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Title: Damaged Goods: A Woman Who Became Her Own Hero

Author: Glenna McCarthy

Narrator: Mercedes Phillips

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-05-17

Publisher: Glenna McCarthy

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

After you're done listening to Glenna's story, you cannot help but admit she's led a hard life. She's gone through more than her fair share of trouble, in different ways. Some of it she invited; some she did not. To say that she had a troubled childhood would be an understatement. Cutting a long story short, she spent a considerable time working as a prostitute. She was a drug addict. Somewhere along the way, she caught AIDS and Hepatitis C. She successfully battled the latter, which she considers a battle won. A turnaround in such scenarios is rare. Glenna, though, felt it was imminent. Along the way, she met some good people. She managed to get the better of her paranoia and anxiety, successfully completing her bachelor's degree in sociology. Now, she's happy how things have shaped up. She knows the journey is nowhere near the end, and understands she'll have to deal with new kinds of challenges, but they're ones she looks forward to, unlike before.

Members Reviews:

WOW!!!!!

Glenna is an inspiration to anyone who has ever even had the slightest thought of throwing in the towel. The book should have been titled The Miracle, because what she's endured and where she has landed is truly a miracle. I was engrossed in her story from the first page to the last. Congratulations Glenna on your success. I wish I had known when we were kids that you needed a more supportive family, I would have shared mine with you. J.

A fellow Staten Islander

Author writes primarily about her experiences incarcerated but jumps in and out of a true timeline so very scattered.

After primary, second is her account of scattered call girl tid bits. ( only writes of her methods of transit to appts. but steers clear of what happens after her arrival to these appts.

Thirdly, author recants her version of psychoanalysis.

Will resubmit my review after completing book, 3/4 of the way through.

Captivating!!

Glenna takes you through her personal life timeline. Addiction, pain and eventually recovery is the theme. Her story is detailed, having one feel as though you are walking with her to an eventual,..... successful journey. She is candid and truthful. The outcome is awesomeness. And.....continuing to get better !! She will take you from the bottom of life, to the top !! A great read !!!!

Amazing book!

This book was absolutely amazing. I never review books (let alone read them) but going through the life of Glenna in her eyes, being able to experience what she did and the turn around she did, was inspiring. This book is amazing, and Glenna's story I believe will change the way you look at people, appreciate what you are offered. I recommend this book to anyone!

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This is a very powerful and empowering book. I couldn't stop reading it. A must read for those facing any opposition.

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Title: Mazie Was Crazy

Subtitle: Not Quite A Mother's Son

Author: Bradley Lewis

Narrator: Josiah John Bildner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-03-17

Publisher: BBL Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Bradley Lewis knew at a very early age that he didn't quite fit in, or more likely that he wasn't quite welcome. His look back illuminates a disturbing and peculiar seesaw Long Island childhood. His father was an emotionally remote man who spent a lot of his time away from his son. Lewis' high-functioning mother was a businesswoman whose bohemian personality could bring a busy store to a standstill. Home life in the Lewis household was an off-beat combination of overachievement riddled with constant criticism. Early on, Lewis realized that his family wasn't very much like the others in town. Eventually he escaped to Manhattan, but not without carrying the family abuse with him. Lewis moves the reader swiftly through time; from his earliest memories until he finally breaks free. Mazie Was Crazy is a compassionate, sensitive analysis that recalls firsthand experience; a cultural criticism about growing up on insular Long Island; a deeply moving memoir with vividly colorful characters. Lewis shows the reader why it's so hard for someone who grew up the way he did to have achieved almost anything. The reader will experience the flaws of the somewhat privileged, but also its family strengths wrapped within a traumatic portrait - what can wrong inside American families and the dysfunction that afflicted so many children born in the fifties and sixties. Lewis describes the alcoholism, sexual abuse, and an unrelenting system of control. A powerfully written memoir about the author's journey from a troubled childhood to the beginning of life alone at NYU in Manhattan. Heartbreaking, heartwarming and dotted with ribald humor, it opens a small window of suburban America, one usually hidden from view, while offering genuine hope in the form of hard-hitting honesty. This quick and engaging insightful read is well suited to anyone interested in baby-boomer Jewish-American families.

