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Title: You, Me & OCD

Subtitle: The Road to Recovery

Author: Derek Ferris

Narrator: Mike Bender

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-17

Publisher: Derek Ferris

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

After two decades of suffering with the mental disorder known as obsessive-compulsive disorder, Derek has reached his breaking point. His past attempts to find inner peace had lead him astray. At last he longs for a life of ease and tolerance without the handicap his illness brings. Enter the next phase of his life as he copes with obstacles ahead in this true story. Follow his path to recovery as he seeks help, wisdom, and clarity to rise above what has grounded him for so long.

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Title: Det vi kan st för

Author: Geir Lippestad

Narrator: Mats Eklund

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-17

Publisher: Word Audio Publishing International

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Geir Lippestad var Anders Behring Breiviks huvudförsvarare i rättegngarna efter attacken mot regeringskvarteren och massakern p AUF:s sommarläger i juli 2011. "Det kan vi st för" beskriver rättegngen ur hans perspektiv.

Lippestad inleder boken med att skildra hur han kör till sitt sista möte med Breivik efter rättegngens slut, för att sedan g tillbaka till frgan om vad som fick honom att ta sig uppdraget. Därefter beskriver han hela rättegngsförloppet, med personliga reflektioner och utvikningar som ger en fördjupad bild av skeendet och hans hllning som försvars.

Lippestad resonerar inte minst kring de svra moraliska utmaningar som han och de andra försvarsadvokaterna stötte p i sitt arbete. "Det vi kan st för" är därför ingen renodlad rättegngsskildring, utan ocks en bok om människovärde och demokrati, och om juristens roll i det rättssamhälle som mste omfatta alla till och med de som vill förgöra det.

Geir Lippestad (född 1964) är den norska advokat som den 23 juli 2011 p den talades egen begäran tog p sig att vara försvarsadvokat t Anders Behring Breivik, den värsta massmördaren i Norges historia. Inledningsvis bemöttes han med misstänksamhet: Vad var det för sorts människa som till synes utan betänkligheter kunde tacka ja till ett sdant uppdrag?

Mediepressen under rättegngen var enorm, bde frn norska och utländska medier. Lippestad valde att bemöta journalisterna med vad han kallar värdebaserad kommunikation. I slutet av ret valdes han till "rets person" i flera av Norges rikstäckande tidningar.

©2013 Modernista (P)2013 HörOpp

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Title: Den svenske Gudfadern

Author: Nuri Kino

Narrator: Reine Brynolfsson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-29-17

Publisher: Word Audio Publishing International

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Sveriges Gudfader, Milan Sevo började sin resa i en bruten och fattig familj. Idag psts han vara en av Europas mäktigaste gangsterkungar. Hur tog han sig til toppen?

Milan Sevos liv, ryktena, mystifieringen, sanningen, lögnerna, misstankarna, morden och mordförsöken har gjort honom till en person som är lika beundrad och respekterad som fruktad och missförstdd. Han har gtt frn fattig invandrarpojke i Vrby grd till internationell affärsman. I flera statliga rapporter är Sevo utpekad som Sveriges fiende nummer ett. Senast anklagades han för inblandning i det spektakulära Helikopterrnet. Han var god vän till den beryktade Arkan, är svärson till den mördade Ratko Djokic, vän och bekant till advokater, filmstjärnor, journalister och kända kriminella ledare. Han är Sveriges Gudfader.

Nuri Kino är en av Europas mest prisbelönta och uppmärksammade undersökande journalister och jobbar t medier i flera länder. Under arbetet med denna bok har han förutom att läsa domar, förundersökningar och statliga verks rapporter ocks suttit i baksätet när unga kriminella planerat rn, när vapen rengjorts och huvor provats. I flera r har han dessutom brevväxlat med Milan Sevo och intervjuat denne p plats i Serbien.

