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Publisher's Summary
Personal essays on the ridiculousness of aging.
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In the book’s first section, “Aging: Why Didn’t Anybody Warn Me,” Barbara pokes fun at our physical decline. In the second section, “Married Since the First Crusade”, she kids around about her eons of marital bliss. And in the third section, “Muddling Through the Modern World”, she good-naturedly lampoons family occasions, airplane seatmates, oldies concerts, and dietary fads.
When Barbara reads out loud from This Old Body, audience members rave: “I feel she is speaking just to me.” “Entertaining as hell.” “Makes us feel we’re all in this aging thing together.”
Wonderful birthday, host, and holiday book for all the Baby Boomer and above men and women in your life. One for them, one for you....
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My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space
- The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman
- By: Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Scottoline Serritella
- Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Scottoline Serritella
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4 out of 5 stars 67
Critics, readers, and listeners loved Lisa Scottoline's first collection of true-life stories, which only encouraged her—now she's back with these all-new, exciting adventures. She's farther down the road now, and the scenery has changed—ex-husbands Thing One and Thing Two are in her rear-view mirror, daughter Francesca has moved into an apartment, and Lisa's finding the silver lining in her empty nest, which has lots more room for her shoes. And some things have stayed the same.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So touching, funny, wonderful
- By sandra on 01-28-11
By: Lisa Scottoline, and others
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Belle Weather
- Mostly Sunny With a Chance of Hissy Fits
- By: Celia Rivenbark
- Narrated by: Celia Rivenbark
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 121
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4 out of 5 stars 81
No matter what side of the Mason-Dixon line you live on, you will find Celia Rivenbark's hilarious observations about Southern living as easy as a tall drink of sweet tea on a hundred-degree day.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A darn funny listen y'all
- By Teresa on 12-13-08
By: Celia Rivenbark
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My Planet
- Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
- By: Mary Roach
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 565
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 519
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Story4 out of 5 stars 514
Follow New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach - but be careful not to trip - as she weaves through personal anecdotes and everyday musings riddled with her uncanny wit and amazingly analytical eye. These essays, which found a well-deserved home within the pages of Reader's Digest as the column "My Planet," detail the inner workings of hypochondriacs, hoarders, and compulsive cheapskates. (Did we mention neurotic interior designers and professional list makers?) For Roach, humor is hidden in the most unlikely places, which means that nothing is off limits.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator drove me crazy
- By Ann on 04-23-14
By: Mary Roach
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The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love
- By: Jill Conner Browne
- Narrated by: Jill Conner Browne
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 528
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 283
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Story4 out of 5 stars 283
To know the Sweet Potato Queens is to love them, and if you haven't heard about them yet, you will. Their royal ringleader, Jill Conner Browne, introduces the Queens to the world with this sly, hilarious manifesto about love, life, men, and the importance of being prepared. For more wit and wisdom, don't miss The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Audiobook and Financial Planner.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Forget the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- By Linda on 02-04-03
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If Life Is A Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing In The Pits?
- By: Erma Bombeck
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 145
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
You can count on best-selling author Erma Bombeck to show you the funny side of any situation - no matter how ordinary or difficult. In this collection of heartwarming essays, she ponders what it takes to survive the rigors of contemporary living.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Isn't that outdated. It's still funny stuff
- By Carol A. Strickland on 04-25-16
By: Erma Bombeck
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Weather
- A Novel
- By: Jenny Offill
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 283
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 231
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 230
Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. She's become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Read This Article Before Listening to Weather
- By MOR Denver on 04-28-20
By: Jenny Offill
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Go Ask Ali
- Half-Baked Advice (and Free Lemonade)
- By: Ali Wentworth
- Narrated by: Ali Wentworth
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 236
At once endearing and hilarious, thoughtful and far-fetched, this third collection offers Ali at her wisest and wittiest as she delivers tips, pointers, and quips on a host of life's conundrums and sticky situations, including the funny, sometimes embarrassing yet unforgettable situations that have shaped her inimitable world view as a wife, mother, actress, comedian, and all around bon vivant.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Light and Enjoyable with a Good Message
- By Brad on 05-04-18
By: Ali Wentworth
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Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light
- Essays
- By: Helen Ellis
