Etched in Sand
A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
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Regina Calcaterra
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In this story of perseverance in the face of adversity, Regina Calcaterra recounts her childhood in foster care and on the streets and how she and her savvy crew of homeless siblings managed to survive years of homelessness, abandonment, and abuse.
Regina Calcaterra's emotionally powerful memoir reveals how she endured a series of foster homes and intermittent homelessness in the shadow of the Hamptons, and how she rose above her past while fighting to keep her brother and three sisters together.
Beautifully written and heartbreakingly honest, Etched in Sand is an unforgettable reminder that regardless of social status, the American dream is still within reach for those who have the desire and the determination to succeed.
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- Narrado por: Ruth Wariner
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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Ruth Wariner was the 39th of her father's 42 children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turned a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity. At church, preachers teach that God will punish the wicked by destroying the world and that women can ascend to heaven only by entering into polygamous marriages and giving birth to as many children as possible.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unputdownable
- De Lesley A. en 01-16-16
De: Ruth Wariner
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Spilled Milk
- Based on a True Story
- De: K.L. Randis
- Narrado por: K.L. Randis
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home. When social services jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit of safety and justice, Brooke battles a broken court system that pushes to keep her father in the home.
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Honest look at the abuse in homes where secrets are normalized
- De Barbara K. en 04-24-25
De: K.L. Randis
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Call Me Tuesday
- Based on a True Story
- De: Leigh Byrne
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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At eight years old, Tuesday Storm's childhood is forever lost when the death of her older sister Audrey sends her family spiraling out of control into the darkest of dysfunction. In the wake of the tragedy, Tuesday's mother, distraught and looking for a scapegoat, singles Tuesday out from her siblings to take on the blame for Audrey's death, and then targets her for unspeakable abuse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved it, so glad she shared her story.
- De Olivia Telles en 05-01-16
De: Leigh Byrne
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North of Normal
- A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
- De: Cea Sunrise Person
- Narrado por: Cea Sunrise Person
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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In the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea's family left a comfortable existence in California to live off the land in the Canadian wilderness. But unlike most commune dwellers of the time, the Persons weren't trying to build a new society - they wanted to escape civilization altogether. Led by Cea's grandfather Dick, they lived a pot-smoking, free-loving, clothing-optional life under a canvas tipi without running water, electricity, or heat for the bitter winters.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining but Frustrating
- De Nikki en 09-01-21
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The Less People Know About Us
- A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
- De: Axton Betz-Hamilton
- Narrado por: Laurie Winkel
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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In this powerful true crime memoir, an award-winning identity theft expert tells the shocking story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and nearly destroyed her family. Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in small-town Indiana in the early '90s. When she was 11 years old, her parents both had their identities stolen. Their credit ratings were ruined, and they were constantly fighting over money. This was before the age of the Internet, when identity theft became more commonplace, so authorities and banks were clueless and reluctant to help Axton's parents.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Holy Shit
- De Jason Wiking en 02-19-20
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Behind Closed Doors: A Daughter's Story
- De: Daniella DeChristopher
- Narrado por: Michella Moss
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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This story is about an Italian Catholic family that came to America on vacation and never returned to their homeland. When their youngest unwed daughter became pregnant, her family disowned her. It was 1949. Abortions were illegal. She was 17 when she gave birth. She was my mother...This audiobook chronicles the effects the birth of an unwanted child had on three families and three generations. The audiobook tells you about the bad decisions I made along the way, and the price I paid because of them.
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heart touching story
- De MarinaMommy en 10-07-22
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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
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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
- De Pamela Plimpton en 03-15-19
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Violated: A shocking and harrowing survival story from the notorious Rotherham abuse scandal
- De: Sarah Wilson
- Narrado por: Chloe Massey
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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The shocking first true account from one of the young girls who lived through and survived the Rotherham sex abuse scandal. In the summer of 2014, the Rotherham sex abuse scandal sent shockwaves through the nation. A report revealed that since the 1990s, up to 1,400 young girls in the town had been regularly abused by sex gangs, predominantly comprised of Pakistani men.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Horror Story and shocking to think this happened in modern day Britain.