©2011 Bladh by Bladh (P)2011 HörOpp

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Title: The Children of My Knee

Author: Len Cooper

Narrator: Len Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-17

Publisher: Len Cooper

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

"Len Cooper is ample proof that every American black man's story is not the same. He has been a boy in brutal segregated Alabama and an invisible homeless man in the nation's capital. He sought holiness and comfort, entering a monastery to become a priest at a time when the Catholic Church was in denial about racism, homosexuality, and robed predators. Still, Cooper rises to become a writer and a world traveler who finds solace and home in a land that is supposed to be foreign: Israel." (Patrice Gaines, author, Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color, a Journey from Prison to Power)

Members Reviews:

THIS IS ART

This book is truly amazing. I am by no means a non-fiction reader. I get some recommended to me and I usually have to force myself to read them and it takes forever. Len's story was nothing like that. From the moment I started it, I couldn't put it down. It caused some issues at work since I was staying up all hours of the night reading, well worth it. The story brings you in and puts you right next to Len and his brothers while dealing with Alabama life. After reading this book I realize I lead a very sheltered life and I for one am thankful that my eyes have been opened to a great many things. I told the author himself, that his book has changed me in ways I have yet to discover. The biggest message I took away from this story was love and forgiveness. At times I was laughing out loud and grinning ear to ear, and at others, I was wiping tears of sadness and disbelief from my eyes as I learned about the struggles Len endured and the evil that exists in the world. By now I have told hundreds about this book, pretty much anyone I meet or come across I've invited to read it. I have never written a book review before, but this book is well worthy of your consideration. I hope you find the time to read it and learn from the most interesting men I have ever had the honor of meeting.

Rich On Many Levels

I am so grateful to have read this book and consider it an honor! You see, although I am an educated woman in my mid fifties and have read historical accounts of racism, I never truly understood it in such depth.

I am not and have never been prejudiced. I was, however, somewhat ignorant of what other races and cultures endure even today. I can't imagine a world where a school or church is considered black or white; and my heart ached when I read about the police stopping Mr. Cooper based on the color of his skin. In addition, his treatment while in seminary was and is reprehensible! Please know, Mr. Cooper, that is not representative of God who loves you and yearns for your return to seeking Him.

This book is very well written and though I got it for free on my kindle fire, I'd have definitely bought and paid for it. It is rich in substance and makes the time period come alive. I did not want to see it end and would highly recommend this book!

Great Book!!!

I read the Kindle Version of this book and I really enjoyed the read.

I have known Len Cooper since kindergarten and this book was an eye opener. He was always this sweet, innocent, quiet and respectful young man with those innocent eyes. Many things mentioned I remember happening in elementary, high school and college. It is thought-provoking to read his take on him being a black man born in racist Birmingham, Alabama.

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Title: Unbound

Subtitle: A Story of Snow and Self-Discovery

Author: Steph Jagger

Narrator: Andi Arndt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-24-17

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A young woman follows winter across five continents on a physical and spiritual journey that tests her body and soul in this transformative memoir, full of heart and courage, that speaks to the adventurousness in all of us.

Steph Jagger had always been a force of nature. Dissatisfied with the passive, limited roles she saw for women growing up, she emulated the men in her life - chasing success, climbing the corporate ladder, ticking the boxes, playing by the rules of a masculine ideal. She was accomplished. She was living the dream. But it wasn't her dream.

Then the universe caught her attention with a sign: "Raise Restraining Device". Steph had seen this ski lift sign on countless occasions in the past, but the familiar words suddenly became a personal call to shake off the life she had built in a search for something different, something more.

Steph soon decided to walk away from the success and security she had worked long and hard to obtain. She quit her job, took a second mortgage on her house, sold everything except her ski equipment and her laptop, and bought a bundle of plane tickets. For the next year, she followed winter across North and South America, Asia, Europe, and New Zealand - and up and down the mountains of nine countries - on a mission to ski four million vertical feet in a year.

