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Title: Good Bye Job, Hello Life

Subtitle: Finding Purpose Beyond Work

Author: Mira Tasich

Narrator: Kathryn Klvana

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-16

Publisher: Creative Dream Media llc

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Mira Tasich, a loyal, hardworking, and devoted employee of several large corporations, finds herself unemployed, a victim of the recession. As a young teenager, she moved to America, learned a new language, and gained prestige and career success only to get laid off in a corporate downsizing.

Frustrated, angry, and confused, she struggles to justify the familial and personal sacrifices made over the years for her employers, including a 2,141-mile move away from family and friends to the Southwest. Her focus on slowing down her life and enjoying the immediate, rather than worrying about the future, will inspire listeners.

Mira writes that "we are conditioned to believe repetition is immutable", and she proves that change is what energizes her and holds the potential to energize others. Her journey of self-discovery and compromise provides insight to all listeners experiencing similar periods of identity crisis and priority reevaluation. With her self-deprecating sense of humor and undeterred determination, she offers a road map to her listeners as she evolves from a woman married to her job to a woman married to her passions.

Members Reviews:

I hoped to Like this...

I purchased this book at a time in my life where maybe it could've done me some good (laid off from work) but my TBR list was big enough that I didn't get around to it until recently.

I was interested in the first chapter, maybe two, but by the time I got to chapter 4 or 5, it stopped being a linear memoir OR a how-to book for happiness. It jumped around so much - she gets married 3 years after starting at K-mart, then suddenly she's been there for 10+ years two sentences later? - and it's read by someone who sounds like a third-grade teacher, with her inflections and PERKINESS!

The "tips" at the end of the chapters sometimes make sense, but (chapter 4 is a good example) sometimes just seem like they're thrown in there for the sake of it (a smile costs nothing but can make a big impact?)

I don't understand WHY this book got such rave reviews; I couldn't finish it...

Matches almost exactly what I'm going through!

Author is a little further down the path than I am, so it was the perfect book for me to listen to. I had a complication from surgery, and I haven't been able to work the last few months. It's opened the door for a lot of thinking, self discovery, and exploring my creativity.

Mira definitely gave me inspiration and a few good ideas to bring focus to my mind that has been going in a million directions.

I believe I might have met my soul sister. Mira's way of thinking, how she went about things relating to her career life, to the fragile existence of pinning your identity to your career... It was meant to be at this very moment that I to listen to this book.

If you're at a place where you've worked incredibly hard, with long hours and many sacrifices to climb the corporate ladder to find yourself wondering if you climbed up the right ladder, let alone the right building, this book is for you.

There's something very valuable about experience, and hearing the person's retrospective summary.

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Title: Immigrant Steps to American Dream

Author: Sid K Vaidya

Narrator: Sudhir K Vaidya

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-15

Publisher: SUDHIR K VAIDYA

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In listening to Immigrant Steps to American Dream, you will discover practical methods for overcoming obstacles to success. You will acquire an ample supply of wisdom presented in a memorable and thoroughly humorous way.

Members Reviews:

Useful guide for aspiring immigrants to succeed in U.S.

âIMMIGRANT STEPS TO AMERICAN DREAM is an excellent book that is more than a simple narrative of oneâs experience as compared to many other biographies. It is a cream of the crop output of first hand experiences, and resultant rules that are golden nuggets. They can serve as guideposts for aspiring young immigrants and a motivator for success in professional careers and life. The examples provide insights into the inner workings of the corporate life, organizational politics, and techniques of how to deal with powerful senior management, peers and subordinates. At the same time, it underscores the value of oneâs responsibility of contributing to primary objective of profit and points out to the corporate management the value of human contribution in realizing profit, when the urge to fire and retrench human resources becomes intense. Convincing the management of this tenet through the Case of âMaking Bedsâ is well illustrated.

The concept of âBaseball Diamondâ is most likely to hit the inner core of ambitious immigrant youths and help them tune in with U. S. main stream corporate culture. Compendium of cases, dealing with complexity of management relationships, risks, fear, and walking on eggshells under the shadow of possibilities of being fired, when spiced with humor, fine tunes the truth of corporate intricacies and enhances the value of this book.

Above all, the powerful message of the book is in the âHome Baseâ of the diamond- the faith in the superpower, which not only defines the individualsâ relationship with it but controls it.

