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Title: What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

Author: Laura Shapiro

Narrator: Kimberly Farr, Laura Shapiro

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-18

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Dorothy Wordsworth believed that feeding her poet brother, William, gooseberry tarts was her part to play in a literary movement.

Cockney chef Rosa Lewis became a favourite of King Edward VII, who loved her signature dish of whole truffles boiled in champagne.

Eleanor Roosevelt dished up Eggs Mexican - a concoction of rice, fried eggs, and bananas - in the White House.

Eva Braun treated herself to champagne and cake in the bunker before killing herself, alongside Adolf Hitler.

Barbara Pym's novels overflow with enjoyment of everyday meals - of frozen fish fingers and Chablis - in midcentury England.

Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown's idea of 'having it all' meant having almost nothing on the plate except a supersized portion of diet gelatin.

In the irresistible What She Ate, Laura Shapiro examines the plates, recipe books and shopping trolleys of these six extraordinary women, casting a new light on each of their lives - revealing love and rage, desire and denial, need and pleasure.

Critic Reviews:

"In this joyful examination of six women's lives in food, Shapiro sets out to excavate the minutiae of domestic routines for insights into the connection between mental state and menu...Always entertaining and brimming with enticing small details, from an image of Roosevelt scrambling eggs at the table in a dinner-party performance piece, to Pym noticing that Philip Larkin refused Brie at lunch." (Francesca Wade, Financial Times)

"If you find the subject of food to be both vexing and transfixing, you'll love What She Ate." (Elle)

"I devoured the book in one sitting." (Washington Post)

Members Reviews:

Food as Comfort, Social Status, or a Weapon

Laura Shapiro looks at six women and how what they ate, or didnât eat, shaped their lives and the lives of those around them. She begins with Dorothy Wordsworth. While she was the caretaker and companion of her brother, her meals were nutritious. When she slid in to dementia after having been displaced by his wife as the main female in Wordsworthâs life, she ate constantly.

Rosa Lewis rose from being a servant to becoming the foremost chef of her age. Her ticket to high society was food. Eva Braun, was more into champagne than nutritious food. Although Hitler was a vegetarian, he binged on champagne and sugar.

Eleanor Roosevelt used food as a weapon. Angered by her husbandâs affair with Lucy Mercer, she served some of the worst meals ever encountered in the White House. Barbara Pymâs novels are filled with the type of food nice English ladies served to their clerics. People may think the food was bland, but Pym presents it as a good background to the society of the day.

Helen Gurley brown appreciated food, only as it related to the man in her life. I suspect that could be said for the other women, but Brown indulged her man while being practically anorexic herself.

This is a fascinating book. I hadnât realized how much we can learn about people, not only women, from how they approach food. The book doesnât psychoanalyze these women, but some themes are evident such as Eleanor Roosevelt using food as pay back.

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Title: Eighteen Months in the War Zone

Subtitle: A Record of a Womans Work on the Western Front

Author: Kate John Finzi

Narrator: Ella Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

"Eighteen Months in the War Zone" is a memoir by Kate John Finzi about the service women provided during World War I on the Western Front.

From the introduction by Major-Gen. Sir Alfred Turner: Miss Kate Finzi gives in a plain, unvarnished style a terrible and graphic picture of the horrors of war, which have been intensified, as never before, owing to the ferocious savagery of the German troops, as systematically ordered by their officers and commanded by the Kaiser himself, the greatest criminal in the world's record; for this war, planned and prepared deliberately by him, is the greatest crime ever committed against civilisation and humanity. I think this is the first record - a most pathetic and interesting record - of what happened at the base hospitals at Boulogne, where tens of thousands of wounded, maimed and mutilated incessantly arrived, to be passed on to England, or to linger there till death came as a happy release from their sufferings.

©2017 Audioliterature (P)2017 Audioliterature

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Title: In-Between Days

Subtitle: A Memoir About Living with Cancer

Author: Teva Harrison

Narrator: Teva Harrison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 12-28-17

Publisher: Anansi Audio

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist 2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner

2017 Joe Shuster Award Nominee

Teva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease. She confronts with heartbreaking honesty the crises of identity that cancer brings: a lifelong vegetarian, Teva agrees to use experimental drugs that have been tested on animals. She struggles to reconcile her long-term goals with an uncertain future, balancing the innate sadness of cancer with everyday acts of hope and wonder. She also examines those quiet moments of helplessness and loving with her husband, her family, and her friends, while they all adjust to the new normal.

