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Title: The Last Ring Home

Subtitle: A POW's Lasting Legacy of Courage, Love and Honor in World War II

Author: Minter Dial II

Narrator: Erin deWard, Minter Dial II

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-10-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Traveling 40,000 miles and inspiring love and despair in equal measure, Lt. Minter Dial's lost Annapolis ring altered the lives of many - not just those who gazed upon its blue stone.

The spellbinding account of one man's obsession with a family mystery - and the product of decades of research and inquiries - The Last Ring Home explores author Minter Dial's pursuit of the true story of his namesake, his late grandfather Lt. Minter Dial, USN, a celebrated war hero whose suffering and trauma nearly buried his memory forever.

A prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines after the fall of Bataan and Corregidor, Lt. Dial discovered the cruelest meaning of the Bushido code. Moments before he was killed, he gave his treasured Naval Academy ring to a friend. In the ensuing chaos, it disappeared.

Armed with a passion for history and a desire to uncover his grandfather's legacy, Dial's epic quest for the ring transports him to prisoner-of-war memorials and ex-POW conventions, military and press archives, and the homes of those affected by the Second World War across the world.

Sweeping as far back as the American Civil War, The Last Ring Home combines rigorous research with more than 100 interviews with experts, survivors, and descendants of the Greatest Generation to tell the powerful story of American prisoners of war in the Pacific.

Members Reviews:

Story of Love and Loss Through a navy Class Ring

Minter Dial II tells the riveting story of his grandfather, a POW captured by the Japanese in the early months of WWII on Corregidor, piecing together conflicting sources of information to weave a narrative around the journey of his grandfather's 1932 Naval Academy class ring. It's a story well told, much through the eyes of letters between the senior Dial and his wife, leading to an astonishing ending.

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Title: Olivia

Subtitle: My Life of Exile in Kalaupapa

Author: Olivia R. Breitha

Narrator: Deanna Espinas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-20-16

Publisher: The Estate of Olivia Robello Breitha

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Olivia: My Life of Exile in Kalaupapa, is a memoir by Hawaii's celebrated leprosy activist Olivia Robello Breitha (1916-2006). The Estate of Olivia Breitha is very pleased to now offer this audiobook version as a richly textured companion piece to the printed work.

Olivia's memoir chronicles her personal and medical history from the age of 18, when she was first diagnosed with leprosy in 1930s Honolulu. Olivia reveals herself as she never felt she could about her more than seven decades of life as Hawai'i Department of Health parolee #3306. She writes with passion of her struggles and, by extension, the struggles of thousands of others, against centuries of stigma and fear. Like them she was the target of cruelty, disdain, and scorned as "lepers". Olivia realized that this hurtful word, like so many others, may never completely disappear from use. She also knew that it is extremely important to understand and expose the historical attitudes that have caused labels like this to be accepted in common parlance for far too long.

Olivia has been gone from here since September 28, 2006. Her lifelong struggle with authority is over. But her mission to restore the rights of people suffering from this long-misunderstood condition continues. She was a complex woman who lived the life that was dealt to her, all 90 years of it. Through her thoughts and words, and the powerful narration of voice actor Deanna Espinas, you will discover how Olivia Robello Breitha met every challenge head on, the small and the immense. Instead of destroying her they transformed this child of Portuguese immigrants into the powerfully eloquent social activist she was always meant to be.

Members Reviews:

GREAT READ ~ TOUCHING AND INFORMATIVE ~ Her Life of Exile with Leprosy

Excellent and touching story of one girl's experience, being exiled to, then living out her life in Kalaupapa, Molokai (Hawaii) since age 18, with other Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) patients like herself. Olivia expresses her feelings very well in this book, and tells personal stories of the unbelievable treatment she and other patients experienced, along with the happy times and joy she felt. I loved this book and later visited Kalaupapa, Moloka`i to see where the Hansen's Disease patients lived, and where Olivia's story took place. It's quite up beat, as the residents were comfortable and happy to live there in the latter years. Side note: Olivia lived to be 92 and passed away in Kalaupapa just a few years ago. Easy to read, and makes you feel like you are right there with Olivia. I highly recommend this book.

Loved it!

My grandmother was a patient in kalaupapa and I've read several books. Olivia was a joy to read. While I saw the pain she and others endured she told her story candidly and with humor.

Five Stars

wife can't put down

Olivia, My Life of Exile Kalaupapa

Excellent book. Very well written and could read the pain she suffered...the indignities. Shared this with a friend and she liked it too.

Thank you!!!

