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Titre: Le professeur et la sirène (Grenier des acteurs)

Auteur: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Narrateur: Michel Favory

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 1 hr and 9 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 11-23-17

Éditeur: Gallimard

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Dans la froideur d'un café turinois, Paolo Corbèra, Palermitain exilé en Italie du Nord, rencontre le sénateur Rosario la Ciura. D'une nostalgie commune de la Sicile naît une singulière amitié au détour de laquelle le sénateur raconte son histoire : durant l'été 1887, il vit une passion extraordinaire avec une sirène nommée Lighea, fille de Calliope. Dans la moiteur d'Augusta, le jeune professeur et l'étrange créature vivent une romance ensorcelante, qui révèle le professeur à lui-même.

©1961 / 2014 Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, tous droits réservés / Éditions du Seuil pour la traduction française (P)2017 Éditions Gallimard

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Title: Drowning in Plain Sight

Author: Len Parsons

Narrator: Millian Quinteros

Format: Unabridged

Length: 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-17-17

Publisher: len parsons

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This is my latest work. In a dream I had one night, I was writing a book that really meant nothing to me. It was just a book. I couldn't even remember the title. Then God said, "If you are going to write a book, here is the title, the cover, and the list of topics to cover. My people need this book!" This is the book from the dream.

Drowning in Plain Sight is about keeping your head above the waters of life. This is a short and powerful audiobook that just may save you or someone you love from going under. These are all true stories of real issues that have taken friends from their comfort zone and into the danger zone so quickly that they didn't see they were drowning in plain sight.

I remember nearly drowning when I was a kid. It was in a pool with the life guard sitting right above me. He didn't see me drowning in plain sight. It was so much like drowning in sin, emotional depression, and fear. There were people all around me, unconscious to my plight, watching me go under for the last time. Then my dad came, jumping in clothes and all, to save his child, just like Jesus did for me. "From the water lifted me, /now safe am I"!

I have often reflected on this experience and cannot help but see parallels to it in the 52 years I have been privileged to live on this earth since that event took place. I cannot help but see the many times I nearly went under for the last time, but my Heavenly Father has rescued me just in time. I compare drowning in my story to people being caught up in the waves of emotions and situations that too often cause them to go under, even when surrounded by people who care. Sometimes the waters were composed of fear and doubt, often times discouragement and depression were about to take me down, but God has always gotten to me just in time.

In this audiobook, I share real stories of friends who have or have nearly drowned in plain sight.

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Titel: Männermanieren

Autor:: Karolina Leppert

Erzähler: Julia Stipsits

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 55 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11-01-17

Herausgeber: edition a audio

Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Zwanzig Jahre Berufserfahrung und irgendwie ist es immer schlimmer geworden. Karolina Leppert, hauptberuflich Domina, findet, dass Männer allzu oft grob, selbstherrlich, ungepflegt und von den Internetpornos verzogen sind. Bei einem Kaffeehaustratsch mit ihrer Wiener Kollegin Mariella tauscht sie sich über die schlechten Manieren der Kundschaft aus, wobei haarsträubende Geschichten aus Deutschland und Österreich auf den Tisch kommen.

Frauen werden lachen und den Kopf schütteln und Männer sich vielleicht wiedererkennen. Doch dieses Buch ist mehr als ein Rotlicht-Report der anderen Art. Es wirft ein neues Schlaglicht auf das oft skurrile Verhältnis zwischen den Geschlechtern im Jahr 2016.

©2017 edition a audio (P)2017 edition a audio

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Titel: Küssen kostet extra

Autor:: Carline Mohr

Erzähler: Corinna Dorenkamp

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 6 hrs and 50 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-11-17

Herausgeber: Audible GmbH

Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Ein Zettel an der Tür eines Bordells verändert alles: "Bardame gesucht", steht drauf und Fanny, Mitte 20 und chronisch pleite, nimmt den Job an. Eigentlich will sie Starreporterin bei der Münchner Morgenpost werden, der Chef schickt sie aber nur zu Terminen der Modellbahnfreunde Pfaffenwinkel.

