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If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>enArtsCopyright Alexis Willmshttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/06eb1e6f809ddfd2cc80a6382fec5ecb.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/download-top-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-history-culture--6573483Thu, 27 Mar 2025 03:25:57 +0000Alexis WillmsAlexis Willmsfeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/308/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you passionate about Self-Development, Psychology, or want to enhance Communication Skills? With over 500,000+...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/308/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Are you passionate about Self-Development, Psychology, or want to enhance Communication Skills? With over 500,000+ audiobooks, we provide you with a rich resource. Get 3 free audiobooks right away and experience. You can listen to books on iPhone, iPad, Android, and other devices, making learning easier than ever. Don't miss the opportunity to improve yourself with us! 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/one-party-after-another-the-disruptive-life-of-nigel-farage-by-michael-crick--65148199https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage Author: Michael Crick Narrator: Richard Attlee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 3, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Enormously readable...excellent' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'A superb piece of thorough journalism' David Aaronovitch, The Times Nigel Farage is arguably one of the most influential British politicians of the 21st century. His campaign to take the UK out of the EU began as a minority and extreme point of view, but in June 2016 it became the official policy of the nation after a divisive referendum. In Michael Crick's brilliant new biography, One Party After Another, we find out how he did it, despite never once managing to get elected to Parliament. Farage left public school at the age of 16 to go and work in the City, but in the 1990s he was drawn into politics, joining UKIP. Ironically, it was the electoral system for the European Parliament that gave him access to a platform, and he was elected an MEP in 1999. His everyman persona, combined with a natural ability as a maverick and outspoken performer on TV, ensured that he garnered plenty of media attention. His message resonated in ways that rattled the major parties - especially the Conservatives - and suddenly the UK's membership of the EU was up for debate. Controversy was never far away, with accusations of racism against the party and various scandals. But, having helped secure the referendum, Farage was largely sidelined by the successful official Brexit campaign. When Parliament struggled to find a way to leave, Farage created the Brexit Party to ensure Britain did eventually leave the EU early in 2020. Crick's compelling new study takes the reader into the heart of Farage's story, assessing his methods, uncovering remarkable hidden details and builds to an unmissable portrait of one of the most controversial characters in modern British politics.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460440Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage Author: Michael Crick Narrator: Richard Attlee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage Author: Michael Crick Narrator: Richard Attlee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 3, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Enormously readable...excellent' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'A superb piece of thorough journalism' David Aaronovitch, The Times Nigel Farage is arguably one of the most influential British politicians of the 21st century. His campaign to take the UK out of the EU began as a minority and extreme point of view, but in June 2016 it became the official policy of the nation after a divisive referendum. In Michael Crick's brilliant new biography, One Party After Another, we find out how he did it, despite never once managing to get elected to Parliament. Farage left public school at the age of 16 to go and work in the City, but in the 1990s he was drawn into politics, joining UKIP. Ironically, it was the electoral system for the European Parliament that gave him access to a platform, and he was elected an MEP in 1999. His everyman persona, combined with a natural ability as a maverick and outspoken performer on TV, ensured that he garnered plenty of media attention. His message resonated in ways that rattled the major parties - especially the Conservatives - and suddenly the UK's membership of the EU was up for debate. Controversy was never far away, with accusations of racism against the party and various scandals. But, having helped secure the referendum, Farage was largely sidelined by the successful official Brexit campaign. When Parliament struggled to find a way to leave, Farage created the Brexit Party to ensure Britain did eventually leave the EU early in 2020. Crick's compelling new study takes the reader into the heart of Farage's story, assessing his methods, uncovering remarkable hidden details and builds to an unmissable portrait of one of the most controversial characters in modern British politics.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hope-in-the-balance-a-newfoundland-doctor-meets-a-world-in-crisis-by-andrew-furey--65148290https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hope in the Balance: A Newfoundland Doctor Meets a World in Crisis Author: Andrew Furey Narrator: Andrew Furey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 11, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Dr. Andrew Furey, an orthopedic surgeon, was sitting by the fireplace at his home in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, watching TV after work, when dreadful images of the aftermath of an earthquake in Haiti burst in on the cosy domestic scene. Human suffering on an epic scale was being documented in real time. Dr. Furey spent a sleepless night, and woke knowing he had to help in some way. In what has been a theme throughout Newfoundland and Labrador's history, he found himself answering the call. Dr. Furey formed a team of three--himself; his wife and pediatric emergency room physician, Dr. Allison Furey; and orthopedic surgeon Will Moores--and together they travelled from to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where they spent a week volunteering. The challenge seemed overwhelming: a multitude of badly injured victims, horrendous working conditions and overstretched aid agencies. But somehow the trio did not lose hope. Instead, they redoubled their efforts. After returning from that first mission, Dr. Furey founded Team Broken Earth--an expert, unbureaucratic, fleet-footed volunteer task force of physicians, nurses and physiotherapists committed to providing aid in Haiti. The organization has continued to grow, recruiting volunteers from all over Canada. It has carried out many more missions to Port-au-Prince and has expanded its operations to other countries like Bangladesh, Guatemala, Ethiopia and Nicaragua. And its mission has expanded in other ways, with education and training for local medical professionals now at the heart of its endeavour. Dr. Andrew Furey tells the story of Team Broken Earth's founding and remarkable work with vivid immediacy and raw honesty. He shares his doubts and failures and moments of near-despair. He explores how his Newfoundland and Labrador upbringing has informed his efforts abroad. And he reaches an optimistic conclusion that will leave readers inspired to bring about positive change in their own lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439472Tue, 11 Jan 2022 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hope in the Balance: A Newfoundland Doctor Meets a World in Crisis Author: Andrew Furey Narrator: Andrew Furey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hope in the Balance: A Newfoundland Doctor Meets a World in Crisis Author: Andrew Furey Narrator: Andrew Furey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 11, 2022 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Dr. Andrew Furey, an orthopedic surgeon, was sitting by the fireplace at his home in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, watching TV after work, when dreadful images of the aftermath of an earthquake in Haiti burst in on the cosy domestic scene. Human suffering on an epic scale was being documented in real time. Dr. Furey spent a sleepless night, and woke knowing he had to help in some way. In what has been a theme throughout Newfoundland and Labrador's history, he found himself answering the call. Dr. Furey formed a team of three--himself; his wife and pediatric emergency room physician, Dr. Allison Furey; and orthopedic surgeon Will Moores--and together they travelled from to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where they spent a week volunteering. The challenge seemed overwhelming: a multitude of badly injured victims, horrendous working conditions and overstretched aid agencies. But somehow the trio did not lose hope. Instead, they redoubled their efforts. After returning from that first mission, Dr. Furey founded Team Broken Earth--an expert, unbureaucratic, fleet-footed volunteer task force of physicians, nurses and physiotherapists committed to providing aid in Haiti. The organization has continued to grow, recruiting volunteers from all over Canada. It has carried out many more missions to Port-au-Prince and has expanded its operations to other countries like Bangladesh, Guatemala, Ethiopia and Nicaragua. And its mission has expanded in other ways, with education and training for local medical professionals now at the heart of its endeavour. Dr. Andrew Furey tells the story of Team Broken Earth's founding and remarkable work with vivid immediacy and raw honesty. He shares his doubts and failures and moments of near-despair. He explores how his Newfoundland and Labrador upbringing has informed his efforts abroad. And he reaches an optimistic conclusion that will leave readers inspired to bring about positive change in their own lives.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-brothers-and-wives-inside-the-private-lives-of-william-kate-harry-and-meghan-by-christopher-andersen--65148228https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan Author: Christopher Andersen Narrator: Nicholas Boulton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Featuring unreported details and stunning revelations, the long-awaited follow-up to the “fabulous, addictive” (Chicago Sun-Times) New York Times bestseller Diana’s Boys explores the last twenty years in the lives of Princes William and Harry and the evolution of their relationship as adults, with one brother the designated heir, and the other doomed to life as the spare—perfect for fans of Netflix’s The Crown. Diana’s Boys revealed the powerful bond between the teenaged princes, and how it strengthened even more in the wake of their mother’s tragic death. Now, twenty years later, Queen Elizabeth II is in her mid-nineties, Prince Charles is in his seventies, and all eyes are turned increasingly toward William and Harry again. Christopher Andersen picks up where he left off, covering everything that has happened to the brothers as they have grown up, gotten married to two remarkable women, and had children—all while facing continual waves of controversy and questions about the ways their relationship has shifted. Andersen examines how the Queen’s behind-the-scenes maneuvering to mold her grandsons in the Windsor image after Diana’s death, and her expectations of William as the future king, played out. He questions whether the brothers’ famously close relationship can survive Harry’s departure from the Royal Family—the first time this has happened since their great-great-uncle King Edward abdicated the throne to marry a divorcée. He delves into the impact sisters-in-law Kate and Meghan have had on each other as well as on their princes, and how marriage and fatherhood have changed the brothers and, in some ways, also driven a wedge between them. Andersen also looks with an honest eye at how the princes and their wives have been continuously buffeted by scandal—including headline-making allegations of bullying, racism, betrayal, and emotional abuse that has pushed more than one royal to the brink of self-destruction. Based on in-depth research and with his “fascinating and insightful” (The Christian Science Monitor) writing, Andersen leaves no stone unturned in this intimate and riveting look into the private lives of the world’s most famous princes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454002Tue, 30 Nov 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan Author: Christopher Andersen Narrator: Nicholas Boulton Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan Author: Christopher Andersen Narrator: Nicholas Boulton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Featuring unreported details and stunning revelations, the long-awaited follow-up to the “fabulous, addictive” (Chicago Sun-Times) New York Times bestseller Diana’s Boys explores the last twenty years in the lives of Princes William and Harry and the evolution of their relationship as adults, with one brother the designated heir, and the other doomed to life as the spare—perfect for fans of Netflix’s The Crown. Diana’s Boys revealed the powerful bond between the teenaged princes, and how it strengthened even more in the wake of their mother’s tragic death. Now, twenty years later, Queen Elizabeth II is in her mid-nineties, Prince Charles is in his seventies, and all eyes are turned increasingly toward William and Harry again. Christopher Andersen picks up where he left off, covering everything that has happened to the brothers as they have grown up, gotten married to two remarkable women, and had children—all while facing continual waves of controversy and questions about the ways their relationship has shifted. Andersen examines how the Queen’s behind-the-scenes maneuvering to mold her grandsons in the Windsor image after Diana’s death, and her expectations of William as the future king, played out. He questions whether the brothers’ famously close relationship can survive Harry’s departure from the Royal Family—the first time this has happened since their great-great-uncle King Edward abdicated the throne to marry a divorcée. He delves into the impact sisters-in-law Kate and Meghan have had on each other as well as on their princes, and how marriage and fatherhood have changed the brothers and, in some ways, also driven a wedge between them. Andersen also looks with an honest eye at how the princes and their wives have been continuously buffeted by scandal—including headline-making allegations of bullying, racism, betrayal, and emotional abuse that has pushed more than one royal to the brink of self-destruction. Based on in-depth research and with his “fascinating and insightful” (The Christian Science Monitor) writing, Andersen leaves no stone unturned in this intimate and riveting look into the private lives of the world’s most famous princes.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shackleton-explorer-leader-legend-by-ranulph-fiennes--65148345https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shackleton: Explorer. Leader. Legend. Author: Ranulph Fiennes Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The enthralling new biography of Ernest Shackleton by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes. To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there. In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. The disaster left Shackleton and his men alone at the frozen South Pole, fighting for their lives. Their survival and escape is the most famous adventure in history. Shackleton is an engaging new account of the adventurer, his life and his incredible leadership under the most extreme of circumstances. Written by polar adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes who followed in Shackleton's footsteps, he brings his own unique insights to bear on these infamous expeditions. Shackleton is both re-appraisal and a valediction, separating the man from the myth he has become. Praise for Sir Ranulph Fiennes: 'The World's Greatest Living Explorer' - Guinness Book of Records 'Full of awe-inspiring details of hardship, resolve and weather that defies belief, told by someone of unique authority. No one is more tailor-made to tell [this] story than Sir Ranulph Fiennes' - Newsday 'Fiennes' own experiences certainly allow him to write vividly and with empathy of the hell that the men went through' - The Sunday Times © Ranulph Fiennes 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436729Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shackleton: Explorer. Leader. Legend. Author: Ranulph Fiennes Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 51 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shackleton: Explorer. Leader. Legend. Author: Ranulph Fiennes Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The enthralling new biography of Ernest Shackleton by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes. To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there. In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. The disaster left Shackleton and his men alone at the frozen South Pole, fighting for their lives. Their survival and escape is the most famous adventure in history. Shackleton is an engaging new account of the adventurer, his life and his incredible leadership under the most extreme of circumstances. Written by polar adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes who followed in Shackleton's footsteps, he brings his own unique insights to bear on these infamous expeditions. Shackleton is both re-appraisal and a valediction, separating the man from the myth he has become. Praise for Sir Ranulph Fiennes: 'The World's Greatest Living Explorer' - Guinness Book of Records 'Full of awe-inspiring details of hardship, resolve and weather that defies belief, told by someone of unique authority. No one is more tailor-made to tell [this] story than Sir Ranulph Fiennes' - Newsday 'Fiennes' own experiences certainly allow him to write vividly and with empathy of the hell that the men went through' - The Sunday Times © Ranulph Fiennes 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-nation-of-women-an-early-feminist-speaks-out-by-luisa-capetillo--65148270https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449899 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out Author: Luisa Capetillo Narrator: Melanie Martinez, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The groundbreaking feminist and socialist writings of Puerto Rican author and activist Luisa Capetillo A Penguin Classic In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested and acquitted for being the first woman to wear men's trousers publicly. While this act of gender-nonconforming rebellion elevated her to feminist icon status in modern pop culture, it also overshadowed the significant contributions she made to the women's movement and anarchist labor movements of the early twentieth century--both in her native Puerto Rico and in the migrant labor belt in the eastern United States. With the volume A Nation of Women, Capetillo's socialist and feminist activism is given the spotlight it deserves with its inclusion of the first English translation of Capetillo's landmark Mi opinión sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer. Originally published in Spanish in 1911, Mi opinión is considered by many to be the first feminist treatise in Puerto Rico and one of the first in Latin America and the Caribbean. In concise prose, Capetillo advocates a workers' revolution, forcefully demanding an end to the exploitation and subordination of workers and women. Her essays challenge big business in favor of socialism, call for legalizing divorce and the acceptance of 'free love' in relationships, and cover topics such as sexuality, mental and physical health, hygiene, spirituality, and nutrition. At once a sharp critique and a celebration of the gathering fervor of world politics, A Nation of Women embraces the humanistic thinking of the early twentieth century and envisions a world in which economic and social structures can be broken down, allowing both the worker and the woman to be free.