- Narrated by: Helen Ellis
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4 out of 5 stars 48
When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera, they unpack more than their suitcases: stories of husbands and kids; lost parents and lost jobs; powdered onion dip and photographs you have to hold by the edges; dirty jokes and sunscreen with SPF higher than they hair-sprayed their bangs senior year; and a bad mammogram. It's a diagnosis that scares them, but could never break their bond. Because women pushing fifty won't be pushed around.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Takes You Away from the Everyday To Laugh Out Loud, Raise Your Martini Glass or Gym Water Bottle Places
- By Karen Young on 07-20-21
By: Helen Ellis
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Chasing Slow
- By: Erin Loechner
- Narrated by: Hayley Cresswell
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 182
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Story4 out of 5 stars 150
Chasing Slow models HGTV star Erin Loechner's journey to help you break out of the faster-better-stronger trap and make small changes to refresh your perspective, renew your priorities, and shift your focus to what matters most.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Book is wonderful - narrator completely ruins it
- By Gail on 05-22-17
By: Erin Loechner
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Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim
- By: Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella
- Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4 out of 5 stars 55
In Meet Me at the Emotional Baggage Claim, the mother-daughter duo of Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella continue the conversation with more hilarious and honest tales of life inside an ordinary, extraordinary family. These stories will make you laugh, cry, and call your mother, daughter, and all your girlfriends.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I could not get past the first chapter
- By Edna on 02-23-13
By: Lisa Scottoline, and others
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Fifty Things That Aren't My Fault
- Essays from the Grown-up Years
- By: Cathy Guisewite
- Narrated by: Cathy Guisewite, Anna Guisewite
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4 out of 5 stars 92
As the creator of "Cathy", Cathy Guisewite found her way into the hearts of fans more than 40 years ago and has been there ever since. Her hilarious and deeply relatable look at the challenges of womanhood in a changing world became a cultural touchstone for women everywhere. Now, Guisewite returns with her signature wit and warmth in this debut essay collection about another time of big transition, when everything starts changing and disappearing without permission: aging parents, aging children, aging self stuck in the middle.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not about work life balance or careers at all
- By Kindle Customer on 08-06-19
By: Cathy Guisewite
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Rabbits for Food
- By: Binnie Kirshenbaum
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 76
It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist - an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer - fully unravels. Propelled by stand-up comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, Kirshenbaum examines what it means to be unloved and loved, to succeed and fail, to be at once impervious and raw. Rabbits for Food shows how art can lead us out of - or into - the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Depression novel that does not moralize
- By A. White on 09-11-19
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F*ck Your Diet
- And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me
- By: Chloé Hilliard
- Narrated by: Chloé Hilliard
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Story4 out of 5 stars 106
By the time Chloé Hilliard was 12, she wore a size 12 - both shoe and dress - and stood over six feet tall. Fitting in was never an option. That didn’t stop her from trying. Cursed with a “slow metabolism”, “baby weight”, and “big bones” - the fat trilogy - Chloe turned to fad diets, starvation, pills, and workouts, all of which failed. Realizing that everything - from government policies to corporate capitalism - directly impacts our relationship with food and our waistlines, Chloé changed her outlook on herself and hopes others will do the same for themselves.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I wish I saved my credit.
- By S. Cherry on 02-28-20
By: Chloé Hilliard
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A Perfect 10
- The Truth About Things I'm Not and Never Will Be
- By: Heather Land
- Narrated by: Heather Land
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story5 out of 5 stars 62
The author of I Ain’t Doin’ It and popular comedian Heather Land returns with a collection of laugh-out-loud, hilarious, and unfiltered essays that explore the funny and inspirational moments in everyday life - perfect for fans of Rachel Hollis’s Girl, Wash Your Face.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow...A changer of how you think
- By Tammy Gill on 10-17-20
By: Heather Land
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You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning
- By: Celia Rivenbark
- Narrated by: Celia Rivenbark
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 109
From the author of the best-selling classics We're Just Like You, Only Prettier and Bless Your Heart, Tramp comes a collection of essays so funny, you'll shoot co'cola out of your nose. You Can't Drink All Day if You Don't Start in the Morning is sure to appeal to anyone who lives south of something.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Can I have a translated version?
- By David on 10-30-11
By: Celia Rivenbark
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I Feel Bad About My Neck
- And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
- By: Nora Ephron
- Narrated by: Nora Ephron
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,220
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,585
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,568
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't make me get out of the car...
- By Kestrel on 10-09-06
By: Nora Ephron