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Crossing the River Sorrow tells the story of one woman's plunge from a sheltered childhood in the 50s into the world of medicine, and her personal search for answers to questions about suffering. A single moment at the bedside of a paralyzed girl begins her journey on the River Sorrow, which takes her on a lifelong quest to come to terms with the problem of pain.
More than medical case stories or tales of overcoming, Crossing the River Sorrow is a narrative told from the perspective an ordinary wife, mother, and nurse, as she lives her way to peace in the face of some of life's most troubling questions.
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"From the first pages I immediately realized I was in the presence of a gifted writer. In Nurse Richards, you find a gentle yet courageous soul, an artistic master of words, intellectual and guileless with an endearing simplicity of heart. Follow her as she battles unseen enemies with refreshing candor while deftly drawing the reader into her struggles against the stark and dark realities of adversity. This work is the story of a soul coming to a profound understanding of Christ, the gospels and the cross a place where all should journey. Read. You will be nursed into someone you need to become."
(Danl C. Markham, director of Partner Relations at Life Without Limbs, author of Lost Mandate, A Christ Command Revealed)
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I thought I had more time...
- De Alyssa en 09-09-19
De: Sallie Tisdale
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Heartwood
- The Art of Living with the End in Mind
- De: Barbara Becker
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 38
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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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 35
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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Smile
- The Story of a Face
- De: Sarah Ruhl
- Narrado por: Sarah Ruhl
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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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American Baby
- A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
- De: Gabrielle Glaser
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur, Gabrielle Glaser, Margaret Katz
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 174
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 172
The adoption business was founded on secrecy and lies. American Baby lays out how a lucrative and exploitative industry removed children from their birth mothers and placed them with hopeful families, fabricating stories about infants' origins and destinations, then closing the door firmly between the parties forever. Adoption agencies and other organizations that purported to help pregnant women struck unethical deals with doctors and researchers for pseudoscientific "assessments," and shamed millions of women into surrendering their children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I felt the love of my birth mom...
- De Mary H. en 02-03-21
De: Gabrielle Glaser
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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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When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell
- A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam
- De: Barbara Hesselman Kautz MSN RN
- Narrado por: Janet Metzger
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
When she was 18, she joined the army to finance her nursing education. With less than six months of nursing experience, she was assigned to the 24th Evacuation Hospital in South Vietnam. True tales of the war that are by turns horrifying and humorous, told with an eye for detail, by a woman who was in the thick of it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this
- De N. Thomas en 02-13-20
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive
- 101 Inspirational Stories about Counting Your Blessings and Having a Positive Attitude
- De: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark, y otros
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby, Jim Bond
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 145
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 148
101 True Stories about how Positive Thinking can change your life! Everyone needs a little attitude adjustment once in a while, and these amazing true life stories reveal how real people used positive thinking to improve their lives and overcome challenges. You’ll read stories about how you can make every day a special day, incorporate gratitude and joy into your daily life, count your blessings and change your outlook, use a few well-chosen words to reorient your life, manage cancer and other health challenges through a positive attitude, simplify and have a more meaningful life and more!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read!
- De AnAppleForEden en 02-12-13
De: Jack Canfield, y otros
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White Hot Light
- Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine
- De: Frank Huyler
- Narrado por: Gary Bennett
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
In the late 1990s, a young physician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, published a stunning memoir of his experiences in the highly charged world of the ER. Presented in a series of powerful, poetic vignettes, The Blood of Strangers became an instant classic. Now, over two decades later, Dr. Frank Huyler delivers another dispatch from the trenches—this time from the perspective of middle age. In portraits visceral, haunting, sometimes surreal, Huyler reveals the gritty reality of medicine practiced on the razor’s edge between life and death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Even Better than The Blood of Strangers
- De Elizabeth Darcy en 10-14-20
De: Frank Huyler
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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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The 20-Month Legend
- My Baby Boy's Fight with Cancer
- De: Steve Tate
- Narrado por: Steve Tate
- Duración: 5 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 32
As if juggling a life with half-a-dozen kids, including triplets, isn’t enough, Steve Tate receives the life-altering news that one of his triplets, Hayes, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. The once-star collegiate football player finds himself fighting for his son’s life. This memoir takes you through the various challenges he faced raising a family of six kids and balancing a career, all while his son battled the odds. Both Steve and his high-school sweetheart, Savanna, found hope and happiness through the example of their 20-month-old son Hayes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very touching story
- De Nicole en 03-16-23
De: Steve Tate
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Forever Ours
- Real Stories of Immortality and Living from a Forensic Pathologist
- De: Janis Amatuzio
- Narrado por: Janis Amatuzio
- Duración: 3 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Forensic pathologist Janis Amatuzio first began recording the stories told to her by patients, police officers, and other doctors because she felt that no one spoke for the dead. She believed the real experience of death, namely the spiritual and otherworldly experiences of those near death and their loved ones, was ignored by the medical professionals, who thought of death as simply the cessation of breath. She knew there was more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Forever Ours
- De Londa en 01-04-06
De: Janis Amatuzio