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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 Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- De: Anne Fadiman
- Narrado por: Pamela Xiong
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good audiobook but narrator struggles with basic pronunciation
- De Kate en 06-04-15
De: Anne Fadiman
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Ask Me Why I Hurt
- The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
- De: Randy Christensen M.D., Rene Denfeld
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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The unforgettable inspiring memoir of one extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way, Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarkable work of Dr. Randy Christensen. Trained as a pediatrician, he works not in a typical hospital setting but, rather, in a 38-foot Winnebago that has been refitted as a doctor's office on wheels. His patients are the city's homeless adolescents and children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The reality of our streets
- De SusanInTheMidwest en 08-26-17
De: Randy Christensen M.D., y otros
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Home Game
- An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 3 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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When he became a father, Michael Lewis found himself expected to feel things that he didn't feel, and to do things that he couldn't see the point of doing. At first, this made him feel guilty, until he realized that all around him fathers were pretending to do one thing, to feel one way, when in fact they felt and did all sorts of things, then engaged in what amounted to an extended cover-up.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Michael Lewis gives his account of fatherhood
- De Adam Shields en 10-26-14
De: Michael Lewis
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Expecting Adam
- A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic
- De: Martha Beck
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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From the moment Martha and her husband, John, conceived their second child, all hell broke loose. They were a couple obsessed with success. After years of matching IQs and test scores with less driven peers, they had two Harvard degrees apiece and were gunning for more. But the dream had begun to disintegrate. Then, when their unborn son, Adam, was diagnosed with Down syndrome, doctors, advisers, and friends in the Harvard community warned them not to keep the baby.
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5 out of 5 stars
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True Life Fairy Tale
- De Desarae en 11-27-13
De: Martha Beck
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Finding Grace
- A True Story about Losing Your Way in Life...and Finding It Again
- De: Donna VanLiere
- Narrado por: Donna VanLiere
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Finding Grace is the powerful, often humorous, and deeply moving story of one woman's journey of broken dreams. It is the story of how a painful legacy of the past is confronted and met with peace. This book is for anyone who has struggled to understand why our desires---even the simplest ones---are sometimes denied or who has questioned where God is when we need Him most. This story is about one woman's unlikely road to motherhood. Finally, it's a book about the "undeserved gift which is life itself."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finding Grace... and joy, delight, and camaraderie
- De WeRLoved en 02-02-17
De: Donna VanLiere
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Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul
- Stories to Celebrate, Honor, and Inspire the Nursing Profession
- De: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Nancy Mitchell-Autio, y otros
- Narrado por: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen
- Duración: 1 h y 13 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
This collection of true stories champions the daily contributions, commitments, and sacrifices of nurses and portrays the compassion, intellect, and wit necessary to meet the challenging demands of the profession.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great collection of stories, mixed narration
- De Mark and Amy Acker en 09-12-12
De: Jack Canfield, y otros
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The Family Gene
- A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
- De: Joselin Linder
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam
- Duración: 7 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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When Joselin Linder was in her 20s, her legs started to swell. She thought little of it until her health problems started to compound in ways that baffled her doctors. Diagnosed with extreme liver blockage and dangerous levels of lymph fluid, Joselin turned to the most similar case she could think of - her father's.
De: Joselin Linder
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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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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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Until I Say Good-Bye
- My Year of Living with Joy
- De: Susan Spencer-Wendel, Bret Witter
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
Susan Spencer-Wendel's Until I Say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy is a moving and inspirational memoir by a woman who makes the most of her final days after discovering she has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). After Spencer-Wendel, a celebrated journalist at the Palm Beach Post, learns of her diagnosis of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, she embarks on several adventures, traveling to several countries and sharing special experiences with loved ones.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Until I Say Good-Bye is a paradox for me.
