https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/grab-the-essential-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-history-culture--6573452https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/300/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. With a library of over 500,000+ audiobooks, we bring you classics, Romantic Novels, and Mystical Fiction stories. Get 3 free audiobooks to start. Easily listen on iPhone, iPad, Android, and enjoy audiobooks whenever you want. Let the sounds of these wonderful stories accompany you! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>enArtsCopyright Larissa Abshirehttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/0ea418a7d5c811cd2962caaba163d383.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/grab-the-essential-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-history-culture--6573452Thu, 27 Mar 2025 02:51:21 +0000Larissa AbshireLarissa Abshirefeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/300/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. With a library of over 500,000+ audiobooks, we bring you classics, Romantic Novels, and Mystical Fiction stories....https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/300/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. With a library of over 500,000+ audiobooks, we bring you classics, Romantic Novels, and Mystical Fiction stories. Get 3 free audiobooks to start. Easily listen on iPhone, iPad, Android, and enjoy audiobooks whenever you want. Let the sounds of these wonderful stories accompany you! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/radio-free-afghanistan-a-twenty-year-odyssey-for-an-independent-voice-in-kabul-by-jenna-krajeski-saad-mohseni--65146448https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul Author: Jenna Krajeski, Saad Mohseni Narrator: Ramiz Monsef Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From Time 100 honoree Saad Mohseni, the deeply moving and surprising story of the attempt to build a truly independent media company in contemporary Afghanistan. Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, Afghanistan’s largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to bring a free press to his country after years of Taliban rule, and how that effort persists even after the Taliban’s return to power in 2021. In the heady early days of the American occupation, Mohseni returns to Kabul which he had last seen as a child before the Soviet invasion. Casting about for ways to be involved in the dawn of a new Afghanistan, Mohseni makes what seems like a quixotic decision to leave the comforts of a career in international banking to start a Kabul radio station with his three siblings. This unlikely venture quickly blossoms into a burgeoning television empire, bringing Mohseni and his family and employees into sometimes uncomfortable contact with everyone who has a stake in the country—from the government of Hamid Karzai to White House officials. Moreover, their radio and television networks soon become a necessary beacon for millions of Afghans, who rely on them not just for independent news but for joyful pleasures like soap operas and Afghan Star, a beloved national singing competition in a country whose previous rulers had banned (and would again ban) music. Mohseni’s position at Moby affords him unique insights into this extraordinary yet troubled country, the youngest in the world outside of Sub-Saharan Africa, and his powerful account captures the spirit and resilience of the Afghan people—notably the hundreds of men and women still working in Moby's Kabul office today, who, once again under Taliban rule, create programs, report the news, and educate the public. Radio Free Afghanistan is a stunning, vibrant portrait of a nation in turmoil, poised between despair and hope.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705862Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul Author: Jenna Krajeski, Saad Mohseni Narrator: Ramiz Monsef Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul Author: Jenna Krajeski, Saad Mohseni Narrator: Ramiz Monsef Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 24, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From Time 100 honoree Saad Mohseni, the deeply moving and surprising story of the attempt to build a truly independent media company in contemporary Afghanistan. Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, Afghanistan’s largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to bring a free press to his country after years of Taliban rule, and how that effort persists even after the Taliban’s return to power in 2021. In the heady early days of the American occupation, Mohseni returns to Kabul which he had last seen as a child before the Soviet invasion. Casting about for ways to be involved in the dawn of a new Afghanistan, Mohseni makes what seems like a quixotic decision to leave the comforts of a career in international banking to start a Kabul radio station with his three siblings. This unlikely venture quickly blossoms into a burgeoning television empire, bringing Mohseni and his family and employees into sometimes uncomfortable contact with everyone who has a stake in the country—from the government of Hamid Karzai to White House officials. Moreover, their radio and television networks soon become a necessary beacon for millions of Afghans, who rely on them not just for independent news but for joyful pleasures like soap operas and Afghan Star, a beloved national singing competition in a country whose previous rulers had banned (and would again ban) music. Mohseni’s position at Moby affords him unique insights into this extraordinary yet troubled country, the youngest in the world outside of Sub-Saharan Africa, and his powerful account captures the spirit and resilience of the Afghan people—notably the hundreds of men and women still working in Moby's Kabul office today, who, once again under Taliban rule, create programs, report the news, and educate the public. Radio Free Afghanistan is a stunning, vibrant portrait of a nation in turmoil, poised between despair and hope.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mysterious-mrs-nixon-the-life-and-times-of-washington-s-most-private-first-lady-by-heath-hardage-lee--65146423https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady Author: Heath Hardage Lee Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A new, revolutionary look into the brilliant life of Pat Nixon. In America’s collective consciousness, Pat Nixon has long been perceived as enigmatic. She was voted “Most Admired Woman in the World” in 1972 and made Gallup Poll’s top ten list of most admired women fourteen times. She survived the turmoil of the Watergate scandal with her popularity and dignity intact. The real Pat Nixon, however, bore little resemblance to the woman so often described as elusive, mysterious and “plastic” in the press. Pat married Richard Nixon in June of 1940. As the couple rose to prominence, Pat became Second Lady from 1953-1961 and then First Lady from 1969-1974, forging her own graceful path between the protocols of the strait-laced mid-century and the bra-burning Sixties and Seventies. Pat was a highly travelled First Lady, visiting eighty-three countries during her tenure. After a devastating earthquake in Peru in 1970, she personally flew in medical supplies and food to hard-hit areas, meeting one-on-one with victims of the tragedy. The First Lady’s 1972 trips with her husband to China and to Russia were critical to the detente that resulted. Back in the US, Pat greatly expanded upon previous preservation efforts in the White House, obtaining more art and antique objects than any other First Lady. In the domestic arena, she was progressive on women’s issues, favoring the Equal Rights Amendment and backing a targeted effort to get more women into high level government jobs. Pat strongly supported nominating a woman for the Supreme Court. She was pro-choice, supporting women’s reproductive rights publicly even before the landmark Roe v. Wade case in 1973. When asked to define her “signature” First Lady agenda, she defied being put into a box, often saying: “People are my project.” The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon, Heath Hardage Lee presents listeners with the essential nature of this First Lady, an empathetic, adventurous, self-made woman who wanted no power or influence, but who connected warmly with both ordinary Americans and people from different cultures she encountered world-wide. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712490Tue, 06 Aug 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady Author: Heath Hardage Lee Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady Author: Heath Hardage Lee Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A new, revolutionary look into the brilliant life of Pat Nixon. In America’s collective consciousness, Pat Nixon has long been perceived as enigmatic. She was voted “Most Admired Woman in the World” in 1972 and made Gallup Poll’s top ten list of most admired women fourteen times. She survived the turmoil of the Watergate scandal with her popularity and dignity intact. The real Pat Nixon, however, bore little resemblance to the woman so often described as elusive, mysterious and “plastic” in the press. Pat married Richard Nixon in June of 1940. As the couple rose to prominence, Pat became Second Lady from 1953-1961 and then First Lady from 1969-1974, forging her own graceful path between the protocols of the strait-laced mid-century and the bra-burning Sixties and Seventies. Pat was a highly travelled First Lady, visiting eighty-three countries during her tenure. After a devastating earthquake in Peru in 1970, she personally flew in medical supplies and food to hard-hit areas, meeting one-on-one with victims of the tragedy. The First Lady’s 1972 trips with her husband to China and to Russia were critical to the detente that resulted. Back in the US, Pat greatly expanded upon previous preservation efforts in the White House, obtaining more art and antique objects than any other First Lady. In the domestic arena, she was progressive on women’s issues, favoring the Equal Rights Amendment and backing a targeted effort to get more women into high level government jobs. Pat strongly supported nominating a woman for the Supreme Court. She was pro-choice, supporting women’s reproductive rights publicly even before the landmark Roe v. Wade case in 1973. When asked to define her “signature” First Lady agenda, she defied being put into a box, often saying: “People are my project.” The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon, Heath Hardage Lee presents listeners with the essential nature of this First Lady, an empathetic, adventurous, self-made woman who wanted no power or influence, but who connected warmly with both ordinary Americans and people from different cultures she encountered world-wide. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/alexander-at-the-end-of-the-world-the-forgotten-final-years-of-alexander-the-great-by-rachel-kousser--65146519https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great Author: Rachel Kousser Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “A heart-pounding, mind-bending adventure.” —Ilyon Woo A riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing journey that would define his legacy.   By 330 B.C.E., Alexander the Great had reached the pinnacle of success. Or so it seemed. He had defeated the Persian ruler Darius III and seized the capital city of Persepolis. His exhausted and traumatized soldiers were ready to return home to Macedonia. Yet Alexander had other plans. He was determined to continue heading east to Afghanistan in search of his ultimate goal: to reach the end of the world.  Alexander’s unrelenting desire to press on resulted in a perilous seven-year journey through the unknown eastern borderlands of the Persian empire that would test the great conqueror’s physical and mental limits. He faced challenges from the natural world, moving through deadly monsoons and extreme temperatures; from a rotating cast of well-matched adversaries, who conspired against him at every turn; and even from his own men, who questioned his motives and distrusted the very beliefs on which Alexander built his empire. This incredible sweep of time, culminating with his death in 323 BC at the age of 32, would come to determine Alexander’s legacy and shape the empire he left behind.  In Alexander at the End of the World, renowned classicist and art history professor Rachel Kousser vividly brings to life Alexander’s labyrinthine, treacherous final years, weaving together a brilliant series of epic battles, stunning landscapes, and nearly insurmountable obstacles. Meticulously researched and grippingly written, Kousser’s narrative is an unforgettable tale of daring and adventure, an inspiring portrait of grit and ambition, and a powerful meditation on the ability to learn from failure. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691018Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great Author: Rachel Kousser Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great Author: Rachel Kousser Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “A heart-pounding, mind-bending adventure.” —Ilyon Woo A riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing journey that would define his legacy.   By 330 B.C.E., Alexander the Great had reached the pinnacle of success. Or so it seemed. He had defeated the Persian ruler Darius III and seized the capital city of Persepolis. His exhausted and traumatized soldiers were ready to return home to Macedonia. Yet Alexander had other plans. He was determined to continue heading east to Afghanistan in search of his ultimate goal: to reach the end of the world.  Alexander’s unrelenting desire to press on resulted in a perilous seven-year journey through the unknown eastern borderlands of the Persian empire that would test the great conqueror’s physical and mental limits. He faced challenges from the natural world, moving through deadly monsoons and extreme temperatures; from a rotating cast of well-matched adversaries, who conspired against him at every turn; and even from his own men, who questioned his motives and distrusted the very beliefs on which Alexander built his empire. This incredible sweep of time, culminating with his death in 323 BC at the age of 32, would come to determine Alexander’s legacy and shape the empire he left behind.  In Alexander at the End of the World, renowned classicist and art history professor Rachel Kousser vividly brings to life Alexander’s labyrinthine, treacherous final years, weaving together a brilliant series of epic battles, stunning landscapes, and nearly insurmountable obstacles. Meticulously researched and grippingly written, Kousser’s narrative is an unforgettable tale of daring and adventure, an inspiring portrait of grit and ambition, and a powerful meditation on the ability to learn from failure. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/izabela-the-valiant-the-story-of-an-indomitable-polish-princess-by-adam-zamoyski--65146464https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700576 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess Author: Adam Zamoyski Narrator: Rich Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: June 20, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man’s world. Her aristocratic position enmeshed her in high politics and close encounters with Frederick the Great, Benjamin Franklin, Rousseau, Joseph II, Marie-Antoinette and Tsar Alexander I, and earned her the enmity of Catherine the Great. She lived through revolution and no less than five wars, in which her cherished homes were devastated, her possessions looted and her children scattered. Caught up in tempestuous love affairs which led her to nervous breakdown and the brink of suicide, exploited by her lovers, she remained undaunted and liberated herself through education. And, unusually for her time, she became a caring mother devoted to her children. She learned much by travelling extensively around Europe at a time of political and ideological change, and her observations, particularly on Georgian Britain, are remarkable. She gradually won the admiration of learned men and intellectual honours. She pioneered schooling for children of the poor and developed her own educational methods. Fascinated by the power of objects to kindle memories and arouse emotions, she was an avid collector of anything with a sensuous association and built two unique museums to act as teaching aids. This is a story of triumph over adversity and betrayal. It was not achieved by her looks: ‘I have never been beautiful, but I have sometimes been pretty,’ she wrote. It was achieved by force of character and resilience.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700576Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700576 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess Author: Adam Zamoyski Narrator: Rich Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700576 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess Author: Adam Zamoyski Narrator: Rich Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: June 20, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man’s world. Her aristocratic position enmeshed her in high politics and close encounters with Frederick the Great, Benjamin Franklin, Rousseau, Joseph II, Marie-Antoinette and Tsar Alexander I, and earned her the enmity of Catherine the Great. She lived through revolution and no less than five wars, in which her cherished homes were devastated, her possessions looted and her children scattered. Caught up in tempestuous love affairs which led her to nervous breakdown and the brink of suicide, exploited by her lovers, she remained undaunted and liberated herself through education. And, unusually for her time, she became a caring mother devoted to her children. She learned much by travelling extensively around Europe at a time of political and ideological change, and her observations, particularly on Georgian Britain, are remarkable. She gradually won the admiration of learned men and intellectual honours. She pioneered schooling for children of the poor and developed her own educational methods. Fascinated by the power of objects to kindle memories and arouse emotions, she was an avid collector of anything with a sensuous association and built two unique museums to act as teaching aids. This is a story of triumph over adversity and betrayal. It was not achieved by her looks: ‘I have never been beautiful, but I have sometimes been pretty,’ she wrote. It was achieved by force of character and resilience.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-explorers-a-new-history-of-america-in-ten-expeditions-by-amanda-bellows--65146460https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions Author: Amanda Bellows Narrator: Leon Nixon, Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary—and often overlooked—adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny. ''Brilliantly imaginative, beautifully written.'' —David Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom ''A considerable undertaking. … [Bellows's] keen sense of story and her appreciation of her individual subjects tell us much that is new, and vividly.'' —Wall Street Journal The archetype of the American explorer, a rugged white man, has dominated our popular culture since the late eighteenth century, when Daniel Boone’s autobiography captivated readers with tales of treacherous journeys. But our commonly held ideas about American exploration do not tell the whole story—far from it. The Explorers rediscovers a diverse group of Americans who went to the western frontier and beyond, traversing the farthest reaches of the globe and even penetrating outer space in their endeavor to find the unknown. Many escaped from lives circumscribed by racism, sexism, poverty, and discrimination as they took on great risk in unfamiliar territory. Born into slavery, James Beckwourth found freedom as a mountain man and became one of the great entrepreneurs of Gold Rush California. Matthew Henson, the son of African American sharecroppers, left rural Maryland behind to seek the North Pole. Women like Harriet Chalmers Adams ascended Peruvian mountains to gain geographic knowledge while Amelia Earhart and Sally Ride shattered glass ceilings by pushing the limits of flight. In The Explorers, readers will travel across the vast Great Plains and into the heights of the Sierra Nevada mountains; they will traverse the frozen Arctic Ocean and descend into the jungles of South America; they will journey by canoe and horseback, train and dogsled, airplane and space shuttle. Readers will experience the exhilarating history of American exploration alongside the men and women who shared a deep drive to discover the unknown. Across two centuries and many thousands of miles of terrain, Amanda Bellows offers an ode to our country’s most intrepid adventurers—and reveals the history of America in the process.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703235Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions Author: Amanda Bellows Narrator: Leon Nixon, Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions Author: Amanda Bellows Narrator: Leon Nixon, Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary—and often overlooked—adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny. ''Brilliantly imaginative, beautifully written.'' —David Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom ''A considerable undertaking. … [Bellows's] keen sense of story and her appreciation of her individual subjects tell us much that is new, and vividly.'' —Wall Street Journal The archetype of the American explorer, a rugged white man, has dominated our popular culture since the late eighteenth century, when Daniel Boone’s autobiography captivated readers with tales of treacherous journeys. But our commonly held ideas about American exploration do not tell the whole story—far from it. The Explorers rediscovers a diverse group of Americans who went to the western frontier and beyond, traversing the farthest reaches of the globe and even penetrating outer space in their endeavor to find the unknown. Many escaped from lives circumscribed by racism, sexism, poverty, and discrimination as they took on great risk in unfamiliar territory. Born into slavery, James Beckwourth found freedom as a mountain man and became one of the great entrepreneurs of Gold Rush California. Matthew Henson, the son of African American sharecroppers, left rural Maryland behind to seek the North Pole. Women like Harriet Chalmers Adams ascended Peruvian mountains to gain geographic knowledge while Amelia Earhart and Sally Ride shattered glass ceilings by pushing the limits of flight. In The Explorers, readers will travel across the vast Great Plains and into the heights of the Sierra Nevada mountains; they will traverse the frozen Arctic Ocean and descend into the jungles of South America; they will journey by canoe and horseback, train and dogsled, airplane and space shuttle. Readers will experience the exhilarating history of American exploration alongside the men and women who shared a deep drive to discover the unknown. Across two centuries and many thousands of miles of terrain, Amanda Bellows offers an ode to our country’s most intrepid adventurers—and reveals the history of America in the process.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/winipek-visions-of-canada-from-an-indigenous-centre-by-niigaan-sinclair--65146435https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704938 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre Author: Niigaan Sinclair Narrator: Niigaan Sinclair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER. NOMINATED FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION. From ground zero of this country's most important project: reconciliation Niigaan Sinclair has been called provocative, revolutionary, and one of this country's most influential thinkers on the issues impacting Indigenous cultures, communities, and reconciliation in Canada. In his debut collection of stories, observations, and thoughts about Winnipeg, the place he calls 'ground zero' of Canada's future, read about the complex history and contributions of this place alongside the radical solutions to injustice and violence found here, presenting solutions for a country that has forgotten principles of treaty and inclusivity. It is here, in the place where Canada began—where the land, water, people, and animals meet— that a path 'from the centre' is happening for all to see. At a crucial and fragile moment in Canada's long history with Indigenous peoples, one of our most essential writers begins at the centre, capturing a web spanning centuries of community, art, and resistance.  Based on years' worth of columns, Niigaan Sinclair delivers a defining essay collection on the resilience of Indigenous peoples. Here, we meet the creators, leaders, and everyday people preserving the beauty of their heritage one day at a time. But we also meet the ugliest side of colonialism, the Indian Act, and the communities who suffer most from its atrocities.  Sinclair uses the story of Winnipeg to illuminate the reality of Indigenous life all over what is called Canada. This is a book that demands change and celebrates those fighting for it, that reminds us of what must be reconciled and holds accountable those who must do the work. It's a book that reminds us of the power that comes from loving a place, even as that place is violently taken away from you, and the magic of fighting your way back to it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704938Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704938 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre Author: Niigaan Sinclair Narrator: Niigaan Sinclair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704938 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre Author: Niigaan Sinclair Narrator: Niigaan Sinclair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER. NOMINATED FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION. From ground zero of this country's most important project: reconciliation Niigaan Sinclair has been called provocative, revolutionary, and one of this country's most influential thinkers on the issues impacting Indigenous cultures, communities, and reconciliation in Canada. In his debut collection of stories, observations, and thoughts about Winnipeg, the place he calls 'ground zero' of Canada's future, read about the complex history and contributions of this place alongside the radical solutions to injustice and violence found here, presenting solutions for a country that has forgotten principles of treaty and inclusivity. It is here, in the place where Canada began—where the land, water, people, and animals meet— that a path 'from the centre' is happening for all to see. At a crucial and fragile moment in Canada's long history with Indigenous peoples, one of our most essential writers begins at the centre, capturing a web spanning centuries of community, art, and resistance.  Based on years' worth of columns, Niigaan Sinclair delivers a defining essay collection on the resilience of Indigenous peoples. Here, we meet the creators, leaders, and everyday people preserving the beauty of their heritage one day at a time. But we also meet the ugliest side of colonialism, the Indian Act, and the communities who suffer most from its atrocities.  Sinclair uses the story of Winnipeg to illuminate the reality of Indigenous life all over what is called Canada. This is a book that demands change and celebrates those fighting for it, that reminds us of what must be reconciled and holds accountable those who must do the work. It's a book that reminds us of the power that comes from loving a place, even as that place is violently taken away from you, and the magic of fighting your way back to it.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/made-in-manchester-a-people-s-history-of-the-city-that-shaped-the-modern-world-by-brian-groom--65146421https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712974 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Made in Manchester: A people’s history of the city that shaped the modern world Author: Brian Groom Narrator: David Judge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 23, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it ‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’ Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the ‘shock city’ of the Industrial Revolution that Manchester really made its mark on the world stage. A place built on hard work and innovation, it is no coincidence that the digital age began here too, with the world’s first stored-program computer, Baby. A city as radical as it is revolutionary, Manchester has always been a political hotbed. The Peterloo Massacre is immortalised in British folklore and the city was a centre for pioneering movements such as Chartism. Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst hailed from here and the city still treasures its wilful independence. Manchester’s spirited individuality has carried through into its artistic output too, bringing the world Anthony Burgess, L.S. Lowry, Jeanette Winterson, Joy Division and Oasis. Mention United or City almost anywhere and you’ll find fans, and opinions. Until now, this magnificent city did not have its definitive history. From the author of the bestselling Northerners, this work of unrivalled authority and breadth tells the story of a changing place and its remarkable people.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712974Thu, 23 May 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712974 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Made in Manchester: A people’s history of the city that shaped the modern world Author: Brian Groom Narrator: David Judge Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712974 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Made in Manchester: A people’s history of the city that shaped the modern world Author: Brian Groom Narrator: David Judge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 23, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it ‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’ Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the ‘shock city’ of the Industrial Revolution that Manchester really made its mark on the world stage. A place built on hard work and innovation, it is no coincidence that the digital age began here too, with the world’s first stored-program computer, Baby. A city as radical as it is revolutionary, Manchester has always been a political hotbed. The Peterloo Massacre is immortalised in British folklore and the city was a centre for pioneering movements such as Chartism. Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst hailed from here and the city still treasures its wilful independence. Manchester’s spirited individuality has carried through into its artistic output too, bringing the world Anthony Burgess, L.S. Lowry, Jeanette Winterson, Joy Division and Oasis. Mention United or City almost anywhere and you’ll find fans, and opinions. Until now, this magnificent city did not have its definitive history. From the author of the bestselling Northerners, this work of unrivalled authority and breadth tells the story of a changing place and its remarkable people.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cleopatras-the-forgotten-queens-of-egypt-by-lloyd-llewellyn-jones--65146429https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709484 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt Author: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Narrator: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt   One of history’s most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But few today realize that she was the last in a long line of Egyptian queens who bore that name.        In The Cleopatras, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the dramatic story of these seven incomparable women, vividly recapturing the lost world of Hellenistic Egypt and tracing the kingdom’s final centuries before its fall to Rome. The Cleopatras were Greek-speaking descendants of Ptolemy, the general who conquered Egypt alongside Alexander the Great. They were closely related as mothers, daughters, sisters, half-sisters, and nieces. Each wielded absolute power, easily overshadowing their husbands or sons, and all proved to be shrewd and capable leaders. Styling themselves as goddess-queens, the Cleopatras ruled through the canny deployment of arcane rituals, opulent spectacles, and unparalleled wealth. They navigated political turmoil and court intrigues, led armies into battle and commanded fleets of ships, and ruthlessly dispatched their dynastic rivals.         The Cleopatras is a fascinating and richly textured biography of seven extraordinary women, restoring these queens to their deserved place among history’s greatest rulers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709484Tue, 21 May 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709484 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt Author: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Narrator: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709484 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt Author: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Narrator: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt   One of history’s most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But few today realize that she was the last in a long line of Egyptian queens who bore that name.        In The Cleopatras, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the dramatic story of these seven incomparable women, vividly recapturing the lost world of Hellenistic Egypt and tracing the kingdom’s final centuries before its fall to Rome. The Cleopatras were Greek-speaking descendants of Ptolemy, the general who conquered Egypt alongside Alexander the Great. They were closely related as mothers, daughters, sisters, half-sisters, and nieces. Each wielded absolute power, easily overshadowing their husbands or sons, and all proved to be shrewd and capable leaders. Styling themselves as goddess-queens, the Cleopatras ruled through the canny deployment of arcane rituals, opulent spectacles, and unparalleled wealth. They navigated political turmoil and court intrigues, led armies into battle and commanded fleets of ships, and ruthlessly dispatched their dynastic rivals.         The Cleopatras is a fascinating and richly textured biography of seven extraordinary women, restoring these queens to their deserved place among history’s greatest rulers.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/paradise-of-the-damned-the-true-story-of-an-obsessive-quest-for-el-dorado-the-legendary-city-of-gold-by-keith-thomson--65146424https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold Author: Keith Thomson Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 1 minute Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A “rollicking,” “vividly re-created,” and “enticing romp” that tells the true story of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a competition with Spanish conquistadors for the legendary city’s treasure, all in a “breezy tale starring an audacious hero" (Wall Street Journal) As early as 1530, reports of El Dorado, a city of gold in the South American interior, beckoned to European explorers. Whether there was any truth to the stories remained to be seen, but the allure of unimaginable riches was enough to ensnare dozens of would-be heroes and glory hounds in the desperate hunt. Among them was Sir Walter Raleigh: ambitious courtier, confidant to Queen Elizabeth, and, before long, El Dorado fanatic.   Entering the Elizabethan court as an upstart from a family whose days of nobility were far behind them, Raleigh used his military acumen, good looks, and sheer audacity to scramble into the limelight. Yet that same swagger proved to be his undoing, as his secret marriage to a lady-in-waiting enraged Queen Elizabeth and landed him in the Tower of London. Between his ensuing grim prospects at court and his underlying lust for adventure, the legend of El Dorado became an unwavering siren song that hypnotized Raleigh.   On securing his release, he journeyed across an ocean to find the fabled city, gambling his painstakingly acquired wealth, hard-won domestic bliss, and his very life. What awaited him in the so-called New World were endless miles of hot, dense jungle packed with deadly flora and fauna, warring Spanish conquistadors and Indigenous civilizations, and other unforeseen dangers. Meanwhile, back at home, his multitude of rivals plotted his demise.   Paradise of the Damned, like Keith Thomson’s critically acclaimed Born to Be Hanged, brings this story to life in lush and captivating detail. The book charts Raleigh’s obsessive search for El Dorado—as well as the many doomed expeditions that preceded and accompanied his—providing not only an invaluable history but also a gripping narrative of traveling to the ends of the earth only to realize, too late, that what lies at home is the greatest treasure of all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711488Tue, 21 May 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold Author: Keith Thomson Narrator: Timothy Andrés...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold Author: Keith Thomson Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 1 minute Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A “rollicking,” “vividly re-created,” and “enticing romp” that tells the true story of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a competition with Spanish conquistadors for the legendary city’s treasure, all in a “breezy tale starring an audacious hero" (Wall Street Journal) As early as 1530, reports of El Dorado, a city of gold in the South American interior, beckoned to European explorers. Whether there was any truth to the stories remained to be seen, but the allure of unimaginable riches was enough to ensnare dozens of would-be heroes and glory hounds in the desperate hunt. Among them was Sir Walter Raleigh: ambitious courtier, confidant to Queen Elizabeth, and, before long, El Dorado fanatic.   Entering the Elizabethan court as an upstart from a family whose days of nobility were far behind them, Raleigh used his military acumen, good looks, and sheer audacity to scramble into the limelight. Yet that same swagger proved to be his undoing, as his secret marriage to a lady-in-waiting enraged Queen Elizabeth and landed him in the Tower of London. Between his ensuing grim prospects at court and his underlying lust for adventure, the legend of El Dorado became an unwavering siren song that hypnotized Raleigh.   On securing his release, he journeyed across an ocean to find the fabled city, gambling his painstakingly acquired wealth, hard-won domestic bliss, and his very life. What awaited him in the so-called New World were endless miles of hot, dense jungle packed with deadly flora and fauna, warring Spanish conquistadors and Indigenous civilizations, and other unforeseen dangers. Meanwhile, back at home, his multitude of rivals plotted his demise.   Paradise of the Damned, like Keith Thomson’s critically acclaimed Born to Be Hanged, brings this story to life in lush and captivating detail. The book charts Raleigh’s obsessive search for El Dorado—as well as the many doomed expeditions that preceded and accompanied his—providing not only an invaluable history but also a gripping narrative of traveling to the ends of the earth only to realize, too late, that what lies at home is the greatest treasure of all.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/amphibious-soul-finding-the-wild-in-a-tame-world-by-craig-foster--65146456https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World Author: Craig Foster Narrator: Craig Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Feel the pulse of the ocean with the audiobook version of Amphibious Soul narrated and crafted by Academy Award winner Craig Foster – featuring calming ocean sounds and original music composed using wild-found instruments from the Great African Seaforest. How can we reclaim the soul-deepening wildness that energizes us when so much of the modern world seems designed to tame us? In this thrilling memoir of a life spent exploring the most incredible places on Earth—from the Great African Seaforest to the crocodile lairs of the Okavango Delta—Craig Foster reveals how we can attend to the earthly beauty around us and deepen our connection to all living things, whether we make our homes in the country, the city, or anywhere in between. This audiobook version features exclusive content recorded by the author and original music composed by his son, Tom Foster. From the gentle lapping of waves on a sandy beach to the rhythmic clicks of cracker shrimp, each sound effect enhances the listening experience, transporting us to the heart of nature. With its blend of captivating storytelling, wisdom from Indigenous teachers, mesmerizing soundscapes, and enchanting music, the audiobook version of Amphibious Soul offers a truly immersive experience that will leave listeners feeling deeply connected to the wild.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695273Tue, 14 May 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World Author: Craig Foster Narrator: Craig Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World Author: Craig Foster Narrator: Craig Foster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Feel the pulse of the ocean with the audiobook version of Amphibious Soul narrated and crafted by Academy Award winner Craig Foster – featuring calming ocean sounds and original music composed using wild-found instruments from the Great African Seaforest. How can we reclaim the soul-deepening wildness that energizes us when so much of the modern world seems designed to tame us? In this thrilling memoir of a life spent exploring the most incredible places on Earth—from the Great African Seaforest to the crocodile lairs of the Okavango Delta—Craig Foster reveals how we can attend to the earthly beauty around us and deepen our connection to all living things, whether we make our homes in the country, the city, or anywhere in between. This audiobook version features exclusive content recorded by the author and original music composed by his son, Tom Foster. From the gentle lapping of waves on a sandy beach to the rhythmic clicks of cracker shrimp, each sound effect enhances the listening experience, transporting us to the heart of nature. With its blend of captivating storytelling, wisdom from Indigenous teachers, mesmerizing soundscapes, and enchanting music, the audiobook version of Amphibious Soul offers a truly immersive experience that will leave listeners feeling deeply connected to the wild.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/but-what-will-people-say-navigating-mental-health-identity-love-and-family-between-cultures-by-sahaj-kaur-kohli--65146450https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707069 to listen full audiobooks. Title: But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures Author: Sahaj Kaur Kohli Narrator: Sahaj Kaur Kohli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “This wonderful book is a compass, a blueprint, a mirror, and a friend. Kohli gives language to what many of us feel but can’t yet articulate.”—Erika L. Sánchez, New York Times bestselling author of I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter “Loving, culturally informed, and holistic... [Kohli] compassionately shares her own story, and guides readers through the nuances and pain of assimilation, individuation, and mental health. How I wish I had this book back when I was trying to figure it all out for myself!” —Ramani Durvasula, PhD, author of It’s Not You A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book rethinking traditional therapy and self-care, creating much-needed space for those left out of the narrative Writer and therapist Sahaj Kaur Kohli grew up knowing exactly what it means to straddle multiple cultures at once. Like many children of immigrants, she has often found herself plagued by questions: Can I establish my own values and embrace where I come from? Is prioritizing my mental health really rejecting my culture? How do I set boundaries and care for myself when family and community mean everything? Even after becoming a therapist herself, she saw those same gaps in the mental health world, leading her to wonder, like so many children of immigrants: what about us? While conversations around mental health are becoming increasingly open, our models remain largely Eurocentric and focused on individuality. Sahaj has sought to challenge these long-held models, using deep personal reflection, therapy, community building, and a whole lot of trial and error, eventually navigating her own way to understanding and acceptance. Here, she shows us how to get there, all the while reminding us that personal healing is inextricably connected to collective healing. But What Will People Say? elegantly weaves together personal narrative, anecdotal analysis, and comprehensive research. Sahaj offers advice and tools for everything from navigating generational trauma, guilt, and boundaries, to breaking down stigmas around therapy and celebrating cultural duality. Democratizing and decolonizing the way we think about mental health and self-help, Sahaj’s incredible work is nothing short of a revolution. *Includes a downloadable PDF of tables and exercises from the book]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707069Tue, 07 May 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707069 to listen full audiobooks. Title: But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures Author: Sahaj Kaur Kohli Narrator: Sahaj Kaur Kohli...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707069 to listen full audiobooks. Title: But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures Author: Sahaj Kaur Kohli Narrator: Sahaj Kaur Kohli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “This wonderful book is a compass, a blueprint, a mirror, and a friend. Kohli gives language to what many of us feel but can’t yet articulate.”—Erika L. Sánchez, New York Times bestselling author of I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter “Loving, culturally informed, and holistic... [Kohli] compassionately shares her own story, and guides readers through the nuances and pain of assimilation, individuation, and mental health. How I wish I had this book back when I was trying to figure it all out for myself!” —Ramani Durvasula, PhD, author of It’s Not You A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book rethinking traditional therapy and self-care, creating much-needed space for those left out of the narrative Writer and therapist Sahaj Kaur Kohli grew up knowing exactly what it means to straddle multiple cultures at once. Like many children of immigrants, she has often found herself plagued by questions: Can I establish my own values and embrace where I come from? Is prioritizing my mental health really rejecting my culture? How do I set boundaries and care for myself when family and community mean everything? Even after becoming a therapist herself, she saw those same gaps in the mental health world, leading her to wonder, like so many children of immigrants: what about us? While conversations around mental health are becoming increasingly open, our models remain largely Eurocentric and focused on individuality. Sahaj has sought to challenge these long-held models, using deep personal reflection, therapy, community building, and a whole lot of trial and error, eventually navigating her own way to understanding and acceptance. Here, she shows us how to get there, all the while reminding us that personal healing is inextricably connected to collective healing. But What Will People Say? elegantly weaves together personal narrative, anecdotal analysis, and comprehensive research. Sahaj offers advice and tools for everything from navigating generational trauma, guilt, and boundaries, to breaking down stigmas around therapy and celebrating cultural duality. Democratizing and decolonizing the way we think about mental health and self-help, Sahaj’s incredible work is nothing short of a revolution. *Includes a downloadable PDF of tables and exercises from the book]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thorns-lust-and-glory-the-betrayal-of-anne-boleyn-by-estelle-paranque--65146457https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn Author: Estelle Paranque Narrator: Anna Wilson-Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 2, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A queen on the edge. Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtier's daughter become the queen of England, and what was it that really tore apart this illustrious marriage, making her the whore of England, an abandoned woman executed on the scaffold? While many stories of Anne Boleyn's downfall have been told, few have truly traced the origins of her tragic fate. In Thorns and Glory, Estelle Paranque takes us back to where it all started: to France, where Anne learned the lessons that would set her on the path to becoming one of England's most infamous queens. At the court of the French king as a resourceful teenage girl, Anne's journey to infamy began, and this landmark biography explores the world that shaped her, and how these loyalties would leave her vulnerable, leading to her ruin at the court of Henry VIII. A fascinating new perspective on Tudor history's most enduring story, Thorns and Glory is an unmissable account of a queen on the edge. ©2024 Estelle Paranque (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703082Thu, 02 May 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn Author: Estelle Paranque Narrator: Anna Wilson-Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn Author: Estelle Paranque Narrator: Anna Wilson-Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 2, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A queen on the edge. Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtier's daughter become the queen of England, and what was it that really tore apart this illustrious marriage, making her the whore of England, an abandoned woman executed on the scaffold? While many stories of Anne Boleyn's downfall have been told, few have truly traced the origins of her tragic fate. In Thorns and Glory, Estelle Paranque takes us back to where it all started: to France, where Anne learned the lessons that would set her on the path to becoming one of England's most infamous queens. At the court of the French king as a resourceful teenage girl, Anne's journey to infamy began, and this landmark biography explores the world that shaped her, and how these loyalties would leave her vulnerable, leading to her ruin at the court of Henry VIII. A fascinating new perspective on Tudor history's most enduring story, Thorns and Glory is an unmissable account of a queen on the edge. ©2024 Estelle Paranque (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/borderline-the-biography-of-a-personality-disorder-by-alexander-kriss--65146478https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder Author: Alexander Kriss Narrator: Max Newland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects the conventional wisdom that this condition is untreatable, told by a psychologist who specializes in BPD Mental illness is heavily stigmatized within our society, and within this already marginalized group, folks with BPD are deemed especially untreatable and hopeless. When, as a graduate student, Alex Kriss first began working as a therapist in the field, his supervisors warned him that borderline patients were manipulative, difficult, and had a tendancy to drop out of treatment. Yet, years later, when Kriss was establishing his private practice and a borderline patient known as Ana came to his office, he felt compelled to try to help her, despite all of the warnings he’d heard. Borderline is the story of his work with Ana—how his successes with her led him to open his doors to other BPD patients and advocate for them. Borderline is also the story of the disorder itself: Kriss traces accounts of the condition going back to antiquity, showing how this disease has been known by many names over the millennia, most of them gendered: possession, hysteria, witchcraft, moral insanity. All referred to a person—usually a woman—whose behavior and personality were seen as fractured, unstable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable. Kriss guides us through this history up through the emergence of psychotherapy, the development of the modern diagnosis, and attitudes toward treatment today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702387Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder Author: Alexander Kriss Narrator: Max Newland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder Author: Alexander Kriss Narrator: Max Newland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects the conventional wisdom that this condition is untreatable, told by a psychologist who specializes in BPD Mental illness is heavily stigmatized within our society, and within this already marginalized group, folks with BPD are deemed especially untreatable and hopeless. When, as a graduate student, Alex Kriss first began working as a therapist in the field, his supervisors warned him that borderline patients were manipulative, difficult, and had a tendancy to drop out of treatment. Yet, years later, when Kriss was establishing his private practice and a borderline patient known as Ana came to his office, he felt compelled to try to help her, despite all of the warnings he’d heard. Borderline is the story of his work with Ana—how his successes with her led him to open his doors to other BPD patients and advocate for them. Borderline is also the story of the disorder itself: Kriss traces accounts of the condition going back to antiquity, showing how this disease has been known by many names over the millennia, most of them gendered: possession, hysteria, witchcraft, moral insanity. All referred to a person—usually a woman—whose behavior and personality were seen as fractured, unstable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable. Kriss guides us through this history up through the emergence of psychotherapy, the development of the modern diagnosis, and attitudes toward treatment today.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-just-keep-talking-a-life-in-essays-by-nell-irvin-painter--65146471https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays Author: Nell Irvin Painter Narrator: Nell Irvin Painter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 1 minute Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we know it. Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. Her unique vantage on American history pushes the boundaries of personal narrative and academic authorship. Led by an unbridled curiosity for her subjects, Painter asks readers to reconsider ideas of race, politics, and identity. I Just Keep Talking assembles her writing for the first time into a single volume, displaying the breadth and depth of Painter’s decades-long historical inquiry and the evolution of Black political thought—and includes a dazzling introduction and coda being published for the first time in this collection. From her mining of figures like Carrie Buck and Martin Delaney for their resonance today, to a deep dive into the history of exclusion through the work of Toni Morrison, to a discussion of the American political landscape after the 2016 election, Painter nimbly portrays the trials of a country frequently at war with itself. Along with Painter’s writing, this collection offers her original artwork, threaded throughout the book as counterpoint and emphasis. Her visual art shows a deft mind turning toward the tragedy and humor of her subjects; pulling from newspapers, personal records, and original sketches, Painter’s artwork testifies to the dialectic of tremendous change and stasis that continues to shape American history. These essays resist easy answers in favor of complexity, the inescapable sense of our country’s potential thwarted by its failures. This collection will surely solidify Painter’s place among the finest critics and writers of the last half century. This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains artwork and other visuals from the book.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702368Tue, 23 Apr 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays Author: Nell Irvin Painter Narrator: Nell Irvin Painter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 1 minute...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays Author: Nell Irvin Painter Narrator: Nell Irvin Painter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 1 minute Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we know it. Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. Her unique vantage on American history pushes the boundaries of personal narrative and academic authorship. Led by an unbridled curiosity for her subjects, Painter asks readers to reconsider ideas of race, politics, and identity. I Just Keep Talking assembles her writing for the first time into a single volume, displaying the breadth and depth of Painter’s decades-long historical inquiry and the evolution of Black political thought—and includes a dazzling introduction and coda being published for the first time in this collection. From her mining of figures like Carrie Buck and Martin Delaney for their resonance today, to a deep dive into the history of exclusion through the work of Toni Morrison, to a discussion of the American political landscape after the 2016 election, Painter nimbly portrays the trials of a country frequently at war with itself. Along with Painter’s writing, this collection offers her original artwork, threaded throughout the book as counterpoint and emphasis. Her visual art shows a deft mind turning toward the tragedy and humor of her subjects; pulling from newspapers, personal records, and original sketches, Painter’s artwork testifies to the dialectic of tremendous change and stasis that continues to shape American history. These essays resist easy answers in favor of complexity, the inescapable sense of our country’s potential thwarted by its failures. This collection will surely solidify Painter’s place among the finest critics and writers of the last half century. This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains artwork and other visuals from the book.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-body-made-of-glass-a-cultural-history-of-hypochondria-by-caroline-crampton--65146458https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria Author: Caroline Crampton Narrator: Caroline Crampton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria. Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But being cured of the cancer didn’t mean she felt well. Instead, the fear lingered, and she found herself always on the alert, braced for signs that the illness had reemerged.  Now, in A Body Made of Glass, Crampton has drawn from her own experiences with health anxiety to write a revelatory exploration of hypochondria—a condition that, though often suffered silently, is widespread and rising. She deftly weaves together history, memoir, and literary criticism to make sense of this invisible and underexplored sickness. From the earliest medical cases of Hippocrates to the literary accounts of sufferers like Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust to the modern perils of internet self-diagnosis, Crampton unspools this topic to reveal the far-reaching impact of health anxiety on our physical, mental, and emotional health. At its heart, Crampton explains, hypochondria is a yearning for knowledge. It is a never-ending attempt to replace the edgeless terror of uncertainty with the comforting solidity of a definitive explanation. Through intimate personal stories and compelling cultural perspectives, A Body Made of Glass brings this uniquely ephemeral condition into much-needed focus for the first time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700728Tue, 23 Apr 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria Author: Caroline Crampton Narrator: Caroline Crampton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Body Made of Glass: A Cultural History of Hypochondria Author: Caroline Crampton Narrator: Caroline Crampton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria. Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But being cured of the cancer didn’t mean she felt well. Instead, the fear lingered, and she found herself always on the alert, braced for signs that the illness had reemerged.  Now, in A Body Made of Glass, Crampton has drawn from her own experiences with health anxiety to write a revelatory exploration of hypochondria—a condition that, though often suffered silently, is widespread and rising. She deftly weaves together history, memoir, and literary criticism to make sense of this invisible and underexplored sickness. From the earliest medical cases of Hippocrates to the literary accounts of sufferers like Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust to the modern perils of internet self-diagnosis, Crampton unspools this topic to reveal the far-reaching impact of health anxiety on our physical, mental, and emotional health. At its heart, Crampton explains, hypochondria is a yearning for knowledge. It is a never-ending attempt to replace the edgeless terror of uncertainty with the comforting solidity of a definitive explanation. Through intimate personal stories and compelling cultural perspectives, A Body Made of Glass brings this uniquely ephemeral condition into much-needed focus for the first time.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-forbidden-daughter-the-true-story-of-a-holocaust-survivor-by-zipora-klein-jakob--65146419https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Forbidden Daughter: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor Author: Zipora Klein Jakob Narrator: Robin Siegerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth. Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite the fear of death, Dr. Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila, choose to bring a daughter into the world, a little girl they name Elida—meaning non-birth in Hebrew. To increase their child’s chance of survival, the Friedmans smuggle the baby out of the ghetto and into the arms of a non-Jewish farm family when Elida is only three months old. It is the beginning of a life marked by constant upheaval. When the Nazis raze the entire Kovno Ghetto, Jonah and Tzila are among those killed. Their only child is left orphaned and alone, dependent on the kindness of strangers. Despite her circumstances, Elida grows up, changing families, countries, continents, and even names, countless times. Surviving the war and the Holocaust that stole her parents, the young woman never gives up hope. In her lifelong pursuit to find love and belonging, she works to rebuild her identity and triumph over her terrible circumstances. A moving, powerful chronicle of overcoming impossible odds, The Forbidden Daughter is the true story of one unforgettable woman and her will to survive. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700732Tue, 23 Apr 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Forbidden Daughter: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor Author: Zipora Klein Jakob Narrator: Robin Siegerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Forbidden Daughter: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor Author: Zipora Klein Jakob Narrator: Robin Siegerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The unforgettable true story of a girl born in the Kovno Ghetto, and the dangerous risk her parents faced in defying the barbarous Nazi law prohibiting childbirth. Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite the fear of death, Dr. Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila, choose to bring a daughter into the world, a little girl they name Elida—meaning non-birth in Hebrew. To increase their child’s chance of survival, the Friedmans smuggle the baby out of the ghetto and into the arms of a non-Jewish farm family when Elida is only three months old. It is the beginning of a life marked by constant upheaval. When the Nazis raze the entire Kovno Ghetto, Jonah and Tzila are among those killed. Their only child is left orphaned and alone, dependent on the kindness of strangers. Despite her circumstances, Elida grows up, changing families, countries, continents, and even names, countless times. Surviving the war and the Holocaust that stole her parents, the young woman never gives up hope. In her lifelong pursuit to find love and belonging, she works to rebuild her identity and triumph over her terrible circumstances. A moving, powerful chronicle of overcoming impossible odds, The Forbidden Daughter is the true story of one unforgettable woman and her will to survive. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/committed-on-meaning-and-madwomen-by-suzanne-scanlon--65146485https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen Author: Suzanne Scanlon Narrator: Suzanne Scanlon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.   When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.   After nearly three years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left the ward on shaky legs. In the decades it took her to recover from the experience, Suzanne came to understand her suffering as part of something larger: a long tradition of women whose complicated and compromised stories of self-actualization are reduced to “crazy chick” and “madwoman” narratives. It was a thrilling discovery, and she searched for more books, more woman writers, as the journey of her life converged with her journey through the literature that shaped her.   Transporting, honest, and graceful, Committed is a story of discovery and recovery, reclaiming the idea of the madwoman as a template for insight and transcendence through the works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Janet Frame, Audre Lorde, Shulamith Firestone, and others. Cover painting: 'Morning Sun' (detail), 1952, by Edward Hopper © 2024 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo by Artothek/Bridgeman Images.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702360Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen Author: Suzanne Scanlon Narrator: Suzanne Scanlon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen Author: Suzanne Scanlon Narrator: Suzanne Scanlon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.   When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.   After nearly three years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left the ward on shaky legs. In the decades it took her to recover from the experience, Suzanne came to understand her suffering as part of something larger: a long tradition of women whose complicated and compromised stories of self-actualization are reduced to “crazy chick” and “madwoman” narratives. It was a thrilling discovery, and she searched for more books, more woman writers, as the journey of her life converged with her journey through the literature that shaped her.   Transporting, honest, and graceful, Committed is a story of discovery and recovery, reclaiming the idea of the madwoman as a template for insight and transcendence through the works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Janet Frame, Audre Lorde, Shulamith Firestone, and others. Cover painting: 'Morning Sun' (detail), 1952, by Edward Hopper © 2024 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo by Artothek/Bridgeman Images.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/everest-inc-the-renegades-and-rogues-who-built-an-industry-at-the-top-of-the-world-by-will-cockrell--65146455https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693906 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World Author: Will Cockrell Narrator: Pete Simonelli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Featuring original interviews with Everest mountain guides and climbers, this is “a fast-moving, nuanced account of the peak’s transformation from the ultimate mountaineering challenge into a booming business opportunity” (Joshua Hammer, New York Times bestselling author). Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they have a sense of what the world’s highest mountain is like. It’s an extreme landscape where bad weather and incredible altitude can kill; an overcrowded, trashed-out recreation destination; and a place where the rich exploit local Sherpas while padding their egos—and social media feeds. There’s some truth to these clichés, but they’re a sliver of the story. Unlike any book to date, Everest, Inc. is the definitive account of how a few daring entrepreneurs paired raw courage and naked ambition to get paying clients safely up and down Everest. Until the late eighties, such a thing was considered impossible. Within a few years, Everest guiding was a burgeoning industry. Today, ninety percent of the people on the mountain are clients or employees of guided expeditions. Studded with quotes from original interviews with more than a hundred Western and Sherpa climbers, clients, writers, and filmmakers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—Everest, Inc. foregrounds the colorful voices of the people who have made the mountain what it is today. As professional climber and author Freddie Wilkinson says, “Whether you are thinking about taking a crack at the world’s highest peak or are simply an armchair mountaineer trying to make sense of the complex dynamics driving the modern Everest industry, Everest, Inc. should be required reading.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693906Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693906 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World Author: Will Cockrell Narrator: Pete Simonelli Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693906 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World Author: Will Cockrell Narrator: Pete Simonelli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Featuring original interviews with Everest mountain guides and climbers, this is “a fast-moving, nuanced account of the peak’s transformation from the ultimate mountaineering challenge into a booming business opportunity” (Joshua Hammer, New York Times bestselling author). Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they have a sense of what the world’s highest mountain is like. It’s an extreme landscape where bad weather and incredible altitude can kill; an overcrowded, trashed-out recreation destination; and a place where the rich exploit local Sherpas while padding their egos—and social media feeds. There’s some truth to these clichés, but they’re a sliver of the story. Unlike any book to date, Everest, Inc. is the definitive account of how a few daring entrepreneurs paired raw courage and naked ambition to get paying clients safely up and down Everest. Until the late eighties, such a thing was considered impossible. Within a few years, Everest guiding was a burgeoning industry. Today, ninety percent of the people on the mountain are clients or employees of guided expeditions. Studded with quotes from original interviews with more than a hundred Western and Sherpa climbers, clients, writers, and filmmakers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—Everest, Inc. foregrounds the colorful voices of the people who have made the mountain what it is today. As professional climber and author Freddie Wilkinson says, “Whether you are thinking about taking a crack at the world’s highest peak or are simply an armchair mountaineer trying to make sense of the complex dynamics driving the modern Everest industry, Everest, Inc. should be required reading.”]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/never-say-you-ve-had-a-lucky-life-especially-if-you-ve-had-a-lucky-life-by-joseph-epstein--65146416https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life Author: Joseph Epstein Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years. An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies—those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Brooks Adams—were justified by their authors living in interesting times, harboring radically new ideas, or participating in great events. Joseph Epstein qualifies on none of these counts. His life has been quiet, lucky in numerous ways, and far from dramatic. But it has also been emblematic of the great changes in our country since World War II. He grew up in a petit-bourgeois, Midwestern milieu, and the city of Chicago looms large in his life. He drew a lucky ticket in the parent lottery and his was a happy boyhood spent on playgrounds and hanging around drug stores. At high school dances, he was the rhumba king and at drive-in movies he was never allowed to go as far with girls as he so ardently desired. At twenty-six, after two years in the army, he found himself married, the father or stepfather of four children, and living in New York on the meager salary of a magazine subeditor. He was ablaze with ambition and fettered by frustration. He broke out by moving to Little Rock, Arkansas, to direct the city’s anti-poverty program at the height of the Civil Rights movement. His writing career blossomed, he began teaching at Northwestern University, and, for twenty-five years, edited one of great intellectual magazines. Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life is an intimate look at one life steeped in radical change: from a traditionally moral culture to a therapeutic one, from an era when the extended family was strong to its current diminished status, from print to digital life featuring the war of pixel on print, and on. But for all the seriousness of Epstein’s themes, this book is memorable for its comic point of view and the constant reminder of how unpredictable, various, and wondrously rich life can be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700622Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life Author: Joseph Epstein Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life Author: Joseph Epstein Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years. An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies—those by Benvenuto Cellini, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Henry Brooks Adams—were justified by their authors living in interesting times, harboring radically new ideas, or participating in great events. Joseph Epstein qualifies on none of these counts. His life has been quiet, lucky in numerous ways, and far from dramatic. But it has also been emblematic of the great changes in our country since World War II. He grew up in a petit-bourgeois, Midwestern milieu, and the city of Chicago looms large in his life. He drew a lucky ticket in the parent lottery and his was a happy boyhood spent on playgrounds and hanging around drug stores. At high school dances, he was the rhumba king and at drive-in movies he was never allowed to go as far with girls as he so ardently desired. At twenty-six, after two years in the army, he found himself married, the father or stepfather of four children, and living in New York on the meager salary of a magazine subeditor. He was ablaze with ambition and fettered by frustration. He broke out by moving to Little Rock, Arkansas, to direct the city’s anti-poverty program at the height of the Civil Rights movement. His writing career blossomed, he began teaching at Northwestern University, and, for twenty-five years, edited one of great intellectual magazines. Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life is an intimate look at one life steeped in radical change: from a traditionally moral culture to a therapeutic one, from an era when the extended family was strong to its current diminished status, from print to digital life featuring the war of pixel on print, and on. But for all the seriousness of Epstein’s themes, this book is memorable for its comic point of view and the constant reminder of how unpredictable, various, and wondrously rich life can be.