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Title: No One Cares About Crazy People

Subtitle: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America

Author: Ron Powers

Narrator: Ron Powers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 123 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times best-selling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia.

From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the antipsychiatry movement to the current landscape in which too many families struggle alone to manage afflicted love ones, Powers limns our fears and myths about mental illness and the fractured public policies that have resulted.

Braided with that history is the moving story of Powers' beloved son Kevin - spirited, endearing, and gifted - who triumphed even while suffering from schizophrenia until finally he did not, and the story of his courageous surviving son Dean, who is also schizophrenic.

A blend of history, biography, memoir, and current affairs ending with a consideration of where we might go from here, this is a thought-provoking look at a dreaded illness that has long been misunderstood.

Critic Reviews:

"Very emotional...[Powers] reminds us how apathetic and cruel society can be when it comes to mental illness." (

Booklist)

"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Powers (

MarkTwain: A Life, 2005, etc.) presents two searing sagas: an indictment of mental health care in the United States and the story of his two schizophrenic sons.... This hybrid narrative, enhanced by the author's considerable skills as a literary stylist, succeeds on every level." (

Kirkus Reviews)

"Ron Powers and his wife never expected to visit the exotic lands of schizophrenia until their two sons became affected. A gifted professional writer, Powers takes the reader along on his explorations as he tries to understand why it happened and what to do. What he finds is 'the most dreaded of all human mental disorders.' Very readable and highly recommended." (E. Fuller Torrey, MD, author of

Surviving Schizophrenia)

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Title: How to Murder Your Life

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: Cat Marnell

Narrator: Cat Marnell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-31-17

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 679 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

From Cat Marnell, "New York's enfant terrible" (The Telegraph), a candid and darkly humorous memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs.

At 26 Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America - and that's all most people knew about her. But she hid a secret life. She was a prescription drug addict. She was also a "doctor shopper" who manipulated Upper East Side psychiatrists for pills, pills, and more pills; a lonely bulimic who spent hundreds of dollars a week on binge foods; a promiscuous party girl who danced barefoot on banquets; a weepy and hallucination-prone insomniac who would take anything - anything - to sleep.

This is a tale of self-loathing, self-sabotage, and, yes, self-tanner. It begins at a posh New England prep school - and with a prescription for attention deficit disorder medication Ritalin. It continues to New York, where we follow Marnell's amphetamine-fueled rise from intern to editor through the beauty departments of NYLON, Teen Vogue, Glamour, and Lucky. We see her fight between ambition and addiction and how, inevitably, her disease threatens everything she worked so hard to achieve.

From the Conde Nast building (where she rides the elevator alongside Anna Wintour) to seedy nightclubs, from doctors' offices and mental hospitals, Marnell shows - like no one else can - what it is like to live in the wild, chaotic, often sinister world of a young female addict who can't say no.

Combining lightning-rod subject matter and bold literary aspirations, How to Murder Your Life is mesmerizing, revelatory, and necessary.

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Title: Between Two Worlds

Author: Tyler Henry

Narrator: Tyler Henry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-16

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 833 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

From Tyler Henry, a 20-year-old clairvoyant and star of E!'s hit reality series Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry, comes a memoir about his journey as a medium thus far.

Tyler Henry discovered his gift for communicating with the departed when he was 10 and now, at age 20, is a renowned practicing medium who is the go-to clairvoyant of celebrities. He's worked with some of Hollywood's biggest names, including Khloe Kardashian, Amber Rose, Margaret Cho, Jaime Pressly, Monica Potter, and Boy George, many of whom appear on his smash hit E! reality show, Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry.

Henry's memoir reveals what living life as a medium is really like - from opening up about discovering his gift as an adolescent to what it's truly like to communicate with the departed. He also discusses the difficulty he had accepting his rare talents and the courage it took to share them with the world.

