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  Summons to Berlin - Nazi Theft...

  Joanne Intrator

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  On his deathbed, Dr. Joanne Intrator's father poses two unsettling questions: 
   
   
   
  "Are you tough enough? Do they know who you are?" 
   
   
   
  Joanne soon realizes that these haunting questions relate to a center-city Berlin building at 16 Wallstrasse that the Nazis ripped away from her family in 1938. But a decade is to pass before she will fully come to grasp why her father threw down the gauntlet as he did. 
   
   
   
  Repeatedly, Joanne's restitution quest brings her into confrontation with yet another of her profound fears surrounding Germany and the Holocaust. Having to call on reserves of strength she's unsure she possesses, the author leans into her professional command of psychiatry, often overcoming flabbergasting obstacles perniciously dumped in her path. 
   
   
   
  The depth and lucidity of psychological insight threaded throughout Summons to Berlin makes it an attention-grabbing standout among books on like topics. As a listener, you'll come away delighted to know just who Dr. Joanne Intrator is. You'll also finish the book cheering for her, because in the end, she proves far more than tough enough to satisfy her father's unnerving final demands.

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  Felix Baumgartner – What You...

  Chris4You, Sanny4Me

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  Felix Baumgartner – What You Live For Reveals How You Die: A Witness of Our Times (Version With Background Music)A personal portrait about values, loss, and the choices we make. 
  What if the greatest adventure doesn’t begin in free fall, but in the moments where nobody is watching? 
  This audiobook doesn’t take you to dizzying heights – it leads you straight into the hidden life of a man the world knew as a boundary breaker, a hero, a rebel. What remains when the cameras stop rolling, the spotlight fades, and the world moves on? 
  A childhood spent in the shadow of broken parents. Lonely years, a brother who barely speaks. A longing for love – and the constant fear of ever truly arriving. Broke, tired, alone: In the quiet moments, Felix isn’t Superman. He’s a son, a brother, a seeker, someone left behind.Yet time and again, the moment comes when giving up is not an option. Obstacles pile up: 
  A controlling mother’s love, failed relationships, emptiness after the jump, public shitstorms, private losses. And still: He keeps going. Step by step, doubt by doubt, jump by jump. The real comeback doesn’t happen in front of the cameras – it’s found in the decision to face yourself. In dialogue. In doubt. In listening.What will you take from this audiobook? 
  No one lives without scars. But it’s up to us what we make of them. If you look closer, you’ll see: The greatest stories of courage are born where no one is looking. 
  What is your greatest fear? What is your bravest moment? Who would you be if no one was watching? 
  Listen in, let yourself be moved, ask questions, find yourself within these stories.This audiobook is your entry into a true contemporary testimony. No hero worship. No myth. Just real stories, real loss, real longing. Order now – and become part of the story. 
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  The Beauty of the Husband - A...

  Anne Carson

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  The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in twenty-nine tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice–twenty-nine "tangos" of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long-time marriage that falls apart. Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects–love–and make it this powerful, this fresh, this devastating.

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  Last Words

  Richard Holloway

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  Richard Holloway has been the archetypal 'turbulent priest'. Having risen to be the Primus (Head) of the Scottish Episcopal Church, he abandoned religion and ecclesiastical office to fight for the rights of minorities and to write a string of best selling books, most famously Leaving Alexandria. He also became Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council.
  In this, his last book, he reflects deeply on his life, most especially as a child of desperately poor parents in Dumbartonshire in Scotland. He tells the story of how he found faith but then abandoned Christian orthodoxy after leaving office as Head of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and discovered a new life as a writer, broadcaster, journalist and public intellectual.
  This book opens and ends with chapters of a philosophical kind in which he explains how he lost belief in a loving God and became true to himself.

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  Snatch Back - How God Snatched...

  Ruby Hayes

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  I was standing on my bed looking out of my bedroom window. The sky appeared gray and somber. I saw a young man with dark hair looking up, staring at me from the sidewalk. Then quick lightning flashed, striking him, leaving a small pile of charcoal-colored ashes on the sidewalk where he once stood... I awoke. I was surrounded by plastic drapes and hospital monitoring equipment. The air around me smelled like chicken soup and chemicals. They later told me it had been five months that Id been in a coma. I was wrapped in layers of white bandages. Third-degree burns covered almost 80 percent of my body. My journey was just beginning. The doctors painted a grim future for me. They told my mom that I would never walk again. Oftentimes, we can forget to be thankful for the small things. In her book Snatch Back, author Ruby Hayes recounts some of her most trying times and how God eventually took hold of her life and brought her back to the light. Hayess book is a shining testimony to the fact that it is never to late to be relinquished from the devil. This is the book that Satan himself does not want published.

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  The Allure of Elsewhere - A...

  Karen Babine

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  One woman's cross-country journey to explore the hold family history has on our lives, and the power of new stories to shape what lies ahead. 
   
  In her mid-thirties and happily single, Karen Babine hitches up her tiny Scamp camper and sets out with her two unenthusiastic cats on a journey from her home in Minnesota to Nova Scotia to explore the place where her French-Acadian ancestors settled in North America some four centuries ago. 
   
  As the miles roll by, she wonders: "Why do we carry this need to belong to an established history? What happens when that can't—or shouldn't—happen?" The road reveals more questions than answers about her history, identity, and belonging, about the responsibilities of stories and silence, about her life choices, and what it means to be driven by both a strong sense of kinship to a close-knit family on one hand and a deep desire for independence on the other. 
   
  Capturing the joy, freedom, and powerful pull of the open road, The Allure of Elsewhere is about the stories we're told, the stories we tell, and the way those stories make us who we are. Intimate, curious, and candid, written with wry wit and warmth, this is a courageous and inspiring memoir.

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