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Title: Going with the Pitch

Subtitle: Adjusting to Baseball, School and Life as a Division I College Athlete (Second Edition)

Author: Ken Jacobi

Narrator: Peter Bierma

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-16

Publisher: Going with the Pitch: Adjusting to Baseball, School and Life as a Division I College Athlete

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

When I signed my national letter of intent to attend Binghamton University, I officially become a Division I scholarship athlete. As my pen slid across the paper, I thought that the most difficult part of the journey was over. Little did I know that arriving on campus as a vulnerable freshman, playing baseball in the snow belt, and having the coach who recruited me leave before my first semester ever began were just a few of the obstacles I would face on my personal "road to Omaha".

This journey, a four-part chronicle beginning with my freshman year and culminating with senior year, offers an insider's view into the life of a college athlete. As I share my experiences on the baseball diamond, in the classroom, and up in the dorm room, the entire college baseball experience comes to life.

To be able to live, sleep, and play baseball with my best friends for four amazing years is an adventure that I will forever cherish. From late-night study sessions to eight-hour bus rides to game-winning hits, this is my story of learning how to adjust in the face of adversity by "going with the pitch".

Members Reviews:

Awesome work on college baseball!

Ken gave us an unparalleled account of what it's like to play college baseball. The ups and downs will drive you mad and happy for Ken, but in the end his story is what happens to 75% of guys who go play. I highly recommend the book and wish there were more brave alumni willing to tell their stories.

Going With the Pitch Hits a Home Run

Author Ken Jacobi writes about his experiences as a DI baseball player at SUNY Binghamton. The story is not just about his experience at college, it is more than that - it's about fathers and sons, friends, growing up and maturing while going through college. A very nicely told story and well worth the read for anyone, not just a baseball fan. I highly recommend this book.

Four Stars

A great read, very insightful.

Five Stars, Candid and Interesting Tale

Going With The Pitch tells the all too honest tale of the everyday college athlete. It does not tell the story of the superstar, the mvp, or the all-conference selection. Unfortunately, these stories rarely, if ever, reach the public, and I am glad Jacobi had the courage to share what he experienced.

The book is enjoyable and written in a frank and humorous manner. You will laugh at the recollections of college shenanigans, but you will also feel Jacobi's lows. Ultimately, you will be happy that you went along for the ride.

Interesting Info for the potential college player

Having a son that is aggresively pursuing the chance to play college baseball this book is certainly a great way to get inside of what can happen in the college athletic world. The book provides informative realities that you may not really consider. Having read the book gives us a better idea of what to consider during the recruiting process. It was an easy read. College baseball can be a grind with the weather in the north or any place when coaching changes take place. Thanks for sharing your experience.

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Title: Ooh Matron!

Subtitle: The Nomadic Nurse Series, Book 1

Author: Clair Victoria Butfield, Sarah Jane Butfield

Narrator: Tessa Petersen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-16

Publisher: Rukia Publishing

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Sarah Jane has no career aspirations; all she wants is to leave school, work as a cashier at Woolworths, and get married. Then everything changes and she finds herself wearing a fluorescent pink uniform and studying to get into nursing school. What inspired this surprising change of direction? What happens when she leaves home to live in a garrison town with a housemate who is a party animal? The big question being, is she really cut out to be a nurse?

Let's start at the beginning with Sarah Jane as a 16-year-old country girl, a bit old fashioned, but who has a mischievous sense of humor, and who suddenly decides she wants to be a nurse!

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Lovely and charming memoir of what nursing training involves. Rich in details and humorous anecdotes. The wild roommates, their party lifestyle, and heavy drinking were beautifully contrasted with the serious and demanding training they went through all week. Such a candid and revealing glimpse into the lives of these young women as they learned to be effective caregivers. Enjoyable read.

Very enjoyable

I seek out and enjoy books about doctors and especially nurses, and this one was a treat. A little personal stuff, stories about patients, and mostly practicing. She explained what she had to do to get her certificate, and then the lifelong learning experience of nursing.

Book

Did keep my interest

Straightforwardly written. An interesting look at what it takes ...

Straightforwardly written. An interesting look at what it takes to become a nurse in the UK.

Enjoyable read

Interesting account of Sarah's training. Not the best memoir I've ever read (brief & not terribly deep), but enjoyed seeing the training differences between Britain & the U.S.