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Title: Helmet for My Pillow

Subtitle: From Parris Island to the Pacific: A Young Marine's Stirring Account of Combat in World War II

Author: Robert Leckie

Narrator: James Badge Dale, Tom Hanks (introduction)

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2250 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The celebrated 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, winner of eight Emmy Awards, was based on two classic books about the War in the Pacific, Helmet for My Pillow and With The Old Breed. Audible Studios, in partnership with Playtone, the production company co-owned by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and creator of the award-winning HBO series Band of Brothers, John Adams, and The Pacific, as well as the HBO movie Game Change, has created new recordings of these memoirs, narrated by the stars of the miniseries. James Badge Dale (who portrayed Robert Leckie) and Joseph Mazello (who played Eugene Sledge) bring all the passion and emotion of their riveting television performances to these new audio productions.

In Helmet for My Pillow, Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. This riveting first-person account follows his odyssey from basic training on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the war's fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifices of war, painting an unvarnished portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defense of their country.

From the live-for-today rowdiness of marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what war is really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Woven throughout are Leckie's hard-won, eloquent, and thoroughly unsentimental meditations on the meaning of war and why we fight.

BONUS AUDIO: Tom Hanks, one of the executive producers, has written and narrated an original introduction to Helmet for My Pillow, where he describes his appreciation for the book's author, the narrators, and the soldiers who had fought in the cauldron of the Pacific Theater during World War II.

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Critic Reviews:

Robert Leckie's unvarnished 1957 memoir paints a vivid picture of his experiences as a Marine on the frontlines of the Pacific Theater in WWII. Using the unadorned demeanor of a tough Marine, narrator James Badge Dale delivers Leckie's eloquent text with intensity and respect. He adopts a touch of humor when describing the occasional raucous camaraderie of the men but mostly employs a hard-boiled, sturdy veneer for Leckie's revealing and sometimes shocking narrative. Dale's unrelenting pronunciation of long "a"s (such as "a gun") is at first distracting but eventually comes to feel like the unyielding backbone of a young warrior facing the brutal action of battle. A brief introduction from Tom Hanks helps the listener anticipate the significance of this powerful American chronicle. (AudioFile)

Helmet for My Pillow is a grand and epic prose poem. Robert Leckies theme is the purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being whosomehowsurvived. (Tom Hanks)

One hell of a book! The real stuff that proves the U.S.

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Title: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

Subtitle: What I Learned While Editing My Life

Author: Donald Miller

Narrator: Donald Miller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-26-09

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1071 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details that journey and challenges listeners to reconsider what they strive for in life. It shows how to get a second chance at life the first time around.

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Title: Enrique's Journey

Author: Sonia Nazario

Narrator: Catherine Byers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-24-08

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 379 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

When Enrique is five years old, his mother, Lourdes, too poor to feed her children, leaves Honduras to work in the United States. The move allows her to send money back home to Enrique so he can eat better and go to school past the third grade.

Lourdes promises Enrique she will return quickly. But she struggles in America. Years pass. He begs for his mother to come back. Without her, he becomes lonely and troubled.

With gritty determination and a deep longing to be by his mother's side, Enrique travels through hostile, unknown worlds. Each step of the way through Mexico, he and other migrants, many of them children, are hunted like animals. Gangsters control the tops of the trains. Bandits rob and kill migrants up and down the tracks. Corrupt cops all along the route are out to fleece and deport them. To evade Mexican police and immigration authorities, they must jump onto and off the moving boxcars they call El Tren de la Muerte - the Train of Death.

Enrique pushes forward using his wit, courage, and hope - and the kindness of strangers. It is an epic journey, one thousands of immigrant children make each year to find their mothers in the United States.

Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for feature writing and another for feature photography, Enrique's Journey is the timeless story of families torn apart, the yearning to be together again, and a boy who will risk his life to find the mother he loves.

Critic Reviews:

"The breadth and depth of Nazario's research into this phenomenon is astounding, and she has crafted her findings into a story that is at once moving and polemical." (Publishers Weekly)

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