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449899Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449899 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out Author: Luisa Capetillo Narrator: Melanie Martinez, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449899 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out Author: Luisa Capetillo Narrator: Melanie Martinez, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The groundbreaking feminist and socialist writings of Puerto Rican author and activist Luisa Capetillo A Penguin Classic In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested and acquitted for being the first woman to wear men's trousers publicly. While this act of gender-nonconforming rebellion elevated her to feminist icon status in modern pop culture, it also overshadowed the significant contributions she made to the women's movement and anarchist labor movements of the early twentieth century--both in her native Puerto Rico and in the migrant labor belt in the eastern United States. With the volume A Nation of Women, Capetillo's socialist and feminist activism is given the spotlight it deserves with its inclusion of the first English translation of Capetillo's landmark Mi opinión sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer. Originally published in Spanish in 1911, Mi opinión is considered by many to be the first feminist treatise in Puerto Rico and one of the first in Latin America and the Caribbean. In concise prose, Capetillo advocates a workers' revolution, forcefully demanding an end to the exploitation and subordination of workers and women. Her essays challenge big business in favor of socialism, call for legalizing divorce and the acceptance of 'free love' in relationships, and cover topics such as sexuality, mental and physical health, hygiene, spirituality, and nutrition. At once a sharp critique and a celebration of the gathering fervor of world politics, A Nation of Women embraces the humanistic thinking of the early twentieth century and envisions a world in which economic and social structures can be broken down, allowing both the worker and the woman to be free.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/redeeming-justice-from-defendant-to-defender-my-fight-for-equity-on-both-sides-of-a-broken-system-by-jarrett-adams--65148269https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System Author: Jarrett Adams Narrator: Jarrett Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “A moving and beautifully crafted memoir.”—SCOTT TUROW “A daring act of justified defiance.”—SHAKA SENGHOR “Nothing less than heroic.”—JOHN GRISHAM   He was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now a pioneering lawyer, he recalls the journey that led to his exoneration—and inspired him to devote his life to fighting the many injustices in our legal system. Seventeen years old and facing nearly thirty years behind bars, Jarrett Adams sought to figure out the why behind his fate. Sustained by his mother and aunts who brought him back from the edge of despair through letters of prayer and encouragement, Adams became obsessed with our legal system in all its damaged glory. After studying how his constitutional rights to effective counsel had been violated, he solicited the help of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, an organization that exonerates the wrongfully convicted, and won his release after nearly ten years in prison. But the journey was far from over. Adams took the lessons he learned through his incarceration and worked his way through law school with the goal of helping those who, like himself, had faced our legal system at its worst. After earning his law degree, he worked with the New York Innocence Project, becoming the first exoneree ever hired by the nonprofit as a lawyer. In his first case with the Innocence Project, he argued before the same court that had convicted him a decade earlier—and won. In this illuminating story of hope and full-circle redemption, Adams draws on his life and the cases of his clients to show the racist tactics used to convict young men of color, the unique challenges facing exonerees once released, and how the lack of equal representation in our courts is a failure not only of empathy but of our collective ability to uncover the truth. Redeeming Justice is an unforgettable firsthand account of the limits—and possibilities—of our country’s system of law.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445749Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System Author: Jarrett Adams Narrator: Jarrett Adams...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System Author: Jarrett Adams Narrator: Jarrett Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “A moving and beautifully crafted memoir.”—SCOTT TUROW “A daring act of justified defiance.”—SHAKA SENGHOR “Nothing less than heroic.”—JOHN GRISHAM   He was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now a pioneering lawyer, he recalls the journey that led to his exoneration—and inspired him to devote his life to fighting the many injustices in our legal system. Seventeen years old and facing nearly thirty years behind bars, Jarrett Adams sought to figure out the why behind his fate. Sustained by his mother and aunts who brought him back from the edge of despair through letters of prayer and encouragement, Adams became obsessed with our legal system in all its damaged glory. After studying how his constitutional rights to effective counsel had been violated, he solicited the help of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, an organization that exonerates the wrongfully convicted, and won his release after nearly ten years in prison. But the journey was far from over. Adams took the lessons he learned through his incarceration and worked his way through law school with the goal of helping those who, like himself, had faced our legal system at its worst. After earning his law degree, he worked with the New York Innocence Project, becoming the first exoneree ever hired by the nonprofit as a lawyer. In his first case with the Innocence Project, he argued before the same court that had convicted him a decade earlier—and won. In this illuminating story of hope and full-circle redemption, Adams draws on his life and the cases of his clients to show the racist tactics used to convict young men of color, the unique challenges facing exonerees once released, and how the lack of equal representation in our courts is a failure not only of empathy but of our collective ability to uncover the truth. Redeeming Justice is an unforgettable firsthand account of the limits—and possibilities—of our country’s system of law.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hero-of-two-worlds-the-marquis-de-lafayette-in-the-age-of-revolution-by-mike-duncan--65148196https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution Author: Mike Duncan Narrator: Mike Duncan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 24, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 8 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equality   Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a soldier, statesman, idealist, philanthropist, and abolitionist.   As a teenager, Lafayette ran away from France to join the American Revolution. Returning home a national hero, he helped launch the French Revolution, eventually spending five years locked in dungeon prisons. After his release, Lafayette sparred with Napoleon, joined an underground conspiracy to overthrow King Louis XVIII, and became an international symbol of liberty. Finally, as a revered elder statesman, he was instrumental in the overthrow of the Bourbon Dynasty in the Revolution of 1830.   From enthusiastic youth to world-weary old age, from the pinnacle of glory to the depths of despair, Lafayette never stopped fighting for the rights of all mankind. His remarkable life is the story of where we come from, and an inspiration to defend the ideals he held dear.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462940Tue, 24 Aug 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution Author: Mike Duncan Narrator: Mike Duncan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution Author: Mike Duncan Narrator: Mike Duncan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 24, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 8 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equality   Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a soldier, statesman, idealist, philanthropist, and abolitionist.   As a teenager, Lafayette ran away from France to join the American Revolution. Returning home a national hero, he helped launch the French Revolution, eventually spending five years locked in dungeon prisons. After his release, Lafayette sparred with Napoleon, joined an underground conspiracy to overthrow King Louis XVIII, and became an international symbol of liberty. Finally, as a revered elder statesman, he was instrumental in the overthrow of the Bourbon Dynasty in the Revolution of 1830.   From enthusiastic youth to world-weary old age, from the pinnacle of glory to the depths of despair, Lafayette never stopped fighting for the rights of all mankind. His remarkable life is the story of where we come from, and an inspiration to defend the ideals he held dear.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-the-frequent-troubles-of-our-days-the-true-story-of-the-american-woman-at-the-heart-of-the-german-resistance-to-hitler-by-rebecca-donne--65148360https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler Author: Rebecca Donner Narrator: Rebecca Donner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The INSTANT New York Times Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award  Winner of the Chautauqua Prize Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist for the Plutarch Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A New York Times Critics' Top Pick of 2021 Wall Street Journal 10 Best Books of 2021 Time Magazine 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of 2021 An Economist Best Book of the Year A New York Post Best Book of the Year A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of the Year Oprah Daily Best New Books of August A New York Public Library Book of the Week   In this “stunning literary achievement,” Donner chronicles the extraordinary life and brutal death of her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany during WWII—“a page-turner story of espionage, love and betrayal” (Kai Bird, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography) Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment—a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes, public restrooms, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16, 1943, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. Historians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. Harnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography, real-life political thriller, and scholarly detective story, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, survivors’ testimony, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful, epic story, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429041Tue, 03 Aug 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler Author: Rebecca Donner...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler Author: Rebecca Donner Narrator: Rebecca Donner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The INSTANT New York Times Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award  Winner of the Chautauqua Prize Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist for the Plutarch Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A New York Times Critics' Top Pick of 2021 Wall Street Journal 10 Best Books of 2021 Time Magazine 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of 2021 An Economist Best Book of the Year A New York Post Best Book of the Year A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of the Year Oprah Daily Best New Books of August A New York Public Library Book of the Week   In this “stunning literary achievement,” Donner chronicles the extraordinary life and brutal death of her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany during WWII—“a page-turner story of espionage, love and betrayal” (Kai Bird, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography) Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment—a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes, public restrooms, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16, 1943, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. Historians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. Harnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography, real-life political thriller, and scholarly detective story, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, survivors’ testimony, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful, epic story, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/every-minute-is-a-day-a-doctor-an-emergency-room-and-a-city-under-siege-by-dan-koeppel-robert-meyer--65148280https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege Author: Dan Koeppel, Robert Meyer Narrator: Robert Meyer, Dan Koeppel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An urgent, on-the-scene account of chaos and compassion on the front lines of ground zero for Covid-19, from a senior doctor at New York City’s busiest emergency room   “Remarkable and inspiring . . . We’re lucky to have this vivid firsthand account.”—A. J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically  When former New York Times journalist Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being overwhelmed, where do you think you are? Koeppel asked. Meyer’s grave reply—100—was merely the cusp of the crisis that would soon touch every part of the globe.    In need of an outlet to process the trauma of his working life over the coming months, Meyer continued to update Koeppel with what he’d seen and whom he’d treated. The result is an intimate record of historic turmoil and grief from the perspective of a remarkably resilient ER doctor. Every Minute Is a Day takes us into a hospital ravaged by Covid-19 and is filled with the stories of promises made that may be impossible to keep, of life or death choices for patients and their families, and of selflessness on the part of medical professionals who put themselves at incalculable risk.    As fast-paced and high-tempo as the ER in which it takes place, Every Minute Is a Day is at its core an incomparable firsthand account of unrelenting compassion, and a reminder that every human life deserves a chance to be saved. THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445769Tue, 03 Aug 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege Author: Dan Koeppel, Robert Meyer Narrator: Robert Meyer, Dan Koeppel...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege Author: Dan Koeppel, Robert Meyer Narrator: Robert Meyer, Dan Koeppel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An urgent, on-the-scene account of chaos and compassion on the front lines of ground zero for Covid-19, from a senior doctor at New York City’s busiest emergency room   “Remarkable and inspiring . . . We’re lucky to have this vivid firsthand account.”—A. J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically  When former New York Times journalist Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being overwhelmed, where do you think you are? Koeppel asked. Meyer’s grave reply—100—was merely the cusp of the crisis that would soon touch every part of the globe.    In need of an outlet to process the trauma of his working life over the coming months, Meyer continued to update Koeppel with what he’d seen and whom he’d treated. The result is an intimate record of historic turmoil and grief from the perspective of a remarkably resilient ER doctor. Every Minute Is a Day takes us into a hospital ravaged by Covid-19 and is filled with the stories of promises made that may be impossible to keep, of life or death choices for patients and their families, and of selflessness on the part of medical professionals who put themselves at incalculable risk.    