Der neue Job im "Lollipop" ist deutlich aufregender: Fanny freundet sich mit Bordell-Chefin Rosi und der schönen wie mutigen Prostituierten Palina an. Sie erfindet einen Viagra-Cocktail und tauft ihn Cosmoblowitan, rettet einen übergewichtigen Schlagersänger aus der zusammengekrachten Liebesschaukel und lernt in den langen Nächten hinter der Bar eine Menge über Männer, Sehnsucht und Sexarbeit. Irgendwann fasst Fanny einen Plan: Sie will ihr chaotisches Liebesleben in den Griff kriegen, Rosi mit dem besten Mann der Welt verkuppeln und nie wieder pleite sein. Der Plan ist gut - aber natürlich kommt alles anders als gedacht.

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©2017 Rowohlt Verlag GmbH (P)2017 Audible GmbH

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Title: Everybody But You

Author: Thia Sexton

Narrator: Thia Sexton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-17

Publisher: Thia Sexton

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

"A collection that's spirited and endearing...which she tells with winning self-deprecation and a level of detail that conjures the dusty, sunny fragrance of her travels. Sexton punctuates the pieces in an all-caps-studded brand of wacky humor, mostly in the form of wry one-liners." - Kirkus Reviews

"Sexton is a truly original voice; almost everything she thinks and does in this superb collection is unexpected - from grilling a man who tells her she is 'Hot' for more information, to calling a Suicide Hotline only to end up reassuring the inept operator that he is good at his job. EVERYBODY BUT YOU is an entertaining insight into the large talent of an atypical mind any [listener] would be privileged to have." - Maggie Rowe, producer, Comedy Central Stage, Sit 'n Spin

Members Reviews:

A Kindred Spirit!

I was lucky to get an advanced copy of this book. Now, I am excited for it to be available so I can send copies as gifts to my book group friends.

Thia Sexton has such a way of telling stories that makes you feel as if you are there and experiencing it for yourself. Whether she is traveling with her mom, or in college with her roommates, we are all re-living her awkward adventures together. I feel so much like she is included in my family of "besties."

The stories were delightfully entertaining. I didn't want them to end. I don't usually re-read books that I have already read, but this time I am interested in hearing them read again â in her own voice, via the audiobook. I imagine the story about making orgasm sounds for an "erotic thriller" to be quite the brow raiser!

I haven't yet purchased the accompanying cd of original music, but after viewing the whimsically animated video for "Awoken" on YouTube, it is definitely on my wish list!

Again, I am excited about getting the cd, eagerly awaiting the audible, and am living in anticipation for more stories from Thia Sexton.

So funny...

I love this book. The writing is smart and self-depricating and witty, but it's her ever-hopeful naivete that moves the plots of the stories and puts her in the middle of all these colorful worlds and serious "misadventures". Clumsily dealing with men, family, roommates, being a newbie in New York, Hollywood, Marrakesh -- hitch-hiking! She's so willing and trying so hard, I was simultaneously laughing, praying for her safety and cheering her on.

original

Entertaining and original...one I will not soon forget, as the voice that Sexton is like nothing I have read before. These stories have depth, a fresh voice and are oh so fun to read. I love short stories books because you can toss it in your purse and read whenever you have a free moment. You will not regret reading this book and you will end of thanking me for recommending it!

Funny, fun, and relatable!

Loved being taken along for the ride on Sexton's "mostly true" travels, adventures, and misadventures. A laugh out loud read with insightful self discovery along the way.

Thia's wonderfully oddball voice shines throughout the book

Bawdy comedy combines with innocent charm in this "mostly true" romp of short stories. Fizzing with nimble witâat times breezily adrift but always returning to harbor, Thia's wonderfully oddball voice shines throughout the book: cheeky, warm, brainy, silly yet always penetratingly truthful.