Fast delivery. Book is special. More beautiful than described. Good price

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Titel: Albert Schweitzer - Botschafter der Menschlichkeit (Abenteuer & Wissen)

Autor:: Ute Welteroth

Erzähler: Hartmut Stanke

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 19 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-14-16

Herausgeber: Headroom Verlag

Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Sein Enthusiasmus ist unermüdlich. Über vierzig Jahre hat sich der Organist, Philosoph und Theologe Albert Schweitzer in Lambarene um Sterbende bemüht, hat Wunden geheilt, aber auch Unterkünfte bauen lassen und Pumpen repariert. Er korrespondiert mit Einstein, Nehru und Heuss, warnt die Welt vor den Atombomben und erhält 1952 den Friedensnobelpreis. Schon zu Lebzeiten wird er zum Mythos und Symbol der Nächstenliebe.

Dr. Monika und Prof. Dr. Wilfried Jellinghaus sind für "Die Ärzte für Afrika e.V." jedes Jahr mehrere Wochen in Süd-Ghana unterwegs, um die große Not auf urologischem Gebiet zu lindern. Spannend berichten sie, wie sie die ländliche Bevölkerung operativ behandeln, medizinisches Personal ausbilden und fünf kleine Krankenhäuser in der Savanne betreuen. "Jeder kann es haben, sein eigenes Lamberene" Albert Schweitzer.

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Titel: Fridtjof Nansen - 1000 Tage im Eis (Abenteuer & Wissen)

Autor:: Daniela Wakonigg

Erzähler: Gregor Höppner

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 23 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-14-16

Herausgeber: Headroom Verlag

Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Fridtjof Nansen war, wie sein Biograf Walter Bauer schreibt, "Polarforscher, Zoologe, Geograph, Meteorologe, Ozeanograph, Konstrukteur, Organisator, Schriftsteller, Professor und Rektor, Gesandter, Völkerbund-Delegierter, Hoher Kommissar und Friedensnobelpreisträger." 1888 durchquert er als erster Mensch Grönland und schließt Freundschaft mit den Inuit, deren faszinierende Lebensweise er monatelang studiert. Im Juli 1893 startet Fridtjof Nansen seine legendäre Expedition mit der "Fram" ins Nordpolarmeer: Er will als erster Mensch den Nordpol erreichen. Mit Absicht lässt er das Schiff im Packeis festfrieren, um sich mit den Meeresströmungen treiben zu lassen. Dann beschließt er, zu Fuß den Nordpol zu erreichen. Der eisigen Witterung unbarmherzig ausgeliefert, geht es auf dieser Expedition für Nansen uns seinen Begleiter Johansen mehr als einmal ums nackte Überleben.

Gut hundert Jahre später begibt sich der Schweizer Bergführer und Abenteurer Thomas Ulrich mit dem norwegischen Polarforscher Borge Ousland auf die Spur von Nansen ins ewige Eis. Er, der sich als moderner Abenteurer versteht, schildert hier seine spannendsten Erlebnisse.

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Titre: Assister au renversement du monde (Transfert 12)

Auteur: slate.fr

Narrateur: slate.fr

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 26 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 11-30-16

Éditeur: Slate.fr

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Vous avez toujours rêvé de connaître les péripéties secrètes du couple de vos bruyants voisins, ce qui a transformé la personnalité de votre cousin, la raison pour laquelle votre collègue n'arrive plus à faire confiance à personne. Toutes les deux semaines, Transfert vous raconte une histoire vraie, excitante, prenante, émouvante, et en creux le monde moderne et ceux qui l'habitent. Un podcast de Slate.fr présenté par Charlotte Pudlowski.

Épisode douze :

Quelques mois après le 13 Novembre, Caroline Gillet, journaliste, est entrée chez son psy, et c'est lui qui a commencé à raconter. Il lui a parlé de lui, il lui a parlé de l'un de ses patients, il lui a raconté une histoire bouleversante, terrible, liée aux attentats.

©2016 slate.fr (P)2016 slate.fr

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Titre: Le mensonge : arme familiale de destruction massive (Transfert 2)

Auteur: slate.fr

Narrateur: slate.fr

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 26 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 11-30-16

Éditeur: Slate.fr

Evaluation: 3.5 sur 5 sur 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Vous avez toujours rêvé de connaître les péripéties secrètes du couple de vos bruyants voisins, ce qui a transformé la personnalité de votre cousin, la raison pour laquelle votre collègue n'arrive plus à faire confiance à personne. Toutes les deux semaines, Transfert vous raconte une histoire vraie, excitante, prenante, émouvante, et en creux le monde moderne et ceux qui l'habitent. Un podcast de Slate.fr présenté par Charlotte Pudlowski.