As fast-paced and high-tempo as the ER in which it takes place, Every Minute Is a Day is at its core an incomparable firsthand account of unrelenting compassion, and a reminder that every human life deserves a chance to be saved. THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lifelines-a-doctor-s-journey-in-the-fight-for-public-health-by-leana-wen--65148237https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health Author: Leana Wen Narrator: Leana Wen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: July 27, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Dr. Wen is determined to convince listeners how crucial it is to make healthcare and all it encompasses higher priorities. Covering a variety of physical and mental health topics, Wen entreats listeners and supports her plea with solid evidence. She is vibrant in tone when pointing out how much public health affects our lives.' -- Audiofile Magazine This program is read by the author. From medical expert Leana Wen, MD, Lifelines is an insider's account of public health and its crucial role-from opioid addiction to global pandemic-and an inspiring story of her journey from struggling immigrant to being one of Time's 100 Most Influential People. "Public health saved your life today-you just don't know it," is a phrase that Dr. Leana Wen likes to use. You don't know it because good public health is invisible. It becomes visible only in its absence, when it is underfunded and ignored, a bitter truth laid bare as never before by the devastation of COVID-19. Leana Wen-emergency physician, former Baltimore health commissioner, CNN medical analyst, and Washington Post contributing columnist-has lived on the front lines of public health, leading the fight against the opioid epidemic, outbreaks of infectious disease, maternal and infant mortality, and COVID-19 disinformation. Here, in gripping detail, Wen lays bare the lifesaving work of public health and its innovative approach to social ills, treating gun violence as a contagious disease, for example, and racism as a threat to health. Wen also tells her own uniquely American story: an immigrant from China, she and her family received food stamps and were at times homeless despite her parents working multiple jobs. That child went on to attend college at thirteen, become a Rhodes scholar, and turn to public health as the way to make a difference in the country that had offered her such possibilities. Ultimately, she insists, it is public health that ensures citizens are not robbed of decades of life, and that where children live does not determine whether they live. A Macmillan Audio production from Metropolitan Books THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454151Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health Author: Leana Wen Narrator: Leana Wen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health Author: Leana Wen Narrator: Leana Wen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: July 27, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Dr. Wen is determined to convince listeners how crucial it is to make healthcare and all it encompasses higher priorities. Covering a variety of physical and mental health topics, Wen entreats listeners and supports her plea with solid evidence. She is vibrant in tone when pointing out how much public health affects our lives.' -- Audiofile Magazine This program is read by the author. From medical expert Leana Wen, MD, Lifelines is an insider's account of public health and its crucial role-from opioid addiction to global pandemic-and an inspiring story of her journey from struggling immigrant to being one of Time's 100 Most Influential People. "Public health saved your life today-you just don't know it," is a phrase that Dr. Leana Wen likes to use. You don't know it because good public health is invisible. It becomes visible only in its absence, when it is underfunded and ignored, a bitter truth laid bare as never before by the devastation of COVID-19. Leana Wen-emergency physician, former Baltimore health commissioner, CNN medical analyst, and Washington Post contributing columnist-has lived on the front lines of public health, leading the fight against the opioid epidemic, outbreaks of infectious disease, maternal and infant mortality, and COVID-19 disinformation. Here, in gripping detail, Wen lays bare the lifesaving work of public health and its innovative approach to social ills, treating gun violence as a contagious disease, for example, and racism as a threat to health. Wen also tells her own uniquely American story: an immigrant from China, she and her family received food stamps and were at times homeless despite her parents working multiple jobs. That child went on to attend college at thirteen, become a Rhodes scholar, and turn to public health as the way to make a difference in the country that had offered her such possibilities. Ultimately, she insists, it is public health that ensures citizens are not robbed of decades of life, and that where children live does not determine whether they live. A Macmillan Audio production from Metropolitan Books THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miseducated-a-memoir-by-brandon-p-fleming--65148218https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miseducated: A Memoir Author: Brandon P. Fleming Narrator: Brandon P. Fleming, Landon Woodson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An inspiring memoir of one man’s transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate—all by the age of twenty-seven. Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a nod to his skill on the basketball court, not his presence in the classroom. He turned to the streets and drug deals by fourteen, saved only by the dream of basketball stardom.   When he suffered a career-ending injury during his first semester at a Division I school, he dropped out of college, toiling on an assembly line, until depression drove him to the edge. Miraculously, his life was spared. Returning to college, Fleming was determined to reinvent himself as a scholar—to replace illiteracy with mastery over language, to go from being ignored and unseen to commanding attention. He immersed himself in the work of Black thinkers from the Harlem Renaissance to present day. Crucially, he found debate, which became the means by which he transformed his life and the tool he would use to transform the lives of others—teaching underserved kids to be intrusive in places that are not inclusive, eventually at Harvard University, where he would make champions and history. Through his personal narrative, readers witness Fleming’s transformation, self-education, and how he takes what he learns about words and power to help others like himself. Miseducated is an honest memoir about resilience, visibility, role models, and overcoming all expectations.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462948Tue, 15 Jun 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miseducated: A Memoir Author: Brandon P. Fleming Narrator: Brandon P. Fleming, Landon Woodson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miseducated: A Memoir Author: Brandon P. Fleming Narrator: Brandon P. Fleming, Landon Woodson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An inspiring memoir of one man’s transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate—all by the age of twenty-seven. Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a nod to his skill on the basketball court, not his presence in the classroom. He turned to the streets and drug deals by fourteen, saved only by the dream of basketball stardom.   When he suffered a career-ending injury during his first semester at a Division I school, he dropped out of college, toiling on an assembly line, until depression drove him to the edge. Miraculously, his life was spared. Returning to college, Fleming was determined to reinvent himself as a scholar—to replace illiteracy with mastery over language, to go from being ignored and unseen to commanding attention. He immersed himself in the work of Black thinkers from the Harlem Renaissance to present day. Crucially, he found debate, which became the means by which he transformed his life and the tool he would use to transform the lives of others—teaching underserved kids to be intrusive in places that are not inclusive, eventually at Harvard University, where he would make champions and history. Through his personal narrative, readers witness Fleming’s transformation, self-education, and how he takes what he learns about words and power to help others like himself. Miseducated is an honest memoir about resilience, visibility, role models, and overcoming all expectations.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/projections-a-story-of-human-emotions-by-karl-deisseroth--65148212https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Projections: A Story of Human Emotions Author: Karl Deisseroth Narrator: Karl Deisseroth, Natalie Naudus, Karen Chilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A groundbreaking tour of the human mind that illuminates the biological nature of our inner worlds and emotions, through gripping, moving—and, at times, harrowing—clinical stories “[A] scintillating and moving analysis of the human brain and emotions.”—Nature “Beautifully connects the inner feelings within all human beings to deep insights from modern psychiatry and neuroscience.”—Robert Lefkowitz, Nobel Laureate Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and developing the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which uses light to help decipher the brain’s workings. In Projections, he combines his knowledge of the brain’s inner circuitry with a deep empathy for his patients to examine what mental illness reveals about the human mind and the origin of human feelings—how the broken can illuminate the unbroken. Through cutting-edge research and gripping case studies from Deisseroth’s own patients, Projections tells a larger story about the material origins of human emotion, bridging the gap between the ancient circuits of our brain and the poignant moments of suffering in our daily lives. The stories of Deisseroth’s patients are rich with humanity and shine an unprecedented light on the self—and the ways in which it can break down. A young woman with an eating disorder reveals how the mind can rebel against the brain’s most primitive drives of hunger and thirst; an older man, smothered into silence by depression and dementia, shows how humans evolved to feel not only joy but also its absence; and a lonely Uighur woman far from her homeland teaches both the importance—and challenges—of deep social bonds. Illuminating, literary, and essential, Projections is a revelatory, immensely powerful work. It transforms our understanding not only of the brain but of ourselves as social beings—giving vivid illustrations through science and resonant human stories of our yearning for connection and meaning.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459332Tue, 15 Jun 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Projections: A Story of Human Emotions Author: Karl Deisseroth Narrator: Karl Deisseroth, Natalie Naudus, Karen Chilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Projections: A Story of Human Emotions Author: Karl Deisseroth Narrator: Karl Deisseroth, Natalie Naudus, Karen Chilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A groundbreaking tour of the human mind that illuminates the biological nature of our inner worlds and emotions, through gripping, moving—and, at times, harrowing—clinical stories “[A] scintillating and moving analysis of the human brain and emotions.”—Nature “Beautifully connects the inner feelings within all human beings to deep insights from modern psychiatry and neuroscience.”—Robert Lefkowitz, Nobel Laureate Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and developing the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which uses light to help decipher the brain’s workings. In Projections, he combines his knowledge of the brain’s inner circuitry with a deep empathy for his patients to examine what mental illness reveals about the human mind and the origin of human feelings—how the broken can illuminate the unbroken. Through cutting-edge research and gripping case studies from Deisseroth’s own patients, Projections tells a larger story about the material origins of human emotion, bridging the gap between the ancient circuits of our brain and the poignant moments of suffering in our daily lives. The stories of Deisseroth’s patients are rich with humanity and shine an unprecedented light on the self—and the ways in which it can break down. A young woman with an eating disorder reveals how the mind can rebel against the brain’s most primitive drives of hunger and thirst; an older man, smothered into silence by depression and dementia, shows how humans evolved to feel not only joy but also its absence; and a lonely Uighur woman far from her homeland teaches both the importance—and challenges—of deep social bonds. Illuminating, literary, and essential, Projections is a revelatory, immensely powerful work. It transforms our understanding not only of the brain but of ourselves as social beings—giving vivid illustrations through science and resonant human stories of our yearning for connection and meaning.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/coming-to-our-senses-a-boy-who-learned-to-see-a-girl-who-learned-to-hear-and-how-we-all-discover-the-world-by-susan-r-barry--65148202https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462926 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming to Our Senses: A Boy Who Learned to See, a Girl Who Learned to Hear, and How We All Discover the World Author: Susan R. Barry Narrator: Rengin Altay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A neurobiologist reexamines the personal nature of perception in this groundbreaking guide to a new model for our senses.  We think of perception as a passive, mechanical process, as if our eyes are cameras and our ears microphones. But as neurobiologist Susan R. Barry argues, perception is a deeply personal act. Our environments, our relationships, and our actions shape and reshape our senses throughout our lives. This idea is no more apparent than in the cases of people who gain senses as adults. Barry tells the stories of Liam McCoy, practically blind from birth, and Zohra Damji, born deaf, in the decade following surgeries that restored their senses. As Liam and Zohra learned entirely new ways of being, Barry discovered an entirely new model of the nature of perception. Coming to Our Senses is a celebration of human resilience and a powerful reminder that, before you can really understand other people, you must first recognize that their worlds are fundamentally different from your own.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462926Tue, 08 Jun 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462926 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming to Our Senses: A Boy Who Learned to See, a Girl Who Learned to Hear, and How We All Discover the World Author: Susan R. Barry Narrator: Rengin...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462926 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming to Our Senses: A Boy Who Learned to See, a Girl Who Learned to Hear, and How We All Discover the World Author: Susan R. Barry Narrator: Rengin Altay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A neurobiologist reexamines the personal nature of perception in this groundbreaking guide to a new model for our senses.  We think of perception as a passive, mechanical process, as if our eyes are cameras and our ears microphones. But as neurobiologist Susan R. Barry argues, perception is a deeply personal act. Our environments, our relationships, and our actions shape and reshape our senses throughout our lives. This idea is no more apparent than in the cases of people who gain senses as adults. Barry tells the stories of Liam McCoy, practically blind from birth, and Zohra Damji, born deaf, in the decade following surgeries that restored their senses. As Liam and Zohra learned entirely new ways of being, Barry discovered an entirely new model of the nature of perception. Coming to Our Senses is a celebration of human resilience and a powerful reminder that, before you can really understand other people, you must first recognize that their worlds are fundamentally different from your own.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-patients-the-profound-and-uplifting-memoir-about-the-patients-who-changed-one-doctor-s-life-by-tom-templeton--65148211https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/457901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 34 Patients: The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor’s life Author: Tom Templeton Narrator: Tom Templeton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 27, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A profound and moving portrait of one doctor's life and work in the NHS - pre-order your copy today. 'Wonderful - insightful and compassionate' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes We ask so much of our doctors. To heal. To trust. To care. To listen. To tell a man he might be dead tomorrow. To help a man who doesn't want to live. To look into a parent's panicked eyes as their tiny daughter fights for every breath. To watch a 103-year-old woman slip away from a life well-lived. Doctors know our deepest secrets, our private worries and our most vulnerable moments. But they listen to all of us, and under their gaze we are all equally worthy of help. 34 Patients is the breathtaking and uplifting memoir of a doctor who dares to look closer at a crowded waiting room, and value each soul and story he encounters. Through stories of the patients he has helped and lost, and those who have changed him for ever, Dr Tom Templeton weaves a profound and moving portrait of humanity, asking us to treat all with compassion. © Tom Templeton 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/457901Thu, 27 May 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/457901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 34 Patients: The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor’s life Author: Tom Templeton Narrator: Tom Templeton Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/457901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 34 Patients: The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor’s life Author: Tom Templeton Narrator: Tom Templeton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 27, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A profound and moving portrait of one doctor's life and work in the NHS - pre-order your copy today. 'Wonderful - insightful and compassionate' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes We ask so much of our doctors. To heal. To trust. To care. To listen. To tell a man he might be dead tomorrow. To help a man who doesn't want to live. To look into a parent's panicked eyes as their tiny daughter fights for every breath. To watch a 103-year-old woman slip away from a life well-lived. Doctors know our deepest secrets, our private worries and our most vulnerable moments. But they listen to all of us, and under their gaze we are all equally worthy of help. 34 Patients is the breathtaking and uplifting memoir of a doctor who dares to look closer at a crowded waiting room, and value each soul and story he encounters. Through stories of the patients he has helped and lost, and those who have changed him for ever, Dr Tom Templeton weaves a profound and moving portrait of humanity, asking us to treat all with compassion. © Tom Templeton 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/let-the-record-show-a-political-history-of-act-up-new-york-1987-1993-by-sarah-schulman--65148241https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 Author: Sarah Schulman Narrator: Rosalyn Coleman Williams, Sarah Schulman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 18, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This program includes an introduction read by the author. One of O, the Oprah Magazine's 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021, one of Vogue's 9 LGBTQ+ Books We're Looking Forward to This Spring, one of and Cosmopolitan's LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2021, one of The Observer's Spring Books You Don't Want to Miss, and one of Bloomberg's 14 Books to Put on Your Reading List This Spring 'A masterpiece of historical research and intellectual analysis that creates many windows into both a vanished world and the one that emerged from it, the one we live in now.' --Alexander Chee Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington, DC, and started needle exchange programs in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry, weaponized art and advertising to push their agenda, and battled—and beat—The New York Times, the Catholic Church, and the pharmaceutical industry. Their activism, in its complex and intersectional power, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them. Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today’s activists, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration—and long-overdue reassessment—of the coalition’s inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452803Tue, 18 May 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 Author: Sarah Schulman Narrator: Rosalyn Coleman Williams, Sarah Schulman...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 Author: Sarah Schulman Narrator: Rosalyn Coleman Williams, Sarah Schulman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 18, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This program includes an introduction read by the author. One of O, the Oprah Magazine's 32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021, one of Vogue's 9 LGBTQ+ Books We're Looking Forward to This Spring, one of and Cosmopolitan's LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2021, one of The Observer's Spring Books You Don't Want to Miss, and one of Bloomberg's 14 Books to Put on Your Reading List This Spring 'A masterpiece of historical research and intellectual analysis that creates many windows into both a vanished world and the one that emerged from it, the one we live in now.' --Alexander Chee Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington, DC, and started needle exchange programs in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry, weaponized art and advertising to push their agenda, and battled—and beat—The New York Times, the Catholic Church, and the pharmaceutical industry. Their activism, in its complex and intersectional power, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them. Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today’s activists, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration—and long-overdue reassessment—of the coalition’s inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/chasing-the-thrill-obsession-death-and-glory-in-america-s-most-extraordinary-treasure-hunt-by-daniel-barbarisi--65148207https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459553 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt Author: Daniel Barbarisi Narrator: Daniel Barbarisi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 1 minute Release date: May 18, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer who died on the quest… Every page draws you deeper into this no-man’s-land where fortune—or tragedy—awaits.” —Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run When Forrest Fenn was given a fatal cancer diagnosis, he came up with a bold plan: He would hide a chest full of jewels and gold in the wilderness, and publish a poem that would serve as a map leading to the treasure's secret location. But he didn't die, and after hiding the treasure in 2010, Fenn instead presided over a decade-long gold rush that saw many thousands of treasure hunters scrambling across the Rocky Mountains in pursuit of his fortune.    Daniel Barbarisi first learned of Fenn's hunt in 2017, when a friend became consumed with decoding the poem and convinced Barbarisi, a reporter, to document his search. What began as an attempt to capture the inner workings of Fenn's hunt quickly turned into a personal quest that led Barbarisi down a reckless and potentially dangerous path, one that found him embroiled in searcher conspiracies and matching wits with Fenn himself. Over the course of four chaotic years, several searchers would die, endless controversies would erupt, and one hunter would ultimately find the chest.  But the mystery didn't end there.   Full of intrigue, danger, and break-neck action, Chasing the Thrill is a riveting tale of desire, obsession, and unbridled adventure.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459553Tue, 18 May 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459553 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt Author: Daniel Barbarisi Narrator: Daniel Barbarisi...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459553 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt Author: Daniel Barbarisi Narrator: Daniel Barbarisi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 1 minute Release date: May 18, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer who died on the quest… Every page draws you deeper into this no-man’s-land where fortune—or tragedy—awaits.” —Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run When Forrest Fenn was given a fatal cancer diagnosis, he came up with a bold plan: He would hide a chest full of jewels and gold in the wilderness, and publish a poem that would serve as a map leading to the treasure's secret location. But he didn't die, and after hiding the treasure in 2010, Fenn instead presided over a decade-long gold rush that saw many thousands of treasure hunters scrambling across the Rocky Mountains in pursuit of his fortune.    Daniel Barbarisi first learned of Fenn's hunt in 2017, when a friend became consumed with decoding the poem and convinced Barbarisi, a reporter, to document his search. What began as an attempt to capture the inner workings of Fenn's hunt quickly turned into a personal quest that led Barbarisi down a reckless and potentially dangerous path, one that found him embroiled in searcher conspiracies and matching wits with Fenn himself. Over the course of four chaotic years, several searchers would die, endless controversies would erupt, and one hunter would ultimately find the chest.  But the mystery didn't end there.   Full of intrigue, danger, and break-neck action, Chasing the Thrill is a riveting tale of desire, obsession, and unbridled adventure.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fighting-for-life-becoming-a-force-for-change-in-a-wounded-world-by-lila-rose--65148279https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442810 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World Author: Lila Rose Narrator: Lila Rose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 4, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Includes an audiobook-exclusive episode of The Lila Rose Show featuring an in-depth discussion of the book and an interview with Lila’s sister, Caterina.   What makes your heart break for our broken world?  You want to make a difference in the world. You’re concerned about all the problems you see, the injustices and the suffering. But you don’t know where to begin. Designed for the aspiring activist or world-changer, this book is the key to get you started. Live Action founder Lila Rose says transformation begins with heartbreak—with seeing the injustices around you and allowing that suffering to light a fire in your soul. In this book, she shares raw and intimate stories from both her personal journey and pro-life activism that will inspire you to become a champion for your own cause. Along the way, you’ll discover how to - determine where the need for your gifts is the greatest and begin making a difference; - overcome insecurities and imposter syndrome and become a leader through practice; - find inner courage and confidence in the face of obstacles and criticism; and - bounce back from mistakes to continually grow and make a long-lasting impact. The fight for a world that is more just, more beautiful, and more loving needs all of us. In allowing yourself to be wounded by the brokenness of our world, you’ll find the passion you need to make a difference—and draw closer to the One who truly saves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442810Tue, 04 May 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442810 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World Author: Lila Rose Narrator: Lila Rose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442810 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World Author: Lila Rose Narrator: Lila Rose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 4, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Includes an audiobook-exclusive episode of The Lila Rose Show featuring an in-depth discussion of the book and an interview with Lila’s sister, Caterina.   What makes your heart break for our broken world?  You want to make a difference in the world. You’re concerned about all the problems you see, the injustices and the suffering. But you don’t know where to begin. Designed for the aspiring activist or world-changer, this book is the key to get you started. Live Action founder Lila Rose says transformation begins with heartbreak—with seeing the injustices around you and allowing that suffering to light a fire in your soul. In this book, she shares raw and intimate stories from both her personal journey and pro-life activism that will inspire you to become a champion for your own cause. Along the way, you’ll discover how to - determine where the need for your gifts is the greatest and begin making a difference; - overcome insecurities and imposter syndrome and become a leader through practice; - find inner courage and confidence in the face of obstacles and criticism; and - bounce back from mistakes to continually grow and make a long-lasting impact. The fight for a world that is more just, more beautiful, and more loving needs all of us. In allowing yourself to be wounded by the brokenness of our world, you’ll find the passion you need to make a difference—and draw closer to the One who truly saves.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pregnant-girl-a-story-of-teen-motherhood-college-and-creating-a-better-future-for-young-families-by-nicole-lynn-lewis--65148239https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453033 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pregnant Girl: A Story of Teen Motherhood, College, and Creating a Better Future for Young Families Author: Nicole Lynn Lewis Narrator: Nicky Sunshine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: May 4, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2021 Selection “[T]his book is so much more than a memoir . . . . Her prose has the power to undo deep-set cultural biases about poverty and parenthood.”—New York Times Book Review An activist calls for better support of young families so they can thrive and reflects on her experiences as a Black mother and college student fighting for opportunities for herself and her child. Pregnant Girl presents the possibility of a different future for young mothers—one of success and stability—in the midst of the dismal statistics that dominate the national conversation. Along with her own story as a young Black mother, Nicole Lynn Lewis weaves in those of the men and women she’s worked with to share a new perspective on how poverty, classism, and systemic racism impact teen pregnancy and on how effective programs and equitable policies can help teen parents earn college degrees, have increased opportunity, and create a legacy of educational and career achievements in their families. After Nicole became pregnant during her senior year in high school, she was told that college was no longer a reality—a negative outlook often unfairly presented to teen mothers. Nicole left home and experienced periods of homelessness, hunger, and poverty. Despite these obstacles, she enrolled at the College of William & Mary and brought her 3-month-old daughter along. Through her experiences fighting for resources to put herself through college, she discovered her true calling and founded her organization, Generation Hope, to provide support for teen parents and their children so they can thrive in college and kindergarten—driving a 2-generation solution to poverty. Pregnant Girl will inspire young parents faced with similar choices and obstacles that they too can pursue their goals with the right support.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453033Tue, 04 May 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453033 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pregnant Girl: A Story of Teen Motherhood, College, and Creating a Better Future for Young Families Author: Nicole Lynn Lewis Narrator: Nicky Sunshine...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453033 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pregnant Girl: A Story of Teen Motherhood, College, and Creating a Better Future for Young Families Author: Nicole Lynn Lewis Narrator: Nicky Sunshine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: May 4, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2021 Selection “[T]his book is so much more than a memoir . . . . Her prose has the power to undo deep-set cultural biases about poverty and parenthood.”—New York Times Book Review An activist calls for better support of young families so they can thrive and reflects on her experiences as a Black mother and college student fighting for opportunities for herself and her child. Pregnant Girl presents the possibility of a different future for young mothers—one of success and stability—in the midst of the dismal statistics that dominate the national conversation. Along with her own story as a young Black mother, Nicole Lynn Lewis weaves in those of the men and women she’s worked with to share a new perspective on how poverty, classism, and systemic racism impact teen pregnancy and on how effective programs and equitable policies can help teen parents earn college degrees, have increased opportunity, and create a legacy of educational and career achievements in their families. After Nicole became pregnant during her senior year in high school, she was told that college was no longer a reality—a negative outlook often unfairly presented to teen mothers. Nicole left home and experienced periods of homelessness, hunger, and poverty. Despite these obstacles, she enrolled at the College of William & Mary and brought her 3-month-old daughter along. Through her experiences fighting for resources to put herself through college, she discovered her true calling and founded her organization, Generation Hope, to provide support for teen parents and their children so they can thrive in college and kindergarten—driving a 2-generation solution to poverty. Pregnant Girl will inspire young parents faced with similar choices and obstacles that they too can pursue their goals with the right support.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/buses-are-a-comin-memoir-of-a-freedom-rider-by-charles-person-richard-rooker--65148363https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider Author: Charles Person, Richard Rooker Narrator: Landon Woodson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: April 27, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Narrator Landon Woodson does a masterful job delivering Person's audiobook--which is both Person's own coming-of-age story and the story of a nation trying to reckon with racism...This important audiobook is shared exquisitely by Woodson.' -- AudioFile Magazine A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward—written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists—including future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of Racial Equality Director James Farmer, Reverend Benjamin Elton Cox, journalist and pacifist James Peck, and CORE field secretary Genevieve Hughes—set out to discover whether America would abide by a Supreme Court decision that ruled segregation unconstitutional in bus depots, waiting areas, restaurants, and restrooms nationwide. Two buses proceeded through Virginia, North and South Carolina, to Georgia where they were greeted by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and finally to Alabama. There, the Freedom Riders found their answer: No. Southern states would continue to disregard federal law and use violence to enforce racial segregation. One bus was burned to a shell, its riders narrowly escaping; the second, which Charles rode, was set upon by a mob that beat several riders nearly to death. Buses Are a Comin’ provides a front-row view of the struggle to belong in America, as Charles Person accompanies his colleagues off the bus, into the station, into the mob, and into history to help defeat segregation’s violent grip on African American lives. It is also a challenge from a teenager of a previous era to the young people of today: become agents of transformation. Stand firm. Create a more just and moral country where students have a voice, youth can make a difference, and everyone belongs. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press 'Shot through with vivid details of beatdowns, arrests, and awe-inspiring bravery, this inspirational account captures the magnitude of what the early civil rights movement was up against.” -- Publishers Weekly, starred review 'A vital story, this memoir is also an instructive gift to future generations fighting for change.” -- Kirkus, starred review]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430884Tue, 27 Apr 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider Author: Charles Person, Richard Rooker Narrator: Landon Woodson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider Author: Charles Person, Richard Rooker Narrator: Landon Woodson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: April 27, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Narrator Landon Woodson does a masterful job delivering Person's audiobook--which is both Person's own coming-of-age story and the story of a nation trying to reckon with racism...This important audiobook is shared exquisitely by Woodson.' -- AudioFile Magazine A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward—written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists—including future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of Racial Equality Director James Farmer, Reverend Benjamin Elton Cox, journalist and pacifist James Peck, and CORE field secretary Genevieve Hughes—set out to discover whether America would abide by a Supreme Court decision that ruled segregation unconstitutional in bus depots, waiting areas, restaurants, and restrooms nationwide. Two buses proceeded through Virginia, North and South Carolina, to Georgia where they were greeted by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and finally to Alabama. There, the Freedom Riders found their answer: No. Southern states would continue to disregard federal law and use violence to enforce racial segregation. One bus was burned to a shell, its riders narrowly escaping; the second, which Charles rode, was set upon by a mob that beat several riders nearly to death. Buses Are a Comin’ provides a front-row view of the struggle to belong in America, as Charles Person accompanies his colleagues off the bus, into the station, into the mob, and into history to help defeat segregation’s violent grip on African American lives. It is also a challenge from a teenager of a previous era to the young people of today: become agents of transformation. Stand firm. Create a more just and moral country where students have a voice, youth can make a difference, and everyone belongs. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press 'Shot through with vivid details of beatdowns, arrests, and awe-inspiring bravery, this inspirational account captures the magnitude of what the early civil rights movement was up against.” -- Publishers Weekly, starred review 'A vital story, this memoir is also an instructive gift to future generations fighting for change.” -- Kirkus, starred review]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/out-of-many-one-portraits-of-america-s-immigrants-by-george-w-bush--65148374https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427438 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants Author: George W. Bush Narrator: George W. Bush Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this powerful new collection of oil paintings and stories, President George W. Bush spotlights the inspiring journeys of America’s immigrants and the contributions they make to the life and prosperity of our nation.   