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Dave Itzkoff (Author), Grzegorz Dami?cki, Grzegorz Damięcki (Narrator)

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The Warner Boys: Our Family's Story of Autism and Hope

An emotional, revealing memoir of one family’s life in seclusion—and the love, strength, and faith it took to save it. Seahawks star running back Curt Warner and his wife, Ana, were prominent figures in Seattle in the early 1990s. When they dropped from the public eye after Curt’s retirement, everyone assumed it was for a simpler life. But the reality behind their seclusion was a secret they hid from even their closest friends: their twins, Austin and Christian, had been diagnosed with severe autism. What followed was a painful struggle to hold their family and their marriage together in a home filled with chaos, emotional exhaustion, and constant fear for the safety of their unpredictable but beloved boys. Now, after years of silence, the Warners share their inspiring journey from stardom and success to heartbreaking self-imposed isolation. Above all, it’s a story of the life-changing truth that love for family and each other—no matter how challenged—is the path to healing and peace. The Warner Boys is the true story of a family who fought for their children and how they grew stronger against all odds.

Ana Warner, Curt Warner (Author), Jd Jackson, Marcus Stewart, Robin Eller (Narrator)

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Ike's Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler

This exhilarating Cold War narrative takes listeners from top-secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages of a powerful man's intimate diary. Ike's Mystery Man brings a new dimension to our understanding of the inner-workings of the Eisenhower White House. It also shines a bright light on the indispensable contributions and sacrifices made by patriotic gay Americans in an era when Executive Order 10450 banned anyone suspected of 'sexual perversion,' i.e. homosexuality, from any government job, and gays in the government were persecuted by the likes of Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn in the Senate, and J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson at the FBI. Ike's Mystery Man shows that Eisenhower's National Security Advisor Robert 'Bobby' Cutler-working alongside Ike and also the Dulles brothers at the CIA and State Department-shaped US Cold War strategy in far more consequential ways than has been previously understood. Bobby also left behind a six-volume diary which reveals that he was in love with a man half his age, NSC staffer Skip Koons. Their friend Steve Benedict, who also is gay, became Ike's White House Security Officer. In addition to Bobby's diary, Ike's Mystery Man relies on thousands of personal letters, interviews, and previously classified archives to tell a gripping story that has never before been told.

Peter Shinkle (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator)

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Where Children Run

Twins David and Dennis Pischke's lives change forever when their father dies, and a man damaged by the war arrives at their farm near the isolated town of Moosehorn, Manitoba. Boleslaw Domko quickly works his way into their lives and their mother's bed. Where Children Run opens with one of their earliest memories-the day Domko throws their infant stepsister against the wall. In this first-hand account, the Twins recall years of neglect, starvation, and enslavement; horrific beatings and candlelit nights spent in the nearby St. Thomas Lutheran Church. Neighbors intervene, but their efforts provide only temporary relief as the children's mother-also living in fear-refuses to press charges. The brothers vow that if they survive, they will someday expose their tormentor and members of their mother's religious organization who turned a blind-eye to their suffering. This is their story-told with stark honesty and in heart-wrenching detail. Where Children Run is a timeless, unforgettable book about survival; and a powerful testament to the strength and adaptability of the human spirit. Contains mature themes.

Karen Emilson (Author), Elizabeth Wiley (Narrator)

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Storming the Heavens: African Americans and the Early Fight for the Right to Fly

The recent Hollywood film Hidden Figures presents a portrait of how African American women shaped the U.S. effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this account and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of African Americans to gain the right to fly. This struggle involved pioneers like Bessie Coleman, who traveled to World War I-era Paris in order to gain piloting skills that she was denied in her U.S. homeland; and John Robinson, from Chicago via Mississippi, who traveled to 1930s Ethiopia, where he was the leading pilot for this beleaguered African nation as it withstood an invasion from fascist Italy, became the personal pilot of His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie, and became a founder of Ethiopian Airways. Additionally, Horne adds nuance to the oft told tale of the Tuskegee Airmen and goes further to discuss the role of U.S. pilots during the Korean war in the early 1950s. He also tells the story of how and why U.S. airlines were fought when they began to fly into South Africa-and how planes from this land of apartheid were protested when they landed at U.S. airports.

Gerald Horne (Author), Bill Andrew Quinn, William Andrew Quinn (Narrator)

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Mujeres maravillosas

Mujeres que han trascendido el tiempo y cuya vida es narrada por Guadalupe Loaeza mediante su inconfundible estilo. En esta obra la autora da cuenta de su admiración por varias figuras excepcionales, al tiempo que revela la riqueza de su mundo personal, sus rasgos de carácter, sus aportaciones y las razones por las cuales hoy las recordamos. Desfilan por estas páginas personajes tan célebres como Edith Piaf, Marilyn Monroe, María Félix, Eva Perón y Eleanor Roosevelt, así como algunas menos conocidas, pero valiosas por su experiencia vital.

