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Title: Surviving Lasts a Lifetime

Subtitle: A Parent's Journey Through Medical Trauma

Author: Astrid Hendren

Narrator: Astrid Hendren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-16

Publisher: Astrid Hendren

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Surviving Lasts a Lifetime: A Parent's Journey Through Medical Trauma details the journey of a young mother who survives a near death experience against all odds. It chronicles the survival, recovery, and the difficult task of moving on, and integrating a new normal. Astrid wrote letters as a "guide to life" for her children in case she would not live to teach them to her own children, as the trauma brought into sharp focus life's great questions about love, family, and purpose. This book is a source and inspiration for other survivors, parents, caregivers, medical professionals, and mental health professionals dealing with such a devastating chapter to give them strength facing their own challenges. It is intended as a reminder that people are surviving all around us, and that surviving lasts a lifetime, and does not necessarily fit neatly into society's stringent guidelines and expectations for coping with any given trauma.

Members Reviews:

Not Alone.

As I listened to Astrid's journey I wept silently. As she described her emotional journey it was as if she could read my mind. As a brain injury and stroke survivors do live their own personal battle to come to terms with the new self. Our families and friends around us also suffer with how to cope with a disabled loved one.

Their are angels amongst us assisting us on our life journeys.

Thank you Astrid Hendren.

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Title: Five Weeks: a Lifetime

Subtitle: The True Journey of Clinton Jacob

Author: Hannah Sullivan

Narrator: Karen P. Luisi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-16

Publisher: Hannah Sullivan

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Suppose you have a teacher who knows the secret of life. A teacher who can show you what it takes to live to the fullest, to love until your heart bleeds out - to have it all, and then to let it all go. Now, suppose your teacher is only five weeks old.

When the Sullivans are told their unborn child has a congenital heart defect, they have no idea where the news will lead them. Their dreams of bedtime cuddles and soft baby coos give way to the incessant beeping of hospital machinery and the sharp smell of antiseptic. With two young children in tow, the uprooted family takes an unexpected journey discovering the truth of love, sorrow, and ultimately, the gift of life.

This true story - comprised of journal entries, letters, and emails - is the legacy of one small boy's lifetime.

Members Reviews:

This is why audiobooks exist

The impact of this sad, touching, inspiring and hopeful story is greatly enhanced by Karen Luisi's tasteful, moving performance. This is a great example of why audiobooks exist as an art form.

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Title: Yearning for Normal

Author: Susan Ellison Busch

Narrator: Susan Ellison Busch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-23-16

Publisher: Gray Horse Press

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This award-winning memoir tells a mother's story of raising her son Michael, who was born missing a submicroscopic piece of chromosome 22. That tiny missing fragment of DNA affected every aspect of his life physically, mentally, and spiritually. Michael's mother describes her adventures and misadventures with the medical system, educational system, and legal systems during his growing up years. She also describes her own internal struggles and wrestling matches with God. While Michael and his mother were both yearning for normal through their struggles, they were also learning acceptance and love.

Members Reviews:

Universal Appeal!

A thousand thanks to Susan for writing such a powerful and personal portrayal of living this trajectory, and to Mike for his courage in allowing his story to be told with such honesty. I too could not put it down. Very very well done!! It is so important to bring this syndrome to professional and public awareness, as it is frequently the âinvisible disabilityâ. To Susanâs excellent list of support websites, I would add for parents and especially teachers the http://dempsterfamilyfoundation.org/ website which stores many of the great CABIL videos, and the Friends of Quinn for kids 13 and older living with 22q and other learning differences: http://www.friendsofquinn.com/.

A mother's love is unconditional.

Sometimes life is not "typical". I have a daughter that was born with a deletion of chromosome 22q11.

The challenges this family experienced is very similar to our own. I know how difficult it was to put

the situations into words, but this author did it. Ellison BuschSusan spoke for many mothers who

battle to find the correct diagnosis, the special education and the help that our child deserves & needs.

Our stage of the syndrome is manageable, but the book opened my eyes to worries of the future.

