer: Jared Weissbrot

Production Assistant: Anu Yadav

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Title: 100 Top Secrets of the Kitchen

Subtitle: Professional Tips & Tricks of the Trade

Author: Bruce Jarett

Narrator: Douglas Harrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-16-17

Publisher: Bruce Jarett

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Author Bruce Jarett has put together a must-have entertaining guide for people who love to cook and want to know the inside scoop when it comes to professional cooking tips. His humorous advice on shopping methods, food preparation, serving guests, understanding recipes, and dealing with common kitchen mishaps, is enjoyably spot on - fun to listen to, and will prove to be an invaluable go-to manual for the home cook and for professional chefs.

Members Reviews:

A MUST READ

I am not into cooking, but after reading this fun book that made me laugh to tears, decided to go at it! I especially enjoyed the ability to see the "cheat" notes, which helped me find the particular topic I needed to help me with my attempt at cooking! Many tips, secrets and even facts. I did not know actually enticed me to cook again! I thank you, my husband thanks you and now we both enjoy cooking and laugh over the experience. I, highly recommend this book. A Must-read from a chef with a wonderful sense of humor.

Simmering With Laughs

It's hard to say when the last time was that I read a cookbook and laughed so much - probably never at all. But this book is an unexpected delight, with insights, advice, and guidance that will make anyone a better cook - no matter what level you're at now, and the personal stories that the author shares are delightful and deliciously appealing too.

An informative, funny and useful read! Buy this book!

This is a great book written by a chef who has a great sense of humor. I found myself laughing and chuckling as I read it which helps to retain the great tips. The topics written in the corner help to find a topic again when you are looking for it to assist in a recipe or general kitchen experience. Each secret has many facts... so this is definitely worth the purchase and a great read that will put you in a good mood, in your kitchen, ready to cook!

Learned alot Laughed alot

Loved the book learned alot laughed alot a must read

Great book. Informative and very

Great book. Informative and very funny

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Title: The Unmumsy Mum Diary

Author: The Unmumsy Mum

Narrator: Sarah Turner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-17

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of The Unmumsy Mum Diary by The Unmumsy Mum, read by Sarah Turner.

She's back! The Unmumsy Mum has put pen to paper (or fingers to the keyboard!) once more to bring you the next instalment of her life as mum to two young boys, documenting motherhood exactly as she finds it. Her words have made mums, dads and grandparents everywhere laugh and cry in equal measure.

In The Unmumsy Mum Diary, Sarah shares with us a year in her life as a mum, wife, blogger and best-selling author. With her trademark candour and wit, she documents the good days and the bad days, the giggles and the tantrums. She'll also share poignant, life-changing moments from her year, such as her older son heading off through the school gates for the first time.

The Unmumsy Mum Diary is as honest as it is hilarious, and a peek into Sarah's innermost thoughts will leave you in no doubt that on those days when you feel you are not quite cut out for the job, you are most definitely not alone.

Members Reviews:

True picture of motherhood

Amazing writing. Made me laugh so much! I would recommend it to any mum. Really shows true picture of motherhood amazing bits but also hard and challenging bits. I have listened during the walks and laughed out loud

Lovely book for long baby walks

Loved having Sarah's stories narrated in her lovely voice on long walks with my baby

wonderful

Thanks Sarah for your honesty and openness, your books should be mandatory reading for all parents!

Bloody hilarious

Literally had me crying with laughter. Great book Sarah! Get number 3 written as quick as you can

Fun and true to life

Loved listening to this book. I purchased it after I read her first book which I laughed a lot at and this was the same, I had lots of laugh out loud moments as I identified a lot with Sarah's views on having small children. Well worth a listen

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Title: From Conception to Confusion

Subtitle: More Than 150 Silly, Sage Stories of Wit and Wisdom from a Mom Who's Been There

Author: Julie Davidson

Narrator: Rachel Alena

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-05-17

Publisher: Momosa Publishing LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

From Conception to Confusion takes listeners through a funny, poignant journey from conception through school years - from a mom who's been there, and while battle-scarred still maintains her sense of humor.

Members Reviews:

Fantastic

Awesome story...I learnt a lot on parenting and how to navigate my day to day life.