Ultimately, In-Between Days is redemptive and uplifting, reminding each one of us of how beautiful life is, and what a gift.

Members Reviews:

A stranger asks this book's author, "So, what do you do?" The author's reply, "I have cancer. Mostly, I do that"

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âI occupy the limited spaces, slipping between unnoticed.

The hours of [breast] cancer are strange. MRIs at 3:00 a.m., pain at 2:00 a.m., capable one day, incapable the next. Itâs like living in the shadows.

And so I take the spaces nobody claims and I occupy them in the best way I know how: living life with a sense of wonder and delight.

Because I donât know how long I get to bask in the glory of this world [her condition is incurable or terminal] and the people I love.â

The above is the entire prologue of this insightful and brutally honest book by Teva Harrison. She is a writer and artist. Harrison has a graphic series on living with cancer which is locally published. She has also commented about her experience on CBC Radio and in Torontoâs âGlobe and Mailâ newspaper. Many health organizations have invited her to speak publicly on behalf of the metastatic cancer (the spread of cancer throughout the body) community.

This book is memoir of living with cancer. It is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the medical aspects of her disease (for example, treatment), the second part delves into the social ramifications of having this disease (such as marriage), while the third part is concerned with its emotional aspects (like dreams).

When I say that this book is a memoir, I mean that it is half graphic memoir and half written memoir. That is, each of the chapters, generally, are two pages, the left page having a black & white comic book illustration while the right page has a short personal essay. (The title of this review actually comes from the fourth panel of a comic book illustration.)

I found the combination of graphic illustration & personal essay to be quite effective and it really drove home (at least for me) what Harrison is going through.

Finally, I found this book to be beautiful, heartbreaking, honest, inspiring, insightful, contemplative, rational, humorous, and creative. And what major lesson did I learn? That joy and hope can exist in the same place as anxiety and fear.

In conclusion, this is truly one of the most stunning memoirs I have ever read.

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Title: Out of Rushmore's Shadow

Subtitle: The Luigi Del Bianco Story

Author: Lou Del Bianco

Narrator: Lou Del Bianco

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-17

Publisher: Niche Content Press

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Sometimes history does not tell you the whole story.

When 8-year-old Lou Del Bianco finds out that his Grandpa Luigi was the Chief Carver on Mount Rushmore, his young life is instantly changed. Follow Lou's journey as he and his Uncle Caesar make the painful discovery that Luigi is not even mentioned in the most definitive book on Rushmore.

Cheer them on as you hear the historic documents they unearth from the Library of Congress that not only tell Luigi's story but also prove his great importance. Finally, ride the roller-coaster of the 25 year journey to get Luigi the recognition he deserves. Out of Rushmore's Shadow is the dramatic and touching story of Luigi's legacy and the immigrant's struggle.

Members Reviews:

Wonderful book on history of Mount Rushmore

Anticipating a trip to Mount Rushmore for the first time, I wanted to find out as much history as I could before I visited. On searching through Amazon for interesting reading, I came across this book about an Italian immigrant who carved the faces of the Presidents. I can't imagine what skill this would have taken. I received the book, via Prime, on Saturday and couldn't put it down. Lou Del Bianco did an excellent job in bringing his Grandfather to life and the photos and letters add to his story. Now when I visit, I can look up and know the history behind the carving. If you are going for a first time visit or visiting again, I would highly recommend this book.

Five Stars

FINALLY HISTORY IS MADE RIGHT & TRUE! NOT ONLY THE PRIVILEGED ARE HONORED, BUT THE TRUE ARTISTS AS WELL!!

Wonderful reading, warm, engaging, fascinating history

Lou Del Bianco's first-person account of his grandfather's work on the Mr. Rushmore presidential carvings, as Chief Carver, is entertaining, personable and very interesting. The conversational tone and lightly self-deprecating humor, combined with family photos, made this reader feel like I was an audience of one, enjoying a command performance by the author.

