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Constellations
- Reflections from Life
- Narrado por: Sinéad Gleeson
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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When her earliest childhood friend is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Becker sets off on a quest to immerse herself in what it means to be mortal. Can we live our lives more fully knowing some day we will die? With a keen eye toward that which makes life worth living, interfaith minister, mom, and perpetual seeker Barbara Becker recounts stories where life and death intersect in unexpected ways.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The author’s compassion
- De Amazon Customer en 04-16-24
De: Barbara Becker
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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them)
- A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
- De: Sallie Tisdale
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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You get ready to die the way you get ready for a trip. Start by realizing you don't know the way. Listen to a few travel guides. Study the language, look at maps, gather equipment. Let yourself imagine what it will be like. Pack your bags. This book is one of those travel guides - a guide to preparing for your own death and the deaths of people close to you. The fact of death is hard to believe. Sallie Tisdale explores our fears and all the ways death and talking about death make us uncomfortable - but she also explores its intimacies and joys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I thought I had more time...
- De Alyssa en 09-09-19
De: Sallie Tisdale
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Smile
- The Story of a Face
- De: Sarah Ruhl
- Narrado por: Sarah Ruhl
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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With a play opening on Broadway, and every reason to smile, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high-risk pregnancy when she discovers the left side of her face is completely paralyzed. She is assured that 90 percent of Bell’s palsy patients experience a full recovery—like Ruhl’s own mother. But Sarah is in the unlucky ten percent. And for a woman, wife, mother, and artist working in theater, the paralysis and the disconnect between the interior and exterior brings significant and specific challenges.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Synkinesis: I am there
- De Elizabeth Principi en 11-04-21
De: Sarah Ruhl
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Little Matches
- A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark
- De: Maryanne O'Hara
- Narrado por: Maryanne O'Hara
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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When their only child was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) at the age of two, Maryanne O'Hara and her husband were told that Caitlin could live a long life or be dead in a matter of months. Thirty-one years later, Caitlin lost her battle with this devastating disease following an excruciating two-year wait on the transplant list and a last-minute race to locate a pair of healthy lungs. The sudden spiral of events left Maryanne in an existential crisis, searching to find an answer to the eternal question: Why we are here?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful Story of Tribulation and Love
- De Bob en 05-21-22
De: Maryanne O'Hara
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The Sum of Our Days
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and as full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul while sharing her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory - and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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She does not disappoint
- De ChiChi's Rule en 06-01-22
De: Isabel Allende
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Knocking on Heaven's Door
- The Path to a Better Way of Death
- De: Katy Butler
- Narrado por: Katy Butler
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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Like so many of us, award-winning writer Katy Butler always assumed her aging parents would experience healthy, active retirements before dying peacefully at home. Then her father suffered a stroke that left him incapable of easily finishing a sentence or showering without assistance. Her mother was thrust into full-time caregiving, and Katy became one of the 24 million Americans who help care for aging parents. In an effort to correct a minor and non - life threatening heart arrhythmia, doctors outfitted her father with a pacemaker.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A better way to narrate a book about death?
- De MAUREEN en 10-21-13
De: Katy Butler
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Finding Chika
- A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
- De: Mitch Albom
- Narrado por: Mitch Albom
- Duración: 4 h y 54 m
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Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the 40-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. But at age five, Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says "no one in Haiti can help you with."
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5 out of 5 stars
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BUY READ AND RECOMMEND THIS BOOK
- De Ann Grant en 11-05-19
De: Mitch Albom
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When Breath Becomes Air
- De: Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese - foreword
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra, Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal book!
