Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: A House in the Sky Author: Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett Narrator: Amanda Lindhout Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 04-01-14 Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself in its exotic locales. Later in life, in war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq, she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she travelled to Somalia "the most dangerous place on earth." On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road. Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda converts to Islam as a survival tactic, receives "wife lessons" from one of her captors, and risks a daring escape. Moved between a series of abandoned houses in the desert, she survives on memory - every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity - and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the tortured woman kept in chains in the dark. A House in the Sky is the searing and intimate story of an intrepid young woman and her search for compassion in the face of unimaginable adversity. Critic Reviews: 'Moving and informative reading for everyone.' (Library Journal) 'Writing with immediacy and urgency, Lindhout and Corbett recount the horrific ordeal in crisp, frank, evocative prose. But what readers will walk away with is an admiration for Lindhouts deep reserves of courage under unimaginable circumstances.' (Booklist)
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Pete Hamill on Eddie Stanky Author: Pete Hamill Narrator: Pete Hamill Format: Unabridged Length: 14 mins Language: English Release date: 06-13-01 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An ex-soccer player, Stanky bounced around the minor leagues until getting the call to the majors. He was small, but played with intensity. He risked beanings by crouching over the plate. He slid hard into second base to break up the double play. Instead of hitting home runs, he'd draw a walk, and then steal second. He wasn't a great player, but his intangibles made him stand out. Eddie Stanky represents the twilight of Hamill's youth and his growing appreciation of his father through his admiration of Stanky. A time before Jackie Robinson; before the hated Giants and before the demise of Ebbets Field. This story will appeal not only to baseball fans, but to anyone who has rooted for the underdog.
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Blood Feud Subtitle: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever Author: Kathleen Sharp Narrator: Coleen Marlo Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins Language: English Release date: 09-20-11 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 32 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Blood-boosting Procrit is Johnson & Johnson's biotech superstar. Behind its various brand names, it ranks as Medicare's most reimbursed drug. But Procrit performs frighteningly well, and can stimulate so many blood cells that thousands of patients die in unexplained and painful ways. And that's not all: Cancer patients, who often receive injections, are never warned that the drug stimulates tumor growth, too, prompting one leading hematologist to dub it "Miracle-Gro for cancer". While patients have no clue about the risks behind this poorly tested drug, Johnson & Johnson sales rep Mark Duxbury knows precisely what is happening - the pharma behemoth is blatantly marketing overdoses of the drug. Duxbury tries to warn his superiors and is forced to testify in a secret court about illegal schemes. But his honesty costs him his career. Humiliated and ignored for years, Duxbury is ultimately betrayed in a shockingly cruel way. The psychological trauma drives him to attempt suicide, yet he fights on for several more years until the heartbreaking end. A Civil Action's Jan Schlichtmann has taken on the case, and is back in federal district court in Massachusetts. And all the while, Johnson & Johnson has continued to push sales of Procrit. Blood Feud is award-winning journalist Kathleen Sharp's nail-biting expose of the Procrit case. Packed with corporate espionage, plot twists, and larger-than-life characters, it's as gripping as it is terrifyingly true. Critic Reviews: "Sharp tells the story of sales rep Mark Duxbury, who challenged the wisdom of selling Procrit and, after testifying in a closed court, was hounded from his job." (Library Journal)