However, the book gave me hope to say, "if this mom can do it, so can I". That is why I rated this book

5 stars.

Not for everyone, but cathartic for this 22Q mom

I could have written this book. At least the early chapters (my son hasn't hit adolescence yet).

Very few resources describe the spiritual struggles of this syndrome. Very few warn parents that it doesn't stop with the early childhood physical problems.

Can't express how helpful it is to learn that we are not alone. And to have a roadmap for the years to come.

Thank you for writing this, Ms BuschSusan. May God be with you and Mike and the rest of your family.

Recommended reading for 22q parents

As a mom of a young son who was diagnosed with 22q at 5 weeks old I found this book very enlightening. It gave an insight into the world of raising a child with this syndrome.

Very Insightful!

Thank you so much for being a voice for those affected by 22q.11.2 and their families. This is an insightful and honest glimpse of the realities of what not having a complete set of chromosomes 22 really looks like.

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Title: Finding a Way

Author: Graeme Innes

Narrator: Graeme Innes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-16

Publisher: Wavesound Audio

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Blind from birth, Graeme Innes was blessed with a family who refused to view his blindness as a handicap, instilling in him a belief in his own abilities; blessed with a determination to persevere.

After a long and successful career as a lawyer, company director and Human Rights Commissioner, Graeme has written his story. Finding a Way shares his memories of love and support, challenges, failures and overcoming the discrimination so many people with disabilities face.

Critic Reviews:

"A wonderfully moving account of the life of an extraordinary Australian." (Peter Fitzsimons)

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Title: The Gift: The Air Force Years

Author: Mike Trahan

Narrator: Paul Provo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-16

Publisher: Mike Trahan

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

After flying for eight and a half years during high school and college, and participating in the Air Force ROTC Program at Ole Miss and The University of Texas, I felt I was well prepared for US Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training. In October 1965, I became a member of UPT Class 67C at Webb Air Force Base in Big Spring, Texas. I can say, without reservation, that my year in UPT was the best year of my life! After graduation from Webb I was assigned the C-141 Starlifter jet transport aircraft. I went to C-141 Transition Training at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in November of 1966. Afterward, I was assigned to the 76th Military Airlift Squadron at Charleston Air Force Base in Charleston, South Carolina. I flew the C-141 for two years. In December 1968, I was ordered to go to Vietnam. My aircraft assignment was the AC-47 "Spooky" Gunship. I flew "Spooky" for eight months and was then reassigned to the EC-47 Electronic Countermeasures aircraft. I completed my one-year tour in that aircraft. When I returned home after my Vietnam tour, I separated from the Air Force and started looking for an airline job.

Members Reviews:

Great book I could put it down

Great book I could put it down. I picked up on Mike when he started flying to the pacific. I was stationed at Yokota at 5 years and installed the new Bak 9 barriers in almost every base in s=the southeast. Although he flew for MAC I gave everyone of the crews a flight fly over of what the BAk 9 operation was and looked it looked like from the approach. The cargo aircraft would not a bid concert to me although if we can prove they damage the webbing on landing it had to be removed and replaced. on bases like Yokota depending on traffic the barrier had to shut down until it could be replaced .Usually could take 30-45 minutes. Also he had some safe places to eat in Fassa. Joes bathhouse was believe it or not a very good restaurant. it burned down to the ground one night just mike went PCS back to the states. I was in the right seat when we left the port engine on take off. due to water in the fuel.. even after the engineer drained over a quart out of both tanks. That was a problem over there where we island hopped with support to most of the Island over there. We had the Marines watching our backs with Pakistani army doing the main security. Most people didn't 't know there was another war going started down there. Look up UNTEA.

Great book

Excellent read. I greatly enjoyed this book as well as the other two in the series.

Four Stars

Interesting read.

good detail, tells you enough to help understand his ...

Well done, good detail, tells you enough to help understand his gifts and the challenges of military flying

Great book!

Great book!