- De A. Potter en 01-16-16
De: Paul Kalanithi, y otros
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Native Country of the Heart
- A Memoir
- De: Cherríe Moraga
- Narrado por: Cherríe Moraga
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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Native Country of the Heart is the writer and activist Cherrie Moraga's love letter to her "unlettered" mother. It begins with her mother, Elvira Isabel Moraga, who as a child, along with her siblings, was hired out by her own father to pick cotton in California's Imperial Valley. The lives of Cherrie and her mother, and of their people, are woven together in a story of critical reflection and deep personal revelation as Moraga charts her own coming to consciousness alongside the heartbreaking story of her mother's decline.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a must read for all chicanx
- De Rachel Barnett en 04-28-19
De: Cherríe Moraga
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Healing Hearts
- A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
- De: Kathy Magliato
- Narrado por: Renée Raudman
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of fewer than a dozen female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group - those surgeons who perform heart transplants. Healing Hearts is the story of the making of a surgeon who also calls herself a wife and mother.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Healing Hearts
- De Jean en 01-14-12
De: Kathy Magliato
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Marrow
- A Love Story
- De: Elizabeth Lesser
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Lesser, Sally Field
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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A mesmerizing and courageous memoir: the story of two sisters uncovering the depth of their love through the life-and-death experience of a bone marrow transplant. Throughout her life Elizabeth Lesser has sought understanding about what it means to be true to yourself and, at the same time, truly connected to the ones you love. But when her sister, Maggie, needs a bone marrow transplant to save her life, and Lesser learns that she is the perfect match, she faces a far more immediate and complex question about what it really means to love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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“ Love came first “
- De marie en 03-26-18
De: Elizabeth Lesser
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Ghostbelly
- De: Elizabeth Heineman
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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Ghostbelly is Elizabeth Heineman’s personal account of a home birth that goes tragically wrong—ending in a stillbirth—and the harrowing process of grief and questioning that follows. It’s also Heineman’s unexpected tale of the loss of a newborn: before burial, she brings the baby home for overnight stays.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Healing
- De ngsquared en 04-17-23
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The Undying
- Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
- De: Anne Boyer
- Narrado por: Amy Finegan
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
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A week after her 41st birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. The Undying explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, pro-pain "dolorists", and the many little murders of capitalism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Provocative and moving
- De C. FREEMAN en 05-13-20
De: Anne Boyer
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This Close to Happy
- A Reckoning with Depression
- De: Daphne Merkin
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I should be the last person to recommend this book
- De Mariaposa en 03-04-17
De: Daphne Merkin
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The Heart
- De: Maylis de Kerangal, Sam Taylor - translator
- Narrado por: Steven Jay Cohen
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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The Heart takes place over the 24 hours surrounding the resulting heart transplant, as life is taken from a young man and given to a woman close to death. In gorgeous, ruminative prose, it examines the deepest feelings of everyone involved as they navigate decisions of life and death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! What a story!
- De Jan en 02-27-20
De: Maylis de Kerangal, y otros
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All of This
- A Memoir of Death and Desire
- De: Rebecca Woolf
- Narrado por: Rebecca Woolf
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage, writer Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband. Two weeks after telling him she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died. In All of This, Woolf chronicles the months before her husband’s death—and her rebirth after he was gone. With rigorous honesty and incredible awareness, she reflects on the end of her marriage: how her husband’s illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity and her own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellentt!
- De S. DAWN HANSCOM en 11-26-22
De: Rebecca Woolf
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On Division
- A Novel
- De: Goldie Goldbloom
- Narrado por: Barrie Kreinik
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just a block or two up from the East River on Division Avenue, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her 10 children range in age from 13 to 39. Her in-laws, postwar immigrants from Romania, live on the first floor of their house. Her daughter Tzila Ruchel lives on the second. She and Yidel, a scribe in such demand that he makes only a few Torah scrolls a year, live on the third. Wed when Surie was 16, they have a happy marriage and a full life, and, at the ages of 57 and 62, they are looking forward to some quiet time together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great book
- De Sab en 04-24-20
De: Goldie Goldbloom
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- Sharif
- 07-25-20
Best Memoir I've Ever Read!
This is one of the most intellectually imaginative and daring and emotionally impactful book of essays I've ever read. No wonder it was a bestseller in Ireland. I'll re-listen to this audiobook many times in my lifetime. It is that good.
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- NK Turoff
- 12-09-23
Extraordinary
Beautifully written. Fierce and smart and deeply moving
one of the best books I've listened to all year.
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