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-maps-we-carry-psychedelics-trauma-and-our-new-path-to-mental-health-by-rose-cartwright--65146567https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688284 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, Trauma and Our New Path to Mental Health Author: Rose Cartwright Narrator: Rose Cartwright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 11, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ‘Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The book cannot fail to interest anyone concerned with their mind’s bewildering beautiful complexities’ ALAIN DE BOTTON 'Radically open-minded. An extraordinary, paradigm-shifting work' NATHAN FILER Featuring interviews with leading figures including Amanda Fielding, Michael Pollan and Gabor Maté What if treating misery as a medical problem is making us miserable? Someone dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Antidepressant use in the West has more than doubled in the last twenty years. Yet no biological test can diagnose any mental health problem. So where are we going wrong? Rose Cartwright was once the poster-girl for OCD. Now, she reveals how the failure of the mental health system led her to radical action. Uncovering her trauma through a series of mind-bending psychedelic trips, she explored a new path to healing. If you have ever asked yourself: ‘why am I like this?’ This revolutionary book – part memoir, part manifesto – could change your life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688284Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688284 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, Trauma and Our New Path to Mental Health Author: Rose Cartwright Narrator: Rose Cartwright Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688284 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, Trauma and Our New Path to Mental Health Author: Rose Cartwright Narrator: Rose Cartwright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 11, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ‘Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The book cannot fail to interest anyone concerned with their mind’s bewildering beautiful complexities’ ALAIN DE BOTTON 'Radically open-minded. An extraordinary, paradigm-shifting work' NATHAN FILER Featuring interviews with leading figures including Amanda Fielding, Michael Pollan and Gabor Maté What if treating misery as a medical problem is making us miserable? Someone dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Antidepressant use in the West has more than doubled in the last twenty years. Yet no biological test can diagnose any mental health problem. So where are we going wrong? Rose Cartwright was once the poster-girl for OCD. Now, she reveals how the failure of the mental health system led her to radical action. Uncovering her trauma through a series of mind-bending psychedelic trips, she explored a new path to healing. If you have ever asked yourself: ‘why am I like this?’ This revolutionary book – part memoir, part manifesto – could change your life.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wide-wide-sea-by-hampton-sides--65146444https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707283 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wide Wide Sea Author: Hampton Sides Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 11, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment? Hampton Sides' bravura account of Cook's last journey both wrestles with Cook's legacy and provides a thrilling narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterised exploration in the 1700s. Cook was renowned for his peerless seamanship, his humane leadership, and his dedication to science--the famed naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied him on his first voyage, and Cook has been called one of the most important figures of the Age of Enlightenment. He was also deeply interested in the native people he encountered. In fact, his stated mission was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London, to his home islands. On previous expeditions, Cook mapped huge swaths of the Pacific, including the east coast of Australia, and initiated first European contact with numerous peoples. He treated his crew well, and endeavoured to learn about the societies he encountered with curiosity and without judgement. Yet something was different on this last voyage. Cook became mercurial, resorting to the lash to enforce discipline, and led his two vessels into danger time and again. Uncharacteristically, he ordered violent retaliation for perceived theft on the part of native peoples. This may have had something to do with his secret orders, which were to chart and claim lands before Britain's imperial rivals could, and to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Whatever Cook's intentions, his scientific efforts were the sharp edge of the colonial sword, and the ultimate effects of first contact were catastrophic for Indigenous people around the world. The tensions between Cook's overt and covert missions came to a head on the shores of Hawaii. His first landing there was harmonious, but when Cook returned after mapping the coast of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, his exploitative treatment of the Hawaiians led to the fatal encounter. ©2024 Hampton Sides (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707283Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707283 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wide Wide Sea Author: Hampton Sides Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 11, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707283 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wide Wide Sea Author: Hampton Sides Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 11, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment? Hampton Sides' bravura account of Cook's last journey both wrestles with Cook's legacy and provides a thrilling narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterised exploration in the 1700s. Cook was renowned for his peerless seamanship, his humane leadership, and his dedication to science--the famed naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied him on his first voyage, and Cook has been called one of the most important figures of the Age of Enlightenment. He was also deeply interested in the native people he encountered. In fact, his stated mission was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London, to his home islands. On previous expeditions, Cook mapped huge swaths of the Pacific, including the east coast of Australia, and initiated first European contact with numerous peoples. He treated his crew well, and endeavoured to learn about the societies he encountered with curiosity and without judgement. Yet something was different on this last voyage. Cook became mercurial, resorting to the lash to enforce discipline, and led his two vessels into danger time and again. Uncharacteristically, he ordered violent retaliation for perceived theft on the part of native peoples. This may have had something to do with his secret orders, which were to chart and claim lands before Britain's imperial rivals could, and to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Whatever Cook's intentions, his scientific efforts were the sharp edge of the colonial sword, and the ultimate effects of first contact were catastrophic for Indigenous people around the world. The tensions between Cook's overt and covert missions came to a head on the shores of Hawaii. His first landing there was harmonious, but when Cook returned after mapping the coast of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, his exploitative treatment of the Hawaiians led to the fatal encounter. ©2024 Hampton Sides (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wide-wide-sea-imperial-ambition-first-contact-and-the-fateful-final-voyage-of-captain-james-cook-by-hampton-sides--65146497https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Author: Hampton Sides Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.78 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. “Hampton Sides, an acclaimed master of the nonfiction narrative, has taken on Cook’s story and retells it for the 21st century.”—Los Angeles Times On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment? Hampton Sides’ bravura account of Cook’s last journey both wrestles with Cook’s legacy and provides a thrilling narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterized exploration in the 1700s. Cook was renowned for his peerless seamanship, his humane leadership, and his dedication to science-–the famed naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied him on his first voyage, and Cook has been called one of the most important figures of the Age of Enlightenment. He was also deeply interested in the native people he encountered. In fact, his stated mission was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London, to his home islands. On previous expeditions, Cook mapped huge swaths of the Pacific, including the east coast of Australia, and initiated first European contact with numerous peoples. He treated his crew well, and endeavored to learn about the societies he encountered with curiosity and without judgment. Yet something was different on this last voyage. Cook became mercurial, resorting to the lash to enforce discipline, and led his two vessels into danger time and again. Uncharacteristically, he ordered violent retaliation for perceived theft on the part of native peoples. This may have had something to do with his secret orders, which were to chart and claim lands before Britain’s imperial rivals could, and to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Whatever Cook’s intentions, his scientific efforts were the sharp edge of the colonial sword, and the ultimate effects of first contact were catastrophic for Indigenous people around the world. The tensions between Cook’s overt and covert missions came to a head on the shores of Hawaii. His first landing there was harmonious, but when Cook returned after mapping the coast of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, his exploitative treatment of the Hawaiians led to the fatal encounter. At once a ferociously-paced story of adventure on the high seas and a searching examination of the complexities and consequences of the Age of Exploration, THE WIDE WIDE SEA is a major work from one of our finest narrative nonfiction writers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702367Tue, 09 Apr 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Author: Hampton Sides Narrator: Peter Noble...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Author: Hampton Sides Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.78 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. “Hampton Sides, an acclaimed master of the nonfiction narrative, has taken on Cook’s story and retells it for the 21st century.”—Los Angeles Times On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment? Hampton Sides’ bravura account of Cook’s last journey both wrestles with Cook’s legacy and provides a thrilling narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterized exploration in the 1700s. Cook was renowned for his peerless seamanship, his humane leadership, and his dedication to science-–the famed naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied him on his first voyage, and Cook has been called one of the most important figures of the Age of Enlightenment. He was also deeply interested in the native people he encountered. In fact, his stated mission was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London, to his home islands. On previous expeditions, Cook mapped huge swaths of the Pacific, including the east coast of Australia, and initiated first European contact with numerous peoples. He treated his crew well, and endeavored to learn about the societies he encountered with curiosity and without judgment. Yet something was different on this last voyage. Cook became mercurial, resorting to the lash to enforce discipline, and led his two vessels into danger time and again. Uncharacteristically, he ordered violent retaliation for perceived theft on the part of native peoples. This may have had something to do with his secret orders, which were to chart and claim lands before Britain’s imperial rivals could, and to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Whatever Cook’s intentions, his scientific efforts were the sharp edge of the colonial sword, and the ultimate effects of first contact were catastrophic for Indigenous people around the world. The tensions between Cook’s overt and covert missions came to a head on the shores of Hawaii. His first landing there was harmonious, but when Cook returned after mapping the coast of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, his exploitative treatment of the Hawaiians led to the fatal encounter. At once a ferociously-paced story of adventure on the high seas and a searching examination of the complexities and consequences of the Age of Exploration, THE WIDE WIDE SEA is a major work from one of our finest narrative nonfiction writers.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/grown-woman-talk-your-guide-to-getting-and-staying-healthy-by-sharon-malone--65146477https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy Author: Sharon Malone Narrator: Sharon Malone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A must-read for anyone who cares about their quality of life . . . Dr. Sharon Malone is the first person I turn to for a whole host of issues, especially my health.”—MICHELLE OBAMA A practical guide to aging and health for women who have felt ignored or marginalized by the medical profession, from a leading OB/GYN and expert on menopausal and post-reproductive health There’s not enough talk around women’s health, and what little there is rarely helps. Women are routinely warned, lectured, or threatened about their health. Or they are ignored, dismissed, or shamed. But they are rarely empowered. And empowerment, more than anything, is what women—and women of color, in particular—need. Grown Woman Talk is for every woman who has felt marginalized or overwhelmed by a healthcare system that has become more impersonal, complex, and difficult to navigate than ever. It’s also for any woman who is simply standing at the intersection of aging and health, anxious and wanting solutions. Part medical handbook, part memoir, and part sister-girl cheerleader, this book is filled with useful resources and real-life stories of victory and defeat. It not only highlights the current data around women’s health issues, but it also places that data in a helpful context. In a tone that is lively and intimate but unflinchingly direct, Dr. Sharon Malone details how to live better, age better, and get better medical treatment, especially when it’s most needed. This is not a medical activism book designed to fight the power. This is a book designed to show women that they already have the power—they need only to increase their capacity and willingness to use it. Most important, Grown Woman Talk seeks to eradicate the silence that surrounds women’s health by facilitating discussion between women of all ages and encouraging more accurate and productive medical insights. It is Dr. Sharon’s belief that giving women more agency can, literally, give them life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702351Tue, 09 Apr 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy Author: Sharon Malone Narrator: Sharon Malone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy Author: Sharon Malone Narrator: Sharon Malone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A must-read for anyone who cares about their quality of life . . . Dr. Sharon Malone is the first person I turn to for a whole host of issues, especially my health.”—MICHELLE OBAMA A practical guide to aging and health for women who have felt ignored or marginalized by the medical profession, from a leading OB/GYN and expert on menopausal and post-reproductive health There’s not enough talk around women’s health, and what little there is rarely helps. Women are routinely warned, lectured, or threatened about their health. Or they are ignored, dismissed, or shamed. But they are rarely empowered. And empowerment, more than anything, is what women—and women of color, in particular—need. Grown Woman Talk is for every woman who has felt marginalized or overwhelmed by a healthcare system that has become more impersonal, complex, and difficult to navigate than ever. It’s also for any woman who is simply standing at the intersection of aging and health, anxious and wanting solutions. Part medical handbook, part memoir, and part sister-girl cheerleader, this book is filled with useful resources and real-life stories of victory and defeat. It not only highlights the current data around women’s health issues, but it also places that data in a helpful context. In a tone that is lively and intimate but unflinchingly direct, Dr. Sharon Malone details how to live better, age better, and get better medical treatment, especially when it’s most needed. This is not a medical activism book designed to fight the power. This is a book designed to show women that they already have the power—they need only to increase their capacity and willingness to use it. Most important, Grown Woman Talk seeks to eradicate the silence that surrounds women’s health by facilitating discussion between women of all ages and encouraging more accurate and productive medical insights. It is Dr. Sharon’s belief that giving women more agency can, literally, give them life.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wisdom-of-nurses-stories-of-grit-from-the-front-lines-by-amie-archibald-varley-sara-fung--65146523https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines Author: Amie Archibald-Varley, Sara Fung Narrator: Chanté Mccormick, Catherine Ho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the hosts of the hit podcast The Gritty Nurse, stories of the challenges, heartbreak and humour of life on the front line One of the enduring lessons of the pandemic has been the pivotal role that nursing plays in health care—vital work that isn’t widely understood or, sadly, appreciated. Sara Fung and Amie Archibald-Varley started the wildly popular The Gritty Nurse podcast to give voice to nurses all over the world, including more than 400,000 nurses in Canada. The authors have quickly become sought-after speakers and advocates for nurses and are called on regularly by the media to talk about a wide range of issues around the profession. In their first book, they take you to the front line of nursing to show the compassion, selflessness and dedication of professionals who not only give it all for their patients, but get up and do it over and over again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690223Tue, 02 Apr 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines Author: Amie Archibald-Varley, Sara Fung Narrator: Chanté Mccormick, Catherine Ho Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wisdom of Nurses: Stories of Grit From the Front Lines Author: Amie Archibald-Varley, Sara Fung Narrator: Chanté Mccormick, Catherine Ho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the hosts of the hit podcast The Gritty Nurse, stories of the challenges, heartbreak and humour of life on the front line One of the enduring lessons of the pandemic has been the pivotal role that nursing plays in health care—vital work that isn’t widely understood or, sadly, appreciated. Sara Fung and Amie Archibald-Varley started the wildly popular The Gritty Nurse podcast to give voice to nurses all over the world, including more than 400,000 nurses in Canada. The authors have quickly become sought-after speakers and advocates for nurses and are called on regularly by the media to talk about a wide range of issues around the profession. In their first book, they take you to the front line of nursing to show the compassion, selflessness and dedication of professionals who not only give it all for their patients, but get up and do it over and over again.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hildasay-to-home-how-i-found-a-family-by-walking-the-uk-s-coastline-by-christian-lewis--65146554https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline Author: Christian Lewis Narrator: Christian Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 28, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Read by the author, Christian Lewis. Walking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the follow-up to his Sunday Times bestselling Finding Hildasay, Christian Lewis takes his next steps. Since his time on Hildasay, Chris’ adventure has only gotten wilder. No one was more surprised than Chris when, in November 2020, he had an unlikely (seemingly destined) encounter with fellow adventurer Kate. The two turned out to be kindred spirits and – even more astonishingly – Kate made the bold decision to join Chris on the walk of a lifetime. Day in, day out, as they trekked the coastline down from Scotland together, their relationship grew, and soon the couple were thrown in at the deep end when their first child – baby Magnus – arrived. But, away from Scotland, Chris’ struggles with mental health returned. The solitude of Hildasay seemed far away, and he unravelled once again. Through injuries and setbacks, with Jet the dog ageing and baby Magnus growing by the day, the adventurous family of four had to find their feet and come together to complete this epic challenge. They’ve navigated the east coast of Scotland, through Yorkshire and East Anglia, and struggled on to the Jurassic Coast where Chris slowly came back into himself. In Hildasay to Home Chris finally crosses the finish line back in Swansea with almost half a million pounds raised. He reflects beautifully on all that he’s learned and the family he’s found for himself along the way.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697447Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline Author: Christian Lewis Narrator: Christian Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hildasay to Home: How I Found a Family by Walking the UK's Coastline Author: Christian Lewis Narrator: Christian Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 28, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Read by the author, Christian Lewis. Walking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the follow-up to his Sunday Times bestselling Finding Hildasay, Christian Lewis takes his next steps. Since his time on Hildasay, Chris’ adventure has only gotten wilder. No one was more surprised than Chris when, in November 2020, he had an unlikely (seemingly destined) encounter with fellow adventurer Kate. The two turned out to be kindred spirits and – even more astonishingly – Kate made the bold decision to join Chris on the walk of a lifetime. Day in, day out, as they trekked the coastline down from Scotland together, their relationship grew, and soon the couple were thrown in at the deep end when their first child – baby Magnus – arrived. But, away from Scotland, Chris’ struggles with mental health returned. The solitude of Hildasay seemed far away, and he unravelled once again. Through injuries and setbacks, with Jet the dog ageing and baby Magnus growing by the day, the adventurous family of four had to find their feet and come together to complete this epic challenge. They’ve navigated the east coast of Scotland, through Yorkshire and East Anglia, and struggled on to the Jurassic Coast where Chris slowly came back into himself. In Hildasay to Home Chris finally crosses the finish line back in Swansea with almost half a million pounds raised. He reflects beautifully on all that he’s learned and the family he’s found for himself along the way.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/queen-victoria-and-her-prime-ministers-a-personal-history-by-anne-somerset--65146545https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684209 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History Author: Anne Somerset Narrator: Claire Vousden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 28, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn’t be more wrong. In Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers, Anne Somerset masterfully traces Victoria’s political evolution, from headstrong teenager to seasoned octogenarian. This book demonstrates her passionate involvement in state affairs, and casts fresh light on her relationships with her ten prime ministers. Victoria herself acknowledged that when it came to ‘likes and dislikes’ of her prime ministers, ‘she had them very strongly’. She showed girlish adoration for her first Prime Minister, the worldly-wise Lord Melbourne, whose delightful conversation and kindly guidance enchanted her. Later in her reign, Benjamin Disraeli – who flattered her shamelessly, tirelessly praising her sagacity and judgement and filling her life with ‘poetry, romance and chivalry’ – became her favourite. While she developed a powerful bond with several of her Prime Ministers, in other cases the relationship fell little short of mutual detestation. Victoria’s keenest antipathy was reserved for Disraeli’s great rival, the Liberal William Gladstone. When he became prime minister for a fourth time at the age of 82, Victoria declared it ‘a bad joke’ that this ‘dangerous old fanatic’ should be ‘thrust down her throat’. Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers charts the bitter clashes and affectionate interactions Victoria had with her ten premiers in often hilarious detail. Drawing extensively on unpublished sources such as material from the Royal Archives and never-before-seen prime ministerial papers, it casts a fresh and highly illuminating perspective not just on Victoria, but on the exceptionally able politicians who served her in government.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684209Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684209 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History Author: Anne Somerset Narrator: Claire Vousden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684209 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History Author: Anne Somerset Narrator: Claire Vousden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 28, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn’t be more wrong. In Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers, Anne Somerset masterfully traces Victoria’s political evolution, from headstrong teenager to seasoned octogenarian. This book demonstrates her passionate involvement in state affairs, and casts fresh light on her relationships with her ten prime ministers. Victoria herself acknowledged that when it came to ‘likes and dislikes’ of her prime ministers, ‘she had them very strongly’. She showed girlish adoration for her first Prime Minister, the worldly-wise Lord Melbourne, whose delightful conversation and kindly guidance enchanted her. Later in her reign, Benjamin Disraeli – who flattered her shamelessly, tirelessly praising her sagacity and judgement and filling her life with ‘poetry, romance and chivalry’ – became her favourite. While she developed a powerful bond with several of her Prime Ministers, in other cases the relationship fell little short of mutual detestation. Victoria’s keenest antipathy was reserved for Disraeli’s great rival, the Liberal William Gladstone. When he became prime minister for a fourth time at the age of 82, Victoria declared it ‘a bad joke’ that this ‘dangerous old fanatic’ should be ‘thrust down her throat’. Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers charts the bitter clashes and affectionate interactions Victoria had with her ten premiers in often hilarious detail. Drawing extensively on unpublished sources such as material from the Royal Archives and never-before-seen prime ministerial papers, it casts a fresh and highly illuminating perspective not just on Victoria, but on the exceptionally able politicians who served her in government.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nowhere-exactly-on-identity-and-belonging-by-m-g-vassanji--65146591https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693108 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging Author: M.G. Vassanji Narrator: Raoul Bhaneja Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world. Home is never a single place, entirely and unequivocally. It is contingent. The abstract 'nowhere,' then, is the true home. M.G. Vassanji has been exploring the immigrant experience for over three decades, drawing deeply on his own transnational upbringing and intimate understanding of the unique challenges and perspectives born from leaving one's home to resettle in a new land. The question of identity, of how to configure and see oneself within this new land, is one such challenge faced. But Vassanji suggests that a more fundamental and slippery endeavour than establishing one's identity is how, if ever, we can establish a sense of belonging. Can we ever truly belong in this new home? Did we ever truly belong in the home we left? Where exactly do we belong? For many, the answer is nowhere exactly.  Combining brilliant prose, thoughtful, candid observation, and a lifetime of exploring how we as individuals are shaped by the places and communities in which we live and the history that haunts them, Nowhere, Exactly examines with exquisite sensitivity the space between identity and belonging, the immigrant experience of both loss and gain, and the weight of memory and nostalgia, guilt and hope felt by so many of those who leave their homes in search of new ones.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693108Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693108 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging Author: M.G. Vassanji Narrator: Raoul Bhaneja Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693108 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging Author: M.G. Vassanji Narrator: Raoul Bhaneja Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world. Home is never a single place, entirely and unequivocally. It is contingent. The abstract 'nowhere,' then, is the true home. M.G. Vassanji has been exploring the immigrant experience for over three decades, drawing deeply on his own transnational upbringing and intimate understanding of the unique challenges and perspectives born from leaving one's home to resettle in a new land. The question of identity, of how to configure and see oneself within this new land, is one such challenge faced. But Vassanji suggests that a more fundamental and slippery endeavour than establishing one's identity is how, if ever, we can establish a sense of belonging. Can we ever truly belong in this new home? Did we ever truly belong in the home we left? Where exactly do we belong? For many, the answer is nowhere exactly.  Combining brilliant prose, thoughtful, candid observation, and a lifetime of exploring how we as individuals are shaped by the places and communities in which we live and the history that haunts them, Nowhere, Exactly examines with exquisite sensitivity the space between identity and belonging, the immigrant experience of both loss and gain, and the weight of memory and nostalgia, guilt and hope felt by so many of those who leave their homes in search of new ones.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ghost-town-living-mining-for-purpose-and-chasing-dreams-at-the-edge-of-death-valley-by-brent-underwood--65146494https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley Author: Brent Underwood Narrator: Brent Underwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more—a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned lessons about chasing impractical dreams. “Inspiring and meditative—the story of man vs nature and man vs himself.”—Ryan Holiday, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way The siren song of Cerro Gordo, a desolate ghost town perched high above Death Valley, has seduced thousands since the 1800s, but few fell harder for it than Brent Underwood, who moved there in March of 2020, only to be immediately snowed in and trapped for weeks. It had once been the largest silver mine in California. Over $500 million worth of ore was pulled from the miles of tunnels below the town. Butch Cassidy, Mark Twain, and other infamous characters of the American West were rumored to have stayed there. Newspapers reported a murder a week. But that was over 150 years ago. Underwood bet his life savings—and his life—on this majestic, hardscrabble town that had broken its fair share of ambitious men and women. What followed were fires, floods, earthquakes, and perhaps strangest, fame. Ghost Town Living tells the story of a man against the elements, a forgotten historic place against the modern world, and a dream against all odds—one that has captured millions of followers around the world. He came looking for a challenge different from the traditional 9-5 job but discovered something much more fulfilling—an undertaking that would call on all of himself and push him beyond what he knew he was capable of. In fact, to bring this abandoned town back to life, Brent had to learn a wealth of new self-sufficiency and problem-solving skills from many generous mentors. Ghost Town Living is a thrilling read, but it’s also a call to action—to question our too-practical lives and instead seek adventure, build something original, redefine work, and embrace the unknown. It shows what it means to dedicate your life to something, to take a mighty swing at a crazy idea and, like the cardsharps who once haunted Cerro Gordo, go all in.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697203Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley Author: Brent Underwood Narrator: Brent Underwood Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley Author: Brent Underwood Narrator: Brent Underwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more—a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned lessons about chasing impractical dreams. “Inspiring and meditative—the story of man vs nature and man vs himself.”—Ryan Holiday, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way The siren song of Cerro Gordo, a desolate ghost town perched high above Death Valley, has seduced thousands since the 1800s, but few fell harder for it than Brent Underwood, who moved there in March of 2020, only to be immediately snowed in and trapped for weeks. It had once been the largest silver mine in California. Over $500 million worth of ore was pulled from the miles of tunnels below the town. Butch Cassidy, Mark Twain, and other infamous characters of the American West were rumored to have stayed there. Newspapers reported a murder a week. But that was over 150 years ago. Underwood bet his life savings—and his life—on this majestic, hardscrabble town that had broken its fair share of ambitious men and women. What followed were fires, floods, earthquakes, and perhaps strangest, fame. Ghost Town Living tells the story of a man against the elements, a forgotten historic place against the modern world, and a dream against all odds—one that has captured millions of followers around the world. He came looking for a challenge different from the traditional 9-5 job but discovered something much more fulfilling—an undertaking that would call on all of himself and push him beyond what he knew he was capable of. In fact, to bring this abandoned town back to life, Brent had to learn a wealth of new self-sufficiency and problem-solving skills from many generous mentors. Ghost Town Living is a thrilling read, but it’s also a call to action—to question our too-practical lives and instead seek adventure, build something original, redefine work, and embrace the unknown. It shows what it means to dedicate your life to something, to take a mighty swing at a crazy idea and, like the cardsharps who once haunted Cerro Gordo, go all in.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sky-was-falling-a-young-surgeon-s-story-of-bravery-survival-and-hope-by-cornelia-griggs--65146509https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693902 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope Author: Cornelia Griggs Narrator: Cornelia Griggs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this “essential work that provides lasting insights and lessons for the individual and society” (Jerome Groopman, MD, New York Times bestselling author), a young pediatric surgeon and mother reveals her dramatic, cathartic diary, written as she worked on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic at one of New York City’s busiest hospitals. For many of us, the experience of the peak pandemic was eerily incongruous. We were sequestered in our quiet homes but reminded of the devastation by the never-ending ping of news alerts. Dr. Cornelia Griggs’s experience was altogether different. A pediatric surgery fellow in New York City, she was entering the final victory lap at the end of nine grueling years of training. She was set for a big graduation celebration and looking forward to spending some real time with her husband and kids. Then came COVID-19. Initially, Griggs encouraged her friends and family not to panic. However, as mysterious cases began showing up in the hospital, and then hospital supplies started disappearing from shelves, she couldn’t hold back the feeling that this was going to be worse than she had thought. She wrote a startling op-ed in The New York Times called “The Sky Is Falling” that went, for lack of a better word, viral. The piece was read by over a million people, and Griggs appeared on CNN. Having once aspired to be a journalist, Griggs found that the only way to make sense of what she was witnessing around her and maintain her sanity was to keep a diary. The Sky Was Falling is her day-to-day account of what most of us were grateful to only see in the news—the sharply increasing case numbers, the dwindling supply of respirators, the lack of clarity on how to treat this new disease. Harrowing, deeply personal, and page-turning in the way of the best medical memoirs, it tells the story of healthcare professionals who went beyond what they thought they were capable of to heal their patients, and themselves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693902Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693902 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope Author: Cornelia Griggs Narrator: Cornelia Griggs Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693902 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon's Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope Author: Cornelia Griggs Narrator: Cornelia Griggs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this “essential work that provides lasting insights and lessons for the individual and society” (Jerome Groopman, MD, New York Times bestselling author), a young pediatric surgeon and mother reveals her dramatic, cathartic diary, written as she worked on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic at one of New York City’s busiest hospitals. For many of us, the experience of the peak pandemic was eerily incongruous. We were sequestered in our quiet homes but reminded of the devastation by the never-ending ping of news alerts. Dr. Cornelia Griggs’s experience was altogether different. A pediatric surgery fellow in New York City, she was entering the final victory lap at the end of nine grueling years of training. She was set for a big graduation celebration and looking forward to spending some real time with her husband and kids. Then came COVID-19. Initially, Griggs encouraged her friends and family not to panic. However, as mysterious cases began showing up in the hospital, and then hospital supplies started disappearing from shelves, she couldn’t hold back the feeling that this was going to be worse than she had thought. She wrote a startling op-ed in The New York Times called “The Sky Is Falling” that went, for lack of a better word, viral. The piece was read by over a million people, and Griggs appeared on CNN. Having once aspired to be a journalist, Griggs found that the only way to make sense of what she was witnessing around her and maintain her sanity was to keep a diary. The Sky Was Falling is her day-to-day account of what most of us were grateful to only see in the news—the sharply increasing case numbers, the dwindling supply of respirators, the lack of clarity on how to treat this new disease. Harrowing, deeply personal, and page-turning in the way of the best medical memoirs, it tells the story of healthcare professionals who went beyond what they thought they were capable of to heal their patients, and themselves.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-very-private-school-a-memoir-by-charles-spencer--65146496https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Very Private School: A Memoir Author: Charles Spencer Narrator: Charles Spencer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “A tour de force.” —The Washington Post In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all. Exploring the long-lasting impact of his experiences, Spencer presents a candid reckoning with his past and a reclamation of his childhood.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700628Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Very Private School: A Memoir Author: Charles Spencer Narrator: Charles Spencer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Very Private School: A Memoir Author: Charles Spencer Narrator: Charles Spencer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “A tour de force.” —The Washington Post In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all. Exploring the long-lasting impact of his experiences, Spencer presents a candid reckoning with his past and a reclamation of his childhood.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/royal-audience-70-years-13-presidents-one-queen-s-special-relationship-with-america-by-david-charter--65146510https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Royal Audience: 70 Years, 13 Presidents--One Queen's Special Relationship with America Author: David Charter Narrator: Mark Meadows Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 70 years on the throne. 13 American presidents. One extraordinary queen. From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts—and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year reign, she developed extraordinary and varied personal bonds with thirteen U.S. presidents—Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, both Bush Sr. and Jr., Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden—that other diplomats and leaders could only dream of. A fascinating, in-depth look at international relations and interpersonal intrigue, Royal Audience peels back the curtain on the “special relationship” between the U.S. and the U.K. as embodied by the Queen herself—charting Elizabeth II’s distinctive brand of one-to-one diplomacy through the eyes of those who experienced it firsthand. From horse-riding with Ronald Reagan, to sharing her recipe for scones with Dwight D. Eisenhower, to striking up a kinship with the Bushes and the Obamas, the Queen’s interactions with her U.S. counterparts often acted as a restorative tonic for relations between two nations, even when political tensions ran high. Not all royal encounters with U.S. presidents went smoothly, though. Between Jackie Kennedy’s complaints about Elizabeth and the Queen Mother’s shock at being kissed on the lips by Jimmy Carter, there was never a dull moment. Throughout the years, Queen Elizabeth II’s sense of duty and service remained steadfast, and her iconic legacy is unlikely to be repeated.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697162Tue, 05 Mar 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Royal Audience: 70 Years, 13 Presidents--One Queen's Special Relationship with America Author: David Charter Narrator: Mark Meadows Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Royal Audience: 70 Years, 13 Presidents--One Queen's Special Relationship with America Author: David Charter Narrator: Mark Meadows Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 70 years on the throne. 13 American presidents. One extraordinary queen. From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts—and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year reign, she developed extraordinary and varied personal bonds with thirteen U.S. presidents—Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, both Bush Sr. and Jr., Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden—that other diplomats and leaders could only dream of. A fascinating, in-depth look at international relations and interpersonal intrigue, Royal Audience peels back the curtain on the “special relationship” between the U.S. and the U.K. as embodied by the Queen herself—charting Elizabeth II’s distinctive brand of one-to-one diplomacy through the eyes of those who experienced it firsthand. From horse-riding with Ronald Reagan, to sharing her recipe for scones with Dwight D. Eisenhower, to striking up a kinship with the Bushes and the Obamas, the Queen’s interactions with her U.S. counterparts often acted as a restorative tonic for relations between two nations, even when political tensions ran high. Not all royal encounters with U.S. presidents went smoothly, though. Between Jackie Kennedy’s complaints about Elizabeth and the Queen Mother’s shock at being kissed on the lips by Jimmy Carter, there was never a dull moment. Throughout the years, Queen Elizabeth II’s sense of duty and service remained steadfast, and her iconic legacy is unlikely to be repeated.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/whiskey-tender-a-memoir-by-deborah-taffa--65146528https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir Author: Deborah Taffa Narrator: Charley Flyte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for a Carnegie Medal for Excellence An Oprah Daily ''Best New Book'' and ''Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read'' * A New York Times ''New Book to Read'' * An Esquire ''Best Nonfiction Book'' * A Washington Post ''Book to read this summer'' * An Elle ''Best Book'' * A Zibby Mag ''Most Anticipated Book'' * A San Francisco Chronicle ''New Book to Cozy Up With'' * The Millions ''Most Anticipated'' * An Electric Lit “Books By Women of Color to Read'' * An Amazon Editors ''Best Book of the Month'' * Publishers Weekly ''Best Book of the Year'' “We have more Native stories now, but we have not heard one like this. Whiskey Tender is unexpected and propulsive, indeed tender, but also bold, and beautifully told, like a drink you didn’t know you were thirsty for. This book, never anything less than mesmerizing, is full of family stories and vital Native history. It pulses and it aches, and it lifts, consistently. It threads together so much truth by the time we are done, what has been woven together equals a kind of completeness from brokenness, and a hope from knowing love and loss and love again by naming it so.”  — Tommy Orange, National Bestselling Author of There There  Reminiscent of the works of Mary Karr and Terese Marie Mailhot, a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance; assimilation and reverence for tradition. Deborah Jackson Taffa was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents—citizens of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe—were sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation. Assimilation meant relocation, but as Taffa matured into adulthood, she began to question the promise handed down by her elders and by American society: that if she gave up her culture, her land, and her traditions, she would not only be accepted, but would be able to achieve the “American Dream.” Whiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl—born on the California Yuma reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico—comes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parent’s desires for her to transcend the class and “Indian” status of her birth through education, and despite the Quechan tribe’s particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories. Taffa’s childhood memories unspool into meditations on tribal identity, the rampant criminalization of Native men, governmental assimilation policies, the Red Power movement, and the negotiation between belonging and resisting systemic oppression. Pan-Indian, as well as specific tribal histories and myths, blend with stories of a 1970s and 1980s childhood spent on and off the reservation. Taffa offers a sharp and thought-provoking historical analysis laced with humor and heart. As she reflects on her past and present—the promise of assimilation and the many betrayals her family has suffered, both personal and historical; trauma passed down through generations—she reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the “melting pot” of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690814Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir Author: Deborah Taffa Narrator: Charley Flyte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir Author: Deborah Taffa Narrator: Charley Flyte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for a Carnegie Medal for Excellence An Oprah Daily ''Best New Book'' and ''Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read'' * A New York Times ''New Book to Read'' * An Esquire ''Best Nonfiction Book'' * A Washington Post ''Book to read this summer'' * An Elle ''Best Book'' * A Zibby Mag ''Most Anticipated Book'' * A San Francisco Chronicle ''New Book to Cozy Up With'' * The Millions ''Most Anticipated'' * An Electric Lit “Books By Women of Color to Read'' * An Amazon Editors ''Best Book of the Month'' * Publishers Weekly ''Best Book of the Year'' “We have more Native stories now, but we have not heard one like this. Whiskey Tender is unexpected and propulsive, indeed tender, but also bold, and beautifully told, like a drink you didn’t know you were thirsty for. This book, never anything less than mesmerizing, is full of family stories and vital Native history. It pulses and it aches, and it lifts, consistently. It threads together so much truth by the time we are done, what has been woven together equals a kind of completeness from brokenness, and a hope from knowing love and loss and love again by naming it so.”  — Tommy Orange, National Bestselling Author of There There  Reminiscent of the works of Mary Karr and Terese Marie Mailhot, a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance; assimilation and reverence for tradition. Deborah Jackson Taffa was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents—citizens of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe—were sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation. Assimilation meant relocation, but as Taffa matured into adulthood, she began to question the promise handed down by her elders and by American society: that if she gave up her culture, her land, and her traditions, she would not only be accepted, but would be able to achieve the “American Dream.” Whiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl—born on the California Yuma reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico—comes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parent’s desires for her to transcend the class and “Indian” status of her birth through education, and despite the Quechan tribe’s particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories. Taffa’s childhood memories unspool into meditations on tribal identity, the rampant criminalization of Native men, governmental assimilation policies, the Red Power movement, and the negotiation between belonging and resisting systemic oppression. Pan-Indian, as well as specific tribal histories and myths, blend with stories of a 1970s and 1980s childhood spent on and off the reservation. Taffa offers a sharp and thought-provoking historical analysis laced with humor and heart. As she reflects on her past and present—the promise of assimilation and the many betrayals her family has suffered, both personal and historical; trauma passed down through generations—she reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the “melting pot” of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-darkest-white-a-mountain-legend-and-the-avalanche-that-took-him-by-eric-blehm--65146492https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him Author: Eric Blehm Narrator: Dan Bittner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 27 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Eric Blehm offers an insightful perspective on how Craig Kelly became the effortless icon that we all revered as well as sobering details of how his heroic journey tragically ended. The Darkest White is a must read, not just for fans of snowboarding, but for anyone looking for inspiration from an unlikely hero.”—Tony Hawk From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless, comes an extraordinary new book in the vein of Into the Wild, the story of the legendary snowboarder Craig Kelly and his death in the 2003 Durrand Glacier Avalanche—a devastating and controversial tragedy that claimed the lives of seven people. On January 20, 2003, a thunderous crack rang out and a 100-foot-wide tide of snow barreled down the Northern Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. More than a dozen skiers and snowboarders were thrust down the mountain, buried beneath several tons of rock-hard snow and ice in the Durrand Glacier Avalanche. A heroic search and rescue ensued. Among those buried was Craig Kelly—“the Michael Jordan of snowboarding”—a man who had propelled the sport into the mainstream before walking away from competitions, to rekindle his passion in the untamed alpine wilds of North America The Darkest White is the story of Craig Kelly’s life, a heartbreaking but extraordinary and inspiring odyssey of a latchkey kid whose athletic prowess and innovations would revolutionize winter sports, take him around the globe, and push him into ever more extreme environments that would ultimately take his life. It is also a definitive, immersive account of snowboarding and the cultural movement that exploded around it, growing the sport from minor Gen X cult hobby to Olympic centerpiece and a billion-dollar business full of feuds and rivalries. Finally, The Darkest White is a mesmerizing, cautionary portrait of the mountains, of the allure and the glory they offer, and of the avalanches they unleash with unforgiving fury. “Eric Blehm took on this biography as I imagine Craig Kelly took on the halfpipe. He studied it, chose his line, and pulled everything off—even tough parts—with grace and style. It’s not just a terrific story of an amazing life, not just the origin story of an entire sport, but a riveting disaster narrative that builds tension masterfully. The Darkest White grabbed me and didn’t let go.''—Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Terminal List series]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682950Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him Author: Eric Blehm Narrator: Dan Bittner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him Author: Eric Blehm Narrator: Dan Bittner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 27 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Eric Blehm offers an insightful perspective on how Craig Kelly became the effortless icon that we all revered as well as sobering details of how his heroic journey tragically ended. The Darkest White is a must read, not just for fans of snowboarding, but for anyone looking for inspiration from an unlikely hero.”—Tony Hawk From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless, comes an extraordinary new book in the vein of Into the Wild, the story of the legendary snowboarder Craig Kelly and his death in the 2003 Durrand Glacier Avalanche—a devastating and controversial tragedy that claimed the lives of seven people. On January 20, 2003, a thunderous crack rang out and a 100-foot-wide tide of snow barreled down the Northern Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. More than a dozen skiers and snowboarders were thrust down the mountain, buried beneath several tons of rock-hard snow and ice in the Durrand Glacier Avalanche. A heroic search and rescue ensued. Among those buried was Craig Kelly—“the Michael Jordan of snowboarding”—a man who had propelled the sport into the mainstream before walking away from competitions, to rekindle his passion in the untamed alpine wilds of North America The Darkest White is the story of Craig Kelly’s life, a heartbreaking but extraordinary and inspiring odyssey of a latchkey kid whose athletic prowess and innovations would revolutionize winter sports, take him around the globe, and push him into ever more extreme environments that would ultimately take his life. It is also a definitive, immersive account of snowboarding and the cultural movement that exploded around it, growing the sport from minor Gen X cult hobby to Olympic centerpiece and a billion-dollar business full of feuds and rivalries. Finally, The Darkest White is a mesmerizing, cautionary portrait of the mountains, of the allure and the glory they offer, and of the avalanches they unleash with unforgiving fury. “Eric Blehm took on this biography as I imagine Craig Kelly took on the halfpipe. He studied it, chose his line, and pulled everything off—even tough parts—with grace and style. It’s not just a terrific story of an amazing life, not just the origin story of an entire sport, but a riveting disaster narrative that builds tension masterfully. The Darkest White grabbed me and didn’t let go.''—Jack Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Terminal List series]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/trailblazer-the-first-feminist-to-change-our-world-by-jane-robinson--65146482https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/701045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World Author: Jane Robinson Narrator: Jane Robinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 22, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. You have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done. Name any 'modern' human rights movement, and she was a pioneer: feminism, equal opportunities, diversity, inclusion, mental health awareness, Black Lives Matter. While her name has been omitted from too many history books, it was Barbara that opened the doors for more famous names to walk through. And her influence owed as much to who she was as to what she did: people loved her for her robust sense of humour, cheerfulness and indiscriminate acts of kindness. This is a celebration of the life of the founder of Britain's suffrage movement: campaigner for equal opportunity in the workplace, the law, at home and beyond. Founder of Girton, the first university college for women, a committed activist for human rights, fervently anti-slavery, she was also one of Victorian England's finest female painters. Jane Robinson's brilliant new book shines a light on a remarkable woman who lived on her own terms and to whom we owe a huge debt. ©2024 Jane Robinson (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/701045Thu, 22 Feb 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/701045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World Author: Jane Robinson Narrator: Jane Robinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 21...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/701045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World Author: Jane Robinson Narrator: Jane Robinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 22, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. You have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done. Name any 'modern' human rights movement, and she was a pioneer: feminism, equal opportunities, diversity, inclusion, mental health awareness, Black Lives Matter. While her name has been omitted from too many history books, it was Barbara that opened the doors for more famous names to walk through. And her influence owed as much to who she was as to what she did: people loved her for her robust sense of humour, cheerfulness and indiscriminate acts of kindness. This is a celebration of the life of the founder of Britain's suffrage movement: campaigner for equal opportunity in the workplace, the law, at home and beyond. Founder of Girton, the first university college for women, a committed activist for human rights, fervently anti-slavery, she was also one of Victorian England's finest female painters. Jane Robinson's brilliant new book shines a light on a remarkable woman who lived on her own terms and to whom we owe a huge debt. ©2024 Jane Robinson (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-great-wave-the-era-of-radical-disruption-and-the-rise-of-the-outsider-by-michiko-kakutani--65146551https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684412 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider Author: Michiko Kakutani Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 20, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today’s world, creating both opportunity and peril—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth.   “In this dazzling and brilliant book, Michiko Kakutani explains the cascading chaos of our era and points to ways that we can regain some stability.”—Walter Isaacson, author of Elon Musk The twenty-first century is experiencing a watershed moment defined by chaos and uncertainty, as one emergency cascades into another, underscoring the larger dynamics of change that are fueling instability across the world.   Since the global financial crisis of 2008, people have increasingly lost trust in institutions and elites, while seizing upon new digital tools to sidestep traditional gatekeepers. As a result, powerful new voices—once regarded as radical, unorthodox, or marginal—are disrupting the status quo in politics, business, and culture. Meanwhile, social and economic inequalities are stoking populist rage across the world, toxic partisanship is undermining democratic ideals, and the internet and AI have become high-speed vectors for the spread of misinformation.   Writing with a critic’s understanding of cultural trends and a journalist’s eye for historical detail, Michiko Kakutani looks at the consequences of these new asymmetries of power. She maps the migration of ideas from the margins to the mainstream and explores the growing influence of outsiders—those who have sown chaos and fear (like Donald Trump), and those who have provided inspirational leadership (like Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky). At the same time, she situates today’s multiplying crises in context with those that defined earlier hinge moments in history, from the waning of the Middle Ages to the transition between the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era at the end of the nineteenth century.   Kakutani argues that today’s crises are not only signs of an interconnected globe’s profound vulnerabilities, but also stress tests pointing to the essential changes needed to survive this tumultuous era and build a more sustainable future.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684412Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684412 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider Author: Michiko Kakutani Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684412 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider Author: Michiko Kakutani Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 20, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today’s world, creating both opportunity and peril—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth.   “In this dazzling and brilliant book, Michiko Kakutani explains the cascading chaos of our era and points to ways that we can regain some stability.”—Walter Isaacson, author of Elon Musk The twenty-first century is experiencing a watershed moment defined by chaos and uncertainty, as one emergency cascades into another, underscoring the larger dynamics of change that are fueling instability across the world.   Since the global financial crisis of 2008, people have increasingly lost trust in institutions and elites, while seizing upon new digital tools to sidestep traditional gatekeepers. As a result, powerful new voices—once regarded as radical, unorthodox, or marginal—are disrupting the status quo in politics, business, and culture. Meanwhile, social and economic inequalities are stoking populist rage across the world, toxic partisanship is undermining democratic ideals, and the internet and AI have become high-speed vectors for the spread of misinformation.   Writing with a critic’s understanding of cultural trends and a journalist’s eye for historical detail, Michiko Kakutani looks at the consequences of these new asymmetries of power. She maps the migration of ideas from the margins to the mainstream and explores the growing influence of outsiders—those who have sown chaos and fear (like Donald Trump), and those who have provided inspirational leadership (like Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky). At the same time, she situates today’s multiplying crises in context with those that defined earlier hinge moments in history, from the waning of the Middle Ages to the transition between the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era at the end of the nineteenth century.   Kakutani argues that today’s crises are not only signs of an interconnected globe’s profound vulnerabilities, but also stress tests pointing to the essential changes needed to survive this tumultuous era and build a more sustainable future.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-in-her-head-the-truth-and-lies-early-medicine-taught-us-about-women-s-bodies-and-why-it-matters-today-by-elizabeth-comen--65146512https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today Author: Elizabeth Comen Narrator: Anna Caputo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: USA Today Bestseller A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women’s bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women’s health. For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be practiced on: examined and ignored, idealized and sexualized, shamed, subjugated, mutilated, and dismissed. The history of women’s healthcare is a story in which women themselves have too often been voiceless—a narrative instead written from the perspective of men who styled themselves as authorities on the female of the species, yet uninformed by women’s own voices, thoughts, fears, pain and experiences. The result is a cultural and societal leg­acy that continues to shape the (mis)treatment and care of women. While the modern age has seen significant advancements in the medical field, the notion that female bodies are flawed inversions of the male ideal lingers on—as do the pervasive societal stigmas and lingering ignorance that shape women’s health and relationships with their own bodies. Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist and medical historian Dr. Elizabeth Comen draws back the curtain on the collective medical history of women to reintroduce us to our whole bodies—how they work, the actual doctors and patients whose perspectives and experiences laid the foundation for today’s medical thought, and the many oversights that still remain unaddressed. With a physician’s knowledge and empathy, Dr. Comen follows the road map of the eleven organ systems to share unique and untold stories, drawing upon medical texts and journals, interviews with expert physicians, as well as her own  experience treating thousands of women. Empowering women to better understand ourselves and advocate for care that prioritizes healthy and joyful lives— for us and generations to come—All in Her Head is written with humor, wisdom, and deep scientific and cultural insight. Eye-opening, sometimes enraging, yet always captivating, this shared memoir of women’s medical history is an essential contribution to a holistic understanding and much-needed reclaiming of women’s history and bodies.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690816Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today Author: Elizabeth Comen Narrator: Anna...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today Author: Elizabeth Comen Narrator: Anna Caputo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: USA Today Bestseller A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women’s bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women’s health. For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be practiced on: examined and ignored, idealized and sexualized, shamed, subjugated, mutilated, and dismissed. The history of women’s healthcare is a story in which women themselves have too often been voiceless—a narrative instead written from the perspective of men who styled themselves as authorities on the female of the species, yet uninformed by women’s own voices, thoughts, fears, pain and experiences. The result is a cultural and societal leg­acy that continues to shape the (mis)treatment and care of women. While the modern age has seen significant advancements in the medical field, the notion that female bodies are flawed inversions of the male ideal lingers on—as do the pervasive societal stigmas and lingering ignorance that shape women’s health and relationships with their own bodies. Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist and medical historian Dr. Elizabeth Comen draws back the curtain on the collective medical history of women to reintroduce us to our whole bodies—how they work, the actual doctors and patients whose perspectives and experiences laid the foundation for today’s medical thought, and the many oversights that still remain unaddressed. With a physician’s knowledge and empathy, Dr. Comen follows the road map of the eleven organ systems to share unique and untold stories, drawing upon medical texts and journals, interviews with expert physicians, as well as her own  experience treating thousands of women. Empowering women to better understand ourselves and advocate for care that prioritizes healthy and joyful lives— for us and generations to come—All in Her Head is written with humor, wisdom, and deep scientific and cultural insight. Eye-opening, sometimes enraging, yet always captivating, this shared memoir of women’s medical history is an essential contribution to a holistic understanding and much-needed reclaiming of women’s history and bodies.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-pursuit-of-happiness-how-classical-writers-on-virtue-inspired-the-lives-of-the-founders-and-defined-america-by-jeffrey-rosen--65146437https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695224 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America Author: Jeffrey Rosen Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 51 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A New York Times bestseller and an “enriching…brilliant” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass) examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy. The Declaration of Independence identified “the pursuit of happiness” as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders—Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton—to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives, and to give us the “best and most readable introduction to the ideas of the Founders that we have” (Gordon Wood, author of Power and Liberty). By reading the classical Greek and Roman moral philosophers who inspired the Founders, Rosen shows us how they understood the pursuit of happiness as a quest for being good, not feeling good—the pursuit of lifelong virtue, not short-term pleasure. Among those virtues were the habits of industry, temperance, moderation, and sincerity, which the Founders viewed as part of a daily struggle for self-improvement, character development, and calm self-mastery. They believed that political self-government required personal self-government. For all six Founders, the pursuit of virtue was incompatible with enslavement of African Americans, although the Virginians betrayed their own principles. “Immensely readable and thoughtful” (Ken Burns), The Pursuit of Happiness is more than an elucidation of the Declaration’s famous phrase; it is a revelatory journey into the minds of the Founders, and a deep, rich, and fresh understanding of the foundation of our democracy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695224Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695224 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America Author: Jeffrey Rosen Narrator: Sean...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695224 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America Author: Jeffrey Rosen Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 51 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A New York Times bestseller and an “enriching…brilliant” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass) examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy. The Declaration of Independence identified “the pursuit of happiness” as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders—Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton—to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives, and to give us the “best and most readable introduction to the ideas of the Founders that we have” (Gordon Wood, author of Power and Liberty). By reading the classical Greek and Roman moral philosophers who inspired the Founders, Rosen shows us how they understood the pursuit of happiness as a quest for being good, not feeling good—the pursuit of lifelong virtue, not short-term pleasure. Among those virtues were the habits of industry, temperance, moderation, and sincerity, which the Founders viewed as part of a daily struggle for self-improvement, character development, and calm self-mastery. They believed that political self-government required personal self-government. For all six Founders, the pursuit of virtue was incompatible with enslavement of African Americans, although the Virginians betrayed their own principles. “Immensely readable and thoughtful” (Ken Burns), The Pursuit of Happiness is more than an elucidation of the Declaration’s famous phrase; it is a revelatory journey into the minds of the Founders, and a deep, rich, and fresh understanding of the foundation of our democracy.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/are-you-prepared-for-the-storm-of-love-making-letters-of-love-and-lust-from-the-white-house-by-dorothy-hoobler--65146422https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?: Letters of Love and Lust from the White House Author: Dorothy Hoobler Narrator: Gibson Frazier, Lisa Larsen, Leon Nixon, Danny Campbell, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Eunice Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 33 minutes Release date: February 6, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An “irresistibly readable” (David Michaelis, New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor) collection of love letters by American presidents to their wives—and lovers—revealing an intimate and deeply personal side of our leaders. Our presidents loom so large in history that we often forget they are human. Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making? is a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these are not the presidents we see in history books. “In this varied (and variously entertaining) assortment of excerpted letters…a careful reader will see in the decorous prose of…George Washington and Thomas Jefferson that the hearts of real men beat beneath their stiff frock coats, too.” (The Wall Street Journal) Some of the letters are incredibly romantic—and surprisingly so. It took Richard Nixon years to convince Pat Ryan to marry him: “Someday let me see you again? In September? Maybe?” Others will make you blush. Staid-looking Woodrow Wilson, about to return home from a trip, warned his wife of ten years: “Do you think you can stand the unnumerable kisses and the passionate embraces you will receive? Are you prepared for the storm of lovemaking with which you will be assailed?” In letters to one of his mistresses, Warren G. Harding referred to his penis as “Jerry”—letters which would later be used to blackmail him. All the letters show the writer at his most vulnerable. We see letters of sorrow written about the death of a child or during a time of separation while the president was away on the battlefield. This “lovely book, stuffed with romantic details…[is] a helpful reminder that historical figures are also human beings: petty, sappy, and flawed” (The New York Times Book Review), revealing a never-before-seen side of the men we still honor today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708839Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?: Letters of Love and Lust from the White House Author: Dorothy Hoobler Narrator: Gibson Frazier, Lisa...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?: Letters of Love and Lust from the White House Author: Dorothy Hoobler Narrator: Gibson Frazier, Lisa Larsen, Leon Nixon, Danny Campbell, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Eunice Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 33 minutes Release date: February 6, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An “irresistibly readable” (David Michaelis, New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor) collection of love letters by American presidents to their wives—and lovers—revealing an intimate and deeply personal side of our leaders. Our presidents loom so large in history that we often forget they are human. Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making? is a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these are not the presidents we see in history books. “In this varied (and variously entertaining) assortment of excerpted letters…a careful reader will see in the decorous prose of…George Washington and Thomas Jefferson that the hearts of real men beat beneath their stiff frock coats, too.” (The Wall Street Journal) Some of the letters are incredibly romantic—and surprisingly so. It took Richard Nixon years to convince Pat Ryan to marry him: “Someday let me see you again? In September? Maybe?” Others will make you blush. Staid-looking Woodrow Wilson, about to return home from a trip, warned his wife of ten years: “Do you think you can stand the unnumerable kisses and the passionate embraces you will receive? Are you prepared for the storm of lovemaking with which you will be assailed?” In letters to one of his mistresses, Warren G. Harding referred to his penis as “Jerry”—letters which would later be used to blackmail him. All the letters show the writer at his most vulnerable. We see letters of sorrow written about the death of a child or during a time of separation while the president was away on the battlefield. This “lovely book, stuffed with romantic details…[is] a helpful reminder that historical figures are also human beings: petty, sappy, and flawed” (The New York Times Book Review), revealing a never-before-seen side of the men we still honor today.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/john-lewis-in-search-of-the-beloved-community-by-raymond-arsenault--65146465https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community Author: Raymond Arsenault Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 57 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For six decades John Robert Lewis was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into 'good trouble.' In this biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis's upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism, his championing of voting rights and anti-poverty initiatives, and his decades of service as the 'conscience of Congress.' Both in the streets and in Congress, Lewis promoted a philosophy of nonviolence to bring about change. He helped the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders plan the 1963 March on Washington, where he spoke at the Lincoln Memorial. He was instrumental in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and he advocated for racial and economic justice, immigration reform, LGBTQ rights, and national health care. Arsenault recounts Lewis's lifetime of work toward one overarching goal: realizing the 'beloved community,' an ideal society based in equity and inclusion. Lewis never wavered in this pursuit, and even in death his influence endures, inspiring resistance in the fight for social justice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714440Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community Author: Raymond Arsenault Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 57...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community Author: Raymond Arsenault Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 57 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For six decades John Robert Lewis was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into 'good trouble.' In this biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis's upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism, his championing of voting rights and anti-poverty initiatives, and his decades of service as the 'conscience of Congress.' Both in the streets and in Congress, Lewis promoted a philosophy of nonviolence to bring about change. He helped the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders plan the 1963 March on Washington, where he spoke at the Lincoln Memorial. He was instrumental in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and he advocated for racial and economic justice, immigration reform, LGBTQ rights, and national health care. Arsenault recounts Lewis's lifetime of work toward one overarching goal: realizing the 'beloved community,' an ideal society based in equity and inclusion. Lewis never wavered in this pursuit, and even in death his influence endures, inspiring resistance in the fight for social justice.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-are-free-to-change-the-world-hannah-arendt-s-lessons-in-love-and-disobedience-by-lyndsey-stonebridge--65146562https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience Author: Lyndsey Stonebridge Narrator: Cosima Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 25, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty The violent unease of today's world would have been all too familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration, the banality of evil: she had lived through them all. Born in the first decade of the last century, Arendt escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for herself in America, where she became one of the world's most influential - and controversial - public intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and above all about freedom. Questioning - thinking - was her first defence against tyranny. In place of the forces of darkness and insanity, she pitched a politics of plurality, spontaneity and defiance. Loving the world, Arendt taught, meant finding the courage to protect it. Written with passion and authority, Lyndsey Stonebridge's We Are Free to Change the World illuminates Arendt's life and work and its urgent dialogue with our troubled present. It is a call for each of us to think our way, as Hannah Arendt did-unflinchingly, lovingly, and defiantly-through our own unpredictable times. 'Exhilarating, brilliant and utterly original' PHILIPPE SANDS 'Witty, moving and inspiring. An extraordinary book' SARAH CHURCHWELL ©2024 Lyndsey Stonebridge (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683671Thu, 25 Jan 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience Author: Lyndsey Stonebridge Narrator: Cosima Shaw Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience Author: Lyndsey Stonebridge Narrator: Cosima Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 25, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty The violent unease of today's world would have been all too familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration, the banality of evil: she had lived through them all. Born in the first decade of the last century, Arendt escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for herself in America, where she became one of the world's most influential - and controversial - public intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and above all about freedom. Questioning - thinking - was her first defence against tyranny. In place of the forces of darkness and insanity, she pitched a politics of plurality, spontaneity and defiance. Loving the world, Arendt taught, meant finding the courage to protect it. Written with passion and authority, Lyndsey Stonebridge's We Are Free to Change the World illuminates Arendt's life and work and its urgent dialogue with our troubled present. It is a call for each of us to think our way, as Hannah Arendt did-unflinchingly, lovingly, and defiantly-through our own unpredictable times. 'Exhilarating, brilliant and utterly original' PHILIPPE SANDS 'Witty, moving and inspiring. An extraordinary book' SARAH CHURCHWELL ©2024 Lyndsey Stonebridge (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lovers-in-auschwitz-a-true-story-by-keren-blankfeld--65146411https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712955 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story Author: Keren Blankfeld Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 25, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between two young prisoners whose budding intimacy risked dooming them if they were caught. Incredibly, David and Zippi survived for years beneath the ash-choked skies of Auschwitz. Under the protection of their fellow inmates, their romance grew and deepened, even as their brushes with death mounted and David's luck in particular seemed close to running out. As the war's end finally approached and the time came for them to leave the camp, David and Zippi made plans to meet again. But neither of them could imagine how long their reunion would take or how many lives they would live in the interim. They had no inkling, either, of the betrayals that would await them along the way. But David did suspect that Zippi harbored a secret-one that could explain the mystery of his survival all those years ago. An unbelievable tale of romance, sacrifice, loss, and resilience, Lovers in Auschwitz is a saga of two young people who found themselves trapped inside a waking nightmare of the Nazis' creation, yet who nevertheless discovered a love that sustained them through history's darkest hour. ©2024 Keren Blankfeld (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712955Thu, 25 Jan 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712955 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story Author: Keren Blankfeld Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712955 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story Author: Keren Blankfeld Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 25, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between two young prisoners whose budding intimacy risked dooming them if they were caught. Incredibly, David and Zippi survived for years beneath the ash-choked skies of Auschwitz. Under the protection of their fellow inmates, their romance grew and deepened, even as their brushes with death mounted and David's luck in particular seemed close to running out. As the war's end finally approached and the time came for them to leave the camp, David and Zippi made plans to meet again. But neither of them could imagine how long their reunion would take or how many lives they would live in the interim. They had no inkling, either, of the betrayals that would await them along the way. But David did suspect that Zippi harbored a secret-one that could explain the mystery of his survival all those years ago. An unbelievable tale of romance, sacrifice, loss, and resilience, Lovers in Auschwitz is a saga of two young people who found themselves trapped inside a waking nightmare of the Nazis' creation, yet who nevertheless discovered a love that sustained them through history's darkest hour. ©2024 Keren Blankfeld (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/legacy-a-black-physician-reckons-with-racism-in-medicine-by-uche-blackstock--65146555https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine Author: Uché Blackstock Narrator: Uché Blackstock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN GLOBAL HEALTH “This book is more than a memoir—it also serves as a call to action to create a more equitable healthcare system for patients of color, particularly Black women.” —Essence One of NPR’s 11 Books to Look Forward to in 2024 One of Good Morning America’s 15 New Books to Read for the New Year “Legacy is both a compelling memoir and an edifying analysis of the inequities in the way we deliver healthcare in America. Uché Blackstock is a force of nature.” —Abraham Verghese, MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Covenant of Water “[An] extraordinary family story.” —Dr. Damon Tweedy, The New York Times Book Review “This book should be required reading for all medical students.” —Gayle King, CBS Mornings The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend to their patients and neighbors, host community health fairs, cure ills, and save lives. What Dr. Uché Blackstock did not understand as a child—or learn about at Harvard Medical School, where she and her sister had followed in their mother’s footsteps, making them the first Black mother-daughter legacies from the school—were the profound and long-standing systemic inequities that mean just 2 percent of all U.S. physicians today are Black women; the racist practices and policies that ensure Black Americans have far worse health outcomes than any other group in the country; and the flawed system that endangers the well-being of communities like theirs. As an ER physician, and later as a professor in academic medicine, Dr. Blackstock became profoundly aware of the systemic barriers that Black patients and physicians continue to face. Legacy is a journey through the critical intersection of racism and healthcare. At once a searing indictment of our healthcare system, a generational family memoir, and a call to action, Legacy is Dr. Blackstock’s odyssey from child to medical student to practicing physician—to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684387Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine Author: Uché Blackstock Narrator: Uché Blackstock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine Author: Uché Blackstock Narrator: Uché Blackstock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN GLOBAL HEALTH “This book is more than a memoir—it also serves as a call to action to create a more equitable healthcare system for patients of color, particularly Black women.” —Essence One of NPR’s 11 Books to Look Forward to in 2024 One of Good Morning America’s 15 New Books to Read for the New Year “Legacy is both a compelling memoir and an edifying analysis of the inequities in the way we deliver healthcare in America. Uché Blackstock is a force of nature.” —Abraham Verghese, MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Covenant of Water “[An] extraordinary family story.” —Dr. Damon Tweedy, The New York Times Book Review “This book should be required reading for all medical students.” —Gayle King, CBS Mornings The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend to their patients and neighbors, host community health fairs, cure ills, and save lives. What Dr. Uché Blackstock did not understand as a child—or learn about at Harvard Medical School, where she and her sister had followed in their mother’s footsteps, making them the first Black mother-daughter legacies from the school—were the profound and long-standing systemic inequities that mean just 2 percent of all U.S. physicians today are Black women; the racist practices and policies that ensure Black Americans have far worse health outcomes than any other group in the country; and the flawed system that endangers the well-being of communities like theirs. As an ER physician, and later as a professor in academic medicine, Dr. Blackstock became profoundly aware of the systemic barriers that Black patients and physicians continue to face. Legacy is a journey through the critical intersection of racism and healthcare. At once a searing indictment of our healthcare system, a generational family memoir, and a call to action, Legacy is Dr. Blackstock’s odyssey from child to medical student to practicing physician—to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lovers-in-auschwitz-a-true-story-by-keren-blankfeld--65146463https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story Author: Keren Blankfeld Narrator: Keren Blankfeld, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Mesmerizing and inspirational.”—Judy Batalion, New York Times bestselling author of The Light of Days The incredible true story of two Holocaust survivors who fell in love in Auschwitz, only to be separated upon liberation and lead remarkable lives apart following the war—and then find each other again more than 70 years later.   Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history’s most notorious death camp, between two young prisoners whose budding intimacy risked dooming them if they were caught. Incredibly, David and Zippi survived for years beneath the ash-choked skies of Auschwitz. Under the protection of their fellow inmates, their romance grew and deepened, even as their brushes with death mounted and David’s luck in particular seemed close to running out. As the war’s end finally approached and the time came for them to leave the camp, David and Zippi made plans to meet again. But neither of them could imagine how long their reunion would take or how many lives they would live in the interim. They had no inkling, either, of the betrayals that would await them along the way. But David did suspect that Zippi harbored a secret—one that could explain the mystery of his survival all those years ago. An unbelievable tale of romance, sacrifice, loss, and resilience, Lovers in Auschwitz is a saga of two young people who found themselves trapped inside a waking nightmare of the Nazis’ creation, yet who nevertheless discovered a love that sustained them through history’s darkest hour.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692371Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story Author: Keren Blankfeld Narrator: Keren Blankfeld, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story Author: Keren Blankfeld Narrator: Keren Blankfeld, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Mesmerizing and inspirational.”—Judy Batalion, New York Times bestselling author of The Light of Days The incredible true story of two Holocaust survivors who fell in love in Auschwitz, only to be separated upon liberation and lead remarkable lives apart following the war—and then find each other again more than 70 years later.   Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history’s most notorious death camp, between two young prisoners whose budding intimacy risked dooming them if they were caught. Incredibly, David and Zippi survived for years beneath the ash-choked skies of Auschwitz. Under the protection of their fellow inmates, their romance grew and deepened, even as their brushes with death mounted and David’s luck in particular seemed close to running out. As the war’s end finally approached and the time came for them to leave the camp, David and Zippi made plans to meet again. But neither of them could imagine how long their reunion would take or how many lives they would live in the interim. They had no inkling, either, of the betrayals that would await them along the way. But David did suspect that Zippi harbored a secret—one that could explain the mystery of his survival all those years ago. An unbelievable tale of romance, sacrifice, loss, and resilience, Lovers in Auschwitz is a saga of two young people who found themselves trapped inside a waking nightmare of the Nazis’ creation, yet who nevertheless discovered a love that sustained them through history’s darkest hour.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cold-crematorium-reporting-from-the-land-of-auschwitz-by-jozsef-debreczeni--65146438https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz Author: József Debreczeni Narrator: Laurence Dobiesz, Roy Mcmillan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 18, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the 'lucky' ones, he was sent to the 'right', which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labour in a series of camps, ending in the 'Cold Crematorium' - the so-called hospital of the forced labour camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work were left to die. Debreczeni beat the odds and survived. Very soon he committed his experiences to paper in Cold Crematorium, one of the harshest and powerful indictments of Nazism ever written. This haunting memoir, rendered in the precise and unsentimental prose of an accomplished journalist, compels the reader to imagine human beings in circumstances impossible to comprehend intellectually. First published in Hungarian in 1950, it was never translated due to the rise of McCarthyism, Cold War hostilities and antisemitism. More than 70 years later, this important eyewitness account that was nearly lost to time will be available in 15 languages, finally taking its rightful place among the great works of Holocaust literature. ©2023 József Debreczeni (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707276Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz Author: József Debreczeni Narrator: Laurence Dobiesz, Roy Mcmillan Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz Author: József Debreczeni Narrator: Laurence Dobiesz, Roy Mcmillan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 18, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The first English language edition of a lost memoir by an Auschwitz survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the 'lucky' ones, he was sent to the 'right', which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labour in a series of camps, ending in the 'Cold Crematorium' - the so-called hospital of the forced labour camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work were left to die. Debreczeni beat the odds and survived. Very soon he committed his experiences to paper in Cold Crematorium, one of the harshest and powerful indictments of Nazism ever written. This haunting memoir, rendered in the precise and unsentimental prose of an accomplished journalist, compels the reader to imagine human beings in circumstances impossible to comprehend intellectually. First published in Hungarian in 1950, it was never translated due to the rise of McCarthyism, Cold War hostilities and antisemitism. More than 70 years later, this important eyewitness account that was nearly lost to time will be available in 15 languages, finally taking its rightful place among the great works of Holocaust literature. ©2023 József Debreczeni (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tripping-on-utopia-margaret-mead-the-cold-war-and-the-troubled-birth-of-psychedelic-science-by-benjamin-breen--65146549https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science Author: Benjamin Breen Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley. "It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician John C. Lilly infamously dosed dolphins (and himself) with LSD in a NASA-funded effort to teach dolphins to talk. A tripping Cary Grant mumbled into a Dictaphone about Hegel as astronaut John Glenn returned to Earth. At the center of this revolution were the pioneering anthropologists—and star-crossed lovers—Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster, Mead and Bateson made it their life’s mission to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work, whose intentions were less than pure. Mead and Bateson's partnership unlocks an untold chapter in the history of the twentieth century, linking drug researchers with CIA agents, outsider sexologists, and the founders of the Information Age. As we follow Mead and Bateson’s fractured love affair from the malarial jungles of New Guinea to the temples of Bali, from the espionage of WWII to the scientific revolutions of the Cold War, a new origin story for psychedelic science emerges.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684261Tue, 16 Jan 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science Author: Benjamin Breen Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science Author: Benjamin Breen Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley. "It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician John C. Lilly infamously dosed dolphins (and himself) with LSD in a NASA-funded effort to teach dolphins to talk. A tripping Cary Grant mumbled into a Dictaphone about Hegel as astronaut John Glenn returned to Earth. At the center of this revolution were the pioneering anthropologists—and star-crossed lovers—Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster, Mead and Bateson made it their life’s mission to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work, whose intentions were less than pure. Mead and Bateson's partnership unlocks an untold chapter in the history of the twentieth century, linking drug researchers with CIA agents, outsider sexologists, and the founders of the Information Age. As we follow Mead and Bateson’s fractured love affair from the malarial jungles of New Guinea to the temples of Bali, from the espionage of WWII to the scientific revolutions of the Cold War, a new origin story for psychedelic science emerges.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-apprentice-of-buchenwald-the-true-story-of-the-teenage-boy-who-sabotaged-hitler-s-war-machine-by-oren-schneider--65146529https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine Author: Oren Schneider Narrator: Josh Bloomberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Alexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, collected stamps, played the violin, and lived a pampered life with his affluent parents in a tranquil Czechoslovakian town. The rise of fascism and Nazi Germany causes his protected existence to collapse, alongside the illusion of secular Jewish assimilation in 1930s Europe. Using their last reserves of wealth and influence to escape extermination, the Rosenbergs go underground to avoid the Gestapo. Eventually exposed, captured, and taken to Buchenwald, the largest concentration camp in Germany, Alexander and his father collaborate to survive one day at a time. A chaotic chain of events puts young Alexander at the heart of a massive armament sabotage scheme. When his father is gravely injured and disappears after an air bombing, it is up to industrious Alexander to create leverage and use wartime machinations and raw talent to save his father's life. This universal, true story of inner strength, resourcefulness and optimism was documented and written by Alexander's grandson, Oren Schneider. It is dedicated to brave people everywhere who choose not to give up.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710643Tue, 16 Jan 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine Author: Oren Schneider Narrator: Josh Bloomberg...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710643 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine Author: Oren Schneider Narrator: Josh Bloomberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Alexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, collected stamps, played the violin, and lived a pampered life with his affluent parents in a tranquil Czechoslovakian town. The rise of fascism and Nazi Germany causes his protected existence to collapse, alongside the illusion of secular Jewish assimilation in 1930s Europe. Using their last reserves of wealth and influence to escape extermination, the Rosenbergs go underground to avoid the Gestapo. Eventually exposed, captured, and taken to Buchenwald, the largest concentration camp in Germany, Alexander and his father collaborate to survive one day at a time. A chaotic chain of events puts young Alexander at the heart of a massive armament sabotage scheme. When his father is gravely injured and disappears after an air bombing, it is up to industrious Alexander to create leverage and use wartime machinations and raw talent to save his father's life. This universal, true story of inner strength, resourcefulness and optimism was documented and written by Alexander's grandson, Oren Schneider. It is dedicated to brave people everywhere who choose not to give up.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-are-free-to-change-the-world-hannah-arendt-s-lessons-in-love-and-disobedience-by-lyndsey-stonebridge--65146514https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience Author: Lyndsey Stonebridge Narrator: Cosima Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A timely guide on how to live—and think—through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century’s foremost opponents of totalitarianism “We are free to change the world and to start something new in it.”—Hannah Arendt The violent unease of today’s world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration: She lived through them all. Born in the first decade of the last century, she escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for herself in America, where she became one of its most influential—and controversial—public intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and above all, about freedom. Questioning—thinking—was her first defense against tyranny. She advocated a politics of action and plurality, courage and, when necessary, disobedience. We Are Free to Change the World is a book about the Arendt we need for the twenty-first century. It tells us how and why Arendt came to think the way she did, and how to think when our own politics goes off the rails. Both a guide to Arendt’s life and work, and its dialogue with our troubled present, We Are Free to Change the World is an urgent call for us to think, as Hannah Arendt did—unflinchingly, lovingly, and defiantly—through our own unpredictable times.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684411Tue, 16 Jan 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience Author: Lyndsey Stonebridge Narrator: Cosima Shaw Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience Author: Lyndsey Stonebridge Narrator: Cosima Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A timely guide on how to live—and think—through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century’s foremost opponents of totalitarianism “We are free to change the world and to start something new in it.”—Hannah Arendt The violent unease of today’s world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration: She lived through them all. Born in the first decade of the last century, she escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for herself in America, where she became one of its most influential—and controversial—public intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and above all, about freedom. Questioning—thinking—was her first defense against tyranny. She advocated a politics of action and plurality, courage and, when necessary, disobedience. We Are Free to Change the World is a book about the Arendt we need for the twenty-first century. It tells us how and why Arendt came to think the way she did, and how to think when our own politics goes off the rails. Both a guide to Arendt’s life and work, and its dialogue with our troubled present, We Are Free to Change the World is an urgent call for us to think, as Hannah Arendt did—unflinchingly, lovingly, and defiantly—through our own unpredictable times.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/escape-from-camp-14-one-man-s-remarkable-odyssey-from-north-korea-to-freedom-in-the-west-by-blaine-harden--65146475https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West Author: Blaine Harden Narrator: Blaine Harden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harden's latest book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017.North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, which have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. Very few born and raised in these camps have escaped. But Shin Donghyuk did. In Escape from Camp 14, acclaimed journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens of Shin's life unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence-he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his own family. Through Harden's harrowing narrative of Shin's life and remarkable escape, he offers an unequaled inside account of one of the world's darkest nations and a riveting tale of endurance, courage, and survival.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703162Tue, 16 Jan 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West Author: Blaine Harden Narrator: Blaine Harden Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West Author: Blaine Harden Narrator: Blaine Harden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 44 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harden's latest book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017.North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, which have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. Very few born and raised in these camps have escaped. But Shin Donghyuk did. In Escape from Camp 14, acclaimed journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens of Shin's life unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence-he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his own family. Through Harden's harrowing narrative of Shin's life and remarkable escape, he offers an unequaled inside account of one of the world's darkest nations and a riveting tale of endurance, courage, and survival.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-evocacion-mi-vida-al-lado-del-che-by-aleida-march--65146453https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706626 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Evocación: Mi vida al lado del Che Author: Aleida March Narrator: Irene Machado, Ignacio Rodríguez De Anca, Ernesto Báez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: La viuda del Che Guevara recuerda el gran romance revolucionario trágicamente acortado por el asesinato del Che en Bolivia. Cuando Aleida March primero conoció al Che Guevara, ella era una combatiente de veinte años del interior de Cuba, él era un ya legendario revolucionario y un exuberante líder. Pero había una faceta más humana del Che a la cual Aleida accedió exclusivamente, primero como su compañera de confianza y luego como el amor de su vida.  Con gran inmediatez y agudez, Aleida relata la historia de su romance épico —su cortejo intermitente contra el trasfondo de la guerra revolucionaria cubana, su casamiento cuando terminó la guerra y el nacimiento de sus cuatro hijos, hasta el asesinato trágico del Che en Bolivia menos de diez años después. Incluye fragmentos de sus cartas y un conmovedor cuento corto sobre el Che escrito por Aleida, este libro es un retrato íntimo del hombre detrás de la leyenda y la mujer tenaz y valiente que más lo conocía —un cuento sobre amor apasionado, sacrificio desgarrador y firme heroísmo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this Spanish-language edition, Che Guevara’s widow remembers a great revolutionary romance tragically cut short by Che’s assassination in Bolivia. When Aleida March first met Che Guevara, she was a twenty-year-old combatant from the provinces of Cuba, he an already legendary revolutionary and larger-than-life leader. And yet there was another, more human side to Che, one Aleida was given special access to, first as his trusted compañera and later as the love of his life. With great immediacy and poignancy, Aleida recounts the story of their epic romance—their fitful courtship against the backdrop of the Cuban revolutionary war, their marriage at the war’s end and the birth of their four children, up through Che’s tragic assassination in Bolivia less than ten years later. Featuring excerpts from their letters and a moving short story Che wrote for Aleida, here is an intimate look at the man behind the legend and the tenacious, courageous woman who knew him best—a story of passionate love, wrenching sacrifice, and unwavering heroism.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706626Tue, 16 Jan 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706626 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Evocación: Mi vida al lado del Che Author: Aleida March Narrator: Irene Machado, Ignacio Rodríguez De Anca, Ernesto Báez Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706626 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Evocación: Mi vida al lado del Che Author: Aleida March Narrator: Irene Machado, Ignacio Rodríguez De Anca, Ernesto Báez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: La viuda del Che Guevara recuerda el gran romance revolucionario trágicamente acortado por el asesinato del Che en Bolivia. Cuando Aleida March primero conoció al Che Guevara, ella era una combatiente de veinte años del interior de Cuba, él era un ya legendario revolucionario y un exuberante líder. Pero había una faceta más humana del Che a la cual Aleida accedió exclusivamente, primero como su compañera de confianza y luego como el amor de su vida.  Con gran inmediatez y agudez, Aleida relata la historia de su romance épico —su cortejo intermitente contra el trasfondo de la guerra revolucionaria cubana, su casamiento cuando terminó la guerra y el nacimiento de sus cuatro hijos, hasta el asesinato trágico del Che en Bolivia menos de diez años después. Incluye fragmentos de sus cartas y un conmovedor cuento corto sobre el Che escrito por Aleida, este libro es un retrato íntimo del hombre detrás de la leyenda y la mujer tenaz y valiente que más lo conocía —un cuento sobre amor apasionado, sacrificio desgarrador y firme heroísmo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this Spanish-language edition, Che Guevara’s widow remembers a great revolutionary romance tragically cut short by Che’s assassination in Bolivia. When Aleida March first met Che Guevara, she was a twenty-year-old combatant from the provinces of Cuba, he an already legendary revolutionary and larger-than-life leader. And yet there was another, more human side to Che, one Aleida was given special access to, first as his trusted compañera and later as the love of his life. With great immediacy and poignancy, Aleida recounts the story of their epic romance—their fitful courtship against the backdrop of the Cuban revolutionary war, their marriage at the war’s end and the birth of their four children, up through Che’s tragic assassination in Bolivia less than ten years later. Featuring excerpts from their letters and a moving short story Che wrote for Aleida, here is an intimate look at the man behind the legend and the tenacious, courageous woman who knew him best—a story of passionate love, wrenching sacrifice, and unwavering heroism.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/isaac-murphy-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-black-jockey-by-katherine-c-mooney--65146412https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714321 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey Author: Katherine C. Mooney Narrator: William Andrew Quinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 17 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The rise and fall of one of America's first Black sports celebrities Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century. They were internationally famous, the first African American superstar athletes—and with wins in three Kentucky Derbies and countless other prestigious races, Murphy was the greatest of them all. At the same time, he lived through the seismic events of Emancipation and Reconstruction and formative conflicts over freedom and equality in the United States. And inevitably he was drawn into those conflicts, with devastating consequences. Katherine C. Mooney uncovers the history of Murphy's troubled life, his death in 1896 at age thirty-five, and his afterlife. In recounting Murphy's personal story, she also tells two of the great stories of change in nineteenth-century America: the debates over what a multiracial democracy might look like and the battles over who was to hold power in an economy that increasingly resembled the corporate, wealth-polarized world we know today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714321Tue, 16 Jan 2024 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714321 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey Author: Katherine C. Mooney Narrator: William Andrew Quinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714321 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey Author: Katherine C. Mooney Narrator: William Andrew Quinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 17 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The rise and fall of one of America's first Black sports celebrities Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century. They were internationally famous, the first African American superstar athletes—and with wins in three Kentucky Derbies and countless other prestigious races, Murphy was the greatest of them all. At the same time, he lived through the seismic events of Emancipation and Reconstruction and formative conflicts over freedom and equality in the United States. And inevitably he was drawn into those conflicts, with devastating consequences. Katherine C. Mooney uncovers the history of Murphy's troubled life, his death in 1896 at age thirty-five, and his afterlife. In recounting Murphy's personal story, she also tells two of the great stories of change in nineteenth-century America: the debates over what a multiracial democracy might look like and the battles over who was to hold power in an economy that increasingly resembled the corporate, wealth-polarized world we know today.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/endless-flight-the-genius-and-tragedy-of-joseph-roth-by-keiron-pim--65146486https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Endless Flight: The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth Author: Keiron Pim Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The mercurial, self-mythologizing novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the twentieth-century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was the finest observer and chronicler of his age. Endless Flight travels with Roth from his childhood in the town of Brody on the eastern edge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to an unsettled life spent roaming Europe between the wars, including spells in Vienna, Paris, and Berlin. His decline mirrored the collapse of civilized Europe: in his last peripatetic decade, he opposed Nazism in exile from Germany, his wife succumbed to schizophrenia, and he died an alcoholic on the eve of WWII. Exploring the role of Roth's absent father in his imaginings, his attitude to his Jewishness, and his restless search for home, Keiron Pim's gripping account of Roth's chaotic life speaks powerfully to us in our era of uncertainty, refugee crises, and rising ethno-nationalism. Published as Roth's works rapidly gain new listeners and recognition, Endless Flight delivers a visceral yet sensitive portrait of his quest for belonging, and a riveting understanding of the brilliance and beauty of his work.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710685Tue, 26 Dec 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Endless Flight: The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth Author: Keiron Pim Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 33 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Endless Flight: The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth Author: Keiron Pim Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The mercurial, self-mythologizing novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the twentieth-century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was the finest observer and chronicler of his age. Endless Flight travels with Roth from his childhood in the town of Brody on the eastern edge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to an unsettled life spent roaming Europe between the wars, including spells in Vienna, Paris, and Berlin. His decline mirrored the collapse of civilized Europe: in his last peripatetic decade, he opposed Nazism in exile from Germany, his wife succumbed to schizophrenia, and he died an alcoholic on the eve of WWII. Exploring the role of Roth's absent father in his imaginings, his attitude to his Jewishness, and his restless search for home, Keiron Pim's gripping account of Roth's chaotic life speaks powerfully to us in our era of uncertainty, refugee crises, and rising ethno-nationalism. Published as Roth's works rapidly gain new listeners and recognition, Endless Flight delivers a visceral yet sensitive portrait of his quest for belonging, and a riveting understanding of the brilliance and beauty of his work.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/machiavelli-on-war-by-christopher-lynch--65146581https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Machiavelli on War Author: Christopher Lynch Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 47 minutes Release date: December 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Machiavelli on War offers a comprehensive interpretation of the philosopher-historian's treatment of war throughout his writings, from poems and memoranda drafted while he was Florence's top official to his posthumous works, The Prince and Discourses on Livy. Christopher Lynch argues that the issue of war permeates the form and content of each of Machiavelli works, the substance of his thoughts, and his own activity as a writer, concluding that he was the first great modern philosopher because he was the first modern philosopher of war. Lynch details Machiavelli's understanding of warfare in terms of both actual armed conflict and at the intellectual level of thinkers competing on the field of knowledge and belief. Throughout Machiavelli's works, he focuses on how military commanders' knowledge of human necessities enables and requires them to mold soldiers to best deploy them in operations attuned to political context and changing circumstances. As Machiavelli on War makes clear, prevailing both on the battlefield and in the war of ideas demands a single-minded engagement in 'reasoning about everything,' beginning with oneself. For Machiavelli, Lynch shows, the successful military commander is not just an excellent leader but also an excellent human being in constant pursuit of the truth about themselves and the world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694365Fri, 15 Dec 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Machiavelli on War Author: Christopher Lynch Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 47 minutes Release date: December...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Machiavelli on War Author: Christopher Lynch Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 47 minutes Release date: December 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Machiavelli on War offers a comprehensive interpretation of the philosopher-historian's treatment of war throughout his writings, from poems and memoranda drafted while he was Florence's top official to his posthumous works, The Prince and Discourses on Livy. Christopher Lynch argues that the issue of war permeates the form and content of each of Machiavelli works, the substance of his thoughts, and his own activity as a writer, concluding that he was the first great modern philosopher because he was the first modern philosopher of war. Lynch details Machiavelli's understanding of warfare in terms of both actual armed conflict and at the intellectual level of thinkers competing on the field of knowledge and belief. Throughout Machiavelli's works, he focuses on how military commanders' knowledge of human necessities enables and requires them to mold soldiers to best deploy them in operations attuned to political context and changing circumstances. As Machiavelli on War makes clear, prevailing both on the battlefield and in the war of ideas demands a single-minded engagement in 'reasoning about everything,' beginning with oneself. For Machiavelli, Lynch shows, the successful military commander is not just an excellent leader but also an excellent human being in constant pursuit of the truth about themselves and the world.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/into-siberia-george-kennan-s-epic-journey-through-the-brutal-frozen-heart-of-russia-by-gregory-j-wallance--65146534https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia Author: Gregory J. Wallance Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months Kennan traveled eight thousand miles, mostly in horse-drawn carriages, sleighs, or on horseback. He endured suffocating sandstorms in the summer and blizzards in the winter. His interviews with convicts and political exiles revealed how Russia ran on the fuel of inflicted pain and fear. Prisoners in the mines were chained day and night to their wheelbarrows as punishment. Babies in exile parties froze to death in their mothers' arms. Kennan came to call the exiles' experience in Siberia a 'perfect hell of misery.' After returning to the United States, Kennan set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the exiles, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to describe the suffering of the Siberian exiles, intensifying the newly emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries which last to this day.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699562Tue, 05 Dec 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia Author: Gregory J. Wallance Narrator: Daniel Henning Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia Author: Gregory J. Wallance Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months Kennan traveled eight thousand miles, mostly in horse-drawn carriages, sleighs, or on horseback. He endured suffocating sandstorms in the summer and blizzards in the winter. His interviews with convicts and political exiles revealed how Russia ran on the fuel of inflicted pain and fear. Prisoners in the mines were chained day and night to their wheelbarrows as punishment. Babies in exile parties froze to death in their mothers' arms. Kennan came to call the exiles' experience in Siberia a 'perfect hell of misery.' After returning to the United States, Kennan set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the exiles, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to describe the suffering of the Siberian exiles, intensifying the newly emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries which last to this day.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-final-year-of-anne-boleyn-by-natalie-grueninger--65146527https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Year of Anne Boleyn Author: Natalie Grueninger Narrator: Polly Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. In this vivid and engaging account of the triumphant and harrowing final year of Queen Anne Boleyn's life, the author reveals a very human portrait of a brilliant, passionate, and complex woman. The last year of Anne's life contained both joy and heartbreak. This telling period bore witness to one of the longest and most politically significant progresses of Henry VIII's reign, improved relations between the royal couple, and Anne's longed-for pregnancy. With the dawning of the new year, the pendulum swung. In late January 1536, Anne received news that her husband had been thrown from his horse in his tiltyard at Greenwich. Just days later, tragedy struck. As the body of Anne's predecessor, Katherine of Aragon, was being prepared for burial, Anne miscarried her son. The promise of a new beginning dashed, the months that followed were a roller coaster of anguish and hope, marked by betrayal, brutality, and rumor. What began with so much promise, ended in silent dignity, amid a whirlwind of scandal, on a scaffold at the Tower of London. Through close examination of these intriguing events considered in their social and historical context, listeners will gain a fresh perspective into the life and death of the woman behind the tantalizing tale.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714420Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Year of Anne Boleyn Author: Natalie Grueninger Narrator: Polly Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Year of Anne Boleyn Author: Natalie Grueninger Narrator: Polly Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. In this vivid and engaging account of the triumphant and harrowing final year of Queen Anne Boleyn's life, the author reveals a very human portrait of a brilliant, passionate, and complex woman. The last year of Anne's life contained both joy and heartbreak. This telling period bore witness to one of the longest and most politically significant progresses of Henry VIII's reign, improved relations between the royal couple, and Anne's longed-for pregnancy. With the dawning of the new year, the pendulum swung. In late January 1536, Anne received news that her husband had been thrown from his horse in his tiltyard at Greenwich. Just days later, tragedy struck. As the body of Anne's predecessor, Katherine of Aragon, was being prepared for burial, Anne miscarried her son. The promise of a new beginning dashed, the months that followed were a roller coaster of anguish and hope, marked by betrayal, brutality, and rumor. What began with so much promise, ended in silent dignity, amid a whirlwind of scandal, on a scaffold at the Tower of London. Through close examination of these intriguing events considered in their social and historical context, listeners will gain a fresh perspective into the life and death of the woman behind the tantalizing tale.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-walker-in-the-city-by-alfred-kazin--65146489https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Walker in the City Author: Alfred Kazin Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A literary icon's 'singular and beautiful' memoir of growing up as a first-generation Jewish American in Brownsville, Brooklyn (The New Yorker). A classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century, A Walker in the City is a tour of tenements, subways, and synagogues—but also a universal story of the desires and fears we experience as we try to leave our small, familiar neighborhoods for something new. With vivid imagery and sensual detail—the smell of half-sour pickles, the dry rattle of newspapers, the women in their shapeless flowered housedresses—Alfred Kazin recounts his boyhood walks through this working-class community, and his eventual foray across the river to 'the city,' the mysterious, compelling Manhattan, where treasures like the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum beckoned. Eventually, he would travel even farther, building a life around books and language and literature and exploring all that the world had to offer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705763Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Walker in the City Author: Alfred Kazin Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 28,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705763 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Walker in the City Author: Alfred Kazin Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A literary icon's 'singular and beautiful' memoir of growing up as a first-generation Jewish American in Brownsville, Brooklyn (The New Yorker). A classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century, A Walker in the City is a tour of tenements, subways, and synagogues—but also a universal story of the desires and fears we experience as we try to leave our small, familiar neighborhoods for something new. With vivid imagery and sensual detail—the smell of half-sour pickles, the dry rattle of newspapers, the women in their shapeless flowered housedresses—Alfred Kazin recounts his boyhood walks through this working-class community, and his eventual foray across the river to 'the city,' the mysterious, compelling Manhattan, where treasures like the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum beckoned. Eventually, he would travel even farther, building a life around books and language and literature and exploring all that the world had to offer.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-march-through-hell-a-young-girl-s-terrifying-journey-to-survival-by-halina-kleiner--65146425https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My March Through Hell: A Young Girl's Terrifying Journey to Survival Author: Halina Kleiner Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A young girl is suddenly all alone and on the run from the Nazis in her hometown in Poland. Having survived an aktion that was intended to completely rid Czestochowa of all the Jews, she and her father try to make their way back to their home during the late hours of the night. Confronted by a policeman, Halina Goldberg unexplainably runs away from her father and begins her long journey of survival. When tired of fleeing, she volunteers to go into a work camp. That decision buys her some time because the Germans need labor for the war effort. Halina works in three different camps from the Fall of 1943 to January 1945. At first, the camps are bearable, even though the prisoners are worked hard and fed very little. But as the Germans begin to lose the war, the conditions turn deathly. The Jews become overrun with disease and their captors grow crueler and crueler. As it becomes clear that the war is lost, the SS empty the camps and set over 2,000 women on a four-month long march that would cover over 800 kilometers during one of Europe's coldest winters on record. Halina was one of the only 300 who survived the Volary Death March and finally felt the need to record her hellish story of survival.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714424Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My March Through Hell: A Young Girl's Terrifying Journey to Survival Author: Halina Kleiner Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My March Through Hell: A Young Girl's Terrifying Journey to Survival Author: Halina Kleiner Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A young girl is suddenly all alone and on the run from the Nazis in her hometown in Poland. Having survived an aktion that was intended to completely rid Czestochowa of all the Jews, she and her father try to make their way back to their home during the late hours of the night. Confronted by a policeman, Halina Goldberg unexplainably runs away from her father and begins her long journey of survival. When tired of fleeing, she volunteers to go into a work camp. That decision buys her some time because the Germans need labor for the war effort. Halina works in three different camps from the Fall of 1943 to January 1945. At first, the camps are bearable, even though the prisoners are worked hard and fed very little. But as the Germans begin to lose the war, the conditions turn deathly. The Jews become overrun with disease and their captors grow crueler and crueler. As it becomes clear that the war is lost, the SS empty the camps and set over 2,000 women on a four-month long march that would cover over 800 kilometers during one of Europe's coldest winters on record. Halina was one of the only 300 who survived the Volary Death March and finally felt the need to record her hellish story of survival.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jack-ruby-the-many-face-s-of-oswald-s-assassin-by-danny-fingeroth--65146420https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jack Ruby: The Many Face's of Oswald's Assassin Author: Danny Fingeroth Narrator: Danny Fingeroth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 21, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. But who was Jack Ruby—and how did he come to be in that spot on that day? As we approach the sixtieth anniversaries of the murders of Kennedy and Oswald, Jack Ruby’s motives are as maddeningly ambiguous today as they were the day that he pulled the trigger. The fascinating yet frustrating thing about Ruby is that there is evidence to paint him as at least two different people. Much of his life story points to him as bumbling, vain, violent, and neurotic—a product of the grinding poverty of Chicago’s Jewish ghetto, a man barely able to make a living or sustain a relationship with anyone besides his dogs. By the same token, evidence exists of Jack Ruby as cagey and competent, perhaps not a mastermind, but a useful pawn of the Mob and of the police and the FBI—someone capable of running numerous legal, illegal, and semi-legal enterprises, of acting as a middleman in bribery schemes. Cultural historian Danny Fingeroth's research includes an in-depth interview with Rabbi Hillel Silverman, the clergyman who visited Ruby regularly in prison. His findings will catapult you into a trip through a house of historical mirrors. At its end, perhaps Jack Ruby’s assault on history will begin to make sense. And perhaps we will understand how Oswald’s assassin led us to the world we live in today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711371Tue, 21 Nov 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jack Ruby: The Many Face's of Oswald's Assassin Author: Danny Fingeroth Narrator: Danny Fingeroth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jack Ruby: The Many Face's of Oswald's Assassin Author: Danny Fingeroth Narrator: Danny Fingeroth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 21, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. But who was Jack Ruby—and how did he come to be in that spot on that day? As we approach the sixtieth anniversaries of the murders of Kennedy and Oswald, Jack Ruby’s motives are as maddeningly ambiguous today as they were the day that he pulled the trigger. The fascinating yet frustrating thing about Ruby is that there is evidence to paint him as at least two different people. Much of his life story points to him as bumbling, vain, violent, and neurotic—a product of the grinding poverty of Chicago’s Jewish ghetto, a man barely able to make a living or sustain a relationship with anyone besides his dogs. By the same token, evidence exists of Jack Ruby as cagey and competent, perhaps not a mastermind, but a useful pawn of the Mob and of the police and the FBI—someone capable of running numerous legal, illegal, and semi-legal enterprises, of acting as a middleman in bribery schemes. Cultural historian Danny Fingeroth's research includes an in-depth interview with Rabbi Hillel Silverman, the clergyman who visited Ruby regularly in prison. His findings will catapult you into a trip through a house of historical mirrors. At its end, perhaps Jack Ruby’s assault on history will begin to make sense. And perhaps we will understand how Oswald’s assassin led us to the world we live in today.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-explorers-club-a-visual-journey-through-the-past-present-and-future-of-exploration-by-the-explorers-club--65146597https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Explorers Club: A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration Author: The Explorers Club Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Discover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this guide from The Explorers Club, the esteemed home of the world's most prominent explorers. The discovery of the North and South Poles. The summiting of Everest. The moon landing. The (largely unknown) birth of climate change science. These are just some of the stories from The Explorers Club, the organization that, since its inception in 1904, has pushed the envelope of human curiosity. This guided tour of The Club’s most riveting journeys is full of fascinating anecdotes about The Club’s distinguished members, including Teddy Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong, and Jane Goodall. From the darkest depths of the ocean to the highest points on Earth and to outer space and beyond, this book shares not just the inspirational history of modern exploration, but also reveals how it has evolved and continues to be relevant—even urgent—today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689488Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Explorers Club: A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration Author: The Explorers Club Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Explorers Club: A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration Author: The Explorers Club Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Discover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this guide from The Explorers Club, the esteemed home of the world's most prominent explorers. The discovery of the North and South Poles. The summiting of Everest. The moon landing. The (largely unknown) birth of climate change science. These are just some of the stories from The Explorers Club, the organization that, since its inception in 1904, has pushed the envelope of human curiosity. This guided tour of The Club’s most riveting journeys is full of fascinating anecdotes about The Club’s distinguished members, including Teddy Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong, and Jane Goodall. From the darkest depths of the ocean to the highest points on Earth and to outer space and beyond, this book shares not just the inspirational history of modern exploration, but also reveals how it has evolved and continues to be relevant—even urgent—today.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/journal-of-a-black-queer-nurse-by-britney-daniels--65146553https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710691 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journal of a Black Queer Nurse Author: Britney Daniels Narrator: Sanya Simmons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care during COVID-19. Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been working as an emergency-room nurse. She began Journal of a Black Queer Nurse as a personal diary, a tool to heal from the day-to-day traumas of seeing too much and caring too much. Hilarious, gut-wrenching, and infuriating by turns, these stories are told from the perspective of a deeply empathetic, no-nonsense young nurse, who highlights the way race, inequality, and a profit-driven healthcare system make the hospital a place where systemic racism is lived. Whether it is giving one's own clothes to a homeless patient, sticking up for patients of color in the face of indifference from white doctors and nurses, or nursing one's own back pain accrued from transporting too many bodies, Journal of a Black Queer Nurse reveals the ways in which care is much more than treating a physical body and how the commitment to real care—care that involves listening to and understanding patients in a deeper sense—demands nurses, especially nurses of color, must also be warriors.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710691Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710691 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journal of a Black Queer Nurse Author: Britney Daniels Narrator: Sanya Simmons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710691 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Journal of a Black Queer Nurse Author: Britney Daniels Narrator: Sanya Simmons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care during COVID-19. Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been working as an emergency-room nurse. She began Journal of a Black Queer Nurse as a personal diary, a tool to heal from the day-to-day traumas of seeing too much and caring too much. Hilarious, gut-wrenching, and infuriating by turns, these stories are told from the perspective of a deeply empathetic, no-nonsense young nurse, who highlights the way race, inequality, and a profit-driven healthcare system make the hospital a place where systemic racism is lived. Whether it is giving one's own clothes to a homeless patient, sticking up for patients of color in the face of indifference from white doctors and nurses, or nursing one's own back pain accrued from transporting too many bodies, Journal of a Black Queer Nurse reveals the ways in which care is much more than treating a physical body and how the commitment to real care—care that involves listening to and understanding patients in a deeper sense—demands nurses, especially nurses of color, must also be warriors.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/overlooked-a-celebration-of-remarkable-underappreciated-people-who-broke-the-rules-and-changed-the-world-by-amisha-padnani--65146536https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World Author: Amisha Padnani Narrator: Amisha Padnani, January LaVoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable collection of diverse, remarkable lives inspired by “Overlooked,” the groundbreaking New York Times series that publishes the obituaries of extraordinary people whose deaths went unreported in the newspaper—including new, never-before-published content Since 1851, The New York Times has published thousands of obituaries—for heads of state, celebrities, scientists, and athletes. There’s even one for the person who invented the sock puppet. But, until recently, only a fraction of the Times’s obits chronicled the lives of women or people of color. The vast majority tell of the lives of men—mostly white men. Started in 2018 as a series in the Obituary section, “Overlooked” has sought to rectify this, revisiting the Times’s 170-year history to celebrate people who were left out. It seeks to correct past mistakes, establish a new precedent for equitable coverage of lives lost, and refocus society’s lens on who is considered worthy of remembrance. Now, in the first book connected to the trailblazing series, Overlooked shares 66 extraordinary stories of women, BIPOC and LGBTQIA figures, and people with disabilities who have broken rules and overcome obstacles. Some achieved a measure of fame in their lifetime but were surprisingly omitted from the paper, including Ida B. Wells, Sylvia Plath, Alan Turing, and Major Taylor. Others were lesser-known, but noteworthy nonetheless, such as Katherine McHale Slaughterback, a farmer who found fame as “Rattlesnake Kate”; Ángela Ruiz Robles, the inventor of an early e-reader; Terri Rogers, a transgender ventriloquist and magician; and Stella Young, a disabled comedian who rejected “inspiration porn.” These overlooked figures might have lived in different times, and had different experiences, but they were all ambitious and creative, and used their imaginations to invent, innovate, and change the world. Featuring exclusive content about the process of writing obituaries and contributions by writers such as Veronica Chambers, Jon Pareles, Amanda Hess, and more, this arresting book compels us to revisit who and what we value as a society—and reminds us that some of our most important stories are hidden among the lives of those who have been overlooked.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679461Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World Author: Amisha Padnani Narrator: Amisha...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World Author: Amisha Padnani Narrator: Amisha Padnani, January LaVoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable collection of diverse, remarkable lives inspired by “Overlooked,” the groundbreaking New York Times series that publishes the obituaries of extraordinary people whose deaths went unreported in the newspaper—including new, never-before-published content Since 1851, The New York Times has published thousands of obituaries—for heads of state, celebrities, scientists, and athletes. There’s even one for the person who invented the sock puppet. But, until recently, only a fraction of the Times’s obits chronicled the lives of women or people of color. The vast majority tell of the lives of men—mostly white men. Started in 2018 as a series in the Obituary section, “Overlooked” has sought to rectify this, revisiting the Times’s 170-year history to celebrate people who were left out. It seeks to correct past mistakes, establish a new precedent for equitable coverage of lives lost, and refocus society’s lens on who is considered worthy of remembrance. Now, in the first book connected to the trailblazing series, Overlooked shares 66 extraordinary stories of women, BIPOC and LGBTQIA figures, and people with disabilities who have broken rules and overcome obstacles. Some achieved a measure of fame in their lifetime but were surprisingly omitted from the paper, including Ida B. Wells, Sylvia Plath, Alan Turing, and Major Taylor. Others were lesser-known, but noteworthy nonetheless, such as Katherine McHale Slaughterback, a farmer who found fame as “Rattlesnake Kate”; Ángela Ruiz Robles, the inventor of an early e-reader; Terri Rogers, a transgender ventriloquist and magician; and Stella Young, a disabled comedian who rejected “inspiration porn.” These overlooked figures might have lived in different times, and had different experiences, but they were all ambitious and creative, and used their imaginations to invent, innovate, and change the world. Featuring exclusive content about the process of writing obituaries and contributions by writers such as Veronica Chambers, Jon Pareles, Amanda Hess, and more, this arresting book compels us to revisit who and what we value as a society—and reminds us that some of our most important stories are hidden among the lives of those who have been overlooked.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sources-of-the-river-tracking-david-thompson-across-western-north-america-by-jack-nisbet--65146495https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707706 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America Author: Jack Nisbet Narrator: Chris Abernathy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The awe-inspiring story of explorer David Thompson, whose expeditions helped shape western North America In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet recreates the life and times of David Thompson—fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the what is now British Columbia, Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Thompson was the first person to chart the entire route of the Columbia river, and his wilderness expeditions have become the stuff of legend. Jack Nisbet tracks the explorer across the continent, interweaving his own observations with Thompson's historical writings. The result is a fascinating story of two men discovering the Northwest territory almost two hundred years apart.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707706Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707706 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America Author: Jack Nisbet Narrator: Chris Abernathy Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707706 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America Author: Jack Nisbet Narrator: Chris Abernathy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The awe-inspiring story of explorer David Thompson, whose expeditions helped shape western North America In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet recreates the life and times of David Thompson—fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the what is now British Columbia, Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Thompson was the first person to chart the entire route of the Columbia river, and his wilderness expeditions have become the stuff of legend. Jack Nisbet tracks the explorer across the continent, interweaving his own observations with Thompson's historical writings. The result is a fascinating story of two men discovering the Northwest territory almost two hundred years apart.