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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The StowawaySubtitle: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to AntarcticaAuthor: Laurie Gwen ShapiroNarrator: Jacques RoyFormat: UnabridgedLength: 6 hrs and 27 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-16-18Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioRatings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:The spectacular true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica.It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War was over, and American optimism was higher than the stock market. What better moment to launch an expedition to Antarctica, the planet's final frontier? This was the moon landing before the 1960s. Everyone wanted to join the adventure. Rockefellers and Vanderbilts begged to be taken along as mess boys, and newspapers across the globe covered the planning's every stage.The night before the expedition's flagship launched, Billy Gawronski - a skinny, first-generation New York City high schooler desperate to escape a dreary future in the family upholstery business - jumped into the Hudson River and snuck aboard.Could he get away with it?From the grimy streets of New York's Lower East Side to the rowdy dance halls of sultry Francophone Tahiti, all the way to Antarctica's blinding white and deadly freeze, Laurie Gwen Shapiro's The Stowaway takes you on the unforgettable voyage of a gutsy young stowaway who became an international celebrity, a mascot for an up-by-your-bootstraps age.Critic Reviews:"Shapiro has rescued from oblivion a wondrous tale of exploration. The Stowaway is a thrilling adventure that captures not only the making of a man but of a nation." (David Grann, best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon)"The Stowaway proves that fact is stranger and funnier and more amazing than fiction. Laurie Gwen Shapiro artfully draws the reader into the tale of Billy Gawronski, a dreamer and adventurer. Through the wild story of his travels to Antarctica, we see history come vividly to life." (Susan Orlean, best-selling author of Rin Tin Tin)"Laurie Gwen Shapiro wrote The Stowaway like a Jack London novel: with a sense of adventure, wonderful detail, a lineup of intriguing characters, and above all a great story. This is the best of nonfiction." (Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Paper)Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: When They Call You a TerroristSubtitle: A Black Lives Matter MemoirAuthor: Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandeleNarrator: Patrisse Khan-CullorsFormat: UnabridgedLength: 6 hrs and 28 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-16-18Publisher: Macmillan AudioRatings: 5 of 5 out of 32 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:The emotional and powerful story of one of the cofounders of Black Lives Matter and how the movement was born. When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele is the essential audiobook for every conscientious American.From one of the cofounders of the Black Lives Matter movement comes a poetic audiobook memoir and reflection on humanity. Necessary and timely, Patrisse Cullors' story asks us to remember that protest in the interest of the most vulnerable comes from love. Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, a threat to America. But in truth, they are loving women whose life experiences have led them to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful.In this meaningful, empowering account of survival, strength, and resilience, Patrisse Cullors and asha bandele seek to change the culture that declares innocent black life expendable.This program is read by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and includes a bonus conversation.Critic Reviews:"Steeped in humanity and powerful prose.... This is an eye-opening and eloquent coming-of-age story from one of the leaders in the new generation of social activists." (Publishers Weekly)"With great candor about her complex personal life, Khan-Cullors has created a memoir as compelling as a page-turning novel." (Booklist)"This remarkable book reveals what inspired Patrisse's visionary and courageous activism and forces us to face the consequence of the choices our nation made when we criminalized a generation. This book is a must-read for all of us." (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow)Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: On Pills and NeedlesSubtitle: The Relentless Fight to Save My Son from Opioid AddictionAuthor: Rick Van WarnerNarrator: Traber BurnsFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7 hrs and 14 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-16-18Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:When Rick Van Warner found himself searching abandoned buildings and dangerous streets looking for his missing son, he had no idea that the synthetic, pill-form heroin that had snared his teen was already killing so many. In the years of pain and heartache that followed, as he tried to save his son from opioid addiction, Van Warner discovered what the American public is just now becoming aware of: Opioids prescribed for even minor pain relief are so addictive that even a few days of use can create dependency. On Pills and Needles is a memoir that also serves as a wake-up call and crash course in opioid addiction. Through his harrowing personal story, Van Warner exposes the common causes of opioid addiction, effective and ineffective ways it has been treated, and how families can walk alongside loved ones who are dealing with the daily realities of addiction.Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Getting OffSubtitle: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn AddictionAuthor: Erica GarzaNarrator: Joy OsmanskiFormat: UnabridgedLength: 6 hrs and 52 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-09-18Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioRatings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:A courageous account of one woman's unflinching and ultimately hopeful journey through sex and porn addiction.A fixation on porn and orgasm, strings of failed relationships and serial hook-ups with strangers, inevitable blackouts to blunt the shame - these are not things we often hear women share publicly, and not with the candor, eloquence and introspection Erica Garza brings to Getting Off.What sets this courageous and riveting account apart from your typical misery memoir is the absence of any precipitating trauma beyond the garden variety of hurt we've all had to endure in simply becoming a person - reckoning with family, learning to be social, integrating what it means to be sexual. Whatever tenor of violence or abuse Erica's life took on through her behavior was of her own making, fueled by fear, guilt, self-loathing, self-pity, loneliness, and the hopelessness those feelings brought on as she runs from one side of the world to the other in an effort to break her habits - from East Los Angeles to Hawaii and Southeast Asia, through the brothels of Bangkok and the yoga studios of Bali to disappointing stabs at therapy and 12-steps back home.In this remarkable audiobook, Garza draws an evocative, studied portrait of the anxiety that fuels her obsessions as well as the exhilaration and hope she begins to feel when she suspects she might be free of them. And yet there is no false or prepackaged sense of redemption here. Even her relationship with the man she will ultimately marry seems credibly, painfully rocky as it finds its legs with several false starts. Erica's increasing sense of self-acceptance and peace by journey's end feels utterly earned and absent of recovery platitudes.In exploring the cultural taboos surrounding sex and porn from a female perspective, Garza offers a brave and necessary voice to our evolving conversations about addiction and the impact that Internet culture has had on us all.Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Tell Me MoreSubtitle: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to SayAuthor: Kelly CorriganNarrator: Kelly CorriganFormat: UnabridgedLength: 4 hrs and 25 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-09-18Publisher: Random House AudioRatings: 5 of 5 out of 34 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:A powerful book about the phrases we can't live without from the New York Times best-selling author of Glitter and Glue, who has been hailed as "the poet laureate of the ordinary" (The Huffington Post).Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: A River in DarknessSubtitle: One Man's Escape from North KoreaAuthor: Martin Brown - translator, Risa Kobayashi - translator, Masaji IshikawaNarrator: Brian NishiiFormat: UnabridgedLength: 5 hrs and 54 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 01-01-18Publisher: Brilliance AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 155 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:The harrowing true story of one man's life inand subsequent escape fromNorth Korea, one of the world's most brutal totalitarian regimes.Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work, education for his children, and a higher station in society. But the reality of their new life was far from utopian.In this memoir translated from the original Japanese, Ishikawa candidly recounts his tumultuous upbringing and the brutal thirty-six years he spent living under a crushing totalitarian regime, as well as the challenges he faced repatriating to Japan after barely escaping North Korea with his life. A River in Darkness is not only a shocking portrait of life inside the country but a testament to the dignityand indomitable natureof the human spirit.Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: White American YouthSubtitle: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement - and How I Got OutAuthor: Christian PiccioliniNarrator: Christian Picciolini, Joan JettFormat: UnabridgedLength: 6 hrs and 47 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 12-26-17Publisher: Hachette AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 23 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:A stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, realized the error of his ways and abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist.As he stumbled through high school, struggling to find a community among other fans of punk rock music, Christian Picciolini was recruited by a now notorious white power skinhead leader and encouraged to fight with the movement to "protect the white race from extinction." Soon, he had become an expert in racist philosophies, a terror who roamed the neighborhood, quick to throw fists. When his mentor was arrested and sentenced to 11 years in prison, 16-year-old Picciolini took over the man's role as the leader of an infamous neo-Nazi skinhead group.Seduced by the power he accrued through intimidation, and swept up in the rhetoric he had adopted, Picciolini worked to grow an army of extremists. He used music as a recruitment tool, launching his own propaganda band that performed at white power rallies around the world. But slowly, as he started a family of his own and a job that for the first time brought him face to face with people from all walks of life, he began to recognize the cracks in his hateful ideology. Then a shocking loss at the hands of racial violence changed his life forever, and Picciolini realized too late the full extent of the harm he'd caused.Raw, inspiring, and heartbreakingly candid, White American Youth tells the fascinating story of how so many young people lose themselves in a culture of hatred and violence and how the criminal networks they forge terrorize and divide our nation.