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Title: For the Sender

Subtitle: Love Letters from Vietnam

Author: Alex Woodard

Narrator: Alex Woodard, Jennifer Fuller, Jeff Fuller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-16

Publisher: For The Sender LLC

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Dear Sergeant Fuller,

You won't know me for another two years, but I am your daughter....

So begins a letter sent decades into the past, from a daughter searching for answers to a soldier serving in war-torn Vietnam, in this true story of service and sacrifice, love and redemption, and the power of forgiveness.

A box with "Love Letters from Vietnam" etched on the lid waits buried in a closet, holding scrawled thoughts written on Air Force stationery from a passionate yet deeply flawed soldier stationed outside Da Nang to his young wife in east Texas. Years pass before a fateful, deadly winter night leads the soldier's daughter, Jennifer, to open the box, read the letters, and answer her father back in time. She tucks her letters into a package with no address, because she no longer knows where to send them.

Until she is sitting in a theater in Austin, Texas, at a performance by singer-songwriter Alex Woodard and hears him talk about writing songs inspired by letters. Her remarkable correspondence with her father takes Woodard on his first steps into the dichotomy between dark and light, as he imagines himself as Sergeant Fuller in Vietnam and begins to write songs sung from Fuller's heart.

Woodard's quest to learn more about the man and the war he fights both in Vietnam and back at home evolves into an extraordinary journey.

Members Reviews:

Moving beyond words

This book is a must read (and a must listen), it touched me so deeply and so profoundly that I know that it has changed my life forever. Thank you Alex for your honest and heartfelt book, every person should be required to read it - it would change the world if they did.

thought provoking

Thought provoking, however hard to follow, almost need to read twice. Music okay. /supposed to be inspirational, however to me, over all was a little dark.

but I am glad I bought it

I am a Nam vet, and this has special significance for me. It is emotional and at times difficult to read, but I am glad I bought it.

22

That number â 22- haunts me. Twenty-two veterans kill themselves every day. Alex Woodward touches on some of the problems of veterans and their families. This book brings to the surface many emotionsâabout Vietnam and conflicts afterwards. The contents are not completely the letters of a daughter to a father that served before she was born, but many are also the observations and feelings of the author.

Those of us who served in Vietnam remember the experiences he tells aboutâ of being spit upon, of no respect given to your uniform or as a soldier, especially if you were a âground pounderâ, with short hair in a long hair era. âA national disgrace that never should have happenedâ. The book can bring to the surface emotions about Vietnam and veterans today â those that serve and loves lost

One of the elements it touches upon, without really stating it, is a reality of years past- a reader can see what no soldier today or their families can imagine- that of a world where e mails and satellite phones do not exist. It was a world where letters meant everything both to the soldier and their loved ones back home. It was a time where you did not mark the day off of a calendar until you received a letter, maybe written a week or 2 before.

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Title: Love on Lithium

Author: Taylor Beck

Narrator: Jacob York

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

What happens when you tell your girlfriend you have bipolar disorder? Taylor Beck's searingly honest essay details everything from his past relationships to the steps leading up to his most recent confession - and his girlfriend's surprising response. Whether or not listeners have personal experience with mental illness, it's hard not to draw inspiration from Beck's words and to root for him through his ups and downs.

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Titel: Das Buch vom Meer

Untertitel: oder Wie zwei Freunde im Schlauchboot ausziehen, um im Nordmeer einen Eishai zu fangen, und dafür ein ganzes Jahr brauchen

Autor:: Morten A. Strksnes

Erzähler: Shenja Lacher, Stefan Wilkening

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-29-16

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Der norwegische Überraschungsbestseller.

Zwei Freunde in einem Schlauchboot. In den Tiefen des Nordatlantiks ein sagenumwobenes Ungeheuer, das sich nur selten an der Oberfläche zeigt. Das ist der Ausgangspunkt für die salzige Geschichte, die davon erzählt, wie sich zwei Männer einen lang gehegten Traum erfüllen: Bei Sturm und Sonnenschein verbringen sie ihre Tage auf dem Wasser, um einen Eishai zu fangen. Und während sie warten, erinnert Morten A. Strksnes an Mythen und Legenden, berichtet von echten und erfundenen Wesen, von Quallenarten mit dreihundert Mägen, von Seegurken, Polarforschern, Walfängern und natürlich vom harten Leben an arktischen Ufern.