Members Reviews:

Interesting Life story.

This is a story of a boy who lived a chaotic and abusive life in that he was groomed, abused, and controlled throughout his life. It delivered to me, a mix of emotions that were hard to shake as he went along. Almost as if I could see what was happening in the telling, but he couldn't. I wanted to quit listening because the narrator sounded so utterly bored, and I got tired of the ridiculous sounding out of words in the early chapters. I was glad I stuck with it because the story got better although the lifeless reading did not, unless he was singing or relating a story of the mother. In any case, I'm glad I stuck with the story because I loved the growth the author experienced. That part was pretty amazing.

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Title: He Is Our Cousin, Cousin

Subtitle: A Quaker Family's History from 1660 to the Present Day

Author: Antony Barlow

Narrator: Sam Dastor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-17

Publisher: Author's Republic

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Antony Barlow comes from a very old Quaker family, dating back to the earliest days of Quakerism in the 17th century, when members were still being persecuted for their beliefs. On the death of his mother, Joan Barlow, in 2007 at the age of 93, he became the custodian of the invaluable collection of family archives, including fading ancient letters, crumbling historical documents, daguerreotypes, and, perhaps most importantly, their old family Bible dating from 1616. This wonderful old book has an amazing history all its own, as in the days of persecution, its first owner, James Lancaster, fleeing from the law, dropped it while crossing Morecambe Bay, and the stains are still visible even today. This is one of many stories vividly recounted in this intriguing story.

The book also tells how a group of Dissenters in the 1650s, followers of George Fox, broke away from what he saw as the corruption of the established church and set out on their own, seeking what he called "the light of God in everyone" without dogma or creed. Many were imprisoned for their beliefs but over the centuries have come to be respected for their honest dealings and courage in the face of oppression, with famous names such as the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, abolitionist Samuel Bowly, philanthropist George Cadbury, educational reformer Joseph Rowntree, pacifist John Henry Barlow, and diplomat and Peace prize laureate Philip Noel Baker all featuring largely in this story.

Members Reviews:

Boring, but informative

Don't expect a thrilling romp through Quaker history, but this book captures enough of the historical facts to make it useful for anyone interested in (mostly the UK side of) the Quaker movement.

Excellent, 'proper' British narration that totally fits the era, with a few decent attempts at other accents.

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Titel: Nach der Flucht

Autor:: Ilija Trojanow

Erzähler: Ilija Trojanow

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 2 hrs and 5 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 05-24-17

Herausgeber: Argon Verlag

Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Ilija Trojanow ist als Kind zusammen mit seiner Familie aus Bulgarien geflohen. Virtuos, poetisch und klug reflektierend erzählt er von seinen eigenen Prägungen als lebenslang Geflüchteter. Von der Einsamkeit, die das Anderssein für den Flüchtling tagtäglich bedeutet. Davon, wie wenig die Vergangenheit des Geflüchteten am Ort seines neuen Daseins zählt. Was das Existieren zwischen zwei Sprachen mit ihm macht. Welche Lügengeschichten man als Geflüchteter den Daheimgebliebenen auftischt. Und dass man vor der Flucht wenigstens wusste, warum man unglücklich war.

Ilija Trojanow zeichnet das existentielle Porträt eines Menschenschicksals, das unser 21. Jahrhundert bestimmt.

©2017 S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main (P)2017 Argon Verlag GmbH

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Title: Railway Adventure

Author: L. T. C. Rolt

Narrator: Malk Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-17

Publisher: Rolt Books

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

L.T.C. Rolt was one of a small group of amateur railwaymen who made their dream of running their own railway come true. His vivid and often amusing account of this unique achievement is a record of individual enterprise and creative effort as refreshing as it is rare. Established by Act of Parliament in 1865 and unaffected by mergers and nationalisation, the Talyllyn Railway has been serving a remote and beautiful valley in the Merioneth mountains ever since. In 1950, the line was threatened with closure, and it was at that moment that the amateurs came to the rescue. It is now the oldest surviving railway of its kind in the world. This book is delightful listening for both railway devotees and lovers of the Welsh countryside, which is so beautifully described here.