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.Critic Reviews:"White American Youth takes the reader into the depths of the hate movement and sheds a valuable light on the mindset of those who can be lured into this dark world. Christian's astonishing change of heart is a testament to our endless capacity for personal transformation." (Lonnie Nasatir, regional director, Anti-Defamation League)"Christian's journey exemplifies how hate and violence are unsustainable, and tolerance, forgiveness, and love are the only ways forward. If Christian can change, there is hope for all humankind - a compelling and extraordinary story." (Jane Rosenthal, Co-Founder, Tribeca Film Festival)Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Fatwa: Hunted in AmericaAuthor: Pamela GellerNarrator: Pamela GellerFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9 hrs and 26 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 12-12-17Publisher: Dangerous BooksRatings: 5 of 5 out of 33 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:Her critics have called her 'the most dangerous woman in America,' 'far-right hate queen,' and 'the anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead.'Her admirers say she is 'the Joan of Arc of the counter-jihad movement,' 'one of the top world experts in radical Islam, sharia, and Islamic supremacism,' and 'a wonderful fighter for liberty.'Now, in Fatwa: Hunted in America, Pamela Geller recounts her unlikely journey from New York City career girl to a fearless human rights and free speech activist reviled by the enemies of freedom the world over. 'I assumed my freedom,' she writes. 'Never for one moment did I think that it could be taken from me. But all that changed on one day.'That day was September 11, 2001, when the global jihad struck America with murderous force. The United States of America and the free world were never the same again.Neither was Pamela Geller.In this book, Geller shares how she launched her blogging career, defended abused Muslim girls, stood against the advance of sharia, and fought for the freedom of speech a freedom crumbling in this age of jihad.Geller recounts the battle to defeat the sinister Ground Zero mosque project; the ISIS attack at Geller's Mohammed Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland, Texas; the fatwa and plot to behead her; and the relentless vilification she faces from a mainstream media hell-bent on defaming and destroying everyone who stands for freedom against jihad terror and sharia oppression.Pamela Geller writes: 'Any lover of freedom would have been tarred the same way I was, and many have been. I am but a proxy in this terrible, long war. What has happened to me is what happens, in small and large ways, to every American who stands for freedom.'One person can make a difference. And what a remarkable difference Pamela Geller has made. At last, in Fatwa: Hunted In America, she tells her story.Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Only Girl in the WorldSubtitle: A MemoirAuthor: Maude JulienNarrator: Elisabeth RodgersFormat: UnabridgedLength: 7 hrs and 40 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 12-12-17Publisher: Hachette AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 103 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:For listeners of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman rising above an unimaginable childhood.Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor - raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood, and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness". Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment.But Maude's parents could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on the lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbid as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity.By turns horrifying and magical, The Only Girl in the World is a story that will grip you from the first minute and leave you spellbound, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.Critic Reviews:"A disturbing, engrossing memoir.... A startling testament of survival." (Kirkus)"This is not the umpteenth book about a miraculously saved victim. It is much more, and much better.... One of the most fascinating things about this memoir is the extraordinary resistance Maude developed...her ability to create a world for herself." (Le Journal du Dimanche)"A harrowing yet achingly beautiful tale of a girl imprisoned by her brutal, fanatic family, but whose yearning for wonder and love ultimately drives her toward the improbable light of the world.... The Only Girl in the World is a story of resilience unlike any I have ever read." (Mira Bartók, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner The Memory Palace)Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Should the Tent Be Burning Like That?Subtitle: A Professional Amateur's Guide to the OutdoorsAuthor: Bill HeaveyNarrator: Jeff HardingFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9 hrs and 13 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 12-05-17Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLCRatings: 4 of 5 out of 45 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:Maybe the best way to explain Bill Heavey's writing is to note that both Ted Nugent and the Wall Street Journal - two entities rarely seen in the same sentence - like it. For more than 20 years, Heavey has staked a claim as one of America's best sportsmen writers. In feature stories and his Field & Stream column A Sportsman's Life, he has taken audiences across the country and beyond to experience his triumphs and failures as a suburban dad who happens to love hunting and fishing.This new collection gathers together a wide range of his best work - tales that are odes to the notion that enthusiasm is more important than skill and testaments to the enduring power of the natural world. Whether he's hunting mule deer in Montana, draining cash on an overpriced pistol, or ruminating on the joys and agonies of outdoor gear, Heavey always entertains and enlightens with honesty and wit.Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Crown HeightsAuthor: Colin Warner, Carl King, Holly LorinczNarrator: Lakeith Stanfield, Nnamdi AsomughaFormat: UnabridgedLength: 2 hrs and 28 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 11-28-17Publisher: Brilliance AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 70 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:The true story behind the major motion picture from Amazon Studios.Childhood friends from Trinidad, Colin Warner and Carl King grew into men on opposite sides of prison bars after Colin was arrested for murder in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. With no evidence against him, Colin was wrongfully convicted and wrongfully imprisoned for more than two decades. But time and walls could not break the friends' bond. Carl's extraordinary resolve, sacrifice, and courage were Colin's last rays of hope in a harrowing struggle for freedom and justice. Whatever it took, Carl was not going to leave his best friend behind.Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Almost GoneSubtitle: Twenty-Five Days and One Chance to Save Our DaughterAuthor: Mackenzie Baldwin, Stephanie Baldwin - introduction, John BaldwinNarrator: Kirby Heyborne, Cassandra Campbell, Rebekkah RossFormat: UnabridgedLength: 6 hrs and 30 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 11-14-17Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 30 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:This is the never-before-told, riveting true story about a teenage Christian girl who was seduced online by a charming young Muslim man from Kosovo, and her father who ultimately worked with the FBI to save her from disappearing forever.The Baldwins were a strong Christian family living in Plano, Texas. When their 17-year-old daughter, Mackenzie, met Aadam in a random-match online chat room, she fell for his good looks, his charm, and his respectful conversation. He told her he lived in New York, and they began an online friendship.But over the course of a few months, Aadam revealed that he actually lived in Kosovo and had only pretended to live in New York so Mackenzie would keep chatting with him. The more attached she became to Aadam, the more detached she became from her family.John and Stephanie, Mackenzie's parents, had no clue what was behind their daughter's change in personality, her surprising interest in Islam, her suddenly modest dress, and her withdrawal from friends and family. When Mackenzie's attachment to Aadam increased even more and they became "engaged", she started making plans to secretly fly to Kosovo, where she and Aadam would be married.But 25 days before Mackenzie was scheduled to fly to Kosovo, John found out about his daughter's dangerous plan when three of her friends came forward. John contacted the FBI and asked for help. Though the FBI did not believe Aadam was trying to radicalize Mackenzie, they were concerned about his intentions, as that part of Kosovo was known for sex trafficking, human trafficking, and citizenship frauds. Kosovo was no place for an unaccompanied, naïve teenager to secretly travel and marry a stranger she knew only through online chats. Within the limited time remaining before Mackenzie's departure, John and Stephanie had to confront Mackenzie and stop her before she would be lost to them forever.Told from the viewpoint of both father and daughter, Almost Gone follows Mackenzie's network of lies and deceit and her parents' escalating bewilderment and alarm. More than a cautionary tale, this is the incredible story of unconditional parental love, unwavering faith, and how God helped a family save their daughter from a relationship that jeopardized not only her happiness but also her safety.Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Breaking FreeSubtitle: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren JeffsAuthor: Rachel JeffsNarrator: Rachel JeffsFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8 hrs and 3 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 11-14-17Publisher: Harper AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 267 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.Born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rachel Jeffs was raised in a strict patriarchal culture defined by subordinate sister wives and men they must obey. No one in this radical splinter sect of the Mormon Church was more powerful or terrifying than its leader, Warren Jeffs - Rachel's father.Living outside mainstream Mormonism and federal law, Jeffs arranged marriages between underage girls and middle-aged and elderly members of his congregation. In 2006 he gained international notoriety when the FBI placed him on its 10 Most Wanted List. Though he is serving a life sentence for child sexual assault, Jeffs' iron grip on the church remains firm and his edicts to his followers increasingly restrictive and bizarre.In Breaking Free, Rachel blows the lid off this taciturn community made famous by John Krakauer's best-selling Under the Banner of Heaven to offer a harrowing look at her life with Warren Jeffs and the years of physical and emotional abuse she suffered. Sexually assaulted, compelled into an arranged polygamous marriage, locked away in "houses of hiding" as punishment for perceived transgressions, and physically separated from her children, Rachel, Jeffs' first plural daughter by his second of more than 50 wives, eventually found the courage to leave the church in 2015. But Breaking Free is not only her story - Rachel's experiences illuminate those of her family and the countless others who remain trapped in the strange world she left behind.A shocking and mesmerizing memoir of faith, abuse, courage, and freedom, Breaking Free is an exposé of religious extremism and a beacon of hope for anyone trying to overcome personal obstacles.Rachel Jeffs grew up in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the polygamous Mormon sect, which she escaped in 2015. Rachel lives in Idaho with her five children and two dogs.