Épisode deux :

Nicolas a vécu jusqu'à l'âge adulte dans le mensonge de ses parents. Jusqu'à ce qu'il découvre que son père n'était pas celui qu'il croyait : "si mon père n'est pas celui que je crois, alors moi je ne suis pas celui que je pense être", explique-t-il... Après le dévoilement de ce mensonge, il a donc dû reconstruire son identité.

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Titre: L'histoire d'une course de taxi à plusieurs milliers d'euros (Transfert 3)

Auteur: slate.fr

Narrateur: slate.fr

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 16 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 11-30-16

Éditeur: Slate.fr

Evaluation: 4 sur 5 sur 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Vous avez toujours rêvé de connaître les péripéties secrètes du couple de vos bruyants voisins, ce qui a transformé la personnalité de votre cousin, la raison pour laquelle votre collègue n'arrive plus à faire confiance à personne. Toutes les deux semaines, Transfert vous raconte une histoire vraie, excitante, prenante, émouvante, et en creux le monde moderne et ceux qui l'habitent. Un podcast de Slate.fr présenté par Charlotte Pudlowski.

Épisode trois :

Un jour, Delphine, enceinte, fatiguée, s'est installée à l'arrière d'un taxi. Elle s'est mise à parler avec la conductrice. Qui lui a donné une leçon de vie.

©2016 slate.fr (P)2016 slate.fr

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Title: My Father and Atticus Finch

Subtitle: A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930's Alabama

Author: Joseph Madison Beck

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-22-16

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

The story of Foster Beck, the author's late father, whose defense of a black man accused of rape in 1930s Alabama foreshadowed the trial at the heart of To Kill a Mockingbird.

As a child, Joseph Beck heard the stories - when other lawyers came up with excuses, his father courageously defended a black man charged with raping a white woman.

Now a lawyer himself, Beck reconstructs his father's role in State of Alabama vs. Charles White, Alias, a trial that was much publicized when Harper Lee was 12 years old.

On the day of Foster Beck's client's arrest, the leading local newspaper reported, under a page-one headline, that "a wandering negro fortune teller giving the name Charles White" had "volunteered a detailed confession of the attack" of a local white girl. However, Foster Beck concluded that the confession was coerced. The same article claimed that "the negro accomplished his dastardly purpose", but as in To Kill a Mockingbird, there was evidence at the trial to the contrary. Throughout the proceedings, the defendant had to be escorted from the courthouse to a distant prison "for safekeeping", and the courthouse itself was surrounded by a detachment of 16 Alabama highway patrolmen.

The saga captivated the community with its dramatic testimonies and emotional outcome. It would take an immense toll on those involved, including Foster Beck, who worried that his reputation had cast a shadow over his lively, intelligent, and supportive fiancé, Bertha, who had her own social battles to fight.

This riveting memoir, steeped in time and place, seeks to understand how race relations, class, and the memory of southern defeat in the Civil War produced such a haunting distortion of justice, and how it may figure into our literary imagination.

Members Reviews:

Great Literature!

Joe Beck has written a masterpiece. Whether or not Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was based upon or influenced by the trial depicted in Joe Beck's My Father and Atticus Finch, Mr. Father and Atticus Finch stands on its own as great literature. The book offers interesting insight into the mores of white southerners in Alabama during the 1930s, as illustrated in the interaction between the races and the upper and lower white classes. The book offers up and shoots down some of the historical rationales for white mistreatment of blacks during that period. But more than anything, the book is about a lawyerâs belief that everyone is entitled to fair treatment in the court system and his sacrifice to assure fair treatment to a black defendant with a questionable past but a courageous spirit.

Great!

I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the mindset of southerners in the mid-twentieth century; those who would seek to reaffirm how far race relations have come in the years since the Civil War; and all lovers of that great novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and while I was hoping for a different outcome than what I knew would be the inevitable ending, I was still rooting for this brave lawyer and his defendant, and praying for a miracle. Great read!

A good read to follow Atticus Finchâ...

This was quite interesting to read. Lots of parallels to Atticus Finch, so I could clearly see what the author surmised that might be true.