"Come and join this railway adventure set amidst the magnificent mountain background of Wales - this should appeal to a whole new generation of enthusiasts" (Steam Railway News)

"This book remains essential reading, not only for those who love this corner of Wales and its railway, but all who have a genuine interest in what motivates people to try and preserve this part of our heritage" (Push and Pull)

Members Reviews:

Just wonderful.

Brings the area and the railway to life. Great book and great performance. Helps enormously that the narrator is comfortable with the Welsh names. Got this on a whim and, the author's occasional political rant on the benefits of small government aside, it is a truly inspirational tale of what is possible when people work together.

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Titel: Frauen der Reformation

Autor:: Kristina Dronsch, Katharina Buschor-Huggel, Thomas Klaus

Erzähler: Regula Siegfried, Heiner Hitz, Dorothee Roth, Christian Breitschmid

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 47 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 05-12-17

Herausgeber: Dornbusch Medien AG

Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Die Reformation war eine Männerdomäne? Weit gefehlt! Neben den bekannten Protagonisten wie Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli oder Johannes Calvin haben Frauen die Reformation auf unterschiedliche Weise mitgeprägt: als mächtige Verbündete, sozial Engagierte, resolute Autorinnen oder leidenschaftliche Unterstützerinnen in einer Zeit des gesellschaftlichen, politischen und religiösen Umbruchs.

Zwölf Porträts. Gelesen von Regula Siegfried, Dorothee Roth, Christian Breitschmid und Heiner Hitz.

Katharina Zell-Schütz - Argula von Grumbach - Wibrandis Rosenblatt - Elisabeth Cruciger - Olympia Fulvia Morata - Elisabeth von Braunschweiz-Calenberg-Göttingen - Katharina von Bora - Idelette de Bure - Elisabeth von Rochlitz - Marie Dentière - Hille Feicken - Margarete Blarer.

©2017 Dornbusch Medien AG (P)2017 Dornbusch Medien AG

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Title: Waiting for the Albino Dunnock

Subtitle: How birds can change your life

Author: Rosamond Richardson

Narrator: Jane Whittenshaw

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-17

Publisher: Orion

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Written by a beginner bird-watcher with the freshness and passion of a convert, Waiting for the Albino Dunnock explores the world of birds through the seasons of a single year. It describes encounters with particular birds in the landscapes of East Anglia, where the author is rooted. Occasional journeys farther afield take the listener to truly wild places in the Outer Hebrides and Eastern Europe. Yet the ordinary experience of bird-watching is also far more than just that. The beauty of birds has the power to change lives, as it did the author's, and, as in the case of the all-but-legendary snow leopard, it is more about the search than the result.

Personal and elegiac in tone, the writing is an unusual combination of prose poems based on the actual experience of seeing a specific bird for the first time, woven with elements of science and wisdom traditions, ornithology (and its punning counterpart, ornitheology), mythology and philosophy, taxonomy and history, literature and folklore, conveying the wider picture of what it means to be human in relationship to nature. Waiting for the Albino Dunnock explores the degree to which wildness is embedded in the human psyche and how beauty is central to our mental and emotional well-being while highlighting the careless damage we are inflicting on the natural world.

Read by Jane Whittenshaw.

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Title: Love and Trouble

Subtitle: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl

Author: Claire Dederer

Narrator: Claire Dederer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-17

Publisher: Tinder Press

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A hilarious, confrontational and moving story of one woman's attempts to navigate her way through the challenges of mid-life, for lovers of How to Be a Woman and I'm Not with the Band.

Claire Dederer's youth was wild, an endless cascade of beer and rock and acid and sex that left her benumbed and adrift. But then, after two decades of disciplined transformation, she'd become a successful writer, a faithful wife, and a mother - a real adult. That is, until one morning at 44, she found herself overcome by the same sexual cravings and ineffable sadness of her younger years.