- De Bonny en 03-19-13
De: Susan Spencer-Wendel, y otros
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This Is How I Save My Life
- From California to India, a True Story of Finding Everything When You Are Willing to Try Anything
- De: Amy B. Scher
- Narrado por: Amy B. Scher
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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When Amy B. Scher was struck with undiagnosed late-stage, chronic Lyme disease, the best physicians in America labeled her condition incurable and potentially terminal. Deteriorating rapidly, she went on a search to save her own life - from the top experts in Los Angeles and the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis to a state-of-the-art hospital in Chicago. After exhausting all of her options in the US, she discovered a possible cure - but it was highly experimental, available only in India, and had as much of a probability of killing her as it did of curing her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great comfort
- De Sue en 07-07-18
De: Amy B. Scher
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The Cider House Rules
- De: John Irving
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 24 h y 5 m
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From one of America's most beloved and respected writers comes the classic story of Homer Wells, an orphan, and Wilbur Larch, a doctor without children of his own, who develop an extraordinary bond with one another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Patricia B Tripoli en 07-02-07
De: John Irving
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The Portable Veblen
- De: Elizabeth Mckenzie
- Narrado por: Julia Gibson
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 196
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 175
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 176
An exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contributor. The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that's as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Set in and around Palo Alto amid the culture clash of new money and old (antiestablishment) values, and with the specter of our current wars looming across its words, The Portable Veblen is an unforgettable look at the way we live now.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not what it was cracked up to be
- De Linda en 02-03-16
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Your Heart, My Hands
- An Immigrant's Remarkable Journey to Become One of America's Preeminent Cardiac Surgeons
- De: Arun K. Singh MD, John Hanc - contributor, Delos Cosgrove MD - foreword
- Narrado por: Shridhar Solanki
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23
Leaving a life marked by crippling setbacks and his father's doubt, in 1967 a 20-something doctor from India arrived in America with only five dollars and the desire to claim his American dream. Faced with an entirely new culture, racism, and the lasting effects of disabling childhood injuries, through hard work and perseverance he overcame all odds. Now having performed over 15,000 open-heart surgeries, more than nearly every surgeon in history, Dr. Singh reflects on his most memorable patients and his incredible personal life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Remarkable!
- De Stacey en 12-01-22
De: Arun K. Singh MD, y otros
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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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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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A Midwife in Amish Country
- Celebrating God's Gift of Life
- De: Kim Woodard Osterholzer
- Narrado por: Susan Boyce
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Midwife Kim Osterholzer ushers listeners behind the doors of Amish homes as she recounts her adventures answering God's call to the craft of midwifery. Kim chronicles her nine-year apprenticeship grappling with the nuances and idiosyncrasies of homebirth. She recounts the beauty and painstaking effort of those early years spent catching babies by the light of crackling woodstoves, oil lamps, and lanterns. Every birth enthralled her, whether it involved halting hemorrhages, sharing breath with tiny lungs, or bouncing through wild rides in ambulances.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not much about midwifery in the Plain communities
- De Kindle Customer en 07-18-19
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The Blue Cotton Gown
- A Midwife’s Memoir
- De: Patricia Harman
- Narrado por: Abby Craden
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 105
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Heather is pale and thin, seventeen and pregnant with twins when Patricia Harman begins to care for her. Over the course of the next five seasons Patsy will see Heather through the loss of both babies and their father. She will also care for her longtime patient Nila, pregnant for the eighth time and trying to make a new life without her abusive husband. And Patsy will try to find some comfort to offer Holly, whose teenage daughter struggles with bulimia. She will help Rebba learn to find pleasure in her body and help Kaz transition into a new body.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hope, Heartbreak, Compassion
- De Susie en 10-16-13
De: Patricia Harman
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Native Country of the Heart
- A Memoir
- De: Cherríe Moraga
- Narrado por: Cherríe Moraga
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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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
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems
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- TheJennTaFur
- 04-24-23
Motherhood-is this journey granted for all women?
Listen with an open mind!
Interesting to read the racial disparity in practicing medical doctors and those studying to be medical doctors in handling Faith's medical emergency.
Though this story takes place in the late 1990s this mindset exists in 2023 (I just listened in April 2023).
I wonder if she were not ill in Iowa but in another state that had diversity in its healthcare system if she would have been subjected to this dismissive treatment?
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- Bookworm4life
- 06-29-19
The gift of story.
Whether we choose to see them or not, there are always links between our life stories and our bodies. Faith Adiele brings humor, depth, and resonance to her telling of “lady problems” that threatened her fertility - and all the hope inherent in that and which also symbolically represented some of her life story.
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