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  Cerebral Eruption - An...

  Victor Merkel, Fran Feavel Merkel

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  Fran Feavel Merkel was a Wisconsin politician who suffered a massive brain aneurysm in 2006 and survived. 
  Consider this autobiography as a guide to negotiating the overwhelming maze of medical providers and avoiding their pitfalls. 
  If you feel an excruciating headache, dizziness, or blurred vision, to name a few, you could be having a brain aneurysm. 
  Understanding my struggles could make the difference between a quick recovery or death. 
  You'll discover an endless journey to hospitals, clinics, emergency rooms, doctors, nurses, therapists, psychologists, and more. 
  Although I found most of my experiences with medical providers positive, in my opinion, a few exhibited incompetence, hostility, and deception. 
  Learn how I handled those negative individuals.

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  American Crown - From...

  Stephanie Green

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  The fascinating story of Prince William's American ancestors, and how this often–rebellious lineage will help shape the future King of Great Britain. 
  In this fresh and perspective–shifting narrative, American Crown is an absorbing blend of American history and royal biography that brings to life the past generations who will shape the Prince of Wales's role in the future of Britain, America and the world. For the first time, Britain will have a monarch whose ancestors fought against the very crown he bears. 
  It all goes back to the roots of Diana, Princess of Wales whose Spencer family has a friendship with the Washington clan of Sulgrave Manor that produced the founding father of America, but more fascinating is Diana's maternal side whose American ancestors fought in the Revolution in New England, became successful in the new nation, and then (like many Gilded Age families) sent a daughter across the ocean to marry into the British elite. Other Spencers on the British side had bucked social trends in the 1770s even raised funds for the American rebels themselves. Embodying more interconnected history than any of his predecessors, William's sense of his own role in the world is markedly different from anyone who's ever held the throne. 
  With sweeping locations from battlefields to Buckingham Palace and featuring grand personalities like Nathan Hale, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Winston Churchill, King George VI, and Queen Elizabeth II, Stephanie Green's American Crown tells the story of a very new kind of royal family—one with the potential to bring two countries closer together in times of turmoil and bring the "special relationship" into next century.

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  Eleven Days - The Fascinating...

  Laura Thompson

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  A unique approach to understanding Agatha Christie’s infamous eleven-day disappearance, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Edgar-nominated Agatha Christie.In December of 1926, Agatha Christie, the world’s most famous mystery author, vanished. Eleven days later, after frenzied media speculation, she was discovered alive and well. Claiming to have lost her memory, she gave one disingenuous newspaper interview in 1928, but otherwise refused to speak publicly about her disappearance. A century on, there are questions that have never been answered. The book penetrates the blank space in Christie’s long and brilliant life, which leaves her ever more emblematic of the genre that she defines. Eleven Days is an examination of a myth, of a Christie mystery that has remained tantalizingly unsolved. In a new approach, Laura Thompson undertakes a re-enactment of Christie’s movements: from the moment of driving away from her marital home, to the abandonment of her car and her arrival the following night at a hotel in the north of England. Based on Thompson’s conversations with people close to Christie - notably, her interviews with Christie’s only child, her daughter Rosalind –Eleven Days will examine what lay behind this event, including some entirely new information about Christie’s first marriage. Thompson explores all theories about Christie’s disappearance, as well as the notion of disappearance in itself: how it might feel to wander like a ghost through one’s own life, to be oneself yet without identity. What sort of person has the capacity to disappear? Many of us may have longed to do so, but actually to go through with it? What courage or daring does it take, what desperation or deviousness? And how was Agatha Christie changed by it?  Eleven Days delves into these questions and delivers the final word on the greatest mystery ever created by the greatest writer of mysteries.

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  Ernest Shackleton - Going South

  Janet Benge, Geoff Benge

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  As adventurers from around the world raced to reach the South Pole and achieve other polar firsts in the early 1900s, outsider Ernest Shackleton and his motley expeditions would outshine even the British navy, becoming icons of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Known for prizing loyalty, leadership, and skill without regard for rank or social class - and for bringing men back alive - Shackleton completed three death-defying Antarctic journeys. Called the Boss by his crew and Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton by the king, the Anglo-Irish explorer counted it all part of life's grand adventure.

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  The Kings and Queens of Britain

  Cath Senker

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  For more than 1,000 years the British monarchy has dramatically shaped national and international history. Kings and queens have conquered territory, imposed religious change and extracted taxation, each with their own motivations and ambitions. 
   
  This fascinating audiobook delves into the extraordinary history of the British monarchy, from Alfred the Great in the 9th century to the Windsors in the 21st. Key moments are explored, including the signing of the Magna Carta, the Battle of Hastings and the abdication of King Edward VIII, and the part they played in the rich tapestry of British history.

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  True Crime Case Histories -...

  Jason Neal

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  Twelve True Crime Stories of Murder & Mayhem 
  Book 12 of the True Crime Case Histories Series 
  Readers and Listeners Love This Series - Over 8,000 Five-Star Ratings 
  This series can be listened to in any order. 
  True Crime Case Histories, Volume 12 brings to light twelve new stories spanning the past 80 years, exposing the dark realities of human behavior. 
  A sampling of the stories includes: 
  The Crossword Murder: A young East German boy walked to the cinema to meet friends, but disappeared somewhere along the snow-packed sidewalks. When his body was later found, the only clue investigators had was a crossword puzzle filled out with green ink. 
  Tennessee: There’s also the story of a 14-year-old boy who claimed to be triggered to kill when his teacher uttered a single word. 
  The Ice Cream Killer: In another story, a female ice cream shop owner, who had felt the urge to kill since she was a child, acted on her impulse and kept her victim’s dismembered bodies hidden in the cellar of her ice cream shop. 
  Better Off in Heaven: Another woman, struggling to raise her three boys, felt that her youngest sons were foreign to her, and she believed she could be a much better parent to the eldest son if the other two were in heaven. 
  Plus, many more disturbing stories. 
  You are about to listen to several more stories in this volume that are shocking and disturbing, but they’re also true. These things really do happen in the world. The stories paint a picture of human depravity that many would prefer to remain hidden. However, it is only by dragging evil into the light that we can begin to understand its terrible allure.

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