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Title: Mater Gladiatrix

Author: Richard A. Marin

Narrator: Richard Marin, Kimberly Marin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-16-17

Publisher: Richard A. Marin

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In 1946, while Rosy the Riveter was taking her shop apron off and setting down her wrench for the last time, Millie Uher got into a US Army surplus Jeep and drove up into the hills southwest of Maracaibo, Venezuela. In this biography written by her son, we learn she was much more than a working mother. She was a woman of the world and a rare trendsetter that changed the world without design and perhaps intent. The development and education expert would live 100 years and break ground and gender barriers as an athlete in basketball, tennis, golf, and especially alpine skiing as she trekked the globe. She dared to go where others, including men, dared not go, living her life at full speed and never once touching the brakes. From immigrant's child to global diplomat, from rural schoolchild to urbane single mother, and from first-generation high school graduate to PhD, this is the story of a traditional American girl who became a bona fide adventurer.

Members Reviews:

She Was A Grand Matron

A loving and detailed narration by her son, Millie comes to life as an extraordinary woman who didnât let norms and conventions dictate what she should do and how she should do it. From stories no doubt told to her son throughout his life, until he was old enough to observe for himself, Millie simply documented how she went from her fatherâs home in upstate New York to a life of dedication to others, living in foreign countries, not focused on her own comfort but on those who had so much less. The more colorful stories of her life are described with candor and no excuses, creating a mystique about Millie that makes you want to know her better. Moving around the world with her three children, she managed to get everyone in place, then tackled yet another challenge, whether in South America, Africa, Italy or back in the U.S., she made it seem all so easy, so worthwhile, so selfless. Richard Marin is a skilled story teller and he captures her hard work ethic, her honesty, her tireless dedication and her zeal for life in this wonderfully told story of his mother, which he shares with the reader, who learns more about her in every page. Inspirational and motivating, Millie was an independent woman who, before her time, blazed trails, lived and loved on her own terms, and captured the hearts of everyone she met. I met her once when she was in her 90âs and was immediately impressed by the sparkle in her eye, her embrace of all whom she met, and the pride with which she looked upon her family and friends gathered around her. I bet she had more stories she never told and that is the intrigue of this amazing woman.

Five Stars

Mater Gladiatrix by Richard Marin is a vibrant and heartfelt tribute to the authors mother, Millie Uher, who lived an extraordinary life full of travel, passion and an unstoppable desire to help other people, especially women, to better themselves and those around them. Mr. Marin takes great care and joy in telling his mothers story which includes her work for the Rockefeller Foundation, The New York State Welfare Department and her childhood years in the rough and tumble rural area surrounding Ithaca NY in the early 1900s.

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Title: En svr dag

Subtitle: En frstehndsberetning om Navy Seal missionen der drbte Osama bin Laden

Author: Mark Owen, Kevin Maurer

Narrator: Peter Secher Schmidt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-17

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Navy SEAL-soldaten Mark Owen fra elitestyrken DEVGRU har vret med p en stribe af de mest dramatiske specialoperationer gennem de seneste ti r. I denne bog fortller han hele sin historie. Om den strabadserende rekruttid i et korps, som forlanger det bedste af de bedste. Om et kammeratskab i skarp kamp, hvor man holder hinandens liv i hnderne. Og om det dramatiske og uforudsigelige hndelsesforlb den nat i Abbottabad, da retfrdigheden indhentede Osama bin Laden.

Mark Owen er tidligere medlem af United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group, DEVGRU, ogs kendt som SEAL Team Six. I lbet af sin mangerige karriere som Navy SEAL har han deltaget i hundredvis af missioner rundt om i verden, herunder redningen af Maersk Alabama-kaptajnen Richard Phillips i det Indiske Ocean i 2009 og adskillige kommandoraids i Irak og Afghanistan. Owen var teamleder p Operation Neptune Spear i Abbottabad i Pakistan den 1. maj 2011, den mission, som resul- terede i drabet p Osama bin Laden. Owen var en af de frste, der nede op til anden sal i terrorlederens hus, hvor han var frstehndsvidne til bin Ladens dd. Mark Owens rigtige navn samt navnene p andre omtalte SEALs i En svr dag er blevet ndret for ikke at kompromittere deres sikkerhed.