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/living-the-beatles-legend-on-the-road-with-the-fab-four-the-mal-evans-story-by-kenneth-womack--65146469https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693828 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Living the Beatles Legend: On the Road with the Fab Four – The Mal Evans Story Author: Kenneth Womack Narrator: Kenneth Womack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: **MiCannes Award Music Book of the Year** The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved roadie, assistant, confidant and friend A towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Malcolm ‘Mal’ Evans was an invaluable member of the Beatles’ inner circle. Serving as their long-time roadie, personal assistant and protector, he was a sometime lyricist, occasional performer and regular fixer at the height of the group’s fame and beyond. But Mal’s dedication to his beloved ‘boys’ and his own desire for stardom took its toll, leading to the dissolution of his marriage and his untimely death in January 1976. Until now, Mal’s extraordinary life has remained shrouded in mystery. Drawing on hundreds of exclusive interviews and with full access to Mal’s unpublished archives – including his personal diaries, manuscripts and memorabilia – renowned Beatles scholar Kenneth Womack paints the first complete portrait of this complicated figure at the heart of the Beatles’ story. Living the Beatles Legend is a fascinating but ultimately tragic tale about life at the edges of superstardom.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693828Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693828 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Living the Beatles Legend: On the Road with the Fab Four – The Mal Evans Story Author: Kenneth Womack Narrator: Kenneth Womack Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693828 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Living the Beatles Legend: On the Road with the Fab Four – The Mal Evans Story Author: Kenneth Womack Narrator: Kenneth Womack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: **MiCannes Award Music Book of the Year** The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved roadie, assistant, confidant and friend A towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Malcolm ‘Mal’ Evans was an invaluable member of the Beatles’ inner circle. Serving as their long-time roadie, personal assistant and protector, he was a sometime lyricist, occasional performer and regular fixer at the height of the group’s fame and beyond. But Mal’s dedication to his beloved ‘boys’ and his own desire for stardom took its toll, leading to the dissolution of his marriage and his untimely death in January 1976. Until now, Mal’s extraordinary life has remained shrouded in mystery. Drawing on hundreds of exclusive interviews and with full access to Mal’s unpublished archives – including his personal diaries, manuscripts and memorabilia – renowned Beatles scholar Kenneth Womack paints the first complete portrait of this complicated figure at the heart of the Beatles’ story. Living the Beatles Legend is a fascinating but ultimately tragic tale about life at the edges of superstardom.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/by-the-ghost-light-wars-memory-and-families-by-r-h-thomson--65146559https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families Author: R.H. Thomson Narrator: R.H. Thomson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From one of Canada’s most beloved performing artists comes an audacious work of non-fiction that explores the stories that shape us and the reach that the past can have across generations. Growing up north of Toronto, R.H. Thomson’s imagination was captured by romantic notions of war. He spent his days playing with toy soldiers on the carpet of his grandmother’s house, recreating the Battle of Britain with model planes in his bedroom, or sitting at the local theatre watching World War II B movies—ones that offered a very clear perspective on who were the heroes and who the villains; which side were the victors and which the vanquished.     Yet Thomson’s childhood was also shaped by the spirits of real-life warriors in his family, their fates a brutal and more complicated reminder of the true human cost of war. Eight of Robert’s great uncles—George, Joe, Jack, Harold, Arthur, Warren, Wildy, and Fred—fought in the First World War, while his great Aunt Margaret served as a wartime surgical nurse in Europe. Five of the great uncles—George, Joe, Fred, Wildy, and Warren—were killed in battle while two others—Jack and Harold—would return home greatly diminished, spending the rest of their lives in and out of sanitariums, their lungs scarred by disease and poison gas. Throughout their lives, the great uncles, as well as great aunts and cousins, were faithful letter writers, their correspondence offering profound insights into their experiences on the front lines to their loved ones back home, a somber record of the sacrifice the family paid.     In By the Ghost Light, R.H. Thomson offers an extraordinary look at his family’s history while providing a powerful examination of how we understand war and its aftermath. Using his family letters as a starting point, Thomson roams through a century of folly, touching on areas of military history, art, literature, and science, to express the tragic human cost of war behind the order and calm of ceremonial parades, memorials, and monuments. In an urgent call for new ways to acknowledge the dead, R.H. has created “The World Remembers,” an ambitious international project to individually name each of the millions killed in the First World War.     Epic in its scope and incredibly intimate in its exploration of lives touched by the tragedy of war, By the Ghost Light is a truly original book that will challenge the way we approach our history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676748Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families Author: R.H. Thomson Narrator: R.H. Thomson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 23 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families Author: R.H. Thomson Narrator: R.H. Thomson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From one of Canada’s most beloved performing artists comes an audacious work of non-fiction that explores the stories that shape us and the reach that the past can have across generations. Growing up north of Toronto, R.H. Thomson’s imagination was captured by romantic notions of war. He spent his days playing with toy soldiers on the carpet of his grandmother’s house, recreating the Battle of Britain with model planes in his bedroom, or sitting at the local theatre watching World War II B movies—ones that offered a very clear perspective on who were the heroes and who the villains; which side were the victors and which the vanquished.     Yet Thomson’s childhood was also shaped by the spirits of real-life warriors in his family, their fates a brutal and more complicated reminder of the true human cost of war. Eight of Robert’s great uncles—George, Joe, Jack, Harold, Arthur, Warren, Wildy, and Fred—fought in the First World War, while his great Aunt Margaret served as a wartime surgical nurse in Europe. Five of the great uncles—George, Joe, Fred, Wildy, and Warren—were killed in battle while two others—Jack and Harold—would return home greatly diminished, spending the rest of their lives in and out of sanitariums, their lungs scarred by disease and poison gas. Throughout their lives, the great uncles, as well as great aunts and cousins, were faithful letter writers, their correspondence offering profound insights into their experiences on the front lines to their loved ones back home, a somber record of the sacrifice the family paid.     In By the Ghost Light, R.H. Thomson offers an extraordinary look at his family’s history while providing a powerful examination of how we understand war and its aftermath. Using his family letters as a starting point, Thomson roams through a century of folly, touching on areas of military history, art, literature, and science, to express the tragic human cost of war behind the order and calm of ceremonial parades, memorials, and monuments. In an urgent call for new ways to acknowledge the dead, R.H. has created “The World Remembers,” an ambitious international project to individually name each of the millions killed in the First World War.     Epic in its scope and incredibly intimate in its exploration of lives touched by the tragedy of war, By the Ghost Light is a truly original book that will challenge the way we approach our history.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-worst-thing-we-ve-ever-done-one-juror-s-reckoning-with-racial-injustice-by-carol-menaker--65146491https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Worst Thing We've Ever Done: One Juror's Reckoning With Racial Injustice Author: Carol Menaker Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In May of 1976, twenty-four-year-old Carol Menaker was impaneled with eleven others on a jury in the trial of Freddy Burton, a young Black prison inmate charged with the grisly murders of two white wardens inside Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. After being sequestered for twenty-one days, the jury voted to convict Mr. Burton, who was then sentenced to life in prison without parole. For more than forty years, Menaker did what she could to put the intensely emotional experience of the sequestration and trial behind her, rarely speaking of it to others and avoiding jury service when at all possible. But the arrival of a jury summons at her home in Northern California in 2017 set her on a path to unravel the painful experience of sequestration and finally ask the question: What ever happened to Freddy Burton—and is it possible that my youth and white privilege were what led me to convict him of murder? The Worst Thing We've Ever Done is Menaker's inspirational account of journeying back in time to uncover the personal bias that may have led her to judge someone whose shoes she never could have walked in.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710687Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Worst Thing We've Ever Done: One Juror's Reckoning With Racial Injustice Author: Carol Menaker Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Worst Thing We've Ever Done: One Juror's Reckoning With Racial Injustice Author: Carol Menaker Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In May of 1976, twenty-four-year-old Carol Menaker was impaneled with eleven others on a jury in the trial of Freddy Burton, a young Black prison inmate charged with the grisly murders of two white wardens inside Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. After being sequestered for twenty-one days, the jury voted to convict Mr. Burton, who was then sentenced to life in prison without parole. For more than forty years, Menaker did what she could to put the intensely emotional experience of the sequestration and trial behind her, rarely speaking of it to others and avoiding jury service when at all possible. But the arrival of a jury summons at her home in Northern California in 2017 set her on a path to unravel the painful experience of sequestration and finally ask the question: What ever happened to Freddy Burton—and is it possible that my youth and white privilege were what led me to convict him of murder? The Worst Thing We've Ever Done is Menaker's inspirational account of journeying back in time to uncover the personal bias that may have led her to judge someone whose shoes she never could have walked in.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-new-universal-dream-my-journey-from-silicon-valley-to-a-life-in-service-to-humanity-by-steve-farrell--65146470https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A New Universal Dream: My Journey from Silicon Valley to a Life in Service to Humanity Author: Steve Farrell Narrator: Asa Siegel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the 1990s, Steve Farrell cofounded and led two high-growth technology companies based in Silicon Valley that were featured in the INC500 and spanned the United States and Europe. A New Universal Dream is the inspiring story of Steve's journey from the pursuit of wealth and traditional ideas of success toward a more fulfilling life of caring and service to others and to humanity. It's also the story of the potential each of us has for profound change and the power we all hold to open ourselves ever deeper to the Oneness of all things and to evolve consciously toward the highest versions of ourselves. This book will arm you with ideas, tools, a roadmap to greater awareness, and hope for the future as you become a more conscious leader in your family, workplace, and community while helping to create a better world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710743Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A New Universal Dream: My Journey from Silicon Valley to a Life in Service to Humanity Author: Steve Farrell Narrator: Asa Siegel Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A New Universal Dream: My Journey from Silicon Valley to a Life in Service to Humanity Author: Steve Farrell Narrator: Asa Siegel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the 1990s, Steve Farrell cofounded and led two high-growth technology companies based in Silicon Valley that were featured in the INC500 and spanned the United States and Europe. A New Universal Dream is the inspiring story of Steve's journey from the pursuit of wealth and traditional ideas of success toward a more fulfilling life of caring and service to others and to humanity. It's also the story of the potential each of us has for profound change and the power we all hold to open ourselves ever deeper to the Oneness of all things and to evolve consciously toward the highest versions of ourselves. This book will arm you with ideas, tools, a roadmap to greater awareness, and hope for the future as you become a more conscious leader in your family, workplace, and community while helping to create a better world.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mary-queen-of-scots-by-liam-dale--65146443https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary Queen of Scots Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Delve into the captivating life and times of Mary Stuart of Scotland in "Mary Queen of Scots: The True Story of the Life & Time of Mary Stuart of Scotland." Among the few women in history who have endured the trials of time, the ill-fated tale of Mary Queen of Scots continues to captivate and intrigue. This 16th-century figure's story is one of enduring interest, a narrative that has woven its way through the centuries. Who was Mary Stuart, and how did her life shape the history of Great Britain? Uncover the intricate tale of her tumultuous relationship with her cousin, Elizabeth I of England, a relationship that ultimately sealed her tragic fate. In different circumstances, these two women might have been allies, but the course of events led to a very different outcome. When the Queen of England signed Mary's death warrant, the Queen of Scots, clothed in blood-red, faced her final moments beneath the executioner's axe. The saga of Mary Stuart serves as a riveting chapter in history, and this exploration provides a glimpse into the complexities of her life and her enduring impact on the annals of history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711674Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary Queen of Scots Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mary Queen of Scots Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Delve into the captivating life and times of Mary Stuart of Scotland in "Mary Queen of Scots: The True Story of the Life & Time of Mary Stuart of Scotland." Among the few women in history who have endured the trials of time, the ill-fated tale of Mary Queen of Scots continues to captivate and intrigue. This 16th-century figure's story is one of enduring interest, a narrative that has woven its way through the centuries. Who was Mary Stuart, and how did her life shape the history of Great Britain? Uncover the intricate tale of her tumultuous relationship with her cousin, Elizabeth I of England, a relationship that ultimately sealed her tragic fate. In different circumstances, these two women might have been allies, but the course of events led to a very different outcome. When the Queen of England signed Mary's death warrant, the Queen of Scots, clothed in blood-red, faced her final moments beneath the executioner's axe. The saga of Mary Stuart serves as a riveting chapter in history, and this exploration provides a glimpse into the complexities of her life and her enduring impact on the annals of history.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/marty-glickman-the-life-of-an-american-jewish-sports-legend-by-jeffrey-s-gurock--65146442https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend Author: Jeffrey S. Gurock Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For close to half a century after World War II, Marty Glickman was the voice of New York sports. His distinctive style of broadcasting, on television and especially on the radio, garnered for him legions of fans who would not miss his play-by-play accounts. His vocabulary and method of broadcasting left an indelible mark on the industry, and many of today's most famous sportscasters were Glickman disciples. In Marty Glickman, Jeffrey S. Gurock showcases the life of this important contributor to American popular culture. In addition to the stories of how he became a master of American sports airwaves, Marty Glickman has also been remembered as a Jewish athlete who, a decade before he sat in front of a microphone, was cynically barred from running in a signature track event in the 1936 Olympics by anti-Semitic American Olympic officials. This lively biography details this traumatic event and explores not only how he coped for decades with that painful rejection but also examines how he dealt with other anti-Semitic and cultural obstacles that threatened to stymie his career. Marty Glickman is a story of adversity and triumph, of sports and minority group struggles, told within the context of the prejudicial barriers that were common to thousands, if not millions, of fellow Jews of his generation as they aimed to make it in America.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707713Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend Author: Jeffrey S. Gurock Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend Author: Jeffrey S. Gurock Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For close to half a century after World War II, Marty Glickman was the voice of New York sports. His distinctive style of broadcasting, on television and especially on the radio, garnered for him legions of fans who would not miss his play-by-play accounts. His vocabulary and method of broadcasting left an indelible mark on the industry, and many of today's most famous sportscasters were Glickman disciples. In Marty Glickman, Jeffrey S. Gurock showcases the life of this important contributor to American popular culture. In addition to the stories of how he became a master of American sports airwaves, Marty Glickman has also been remembered as a Jewish athlete who, a decade before he sat in front of a microphone, was cynically barred from running in a signature track event in the 1936 Olympics by anti-Semitic American Olympic officials. This lively biography details this traumatic event and explores not only how he coped for decades with that painful rejection but also examines how he dealt with other anti-Semitic and cultural obstacles that threatened to stymie his career. Marty Glickman is a story of adversity and triumph, of sports and minority group struggles, told within the context of the prejudicial barriers that were common to thousands, if not millions, of fellow Jews of his generation as they aimed to make it in America.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/princess-diana-by-liam-dale--65146441https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Princess Diana Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Explore the captivating life of Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales, through "Princess Diana: The True Story of the Life and Time of Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales". If you're curious about Princess Diana but don't have the time to dive into extensive biographies, let The History Journals take you on an hour-by-hour historical journey of her remarkable life. While fairy tales promise happily-ever-afters, real life often takes unexpected turns. Even amidst the spotlight of modern media, reality rarely unfolds exactly as planned. Such was the reality of Diana Spencer's life. Her journey was far from conventional, and her untimely death marked a poignant chapter in royal family history. However, as the years have passed, Diana's memory has transcended her lifetime, continuing to inspire each new generation. This hourly history tour offers a succinct yet insightful glimpse into the life of a woman whose impact and legacy have endured beyond her years.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711673Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Princess Diana Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Princess Diana Author: Liam Dale Narrator: Liam Dale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Explore the captivating life of Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales, through "Princess Diana: The True Story of the Life and Time of Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales". If you're curious about Princess Diana but don't have the time to dive into extensive biographies, let The History Journals take you on an hour-by-hour historical journey of her remarkable life. While fairy tales promise happily-ever-afters, real life often takes unexpected turns. Even amidst the spotlight of modern media, reality rarely unfolds exactly as planned. Such was the reality of Diana Spencer's life. Her journey was far from conventional, and her untimely death marked a poignant chapter in royal family history. However, as the years have passed, Diana's memory has transcended her lifetime, continuing to inspire each new generation. This hourly history tour offers a succinct yet insightful glimpse into the life of a woman whose impact and legacy have endured beyond her years.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rasputin-by-raphael-terra--65146433https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711676 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rasputin Author: Raphael Terra Narrator: Raphael Terra Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS). It was a time of spiritualism. A world full of myth, mystery and mysticism. The people were open to the possibilities of life after death, supernatural powers and magic. Into this world stepped a fascinating wizard of the mind and his name was Rasputin. Great powers to heal the sick, to save the wretched, prophesy the future and to bring on fits of spiritual excitement. He was a god of hypnosis and mesmerism and a master of trickery and magic. Mad monk, mystic, prophet, man of God or con-man? Rasputin's evil eyes stare at us across the generations as a warning shot to all those who would believe without question the words of a self-proclaimed spiritual man.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711676Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711676 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rasputin Author: Raphael Terra Narrator: Raphael Terra Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711676 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rasputin Author: Raphael Terra Narrator: Raphael Terra Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS). It was a time of spiritualism. A world full of myth, mystery and mysticism. The people were open to the possibilities of life after death, supernatural powers and magic. Into this world stepped a fascinating wizard of the mind and his name was Rasputin. Great powers to heal the sick, to save the wretched, prophesy the future and to bring on fits of spiritual excitement. He was a god of hypnosis and mesmerism and a master of trickery and magic. Mad monk, mystic, prophet, man of God or con-man? Rasputin's evil eyes stare at us across the generations as a warning shot to all those who would believe without question the words of a self-proclaimed spiritual man.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-trials-of-madame-restell-nineteenth-century-america-s-most-infamous-female-physician-and-the-campaign-to-make-abortion-a-crime-by-nicho--65146428https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705375 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime Author: Nicholas L. Syrett Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, “Madame Restell,” the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth-control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City. It was the abortions that made her famous. “Restellism” became the term her detractors used to indict her. Restell began practicing when abortion was largely unregulated in most of the United States, including New York. But as a sense of disquiet arose about single women flocking to the city for work, greater sexual freedoms, changing views of the roles of motherhood and childhood, and fewer children being born to white, married, middle-class women, Restell came to stand for everything that threatened the status quo. From 1829 onward, restrictions on abortion began to put Restell in legal jeopardy. For much of this period, she prevailed—until she didn’t. A story that is all too relevant to the current attempts to criminalize abortion in our own age, The Trials of Madame Restell paints an unforgettable picture of the changing society of nineteenth-century New York and brings Restell to the attention of a whole new generation of women whose fundamental rights are under siege.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705375Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705375 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime Author: Nicholas L....https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705375 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime Author: Nicholas L. Syrett Narrator: Madeleine Maby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, “Madame Restell,” the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in America, sold birth-control medication, attended women during their pregnancies, delivered their children, and performed abortions in a series of clinics run out of her home in New York City. It was the abortions that made her famous. “Restellism” became the term her detractors used to indict her. Restell began practicing when abortion was largely unregulated in most of the United States, including New York. But as a sense of disquiet arose about single women flocking to the city for work, greater sexual freedoms, changing views of the roles of motherhood and childhood, and fewer children being born to white, married, middle-class women, Restell came to stand for everything that threatened the status quo. From 1829 onward, restrictions on abortion began to put Restell in legal jeopardy. For much of this period, she prevailed—until she didn’t. A story that is all too relevant to the current attempts to criminalize abortion in our own age, The Trials of Madame Restell paints an unforgettable picture of the changing society of nineteenth-century New York and brings Restell to the attention of a whole new generation of women whose fundamental rights are under siege.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-tourist-what-happens-on-tour-stays-on-tour-until-now-by-phil-tufnell--65146502https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692678 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tourist: What happens on tour stays on tour … until now! Author: Phil Tufnell Narrator: Rupert Farley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 What Goes on Tour, Stays on Tour…Until Now! As a cricketer, broadcaster and celebrity jungle-dweller, Phil Tufnell has travelled the world far and wide. From the great cricket tours of Australia and South Africa to his equally memorable jaunts to Benidorm and Blackpool, Phil has spent much of his life living out of a suitcase, meeting a host of colourful and memorable characters along the way. The Tourist takes you out on the road, into the dressing room and behind the scenes of the commentary box to reveal just what really happens on Tour. Did Phil once push a baby grand piano down the stairs of a plush hotel? Did he accidentally eat a rat? Was he blamed for England being bowled out for 46 against the West Indies without even being in the team? There’s only one way to find out… It’s time to take a hilarious trip across the world with one of our most treasured sports personalities.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692678Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692678 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tourist: What happens on tour stays on tour … until now! Author: Phil Tufnell Narrator: Rupert Farley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692678 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tourist: What happens on tour stays on tour … until now! Author: Phil Tufnell Narrator: Rupert Farley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 What Goes on Tour, Stays on Tour…Until Now! As a cricketer, broadcaster and celebrity jungle-dweller, Phil Tufnell has travelled the world far and wide. From the great cricket tours of Australia and South Africa to his equally memorable jaunts to Benidorm and Blackpool, Phil has spent much of his life living out of a suitcase, meeting a host of colourful and memorable characters along the way. The Tourist takes you out on the road, into the dressing room and behind the scenes of the commentary box to reveal just what really happens on Tour. Did Phil once push a baby grand piano down the stairs of a plush hotel? Did he accidentally eat a rat? Was he blamed for England being bowled out for 46 against the West Indies without even being in the team? There’s only one way to find out… It’s time to take a hilarious trip across the world with one of our most treasured sports personalities.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jan-morris-life-from-both-sides-by-paul-clements--65146595https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jan Morris: Life From Both Sides Author: Paul Clements Narrator: Graham Mack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When Jan Morris passed away in 2020, she was considered one of Britain's best-loved writers. The author of Venice, Pax Britannica, Conundrum, and more than fifty other books, her work was known for its observational genius, lyricism, and humor, and had earned her a passionate readership around the world. Born James Humphry Morris in 1926, a childhood spent amidst Oxford's Gothic beauty and military service in Italy and the Middle East were followed by a career as an internationally feted foreign correspondent. From being the only journalist to join the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 to covering the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Morris's reportage spanned many of the twentieth century's defining moments. However, public success masked a private dilemma that was only resolved when she transitioned genders in the late 1960s, becoming renowned as a transgender pioneer. She went on to live happily with her wife Elizabeth in Wales for another five decades, and never stopped writing and publishing. Here, for the first time, the many strands of Morris's rich life are brought together, portraying a person of extraordinary talent, curiosity, and joie de vivre.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689642Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jan Morris: Life From Both Sides Author: Paul Clements Narrator: Graham Mack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 3 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jan Morris: Life From Both Sides Author: Paul Clements Narrator: Graham Mack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When Jan Morris passed away in 2020, she was considered one of Britain's best-loved writers. The author of Venice, Pax Britannica, Conundrum, and more than fifty other books, her work was known for its observational genius, lyricism, and humor, and had earned her a passionate readership around the world. Born James Humphry Morris in 1926, a childhood spent amidst Oxford's Gothic beauty and military service in Italy and the Middle East were followed by a career as an internationally feted foreign correspondent. From being the only journalist to join the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 to covering the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Morris's reportage spanned many of the twentieth century's defining moments. However, public success masked a private dilemma that was only resolved when she transitioned genders in the late 1960s, becoming renowned as a transgender pioneer. She went on to live happily with her wife Elizabeth in Wales for another five decades, and never stopped writing and publishing. Here, for the first time, the many strands of Morris's rich life are brought together, portraying a person of extraordinary talent, curiosity, and joie de vivre.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fool-in-search-of-henry-viii-s-closest-man-by-peter-k-andersson--65146584https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man Author: Peter K. Andersson Narrator: Mike Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In some portraits of Henry VIII there appears another figure—a gaunt and morose-looking man with a shaved head. This is William or 'Will' Somer, the king's fool, a celebrated wit who reportedly could raise Henry's spirits and spent many hours with him. Was Somer an 'artificial fool,' a cunning comic who could speak freely in front of the king, or a 'natural fool,' someone with intellectual disabilities, like many other members of the profession? Fool is the first biography of Somer—and perhaps the first of a Renaissance fool. After his death, Somer disappeared, and historians struggled to separate myth from reality. Unearthing as many facts as possible, Peter K. Andersson pieces together the fullest picture yet of an enigmatic and unusual man with a strange job. Somer's story provides new insights into how fools lived and what they did for a living, how monarchs and courtiers related to commoners and people with disabilities, and whether aspects of the Renaissance fool live on in the modern comedian. But most of all, we learn how a commoner without property or education managed to become the court's chief mascot and a continuous presence at the center of Tudor power. Fool reveals a little-known world, surprising and disturbing, when comedy was something crueler and more unpleasant than we like to think.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690770Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man Author: Peter K. Andersson Narrator: Mike Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man Author: Peter K. Andersson Narrator: Mike Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In some portraits of Henry VIII there appears another figure—a gaunt and morose-looking man with a shaved head. This is William or 'Will' Somer, the king's fool, a celebrated wit who reportedly could raise Henry's spirits and spent many hours with him. Was Somer an 'artificial fool,' a cunning comic who could speak freely in front of the king, or a 'natural fool,' someone with intellectual disabilities, like many other members of the profession? Fool is the first biography of Somer—and perhaps the first of a Renaissance fool. After his death, Somer disappeared, and historians struggled to separate myth from reality. Unearthing as many facts as possible, Peter K. Andersson pieces together the fullest picture yet of an enigmatic and unusual man with a strange job. Somer's story provides new insights into how fools lived and what they did for a living, how monarchs and courtiers related to commoners and people with disabilities, and whether aspects of the Renaissance fool live on in the modern comedian. But most of all, we learn how a commoner without property or education managed to become the court's chief mascot and a continuous presence at the center of Tudor power. Fool reveals a little-known world, surprising and disturbing, when comedy was something crueler and more unpleasant than we like to think.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-my-ghost-sings-a-memoir-of-stroke-recovery-and-transformation-by-tara-sidhoo-fraser--65146548https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707698 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation Author: Tara Sidhoo Fraser Narrator: Jeed Saddy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated. Tara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-one years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after surgery with no memory of her previous life, she attempts to piece it all back together through a haze of amnesia. Yet, as memories do begin to surface, they are seen through someone else's eyes—the person whose body she stole, whom she calls Ghost. Fighting to stabilize her existence, Tara struggles with the gulf between who she was and who she is now, while constantly battling and paying penance to Ghost. She meets Jude, who is also contending with their identity, the gap between who they are and who they present to the world. As Jude's transition progresses and they begin testosterone injections, Tara's conflict with Ghost heightens. Ghost's voice becomes stronger, and memories of hospital visits, old desires, and her ex threaten Tara's new relationship. She burrows deeper into the mystery of who she once was, recognizing the need to fuse herself and Ghost into one. When My Ghost Sings is a lyrical memoir of healing, a farewell letter, and an embracing/reclamation of selfhood.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707698Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707698 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation Author: Tara Sidhoo Fraser Narrator: Jeed Saddy Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707698 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation Author: Tara Sidhoo Fraser Narrator: Jeed Saddy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated. Tara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-one years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after surgery with no memory of her previous life, she attempts to piece it all back together through a haze of amnesia. Yet, as memories do begin to surface, they are seen through someone else's eyes—the person whose body she stole, whom she calls Ghost. Fighting to stabilize her existence, Tara struggles with the gulf between who she was and who she is now, while constantly battling and paying penance to Ghost. She meets Jude, who is also contending with their identity, the gap between who they are and who they present to the world. As Jude's transition progresses and they begin testosterone injections, Tara's conflict with Ghost heightens. Ghost's voice becomes stronger, and memories of hospital visits, old desires, and her ex threaten Tara's new relationship. She burrows deeper into the mystery of who she once was, recognizing the need to fuse herself and Ghost into one. When My Ghost Sings is a lyrical memoir of healing, a farewell letter, and an embracing/reclamation of selfhood.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/first-to-leave-the-party-my-life-with-ordinary-people-who-happen-to-be-famous-by-salah-bachir--65146574https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First to Leave the Party: My Life with Ordinary People... Who Happen to be Famous Author: Salah Bachir Narrator: Ann-Marie MacDonald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A marvelous and compulsively readable collection of stories from the life of Salah Bachir — philanthropist, art collector, movie industry insider — who, through his sheer joy of life, art, giving back, and human interaction, has endeared him to some of the most famous and creative people in recent times. Salah Bachir’s encounters with stars who have passed through his beloved Toronto over the years opens on a backyard garden barbecue with Marlon Brando, and bread continues to be broken with icons as fascinating and seemingly disparate as Muhammad Ali and Liberace, Margaret Atwood and Cesar Chavez, Andy Warhol and Princess Margaret, to name just a few. But the true literary coup is that the biggest, brightest star we encounter is the author himself.                                                                         Alan Cumming Salah is the patron saint for all of us who are full of curiosity, hungry for celebration, horny for fun, and who won’t stop until every need is fulfilled. His appetite and passion for life is voracious. His ability to transform those passions into making life better for others is even more impressive.                                                       Atom Egoyan Salah Bachir, who immigrated to Canada from Lebanon in the 1960s, has been a gay activist who has worked in the film world for over four decades. While this has given him undeniable front-row access to Hollywood’s biggest stars, it is Salah’s personal charm and kindness, his philanthropy, his overall style (think hats, scarves, brooches, pearls, diamonds) and deep involvement in the art world that has made him a friend, companion, confidante, and/or lover to so many — including Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Joan Rivers, Mary Tyler Moore, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Edward Albee, Orson Welles, Aretha Franklin, Norman Jewison, and Elizabeth Taylor — although it’s true that Katharine Hepburn once turned him down, very nicely. Collected here in this wonderful book are personal stories of them all — some short, some long, some surprising, others juicy, and all fascinating. Through them we get to know Salah, a larger-than-life character that embodies the many worlds he shapes — the kind of person it would be hard to make up if he didn’t already exist.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676745Tue, 17 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First to Leave the Party: My Life with Ordinary People... Who Happen to be Famous Author: Salah Bachir Narrator: Ann-Marie MacDonald Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First to Leave the Party: My Life with Ordinary People... Who Happen to be Famous Author: Salah Bachir Narrator: Ann-Marie MacDonald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A marvelous and compulsively readable collection of stories from the life of Salah Bachir — philanthropist, art collector, movie industry insider — who, through his sheer joy of life, art, giving back, and human interaction, has endeared him to some of the most famous and creative people in recent times. Salah Bachir’s encounters with stars who have passed through his beloved Toronto over the years opens on a backyard garden barbecue with Marlon Brando, and bread continues to be broken with icons as fascinating and seemingly disparate as Muhammad Ali and Liberace, Margaret Atwood and Cesar Chavez, Andy Warhol and Princess Margaret, to name just a few. But the true literary coup is that the biggest, brightest star we encounter is the author himself.                                                                         Alan Cumming Salah is the patron saint for all of us who are full of curiosity, hungry for celebration, horny for fun, and who won’t stop until every need is fulfilled. His appetite and passion for life is voracious. His ability to transform those passions into making life better for others is even more impressive.                                                       Atom Egoyan Salah Bachir, who immigrated to Canada from Lebanon in the 1960s, has been a gay activist who has worked in the film world for over four decades. While this has given him undeniable front-row access to Hollywood’s biggest stars, it is Salah’s personal charm and kindness, his philanthropy, his overall style (think hats, scarves, brooches, pearls, diamonds) and deep involvement in the art world that has made him a friend, companion, confidante, and/or lover to so many — including Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Joan Rivers, Mary Tyler Moore, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Edward Albee, Orson Welles, Aretha Franklin, Norman Jewison, and Elizabeth Taylor — although it’s true that Katharine Hepburn once turned him down, very nicely. Collected here in this wonderful book are personal stories of them all — some short, some long, some surprising, others juicy, and all fascinating. Through them we get to know Salah, a larger-than-life character that embodies the many worlds he shapes — the kind of person it would be hard to make up if he didn’t already exist.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wild-mandrake-a-memoir-by-jason-jobin--65146533https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wild Mandrake: A Memoir Author: Jason Jobin Narrator: Alex Mortensen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home at age nineteen, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through, surrounded by friends and family but isolated by illness. Chemotherapy, surgeries, radiation—these persist, but they aren't the milestones of his life. They can't be, he won't let them be. From helicoptering into the Yukon backcountry to teaching in an elite writing program, Jason strives to enter adulthood with some normalcy, but his is the life of 'a special case.' And he does live. He lives working at a deli for minimum wage as his students come down the hill to shop and ask what he's doing there. He lives measuring out nausea pills and benzos while his roommates drink and smoke and party. He lives lying to girlfriends about past diagnoses because what can you say? What do you build on rubble? He lives high and low and in between. Again he is sick, again he is cured. It's miraculous. A great gift. But never enough. Told in short glimpses, this story redefines what it means to survive. Jobin brings together the illuminated moments of loss and joy as he navigates chronic illness and builds from it something new and wildly unexpected.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702800Tue, 17 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wild Mandrake: A Memoir Author: Jason Jobin Narrator: Alex Mortensen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wild Mandrake: A Memoir Author: Jason Jobin Narrator: Alex Mortensen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home at age nineteen, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through, surrounded by friends and family but isolated by illness. Chemotherapy, surgeries, radiation—these persist, but they aren't the milestones of his life. They can't be, he won't let them be. From helicoptering into the Yukon backcountry to teaching in an elite writing program, Jason strives to enter adulthood with some normalcy, but his is the life of 'a special case.' And he does live. He lives working at a deli for minimum wage as his students come down the hill to shop and ask what he's doing there. He lives measuring out nausea pills and benzos while his roommates drink and smoke and party. He lives lying to girlfriends about past diagnoses because what can you say? What do you build on rubble? He lives high and low and in between. Again he is sick, again he is cured. It's miraculous. A great gift. But never enough. Told in short glimpses, this story redefines what it means to survive. Jobin brings together the illuminated moments of loss and joy as he navigates chronic illness and builds from it something new and wildly unexpected.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/for-the-boys-the-true-account-of-a-combat-nurse-in-patton-s-third-army-by-n-c-r-davis--65146513https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699660 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For the Boys: The True Account of a Combat Nurse in Patton's Third Army Author: N.C.R. Davis Narrator: Dara Rosenberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 7, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A month after her 24th birthday, Lt. Mary Elizabeth Balster collapses among the rubble of a shelled supply room. On the night of November 30, 1944, holed up in the Heinrich Himmler Barracks in Morhange, France, Lt. Balster's evac receives a typical patient load, but this time one of the admissions is a 19-year-old tanker she'd nursed back to health five months before in Normandy. The charge nurse on Surgical gently informs the lieutenant that the private is critical. Rising determined to save him, Balster limps toward the shelled supply room determined to search for any blood plasma bottles still intact. Recaptured from her mother's reminiscences and letters home, N. C. R. Davis takes listeners through every heat-of-battle harrowing moment as Balster lived it, achieving a rare glimpse of one nurse's point of view during the latter part of the European conflict. The book mixes Lt. Balster's observations, memories, and dreams to tell the story of a richly rebellious woman trying to navigate her life while nursing wounded and dying frontline soldiers. Her strong-willed, beguiling personality fosters the grit necessary for her success as a combat nurse, but these same characteristics cause two men to fall in love with her. And the personal cost of war comes to a heartrending conclusion, as she must choose one man over the other.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699660Sat, 07 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699660 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For the Boys: The True Account of a Combat Nurse in Patton's Third Army Author: N.C.R. Davis Narrator: Dara Rosenberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699660 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For the Boys: The True Account of a Combat Nurse in Patton's Third Army Author: N.C.R. Davis Narrator: Dara Rosenberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 7, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A month after her 24th birthday, Lt. Mary Elizabeth Balster collapses among the rubble of a shelled supply room. On the night of November 30, 1944, holed up in the Heinrich Himmler Barracks in Morhange, France, Lt. Balster's evac receives a typical patient load, but this time one of the admissions is a 19-year-old tanker she'd nursed back to health five months before in Normandy. The charge nurse on Surgical gently informs the lieutenant that the private is critical. Rising determined to save him, Balster limps toward the shelled supply room determined to search for any blood plasma bottles still intact. Recaptured from her mother's reminiscences and letters home, N. C. R. Davis takes listeners through every heat-of-battle harrowing moment as Balster lived it, achieving a rare glimpse of one nurse's point of view during the latter part of the European conflict. The book mixes Lt. Balster's observations, memories, and dreams to tell the story of a richly rebellious woman trying to navigate her life while nursing wounded and dying frontline soldiers. Her strong-willed, beguiling personality fosters the grit necessary for her success as a combat nurse, but these same characteristics cause two men to fall in love with her. And the personal cost of war comes to a heartrending conclusion, as she must choose one man over the other.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bennelong-and-phillip-a-history-unravelled-by-kate-fullagar--65146539https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled Author: Kate Fullagar Narrator: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The first joint biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Winner of the 2024 ACT Literary Awards, Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award, Australian History Shortlisted for the 2024 NSW History Award, Australian History Prize and NSW Community and Regional History Prize Shortlisted for the 2024 Age Book of the Year, Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2024 Ernest Scott Prize Shortlisted for the 2024 Magarey Medal for Biography 2023 Australian Book Review Books of the Year 2023 Sydney Morning Herald Best Reads of the Year   Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Australians, Phillip the colony’s first governor, and Bennelong the Yiyura leader. The pair have come to represent the conflict that flared and has never settled.   Fullagar’s account is also the first full biography of Bennelong of any kind and it challenges many misconceptions, among them that he became alienated from his people and that Phillip was a paragon of Enlightenment benevolence. It tells the story of the men’s marriages, including Bennelong’s best-known wife, Barangaroo, and Phillip’s unusual domestic arrangements, and places the period in the context of the Aboriginal world and the demands of empire.   To present this history afresh, Bennelong & Phillip relates events in reverse, moving beyond the limitations of typical Western ways of writing about the past, which have long privileged the coloniser over the colonised. Bennelong’s world was hardly linear at all, and in Fullagar’s approach his and Phillip’s histories now share an equally unfamiliar framing.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684881Tue, 03 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled Author: Kate Fullagar Narrator: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled Author: Kate Fullagar Narrator: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The first joint biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Winner of the 2024 ACT Literary Awards, Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award, Australian History Shortlisted for the 2024 NSW History Award, Australian History Prize and NSW Community and Regional History Prize Shortlisted for the 2024 Age Book of the Year, Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2024 Ernest Scott Prize Shortlisted for the 2024 Magarey Medal for Biography 2023 Australian Book Review Books of the Year 2023 Sydney Morning Herald Best Reads of the Year   Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Australians, Phillip the colony’s first governor, and Bennelong the Yiyura leader. The pair have come to represent the conflict that flared and has never settled.   Fullagar’s account is also the first full biography of Bennelong of any kind and it challenges many misconceptions, among them that he became alienated from his people and that Phillip was a paragon of Enlightenment benevolence. It tells the story of the men’s marriages, including Bennelong’s best-known wife, Barangaroo, and Phillip’s unusual domestic arrangements, and places the period in the context of the Aboriginal world and the demands of empire.   To present this history afresh, Bennelong & Phillip relates events in reverse, moving beyond the limitations of typical Western ways of writing about the past, which have long privileged the coloniser over the colonised. Bennelong’s world was hardly linear at all, and in Fullagar’s approach his and Phillip’s histories now share an equally unfamiliar framing.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/where-the-falcon-flies-a-3-400-kilometre-odyssey-from-my-doorstep-to-the-arctic-by-adam-shoalts--65146511https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695064 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic Author: Adam Shoalts Narrator: Adam Shoalts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 SPEAKER'S BOOK AWARD From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastness of Canada’s landscape and history. Looking out his porch window one spring morning, Adam Shoalts spotted a majestic peregrine falcon flying across the neighbouring fields near Lake Erie. Each spring, falcons migrate from southernmost Canada to remote arctic mountains. Grabbing his backpack and canoe, Shoalts resolved to follow the falcon’s route north on an astonishing 3,400-kilometre journey to the Arctic. Along the way, he faces a huge variety of challenges and obstacles, including storms on the Great Lakes, finding campsites in the urban wilderness of Toronto and Montreal, avoiding busy commercial freighter traffic, gale force winds, massive hydroelectric dams, bushwhacking without trails, dealing with hunger, multiple bear encounters, and navigating white-water rapids on icy northern rivers far from any help. In his signature style, Shoalts roams as much across space as he does time, winding his way through a stunning diversity of landscapes ranging from lush Carolinian forests to lonely windswept mountains, salty seas to trackless swamps, pristine lakes to glittering mega-cities, as well as the sites of long ago battles, shipwrecks, forgotten forts, and abandoned trading posts. Through his travels, he reveals how interconnected wild places are, from the loneliest depths of the northern wilderness to busy urban parks, and the vital importance of these connections. Where the Falcon Flies invites readers on an extraordinary armchair adventure that spans five ecoregions and centuries of fascinating history, and is a masterwork by one of Canada’s most successful and audacious authors.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695064Tue, 03 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695064 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic Author: Adam Shoalts Narrator: Adam Shoalts Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695064 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic Author: Adam Shoalts Narrator: Adam Shoalts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 SPEAKER'S BOOK AWARD From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastness of Canada’s landscape and history. Looking out his porch window one spring morning, Adam Shoalts spotted a majestic peregrine falcon flying across the neighbouring fields near Lake Erie. Each spring, falcons migrate from southernmost Canada to remote arctic mountains. Grabbing his backpack and canoe, Shoalts resolved to follow the falcon’s route north on an astonishing 3,400-kilometre journey to the Arctic. Along the way, he faces a huge variety of challenges and obstacles, including storms on the Great Lakes, finding campsites in the urban wilderness of Toronto and Montreal, avoiding busy commercial freighter traffic, gale force winds, massive hydroelectric dams, bushwhacking without trails, dealing with hunger, multiple bear encounters, and navigating white-water rapids on icy northern rivers far from any help. In his signature style, Shoalts roams as much across space as he does time, winding his way through a stunning diversity of landscapes ranging from lush Carolinian forests to lonely windswept mountains, salty seas to trackless swamps, pristine lakes to glittering mega-cities, as well as the sites of long ago battles, shipwrecks, forgotten forts, and abandoned trading posts. Through his travels, he reveals how interconnected wild places are, from the loneliest depths of the northern wilderness to busy urban parks, and the vital importance of these connections. Where the Falcon Flies invites readers on an extraordinary armchair adventure that spans five ecoregions and centuries of fascinating history, and is a masterwork by one of Canada’s most successful and audacious authors.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-year-i-met-my-brain-a-travel-companion-for-adults-who-have-just-found-out-they-have-adhd-by-matilda-boseley--65146506https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD Author: Matilda Boseley Narrator: Matilda Boseley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity, her relationships or her future. Twelve months of confusion later, journalist Matilda embarked on an epic voyage to figure out what's really happening in the stormy seas of the ADHD brain and write the guide she wished she'd had. The Year I Met My Brain is the ultimate travel companion for navigating and enjoying life as an ADHD adult, covering: - what adult ADHD symptoms look like - why so many ADHDers (especially females) are missed as kids - how the disorder impacts our relationships, careers and self-esteem - why we unfairly treat ourselves like failures - and how to find self-forgiveness and healing - practical tips for social and organisational wins - and, most importantly, how to make our lives work to fit our brains rather than trying to force our brains to fit our lives. Uplifting, empowering, deeply researched and sparkling with 'a-ha' moments, The Year I Met My Brain is an invaluable resource for ADHDers and those who love them.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694754Tue, 03 Oct 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD Author: Matilda Boseley Narrator: Matilda Boseley Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD Author: Matilda Boseley Narrator: Matilda Boseley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity, her relationships or her future. Twelve months of confusion later, journalist Matilda embarked on an epic voyage to figure out what's really happening in the stormy seas of the ADHD brain and write the guide she wished she'd had. The Year I Met My Brain is the ultimate travel companion for navigating and enjoying life as an ADHD adult, covering: - what adult ADHD symptoms look like - why so many ADHDers (especially females) are missed as kids - how the disorder impacts our relationships, careers and self-esteem - why we unfairly treat ourselves like failures - and how to find self-forgiveness and healing - practical tips for social and organisational wins - and, most importantly, how to make our lives work to fit our brains rather than trying to force our brains to fit our lives. Uplifting, empowering, deeply researched and sparkling with 'a-ha' moments, The Year I Met My Brain is an invaluable resource for ADHDers and those who love them.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/running-from-the-mirror-a-memoir-by-howard-shulman--65146516https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Running from the Mirror: A Memoir Author: Howard Shulman Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: As quickly as his face disappeared, so did his mother and father. Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that attacked his face, devouring his nose, lips, lower right eyelid, tear ducts, and palate. Abandoned at the hospital by his parents, he became a ward of New Jersey under the care of a state-employed surgeon who experimentally rebuilt his face. Running from the Mirror is a poignant story of one man's struggle to survive against staggering odds and create a meaningful life for himself. With unapologetic candor, Howard gives an unflinching account of growing up a bullied outcast, with no family to officially call his own. Relying on little more than street smarts and grit, he rises from dishwasher to successful entrepreneur. Along the way, a European actress, a schoolteacher, and a fiery Latina help transform his life. Filled with heart-wrenching suffering as well as soul-lifting joy, Running from the Mirror is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695351Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Running from the Mirror: A Memoir Author: Howard Shulman Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Running from the Mirror: A Memoir Author: Howard Shulman Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: As quickly as his face disappeared, so did his mother and father. Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that attacked his face, devouring his nose, lips, lower right eyelid, tear ducts, and palate. Abandoned at the hospital by his parents, he became a ward of New Jersey under the care of a state-employed surgeon who experimentally rebuilt his face. Running from the Mirror is a poignant story of one man's struggle to survive against staggering odds and create a meaningful life for himself. With unapologetic candor, Howard gives an unflinching account of growing up a bullied outcast, with no family to officially call his own. Relying on little more than street smarts and grit, he rises from dishwasher to successful entrepreneur. Along the way, a European actress, a schoolteacher, and a fiery Latina help transform his life. Filled with heart-wrenching suffering as well as soul-lifting joy, Running from the Mirror is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-bodies-keep-coming-dispatches-from-a-black-trauma-surgeon-on-racism-violence-and-how-we-heal-by-brian-h-williams--65146498https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal Author: Brian H. Williams Narrator: Brian H. Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 8 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all—gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries—and ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. As a Harvard-trained physician, he learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow rage when patients told him to take out the trash. Just days after the tragic police shootings of two Black men, he tried to save the lives of officers shot in the deadliest incident for US law enforcement since 9/11. Thrust into the spotlight in a nation that loves feel-good stories more than hard truths, he came to rethink everything he thought he knew about medicine, injustice, and what true healing looks like. Now, in raw, intimate detail, he narrates not only the events of that night, but the grief and anger of a Black doctor on the front lines of trauma care. Working in the physician-writer tradition of Gawande and Tweedy, he diagnoses the roots of the violence that plagues us. He draws a through line between white supremacy, gun violence, and the bodies he tries to revive, training his surgeon's gaze on the structural ills manifesting themselves in his patients' bodies. What if racism is a feature of our healthcare system, not a bug? What if profiting from racial inequality is exactly what it's designed to do? Black and brown bodies will continue to be wracked by all types of violence, Williams argues, until we transform policy and law with compassion and care.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694736Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal Author: Brian H. Williams Narrator: Brian H....https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal Author: Brian H. Williams Narrator: Brian H. Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 8 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all—gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries—and ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. As a Harvard-trained physician, he learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow rage when patients told him to take out the trash. Just days after the tragic police shootings of two Black men, he tried to save the lives of officers shot in the deadliest incident for US law enforcement since 9/11. Thrust into the spotlight in a nation that loves feel-good stories more than hard truths, he came to rethink everything he thought he knew about medicine, injustice, and what true healing looks like. Now, in raw, intimate detail, he narrates not only the events of that night, but the grief and anger of a Black doctor on the front lines of trauma care. Working in the physician-writer tradition of Gawande and Tweedy, he diagnoses the roots of the violence that plagues us. He draws a through line between white supremacy, gun violence, and the bodies he tries to revive, training his surgeon's gaze on the structural ills manifesting themselves in his patients' bodies. What if racism is a feature of our healthcare system, not a bug? What if profiting from racial inequality is exactly what it's designed to do? Black and brown bodies will continue to be wracked by all types of violence, Williams argues, until we transform policy and law with compassion and care.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/betty-friedan-magnificent-disruptor-by-rachel-shteir--65146434https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor Series: Part of Jewish Lives Author: Rachel Shteir Narrator: Kim Niemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921–2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was powerful and polarizing. In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rachel Shteir draws on Friedan's papers and on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends to create a nuanced portrait. Friedan, born Bettye Naomi Goldstein, chafed at society's restrictions from a young age. As a journalist she covered racism, sexism, labor, class inequality, and anti-Semitism. As a wife and mother, she struggled to balance her work and homemaking. Her malaise as a housewife and her research into the feelings of other women resulted in The Feminine Mystique (1963), which made her a celebrity. Using her influence, Friedan cofounded the National Organization for Women, the National Women's Political Caucus, and the National Association to Repeal Abortion Laws. She fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, universal childcare, and workplace protections for mothers, but she disagreed with the women's liberation movement over 'sexual politics.' Shteir considers how Friedan's Judaism was essential to her feminism, presenting a new Friedan for a new era.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702822Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor Series: Part of Jewish Lives Author: Rachel Shteir Narrator: Kim Niemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor Series: Part of Jewish Lives Author: Rachel Shteir Narrator: Kim Niemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921–2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was powerful and polarizing. In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rachel Shteir draws on Friedan's papers and on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends to create a nuanced portrait. Friedan, born Bettye Naomi Goldstein, chafed at society's restrictions from a young age. As a journalist she covered racism, sexism, labor, class inequality, and anti-Semitism. As a wife and mother, she struggled to balance her work and homemaking. Her malaise as a housewife and her research into the feelings of other women resulted in The Feminine Mystique (1963), which made her a celebrity. Using her influence, Friedan cofounded the National Organization for Women, the National Women's Political Caucus, and the National Association to Repeal Abortion Laws. She fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, universal childcare, and workplace protections for mothers, but she disagreed with the women's liberation movement over 'sexual politics.' Shteir considers how Friedan's Judaism was essential to her feminism, presenting a new Friedan for a new era.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-so-weit-das-licht-reicht-die-kreaturen-der-tiefsee-und-was-sie-mir-uber-das-leben-erzahlen-by-sabrina-imbler--65146410https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - So weit das Licht reicht: Die Kreaturen der Tiefsee und was sie mir über das Leben erzählen Author: Sabrina Imbler Narrator: Katja Bürkle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'So weit das Licht reicht' ist Naturbuch, poetisches Memoir und Coming-of-Age-Geschichte in einem – ein faszinierender Tauchgang von der Oberfläche bis zum Meeresgrund.  Nicht zuletzt ist es ein Plädoyer für neue Sichtweisen auf unsere Welt und die erstaunlichen Kreaturen, die sie beherbergt.  Eine besondere Faszination geht von den geheimnisvollsten Kreaturen der Tiefsee aus, die verborgen vor den Augen der Welt ein Dasein fernab vom Sonnenlicht fristen. Weißhaarige Yeti-Krabben, unsterbliche Quallen, wilde Goldfische, hungernde Tiefseekraken und hybride Schmetterlingsfische – in jedem Kapitel verbindet Sabrina Imbler naturkundliche Beobachtungen mit Geschichten aus dem eigenen Leben und reflektiert über das Erwachsenwerden, Anpassung, fluide Sexualität, Migration, Gemeinschaft und Umweltzerstörung. Dabei entsteht ein dichtes Geflecht aus meeresbiologischen Fakten und persönlichen Erfahrungen, das einen unwiderstehlichen Sog entwickelt.  - Ausgezeichnet mit dem Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2023  - Ein starkes, kluges, sensationell gut geschriebenes Debüt  - poetisch, tiefgründig, queer! 'Imbler holt nicht nur Krabben, Störe oder Sepien ans Licht, sondern auch ihre eigene Geschichte; vom queeren Coming-out, ihrer chinesischen Mutter und einem Körperverständnis, das sich an der polymorphen Schönheit der Tiefseekreaturen berauscht.' Jutta Person, Philosophie Magazin 'Imbler fordert uns dazu auf, darüber nachzudenken, wie unser Leben das Leben der Tiere um uns herum widerspiegelt, insbesondere derjenigen, die unserem Blick so oft entgehen, genau wie die dunkleren Facetten unserer eigenen Persönlichkeit.' Los Angeles Review of Books '[Sabrina Imbler] wirft ein Licht auf einige der entzückendsten und am wenigsten beachteten Lebewesen des Ozeans … und stellt Verbindungen zwischen diesen faszinierenden Tieren und unseren eigenen Bedürfnissen und Wünschen her – nach Sicherheit, Familie und mehr.' New York Times 'Eine schwindelerregend schöne Ode an das Leben in all seinen Formen.' Vogue]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712863Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - So weit das Licht reicht: Die Kreaturen der Tiefsee und was sie mir über das Leben erzählen Author: Sabrina Imbler Narrator: Katja Bürkle...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - So weit das Licht reicht: Die Kreaturen der Tiefsee und was sie mir über das Leben erzählen Author: Sabrina Imbler Narrator: Katja Bürkle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'So weit das Licht reicht' ist Naturbuch, poetisches Memoir und Coming-of-Age-Geschichte in einem – ein faszinierender Tauchgang von der Oberfläche bis zum Meeresgrund.  Nicht zuletzt ist es ein Plädoyer für neue Sichtweisen auf unsere Welt und die erstaunlichen Kreaturen, die sie beherbergt.  Eine besondere Faszination geht von den geheimnisvollsten Kreaturen der Tiefsee aus, die verborgen vor den Augen der Welt ein Dasein fernab vom Sonnenlicht fristen. Weißhaarige Yeti-Krabben, unsterbliche Quallen, wilde Goldfische, hungernde Tiefseekraken und hybride Schmetterlingsfische – in jedem Kapitel verbindet Sabrina Imbler naturkundliche Beobachtungen mit Geschichten aus dem eigenen Leben und reflektiert über das Erwachsenwerden, Anpassung, fluide Sexualität, Migration, Gemeinschaft und Umweltzerstörung. Dabei entsteht ein dichtes Geflecht aus meeresbiologischen Fakten und persönlichen Erfahrungen, das einen unwiderstehlichen Sog entwickelt.  - Ausgezeichnet mit dem Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2023  - Ein starkes, kluges, sensationell gut geschriebenes Debüt  - poetisch, tiefgründig, queer! 