Hören Sie sich dieses volle Hörbuch kostenlos bei https://hotaudiobook.com Titel: Was ich liebe - und was nicht Autor:: Hanns-Josef Ortheil Erzähler: Hanns-Josef Ortheil Format: Unabridged Spieldauer: 2 hrs and 34 mins Sprache: Deutsch Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-24-16 Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers: Später tanzten wir am Ufer vor lauter Glück. Hanns-Josef Ortheil erzählt von seinen Lebensthemen: entlang zentraler Stichworte wie Wohnen, Reisen, Essen und Trinken, Film, Jahreszeiten oder Musik geht er den vielfältigen Facetten einer literarischen Lebenskunst auf den Grund, die so etwas wie die Basis für seine literarischen Werke bildet. Diese Passionen werden nicht nur beschrieben, sondern auch nach ihrer Herkunft und vor allem danach befragt, was sich hinter ihnen verbirgt. Warum hasst Ortheil Frühstückbüffets, und warum hört er beim Schreiben ausschließlich Klaviermusik aus den Zeiten vor 1750? Wieso gefällt ihm eine so spröde TV-Sendung wie das "Alpenpanorama" und warum wird er wohl nie nach Japan reisen, vielleicht aber einmal ein Buch über Japan schreiben? Hanns-Josef Ortheil liest seine persönlichen Anekdoten selbst. ©2016 Hanns-Josef Ortheil (P)2016 Der Hörverlag Kritik Bewertungen: So wie beim Zuhören von Was ich liebe - und was nicht lernt man doch nicht nur Vieles über den Autor, sondern im stummen, nachsinnenden Vergleichen auch Manches über sich selbst -- Jutta-Duhm-Heitzmann / WDR 3
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: B. I. A. P.: Baghdad International Airport Author: Brian L. Gordon Narrator: Michael Karl Orenstein Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 12-29-17 Publisher: Brian Gordon Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Though Americans have seen plenty of news updates on the Iraq War since 2003, few know what its like to actually live through the harsh conditions on a daily basis. In his memoir, B.I.A.P.: Baghdad International Airport, two-tour Iraq War veteran Sergeant Brian L. Gordon shows readers the constant challenges soldiers face on the ground in the Middle East. Serving first in 2003, Gordon drives a truck delivering bulk fuel and must regularly dodge rocket-propelled grenades and IEDs. His unit also takes on heavy firefights and rocket launcher attacks while manning the water point at the Euphrates River. Though his division is eventually investigated for conspiracy to sabotage their own vehicles (in order to remain safely back at base), Gordon bravely serves a second tour in 2004 with a new unit, this time delivering tanks and artillery in and out of northern Iraq. This assignment will test him and his comrades to their limits when a mission turns into a twenty-one-day hostage situation at Baghdad International Airport. B.I.A.P.: Baghdad International Airport gives readers the opportunity to experience the life of a combat soldier struggling with PTSD, striving to serve his country and protect the lives of his comrades.
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Les Berbères et Moi: Part Seven Author: Magdalena Wasiura Narrator: Deanna Delaney Format: Unabridged Length: 1 hr and 38 mins Language: English Release date: 12-12-17 Publisher: Cv Publications Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New projects and new ideas along with matchmaking in Timdgrass are just a small part of part seven of Les Berbères et moi. What is all the fuss about kissing? The author explains zina and how Shari'ah punishes you for that. You feel the blisters on the authors hands when she beats the dirt out of sheep skin as well as the discomfort and cold during her night voyage to Casablanca.
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Creating my own Nemesis Subtitle: The Autobiography of the Man Who Designed Alton Towers Big Rides, and Brought the Theme Park to Britain Author: John Wardley Narrator: John Wardley Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins Language: English Release date: 12-05-17 Publisher: John Wardley Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The autobiography of the man who brought the theme park concept to Britain and created some of the world's most thrilling rides and attractions. He talks about his early beginnings in the theater, circus, and magical cabaret, his time working on some of the most incredible special effects in the James Bond films (including the famous bus crash scene in Live and Let Die), and how he became associated with Madame Tussauds, the world's most famous wax museum. This led to the development of Chessington World of Adventures, then Alton Towers. Now in its seventh edition, the book answers many questions about how enormous theme park rides are conceived and developed, and the fascinating stories behind them, including his most famous ride, NEMESIS at Alton Towers.
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: 2D Surgical Hospital Author: Lorna Griess Narrator: Mandy Kaplan Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins Language: English Release date: 11-02-17 Publisher: XlibrisUS Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This book is about living and working in a mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) in South Vietnam. It talks about the hospital itself, the setting, how we lived, how we coped with less-than-good circumstances, the type of patients we received, the equipment we worked with and the emotional highs and lows that were part of every day. The stories are true. Some of the dates and numbers of things may be off a little; that was a long time ago. Names have not been used to protect the wonderful, dedicated people with whom I worked and lived with.