- De Darkangel en 08-13-15
De: Sarah Wilson
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Dirty Little Dog
- A Horrifying True Story of Child Abuse, and the Little Girl Who Couldn't Tell a Soul (Skylark Child Abuse True Stories, Volume 1)
- De: Kate Skylark, Sophie Jenkins
- Narrado por: Jill Myers
- Duración: 2 h y 19 m
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Sophie Jenkins is living a happy life in the idyllic Dorset countryside when she meets Martin Brett, the man who will go on to abuse her and haunt her dreams for years to come. A momentary act of neglect leads to a horrible series of events that leaves her changed forever. Badly let down by the adults entrusted to care for her, Sophie’s life begins to spiral downward. However, Sophie’s message is ultimately one of hope and empowerment. She is in the process of rebuilding her life when fate leads her to encounter her childhood attacker once again.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narrator choice ruined it for me.
- De P. Stein en 09-10-20
De: Kate Skylark, y otros
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Girl Hidden: A Memoir
- De: Jesse Rene Gibbs
- Narrado por: Lessa Lamb
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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Echoing among the Blue Ridge Mountains were the cries of newborn babies that disappeared into the night. The screams of children nearly drowned out by the sound of crickets. A girl, hidden and waiting to be found, terrified, and confused. The fireflies sparkling in the woods, bringing light to darkled places.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Story
- De JMAR001 en 04-13-22
De: Jesse Rene Gibbs
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Call Me Cockroach
- Based on a True Story
- De: Leigh Byrne
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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Our prisons and mental hospitals are filled with tragic stories like Tuesday Storm's. Her early childhood was riddled with torturous "games" and violent physical attacks. She was isolated from the rest of her family, locked in an attic with nothing but a bare bed and a bucket for a toilet, and fed just enough to be kept alive. The experts say it's next to impossible to find the soul's light in a dark past like Tuesday's.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The rest of the story...
- De PJH en 07-11-15
De: Leigh Byrne
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The Bad Room
- Held Captive and Abused by My Evil Carer. A True Story of Survival.
- De: Jade Kelly
- Narrado por: Caro Clarke
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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When Jade Kelly met her new foster mother, she thought her prayers had been answered. Kindly Carol Docherty was everything her violent, drug-addicted mother was not. Loving and nurturing, she fed and clothed 10-year-old Jade and offered a life free of fear from near constant abuse. Or so Jade thought. As soon as social workers in Lancashire stopped their regular checks on Jade’s progress, Carol turned. Over the next six years Jade and three other girls were effectively kept prisoner in a bedroom she called the ‘bad room’ and subjected to unrelenting physical and mental abuse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Bad Room, great story line and reading.