Keven Maurer har som journalist dkket specialstyrkerne og deres opera- tioner i ni r. Han har vret udsendt med Special Forces i Afghanistan seks gange, tilbragte i 2006 en mned sammen med en enhed i det stlige Afrika og har ledsaget amerikanske styrker i Irak og Haiti. Han er forfatter til fire bger, hvoraf flere handler om de amerikanske specialstyrkers operationer.

©2017 Lindhardt og Ringhof. Translated by Lars Rosenkvist (P)2017 Lindhardt og Ringhof

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Title: Darling Days

Author: iO Tillett Wright

Narrator: iO Tillett Wright

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

I was born September 1985, in the vortex of the Lower East Side of New York: there were few rules of life and zero constraints on behavior. If you were not eccentric, you were weird.

It was a tenement building at the centre of the drug-addled, punk-edged permanent riot that was iO's corner of the Lower East Side of New York City in the '80s and 90's. There iO grew up - or rather scrabbled up - under the broken wing of a fiercely protective yet wildly negligent mother.

Rhonna was a showgirl, an actress, a dancer, a poet. A widow by police murder, she was also an addict. She doted and obsessed over iO yet lacked an understanding that a child needs food and sleep and safety.

Unfolding in animated, crystalline prose, an emotionally raw, devastatingly powerful memoir of one young person's extraordinary coming of age - a tale of gender and identity, freedom and addiction, rebellion and survival in the 1980s and 1990s, when punk, poverty, heroin and art collided in the urban bohemia of New York's Lower East Side.

Darling Days is also a provocative examination of culture and identity, of the instincts that shape us and the norms that deform us and of the courage and resilience of a child listening closely to their deepest self. When a group of boys refuse to let the six-year-old play ball, iO instantly adopts a new persona, becoming a boy named Ricky, a choice the parents support and celebrate. It is the start of a profound exploration of gender and identity through the tenderest years and the beginning of a life invented and reinvented at every step.

Alternating between the harrowing and the hilarious, Darling Days is the candid, tough and stirring memoir of a young person in search of an authentic self as family and home life devolve into chaos until iO escapes to Germany and then England to become an amazingly talented, exciting, edgy artist and wonderful writer.

Members Reviews:

Riveting memoir

Incredible! I hung on every word.

Very impressive to hear such a detailed reflection on ones life. Thanks for sharing iO.

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Title: Flock Together

Subtitle: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds

Author: B.J. Hollars

Narrator: Gerry Burke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-17

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

After stumbling upon a book of photographs depicting extinct animals, B.J. Hollars became fascinated by the creatures that are no longer with us, specifically extinct North American birds. How, he wondered, could we preserve so beautifully on film what we've failed to preserve in life? And so begins his yearlong journey to find out, one that leads him from bogs to art museums, from archives to Christmas Counts, until he at last comes as close to extinct birds as he ever will during a behind-the-scenes visit at the Chicago Field Museum.

Heartbroken by the birds we've lost, Hollars takes refuge in those that remain. Armed with binoculars, a field guide, and knowledgeable friends, he begins his transition from budding birder to environmentally conscious citizen, a first step on a longer journey toward understanding the true tragedy of a bird's song silenced forever.

Told with charm and wit, Flock Together is a remarkable memoir that shows how knowing the natural world - even just a small part - illuminates what it means to be a global citizen and how only by embracing our ecological responsibilities do we ever become fully human. A moving elegy to birds we've lost, Hollars' exploration of what we can learn from extinct species will resonate in the minds of listeners long beyond the final minute.

The book is published by University of Nebraska Press.

Critic Reviews:

"A finely crafted and often profound memoir." (Colorado Review)

"A most engaging read." (Joel Greenberg, author of A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction)

"Hollars conveys an infectious sense of awe and excitement for every bird he spots." (Justin Hocking, author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld)

Members Reviews:

Birds of a feather...

