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First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
When Huda meets Hadi, the boy she will ultimately marry, she is six years old. Both are the American-born children of Iraqi immigrants, who grew up on opposite ends of California. Hadi considers Huda his childhood sweetheart, the first and only girl he's ever loved, but Huda needs proof that she is more than just the girl Hadi's mother has chosen for her son. She wants what the American girls have-the entertainment culture's almost singular tale of chance meetings, defying the odds, and falling in love. She wants stolen kisses, romantic dates, and a surprise proposal. As long as she has a grand love story, Huda believes no one will question if her marriage has been arranged. But when Huda and Hadi's conservative Muslim families forbid them to go out alone before their wedding, Huda must navigate her way through the despair of unmet expectations and dashed happily-ever-after ideals. Eventually she comes to understand the toll of straddling two cultures in a marriage and the importance of reconciling what you dreamed of with the life you eventually live. Tender, honest, and irresistibly compelling, First Comes Marriage is the first Muslim-American memoir dedicated to the themes of love and sexuality.
Huda Al-Marashi (Author), Jeed Saddy (Narrator)
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Between 1881, when Churchill was just six, and 1921, the year of his mother's death, Winston Churchill and Jennie Jerome were prolific and energetic correspondents. Their exchange of letters has never before been published as a volume of correspondence, and many of these intimate letters - between two highly gifted writers - are being published here for the first time. A significant addition to the Churchill canon, Darling Winston traces Churchill's emotional, intellectual and political development as confided to his main mentor. As well as providing a basic narrative of Jennie and Winston's lives over a forty-year period, Darling Winston portrays a mother-son relationship characterised at the outset by Winston's dependence on his mother, which is dramatically reversed as her life crumbles tragically towards its end. Copyright in the letters of Winston S. Churchill © The Estate of Winston S. Churchill; Copyright in the previously unpublished letters of Lady Randolph Churchill © The Master, Fellows and Scholars of Churchill College, Cambridge; Copyright in the compilation, introduction, editorial text, footnotes, appendix © David Lough, 2018
David Lough (Author), Gordon Griffin (Narrator)
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Not the Mother I Remember: A Memoir
When Amber discovers cardboard boxes containing a lifetime of her mother's journals and letters, she realizes she's been given a rare chance to unlock the enigma that had been her mother-but will her mother's writings reveal the woman she remembers, or someone else altogether? Not the Mother I Remember tells the story of a sensitive girl raised by an exceptional and unconventional woman during a time of social change, gradually exposing the true nature of their relationship and their extraordinary bonds.
Amber Lea Starfire (Author), Emily Beresford (Narrator)
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Coming to Las Vegas: A true tale of sex, drugs & Sin City in the 70's
Carolyn V. Hamilton arrives in Las Vegas in 1973 to join a circus. When that job doesn't work out, she opens the new MGM Grand Hotel/Casino as a cocktail waitress. This turns out to be more involved than a nice Lutheran girl from Seattle would think: parties, stealing, sex, drinking and drugs are the main entertainment for a bored crew of casino employees. Some waitresses date culinary union bosses, who have their own high drama of payoffs, fights for control, fire bombings and an 18-day culinary union strike. Each story told in this memoir-of the Martin Scorsese "Casino" era of Las Vegas-is true, and many are humorous as well as outrageous.
Carolyn V. Hamilton (Author), Coleen Marlo (Narrator)
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Favorite Wife: Escape From Polygamy
She had no choice in the matter-none of the girls did. Her mission was to give birth to and raise many children in devoted service to a shared husband. Susan was fifteen years old when she became the sixth wife of Verlan LeBaron, one of the leaders of a rogue Mormon cult, who was engaged in a blood feud with his brother that from 1972 to 1988 claimed up to two dozen lives. In this gripping and eloquent book, Susan Ray Schmidt tells the story of growing up on the inside and of her ultimate escape with her children from an oppressive and violent life. Delving more deeply into this mysterious underworld than any previous work, Favorite Wife is a powerful account of the affairs of the heart, coming of age under exceptional circumstances, and the tough choices that are sometimes painfully necessary to preserve human dignity. Susan Ray Schmidt was once a member of the Church of the Firstborn of the Fullness of Times and the child-bride of polygamist Verlan LeBaron in Colonia LeBaron in Mexico. After eight years of marriage, she left her husband and fled with her five children back to America. She remarried three years later.