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Title: Love, Life, & God

Subtitle: Getting Past the Pain

Author: Renee Alter

Narrator: Linda Roper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-16

Publisher: Renee Alter

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Norman Cousins, the author of many health related books, said "The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live", which is what had happened to me. However, I never in my wildest dreams imagined I was merely in an invisible cocoon and that someday, years later, I would experience a transformation and emerge as a happy butterfly. Now the past is just a story, one I told in this book. Enter with a brave heart as you hear about my journey.

Members Reviews:

INSPIRING

This review is from: LOVE, LIFE, & GOD: Getting Past the Pain (Kindle Edition)

If you've had a lot of turmoil (aka adventure) in your life, along with numerous health challenges, this book may be for you! This book is a narrative of the many hardships this woman has experienced (a memoir). She entertains the reader with her life stories... places she had lived, people who have passed through her life - and animal stories, too. She begins to find multiple ways to shift her cognitive view of the world, which results in a transformation of herself, and her life. There is victory at the end of this book as her journey leads to her ability to create a meaningful life for herself, and enables her to deal with her physical challenges in a much healthier way. I think everyone's life is a journey; and everyone has a story to tell. It is inspiring when someone makes their 'ordinary' life - 'extraordinary'.

Ms. Alter demonstrates by example, how one can begin to look at the long held beliefs behind their problems, and take that journey to a better life.

Written in a biographical format.

Heart rending - A must read

Let me say up front, I have never before written a book review, but Iâm about to give you a two-fer.

I met this author, Rene Altar, quite incidentally when she was acting as a volunteer worker in the Lampasas, Texas visitors center. I had stopped in that city to do some casual photography and needed some information of the area.

I would have never guessed at what would follow the brief visit with the vivacious lady sitting behind the desk. In short time I learned she was a published author, a budding photographer, a musician, and a song writer. A lot of talent in a small package.

But looking into her pretty eyes and at her sweet face, who could ever know the terrors and pain hiding behind her smile? I was soon to find out. This review pertains to two of her books â Appearances and Love, Life, & God. To read only one of the two would be like leaving the proverbial glass half full (or half empty) as the case may be. Even though each book stands on its own merits, I strongly suggest the reader not stop at just one. Appearances rather sets the stage for what is to come in Love, Live, & God, so by the time youâve read them both you will have traveled with her through many years of her life as she shares the horror she faced, the hurts she endured, the disappointments which befell her, the betrayals thrust upon her, and the mental crashes she experienced.

But fortunately, thereâs an upside to all those pitfalls in her life. As the reader journeys through the years with her, Alter eventually claws her way out of the muck and mire in which sheâs been existing to finally arrive at a point where she can see the sunshine, hear the birds sing, and relish the sight of a rainbow. She finally realizes she is a child â a child of God.

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Title: Success with Less

Subtitle: Releasing Obligations and Discovering Joy

Author: Karen Mangia

Narrator: Lisa-Gabrielle Greene

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-16

Publisher: Marie Street Press

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

At the age of 33, Karen Mangia faced an undiagnosed illness - she didn't know what to call it, and neither did a team of five doctors. Despite diet and exercise, she gained weight, lost color in her skin and eyes, watched her energy drain away. Who was she? What was she becoming? And what exactly was wrong with her? Through the confusion, Karen kept working, doing, being and achieving - sacrificing her health, her relationships...herself. A last-ditch trip to an unorthodox doc helped her to face a crossroads in her life - identifying the childhood reason for her poor health - and helping her to turn her life around.

A recovering overachiever, Karen's journey through misdiagnosis left her wondering, "What more can I do?" The key to her success wasn't tied to her determination, her ambition, her relationships - she had to simplify, and adopt a powerful new formula for creating a life without regrets. A simple realization led her to a three-step process that has transformed her life, her relationships and her health.

Success with Less provides the listener with insight into relationships, career management, health, diet and wellness - because Karen discovered a powerful formula that simplifies the tough stuff. Her journey is one of candid ups and downs: from accomplishment to disappointment, confusion to insight, and ultimately, a simple life-altering formula that anyone can grasp.

Success might be best defined as that elusive something that's always out of reach. But what if having more started with doing less? Beyond just a minimalist approach to life, this book describes how to have less of the self-created labels and obligations that keep you from being who you were meant to be. "Less" is about choosing the things that really matter (and remove the obligations that don't). What's left over is a new definition of success - a success that's within your grasp.