Gelesen von Stefan Wilkening und Shenja Lacher.

©2016 Morten Strksnes. Übersetung von Sylvia Kall und Sylvia Kall (P)2016 Copenhagen Literary Agency

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Title: The Maquis Connection, Revised Edition

Author: Sharon Karp, George A Karp

Narrator: Larry Bernstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-19-16

Publisher: Amber Mountain Press

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

George A. Karp, a Viennese Jewish doctor, tells the story of his family's miraculous escape from Nazi Europe. He travels across Vichy France and over the Pyrenees where his finally rescued by the French resistance - the Maquis. The Karp family's survival required incredible luck, perseverance and determination. They also depended on the help of the Jewish relief agencies, the Unitarians, and the Quakers. But most importantly, the Karp family's livelihood depended on the altruistic acts of strangers who risked their own lives to save them. This personal memoir is an uplifting and positive tale about a family that successfully works together to survive the war.

Members Reviews:

But this is a great book and a story that must be told

Full disclosure -- I know the author well. But this is a great book and a story that must be told. The book is a lot of things and it is not my place to say what it "is" -- read the book for that! But I and everyone I know who has read it has had strong reactions to it. The book and the DVD (about the same story) are quite different but each adds to the other. Excellent book to share in families with children. It's a story that must be told.

Beyond surviving the Holocaust, a family affair

One of the best books on the Holocaust giving a totally different viewpoint than most other fast reading books. I was given the book by the family. I've had other books by people I know and I usually read 1/3 to 1/2 but this book I could not put down. Even though the reader knows that the author and his wife survived, all the trials and tribulations are astonishing. I highly recommend this book. Also, it comes with a CD which gives the same story from George's wife who fills in a few gaps and adds to the story. Plus their three daughters and how being the offspring were affected by their parents' plight. Most Holocaust books don't mention how family members are affected.

but it is useful to look at both sides

The book is thought provoking for me both because of my own European Jewish heritage but also because of the refugee crisis the world is facing currently. As a refugee receiving country, the question is whether in the face of such heart wrenching human struggle should we focus on the macro or the micro. The salient message of this memoir is to focus on the micro. There is often a massive asymmetry between the interests of the state and the interests of individuals, especially when it comes to human rights crises, and sometimes the rules just need to be ignored. George and Gisi (the protagonists) faced several bureaucratic obstacles from the U.S. govt. before they could immigrate to The States, despite being obviously persecuted and in danger. Through the bravery of a variety of individuals who were willing to disobey, they were able to jump through these hoops and survive to build a family and life in the U.S. It is striking how impactful such disobedience can be to those helped, and how little it impacts a particular country on the human scale. Obviously mass immigration can have a different impact, but it is useful to look at both sides, and this memoir is a great reminder of the micro, human impact.

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Titel: 10 Jahre Freiheit

Autor:: Natascha Kampusch

Erzähler: Sascha Icks

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-12-16

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Am 23. August 2006 endete eine der spektakulärsten Entführungen in der jüngeren Geschichte. Natascha Kampusch gelang die Flucht aus dem Kellerverlies, in dem sie über acht Jahre eingesperrt war. Darüber hat sie ein viel beachtetes Buch geschrieben.

Zehn Jahre nach der Selbstbefreiung gewährt sie Einblick in ihr Leben nach der Flucht. Sie erzählt von ihren Erfahrungen, bitteren und schönen, von ihren Träumen und Alpträumen, von ihrem Alltag. Und davon, dass sie sich für traumatisierte Jugendliche engagiert und hofft, damit auch das eigene Trauma zu überwinden.

©2016 Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin / Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH (P)2016 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH, Hamburg

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Five Stars

We want this book in English please!