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Title: Quicksand

Author: Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson - translator

Narrator: Sean Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-11-16

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction but about what it means to be human. I have undertaken a journey from my childhood to the man I am today, writing about the key events in my life and about the people who have given me new perspectives. About men and women I have never met but wish I had.

I write about love and jealousy, about courage and fear. And about what it is like to live with a potentially fatal illness. This book is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago chose the very darkest places for their fascinating pictures. And about the dreadful troll that we are trying to lock away inside the bedrock of a Swedish mountain for the next 100,000 years.

It is a book about how humanity has lived and continues to live and about how I have lived and continue to live my own life. And, not least, about the great zest for life which came back when I managed to drag myself out of the quicksand that threatened to suck me down into the abyss.

Members Reviews:

An unusual autobiography

This is not a typical autobiography: more a philosophical potpourri interwoven with episodes in the authors life. The whole book is suffused with melancholy thoughts of death and fears about the deadly legacy of nuclear waste stored underground by us that may harm the people living thousands of years in the future after inevitable ice-ages have obliterated Northern Europe. He frets over how a warning could be given to them of the dangers of the radiation that takes 100,000 years to dissipate. He contrasts our legacy to the future with discoveries of the skilled ivory carvings and cave paintings of those who lived tens of thousands of years ago.

The authors words are coloured by his diagnosis in 2014 of metastatic cancer with a poor prognosis. He died in 2015. The book is full of thought-provoking stories from the authors experiences of living in foreign countries and most particularly extended periods spent in Africa. Not a happy listen, but I finished it feeling moved and more aware of moral issues about our relationships wth fellow human beings and the damage to the environment that we leave to future generations.

Although not written as a chronological autobiography the stories he tells and thoughts he shares give us an insight into a man who has lived a full life with courage and exercised high moral values.

The narration is excellent.

Outstanding memoir

If you could sum up Quicksand in three words, what would they be?

Gripping, profound and emotive

What other book might you compare Quicksand to, and why?

I find Quicksand unique as a memoir and therefore difficult to draw a comparison.

Have you listened to any of Sean Barretts other performances? How does this one compare?

No.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I would say that it stirred me. Having not been exposed to Mankell`s crime writing, I did not know what to expect; I was profoundly surprised.

Any additional comments?

Firstly, I have to commend Sean Barrett for a pleasant , slow-paced reading on the audio download. A for Mankell's writing, this is the best book I have listened to for a while. I am not a fan of Scandinavian noir, however, I purchased the audible download on the strength of the Guardian review.

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Title: Fade Out

Author: Kayleen Schaefer

Narrator: Teri Clark Linden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-05-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

At 28, writer Kayleen Schaefer's brother was one of the most promising young filmmakers in Hollywood, having shot to success as the writer and director of "Chapter 27," starring future Oscar-winner Jared Leto as John Lennons killer Mark David Chapman. Then, five years later, to the surprise of those closest to him, he left it all behind - abandoning his career, his family and his life, without telling anyone where he was going.

Members Reviews:

Fascinating!

Basically a good fly on the wall story that reads like a one person play. What was interesting was my own personal responses to what was going on. I spent a lot of time trying to understand a family & sibling dynamic completely different to my own experience.

I think a psychologist would have a field day with this, but in my own case it became a reflective thing as I felt strong emotions about how this family or sister did things. Thus I had to ask myself "Is the narrator the most devoted/ annoying / doting/wimpy/frustrating sister in the world or is this more to do with my own baggage?"

A short but intense drama on sister/ brother relationship, family dynamics & status within the family.

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Title: Zombies of Berlin

Author: Ralph Martin

Narrator: Eric Martin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

For generations, the big city has promised romance, danger, opportunity. But what happens when you wake up one hungover morning and realize the promise is gone...along with your cheap apartment? That your whole existence in Berlin - 10 years of easy living based on cheap rent and the ability to just barely make it in the creative industry - was just a historical accident, the cheap rent and Bohemian setting products of a perverse economy, a miracle that couldn't possibly last? What does it do to your sense of place to realize that Berlin is following cluelessly in New York's footsteps, from artsy wonderland to real estate boondoggle? Does that mean Berlin, like New York, is over? Or does it come back to you: Deep down, does it mean that you can't afford to go on fooling yourself?