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Title: Nana's Shoes

Subtitle: A Story of a Family's Faith, Hope, and Courage in a Time of Ethnic Cleansing

Author: Aisa Softic

Narrator: Stef P. Durham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-25-16

Publisher: LLC Softic

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Nana's Shoes is a book that must be heard. Aisa Softic, a Bosnian Muslim refugee, has written an odyssey, a story that takes its listeners through a range of challenges that pit the human spirit against the odds and provides lessons in courage for us all. When Yugoslavia (which included Bosnia) broke up and descended into violence and the ethnic cleansing of Muslims, she held tight to her family at the risk of her own life. The story of Aisa and her family is a Bosnian and a Muslim story, but it is above all else a human story. Born in 1950 to a hard-working farm family that owned its own land but wrested only subsistence from it, Aisa was destined to half an education and a life of hard work, little financial gain, and the obscurity of the poor. But god decreed otherwise and gave to Aisa gifts that cannot be purchased with money: the gifts of faith, an abundance of family love, intelligence, courage, and an indomitable spirit. Nana's Shoes is about a brave woman and her family. At the same time it is a story of how the human spirit rises up and speaks courage to violence. This is book that must be heard. Add this piece of history to your cart.

Members Reviews:

A Gripping, Soaring Story

Beautifully written - a powerful, gripping story of unimaginable scale - thank you for chronicling these visceral details with such precision, we can't help but stayed glued to every page.

Very good story teller

This is captivating story... Inspiration to all of us...faith feeds the courage and courage leads to survival. Very good story teller. It allowed me to be present and almost see those true events that happened. I could not stop reading.

Feiruz Bakthir

Thank you very much Aisa for inviting us to relive a time and place where many would like to forget. Nana's Shoes is a must read for anyone interested in stopping the senseless human destruction that seems like part and parcel of who we are. Aisa could have concluded that wars could never be avoided and moved on with her life, but she decided otherwise. Aisa's courage and optimism is in every page by the way she holds the readers hand, and pointing to the good in all of us. I am really greatful that Aisa asked me to do the illustration for Nana's Shoes, although I was not even born when she was hiding in the cornfields. By selecting a youth like me to do the coverpage for this must read book I believe she trusts the future will be in good hands. Thank you Aisa for sharing your story and trusting the youth and we shall not let you down.

What an incredible story of strength

This is a very important book to remind us of the horrors of war and the effect on people. It is a gut-wrenching true story of one Bosnian family of separation, moving to foreign lands and meeting up again in America, leaving the native home land during the ethnic cleansing campaign from 1992-1995. This book is again a reminder of how history repeats itself with the same mistakes, same horrors. It makes you wonder what it is in human nature that causes groups of people to feel superior over their fellow humans. Thank you for writing this book, Aisa Softic.

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Titel: Warte nicht auf bessre Zeiten

Autor:: Wolf Biermann

Erzähler: Burghart Klaußner, Wolf Biermann

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 12 hrs and 34 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-08-16

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 2 Stimmen

Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Eindringlich erzählt Biermann vom Vater, der als Jude in Auschwitz ermordet wurde, von der Mutter, die ihn aus dem Hamburger Bombeninferno rettete, vom väterlichen Freund Robert Havemann, mit dem er das Los des Geächteten teilte. Er führt uns in die absurde Welt der DDR-Diktatur. Und er erzählt die Geschichten seiner in den Westen geschmuggelten, im Osten heimlich kursierenden Lieder, deren "Verskunst, robuste Rhetorik und gewaltige Sprachkraft" Marcel Reich-Ranicki lobte. Bei aller Heftigkeit des Erlebten lesen sich Biermanns Erinnerungen wie ein Schelmenroman. Ein einzigartiges Zeitzeugnis.

Im Hörbuch werden Autobiographie und Werk Wolf Biermanns verbunden: Die Erinnerungen des Autors setzt Burghart Klaußner kongenial als Erzähler um. Lieder und Gedichte, von Wolf Biermann selbst interpretiert, machen den Titel zu einem besonderen Hörerlebnis.

©2016 Ullstein Buchverlage, Berlin / Wolf Biermann, Hamburg / Akademie der Künste, Berlin / Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH (P)2016 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Tolles Buch

Dies ist ein ganz großer Autobiographie. Wolf Biermann hat ein großes Ego, aber das überschattet nicht seine ganz genaue Registrierung von seinem Umwelt. Die DDR-Zeit wird mit alle Gefährlichkeiten und Lächerlichkeiten des Oligarchies porträtiert, und parallel dazu zeigen die Alltagsdramen wie Leute aus allen Schichten mit diesem Irrsinn umgehten.

WBs persönliche Lebensreise ist eine ständigeKonfrontation zwischen Idealismus und Individualismus. Die Wahlen, die er trifft kann man immer Diskutieren, die Relevanz seiner Überlegungen aber nicht.

Tolles Buch.

Wolf Biermann Book

Love it, came to my house in perfect condition!