The issue of immigration stirs intense emotions today, as it has throughout much of American history. But what gets lost in the debates about policy are the stories of immigrants themselves, the people who are drawn to America by its promise of economic opportunity and political and religious freedom—and who strengthen our nation in countless ways.   In the tradition of Portraits of Courage, President Bush’s #1 New York Times bestseller, Out of Many, One brings together forty-three full-color portraits of men and women who have immigrated to the United States, alongside stirring stories of the unique ways all of them are pursuing the American Dream. Featuring men and women from thirty-five countries and nearly every region of the world, Out of Many, One shows how hard work, strong values, dreams, and determination know no borders or boundaries and how immigrants embody values that are often viewed as distinctly American: optimism and gratitude, a willingness to strive and to risk, a deep sense of patriotism, and a spirit of self-reliance that runs deep in our immigrant heritage. In these pages, we meet a North Korean refugee fighting for human rights, a Dallas-based CEO who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico at age seventeen, and a NASA engineer who as a girl in Nigeria dreamed of coming to America, along with notable figures from business, the military, sports, and entertainment. President Bush captures their faces and stories in striking detail, bringing depth to our understanding of who immigrants are, the challenges they face on their paths to citizenship, and the lessons they can teach us about our country’s character.   As the stories unfold in this vibrant book, listeners will gain a better appreciation for the humanity behind one of our most pressing policy issues and the countless ways in which America, through its tradition of welcoming newcomers, has been strengthened by those who have come here in search of a better life. Read by President George W. Bush, with additional audio provided by many of the paintings’ subjects *This audiobook includes a full-color PDF of all of the portraits and murals featured in the book.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427438Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427438 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants Author: George W. Bush Narrator: George W. Bush Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427438 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants Author: George W. Bush Narrator: George W. Bush Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this powerful new collection of oil paintings and stories, President George W. Bush spotlights the inspiring journeys of America’s immigrants and the contributions they make to the life and prosperity of our nation.   The issue of immigration stirs intense emotions today, as it has throughout much of American history. But what gets lost in the debates about policy are the stories of immigrants themselves, the people who are drawn to America by its promise of economic opportunity and political and religious freedom—and who strengthen our nation in countless ways.   In the tradition of Portraits of Courage, President Bush’s #1 New York Times bestseller, Out of Many, One brings together forty-three full-color portraits of men and women who have immigrated to the United States, alongside stirring stories of the unique ways all of them are pursuing the American Dream. Featuring men and women from thirty-five countries and nearly every region of the world, Out of Many, One shows how hard work, strong values, dreams, and determination know no borders or boundaries and how immigrants embody values that are often viewed as distinctly American: optimism and gratitude, a willingness to strive and to risk, a deep sense of patriotism, and a spirit of self-reliance that runs deep in our immigrant heritage. In these pages, we meet a North Korean refugee fighting for human rights, a Dallas-based CEO who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico at age seventeen, and a NASA engineer who as a girl in Nigeria dreamed of coming to America, along with notable figures from business, the military, sports, and entertainment. President Bush captures their faces and stories in striking detail, bringing depth to our understanding of who immigrants are, the challenges they face on their paths to citizenship, and the lessons they can teach us about our country’s character.   As the stories unfold in this vibrant book, listeners will gain a better appreciation for the humanity behind one of our most pressing policy issues and the countless ways in which America, through its tradition of welcoming newcomers, has been strengthened by those who have come here in search of a better life. Read by President George W. Bush, with additional audio provided by many of the paintings’ subjects *This audiobook includes a full-color PDF of all of the portraits and murals featured in the book.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/world-travel-an-irreverent-guide-by-laurie-woolever-anthony-bourdain--65148349https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: World Travel: An Irreverent Guide Author: Laurie Woolever, Anthony Bourdain Narrator: Steve Albini, Vidya Balachander, Nari Kye, Claude Tayag, Christopher Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Jen Agg, Matt Walsh, Shep Gordon, Bill Buford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.34 of Total 93 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter—and many places beyond. In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places—in his own words. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid, World Travel provides essential context that will help readers further appreciate the reasons why Bourdain found a place enchanting and memorable. Supplementing Bourdain’s words are a handful of essays by friends, colleagues, and family that tell even deeper stories about a place, including sardonic accounts of traveling with Bourdain by his brother, Christopher; a guide to Chicago’s best cheap eats by legendary music producer Steve Albini. For veteran travelers, armchair enthusiasts, and those in between, World Travel offers a chance to experience the world like Anthony Bourdain. The audiobook is read by Laurie Woolever, Shep Gordon, Christopher Bourdain, Jen Agg, Matt Walsh, Bill Buford, Claude Tayag, Nari Kye, Vidya Balachander, and Steve Albini. Copyright 2021 by Anthony M. Bourdain Trust UW; “A Child’s View of Paris (1966),” “Revisiting New Jersey,” and  “Uruguay Dreamin’” copyright 2020 by Christopher Bourdain; published with permission of Christopher Bourdain Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430515Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: World Travel: An Irreverent Guide Author: Laurie Woolever, Anthony Bourdain Narrator: Steve Albini, Vidya Balachander, Nari Kye, Claude Tayag,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: World Travel: An Irreverent Guide Author: Laurie Woolever, Anthony Bourdain Narrator: Steve Albini, Vidya Balachander, Nari Kye, Claude Tayag, Christopher Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Jen Agg, Matt Walsh, Shep Gordon, Bill Buford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.34 of Total 93 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter—and many places beyond. In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places—in his own words. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid, World Travel provides essential context that will help readers further appreciate the reasons why Bourdain found a place enchanting and memorable. Supplementing Bourdain’s words are a handful of essays by friends, colleagues, and family that tell even deeper stories about a place, including sardonic accounts of traveling with Bourdain by his brother, Christopher; a guide to Chicago’s best cheap eats by legendary music producer Steve Albini. For veteran travelers, armchair enthusiasts, and those in between, World Travel offers a chance to experience the world like Anthony Bourdain. The audiobook is read by Laurie Woolever, Shep Gordon, Christopher Bourdain, Jen Agg, Matt Walsh, Bill Buford, Claude Tayag, Nari Kye, Vidya Balachander, and Steve Albini. Copyright 2021 by Anthony M. Bourdain Trust UW; “A Child’s View of Paris (1966),” “Revisiting New Jersey,” and  “Uruguay Dreamin’” copyright 2020 by Christopher Bourdain; published with permission of Christopher Bourdain Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-next-everest-surviving-the-mountain-s-deadliest-day-and-finding-the-resilience-to-climb-again-by-jim-davidson--65148332https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again Author: Jim Davidson Narrator: Tim Campbell, Jim Davidson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This program includes excerpts read by the author. One of Atlas & Boots' Top 10 Adventure Travel Books of 2021 A dramatic account of the deadly earthquake on Everest—and a return to reach the summit. On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed about 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest, with eighteen people losing their lives on the mountain. After spending two unsettling days stranded on Everest, Davidson's team was rescued by helicopter. The experience left him shaken, and despite his thirty-three years of climbing and serving as an expedition leader, he wasn’t sure that he would ever go back. But in the face of risk and uncertainty, he returned in 2017 and finally achieved his dream of reaching the summit. Suspenseful and engrossing, The Next Everest portrays the experience of living through the biggest disaster to ever hit the mountain. Davidson's background in geology and environmental science makes him uniquely qualified to explain how this natural disaster unfolded and why the seismic threats lurking beneath Nepal are even greater today. But this story is not about “conquering” the world’s highest peak. Instead, it reveals how embracing change, challenge, and uncertainty prepares anyone to face their “next Everest” in life. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press 'Among all outdoor pursuits, climbing mountains offers the purest, most direct challenge. Jim Davidson weaves his experiences with avalanches, crevasse falls, earthquakes, altitude, frostbite, and other Himalayan hazards into an exciting, sometimes somber introspective narrative, describing not just how he survives climbing the highest mountains in the world, but more importantly, why he must go again and again.'--Roman Dial, author of The Adventurer’s Son]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430887Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again Author: Jim Davidson Narrator: Tim Campbell, Jim...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again Author: Jim Davidson Narrator: Tim Campbell, Jim Davidson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This program includes excerpts read by the author. One of Atlas & Boots' Top 10 Adventure Travel Books of 2021 A dramatic account of the deadly earthquake on Everest—and a return to reach the summit. On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed about 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest, with eighteen people losing their lives on the mountain. After spending two unsettling days stranded on Everest, Davidson's team was rescued by helicopter. The experience left him shaken, and despite his thirty-three years of climbing and serving as an expedition leader, he wasn’t sure that he would ever go back. But in the face of risk and uncertainty, he returned in 2017 and finally achieved his dream of reaching the summit. Suspenseful and engrossing, The Next Everest portrays the experience of living through the biggest disaster to ever hit the mountain. Davidson's background in geology and environmental science makes him uniquely qualified to explain how this natural disaster unfolded and why the seismic threats lurking beneath Nepal are even greater today. But this story is not about “conquering” the world’s highest peak. Instead, it reveals how embracing change, challenge, and uncertainty prepares anyone to face their “next Everest” in life. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press 'Among all outdoor pursuits, climbing mountains offers the purest, most direct challenge. Jim Davidson weaves his experiences with avalanches, crevasse falls, earthquakes, altitude, frostbite, and other Himalayan hazards into an exciting, sometimes somber introspective narrative, describing not just how he survives climbing the highest mountains in the world, but more importantly, why he must go again and again.'--Roman Dial, author of The Adventurer’s Son]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/for-the-people-a-story-of-justice-and-power-by-larry-krasner--65148264https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For the People: A Story of Justice and Power Author: Larry Krasner Narrator: Nathan Krasner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Philadelphia’s progressive district attorney offers an inspiring vision of how people can take back power to reform criminal justice, based on lessons from a life’s work as an advocate for the accused. “Larry Krasner is at the forefront of a movement to disrupt a system. This is a story that needs to be read by millions.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy Larry Krasner spent thirty years learning about America’s carceral system as a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer in Philadelphia, working to get some kind of justice for his clients in a broken system, before deciding that the way to truly transform the system was to get inside of it. So he launched an unlikely campaign to become the district attorney of Philadelphia, a city known for its long line of notorious “tough on crime” DAs who had turned Philly into a city with one of the highest rates of incarceration in the country. Despite long odds and derisive opposition from the police union and other forces of the status quo, Krasner laid out a simple case for radical reform and won the November 2017 general election by a margin of nearly 50 percent. For the People is not just a story about Krasner’s remarkable early life as a defense lawyer and his innovative grassroots campaign; it’s also a larger exploration of how power and injustice conspired to create a carceral state unprecedented in the world. Readers follow Krasner’s lifelong journey through the streets and courtrooms and election precincts of one American city all the way up to his swearing-in ceremony to see how our system of injustice was built—and how we might dismantle it. In the tradition of powerful critiques of the criminal justice system, from Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy to Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, For the People makes the compelling case that transforming criminal justice is the most important civil rights movement of our time and can only be achieved if we’re willing to fight for the power to make a change.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452082Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For the People: A Story of Justice and Power Author: Larry Krasner Narrator: Nathan Krasner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For the People: A Story of Justice and Power Author: Larry Krasner Narrator: Nathan Krasner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Philadelphia’s progressive district attorney offers an inspiring vision of how people can take back power to reform criminal justice, based on lessons from a life’s work as an advocate for the accused. “Larry Krasner is at the forefront of a movement to disrupt a system. This is a story that needs to be read by millions.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy Larry Krasner spent thirty years learning about America’s carceral system as a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer in Philadelphia, working to get some kind of justice for his clients in a broken system, before deciding that the way to truly transform the system was to get inside of it. So he launched an unlikely campaign to become the district attorney of Philadelphia, a city known for its long line of notorious “tough on crime” DAs who had turned Philly into a city with one of the highest rates of incarceration in the country. Despite long odds and derisive opposition from the police union and other forces of the status quo, Krasner laid out a simple case for radical reform and won the November 2017 general election by a margin of nearly 50 percent. For the People is not just a story about Krasner’s remarkable early life as a defense lawyer and his innovative grassroots campaign; it’s also a larger exploration of how power and injustice conspired to create a carceral state unprecedented in the world. Readers follow Krasner’s lifelong journey through the streets and courtrooms and election precincts of one American city all the way up to his swearing-in ceremony to see how our system of injustice was built—and how we might dismantle it. In the tradition of powerful critiques of the criminal justice system, from Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy to Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, For the People makes the compelling case that transforming criminal justice is the most important civil rights movement of our time and can only be achieved if we’re willing to fight for the power to make a change.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-am-a-girl-from-africa-by-elizabeth-nyamayaro--65148253https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442926 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am a Girl from Africa Author: Elizabeth Nyamayaro Narrator: Elizabeth Nyamayaro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A “profound and soul-nourishing memoir” (Oprah Daily) from an African girl whose near-death experience sparked a lifelong dedication to humanitarian work that helps bring change across the world. When severe drought hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth Nyamayaro, then only eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her life’s purpose. Unable to move from hunger and malnourishment, she encountered a United Nations aid worker who gave her a bowl of warm porridge and saved her life—a transformative moment that inspired Elizabeth to dedicate herself to giving back to her community, her continent, and the world. In the decades that have followed, Elizabeth has been instrumental in creating change and uplifting the lives of others: by fighting global inequalities, advancing social justice for vulnerable communities, and challenging the status quo to accelerate women’s rights around the world. She has served as a senior advisor at the United Nations, where she launched HeForShe, one of the world’s largest global solidarity movements for gender equality. In I Am a Girl from Africa, she charts this “journey of perseverance” (Entertainment Weekly) from her small village of Goromonzi to Harare, Zimbabwe; London; New York; and beyond, always grounded by the African concept of ubuntu—“I am because we are”—taught to her by her beloved grandmother. This “victorious” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir brings to vivid life one extraordinary woman’s story of persevering through incredible odds and finding her true calling—while delivering an important message of hope, empowerment, community support, and interdependence.