Part amateur sociology, part autobiographical journey, Zombies of Berlin explores Ralph Martin's experience of gentrification in Berlin and New York and the dawning horror that these cities have windows of raw beauty: Blink and you might miss them. The author takes an anxiety-fueled trip to Leipzig to check out the 'better Berlin', with distinctly mixed results, thrown back upon himself as he tries to figure out whether we shouldn't all just move to the country.

Zombies is not a political pamphlet but a hauntingly melancholic and comical journey: a vivid portrait of status anxiety in the age of real estate. Ralph Martin is an ex-New Yorker, writer, and journalist. His work has appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in the New York Times, and elsewhere.

Members Reviews:

I loved every moment of this wonderful twisty and turny rabbit ...

I loved every moment of this wonderful twisty and turny rabbit hole into that moment, somewhere around middle age, where we stand and wonder what has actually happened to our boho-ness, what have we missed, and why are those guys in Leipzig staring at us. I almost spilled my tea because I couldn't stop laughing at the kidnapping train to the east. And the train ride through Mordor. Ralph Martin has very much his own voice and it makes a piece like this all the more fun. A little self loathing, a little arrogance, followed by shame. And funny. And at the core, the cities we love and are perplexed by, the creative people - the real ones and the posturing -, the rich who follow them, the handcrafted food. It's like an essay in the Atlantic but drunk and the lady you met at the party just told you she's a therapist so you decide to tell her everything.

Smart, funny, insightful, urban AND urbane!

"I Will Find a City, Find Myself a City to Live In" -- David Byrne. Why does it seem whatever city one inhabits "used to be cool back in the day," but now that WE live here, rents are out of control and the city has been pronounced dead? This is a great book that deftly examines this phenom, with brilliantly crafted prose, such as: "...cool is the coral reef that keeps the ocean healthy." A great book for anyone who has ever lived in a city that "used to be great," or dreams of one day living in a city like...oh, I hear Leipzig is all the rage now!

This is a great, swift

This is a great, swift, sad, deft analysis--of the city, and of the author himself.

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Title: You Come for One Reason but Stay for Another

Subtitle: Making the Odyssey to Israel

Author: Mordechai Weiss

Narrator: Shlomo Zacks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-16

Publisher: Zacks Audiobook Productions

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In the summer of 2003, Rabbi Mordechai Weiss, together with his wife, Ellie, and their children made the leap from Teaneck, New Jersey, and joined the many who have made aliyah to Israel from the United States. Personal writings from Rabbi Weiss' regular email updates to family and friends, sharing the personal challenges and triumphs of beginning anew in Israel, form the basis of this book. With his unique perspective and sense of humor, Rabbi Weiss writes of the struggle to make a new home in the Land of Israel.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Beautifully written, hard to put down. Love the guy and love this book.

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Titel: Loan: Aus dem Leben eines Phönix

Autor:: Isabelle Müller

Erzähler: Marie Bierstedt

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 9 hrs and 18 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-31-15

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Finalist des Kindle Storyteller Award 2015

"Was hat mich getrieben? Hoffnung! Hoffnung für die Vertriebenen, für die Verlassenen, für die Einsamen und für die, die an den Himmel glauben."

-- Dau-Thi-Cúc, die sich Loan nannte

In "Loan - Aus dem Leben eines Phönix" erzählt Isabelle Müller die wahre Emanzipationsgeschichte ihrer Mutter Loan, einer eigenwilligen und rebellischen Vietnamesin, die mit knapp zwölf Jahren vor einer Zwangsverheiratung flieht, um auf einer langen und oft gefährlichen Odyssee durch Vietnam, Frankreich und Algerien den Weg zu sich selbst und zu einem freien selbstbestimmten Leben zu finden. Den historischen Hintergrund zu ihrer Identitätssuche bilden die kulturellen und politischen Umwälzungen durch die Kolonisation der Franzosen, der Überfall der Japaner Ende des zweiten Weltkrieges, die Teilung Vietnams in den 50er Jahren und der Krieg Frankreichs gegen Algerien in den 60er Jahren.

