The Glass Eye
A Memoir
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Jeannie Vanasco
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The night before her father dies, 18-year-old Jeannie Vanasco promises she will write a book for him. But this isn't the book she imagined.
The Glass Eye is Jeannie's struggle to honor her father, her larger-than-life hero but also the man who named her after his daughter from a previous marriage, a daughter who died. After his funeral, Jeannie spends the next decade in escalating mania, in and out of hospitals - increasingly obsessed with the other Jeanne. Obsession turns to investigation as Jeannie plumbs her childhood awareness of her dead half sibling and hunts for clues into the mysterious circumstances of her death. It becomes a puzzle Jeannie feels she must solve to better understand herself and her father.
Jeannie Vanasco pulls us into her unraveling with such intimacy that her insanity becomes palpable, even logical. A brilliant exploration of the human psyche, The Glass Eye deepens our definitions of love, sanity, grief, and recovery.
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In New York Times best-selling author Wendy Corsi Staub's electrifying new thriller, a mother races to save her daughter before her darkest nightmare comes true. Sacred Sisters Catholic girls' school has hardly changed since Jen Archer was a student. Jen hoped her older daughter would thrive here. Instead, shy and studious Carley becomes the target of vicious bullies. But the real danger at Sacred Sisters goes much deeper.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This was an okay book
- De Erica en 05-09-15
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Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
- Stories of Changes, Choices, and Growing Up for Kids Ages 9-13
- De: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, y otros
- Narrado por: Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap
- Duración: 1 h y 13 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
Our preteen years, ages nine to 13, can present some of the most difficult times in our young lives, a period of tremendous physical and emotional change. We're eager to leave the "kid" stage, yet we're uncertain about what adolescence will bring; we start hearing the familiar refrain "wait until you're older" far too often. Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul is a companion guide for these transitional years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for children!
- De T Renaud en 01-04-15
De: Jack Canfield, y otros
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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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Bettyville
- De: George Hodgman
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 371
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 332
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 332
When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself - an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook - in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from the home both treasure - the place where his father's voice lingers, the scene of shared jokes, skirmishes, and, behind the dusty antiques, a rarely acknowledged conflict...
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1 out of 5 stars
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Title Should Be Georgeville-It's All About George
- De Sara en 10-08-15
De: George Hodgman
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The Hour I First Believed
- A Novel
- De: Wally Lamb
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 25 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,231
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 867
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 869
When high-school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives. But when Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent all around yarn
- De G. en 01-10-09
De: Wally Lamb
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Ann Patchett
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,714
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,532
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,515
Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto examines her deepest commitments: to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband in This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Together, these essays, previously published in The Atlantic, Harper, Vogue, and The Washington Post, form a resonant portrait of a life lived with loyalty and with love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining, engrossing, and elucidative essays
- De Bonny en 01-07-14
De: Ann Patchett
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After the Eclipse
- A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
- De: Sarah Perry
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her ultimate mission to know the woman who gave her life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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True crime memoir
- De Julie en 11-03-17
De: Sarah Perry
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After Visiting Friends
- A Son's Story
- De: Michael Hainey
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 83
Michael Hainey had just turned six when his uncle knocked on his family's back door one morning with the tragic news: Bob Hainey, Michael's father, was found alone near his car on Chicago's North Side, dead, of an apparent heart attack. Thirty-five years old, a young assistant copy desk chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Bob was a bright and shining star in the competitive, hard-living world of newspapers, one that involved booze-soaked nights that bled into dawn. And then suddenly he was gone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Son's Search for Father Brings on Self-knowledge
- De sheila kehoe en 08-15-13
De: Michael Hainey
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If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother
- De: Julia Sweeney
- Narrado por: Julia Sweeney
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 175
Since her time on Saturday Night Live, where she created the infamous androgynous character "Pat", Julia Sweeney has gone on to establish herself as a witty, captivating performer of one-woman shows, like God Said Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God. She gave a TED talk sharing how she explained the birds and the bees to her eight-year-old daughter, Mulan, which ignited an incredible response. Now, when it comes to talking about motherhood, people want to hear what Julia has to say.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I Love Julia Sweeney
- De Lisa en 04-05-13
De: Julia Sweeney
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- De: Jonathan Safran Foer
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman, Barbara Caruso, Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,353
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,253
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,265
Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated, wowed critics on its way to winning several literary prizes, including Book of the Year honors from the Los Angeles Times. It has been published in 24 countries and will soon be a major motion picture. Foer's talent continues to shine in this sometimes hilarious and always heartfelt follow-up.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hard book to review
- De Jbug en 12-27-09
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Finding Grace
- A True Story about Losing Your Way in Life...and Finding It Again
- De: Donna VanLiere
- Narrado por: Donna VanLiere
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Finding Grace is the powerful, often humorous, and deeply moving story of one woman's journey of broken dreams. It is the story of how a painful legacy of the past is confronted and met with peace. This book is for anyone who has struggled to understand why our desires---even the simplest ones---are sometimes denied or who has questioned where God is when we need Him most. This story is about one woman's unlikely road to motherhood. Finally, it's a book about the "undeserved gift which is life itself."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finding Grace... and joy, delight, and camaraderie
- De WeRLoved en 02-02-17
De: Donna VanLiere
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After the Parade
- De: Lori Ostlund
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
Sensitive, big-hearted, and achingly self-conscious, 40-year-old Aaron Englund long ago escaped the confines of his Midwestern hometown, but he still feels like an outcast. After 20 years under the Pygmalion-like direction of his older partner, Walter, Aaron at last decides it is time to stop letting life happen to him and to take control of his own fate.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narrator
- De Barbara en 11-10-24
De: Lori Ostlund
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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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My Lobotomy
- A Memoir
- De: Howard Dully, Charles Fleming
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 218
"In 1960 I was given a transorbital, or 'ice pick' lobotomy. My stepmother arranged it. My father agreed to it. Dr. Walter Freeman, the father of the American lobotomy, told me he was going to do some 'tests'. It took 10 minutes and cost 200 dollars." Assisted by journalist/novelist Charles Fleming, Howard Dully recounts a family tragedy of Sophoclean proportions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Freeman's Folly
- De James Gordon en 10-28-07
De: Howard Dully, y otros
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The Rest of Her Life
- De: Laura Moriarty
- Narrado por: Julia Gibson
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 80
Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy, the effects of which not only divide Leigh's family, but polarize the entire community.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Obnoxious musical interludes ruin the story
- De Joan en 12-25-11
De: Laura Moriarty
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A Chance in the World
- An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home
- De: Steve Pemberton
- Narrado por: Steve Pemberton
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 139
A Chance in the World is the unbelievably true story of a wounded and broken boy destined to become a man of resilience, determination, and vision. Through it all, Steve's story teaches us that no matter how broken our past, no matter how great our misfortunes, we have it in us to create a new beginning and to build a place where love awaits.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Book
- De Amazon Customer en 08-19-20
De: Steve Pemberton
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The Wednesday Sisters
- De: Meg Waite Clayton
- Narrado por: Julie Dretzin
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 176
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 111
For 35 years, Frankie, Linda, Kath, Brett, and Ally have met every Wednesday at the park near their homes in Palo Alto, California. Defined when they first meet by what their husbands do, the young homemakers and mothers are far removed from the Summer of Love that has enveloped most of the Bay Area in 1967.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- De Denise Wallace en 06-26-09