What hiking was for Cheryl Strayed, skiing became for Steph: a crucible in which to crack open her life and get to the very center of herself. But she would have to break herself down - first physically, then emotionally - before she could start to rebuild. And it was through this journey that she came to understand how to be a woman, how to love, and how to live authentically.

Electrifying, heartfelt, and full of humor, Unbound is Steph's story - an odyssey of courage and self-discovery that, like Wild and Eat, Pray, Love, will inspire listeners to remove their own restraining devices and pursue the lives they are meant to lead.

Members Reviews:

Steph Jagger's "Unbound"

Steph Jagger's "Unbound" is, on the surface, the story of Jagger's journey around the world to ski 4 million vertical feet. In the tradition of "Eat, Pray, Love," there's an internal journey going on as well, one that takes a deep turn into an identity crisis.

There's no pivotal, tragic event that specifically brings on Jagger's transformation. Instead, it comes on gradually during her trip. Jagger is a hardcore athlete, a self-proclaimed extrovert, and unabashedly one of the guys. A big part of her journey involves embracing her own femininity (something she always perceived as weakness) and becoming, "both a warrior and a goddess."

The memoir features some beautiful descriptions of the countries Jagger visited, and the mountains she skiid. A few interesting people she finds along the way become knit into her journey as well.

I enjoyed the book, mostly for the vicarious travel. But I also appreciated Jagger's very raw, blunt way of writing about herself and her life. Sometimes, the sarcasm got a bit heavy, but that ebbed off as she started accepting herself. At the risk of sounding prudish, I could've had less of her sex life, but I get how that plays a part in her reclaiming her womanhood.

I don't have much in common with Jagger, but I could still keep up with the ski jargon.

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Titel: Der Speermann

Untertitel: Hörspiel über Hitlers Baumeister Albert Speer

Autor:: Stephan Krass

Erzähler: Matthias Brandt, Caroline Junghanns

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 54 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 01-20-17

Herausgeber: SWR Edition

Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

"Was haben wir falsch gemacht?", fragte Albert Speer 1966 nach der Entlassung aus dem Kriegsverbrechergefängnis seinen engsten Mitarbeiter Rudolf Wolters, der ihm von 1934 bis 1945 bei allen Aufgaben zur Seite gestanden hatte. "Nichts", antwortete dieser. "Wir waren Hitlers Erzbaumeister und wir haben gebaut."

In all den Jahren, die Speer in Spandau einsaß, war es Wolters, der dafür sorgte, dass Speers Aufzeichnungen aus der Zelle geschmuggelt wurden und es dem Häftling an nichts fehlte: Kaviar, Champagner, Gänseleberpastete. An einem Sommerabend des Jahres 1971 sitzt Rudolf Wolters in der Suite des Hotels Königshof und diktiert den letzten Brief an Albert Speer, der sich vom Nationalsozialismus losgesagt hat und nun als der "gute Nazi" in der westdeutschen Schickeria herumgereicht wird. Morgen wird Wolters dem Bundesarchiv in Koblenz neues Material vorlegen, weil er sich und die "Bewegung" von Speer verraten fühlt. br />

Regie: Ulrich Lampen, Musik: Steffen Schleiermacher

©2015 SWR (P)2015 SWR

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Title: Starting from Loomis and Other Stories

Author: Hiroshi Kashiwagi

Narrator: Hiroshi Kashiwagi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-17

Publisher: Tim Yamamura

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A memoir in short stories, Starting from Loomis chronicles the life of accomplished writer, playwright, poet, and actor Hiroshi Kashiwagi. In this dynamic portrait of an aging writer trying to remember himself as a younger man, Kashiwagi recalls and reflects upon the moments, people, forces, mysteries, and choices - the things in his life that he cannot forget - that have made him who he is.

Central to this collection are Kashiwagi's confinement at Tule Lake during World War II, his choice to answer "no" and "no" to questions 27 and 28 on the official government loyalty questionnaire, and the resulting lifelong stigma of being labeled a "No-No Boy" after his years of incarceration. His nonlinear, multifaceted writing not only reflects the fragmentations of memory induced by traumas of racism, forced removal, and imprisonment but also can be read as a bold personal response to the impossible conditions he and other Nisei faced throughout their lifetimes.