The story of Italian immigrant Luigi Del Bianco's work on Mt. Rushmore takes up roughly two-thirds of the book. The other third is the frustrating and heartbreaking struggle the Del Bianco family (mainly Lou and his aunt and uncle) waged for 25+ years (YES! Sadly, it took that long!) to get the U.S. Parks Service to recognize the Chief Carver's role in the creation of the Mr. Rushmore presidential monument, and to commemorate that at Mt. Rushmore.

For those who don't know, Gutzon Borglum, a master-carver (and amazing self-promoter), artist and engineer, designed the memorial in South Dakota and convinced the U.S. government to foot the bill. He brought to the project expert carvers from his studio, all accomplished artists in their own right, to do the most delicate parts of the work. Chief among those artists was Luigi Del Bianco.

Luigi Del Bianco was designated the Chief Carver by Borglum, and was tasked with not only training the unskilled miners who were hired locally, but with finishing the granite faces of the presidents so they came to life with rich expressions and amazing likenesses to the former presidents.

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Title: Fighting for America

Subtitle: Black Soldiers - the Unsung Heroes of World War II

Author: Christopher Paul Moore

Narrator: Thomas Penny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Christopher Paul Moore is a curator and research historian for the New York Public Library's world-renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The African-American contribution to winning World War II has never been celebrated as profoundly as in Fighting for America. In this inspirational and uniquely personal tribute, the essential part played by black servicemen and -women in that cataclysmic conflict is brought home.

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Title: Braving Sorrow Together

Subtitle: The Transformative Power of Faith and Community When Life Is Hard

Author: Ashleigh Slater

Narrator: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-17

Publisher: christianaudio.com

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

"Little did I know at the time that I'd one day look back and remember it as the beginning of what I call our 'weeping years.'" (Ashleigh Slater)

We all have "weeping years", seasons where the trials seem to come one after another. For Ashleigh and her husband, their weeping years included miscarriage, multiple job losses, feelings of betrayal, panic attacks, anti-depressants, cross-country moves, and even suicidal thoughts. Loss is a constant of life, but the intensity of those years changed Ashleigh, altering how she understood and responded to grief. This book tells her story.

Braving Sorrow Together: The Transformative Power of Faith and Community When Life is Hard explores loss and trial in a conversational, storytelling manner. It gently encourages those experiencing grief of any kind to seek comfort in God and in the "me too" of community. Ashleigh gives an honest and vulnerable account of her personal stories of loss, as well as those of her friends, with reflections from literature and Scripture sprinkled throughout.

She examines the nature of grief and loss in several universal arenas, such as relationships, health, career, and the home. Anyone who ever struggles (and that's all of us) will be able to move through trial with more wisdom, releasing anxiety and receiving the help and comfort God so bountifully provides. Listeners of Braving Sorrow Together will be encouraged that they are not alone, inspired to reach out to close friends, and reminded that God - the Author of all of our stories - can be trusted through the tears.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Wonderful book - full of wisdom and guidance

there are some good practical suggestions for those looking for a place to ...

Braving Sorrow Together: The Transformative Power of Faith and Community When Life is Hard by Ashleigh Slater is an introduction to the power of community during times of sorrow. Slater uses both personal anecdotes and stories from friends and acquaintances to discuss the various ways community can provide a lifeline during various kinds of suffering.

Slater discusses how faith, community, and specifically a faithful and consistent community of faith can be life giving during moments of suffering in big areas of life such as health, family, and work. She gives practical ideas of what was helpful to her during a particular season of suffering. If Slater or her family had not experienced a certain trial, she had a friend who has speak to that issue.

There is nothing new or earth shattering in Braving Sorrow Together. Everyone knows that having friends and family or some other kind of support makes the tough times easier to bear. However, there are some good practical suggestions for those looking for a place to start. Those who lead some kind of group or oversee groups for a church may find this book especially helpful.

I received this book free from Moody Publishers as part of their Moody Publishers Blogger Review Program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, See Part 255

5 stars

Life is hard.