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Life in the Garden Author: Penelope Lively Narrator: Helen Lloyd Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins Language: English Release date: 11-02-17 Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This audiobook is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother's garden in a sloping Somerset field, then two successive Oxfordshire gardens of her own and the smaller urban garden in the North London home she lives in today. It's also a wise, engaging exploration of gardens in literature, from Paradise Lost to Alice in Wonderland.
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Lulu's Christmas Story Subtitle: A True Story of Faith and Hope During the Great Depression Author: Ludmilla Bollow Narrator: Liz Terry Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins Language: English Release date: 10-31-17 Publisher: Beacon Audiobooks Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Christmas is eagerly awaited by Lulu, a young girl living in a small Wisconsin town during the Great Depression. Anticipation is transformed into anxiety when Daddy loses his job, doubts about Santa flicker, and that Shirley Temple doll seems further away than ever. Mama reveals her own brutal Christmas as an orphan, adding new worries. But it's Lulu's deep faith and vibrant hope that keeps her looking forward to each new day and the glorious gift of Christmas. In her touching memoir, Ludmilla Bollow, an award-winning playwright and novelist, recounts the year before her family's toughest Christmas. There's a haunting encounter with freaks at a circus sideshow, the heartbreaking loss of the town's recluse who was committed to finding true love, a disastrous Thanksgiving at Grandma's, and, of course, the long-awaited Christmas! Lulu's spirit of love and joy radiates throughout this emotional recall of family life during hard times.
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: So Close to Death Yet So Far Away Subtitle: P.O.T.S. Author: Derek C. Evans Narrator: Eddie Leonard Jr. Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 1 min Language: English Release date: 10-31-17 Publisher: Derek Chad Evans Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Growing up Derek Evans was a good student and athlete in a middle-class suburban area in southeastern Pennsylvania. The future looked bright for Derek. After waking up from a nap during his shift as a lifeguard at the age of 17, everything changed. After months of not feeling right and several doctors' visits, it was determined that Derek was beginning to suffer from a dysautonoima disorder called Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (P.O.T.S.). P.O.T.S., sometimes referred to as an invisible illness, is a very unknown yet destabilizing and bizarre syndrome. Derek's next eight years became a health roller coaster ride amid remission, relapses, emergency room and doctors' visits, and several different medications. Despite all this, Derek managed to keep his illness a secret from almost everyone, in fear of being judged and not understood. In October of 2016, Derek worked as an Assistant Branch Manager at Hertz Rent-A-Car. He collapsed inside a body shop during a sales call and woke up in an ambulance being transported to the hospital. After this life-changing incident, Derek decided enough was enough and was determined to make major changes. Besides a new career, Derek found a passion to let the truth out about his illness. It was time to bring awareness. In this book, you will find the story of Derek's battle with P.O.T.S. as well as interviews with mothers of children with P.O.T.S., doctors' opinions on the illness, and stories of many others suffering from P.O.T.S. You will begin to see life from the eyes of a person suffering from the invisible illness, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. Although over one million people worldwide have been diagnosed, there is still little known about P.O.T.S. What is known by those who have it, is at times, they feel like they are so close to dying, yet told they are so far away.