Members Reviews:

Starting from loomis

This is a beautiful book sensitively written about a quiet, shy man's experience during World War ll and the effect being sent to Japanese relocation camp had on his life. It is an insightful story sharing this terrible experience with others. I strongly recommend it.

Four Stars

It has quirky little snipits of information that make it more entertaining. Somewhat disjointed, but it works.

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Title: A Lucky Life

Author: Bob Soltys

Narrator: Bob Soltys

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-16

Publisher: Bob Soltys

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

An adopted Jack Russell terrier tells his story. Beginning with his long night and uncertain future, Lucky recounts 12 years traveling across America with a photographer, and answering the age-old questions like who rescued who? and where in the heck is Wall Drug?

Members Reviews:

who doesn't love dogs?

Such a sweet book! and funny. I do wish it was linger, i hated to see it end.

I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

A Lucky Life and a Blessed Life

A great listen, Now I need to go get the book for the for the photo essay. As you listen to the narration from Lucky point of view you will begin to understand who really calls the shots.

Well worth the listen \

I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher

would give 10 if I could

A touching story about a great dog

I was gifted this audio ARC from the author for a honest and unbiased review

Well, Lucky is one smart dog! This little Jack Russell really comes to life on the pages.

Don't forget to have some tissues handy, there are also lots of humor sprinkled throughout the book.

This is a sweet and touching story of a Human who was rescued by Lucky the dog. Just in the nick of time before going to the gallows, Lucky finds his forever home. The story tells the story from Lucky's point of view.

I want more! I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone who loves dogs.

Bob Soltys did a fabulous job of writing and narrating his book about his dog Lucky. Btw I think Bob was one lucky human to be adopted by Lucky

A Lucky rescue dog and his lucky Human

Any additional comments?

A sweet and touching story of a Human who was rescued by Lucky the dog. In the nick of time and Lucky found his forever home. Lucky tells his story in a well written and entertaining short story and I want more! I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone who loves dogs. I was given this audiobook in return for an unbiased review.

Awww Sweet Lucky!

A Lucky Life was such a heartwarming story and told from Lucky's POV. Lucky was literally a last minute rescue making him not only lucky but blessed as well. Thank goodness Bob arrived when he did. Lucky is such a cutie too. I loved hearing his story and the message was wonderful. "Don't take stuff from dog haters". I'm a pet parent of a giant breed rescue and I've had my share of "stuff" from people.

I really enjoyed Bob Soltys's story. It was unique in its own way. I hope more people listen and decide to adopt a dog or any pet rather than buy. I think it's so true that they rescue us as much as we rescue them.

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Title: On Heights & Hunger

Author: Josh MacIvor-Andersen

Narrator: Josh MacIvor-Andersen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-16

Publisher: Josh MacIvor-Andersen

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This is the story of two professional and competitive tree-climbing brothers, both hungry for transcendence and adventure, coming to terms with their relationship to the divine, the family that first provided a framework for faith, and their own obsessions, victories, and failures.

Members Reviews:

Divine, Intriguing, Lively

This is a deeply personal, yet profoundly far-reaching, memoir. Humor is graciously mixed throughout the pages to help lighten the weight of gravity, which is to be expected when talking about ascending into the clouds. MacIvor-Andersen blends stories about being brought up in a devoutly evangelical Christian household with his adult foray into a new faith: one grown from the soil. Trees feature as a primary mode of sustaining life and binding family while at the same time being humbled, brought down, and ultimately rearranged by the force that is a confused humanity.

I truly appreciated the way he left the reader to make their own decisions about what is right or wrong in regards to religion. May the facts and stories about God and trees on earth lead us all to better understand our own circumstances and help us to figure out the legacy we ultimately hope to leave behind.

Tightly packed, pleasantly unwound.