"Loan - Aus dem Leben eines Phönix" gibt dem Leser Einblick in eine märchenhafte aber auch teilweise archaische, brutale Kultur in Chinas Nachbarland. Es erzählt von Würde, Toleranz und Akzeptanz, von einer exotischen Kultur einer fast vergessenen Zeit, und schließt hiermit eine wichtige literarische Lücke in der Geschichte Vietnams.

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©2015 Isabelle Müller (P)2015 Audible GmbH

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Title: And the Wind Blew Cold

Subtitle: The Story of an American Pow in North Korea

Author: Richard M. Bassett, Lewis H. Carlson

Narrator: Marlin May

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-15

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A first-person account of the day-to-day struggles of an American held captive in North Korea....

October 6, 1951. Richard Bassett remembers the day vividly. That was the day his platoon ran into an ambush near Kumwha. During the firefight, many were wounded, four were killed, and Bassett, along with three others, was captured. During a month-long march to the POW camp, the Americans frequently came under friendly fire. Surviving the march paled in comparison to what the captured soldiers had to endure at Camp 5 Pyokdong. Frostbite, dysentery, jaundice, and mental breakdowns dwindled their numbers. Starvation and squalid conditions took their toll on Bassett during his 21-month incarceration. Yet he pledged to himself that if anyone were to walk out of this camp alive, it would be him.

When Richard Bassett returned from Korea on convalescent leave in 1953, he set down his experiences in training, combat, and captivity. Then he put the memoir away and tried to forget. More than 20 years later, hospitalized for acute Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, he once again faced his personal demons. Expanding the memoir to include his postwar struggles with the US government and his own wounded psyche, the resulting comprehensive account is published here for the first time.

Bassett captures in plain language and vivid detail those days of his captivity. He describes the shock of capture and ensuing the long march to Pyokdong, North Korea, Camp 5 on the Yellow River, where many prisoners died of untreated wounds, disease, hunger, paralyzing cold, and brutal mistreatment in the bitter winter of 1950-51. He recounts Chinese attempts to mentally break down prisoners in order to exploit them for propaganda. Bassett takes the listener through typical days in a prisoner's life, discussing food, clothing, shelter, and work; the struggle against unremitting boredom; religious, social, and recreational diversions; and even those moments of terror when all seemed lost.

Bassett's story is important to general audiences and scholars alike because it has no counterpart in the literature of the Korean War. And the Wind Blew Cold refutes Cold War era propaganda that often unfairly characterized POWs as brainwashed victims or even traitors who lacked the grit that Americans expected of their brave sons.

Bassett concludes his memoir with a candid discussion of the war's aftermath, his battle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, harassment by a government eager to impugn the loyalty of repatriated POWs, and his long struggle with the Veterans Administration to receive compensation for enduring physical and mental scars. This book will fascinate anyone interested in the Korean War era, in captivity tales and in the resilience of the human spirit.

The book is published by Kent State University Press.

Members Reviews:

It is refreshing to read a first person account of ...

It is refreshing to read a first person account of his experiences as a POW which is characterised by "telling it as it was". It is also noteworthy that there was an absence of bitterness towards his captors. His Christian faith was also significant in the book and it came through as something that sustained him throughout his captivity.

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Title: Abbey Girls

Author: Mary Behan, Valerie Behan

Narrator: Mary Behan, Valerie Behan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-15

Publisher: Mary Behan and Valerie Behan

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Two sisters give a hilarious and poignant account of boarding school life in Ireland in the 1960s. Mary and Valerie Behan were 11 years of age when they were sent to Loreto Abbey Rathfarnham, a convent on the outskirts of Dublin. The Abbey was the Mother House of the Loreto Order of nuns who had established convents throughout the world. Now in their 60s and living in the United States and Canada, Mary and Valerie began a correspondence about their six years at the Abbey. Although they shared many of the same experiences, to their astonishment and delight, they found that they saw the same world through very different eyes. Their school days are recounted in a series of letters that describe a fascinating, self-contained world governed by religion and tradition.

