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Title: The Smack Track

Author: Ian McPhedran

Narrator: Peter Byrne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-18

Publisher: Harper Audio

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

From battling pirates to tracking down gun runners, drug smugglers and terrorists; the high energy exploits and explosive adventures of the Australian Navy in the Arabian Gulf.

From Ian McPhedran, best-selling author of The Amazing SAS, Soldiers Without Borders and Too Bold to Die, comes the untold and largely unknown story of how the Royal Australian Navy battles pirates, gun runners and drug smugglers in the seas of the Arabian Gulf and the Horn of Africa along the infamous route known as the "smack track".

For more than 20 years, Australian sailors have been risking their lives, conducting often fraught and dangerous operations in war and in the battle against terrorism. From braving rough seas to boarding rickety dhows or clambering up the sheer steel sides of modern day supertankers looking for contraband, The Smack Track tells a thrilling, eye-witness story of grit, courage, ingenuity and sacrifice.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Enjoyed and received an education about what is going on in that area of the world

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Title: A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf

Author: John Muir

Narrator: Ella Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-17

Publisher: Audioliterature

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

I had long been looking from the wildwoods and gardens of the Northern States to those of the warm South, and at last, all draw-backs overcome, I set forth [from Indianapolis] on the first day of September, 1867, joyful and free, on a thousand-mile walk to the Gulf of Mexico. Crossing the Ohio at Louisville, I steered through the big city by compass without speaking a word to any one. Beyond the city I found a road running southward, and after passing a scatterment of suburban cabins and cottages I reached the green woods and spread out my pocket map to rough-hew a plan for my journey. My plan was simply to push on in a general southward direction by the wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find, promising the greatest extent of virgin forest.

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Members Reviews:

Largely it's a book about botany, and would probably ...

Largely it's a book about botany, and would probably greatly interest those of that persuasion more than one such as I.

John Muir. Walk to Gulf

I liked his descriptions of the South so soon after the Civil war. He was complimentary of the people in Georgia, where I have family. His youthful good luck got him through alligators, snakes and malaria. A real adventure story.

A Fasinating Book

Mr. Muir gave very good descriptions of the places he passed through on his "walk". My special interest was his mention of Murphy, NC where he stayed at my great grandfather's home two or three days. My great grandfather, William Beal, also somewhat a botanist, took him up to Fort Butler and down along side the Hiwassee River, not far from the family home where Mr. Muir found many interesting plants and flowers. Mr. Muir also said he saw for the first time the "holly(Ilex)". My great grandfather is buried in the family cemetery only a short distance from the family home which he built in 1851.

I played along the banks of the Hiwassee when I was a child - it's wonderful to know that my great grandfather and Mr. Muir might have walked along the same area.

One could almost see the Bonaventure Cemetery where he slept many nights while waiting for mail from his brother. I was surprised that he did not have more problems with snakes, alligators and other wild life especially as he traveled through the swamps of Florida or Georgia.

I loved the book - I gave a copy to my son for his birthday who is also enjoying it very much.

Betty Logan

A 1,000 Mile Walk with John Muir

Walk with a young John Muir through the American South just after the Civil War. What a wonderful adventure and different perspective on nature. The South was in shambles but nature was vibrant under Muir's close inspection and connection. This is a pleasant escape from our troubled times into a window of a evolving America. This book takes place just before Muir sails off to the promised land of Northern California which he describes in the last chapter in beautiful detail.

What a Walk!

Another of the great books by John Muir, giving you a front-row seat in his extremely interesting life. This book tells his incredible tale of walking alone and without a gun, 1,000 miles from Indianapolis, Indiana to Cedar Key, Florida on the Gulf of Mexico, just a couple of years after the Civil War ended.

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Title: My Ayahuasca Night Experiencing the Truths of Buddhism

Author: Michael Weber

Narrator: John James

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-20-17

Publisher: Michael Weber

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A wake-up call from the void! Raw, startling, and seductive, this is a book for those who want to know how ayahuasca works, as well as for anyone who is drawn to Buddhism or intrigued by what it means to be human.

My Ayahuasca Night Experiencing the Truth of Buddhism is a poignant story of self-discovery, a personal account of a journey into the secrets of human condition. While it represents an intimate and detailed recounting of a single ayahuasca ceremony - an eye-opening read for those who never tried it - the narrative also explores trials we all have in common: beliefs, suffering, and ego. Whether you are intrigued by the mystical plant mixture or seeking deeper truths about life, this is a must-read!

As the author himself says: "Inside, I suspect, we are quite similar in some ways, like having an unordinary curiosity about us and the life we were given. I believe we all come with certain threads baked in and those of us sufficiently curious and fearless will pull on them and detour on unpredictable paths in our lives. Although these diversions may appear random, the experiences they produce prove related and coherent."