Most immigrants are not exposed to the framework of U. S. capitalism, low-context-culture, legal system, and consumerism, which are the bedrock of diamonds of diversity. They unaware of the relationship between their individual and organizational behavior. If this knowledge becomes part of their training, it will shrink the span of their learning curve, which the author refers to in this book.â

Exceptional Personal Story of Overcoming Odds and Making it BIG

A touching, true life story, I found it inspiring and motivational. A must read for all of us who are trying to understand how penniless immigrants succeed and the hunger that drives success. Sid is brutally honest and candidly shares deep personal insight into the roots of his family structure, its influence on his personality and character, and his ascent to the executive ranks of a large publicly traded company. Quite a story of honesty, courage, and personal integrity that went into moulding a stellar success.

I am encouraging my kids to read it and also recommending it, especially, to all those friends who are first generation immigrants.

Thanks for sharing your life story, Sid. It is a wonderful book. I enjoyed reading it.

An inspiring life story loaded with the steps taken to achieve success.

Enjoyable read filled with one remarkable man's transition from life in India to living in America. Honest, funny, courageous and insightful.

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Title: Being Brain Healthy

Author: Ruth Curran MS

Narrator: Ruth Curran

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-15

Publisher: Rolling Mulligan

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The journey to wellness when coming back from a brain injury can be a long one. It is one that author Ruth Curran knows well. Faced with a myriad of challenges after her own brain injury, she decided to turn up the volume on the things that she loved and found ways to work through the discomfort and discouragement that can plague so many who are faced with this devastating diagnosis.

Her own path - one that took 18 months - is one that she shares with listeners in Being Brain Healthy. Being Brain Healthy is a book of hope. Curran shares insights on healing from a brain injury and has the unique ability to explain complex neuroscience in a way that makes sense to those who are just taking their first steps on the road to recovery.

Convinced that everyone can work their way out of what Curran refers to as "the fog" and can build better thinking skills, the author shares how she turned her entire life into a better experience. The goal of Being Brain Healthy is to combine the most cutting-edge research with what those with brain injuries know intuitively. Curran helps listeners to understand how the brain and body work together and how that can be used to an advantage.

With the book divided into sections, including "Be Active", "Be Engaged", "Be Social", "Be Purposeful", and "Be Complicated", listeners will be able to see how the newest science, activities, and exercises can help those who are suffering with brain injuries to make the most of every day. Included in the book are stories from those currently in recovery from brain injuries whose experiences are meant to inspire listeners to take their own functionality to the next level.

Members Reviews:

Ruth wonderfully tells her story in her own words

Would you consider the audio edition of Being Brain Healthy to be better than the print version?

Ruth is not only a very knowledgeable author, she is also a well-polished narrator making this audio book very easy to listen to, relate to and understand. Excellent audio production. Highly recommended!

What did you like best about this story?

Ruth realized she needed to use her everyday routine activities, emphasizing things that can be changed in practical ways, and how to incorporate these changes into daily life, to get back to normal and maintain a healthy brain. Ruth shares how she did, and you can, use the power of thinking and acting to heal ourselves and live a much richer more conscious life

Which scene was your favorite?

The emotion in Ruths voice as she narrates how an automobile accident caused a major life changing event, taking her on a journey from mental devastation to mental wellness. It is a very personal story told by an author with great knowledge, intuitive wisdom and compassion. Ruths tells her story to help others and she does exactly that.

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

There is nothing more precious than your mind, and Ruths book has given me tools to make the most of what I have here and now, and put me on a path to keep improving and sustaining it.

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Title: Staring at Lakes

Subtitle: A memoir of love, melancholy and magical thinking

Author: Michael Harding

Narrator: Michael Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-15

Publisher: Hachette Ireland

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Staring at Lakes is about the essence of love and marriage, about growing old and sitting in cars and staring at lakes.

Throughout his life, Michael Harding has lived with a sense of emptiness - through faith, marriage, fatherhood and his career as a writer, a pervading sense of darkness and unease remained. When he was 58, he became physically ill and found himself in the grip of a deep melancholy.

Here, in this beautifully written memoir, he talks with openness and honesty about his journey: leaving the priesthood when he was in his 30s, settling in Leitrim with his artist wife, the depression that eventually overwhelmed him, and how, ultimately, he found a way out of the dark by accepting the fragility of love and the importance of now.