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Jim Beckwourth and Jim Bridger: The Lives and Legacies of America's Most Famous Mountain Men Author: Charles River Editors Narrator: Mark Norman Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins Language: English Release date: 09-15-17 Publisher: Charles River Editors Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Includes accounts of both men Includes online resources and a bibliography Includes a table of contents Exploration of the early American West, beginning with Lewis and Clark's transcontinental trek at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, was not accomplished by standing armies, the era's new steam train technology, or by way of land grabs. These came later, but not until pathways known only to a few of the land's indigenous people were discovered, carved out, and charted in an area stretching from the eastern Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and the present-day borders of Mexico and Canada. Even the great survey parties, such as Colonel William Powell's exploration of the Colorado River, came decades later. The first views of Western America's enormity by white Americans were seen by individuals of an entirely different personality, in an era that could only exist apart from its home civilization. The American mountain man, with his myriad of practical skills, could endure isolation in a way most could not. He lived in constant peril from the extremes of nature and from the hostilities of cultures unlike his own. In an emergency, assistance was rarely available, and he rarely stayed in one place long enough to build even a simple shelter. Travel in the American West relied upon a specific calendar, and to ignore it could be fatal, as many discovered, to their misfortune. Winter in the mountainous regions of the Rocky Mountains and Cascades was lethally cold to explorer and settler alike, but desert areas and grass plains presented difficulties as well. The network of rivers flowing west of the Mississippi on both sides of the continental divide served as early highways to the Wyoming and Montana regions, the Oregon Territory, Utah and Colorado, and the California southwest. Some were placidly tranquil, while others raged through the extreme elevations, all but defying navigation. Contact with indigenous tribes was problematic enough with linguistic and cultural barriers, but to survive, there required a sensitivity to tribal food sources and sacred areas when traveling. The profession of trapping was, in itself, a trespass on Native American resources, and yet the mountain man's existence was fueled, in part, by the tangible rewards of the fur trapping trade. A small group of individuals have come down to us as famous figures from the fur trapping era of the 19th century, but explorer and guide Jim Bridger is the most distinguished of the lot. This is because he remained in a dangerous and vast Western wilderness long after the fur trade's demise in addition to powers of observation enabling him to create accurate maps decades after passing through any terrain. Blessed with a rare gift for mentally recording every landscape through which he passed in minute detail, many modern transportation routes have sprung from what was first etched in sand with the point of Bridger's stick, including major interstate highways and railroad lines.
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Train to Nowhere Subtitle: One Woman's War: Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator Author: Anita Leslie Narrator: Deryn Edwards Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins Language: English Release date: 08-25-17 Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Train to Nowhere is a war memoir seen through the sardonic eyes of Anita Leslie, a funny and vivacious young woman who reports on her experiences with a dry humour, finding the absurd alongside the tragic. Daughter of a baronet and first cousin once removed of Winston Churchill, she joined the Mechanised Transport Corps as a fully trained mechanic and ambulance driver during WWII, serving in Libya, Syria, Palestine, Italy, France and Germany. Ahead of her time, Anita bemoaned 'first-rate women subordinate to second-rate men' and, as the English army forbade women from serving at the front, joined the Free French Forces in order to do what she felt was her duty. Writing letters in Hitler's recently vacated office and marching in the Victory parade contrast with observations of seeing friends murdered and a mother avenging her son by coldly shooting a prisoner of war. Unflinching and unsentimental, Train to Nowhere is a memoir of Anita's war, one that, long after it was written, remains poignant and relevant. With a new introduction by Penny Perrick. Critic Reviews: "Train to Nowhere is the most gripping piece of war reportage I have ever read: particularly affecting is her account of the Battle of Colmar, where her descriptions are almost too unbearable to take in. What a writer! Her observations, mixed with dry humour and compassion, place her at the heart of the conflict and somehow apart from it, as a good historian should be. Remarkable." (Joanna Lumley) "Anita Leslie's dispassionate account of her own extraordinary role in World War II is a rediscovered gem, and her harrowing description of the fighting in Alsace particularly stands out as one of the finest pieces of war reporting to come out of that or any other conflict.... This is a remarkable book." (Ray Moseley, Pulitzer Prize-nominated war correspondent and author of Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II) "A vivid memoir, beautifully crafted, by a remarkable woman at a unique period in modern history. A young cousin of Winston Churchill, she operated as an ambulance driver from 1940-1945 on the front lines in Africa, Arabia and Europe enduring with humour all the hardships and privations entailed in war by service personnel without rank. Her skills of observation are penetrating and make this book a marvellously accessible account of WWII. Unputdownable." (Mary S. Lovell, international best-selling author of The Mitford Girls)