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Titel: Schattenjahre

Untertitel: Die Rückkehr des politischen Liberalismus

Autor:: Christian Lindner

Erzähler: Frank Stieren

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 10 hrs and 7 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11-10-17

Herausgeber: SAGA Egmont

Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Absturz und Neubeginn: Christian Lindner schildert die dramatischen Ereignisse, die zum Scheitern der FDP und schließlich zum Wiedereinzug in den Bundestag führten. Zugleich zeigt er, wie die Idee des Liberalismus in Deutschland neu gedacht werden kann. Inklusive der Bundestagswahl 2017!

Nach der Bundestagswahl 2013 lag der politische Liberalismus am Boden. Nach der Bundestagswahl 2017 ist er wieder zu einem Machtfaktor in der Republik geworden. Über die "Schattenjahre" dazwischen berichtet Christian Lindner. Er beschreibt den Absturz der FDP und den schwierigen Alltag abgeschnitten von der politischen Szene der Hauptstadt. Erstmals schildert Christian Lindner im Detail, wie seine Weggefährten und er die Partei neu aufgerichtet haben, welche Ideen sie heute leiten und was sie sich für die Zukunft vorgenommen haben.

In diesem gleichermaßen aktuell-politischen, grundsätzlichen wie persönlichen Buch gewährt der Autor seltene Einblicke in die politische Wirklichkeit und in die Motive der tragenden Akteure. Zugleich erzählt Christian Lindner von seinen Prägungen und Anfängen, von Niederlagen und Aufstiegen sowie seinem persönlichem Verständnis von Liberalismus. So krachend die Niederlage der Partei war, so faszinierend ist der Neuaufbau, der ihr unter seiner Regie in den letzten Jahren gelang. Mit diesem Buch gewinnt der politische Liberalismus in Deutschland eine starke Stimme.

©2017 Klett-Cotta (P)2017 Saga Egmont

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Title: Radio

Subtitle: One Woman's Family in War and Pieces

Author: Alice H. Green, Peter H. Green

Narrator: Margaret Strom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-17

Publisher: Author's Republic

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This eyewitness account of World War II social history, women's progress, and the Golden Years of Radio are woven into one woman's humorous and poignant autobiography of her family struggles and her attempts to fulfill her creative dreams.

Praise for Radio.

"He loved me, he treasured me, and he pampered me - and then he left me for the Marines." "He finally had to admit.... that I was his equal." -Alice Green

"This is a wonderful gift book. Alice Green's writing is fresh and at times laugh-aloud funny, parts of it reminiscent of Cheaper by the Dozen. Thornton Wilder instructed Alice in creative writing. I recommend this audiobook to all listeners who enjoy a good laugh. The section "We Bought a Crooked House" was hilarious. - Paula B., Amazon reviewer

World War II was a tipping point for social change in America. With their men at war, 19 million women joined the work force. Radio, the first instantaneous mass medium, provided daytime serial drama, entertainment and news, including pronouncements of world leaders and terrifying war reports, as President Roosevelt used the new medium to rally the nation to arms and win the war.

Alice Green's lost and recently found eyewitness accounts of her childhood, her own war, the Golden Years of Radio, and the postwar housing shortage, are told from the light-hearted viewpoint of the shy, youngest child, who learns she can make even the stormy and outrageous characters in her own family laugh. With a little help from her son, who (just barely) lived to finish it, her story stands for unsung American women in war and survives as Alice's triumph.

Members Reviews:

Gift Book--History of a Strong Woman, Sprinkled with Humor

Rating 4.5 for humor and a true story that needs to be told

âHe loved me, he treasured me, and he pampered meâand then he left me for the Marines.â âHe finally had to admitâ.that I was his equal.â ---Alice Green

This is a wonderful gift book. Alice Greenâs writing is fresh and at times laugh-aloud funny, parts of it reminiscent of Cheaper by the Dozen. Thorton Wilder instructed Alice in creative writing. I recommend this book to all readers who enjoy a good laugh. The section âWe Bought a Crooked Houseâ was hilarious.

Co-written by Alice and her son Peter, I enjoyed snippets about the history of radio, radio advertising, and the home front before, during, and after WW II. Throughout the book, Alice endured her share of problems. She was born at a time when women totally acquiesced to their spouseâs wishes, a time when women did not have the vote. During WW II, Alice raised two youngsters while dealing with rationing and a reduced income. Her ordeal can be compared to being hand-fed through the wringer of her new electric washing machine. She emerged changed and stronger.