Critic Reviews:

"Hilarious, and tender, and mad, and harrowing, and wistful, and always beautifully written. A wonderful book." (Kevin Barry, author of City of Bohane)

"This frank and unflinching memoir offers a fascinating insight into the mind of the author of two of the finest Irish novels of the eighties." (Pat McCabe, author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto)

"This memoir grabs you from the outset and holds you right to the end. Harding traverses the human soul and excavates its deepest secrets. His language sings. Extraordinary." (Deirdre Purcell, author of Pearl and Diamonds and Holes in My Shoes)

"It's rare for a memoir to demand such intense emotional involvement, and rarer still for it to be so fully rewarded." (Sunday Times)

Members Reviews:

Staring at Lakes.

This is the first book by Michael Harding and as I heard him being interview on radio, I think, he sounded like a bit of a character so I thought I would give it a go. I enjoyed it as it was very different to what I would normally read. I had a good laugh at some parts and a little cry at others and stayed up too late reading it. So if you want something different then give it a try.!

A Must Read

This is a fantastic book. Well written, interesting, full of things that make you think about yourself and the world at large.

The story of the book is told in a series of loosely connected key events in the author's life. If I have any complaint, it's that I kept wanting to ask the author to explain something mentioned in passing or to spend more time on a story I'm caught up in.

But, what's there is fantastic. A must read for anyone who has had to change their dreams or has dealt with depression or someone who is depressed.

Ah, memoirs

This was a book club read for me and as someone who doesn't enjoy self indulgent memoirs, I found it a little hard going. However, it was beautifully written, although it did leave me feeling a little melancholy.

A book for the person who has lived a little!

The kind of book that can probably best be enjoyed by someone who has lived a little. It is like relaxing with a beloved life partner / close friends over a nice cup of tea and a few buttered scones. Lovely use of language. Lakes will have a new meaning for me from now on.

A worthwhile read...

An honest, good humoured portrayal of life with depression. The dark days are nicely punctuated by sunny spells which makes this a worthwile read wheather you suffer yourslef or would like a better understanding of those who do.

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Title: Hungry for Wine: Seeing the World Through the Lens of a Wine Glass

Author: Cathy Huyghe

Narrator: Cathy Huyghe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-15

Publisher: Provisions Press

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Get ready to find some things you never expected to find in a book about wine. Things like regrets, migrant labor, war, financial crises, and post-apartheid economics. Things, too, like following a calling, doing something even though it makes no sense, and creating the life you imagine for yourself. For the people you'll meet in these 12 chapters, wine does so much more than quench thirst. Wine is how they express themselves to the world. It's how they put food on the table for their families. It's how they carve their niche. Sometimes, it's even their tool to fight repression and discrimination. Hungry for Wine is also a memoir about how the author went from simply liking the taste of wine, to tasting it every day, to writing about it 365 days a year, to traveling the world in search of the people and the stories in this book. Some people see the world in a grain of sand. Now, you can see it in a glass of wine. This book will change the way you look at wine. Forever.

Members Reviews:

No vinous epiphany here

Reading the early reviews of this book here on amazon, I fully expected it to offer up a life changing, game changing experience. It does not. Nothing wrong with the book, but nothing earthshattering about it either. It is a modest, not unpleasant, somewhat superficial collection of essays, no more, no less.

This is about a 90 minute read, something of a summer at the beach book for those with particularly short attention spans. Its treatment of the wines and wineries featured in the book does not plumb any depths. Each chapter is a brief essay that reads like a typical blog post, or a collection of tweets, as much of the writing comes at you in single sentence paragraphs strung together in somewhat machine gun fashion. Each chapter/essay is a brief vignette, each with a human interest angle -- Greek winemaking in the midst of an economic crisis, Syrian winemaking in a war-torn country, and so on. The vignettes do not lack for poignancy, but none goes beyond rather superficial observations about the winemakers, the vineyards, the winemaker's methods and the author's travel experiences.

Not all of the information in the book is entirely accurate, either. For example, Ms. Huyghe compares an 'urban winery' in Portland (yes, as in "Portlandia") with what she calls the "Beaune model" - grapes harvested some distance from an urban center and carted to town to be crushed, vinified, stored in tank and barrel, bottled and sold by small storefront winemaking and sales operations. Having spent considerable time in Burgundy over the past two decades, I can tell you with a reasonable degree of certainty that is just plain wrong. Winemaking in Burgundy is largely done by growers all over the region who also make and bottle their own wine in their own cuveries and cellars, using grapes from their own properties, or from sharecropped or leased vineyards, and the wine is now usually estate bottled and sold by the grower en vente direct or more broadly distributed through a broker. The model that Huyghe describes has been on the decline for some time, and the leading Beaune negociants, like Jadot, Drouhin, et al., are largely bottling more and more of their wine from their own vineyard properties.

