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Drunk Mom
- A Memoir
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A best seller in its native Canada, Drunk Mom is a gripping, brutally honest memoir of motherhood in the shadow of alcoholism.
Three years after giving up drinking, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. It was a special occasion: a party celebrating the birth of her first child. It also marked Bydlowska's immediate, full-blown return to crippling alcoholism.
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I'm the One That I Want, based on her show of the same name, is filled with dead-on insights about the experience of being a woman with attitude, of flowing with the highs and lows of life, and of creating one's own identity and acceptance. It is every bit as hilarious, shocking, and irreverent as she is.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hilarious and deeply engrossing
- By Ling on 04-10-03
By: Margaret Cho
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Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See
- By: Juliann Garey
- Narrated by: Dan Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 496
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 454
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Story4 out of 5 stars 453
In her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost 20 years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Psychosis or Syphilis?
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By: Juliann Garey
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God-Shaped Hole
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- Narrated by: Rachael Warren
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 130
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Story4 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...
- By Renee on 08-08-18
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Emma Forrest, a British journalist, was just 22 and living the fast life in New York City when she realized that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. In a cycle of loneliness, damaging relationships, and destructive behavior, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding, and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist--a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the dangerous tide after she tried to end her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great, quick read
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By: Emma Forrest
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Get Lucky
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Filled with wit and heart, Get Lucky by Katherine Center explores the deep bonds of sisterhood. Sarah Harper’s whole world revolved around her job at a New York advertising agency before an email snafu got her fired. Now she’s seeking refuge at her sister Mackie’s home in Houston. But Mackie, who’s unable to get pregnant, is also down-and-out these days. So Sarah decides to do something good and becomes a surrogate mother.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good story.
- By joan hammontree on 01-17-24
By: Katherine Center
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Tiger, Tiger
- A Memoir
- By: Margaux Fragoso
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 190
One summer day, Margaux Fragoso meets Peter Curran at the neighborhood swimming pool, and they begin to play. She is seven; he is 51. When Peter invites her and her mother to his house, the little girl finds a child’s paradise of exotic pets and an elaborate backyard garden. Her mother, beset by mental illness and overwhelmed by caring for Margaux, is grateful for the attention Peter lavishes on her, and he creates an imaginative universe for her, much as Lewis Carroll did for his real-life Alice.
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3 out of 5 stars
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a weirdly loving diatribe against pervs.
- By Dane Flakeman on 05-21-11
By: Margaux Fragoso
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Nearly Normal
- Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself
- By: Cea Sunrise Person
- Narrated by: Cea Sunrise Person
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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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
- By Pamela Plimpton on 03-15-19
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F*ck Love
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- Narrated by: Marisa Vitali
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Helena Conway has fallen in love. Unwillingly. Unwittingly. But not unprovoked. Kit Isley is everything she's not - unstructured, untethered, and not even a little bit careful. It could all be so beautiful...if he wasn't dating her best friend. Helena must defy her heart, do the right thing, and think of others. Until she doesn't.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Left me feeling confused?
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 09-15-16
By: Tarryn Fisher
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I Can Barely Take Care of Myself
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- Narrated by: Jen Kirkman
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 485
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"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
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By: Jen Kirkman
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True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness
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- Narrated by: Christine Lahti
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4 out of 5 stars 30
For decades, actress and director Christine Lahti has captivated the hearts and minds of her audience through iconic roles in Chicago Hope, Running on Empty, Housekeeping, And Justice for All, Swing Shift, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, God of Carnage, and The Blacklist. Now, in True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness, this acclaimed performer channels her creativity inward to share her own story for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Christine Lahti, Actress, Activist and A+ Author!