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Churchill & Orwell Subtitle: The Fight for Freedom Author: Thomas E. Ricks Narrator: Piers Hampton Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins Language: English Release date: 08-17-17 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930s - Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century, they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. In a crucial moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter, seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north. It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930s, democracy was discredited in many circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism but saw in Hitler and Mussolini 'men we could do business with', if not in fact saviours. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom - that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted. In the end Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The glorious climax of Churchill and Orwell is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940s to triumph over freedom's enemies. And though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Taken together, in Thomas E. Ricks' masterful hands, their lives are a beautiful testament to the power of moral conviction and to the courage it can take to stay true to it, through thick and thin. Critic Reviews: "Superbly illustrates that Churchill and Orwell made enduring cases for the necessity of moral and political fortitude in the face of authoritarianism...a bracing work for our times." (Publishers Weekly) "The genius of Ricks's method is to tell the story of an ongoing struggle through the lives of two extraordinary men." (Booklist) "An eminently readable, frankly inspirational and exceptionally timely tribute." (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Avoiding the Sudden Stop Subtitle: Guiding Rainier, and other Northwest Mountain Adventures in the 1960s Author: George Zell Heuston Narrator: Matt Haynes Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 06-20-17 Publisher: George Z Heuston Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Grab your wooden ice axe and coarse nylon ropes, because you're about to embark on a 1960s-style mountain climbing adventure - and there's sure to be plenty of fun, fear, and excitement along the way. At just seven years old, George Zell Heuston was a full-fledged mountaineer - climbing and guiding up picturesque Mount Rainier as one of the youngest climbers in the Pacific Northwest. Now, decades later, he shares his most unique experiences in Avoiding the Sudden Stop, a collection of memories, reflections, and chronicles from a youth and young adulthood spent among the region's rugged peaks. Written from his own perspective as a younger man, Heuston's book captures a different era of mountain climbing, when men braved the elements with wool clothing, cold leather boots, and other antiquated gear. But above all, it is a coming-of-age story that explores not only a lifelong appreciation for the sport of climbing but also relationships with friends and colleagues, changing life perspectives, and how journeying into the mountains changed everything for this passionate young mountaineer.
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Scarlet Fields Subtitle: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero Author: John Lewis Barkley Narrator: Bob Souer Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins Language: English Release date: 05-16-17 Publisher: Tantor Audio Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 6 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A reconnaissance man and sniper, John Lewis Barkley served in Company K of the Fourth Infantry Regiment, a unit that participated in almost every major American battle. The York-like episode that earned Barkley his Congressional Medal of Honor occurred on October 7, 1918, when he climbed into an abandoned French tank and singlehandedly held off an advancing German force, killing hundreds of enemy soldiers. But Barkley's memoir abounds with other memorable moments and vignettes, all in the words of a soldier who witnessed war's dangers and degradations but was not at all fazed by them. Unlike other writers identified with the "Lost Generation", he relished combat and made no apology for having dispatched scores of enemy soldiers; yet he was as much an innocent abroad as a killing machine, as witnessed by second thoughts over his sniper's role, or by his determination to protect a youthful German prisoner from American soldiers eager for retribution. This Missouri backwoodsman and sharpshooter was also a bit of a troublemaker who smuggled liquor into camp, avoided promotions like the plague, and had a soft heart for mademoiselles and fräuleins alike. Critic Reviews: "Barkley was one of the war's outstanding heroes and his memoir is one of the most readable and detailed accounts of an American soldier's experiences to emerge from it." (Edward M. Coffman, author of The War to End All Wars)
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Made for More Subtitle: An Autobiographical Novel of Faith and Promise Author: Manna Ko Narrator: full cast, Manna Ko Format: Unabridged Length: 27 hrs and 42 mins Language: English Release date: 04-03-17 Publisher: Author's Republic Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From a Stolen Childhood to a Life of Joy: An Untold Story of Courage, Hope, and Triumph When Leah, a cantankerous and disillusioned hospice patient, asks the seemingly perfect and high-falutin' Manna to tell her life story, she has no idea that she is opening a Pandora's box of secrets. It begins in 1960s China, when little Manna first perceives God and has her first heavenly encounter. Following her to Canada and eventually the United States, this autobiographical novel is the story of a little girl trapped by culture, convention, rules, societal expectation, and abuse - and of the woman who had to overcome it all. Where is God? Does he exist? Does he care? Does he really talk to us? Unaware of his divine plan, how can we assume anything but that we are somehow being punished, or have been forgotten, when we are besieged with troubles? If you have ever wondered why bad things happen to good people, then Manna Ko's formerly untold story of childhood physical and sexual abuse, adult domestic violence, anxiety, eating disorders, depression, and loss of all kinds will startle you.