I want to write four different reviews, each with five stars.

A meditation on growing up in evangelical Christianity, and letting go. Five stars.

A meditation on love and loss. Five stars.

A love note to Nashville. Five stars.

A story about brothers - in life and death. Five stars.

Oh, and it's about skydiving and treeclimbing?! Yes.

love, and most of all the beauty

This book is interesting as a piece of literature as well as a story. It feels similar to the masterpiece The Things They Carried in its reoccurring approach to themes. The author uses the story of his life and his family members' lives to explore the human experience of innocence, faith, pain, duty, and most of all, that desire many of us feel to know what it is to be the most alive. The characters in the story seek danger, purpose, love, and most of all the beauty, magnificence, and fear of nature. Swinging through the trees is their real life and their metaphorical access to all that is alive and worth living for. It was hard to put down because every page somehow put words to the hunger I also feel for the forest, the jungle, and the mountains but cannot describe very well.

Five Stars

A great book exploring life in the trees, family dynamics and relationships with the world.

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Title: Two Pews from Crazy

Author: Cyd Andrews-Looper

Narrator: Harley Reese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-26-16

Publisher: Ronin Robot Press

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

From Mel White, author of Stranger at the Gate: To be Gay and Christian in America:

In Two Pews from Crazy, the author takes us on a painful but always hopeful spiritual journey that made me think of Pilgrim's Progress. Each time this lesbian Christian pastor nears the "Celestial City", there's another "Slough of Despond". "Valley of Humiliation", or "River of Death" to cross.

It's a kind of miracle that Reverend Cyd is still standing after being born a female in a male dominated culture, after accepting her sexual orientation in the homophobic South, after refusing to renounce her call to ministry in a Christian community that forbids women clergy, after adopting a child, and after losing three different partners and suffering through spiritual and emotional abuse as a pastor.

Cyd has a great sense of humor. The chapters are short. Her story is honest, frank, easy to follow, and never dull. And though her journey is sometimes painful, it is also a celebration of god's presence and power in the life of a lesbian Christian pastor who never stops believing that god loves her and is with her every step of the way.

Hearing Cyd's story reminded me that god loves me, too, and is with me on my own sometimes painful journey. If you need to be reminded of the Holy Spirit's presence and power in your life, just sit down next to Reverend Cyd just two pews from crazy, and enjoy.

Members Reviews:

Two Thumbs up for Two Pews

I loved this book! It is a highly personal account of a woman navigating the turbulent waters of society and Christian fundamentalism. The story is told with heart and emotion. Cyd has courage and determination, and she demonstrates this over and over. I am happy she has shared her inspiring message with the world. This is a great read!

Let it go! Let it go! Don't be ugly anymore!

I don't have to be a past member or even know Pastor Cyd or the said former congregation she pastored. But I do know I am gay and a Christian and my Bible tells me "judge not lest ye shall be judged" Matthew 7:1. Not one of us on this earth is perfect and not one of us has suffered, pain, heartache, and deserve forgiveness and the more negative I read in these comments deeply saddens me for the whole community and that 2 wrongs don't make a right. Enough said .. Obviously a lot of bitterness and time being wasted over something that in my opinion should be "let go"!

So very sad. I hate to even write this

So very sad. I hate to even write this, because I so want there to be pastors in this world that do welcome all and love and pastor all. I can not stay silent on this one though. Cindy was a comedian on Sunday mornings, but rarely pastoral. Now SHE feels like she was abandoned and neglected and mistreated? She is clueless how often she made people in her congregation feel abandoned. She talked the talk of inclusion when it fit her needs, but did not walk it when it came to the needs of others. This is not the story of a humble servant of God, but someone with a very big ego. Honestly, she needs help. Yes, pastors are human too, but they need to be honest, and this book is far from honest. Wow, I did not realize how distorted her view of reality was until I read this. So very sad. I know the endorser of this book, and know that if he knew the truth behind how Cindy led this congregation, he would not have endorsed this.