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442926Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442926 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am a Girl from Africa Author: Elizabeth Nyamayaro Narrator: Elizabeth Nyamayaro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442926 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am a Girl from Africa Author: Elizabeth Nyamayaro Narrator: Elizabeth Nyamayaro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A “profound and soul-nourishing memoir” (Oprah Daily) from an African girl whose near-death experience sparked a lifelong dedication to humanitarian work that helps bring change across the world. When severe drought hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth Nyamayaro, then only eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her life’s purpose. Unable to move from hunger and malnourishment, she encountered a United Nations aid worker who gave her a bowl of warm porridge and saved her life—a transformative moment that inspired Elizabeth to dedicate herself to giving back to her community, her continent, and the world. In the decades that have followed, Elizabeth has been instrumental in creating change and uplifting the lives of others: by fighting global inequalities, advancing social justice for vulnerable communities, and challenging the status quo to accelerate women’s rights around the world. She has served as a senior advisor at the United Nations, where she launched HeForShe, one of the world’s largest global solidarity movements for gender equality. In I Am a Girl from Africa, she charts this “journey of perseverance” (Entertainment Weekly) from her small village of Goromonzi to Harare, Zimbabwe; London; New York; and beyond, always grounded by the African concept of ubuntu—“I am because we are”—taught to her by her beloved grandmother. This “victorious” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir brings to vivid life one extraordinary woman’s story of persevering through incredible odds and finding her true calling—while delivering an important message of hope, empowerment, community support, and interdependence.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/victoire-a-wartime-story-of-resistance-collaboration-and-betrayal-by-roland-philipps--65148231https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Victoire: A Wartime Story of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal Author: Roland Philipps Narrator: Alix Dunmore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 15, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Paris, 1940. A woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street. She is Mathilde Carré, codenamed 'the cat', known as Agent Victoire. She is a charismatic spy; her story is one of resistance and survival. These are the darkest days for France, half occupied by Nazi Germany, half run by the collaborationist Vichy regime; and dark days for Britain - isolated and under threat of invasion. Mathilde and her Polish conspirator, Roman Czerniawski, have risked torture and execution to build the first Allied intelligence network in Occupied France. With no training and little support, they have in a few months developed a huge system of agents. Their coded weekly reports are London's sole lifeline of reliable information. Mathilde is determined to be her nation's saviour, and what the partners build is central to Intelligence and Resistance efforts. It will become the first great spy network of the Second World War. But when the Germans inevitably close in, Mathilde makes a fateful compromise. She enters a hall of mirrors where every allegiance is doubtful, every action liable to be held against her. Nobody is certain who she is or whom she works for - her German handler, MI5, or SOE, who succeed in exfiltrating her on a fast boat to London. Is she a double agent - and, if so, can she be trusted to turn again? Victoire is the story of an inspirational and multi-faceted hero: a passionate, courageous spy but one also fragile and desperate to belong. She embodies the moral complexity of Occupation, and the bargaining between high ideals and dirty reality. Drawing on a wide range of first-hand sources, including recently declassified material, Roland Philipps has written a dazzling tale of audacity, complicity and the choices made in wartime. © Roland Philipps 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453971Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Victoire: A Wartime Story of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal Author: Roland Philipps Narrator: Alix Dunmore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453971 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Victoire: A Wartime Story of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal Author: Roland Philipps Narrator: Alix Dunmore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 15, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Paris, 1940. A woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street. She is Mathilde Carré, codenamed 'the cat', known as Agent Victoire. She is a charismatic spy; her story is one of resistance and survival. These are the darkest days for France, half occupied by Nazi Germany, half run by the collaborationist Vichy regime; and dark days for Britain - isolated and under threat of invasion. Mathilde and her Polish conspirator, Roman Czerniawski, have risked torture and execution to build the first Allied intelligence network in Occupied France. With no training and little support, they have in a few months developed a huge system of agents. Their coded weekly reports are London's sole lifeline of reliable information. Mathilde is determined to be her nation's saviour, and what the partners build is central to Intelligence and Resistance efforts. It will become the first great spy network of the Second World War. But when the Germans inevitably close in, Mathilde makes a fateful compromise. She enters a hall of mirrors where every allegiance is doubtful, every action liable to be held against her. Nobody is certain who she is or whom she works for - her German handler, MI5, or SOE, who succeed in exfiltrating her on a fast boat to London. Is she a double agent - and, if so, can she be trusted to turn again? Victoire is the story of an inspirational and multi-faceted hero: a passionate, courageous spy but one also fragile and desperate to belong. She embodies the moral complexity of Occupation, and the bargaining between high ideals and dirty reality. Drawing on a wide range of first-hand sources, including recently declassified material, Roland Philipps has written a dazzling tale of audacity, complicity and the choices made in wartime. © Roland Philipps 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bird-uncaged-an-abolitionist-s-freedom-song-by-marlon-peterson--65148200https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/456823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song Author: Marlon Peterson Narrator: Marlon Peterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 13, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration—and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us.   Marlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights, raised by Trinidadian immigrants. Amid the routine violence that shaped his neighborhood, Marlon became a high-achieving and devout child, the specter of the American dream opening up before him. But in the aftermath of immense trauma, he participated in a robbery that resulted in two murders. At nineteen, Peterson was charged and later convicted. He served ten long years in prison. While incarcerated, Peterson immersed himself in anti-violence activism, education, and prison abolition work.   In Bird Uncaged, Peterson challenges the typical “redemption” narrative and our assumptions about justice. With vulnerability and insight, he uncovers the many cages—from the daily violence and trauma of poverty, to policing, to enforced masculinity, and the brutality of incarceration—created and maintained by American society. Bird Uncaged is a twenty-first-century abolitionist memoir, and a powerful debut that demands a shift from punishment to healing, an end to prisons, and a new vision of justice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/456823Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/456823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song Author: Marlon Peterson Narrator: Marlon Peterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/456823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song Author: Marlon Peterson Narrator: Marlon Peterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 13, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration—and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us.   Marlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights, raised by Trinidadian immigrants. Amid the routine violence that shaped his neighborhood, Marlon became a high-achieving and devout child, the specter of the American dream opening up before him. But in the aftermath of immense trauma, he participated in a robbery that resulted in two murders. At nineteen, Peterson was charged and later convicted. He served ten long years in prison. While incarcerated, Peterson immersed himself in anti-violence activism, education, and prison abolition work.   In Bird Uncaged, Peterson challenges the typical “redemption” narrative and our assumptions about justice. With vulnerability and insight, he uncovers the many cages—from the daily violence and trauma of poverty, to policing, to enforced masculinity, and the brutality of incarceration—created and maintained by American society. Bird Uncaged is a twenty-first-century abolitionist memoir, and a powerful debut that demands a shift from punishment to healing, an end to prisons, and a new vision of justice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/signs-of-hope-how-small-acts-of-love-can-change-your-world-by-amy-wolff--65148320https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Signs of Hope: How Small Acts of Love Can Change Your World Author: Amy Wolff Narrator: Amy Wolff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Changing the world--or at least your corner of it--is easier than you think. Includes audiobook-exclusive bonus commentary from the author! With so much suffering in our communities and in the world, it can feel impossible to make an impact. 'What good can I possibly do?' we ask.  Amy Wolff, a busy mom and small business owner, often felt this way--and didn't feel qualified to connect and uplift others. But one day, after hearing about several suicides and suicide attempts in her community, she printed 20 yard signs with hopeful messages and anonymously placed them throughout her city. This small action sparked a global movement of encouragement, hope, and love, which spread to 50 states and 27 countries in just 18 months.  Signs of Hope is an intimate collection of stories from Amy's personal life, as well as people impacted by the movement, about the power of hope and love in the midst of suffering. This book discusses: - The drain of compassion fatigue - Why we should show up imperfectly to help others - How to claim hope for ourselves - Practical ideas of how to respond to suffering - Strategies of how to love people who are 'different' - Resilience when love-spreading efforts backfire - How to raise a compassionate generation - The science of hope Signs of Hope is your catalyst for doing something today . . . because there's no perfect time to help others. The time is now. Reflection questions are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442874Tue, 06 Apr 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Signs of Hope: How Small Acts of Love Can Change Your World Author: Amy Wolff Narrator: Amy Wolff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Signs of Hope: How Small Acts of Love Can Change Your World Author: Amy Wolff Narrator: Amy Wolff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Changing the world--or at least your corner of it--is easier than you think. Includes audiobook-exclusive bonus commentary from the author! With so much suffering in our communities and in the world, it can feel impossible to make an impact. 'What good can I possibly do?' we ask.  Amy Wolff, a busy mom and small business owner, often felt this way--and didn't feel qualified to connect and uplift others. But one day, after hearing about several suicides and suicide attempts in her community, she printed 20 yard signs with hopeful messages and anonymously placed them throughout her city. This small action sparked a global movement of encouragement, hope, and love, which spread to 50 states and 27 countries in just 18 months.  Signs of Hope is an intimate collection of stories from Amy's personal life, as well as people impacted by the movement, about the power of hope and love in the midst of suffering. This book discusses: - The drain of compassion fatigue - Why we should show up imperfectly to help others - How to claim hope for ourselves - Practical ideas of how to respond to suffering - Strategies of how to love people who are 'different' - Resilience when love-spreading efforts backfire - How to raise a compassionate generation - The science of hope Signs of Hope is your catalyst for doing something today . . . because there's no perfect time to help others. The time is now. Reflection questions are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wild-silence-a-memoir-by-raynor-winn--65148274https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wild Silence: A Memoir Author: Raynor Winn Narrator: Raynor Winn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path. 'Extraordinary: wise, unflinching, exquisite. Profound' Observer 'A thrill to read. The nature writing is beautiful . . . heartening and comforting. You feel the world is a better place' The Times Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 miles homeless along The Salt Path, the windswept and wild English coastline now feels like their home. And despite Moth's terminal diagnosis, against all medical odds, he seems revitalized in nature - outside, they discover that anything is possible. Now, life beyond The Salt Path awaits. As they return to four walls, the sense of home is illusive and returning to normality is proving difficult - until an incredible gesture by someone who reads their story changes everything: A chance to breathe life back into a beautiful but neglected farmhouse nestled deep in the Cornish hills; rewilding the land and returning nature to its hedgerows becomes their new path. Along the way, Raynor and Moth learn more about the land that envelopes them, find friends both new and old, and, of course, embark on another windswept adventure when the opportunity arises. The Wild Silence is a luminous story of hope triumphing over despair, of the human spirit's instinctive connection to nature, and of lifelong love prevailing over everything. 'Raynor Winn has written a brilliant, powerful and touching account of her life before and after The Salt Path, which, like her astonishing debut, will connect with anyone who has triumphed over adversity' Stephen Moss, author and naturalist 'A beautiful, luminous and magical piece of writing' Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 'So moving, it made me cry . . . repeatedly. Confirms Winn as a natural and extremely talented writer with an incredible way with words' Sophie Raworth 'A must read for anyone inspired by The Salt Path' Good Housekeeping 'An uplifting, illuminating read' Daily Mirror 'Heart-rending. A love letter to the natural world in all its wondrous glory . . . spellbinding' Herald Praise for The Salt Path 'An astonishing narrative of two people dragging themselves from the depths of despair along some of the most dramatic landscapes in the country, looking for a solution to their problems and ultimately finding themselves' Independent 'This is what you need right now to muster hope and resilience . . . a beautiful story and a reminder that humans can endure adversity' Stylist 'The landscape is magical: shapeshifting seas and smugglers' coves; myriads of sea birds and mauve skies. Raynor writes exquisitely. . . it's a tale of triumph; of hope over despair, of love over everything' Sunday Times 'The Salt Path is a life-affirming tale of enduring love that smells of the sea and tastes of a rich life. With beautiful, immersive writing, it is a story heart-achingly and beautifully told' Jackie Morris, illustrator of The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452058Tue, 06 Apr 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wild Silence: A Memoir Author: Raynor Winn Narrator: Raynor Winn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 6,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wild Silence: A Memoir Author: Raynor Winn Narrator: Raynor Winn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path. 'Extraordinary: wise, unflinching, exquisite. Profound' Observer 'A thrill to read. The nature writing is beautiful . . . heartening and comforting. You feel the world is a better place' The Times Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 miles homeless along The Salt Path, the windswept and wild English coastline now feels like their home. And despite Moth's terminal diagnosis, against all medical odds, he seems revitalized in nature - outside, they discover that anything is possible. Now, life beyond The Salt Path awaits. As they return to four walls, the sense of home is illusive and returning to normality is proving difficult - until an incredible gesture by someone who reads their story changes everything: A chance to breathe life back into a beautiful but neglected farmhouse nestled deep in the Cornish hills; rewilding the land and returning nature to its hedgerows becomes their new path. Along the way, Raynor and Moth learn more about the land that envelopes them, find friends both new and old, and, of course, embark on another windswept adventure when the opportunity arises. The Wild Silence is a luminous story of hope triumphing over despair, of the human spirit's instinctive connection to nature, and of lifelong love prevailing over everything. 