Members Reviews:

Very Interesting

definitely worth listening to if you are going to participate. however that said go into it with an open mind. trust the chaman

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Title: The Blood of Patriots

Subtitle: How I Took Down an Anti-Government Militia with Beer, Bounty Hunting, and Badassery

Author: Bill Fulton, Jeanne Devon

Narrator: Bill Fulton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

For Bill Fulton, being a soldier was his identity. He was called to protect and serve. So when the army wanted to send him to Alaska, he went - they had never steered him wrong, after all.

After an involuntary medical discharge, Fulton was adrift until he started a military surplus store in Anchorage, where he also took on fugitive recovery missions. He was back on his feet, working with other badasses and misfits he considered brothers. He took pride in his business, with a wife and daughters at home. His life was happy and full.

But when a customer revealed he planned to attack a military recruiting station, Fulton had to make a choice: turn a blind eye and hope for the best or risk his safety, his reputation, and his business by establishing contact with his customers' archnemesis: the FBI.

He chose the latter, and his life changed forever.

Fulton would soon find himself tumbling down a rabbit hole, learning of a militia movement afoot called "sovereign citizens" who believe themselves to be above the law. The FBI classifies this domestic terrorist group as the number one threat to law enforcement in the country.

Set against the vast, rugged, and sometimes lawless backdrop of Alaska, The Blood of Patriots is the story of an ideology gone bloody in the distorted belief that murder is patriotic. It is the true story of how Fulton wrestled his demons and became an undercover confidential informant for the FBI, helping to bring down a militia whose charismatic leader was plotting to kill federal judges and their families and law enforcement officers.

Fulton and The Mudflats' Jeanne Devon will take you on a journey through the dark and weirdly humorous life on the Last Frontier while exploring questions of patriotism, the meaning of the Second Amendment, and the legitimate exercise of governmental power. The Blood of Patriots reveals the seamy underbelly of our nation's militia movements and reminds us of the true nature of patriotism.

Members Reviews:

Lucky there are Patriots like Bill Fulton

A really great listen to. Kept my attention on every word. One of the best author narrations I've heard. You could tell by the sound his voice he was really going back to his memory of the situations he was in. You need to listen to this book. Thanks for your service to the country...

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Title: Man Alive

Subtitle: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

Author: Thomas Page McBee

Narrator: Thomas Page McBee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Winner - Best Transgender Nonfiction - 2015 Lambda Literary Awards

Best Books of 2014 - Publishers Weekly

Best Books of 2014 - NPR Books

Best Nonficton Books of 2014 - Kirkus Reviews

10 Best Transgender Nonfiction Books - Advocate

What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life - one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who almost killed him. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood and tells us how a brush with violence sent him on the quest to untangle a sinister past and freed him to become the man he was meant to be.

Man Alive engages an extraordinary personal story to tell a universal one - how we all struggle to create ourselves and how this struggle often requires risks. Far from a transgender transition tell-all, Man Alive grapples with the larger questions of legacy and forgiveness, love and violence, agency and invisibility.

About the author: Thomas Page McBee was the "masculinity expert" for VICE and writes the columns "Self-Made Man" for The Rumpus and "The American Man" for Pacific Standard. His essays and reportage have appeared in The New York Times, TheAtlantic.com, Salon, and BuzzFeed, where he was a regular contributor on gender issues. He lives in New York City, where he works as the editor of special projects at Quartz, and is currently at work on a book about modern American masculinity.

Critic Reviews:

"Thomas Page McBee's Man Alive hurtled through my life. I read it in a matter of hours. It's a confession, it's a poem, it's a time warp, it's a brilliant work of art. I bow down to McBee - his humility, his sense of humor, his insightfulness, his structural deftness, his ability to put into words what is often said but rarely, with such visceral clarity and beauty, communicated." (Heidi Julavits, author of The Vanishers and The Uses of Enchantment)

"Man Alive is a sweet, tender hurt of a memoir...about forgiveness and self-discovery, but mostly it's about love, so much love. McBee takes us in his capable hands and shows us what it takes to become a man who is gloriously, gloriously alive." (Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and An Untamed State)

Members Reviews:

Beautiful and healing

One of the most beautiful books I have read in so long. I feel like it stirred healing and grace in me. Strongly recommend.

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Title: Mercy Never Sleeps

Subtitle: Sleepless Thoughts on Faith, Heaven, and the Fear of Heights

Author: Jamie Blaine

Narrator: Jamie Blaine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-17

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Maybe God still moves and speaks in mysterious ways - some even stranger than we might ever expect.