'Imbler holt nicht nur Krabben, Störe oder Sepien ans Licht, sondern auch ihre eigene Geschichte; vom queeren Coming-out, ihrer chinesischen Mutter und einem Körperverständnis, das sich an der polymorphen Schönheit der Tiefseekreaturen berauscht.' Jutta Person, Philosophie Magazin 'Imbler fordert uns dazu auf, darüber nachzudenken, wie unser Leben das Leben der Tiere um uns herum widerspiegelt, insbesondere derjenigen, die unserem Blick so oft entgehen, genau wie die dunkleren Facetten unserer eigenen Persönlichkeit.' Los Angeles Review of Books '[Sabrina Imbler] wirft ein Licht auf einige der entzückendsten und am wenigsten beachteten Lebewesen des Ozeans … und stellt Verbindungen zwischen diesen faszinierenden Tieren und unseren eigenen Bedürfnissen und Wünschen her – nach Sicherheit, Familie und mehr.' New York Times 'Eine schwindelerregend schöne Ode an das Leben in all seinen Formen.' Vogue]]>185bercleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-controversialist-arguments-with-everyone-left-right-and-center-by-martin-peretz--65146578https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center Author: Martin Peretz Narrator: Adam Barr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From 1974 to 2012, during his years as publisher and editor-in-chief of the New Republic, Martin Peretz was a familiar presence on the political scene. In its time under his leadership, the magazine was always fresh, erudite, contrarian, and brave. Anyone interested in finding out the most distinctive expert takes on the issues that mattered—whether they be domestic or international, cultural or political—knew that the New Republic was required reading. The Controversialist begins in a vibrant but tragedy-stricken community of Yiddish Jews in his native Bronx and takes Peretz, blessed with that rare trait of always being in the right place at the right time, into the same rooms as some of the most prominent writers, thinkers, businessmen, activists, and politicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Peretz's insights into his relationships with these men and women are both original and illuminating. Through his examination of the personalities, not least his own, at the center of the events that have defined the postwar and neoliberal decades, Peretz makes a rich and compelling argument for the ideals that have been the focus of his life: liberalism, democracy, and Zionism. In revisiting this rich life, he considers, too, what will come next now that those ideals are no longer assured.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697516Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center Author: Martin Peretz Narrator: Adam Barr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center Author: Martin Peretz Narrator: Adam Barr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From 1974 to 2012, during his years as publisher and editor-in-chief of the New Republic, Martin Peretz was a familiar presence on the political scene. In its time under his leadership, the magazine was always fresh, erudite, contrarian, and brave. Anyone interested in finding out the most distinctive expert takes on the issues that mattered—whether they be domestic or international, cultural or political—knew that the New Republic was required reading. The Controversialist begins in a vibrant but tragedy-stricken community of Yiddish Jews in his native Bronx and takes Peretz, blessed with that rare trait of always being in the right place at the right time, into the same rooms as some of the most prominent writers, thinkers, businessmen, activists, and politicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Peretz's insights into his relationships with these men and women are both original and illuminating. Through his examination of the personalities, not least his own, at the center of the events that have defined the postwar and neoliberal decades, Peretz makes a rich and compelling argument for the ideals that have been the focus of his life: liberalism, democracy, and Zionism. In revisiting this rich life, he considers, too, what will come next now that those ideals are no longer assured.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/troublemaker-a-memoir-of-sexism-retaliation-and-the-fight-they-didn-t-see-coming-by-lisa-cornwell--65146521https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Troublemaker: A Memoir of Sexism, Retaliation, and the Fight They Didn't See Coming Author: Lisa Cornwell Narrator: Lisa Cornwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Lisa Cornwell never shied away from standing up to bullies. When she was a freshman in college, she saw a man hit a woman in the face with a closed fist while a paralyzed crowd stood by and watched. Seconds later, she took matters into her own hands—with a 3-iron from her golf bag. This impulse crystallized years later when Cornwell publicly spoke out against the misogynistic culture she and others experienced at the hands of their employer, Golf Channel/NBCUniversal. Throughout her time at the network, she challenged the toxic environment and was quickly branded a 'troublemaker'—a label that often accompanies women who refuse to play by an antiquated set of rules. In this authentic and unreserved memoir, which includes a powerful foreword from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Cornwell takes listeners inside the boys' club of sports media and reveals the way powerful corporations cover up wrongdoings. For her, what began with retaliation exploded into a public smear campaign and, ultimately, her dismissal. She also shares the unlikely yet formative touchstones of her life: a close friendship with Tiger Woods when both were nationally ranked junior golfers; her cousin, Bill Clinton, being elected President of the United States; and the private demons she battled as a young adult that almost cost her everything. Note: Listeners can access the foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton in the bonus PDF accompanying this audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699096Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Troublemaker: A Memoir of Sexism, Retaliation, and the Fight They Didn't See Coming Author: Lisa Cornwell Narrator: Lisa Cornwell Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Troublemaker: A Memoir of Sexism, Retaliation, and the Fight They Didn't See Coming Author: Lisa Cornwell Narrator: Lisa Cornwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Lisa Cornwell never shied away from standing up to bullies. When she was a freshman in college, she saw a man hit a woman in the face with a closed fist while a paralyzed crowd stood by and watched. Seconds later, she took matters into her own hands—with a 3-iron from her golf bag. This impulse crystallized years later when Cornwell publicly spoke out against the misogynistic culture she and others experienced at the hands of their employer, Golf Channel/NBCUniversal. Throughout her time at the network, she challenged the toxic environment and was quickly branded a 'troublemaker'—a label that often accompanies women who refuse to play by an antiquated set of rules. In this authentic and unreserved memoir, which includes a powerful foreword from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Cornwell takes listeners inside the boys' club of sports media and reveals the way powerful corporations cover up wrongdoings. For her, what began with retaliation exploded into a public smear campaign and, ultimately, her dismissal. She also shares the unlikely yet formative touchstones of her life: a close friendship with Tiger Woods when both were nationally ranked junior golfers; her cousin, Bill Clinton, being elected President of the United States; and the private demons she battled as a young adult that almost cost her everything. Note: Listeners can access the foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton in the bonus PDF accompanying this audiobook.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/move-like-water-my-story-of-the-sea-by-hannah-stowe--65146484https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea Author: Hannah Stowe Narrator: Anna Rust Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight ― to experience what it’s like to sail for weeks at a time with life set to a new rhythm. As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide’s edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her midtwenties, working as a marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human relationship with wild waters. Why is it, she asks, that she and so many others have been drawn to life at sea―and what might the water around us be able to teach us? Braiding her powerful and deeply personal narrative with stories of six keystone marine creatures―the fire crow, sperm whale, wandering albatross, humpback whale, shearwater, and the barnacle―Stowe invites listeners to fall in love, as she has, with the sea and those that call it home, and to discover the majesty, wonder, and vulnerability of the underwater world. For fans of Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard, Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea is an inspiring, heartfelt hymn to the sea, a testament to finding and following a dream, and an unforgettable introduction to a deeply gifted nature writer of a new generation.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700403Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea Author: Hannah Stowe Narrator: Anna Rust Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea Author: Hannah Stowe Narrator: Anna Rust Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight ― to experience what it’s like to sail for weeks at a time with life set to a new rhythm. As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide’s edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her midtwenties, working as a marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human relationship with wild waters. Why is it, she asks, that she and so many others have been drawn to life at sea―and what might the water around us be able to teach us? Braiding her powerful and deeply personal narrative with stories of six keystone marine creatures―the fire crow, sperm whale, wandering albatross, humpback whale, shearwater, and the barnacle―Stowe invites listeners to fall in love, as she has, with the sea and those that call it home, and to discover the majesty, wonder, and vulnerability of the underwater world. For fans of Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard, Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea is an inspiring, heartfelt hymn to the sea, a testament to finding and following a dream, and an unforgettable introduction to a deeply gifted nature writer of a new generation.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/crusade-to-heal-america-the-remarkable-life-of-mary-lasker-by-judith-l-pearson--65146462https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker Author: Judith L. Pearson Narrator: Maria Mccann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “I am opposed to heart disease and cancer the way one is opposed to sin.” With that as her battle cry, health activist and philanthropist Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. Known as the “American Nobels,” these became the most prestigious research awards in America. The Laskers’ next step was transforming the sleepy and ineffectual American Society for the Control of Cancer, reinventing it as the American Cancer Society in 1944. But the real increase in medical research funding occurred when Mary discovered a revolutionary source: the federal government. “I’m just a catalytic agent,” she would insist, while she tirelessly lobbied Congress and presidents alike. She played a major role in expanding the National Institutes of Health from a single entity to the largest research facility in the world. A feminist who used her femininity wisely, Mary’s ultimate victory was bringing together two political adversaries to help launch the original cancer moonshot: the 1971 National Cancer Act. This deeply researched biography paints the portrait of a woman who was savvy, steely, and deliberate. Mary Lasker courageously positioned herself at the crossroads of politics, science, and medicine. At a time when women in research laboratories and the halls of Congress were anomalies, she smashed stereotypes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699176Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker Author: Judith L. Pearson Narrator: Maria Mccann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker Author: Judith L. Pearson Narrator: Maria Mccann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “I am opposed to heart disease and cancer the way one is opposed to sin.” With that as her battle cry, health activist and philanthropist Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. Known as the “American Nobels,” these became the most prestigious research awards in America. The Laskers’ next step was transforming the sleepy and ineffectual American Society for the Control of Cancer, reinventing it as the American Cancer Society in 1944. But the real increase in medical research funding occurred when Mary discovered a revolutionary source: the federal government. “I’m just a catalytic agent,” she would insist, while she tirelessly lobbied Congress and presidents alike. She played a major role in expanding the National Institutes of Health from a single entity to the largest research facility in the world. A feminist who used her femininity wisely, Mary’s ultimate victory was bringing together two political adversaries to help launch the original cancer moonshot: the 1971 National Cancer Act. This deeply researched biography paints the portrait of a woman who was savvy, steely, and deliberate. Mary Lasker courageously positioned herself at the crossroads of politics, science, and medicine. At a time when women in research laboratories and the halls of Congress were anomalies, she smashed stereotypes.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-body-is-distant-a-memoir-by-paige-maylott--65146431https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Body Is Distant: A Memoir Author: Paige Maylott Narrator: Paige Maylott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging. In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes about her life — both virtual and IRL — as she explores her authentic self and sexuality through dream-like virtual worlds. While Paige dances in online BDSM clubs and hurls spells on virtual battlefields, she is swept into a fairy tale romance that pushes her into discovery mode: How can she transcend her carefully curated computer universe and manifest that happiness in the real world? As she discovers the person she is meant to be, Paige contends with a cancer diagnosis and an imploding marriage while struggling to convert an online love story into reality. When a humiliation at work provides the necessary push to transition, Paige finds the freedom to explore her new self. Part trans woman’s coming-out story and part heartfelt romance, My Body Is Distant follows Paige from a childhood obsession with the 1980s game Zork, through a health crisis and divorce, to, ultimately, an affirmation of authenticity and self-love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708506Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Body Is Distant: A Memoir Author: Paige Maylott Narrator: Paige Maylott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/708506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Body Is Distant: A Memoir Author: Paige Maylott Narrator: Paige Maylott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging. In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes about her life — both virtual and IRL — as she explores her authentic self and sexuality through dream-like virtual worlds. While Paige dances in online BDSM clubs and hurls spells on virtual battlefields, she is swept into a fairy tale romance that pushes her into discovery mode: How can she transcend her carefully curated computer universe and manifest that happiness in the real world? As she discovers the person she is meant to be, Paige contends with a cancer diagnosis and an imploding marriage while struggling to convert an online love story into reality. When a humiliation at work provides the necessary push to transition, Paige finds the freedom to explore her new self. Part trans woman’s coming-out story and part heartfelt romance, My Body Is Distant follows Paige from a childhood obsession with the 1980s game Zork, through a health crisis and divorce, to, ultimately, an affirmation of authenticity and self-love.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-ware-schon-blod-nicht-an-wunder-zu-glauben-die-geschichte-einer-frau-die-mehrfach-schwer-erkrankte-und-trotzdem-die-hoffnung-n--65146426https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wäre schön blöd, nicht an Wunder zu glauben: Die Geschichte einer Frau, die mehrfach schwer erkrankte und trotzdem die Hoffnung nie aufgab Author: Simone Heintze, Julia Fiedler Narrator: Theresa Theis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Ich starre zum Himmel, balle meine Faust in der Hosentasche und würde vor Frust am liebsten laut schreien. So hatte ich das nicht geplant! Nein, so hatte ich das überhaupt gar nicht geplant! Was hier gerade mit meinem Leben passiert, das will ich nicht!' Diese Gedanken gingen Simone Heintze durch den Kopf, als sie zum vierten Mal in ihrem Leben die Nachricht zu hören bekam: 'Sie haben Krebs.' Viermal hat sie sich ins Leben zurückgekämpft. Dabei wurde in all diesen Jahren ihr Glaube, der sie seit ihrer Kindheit begleitet, ein immer stärkerer Halt. Mit ihrer Autobiografie möchte sie allen helfen, die angesichts der Diagnose Krebs oder einer anderen schweren Erkrankung den Boden unter den Füßen verloren haben. Ein wertvolles Buch nicht nur für Betroffene, sondern auch besonders für Menschen, die beruflich oder privat mit Krebspatienten zu tun haben. Mit Hoffnung bis zum Schluss zu leben ist tausendmal besser, als deprimiert bis zum Lebensende vor sich hin zu vegetieren.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712447Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wäre schön blöd, nicht an Wunder zu glauben: Die Geschichte einer Frau, die mehrfach schwer erkrankte und trotzdem die Hoffnung nie aufgab...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wäre schön blöd, nicht an Wunder zu glauben: Die Geschichte einer Frau, die mehrfach schwer erkrankte und trotzdem die Hoffnung nie aufgab Author: Simone Heintze, Julia Fiedler Narrator: Theresa Theis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Ich starre zum Himmel, balle meine Faust in der Hosentasche und würde vor Frust am liebsten laut schreien. So hatte ich das nicht geplant! Nein, so hatte ich das überhaupt gar nicht geplant! Was hier gerade mit meinem Leben passiert, das will ich nicht!' Diese Gedanken gingen Simone Heintze durch den Kopf, als sie zum vierten Mal in ihrem Leben die Nachricht zu hören bekam: 'Sie haben Krebs.' Viermal hat sie sich ins Leben zurückgekämpft. Dabei wurde in all diesen Jahren ihr Glaube, der sie seit ihrer Kindheit begleitet, ein immer stärkerer Halt. Mit ihrer Autobiografie möchte sie allen helfen, die angesichts der Diagnose Krebs oder einer anderen schweren Erkrankung den Boden unter den Füßen verloren haben. Ein wertvolles Buch nicht nur für Betroffene, sondern auch besonders für Menschen, die beruflich oder privat mit Krebspatienten zu tun haben. Mit Hoffnung bis zum Schluss zu leben ist tausendmal besser, als deprimiert bis zum Lebensende vor sich hin zu vegetieren.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/plato-of-athens-a-life-in-philosophy-by-robin-waterfield--65146568https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy Author: Robin Waterfield Narrator: Tristam Summers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. He finally decided to go into politics, but became disillusioned, especially after the Athenians condemned his teacher, Socrates, to death. He began teaching in his twenties and later founded the Academy, the world's first higher-educational research and teaching establishment. Eventually, he returned to practical politics and spent a considerable amount of time and energy trying to create a constitution for Syracuse in Sicily that would reflect and perpetuate some of his political ideals. The attempts failed, and Plato's disappointment can be traced in some of his later political works. In his lifetime and after, Plato was considered almost divine. This led to the invention of many tall tales about him-both by those who adored him and his detractors. In this first ever full-length portrait of Plato, Robin Waterfield steers a judicious course among these stories, debunking some while accepting the kernels of truth in others. He explains why Plato chose to write dialogues rather than treatises and gives an overview of the subject matter of all of Plato's books. Clearly and engagingly written throughout, Plato of Athens is the perfect introduction to the man and his work.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689654Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy Author: Robin Waterfield Narrator: Tristam Summers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy Author: Robin Waterfield Narrator: Tristam Summers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. He finally decided to go into politics, but became disillusioned, especially after the Athenians condemned his teacher, Socrates, to death. He began teaching in his twenties and later founded the Academy, the world's first higher-educational research and teaching establishment. Eventually, he returned to practical politics and spent a considerable amount of time and energy trying to create a constitution for Syracuse in Sicily that would reflect and perpetuate some of his political ideals. The attempts failed, and Plato's disappointment can be traced in some of his later political works. In his lifetime and after, Plato was considered almost divine. This led to the invention of many tall tales about him-both by those who adored him and his detractors. In this first ever full-length portrait of Plato, Robin Waterfield steers a judicious course among these stories, debunking some while accepting the kernels of truth in others. He explains why Plato chose to write dialogues rather than treatises and gives an overview of the subject matter of all of Plato's books. Clearly and engagingly written throughout, Plato of Athens is the perfect introduction to the man and his work.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-matryoshka-memoirs-a-story-of-ukrainian-forced-labour-the-leica-camera-factory-and-nazi-resistance-by-sasha-colby--65146561https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance Author: Sasha Colby Narrator: Allyson Voller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Irina Nikifortchuk was nineteen years old and a Ukrainian schoolteacher when she was abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera factory in Nazi Germany. Eventually pulled from the camp hospital to work as a domestic in the Leica owners' household, Irina survived the war and eventually found her way to Canada. Decades later Sasha Colby, Irina's granddaughter, seeks out her grandmother's story over a series of summer visits and gradually begins to interweave the as-told-to story with historical research. As she delves deeper into the history of the Leica factory and World War II forced labor, she discovers the parallel story of Elsie Kühn-Leitz, Irina's rescuer and the factory heiress, later imprisoned and interrogated by the Gestapo on charges of 'excessive humanity.' This is creative nonfiction at its best as the mystery of Irina's life unspools skillfully and arrestingly. Despite the horrors that the story must tell, it is full of life, humor, food, and the joy of ordinary safety in Canada. The Matryoshka Memoirs takes us into a forgotten corner of history, weaving a rich and satisfying tapestry of survival and family ties and asking what we owe those who aid us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695399Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance Author: Sasha Colby Narrator: Allyson Voller...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance Author: Sasha Colby Narrator: Allyson Voller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Irina Nikifortchuk was nineteen years old and a Ukrainian schoolteacher when she was abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera factory in Nazi Germany. Eventually pulled from the camp hospital to work as a domestic in the Leica owners' household, Irina survived the war and eventually found her way to Canada. Decades later Sasha Colby, Irina's granddaughter, seeks out her grandmother's story over a series of summer visits and gradually begins to interweave the as-told-to story with historical research. As she delves deeper into the history of the Leica factory and World War II forced labor, she discovers the parallel story of Elsie Kühn-Leitz, Irina's rescuer and the factory heiress, later imprisoned and interrogated by the Gestapo on charges of 'excessive humanity.' This is creative nonfiction at its best as the mystery of Irina's life unspools skillfully and arrestingly. Despite the horrors that the story must tell, it is full of life, humor, food, and the joy of ordinary safety in Canada. The Matryoshka Memoirs takes us into a forgotten corner of history, weaving a rich and satisfying tapestry of survival and family ties and asking what we owe those who aid us.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/passionate-mothers-powerful-sons-the-lives-of-jennie-jerome-churchill-and-sara-delano-roosevelt-by-charlotte-gray--65146558https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt Author: Charlotte Gray Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray. Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome (later to become the mother of Winston Churchill) refused to settle into predictable, sheltered lives as little-known wives to prominent men. Instead, both women concentrated their energies on enabling their sons to reach the epicentre of political power on two continents. In the mid-19th century, the British Empire was at its height, France’s Second Empire flourished, and the industrial vigor of the United States of America was catapulting the republic towards the Gilded Age. Sara and Jennie, raised with privilege but subject to the constraints of women’s roles at the time, learned how to take control of their destinies—Sara in the prosperous Hudson Valley, and Jennie in the glittering world of Imperial London. Yet their personalities and choices were dramatically different. A vivacious extrovert, Jennie married Lord Randolph Churchill, a rising politician and scion of a noble British family. Her deft social and political maneuverings helped not only her mercurial husband but, once she was widowed, her ambitious son, Winston. By contrast, deeply conventional Sara Delano married a man as old as her father. But once widowed, she made Franklin, her only child, the focus of her existence. Thanks in large part to her financial support and to her guidance, Franklin acquired the skills he needed to become a successful politician. Set against one hundred years of history, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons is a study in loyalty and resilience. Gray argues that Jennie and Sara are too often presented as lesser figures in the backdrop of history rather than as two remarkable individuals who were key in shaping the characters of the sons who adored them and in preparing them for leadership on the world stage. Impeccably researched and filled with intriguing social insights, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons breathes new life into Sara and Jennie, offering a fascinating and fulsome portrait of how leaders are not just born but made.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678441Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt Author: Charlotte Gray Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt Author: Charlotte Gray Narrator: Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray. Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome (later to become the mother of Winston Churchill) refused to settle into predictable, sheltered lives as little-known wives to prominent men. Instead, both women concentrated their energies on enabling their sons to reach the epicentre of political power on two continents. In the mid-19th century, the British Empire was at its height, France’s Second Empire flourished, and the industrial vigor of the United States of America was catapulting the republic towards the Gilded Age. Sara and Jennie, raised with privilege but subject to the constraints of women’s roles at the time, learned how to take control of their destinies—Sara in the prosperous Hudson Valley, and Jennie in the glittering world of Imperial London. Yet their personalities and choices were dramatically different. A vivacious extrovert, Jennie married Lord Randolph Churchill, a rising politician and scion of a noble British family. Her deft social and political maneuverings helped not only her mercurial husband but, once she was widowed, her ambitious son, Winston. By contrast, deeply conventional Sara Delano married a man as old as her father. But once widowed, she made Franklin, her only child, the focus of her existence. Thanks in large part to her financial support and to her guidance, Franklin acquired the skills he needed to become a successful politician. Set against one hundred years of history, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons is a study in loyalty and resilience. Gray argues that Jennie and Sara are too often presented as lesser figures in the backdrop of history rather than as two remarkable individuals who were key in shaping the characters of the sons who adored them and in preparing them for leadership on the world stage. Impeccably researched and filled with intriguing social insights, Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons breathes new life into Sara and Jennie, offering a fascinating and fulsome portrait of how leaders are not just born but made.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-we-remember-will-be-saved-a-story-of-refugees-and-the-things-they-carry-by-stephanie-saldana--65146542https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry Author: Stephanie Saldaña Narrator: Raquel Beattie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In an era of mass migration in which more than 100 million people are displaced comes this lyrical portrait of Syrian and Iraqi refugees and the belongings they carry. What We Remember Will Be Saved is a book of hope, home, and the stories we hold within us when everything else has been lost. Journalist and scholar Stephanie Saldaña, who lived in Syria before the war, sets out on a journey across nine countries to meet refugees and learn what they salvaged from the ruins when they escaped. Now, in the narratives of six extraordinary women and men, from Mt. Sinjar to Aleppo to Lesvos to Amsterdam, we discover that the little things matter a great deal. Saldaña introduces us to a woman who saved her city in a dress, a musician who saved his stories in songs, and a couple who rebuilt their destroyed pharmacy even as the city around them fell apart. Together they provide a window into a religiously diverse corner of the Middle East on the edge of unraveling, and the people keeping it alive with their stories. Born of years of friendship and reporting, What We Remember Will Be Saved is a breathtaking, elegiac odyssey into the heart of the largest refugee crisis in modern history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699489Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry Author: Stephanie Saldaña Narrator: Raquel Beattie Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry Author: Stephanie Saldaña Narrator: Raquel Beattie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In an era of mass migration in which more than 100 million people are displaced comes this lyrical portrait of Syrian and Iraqi refugees and the belongings they carry. What We Remember Will Be Saved is a book of hope, home, and the stories we hold within us when everything else has been lost. Journalist and scholar Stephanie Saldaña, who lived in Syria before the war, sets out on a journey across nine countries to meet refugees and learn what they salvaged from the ruins when they escaped. Now, in the narratives of six extraordinary women and men, from Mt. Sinjar to Aleppo to Lesvos to Amsterdam, we discover that the little things matter a great deal. Saldaña introduces us to a woman who saved her city in a dress, a musician who saved his stories in songs, and a couple who rebuilt their destroyed pharmacy even as the city around them fell apart. Together they provide a window into a religiously diverse corner of the Middle East on the edge of unraveling, and the people keeping it alive with their stories. Born of years of friendship and reporting, What We Remember Will Be Saved is a breathtaking, elegiac odyssey into the heart of the largest refugee crisis in modern history.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ibn-sina-a-very-short-introduction-by-peter-adamson--65146526https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ibn Sina: A Very Short Introduction Author: Peter Adamson Narrator: David Stifel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This book provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sina, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview of the historical context in which he lived, the book devotes chapters to the different areas of Ibn Sina's thought. Among the topics covered are his innovations in logic, his theory of the human soul and its powers, the relation between his medical writings and his philosophy, and his metaphysics of existence. Particular attention is given to two famous arguments: his flying man thought experiment and the so-called 'demonstration of the truthful,' a proof for the existence of God as the Necessary Existent. A distinctive feature of the book is its attention to the relationship between Ibn Sina and Islamic rational theology (kalam): in which we see how Ibn Sina responded to this tradition in many areas of his thought. A final chapter looks at Ibn Sina's legacy in Islamic world and in Latin Christendom. Here Adamson focuses on the critical responses to Ibn Sina in subsequent generations by such figures as al-Ghazali, al-Suhrawardi, and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695359Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ibn Sina: A Very Short Introduction Author: Peter Adamson Narrator: David Stifel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ibn Sina: A Very Short Introduction Author: Peter Adamson Narrator: David Stifel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This book provides an introduction to the most important philosopher of the Islamic world, Ibn Sina, often known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna. After introducing the man and his works, with an overview of the historical context in which he lived, the book devotes chapters to the different areas of Ibn Sina's thought. Among the topics covered are his innovations in logic, his theory of the human soul and its powers, the relation between his medical writings and his philosophy, and his metaphysics of existence. Particular attention is given to two famous arguments: his flying man thought experiment and the so-called 'demonstration of the truthful,' a proof for the existence of God as the Necessary Existent. A distinctive feature of the book is its attention to the relationship between Ibn Sina and Islamic rational theology (kalam): in which we see how Ibn Sina responded to this tradition in many areas of his thought. A final chapter looks at Ibn Sina's legacy in Islamic world and in Latin Christendom. Here Adamson focuses on the critical responses to Ibn Sina in subsequent generations by such figures as al-Ghazali, al-Suhrawardi, and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-mi-hermana-mi-reina-by-wendy-j-dunn--65146461https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702682 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi hermana, mi reina Author: Wendy J Dunn Narrator: Paloma Martinez-Cruz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 11, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: María de Salinas, dama y fiel amiga de Catalina de Aragón, esposa de Enrique VIII, está en sus últimas horas. Ha compartido toda una vida con su desventurada reina y prima y, con ella, el destierro en un país, Inglaterra, lejos de la Castilla que la vio nacer. Hace tres años que la vio morir y ahora, demasiado enferma para viajar, escribe a su hija, Catherine Willoughby, la joven condesa de Suffolk, una carta en la que le cuenta su vida: una vida que no puede ser contada sin la de su reina y mejor amiga, Catalina de Aragón, hija menor de los Reyes Católicos. En dicha carta, le cuenta por qué tomó las decisiones que tomó en su vida, empezando por la de mantenerse siempre fiel a su reina y por qué quiso compartir su destino y quedarse en Inglaterra con ella, viviendo buenos y malos tiempos y hasta el final aciago de la infeliz reina.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702682Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702682 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi hermana, mi reina Author: Wendy J Dunn Narrator: Paloma Martinez-Cruz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 51 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702682 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi hermana, mi reina Author: Wendy J Dunn Narrator: Paloma Martinez-Cruz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 11, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: María de Salinas, dama y fiel amiga de Catalina de Aragón, esposa de Enrique VIII, está en sus últimas horas. Ha compartido toda una vida con su desventurada reina y prima y, con ella, el destierro en un país, Inglaterra, lejos de la Castilla que la vio nacer. Hace tres años que la vio morir y ahora, demasiado enferma para viajar, escribe a su hija, Catherine Willoughby, la joven condesa de Suffolk, una carta en la que le cuenta su vida: una vida que no puede ser contada sin la de su reina y mejor amiga, Catalina de Aragón, hija menor de los Reyes Católicos. En dicha carta, le cuenta por qué tomó las decisiones que tomó en su vida, empezando por la de mantenerse siempre fiel a su reina y por qué quiso compartir su destino y quedarse en Inglaterra con ella, viviendo buenos y malos tiempos y hasta el final aciago de la infeliz reina.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/not-the-camilla-we-knew-one-woman-s-path-from-small-town-america-to-the-symbionese-liberation-army-by-rachael-hanel--65146525https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Path from Small-town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army Author: Rachael Hanel Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Behind every act of domestic terrorism there is someone's child whose life took a radical turn for reasons that often remain mysterious. Camilla Hall is a case in point: a pastor's daughter from small-town Minnesota who eventually joined the ranks of radicals in the notorious Symbionese Liberation Army before dying in a shootout with Los Angeles Police in May 1974. How could a 'good girl' become one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States? Rachael Hanel tells her story here, revealing both the deep humanity and the extraordinary circumstances of Camilla Hall's life. Her path from her Minnesota home to her final, radical SLA family featured years as an artist and activist—in welfare offices, political campaigns, union organizing, culminating in a love affair that would be her introduction to the SLA. Through research and interviews, Hanel pieces together Camilla's transformation. Camilla Hall's story is of interest for what it reveals about the forces of radicalization. But as Hanel ventures ever further into Camilla's past, her book becomes an intriguing, disturbing, and ultimately deeply moving journey into the dark side of America's promise. Contains mature themes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699482Tue, 05 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Path from Small-town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army Author: Rachael Hanel Narrator: Tanya Eby Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Path from Small-town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army Author: Rachael Hanel Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Behind every act of domestic terrorism there is someone's child whose life took a radical turn for reasons that often remain mysterious. Camilla Hall is a case in point: a pastor's daughter from small-town Minnesota who eventually joined the ranks of radicals in the notorious Symbionese Liberation Army before dying in a shootout with Los Angeles Police in May 1974. How could a 'good girl' become one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States? Rachael Hanel tells her story here, revealing both the deep humanity and the extraordinary circumstances of Camilla Hall's life. Her path from her Minnesota home to her final, radical SLA family featured years as an artist and activist—in welfare offices, political campaigns, union organizing, culminating in a love affair that would be her introduction to the SLA. Through research and interviews, Hanel pieces together Camilla's transformation. Camilla Hall's story is of interest for what it reveals about the forces of radicalization. But as Hanel ventures ever further into Camilla's past, her book becomes an intriguing, disturbing, and ultimately deeply moving journey into the dark side of America's promise. Contains mature themes.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/on-being-the-bad-guy-by-dr-bernadette-bowen--65146430https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On being 'the bad guy' Author: Dr. Bernadette Bowen Narrator: Dr. Bernadette Bowen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 2, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Have you ever been around people, yet still felt alone? Dr. bird has too. Within the first variant of their envirusmental series, they revealed thirty years of their late-in-life realized secrets. In this second volume, they, literally and figuratively, Zoom in on the last four 'unprecedented' ones. This includes them cutting-the-shit about how, half-way through their PhD, COVID-19 hit. And how, a couple years later, they added 'Dr.' to the front of their nickname. In typical 'bad guy' fashion, plague Dr. bird has more puns, cusswords, and trauma than all the answers on how to create our liberatory regenerative future. But, for now, they further diagnose how foundational U.S. issues severely sicken, disable, and kill us in the algorithmic envirusment. And,remind readers to drink water, do something nice for ourselves, and that we Abso-f*ckin-lutely deserve better than This Shit.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712703Sat, 02 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On being 'the bad guy' Author: Dr. Bernadette Bowen Narrator: Dr. Bernadette Bowen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 3 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/712703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On being 'the bad guy' Author: Dr. Bernadette Bowen Narrator: Dr. Bernadette Bowen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 2, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Have you ever been around people, yet still felt alone? Dr. bird has too. Within the first variant of their envirusmental series, they revealed thirty years of their late-in-life realized secrets. In this second volume, they, literally and figuratively, Zoom in on the last four 'unprecedented' ones. This includes them cutting-the-shit about how, half-way through their PhD, COVID-19 hit. And how, a couple years later, they added 'Dr.' to the front of their nickname. In typical 'bad guy' fashion, plague Dr. bird has more puns, cusswords, and trauma than all the answers on how to create our liberatory regenerative future. But, for now, they further diagnose how foundational U.S. issues severely sicken, disable, and kill us in the algorithmic envirusment. And,remind readers to drink water, do something nice for ourselves, and that we Abso-f*ckin-lutely deserve better than This Shit.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/royal-robbins-the-american-climber-by-david-smart--65146541https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Royal Robbins: The American Climber Author: David Smart Narrator: Brian P. Craig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed writer David Smart illuminates the fascinating life of Royal Robbins—in all its soulful ambition, rivalry, and romance. Royal Robbins chronicles his early years growing up as a latchkey kid in Southern California, the push and pull between being an aspiring banker or one of the original Camp 4 dirtbags, and his later decades as a father, husband, kayaker, and the trailblazing founder of the outdoor apparel company that bears his name. This intimate, colorful tour of climbing history covering Yosemite, the Tetons, the Gunks, the Alps, the United Kingdom, and more from the 1960s onward features star characters such as Liz Robbins—Robbins's wife and a pioneering adventurer in her own right—Yvon Chouinard, John Harlin, Steve Roper, Warren Harding, Tom Frost, and Doug Tompkins. An important addition to our knowledge of the Golden Age of rock climbing in Yosemite and the development of the clean climbing ethos, Royal Robbins sheds new light on an elemental figure of outdoor culture.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695380Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Royal Robbins: The American Climber Author: David Smart Narrator: Brian P. Craig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Royal Robbins: The American Climber Author: David Smart Narrator: Brian P. Craig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed writer David Smart illuminates the fascinating life of Royal Robbins—in all its soulful ambition, rivalry, and romance. Royal Robbins chronicles his early years growing up as a latchkey kid in Southern California, the push and pull between being an aspiring banker or one of the original Camp 4 dirtbags, and his later decades as a father, husband, kayaker, and the trailblazing founder of the outdoor apparel company that bears his name. This intimate, colorful tour of climbing history covering Yosemite, the Tetons, the Gunks, the Alps, the United Kingdom, and more from the 1960s onward features star characters such as Liz Robbins—Robbins's wife and a pioneering adventurer in her own right—Yvon Chouinard, John Harlin, Steve Roper, Warren Harding, Tom Frost, and Doug Tompkins. An important addition to our knowledge of the Golden Age of rock climbing in Yosemite and the development of the clean climbing ethos, Royal Robbins sheds new light on an elemental figure of outdoor culture.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-name-is-philippa-a-memoir-of-a-life-lived-in-two-genders-by-philippa-ryder--65146530https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685684 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name is Philippa: A memoir of a life lived in two genders Author: Philippa Ryder Narrator: Jackie Meloche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In 'My Name is Philippa,' prepare to be moved by a powerful story of love, transformation, and resilience. Katherine E. Zappone explains, This is primarily a love story. Philippa Ryder's journey to embracing her true self as a transgender woman has left an indelible mark on Irish culture. Growing up as a boy in the 1960s, she felt out of place, drawn to dressing in her sister's and later her wife's clothes. It wasn't until the 1990s that she discovered she wasn't alone in these feelings. Navigating the challenging path of transitioning from male to female, 'My Name is Philippa' tells an extraordinary tale of love, understanding, and the unwavering support of a family who stayed united as Philippa transformed from husband and father to wife and mother. In this heartfelt account, Philippa addresses many questions about what it means to be transgender, detailing the physical and emotional aspects of transition. Her story contributes to the global pursuit of freedom and empowerment for all individuals, regardless of gender identity. Through her honesty, courage, and perseverance, Philippa breaks the silence and encourages others to find their joy by embracing their authentic selves. This audiobook is a valuable resource for the transgender community, their allies, and anyone questioning their gender identity, as well as parents of transgender children and those seeking to learn more about transgender issues. Additionally, it offers insights for professionals in the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion sectors, Employee Resource Groups across corporate and public sectors, and health and social service personnel.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685684Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685684 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name is Philippa: A memoir of a life lived in two genders Author: Philippa Ryder Narrator: Jackie Meloche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685684 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name is Philippa: A memoir of a life lived in two genders Author: Philippa Ryder Narrator: Jackie Meloche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In 'My Name is Philippa,' prepare to be moved by a powerful story of love, transformation, and resilience. Katherine E. Zappone explains, This is primarily a love story. Philippa Ryder's journey to embracing her true self as a transgender woman has left an indelible mark on Irish culture. Growing up as a boy in the 1960s, she felt out of place, drawn to dressing in her sister's and later her wife's clothes. It wasn't until the 1990s that she discovered she wasn't alone in these feelings. Navigating the challenging path of transitioning from male to female, 'My Name is Philippa' tells an extraordinary tale of love, understanding, and the unwavering support of a family who stayed united as Philippa transformed from husband and father to wife and mother. In this heartfelt account, Philippa addresses many questions about what it means to be transgender, detailing the physical and emotional aspects of transition. Her story contributes to the global pursuit of freedom and empowerment for all individuals, regardless of gender identity. Through her honesty, courage, and perseverance, Philippa breaks the silence and encourages others to find their joy by embracing their authentic selves. This audiobook is a valuable resource for the transgender community, their allies, and anyone questioning their gender identity, as well as parents of transgender children and those seeking to learn more about transgender issues. Additionally, it offers insights for professionals in the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion sectors, Employee Resource Groups across corporate and public sectors, and health and social service personnel.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/americans-in-a-world-at-war-intimate-histories-from-the-crash-of-pan-am-s-yankee-clipper-by-brooke-l-blower--65146488https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper Author: Brooke L. Blower Narrator: Nancy Peterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 29 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A vivid narrative of an ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II that captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through them, the impact of Americans' global connections. On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways' celebrated seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York's Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon the following evening, it crashed in the Tagus River, killing twenty-four of its thirty-nine passengers and crew. Americans in a World at War traces the backstories of seven worldly Americans aboard that plane, their personal histories, their politics, and the paths that led them toward war. Combat soldiers made up only a small fraction of the millions of Americans, both in and out of uniform, who scattered across six continents during the Second World War. This book uncovers a surprising history of American noncombatants abroad in the years leading into the twentieth century's most consequential conflict. Long before GIs began storming beaches and liberating towns, Americans had forged extensive political, economic, and personal ties to other parts of the world. These deep and sometimes contradictory engagements, which preceded the bombing of Pearl Harbor, would shape and in turn be transformed by the US war effort.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699093Tue, 29 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper Author: Brooke L. Blower Narrator: Nancy Peterson Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699093 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper Author: Brooke L. Blower Narrator: Nancy Peterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 29 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A vivid narrative of an ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II that captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through them, the impact of Americans' global connections. On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways' celebrated seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York's Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon the following evening, it crashed in the Tagus River, killing twenty-four of its thirty-nine passengers and crew. Americans in a World at War traces the backstories of seven worldly Americans aboard that plane, their personal histories, their politics, and the paths that led them toward war. Combat soldiers made up only a small fraction of the millions of Americans, both in and out of uniform, who scattered across six continents during the Second World War. This book uncovers a surprising history of American noncombatants abroad in the years leading into the twentieth century's most consequential conflict. Long before GIs began storming beaches and liberating towns, Americans had forged extensive political, economic, and personal ties to other parts of the world. These deep and sometimes contradictory engagements, which preceded the bombing of Pearl Harbor, would shape and in turn be transformed by the US war effort.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dhruva-relationship-and-success-sutras-from-the-story-of-a-celebrated-prince-by-gauranga-darshan-das--65146440https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710473 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dhruva: Relationship and Success Sutras from the Story of a Celebrated Prince Author: Gauranga Darshan Das Narrator: Ashish David Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Does destiny block our path to success?How can we make complex relationships thrive?Discover practical answers to these questions within the pages of DHRUVA, an enthralling narrative penned by Gauranga Darshan Das, an esteemed author, educator and monk, hailing from the prestigious IISc.Prince Dhruva's awe-inspiring journey evokes a spectrum of emotions--love, heartbreak, revenge, passion, guilt and devotion. As you immerse yourself in this gripping tale, Gauranga Darshan artfully weaves his realizations as pearls of wisdom that are refreshingly simple yet remarkably effective.With a seamless blend of storytelling prowess and practical wisdom, DHRUVA shall deeply resonate with your pursuit of organic success and fulfilling relationships.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710473Tue, 29 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710473 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dhruva: Relationship and Success Sutras from the Story of a Celebrated Prince Author: Gauranga Darshan Das Narrator: Ashish David Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710473 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dhruva: Relationship and Success Sutras from the Story of a Celebrated Prince Author: Gauranga Darshan Das Narrator: Ashish David Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Does destiny block our path to success?How can we make complex relationships thrive?Discover practical answers to these questions within the pages of DHRUVA, an enthralling narrative penned by Gauranga Darshan Das, an esteemed author, educator and monk, hailing from the prestigious IISc.Prince Dhruva's awe-inspiring journey evokes a spectrum of emotions--love, heartbreak, revenge, passion, guilt and devotion. As you immerse yourself in this gripping tale, Gauranga Darshan artfully weaves his realizations as pearls of wisdom that are refreshingly simple yet remarkably effective.With a seamless blend of storytelling prowess and practical wisdom, DHRUVA shall deeply resonate with your pursuit of organic success and fulfilling relationships.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-superarme-siempre-fue-un-placer-by-federico-atilio-rodriguez-de-lima--65146427https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Superarme siempre fue un placer Author: Federico Atilio Rodriguez De Lima Narrator: Lucia .I.A Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Vivir es un aprendizaje continuo, un ejercicio de adaptación que nunca termina, un camino que, en ocasiones, se oscurece y se vuelve hostil, asediado por situaciones que nos atormentan y nos hacen querer tirar la toalla. Pero esas situaciones son, al final, tan solo experiencias, momentos pasajeros que podemos superar, incluso en las condiciones más adversas. Federico Rodríguez de Lima invita a los lectores a acompañarle por la historia de su vida, narrada con total sinceridad, para demostrar que después de la tormenta siempre llega la calma y regresa la felicidad, en forma de sueños, personas y experiencias nuevas que uno nunca esperó.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707436Mon, 28 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Superarme siempre fue un placer Author: Federico Atilio Rodriguez De Lima Narrator: Lucia .I.A Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Superarme siempre fue un placer Author: Federico Atilio Rodriguez De Lima Narrator: Lucia .I.A Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Vivir es un aprendizaje continuo, un ejercicio de adaptación que nunca termina, un camino que, en ocasiones, se oscurece y se vuelve hostil, asediado por situaciones que nos atormentan y nos hacen querer tirar la toalla. Pero esas situaciones son, al final, tan solo experiencias, momentos pasajeros que podemos superar, incluso en las condiciones más adversas. Federico Rodríguez de Lima invita a los lectores a acompañarle por la historia de su vida, narrada con total sinceridad, para demostrar que después de la tormenta siempre llega la calma y regresa la felicidad, en forma de sueños, personas y experiencias nuevas que uno nunca esperó.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglass-unabridged-by-frederick-douglass--65146439https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Unabridged) Author: Frederick Douglass Narrator: Jesse Zuba Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 27, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass - is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States. Synopsis Douglass begins by explaining that he does not know the date of his birth (he later chose February 14, 1818), and that his mother died when he was 7 years old. He has very few memories of her (children were commonly separated from their mothers), only of the rare nighttime visit. He thinks his father is a white man, possibly his owner. At a very early age, he sees his Aunt Hester being whipped. Douglass details the cruel interaction that occurs between slaves and slaveholders, as well as how slaves are supposed to behave in the presence of their masters. Douglass says that fear is what kept many slaves in forced servitude, for when they told the truth they were punished by their owners. At this point in the Narrative, Douglass is moved to Baltimore, Maryland. This move is rather important for him because he believes that if he had not been moved, he would have remained a slave his entire life. He even starts to have hope for a better life in the future. He also discusses his new mistress, Mrs. Sophia Auld, who begins as a very kind woman but eventually turns cruel. Douglass learns the alphabet and how to spell small words from this woman, but her husband, Mr. Auld, disapproves and states that if slaves could read, they would not be fit to be slaves, being unmanageable and sad. Upon hearing why Mr. Auld disapproves of slaves being taught how to read, Douglass realizes the importance of reading and the possibilities that this skill could help him. He takes it upon himself to learn how to read and learn all he can, but at times, this newfound skill torments him. Douglass then gains an understanding of the word abolition and develops the idea to run away to the North. He also learns how to write and how to read well. When Douglass is ten or eleven, his master dies and his property is left to be divided between the master's son and daughter. The slaves are valued along with the livestock, causing Douglass to develop a new hatred of slavery. He feels lucky when he is sent back to Baltimore to live with the family of Master Hugh. He is then moved through a few situations before he is sent to St. Michael's. His regret at not having attempted to run away is evident, but on his voyage he makes a mental note that he traveled in the North-Easterly direction and considers this information to be of extreme importance. For some time, he lives with Master Thomas Auld who is particularly cruel, even after attending a Methodist camp. Douglass is pleased when he eventually is lent to Mr. Covey for a year, simply because he would be fed. Mr. Covey is known as a 'negro-breaker', who breaks the will of slaves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707518Sun, 27 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Unabridged) Author: Frederick Douglass Narrator: Jesse Zuba Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/707518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Unabridged) Author: Frederick Douglass Narrator: Jesse Zuba Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 27, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass - is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States. Synopsis Douglass begins by explaining that he does not know the date of his birth (he later chose February 14, 1818), and that his mother died when he was 7 years old. He has very few memories of her (children were commonly separated from their mothers), only of the rare nighttime visit. He thinks his father is a white man, possibly his owner. At a very early age, he sees his Aunt Hester being whipped. Douglass details the cruel interaction that occurs between slaves and slaveholders, as well as how slaves are supposed to behave in the presence of their masters. Douglass says that fear is what kept many slaves in forced servitude, for when they told the truth they were punished by their owners. At this point in the Narrative, Douglass is moved to Baltimore, Maryland. This move is rather important for him because he believes that if he had not been moved, he would have remained a slave his entire life. He even starts to have hope for a better life in the future. He also discusses his new mistress, Mrs. Sophia Auld, who begins as a very kind woman but eventually turns cruel. Douglass learns the alphabet and how to spell small words from this woman, but her husband, Mr. Auld, disapproves and states that if slaves could read, they would not be fit to be slaves, being unmanageable and sad. Upon hearing why Mr. Auld disapproves of slaves being taught how to read, Douglass realizes the importance of reading and the possibilities that this skill could help him. He takes it upon himself to learn how to read and learn all he can, but at times, this newfound skill torments him. Douglass then gains an understanding of the word abolition and develops the idea to run away to the North. He also learns how to write and how to read well. When Douglass is ten or eleven, his master dies and his property is left to be divided between the master's son and daughter. The slaves are valued along with the livestock, causing Douglass to develop a new hatred of slavery. He feels lucky when he is sent back to Baltimore to live with the family of Master Hugh. He is then moved through a few situations before he is sent to St. Michael's. His regret at not having attempted to run away is evident, but on his voyage he makes a mental note that he traveled in the North-Easterly direction and considers this information to be of extreme importance. For some time, he lives with Master Thomas Auld who is particularly cruel, even after attending a Methodist camp. Douglass is pleased when he eventually is lent to Mr. Covey for a year, simply because he would be fed. Mr. Covey is known as a 'negro-breaker', who breaks the will of slaves.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-eagle-in-the-mirror-by-jesse-fink--65146547https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Eagle in the Mirror Author: Jesse Fink Narrator: Jesse Fink Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of an Australian-born intelligence officer accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century: Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis The longest serving spy for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Ellis helped set up the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), now known as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as well as the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS). At one point in the 1940s he was considered one of the top three secret agents in MI6 and controlled its activities, as one journalist put it, 'for half the world'. But in the 1980s journalist Chapman Pincher and retired MI5 intelligence officer Peter 'Spycatcher' Wright posthumously accused Ellis of having operated as a 'triple agent' for Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. In 1965, while under interrogation in London, Ellis had allegedly made a partial confession that he had worked for the Nazis. The scope of Ellis's purported betrayal was considered even worse than notorious British traitor and double agent Kim Philby. However, Pincher's and Wright's accusations against Ellis have never been comprehensively proven. Was Ellis guilty or was an innocent man framed? By confessing did he take the fall for someone else? Or had the intelligence agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia been fatally compromised by a 'super mole'? Internationally bestselling author Jesse Fink attempts to find out the truth once and for all. The Eagle in the Mirror is not just a long-overdue biography of the unheralded Dick Ellis; it's a gripping real-life international whodunit.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683881Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Eagle in the Mirror Author: Jesse Fink Narrator: Jesse Fink Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Eagle in the Mirror Author: Jesse Fink Narrator: Jesse Fink Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of an Australian-born intelligence officer accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century: Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis The longest serving spy for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Ellis helped set up the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), now known as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as well as the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS). At one point in the 1940s he was considered one of the top three secret agents in MI6 and controlled its activities, as one journalist put it, 'for half the world'. But in the 1980s journalist Chapman Pincher and retired MI5 intelligence officer Peter 'Spycatcher' Wright posthumously accused Ellis of having operated as a 'triple agent' for Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. In 1965, while under interrogation in London, Ellis had allegedly made a partial confession that he had worked for the Nazis. The scope of Ellis's purported betrayal was considered even worse than notorious British traitor and double agent Kim Philby. However, Pincher's and Wright's accusations against Ellis have never been comprehensively proven. Was Ellis guilty or was an innocent man framed? By confessing did he take the fall for someone else? Or had the intelligence agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia been fatally compromised by a 'super mole'? Internationally bestselling author Jesse Fink attempts to find out the truth once and for all. The Eagle in the Mirror is not just a long-overdue biography of the unheralded Dick Ellis; it's a gripping real-life international whodunit.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/peace-by-chocolate-the-hadhad-family-s-remarkable-journey-from-syria-to-canada-by-jon-tattrie--65146436https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Peace by Chocolate: The Hadhad Family’s Remarkable Journey from Syria to Canada Author: Jon Tattrie Narrator: Lee Majboub Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Finalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction, Gourmand Awards, and Taste Canada Awards (Culinary Narratives) A National Bestseller A Hill Times Top 100 Selection The extraordinary story of the Hadhad family and the founding of the chocolatier, Peace by Chocolate. Peace by Chocolate is the inspiring story of one family’s journey from the devastation of the Syrian Civil War and their welcome in a small town in Atlantic Canada.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704654Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Peace by Chocolate: The Hadhad Family’s Remarkable Journey from Syria to Canada Author: Jon Tattrie Narrator: Lee Majboub Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/704654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Peace by Chocolate: The Hadhad Family’s Remarkable Journey from Syria to Canada Author: Jon Tattrie Narrator: Lee Majboub Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Finalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction, Gourmand Awards, and Taste Canada Awards (Culinary Narratives) A National Bestseller A Hill Times Top 100 Selection The extraordinary story of the Hadhad family and the founding of the chocolatier, Peace by Chocolate. Peace by Chocolate is the inspiring story of one family’s journey from the devastation of the Syrian Civil War and their welcome in a small town in Atlantic Canada.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-have-been-the-bad-guy-by-dr-bernadette-bird-bowen--65146447https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I have been the bad guy Author: Dr. Bernadette Bird Bowen Narrator: Dr. Bernadette Bird Bowen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Have you ever been made to feel like the bad guy? Dr. bird has too. In this brief memoir, they reveal secrets about their life that they have kept hidden for over thirty years regarding compulsory heterosexuality, repressed/unexplored queernesses, and the late in life realization that -- turns out -- they're #actuallyautistic! Retold from their 33-year-old Dr. bird’s eye view, these extensively brave disclosures add one whole lifetime of flesh onto the U.S. body politic. This timely manuscript illuminates, historicizes, and contextualizes the f***ing fact that autism is not “just a trend” taking off just on TikTok recently, but that there are massive neuroqueer self-realizations happening worldwide in the algorithmic envirusment (environment + virus = envirusment). Dr. bird’s unmasked writing voice puts the “cut-the-shit” into “slice-of-life,” providing deep and raw disclosures of lifelong confusion, gaslighting, and struggles with family dysfunction, friendship loss, vulnerability, intimacy, sexual violence, and substance abuse. After extensive sharing, it’s time to grieve. They usher in a eulogy for their lifetimes that once were, by diagnosing how foundational U.S. ideas did and continue to dehumanize, sicken, disable, and deaden us. Then, they preach to the global choir about the single most connected time in history. Dr. bird has a lot more puns and trauma than answers, but in the end, recommends some liberatory antibodies for moving forward, far less miserably.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706546Sun, 20 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I have been the bad guy Author: Dr. Bernadette Bird Bowen Narrator: Dr. Bernadette Bird Bowen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I have been the bad guy Author: Dr. Bernadette Bird Bowen Narrator: Dr. Bernadette Bird Bowen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Have you ever been made to feel like the bad guy? Dr. bird has too. In this brief memoir, they reveal secrets about their life that they have kept hidden for over thirty years regarding compulsory heterosexuality, repressed/unexplored queernesses, and the late in life realization that -- turns out -- they're #actuallyautistic! Retold from their 33-year-old Dr. bird’s eye view, these extensively brave disclosures add one whole lifetime of flesh onto the U.S. body politic. This timely manuscript illuminates, historicizes, and contextualizes the f***ing fact that autism is not “just a trend” taking off just on TikTok recently, but that there are massive neuroqueer self-realizations happening worldwide in the algorithmic envirusment (environment + virus = envirusment). Dr. bird’s unmasked writing voice puts the “cut-the-shit” into “slice-of-life,” providing deep and raw disclosures of lifelong confusion, gaslighting, and struggles with family dysfunction, friendship loss, vulnerability, intimacy, sexual violence, and substance abuse. After extensive sharing, it’s time to grieve. They usher in a eulogy for their lifetimes that once were, by diagnosing how foundational U.S. ideas did and continue to dehumanize, sicken, disable, and deaden us. Then, they preach to the global choir about the single most connected time in history. Dr. bird has a lot more puns and trauma than answers, but in the end, recommends some liberatory antibodies for moving forward, far less miserably.