For every woman who has ever believed it was her job to please others, to keep the peace, and to keep trying no matter what life offered, this book stops the noise.

Members Reviews:

A must read for anyone ready to cease striving and rediscover joy... in both your personal & professional life!

Karen Mangia's witty, candid testimony of her journey behind the scenes of her successful career is a refreshingly transparent gift that teaches a lathe to realizes success without continually striving to do more.

In fact, Karen offers one of the most practical guides I've found to define and achieve both professional and personal Success with Less.

Karen's convicting questions (and helpful tools like her career blueprint) challenge the reader to rediscover personal goals, dreams, and even the joys and purpose in life.

Join her in the journey to explore the challenges, fears, and eventual epiphany that led to her greatest breakthrough yet - that of living a life of Success - with Less!

Terrible narration

Good message - read the book on paper or kindle. DO NOT _LISTEN_TO THIS BOOK. It is terrible audio. You can hear the reader shuffling paper and other kinds of background noise and she speeds up and slows down a lot and overall, very sloppy audio.

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Title: Untold Stories

Subtitle: Life, Love, and Reproduction

Author: Steph Herold, Kate Cockrill, Lucia Leandro Gimeno

Narrator: BettySoo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-16

Publisher: The Sea Change Program

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Untold Stories: Life, Love, and Reproduction is a collection of stories of ordinary people talking intimately and honestly about their reproductive experiences including abortion, egg donation, adoption, LGBT parenting, remaining child free, and much more.

This unique collection is a project of The Sea Change Program, a nonprofit committed to upholding the dignity and humanity of all people as they move through their reproductive lives.

Untold Stories: Life, Love, and Reproduction presents a wide range of reproductive experiences that are rarely explored together in one place. The authors share their most vulnerable experiences with emotional honesty, self-awareness and sometimes humor. The multiple perspectives in this book challenges stereotypes about people whose reproductive decisions and experiences fall outside of the dominant story of pregnancy and parenting

Intimate and accessible, Untold Stories: Life, Love, and Reproduction invites you to join in a circle of sharing that is safe and affirming. By listening to and discussing these stories about reproductive experiences, you will be part of ending shame and isolation while helping to expand a more inclusive and compassionate understanding of family; and don't be surprised if you find that you, too, finally have the courage to share your own untold story.

Members Reviews:

How can we truly love if we do not understand

Open your eyes. Open your ears. This book is a call for recognition from the once silent women around you who have endured abandonment, shaming, terror and profound loss. Any one of these women could be someone you thought you knew so well. And didn't. How can we truly love if we do not understand? As a mental health professional and a friend, as a woman and a spiritual human being, I read this book of true short stories with the growing recognition that we do not truly know one another until we learn to listen without judgment. And who are we to judge? This breathtakingly honest book should be read by those with a commitment to know the truth and the humility to drop the stones that Jesus dared us to throw, but only if we could claim utter faultlessness in ourselves. If we are members of a culture that degrades, shuns and threatens vulnerable girls and women with abandonment in all of its myriad forms, we are hard-pressed to claim that we are without fault. Have the courage to read Untold Stories, even if you can read just a little at one sitting. It will expand your capacity to comprehend the work that needs to be done. And isn't that the starting point for a real solution to the crises that are so poignantly described in this book?

love, and reproduction

Very important contribution to our understanidng of life, love, and reproduction!

A joy to read

The stories are extremely well-crafted. Each one speaks to a different circumstance of reproduction in America. It is a lovely creation.

Truly eye-opening

This anthology of intimate first-person accounts of reproductive life is truly eye-opening. Abortion, birth, adoption, being born intersex, getting fertility treatments as a lesbian, and much, much more. I loved the vivid individual voices of the different writers, who are of all races, ethnicities and orientations, and the complexity of their stories.

