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Title: The Dog Stays in the Picture: How My Rescued Greyhound Helped Me Cope with My Empty Nest

Author: Susan Morse

Narrator: Susan Morse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-09-14

Publisher: Singing Beach, Incorporated

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This is not a book about a dog. I really do prefer my husband - honest. But it's hard to tell the story of our journey into the empty nest, and leave out one particular animal. Which kind of illustrates the problem.

"Susan Morse's second memoir, THE DOG STAYS IN THE PICTURE, is a hectic and hilarious look at growing up and letting go. There's a little bit of Hollywood in the story, and a lot of family, along with love and loss and sickness and health, but most of all there is Lilly, neurotic and loyal Lilly, graceful and fast, with a dramatic past and a future full of hope. Morse has written an extraordinary tale of transition for dog and human both that is not to be missed." William Lasher, New York Times bestselling author of The Barkeep

"Morse's touching and sometimes laugh-out-loud memoir reminds us that in the act of rescuing someone else, we often end up rescuing ourselves." Lee Woodruff, bestselling author and contributing reporter for CBS This Morning

"I read this book straight through in one night, and as an avid reader and greyhound rescuer, there are very few books which implore me to finish them in one night. Susan's voice is real and raucous, and I can't wait to read it again." Claudia Presto, founder of The Greyhound Gang

Members Reviews:

Not so much about the dog

I must have misunderstood what this was about, as it was far less about the dog than I had hoped. Sorry, but I did not enjoy this.

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Title: Not Fade Away

Subtitle: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found

Author: Sascha Alper, Rebecca Alexander

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-11-14

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 32 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Thirty-four-year-old Rebecca Alexander is a psychotherapist, a spin instructor, a volunteer, and an athlete. She is also almost completely blind, with significantly deteriorated hearing. Not Fade Away is a deeply moving exploration of the obstacles we all face-physical, psychological, and philosophical. Rebecca's story is an exquisite reminder to live each day to its fullest. In Not Fade Away, Rebecca charts her journey from a teenager who tried to hide her disabilities to a woman who is able to face the world exactly as she is. Even though Rebecca inhabits a gradually darkening world, she refuses to let that stop her from living life with joy and enthusiasm.

Critic Reviews:

"Rebecca Alexander's indomitable spirit spills out on to the pages of this incredible memoir. She will lift you up . . . the way she did for me." ---Hoda Kotb, co-anchor of the Today show

Members Reviews:

Loved this!

Would you listen to Not Fade Away again? Why?

Definitely. Rebecca's experiences are by turns unique and universal. She has had to come to terms with herself, her sexuality, what it manes to have a disability...

Have you listened to any of Tavia Gilberts other performances before? How does this one compare?

I have, and for the most part, I do like her narration. I will definitely check out more of her performances.

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

In portions, both.

Any additional comments?

Rebecca Alexander is by turns an enigma and an every-woman. She is both losing her sight and hearing, and has taken the controversial step of receiving a cochlear implant.

She is strong, capable, and very self-aware. Kudos to her for writing this book; I hope she writes more!

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Title: All God's Dangers

Subtitle: The Life of Nate Shaw

Author: Theodore Rosengarten

Narrator: Sean Crisden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 23 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-14

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Nate Shaw's father was born into slavery. Nate was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton and plowing behind a mule. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's livestock. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison.This triumphant autobiography, All God's Dangers, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw's oral reminiscences, is the plainspoken story of an "over average" man who witnessed momentous changes in the lives of Southern people, black and white, and whose unassuming courage helped bring those changes about.

Critic Reviews:

"There are only a few American autobiographies of surpassing greatness.... Now there is another one, Nate Shaw's." (The New York Times)

Members Reviews:

Very educational and enjoyable.

It took a little while to get used to the deep southern accent used in the narration but the book was well worth the effort.

hearing a voice from a 100 years ago

First hand account of living in the south in the at the start of the 1900s.

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Title: A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

Author: Ben Macintyre

Narrator: Michael Tudor Barnes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-14

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor, and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby better than anyone, and then discovered they had not known him at all.

This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience; of an ideological battle waged by men with cut-glass accents and well-made suits in the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and Washington; of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed.

Members Reviews:

Riveting!

What did you love best about A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal?

All of it. What more can one say!

What was one of the most memorable moments of A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal?

The whole book!

Which character as performed by Michael Tudor Barnes was your favorite?

All of them!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes!

Any additional comments?

Recommend more like this, please!

Retold with Gripping Narrative

A true story, one most people are familiar with, but still the level of deceipt and national betrayal so very shocking. Brilliantly retold.

