Lit follows Mary Karr's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness and her astonishing resurrection. Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespearequoting poet produces a son they adore. But she can't outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hairraising stint in "The Mental Marriott" awakens her to the possibility of joy, and leads her to an unlikely faith.
Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. It is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up as only Mary Karr can tell it.
Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful....
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Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne's impaired memory....
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Once again, Bourdain pulls back the curtain, but never pulls his punches, on the modern gastronomical revolution, as only he can....
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A hilarious and moving memoir in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron about a woman who returns home to her Mennonite family after a personal crisis....
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At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilianborn man of Australian citizenship....
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Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a "lucky" bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didn't specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck....
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Christopher Hitchens contains multitudes. He sees all sides of an argument. And he believes the personal is political....
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In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya....
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Richard Poe, Gerard Doyle, Carol Monda, Johanna Parker, Ramon de Ocampo, Chris Sorenson, Patricia Floyd
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Audible Price
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$ 29.99
Let the Great World Spin follows the fortunes of a menagerie of New Yorkers through a day in 1974 the day of Philippe Petit's death defying tightrope walk between the newly built Twin Towers....
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The bestselling author of Saving Graces shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity....
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Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity....
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Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite common but now seems to be receding from society the experience of making and fixing things with our hands....
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You've either done it or know someone who has: the onenight stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend's irritating wedding....
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Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashingand recoveringtheir way through an extraordinary range of financial crises....
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Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat....
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Why I Recommend
Audible by Alan Twigg
Audible (an Amazon.com company) is the world's leading online
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All about Audiobooks and how they can make your life more
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Books in audio format are a fantastic alternative to reading.
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Here at Playtime Books we offer lots unabridged talking
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