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Title: The View from My Heels, Volume 1

Author: Win K. Charles

Narrator: Emily Gittelman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-16-15

Publisher: aspen rose arts

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The View from My Heels is a novel about a young lady with cerebral palsy who has a driving passion to become a well-known jewelry designer. The book gives inspiration to the disabled community.

Members Reviews:

Triumph

Win writes the about her story and how she really wants to empower other people that no matter what you can do too! I loved the stories that she shared about her successes and the lessons that she learned along the way. It's a wonderful read, to be inspired even when you feel not so good about yourself. You can triumph, if Win can so can you.

I know personally what that feels like. But you did it

You are such an inspiration. You're are definitely a voice for those that may be suffering from some sort of disease. I know personally what that feels like. But you did it! All things are possible with God. I'll pray for you to sell a million books. Your friend, Diane M Waltman

very much like the author herself

A delightful and compassionate story, very much like the author herself. This novel is a MUST READ for all ages. You will look at the world with bigger and brighter eyes. Thank you, Win, for sharing yourself with the world!

Amazing book about BFFss

This is amazing story about two BFFs who has CP live their dreams. When you read this story you will feel and learn what they have to deal with everyday. It's a must read!

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Title: The Dao of Doug 2: The Art of Driving a Bus

Subtitle: Keeping Zen in San Francisco Transit: A Line Trainer's Guide

Author: Douglas Meriwether

Narrator: Douglas Meriwether

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-15

Publisher: Douglas Meriwether

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Do you have a car?

"Yes, I do, and you're sitting in it! Today's car number is 5481. I get a new car every day, and I can hold up to 50 people at once! I get to take you where you want to go, and I get paid to do it. I don't have to worry about parking, because it is free. I don't have to pay for gas, because this car uses free city hydroelectric power. I have a camera to send a bill to someone blocking my parking space. If there is any trouble, help can be here in three minutes. I sold my truck when I moved here, and I haven't had to pay for tires, batteries, gas, parking, or insurance. My employer is my insurance company. The money is coming in, not going out. I am kind of like the ultimate in ride share, without any carbon emission."

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Title: Climbing Maya

Author: Ken La Salle

Narrator: Ken La Salle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-02-15

Publisher: Ken La Salle

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

What is success? What does it mean? How is it that we all look for this thing we call "success" while each having our own idea about what it could be? Is there one definition for success? And why does the dictionary get it wrong? Find out in Climbing Maya.

Each person must find success on their own, of course. It's either that or remain unfulfilled. Nobody tells us what it is or how to find it or even what to look for; we're just told that it's what we're supposed to be. Common ideas about success include money, fame, power, and belongings - but those are all ultimately meaningless in the face of mortality. As it turns out, "success" isn't a thing we acquire or a place where we go. It's not a job or a family or any one thing. It is all of these things, and when you find what they all have in common the way to success opens before you.

Success casts its great shadow, like the shadow of some unscalable mountain, across our lives. We know it's "up there". But what does it mean to go "up there"? Where is the map that shows us the way? Climbing Maya was my way of finding the answer to this question of success, my way of defining the term and laying out a map to the goal.

As a philosophical memoir, Climbing Maya exposes the listener to ideas about success in the works of Plato and Aristotle, optimality theory and Buddhism, Kundalini Yoga, Maslow, and much more as I search for the final answer. Because success, as it turns out, is not about being rich or having it all. It's about finding that place in your life where you can breathe free, understand yourself, and take that next step toward becoming who you want to be.

Members Reviews:

"You're not rich or famous. What do you know about success?"

What is success? This is the question that plagues the author throughout. Since I've long wondered myself, I eagerly joined the search along with Ken La Salle as he quested for this holy grail.

As with most things in life, it turns out there is or was no magical solution. For the author success is revealed as happiness, eventually; from this reader's perspective perhaps because he finally admitted his own truth and began to realize same. He's a writer - a damned fine one, at that - and he should write because writing makes him happy.

It's probably more than that, of course, but I envy him just the same. I still have yet to figure out what my truth is, so I guess I'm still climbing. Even so, seeing Climbing Maya as a depiction of the journey to success, which in itself can be a success sometimes, made for a thought-provoking read.

