In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit - as she struggles for understanding; as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest and conviction. In a narrative by turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of a trauma victim even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard-won: "You save yourself or you remain unsaved."
"A rueful, razor-sharp memoir... funnier than you 'd think was possible.... Sebold tells what it's like to go through a particular kind of nightmare in order to tell what it's like - slowly, bumpily, triumphantly—to heal. " --- Sarah Kerr, Vogue
Author : Nick Mason
Nick Mason
Published By : Orion Publishing Group
Runtime : 3 hours 20 minutes
Rich & Famous Arts & Drama
Price : $15.99
'Rock's little drummer boy grows up into a sex cymbal. With a wit drier than an AA clinic, and a charm more disarming than a UN peace-keeping force, Mason gives us a literary drum solo par excellence See full description...
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Author : Valerie Hemingway
Anne Flosnik
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
Runtime : 12 hours 31 minutes
Autobiography Arts & Drama
Price : $24.95
An inside look at the life of one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century - Ernest Hemingway - from the woman who was both his personal secretary and his daughter-in-law. See full description...
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Author : Roberta Taylor
Roberta Taylor
Published By : Orion Publishing Group
Runtime : 4 hours 50 minutes
Autobiography Arts & Drama TV & Film Women Biographical
Price : $14.25
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Author : David Rintoul
David Rintoul
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 3 minutes
Biographical Arts & Drama
Price : Free
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Author : Amy Tan
Amy Tan
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
Runtime : 8 hours 39 minutes
Autobiography Arts & Drama Women
Price : $24.95
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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