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A Year and a Day is a journal of grief kept for a year and a day after I lost my wife suddenly. It is meant to help others who have suffered a grievous loss.
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At a time when we mourn public figures and national tragedies with hashtags, where intimate posts about loss go viral and we receive automated birthday reminders for dead friends, it's clear we are navigating new terrain without a road map. Let's face it: Most of us have always had a difficult time talking about death and sharing our grief. We're awkward and uncertain; we avoid, ignore, or even deny feelings of sadness; we offer platitudes; we send sympathy bouquets whittled out of fruit.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not What I Was Expecting
- De Bessie Mae en 03-01-23
De: Rebecca Soffer, y otros
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Women Rowing North
- De: Mary Pipher
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 539
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 459
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 456
Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic and wise people they have always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrator is a distraction
- De Amazon Customer en 03-01-19
De: Mary Pipher
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Nothing Was the Same
- A Memoir
- De: Kay Redfield Jamison
- Narrado por: Renée Raudman
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison---who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with writerly elegance and passion---could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. In spare and at times strikingly lyrical prose, Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled severe dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Liked the story better than the narrator
- De Pamela Harvey en 07-22-11
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The Unspeakable
- And Other Subjects of Discussion
- De: Meghan Daum
- Narrado por: Meghan Daum
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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It's a report tempered by hard times. In "Matricide", Daum unflinchingly describes a parent's death and the uncomfortable emotions it provokes; and in "Diary of a Coma" she relates her own journey to the twilight of the mind. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the marriage-industrial complex, of the New Age dating market, and of the peculiar habits of the young and digital.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Complaining about her dead mom.
- De Erik Hermansen en 11-23-14
De: Meghan Daum
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The Museum of Innocence
- De: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely (translator)
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 20 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 326
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Once the long-lost cousins violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeosie - a world, as he lovingly describes it, with opulent parties and clubs, society gossip, picnics, and mansions on the Bosphorus, infused with the melancholy of decay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of the very best I've ever heard
- De Rebecca Lindroos en 03-06-10
De: Orhan Pamuk, y otros
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The Dark Flood Rises
- A Novel
- De: Dame Margaret Drabble
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 125
Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the sudden death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a floodplain in the West Country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Observed By An Exceptional Writer
- De Sara en 03-22-17
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Mother Daughter Me
- A Memoir
- De: Katie Hafner
- Narrado por: Katie Hafner
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner's remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions. Dreaming of a "year in Provence" with her mother, Katie urges Helen to move to San Francisco to live with her and Zoe, Katie's teenage daughter. Katie and Zoe had become a mother-daughter team, strong enough, Katie thought, to absorb the arrival of a 77-year-old woman set in her ways....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listen and be swept away!
- De Barbara Quick en 06-02-22
De: Katie Hafner
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Where the Past Begins
- A Writer's Memoir
- De: Amy Tan
- Narrado por: Amy Tan
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 162
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 158
Moving from her childhood in Oakland and growing up with her Chinese parents through her success as a novelist, Amy Tan delves into her creative interests in music, the paralysis of beginning a new project, journal writing, and travelling. Where the Past Begins chronicles the making of a writer. With characteristic humor and poignant observation, Tan weaves a nontraditional introspective narrative that is as complex and vibrant as this beloved American novelist's fiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narration Issues
- De Sara en 12-14-17
De: Amy Tan
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This Close to Happy
- A Reckoning with Depression
- De: Daphne Merkin
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 59
This Close to Happy is the rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression, written from a woman's perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I should be the last person to recommend this book
- De Mariaposa en 03-04-17
De: Daphne Merkin
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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them)
- A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
- De: Sallie Tisdale
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 165
You get ready to die the way you get ready for a trip. Start by realizing you don't know the way. Listen to a few travel guides. Study the language, look at maps, gather equipment. Let yourself imagine what it will be like. Pack your bags. This book is one of those travel guides - a guide to preparing for your own death and the deaths of people close to you. The fact of death is hard to believe. Sallie Tisdale explores our fears and all the ways death and talking about death make us uncomfortable - but she also explores its intimacies and joys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I thought I had more time...
- De Alyssa en 09-09-19
De: Sallie Tisdale
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An Available Man
- A Novel
- De: Hilma Wolitzer
- Narrado por: Fred Sullivan
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 107
When Edward Schuyler - a modest and bookish 62-year-old science teacher - is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while well-meaning friends try to set him up at dinner parties. The problem is that Edward doesn’t feel available. He’s still mourning his beloved wife, Bee, and prefers solitude and the familiar routine of work, gardening, and bird-watching.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lovely book, easy read, wonderful characters
- De Molly-o en 02-17-12
De: Hilma Wolitzer
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Chicken Soup for the Soul - Messages from Heaven
- 101 Miraculous Stories of Signs from Beyond, Amazing Connections, and Love That Doesn't Die
- De: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen
- Narrado por: Reay Kaplan
- Duración: 8 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
When our loved ones leave this world, our connection with them does not end and we often receive signs from the other side. These true and touching stories of will amaze and support all readers - religious or secular. The 101 true and miraculous stories in this book of signs and messages from beyond show that death may take away the physical presence of our loved ones, but not their spirit. This book is for everyone, religious or secular, as regular people share their amazing experiences with the other side.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tear Jerker
- De rdelacruz en 11-16-15
De: Jack Canfield, y otros
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The Voice is All
- The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
- De: Joyce Johnson
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 16 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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In The Voice Is All, Joyce Johnson - coauthor of the classic memoir Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac - brilliantly peels away layers of the Kerouac legend to show how, caught between two cultures and two languages, he forged a voice to contain his dualities. Looking more deeply than previous biographers into how Kerouac's French Canadian background enriched his prose and gave him a unique outsider's vision of America, she tracks his development from boyhood through the phenomenal breakthroughs of 1951 that resulted in the composition of On the Road.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kerouac's Voice
- De Robert L. Stofel en 09-26-12
De: Joyce Johnson
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The Zahir
- De: Paulo Coelho
- Narrado por: Derek Jacobi, Emilia Fox
- Duración: 5 h y 16 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 301
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 240
It begins with a glimpse or a passing thought. It ends in obsession. One day a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, has disappeared leaving no trace. Though time brings more success and new love, he remains mystified - and increasingly fascinated - by her absence. Was she kidnapped, blackmailed, or simply bored with their marriage? The unrest she causes is as strong as the attraction she exerts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and deep read!
- De Top 1% Buyer en 09-13-15
De: Paulo Coelho
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Let's Take the Long Way Home
- A Memoir of Friendship
- De: Gail Caldwell
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 224
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 145
In Let's Take the Long Way Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell offers a powerful and moving memoir about her coming-of-age in mid-life and her extraordinary friendship with Caroline Knapp, the author of Drinking: A Love Story. Though they are more different than alike, these two fiercely private, independent women quickly relax into a friendship more profound than either of them expected. They grow increasingly inseparable until, in 2003, Caroline is diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uniquely wonderful book
- De Lucie en 09-07-10
De: Gail Caldwell
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Reading My Father
- A Memoir
- De: Alexandra Styron
- Narrado por: Alexandra Styron
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
Alexandra Styron's parents—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie’s Choice and his political activist wife, Rose—were, for half a century, leading players on the world’s cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist’s life. It is also a tale of filial love, beautifully written with humor, compassion, and grace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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William Styron Ranks...
- De Douglas en 12-22-13
De: Alexandra Styron