Jamie Blaine's life isn't exactly going as planned. When a twist of fate places the late-night psychiatric crisis guy on 24/7 call, his insomnia ramps up to desperate stages as he veers closer to becoming the very kind of person he's trying to save.

After a well-meaning colleague offers a workbook promising "the divine secret of life", Blaine throws himself into the stereotypical journey of self-discovery with hilarious and heartbreaking conclusions that are anything but clichéd.

Jamie travels time to untangle his own story of God through the wilderness, battling alligators, acrophobia, anaphylactic shock, Christian tricksters, Christmas, insomnia zombies, hymn-singing bridge jumpers, preteen bullies, paranoid ER patients armed with knives, hatchet-wielding housewives, septuagenarian pugilists, locust swarms, and ghosts of the present, future, and past.

If you've ever felt lost and stumbling, like you'll never find your way to purpose, plans, or the promised land, Mercy Never Sleeps is a traveling companion, a field guide to making peace with your own rambling path home.

Members Reviews:

"Mercy Never Sleeps" is An Outpost of Hope

There is simply no overstating our continuing need for reminders of grace in our lives, not only available, but a grace ever present; a mercy that never sleeps. Jamie Blaine's new book, "Mercy Never Sleeps" is just such a hope outpost. Nearly two years ago exactly I was introduced to Jamie through his book, "Midnight Jesus". In part, here's what I said about "Midnight Jesus": "Midnight Jesus" is, for me, a well of hope, the antithesis of the "valley of dry bones" that is my typical experience of so many churches; the antithesis because this Jesus, "Midnight Jesus", THE Jesus and the way He is presented here in Jamie's writing made it impossible for me to not find make-do altars where ever I happened to be reading i.e. tears at the kitchen table and in nearly every room in the house. The Love that comes through in Jamie's writing calls me back to hope, back to home, back to risking prayer And listening and trusting again." Truly, if you haven't already read "Midnight Jesus", do. While "Mercy Never Sleeps" stands quite well on its own, I was glad I had the foundation that "Midnight Jesus" provided. In "Mercy Never Sleeps", as in Jamie's first book, I not only feel like I find a soulmate, traveling companion, and friend in Jamie, but, more importantly, in Jesus. I appreciated the way another reviewer put it in saying that we have enough books by "A+ Christians" that tell us "This is the way, the steps to take to be a happy, clappy, prosperous, and certain Xtian like me!" ugh. God deliver us! Blaine's books, however, as well put by the reviewer, invite us to travel alongside a "C- Christian" (obviously, no offense is intended here), ragged and stumbling, sometimes apparently bent on making the wrong choices and frequently bumping in to grace, much like most of us probably; certainly like me. I want to be brief here, as you could be reading "MJ" and "Mercy Never Sleeps" instead of my words.

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Title: Without a Trace

Subtitle: The Life of Sierra Phantom

Author: Danielle Nadler

Narrator: Avery Clyde

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-17

Publisher: Danielle Nadler

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

It started as just another interview. Young journalist Danielle Nadler agreed to call an old man who had lived 50 years in the wilderness of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Through their weekly conversations, the mountaineer boasts of his decades of outdoor survival only to eventually reveal his personal tragedies that drove him to life in the wild.

Without a Trace drops listeners into the California mountain town of Bishop alongside the man locals call Sierra Phantom just as he surrenders to life with an address, searches for a renewed purpose and a community with which to share it.

Members Reviews:

Author & narrator paint an amazing visual

The author did an excellent job connecting the reader to the real-life characters in Bishop through her excellent descriptions of Phantom, and his surroundings. As I listened to the Narrator tell me about Phantom, his stories, and his life, I felt like I knew him. I'd been to his apartment, I'd seen him riding his bike, I pictured him sitting in front of the bakery tying his flies. I grew incredibly attached to Phantom and his past and what was to become of his future. I enjoyed reading about this wholesome person who lived a life most of us have only dreamed of doing on a really bad day at work. His first priority was to take care of those around him, even though that was not the life that was initially handed to him. I wish Phantom was someone I knew in my life, making the world better one fish at a time.

Heartwarming. Made me Laugh, Smile and Cry Loved

I LOVE this book it's made me laugh and cry. Having lost my Father as well, I was caught off guard and had to sit in my work's parking lot, crying, while listening to the author, Danielle and Phantom talk about her Dad. I'm at the part where he meets up with Laura and her daughter and he retells the story of how his family died in Germany. I was speechless. I'm only half way in and can't get anything done, since I just want to listen. I bought the audible version and cannot recommend it enough! Danielle Nadler is an amazing writer. Scratch that! Novelist!!!

