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When Heather Havrilesky was a kid in the seventies, it seemed there were only disaster movies. Burning towers, devouring earthquakes, careening airliners, alien pod invasions. To be prepared, she and her siblings fabricated elaborate plans to escape any and every emergency. But what began merely as a childhood game grew into a way of life where something shocking lurked around every corner.
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By laying bare her bumps and bruises, Havrilesky offers hope that anyone can create a frazzled and unruly, desperate and wistful, fabulously frayed-at-the-edges plan to stare disaster in the face, to meet it head-on. Uproarious, sophisticated, and wise, Disaster Preparedness is a field guide to personal disasters from an irresistible voice that gets to the heart of it all.
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Wildflower
- De: Drew Barrymore
- Narrado por: Drew Barrymore
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,560
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,972
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,942
Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross-country road trip, saying good-bye to her father in a way only he could have understood, and many more adventures and lessons that have led her to the successful, happy, and healthy place she is today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hold the shrieking !
- De Dawne en 11-27-15
De: Drew Barrymore
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Miss Fortune
- Fresh Perspectives on Having It All from Someone Who Is Not Okay
- De: Lauren Weedman
- Narrado por: Lauren Weedman
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Lauren Weedman is not okay. She's living what should be the good life in sunny Los Angeles. After a gig as a correspondent with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, she scored parts in blockbuster movies, which led to memorable recurring roles on HBO's Hung and Looking. She had a loving husband and an adorable baby boy. In these comedic essays, she turns a piercingly observant, darkly funny lens on the ways her life is actually not okay.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good
- De Ajules29 en 04-02-16
De: Lauren Weedman
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Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?
- Confessions of a Gay Dad
- De: Dan Bucatinsky
- Narrado por: Dan Bucatinsky
- Duración: 5 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 866
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 795
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 794
In 2005, Dan Bucatinsky and his partner, Don Roos, found themselves in an L.A. delivery room, decked out in disposable scrubs from shower cap to booties, to welcome their adopted baby girl - launching their frantic yet memorable adventures into fatherhood. Two and a half years later, the same birth mother - a heroically generous, pack-a-day teen with a passion for Bridezilla marathons and Mountain Dew - delivered a son into the couple’s arms.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Parenting Book with Humor and Heart
- De The Reading Date en 02-05-14
De: Dan Bucatinsky
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I Can Barely Take Care of Myself
- Tales from a Happy Life Without Kids
- De: Jen Kirkman
- Narrado por: Jen Kirkman
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 536
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 485
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 486
"You'll change your mind." That's what everyone says to Jen Kirkman - and countless women like her - when she confesses she doesn't plan to have children. But you know what? It's hard enough to be an adult. You have to dress yourself and pay bills and remember to buy birthday gifts. You have to drive and get annual physicals and tip for good service. Some adults take on the added burden of caring for a tiny human being with no language skills or bladder control.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Funny. Not fall down laughing funny, but funny
- De david en 05-22-13
De: Jen Kirkman
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God-Shaped Hole
- A Novel
- De: Tiffanie DeBartolo
- Narrado por: Rachael Warren
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 121
When Beatrice Trixie Jordan replies to a personal ad, she meets Jacob Grace, a charming, effervescent 30-something free-spirit writer passionately seeking life. He possesses his own turns of phrase and ways of thinking and feeling that dissonantly harmonize with Trixie's off-center vision. As they rollercoaster through the joys and furies of their wrenching romance, they try to come to terms with the hurt brought about by both of their distant fathers who, in different ways, forsook them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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To see a fortune teller or not to see one...
- De Renee en 08-08-18
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Fragile Beasts
- A Novel
- De: Tawni O'Dell
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer, Laural Merlington
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
When their hard-drinking but loving father dies in a car accident, teenage brothers Kyle and Klint Hayes face a bleak prospect: leaving their Pennsylvania hometown for an uncertain life in Arizona with the mother who ran out on them years ago. But in a strange twist of fate, their town's matriarch, an eccentric, wealthy old woman whose family once owned the county coal mines, hears the boys' story and takes them in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tawni O'Dell Fan
- De bette en 09-20-10
De: Tawni O'Dell
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The Wrong End of the Table
- A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In
- De: Ayser Salman, Reza Aslan - foreword
- Narrado por: Ayser Salman, Assaf Cohen
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Part memoir and part how-not-to guide, The Wrong End of the Table is everything you wanted to know about Arabs but were afraid to ask, with chapters such as “Tattoos and Other National Security Risks,” “You Can’t Blame Everything on Your Period; Sometimes You’re Going to Be a Crazy Bitch: and Other Advice from Mom,” and even an open letter to Trump. This is the story of every American outsider on a path to find themselves in a country of beautiful diversity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not what I was looking for
- De Amazon Customer en 09-01-22
De: Ayser Salman, y otros
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Bettyville
- De: George Hodgman
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 368
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 329
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 329
When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself - an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook - in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from the home both treasure - the place where his father's voice lingers, the scene of shared jokes, skirmishes, and, behind the dusty antiques, a rarely acknowledged conflict...