Guadalupe Loaeza (Author), Silvana Rabbuffi (Narrator)

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Depression is a Liar

Depression can convince you that there's no escape. Your thoughts may turn to suicide because it appears to be the only option. But depression is a liar. I suffered from life-threatening bouts of depression that led to alcoholism, drug abuse, medicine-induced psychosis and multiple hospitalisations. This memoir recounts my struggle and triumph over depression. I hope it helps you or your loved ones if any of you are struggling. Although originally from Australia, Danny travels the world full-time while he writes his novels. His future goals include visiting every country in the world, hitting the New York Times bestseller list, getting married and starting a family.

Danny L Baker, Danny L. Baker (Author), Gary Furlong (Narrator)

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In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules

From Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Taylor to Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Lena Dunham, this witty narrative explores what we can learn from the imperfect and extraordinary legacies of twenty-nine iconic women who forged their own unique paths in the world. Smart, sassy, and unapologetically feminine, In Praise of Difficult Women is an ode to the bold and charismatic women of modern history. Bestselling author Karen Karbo spotlights the spirited rule breakers who charted their way with little regard for expectations: Amelia Earhart, Helen Gurley Brown, Edie Sedgwick, Hillary Clinton, Amy Poehler, and Shonda Rhimes, among others. Their lives-imperfect, elegant, messy, glorious-provide inspiration and instruction for the new age of feminism we have entered. Karbo distills these lessons with wit and humor, examining the universal themes that connect us to each of these mesmerizing personalities today: success and style, love and authenticity, daring and courage. Being 'difficult,' Karbo reveals, might not make life easier, but it can make it more fulfilling-whatever that means for you.

Karen Karbo (Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator)

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In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World

The surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants and people could cope with their rapidly changing world. Amidst the standing dead, she discovered the resiliency of forgotten forests, flourishing again in the wake of destruction, and a diverse community of people who persevered to create new relationships with the emerging environment. Eloquent, insightful, and deeply heartening, In Search of the Canary Tree is a case for hope in a warming world.

Lauren E. Oakes (Author), Ellen Archer (Narrator)

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A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer

In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. But the only suspect in her murder was acquitted, and today her life and death are still a source of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised book, the first to examine this haunting story.

Nina Burleigh (Author), Siiri Scott (Narrator)

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Ser MUJER en un mundo de hombres

Cuando comencé a escribir este libro, solo pretendía contar la historia de una muchacha que nació en medio de adversidades y llegó a ser la primera mujer presidenta de un banco internacional de servicios múltiples en la industria financiera de su país. Al repasar los recuerdos, sin embargo, fui descubriendo un patrón de comportamiento que quizás pueda servir a los demás. Si así fuera, me sentiría feliz porque, como dice el proverbio budista: "Si enciendes una lámpara para otro, iluminarás tu propio camino".

Linda Valette (Author), Rebeca Badia (Narrator)

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Notes from Hell

"This horror story made international headlines. It shows brutality in its most extreme form, a wilful act of cruel injustice for which the Libyan government stands accused. Reading this book will make you cry." Dries Brunt, "Citizen Newspaper", South AfricaIn 1999 seventeen medical nurses are kidnapped from the hospital in which they work in Benghazi, Libya and are confined in a police station in the capital Tripoli. The next eight and a half years five of them will spend in different prisons accused of deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV."Notes from Hell" is a confession of an ordinary woman whose face becomes familiar to the whole world. The book tells about her work in Benghazi, about the reasons for the infection of the children, about the monstrous tortures she suffered, the terror, uncertainty and friendship in the Libyan prisons, about what it feels like to have three death sentences and survive."One of the most emotional and revealing confessions...", "Telegraph Newspaper", Bulgaria"This intimate account is relayed with raw honesty and emotion. A cold, sobering look at some of life's injustices.", Michelle Bristow-Bovey, "Cape Times", South Africa"It is impossible to walk away from Notes From Hell without a combination of feelings; the first of elation that she and her fellow accused survived, the second that the horror occurred in the first place. Nikolay Yordanov and Valya Chervenyashka put you there; something that stirs up a great deal of dread. Even the small victories that she and the others experienced do not allow you to relax because you are already anticipating the next deception. A horrific story well told, Notes From Hell will stir every emotion you have within you. You won't walk away and forget this book for a very long time, if ever.", Bil Howard, "Readers' Favorite"

Nikolay Yordanov, Valya Cherveniashka (Author), Nano Nagle (Narrator)

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