The hedonistic girl, 'that crazy bitch', was back - or had she never left? Frank and disarming, seductive and hilarious, Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning is Dederer's attempt to reckon with those urges, and to reconcile the girl she'd been with the woman she's become.

Editorial Reviews:

"Claire Dederer is not only a brilliant author, but an honest and brave one." (Elizabeth Gilbert, author of EAT, PRAY, LOVE)

Members Reviews:

Midlife crisis, not just for guys

My first introduction to Claire Dederer and now I want to read everything she's written. Great lines and great thoughts on feminism and sex, marriage and mortality.

An Interesting Take on Polanski

This is the first sober analysis of the Polanski case as a creature of its times, before the Girls say Yes to Boys who say No became soccer mom's and things changed.

This was a disappointing read. The book does not ...

This was a disappointing read. The book does not seem to have been thought through and much of the writing is poorly executed.

The book was OK. Some of the chapters were ...

The book was OK. Some of the chapters were really interesting. Others, not so much. Overall definitely worth reading.

Five Stars

Beautifully written, this book made me laugh and cry and made me nostalgic for my 90's youth.

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Title: Behind the Smile

Author: Joshua Reid-Davis

Narrator: Joshua Reid-Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-17

Publisher: Author's Republic

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

I am known throughout the world as the happy guy all the time. And in this audiobook, I let you into my life and the journey that it's taken me to get through the rough patches, the journey in finding peace with sexuality and religion, and finding my place in the world, as well as the ongoing continuing journey to get to where I aspire to be in life as I take you Behind the Smile that you all have come to know. We will go through good times and bad; lessons that I learned along the wayand those lessons are what made me the man that I am today.

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Title: Hatching Charlie

Subtitle: A Psychotherapist's Tale

Author: Charles Creath McCormack

Narrator: Charles Creath McCormack

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-17-17

Publisher: Charles Creath McCormack

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Hatching Charlie is the story of evolution. It describes the evolution of a boy to a man, a child to a parent, a wild teenager into a responsible adult. It is also a story of the evolving awareness that psychic pain can be healed. And, while most people look to another for that healing, this autobiography reminds the listener that relationships with others are only part of the story. In fact, true growth and healing comes from knowing how to forgive and then accept the self, and Charles McCormack's journey helps the listener learn this in a gentle but powerful way.

Hatching Charlie is a brave book. For a therapist, still seeing patients, to reveal so much of his own pain and suffering takes guts. Opening oneself to this much vulnerability means that the author has found a way to look at himself without shame. This book, therefore, becomes a roadmap for others who suffer, providing hope and insight that someone else might work through their traumas too. So, while the book serves as a memoir and as a source of healing to Charles McCormack, it is also a way for him to continue counseling others.

It becomes clear that his search for happiness is universal, and that his journey is in fact our journey too. He teaches us valuable lessons; that we cannot rely solely on someone else to meet our needs, that happiness isn't necessarily a constant, and that it is possible to look back on our lives with fondness, even if there was pain there too. Written with humor, humility, clinical expertise, bare bones honesty, and a loving respect for life and the human condition, Hatching Charlie heroically breaks new ground in the autobiography genre.

Members Reviews:

Charlie has hatched

I'll start off by saying I know the man behind the book. Although, not as much as I thought I did after completing it. This is an interesting look into the life and mind of Charles McCormack; and it's one that I found myself wanting to read (or listen, as I used mostly the audio book) "just a bit more" because it was so engaging. It evokes a myriad of emotions that most people, on some level I believe, can relate to. You may not have lived through what he has, but the book is put forth in a way that you can relate pieces to your own life, as anyone who has had the struggles of life thrust upon them. As long as you're open to the realities of life, warts and all, I believe you'll find the life story of Charles interesting. He may not have the desire to sugar coat the harshness of his life, whether it be brash words or descriptive depictions of what he went through from child to man, but you'll get an honest account from his point of view.