- De Gwen's Collection en 04-05-25
De: Jade Kelly
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A Family Secret
- My Shocking True Story of Surviving a Childhood in Hell
- De: Maureen Wood
- Narrado por: Rachel Atkins
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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Abused from the age of eight by her older brother and then her step-father, Maureen Wood quickly became numb to the constant suffering. But Maureen’s world crumbled when her own mother started to abuse her too. A Family Secret is the harrowing true story of how one little girl survived sickening abuse by the people who should have loved her most and how an innocent baby finally saved her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bravery in Spades
- De Mama of Roses en 03-22-21
De: Maureen Wood
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Everything Is Fine
- A Memoir
- De: Vince Granata
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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Vince Granata remembers standing in front of his suburban home in Connecticut the day his mother and father returned from the hospital with his three new siblings in tow. He had just finished scrawling their names in orange chalk on the driveway: Christopher, Timothy, and Elizabeth. Twenty-three years later, Vince was a thousand miles away when he received the news that would change his life - his younger brother, Tim, propelled by unchecked schizophrenia, had killed their mother in their childhood home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brutal and Beautiful
- De 3dogknits en 07-14-21
De: Vince Granata
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My Prison Without Bars
- The Journey of a Damaged Woman to Someplace Normal
- De: Taylor Evan Fulks
- Narrado por: Em Eldridge
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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My Prison without Bars is a courageous and harrowing journey through the catacombs of hell, from the mind and voice of a little girl, living with her own monster underneath her bed. Written in first person, this novel is not a memoir, but more a psychological thriller based on true events; chronicling one woman's attempt to claw her way out of the darkness of Child Sexual Abuse, while struggling to find normal, in a not-so-normal world. It is poignant, dark and graphic; not for the faint of heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My life
- De PMOUSAABR en 03-08-16
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Silent Sisters
- A True Story
- De: Joanne Lee, Ann Cusack, Joe Cusack
- Narrado por: Melanie Crawley
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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Growing up, Joanne suffered at the hands of a violent boyfriend and controlling relatives, as her mother lapsed into a downward spiral following the break-up of her marriage. But the consequences of her mother's lifestyle turned out to be worse than Joanne could ever have imagined. She already knew about the baby buried in a shallow makeshift grave next to the family plot. But when Joanne came across a red plastic bin in her mother's wardrobe in 2009, she realised that the family home held an even more sinister secret.
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1 out of 5 stars
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save your money
- De Amazon Customer en 03-31-20
De: Joanne Lee, y otros
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American Daughter
- A Memoir
- De: Stephanie Thornton Plymale, Elissa Wald
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marno
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,066
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The sharp and surprising true story of a woman who finally sets out to understand her past, and the mother she had one day hoped to forget. Full of unexpected twists and unbelievable revelations, American Daughter is an immersive memoir that will have you on the edge of your seat to the very last minute.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing memoir
- De talltower4 en 09-02-21
De: Stephanie Thornton Plymale, y otros
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- Curtis Graf
- 12-08-17
Heartbreaking
It’s an amazing story of perseverance and determination. It was so tragically graphic though I had nightmares from many parts of the story. The love between siblings is beautiful but that someone could be so evil to their own children or foster parents so cruel makes me sick.
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- Debra
- 07-26-15
Good Story
Amazing story. You never think about what some kids endure when the system fails. Enjoyable audiobook.
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- jen H
- 11-21-17
Excellent book!
This is a must read! Regina does an excellent job narrating her own book .
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- Irene K
- 09-15-18
Very good!
Very powerful book, written very well with the author being an excellent narrator! A book you will not forget.
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- Maryann
- 10-03-19
Unexpected
The subject matter is sad and disturbing but this book is a compelling read.
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- Myfriendsjesus
- 09-06-17
bravo
loved it, so glad to see how a sibbling group made it and beat the odds. would and will recomend book to others
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- smalhug
- 12-10-21
so good!!
I love that she performed it. I teach in a Juvenile facility where many of my girls have traumatic histories and are in the foster system. They really liked the book too and some were very eager to read the second part as well, which I haven't done yet.
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- Faye
- 10-20-15
Utah DCFS worker from Long Island
I loved it! What a way to put things in perspective. Recommended it to everyone.
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- T. Thompson
- 12-21-14
Loved the story of resilience!
What did you love best about Etched in Sand?
The author did a great job of telling her story without the feeling that it was embellished at all.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Etched in Sand?
The last meeting between the author and her mom was heart wrenching. I can't imagine a mother having such a deep dislike for her child. I kept hoping her mom, at the edge of death, would ask for forgiveness. When it didn't happen, my heart sank.
Which scene was your favorite?
There were too many scenes that I loved, to name just one would be a disservice to the others.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I thought it was remarkable how hard the author fought to have her biological father identified.
Any additional comments?
I didn't want the story to end. I wanted to know more about her and her siblings and how everyone is doing today.
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- Silvia B.
- 10-21-19
Wonderful story teller!!
I listened from start to finish in 1 day. I have never done that before, just couldn't stop listening to this beautiful story of love and strength from 5 siblings who had no one to turn to and refused to give up.
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