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By: Christine Lahti
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Atheists Who Kneel and Pray
- By: Tarryn Fisher
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Finty Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 347
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 350
Yara Phillips is a wandering muse. She dates men who need her, but always moves on to something new, never staying in one place for very long. David Lisey is in need of a muse. A talented musician lacking lyrical inspiration. When he first sees her, he knows he's found what he's been seeking. Yara believes she can give David exactly what he needs to reach his full potential: a broken heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heart-shattering good
- By Jennifer on 12-28-18
By: Tarryn Fisher
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30 Before 30
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- By: Marina Shifrin
- Narrated by: Marina Shifrin
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Something was nagging Marina Shifrin. As a freshly minted adult with student loan payments and a “real” job she hated that paid her enough to get by if she also worked two other jobs, something needed to change. Marina and her friend each made lists of 30 things they’d do before the age of 30. The first thing on Marina’s list was, “Quit My Shitty Job”. So she did, and just like that the List powered her through her twenties. Told with humor and heart, 30 Before 30 will entertain, motivate, and challenge listeners to get out of their comfort zones and live their best lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring read
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By: Marina Shifrin
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Kissing Games of the World
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 114
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What if the one person you can't bear to be with is also the one person you can't bear to be without? Jamie McClintock is a free-spirited artist and single mother who has at last found peace and freedom sharing a farmhouse with an elderly man and his young grandson. But when the old man dies suddenly her idyllic country life comes to a halt as the old man's estranged son, Nate, returns to claim the house and his child.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Writer, Great Narrator ! Loved it!
- By Ms. Critic on 05-30-09
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Chelsea Girls
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 96
In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles's 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed "lesbianity," and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fascinatingly skanky
- By Megon J. Walker on 07-15-16
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The Southern Education of a Jersey Girl
- Adventures in Life and Love in the Heart of Dixie
- By: Jaime Primak Sullivan
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- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 306
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 303
Jaime Primak Sullivan, a Jersey-bred, tough-as-nails PR maven - and unlikely transplant in an upscale suburb of Birmingham, Alabama - has spent her entire life crossing the line: whether she's pushing the boundaries of what proper Southern ladies consider to be "polite behavior" or literally traversing the Mason-Dixon line in the name of love. She isn't afraid to say what everyone is thinking when it comes to love, sex, friendship, and many other topics that are all too often sugar-coated in polite Southern company.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome book
- By Gwendolyn on 09-23-16
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The Good Luck of Right Now
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- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 310
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 268
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Story4 out of 5 stars 267
For 38 years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. His redheaded grief counselor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mom, Saturday Mass, and the library learn how to fly? Bartholomew thinks he's found a clue when he discovers a "Free Tibet" letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother's underwear drawer. In her final days, Mom called him Richard - there must be a cosmic connection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AMAZING
- By JoAnn on 02-17-14
By: Matthew Quick
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The Opposite of Maybe
- By: Maddie Dawson
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Jonathan and Rosie have been together so long they finish each other's sentences - so when he (finally) proposes and asks her to move across the country with him, everyone is happily surprised. But when things suddenly unravel, Rosie sends Jonathan packing and moves back home with Soapie, the irascible, opinionated grandmother who raised her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well written book. The characters grow on you~
- By chatteycathi on 08-01-18
By: Maddie Dawson
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"I was one of 28 children born to my dad and his three wives. Indoctrinated to believe that the outside world was evil, and that I resided among the righteous, I was destined to marry a man chosen for me by the Prophet. I would then live in harmony with my sister-wives, bear many children, and obey and serve my future husband in this life and throughout eternity. But my innocence didn't last long." Flora goes on from there to tell the dramatic true story of how she ultimately escaped and has been rescuing women and children from the FLDS.
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So sad!
- By Granny of 9 on 08-02-20
By: Flora Jessop, and others
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Dry
- A Memoir
- By: Augusten Burroughs
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,238
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,599
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,598
At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten lands in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey Jr. are immediately dashed by grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. When Augusten is forced to examine himself, he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life - and live it sober. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a Higher Power
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sobriety with a sense of style....
- By heidi on 09-28-03
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Beautiful Boy
- A Father's Journey through His Son's Meth Addiction
- By: David Sheff
- Narrated by: Anthony Heald
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,331
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,533
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,530
David Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view, a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope.