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-in-between-unforgettable-encounters-during-life-s-final-moments-by-hadley-vlahos--65146417https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments Author: Hadley Vlahos Narrator: Hadley Vlahos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. *AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Hospice nurse and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories, life lessons and wisdom from her patients in this heart-warming memoir about how end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die. We don't often talk about dying, even in the medical field, but death is a universal part of life. An ardent advocate for compassionate end-of-life care, Hadley Vlahos, shows us that the end of our lives can be rich, beautiful and transformative by sharing moving stories about how her patients' final days have changed her life. Full of insights from real people, from the woman who never once questioned her faith until she was close to death, to the older man seeing visions of his late daughter, to the young patient who laments that she spent too much of her short life worrying about what others thought of her - each story raises vital questions about living, dying and the afterlife, inspiring us to live our lives to the fullest. ©2023 Hadley Vlahos (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700281Thu, 17 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments Author: Hadley Vlahos Narrator: Hadley Vlahos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments Author: Hadley Vlahos Narrator: Hadley Vlahos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. *AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Hospice nurse and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories, life lessons and wisdom from her patients in this heart-warming memoir about how end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die. We don't often talk about dying, even in the medical field, but death is a universal part of life. An ardent advocate for compassionate end-of-life care, Hadley Vlahos, shows us that the end of our lives can be rich, beautiful and transformative by sharing moving stories about how her patients' final days have changed her life. Full of insights from real people, from the woman who never once questioned her faith until she was close to death, to the older man seeing visions of his late daughter, to the young patient who laments that she spent too much of her short life worrying about what others thought of her - each story raises vital questions about living, dying and the afterlife, inspiring us to live our lives to the fullest. ©2023 Hadley Vlahos (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lincoln-a-very-short-introduction-by-allen-c-guelzo--65146592https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction Author: Allen C. Guelzo Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents. Guelzo takes us on a wide-ranging exploration of problems that confronted Lincoln and liberal democracy—equality, opportunity, the rule of law, slavery, freedom, peace, and his legacy. The Lincoln we meet here is an Enlightenment figure who struggled to create a common ground between a people focused on individual rights and a society eager to establish a certain moral, philosophical, and intellectual bedrock. Lincoln insisted that liberal democracy had a higher purpose, which was the realization of a morally right political order. But how to interject that sense of moral order into a system that values personal self-satisfaction—'the pursuit of happiness'—remains a fundamental dilemma even today. Guelzo paints a marvelous portrait of this Lincoln—Lincoln the man of ideas—providing new insights into one of the giants of American history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694387Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction Author: Allen C. Guelzo Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction Author: Allen C. Guelzo Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents. Guelzo takes us on a wide-ranging exploration of problems that confronted Lincoln and liberal democracy—equality, opportunity, the rule of law, slavery, freedom, peace, and his legacy. The Lincoln we meet here is an Enlightenment figure who struggled to create a common ground between a people focused on individual rights and a society eager to establish a certain moral, philosophical, and intellectual bedrock. Lincoln insisted that liberal democracy had a higher purpose, which was the realization of a morally right political order. But how to interject that sense of moral order into a system that values personal self-satisfaction—'the pursuit of happiness'—remains a fundamental dilemma even today. Guelzo paints a marvelous portrait of this Lincoln—Lincoln the man of ideas—providing new insights into one of the giants of American history.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/up-the-down-escalator-medicine-motherhood-and-multiple-sclerosis-by-lisa-doggett--65146571https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up The Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis Author: Lisa Doggett Narrator: Lisa Doggett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett's startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns to live with multiple sclerosis while running a clinic for uninsured patients in central Austin. Facing the prospect of a career-ending disability as she adjusts to life with multiple sclerosis, Dr. Lisa Doggett is forced to deal with a new level of uncertainty and vulnerability, and the everyday fear that something new will go wrong. Taking off her white coat—becoming a patient herself—she confronts unimaginable fears, copes with her limitations, and sidesteps her skepticism of alternative medicine to seek help from unlikely sources. MS pushes Doggett—a perfectionist at heart—to embrace self-compassion. As a patient, she learns to advocate for herself to ensure on-time medication deliveries and satisfactory treatment plans; to navigate chronic dizziness, relapses, and parenting frustrations; and to push her physical limits as a runner to go farther than ever before. This hopeful and uplifting book will encourage those living with chronic disease, and those supporting them, to power forward with courage and grace.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689639Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up The Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis Author: Lisa Doggett Narrator: Lisa Doggett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up The Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis Author: Lisa Doggett Narrator: Lisa Doggett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett's startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns to live with multiple sclerosis while running a clinic for uninsured patients in central Austin. Facing the prospect of a career-ending disability as she adjusts to life with multiple sclerosis, Dr. Lisa Doggett is forced to deal with a new level of uncertainty and vulnerability, and the everyday fear that something new will go wrong. Taking off her white coat—becoming a patient herself—she confronts unimaginable fears, copes with her limitations, and sidesteps her skepticism of alternative medicine to seek help from unlikely sources. MS pushes Doggett—a perfectionist at heart—to embrace self-compassion. As a patient, she learns to advocate for herself to ensure on-time medication deliveries and satisfactory treatment plans; to navigate chronic dizziness, relapses, and parenting frustrations; and to push her physical limits as a runner to go farther than ever before. This hopeful and uplifting book will encourage those living with chronic disease, and those supporting them, to power forward with courage and grace.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/acadian-driftwood-one-family-and-the-great-expulsion-by-tyler-leblanc--65146472https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion Author: Tyler Leblanc Narrator: Pierre Simpson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Winner, Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing A Hill Times Top 100 selection A Canada’s History Bestseller Piecing together his family history through archival documents, Tyler LeBlanc tells the story of his ancestor Joseph LeBlanc and the LeBlanc family during the Great Expulsion. A unique biographical approach to the history of the Expulsion, Acadian Driftwood is a vivid insight into one family’s experience of this traumatic event.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700310Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion Author: Tyler Leblanc Narrator: Pierre Simpson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 37...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion Author: Tyler Leblanc Narrator: Pierre Simpson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Winner, Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing A Hill Times Top 100 selection A Canada’s History Bestseller Piecing together his family history through archival documents, Tyler LeBlanc tells the story of his ancestor Joseph LeBlanc and the LeBlanc family during the Great Expulsion. A unique biographical approach to the history of the Expulsion, Acadian Driftwood is a vivid insight into one family’s experience of this traumatic event.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/somersaults-through-the-keyhole-by-mira-mack--65146413https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Somersaults: Through the Keyhole Author: Mira Mack Narrator: Robin Howatt Shrock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 13, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: There are somersaults and there are somersaults. Physically … no big deal. Lots of people can do them. This book is about the other kind of somersaults – through life. In this case, from a little girl plunked into the mid-fifties in socialist Czechoslovakia to a rebel at school with beliefs twisted and turned by social storms. Then in 1968, her family lives through morphing into socialism with a human face, the consequent invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies, and ultimately, the Russian occupation. And eventually, for many ordinary people, the reality of the so-called Velvet Revolution of 1989. When the girl grows into a young woman, she fights with traditions and old thinking. Plenty of humour, the discovery of limits, many sides of the same coin, the power of friendship, stepping into worlds of taboo, and challenging one’s own fear – every somersault has consequences. Intimate, funny, honest. If you enjoyed this audiobook, try listening to the sequel: Czech Mate]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706508Sun, 13 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Somersaults: Through the Keyhole Author: Mira Mack Narrator: Robin Howatt Shrock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Somersaults: Through the Keyhole Author: Mira Mack Narrator: Robin Howatt Shrock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 13, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: There are somersaults and there are somersaults. Physically … no big deal. Lots of people can do them. This book is about the other kind of somersaults – through life. In this case, from a little girl plunked into the mid-fifties in socialist Czechoslovakia to a rebel at school with beliefs twisted and turned by social storms. Then in 1968, her family lives through morphing into socialism with a human face, the consequent invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies, and ultimately, the Russian occupation. And eventually, for many ordinary people, the reality of the so-called Velvet Revolution of 1989. When the girl grows into a young woman, she fights with traditions and old thinking. Plenty of humour, the discovery of limits, many sides of the same coin, the power of friendship, stepping into worlds of taboo, and challenging one’s own fear – every somersault has consequences. Intimate, funny, honest. If you enjoyed this audiobook, try listening to the sequel: Czech Mate]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/whatever-happened-to-margo-by-margaret-durrell--65146483https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whatever Happened to Margo? Author: Margaret Durrell Narrator: Roy Mcmillan, Polly Edsell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 10, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. *With a foreword from Gerald Durrell* In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics: from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young nurses whose late-night shifts combined with an ever-revolving roster of gentleman callers leading to a neighbourhood rumour that Margo is running a brothel. Margo's own two sons, Gerry and Nicholas, prove to be every bit as mischievous as their famous Uncle Gerald - and he himself returns periodically with weird and wonderful animals, from marmosets to monkeys, that are quite unsuitable for life in a Bournemouth garden. ©1995 Margaret Durrell (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694994Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whatever Happened to Margo? Author: Margaret Durrell Narrator: Roy Mcmillan, Polly Edsell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whatever Happened to Margo? Author: Margaret Durrell Narrator: Roy Mcmillan, Polly Edsell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 10, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. *With a foreword from Gerald Durrell* In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics: from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young nurses whose late-night shifts combined with an ever-revolving roster of gentleman callers leading to a neighbourhood rumour that Margo is running a brothel. Margo's own two sons, Gerry and Nicholas, prove to be every bit as mischievous as their famous Uncle Gerald - and he himself returns periodically with weird and wonderful animals, from marmosets to monkeys, that are quite unsuitable for life in a Bournemouth garden. ©1995 Margaret Durrell (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/brothers-in-the-beloved-community-by-marc-andrus--65146414https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brothers in the Beloved Community Author: Marc Andrus Narrator: Marc Andrus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 8, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The never-before-told story of the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh—icons who changed each other and the world The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a heartbroken letter to their mutual friend Raphael Gould. He said: 'I did not sleep last night. . . . They killed Martin Luther King. They killed us. I am afraid the root of violence is so deep in the heart and mind and manner of this society. They killed him. They killed my hope. I do not know what to say. . . . He made so great an impression in me. This morning I have the impression that I cannot bear the loss.' Only a few years earlier, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote an open letter to Martin Luther King Jr. as part of his effort to raise awareness and bring peace in Vietnam. There was an unexpected outcome of Nhat Hanh's letter to King: The two men met in 1966 and 1967 and became not only allies in the peace movement, but friends. This friendship between two prophetic figures from different religions and cultures, from countries at war with one another, reached a great depth in a short period of time. Dr. King nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. He wrote: 'Thich Nhat Hanh is a holy man, for he is humble and devout. He is a scholar of immense intellectual capacity. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity.' The two men bonded over a vision of the Beloved Community: a vision described recently by Congressman John Lewis as 'a nation and world society at peace with itself.' It was a concept each knew of because of their membership within the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an international peace organization, and that Martin Luther King Jr. had been popularizing through his work for some time. Thich Nhat Hanh, Andrus shows, took the lineage of the Beloved Community from King and carried it on after his death.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706593Tue, 08 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brothers in the Beloved Community Author: Marc Andrus Narrator: Marc Andrus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brothers in the Beloved Community Author: Marc Andrus Narrator: Marc Andrus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 8, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The never-before-told story of the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh—icons who changed each other and the world The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a heartbroken letter to their mutual friend Raphael Gould. He said: 'I did not sleep last night. . . . They killed Martin Luther King. They killed us. I am afraid the root of violence is so deep in the heart and mind and manner of this society. They killed him. They killed my hope. I do not know what to say. . . . He made so great an impression in me. This morning I have the impression that I cannot bear the loss.' Only a few years earlier, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote an open letter to Martin Luther King Jr. as part of his effort to raise awareness and bring peace in Vietnam. There was an unexpected outcome of Nhat Hanh's letter to King: The two men met in 1966 and 1967 and became not only allies in the peace movement, but friends. This friendship between two prophetic figures from different religions and cultures, from countries at war with one another, reached a great depth in a short period of time. Dr. King nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. He wrote: 'Thich Nhat Hanh is a holy man, for he is humble and devout. He is a scholar of immense intellectual capacity. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity.' The two men bonded over a vision of the Beloved Community: a vision described recently by Congressman John Lewis as 'a nation and world society at peace with itself.' It was a concept each knew of because of their membership within the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an international peace organization, and that Martin Luther King Jr. had been popularizing through his work for some time. Thich Nhat Hanh, Andrus shows, took the lineage of the Beloved Community from King and carried it on after his death.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/under-the-knife-life-lessons-from-the-operating-theatre-by-liz-o-riordan--65146508https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under The Knife: Life Lessons From The Operating Theatre Author: Liz O'riordan Narrator: Anna Cordell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Dr Liz O'Riordan is a breast cancer surgeon who has battled against social, physical and mental challenges to practise at the top of her field. Under the Knife charts Liz's incredible highs: performing like a couture dressmaker as she moulded and reshaped women's breasts, while saving their lives; to the heart-breaking lows of telling ten women a day that they had cancer. But this memoir is more than just an eye-opening look at the realities of training to be a female surgeon in a man's world. In addition to this high-powered, high-pressured role, Liz faced her own breast cancer diagnosis, severe depression and suicidal thoughts, in tandem with commonplace sexual harassment and bullying. And by revealing how she coped when her life crashed around her, she demonstrates there is always hope.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690582Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under The Knife: Life Lessons From The Operating Theatre Author: Liz O'riordan Narrator: Anna Cordell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under The Knife: Life Lessons From The Operating Theatre Author: Liz O'riordan Narrator: Anna Cordell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Dr Liz O'Riordan is a breast cancer surgeon who has battled against social, physical and mental challenges to practise at the top of her field. Under the Knife charts Liz's incredible highs: performing like a couture dressmaker as she moulded and reshaped women's breasts, while saving their lives; to the heart-breaking lows of telling ten women a day that they had cancer. But this memoir is more than just an eye-opening look at the realities of training to be a female surgeon in a man's world. In addition to this high-powered, high-pressured role, Liz faced her own breast cancer diagnosis, severe depression and suicidal thoughts, in tandem with commonplace sexual harassment and bullying. And by revealing how she coped when her life crashed around her, she demonstrates there is always hope.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/living-medicine-don-thomas-marrow-transplantation-and-the-cell-therapy-revolution-by-fred-appelbaum--65146459https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution Author: Fred Appelbaum Narrator: Nathan Agin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A sweeping biography of the visionary behind bone marrow transplantation and the story of the diseases cured by Don Thomas's discovery. In the last half of the twentieth century, Thomas himself discovered a cure for every marrow-based disease—like leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle-cell anemia—forever changing treatment for some of the deadliest illnesses. His feats were extraordinary, earning him a Nobel Prize, and the cascade of treatments he inspired have reshaped and will continue to reshape the practice of clinical medicine. Yet no one has ever written Thomas’s courageous story. Dr. Frederick R. Appelbaum, a member of Thomas’s research team, does so for the first time in Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution. Bone marrow transplantation has now saved over a million lives, but when Thomas first had the idea, he was met with disbelief by the scientific community. Appelbaum, informed by decades in the field and personal connection with Thomas, tells us the secrets to Thomas’s success: his unique characteristics, how he created an effective team of researchers, and how he overcame the technical obstacles of marrow transplantation. Appelbaum tells a bigger story, too, of the scientific and societal implications of this achievement, which are critical for scientific and lay readers alike so that we all might be better informed of how far our medical progress has come and will go.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699087Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution Author: Fred Appelbaum Narrator: Nathan Agin Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution Author: Fred Appelbaum Narrator: Nathan Agin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A sweeping biography of the visionary behind bone marrow transplantation and the story of the diseases cured by Don Thomas's discovery. In the last half of the twentieth century, Thomas himself discovered a cure for every marrow-based disease—like leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle-cell anemia—forever changing treatment for some of the deadliest illnesses. His feats were extraordinary, earning him a Nobel Prize, and the cascade of treatments he inspired have reshaped and will continue to reshape the practice of clinical medicine. Yet no one has ever written Thomas’s courageous story. Dr. Frederick R. Appelbaum, a member of Thomas’s research team, does so for the first time in Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution. Bone marrow transplantation has now saved over a million lives, but when Thomas first had the idea, he was met with disbelief by the scientific community. Appelbaum, informed by decades in the field and personal connection with Thomas, tells us the secrets to Thomas’s success: his unique characteristics, how he created an effective team of researchers, and how he overcame the technical obstacles of marrow transplantation. Appelbaum tells a bigger story, too, of the scientific and societal implications of this achievement, which are critical for scientific and lay readers alike so that we all might be better informed of how far our medical progress has come and will go.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-diary-of-countess-anna-maria-berezowska-by-anna-maria-berezowska--65146415https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Diary of Countess Anna Maria Berezowska Author: Anna Maria Berezowska Narrator: Iris Hart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: July 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: IPPY (Independent Publishers) 2021 award-winning Best European Non-Fiction. An unforgettable literary masterpiece written over 200 years ago by a remarkable woman during the struggle and fall of Europe's first attempt at a constitutional democracy. A coming-of-age story, love drama, and historical saga all in one, it reads more like a novel than an authentic memoir. Despite its epoch, the highs and lows of Countess Anna's journey reverberate with timeless issues that still affect us all today. This courageous young woman wrote down extraordinarily visceral details of the horrendous experiences she was living through between 1791 and 1795 -- fires, blizzards, near-starvation, bloody battles between nations, and savage bodily assaults. Nevertheless, she miraculously retained her poetic sensitivity and hopefulness, never succumbing to bitterness or resignation. Translated from mainly Polish over 60 years ago, this book contains unique descriptions of the lifestyle of an unknown peasant clan who rescued and revived Anna after a murderous carriage attack; graphic accounts of childbirth and healing practices; ghastly war scenes; candid comments on women's suppression and social class inequalities; poignant confessions of conflicts between love and duty; and explicitly sexual passages that Anna copied from the memoirs of her lascivious cousin Sophia. This Diary has never heretofore been published in its authenticity. Its present availability finally fulfills Countess Anna Berezowska's profound wish to share her experiences and insights with the world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711193Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Diary of Countess Anna Maria Berezowska Author: Anna Maria Berezowska Narrator: Iris Hart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/711193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Diary of Countess Anna Maria Berezowska Author: Anna Maria Berezowska Narrator: Iris Hart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: July 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: IPPY (Independent Publishers) 2021 award-winning Best European Non-Fiction. An unforgettable literary masterpiece written over 200 years ago by a remarkable woman during the struggle and fall of Europe's first attempt at a constitutional democracy. A coming-of-age story, love drama, and historical saga all in one, it reads more like a novel than an authentic memoir. Despite its epoch, the highs and lows of Countess Anna's journey reverberate with timeless issues that still affect us all today. This courageous young woman wrote down extraordinarily visceral details of the horrendous experiences she was living through between 1791 and 1795 -- fires, blizzards, near-starvation, bloody battles between nations, and savage bodily assaults. Nevertheless, she miraculously retained her poetic sensitivity and hopefulness, never succumbing to bitterness or resignation. Translated from mainly Polish over 60 years ago, this book contains unique descriptions of the lifestyle of an unknown peasant clan who rescued and revived Anna after a murderous carriage attack; graphic accounts of childbirth and healing practices; ghastly war scenes; candid comments on women's suppression and social class inequalities; poignant confessions of conflicts between love and duty; and explicitly sexual passages that Anna copied from the memoirs of her lascivious cousin Sophia. This Diary has never heretofore been published in its authenticity. Its present availability finally fulfills Countess Anna Berezowska's profound wish to share her experiences and insights with the world.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-recuerdos-de-un-medico-rural-favaloro-100-anos-by-rene-favaloro--65146481https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Recuerdos de un médico rural: Favaloro 100 años Author: René Favaloro Narrator: Axel Cornelli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Nueva edición por el 100 aniversario del nacimiento del Dr. Favaloro. Uno de los médicos más reconocidos del país rememora sus experiencias como médico en un pueblo del oeste pampeano y reflexiona sobre las condiciones en las que se ejerce su profesión en la Argentina. Entre comienzos de la década del 50 y 1962, René Favaloro se desempeñó como médico rural en el pueblo pampeano de Jacinto Aráuz. Estos doce años fueron los que lo definieron, tanto en su vida profesional como en la personal. El mismo doctor que se volverá una eminencia años después en Cleveland, trabajando con los profesionales más destacados de la medicina internacional, inició su carrera en el interior de la Argentina, y fue esa labor lo que más marcó su vocación. En 1980 publicó esta obra, su primer libro autobiográfico. En él reflexionó acerca de su propia experiencia y del ejercicio de la medicina en algunas zonas postergadas del país, a la vez que advirtió sobre el devenir de la práctica pública de la salud y cierta decadencia en la formación de nuevos médicos. Recuerdos de un médico rural tuvo un gran recibimiento. 'Mi objetivo -decía en el prólogo a la segunda edición, que escribió emocionado por las cartas que le habían enviado cole - gas y maestros rurales que se sintieron representados en sus escritos- no es presentar la simple descripción de hechos anecdóticos sino, a través de ellos, mostrar las condiciones socioeconómicas del interior'. Y se preguntaba: '¿Tendremos capacidad de reaccionar? ¿Seremos capaces de realizar la verdadera reconstrucción?'.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698982Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Recuerdos de un médico rural: Favaloro 100 años Author: René Favaloro Narrator: Axel Cornelli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Recuerdos de un médico rural: Favaloro 100 años Author: René Favaloro Narrator: Axel Cornelli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Nueva edición por el 100 aniversario del nacimiento del Dr. Favaloro. Uno de los médicos más reconocidos del país rememora sus experiencias como médico en un pueblo del oeste pampeano y reflexiona sobre las condiciones en las que se ejerce su profesión en la Argentina. Entre comienzos de la década del 50 y 1962, René Favaloro se desempeñó como médico rural en el pueblo pampeano de Jacinto Aráuz. Estos doce años fueron los que lo definieron, tanto en su vida profesional como en la personal. El mismo doctor que se volverá una eminencia años después en Cleveland, trabajando con los profesionales más destacados de la medicina internacional, inició su carrera en el interior de la Argentina, y fue esa labor lo que más marcó su vocación. En 1980 publicó esta obra, su primer libro autobiográfico. En él reflexionó acerca de su propia experiencia y del ejercicio de la medicina en algunas zonas postergadas del país, a la vez que advirtió sobre el devenir de la práctica pública de la salud y cierta decadencia en la formación de nuevos médicos. Recuerdos de un médico rural tuvo un gran recibimiento. 'Mi objetivo -decía en el prólogo a la segunda edición, que escribió emocionado por las cartas que le habían enviado cole - gas y maestros rurales que se sintieron representados en sus escritos- no es presentar la simple descripción de hechos anecdóticos sino, a través de ellos, mostrar las condiciones socioeconómicas del interior'. Y se preguntaba: '¿Tendremos capacidad de reaccionar? ¿Seremos capaces de realizar la verdadera reconstrucción?'.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/czech-mate-don-t-shoot-the-journalist-by-mira-mack--65146468https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Czech Mate: Don't Shoot the Journalist Author: Mira Mack Narrator: Robin Howatt Shrock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: July 16, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Nobody in our family ever got divorced.” – In the words of my dad. “So there is always a first time for everything.” – Those would be my words. Early in the 1990s, the Czech Republic was changing, desperately trying to enter a western capitalistic lifestyle. But the change was slow motion compared to the turbulent life of a young female journalist trying to do it all – end her first marriage, mother two kids, while drowning in lots of work. One could also say – divorcing chin first, pulling new jobs while juggling old jobs, surrounding herself with loyal friends, and marrying a new man, the love of her life, who was – ooohh my god! – a foreigner … how scandalous! She is forced to fight with old traditional thinking, the socialistic school system, and a judgemental society. But she is never alone – with the help of her faithful friends, family and a refreshing dose of humour, she finally wins her life game of Czech Mate. And finally, a fresh start. Canada – here they come! If you enjoyed this book, try the prequel: Somersaults]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699868Sun, 16 Jul 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Czech Mate: Don't Shoot the Journalist Author: Mira Mack Narrator: Robin Howatt Shrock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Czech Mate: Don't Shoot the Journalist Author: Mira Mack Narrator: Robin Howatt Shrock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: July 16, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Nobody in our family ever got divorced.” – In the words of my dad. “So there is always a first time for everything.” – Those would be my words. Early in the 1990s, the Czech Republic was changing, desperately trying to enter a western capitalistic lifestyle. But the change was slow motion compared to the turbulent life of a young female journalist trying to do it all – end her first marriage, mother two kids, while drowning in lots of work. One could also say – divorcing chin first, pulling new jobs while juggling old jobs, surrounding herself with loyal friends, and marrying a new man, the love of her life, who was – ooohh my god! – a foreigner … how scandalous! She is forced to fight with old traditional thinking, the socialistic school system, and a judgemental society. But she is never alone – with the help of her faithful friends, family and a refreshing dose of humour, she finally wins her life game of Czech Mate. And finally, a fresh start. Canada – here they come! If you enjoyed this book, try the prequel: Somersaults]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-einhundert-samstage-stella-levi-und-die-suche-nach-einer-verlorenen-welt-ungekurzt-by-michael-frank--65146499https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Einhundert Samstage - Stella Levi und die Suche nach einer verlorenen Welt (ungekürzt) Author: Michael Frank Narrator: Sebastian Blomberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Als Michael Frank die heute hundertjährige Stella Levi zufällig kennenlernt, nimmt eine große Geschichte ihren Anfang. Sie lädt ihn in ihr New Yorker Apartment ein, und bald wird aus den Besuchen ein Ritual: An hundert Sams­tagen erzählt Levi dem Schriftsteller ihr Leben. Gemeinsam suchen und erkunden die beiden eine fast märchenhafte, verlorene Welt. Levi, geboren 1923, wuchs auf im jüdischen Viertel La Juderia auf der Mittelmeerinsel Rhodos - eine Kindheit und Jugend zwischen sephardischer Tradition und Moderne, inmitten einer Vielfalt von Kulturen und Sprachen zwischen Orient und Okzident. Stella eifert der Schwester Felicie nach, die Freud und Henri Bergson liest; sie selbst träumt vom Studium in Italien. Schließlich aber werden diese Welt und die Familie grausam zerrissen, und Stella Levi erzählt auch davon: Im Herbst 1943 besetzen die Deutschen die Insel, für Levi der Anfang eines Leidenswegs, der sie bis nach Auschwitz führt. Sie überlebt - und beginnt ein ganz neues Leben in den USA. Stella Levis Geschichte ist ein faszinierendes historisches Zeugnis. Sie erzählt von einer einzigartigen Welt, die zerstört wurde - und setzt ihr zugleich ein Denkmal, das die Vielfalt und Fülle des Lebens zeigt. Ausgezeichnet mit dem National Jewish Book Award 2023. 'Stella Levis Geschichte wird mit diesem Buch weiterleben.' (Christine Westermann).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694818Fri, 14 Jul 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Einhundert Samstage - Stella Levi und die Suche nach einer verlorenen Welt (ungekürzt) Author: Michael Frank Narrator: Sebastian Blomberg...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Einhundert Samstage - Stella Levi und die Suche nach einer verlorenen Welt (ungekürzt) Author: Michael Frank Narrator: Sebastian Blomberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Als Michael Frank die heute hundertjährige Stella Levi zufällig kennenlernt, nimmt eine große Geschichte ihren Anfang. Sie lädt ihn in ihr New Yorker Apartment ein, und bald wird aus den Besuchen ein Ritual: An hundert Sams­tagen erzählt Levi dem Schriftsteller ihr Leben. Gemeinsam suchen und erkunden die beiden eine fast märchenhafte, verlorene Welt. Levi, geboren 1923, wuchs auf im jüdischen Viertel La Juderia auf der Mittelmeerinsel Rhodos - eine Kindheit und Jugend zwischen sephardischer Tradition und Moderne, inmitten einer Vielfalt von Kulturen und Sprachen zwischen Orient und Okzident. Stella eifert der Schwester Felicie nach, die Freud und Henri Bergson liest; sie selbst träumt vom Studium in Italien. Schließlich aber werden diese Welt und die Familie grausam zerrissen, und Stella Levi erzählt auch davon: Im Herbst 1943 besetzen die Deutschen die Insel, für Levi der Anfang eines Leidenswegs, der sie bis nach Auschwitz führt. Sie überlebt - und beginnt ein ganz neues Leben in den USA. Stella Levis Geschichte ist ein faszinierendes historisches Zeugnis. Sie erzählt von einer einzigartigen Welt, die zerstört wurde - und setzt ihr zugleich ein Denkmal, das die Vielfalt und Fülle des Lebens zeigt. Ausgezeichnet mit dem National Jewish Book Award 2023. 'Stella Levis Geschichte wird mit diesem Buch weiterleben.' (Christine Westermann).]]>185rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jews-in-the-garden-a-holocaust-survivor-the-fate-of-his-family-and-the-secret-history-of-poland-in-world-war-ii-by-judy-rakowsky--65146572https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679836 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II Author: Judy Rakowsky Narrator: Judy Rakowsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Villages of Poland hide the lost secrets of World War II 1944: Heavy footfalls thud on the road on a rainy May night. A band of gunmen scour a hilltop farm, acting on rumors that it harbors a Jewish family. For 18 months, the Rozeneks have been hiding safely, but their luck is about to run out. Only one from the family of six will live to see the sunrise. Sixteen-year-old Hena Rozenek shelters in the woods until morning . . . and then she runs. Forty years later: Holocaust survivor Sam Rakowski Ron has lived in the United States for decades, never thinking he could return to the Polish village he fled as a teenager. But now he's ready to talk about what he heard, what he saw, and what he knows about two separate families of cousins who were his neighbors, and presumably were killed during the war. The story Poland presents to the world is that Poles saved more Jews than citizens of any other nation, that any murders in Poland were committed by Nazis and Nazis alone. But Sam, while defending his countrymen, suspects a painful truth. The stories he shares with his younger cousin, Judy, an investigative journalist, send them off on a decades-long journey unlike any other to find out what happened to the Rozenek family and ultimately reveal the secrets the Polish government is still desperate to keep.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679836Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679836 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II Author: Judy Rakowsky Narrator: Judy...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679836 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II Author: Judy Rakowsky Narrator: Judy Rakowsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Villages of Poland hide the lost secrets of World War II 1944: Heavy footfalls thud on the road on a rainy May night. A band of gunmen scour a hilltop farm, acting on rumors that it harbors a Jewish family. For 18 months, the Rozeneks have been hiding safely, but their luck is about to run out. Only one from the family of six will live to see the sunrise. Sixteen-year-old Hena Rozenek shelters in the woods until morning . . . and then she runs. Forty years later: Holocaust survivor Sam Rakowski Ron has lived in the United States for decades, never thinking he could return to the Polish village he fled as a teenager. But now he's ready to talk about what he heard, what he saw, and what he knows about two separate families of cousins who were his neighbors, and presumably were killed during the war. The story Poland presents to the world is that Poles saved more Jews than citizens of any other nation, that any murders in Poland were committed by Nazis and Nazis alone. But Sam, while defending his countrymen, suspects a painful truth. The stories he shares with his younger cousin, Judy, an investigative journalist, send them off on a decades-long journey unlike any other to find out what happened to the Rozenek family and ultimately reveal the secrets the Polish government is still desperate to keep.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-propiedad-del-paraiso-by-felipe-benitez-reyes--65146501https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La propiedad del paraíso Author: Felipe Benitez Reyes Narrator: Arturo López Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Conformada por retazos de memoria, el narrador de esta novela va desgranando los momentos en los que gozó de la frágil propiedad del paraíso, los momentos de una infancia en apariencia inocente y dichosa pero encarnada en el dolor y la incertidumbre. Fernandi y Carmelo son sus compañeros de juegos, y junto a ellos desfila una galería de personajes familiares e inquietantes: Lali, juiciosa profesora particular, el sargento Arruza, la viva imagen del peligro, la Diosa del Rodeo, domadora de bisontes, además del capitán Roden, 1 / 4el cineasta Miguel y el Duende, «el ratero y el rey del tiempo». Poco a poco el protagonista irá perdiendo su paraíso de héroes, novias quiméricas, fiestas familiares, visitas a la capital y muchachas de labios pintados de rojo. Cuando quince años más tarde el narrador regrese a los espacios de su infancia, se dará cuenta de que tiene en sus manos «la llave que abre la casa de la nada»: el paraíso se habrá tornado leyenda. Una deslumbrante novela sobre la infancia, con un epílogo, un apéndice de poemas relacionados y collages realizados por el autor para esta edición. Con prólogo de José Manuel Caballero Bonald]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695210Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La propiedad del paraíso Author: Felipe Benitez Reyes Narrator: Arturo López Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 41 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695210 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La propiedad del paraíso Author: Felipe Benitez Reyes Narrator: Arturo López Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Conformada por retazos de memoria, el narrador de esta novela va desgranando los momentos en los que gozó de la frágil propiedad del paraíso, los momentos de una infancia en apariencia inocente y dichosa pero encarnada en el dolor y la incertidumbre. Fernandi y Carmelo son sus compañeros de juegos, y junto a ellos desfila una galería de personajes familiares e inquietantes: Lali, juiciosa profesora particular, el sargento Arruza, la viva imagen del peligro, la Diosa del Rodeo, domadora de bisontes, además del capitán Roden, 1 / 4el cineasta Miguel y el Duende, «el ratero y el rey del tiempo». Poco a poco el protagonista irá perdiendo su paraíso de héroes, novias quiméricas, fiestas familiares, visitas a la capital y muchachas de labios pintados de rojo. Cuando quince años más tarde el narrador regrese a los espacios de su infancia, se dará cuenta de que tiene en sus manos «la llave que abre la casa de la nada»: el paraíso se habrá tornado leyenda. Una deslumbrante novela sobre la infancia, con un epílogo, un apéndice de poemas relacionados y collages realizados por el autor para esta edición. Con prólogo de José Manuel Caballero Bonald]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/italian-maria-montessori-una-storia-attuale-la-vita-il-pensiero-le-testimonianze-by-grazia-honegger-fresco--65146504https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Italian] - Maria Montessori, una storia attuale: La vita, il pensiero, le testimonianze Series: #1 of Appunti Montessori Author: Grazia Honegger Fresco Narrator: Daria Esposito Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 10, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Maria Montessori non fu certo una donna comune. Capace di destare le più entusiastiche adesioni e le critiche più malevole, fu oggetto al suo tempo di illazioni, maldicenze, pettegolezzi e, ancor oggi, il suo senso di libertà e le scomode novità del suo pensiero suscitano reazioni contrastanti. Si ripercorrono qui le tappe della sua vita: dagli anni della formazione, segnati dalla difficoltà di essere una delle prime donne medico in Italia, all'esperienza dolorosa della maternità nascosta; dalle lotte femministe, che fondano in lei un nuovo senso di giustizia sociale e una nuova consapevolezza del ruolo della donna, all’impegno a favore dei bambini svantaggiati fino al suo innovativo progetto pedagogico, basato sulla valorizzazione delle risorse e della libertà del bambino. La presente edizione, rivista e aggiornata, accoglie numerose aggiunte, modifiche, correzioni e capitoli nuovi, grazie anche al prezioso contributo della bisnipote di Maria, Carolina Montessori.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695025Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Italian] - Maria Montessori, una storia attuale: La vita, il pensiero, le testimonianze Series: #1 of Appunti Montessori Author: Grazia Honegger...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Italian] - Maria Montessori, una storia attuale: La vita, il pensiero, le testimonianze Series: #1 of Appunti Montessori Author: Grazia Honegger Fresco Narrator: Daria Esposito Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 10, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Maria Montessori non fu certo una donna comune. Capace di destare le più entusiastiche adesioni e le critiche più malevole, fu oggetto al suo tempo di illazioni, maldicenze, pettegolezzi e, ancor oggi, il suo senso di libertà e le scomode novità del suo pensiero suscitano reazioni contrastanti. Si ripercorrono qui le tappe della sua vita: dagli anni della formazione, segnati dalla difficoltà di essere una delle prime donne medico in Italia, all'esperienza dolorosa della maternità nascosta; dalle lotte femministe, che fondano in lei un nuovo senso di giustizia sociale e una nuova consapevolezza del ruolo della donna, all’impegno a favore dei bambini svantaggiati fino al suo innovativo progetto pedagogico, basato sulla valorizzazione delle risorse e della libertà del bambino. La presente edizione, rivista e aggiornata, accoglie numerose aggiunte, modifiche, correzioni e capitoli nuovi, grazie anche al prezioso contributo della bisnipote di Maria, Carolina Montessori.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/on-the-tracks-of-a-shadow-by-carlos-usin--65146487https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698361 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On The Tracks Of A Shadow Author: Carlos Usín Narrator: Luis Cruz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 7, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the government of Franco's ”New Spain” launched a complex and Machiavellian system of repression, directed against all those republican prisoners who had lost the war. From that moment on, the hundreds of thousands of prisoners (Republican or not), suffered in their flesh - literally - the ordeal of forced labor, internment in Concentration Camps or prisons and in certain cases, directly death.At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Francoist “New Spain” set in motion a complex and Machiavellian system of repression directed against all those Republican prisoners who had lost the war. From that moment on, hundreds of thousands of prisoners (Republicans or not) suffered first-hand the torture of forced labour, internment in concentration camps or in prisons or, in certain cases, death. Although in the vast majority of cases the victims of reprisals belonged to political parties, unions and other left-wing organisations, some internees were practising Catholics educated by the Piarists but were still not spared. This is the story of Enrique, one of those internees, who in 1936, shortly after his twentieth birthday, found himself obliged to take part in a civil war instead of continuing his medical studies at university. Over the following 20 years, his determination to finish his degree did not waver and although he did not fire a single shot, because he spent the war working in a hospital, he was given a Summary Military Trial, sentenced to twelve years and one day for “aiding the rebellion”, suffered internment in concentration camps and prisons and was sent to work battalions where he carried out forced labour, and all that despite being Catholic and right-wing. Quite simply, he was on the wrong side at the least opportune time. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698361Fri, 07 Jul 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698361 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On The Tracks Of A Shadow Author: Carlos Usín Narrator: Luis Cruz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 7, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698361 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On The Tracks Of A Shadow Author: Carlos Usín Narrator: Luis Cruz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 3 minutes Release date: July 7, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the government of Franco's ”New Spain” launched a complex and Machiavellian system of repression, directed against all those republican prisoners who had lost the war. From that moment on, the hundreds of thousands of prisoners (Republican or not), suffered in their flesh - literally - the ordeal of forced labor, internment in Concentration Camps or prisons and in certain cases, directly death.At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Francoist “New Spain” set in motion a complex and Machiavellian system of repression directed against all those Republican prisoners who had lost the war. From that moment on, hundreds of thousands of prisoners (Republicans or not) suffered first-hand the torture of forced labour, internment in concentration camps or in prisons or, in certain cases, death. Although in the vast majority of cases the victims of reprisals belonged to political parties, unions and other left-wing organisations, some internees were practising Catholics educated by the Piarists but were still not spared. This is the story of Enrique, one of those internees, who in 1936, shortly after his twentieth birthday, found himself obliged to take part in a civil war instead of continuing his medical studies at university. Over the following 20 years, his determination to finish his degree did not waver and although he did not fire a single shot, because he spent the war working in a hospital, he was given a Summary Military Trial, sentenced to twelve years and one day for “aiding the rebellion”, suffered internment in concentration camps and prisons and was sent to work battalions where he carried out forced labour, and all that despite being Catholic and right-wing. Quite simply, he was on the wrong side at the least opportune time. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-legacy-to-remember-by-pamela-k-orgeron--65146446https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Legacy to Remember Author: Pamela K Orgeron Narrator: Milton Orgeron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Legacy to Remember: Recollections of a Common Man is the story of a man who rose above all odds stacked against him. The Great Depression, divorced parents, living in poverty, World War II, the death of a child, divorce, etc.—commonly known occurrences many individuals in American history have faced. Many people would have been bitter having lived through such tragedies. But not Duard Vinson Gillum! He not only survived but he thrived through his faith in God to become a wonderful family man with a successful career in the aeronautics industry, even working on the Apollo moon landing project and the space shuttle project. This biography follows Tiny’s autobiography, Recollections of a Common Man (Xlibris, 2011), self-published before his death with a final chapter and additional photos documenting Mr. Gillum’s life. Reared in Ashland, KY, during the Great Depression, Mr. Gillum's extended family of 11 occupied a three-room shack located next to the city dump. After the Depression, his family experienced the Great Flood of 1937, where many locales along the Ohio River, including Ashland, faced much devastation. When WWII started he had only completed a ninth-grade education before joining the navy, lying about his age. Following his honorable discharge from the navy after WWII ended, with only his ninth-grade education, Mr. Gillum became a well-accomplished career man in the aeronautics field while also volunteering in his community as a baseball coach for 18 years; that also included coaching his son. Referring to Mr. Gillum as a mere survivor is an understatement, to say the least. He thrived in the midst of adversity to overcome much tragedy while maintaining an optimistic attitude that reflected to others around him. No doubt Mr. Gillum touched a lot of lives. He also left a lot of life lessons that many individuals in today's society will glean from listening to A Legacy to Remember: Recollections of a Common Man.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698867Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Legacy to Remember Author: Pamela K Orgeron Narrator: Milton Orgeron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 4,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Legacy to Remember Author: Pamela K Orgeron Narrator: Milton Orgeron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Legacy to Remember: Recollections of a Common Man is the story of a man who rose above all odds stacked against him. The Great Depression, divorced parents, living in poverty, World War II, the death of a child, divorce, etc.—commonly known occurrences many individuals in American history have faced. Many people would have been bitter having lived through such tragedies. But not Duard Vinson Gillum! He not only survived but he thrived through his faith in God to become a wonderful family man with a successful career in the aeronautics industry, even working on the Apollo moon landing project and the space shuttle project. This biography follows Tiny’s autobiography, Recollections of a Common Man (Xlibris, 2011), self-published before his death with a final chapter and additional photos documenting Mr. Gillum’s life. Reared in Ashland, KY, during the Great Depression, Mr. Gillum's extended family of 11 occupied a three-room shack located next to the city dump. After the Depression, his family experienced the Great Flood of 1937, where many locales along the Ohio River, including Ashland, faced much devastation. When WWII started he had only completed a ninth-grade education before joining the navy, lying about his age. Following his honorable discharge from the navy after WWII ended, with only his ninth-grade education, Mr. Gillum became a well-accomplished career man in the aeronautics field while also volunteering in his community as a baseball coach for 18 years; that also included coaching his son. Referring to Mr. Gillum as a mere survivor is an understatement, to say the least. He thrived in the midst of adversity to overcome much tragedy while maintaining an optimistic attitude that reflected to others around him. No doubt Mr. Gillum touched a lot of lives. He also left a lot of life lessons that many individuals in today's society will glean from listening to A Legacy to Remember: Recollections of a Common Man.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sing-memory-the-remarkable-story-of-the-man-who-saved-the-music-of-the-nazi-camps-by-makana-eyre--65146575https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684121 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps Author: Makana Eyre Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In October 1942, SS guards at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp violently disbanded a rehearsal of a secret Jewish choir led by conductor Rosebery d'Arguto. Many in the group did not live to see morning, and those who survived were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only one of its members survived the Holocaust. Yet their story survives, thanks to Aleksander Kulisiewicz. An amateur musician, he was not Jewish, but became friends with d'Arguto in Sachsenhausen. D'Arguto tasked him with a mission: to save the musical heritage of the victims of the Nazi camps. In Sing, Memory, Makana Eyre recounts Kulisiewicz's transformation from a Polish nationalist into a guardian of music and culture from the Nazi camps. Aided by an eidetic memory, Kulisiewicz was able to preserve for posterity not only his own songs about life at the camp, but the music and poetry of prisoners from a range of backgrounds. They composed symphonies, organized clandestine choirs, and gathered to perform for one another. For many, music enabled them to resist, bear witness, and maintain their humanity in some of the most brutal conditions imaginable. After the war, Kulisiewicz returned to Poland and assembled an archive of camp music, which he went on to perform in more than a dozen countries. He dedicated the remainder of his life to the memory of the Nazi camps.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684121Tue, 27 Jun 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684121 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps Author: Makana Eyre Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684121 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps Author: Makana Eyre Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In October 1942, SS guards at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp violently disbanded a rehearsal of a secret Jewish choir led by conductor Rosebery d'Arguto. Many in the group did not live to see morning, and those who survived were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only one of its members survived the Holocaust. Yet their story survives, thanks to Aleksander Kulisiewicz. An amateur musician, he was not Jewish, but became friends with d'Arguto in Sachsenhausen. D'Arguto tasked him with a mission: to save the musical heritage of the victims of the Nazi camps. In Sing, Memory, Makana Eyre recounts Kulisiewicz's transformation from a Polish nationalist into a guardian of music and culture from the Nazi camps. Aided by an eidetic memory, Kulisiewicz was able to preserve for posterity not only his own songs about life at the camp, but the music and poetry of prisoners from a range of backgrounds. They composed symphonies, organized clandestine choirs, and gathered to perform for one another. For many, music enabled them to resist, bear witness, and maintain their humanity in some of the most brutal conditions imaginable. After the war, Kulisiewicz returned to Poland and assembled an archive of camp music, which he went on to perform in more than a dozen countries. He dedicated the remainder of his life to the memory of the Nazi camps.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-du-bist-der-weg-manifestiere-dir-dein-traumleben-mit-dem-gesetz-der-annahme-nach-neville-goddard-by-fabio-mantegna--65146503https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692661 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Du bist der Weg: Manifestiere dir dein Traumleben mit dem Gesetz der Annahme nach Neville Goddard Series: #1 of Manifestieren mit Neville Goddard und dem Gesetz der Annahme Author: Fabio Mantegna Narrator: Konrad Lindemann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Alles über das Manifestieren in einem Buch: 'Du bist der Weg' (2. Auflage) führt dich mit dem Gesetz der Annahme nach Neville Goddard Schritt-für-Schritt zu deiner Wunscherfüllung! Ich freue mich, dass du hierher gefunden hast, denn etwas in dir wünscht sich MEHR vom Leben - mehr Liebe, mehr Glück, mehr Erfüllung. Doch solange diese Dinge für dich nur ein Wunsch bleiben, wirst du deinen Träumen für immer hinterherrennen. Was du brauchst, um deinen Wunsch erfüllen zu können, sind bewährte Techniken zum Manifestieren. Der Autor und Meister der Manifestation Neville Goddard hat das Gesetz der Annahme (Gesetz der Anziehung) und die hermetischen Gesetze auf seine wichtigsten Bestandteile heruntergebrochen und dadurch die größten Erfolge beim Manifestieren erzielt. Persönlich, aber auch für abertausende Studierende, die durch ihn richtig manifestieren gelernt haben. Einer seiner Lehrlinge war Elmer O. Locker Jr. Sein Enkel hat dieses Manifestationsbuch mit vielen seiner Erfahrungen zum Manifestieren bereichert. Wenn auch du dein Bewusstsein, die Macht der Gedanken & die Macht des Unterbewusstseins nutzen willst, um dir deine Wünsche zu erfüllen, dann warte nicht länger und nutze die Techniken und Anleitungen in diesem Buch.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692661Tue, 27 Jun 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692661 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Du bist der Weg: Manifestiere dir dein Traumleben mit dem Gesetz der Annahme nach Neville Goddard Series: #1 of Manifestieren mit Neville...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692661 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Du bist der Weg: Manifestiere dir dein Traumleben mit dem Gesetz der Annahme nach Neville Goddard Series: #1 of Manifestieren mit Neville Goddard und dem Gesetz der Annahme Author: Fabio Mantegna Narrator: Konrad Lindemann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Alles über das Manifestieren in einem Buch: 'Du bist der Weg' (2. Auflage) führt dich mit dem Gesetz der Annahme nach Neville Goddard Schritt-für-Schritt zu deiner Wunscherfüllung! Ich freue mich, dass du hierher gefunden hast, denn etwas in dir wünscht sich MEHR vom Leben - mehr Liebe, mehr Glück, mehr Erfüllung. Doch solange diese Dinge für dich nur ein Wunsch bleiben, wirst du deinen Träumen für immer hinterherrennen. Was du brauchst, um deinen Wunsch erfüllen zu können, sind bewährte Techniken zum Manifestieren. Der Autor und Meister der Manifestation Neville Goddard hat das Gesetz der Annahme (Gesetz der Anziehung) und die hermetischen Gesetze auf seine wichtigsten Bestandteile heruntergebrochen und dadurch die größten Erfolge beim Manifestieren erzielt. Persönlich, aber auch für abertausende Studierende, die durch ihn richtig manifestieren gelernt haben. Einer seiner Lehrlinge war Elmer O. Locker Jr. Sein Enkel hat dieses Manifestationsbuch mit vielen seiner Erfahrungen zum Manifestieren bereichert. Wenn auch du dein Bewusstsein, die Macht der Gedanken & die Macht des Unterbewusstseins nutzen willst, um dir deine Wünsche zu erfüllen, dann warte nicht länger und nutze die Techniken und Anleitungen in diesem Buch.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kipling-a-brief-biography-by-alberto-manguel--65146467https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kipling: A Brief Biography Author: Alberto Manguel Narrator: William Merryn Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This brief biography of Rudyard Kipling is an ideal introduction, for young and old alike, to the fascinating life and works of one of the finest writers 0f the last hundred years.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706548Tue, 27 Jun 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kipling: A Brief Biography Author: Alberto Manguel Narrator: William Merryn Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 43 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kipling: A Brief Biography Author: Alberto Manguel Narrator: William Merryn Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This brief biography of Rudyard Kipling is an ideal introduction, for young and old alike, to the fascinating life and works of one of the finest writers 0f the last hundred years.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-europa-eine-personliche-geschichte-by-timothy-garton-ash--65146573https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Europa: Eine persönliche Geschichte Author: Timothy Garton Ash Narrator: Patrick Twinem Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Zerstört, geteilt, geeint, zwischen Taumel und Triumph: Die Geschichte Europas wie Timothy Garton Ash sie erlebt hat – als Historiker, Kommentator und Zeitzeuge. Timothy Garton Ash ist leidenschaftlicher Europäer. Schon vor 1989 wollte er sich nicht mit der Teilung des Kontinents abfinden, bis zuletzt kämpfte er gegen den Brexit. Nun schreibt er seine ganz persönliche Geschichte Europas, die 1945 mit der Stationierung seines Vaters als Besatzungssoldat in Deutschland beginnt. Er erzählt von Freunden wie Václav Havel, erinnert sich an den Mauerfall, berichtet vom Jugoslawienkrieg, der Eurokrise und dem Flüchtlingsdrama und liefert eine scharfe, eindringliche Analyse der neuesten europäischen Geschichte. Der Angriff auf die Ukraine zeigt, wie dringend wir einen freien und geeinten Kontinent brauchen – niemand verkörpert diese Idee überzeugender als Timothy Garton Ash. »Für Europa das richtige Buch zur richtigen Zeit.« Timothy Snyder]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696936Mon, 26 Jun 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Europa: Eine persönliche Geschichte Author: Timothy Garton Ash Narrator: Patrick Twinem Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 3...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Europa: Eine persönliche Geschichte Author: Timothy Garton Ash Narrator: Patrick Twinem Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 26, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Zerstört, geteilt, geeint, zwischen Taumel und Triumph: Die Geschichte Europas wie Timothy Garton Ash sie erlebt hat – als Historiker, Kommentator und Zeitzeuge. Timothy Garton Ash ist leidenschaftlicher Europäer. Schon vor 1989 wollte er sich nicht mit der Teilung des Kontinents abfinden, bis zuletzt kämpfte er gegen den Brexit. Nun schreibt er seine ganz persönliche Geschichte Europas, die 1945 mit der Stationierung seines Vaters als Besatzungssoldat in Deutschland beginnt. Er erzählt von Freunden wie Václav Havel, erinnert sich an den Mauerfall, berichtet vom Jugoslawienkrieg, der Eurokrise und dem Flüchtlingsdrama und liefert eine scharfe, eindringliche Analyse der neuesten europäischen Geschichte. Der Angriff auf die Ukraine zeigt, wie dringend wir einen freien und geeinten Kontinent brauchen – niemand verkörpert diese Idee überzeugender als Timothy Garton Ash. »Für Europa das richtige Buch zur richtigen Zeit.« Timothy Snyder]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-people-of-deutschland-45-menschen-45-geschichten-uber-rassismus-im-alltag-und-wie-wir-unser-land-verandern-wollen-ungekurzt--65146480https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - People of Deutschland - 45 Menschen, 45 Geschichten. Über Rassismus im Alltag und wie wir unser Land verändern wollen (Ungekürzt) Author: Diverse Autoren Narrator: Mirrianne Mahn, Dr Martin Hyun, Milka Loff Fernandes, Tyron Ricketts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 23, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Dass Deutschland ein Land ist, das von Vielfalt geprägt wird, ist unbestreitbar. Und dennoch erleben Eingewanderte und ihre Nachkommen täglich Ablehnung und Benachteiligung, sei es auf der Suche nach einer Wohnung, bei Bewerbungsgesprächen oder bei der Fahrscheinkontrolle. Es ist schockierend, wie stark Rassismus immer noch den deutschen Alltag durchzieht. Gleichzeitig sind solche Erfahrungen schwer nachzuempfinden, wenn man sie nicht selbst erlebt hat. Umso wichtiger ist es, Geschichten Betroffener zu erzählen, um die Gesellschaft zu sensibilisieren und Veränderung möglich zu machen. In 'People of Deutschland' versammeln Martina Rink und Simon Usifo Stimmen zum Thema Rassismus in Deutschland. Persönlichkeiten aus Bereichen wie Mode, Sport, Medien, Wirtschaft und Kunst teilen authentisch sowie berührend ihre Erfahrungen und erzählen, wie es ist, heute als Person of Color oder Person mit sichtbarem Migrationshintergrund in Deutschland zu leben. Die persönlichen Geschichten geben Einblicke in die gesellschaftliche Vielfalt dieses Landes und machen Mut, Alltagsrassismus entgegenzutreten.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690957Fri, 23 Jun 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - People of Deutschland - 45 Menschen, 45 Geschichten. Über Rassismus im Alltag und wie wir unser Land verändern wollen (Ungekürzt) Author:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - People of Deutschland - 45 Menschen, 45 Geschichten. Über Rassismus im Alltag und wie wir unser Land verändern wollen (Ungekürzt) Author: Diverse Autoren Narrator: Mirrianne Mahn, Dr Martin Hyun, Milka Loff Fernandes, Tyron Ricketts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 23, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Dass Deutschland ein Land ist, das von Vielfalt geprägt wird, ist unbestreitbar. Und dennoch erleben Eingewanderte und ihre Nachkommen täglich Ablehnung und Benachteiligung, sei es auf der Suche nach einer Wohnung, bei Bewerbungsgesprächen oder bei der Fahrscheinkontrolle. Es ist schockierend, wie stark Rassismus immer noch den deutschen Alltag durchzieht. Gleichzeitig sind solche Erfahrungen schwer nachzuempfinden, wenn man sie nicht selbst erlebt hat. Umso wichtiger ist es, Geschichten Betroffener zu erzählen, um die Gesellschaft zu sensibilisieren und Veränderung möglich zu machen. In 'People of Deutschland' versammeln Martina Rink und Simon Usifo Stimmen zum Thema Rassismus in Deutschland. Persönlichkeiten aus Bereichen wie Mode, Sport, Medien, Wirtschaft und Kunst teilen authentisch sowie berührend ihre Erfahrungen und erzählen, wie es ist, heute als Person of Color oder Person mit sichtbarem Migrationshintergrund in Deutschland zu leben. Die persönlichen Geschichten geben Einblicke in die gesellschaftliche Vielfalt dieses Landes und machen Mut, Alltagsrassismus entgegenzutreten.]]>185ber,rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bleed-destroying-myths-and-misogyny-in-endometriosis-care-by-tracey-lindeman--65146589https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: BLEED: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care Author: Tracey Lindeman Narrator: Courtney Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Have you ever been told that your pain is imaginary? That feeling better just takes yoga, CBD oil, and the blood of a unicorn on a full moon? That's the reality of the more than 190 million people suffering the excruciating condition known as endometriosis. This disease affecting one in ten cis women and uncounted numbers of others is chronically overlooked, underfunded, and misunderstood—and improperly treated across the medical system. Discrimination and medical gaslighting are rife in endo care, often leaving patients worse off. Journalist Tracey Lindeman knows it all too well. Decades of suffering from endometriosis propelled the creation of BLEED—part memoir, part investigative journalism, and all scathing indictment of how the medical system fails patients. Through extensive interviews and research, BLEED tracks the modern endo experience to the origins of medicine and how the system gained its power by marginalizing women. Using an intersectional lens, BLEED dives into how the system perpetuates misogyny, racism, classism, ageism, transphobia, fatphobia, and other prejudices to this day. BLEED isn't a self-help book. It's an evidence file and an eye-opening, enraging book. It will validate those who have been gaslit, mistreated, or ignored by medicine and spur listeners to fight for nothing short of revolution.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679962Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: BLEED: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care Author: Tracey Lindeman Narrator: Courtney Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: BLEED: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care Author: Tracey Lindeman Narrator: Courtney Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Have you ever been told that your pain is imaginary? That feeling better just takes yoga, CBD oil, and the blood of a unicorn on a full moon? That's the reality of the more than 190 million people suffering the excruciating condition known as endometriosis. This disease affecting one in ten cis women and uncounted numbers of others is chronically overlooked, underfunded, and misunderstood—and improperly treated across the medical system. Discrimination and medical gaslighting are rife in endo care, often leaving patients worse off. Journalist Tracey Lindeman knows it all too well. Decades of suffering from endometriosis propelled the creation of BLEED—part memoir, part investigative journalism, and all scathing indictment of how the medical system fails patients. Through extensive interviews and research, BLEED tracks the modern endo experience to the origins of medicine and how the system gained its power by marginalizing women. Using an intersectional lens, BLEED dives into how the system perpetuates misogyny, racism, classism, ageism, transphobia, fatphobia, and other prejudices to this day. BLEED isn't a self-help book. It's an evidence file and an eye-opening, enraging book. It will validate those who have been gaslit, mistreated, or ignored by medicine and spur listeners to fight for nothing short of revolution.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-becoming-by-nicole-luongo--65146454https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Becoming Author: Nicole Luongo Narrator: Lauren Vandenbrook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Becoming is a brutal account of mental illness by a woman who doesn't believe in mental illness. As the author embarks on a PhD at the University of Oxford, a lifetime of addiction, eating disorders, and trauma culminates in an explosive hospital stay that sees her achieve liberation through psychosis. Her journey from terror to acceptance is grueling, and she makes meaning of it by weaving reflexive narrative with classic and nascent scholarship. Part phenomenological recounting, part social critique, the text disrupts biomedical approaches to altered states by exploring their emancipatory potential. It also illuminates how conventional mental health treatment pathologizes human suffering. In doing so, The Becoming contributes to anti-psychiatry and Mad studies projects, each asking, 'What does it mean to be normal?' and 'Should we be sane in an insane world?']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698969Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Becoming Author: Nicole Luongo Narrator: Lauren Vandenbrook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 15, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Becoming Author: Nicole Luongo Narrator: Lauren Vandenbrook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Becoming is a brutal account of mental illness by a woman who doesn't believe in mental illness. As the author embarks on a PhD at the University of Oxford, a lifetime of addiction, eating disorders, and trauma culminates in an explosive hospital stay that sees her achieve liberation through psychosis. Her journey from terror to acceptance is grueling, and she makes meaning of it by weaving reflexive narrative with classic and nascent scholarship. Part phenomenological recounting, part social critique, the text disrupts biomedical approaches to altered states by exploring their emancipatory potential. It also illuminates how conventional mental health treatment pathologizes human suffering. In doing so, The Becoming contributes to anti-psychiatry and Mad studies projects, each asking, 'What does it mean to be normal?' and 'Should we be sane in an insane world?']]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thinning-blood-a-memoir-of-family-myth-and-identity-by-leah-myers--65146585https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682903 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Author: Leah Myers Narrator: Kimberly Woods Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with her totem to construct her family's totem pole: protective Bear, defiant Salmon, compassionate Hummingbird, and perched on top, Raven. As she pieces together their stories, Myers weaves in tribal folktales, the history of the Native genocide, and Native mythology. She tells the larger story of how, as she puts it, her 'culture is being bleached out,' offering sharp vignettes of her own life between White and Native worlds: her naïve childhood love for Pocahontas, her struggles with the Klallam language, the violence she faced at the hands of a close White friend as a teenager. Crisp and powerful, Thinning Blood is at once a bold reclamation of one woman's identity and a searingly honest meditation on heritage, family, and what it means to belong.