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1 out of 5 stars
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Title Should Be Georgeville-It's All About George
- De Sara en 10-08-15
De: George Hodgman
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Everything You Ever Wanted
- A Memoir
- De: Jillian Lauren
- Narrado por: Jillian Lauren
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 58
In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in her best-selling memoir, Some Girls. In her 30s, Jillian's most radical act is learning the steadying power of love when she and her rock star husband adopt an Ethiopian child with special needs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for adoptive families
- De berry bomb en 07-06-22
De: Jillian Lauren
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Love Walked In
- De: Marisa de los Santos
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 377
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 282
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 286
Award-winning poet Marisa de los Santos crafts an irresistibly touching debut novel. Love Walked In is a contemporary tale, steeped in nostalgic, cinematic charm, of love in all its forms. Unapologetically idealistic about love, Cornelia Brown appears to catch the break of a lifetime when the dashing Martin Grace, her own personal Cary Grant, comes strolling into her life. But it is Martin's connection to 11-year-old Clare Hobbes that touches Cornelia's heart in ways she never imagined.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dreadful audio quality
- De Marenghi en 09-16-11
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The Opposite of Loneliness
- Essays and Stories
- De: Marina Keegan
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 707
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 616
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 621
Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. Even though she was just 22 when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Probably buy the book too.
- De Soupergirl en 09-14-15
De: Marina Keegan
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Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin
- A Memoir
- De: Nicole Hardy
- Narrado por: Nicole Hardy
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
When Nicole Hardy’s eye-opening "Modern Love" column appeared in the New York Times, the response from readers was overwhelming. Hardy’s essay, which exposed the conflict between being true to herself as a woman and remaining true to her Mormon faith, struck a chord with women coast-to-coast. Now in her funny, intimate, and thoughtful memoir, Nicole Hardy explores how she came, at the age of 35, to a crossroads regarding her faith and her identity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Book Spoke to Me
- De Allison en 04-08-14
De: Nicole Hardy
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Nearly Normal
- Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself
- De: Cea Sunrise Person
- Narrado por: Cea Sunrise Person
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
In her best-selling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhood - her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family. But her struggles do not end when she leaves her family at the age of 13 to become a model. Honest and daring, Nearly Normal reveals the many ways that Cea's unconventional childhood continues to reverberate through the years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This one is just not for me
- De Pamela Plimpton en 03-15-19
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If I am Missing or Dead
- A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation
- De: Janine Latus
- Narrado por: Shelly Frasier
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 202
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 98
In April 2002, Janine Latus' youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. "Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved", it read, "but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways. Based on his criminal past, writing this out just seems like the smart thing to do. If I am missing or dead this obviously has not protected me...."
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4 out of 5 stars
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All About Janine
- De Ellen en 07-02-07
De: Janine Latus
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Agorafabulous!
- Dispatches From My Bedroom
- De: Sara Benincasa
- Narrado por: Sara Benincasa
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 76
One of the funniest and most poignant books ever written about a mental illness, Agorafabulous! is a hilarious, raw, and unforgettable account of how a terrified young woman, literally trapped by her own imagination, evolved into a (relatively) high-functioning professional smartass. Down to earth and seriously funny, Benincasa's no-holds-barred revelations offer listeners the politically incorrect hilarity they heartily crave, yet is so often missing from your typical, weepy, and redemptive personal memoir.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More Fun than a Good Cry in a Bathroom Stall
- De Susie en 03-05-15
De: Sara Benincasa
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Mislaid
- A Novel
- De: Nell Zink
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 179
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 178
Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The couple are mismatched from the start - she's a lesbian, he's gay - but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Misbegotten, mishandled, misfired novel
- De Julie W. Capell en 02-07-16
De: Nell Zink