Before meth, Sheff's son, Nic, was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who stole money from his eight-year-old brother and lived on the streets. With haunting candor, Sheff traces the first warning signs, the attempts at rehabilitation, and, at last, the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict's fate, the rest of the family must care for one another, too, lest they become addicted to addiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Been There
- By Happy Reader on 11-26-12
By: David Sheff
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Strung Out
- One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me
- By: Erin Khar
- Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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This deeply personal and illuminating memoir about her 15-year struggle with heroin, Khar sheds profound light on the opioid crisis and gives a voice to the over two million people in America currently battling with this addiction. Growing up in LA, Erin Khar hid behind a picture-perfect childhood filled with excellent grades, a popular group of friends and horseback riding. After first experimenting with her grandmother’s expired painkillers, Khar started using heroin when she was thirteen.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Surface material
- By blythe mayfield on 03-06-20
By: Erin Khar
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Bottled
- A Mom's Guide to Early Recovery
- By: Dana Bowman
- Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
An unflinching and hilarious memoir about recovery as a mother of young kids, Bottled explains the perils moms face with drinking and chronicles the author's path to recovery, from hitting bottom to the months of early sobriety - a blur of pain and chaos - to her now (in)frequent moments of peace. Punctuated by potent, laugh-out-loud sarcasm, Bottled offers practical suggestions on how to be a sober, present-in-the-moment mom, one day at a time, and provides much needed levity on an issue too often treated with deadly seriousness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved it
- By Mister E. on 09-05-22
By: Dana Bowman
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High Achiever
- The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
- By: Tiffany Jenkins
- Narrated by: Tiffany Jenkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 12,737
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11,375
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11,326
With heart-racing urgency and unflinching honesty, Jenkins takes you inside the grips of addiction and the desperate decisions it breeds. She is a born storyteller who lived an incredible story, from blackmail by an ex-boyfriend to a soul-shattering deal with a drug dealer, and her telling brims with suspense and unexpected wit. But the true surprise is her path to recovery. Tiffany breaks through the stigma and silence to offer hope and inspiration to anyone battling the disease - whether it’s a loved one or themselves.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I Get it, You Were an Addict
- By Jim Thompson on 10-16-19
By: Tiffany Jenkins
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Unwasted
- My Lush Sobriety
- By: Sacha Z. Scoblic
- Narrated by: Julie McKay
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Story4 out of 5 stars 122
The single glass of wine with dinner... the cold beer on a hot day... the champagne flute raised in a toast... what I'd drink if Hunter S. Thompson wanted to get wasted with me... these are my fantasies lately. Too bad I've gone sober. When Sacha Z. Scoblic was drinking, she was a rock star; the days were rough and the nights filled with laughter and blackouts. Then she gave it up. She had to. Here are her adventures in an utterly and maddeningly sober world... and how she discovered that nothing is as odd and fantastic as life without a drink in hand.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not good for audio
- By Cheri on 01-29-20
By: Sacha Z. Scoblic
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- Leslie
- 08-28-20
Brutally & bravely honest
I couldn’t stop listening. Dark. Honest. Hopeful. Redeeming. I know that the story will stay with me. Thank you for writing it.
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- Carol Nain
- 07-07-19
Drunken Mom
I had difficulties because of the damage she did while carrying for her new baby but it's true that alcohol brings out the worst in us.
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- debby henrickson
- 01-14-23
Incredible
Remarkable writing. I felt all her emotions and was rooting for her to the end. Very accurate picture of what alcoholism does to a person.
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- Laura
- 02-09-23
Captivating
Random pick to listen to on a long drive. Amazing story and beautiful writing. Loved this book.
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- Anna Fujii
- 04-11-23
The truth can be startling
Listening to her tell her truth about walking her baby with her travel mug full of wine resonated. I have friends who did that. I works never have considered them alcoholics. I now now I have alcohol use disorder.
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- Terra Gabbert
- 06-01-23
Honest
I loved this. So honest and raw. Super helpful for me as a mom who struggles with alcoholism.
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- Donna K. Mcpherson
- 09-22-23
Amazing woman with rare gift!
I was absolutely captivated by Jowita’s honest, witty, poignant retelling of her personal life story! Thank you for going there. I see me in this, only instead of alcohol, anger, shopping and smoking I have my own list - which includes some of those. I’m cheering you on dear! Thank you for going out on the proverbial limb.
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- Gena Floyd
- 02-13-22
Powerful story!
Thank you so much for sharing your struggle. Addiction is so misunderstood. My husband has been fighting it for years. He hid it so well from me and everyone. Your story is a reminder to anyone who is struggling or knows someone struggling that there is hope. Hang in there. Love those that continue to fail. Educate yourself about addiction. There is a reason. You just might not understand what it is and the addict doesn’t know either. Great book. Thank you again.
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- ChicagoMichele
- 01-19-22
Remarkable
The narrator is alluring and her cadence is calming. So much so, I will look for other stories with her narration regardless of the content. I am not an addict regardless found her writing beautiful. Her description of everyday life and of her infant child is poetic and timeless. I just accidentally stumbled onto this audible and now it is one of my favorites. Bydlowska is BRILLANT
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- jack
- 10-20-18
loved it
held my interest all the way through . it was amazing to read and listen to
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