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682903Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682903 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Author: Leah Myers Narrator: Kimberly Woods Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682903 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Author: Leah Myers Narrator: Kimberly Woods Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with her totem to construct her family's totem pole: protective Bear, defiant Salmon, compassionate Hummingbird, and perched on top, Raven. As she pieces together their stories, Myers weaves in tribal folktales, the history of the Native genocide, and Native mythology. She tells the larger story of how, as she puts it, her 'culture is being bleached out,' offering sharp vignettes of her own life between White and Native worlds: her naïve childhood love for Pocahontas, her struggles with the Klallam language, the violence she faced at the hands of a close White friend as a teenager. Crisp and powerful, Thinning Blood is at once a bold reclamation of one woman's identity and a searingly honest meditation on heritage, family, and what it means to belong.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-masters-of-medicine-our-greatest-triumphs-in-the-race-to-cure-humanity-s-deadliest-diseases-by-andrew-lam--65146557https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Masters of Medicine: Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity's Deadliest Diseases Author: Andrew Lam Narrator: Jason Vu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Human history hinges on the battle to confront our most dangerous enemies—the half-dozen diseases responsible for killing almost all of mankind. The story of our medical triumphs reveals an inspiring tapestry of human achievement, but the journey was far from smooth. It is a tale replete with dramatic episodes as spellbinding as any blockbuster Hollywood movie. In The Masters of Medicine, Dr. Andrew Lam, an award-winning author and retinal surgeon, distills the long arc of medical progress down to the crucial moments that were responsible for the world's greatest medical miracles. He brings to life heroic tales of embattled mavericks who endured ridicule and sometimes risked their own lives to conceive the life-saving cures we depend on, and often take for granted, today. Listeners will discover fascinating true stories throughout history, including: rival surgeons who killed patient after patient in their race to operate on beating hearts—and put us on the path toward the life-saving heart transplant; a quartet of Canadians who miraculously discovered insulin in a saga marred by jealousy and resentment; the feud between two Americans in the quest for the polio vaccine; and the discredited New York surgeon whose 'heretical' idea to cure patients by deliberately infecting them has now inspired our next best hope to defeat cancer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679839Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Masters of Medicine: Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity's Deadliest Diseases Author: Andrew Lam Narrator: Jason Vu Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Masters of Medicine: Our Greatest Triumphs in the Race to Cure Humanity's Deadliest Diseases Author: Andrew Lam Narrator: Jason Vu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Human history hinges on the battle to confront our most dangerous enemies—the half-dozen diseases responsible for killing almost all of mankind. The story of our medical triumphs reveals an inspiring tapestry of human achievement, but the journey was far from smooth. It is a tale replete with dramatic episodes as spellbinding as any blockbuster Hollywood movie. In The Masters of Medicine, Dr. Andrew Lam, an award-winning author and retinal surgeon, distills the long arc of medical progress down to the crucial moments that were responsible for the world's greatest medical miracles. He brings to life heroic tales of embattled mavericks who endured ridicule and sometimes risked their own lives to conceive the life-saving cures we depend on, and often take for granted, today. Listeners will discover fascinating true stories throughout history, including: rival surgeons who killed patient after patient in their race to operate on beating hearts—and put us on the path toward the life-saving heart transplant; a quartet of Canadians who miraculously discovered insulin in a saga marred by jealousy and resentment; the feud between two Americans in the quest for the polio vaccine; and the discredited New York surgeon whose 'heretical' idea to cure patients by deliberately infecting them has now inspired our next best hope to defeat cancer.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/surfing-rabbi-a-kabbalistic-quest-for-soul-by-nachum-shifren--65146518https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/686249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surfing Rabbi: A Kabbalistic Quest for Soul  Author: Nachum Shifren Narrator: Nachum Shifren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Growing up under the spell of surfdoms coveted mecca, Malibu Beach, Norm Shifren risks missing his own bar mitzvah to take his first shaky ride at the fabled surf spot. Benignly apathetic about his Jewishness, Shifren pursues his dream of becoming a big-wave surfer, lifeguard, and triathlete. Shifren’s circuitous journey evolves into a spiritual quest that takes him from the pristine waves of Hawaii and Mexico, to intermarriage in Germany, a soldier’s duty in Israel, and finally, to a small shtetl in Israel, where he learns the mysteries of the Jewish ancients. His true-life saga is one of new found Jewish consciousness and eye opening self-revelation. Shifren’s life comes full circle as he finds G-d not in the synagogue, but in the majesty of Jewish mysticism and the vast power of the ocean.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/686249Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/686249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surfing Rabbi: A Kabbalistic Quest for Soul  Author: Nachum Shifren Narrator: Nachum Shifren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/686249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surfing Rabbi: A Kabbalistic Quest for Soul  Author: Nachum Shifren Narrator: Nachum Shifren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Growing up under the spell of surfdoms coveted mecca, Malibu Beach, Norm Shifren risks missing his own bar mitzvah to take his first shaky ride at the fabled surf spot. Benignly apathetic about his Jewishness, Shifren pursues his dream of becoming a big-wave surfer, lifeguard, and triathlete. Shifren’s circuitous journey evolves into a spiritual quest that takes him from the pristine waves of Hawaii and Mexico, to intermarriage in Germany, a soldier’s duty in Israel, and finally, to a small shtetl in Israel, where he learns the mysteries of the Jewish ancients. His true-life saga is one of new found Jewish consciousness and eye opening self-revelation. Shifren’s life comes full circle as he finds G-d not in the synagogue, but in the majesty of Jewish mysticism and the vast power of the ocean.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-rauchschiffe-by-thomas-giehl--65146522https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Rauchschiffe Author: Thomas Giehl Narrator: Michael Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Lucius Cassianus Secundus ist als Präfekt der Benefiziarier-Garde in der römischen Stadt Colonia Agrippina für die öffentliche Ordnung und Sicherheit zuständig. Die Vorbereitungen zum Britannien-Feldzug des Kaisers Septimius stellen ihn und seine Benefiziarier vor große logistische aber auch politische Probleme. Neben den Soldaten des Kaisers und anderen Einheiten, die dank Wein und zu viel Freizeit für Ärger sorgen, sind da auch noch die persönlichen Truppen des Caracalla, einer der Söhne des Kaisers, der an der Grenze zu den germanischen Stämmen eigene Pläne verfolgt. Als ein Haufen Germanen die Eskorte einiger angereister römischer Senatoren überfällt, findet sich Lucius zwischen allen Stühlen wieder. Es geht nicht nur um seine berufliche Zukunft, sondern auch um die Sicherheit seiner Stadt und nicht zuletzt seiner Familie …]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690940Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Rauchschiffe Author: Thomas Giehl Narrator: Michael Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 12, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Rauchschiffe Author: Thomas Giehl Narrator: Michael Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Lucius Cassianus Secundus ist als Präfekt der Benefiziarier-Garde in der römischen Stadt Colonia Agrippina für die öffentliche Ordnung und Sicherheit zuständig. Die Vorbereitungen zum Britannien-Feldzug des Kaisers Septimius stellen ihn und seine Benefiziarier vor große logistische aber auch politische Probleme. Neben den Soldaten des Kaisers und anderen Einheiten, die dank Wein und zu viel Freizeit für Ärger sorgen, sind da auch noch die persönlichen Truppen des Caracalla, einer der Söhne des Kaisers, der an der Grenze zu den germanischen Stämmen eigene Pläne verfolgt. Als ein Haufen Germanen die Eskorte einiger angereister römischer Senatoren überfällt, findet sich Lucius zwischen allen Stühlen wieder. Es geht nicht nur um seine berufliche Zukunft, sondern auch um die Sicherheit seiner Stadt und nicht zuletzt seiner Familie …]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-maria-jesus-alvarado-retrato-de-una-intelectual-y-activista-peruana-by-leonardo-ysla-heredia--65146451https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - María Jesús Alvarado: Retrato de una intelectual y activista peruana Author: Leonardo Ysla Heredia Narrator: Cárdenas Enrique Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 10, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A través de esta publicación, descubriremos a esta intelectual y activista que dedicó su vida a la educación y a la lucha social, desde sus inicios en su querida Chincha, la formación de la primera institución femenina peruana Evolución Femenina, sus grandes luchas por el indígena y por la niñez hasta su exilio y sus últimos días prácticamente en el olvido. Esta biografía está dirigida a un público juvenil y a aquellos lectores que quieran conocer más sobre una de las mujeres con mayores aportes a la cultura de nuestro país.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700517Sat, 10 Jun 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - María Jesús Alvarado: Retrato de una intelectual y activista peruana Author: Leonardo Ysla Heredia Narrator: Cárdenas Enrique Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - María Jesús Alvarado: Retrato de una intelectual y activista peruana Author: Leonardo Ysla Heredia Narrator: Cárdenas Enrique Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 10, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A través de esta publicación, descubriremos a esta intelectual y activista que dedicó su vida a la educación y a la lucha social, desde sus inicios en su querida Chincha, la formación de la primera institución femenina peruana Evolución Femenina, sus grandes luchas por el indígena y por la niñez hasta su exilio y sus últimos días prácticamente en el olvido. Esta biografía está dirigida a un público juvenil y a aquellos lectores que quieran conocer más sobre una de las mujeres con mayores aportes a la cultura de nuestro país.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/if-prison-walls-could-speak-by-richard-wurmbrand--65146531https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693426 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If Prison Walls Could Speak Author: Richard Wurmbrand Narrator: Michael Beck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For more than three years, while imprisoned in a cell 30 feet below ground in Communist Romania, Richard Wurmbrand composed sermons for an audience of One. When released from prison, he retained the treasure that God had given him there-sermons composed in solitary confinement. Though isolated from people, VOM founder Richard Wurmbrand was never separated from God's presence. In his book If Prison Walls Could Speak, he shares how God graciously brought His beauty to one of the most horrific places ever known. This book is an intimate look at the spiritual battle fought by one pastor who boldly followed Christ while suffering greatly for His name.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693426Sat, 03 Jun 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693426 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If Prison Walls Could Speak Author: Richard Wurmbrand Narrator: Michael Beck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date: June...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693426 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If Prison Walls Could Speak Author: Richard Wurmbrand Narrator: Michael Beck Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For more than three years, while imprisoned in a cell 30 feet below ground in Communist Romania, Richard Wurmbrand composed sermons for an audience of One. When released from prison, he retained the treasure that God had given him there-sermons composed in solitary confinement. Though isolated from people, VOM founder Richard Wurmbrand was never separated from God's presence. In his book If Prison Walls Could Speak, he shares how God graciously brought His beauty to one of the most horrific places ever known. This book is an intimate look at the spiritual battle fought by one pastor who boldly followed Christ while suffering greatly for His name.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/aloha-wanderwell-the-border-smashing-record-setting-life-of-the-world-s-youngest-explorer-by-christian-fink-jensen-randolph-eustace-walde--65146500https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698958 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aloha Wanderwell: The Border-Smashing, Record-Setting Life of the World's Youngest Explorer Author: Christian Fink-Jensen, Randolph Eustace-Walden Narrator: Jo Ayres Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The story of the Guinness World Record Holder of the First Woman to Drive Around the World In 1922, a 16-year-old Canadian girl, fed up with life in a French convent school, answered an ad for a travelling secretary. Tall, blonde, and swaggering with confidence, she might have passed for twenty. She also knew what she wanted: to become the first female to drive around the world. Her name was Aloha Wanderwell. By the age of 25, she had become a pilot, a film star, an ambassador for world peace, and the centrepiece of one of the biggest unsolved murder mysteries in California history. Her story defied belief, but it was true. Every bit of it. Except for her name. The American Aloha Wanderwell was raised in Canada as Idris Hall. Drawing upon Aloha’s diaries and travel logs, as well as films, photographs, newspaper accounts, and previously classified government documents, Aloha Wanderwell reveals the astonishing story of one of the greatest — and most outrageous — explorers of the 1920s.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698958Tue, 30 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698958 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aloha Wanderwell: The Border-Smashing, Record-Setting Life of the World's Youngest Explorer Author: Christian Fink-Jensen, Randolph Eustace-Walden...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698958 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aloha Wanderwell: The Border-Smashing, Record-Setting Life of the World's Youngest Explorer Author: Christian Fink-Jensen, Randolph Eustace-Walden Narrator: Jo Ayres Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The story of the Guinness World Record Holder of the First Woman to Drive Around the World In 1922, a 16-year-old Canadian girl, fed up with life in a French convent school, answered an ad for a travelling secretary. Tall, blonde, and swaggering with confidence, she might have passed for twenty. She also knew what she wanted: to become the first female to drive around the world. Her name was Aloha Wanderwell. By the age of 25, she had become a pilot, a film star, an ambassador for world peace, and the centrepiece of one of the biggest unsolved murder mysteries in California history. Her story defied belief, but it was true. Every bit of it. Except for her name. The American Aloha Wanderwell was raised in Canada as Idris Hall. Drawing upon Aloha’s diaries and travel logs, as well as films, photographs, newspaper accounts, and previously classified government documents, Aloha Wanderwell reveals the astonishing story of one of the greatest — and most outrageous — explorers of the 1920s.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-lady-s-life-in-the-rocky-mountains-by-isabella-bird--65146517https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691857 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains Author: Isabella Bird Narrator: Clare Wille Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From sickly child to pioneering Victorian explorer, Isabella Bird defied convention. After back surgery in 1850 and the recommendation of life in the open air, she finally looked her malaise and her pain in the eye and set off across the world completely alone. In Colorado she covered 800 miles on horseback, climbing mountains, wrangling cattle, sleeping in snow and finding herself drawn to a violent, one-eyed outlaw with a soft spot for poetry, known as ‘Mountain Jim’. With the writing skills to match her spirit of adventure, she documented her journey in these letters to her sister, which were published as a collection in 1879. She was a true trailblazer – a Victorian woman of 4’11” with debilitating pain who chose to blow open life’s limits.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691857Tue, 23 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691857 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains Author: Isabella Bird Narrator: Clare Wille Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691857 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains Author: Isabella Bird Narrator: Clare Wille Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From sickly child to pioneering Victorian explorer, Isabella Bird defied convention. After back surgery in 1850 and the recommendation of life in the open air, she finally looked her malaise and her pain in the eye and set off across the world completely alone. In Colorado she covered 800 miles on horseback, climbing mountains, wrangling cattle, sleeping in snow and finding herself drawn to a violent, one-eyed outlaw with a soft spot for poetry, known as ‘Mountain Jim’. With the writing skills to match her spirit of adventure, she documented her journey in these letters to her sister, which were published as a collection in 1879. She was a true trailblazer – a Victorian woman of 4’11” with debilitating pain who chose to blow open life’s limits.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-milarepa-herr-der-yogis-die-lebensgeschichte-von-jetsun-milarepa-by-tsang-nyon-heruka--65146490https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Milarepa - Herr der Yogis: Die Lebensgeschichte von Jetsün Milarepa Author: Tsang Nyön Heruka Narrator: Mike Maas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Die bewegende Lebensgeschichte von Tibet's berühmtestem Yogi und tantrischen Meister aus dem 11. Jahrhundert. Er war Praktikant des 'inneren Feuers' und Vorvater einer großen buddhistischen Übertragungslinie Tibets (Kagyü) und ist bekannt für seine 'hunderttausend' spontanen Erleuchtungsgesänge, die Macht seiner Hingabe, sein allumfassendes Mitgefühl und die Tiefe seiner Verwirklichung. Dies ist die erste deutsche Übersetzung direkt aus dem Tibetischen. Kaum eine Lebensgeschichte eines großen Meisters und Yogis ist inspirierender als jene von Jetsün Milarepa, der angesichts unvorstellbarer Schwierigkeiten am Ende doch zur Befreiung gelangte. Bodhiraja, einer seiner Hauptschüler, zeigt sich von Milarepas Qualitäten und unglaubliche Hingabebereitschaft in seiner Praxis so beeindruckt, dass er fest daran glaubt, dieser sei kein Mensch, sondern bereits von Geburt an ein Buddha oder höherer Bodhisattva. Darauf angesprochen, entgegnet Milarepa: '….. es gibt keine hinderliche Einstellung und keine schlimmere Art, den Dharma misszuverstehen. Eine solche eingeengte Sicht macht es Dir unmöglich zu akzeptieren, dass ein gewöhnlicher Mensch wie ich, nachdem er in seiner Jugend schlimme Verbrechen beging, durch den Glauben an das Gesetz von Ursache und Wirkung das Interesse an den Belangen dieser Welt aufgeben und auf dem unbeirrten Weg unabgelenkter Meditation Erleuchtung erlangen kann.' Milarepa macht damit deutlich, dass ein Jeder von uns in seinem jetzigen Leben Erleuchtung erlangen kann, ganz gleich wie tief er in den Kreislauf der Existenzen verstrickt ist, weil die Unterweisungen und Praktiken des Vajrayana ein unvorstellbares Kräftepotential besitzen. Voraussetzung ist nur ein angemessenes Bemühen, die richtige Einstellung und Motivation. In dem von Milarepa hinterlassenen Vermächtnisbrief heißt es: 'Die früheren Buddhas prophezeihten, dass ein jedes Wesen, das Hingabe verspürt, wenn es nur einmal meinen Namen hört, für die nächsten sieben Lebenszeiten nicht in niederen Bereichen wiedergeboren wird und sich überdies an die Lebenszeiten wir erinnern können.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690068Wed, 17 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Milarepa - Herr der Yogis: Die Lebensgeschichte von Jetsün Milarepa Author: Tsang Nyön Heruka Narrator: Mike Maas Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Milarepa - Herr der Yogis: Die Lebensgeschichte von Jetsün Milarepa Author: Tsang Nyön Heruka Narrator: Mike Maas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Die bewegende Lebensgeschichte von Tibet's berühmtestem Yogi und tantrischen Meister aus dem 11. Jahrhundert. Er war Praktikant des 'inneren Feuers' und Vorvater einer großen buddhistischen Übertragungslinie Tibets (Kagyü) und ist bekannt für seine 'hunderttausend' spontanen Erleuchtungsgesänge, die Macht seiner Hingabe, sein allumfassendes Mitgefühl und die Tiefe seiner Verwirklichung. Dies ist die erste deutsche Übersetzung direkt aus dem Tibetischen. Kaum eine Lebensgeschichte eines großen Meisters und Yogis ist inspirierender als jene von Jetsün Milarepa, der angesichts unvorstellbarer Schwierigkeiten am Ende doch zur Befreiung gelangte. Bodhiraja, einer seiner Hauptschüler, zeigt sich von Milarepas Qualitäten und unglaubliche Hingabebereitschaft in seiner Praxis so beeindruckt, dass er fest daran glaubt, dieser sei kein Mensch, sondern bereits von Geburt an ein Buddha oder höherer Bodhisattva. Darauf angesprochen, entgegnet Milarepa: '….. es gibt keine hinderliche Einstellung und keine schlimmere Art, den Dharma misszuverstehen. Eine solche eingeengte Sicht macht es Dir unmöglich zu akzeptieren, dass ein gewöhnlicher Mensch wie ich, nachdem er in seiner Jugend schlimme Verbrechen beging, durch den Glauben an das Gesetz von Ursache und Wirkung das Interesse an den Belangen dieser Welt aufgeben und auf dem unbeirrten Weg unabgelenkter Meditation Erleuchtung erlangen kann.' Milarepa macht damit deutlich, dass ein Jeder von uns in seinem jetzigen Leben Erleuchtung erlangen kann, ganz gleich wie tief er in den Kreislauf der Existenzen verstrickt ist, weil die Unterweisungen und Praktiken des Vajrayana ein unvorstellbares Kräftepotential besitzen. Voraussetzung ist nur ein angemessenes Bemühen, die richtige Einstellung und Motivation. In dem von Milarepa hinterlassenen Vermächtnisbrief heißt es: 'Die früheren Buddhas prophezeihten, dass ein jedes Wesen, das Hingabe verspürt, wenn es nur einmal meinen Namen hört, für die nächsten sieben Lebenszeiten nicht in niederen Bereichen wiedergeboren wird und sich überdies an die Lebenszeiten wir erinnern können.']]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/frederick-douglass-by-rey-cayden--65146543https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frederick Douglass Author: Rey Cayden Narrator: Shafi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Frederick Douglass: The Life of Courage and Conviction of a True American Hero Frederick Douglass was a towering figure in American history, whose life and legacy continue to inspire people around the world. Born into slavery in Maryland in the early 1800s, Douglass defied the odds to become one of the most important voices in the fight against slavery and for civil rights. Douglass's life was marked by a remarkable journey from bondage to freedom, and from ignorance to knowledge. Throughout his life, Douglass never stopped fighting for justice, and his influence extended far beyond his own time. This audiobook brings to life the remarkable journey of a man who overcame unimaginable obstacles to become a respected statesman and advocate for human rights. This audiobook will cover the following topics: - Childhood in Slavery - Learning to Read and Write - Escape to Freedom - Abolitionist Activism - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Speaking Out - Women's Rights - The Civil War - Reconstruction - Family Life If you want to learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690632Tue, 16 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frederick Douglass Author: Rey Cayden Narrator: Shafi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Frederick Douglass Author: Rey Cayden Narrator: Shafi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Frederick Douglass: The Life of Courage and Conviction of a True American Hero Frederick Douglass was a towering figure in American history, whose life and legacy continue to inspire people around the world. Born into slavery in Maryland in the early 1800s, Douglass defied the odds to become one of the most important voices in the fight against slavery and for civil rights. Douglass's life was marked by a remarkable journey from bondage to freedom, and from ignorance to knowledge. Throughout his life, Douglass never stopped fighting for justice, and his influence extended far beyond his own time. This audiobook brings to life the remarkable journey of a man who overcame unimaginable obstacles to become a respected statesman and advocate for human rights. This audiobook will cover the following topics: - Childhood in Slavery - Learning to Read and Write - Escape to Freedom - Abolitionist Activism - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Speaking Out - Women's Rights - The Civil War - Reconstruction - Family Life If you want to learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-life-and-times-of-malcolm-x-by-rick-parry--65146474https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693069 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life and Times of Malcolm X Author: Rick Parry Narrator: Shafi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Life and Times of Malcolm X: A Story of Transformation Malcolm X is a towering figure in American history and one of the most influential civil rights leaders of the 20th century. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925, he would go on to become a force for change in the fight for Black liberation in America. From his early experiences with racism to his leadership role in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X's life was marked by a relentless pursuit of justice and equality for Black people. His journey towards political consciousness and eventual break with the Nation of Islam would shape his views on civil rights and his vision for Black liberation. From his early life as a troubled youth to his transformation into a powerful civil rights leader, this audiobook takes you on a journey through the remarkable life of a man who fought tirelessly for justice and equality. This audiobook will cover the following topics: - Childhood and Family - Early Experiences with Racism - Conversion to Islam - Role in the Nation of Islam - Views on Civil Rights - Split with the Nation of Islam - Formation of the Organization of Afro-American Unity - Political Activism - Role in the Black Power Movement - Assassination - Legacy - Controversies - Personal Life - And many more! To learn more about Malcolm X, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693069Tue, 16 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693069 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life and Times of Malcolm X Author: Rick Parry Narrator: Shafi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693069 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life and Times of Malcolm X Author: Rick Parry Narrator: Shafi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Life and Times of Malcolm X: A Story of Transformation Malcolm X is a towering figure in American history and one of the most influential civil rights leaders of the 20th century. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925, he would go on to become a force for change in the fight for Black liberation in America. From his early experiences with racism to his leadership role in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X's life was marked by a relentless pursuit of justice and equality for Black people. His journey towards political consciousness and eventual break with the Nation of Islam would shape his views on civil rights and his vision for Black liberation. From his early life as a troubled youth to his transformation into a powerful civil rights leader, this audiobook takes you on a journey through the remarkable life of a man who fought tirelessly for justice and equality. This audiobook will cover the following topics: - Childhood and Family - Early Experiences with Racism - Conversion to Islam - Role in the Nation of Islam - Views on Civil Rights - Split with the Nation of Islam - Formation of the Organization of Afro-American Unity - Political Activism - Role in the Black Power Movement - Assassination - Legacy - Controversies - Personal Life - And many more! To learn more about Malcolm X, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-fernao-cardim-by-capistrano-de-abreu--65146515https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706695 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Fernão Cardim Author: Capistrano De Abreu Narrator: Cido Tavares Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: O historiador Capistrano de Abreu faz neste texto sucinto uma biografia bem completa daquele que é um dos mais relevantes nomes dentre os viajantes observadores do Brasil colonial: Fernão Cardim. Com a curiosidade de que sua obra só tenha sido descoberta no século XIX, o biógrafo narra as muitas idas e vindas do padre no Atlântico, envolvido nas mais diversas atividades – e tudo registrando!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706695Mon, 15 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706695 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Fernão Cardim Author: Capistrano De Abreu Narrator: Cido Tavares Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 31 minutes Release date: May...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706695 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Fernão Cardim Author: Capistrano De Abreu Narrator: Cido Tavares Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: O historiador Capistrano de Abreu faz neste texto sucinto uma biografia bem completa daquele que é um dos mais relevantes nomes dentre os viajantes observadores do Brasil colonial: Fernão Cardim. Com a curiosidade de que sua obra só tenha sido descoberta no século XIX, o biógrafo narra as muitas idas e vindas do padre no Atlântico, envolvido nas mais diversas atividades – e tudo registrando!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-um-livro-sobre-a-marquesa-de-santos-by-capistrano-de-abreu--65146449https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Um livro sobre a Marquesa de Santos Author: Capistrano De Abreu Narrator: Cido Tavares Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: O historiador Capistrano de Abreu faz neste texto sucinto uma biografia bem completa daquela que é uma das mais célebres personagens femininas do Brasil Império: Domitila de Castro do Canto e Melo, a Marquesa de Santos, amante de D. Pedro I. Do nascimento à morte em São Paulo, são apresentados todos os fatos relevantes de sua vida, incluindo sua participação na própria corte, no Rio de Janeiro. Curioso é notar que Capistrano de Abreu comenta a biografia escrita por Alberto Rangel, fazendo como que um resumo dela, com seu estilo direto.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706717Mon, 15 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Um livro sobre a Marquesa de Santos Author: Capistrano De Abreu Narrator: Cido Tavares Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 35...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Um livro sobre a Marquesa de Santos Author: Capistrano De Abreu Narrator: Cido Tavares Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: O historiador Capistrano de Abreu faz neste texto sucinto uma biografia bem completa daquela que é uma das mais célebres personagens femininas do Brasil Império: Domitila de Castro do Canto e Melo, a Marquesa de Santos, amante de D. Pedro I. Do nascimento à morte em São Paulo, são apresentados todos os fatos relevantes de sua vida, incluindo sua participação na própria corte, no Rio de Janeiro. Curioso é notar que Capistrano de Abreu comenta a biografia escrita por Alberto Rangel, fazendo como que um resumo dela, com seu estilo direto.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-a-obra-de-anchieta-no-brasil-by-capistrano-de-abreu--65146418https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - A obra de Anchieta no Brasil Author: Capistrano De Abreu Narrator: Cido Tavares Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: O historiador Capistrano de Abreu faz neste texto sucinto uma biografia bem completa daquele que é um ícone na formação do Brasil. Do nascimento nas Ilhas Canárias à morte na cidade que hoje leva seu nome, no Espírito Santos, são apresentados todos os fatos relevantes de sua vida, bem como de sua obra – missionária, literária, humana.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706718Mon, 15 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - A obra de Anchieta no Brasil Author: Capistrano De Abreu Narrator: Cido Tavares Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 15 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - A obra de Anchieta no Brasil Author: Capistrano De Abreu Narrator: Cido Tavares Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: O historiador Capistrano de Abreu faz neste texto sucinto uma biografia bem completa daquele que é um ícone na formação do Brasil. Do nascimento nas Ilhas Canárias à morte na cidade que hoje leva seu nome, no Espírito Santos, são apresentados todos os fatos relevantes de sua vida, bem como de sua obra – missionária, literária, humana.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-15-000-volts-le-recit-d-une-renaissance-by-louis-derungs--65146544https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - 15 000 volts: Le récit d'une renaissance Author: Louis Derungs Narrator: Paul Bertin-Hugault Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 10, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Depuis mon plus jeune âge, la vie et moi nous sommes mis perpétuellement à l'épreuve. Jusqu'au jour où elle a décidé de me mettre face au défi ultime : à l'âge de dix-neuf ans, j'ai été victime d'une électrocution de 15 000 volts.' Après un arrêt cardiaque de plusieurs minutes et six semaines de coma artificiel, Louis se réveille aussi dépendant qu'un nouveau-né, amputé des deux membres supérieurs. Il lui faudra plus de cinq mois de rééducation pour parvenir à marcher de nouveau et retrouver un minimum d'autonomie. Déterminé à ne pas sombrer, Louis profite de sa convalescence pour mettre au point une méthode basée sur la pleine conscience, l'hypnose, la nutrition et des techniques de mémorisation. Grâce à ces différentes méthodes, il retrouve progressivement un maximum d'autonomie, de sérénité et de plaisir, et prend possession de ce nouveau corps. Irréductible optimiste, Louis s'émerveille des petites choses et cultive le bonheur. Sa devise: rien n'est impossible, un potentiel infini réside en chacun de nous. Et son désir est de nous donner envie d'entreprendre des changements, de poursuivre et d'atteindre des objectifs, quels qu'ils soient. La métamorphose vers le mieux-être est accessible à tous, rien n'est impossible.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680886Wed, 10 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - 15 000 volts: Le récit d'une renaissance Author: Louis Derungs Narrator: Paul Bertin-Hugault Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680886 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - 15 000 volts: Le récit d'une renaissance Author: Louis Derungs Narrator: Paul Bertin-Hugault Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 10, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Depuis mon plus jeune âge, la vie et moi nous sommes mis perpétuellement à l'épreuve. Jusqu'au jour où elle a décidé de me mettre face au défi ultime : à l'âge de dix-neuf ans, j'ai été victime d'une électrocution de 15 000 volts.' Après un arrêt cardiaque de plusieurs minutes et six semaines de coma artificiel, Louis se réveille aussi dépendant qu'un nouveau-né, amputé des deux membres supérieurs. Il lui faudra plus de cinq mois de rééducation pour parvenir à marcher de nouveau et retrouver un minimum d'autonomie. Déterminé à ne pas sombrer, Louis profite de sa convalescence pour mettre au point une méthode basée sur la pleine conscience, l'hypnose, la nutrition et des techniques de mémorisation. Grâce à ces différentes méthodes, il retrouve progressivement un maximum d'autonomie, de sérénité et de plaisir, et prend possession de ce nouveau corps. Irréductible optimiste, Louis s'émerveille des petites choses et cultive le bonheur. Sa devise: rien n'est impossible, un potentiel infini réside en chacun de nous. Et son désir est de nous donner envie d'entreprendre des changements, de poursuivre et d'atteindre des objectifs, quels qu'ils soient. La métamorphose vers le mieux-être est accessible à tous, rien n'est impossible.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shattering-identity-bias-by-mona-shindy--65146476https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shattering Identity Bias Author: Mona Shindy Narrator: Leila Mokahal, Mona Shindy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 10, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the early seventies, a tiny three-year-old girl stood watching suitcases gliding by on the baggage carousel while hundreds of strangers bustled and jostled, all in a hurry. She’d just landed after a 22-hour flight from Cairo, through Changi and on to Sydney, with her two brothers and her mother. “Aida!” a familiar voice called her mother’s name. Then, “Monameeno!” her father cried and Mona was ‘home’. Captain Mona Shindy’s story is one of love, faith, courage, tenacity and, at times, of extreme bias. She takes the reader through her childhood, growing up in Sydney with hardworking immigrant parents who wanted nothing more than for their children to do well in life and be happy. From an early age, Mona travelled the paths less trodden – not only by women, but by women of Muslim faith. At the age of twenty, she joined the Australian Navy – one of few women and the first female of Muslim faith to wear the navy uniform. As an engineer, her 32-year career of active service with the Navy saw Mona rise through the ranks, leading many sailors and officers both at sea and ashore. She spearheaded organisations charged with developing, delivering and sustaining Navy assets, state of the art weapons systems and technologies. She made an outstanding contribution to Navy and the defence of her nation but, more importantly, she was instrumental in instigating and effecting change when it came to female integration and cultural diversity inclusion within this traditional, white, male-dominated arena. Shattering Identity Bias is Mona Shindy’s story but more than that, it is a story that will give hope and strength to all minority groups. It will help employers better harness the power of diversity and address the challenges that it brings. For every reader, Mona’s story will paint a stark picture of the reality of the world we live in.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689931Wed, 10 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shattering Identity Bias Author: Mona Shindy Narrator: Leila Mokahal, Mona Shindy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shattering Identity Bias Author: Mona Shindy Narrator: Leila Mokahal, Mona Shindy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 10, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the early seventies, a tiny three-year-old girl stood watching suitcases gliding by on the baggage carousel while hundreds of strangers bustled and jostled, all in a hurry. She’d just landed after a 22-hour flight from Cairo, through Changi and on to Sydney, with her two brothers and her mother. “Aida!” a familiar voice called her mother’s name. Then, “Monameeno!” her father cried and Mona was ‘home’. Captain Mona Shindy’s story is one of love, faith, courage, tenacity and, at times, of extreme bias. She takes the reader through her childhood, growing up in Sydney with hardworking immigrant parents who wanted nothing more than for their children to do well in life and be happy. From an early age, Mona travelled the paths less trodden – not only by women, but by women of Muslim faith. At the age of twenty, she joined the Australian Navy – one of few women and the first female of Muslim faith to wear the navy uniform. As an engineer, her 32-year career of active service with the Navy saw Mona rise through the ranks, leading many sailors and officers both at sea and ashore. She spearheaded organisations charged with developing, delivering and sustaining Navy assets, state of the art weapons systems and technologies. She made an outstanding contribution to Navy and the defence of her nation but, more importantly, she was instrumental in instigating and effecting change when it came to female integration and cultural diversity inclusion within this traditional, white, male-dominated arena. Shattering Identity Bias is Mona Shindy’s story but more than that, it is a story that will give hope and strength to all minority groups. It will help employers better harness the power of diversity and address the challenges that it brings. For every reader, Mona’s story will paint a stark picture of the reality of the world we live in.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/surfers-who-don-t-surf-a-collection-of-stories-of-a-lifestyle-ever-altered-by-nachum-shifren--65146556https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surfers Who Don't Surf: A Collection of Stories of a Lifestyle Ever Altered Author: Nachum Shifren Narrator: Nachum Shifren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Where the Torah meets the surf, Surfers Who Don’t Surf is six decades of surf adventures and memories from the Surfing Rabbi—Nachum Shifren. This book travels from the 1960s to the twenty-first century, Malibu to Mexico, Hawaii to Puerto Rico and details an eclectic cast of characters famous and anonymous that includes: Tom Zahn, Miki “Da Cat” Dora, Marilyn Monroe, Honolulu Lulu, Pat Tobin, Mike Doyle, surfing’s Calamity Jane, Indo Dan, and many other characters you might expect and not expect. With words of wisdom by the known and saintly kabbalist, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, Surfers Who Don’t Surf mixes the spiritual and the earthly with humor and surf stoke. For those who have listened to Rabbi Shifren’s first book, Surfing Rabbi, they will find a rich experience by spirit and sea.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680092Tue, 09 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surfers Who Don't Surf: A Collection of Stories of a Lifestyle Ever Altered Author: Nachum Shifren Narrator: Nachum Shifren Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surfers Who Don't Surf: A Collection of Stories of a Lifestyle Ever Altered Author: Nachum Shifren Narrator: Nachum Shifren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Where the Torah meets the surf, Surfers Who Don’t Surf is six decades of surf adventures and memories from the Surfing Rabbi—Nachum Shifren. This book travels from the 1960s to the twenty-first century, Malibu to Mexico, Hawaii to Puerto Rico and details an eclectic cast of characters famous and anonymous that includes: Tom Zahn, Miki “Da Cat” Dora, Marilyn Monroe, Honolulu Lulu, Pat Tobin, Mike Doyle, surfing’s Calamity Jane, Indo Dan, and many other characters you might expect and not expect. With words of wisdom by the known and saintly kabbalist, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, Surfers Who Don’t Surf mixes the spiritual and the earthly with humor and surf stoke. For those who have listened to Rabbi Shifren’s first book, Surfing Rabbi, they will find a rich experience by spirit and sea.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-heroes-foot-soldiers-of-indian-freedom-by-p-sainath--65146520https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691001 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom Author: P. Sainath Narrator: Derek Denzil Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'So who really spearheaded India's Freedom Struggle? Millions of ordinary people-farmers, labourers, homemakers, forest produce gatherers, artisans and others-stood up to the British. People who never went on to be ministers, governors, presidents, or hold other high public office. They had this in common: their opposition to Empire was uncompromising. In The Last Heroes, these footsoldiers of Indian freedom tell us their stories. The men, women and children featured in this book are Adivasis, Dalits, OBCs, Brahmins, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus. They hail from different regions, speak different languages and include atheists and believers, Leftists, Gandhians and Ambedkarites. The people featured pose the intriguing question: What is freedom? They saw that as going beyond Independence. And almost all of them continued their fight for freedoms long after 1947. The post-1947 generations need their stories. To learn what they understood. That freedom and independence are not the same thing. And to learn to make those come together.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691001Tue, 09 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691001 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom Author: P. Sainath Narrator: Derek Denzil Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691001 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom Author: P. Sainath Narrator: Derek Denzil Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'So who really spearheaded India's Freedom Struggle? Millions of ordinary people-farmers, labourers, homemakers, forest produce gatherers, artisans and others-stood up to the British. People who never went on to be ministers, governors, presidents, or hold other high public office. They had this in common: their opposition to Empire was uncompromising. In The Last Heroes, these footsoldiers of Indian freedom tell us their stories. The men, women and children featured in this book are Adivasis, Dalits, OBCs, Brahmins, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus. They hail from different regions, speak different languages and include atheists and believers, Leftists, Gandhians and Ambedkarites. The people featured pose the intriguing question: What is freedom? They saw that as going beyond Independence. And almost all of them continued their fight for freedoms long after 1947. The post-1947 generations need their stories. To learn what they understood. That freedom and independence are not the same thing. And to learn to make those come together.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/walking-unabridged-by-henry-david-thoreau--65146473https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking (Unabridged) Author: Henry David Thoreau Narrator: Chris Masterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Release date: May 5, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Walking by Henry David Thoreau or sometimes referred to as 'The Wild', is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It was written between 1851 and 1860, but parts were extracted from his earlier journals. Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than any other of his lectures. 'Walking' was first published as an essay in the Atlantic Monthly after his death in 1862. Writing Style: 'Walking' has autobiographical side of Henry David Thoreau as well, and reflects the author's personal experiences. As Rebecca Solnit has stated in 'Wanderlust: A History of Walking', the rhythm of walking could be the sources of music, conversation, thoughts, and literature. In over ten years of walking, Thoreau kept observing nature, organizing his thought, and considering the best way to express his lecture; his diary shows what elements in his daily life influenced his environmental view and motivated him to write it. Above all, the author's correspondence with friends provides not only his lecture career but also his works and his writing process. As a result, his essay is told by the voice of the confident narrator, given some authority. Moreover, using allusion, he succeeded in not only understanding the essay broader but also obtaining a form of poetry, and with his lecture and the new writing style, 'Walking' became a new critique of the existing society.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694728Fri, 05 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking (Unabridged) Author: Henry David Thoreau Narrator: Chris Masterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Release date: May 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking (Unabridged) Author: Henry David Thoreau Narrator: Chris Masterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Release date: May 5, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Walking by Henry David Thoreau or sometimes referred to as 'The Wild', is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It was written between 1851 and 1860, but parts were extracted from his earlier journals. Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than any other of his lectures. 'Walking' was first published as an essay in the Atlantic Monthly after his death in 1862. Writing Style: 'Walking' has autobiographical side of Henry David Thoreau as well, and reflects the author's personal experiences. As Rebecca Solnit has stated in 'Wanderlust: A History of Walking', the rhythm of walking could be the sources of music, conversation, thoughts, and literature. In over ten years of walking, Thoreau kept observing nature, organizing his thought, and considering the best way to express his lecture; his diary shows what elements in his daily life influenced his environmental view and motivated him to write it. Above all, the author's correspondence with friends provides not only his lecture career but also his works and his writing process. As a result, his essay is told by the voice of the confident narrator, given some authority. Moreover, using allusion, he succeeded in not only understanding the essay broader but also obtaining a form of poetry, and with his lecture and the new writing style, 'Walking' became a new critique of the existing society.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/history-of-vladimir-lenin-by-a-j-kingston--65146564https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: History of Vladimir Lenin Author: A.J.Kingston Narrator: A.I. Madison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Introducing 'History of Vladimir Lenin' - the definitive guide to one of the most influential figures in modern history! Vladimir Lenin was a revolutionary leader who played a critical role in shaping the future of Russia and the world. His ideas and teachings continue to inspire political movements around the globe, making him a figure of both admiration and controversy. In this comprehensive book, we delve deep into the life of Vladimir Lenin, exploring his childhood, his early political activism, his rise to power, and his lasting impact on the world. We examine his theories on communism, his leadership style, and his role in the Bolshevik Revolution. But this book is more than just a historical account - it's a fascinating exploration of Lenin's character, motivations, and personal life. We examine the relationships that shaped him, his struggles with health issues, and his complex legacy. Whether you're a history buff, a political science student, or simply someone who wants to understand the life of one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, 'History of Vladimir Lenin' is the book for you. With engaging prose, meticulous research, and a wealth of insights, this book is sure to captivate and inform. Order your copy today and discover the fascinating life and legacy of Vladimir Lenin!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679025Wed, 03 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: History of Vladimir Lenin Author: A.J.Kingston Narrator: A.I. Madison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 3, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: History of Vladimir Lenin Author: A.J.Kingston Narrator: A.I. Madison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 3, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Introducing 'History of Vladimir Lenin' - the definitive guide to one of the most influential figures in modern history! Vladimir Lenin was a revolutionary leader who played a critical role in shaping the future of Russia and the world. His ideas and teachings continue to inspire political movements around the globe, making him a figure of both admiration and controversy. In this comprehensive book, we delve deep into the life of Vladimir Lenin, exploring his childhood, his early political activism, his rise to power, and his lasting impact on the world. We examine his theories on communism, his leadership style, and his role in the Bolshevik Revolution. But this book is more than just a historical account - it's a fascinating exploration of Lenin's character, motivations, and personal life. We examine the relationships that shaped him, his struggles with health issues, and his complex legacy. Whether you're a history buff, a political science student, or simply someone who wants to understand the life of one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, 'History of Vladimir Lenin' is the book for you. With engaging prose, meticulous research, and a wealth of insights, this book is sure to captivate and inform. Order your copy today and discover the fascinating life and legacy of Vladimir Lenin!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ashes-a-story-about-cigarettes-cremation-and-hope-by-mala-mukherji--65146560https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ashes: a story about cigarettes, cremation, and hope Author: Mala Mukherji Narrator: Mala Mukherji Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: May 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Ashes is a memoir by the firstborn child of Bengali immigrants from Calcutta, India, that brings forth universal life lessons that transcend ethnicity. With raw honesty and simple prose, Ms. Mukherji depicts her childhood of cultural confusion, schoolyard bullies, and the demands of her brilliant, abusive alcoholic father. She offers her mother's stoic wisdom and love for all to share. By her early 20s, Ms. Mukherji seeks clarity instead of pity and details her search for herself through psychotherapy and spiritual studies. The result of that search costs her everything. The suicide of her mother leaves Ms. Mukherji in the thick darkness of grief and sorrow. Both propel her into destructive yet illuminating choices. In time, she gathers her experiences and uses them to transform her life into the one she wants and the one she may claim in her mother's absence. Ashes shows the listener they are not alone in their struggles and that they can look within themselves to survive and grow from life's precious and painful surprises.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685076Mon, 01 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ashes: a story about cigarettes, cremation, and hope Author: Mala Mukherji Narrator: Mala Mukherji Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ashes: a story about cigarettes, cremation, and hope Author: Mala Mukherji Narrator: Mala Mukherji Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: May 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Ashes is a memoir by the firstborn child of Bengali immigrants from Calcutta, India, that brings forth universal life lessons that transcend ethnicity. With raw honesty and simple prose, Ms. Mukherji depicts her childhood of cultural confusion, schoolyard bullies, and the demands of her brilliant, abusive alcoholic father. She offers her mother's stoic wisdom and love for all to share. By her early 20s, Ms. Mukherji seeks clarity instead of pity and details her search for herself through psychotherapy and spiritual studies. The result of that search costs her everything. The suicide of her mother leaves Ms. Mukherji in the thick darkness of grief and sorrow. Both propel her into destructive yet illuminating choices. In time, she gathers her experiences and uses them to transform her life into the one she wants and the one she may claim in her mother's absence. Ashes shows the listener they are not alone in their struggles and that they can look within themselves to survive and grow from life's precious and painful surprises.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/isaac-by-robert-karmon--65146507https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Isaac Author: Robert Karmon Narrator: Jack Estes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Isaac, based on a true story, follows the journey of a Polish teen-aged boy from. near-death to ultimate triumph. In parable-like prose, it captures Isaac's miraculous survival of the Nazi massacre of his family and fellow Poles and his escape into a vast, nightmarish European forest. After being saved by a gentile from near his village, Isaac joins a group of Russian partisans and becomes a demolition expert. He falls in love with a Russian partisan nurse while striving—even among the partisans—to hide his Jewish background. This is a coming-of-age story amid the horrors and passions of war that demonstrates how determination, love, and friendship can overpower the force of hatred, discrimination, and unthinkable loss.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689919Mon, 01 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Isaac Author: Robert Karmon Narrator: Jack Estes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 1, 2023 Genres: History...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Isaac Author: Robert Karmon Narrator: Jack Estes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Isaac, based on a true story, follows the journey of a Polish teen-aged boy from. near-death to ultimate triumph. In parable-like prose, it captures Isaac's miraculous survival of the Nazi massacre of his family and fellow Poles and his escape into a vast, nightmarish European forest. After being saved by a gentile from near his village, Isaac joins a group of Russian partisans and becomes a demolition expert. He falls in love with a Russian partisan nurse while striving—even among the partisans—to hide his Jewish background. This is a coming-of-age story amid the horrors and passions of war that demonstrates how determination, love, and friendship can overpower the force of hatred, discrimination, and unthinkable loss.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unshakeable-will-by-yahye-siyad--65146466https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unshakeable Will Author: Yahye Siyad Narrator: Maddy Breen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Born as the third blind child to an impoverished family in Somalia, Yahye Siyad's story is full of triumphs and tribulations that allowed him to embrace his life to the fullest. The story begins before he was even born, travels abroad alone at the age of seven, and endures over twenty years of family separation due to war. In this fascinating story, Yahye reveals in his own words, mesmerising incidents of resilience, exclusions and inclusions, identity crisis, divine-connection and an unparalleled zest for a purposeful life, all through a captivating, humorous and candid style. Yahye ends his story with his own ten valuable learnings on an individual and organizational level. 20% of proceeds will be donated to initiatives to honor his mother who was the catalyst of his life's achievements.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685529Mon, 01 May 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unshakeable Will Author: Yahye Siyad Narrator: Maddy Breen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 1, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unshakeable Will Author: Yahye Siyad Narrator: Maddy Breen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 1, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Born as the third blind child to an impoverished family in Somalia, Yahye Siyad's story is full of triumphs and tribulations that allowed him to embrace his life to the fullest. The story begins before he was even born, travels abroad alone at the age of seven, and endures over twenty years of family separation due to war. In this fascinating story, Yahye reveals in his own words, mesmerising incidents of resilience, exclusions and inclusions, identity crisis, divine-connection and an unparalleled zest for a purposeful life, all through a captivating, humorous and candid style. Yahye ends his story with his own ten valuable learnings on an individual and organizational level. 20% of proceeds will be donated to initiatives to honor his mother who was the catalyst of his life's achievements.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-married-an-ex-wise-guy-by-selia-sunshine--65146587https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684343 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Married an Ex-Wise Guy Author: Selia Sunshine Narrator: Jane Ghazni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The book is written in a series of memory lane vignettes depicting memories of Selia’s life with an ex-wise guy. The book starts at the end of the story and through the vignettes of the ups and downs of living with him and how a person’s past can follow them wherever they go. The story ends where it started. The love story between the couple who met late in life is dramatic and quite heated. The depiction of how hospice helped Selia through her husband’s dying process was a dramatic life-learning situation.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684343Fri, 28 Apr 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684343 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Married an Ex-Wise Guy Author: Selia Sunshine Narrator: Jane Ghazni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 28,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684343 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Married an Ex-Wise Guy Author: Selia Sunshine Narrator: Jane Ghazni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The book is written in a series of memory lane vignettes depicting memories of Selia’s life with an ex-wise guy. The book starts at the end of the story and through the vignettes of the ups and downs of living with him and how a person’s past can follow them wherever they go. The story ends where it started. The love story between the couple who met late in life is dramatic and quite heated. The depiction of how hospice helped Selia through her husband’s dying process was a dramatic life-learning situation.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-o-diario-de-anne-frank-resumo-by-anne-frank--65146432https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - O diário de Anne Frank (Resumo) Author: Anne Frank Narrator: Ana Maria Morais Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Este livro é um resumo produzido a partir da obra original. Publicado pela primeira vez em 1947, 'O diário de Anne Frank' é um best-seller mundial. Um relato emocionante e de extrema relevância até hoje, o livro já foi publicado em mais de 60 idiomas e nos conduz pelas experiências da jovem Anne Frank, que, junto com a sua família, vai morar num bunker para se esconder do regime nazista vigente na Alemanha de Hitler. Infelizmente, a família não resistiu ao Holocausto, e Anne morreu com apenas 16 anos. Mas seu diário, agora em edição com trechos exclusivos, eternaliza essa importante história, tornando-se, não por acaso, um dos livros mais lidos no mundo.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706716Fri, 28 Apr 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - O diário de Anne Frank (Resumo) Author: Anne Frank Narrator: Ana Maria Morais Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - O diário de Anne Frank (Resumo) Author: Anne Frank Narrator: Ana Maria Morais Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 28, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Este livro é um resumo produzido a partir da obra original. Publicado pela primeira vez em 1947, 'O diário de Anne Frank' é um best-seller mundial. Um relato emocionante e de extrema relevância até hoje, o livro já foi publicado em mais de 60 idiomas e nos conduz pelas experiências da jovem Anne Frank, que, junto com a sua família, vai morar num bunker para se esconder do regime nazista vigente na Alemanha de Hitler. Infelizmente, a família não resistiu ao Holocausto, e Anne morreu com apenas 16 anos. Mas seu diário, agora em edição com trechos exclusivos, eternaliza essa importante história, tornando-se, não por acaso, um dos livros mais lidos no mundo.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/martin-luther-king-jr-by-derek-barnes--65146479https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Martin Luther King Jr. Author: Derek Barnes Narrator: Steven Myles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Martin Luther King Jr.: A Life Dedicated to Justice and Equality Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most important figures in American history, a man whose life and work have left an indelible mark on our society. A Baptist minister, activist, and leader in the Civil Rights Movement, King devoted himself to the fight for equality and justice for African Americans, advocating for nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience as the means to achieve these goals. His unwavering commitment to the principles of love, equality, and justice inspired a generation and galvanized a movement that would transform American society. Join us on a journey through the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. From his early years in Atlanta to his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement, this audiobook offers a comprehensive look at one of the most influential figures of the 20th century. This audiobook will cover the following topics: - Early Life and Family Background - Education and Early Career - Civil Rights Movement - Montgomery Bus Boycott - Nonviolent Resistance and Civil Disobedience - Birmingham Campaign - March on Washington - Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Nobel Peace Prize - Chicago Campaign - Poor People's Campaign - Assassination and Legacy - Influence on Civil Rights Movement and Society Today - And many more! Whether you're a longtime admirer or new to his story, this audiobook is a must-listen for anyone who believes in the power of change. Scroll up and click “add to cart” to download your copy today!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689951Mon, 24 Apr 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Martin Luther King Jr. Author: Derek Barnes Narrator: Steven Myles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 24, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Martin Luther King Jr. Author: Derek Barnes Narrator: Steven Myles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 24, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Martin Luther King Jr.: A Life Dedicated to Justice and Equality Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most important figures in American history, a man whose life and work have left an indelible mark on our society. A Baptist minister, activist, and leader in the Civil Rights Movement, King devoted himself to the fight for equality and justice for African Americans, advocating for nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience as the means to achieve these goals. His unwavering commitment to the principles of love, equality, and justice inspired a generation and galvanized a movement that would transform American society. Join us on a journey through the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. From his early years in Atlanta to his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement, this audiobook offers a comprehensive look at one of the most influential figures of the 20th century. This audiobook will cover the following topics: - Early Life and Family Background - Education and Early Career - Civil Rights Movement - Montgomery Bus Boycott - Nonviolent Resistance and Civil Disobedience - Birmingham Campaign - March on Washington - Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Nobel Peace Prize - Chicago Campaign - Poor People's Campaign - Assassination and Legacy - Influence on Civil Rights Movement and Society Today - And many more! Whether you're a longtime admirer or new to his story, this audiobook is a must-listen for anyone who believes in the power of change. Scroll up and click “add to cart” to download your copy today!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-genius-of-thomas-jefferson-by-cole-hawkins--65146537https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Genius of Thomas Jefferson Author: Cole Hawkins Narrator: Shafi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Genius of Thomas Jefferson: The Founding Father Who Shaped America Thomas Jefferson was one of the most influential figures in American history, renowned for his contributions to the founding of the United States and his legacy as a statesman, philosopher, and writer. Jefferson's contributions to American history extend far beyond his role in the Revolution. As the third president of the United States, he oversaw the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the young nation, and implemented policies that emphasized westward expansion, agricultural development, and education. But Jefferson's legacy is also complicated by his views on slavery and race, his sometimes controversial political beliefs, and his personal life. In this biography, we will explore the life and legacy of Thomas Jefferson, from his early years in Virginia to his presidency and beyond. We will examine his contributions to American democracy, his impact on culture and society, and his complicated views on slavery and race. This audiobook covers the following topics: - Early Life and Education - Virginia Politics - Revolutionary Politics - Diplomatic Missions - Presidential Election of 1800 - First Term - War of 1812 - Second Term - Personal Life - Slavery and Race Relations - Legacy - Letters and Writings - Controversies and Criticisms - And many more! To learn more about the life and times of Thomas Jefferson, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683348Thu, 20 Apr 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Genius of Thomas Jefferson Author: Cole Hawkins Narrator: Shafi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 20,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Genius of Thomas Jefferson Author: Cole Hawkins Narrator: Shafi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 20, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Genius of Thomas Jefferson: The Founding Father Who Shaped America Thomas Jefferson was one of the most influential figures in American history, renowned for his contributions to the founding of the United States and his legacy as a statesman, philosopher, and writer. Jefferson's contributions to American history extend far beyond his role in the Revolution. As the third president of the United States, he oversaw the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the young nation, and implemented policies that emphasized westward expansion, agricultural development, and education. But Jefferson's legacy is also complicated by his views on slavery and race, his sometimes controversial political beliefs, and his personal life. In this biography, we will explore the life and legacy of Thomas Jefferson, from his early years in Virginia to his presidency and beyond. We will examine his contributions to American democracy, his impact on culture and society, and his complicated views on slavery and race. This audiobook covers the following topics: - Early Life and Education - Virginia Politics - Revolutionary Politics - Diplomatic Missions - Presidential Election of 1800 - First Term - War of 1812 - Second Term - Personal Life - Slavery and Race Relations - Legacy - Letters and Writings - Controversies and Criticisms - And many more! To learn more about the life and times of Thomas Jefferson, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-los-chicos-de-hidden-valley-road-by-robert-kolker--65146588https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los chicos de Hidden Valley Road Author: Robert Kolker Narrator: Carme Calvell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Doce hermanos, seis diagnosticados con esquizofrenia. Una tragedia familiar, la gran esperanza de la ciencia para entender la enfermedad N.º 1 de la lista de libros más vendidos del New York Times Don y Mimi Galvin encarnan como nadie el espíritu ingenuo y entusiasta de los Estados Unidos de su época. Jóvenes y llenos de sueños y ambiciones, el futuro es para ellos un horizonte abierto. Los hijos no tardan en llegar: en 1945 nace Donald, el primero de los doce que tendrá la pareja a lo largo de dos décadas. Atléticos, inteligentes, talentosos, atractivos y felizmente instalados en la idílica casa de Hidden Valley Road, los Galvin se dirían la perfecta familia americana. Hasta que un día, tras una serie de extraños comportamientos, diagnostican esquizofrenia a Donald. En los años sucesivos, nada menos que otros cinco de los chicos de Hidden Valley Road desarrollarán la enfermedad, y la amenaza siempre penderá sobre la cabeza del resto. Pese a que su singular caso llegará a llamar la atención del Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental, Mimi se pasará media vida tratando de mantener la impoluta fachada de familia modélica e intachable, mientras de puertas adentro la desdicha y el horror no hacen sino acrecentarse: crisis nerviosas, episodios de violencia descontrolada, secretos abominables… Los chicos de Hidden Valley Road es una portentosa crónica con un pulso narrativo tan sólido y adictivo que se lee como una novela: una saga familiar llena de amor, sufrimiento y esperanza que se desarrolla en paralelo no solo a los grandes episodios de la historia estadounidense del siglo xx, sino también a los avances en la visión, comprensión y tratamiento de la esquizofrenia. El libro de Kolker es una lectura apasionante que nos habla de la tragedia de una familia devorada por la esquizofrenia en una época en la que nadie sabía demasiado bien qué era: ni los doctores, ni los investigadores, ni mucho menos los Galvin.