Susan Ray Schmidt (Author), Susan Ericksen (Narrator)
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Las memorias del artista plástico peruano que marcó el siglo XX. 'Soy pintor. Esas dos simples palabras han dado sentido a mi existencia. ¿Es eso lo que quiero contar? Tal vez sí, pero no se trata solamente de mi vida. Sobre todo quiero dejar constancia de toda una época de gran transformación del arte y la cultura en el Perú que me tocó vivir y en la que he tenido la fortuna de participar. ¿Se explica la vida de una persona de forma aislada? Pienso que no. Yo soy más yo gracias a mis amigos y las personas que he amado, también con las que he discrepado, las que he perdido y hasta algunas que no llegué a conocer, como los artistas y escritores que he admirado y han dejado huella en mí. Esa es la historia que quiero contar, ese es el sentido de estas palabras.' Así empieza el testimonio vital de un artista de 91 años que ha atravesado el siglo XX y sigue plenamente activo. Fernando de Szyszlo (Lima, 1925) es la figura más relevante del arte peruano desde que en los años cincuenta hizo la primera exposición de arte abstracto en su país natal. Pero el carácter independiente que lo caracteriza ha hecho de él, a su vez, un protagonista de la historia del arte latinoamericano y un intelectual comprometido con la defensa de sus ideas. En estas páginas, escritas desde una memoria lúcida, aparecen anécdotas de artistas reconocidos, políticos como los Kennedy y los presidentes que ha tenido el Perú, su amistad con Mario Vargas Llosa o su matrimonio con la poeta Blanca Varela. En tono íntimo, habla también de sus ambiciones, fracasos, penas y amores. Son estas unas memorias llenas de vida, el autorretrato de un triunfador contra todo pronóstico, las palabras de un hombre libre. Reseñas: 'Solo se puede guardar silencio y escuchar cuando Fernando de Szyszlo habla. Escuchar sus historias con sus grandes amigos, sus fantasmas, como los llama: Arguedas, Eielson, Sologuren, Westphalen, Salazar Bondy. Cada uno tan grande como el otro. Escuchar como defiende a su admirado Mario Vargas Llosa mientras su mirada azul se posa, revolotea, por los rincones de esa casa suya que más parece un templo. Escuchar y ver cómo aún lo quiebra hablar de Lorenzo, su hijo que murió a los 35 años en un accidente aéreo en 1996. Y referirse a ella, a la poetisa Blanca Varela, su primer amor, el que lo colmó en lo intelectual aunque quizá no en lo sentimental. Ahora sí, guardemos silencio'. Revista Somos 'Fernando de Szyszlo logró ubicar, quizás por primera vez, al Perú en un debate internacional. Llegó a encarnar el paradigma de un arte latinoamericano que podía pensarse en el marco modernista del discurso de un arte universal'. Natalia Majluf. Directora del MALI
Fernando De Szyszlo, Fietta Jarque (Author), Javier Gómez (Narrator)
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Cerati: La biografía definitiva
Con el aporte de una enorme cantidad de testimonios de amigos, familiares y músicos, Cerati. La biografía traza un retrato conmovedor, apasionante y sincero de la vida de un artista incomparable, en su faceta más íntima y humana. Por cuatro años y medio, mientras Gustavo Cerati estuvo en coma, todavía quedaba la esperanza de que un día fuera a despertar y por este motivo nadie se animaba a despedirlo. Finalmente, el 4 de septiembre de 2014 llegó la triste noticia de que había fallecido. Esta biografía es un homenaje al músico que cambió para siempre la historia del rock argentino, no solo en su costado musical sino en su faceta más íntima y humana. Con testimonios de los músicos de su banda y de sus familiares, Juan Morris reconstruye la vida de un artista incomparable y transformador, que logró absorber la tradición del rock nacional y proyectarla en el futuro.
Juan Morris (Author), Sebastián Castro Saavedra, Sebastían Castro Saavedra (Narrator)
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My Story: An Autobiography and Battle with Schizophrenia
An Autobiography and batle with schizophrenia from a young male Asian perspective. Read the story of an aspiring novelist who has had so many problems in life but overcome them-from victim to victor. This is the life story of Zahid Zaman, sometimes, fun, sometimes sad , sometimes enlightening but always interesting, read how a young male Asian battle with schizophrenia and life to come out on top.
Zahid Zaman (Author), John Paul (Narrator)
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But My Brain Had Other Ideas: A Memoir of Recovery from Brain Injury
When Deb Brandon discovered that cavernous angiomas-tangles of malformed blood vessels in her brain-were behind the terrifying symptoms she'd been experiencing, she underwent one brain surgery. And then another. And then another. And that was just the beginning.But My Brain Had Other Ideas follows Brandon's story all the way through to long-term recovery, revealing without sugarcoating or sentimentality Brandon's struggles-and ultimate triumph.
Deb Brandon (Author), Helen Lloyd (Narrator)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself was written in response to critics who questioned the authenticity of the experiences Douglass drew on as a prominent abolitionist speaker. Douglass begins by describing his earliest memories, including his "entrance to the hell of slavery" through the "blood-stained gate" of his Aunt Hester's brutal beating, and goes on to tell of his painstaking acquisition of literacy, climactic fistfight with Edward Covey, imprisonment in the wake of a thwarted escape attempt, and flight north, first to New York, where he marries Anna Murray, and ultimately to New Bedford, Massachusetts. A runaway bestseller that sold thousands of copies in just its first few months in print, Douglass's autobiography is a classic fugitive slave narrative that paved the way for his dramatic career as an enormously influential advocate for civil rights.
Frederick Douglass (Author), Jesse Zuba (Narrator)
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In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
In November 1889, the New York World announced that it was sending its reporter Nellie Bly around the world, in a bid to beat Phileas Fogg's fictitious 80-day journey in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Catching wind of this publicity stunt, John Brisben Walker, who had just purchased the three-year-old and still-fledging Cosmopolitan, decided to dispatch Bisland on her own journey.] Six hours after being recruited, Bisland departed westward from New York. Meanwhile, Bly left on a steamer headed to Europe, both on the same day-November 14, 1889. The journeys were keenly followed by the public, though Bly, sponsored by the more sensationalistic and popular New York World (which mainly ignored Bisland), appeared to get more attention than Bisland and the genteel Cosmopolitan, which only published monthly. Elizabeth Bisland Wetmore was an American journalist and author, perhaps best known for her 1889-1890 race around the world against Nellie Bly, which drew worldwide attention.
Elizabeth Bisland (Author), Holly Jensen (Narrator)
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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death. There is very little in the way of plot, but a great deal of quiet musing about art, nature, society, and the things that make life worth living. Although this is a work of fiction, there are clear parallels between the narrator's life and Gissing's own life. This leads many commenters to view it as semi-autobiographical. George Robert Gissing was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. He published his first novel, Workers in the Dawn, in 1880 and also worked as a teacher and tutor throughout his life.
George Gissing (Author), Peter Eastman (Narrator)
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