Hören Sie sich dieses volle Hörbuch kostenlos bei https://hotaudiobook.com Titel: Couchsurfing in Russland: Wie ich fast zum Putin-Versteher wurde Autor:: Stephan Orth Erzähler: Shenja Lacher Format: Unabridged Spieldauer: 7 hrs and 32 mins Sprache: Deutsch Veröffentlichungsdatum: 03-27-17 Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag Kategorien: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers: Eine Reise in russische Wohnzimmer. Das Dorf einer Weltuntergangssekte in Sibirien, eine Diamantenmine in Jakutien, eine Hippie-Villa auf der Krim: Es sind Orte wie diese, an denen Bestsellerautor Stephan Orth nach dem wahren Russland sucht, jenseits von Propaganda und Nachrichten. Auf seiner Reise von Couch zu Couch, von Gastgeber zu Gastgeber ergibt sich ein persönliches Bild dieses riesigen Landes, das derzeit ein zweifelhaftes Comeback auf der weltpolitischen Bühne feiert. Und gleichzeitig auf der Suche nach sich selbst ist. ©2017 Malik Verlag, München (P)2017 der Hörverlag
Écoutez ce livre audio dans son intégralité gratuitement sur https://hotaudiobook.com Titre: Peut-on ne jamais tomber amoureux ? (Transfert 22) Auteur: slate.fr Narrateur: slate.fr Format: Unabridged Durée: 28 mins Langue: Français Date de publication: 03-23-17 Éditeur: Slate.fr Evaluation: 4.5 sur 5 sur 2 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Résumé de l'éditeur: Vous avez toujours rêvé de connaître les péripéties secrètes du couple de vos bruyants voisins, ce qui a transformé la personnalité de votre cousin, la raison pour laquelle votre collègue n'arrive plus à faire confiance à personne. Toutes les deux semaines, Transfert vous raconte une histoire vraie, excitante, prenante, émouvante, et en creux le monde moderne et ceux qui l'habitent. Un podcast de Slate.fr présenté par Charlotte Pudlowski. Épisode 22 : Gwen est incapable de tomber amoureuse, comme quelque chose de cassé en elle, auquel elle n'aura jamais accès. Et puis elle découvre un pan inconnu de sa propre vie. ©2016 slate.fr (P)2016 slate.fr
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: This Isnt the Life I Ordered Subtitle: Setting Sail When Your Relationship Fails Author: Jenniffer Weigel Narrator: Jenniffer Weigel Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins Language: English Release date: 03-21-17 Publisher: Jenniffer Weigel Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Part manual and part memoir, Jenniffer Weigel pulls back the curtain of her life and shares how getting a divorce and moving away from her "white picket fence" dream actually helped her gain a greater awareness and happiness. Her sense of humor reminds us that even though staying on the spiritual path has its fair share of challenges, you are not alone and you will laugh again. Each chapter of This Isn't the Life I Ordered delivers a nugget of wisdom that will leave you inspired and entertained. Jenniffer shows the human side of trying to be spiritual, with several laughs and poignant lessons along the way. This audiobook includes interviews with best-selling authors Caroline Myss, Anita Moorjani, and Dr. Mary Neal.