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678581Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los chicos de Hidden Valley Road Author: Robert Kolker Narrator: Carme Calvell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 17 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los chicos de Hidden Valley Road Author: Robert Kolker Narrator: Carme Calvell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Doce hermanos, seis diagnosticados con esquizofrenia. Una tragedia familiar, la gran esperanza de la ciencia para entender la enfermedad N.º 1 de la lista de libros más vendidos del New York Times Don y Mimi Galvin encarnan como nadie el espíritu ingenuo y entusiasta de los Estados Unidos de su época. Jóvenes y llenos de sueños y ambiciones, el futuro es para ellos un horizonte abierto. Los hijos no tardan en llegar: en 1945 nace Donald, el primero de los doce que tendrá la pareja a lo largo de dos décadas. Atléticos, inteligentes, talentosos, atractivos y felizmente instalados en la idílica casa de Hidden Valley Road, los Galvin se dirían la perfecta familia americana. Hasta que un día, tras una serie de extraños comportamientos, diagnostican esquizofrenia a Donald. En los años sucesivos, nada menos que otros cinco de los chicos de Hidden Valley Road desarrollarán la enfermedad, y la amenaza siempre penderá sobre la cabeza del resto. Pese a que su singular caso llegará a llamar la atención del Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental, Mimi se pasará media vida tratando de mantener la impoluta fachada de familia modélica e intachable, mientras de puertas adentro la desdicha y el horror no hacen sino acrecentarse: crisis nerviosas, episodios de violencia descontrolada, secretos abominables… Los chicos de Hidden Valley Road es una portentosa crónica con un pulso narrativo tan sólido y adictivo que se lee como una novela: una saga familiar llena de amor, sufrimiento y esperanza que se desarrolla en paralelo no solo a los grandes episodios de la historia estadounidense del siglo xx, sino también a los avances en la visión, comprensión y tratamiento de la esquizofrenia. El libro de Kolker es una lectura apasionante que nos habla de la tragedia de una familia devorada por la esquizofrenia en una época en la que nadie sabía demasiado bien qué era: ni los doctores, ni los investigadores, ni mucho menos los Galvin.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-fraulein-stinnes-und-die-reise-um-die-welt-romanbiografie-by-lina-jansen--65146540https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Fräulein Stinnes und die Reise um die Welt: Romanbiografie Author: Lina Jansen Narrator: Sarah Dorsel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 1927. Von Berlin mit dem Auto um die Welt: über den Baikalsee, durch die Wüste Gobi und über die Anden. Eine Frau beweist, was sie kann. Clärenore Stinnes war die erste Frau, die mit dem Auto die Welt umrundete. Sie wuchs auf als eines von sieben Kindern und Tochter eines Großindustriellen. Schön früh interessierte sie sich für den Konzern, musste aber nach dem Tod des Vaters zugunsten ihrer Brüder darauf verzichten. Als sie 24 war, nahm sie zum ersten Mal an einem Autorennen teil und war schnell die erfolgreichste Rennfahrerin Europas.  Als Clärenore Stinnes am 25. Mai 1927 in ihrem Auto aufbricht, die Welt zu umrunden, ahnt sie nicht, was sie erwarten wird. Was sie weiß ist, dass sie es der Welt zeigen will, dass auch eine Frau ein waghalsiges Abenteuer bestehen kann. Zusammen mit ihrem Hund, zwei Technikern, einem Fotografen und etwas Proviant macht sie sich auf entlang einer damals sehr gefährlichen Route durch Syrien, über den zugefrorenen Baikalsee, durch die Wüste Gobi und über die Anden, wo sie sich der größten Herausforderung ihres Lebens stellen wird. Und sie findet mehr als ein Abenteuer. Sie begegnet dem Mann, der sie nicht nur um die Welt, sondern sogar bis ans Ende ihres Lebens begleiten wird.  Inspiriert von der beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichte der Clärenore Stinnes, eine Geschichte, die fasziniert und Mut macht. Eine Geschichte, die unbedingt gelesen werden sollte. Lassen Sie sich mitnehmen von der Frau, die mit dem Auto die Welt bereiste und am Ende die Liebe fand. »Ein Buch über eine sehr beeindruckende Frau, deren Leben Mut macht, die eigenen Pläne zu verwirklichen.« freundin]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682805Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Fräulein Stinnes und die Reise um die Welt: Romanbiografie Author: Lina Jansen Narrator: Sarah Dorsel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Fräulein Stinnes und die Reise um die Welt: Romanbiografie Author: Lina Jansen Narrator: Sarah Dorsel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 1927. Von Berlin mit dem Auto um die Welt: über den Baikalsee, durch die Wüste Gobi und über die Anden. Eine Frau beweist, was sie kann. Clärenore Stinnes war die erste Frau, die mit dem Auto die Welt umrundete. Sie wuchs auf als eines von sieben Kindern und Tochter eines Großindustriellen. Schön früh interessierte sie sich für den Konzern, musste aber nach dem Tod des Vaters zugunsten ihrer Brüder darauf verzichten. Als sie 24 war, nahm sie zum ersten Mal an einem Autorennen teil und war schnell die erfolgreichste Rennfahrerin Europas.  Als Clärenore Stinnes am 25. Mai 1927 in ihrem Auto aufbricht, die Welt zu umrunden, ahnt sie nicht, was sie erwarten wird. Was sie weiß ist, dass sie es der Welt zeigen will, dass auch eine Frau ein waghalsiges Abenteuer bestehen kann. Zusammen mit ihrem Hund, zwei Technikern, einem Fotografen und etwas Proviant macht sie sich auf entlang einer damals sehr gefährlichen Route durch Syrien, über den zugefrorenen Baikalsee, durch die Wüste Gobi und über die Anden, wo sie sich der größten Herausforderung ihres Lebens stellen wird. Und sie findet mehr als ein Abenteuer. Sie begegnet dem Mann, der sie nicht nur um die Welt, sondern sogar bis ans Ende ihres Lebens begleiten wird.  Inspiriert von der beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichte der Clärenore Stinnes, eine Geschichte, die fasziniert und Mut macht. Eine Geschichte, die unbedingt gelesen werden sollte. Lassen Sie sich mitnehmen von der Frau, die mit dem Auto die Welt bereiste und am Ende die Liebe fand. »Ein Buch über eine sehr beeindruckende Frau, deren Leben Mut macht, die eigenen Pläne zu verwirklichen.« freundin]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-life-and-times-of-george-washington-by-shawn-langley--65146505https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683347 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life and Times of George Washington Author: Shawn Langley Narrator: Shafi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Life and Times of George Washington: Learn About the Courage and Character of George Washington that Made Him a Visionary Leader for the Ages George Washington is a towering figure in American history, known to most as the father of our country and the first President of the United States. But beyond his iconic status lies a man who lived a remarkable life, filled with moments of triumph and tragedy, heroism and sacrifice, leadership and diplomacy In this audiobook, we delve into the life of this legendary figure, exploring his childhood, military career, political life, and more. It will be a captivating and enlightening journey that offers a fresh perspective on the man who played an instrumental role in the birth of the United States. This audiobook covers the following topics: - Early Life and Childhood - Education and Military Training - The French and Indian War - Marriage and Family Life - The American Revolution Begins - Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army - The Battle of Trenton - The Winter at Valley Forge - The Battle of Yorktown - The Constitutional Convention - First President of the United States - The Whiskey Rebellion - Legacy and Death - And many more! To learn more about George Washington, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683347Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683347 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life and Times of George Washington Author: Shawn Langley Narrator: Shafi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 41 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683347 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life and Times of George Washington Author: Shawn Langley Narrator: Shafi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Life and Times of George Washington: Learn About the Courage and Character of George Washington that Made Him a Visionary Leader for the Ages George Washington is a towering figure in American history, known to most as the father of our country and the first President of the United States. But beyond his iconic status lies a man who lived a remarkable life, filled with moments of triumph and tragedy, heroism and sacrifice, leadership and diplomacy In this audiobook, we delve into the life of this legendary figure, exploring his childhood, military career, political life, and more. It will be a captivating and enlightening journey that offers a fresh perspective on the man who played an instrumental role in the birth of the United States. This audiobook covers the following topics: - Early Life and Childhood - Education and Military Training - The French and Indian War - Marriage and Family Life - The American Revolution Begins - Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army - The Battle of Trenton - The Winter at Valley Forge - The Battle of Yorktown - The Constitutional Convention - First President of the United States - The Whiskey Rebellion - Legacy and Death - And many more! To learn more about George Washington, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-tenente-general-marques-de-caxias-biografia-by-sebastien-auguste-sisson--65146493https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Tenente-General Marquês de Caxias: Biografia Author: Sébastien Auguste Sisson Narrator: Hellen Vasconcelos Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Esta biografia do Duque de Caxias – então ainda Marquês de Caixas! – tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. Nela, Sisson destaca a influência da educação familiar na formação do jovem militar, bem como parcela de suas façanhas no exército brasileiro, que lhe angariaram fama e reputação.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694583Fri, 14 Apr 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Tenente-General Marquês de Caxias: Biografia Author: Sébastien Auguste Sisson Narrator: Hellen Vasconcelos Format: Abridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Tenente-General Marquês de Caxias: Biografia Author: Sébastien Auguste Sisson Narrator: Hellen Vasconcelos Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Esta biografia do Duque de Caxias – então ainda Marquês de Caixas! – tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. Nela, Sisson destaca a influência da educação familiar na formação do jovem militar, bem como parcela de suas façanhas no exército brasileiro, que lhe angariaram fama e reputação.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/goddie-by-robert-picart--65146570https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Goddie Author: Robert Picart Narrator: Angel Stafford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In Robert Picart’s debut novel Goddie, we read the story of Goddie, a young girl born in the mid-1900s in the picturesque Blue Mountains of Jamaica. With the sudden loss of both parents, Goddie finds herself indentured to strangers in order to pay for school. Heartbroken, weary and alone, she forms a plan to escape to Great Britain as the Windrush movement escalates. Will Goddie be able to escape the depths of betrayal for good and start over again? Will she succumb to despair? Or will she find the strength to find her place in a new and turbulent world?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682026Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Goddie Author: Robert Picart Narrator: Angel Stafford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Goddie Author: Robert Picart Narrator: Angel Stafford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In Robert Picart’s debut novel Goddie, we read the story of Goddie, a young girl born in the mid-1900s in the picturesque Blue Mountains of Jamaica. With the sudden loss of both parents, Goddie finds herself indentured to strangers in order to pay for school. Heartbroken, weary and alone, she forms a plan to escape to Great Britain as the Windrush movement escalates. Will Goddie be able to escape the depths of betrayal for good and start over again? Will she succumb to despair? Or will she find the strength to find her place in a new and turbulent world?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/burnt-out-by-chad-davis--65146596https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/681991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burnt Out Author: Chad Davis Narrator: Michael Bower Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 9, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Chad shares the highs, the lows, and everything in between during his career as a paramedic, as well as the personal highs and lows. His stories highlight the dance between being fine, and burning out, as well as how the system fails to serve those who have dedicated their lives and careers to serving others.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/681991Sun, 09 Apr 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/681991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burnt Out Author: Chad Davis Narrator: Michael Bower Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 9, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/681991 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burnt Out Author: Chad Davis Narrator: Michael Bower Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 9, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Chad shares the highs, the lows, and everything in between during his career as a paramedic, as well as the personal highs and lows. His stories highlight the dance between being fine, and burning out, as well as how the system fails to serve those who have dedicated their lives and careers to serving others.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/russian-besedy-s-buddoj-by-enni-lennoks-dzoan-dunkan--65146582https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Беседы с Буддой Author: энни леннокс, джоан дункан Narrator: михаил росляков Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 52 minutes Release date: March 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Распространившееся по всему миру учение Сиддхартхи Гаутамы предлагает способы справиться со страданиями земной жизни и обрести душевное равновесие. Джоан Дункан Оливер, автор бестселлеров, посвященных философии буддизма, разъясняет его принципы в форме диалога, создавая полное впечатление мудрой беседы с самим Буддой. С предисловием Энни Леннокс, вокалистки легендарной британской группы Eurythmics. «Мы знаем его как Будду, 'Пробужденного', одного из величайших духовных лидеров в мире. Он был не богом, а обычным смертным по имени Сиддхартха Гаутама, родившимся 2500 лет назад на севере Индии. Он страдал так же, как мы, но сам нашел ключ к освобождению от пут желаний, ненависти и неведения. Как ему это удалось? Чему он научился? Если бы Будда был сейчас с нами, каким образом мы смогли бы объяснить те истины, которые он обнаружил? Прочтите эти страницы, и на целый час или больше мудрость Будды пребудет с вами, чтобы вы могли задать ему вопросы». (Джоан Дункан Оливер)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678990Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Беседы с Буддой Author: энни леннокс, джоан дункан Narrator: михаил росляков Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 52 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Беседы с Буддой Author: энни леннокс, джоан дункан Narrator: михаил росляков Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 52 minutes Release date: March 31, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Распространившееся по всему миру учение Сиддхартхи Гаутамы предлагает способы справиться со страданиями земной жизни и обрести душевное равновесие. Джоан Дункан Оливер, автор бестселлеров, посвященных философии буддизма, разъясняет его принципы в форме диалога, создавая полное впечатление мудрой беседы с самим Буддой. С предисловием Энни Леннокс, вокалистки легендарной британской группы Eurythmics. «Мы знаем его как Будду, 'Пробужденного', одного из величайших духовных лидеров в мире. Он был не богом, а обычным смертным по имени Сиддхартха Гаутама, родившимся 2500 лет назад на севере Индии. Он страдал так же, как мы, но сам нашел ключ к освобождению от пут желаний, ненависти и неведения. Как ему это удалось? Чему он научился? Если бы Будда был сейчас с нами, каким образом мы смогли бы объяснить те истины, которые он обнаружил? Прочтите эти страницы, и на целый час или больше мудрость Будды пребудет с вами, чтобы вы могли задать ему вопросы». (Джоан Дункан Оливер)]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/horses-in-the-sand-a-memoir-by-lorrie-potvin--65146569https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676885 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Horses in the Sand: A Memoir Author: Lorrie Potvin Narrator: Cheri Maracle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A sequel to First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir, Horses in the Sand is a collection of stories that document a queer Métis woman’s journey from her sparse beginnings as a child to becoming a tradeswoman, teacher, and artist. With courage, humour, and frank honesty, the stories describe what it was like to grow up as a girl who was starkly different from 'normal' and how 'coming out' became a lifelong process of self-acceptance and changing identities. Potvin’s tales also speak to the difficulties in participating in and maintaining healthy adult relationships when childhood foundations are rooted in violence and trauma, culminating with a triumphant account of fulfilling a long-time dream of buying land and building a home with her own hands. Ultimately, this memoir is a celebration of making art, telling stories, and of finding her birth father, a family of half siblings, and an Indigenous community whose presence she had always felt, but to which she never knew she belonged.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676885Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676885 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Horses in the Sand: A Memoir Author: Lorrie Potvin Narrator: Cheri Maracle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676885 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Horses in the Sand: A Memoir Author: Lorrie Potvin Narrator: Cheri Maracle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A sequel to First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir, Horses in the Sand is a collection of stories that document a queer Métis woman’s journey from her sparse beginnings as a child to becoming a tradeswoman, teacher, and artist. With courage, humour, and frank honesty, the stories describe what it was like to grow up as a girl who was starkly different from 'normal' and how 'coming out' became a lifelong process of self-acceptance and changing identities. Potvin’s tales also speak to the difficulties in participating in and maintaining healthy adult relationships when childhood foundations are rooted in violence and trauma, culminating with a triumphant account of fulfilling a long-time dream of buying land and building a home with her own hands. Ultimately, this memoir is a celebration of making art, telling stories, and of finding her birth father, a family of half siblings, and an Indigenous community whose presence she had always felt, but to which she never knew she belonged.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-drink-of-the-dead-a-legend-of-bushmanland-by-frederick-cornell--65146577https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676369 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Drink of the Dead: A Legend of Bushmanland Author: Frederick Cornell Narrator: Liam Mackenna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Frederick Cornell (May 6, 1867 - March 6, 1921) was an English soldier, geologist, prospector and author born in Devon, England, and educated at the Bedford School. In 1902, he moved to South Africa and served at Lieutenant with the South African Native Labour Corps during World War I. His short stories, considered to be among South Africa's finest, include this tale from his surreal experiences living among the bushmen.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676369Tue, 21 Mar 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676369 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Drink of the Dead: A Legend of Bushmanland Author: Frederick Cornell Narrator: Liam Mackenna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676369 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Drink of the Dead: A Legend of Bushmanland Author: Frederick Cornell Narrator: Liam Mackenna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Frederick Cornell (May 6, 1867 - March 6, 1921) was an English soldier, geologist, prospector and author born in Devon, England, and educated at the Bedford School. In 1902, he moved to South Africa and served at Lieutenant with the South African Native Labour Corps during World War I. His short stories, considered to be among South Africa's finest, include this tale from his surreal experiences living among the bushmen.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/taking-on-giants-by-joe-portale--65146598https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taking on Giants Author: Joe Portale Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: "What we did in taking on this giant in our Promised Land would define our lives and ministry. Either we would run away defeated or we would be courageous and victorious with God s help." Hearing God's call to serve as a missionary in the French-speaking world, Joe Portale responded with excitement, boldness, and humility. His lifelong dreams were being fulfilled, and the land God had promised was within reach. But the journey was not easy. From spiritual forces in France to the perilous Sahara desert to war and poverty in Southeast Asia, Joe and his ministry team persevered through many challenges. Their successes and failures provide a roadmap for all who would respond to God's call, an instructive account of pursuing one's life vocation and ministry. There are currently 17 books in this International Adventures series.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676265Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taking on Giants Author: Joe Portale Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taking on Giants Author: Joe Portale Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: "What we did in taking on this giant in our Promised Land would define our lives and ministry. Either we would run away defeated or we would be courageous and victorious with God s help." Hearing God's call to serve as a missionary in the French-speaking world, Joe Portale responded with excitement, boldness, and humility. His lifelong dreams were being fulfilled, and the land God had promised was within reach. But the journey was not easy. From spiritual forces in France to the perilous Sahara desert to war and poverty in Southeast Asia, Joe and his ministry team persevered through many challenges. Their successes and failures provide a roadmap for all who would respond to God's call, an instructive account of pursuing one's life vocation and ministry. There are currently 17 books in this International Adventures series.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ida-scudder-healing-bodies-touching-hearts-by-janet-and-geoff-benge--65146590https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Ida stamped her foot. Her friends were wrong. "I will not be a missionary to India like my parents!" she retorted. "Don't any of you say I will be, because I won't -- never, ever, ever." Ida had never forgotten the faces of starving Indian children. She hated India -- it was full of horrible situations she could do nothing about. Ida Scudder was sure she would never follow in the footsteps of her medical missionary father. But when she witnessed Indian women dying because their religious beliefs didn't allow male doctors to treat them, Ida heard herself pray, "God, if You want me to, I will spend the rest of my life in India trying to help these women." Serving for nearly sixty years, Dr. Ida Scudder lived out the truth and compassion found in Christ. She pioneered a first-rate medical school and hospital, brought life-saving health care to rural people, and left an inspiring legacy that still touches missions of people each year with healing and hope.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675621Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Ida stamped her foot. Her friends were wrong. "I will not be a missionary to India like my parents!" she retorted. "Don't any of you say I will be, because I won't -- never, ever, ever." Ida had never forgotten the faces of starving Indian children. She hated India -- it was full of horrible situations she could do nothing about. Ida Scudder was sure she would never follow in the footsteps of her medical missionary father. But when she witnessed Indian women dying because their religious beliefs didn't allow male doctors to treat them, Ida heard herself pray, "God, if You want me to, I will spend the rest of my life in India trying to help these women." Serving for nearly sixty years, Dr. Ida Scudder lived out the truth and compassion found in Christ. She pioneered a first-rate medical school and hospital, brought life-saving health care to rural people, and left an inspiring legacy that still touches missions of people each year with healing and hope.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sunrise-in-the-valley-of-death-by-amiira-ann--65146586https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunrise in the Valley of Death Author: Amiira Ann Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Ever since you started Christianizing Muslims, you have walked a dangerous path! Today we burned your car and part of your house. Tomorrow we will surely burn you and your family if you don t immediately stop trying to convert people. Just leave! Leaving Western culture and their German home far behind, Amiira Ann and her husband, Chris, responded to the prompting of God to move to one of the most thoroughly Muslim cultures on earth, Yemen. The 9/11 attacks in the United States created the dangerous backdrop for reaching out to their Yemeni hosts with the love of Christ. With a commitment to work in relief and development, they would find, despite the threat of death, that their hearts would be forever knit together with this people so different from themselves. Amiira Ann will take you on a rare and personal journey into Muslim life in Yemen. Amiira Ann and her family lived in Yemen for seven years, working in aid and development. Integrating themselves deeply into the culture, they established a credible Christian witness through their work and personal lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676264Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunrise in the Valley of Death Author: Amiira Ann Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sunrise in the Valley of Death Author: Amiira Ann Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Ever since you started Christianizing Muslims, you have walked a dangerous path! Today we burned your car and part of your house. Tomorrow we will surely burn you and your family if you don t immediately stop trying to convert people. Just leave! Leaving Western culture and their German home far behind, Amiira Ann and her husband, Chris, responded to the prompting of God to move to one of the most thoroughly Muslim cultures on earth, Yemen. The 9/11 attacks in the United States created the dangerous backdrop for reaching out to their Yemeni hosts with the love of Christ. With a commitment to work in relief and development, they would find, despite the threat of death, that their hearts would be forever knit together with this people so different from themselves. Amiira Ann will take you on a rare and personal journey into Muslim life in Yemen. Amiira Ann and her family lived in Yemen for seven years, working in aid and development. Integrating themselves deeply into the culture, they established a credible Christian witness through their work and personal lives.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/william-wilberforce-take-up-the-fight-by-janet-and-geoff-benge--65146580https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: William Wilberforce: Take up the Fight Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For two hundred years, British slave ships plied in the Middle Passage, taking African men, women, and children to their doom. Ending slavery in the mighty British Empire seemed like an impossible dream, but once William Wilberforce resolved to represent the abolitionists in Parliament, he would fight to the bitter end - for nearly half a century - to achieve that goal. Together with a community of dynamic reformers, Wilberforce struggled to rid his nation of evil and to give dignity and freedom to all people - slave and slave trader, poor and powerful. His example continues to inspire others to use their gifts and influence to do good against the odds.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676245Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: William Wilberforce: Take up the Fight Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: William Wilberforce: Take up the Fight Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For two hundred years, British slave ships plied in the Middle Passage, taking African men, women, and children to their doom. Ending slavery in the mighty British Empire seemed like an impossible dream, but once William Wilberforce resolved to represent the abolitionists in Parliament, he would fight to the bitter end - for nearly half a century - to achieve that goal. Together with a community of dynamic reformers, Wilberforce struggled to rid his nation of evil and to give dignity and freedom to all people - slave and slave trader, poor and powerful. His example continues to inspire others to use their gifts and influence to do good against the odds.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/milton-hershey-more-than-chocolate-by-janet-and-geoff-benge--65146563https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676252 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Milton Hershey: More Than Chocolate Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'We've done more than our share to see you right, but you're a Hershey, a true son of a dreamer,' Milton's Uncle Abraham said. 'You'll never stick with anything long enough to make it work for you.' Milton gulped. He'd already suspected that his relatives had given up on him succeeding as a candy maker, but the words still stung. When Milton Hershey's famous Hershey Bars debuted in 1905, few people knew of the hard work, dedication, and sacrifice preceding the triumph. Debt, lack of support, and fatigue had been constant companions for the famous chocolatier and philanthropist -- a man with a fourth-grade education. Despite comparisons to his wandering father, Milton never gave up. Learning from his mistakes, he spent a lifetime creating sweet things to eat -- first caramel, then chocolate. As his company soared, Milton used his wealth to care for others, founding a town for Hershey workers, a school for children in need, and a foundation dedicated to education, culture, and health care.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676252Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676252 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Milton Hershey: More Than Chocolate Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 56 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676252 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Milton Hershey: More Than Chocolate Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'We've done more than our share to see you right, but you're a Hershey, a true son of a dreamer,' Milton's Uncle Abraham said. 'You'll never stick with anything long enough to make it work for you.' Milton gulped. He'd already suspected that his relatives had given up on him succeeding as a candy maker, but the words still stung. When Milton Hershey's famous Hershey Bars debuted in 1905, few people knew of the hard work, dedication, and sacrifice preceding the triumph. Debt, lack of support, and fatigue had been constant companions for the famous chocolatier and philanthropist -- a man with a fourth-grade education. Despite comparisons to his wandering father, Milton never gave up. Learning from his mistakes, he spent a lifetime creating sweet things to eat -- first caramel, then chocolate. As his company soared, Milton used his wealth to care for others, founding a town for Hershey workers, a school for children in need, and a foundation dedicated to education, culture, and health care.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/klaus-dieter-john-hope-in-the-land-of-the-incas-by-janet-and-geoff-benge--65146546https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Klaus-Dieter John: Hope in the Land of the Incas Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: It was totally dark. The lights in the city were turned off, and there were no street lamps, no neon signs, and no extra glow in shop windows. Klaus noticed that theirs was the only car on the road. How would they slip by the checkpoint? Klaus glanced at his wife Tina, whose eyes were shut in prayer. Suddenly he heard a thunderous crash, then saw a bright flash of light. Klaus-Dieter John (1960-) dreamed of becoming a medical missionary in the developing world. He would do whatever it took -- study in top universities and practice surgery in remote and dangerous places -- to reach his goal of providing health care for people who needed it most. Dr. John's seemingly impossible vision of Diospi-Suyana, a world-class hospital for impoverished Peruvians deep in the Andes Mountains, was blessed by God to the end. Despite challenges in fund-raising, construction, moving his family from Germany, and countless roadblocks, Klaus's dream was finally realized, bringing hope in a land loved by God.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675631Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Klaus-Dieter John: Hope in the Land of the Incas Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Klaus-Dieter John: Hope in the Land of the Incas Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Tim Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 17, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: It was totally dark. The lights in the city were turned off, and there were no street lamps, no neon signs, and no extra glow in shop windows. Klaus noticed that theirs was the only car on the road. How would they slip by the checkpoint? Klaus glanced at his wife Tina, whose eyes were shut in prayer. Suddenly he heard a thunderous crash, then saw a bright flash of light. Klaus-Dieter John (1960-) dreamed of becoming a medical missionary in the developing world. He would do whatever it took -- study in top universities and practice surgery in remote and dangerous places -- to reach his goal of providing health care for people who needed it most. Dr. John's seemingly impossible vision of Diospi-Suyana, a world-class hospital for impoverished Peruvians deep in the Andes Mountains, was blessed by God to the end. Despite challenges in fund-raising, construction, moving his family from Germany, and countless roadblocks, Klaus's dream was finally realized, bringing hope in a land loved by God.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/concealed-by-esther-amini--65146576https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Concealed Author: Esther Amini Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: March 13, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Esther Amini grew up in Queens, New York, during the free-wheeling 1960s. She also grew up in a Persian-Jewish household, the American- born daughter of parents who had fled Mashhad, Iran. In CONCEALED she tells the story of being caught between these two worlds: the dutiful daughter of tradition-bound parents who hungers for more self-determination than tradition allows. Exploring the roots of her father's deep silences and explosive temper, her mother's flamboyance and flights from home, and her own sense of indebtedness to her two Iranian-born brothers, Amini uncovers the story of her parents' early years in Mashhad, Iran's holiest Muslim city; the little known history and persecution of Mashhad's underground Jews; the incident that steeled her mother's resolve to leave; and her parents' arduous journey to the United States, where they found themselves facing a new threat to their traditions: the threat of freedom. Determined to protect his only daughter from corruption, Amini's father prohibits talk, books, higher education, and tries to push her into an early Persian marriage. Can she resist? Should she? Focused intently on what she stands to gain, Amini eventually comes to see what she also stands to lose: a family and community bound together by food, celebrations, sibling escapades, and unexpected acts of devotion by parents to whom she feels invisible. In this poignant, funny, entertaining and uplifting memoir, Amini documents with keen eye, quick wit, and warm heart, how family members build, buoy, wound, and save one another across generations; how lives are shaped by the demands and burdens of loyalty and legacy; and how she rose to the challenge of deciding what to keep and what to discard.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676287Mon, 13 Mar 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Concealed Author: Esther Amini Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: March 13, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Concealed Author: Esther Amini Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: March 13, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Esther Amini grew up in Queens, New York, during the free-wheeling 1960s. She also grew up in a Persian-Jewish household, the American- born daughter of parents who had fled Mashhad, Iran. In CONCEALED she tells the story of being caught between these two worlds: the dutiful daughter of tradition-bound parents who hungers for more self-determination than tradition allows. Exploring the roots of her father's deep silences and explosive temper, her mother's flamboyance and flights from home, and her own sense of indebtedness to her two Iranian-born brothers, Amini uncovers the story of her parents' early years in Mashhad, Iran's holiest Muslim city; the little known history and persecution of Mashhad's underground Jews; the incident that steeled her mother's resolve to leave; and her parents' arduous journey to the United States, where they found themselves facing a new threat to their traditions: the threat of freedom. Determined to protect his only daughter from corruption, Amini's father prohibits talk, books, higher education, and tries to push her into an early Persian marriage. Can she resist? Should she? Focused intently on what she stands to gain, Amini eventually comes to see what she also stands to lose: a family and community bound together by food, celebrations, sibling escapades, and unexpected acts of devotion by parents to whom she feels invisible. In this poignant, funny, entertaining and uplifting memoir, Amini documents with keen eye, quick wit, and warm heart, how family members build, buoy, wound, and save one another across generations; how lives are shaped by the demands and burdens of loyalty and legacy; and how she rose to the challenge of deciding what to keep and what to discard.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-jose-de-alencar-biografia-by-sebastien-auguste-sisson--65146532https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694608 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - José de Alencar: Biografia Author: Sébastien Auguste Sisson Narrator: Lu Affonso Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Esta biografia de José de Alencar tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. 'Trinta e seis anos são passados...' escreve o autor... 36 anos desde 1822, ano da Independência do Brasil! Eis o frescor do texto. Nesta biografia, é privilegiada sua atuação política, sem referências à sua obra literária. E nessa faceta de seu caráter, em que ele pregava o respeito nas divergências de opiniões, o leitor encontra eco para a realidade dos dias de hoje.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694608Sun, 12 Mar 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694608 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - José de Alencar: Biografia Author: Sébastien Auguste Sisson Narrator: Lu Affonso Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 16 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694608 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - José de Alencar: Biografia Author: Sébastien Auguste Sisson Narrator: Lu Affonso Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Esta biografia de José de Alencar tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. 'Trinta e seis anos são passados...' escreve o autor... 36 anos desde 1822, ano da Independência do Brasil! Eis o frescor do texto. Nesta biografia, é privilegiada sua atuação política, sem referências à sua obra literária. E nessa faceta de seu caráter, em que ele pregava o respeito nas divergências de opiniões, o leitor encontra eco para a realidade dos dias de hoje.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-o-senhor-d-pedro-ii-biografia-by-sebastien-auguste-sisson--65146452https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - O Senhor D. Pedro II: Biografia Author: Sébastien Auguste Sisson Narrator: Lu Affonso Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 17 minutes Release date: March 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Esta biografia de D. Pedro II tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. O leitor fica assim conhecendo os passos que antecederam a subida ao trono do imperador, no chamado 'decênio das regências', quando muitas calamidades pesaram sobre o país. A imagem do regente, por fim, é enaltecida: 'Os atos da vida pública do Sr. D. Pedro II atestam sua capacidade intelectual e uma erudição invejável. As nações estrangeiras consideram-no como um dos mais ilustrados monarcas.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694603Sun, 12 Mar 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - O Senhor D. Pedro II: Biografia Author: Sébastien Auguste Sisson Narrator: Lu Affonso Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 17...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - O Senhor D. Pedro II: Biografia Author: Sébastien Auguste Sisson Narrator: Lu Affonso Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 17 minutes Release date: March 12, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Esta biografia de D. Pedro II tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. O leitor fica assim conhecendo os passos que antecederam a subida ao trono do imperador, no chamado 'decênio das regências', quando muitas calamidades pesaram sobre o país. A imagem do regente, por fim, é enaltecida: 'Os atos da vida pública do Sr. D. Pedro II atestam sua capacidade intelectual e uma erudição invejável. As nações estrangeiras consideram-no como um dos mais ilustrados monarcas.']]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-barao-de-maua-e-eusebio-de-queiros-biografias-by-sebastien-auguste-sisson--65146566https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678512 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Barão de Mauá E Eusébio de Queirós - biografias Author: Sébastien Auguste Sisson Narrator: Renato Peres Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Sisson tem um ponto de vista singular sobre os biografados – o de um contemporâneo deles! Esse frescor, por si só, justifica sua leitura nos dias de hoje dessas biografias. De 'Barão de Mauá', destaca-se a vertiginosa ascensão como empresário, cujo exemplo atualíssimo é ter fundando o Banco do Brasil. De 'Eusébio de Queirós', é de se notar seu vigoroso combate ao crime num Rio de Janeiro assolado por ladrões e falsários.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678512Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678512 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Barão de Mauá E Eusébio de Queirós - biografias Author: Sébastien Auguste Sisson Narrator: Renato Peres Format: Abridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678512 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Barão de Mauá E Eusébio de Queirós - biografias Author: Sébastien Auguste Sisson Narrator: Renato Peres Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 15, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Sisson tem um ponto de vista singular sobre os biografados – o de um contemporâneo deles! Esse frescor, por si só, justifica sua leitura nos dias de hoje dessas biografias. De 'Barão de Mauá', destaca-se a vertiginosa ascensão como empresário, cujo exemplo atualíssimo é ter fundando o Banco do Brasil. De 'Eusébio de Queirós', é de se notar seu vigoroso combate ao crime num Rio de Janeiro assolado por ladrões e falsários.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/under-the-boab-tree-by-franceska-jordan--65146594https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under the Boab Tree Author: Franceska Jordan Narrator: Franceska Jordan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Boaboa - pronounced ‘Bow-a-Bow-a’ - is the name given to a real tree—the Baobab—that imparts wisdom to a growing child in a South African garden. This stirring memoir traverses Africa and Australia following the Speer-Jordan family, who fled persecution and poverty in Varniai, Lithuania, to South Africa. The political machinations they witnessed in that time in South Africa changed the women forever in this unusual family. As the story unfolds, Isabella and Franceska’s tenacity and courage surface as they prove to be hardy and, at times, seemingly indestructible with their strong roots. Under The Boab Tree is a tale about the souls of these women connecting to the people they meet—like Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Rita Hayworth’s daughter—and the richness of their hearts. The mother and daughter’s spiritual, political, and humanitarian awakenings in this chronicle give them power and purpose in finding truth and justice for others and themselves through adversity. This is a story about how Isabella and Franceska came to a place of acceptance and stillness, finding their ultimate saviour: love. A love that unravels and transcends exploitation and fear.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682043Tue, 14 Feb 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under the Boab Tree Author: Franceska Jordan Narrator: Franceska Jordan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under the Boab Tree Author: Franceska Jordan Narrator: Franceska Jordan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Boaboa - pronounced ‘Bow-a-Bow-a’ - is the name given to a real tree—the Baobab—that imparts wisdom to a growing child in a South African garden. This stirring memoir traverses Africa and Australia following the Speer-Jordan family, who fled persecution and poverty in Varniai, Lithuania, to South Africa. The political machinations they witnessed in that time in South Africa changed the women forever in this unusual family. As the story unfolds, Isabella and Franceska’s tenacity and courage surface as they prove to be hardy and, at times, seemingly indestructible with their strong roots. Under The Boab Tree is a tale about the souls of these women connecting to the people they meet—like Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Rita Hayworth’s daughter—and the richness of their hearts. The mother and daughter’s spiritual, political, and humanitarian awakenings in this chronicle give them power and purpose in finding truth and justice for others and themselves through adversity. This is a story about how Isabella and Franceska came to a place of acceptance and stillness, finding their ultimate saviour: love. A love that unravels and transcends exploitation and fear.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-auto-biography-by-joe-biden-by-j-galt-escort--65146565https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Auto-Biography by Joe Biden Author: J. Galt Escort Narrator: Mark Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 9, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: It's All Here! The Life of The Joe 'Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.' - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. (What the Bard of Avon might have written even today had he the opportunity to meet the King of Kovid and the Cyclic Cycler of Redundancy and Recursive Mental Fluidity). And so it is that this Man for All Reasons now graces the world with his wisdom and his downright homeyness. What a delight to read and learn of the man's own thoughts before they vanish like ice in hot water. For like ice itself, his thoughts are hard and inflexible, which must demonstrate a kind of mental gymnastics as they nonetheless transition from liquidity to cold concrete and then quickly evaporate into the heavens like a carbonated food print. The Guiding Principles of Joe's Life The Eight Big Attitudes (1) Blessed are the chic who mumble for they shall become president. (2) Blessed are our boarders for they shall pay rent. (3) Blessed are the homeless for they shall seem odd and live in California. (4) Blessed are the corrupt for they shall run the Department of Justice. (5) Blessed are the naked for they are for touching and sniffing. (6) Blessed is foreign policy for it is for them and not us. (7) Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for tail for they shall be with Hunter. The wit and wisdom of The Big Guy, Joe of the Magic Syntax, who once said, 'There is no reason to be afraid, for tax for sins like drugs and stuff makes think me things many and more.' Read more about Joe's syntax from the perspective of a grammarian inside. Or, as the great American poet ee cummings might have written had he been around today, 'Joey lives in a pretty White House, within go leaving aides and out. Sultry passes, swampy gasses, and goes the luster with the muster. Called attention to are we, all the Greenies, meanies not. I order got no my to thoughts, just my Twitter writ by bots.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684295Thu, 09 Feb 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Auto-Biography by Joe Biden Author: J. Galt Escort Narrator: Mark Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Auto-Biography by Joe Biden Author: J. Galt Escort Narrator: Mark Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 9, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: It's All Here! The Life of The Joe 'Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.' - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. (What the Bard of Avon might have written even today had he the opportunity to meet the King of Kovid and the Cyclic Cycler of Redundancy and Recursive Mental Fluidity). And so it is that this Man for All Reasons now graces the world with his wisdom and his downright homeyness. What a delight to read and learn of the man's own thoughts before they vanish like ice in hot water. For like ice itself, his thoughts are hard and inflexible, which must demonstrate a kind of mental gymnastics as they nonetheless transition from liquidity to cold concrete and then quickly evaporate into the heavens like a carbonated food print. The Guiding Principles of Joe's Life The Eight Big Attitudes (1) Blessed are the chic who mumble for they shall become president. (2) Blessed are our boarders for they shall pay rent. (3) Blessed are the homeless for they shall seem odd and live in California. (4) Blessed are the corrupt for they shall run the Department of Justice. (5) Blessed are the naked for they are for touching and sniffing. (6) Blessed is foreign policy for it is for them and not us. (7) Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for tail for they shall be with Hunter. The wit and wisdom of The Big Guy, Joe of the Magic Syntax, who once said, 'There is no reason to be afraid, for tax for sins like drugs and stuff makes think me things many and more.' Read more about Joe's syntax from the perspective of a grammarian inside. Or, as the great American poet ee cummings might have written had he been around today, 'Joey lives in a pretty White House, within go leaving aides and out. Sultry passes, swampy gasses, and goes the luster with the muster. Called attention to are we, all the Greenies, meanies not. I order got no my to thoughts, just my Twitter writ by bots.']]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sai-saileshwara-by-marina-chand--65146538https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sai Saileshwara Author: Marina Chand Narrator: Marina Chand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 25, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Born into a poor family in Fiji, Saileshwara set out on a quest seeking a cure from a life-threatening condition. Through an extraordinary journey that took him half-way around the world to India, New Zealand, and then Australia, he not only survived, but he transcended his physical and mental limitations, triggering the yogie path to self-realisation. Despite the challenges of having a physical disability, Saileshwara's mind-blowing and uplifting story reveals some of the superhuman achievements possible on this inward path.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685568Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sai Saileshwara Author: Marina Chand Narrator: Marina Chand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 25, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sai Saileshwara Author: Marina Chand Narrator: Marina Chand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 25, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Born into a poor family in Fiji, Saileshwara set out on a quest seeking a cure from a life-threatening condition. Through an extraordinary journey that took him half-way around the world to India, New Zealand, and then Australia, he not only survived, but he transcended his physical and mental limitations, triggering the yogie path to self-realisation. Despite the challenges of having a physical disability, Saileshwara's mind-blowing and uplifting story reveals some of the superhuman achievements possible on this inward path.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dirty-laundry-by-lily-arthur--65146552https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dirty Laundry Author: Lily Arthur Narrator: Lily Arthur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 23, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: At seventeen years old, Lily Arthur was caught between an era of women's liberation and the draconian ideology that young women should be punished for deviating from society's 'moral codes'. For the 'crime' of being pregnant, Lily was forcibly taken from the man she planned to marry and incarcerated in Brisbane Watch House before being sent to work in a notorious Magdalene laundry. Committed to the Holy Cross home for unwed mothers in Woolowin, Lily's son was taken from her in the labour ward and put up for adoption. She promised him: 'I will see you again, little one. I will see you again.' A true story from the war-torn ravages for East End London to the far north of Queensland, Australia, Dirty Laundry recounts a journey that took Lily and a movement of women like her on a lifelong battle for justice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683329Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dirty Laundry Author: Lily Arthur Narrator: Lily Arthur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 23, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dirty Laundry Author: Lily Arthur Narrator: Lily Arthur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 23, 2023 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: At seventeen years old, Lily Arthur was caught between an era of women's liberation and the draconian ideology that young women should be punished for deviating from society's 'moral codes'. For the 'crime' of being pregnant, Lily was forcibly taken from the man she planned to marry and incarcerated in Brisbane Watch House before being sent to work in a notorious Magdalene laundry. Committed to the Holy Cross home for unwed mothers in Woolowin, Lily's son was taken from her in the labour ward and put up for adoption. She promised him: 'I will see you again, little one. I will see you again.' A true story from the war-torn ravages for East End London to the far north of Queensland, Australia, Dirty Laundry recounts a journey that took Lily and a movement of women like her on a lifelong battle for justice.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/war-and-me-a-memoir-by-faleeha-hassan--65146445https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700708 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War and Me: A Memoir Author: Faleeha Hassan Narrator: Christine Tawfik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 1, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An intimate memoir about coming of age in a tight-knit working-class family during Iraq’s seemingly endless series of wars. Faleeha Hassan became intimately acquainted with loss and fear while growing up in Najaf, Iraq. Now, in a deeply personal account of her life, she remembers those she has loved and lost. As a young woman, Faleeha hated seeing her father and brother go off to fight, and when she needed to reach them, she broke all the rules by traveling alone to the war’s front lines—just one of many shocking and moving examples of her resilient spirit. Later, after building a life in the US, she realizes that she will coexist with war for most of the years of her life and chooses to focus on education for herself and her children. In a world on fire, she finds courage, compassion, and a voice. A testament to endurance and a window into unique aspects of life in the Middle East, Faleeha’s memoir offers an intimate perspective on something wars can’t touch—the loving bonds of family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700708Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700708 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War and Me: A Memoir Author: Faleeha Hassan Narrator: Christine Tawfik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700708 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War and Me: A Memoir Author: Faleeha Hassan Narrator: Christine Tawfik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 1, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An intimate memoir about coming of age in a tight-knit working-class family during Iraq’s seemingly endless series of wars. Faleeha Hassan became intimately acquainted with loss and fear while growing up in Najaf, Iraq. Now, in a deeply personal account of her life, she remembers those she has loved and lost. As a young woman, Faleeha hated seeing her father and brother go off to fight, and when she needed to reach them, she broke all the rules by traveling alone to the war’s front lines—just one of many shocking and moving examples of her resilient spirit. Later, after building a life in the US, she realizes that she will coexist with war for most of the years of her life and chooses to focus on education for herself and her children. In a world on fire, she finds courage, compassion, and a voice. A testament to endurance and a window into unique aspects of life in the Middle East, Faleeha’s memoir offers an intimate perspective on something wars can’t touch—the loving bonds of family.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/american-seoul-a-memoir-by-helena-rho--65146550https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Seoul: A Memoir Author: Helena Rho Narrator: Helena Rho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 1, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: She was everything everyone else wanted her to be. Until she followed her own path. Helena Rho was six years old when her family left Seoul, Korea, for America and its opportunities. Years later, her Korean-ness behind her, Helena had everything a model minority was supposed to want: she was married to a white American doctor and had a beautiful home, two children, and a career as an assistant professor of pediatrics. For decades she fulfilled the expectations of others. All the while Helena kept silent about the traumas—both professional and personal—that left her anxious yet determined to escape. It would take a catastrophic event for Helena to abandon her career at the age of forty, recover her Korean identity, and set in motion a journey of self-discovery. In her powerful and moving memoir, Helena Rho reveals the courage it took to break away from the path that was laid out for her, to assert her presence, and to discover the freedom and joy of finally being herself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683084Sun, 01 May 2022 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Seoul: A Memoir Author: Helena Rho Narrator: Helena Rho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 1, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Seoul: A Memoir Author: Helena Rho Narrator: Helena Rho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 1, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: She was everything everyone else wanted her to be. Until she followed her own path. Helena Rho was six years old when her family left Seoul, Korea, for America and its opportunities. Years later, her Korean-ness behind her, Helena had everything a model minority was supposed to want: she was married to a white American doctor and had a beautiful home, two children, and a career as an assistant professor of pediatrics. For decades she fulfilled the expectations of others. All the while Helena kept silent about the traumas—both professional and personal—that left her anxious yet determined to escape. It would take a catastrophic event for Helena to abandon her career at the age of forty, recover her Korean identity, and set in motion a journey of self-discovery. In her powerful and moving memoir, Helena Rho reveals the courage it took to break away from the path that was laid out for her, to assert her presence, and to discover the freedom and joy of finally being herself.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-time-for-me-a-memoir-by-alexandra-billings--65146593https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/677381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Time for Me: A Memoir Author: Alexandra Billings Narrator: Alexandra Billings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An emotional, funny, and fabulous memoir by trailblazing and award-winning Trans actor and activist Alexandra Billings. Born in 1962, Alexandra Billings grew up in a decade in which being herself was illegal. When she started transitioning in 1980, the word “Transgender” was not commonly used. With no Trans role models and no path to follow, Alexandra did what her family, teachers, and even friends said was impossible: Alexandra forged ahead. Spanning five decades, from profound lows to exhilarating highs, This Time for Me captures the events of a pioneering life. An award-winning actor and history-making LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS activist, Alexandra shares not only her own ever-evolving story but also the parallel ways in which queer identity has dramatically changed since the Stonewall riots of 1969. She weaves a true coming-of-age story of richly imaginative lies, of friends being swept away by a plague that decimated the community, of her determination to establish a career that would break boundaries, and of the recognition of her own power. A celebration of endless possibilities, Alexandra’s bracing memoir is a fight-to-the-death revolution against all expectations.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/677381Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/677381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Time for Me: A Memoir Author: Alexandra Billings Narrator: Alexandra Billings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 41 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/677381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Time for Me: A Memoir Author: Alexandra Billings Narrator: Alexandra Billings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An emotional, funny, and fabulous memoir by trailblazing and award-winning Trans actor and activist Alexandra Billings. Born in 1962, Alexandra Billings grew up in a decade in which being herself was illegal. When she started transitioning in 1980, the word “Transgender” was not commonly used. With no Trans role models and no path to follow, Alexandra did what her family, teachers, and even friends said was impossible: Alexandra forged ahead. Spanning five decades, from profound lows to exhilarating highs, This Time for Me captures the events of a pioneering life. An award-winning actor and history-making LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS activist, Alexandra shares not only her own ever-evolving story but also the parallel ways in which queer identity has dramatically changed since the Stonewall riots of 1969. She weaves a true coming-of-age story of richly imaginative lies, of friends being swept away by a plague that decimated the community, of her determination to establish a career that would break boundaries, and of the recognition of her own power. A celebration of endless possibilities, Alexandra’s bracing memoir is a fight-to-the-death revolution against all expectations.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unspoken-a-father-s-wartime-escape-a-son-s-family-discovered-by-tom-mcgrath--65146524https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/687076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unspoken: A Father's Wartime Escape. A Son's Family Discovered Author: Tom Mcgrath Narrator: Tom Mcgrath, Mark Lambert Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: March 16, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Growing up in Waterford, Tom McGrath never noticed the odd gaps in the stories of his parents' lives before he was born; it was only many years after they died that he uncovered the unspoken truths, which did so much to explain the people they had been. Here he tells the incredible true story of his father's conscription into the British Army, his escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland, his daring journey across Europe and subsequent recapture – and the devastating news that awaited him in England. Tom's research also led him to discover that his mother also carried a heartbreaking secret. In writing this book Tom not only recreated his father's nail-biting escape but also embarked on a journey of his own to reconnect with previously unknown family members in order to piece together an extraordinarily rare tale that encompasses memoir, family history, and the parallel stories, which were almost lost for ever, of his parents' lives of desperate hardship.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/687076Wed, 16 Mar 2022 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/687076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unspoken: A Father's Wartime Escape. A Son's Family Discovered Author: Tom Mcgrath Narrator: Tom Mcgrath, Mark Lambert Format: Abridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/687076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unspoken: A Father's Wartime Escape. A Son's Family Discovered Author: Tom Mcgrath Narrator: Tom Mcgrath, Mark Lambert Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: March 16, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Growing up in Waterford, Tom McGrath never noticed the odd gaps in the stories of his parents' lives before he was born; it was only many years after they died that he uncovered the unspoken truths, which did so much to explain the people they had been. Here he tells the incredible true story of his father's conscription into the British Army, his escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland, his daring journey across Europe and subsequent recapture – and the devastating news that awaited him in England. Tom's research also led him to discover that his mother also carried a heartbreaking secret. In writing this book Tom not only recreated his father's nail-biting escape but also embarked on a journey of his own to reconnect with previously unknown family members in order to piece together an extraordinarily rare tale that encompasses memoir, family history, and the parallel stories, which were almost lost for ever, of his parents' lives of desperate hardship.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-frieda-von-richthofen-eine-frau-sprengt-die-fesseln-ihrer-zeit-die-wahre-lady-chatterley-by-annabel-abbs--65146579https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678993 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Frieda von Richthofen: Eine Frau sprengt die Fesseln ihrer Zeit. Die wahre Lady Chatterley Author: Annabel Abbs Narrator: Birgitta Assheuer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: July 16, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Die spektakuläre Geschichte der Frieda von Richthofen 'Eine kühne und starke Frau.' (Stylist)  Deutschland, 1907: Frieda von Richthofen, in Nottingham mit dem britischen Professor Ernest Weekley verheiratet und Mutter dreier Kinder, besucht ihre Schwestern in München. Sie taucht ein in die Schwabinger Bohème, in die Welt der Künstler, Freigeister und freien Liebe. Sie beginnt eine leidenschaftliche Affäre mit dem Psychoanalytiker Otto Gross und entdeckt, dass sie mehr sein will als Mutter und Ehefrau. England, 1912: Gefangen in ihrer Ehe, trifft Frieda den mittellosen, aber ehrgeizigen jungen Schriftsteller D. H. Lawrence. Ihre stürmische Liebe ist ein gesellschaftlicher Skandal. Und Frieda muss für ihren Mut, die Fesseln ihrer Zeit zu sprengen, einen hohen Preis zahlen.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678993Fri, 16 Jul 2021 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678993 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Frieda von Richthofen: Eine Frau sprengt die Fesseln ihrer Zeit. Die wahre Lady Chatterley Author: Annabel Abbs Narrator: Birgitta Assheuer...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678993 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Frieda von Richthofen: Eine Frau sprengt die Fesseln ihrer Zeit. Die wahre Lady Chatterley Author: Annabel Abbs Narrator: Birgitta Assheuer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: July 16, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Die spektakuläre Geschichte der Frieda von Richthofen 'Eine kühne und starke Frau.' (Stylist)  Deutschland, 1907: Frieda von Richthofen, in Nottingham mit dem britischen Professor Ernest Weekley verheiratet und Mutter dreier Kinder, besucht ihre Schwestern in München. Sie taucht ein in die Schwabinger Bohème, in die Welt der Künstler, Freigeister und freien Liebe. Sie beginnt eine leidenschaftliche Affäre mit dem Psychoanalytiker Otto Gross und entdeckt, dass sie mehr sein will als Mutter und Ehefrau. England, 1912: Gefangen in ihrer Ehe, trifft Frieda den mittellosen, aber ehrgeizigen jungen Schriftsteller D. H. Lawrence. Ihre stürmische Liebe ist ein gesellschaftlicher Skandal. Und Frieda muss für ihren Mut, die Fesseln ihrer Zeit zu sprengen, einen hohen Preis zahlen.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-der-mann-der-das-impfen-neu-erfand-ingmar-hoerr-curevac-und-der-kampf-gegen-die-pandemie-by-sascha-karberg--65146535https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Mann, der das Impfen neu erfand: Ingmar Hoerr, CureVac und der Kampf gegen die Pandemie Author: Sascha Karberg Narrator: Sebastian Dunkelberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 25, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Seine Idee rettet Millionen Menschenleben.Im Jahr 1999 macht Ingmar Hoerr als Doktorand in einem Tübinger Labor eine überraschende Entdeckung: mRNA funktioniert als Impfstoff. Über zwanzig Jahre später schützt sich die Welt mit eben solchen mRNA-Impfstoffen vor dem Coronavirus: mit den Vakzinen von BioNTech, Moderna und CureVac. Zwischen Experiment und Triumph liegen zwei Jahrzehnte hartnäckigen Forschens. Mehrfach wäre Ingmar Hoerr mit CureVac fast gescheitert, hätte er nicht Dietmar Hopp, Bill Gates und Elon Musk von seiner Vision überzeugt: die Vision einer völlig neuen Medizin, bei der sich der Körper selbst von Viren, Krebs, Diabetes und anderen Krankheiten befreit.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676671Tue, 25 May 2021 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Mann, der das Impfen neu erfand: Ingmar Hoerr, CureVac und der Kampf gegen die Pandemie Author: Sascha Karberg Narrator: Sebastian...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676671 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Mann, der das Impfen neu erfand: Ingmar Hoerr, CureVac und der Kampf gegen die Pandemie Author: Sascha Karberg Narrator: Sebastian Dunkelberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 25, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Seine Idee rettet Millionen Menschenleben.Im Jahr 1999 macht Ingmar Hoerr als Doktorand in einem Tübinger Labor eine überraschende Entdeckung: mRNA funktioniert als Impfstoff. Über zwanzig Jahre später schützt sich die Welt mit eben solchen mRNA-Impfstoffen vor dem Coronavirus: mit den Vakzinen von BioNTech, Moderna und CureVac. Zwischen Experiment und Triumph liegen zwei Jahrzehnte hartnäckigen Forschens. Mehrfach wäre Ingmar Hoerr mit CureVac fast gescheitert, hätte er nicht Dietmar Hopp, Bill Gates und Elon Musk von seiner Vision überzeugt: die Vision einer völlig neuen Medizin, bei der sich der Körper selbst von Viren, Krebs, Diabetes und anderen Krankheiten befreit.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-chicos-malos-villanos-monstruos-y-almas-perdidas-by-maria-del-pilar-montes-de-oca--65146583https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Chicos malos: villanos, monstruos y almas perdidas Author: María Del Pilar Montes De Oca Narrator: David Allende Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Los villanos, monstruos y almas perdidas que desfilan por estas páginas harán que la aguja de nuestro medidor imaginario de bondad y maldad oscile de blanco a negro.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676437Sun, 01 Nov 2020 09:25:05 +0000Larissa AbshirePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Chicos malos: villanos, monstruos y almas perdidas Author: María Del Pilar Montes De Oca Narrator: David Allende Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Chicos malos: villanos, monstruos y almas perdidas Author: María Del Pilar Montes De Oca Narrator: David Allende Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Los villanos, monstruos y almas perdidas que desfilan por estas páginas harán que la aguja de nuestro medidor imaginario de bondad y maldad oscile de blanco a negro.]]>305cleanfull