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Title: Life's a Beach

Author: George Mahood

Narrator: James Elliott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-17

Publisher: George Mahood

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Join George and his family as they pack their bags to begin an exciting new life down south. Picking up where Every Day Is a Holiday left off, George continues his celebration of the weird and wonderful calendar days in this laugh-out-loud adventure, where life's a beach.

Members Reviews:

Home for the Holidays

After reading the book covering the first half of the year (Every Day's a Holiday), this book is like spending time with your favorite family members who happen to live in the UK. George and Rachel feel like cousins that you don't get to spend enough time with. Their daily escapades are hilarious and heart warming. I've read George's book about biking across the U.K. and driving a wreck across the U.S. and both were entertaining... but with these two books about daily holidays the Mahoods became part of my family. As Life's a Beach was drawing near the end I found myself rationing out minutes- trying to make it last longer. Already I miss them all!

thoroughly enjoyable :great bedtime listen

lovely and lively written with a great level of optimism and good humour - recommend

I just loved this book and your other 2

I just finished all 3 of George's hilarious books, highly recommended, so funny and joyful.

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Title: Encountering a Narcissistic Sociopath

Author: Angela Ellington

Narrator: Ashley Nero

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-19-17

Publisher: Revival Waves of Glory Books & Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

After three amazing years with who Angela Ellington believed was her future husband, she found herself expecting a child. Angela's life soon got turned upside down due to lies, manipulation, and deception.

Members Reviews:

Boring

It was a self induced drama filled junkit. Sorry but it read like a notebook filled one sided fact piece and at times I had to figure out who was the sociopath, unclear and very boring book.

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Title: Thirty Days in Quito

Subtitle: Two Gringos and a Three-Legged Cat Move to Ecuador

Author: K. Kris Loomis

Narrator: Jodi Gaylord

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-05-17

Publisher: K.Kris Loomis

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Ever wonder what it would be like to pick up one day and move abroad?

In the summer of 2013, Kris Loomis and her husband sold all their worldly possessions and, along with their three-legged cat, Triplet, did just that. They left their comfy life behind and moved to Ecuador!

Follow along as they battle 'mañana' time, stinky buses, and the dreaded 'Frankenstein' shower. Will they adjust to South American culture? Will Triplet learn to meow in Spanish? Will the stupid black beans ever cook at that altitude?

Thirty Days in Quito: Two Gringos and a Three-Legged Cat Move to Ecuador is a humorous first-hand account of a couple stepping out of their comfort zone, holding on tight, and learning to breathe at 9,000 feet.

Thirty Days in Quito: Two Gringos and a Three-Legged Cat Move to Ecuador is a fun must listen for anyone interested in travel or curious about other cultures, and future expats will get a glimpse of what moving abroad is really like!

Members Reviews:

A fun account of life in a foreign country!

Thirty Days in Quito, by Kris Loomis, is a breezy, easy-to-read, lighthearted, journal-style memoir of a couple and their cat moving from the US to Ecuador.

I had fun discovering Quito with Kris and comparing and contrasting lifestyle differences between South America and the United States. This is a great read if you are considering a move to a completely different land, or even if you're planning a lengthy visit somewhere new and different. I think you could take Kris's lessons and advice and warnings and apply them in similar situations.

This memoir will have you laughing and sympathizing at the same time. Based on Kris's vivid accounts, if you go to Ecuador, be sure to experience a heladeria and Old Town, but beware of Frankenstein showers and marinated cuy!

I love travelogues. My wife and I have both spent ...

I love travelogues. My wife and I have both spent time abroad and therefore I was looking forward to receiving my print copy of Thirty Days In Quito. I was not disappointed. This is an interesting, funny read that gets you invested in the people they meet and the places they go.

Kris Loomis writes in a conversational style and takes you along on the journey as she and her husband adjust to life in Ecuador. From their one bedroom, fully furnished apartment (only, not so much), they set out on buses to explore Quito. Anyone who has spent time in countries that are 'basics only' can relate to spotty phone service, makeshift plumbing, and the absolute luxury that is hot water. The small victories such as ground coffee (testify, sister), an oven, or a helpful local can feel like major, major victories when you are living on manana time. The people of Ecuador come across as friendly and gracious. You feel as though they become your friends as well reading, and I think I need to resume my Spanish lessons so we can take a visit!

I can't wait for the next book in what I hope is a series from the author, as I need to see how Triplet adjusted to Cuenca!

It's like you're right there in Quito!

I loved this book!! I don't know if I will ever go to Ecuador but thanks to Kris, I feel like I have a taste of what it would be like. I really enjoyed reading about the adventures of Kris, Hugh, and Triplet. All told with a great sense of humour.