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Above the Line

By: Shirley MacLaine
Narrated by: Shirley MacLaine
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Read by New York Times best-selling author and Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaine, a funny, fierce, imaginative memoir chronicling her remarkable experiences filming Wild Oats in the Canary Islands and the extraordinary memories her time there brought forth of a past life on the lost continent of Atlantis.

Her agent told her not to get on the plane. The male leads weren't even cast. The financing was shaky at best. The script had been rewritten countless times. And yet something about Wild Oats lured Shirley MacLaine to the film's location shoot in the far-off Canary Islands - and straight to the center of one of the most thrilling and paradigm-shifting adventures of her life.

The making of the film feels like a screwball comedy, as the cast and crew face unpredictable daily obstacles with ingenuity, grit, and personal sacrifice. Yet the chaos leads Shirley to a revelatory new understanding of the demise of one of history's most elusive yet endlessly intriguing places. Scholars have long theorized that Spain's Canary Islands are the remnants of the mighty lost continent of Atlantis. As the movie set descends into pandemonium, Shirley finds fascinating corollaries between the island's cataclysmic fate and our own dangerous trajectory. Can we learn the lessons the citizens of Atlantis failed to comprehend?

The answer is borne out of recovered memories from Shirley's past life on Atlantis and through a series of meditations that reveal the necessity of unfettered imagination when looking for bold new truths, rendering this evocative memoir essential for anyone seeking a broader understanding of what it means to be human - both where we came from and where we are going.

©2016 Shirley MacLaine (P)2016 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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Mesmerizing!

As always, Shirley explores cosmic mysteries with honesty, profundity, elegance, grace, and humor! Thanks, Shirley!

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Always an interesting read

I don't necessarily agree with everything Shirley says or believes but her point of view is always interesting. Her perspective on events (both mundane and cataclysmic ) is reliably thought provoking.

I hope I am half as sharp and at least one quarter as active as she when I'm 81.

Keep on exploring and sharing Shirley!

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always a good read w Shirley

i read it in one sitting couldn'tput it down, it is informative, witty and entertaining

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it's okay

it started out very good but by the end she lost me. Her theories of Atlantis was kinda out there. But It was nice to hear her read her own book.

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GREAT OPENNESS ABOUT HER HER SPIRITUAL DISCOVERIES!! HER HUMOR SBD OPENNESS!!

SEE ABOVE!!! You are making this review process too much !!!! I’m about ready to delete and not send anything.

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Brilliant story telling

Shirley MacLaine has been one of several author's that I follow/read and reread. Her writings are moving. are intellectual. She really makes you think and use your mind to remember yourself and why you are here. In my opinion she is right on target with world events and the future of the world. Great book. Thank you Shirley.

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Great listen

Shirley does it again! Great book and easy to listen to. I love her sassiness and ability to express situations and also her spiritual take on life. This is my second book of hers and I really joyed it :-)

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I LOVED IT ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

YOU WILL LOVE IT AS WELL!❤🧡💛💚💙💜 IT'S A MOST EXCELLENT READ AND TRIUMPH FOR MacLaine! 💋

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worth reading for me. I love Shirley.

...always fascinatinng and her take and experiences with the essortic amd unusual is something I share deeply with her. As a good physical thereist, I wish I could do more for her neck and actuallhy able to touch her with energy love and. my hands. I'd so love and desire to spend some time and space.......again?? ...with her. I've had a past life regression tothe time of the f A ll of Atlantis, also. Blessing and safe harbor and true Love to us all.

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Thank you Shirley for your prolificness

I will continue to look for the next installments.
loved meeting Shirley in Arizona.
this book bright up memories of creation for me. Thank you!

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