Help Me! Special Edition
One Woman's Quest to Find Out If Self-Help Really Can Change Your Life
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Marianne Power
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This special edition includes bonus audio from the author herself at the end of the book and gives an inside look into her process of writing Help Me!
I wanted to find out what would happen if I really did follow the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Really felt The Power of Now. Could life be transformed? Could I get rich? Skinny? Find love? Be more productive and fulfilled? Because I really did want all the things these books promised.
For years journalist Marianne Power lined her bookshelves with dog-eared copies of definitive guides on how to live your best life, dipping in and out of self-help books when she needed them most. Then, one day, she woke up to find that the life she hoped for and the life she was living were worlds apart - and she set out to make some big changes.
Marianne decided to finally find out if her elusive "perfect existence" - the one without debt, anxiety, or hangover Netflix marathons, the one where she healthily bounced around town and met the cashmere-sweater-wearing man of her dreams - really did lie in the pages of our best-known and acclaimed self-help books. She vowed to test a book a month for one year, following its advice to the letter, taking what she hoped would be the surest path to a flawless new her. But as the months passed and Marianne’s reality was turned upside down, she found herself confronted with a different question: Self-help can change your life, but is it for the better?
With humor, audacity, disarming candor and unassuming wisdom, in Help Me Marianne Power plumbs the trials and tests of being a modern woman in a "have it all" culture, and what it really means to be our very best selves.
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Lost for Words
- By: Stephanie Butland
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Loveday Cardew prefers books to people, and her job in a York bookshop is her refuge. If you look carefully, you might see the first lines of the novels she loves the most tattooed on her skin, but there are secrets Loveday will never share. Into the bookshop come a poet, a lover, a friend and three mysterious deliveries, each of which stirs unsettling memories she wants to forget. Turning the pages of her past will be the hardest thing Loveday has ever done. Can she trust those around her?
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Beautiful
- By J.Durant on 05-13-17
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After the Party
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
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In this irresistible novel from the author of Then She Was Gone, Jem and Ralph discover the power of starting over after 11 years together have left them drifting apart.
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Bitter, Anti-Christian Stereotyping Detracts.
- By Gretchen on 11-23-18
By: Lisa Jewell
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The Things I Should Have Told You
- By: Carmel Harrington, Emer O'Connor
- Narrated by: Aidan Kelly, Caroline Lennon
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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Every family has a story.... But for the Guinness family a happy ending looks out of reach. Olly and Mae's marriage is crumbling, their teenage daughter Evie is on a mission to self-destruct and their beloved Pops is dying of cancer. Their once strong family unit is slowly falling apart. But Pops has one final gift to offer his beloved family - a ray of hope to cling to. As his life's journey draws to a close, he sends his family on an adventure across Europe in a camper van, guided by his letters, his wisdom and his love.
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Another home run!
- By Avid Amazon Customer on 01-04-21
By: Carmel Harrington, and others
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Killing Cupid
- By: Mark Edwards, Louise Voss
- Narrated by: Bea Holland, Oliver J. Hembrough
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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Alex Parkinson is in love with his writing tutor, Siobhan. He has never loved anyone like this, but how can he convince Siobhan that they are meant to be together? So Alex stalks her on Facebook and finds out where she lives, buys her presents using her own credit card and sends her messages telling her exactly what he wants to do to her. He breaks into her house, reads her diary and secretly listens to her while she takes a bath. Isn't that what all lovers do?
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Love conquers all
- By Jenny on 02-04-23
By: Mark Edwards, and others
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Til Death Do Us Part
- By: Daniel Hurst
- Narrated by: Gareth Bennett Ryan, Francesca Waite
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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Megan thinks that she has the perfect husband and the perfect life. Craig works so that she doesn't have to, leaving her free to relax all day in their beautiful and secluded country home. But when she starts to long for friends and purpose again, Megan applies for a job in London, much to her husband's disappointment. After Megan goes against his wishes and attends the interview, Craig decides that it is time to act. Locking her away in their home, Megan realizes that her husband never had her best interests at heart, nor did they meet by accident. Craig has been planning this.
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Good Book
- By Debbie on 05-11-23
By: Daniel Hurst
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You Had Me at Hello
- By: Mhairi McFarlane
- Narrated by: Julie Hesmondhalgh
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling debut from Mhairi McFarlane. Rachel and Ben. Ben and Rachel. It was them against the world. Until it all fell apart. It’s been a decade since they last spoke, but when Rachel bumps into Ben one rainy day, the years melt away. They’d been partners in crime and the best of friends. But life has moved on: Ben is married. Rachel is not. Yet in that split second, Rachel feels the old friendship return. And along with it, the broken heart she’s never been able to mend.
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Narrator ruins it
- By Sandi P on 09-07-16
By: Mhairi McFarlane
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The Bright Side Running Club
- By: Josie Lloyd
- Narrated by: Danielle Cohen
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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When Keira first receives her breast cancer diagnosis, she never expects to end up joining a running group with three women she’s only just met. Totally blindsided, all she can think about is how she doesn’t want to tell her family or step back from work. Nor does she want to be part of a group of fellow cancer patients. Cancer is not her club. And yet it’s running - hot, sweaty, Lycra-clad running in the company of brilliant, funny women all going through treatment - that unexpectedly gives Keira the hope she so urgently needs.