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Member of the FamilySubtitle: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the SixtiesAuthor: Dianne Lake, Deborah HermanNarrator: Dianne LakeFormat: UnabridgedLength: 12 hrs and 31 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 10-24-17Publisher: Harper AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 236 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest member of his Family and offering new insights into one of the 20th century's most notorious criminals and life as one of his "girls".At age 14, Dianne Lake - with little more than a note in her pocket from her hippie parents granting her permission to leave them - became one of "Charlie's girls", a devoted acolyte of cult leader Charles Manson. Over the course of two years, the impressionable teenager endured manipulation, psychological control, and physical abuse as the harsh realities and looming darkness of Charles Manson's true nature revealed itself. From Spahn ranch and the group acid trips to The Beatles' White Album and Manson's dangerous messiah complex, Dianne tells the riveting story of the group's descent into madness as she lived it.Though she never participated in any of the group's gruesome crimes and was purposely insulated from them, Dianne was arrested with the rest of the Manson Family and eventually learned enough to join the prosecution's case against them. With the help of good Samaritans, including the cop who first arrested her and later adopted her, the courageous young woman eventually found redemption and grew up to lead an ordinary life.While much has been written about Charles Manson, this riveting account from an actual Family member is a chilling portrait that recreates in vivid detail one of the most horrifying and fascinating chapters in modern American history.Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: MindhunterSubtitle: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime UnitAuthor: Mark Olshaker, John E. DouglasNarrator: Richard M. DavidsonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 15 hrs and 14 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 10-24-17Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 1437 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:Discover the classic behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas' 25-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country's most notorious serial killers and criminals - the basis for the upcoming Netflix original series.In chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind the scenes of some of his most gruesome, fascinating, and challenging cases - and into the darkest recesses of our worst nightmares.During his 25- year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time: the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer, the case that nearly cost Douglas his life.As the model for Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, Douglas has confronted, interviewed, and studied scores of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and Ed Gein, who dressed himself in his victims' peeled skin. Using his uncanny ability to become both predator and prey, Douglas examines each crime scene, reliving both the killer's and the victim's actions in his mind, creating their profiles, describing their habits, and predicting their next moves.Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: American RadicalSubtitle: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI AgentAuthor: Tamer Elnoury, Kevin MaurerNarrator: Peter GanimFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9 hrs and 42 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 10-23-17Publisher: Penguin AudioRatings: 5 of 5 out of 686 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the inside.It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad global war against terror. But, for the first time, in this memoir, an active Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America.A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of terrorists whose goals are to take out as many Americans in as public and as devastating a way possible. It's a furious race against the clock for Tamer and his unit to stop them before they can implement their plans. Yet, as new as this war still is, the techniques are as old as time - listen, record, and prove terrorist intent.Due to his ongoing work for the FBI, Elnoury writes under a pseudonym. An Arabic-speaking Muslim American, a patriot, a hero: To many Americans, it will be a revelation that he and his team even exist, let alone the vital and dangerous work they do keeping all Americans safe.Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: From Here to EternitySubtitle: Traveling the World to Find the Good DeathAuthor: Caitlin DoughtyNarrator: Caitlin DoughtyFormat: UnabridgedLength: 5 hrs and 37 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 10-03-17Publisher: Recorded BooksRatings: 5 of 5 out of 371 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity".Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for their dead. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body. Grandpa's mummy has lived in the family home for two years, where the family has maintained a warm and respectful relationship. She meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls) and introduces us to a Japanese kotsuage, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved ones' bones from cremation ashes.With curiosity and morbid humor, Doughty encounters vividly decomposed bodies and participates in compelling, powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in America. From Here to Eternity introduces death-care innovators researching green burial and body composting, explores new spaces for mourning - including a glowing Buddha columbarium in Japan and America's only open-air pyre - and reveals unexpected new possibilities for our own death rituals.Author bio: Mortician Caitlin Doughty - host and creator of Ask a Mortician and the New York Times best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - founded the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death and cofounded Death Salon. She lives in Los Angeles, where she runs her nonprofit funeral home, Undertaking LA.Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: The Woman Who Smashed CodesSubtitle: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's EnemiesAuthor: Jason FagoneNarrator: Cassandra CampbellFormat: UnabridgedLength: 13 hrs and 36 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 09-26-17Publisher: HarperAudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 325 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and helped win World War II.In 1912, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the US government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code breaking. There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the Adam and Eve of the NSA, Elizebeth's story, incredibly, has never been told.In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman, who played an integral role in our nation's history for 40 years. After World War I, Smith used her talents to catch gangsters and smugglers during Prohibition, then accepted a covert mission to discover and expose Nazi spy rings that were spreading like wildfire across South America, advancing ever closer to the United States. As World War II raged, Elizabeth fought a highly classified battle of wits against Hitler's Reich, cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine used by German spies. Meanwhile, inside an army vault in Washington, William worked furiously to break Purple, the Japanese version of Enigma - and eventually succeeded, at a terrible cost to his personal life.Fagone unveils America's code-breaking history through the prism of Smith's life, bringing into focus the unforgettable events and colorful personalities that would help shape modern intelligence. Blending the lively pace and compelling detail that are the hallmarks of Erik Larson's best sellers with the atmosphere and intensity of The Imitation Game, The Woman Who Smashed Codes is riveting popular history at its finest.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: I Will Find YouSubtitle: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting CrimeAuthor: Joe KendaNarrator: Joe KendaFormat: UnabridgedLength: 8 hrs and 17 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 09-26-17Publisher: Hachette AudioRatings: 5 of 5 out of 755 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:Detective Lt. Joe Kenda, star of Homicide Hunter, shares his deepest, darkest, and never before revealed case files from his 19 years as a homicide detective.Are you horrified yet fascinated by abhorrent murders? Do you crave to know the gory details of these crimes, and do you seek comfort in the solving of the most gruesome?In I Will Find You, the star of Homicide Hunter, Lt. Joe Kenda, shares his deepest, darkest, and never-before-revealed case files from his two decades as a homicide detective and reminds us that crimes like these are very real and can happen even in our own backyards.Gruesome, macabre, and complex cases.Joe Kenda investigated 387 murder cases during his 23 years with the Colorado Springs Police Department and solved almost all of them. And he is ready to detail the cases that are too gruesome to air on television, cases that still haunt him, and the few cases where the killer got away. These cases are horrifyingly real, and the detail is so mesmerizing you won't be able to turn it off.The tales in I Will Find You will shock you like the best horror stories - divulging insights into the actions, motivations, and proclivities of nature's most dangerous species.Don't mind the blood.Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Thanks, ObamaSubtitle: My Hopey, Changey White House YearsAuthor: David LittNarrator: David LittFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9 hrs and 28 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 09-19-17Publisher: Harper AudioRatings: 4.5 of 5 out of 416 votesGenres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal MemoirsPublisher's Summary:Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? David Litt does. In his comic coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years - and charts a path forward in the age of Trump.More than any other presidency, Barack Obama's eight years in the White House were defined by young people - 20-somethings who didn't have much experience in politics (or anything else, for that matter) yet suddenly found themselves in the most high-stakes office building on earth. David Litt was one of those 20-somethings. After graduating from college in 2008, he went straight to the Obama campaign. In 2011 he became one of the youngest White House speechwriters in history. Until leaving the White House in 2016, he wrote on topics from health care to climate change to criminal justice reform. As President Obama's go-to comedy writer, he also took the lead on the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the so-called "State of the Union of jokes".Now, in this refreshingly honest memoir, Litt brings us inside Obamaworld. With a humorist's eye for detail, he describes what it's like to accidentally trigger an international incident or nearly set a president's hair aflame. He answers questions you never knew you had: Which White House men's room is the classiest? What do you do when the commander in chief gets your name wrong? Where should you never, under any circumstances, change clothes on Air Force One? With nearly a decade of stories to tell, Litt makes clear that politics is completely, hopelessly absurd.But it's also important. For all the moments of chaos, frustration, and, yes, disillusionment, Litt remains a believer in the words that first drew him to the Obama campaign: "People who love this country can change it". In telling his own story, Litt sheds fresh light on his former boss' legacy. And he argues that, despite the current political climate, the politics championed by Barack Obama will outlive the presidency of Donald Trump.Full of hilarious stories and told in a truly original voice, Thanks, Obama is an exciting debut about what it means - personally, professionally, and politically - to grow up.Contact me for any questions: [email protected]
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