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The Choice: Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
The Choice: Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
The Choice: Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
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The Choice: Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible

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A New York Times Bestseller

“I’ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger’s story…The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability to pay attention to what we’ve lost, or to pay attention to what we still have.”—Oprah

“Dr. Eger’s life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and to use that suffering for the benefit of others. She has found true freedom and forgiveness and shows us how we can as well.” —Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

“Dr. Edith Eva Eger is my kind of hero. She survived unspeakable horrors and brutality; but rather than let her painful past destroy her, she chose to transform it into a powerful gift—one she uses to help others heal.” —Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and Christopher Award

At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement and her survival. Edie was pulled from a pile of corpses when the American troops liberated the camps in 1945.

Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past. Thirty-five years after the war ended, she returned to Auschwitz and was finally able to fully heal and forgive the one person she’d been unable to forgive—herself.

Edie weaves her remarkable personal journey with the moving stories of those she has helped heal. She explores how we can be imprisoned in our own minds and shows us how to find the key to freedom. The Choice is a life-changing book that will provide hope and comfort to generations of readers.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 5, 2017
ISBN9781508229346
The Choice: Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
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Edith Eva Eger

Edith Eger is an eminent psychologist and one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors old enough to remember life in the camps. A colleague of Viktor Frankl, Dr. Edith Eger has worked with veterans, military personnel, and victims of physical and mental trauma. She lives in La Jolla, California, and is the author of the bestselling and award-winning books The Choice and The Gift. Edie and her daughter, Marianne Engle—a renowned psychologist and food writer who helped develop the recipes in The Gift—encourage you to try the delicious dishes in the book and share your thoughts at LoveEdieandMarianne@Gmail.com.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It should be required reading for everyone on the planet. It’s a beautiful, harrowing, empowering tale.

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    Just one of the most beautiful well written and spoken books I ever have had the honor to hear. Should be a must read for everyone, especially starting at middle school age. Helped me especially with the anniversary of the loss of our son three years ago. Thank, thank you dear sweet lady for your honesty and the lessons learned through the horrific pain you experienced. Then to help others as your life mission is so encouraging. Showing us that if allowing ourselves to pass through the grief, we can experience joy again. Being able to express the feelings felt definitely a key component.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    A beautiful book.
    The autobiographical story of Edie shows us the power We all have within us to not just survive, but yo live, love, forgive and be happy.
    This is more than just a book full of hope, it is filled with true stories, examples of people who lived and did the work to get better.
    It has wonderful and beautiful phrases that truly made me think.
    I can only recommend it.
    It is so much, much more than "just another" survival story. It is a wonderful telling of struggle and CHOOSING life and happiness.

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    Great book, amazing writer and great reader
    Love it .

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    This book has had such an impact on me. I‘m so blasted, such an inspiring author! I recommend this book for everybody interested in understanding their own psyche.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    this book is amazing, so good I am going to buy the actual book for reference.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    One of the most inspiring, and beautiful books I’ve ever read.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    The honesty and difficulty of forgiveness and what she went through is amazing. For anyone going through a very difficult period in their lives - this book is very helpful and insightful. This is one of the best representations of a true heart and someone who is true to herself- after going through such tragedy to want to help others find goodness instead of being bitter and cynical. Living life each day- not regretting the past or bemoaning it- accepting it no matter how bad it was and moving on by forgiving yourself.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    I love it. I am thinking in changing my career, but sometimes I think I’m too old to study again. But Edith studied psychology in hers 32 years old and then stop it and started again. I’m so inspiring right now

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    I really think this book is amazing, how to embrace life and not let circumstances and past dictate your future. It is our choice to let go our perpetrators and fully live the life we had been given

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    A deep dive into the strength of the human spirit. A book I won't be able to forget!

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    One of the most reverberating Holocaust memoirs, and it is beautifully read. Eger tells her story as a Hungarian youth, how their family is torn apart and how she survived Auschwitz. She continues her life story after being liberated from the camps, including her very raw and real reactions to her past as she gets older. She becomes a well-respected psychologist who is able to help people with PTSD and other serious afflictions, by referring to her own traumatic past, bringing profound understanding on how to embrace the present and to reclaim their own love and self esteem.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    This is the best book I've ever read. Everyone should read this.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    soooooo powerful!!! I found myself understanding much of my own trauma.

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    This book is an eye opener for anyone that is struggling with anger, forgiveness, and being stuck. It was an inspiration for me on how to overcome disappointment, and allowing mistakes in our lives as transformative experiences.
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    Powerful book. Thank you Dr.Eger and the gift of You!
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    The best book I've read so far. Maybe I'll ever read. Such important beautiful work and storytelling.
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    Incredible story of choice and positivity!!! Dr. Eger’s book is full of ideas about living your life with the choices that you and only you can make.
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    What an amazing book! So inspirational and highly recommended!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    This is a book full of emotion, love and wisdom. The audio recording is amazingly expresive, full of life and inmersive.
    The book, where we can witness Dr. Eger’s account of her experiences during World War II and beyond to the present time, is full of authentic gems of compassionate wisdom, reflections on the human spirit and its nature, and strong, fierce love for life.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
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    Book is good, but i had to listen to it somewhere else because of the nattator. Please choose someone who actually can speak english to read the books :)
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    This book will always stay with me. Life changing. A powerful memoir.
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    I didn’t appreciate the foul language use in this book!! I
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    An amazing account of ones own power to take responsibility. Inspirational and filled with wisdom and healing. I will read it again for the jewels tucked within.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Wonderful book, inspiring for who needs to forgive and continue.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    This book is true gift, a life-changer, Dr. Eger is the greatest inspiration there is
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    This book has helped me realize a lot of things! Within myself and how I view things! This is a great self help book for those trying to fix their issues being from the past and now and a good book for those that love to read about WII!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Excellent book!!!!! I learned so much and greater understand how to work through my own trauma. Beautifully told!
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
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    The person reading it does not do well enough for me to be able to listen to the context. I would suggest having a new person reread. The gift was perfectly read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    The most thoughtful, emotional and beautiful book I’ve ever read!