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depressing
- By Jessica on 09-15-22
By: Josie Lloyd
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Here's Looking at You
- By: Mhairi McFarlane
- Narrated by: Cassandra Harwood
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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The new novel from the bestselling author of You Had Me At Hello. Anna Alessi - history expert, possessor of a lot of hair and an occasionally filthy mouth - seeks nice man for intelligent conversation and Mills & Boon moments. Despite the oddballs that keep turning up on her dates, Anna couldn't be happier. As a 30-something with a job she loves, life has turned out better than she dared dream.
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It Grows On You
- By Sharlotte on 05-24-16
By: Mhairi McFarlane
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Challenge Accepted!
- 253 Steps to Becoming an Anti-It Girl
- By: Celeste Barber
- Narrated by: Celeste Barber
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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Part memoir, part comedy routine, part advice manual, Challenge Accepted! is Celeste at her best, revealing her secrets to love, friendship, family, and marriage (oh hai, #hothusband), and how to deal with life’s many challenges - why she checks the bath for sharks, how Nutella quite literally shaped who she is as a woman, and why being famous on Instagram is like being rich in Monopoly. It’s real, like totally, really real.
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Prepare to crack up in the grocery store
- By Chicago_Mama on 05-30-19
By: Celeste Barber
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The Third Wife
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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In the early hours of a summer morning, a young woman steps into the path of an oncoming bus. A tragic accident? Or suicide? At the center of this puzzle is Adrian Wolfe, a successful architect and grief-stricken widower, who, a year after his third wife's death, begins to investigate the cause. As Adrian looks back on their brief but seemingly happy marriage, disturbing secrets begin to surface. The divorces from his two previous wives had been amicable, or so it seemed; his children, all five of them, were resilient as ever, or so he thought.
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Not a mystery
- By Susan on 07-06-18
By: Lisa Jewell
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How to Be Famous
- A Novel
- By: Caitlin Moran
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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A hilarious, heartfelt sequel to How to Build a Girl, the breakout novel from feminist sensation Caitlin Moran who the New York Times called, "rowdy and fearless... sloppy, big-hearted and alive in all the right ways." You can’t have your best friend be famous if you’re not famous. It doesn’t work. You’re emotional pen-friends. You can send each other letters - but you’re not doing anything together. You live in different countries.
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AMAZING , but not for the faint of heart
- By Knitme23 on 07-23-18
By: Caitlin Moran
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- Amazonact
- 08-02-19
Relatable
Relatable for the self help junkie and good story telling gives insight in enjoyable relaxed way
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- Brooke Moore
- 07-05-23
Loved it!!
Great book and thank you for trying out so many of these books for all of us!
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- Anonymous User
- 06-29-23
Is this your only book? Boo! very good... loved it
Loved it!
Get busy writing another! I would love to know how it went with the Greek.
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- Angelina Kim
- 07-14-19
Honest and relatable!
I chose to listen to this book for several reasons. First, I always prefer when the authors read their own books and Powers has a charming Brit accent. Additionally, she gets her mum to play herself, which adds to the charm. Second, I love reading books about people conducting long term social experiments on themselves and chronicling their journey in hilarious ways (A. J. Jacobs anyone?). It did not disappoint! I mean, nothing crazy complicated or complex here, but entertaining and honest. I appreciated her being forthcoming about her struggle with depression, and the roles the self-help books played in the different stages and manifestations of her spiraling.
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- Meghann
- 07-21-19
One of the best and most brilliant books I have ever listened to
I have downloaded and listened to many, many audible books and, shameful to say
that I have never written a review. However, I feel compelled to say something about this one. Marianne Power is brilliantly witty, effortlessly funny and powerfully real. I love the fact that she reads it herself and that it’s a caption of her own journey to find happiness. I didn’t want it to end so, I’m starting it all over again. I will use this as a handbook moving forward in my own life. I loved every minute of it!! You should absolutely have a listen!!
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- Emily D Harris
- 07-16-19
Loved this book
Inspiring, honest, a must read for any PD refugee! Very well written, awesome narration! Recommending to all my friends!
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- Ken
- 10-10-19
Cute Story, good performance.
The story is cute. A moderately neurotic woman tries self-help. The book is vert honest, and I probably appreciated this most about it. The only issue I had with it was that it really was just a story. I didn't personally get a lot of growth out of it because a lot of the "lessons" seemed fairly obvious. I also had an issue with the premise of the book. I was initially sold it because it was someone who was going to completely follow a self-help book's advice for 1 month. She followed the first couple books pretty well, but after that she started "half-doing" the books. She didn't follow them 100%. It's here that I appreciate the honesty and the realization that she couldn't actually stick to her initial goal. I think the sincerity somewhat makes up for it, but I do still wonder what it would be like if someone actually did all these self-help books 100%. The one thing I learned was that self help is definitely not for me.
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- Lynn Jacobs
- 08-08-19
A work of great honesty
I loved this book. The author bared herself to the world in her quest for truth and salvation. And she was so good at finding humor in her struggles.
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- L. Johnna Ammentorp
- 07-01-23
It did help me!!
What a great book!! I challenge anyone to not find a piece of themselves in this book. We all feel lonely and not good enough sometimes. We all need help sometimes. We are all in this life together
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- Clover
- 09-28-22
Thought provoking.
Help Me really provoked a lot of thought for me. I found myself pausing to think about how I related to the content. The story doesn't really need an encore, nevertheless, it was interesting to hear Maianne's perspective after the big publishing success.
And I decided it was time for me to go ziplining whether anyone else wants to go with me or not. (They went :)
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