It takes you into the author's mind and world during a period of life that is filled with joy, sorrow

Climbing Maya purports to be an exploration of how to define success, but it is much more. It is the story of life with all its bumps and bruises interwoven into a study of success. It takes you into the author's mind and world during a period of life that is filled with joy, sorrow, pain, self doubt and searching. In other words, life. At times, I wanted to smack the author up side the head and yell enough of this already. It is the same reaction I had to a college philosophy class that spent two days discussing whether a tree made a noise in the woods when no one was around and the meaning of Descartes "I think, therefore I am".

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Title: Broken Child Mended Man

Author: Adam Starks - PhD

Narrator: Adam Starks - PhD

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-29-15

Publisher: Adam Starks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Broken Child Mended Man is a remarkably compelling memoir touching on childhood neglect, years in foster care, and overcoming the odds to graduate college. Highlighting the emotional and psychological ups and downs during his formative years, Adam Starks manages to reveal human resilience in its most authentic form. Through a life of trial and error, the author displays bountiful courage by achieving life's milestones without a role model.

Broken Child Mended Man is one of this year's best surprises for listeners from every walk of life. This book is for anyone having trouble with their current circumstances or just looking for ways to support the broken souls within their community. The surprisingly positive message throughout the book will help anyone establish solid footing as they seek purpose and the will to persevere through life's hardships.

Members Reviews:

You CAN overcome your childhood!

The author overcame his past and is a true success story. His narration isn't perfect like most audio books, which in my opinion, added to the story. He didn't overcome all he endured because he was a perfect student or child, he succeeded because he worked hard, learned from his mistakes and set goals for himself. Even though the author is an educated man, you can still hear the scared little boy coming through as he shares his story. A must read for anyone who is still struggling with their childhood in the foster care system. Adam's story will give you hope that a bright future is within your reach!

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Title: By Heart: A Mother's Story of Children and Learning at Home

Author: Kathleen Melin

Narrator: Kathleen Melin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-25-15

Publisher: Kathleen Melin

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

By Heart shares the surprising story of one family's journey from compliant public schooling to radical home-based learning. This literary homeschool memoir takes readers from the tundra of Bethel, Alaska, to the placid farm country of Wisconsin, all the while exploring the homeschool lifestyle.

Daring and compassionate, it portrays homeschooling as a progressive choice and thoughtfully examines classic homeschool tensions homeschool decision, schedules and curricula, socialization, and the economics of co-parenting. By Heart offers a view of the homeschool lifestyle deeply connected to nature and its cycles. Unflinchingly human, it explores doubts and concerns while remaining steadfastly passionate to the homeschool choice.

By Heart is a "must- read" for those considering the homeschool life and a soothing companion to parents in the midst of it. Entertaining, inspiring, and empowering, it's a delightful and provocative memoir for all parents, whether they homeschool or not. For educators and policy makers, it reveals an insider's experience of the homeschool reality; meanwhile, courageously searching the historical and cultural complexity of education rather than posing a simplistic debate between public school and homeschool.

By Heart: A Mother's Story of Children and Learning at Home is a literary page-turner of a memoir that strips away facades and invites readers to an intimate portrayal of one homeschool family. Ultimately, this rare and heartfelt telling affirms all those who live their lives beyond tidy boxes and categories. Narrated by the author. Sound engineering by David Frank.

"A literary memoir by a compelling storyteller." (Review Direct)

"A poignant and literary memoir." (Home Education)

"Unique in perspective." (Old Schoolhouse Magazine)

Critic Reviews:

"A work of genius. Unique." (John Taylor Gatto)

"Like hitting the jackpot." (Washington Times)

"Wry, wise, gentle, tender, and honest." (Otherways)

Members Reviews:

A real gem

I had this book on my Amazon wish list for two years after first learning of the title via *Home Education Magazine* but frankly was leery of yet another well-intentioned, but not very well-written homeschooling memoir. A gift card and an inexpensive used copy finally prompted an order and now I have only two regrets: 1) that I didn't order the book sooner, and 2) that the book isn't longer than its slender 140 pages. Chapter Five, "Folk Art" practically brought tears to my eyes, it captures so effectively, in such human terms, the issues surrounding the pedagogue/ideologue "split" in homeschooling circles. Melin's clear prose and thoughtful, non-doctrinaire approach to many key homeschooling touchpoints are a welcome addition to the literature, and her book will stand alongside Guterson's *Family Matters* and Wallace's *Better Than School* as must-reads in the genre.

Easy read

I really enjoyed this book. It kind of has a Walton's feel to it. Very homey and family oriented. The author states some good facts about homeschooling which helped solidify my decision to make the jump and pull my DD out of school.