Brilliant

A superb reader. He captures exactly the feeling of the time.

Great story, of course I love spy stories especially true ones.

It was a shame to finish it.

Highly recommended.

Utterly brilliant

A fantastic retelling of the Philby story with special focus on his friendship with Elliot. The Cambridge spies narrative is pushed through fairly quickly but what follows is better still. Philby's betrayal is complete but the human element is emphasised here with the betrayal of his friends. You will certainly enjoy this if you have enjoyed the author's other works but I find it hard to think of anyone who would not love this. The

The superb narration completes a fine package. Highly recommended.

Fantastic, utterly enthralling.

Michael Tudor Barnes brought the book to life. Engaging reading, clear distinction between the book's characters and very hard to stop listening each night. MacIntyre's jounrey through the story of Philby, the infamous Cambridge 5 and the, to me at least, lesser known of Elliott, was engrossing. Enough fact to substantiate the unknown and speculation, and enough narrative to bring alive pre, peri and post cold war espionage operations.

I had little interest in cold war espionage prior to deciding upon this book, my interest was piqued very early in this book.

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Title: Letters from a Lost Generation

Subtitle: First World War letters of Vera Brittain and four friends

Author: Mark Bostridge, Alan Bishop

Narrator: Amanda Root, Jonathan Firth, Full Cast

Format: Original Recording

Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-14

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A selection of the powerful and poignant wartime letters of Vera Brittain and her friends.

"If war spares me," wrote Vera Brittain to her brother, Edward, in 1916, "it will be my one aim to immortalise in a book the story of us four." Seventeen years later, Vera was to achieve her aim with the acclaimed Testament of Youth.

This series of letters was the inspiration behind Testament. Written between Vera; her brother; her fiancé, Roland Leighton; and their two best friends, Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow, they give a unique perspective on the most horrifying conflict the world has ever seen. They show the heartbreaking disillusionment of an idealistic public-school generation, raised on ideas of patriotism and duty, as the reality of war emerged. Yet they also give a fascinating insight into the era as a whole: their generations literary tastes and the place of women in society.

Read by Amanda Root, Jonathan Firth, Rupert Graves, James Wallace, and Robert Portal, and first heard on BBC Radio 4, these deeply moving letters let us hear for ourselves the voices of Vera Brittains lost generation.

Members Reviews:

Never Forget

If you could sum up Letters from a Lost Generation in three words, what would they be?

Gone too young.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Letters from a Lost Generation?

Each time Vera received a telegram you could just feel the pain.

What about the narratorss performance did you like?

I thought all the performances were wonderful. I especially enjoyed Jonathan Firth as Edward Brittain. He did a lovely job capturing the journey from idealism to fatalism.

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

Only their words were left behind.

Quality issues, the story was probably good

While nice to hear a throwback to an earlier time, the effort to localize it made it somewhat distracting, and the quality was low.

Abridged versions never work.

Fantastic story, but they cut out half the book. ONLY downside. Apart from that, amazing.

An Amazing Compilation of Lettters

This is the story of the people in Vera Britains life who fought in the First World War, told through the letters they exchanged with Vera Britain and each other. Through the letters, we discover how the war changes the attitudes of the characters towards love and war.

The dramatization can be completed in 3 days. Go to the end of 1915 on the first day, the middle of 1917 on the second day, and the end on the third day.

My criticisms are that the sounds of war are too faint, and the readers sound older than the characters whose letters they are reading. None of this detracts from the bringing to life off the letters.

Very moving

What did you like most about Letters from a Lost Generation?

Whilst heavily abridged from the original book this audible version is exceptionally well narrated. After becoming emotional over Testament of Youth this book, with the reading of their letters, brings home the horror of what Vera Brittain must of felt during that terrible war.

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Title: The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist

Subtitle: Girl Meets Oil

Author: Christine Bader

Narrator: Christine Bader, Rose Itzcovitz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-14

Publisher: Bibliomotion, Inc

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

There is an invisible army of people deep inside the worlds biggest and best-known companies, pushing for safer and more responsible practices. They are trying to prevent the next Rana Plaza factory collapse, the next Deepwater Horizon explosion, the next Foxconn labor abuses. Obviously, they dont always succeed. Christine Bader was one of those people. She loved BP and then-CEO John Brownes lofty rhetoric on climate change and human rights - until a string of fatal BP accidents, Brownes abrupt resignation under a cloud of scandal, and the start of Tony Haywards tenure as chief executive, which would end with the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Baders story of working deep inside the belly of the beast is unique in its details, but not in its themes: of feeling like an outsider both inside the company (accused of being a closet activist) and out (assumed to be a corporate shill); of getting mixed messages from senior management; of being frustrated with corporate life but committed to pushing for change from within. The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: Girl Meets Oil is based on Baders experience with BP and then with a United Nations effort to prevent and address human rights abuses linked to business. Using her story as its skeleton, Bader weaves in the stories of other Corporate Idealists working inside some of the world's biggest and best-known companies.