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Title: Sad Is Not Bad: It Is How We Grieve After We've Loved

Author: Harriet Vogel

Narrator: Harriet Vogel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-26-16

Publisher: Harriet Vogel

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Life is a process of letting go: letting go of conditions we cannot control, letting go of times, places, and experiences, and letting go of people as they move out of our lives. The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others. Sad Is Not Bad is a memoir based on "Dear Jerry" letters written to the author's husband after his death. While there are many ways to process grief, as a professional grief counselor, she had always recommended writing as a therapeutic tool. Experiencing sadness, one of a myriad of normal feelings, is part of the healing process; thus the title. You will also learn the ways in which private, personal ritual can bring comfort during the grieving process. Sad Is Not Bad - It's How We Grieve After We've Loved will help you gain insight into "living life" and "grieving loss".

Photos and a glossary are viewable at harrietvogel.com/glossary.

Members Reviews:

Be prepared to be moved

First I should warn anyone who has lost someone they loved, to be prepared to read this wonderful book with a large box of tissues near their side. The book has universality in as much as anyone who has grieved for a lost mate will fully understand the author's feelings.

Read it and weep and many thanks to the author for putting into words what I am sure most people can only appreciate once the inevitable in their life occurs.

Thank you Harriet and thanks to your daughter in law for recommending it to me.

Barry Kramer, MD

Keeping the Flame of Love Even in Memory While Healing After Loss!

At certain times in our lifetime we all face loss of loved ones. How we deal with the grief of losing someone we love and cherish is as much difficult and hurtful as the loss itself. We deal with grief in different ways, trying to come to term with or overcome the cause of our grief. Harriet Vogel wrote a beautiful and extremely helpful book about how to deal with grief: Sad is Not Bad: Itâs How We Grieve After Weâve Loved.

By dealing with her own grief following the sudden death of her Husband, Harriett weaved together a tapestry of humane and sensible ways of coming to terms with her loss. She penned letters to her husband superbly and affectionately meshing her memories with him with the chores of her daily life. In so doing so clearly and apparently unintentionally, she grieved by emphasizing the flame and the glow of her life with him, a catharsis made so honestly emotive and gratifying by wrapping it with the values of Jewish tradition and healthy axioms. By displaying a disposition reflected in Albert Einsteinâs adage: âLife is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving,â and in the Jewish tradition to light a candle whose internalized message was that ârather than mourn the absence of the flame, let us celebrate how bright it glowed,â Harriett lived with her grief not as a trauma but as an aspect of humanity. All along, her letters glowed with that human desire for hope, appreciation of nature, love and compassion even in the memories of shared life.

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Title: Online Dating Is Hell

Author: Cassie Leigh

Narrator: Erin Fossa

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-16

Publisher: Cassie Leigh

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Online dating can be hell.

Especially if you're a reasonably attractive woman.

From the douchebags who think all women are interchangeable...

To the nice guys who don't have a clue...

To the guys who are so broken down from their last relationship they don't even know where to start...

It's enough to make a woman want to join a nunnery and be done with it.

It does make for some very entertaining stories, though.

This book is for the women who've been there, done that, and need a good laugh before they dive back into the utter chaos that is online dating.

Members Reviews:

"Creepiness" is not only on men - there are some pretty creepy, whacked women out there too

Yes it is. She's right, you know. "Creepiness" is not only on men - there are some pretty creepy, whacked women out there too. This is everyone's story one way or another. Entertaining read.

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Title: You Are a Priest and a Warrior

Subtitle: A Book to My Son

Author: Rich Klena

Narrator: Rich Klena

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-16

Publisher: Ziggy the Lion, llc

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Leaving a legacy for your children - and for their future children- means sharing meaningful, family stories that will inspire future generations. Rich Klena felt inclined to write down a set of stories for his son Jeff. This would include memories from Rich's own life, as well as aspects of his family's heritage that Rich only learned about as an adult. These stories from a Christian father to his only son form a kind of a road map, a manuscript of how to win in life. It establishes priorities and guidelines for understanding one's identity, knowing what is worth fighting for, and determining how to stay on track to achieve it. Now in an audiobook format, You are a Priest and a Warrior is available to inspire other people in their life's journeys, especially those of fathers and sons.

Members Reviews:

Passing On Your Values

I think many fathers struggle with how to pass along their values and faith to their sons and daughters. I have. I appreciate Rich Klena's transparent conversation with his son and the solid and grounded foundations that he provides along with his own ups and downs attempting to live out these principals. It's opened new avenues for me to share my life without sounding like I'm preaching to them.