This book will appeal to readers who love the true story of a woman of Irish Catholic heritage, a product of Chicago, as she was strengthened by trial and tribulation. Alice progressed from a shy wallflower to a woman who supervised countless volunteers for the American Red Cross. I intend to buy a copy of this book for a dear aunt.

WWII on the homefront: A woman's perspective with a dash of humor

Like many Boomers, I grew up listening to tales of what it was like during World War II, mostly from my mother.

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Title: Reading with Patrick

Subtitle: A Teacher, a Student and the Life-Changing Power of Books

Author: Michelle Kuo

Narrator: Michelle Kuo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-17

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A memoir of race, inequality and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student who was jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta.

As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African American teenager named Patrick and his classmates. For the first time, these kids began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their small town and to gain an insight into themselves that they had never had before. Two years later Michelle left to go to law school, but Patrick began to lose his way, killing a man and facing a lengthy jail sentence. And that's when Michelle decided that her work was not done and began to visit Patrick once a week, and soon every day, to read with him again.

Finely written in the very best tradition of American long-form narrative, Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo is a story of hope, redemption and the power of books to transform - and even to save - a life.

Members Reviews:

A rare treasure

I couldn't stop listening to this book. I brought it in from my car and listened while I did housework. The story of Patrick, interwoven with the deep injustices of being born black and poor, educates and elucidates, just like a good teacher would. Through this story, Michelle had awoken in me my lost love of poetry and why I love it so. I will need to get this book in paper form as well. So I can highlight and savour the many treasures found in this book.

A passionate, inspiring and heartwarming story

A very inspirational story in wish a laughed, cried, wondered and learned a lot about teaching, insecurity, friendships and the struggle that immigrants and Black people faced in America.

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Title: Jane & Me: My Austen Heritage

Author: Caroline Jane Knight

Narrator: Alison Larkin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-04-17

Publisher: Alison Larkin Presents

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Caroline Jane Knight is the last of the Austen Knight family to grow up at Chawton House, the sixteenth-century English manor house on the ancestral estate where Jane Austen lived and wrote. Caroline ate at the same dining table, read in the same library, explored the same country lanes and shared the same dreams of independence as Jane Austen did.

But when she was seventeen, Caroline and her family were forced to leave the home her family had lived in for centuries. Heartbroken and determined to leave all things Austen behind her, this is the story of Caroline's journey from an idyllic childhood in which she baked cakes with her Granny for Jane Austen tourists, through personal crisis and success to her eventual embrace of her Austen heritage and the creation of the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation.

A contemporary and dramatic story, it is also a major contribution to the library of works about Jane Austen, including information thrillingly new to Jane Austen's readers and scholars.

Read by award-winning narrator Alison Larkin whose critically acclaimed recordings of the novels of Jane Austen include Pride and Prejudice and Songs from Regency England, Persuasion and Poems, Northanger Abbey and the History of England and Emma - the 200th anniversary audio edition.

Fifteen per cent of the profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation.

Members Reviews:

Go back to Chawton w/Jane Austen & Caroline Knight

If you could sum up Jane & Me: My Austen Heritage in three words, what would they be?

Heartfelt, emotive, and unique.

What other book might you compare Jane & Me: My Austen Heritage to and why?

Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley because they both connect stories of Jane's time period to the places that she lived in.

Have you listened to any of Alison Larkins other performances before? How does this one compare?

This was my first audiobook experience listening to Alison Larkin and she was wonderful; upbeat and expressive in all the right places!

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

Return to the Great House at Chawton and experience for yourself how this magnificent estate played such a significant role in shaping Jane Austen's legacy as an author and her descendants' lives, as told from the perspective of her fifth great niece, Caroline Jane Knight.

Any additional comments?

I think this book is such an important contribution to the legacy of Jane Austen and the Knight family, who played such an important role in her life. Readers will learn how history really does stand still in numerous ways when your family has lived in the same house for over four centuries.

A Captivating and Moving Tale

It is a deeply personal and touching story of Caroline Jane Knight, the last member of Austen Knight family to grow up in Chawton House, the ancient family seat, that Jane Austen referred to in her letters as a "Great House".