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Nima written by Adam Popescu performed by Elisabeth Rodgers on MP3 CD (Unabridged)

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Nima is a young Sherpa woman living in the foothills of the Himalayas, a range so immense and a place so isolated it is impossible to imagine anything existing beyond it. Nima and her sister are both betrothed to Norbu, a local Sherpa, but when Norbu stuns both families by only wanting to marry Nima, Nima flees her father's wrath and the destiny that had been arranged for all of them. Disguised as a man, Nima seeks...

The Only Girl in the World - A Memoir written by Maude Julien performed by Elisabeth Rodgers on CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN:  9781549114120 / 9781549114090
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Memoir
Duration:  450 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  Maude Julien
Narrator 1:  Elisabeth Rodgers
Rarity:  Rare

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For listeners of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman rising above an unimaginable childhood. Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor - raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood, and subjecting her to...

endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness".

Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment. But Maude's parents could not rule her inner life.

Befriending the animals on the lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbid as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity.

By turns horrifying and magical, The Only Girl in the World is a story that will grip you from the first minute and leave you spellbound, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.

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