'Raynor Winn has written a brilliant, powerful and touching account of her life before and after The Salt Path, which, like her astonishing debut, will connect with anyone who has triumphed over adversity' Stephen Moss, author and naturalist 'A beautiful, luminous and magical piece of writing' Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 'So moving, it made me cry . . . repeatedly. Confirms Winn as a natural and extremely talented writer with an incredible way with words' Sophie Raworth 'A must read for anyone inspired by The Salt Path' Good Housekeeping 'An uplifting, illuminating read' Daily Mirror 'Heart-rending. A love letter to the natural world in all its wondrous glory . . . spellbinding' Herald Praise for The Salt Path 'An astonishing narrative of two people dragging themselves from the depths of despair along some of the most dramatic landscapes in the country, looking for a solution to their problems and ultimately finding themselves' Independent 'This is what you need right now to muster hope and resilience . . . a beautiful story and a reminder that humans can endure adversity' Stylist 'The landscape is magical: shapeshifting seas and smugglers' coves; myriads of sea birds and mauve skies. Raynor writes exquisitely. . . it's a tale of triumph; of hope over despair, of love over everything' Sunday Times 'The Salt Path is a life-affirming tale of enduring love that smells of the sea and tastes of a rich life. With beautiful, immersive writing, it is a story heart-achingly and beautifully told' Jackie Morris, illustrator of The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pivot-of-the-universe-nasir-al-din-shah-and-the-iranian-monarchy-1831-1896-by-abbas-amanat--65148265https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453704 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 Author: Abbas Amanat Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 10 minutes Release date: March 31, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had sat on the Peacock throne for nearly half a century. A colorful, complex figure, he is frequently portrayed as indolent and self-indulgent. Yet he was in many ways an effective ruler who displayed exceptional resilience in the face of dilemmas and vulnerabilities shared by most monarchs of the Islamic world in the nineteenth century. In this book—the first in English about Nasir al-Din Shah—Abbas Amanat gives us both a biography of the man and an analysis of the institution of monarchy in modern Iran. Nasir al-Din Shah developed from an insecure crown prince and later an erratic boy-king in the 1840s and '50s into a ruler with substantial control over his government and foreign policy in the 1860s and beyond. Amanat examines this transformation and explores how traditional monarchies drew strength as they accommodated themselves to the forces of modernity. Based on extensive archival research in both public and private collections, Pivot of the Universe offers a fresh interpretation of the evolution of monarchy in modern times as it interacted with the institutions of government, the society at large, and Western powers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453704Wed, 31 Mar 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453704 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 Author: Abbas Amanat Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453704 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 Author: Abbas Amanat Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 10 minutes Release date: March 31, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had sat on the Peacock throne for nearly half a century. A colorful, complex figure, he is frequently portrayed as indolent and self-indulgent. Yet he was in many ways an effective ruler who displayed exceptional resilience in the face of dilemmas and vulnerabilities shared by most monarchs of the Islamic world in the nineteenth century. In this book—the first in English about Nasir al-Din Shah—Abbas Amanat gives us both a biography of the man and an analysis of the institution of monarchy in modern Iran. Nasir al-Din Shah developed from an insecure crown prince and later an erratic boy-king in the 1840s and '50s into a ruler with substantial control over his government and foreign policy in the 1860s and beyond. Amanat examines this transformation and explores how traditional monarchies drew strength as they accommodated themselves to the forces of modernity. Based on extensive archival research in both public and private collections, Pivot of the Universe offers a fresh interpretation of the evolution of monarchy in modern times as it interacted with the institutions of government, the society at large, and Western powers.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beyond-the-sand-and-sea-one-family-s-quest-for-a-country-to-call-home-by-ty-mccormick--65148307https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433375 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Sand and Sea: One Family's Quest for a Country to Call Home Author: Ty Mccormick Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From Ty McCormick, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, an epic and timeless story of a family in search of safety, security, and a place to call home. When Asad Hussein was growing up in the world’s largest refugee camp, nearly every aspect of life revolved around getting to America—a distant land where anything was possible. Thousands of displaced families like his were whisked away to the United States in the mid-2000s, leaving the dusty encampment in northeastern Kenya for new lives in suburban America. When Asad was nine, his older sister Maryan was resettled in Arizona, but Asad, his parents, and his other siblings were left behind. In the years they waited to join her, Asad found refuge in dog-eared novels donated by American charities, many of them written by immigrants who had come to the United States from poor and war-torn countries. Maryan nourished his dreams of someday writing such novels, but it would be another fourteen years before he set foot in America. The story of Asad, Maryan, and their family’s escape from Dadaab refugee camp is one of perseverance in the face of overwhelming adversity. It is also a story of happenstance, of long odds and impossibly good luck, and of uncommon generosity. In a world where too many young men are forced to make dangerous sea crossings in search of work, are recruited into extremist groups, and die at the hands of brutal security forces, Asad not only made it to the United States to join Maryan, but won a scholarship to study literature at Princeton—the first person born in Dadaab ever admitted to the prestigious university. Beyond the Sand and Sea is an extraordinary and inspiring book for anyone searching for pinpricks of light in the darkness. Meticulously reported over three years, it reveals the strength of a family of Somali refugees who never lost faith in America—and exposes the broken refugee resettlement system that kept that family trapped for more than two decades and has turned millions into permanent exiles. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433375Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433375 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Sand and Sea: One Family's Quest for a Country to Call Home Author: Ty Mccormick Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433375 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Sand and Sea: One Family's Quest for a Country to Call Home Author: Ty Mccormick Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From Ty McCormick, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, an epic and timeless story of a family in search of safety, security, and a place to call home. When Asad Hussein was growing up in the world’s largest refugee camp, nearly every aspect of life revolved around getting to America—a distant land where anything was possible. Thousands of displaced families like his were whisked away to the United States in the mid-2000s, leaving the dusty encampment in northeastern Kenya for new lives in suburban America. When Asad was nine, his older sister Maryan was resettled in Arizona, but Asad, his parents, and his other siblings were left behind. In the years they waited to join her, Asad found refuge in dog-eared novels donated by American charities, many of them written by immigrants who had come to the United States from poor and war-torn countries. Maryan nourished his dreams of someday writing such novels, but it would be another fourteen years before he set foot in America. The story of Asad, Maryan, and their family’s escape from Dadaab refugee camp is one of perseverance in the face of overwhelming adversity. It is also a story of happenstance, of long odds and impossibly good luck, and of uncommon generosity. In a world where too many young men are forced to make dangerous sea crossings in search of work, are recruited into extremist groups, and die at the hands of brutal security forces, Asad not only made it to the United States to join Maryan, but won a scholarship to study literature at Princeton—the first person born in Dadaab ever admitted to the prestigious university. Beyond the Sand and Sea is an extraordinary and inspiring book for anyone searching for pinpricks of light in the darkness. Meticulously reported over three years, it reveals the strength of a family of Somali refugees who never lost faith in America—and exposes the broken refugee resettlement system that kept that family trapped for more than two decades and has turned millions into permanent exiles. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/elizabeth-margaret-the-intimate-world-of-the-windsor-sisters-by-andrew-morton--65148284https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters Author: Andrew Morton Narrator: Marisa Calin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Perfect for fans of The Crown, this captivating biography from a New York Times bestselling author follows Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret as they navigate life in the royal spotlight. They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called 'Lillibet.' And bow to her wishes. Elizabeth would always look upon her younger sister's antics with a kind of stoical amusement, but Margaret's struggle to find a place and position inside the royal system—and her fraught relationship with its expectations—was often a source of tension. Famously, the Queen had to inform Margaret that the Church and government would not countenance her marrying a divorcee, Group Captain Peter Townsend, forcing Margaret to choose between keeping her title and royal allowances or her divorcee lover. From the idyll of their cloistered early life, through their hidden war-time lives, into the divergent paths they took following their father's death and Elizabeth's ascension to the throne, this book explores their relationship over the years. Andrew Morton's latest biography offers unique insight into these two drastically different sisters—one resigned to duty and responsibility, the other resistant to it—and the lasting impact they have had on the Crown, the royal family, and the ways it adapted to the changing mores of the 20th century.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444621Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters Author: Andrew Morton Narrator: Marisa Calin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters Author: Andrew Morton Narrator: Marisa Calin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Perfect for fans of The Crown, this captivating biography from a New York Times bestselling author follows Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret as they navigate life in the royal spotlight. They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called 'Lillibet.' And bow to her wishes. Elizabeth would always look upon her younger sister's antics with a kind of stoical amusement, but Margaret's struggle to find a place and position inside the royal system—and her fraught relationship with its expectations—was often a source of tension. Famously, the Queen had to inform Margaret that the Church and government would not countenance her marrying a divorcee, Group Captain Peter Townsend, forcing Margaret to choose between keeping her title and royal allowances or her divorcee lover. From the idyll of their cloistered early life, through their hidden war-time lives, into the divergent paths they took following their father's death and Elizabeth's ascension to the throne, this book explores their relationship over the years. Andrew Morton's latest biography offers unique insight into these two drastically different sisters—one resigned to duty and responsibility, the other resistant to it—and the lasting impact they have had on the Crown, the royal family, and the ways it adapted to the changing mores of the 20th century.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-beauty-of-living-twice-by-sharon-stone--65148261https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beauty of Living Twice Author: Sharon Stone Narrator: Sharon Stone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 54 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 12 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Sharon Stone tells her own story: a journey of healing, love, and purpose. • “Not your typical Hollywood autobiography. Brutally honest, restless and questing.” —O, The Oprah Magazine Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life and writes about her slow road back to wholeness and health. In a business that doesn’t accept failure, in a world where too many voices are silenced, Stone found the power to return, the courage to speak up, and the will to make a difference in the lives of men, women, and children around the globe. Over the course of these intimate pages, as candid as a personal conversation, Stone talks about her pivotal roles, her life-changing friendships, her worst disappointments, and her greatest accomplishments. She reveals how she went from a childhood of trauma and violence to a career in an industry that in many ways echoed those same assaults, under cover of money and glamour. She describes the strength and meaning she found in her children, and in her humanitarian efforts. And ultimately, she shares how she fought her way back to find not only her truth, but her family’s reconciliation and love. Stone made headlines not just for her beauty and her talent, but for her candor and her refusal to “play nice,” and it’s those same qualities that make this memoir so powerful. The Beauty of Living Twice is a book for the wounded and a book for the survivors; it’s a celebration of women’s strength and resilience, a reckoning, and a call to activism. It is proof that it’s never too late to raise your voice and speak out.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445775Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beauty of Living Twice Author: Sharon Stone Narrator: Sharon Stone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 30,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beauty of Living Twice Author: Sharon Stone Narrator: Sharon Stone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 54 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 12 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Sharon Stone tells her own story: a journey of healing, love, and purpose. • “Not your typical Hollywood autobiography. Brutally honest, restless and questing.” —O, The Oprah Magazine Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life and writes about her slow road back to wholeness and health. In a business that doesn’t accept failure, in a world where too many voices are silenced, Stone found the power to return, the courage to speak up, and the will to make a difference in the lives of men, women, and children around the globe. Over the course of these intimate pages, as candid as a personal conversation, Stone talks about her pivotal roles, her life-changing friendships, her worst disappointments, and her greatest accomplishments. She reveals how she went from a childhood of trauma and violence to a career in an industry that in many ways echoed those same assaults, under cover of money and glamour. She describes the strength and meaning she found in her children, and in her humanitarian efforts. And ultimately, she shares how she fought her way back to find not only her truth, but her family’s reconciliation and love. Stone made headlines not just for her beauty and her talent, but for her candor and her refusal to “play nice,” and it’s those same qualities that make this memoir so powerful. The Beauty of Living Twice is a book for the wounded and a book for the survivors; it’s a celebration of women’s strength and resilience, a reckoning, and a call to activism. It is proof that it’s never too late to raise your voice and speak out.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/churchill-son-by-josh-ireland--65148213https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463972 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Churchill & Son Author: Josh Ireland Narrator: Jonathan Cowley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph “Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of life in the Churchill circle, much like Erik Larson did in The Splendid and the Vile.”―Kirkus • “Fascinating… well-researched and well-written.”—Andrew Roberts • “Beautifully written… A triumph.”—Damien Lewis • “Fascinating, acute and touching.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore We think we know Winston Churchill: the bulldog grimace, the ever-present cigar, the wit and wisdom that led Great Britain through the Second World War. Yet away from the House of Commons and the Cabinet War Rooms, Churchill was a loving family man who doted on his children, none more so than Randolph, his only boy and Winston's anointed heir to the Churchill legacy. Randolph may have been born in his father's shadow, but his father, who had been neglected by his own parents, was determined to see him go far. For decades, throughout Winston's climb to greatness, father and son were inseparable—dining with Britain's elite, gossiping and swilling Champagne at high society parties, holidaying on the French Riviera, touring Prohibition-era America. Captivated by Winston's power, bravery, and charisma, Randolph worshipped his father, and Winston obsessed over his son's future. But their love was complex and combustible, complicated by money, class, and privilege, shaded with ambition, outsize expectations, resentments, and failures. Deeply researched and magnificently written, Churchill & Son is a revealing and surprising portrait of one of history's most celebrated figures.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463972Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463972 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Churchill & Son Author: Josh Ireland Narrator: Jonathan Cowley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 30,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463972 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Churchill & Son Author: Josh Ireland Narrator: Jonathan Cowley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph “Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of life in the Churchill circle, much like Erik Larson did in The Splendid and the Vile.”―Kirkus • “Fascinating… well-researched and well-written.”—Andrew Roberts • “Beautifully written… A triumph.”—Damien Lewis • “Fascinating, acute and touching.