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Slow Dancing with a Stranger

Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's

by Meryl Comer ...

The Emmy Award–winning broadcaster shares a New York Times–bestselling, unvarnished personal account of her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease.When Meryl Comer's husband, Dr. Harvey Gralnick, chief of hematology and oncology at the National Institutes of Health, began forgetting routine things and demonstrating abrupt changes in behavior, doctors were confounded ass to what was going wrong. ... Read more

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The Emmy Award–winning broadcaster shares a New York Times–bestselling, unvarnished personal account of her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease.When Meryl Comer's husband, Dr. Harvey Gralnick, chief of hematology and oncology at the National Institutes of Health, began forgetting routine things and demonstrating abrupt changes in behavior, doctors were confounded ass to what was going wrong.
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Slow Dancing with a Stranger

Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's

by Meryl Comer ...

Narrated by Meryl Comer ...

Unabridged

5 hours 46 min

Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction.When Meryl Comer’s husband Harvey Gralnick was diagnosed with early onset ... Read more

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Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a progressive and deadly affliction.When Meryl Comer’s husband Harvey Gralnick was diagnosed with early onset
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Bending Toward the Sun

A Mother and Daughter Memoir

by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, Rita Lurie ...

Narrated by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, Beata Pozniak ...

Unabridged

12 hours 46 min

A miraculous lesson in courage and recovery, BENDING TOWARD THE SUN tells the story of a unique family bond forged in the wake of brutal terror.Weaving together the voices of three generations of women—Rita, her daughter, Leslie, and her granddaughter, Mikaela—the memoir provides powerful and inspiring evidence of the resilience of the human spirit, relevant to every culture in every corner of the ... Read more

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A miraculous lesson in courage and recovery, BENDING TOWARD THE SUN tells the story of a unique family bond forged in the wake of brutal terror.Weaving together the voices of three generations of women—Rita, her daughter, Leslie, and her granddaughter, Mikaela—the memoir provides powerful and inspiring evidence of the resilience of the human spirit, relevant to every culture in every corner of the
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Irena's Gift

An Epic WWII Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival

by Karen Kirsten ...

Narrated by Karen Kirsten ...

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12 hours 27 min

In 1942, in German-occupied Poland, a Jewish baby girl was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That baby, Joasia, knew nothing about this extraordinary event until she was thirty-two, when a letter arrived from a stranger. She also learned that the parents who raised her were actually her aunt and uncle. Joasia kept this knowledge hidden from her own daughter, Karen—until an innocent ... Read more

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In 1942, in German-occupied Poland, a Jewish baby girl was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That baby, Joasia, knew nothing about this extraordinary event until she was thirty-two, when a letter arrived from a stranger. She also learned that the parents who raised her were actually her aunt and uncle. Joasia kept this knowledge hidden from her own daughter, Karen—until an innocent
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Another Kind of Madness

A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness

by Stephen P. Hinshaw ...

Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

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9 hours 9 min

Families are riddled with untold secrets. But Stephen Hinshaw never imagined that a profound secret was kept under lock and key for eighteen years within his family—that his father's mysterious absences, for months at a time, resulted from serious mental illness and involuntary hospitalizations. From the moment his father revealed the truth, during Hinshaw's first spring break from college, he ... Read more

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Families are riddled with untold secrets. But Stephen Hinshaw never imagined that a profound secret was kept under lock and key for eighteen years within his family—that his father's mysterious absences, for months at a time, resulted from serious mental illness and involuntary hospitalizations. From the moment his father revealed the truth, during Hinshaw's first spring break from college, he
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Love in the Blitz

The Long-Lost Letters of a Brilliant Young Woman to Her Beloved on the Front

by Eileen Alexander ...

Narrated by Stephanie Racine, Oswyn Murray, Sian Clifford ...

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21 hours

On July 17th 1939, Eileen Alexander, a bright young woman recently graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, begins a brilliant correspondence with fellow Cambridge student Gershon Ellenbogen that lasts five years and spans many hundreds of letters.But as Eileen and Gershon’s relationship flourishes from friendship and admiration into passion and love, the tensions between Germany, Russia, and the ... Read more

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On July 17th 1939, Eileen Alexander, a bright young woman recently graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, begins a brilliant correspondence with fellow Cambridge student Gershon Ellenbogen that lasts five years and spans many hundreds of letters.But as Eileen and Gershon’s relationship flourishes from friendship and admiration into passion and love, the tensions between Germany, Russia, and the
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Lace

by Catrin Kean ...