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Members Reviews:

The voice ruined the book

Decent story, but the narrator sounding like she was talking to a bunch of children, with a high pitched voice and drawn out pronunciations ruined he listening experience.

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Title: Bright Rivers

Subtitle: Celebrations of Rivers and Fly-fishing

Author: Nick Lyons

Narrator: Dennis Holland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Bright Rivers chronicles the angling passions and frustrations of one of fly-fishing's greatest men of letters.

A city dweller trapped in the complexities of modern life, Nick Lyons has always found solace in his pilgrimages to great rivers. It is there that he fishes for trout, and in Bright Rivers, Lyons recounts the sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious experiences of his expeditions to the Delaware, Beaverkill, Madison, Big Hole, and Yellowstone rivers, sharing reminiscences of trout taken, released, and sometimes lost. No one writes better about not catching fish than Nick Lyons, and perhaps no one writes better about angling, period. This edition includes a new foreword by the author.

From a richly textured diary of a summer in the Catskills to moving recollections of fly-fishing in Montana, Lyons brilliantly captures the wonderful tension between gray streets and bright rivers.

Critic Reviews:

"Nick Lyons enters the select company of the finest writers in the genre with his new book about his experiences on the bright rivers he has fished from the Catskills to Montana." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Exceptional

One of the most articulate and relatable outdoor writers of our time. Great narration.

Top Class Fly Fishing Literature

Nothing more than you would expect from Nick Lyons, but yet more excellent piscatorial writings to grace our pastime.. Highly recommended.

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Title: Screw Everyone

Subtitle: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy

Author: Ophira Eisenberg

Narrator: Ophira Eisenberg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-18-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 253 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Screw Everyone is comedian Ophira Eisenberg's wisecracking account of how she spent most of her life saying "yes" to everything - and everyone - and how that attitude ultimately helped her overcome her phobia of commitment.

Skeptical about long-term relationships, Eisenberg approached dating as a sort of research experiment from early on: She spent her twenties traveling from futon to futon and gathering data, figuring that one day she'd put it all together somehow and build her own perfect Frankenmate. When she met a guy who didn't fall for the emotionally cavalier facade she'd constructed (a guy who wanted marriage and monogamy), she knew it was time to reevaluate.

From her first kiss to saying "I do", Screw Everyone is an honest, hilarious chronicle of how one woman discovered herself, conquered her fears, and even found the real thing one promiscuous encounter at a time.

Members Reviews:

Funny, good for passing time

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The book was well written, funny and great story.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Screw Everyone?

The last few chapters were the funniest. I don't want to give the book away but it was worth the read.

What about Ophira Eisenbergs performance did you like?

She really helped with the character and did a great job with the story.

What else would you have wanted to know about Ophira Eisenbergs life?

I feel like the readers are openly invited into her life and the story didn't leave out any details. Maybe another book is in the near future?

Best Audiobook EVER... and I'm not even done yet.

THIS BOOK IS HYSTERICAL. Ophira wrote this book with her obvious intelligence, snappy delivery and unapologetic candor... all of which combined make this great book probably the best book I'll hear in 2014. [Considering I have 112 titles in my online library, I feel very qualified to say this.] Oh, and I'm only 2/3rd done. As the title would suggest, it is slightly provocative, but that only adds to its complete awesomeness. If you're a woman, you will (unless you live under a rock) relate. If you're a dude, you'll enjoy Ophira's exploits and masculine approaches to dealing with/understanding men. Deep down she was always a girl looking for love, but thankfully (because it gave her material for this book) it was in all the wrong places. In the end, kissing a lot of frogs will eventually net you a prince. Thanks, Ophira!

Actually a 3.75 Stars....but I rounded up :)

Not as good as some other books in this genre...but still, I made it through the whole thing & there were several parts that made me laugh out loud, hard. Good enough to recommend to a friend....and I might even listen to it again in 6 months. ((((i retouch & process photographic images, so audiobooks are my salvation....)))

Some definite MEANDERING at times, but she gets back on track pretty quickly..... The brutal honesty kept me coming back for more.

Not a self help book. But helpful anyway.

Loved this story. Very relatable. This was not a self help book, but was helpful anyway. At moments, I laughed out loud and found myself noting the similarities to my own life.