Members Reviews:

Surviving the Abbey

I found this book to be a thoroughly enjoyable traveling companion on a recent long flight from the Midwest to the west coast. From the start, it held my curiosity about what a "boarding school" education in the UK is all about. Especially one that's provided in a convent by a contemplative order of Catholic nuns. I was delighted to find out that being in the hands of strict, but kind, sisters during adolescence, all the while being separated from loving parents, could be something to look back on with gratitude and many fond memories. Mary and Valerie Behan, the two sisters who explore memories of the boarding school scene through back and forth letters over a two year period, find out to their surprise, that, though their memories of daily life and momentous events were often similar, how they experienced life during this time was unique and individual. The authors did more than survive the Abbey, the Abbey gave them the tools to live positive and productive lives.

Loved it!

A perfectly delightful and personal look into an Irish girls' boarding school in the 1960s. The recollections of these two sisters paint a vivid picture for the reader, a look into a world far different from the ones most of us have experienced. It's little wonder that Mary and Valerie have remained so close for all these years, sharing precious memories such as these. I loved reading it.

Pure delight!

What a charming story shared by two sisters. They definitely made the most of their educational foundation and became successful young women. (I just think they will be forever young) I have a strong feeling that they have so much more to share about their adventurous lives. It would be nice to read the next phase.

What is memory?

Intimate and we'll written, this is a brief and charming memoir in the form of letters between two sisters, who spent time in an Irish boarding school in the 1960s. Almost too brief, would have enjoyed more stories, an easy quick read, wish there was more to it.

The format of letters back and forth is unique and makes for a fun read!

Entertaining and enlightening view into life as a teenage girl in an all-girls school in Ireland. The format of letters back and forth is unique and makes for a fun read!

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Title: The Seasoning of a Soul

Subtitle: When Comprehension Comes Through Trial and Experience

Author: Athena Demetrios

Narrator: Athena Demetrios

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-13-15

Publisher: Athena Demetrios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A spiritual odyssey that will open your heart.

Growing up in abject poverty, terrorized by a boarder who lived in the root cellar, Athena Demetrios repressed the memories, thrusting her into a downward spiral of melancholy and despair. Transcendence and healing would come through reliving the horrors of her past through hypnotic regression. A powerful spiritual experience opened doors into other dimensions, which began an odyssey where truth became stranger than fiction.

Her story of courage, mystical insight, and other-worldly guidance will open your heart and challenge your perception of the borders of our minds and the boundaries of our world. This is a tale of past-life visions, hypnotic regression, alien encounters, and spirit communication.

Traveling with her down the pathways and through the rabbit holes of a life lived in relentless pursuit of truth, no matter how strange it seems, will bring you, along with the author, into the radiant light of self-discovery, knowing, and being at peace with all that is.

Members Reviews:

Inspirational, a journey to the heart

Demetrios tells her story beautifully as she brings the reader/listener into her life from childhood through adulthood. We witness her difficult childhood and feel the depths of the challenges she faced as a child and young mother yet, she shares her story to inspire and uplift, never does she portray herself as the victim. Demetrios is authentic and willing to be vulnerable which makes her story that much more compelling. Thank you Athena for your courage in sharing your story and being an inspiration to others who have experienced abuse and or hardships in their life. This audio book is read by Demetrios and is superb quality!

A mesmorizing metaphysical whirlwind

I listened to Athena's true life story pretty much non- stop. It's raw, intense and genuine. She experienced in this life time, life times of learning deep soul lessons, and intense spiritual growth through very challenging life experiences. Through these experiences Athena learns of and heals this and many previous lifetimes of pain and trauma through past life regression therapy. She gains profound channeling and mediumship abilities through her experiences. It's a metaphysical auto biographical master piece. She is deeply open and honest and one seriously tough and tenacious lady who bares it all to the world. Athena has experienced and witnessed several paranormal, mystical, emotional, psychological and metaphysical events that she shares with us on a very deep level. Her voice is calm and mezmerizing. Her story is heart wrenching. Fall in love with this extremely down to earth woman who takes you on a real life spiritual journey of abuse, love, triumph, celestial and dark Beings, animal, spirit and nature communication, and the living of a life on earth being a Light Being in physical form.

The most amazing story of triumph of love

What did you love best about The Seasoning of a Soul?

Written with authenticity, rawness, humility and extreme courage, this book will move to tears anyone who has ever sought the deeper meaning of life. Although this is Athena's personal story, I saw myself standing in her shoes many times throughout the book and felt my wounds heal as I listened about Athena's own healing. This is by far one of the most transformative books I have ever read.