When six year old Mary's father dies unexpectedly, her mother struggles to feed her five children and has no choice but to leave Mary and her sisters in a Dublin orphanage while she trains as a nurse. When, a long time later, she finally goes home, Mary vows never to think about that place again. But the years of cruelty and neglect have left deep emotional scars, and Mary realises she must face ... Read more

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When six year old Mary's father dies unexpectedly, her mother struggles to feed her five children and has no choice but to leave Mary and her sisters in a Dublin orphanage while she trains as a nurse. When, a long time later, she finally goes home, Mary vows never to think about that place again. But the years of cruelty and neglect have left deep emotional scars, and Mary realises she must face
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When the Tamarind Tree Blooms

by Elaine Russell ...

Narrated by Jill Smith ...

Unabridged

12 hours 7 min

Geneviève (Vivi) Dubois, a métisse, half-Lao/half-French, turns eighteen and leaves the French orphanage in Vientiane where she has been trapped for fourteen unhappy years. With only a distant memory of being torn from her mother’s arms at age four, she is determined to uncover what happened to her parents and locate her missing twin brother. But where to start? Orphanage and government officials ... Read more

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Geneviève (Vivi) Dubois, a métisse, half-Lao/half-French, turns eighteen and leaves the French orphanage in Vientiane where she has been trapped for fourteen unhappy years. With only a distant memory of being torn from her mother’s arms at age four, she is determined to uncover what happened to her parents and locate her missing twin brother. But where to start? Orphanage and government officials
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Sisters in Law

How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

by Linda Hirshman ...

Narrated by Andrea Gallo ...

Unabridged

13 hours 28 min

NPR Best Book of 2015NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERThe author of the celebrated Victory tells the fascinating story of the intertwined lives of Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first and second women to serve as Supreme Court justices.The relationship between Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg—Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew, western rancher ... Read more

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NPR Best Book of 2015NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERThe author of the celebrated Victory tells the fascinating story of the intertwined lives of Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first and second women to serve as Supreme Court justices.The relationship between Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg—Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew, western rancher
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Five Days

The page-turner for fans of ONE DAY, from author of THE NOTE, Zoë Folbigg

by Zoë Folbigg ...

Narrated by Helen Keeley ...

Unabridged

8 hours 7 min

From the NUMBER ONE bestselling author. A must-read uplifting romance for fans of When Harry Met Sally and One Day.'I got utterly lost in Minnie and Jesse's gorgeous story. Every page was a delight.' Laura PearsonWhen Jesse Lightning meets Minnie Byrne, he is having a bad day. Reeling from the effects of a very bruised heart, the last thing Jesse wants is a new friend. But Minnie is hard to say no ... Read more

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From the NUMBER ONE bestselling author. A must-read uplifting romance for fans of When Harry Met Sally and One Day.'I got utterly lost in Minnie and Jesse's gorgeous story. Every page was a delight.' Laura PearsonWhen Jesse Lightning meets Minnie Byrne, he is having a bad day. Reeling from the effects of a very bruised heart, the last thing Jesse wants is a new friend. But Minnie is hard to say no
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The Crate

A Story of War, a Murder, and Justice

by Deborah Vadas Levison ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

Unabridged

10 hours 40 min

After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust—in ghettos, on death marches, and in concentration camps—a young couple seeks refuge in Canada. They settle into a new life, certain that the terrors of their past are behind them. They build themselves a cozy little cottage on a lake in Muskoka, a cottage that becomes emblematic of their victory over the Nazis. The charming retreat is a safe haven, a ... Read more

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After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust—in ghettos, on death marches, and in concentration camps—a young couple seeks refuge in Canada. They settle into a new life, certain that the terrors of their past are behind them. They build themselves a cozy little cottage on a lake in Muskoka, a cottage that becomes emblematic of their victory over the Nazis. The charming retreat is a safe haven, a
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The Violinist of Auschwitz

by Jean-Jacques Felstein ...

A son chronicles his Jewish mother's real-life efforts to save as many young women as possible from the Auschwitz gas chambers during World War II.Arrested in 1943 and deported to Auschwitz, Elsa survived because she had the "opportunity" to join the women's orchestra. But Elsa kept her story a secret, even from her own family. Indeed, her son would only discover what had happened to his mother ... Read more

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A son chronicles his Jewish mother's real-life efforts to save as many young women as possible from the Auschwitz gas chambers during World War II.Arrested in 1943 and deported to Auschwitz, Elsa survived because she had the "opportunity" to join the women's orchestra. But Elsa kept her story a secret, even from her own family. Indeed, her son would only discover what had happened to his mother
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