Reading nonfiction is often an opportunity to demonstrate my ability to persevere...or to put it differently, to read while yawning.

Because of that, I hid this book at the back of my to-be-read list. But it did not go extinct and so, on a rainy day I succumbed.

Like the author, who prior to embarking on his research, did not notice the bird life around him, I had missed reading a remarkable book.

As a beginning birder myself, I identified with his journey...the frustration of being profoundly uniformed offset by the joy of actually seeing and learning about birds. In the end, becoming captivated by wild creatures.

The sorrow born of the death of species is very real as he recounts his journey. It seemed to me that he neared the edge but did not topple over it...and thus escaped the trap of being preachy or blaming. But the impact of extinctions was clear.

The autobiography of a young birder, the biographies of men influential in the ecology movement and the stories of extinct birds join in a masterful and heartfelt book.

I gladly join the author's flock.

This wants to be a love affair with an extinct bird, but doesn't quite get there.

As the son and brother of avid bird watchers and a weekend watcher myself, this sounded like a really interesting book. A variation on the bird-watching theme ... a search for ... or a 'love affair with' extinct birds sounded like a really fascinating take on the bird-watching craze.

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Title: Hooray for Me: A Foggy Memoir

Author: Ello Black

Narrator: Ello Black

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-17

Publisher: Ello Black

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Can a tubby girl take on all of life's obstacles and slay them in victory? Probably not, but she does have fun trying in Hooray For Me: a Foggy Memoir by self-proclaimed-brilliant author, Ello Black. This biography of me and my historical non-fiction remembrance of what I remember is in this book. This book has already been hailed as one of the easiest books to download -- ever! While writing this memoir, I was asked several questions -- What is this book about? How much vodka will I need consume to get through it? Why did you want to write a memoir and not a book about tormented, metro-sexual vampires? Does anybody use the word metro-sexual anymore? Didn't you just buy three packs of bacon yesterday? and of course, my favorite -- I've changed the locks twice -- How the hell did you get in here? Hooray For Me is a compilation of compiled stories that are typed because my handwriting is worse than a doctor filling out a prescription with a fountain pen, while riding in a NYC cab, when it's sleeting. And, I'm not sure why this doctor is filing out a prescription in a cab, but I would avoid said doctor, that sounds way too shady for me. Yeh, now that I think of it, don't go to that doctor. But please listen to Hooray For Me: a Foggy Memoir, I think you will really enjoy it as much as I did. Thank you very much!

©2012 Ello Black (P)2017 Ello Black

Members Reviews:

Wonderful Read

Big things, small packages...you know the old saw...

Visiting home over Thanksgiving, based on a friend's recommendation, my mother and I both read Hooray For Me. She and I ended up having long conversations over hot cups of coffee and rashers of bacon about the basic themes in the book. If that sounds dry, don't fear; the book is fun and funny and it's certainly not a hard read, as you feel like you're having a conversation with an old, wonderful, warm and funny friend. But, at the same time, the book caused me...well both of us really, to muse over our lives. We talked about the bullies that plagued us and the friends that helped us through the plagues. We mused on the power of teachers, both good and bad. We touched on the humor and the sadness of losing my father. And we talked about our hurts, our relationship to each other, and our relationships to others in our family. And we laughed. We laughed over ourselves, our family, and some of the great lines in the book. It's a slim book, small, I imagine, by most folk's estimation. But in its slimness, its small stature, it opened up big things in both of us and brought my mother and I a bit closer together

And that ain't no small thing.

Great Read!!!

It's always a pleasure to read a memoir by an author that doesn't spend much time commiserating about the trials that life can throw at you. Instead she's more interested in showing that life in a way that makes you feel like in the end, whatever's happened, everything's just gonna be alright. Ello Black has a unique way of looking at life and this retelling of her personal history uses an uncommon writing style that had me laughing throughout. Someone told me to wave both my hands over my head when reading the title and I'd instantly feel better (it works by the way.) That last sentence is about as best as I can describe the book in a nutshell. Read the story, you'll definitely feel better by the end.