STRANGERS TEND TO TELL ME THINGS by Amy Dickinson Read by Author - Audiobook Excerpt by HachetteAudio published on 2017-03-27T16:14:52Z Amy Dickinson--the voice behind America's most popular advice column "Ask Amy" and NYT bestselling author of The Mighty Queens of Freeville--returns with her follow-up memoir of family, second chances, and finding love. -------- Picking up where her earlier memoir The Mighty Queens of Freeville left off (more than 131,000 copies in print), Dickinson presents a new memoir of linked essays, creating a moving narrative exploring central themes of romance, death, parenting, health, and spiritual awakening. This is the material that feeds her column "Ask Amy," but now she takes readers inside her own life. Amy writes about her love life, then her life-changing love affair and marriage to Bruno, the blending of their five children, parenting and step-parenting, caring for her ailing mother, and finding happiness in love and family. Touching, heartfelt and funny, titles of the essays include: · "A Sense of Place" getting readers up-to-date on her life as well as orienting them to the locations described in the book · "A Brief History of Romance" sharing the short history of Amy's love life · "What Happened Next" discussing a life-changing love affair · "Cat and Bear" revealing Amy's illustrated romance fable · "We Do--Getting Married" discussing her late-in-life marriage to a childhood friend. · "All the Single Ladies" detailing her experience with step-parenting · "Heroic Measures" sharing how she managed, and coped with, her mother's final days · "Does it Spark Joy" telling us about of her mother's possessions that have been left behind and the sentiments they trigger · "How to Use a Saw" surprising us with the unexpected lessons yielded from cutting down a tree · "I've Got the Music In Me" finding solace in music helps her find her voice · "Self Helping" sharing the hazards of her constant attraction toward self-improvement, a direct result of her time spent as an advice columnist -------- Available Now from Hachette Audio on CD and as a digital download, in Hardcover and Ebook from Hachette Books. Download: https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/strangers-tend-to-tell-me-things-memoir-love-loss-coming/id1201517331 http://www.downpour.com/catalog/product/view/id/249080/ https://www.estories.com/audiobook/40223 http://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/strangers-tend-to-tell-me-things/283574 http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/Strangers-Tend-to-Tell-Me-Things-Audiobook/B01N7WP24D/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1490631090&sr=1-1 https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781478912521 https://audiobookstore.com/audiobooks/strangers-tend-to-tell-me-things.aspx https://www.nookaudiobooks.com/audiobook/120353/strangers-tend-to-tell-me-things CD: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/strangers-tend-to-tell-me-things-amy-dickinson/1124432935?ean=9781478912514 https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Tend-Tell-Me-Things/dp/1478912510/ref=tmm_abk_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1490631142&sr=1-1 Check out our other great titles and more at: http://www.hachetteaudio.com Follow us at: twitter.com/HachetteAudio www.tumblr.com/blog/hachetteaudio www.facebook.com/HachetteAudio Genre Audiobooks