Damn funny

I thought it would be as funny as another comic dating memoir and it was and then some.

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Title: Fifth Chinese Daughter

Author: Jade Snow Wong

Narrator: Andi Arndt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-30-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Originally published in 1945 and now reissued with a new introduction by the author, Jade Snow Wong's story is one of struggle and achievements. These memoirs of the author's first twenty-four years are thoughtful, informative, and highly entertaining. They not only portray a young woman and her unique family in San Francisco's Chinatown, but they are rich in the details that light up a world within the world of America. The third-person singular style is rooted in Chinese literary form, reflecting cultural disregard for the individual, yet Jade Snow Wong's story also is typically American.

We first meet Jade Snow Wong the child, narrowly confined by the family and factory life, bound to respect and obey her elders while shouldering responsibility for younger brothers and sisters - a solemn child well versed in the proper order of things, who knew that punishment was sure for any infraction of etiquette. Then the schoolgirl caught in confusion between the rigid teaching of her ancestors and the strange ways of her foreign classmates. After that, the college student feeling her was toward personal identity in the face of parental indifference or outright opposition. And finally the artist whose early triumphs were doubled by the knowledge that she had at long last won recognition from her family.

Members Reviews:

A person as well as a female

I first encountered Jade Snow Wong's work in an anthology about cooking that I recently read. One of the chapters of this book was included in that book, and it was so charming, it made me curious to read more. I really enjoyed Fifth Chinese Daughter. The author was born into a traditional, hard-working Chinese family in San Francisco in the 1920s. Her early life was spent mostly around those of her own race, but once she entered kindergarten, her world opened up considerably. Her parents demanded quite a lot - unquestioning obedience, hard work, little play (it's easy to see where today's so-called Tiger parents got their ideas) and little emotional support. Jade Snow eventually finds other people to help her deal with growing up in two worlds and reconciling them as best she can. You find yourself rooting for her every step of the way - through school (including nine grueling years of Chinese school AFTER regular school), college - which was quite a struggle to get into, the working world, through to her discovery of her life's work.

The story is told in the third person, reflecting cultural disregard for the individual, and covers roughly 25 or so years of the author's life. It's a wonderful journey, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in Chinese-American culture.

A Chinese "Mommie Dearest" ?

I like true stories about real people. This fit the bill but was so extremely painful to get through that I almost put it aside. The autocratic, tradition-bound father who falls in love with a teen-age Eurasian beauty and begins a new family after the death of his first wife in childbirth calls all the shots for the entire blended family. The new family is the only one that really matters to the selfish and greedy stepmother. The baby girl who was blamed for the death of her mother becomes the scapegoat for the whole family, especially the stepmother who is perhaps an all-time classic of the evil variety, but the only mother this child has ever known.

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Title: Saying Good-Bye to Your Prostate

Subtitle: A Decidedly Outside-the-Box Journal on How to Beat Prostate Cancer and Laugh While Doing It

Author: Jamie MacKenzie

Narrator: Jamie MacKenzie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-13

Publisher: Taconic Productions, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

What could possibly be funny about prostate cancer and prostate-removal surgery? Almost everything, it turns out - if you let it be. This handbook memoir, written by prostate cancer survivor, actor, writer, producer, Jamie MacKenzie, walks men and their loved ones through all of the serious steps before them - from PSA numbers rising to determining whether to have a biopsy, from diagnosis to pre-op, from surgery to recovery - all while not only telling readers what to expect, but also showing them how to mine the inherent humor that will unexpectedly and mercifully accompany the fear. Written because the author, while acknowledging the many fine books available on the subject, felt that they were too dry and somber, and felt like an additional punishment to have to read; that what they lacked was first-hand access to the roller coaster of emotions one has when taking this harrowing, involuntary journey. With whimsical illustrations heading each chapter, reflecting its content, this heartfelt memoir disarms and encourages readers, reminding them that smiling is permissible even when faced with a serious health crisis. This is what it actually feels like to face prostate disease, to undergo prostate removal surgery, and to go forward with one's life, on a very personal and accessible level. This is an intimate celebration of humanity - with a portion of proceeds going to Prostate Cancer Research.

Members Reviews:

A fun read for a prostatectomy survivor

I had some good laughs listening to his story.... he got a few of the prostate cancer / prostatectomy facts wrong, but this is a story of survival, not a text book. As humorous personal tale, it totally works!

Read this first before Dr. Patrick Walsh's book

Would you listen to Saying Good-Bye to Your Prostate again? Why?

Why? You ask. I just have couple of reasons; simpler to understand, funny as heck and full of great pointers. Highly recommended reading. I'm not even kidding you.