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore We think we know Winston Churchill: the bulldog grimace, the ever-present cigar, the wit and wisdom that led Great Britain through the Second World War. Yet away from the House of Commons and the Cabinet War Rooms, Churchill was a loving family man who doted on his children, none more so than Randolph, his only boy and Winston's anointed heir to the Churchill legacy. Randolph may have been born in his father's shadow, but his father, who had been neglected by his own parents, was determined to see him go far. For decades, throughout Winston's climb to greatness, father and son were inseparable—dining with Britain's elite, gossiping and swilling Champagne at high society parties, holidaying on the French Riviera, touring Prohibition-era America. Captivated by Winston's power, bravery, and charisma, Randolph worshipped his father, and Winston obsessed over his son's future. But their love was complex and combustible, complicated by money, class, and privilege, shaded with ambition, outsize expectations, resentments, and failures. Deeply researched and magnificently written, Churchill & Son is a revealing and surprising portrait of one of history's most celebrated figures.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arabic-htlr-by-bdal-zyz-bdalrhmn-hsyn--65148281https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - هتلر Author: عبدالعزيز عبدالرحمن حسين Narrator: فتحي عثمان Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 20, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ينظر بعض المؤرخون لهتلر بأنه شخصية فريدة في التاريخ الألماني، حاولت تحسين الظروف السياسة والإقتصادية للشعب الألماني في فترة حكمه. وعلى الطرف الآخر، يعتبر مؤرخون أن هتلر واحد من أكثر الشخصيات دموية في التاريخ الحديث؛ حيث تسببت سياساته في قتل ملايين المدنيين والعسكريين، خلال الحرب العالمية الثانية. الكتاب يقف علي أهم مراحل حياة أودلف هتلر و يوفر معلومات قيمه علي حياة أحد أهم شخصيات القرن العشرين .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445086Sat, 20 Mar 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - هتلر Author: عبدالعزيز عبدالرحمن حسين Narrator: فتحي عثمان Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 20,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - هتلر Author: عبدالعزيز عبدالرحمن حسين Narrator: فتحي عثمان Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 20, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ينظر بعض المؤرخون لهتلر بأنه شخصية فريدة في التاريخ الألماني، حاولت تحسين الظروف السياسة والإقتصادية للشعب الألماني في فترة حكمه. وعلى الطرف الآخر، يعتبر مؤرخون أن هتلر واحد من أكثر الشخصيات دموية في التاريخ الحديث؛ حيث تسببت سياساته في قتل ملايين المدنيين والعسكريين، خلال الحرب العالمية الثانية. الكتاب يقف علي أهم مراحل حياة أودلف هتلر و يوفر معلومات قيمه علي حياة أحد أهم شخصيات القرن العشرين .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-note-through-the-wire-the-incredible-true-story-of-a-prisoner-of-war-and-a-resistance-heroine-by-doug-gold--65148329https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Note Through the Wire: The Incredible True Story of a Prisoner of War and a Resistance Heroine Author: Doug Gold Narrator: Conrad Coleby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Praised as an “unforgettable love story” by Heather Morris, New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, this is the real-life, unlikely romance between a resistance fighter and prisoner of war set in World War II Europe. In this true love story that defies all odds, Josefine Lobnik, a Yugoslav partisan heroine, and Bruce Murray, a New Zealand soldier, discover love in the midst of a brutal war. In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One an underground resistance fighter, a bold young woman determined to vanquish the enemy occupiers; the other a prisoner of war, a man longing to escape the confines of the camp so he can battle again. A crumpled note passes between these two strangers, slipped through the wire of the compound, and sets them on a course that will change their lives forever. Woven through their tales of great bravery, daring escapes, betrayal, torture, and retaliation is their remarkable love story that survived against all odds. This is an extraordinary account of two ordinary people who found love during the unimaginable hardships of Hitler’s barbaric regime as told by their son-in-law Doug Gold, who decided to tell their story from the moment he heard about their remarkable tale of bravery, resilience, and resistance.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441034Tue, 16 Mar 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Note Through the Wire: The Incredible True Story of a Prisoner of War and a Resistance Heroine Author: Doug Gold Narrator: Conrad Coleby Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Note Through the Wire: The Incredible True Story of a Prisoner of War and a Resistance Heroine Author: Doug Gold Narrator: Conrad Coleby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.88 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Praised as an “unforgettable love story” by Heather Morris, New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, this is the real-life, unlikely romance between a resistance fighter and prisoner of war set in World War II Europe. In this true love story that defies all odds, Josefine Lobnik, a Yugoslav partisan heroine, and Bruce Murray, a New Zealand soldier, discover love in the midst of a brutal war. In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One an underground resistance fighter, a bold young woman determined to vanquish the enemy occupiers; the other a prisoner of war, a man longing to escape the confines of the camp so he can battle again. A crumpled note passes between these two strangers, slipped through the wire of the compound, and sets them on a course that will change their lives forever. Woven through their tales of great bravery, daring escapes, betrayal, torture, and retaliation is their remarkable love story that survived against all odds. This is an extraordinary account of two ordinary people who found love during the unimaginable hardships of Hitler’s barbaric regime as told by their son-in-law Doug Gold, who decided to tell their story from the moment he heard about their remarkable tale of bravery, resilience, and resistance.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-search-of-a-kingdom-francis-drake-elizabeth-i-and-the-perilous-birth-of-the-british-empire-by-laurence-bergreen--65148311https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire Author: Laurence Bergreen Narrator: Michael Page Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 25 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 10 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history “Bergreen masterly portrays ... the swashbuckling life and times of the explorer who achieved what Magellan could not—and made England’s fortune in the process.” —Kirkus, STARRED review Before he was secretly dispatched by Queen Elizabeth to circumnavigate the globe, or was called upon to save England from the Spanish Armada, Francis Drake was perhaps the most wanted–and successful–pirate ever to sail. Nicknamed ''El Draque'' by the Spaniards who placed a bounty on his head, the notorious red-haired, hot-tempered Drake pillaged galleons laden with New World gold and silver, stealing a vast fortune for his queen–and himself. For Elizabeth, Drake made the impossible real, serving as a crucial and brilliantly adaptable instrument of her ambitions to transform England from a third-rate island kingdom into a global imperial power. In 1580, sailing on Elizabeth's covert orders, Drake became the first captain to circumnavigate the earth successfully. (Ferdinand Magellan had died in his attempt.) Part exploring expedition, part raiding mission, Drake's audacious around-the-world journey in the Golden Hind reached Patagonia, the Pacific Coast of present-day California and Oregon, the Spice Islands, Java, and Africa. Almost a decade later, Elizabeth called upon Drake again. As the devil-may-care vice admiral of the English fleet, Drake dramatically defeated the once-invincible Spanish Armada, spurring the British Empire’s ascent and permanently wounding its greatest rival.  The relationship between Drake and Elizabeth is the missing link in our understanding of the rise of the British Empire, and its importance has not been fully described or appreciated. Framed around Drake’s key voyages as a window into this crucial moment in British history, In Search of a Kingdom is a rousing adventure narrative entwining epic historical themes with intimate passions. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441035Tue, 16 Mar 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire Author: Laurence Bergreen Narrator: Michael Page...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire Author: Laurence Bergreen Narrator: Michael Page Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 25 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 10 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history “Bergreen masterly portrays ... the swashbuckling life and times of the explorer who achieved what Magellan could not—and made England’s fortune in the process.” —Kirkus, STARRED review Before he was secretly dispatched by Queen Elizabeth to circumnavigate the globe, or was called upon to save England from the Spanish Armada, Francis Drake was perhaps the most wanted–and successful–pirate ever to sail. Nicknamed ''El Draque'' by the Spaniards who placed a bounty on his head, the notorious red-haired, hot-tempered Drake pillaged galleons laden with New World gold and silver, stealing a vast fortune for his queen–and himself. For Elizabeth, Drake made the impossible real, serving as a crucial and brilliantly adaptable instrument of her ambitions to transform England from a third-rate island kingdom into a global imperial power. In 1580, sailing on Elizabeth's covert orders, Drake became the first captain to circumnavigate the earth successfully. (Ferdinand Magellan had died in his attempt.) Part exploring expedition, part raiding mission, Drake's audacious around-the-world journey in the Golden Hind reached Patagonia, the Pacific Coast of present-day California and Oregon, the Spice Islands, Java, and Africa. Almost a decade later, Elizabeth called upon Drake again. As the devil-may-care vice admiral of the English fleet, Drake dramatically defeated the once-invincible Spanish Armada, spurring the British Empire’s ascent and permanently wounding its greatest rival.  The relationship between Drake and Elizabeth is the missing link in our understanding of the rise of the British Empire, and its importance has not been fully described or appreciated. Framed around Drake’s key voyages as a window into this crucial moment in British history, In Search of a Kingdom is a rousing adventure narrative entwining epic historical themes with intimate passions. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arabic-syrt-fbrayr-by-adrys-almsmary--65148246https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - سيرة فبراير Author: إدريس المسماري Narrator: محمد التام Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 14, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: صدر مؤخرا عن وزارة الثقافة الليبية، يسرد الكاتب والناقد إدريس المسماري رحلته مع زنازين وأقبية الزعيم الليبي الراحل العقيد معمر القذافي، بعد اعتقاله يوم 15 فبراير/شباط 2011. ويتذكر المسماري الذي اعتقل على خلفية إعلانه على شاشة قناة الجزيرة انطلاق الثورة في ليبيا، مشاهد السجن والتعذيب بعد شهر على هروبه من العاصمة طرابلس منتصف العام 2011 وتردده على مقاهي القاهرة وتونس.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445111Sun, 14 Mar 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - سيرة فبراير Author: إدريس المسماري Narrator: محمد التام Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 14, 2021...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - سيرة فبراير Author: إدريس المسماري Narrator: محمد التام Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 14, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: صدر مؤخرا عن وزارة الثقافة الليبية، يسرد الكاتب والناقد إدريس المسماري رحلته مع زنازين وأقبية الزعيم الليبي الراحل العقيد معمر القذافي، بعد اعتقاله يوم 15 فبراير/شباط 2011. ويتذكر المسماري الذي اعتقل على خلفية إعلانه على شاشة قناة الجزيرة انطلاق الثورة في ليبيا، مشاهد السجن والتعذيب بعد شهر على هروبه من العاصمة طرابلس منتصف العام 2011 وتردده على مقاهي القاهرة وتونس.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-barbizon-the-hotel-that-set-women-free-by-paulina-bren--65148291https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free Author: Paulina Bren Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A “captivating portrait” (The Wall Street Journal), both “poignant and intriguing” (The New Republic): from award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous residential hotel and the women who stayed there, including Grace Kelly, Sylvia Plath, and Joan Didion. Welcome to New York’s legendary hotel for women, the Barbizon. Liberated after WWI from home and hearth, women flocked to New York City during the Roaring Twenties. But even as women’s residential hotels became the fashion, the Barbizon stood out; it was designed for young women with artistic aspirations, and included soaring art studios and soundproofed practice rooms. More importantly still, with no men allowed beyond the lobby, the Barbizon signaled respectability, a place where a young woman of a certain class could feel at home. But as the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in, the clientele changed, though women’s ambitions did not; the Barbizon Hotel became the go-to destination for any young American woman with a dream to be something more. While Sylvia Plath most famously fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, the Barbizon was also where Titanic survivor Molly Brown sang her last aria; where Grace Kelly danced topless in the hallways; where Joan Didion got her first taste of Manhattan; and where both Ali MacGraw and Jaclyn Smith found their calling as actresses. Students of the prestigious Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School had three floors to themselves, Eileen Ford used the hotel as a guest house for her youngest models, and Mademoiselle magazine boarded its summer interns there, including a young designer named Betsey Johnson. The first ever history of this extraordinary hotel, and of the women who arrived in New York City alone from “elsewhere” with a suitcase and a dream, The Barbizon offers readers a multilayered history of New York City in the 20th century, and of the generations of American women torn between their desire for independence and their looming social expiration date. By providing women a room of their own, the Barbizon was the hotel that set them free.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442905Tue, 02 Mar 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free Author: Paulina Bren Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free Author: Paulina Bren Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A “captivating portrait” (The Wall Street Journal), both “poignant and intriguing” (The New Republic): from award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous residential hotel and the women who stayed there, including Grace Kelly, Sylvia Plath, and Joan Didion. Welcome to New York’s legendary hotel for women, the Barbizon. Liberated after WWI from home and hearth, women flocked to New York City during the Roaring Twenties. But even as women’s residential hotels became the fashion, the Barbizon stood out; it was designed for young women with artistic aspirations, and included soaring art studios and soundproofed practice rooms. More importantly still, with no men allowed beyond the lobby, the Barbizon signaled respectability, a place where a young woman of a certain class could feel at home. But as the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in, the clientele changed, though women’s ambitions did not; the Barbizon Hotel became the go-to destination for any young American woman with a dream to be something more. While Sylvia Plath most famously fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, the Barbizon was also where Titanic survivor Molly Brown sang her last aria; where Grace Kelly danced topless in the hallways; where Joan Didion got her first taste of Manhattan; and where both Ali MacGraw and Jaclyn Smith found their calling as actresses. Students of the prestigious Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School had three floors to themselves, Eileen Ford used the hotel as a guest house for her youngest models, and Mademoiselle magazine boarded its summer interns there, including a young designer named Betsey Johnson. The first ever history of this extraordinary hotel, and of the women who arrived in New York City alone from “elsewhere” with a suitcase and a dream, The Barbizon offers readers a multilayered history of New York City in the 20th century, and of the generations of American women torn between their desire for independence and their looming social expiration date. By providing women a room of their own, the Barbizon was the hotel that set them free.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/more-than-you-can-handle-a-rare-disease-a-family-in-crisis-and-the-cutting-edge-medicine-that-cured-the-incurable-by-miguel-sancho--65148289https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More Than You Can Handle: A Rare Disease, A Family in Crisis, and the Cutting-Edge Medicine That Cured the Incurable Author: Miguel Sancho Narrator: Miguel Sancho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The personally harrowing and medically enthralling story of a family's struggle to save a child from a deadly immune deficiency. A journey through the deepest valleys and highest peaks of parenting. When a two-month-old baby falls ill, his apparently ordinary symptoms turn out to signal a rare and lethal immune deficiency. For parents Miguel Sancho and Felicia Morton, the discovery that their son, Sebastian, has chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) upends their lives and leaves the family with few options, all of them terrifying. With Sebastian at constant risk of deadly infection, they spend the next six years in some degree of self-quarantine, with all its attendant anxieties and stressors, as they struggle to keep their son alive, their marriage intact, and themselves sane. The quest for a cure leads them into the alternate universe of the rare-disease community, and to the cutting edge of modern medicine, as their personal crises send them fumbling through various modalities of self-help, including faith, therapy, and meditation. With brutal honesty, Sancho describes how his struggles derail his career, put his marriage on life support, get his family evicted from a Ronald McDonald House, and ruin a Make-A-Wish trip. Sancho's riveting tale of the diagnosis and treatment of his son's illness takes us deep inside the workings of the immune system, and into the radically innovative treatment used to repair it. Ultimately Sebastian is saved with a stem cell transplant using discarded umbilical cord blood, a groundbreaking technique pioneered and practiced by the medical wizards at Duke University Hospital. Deeply researched and darkly humorous, this is a wrenching tale with a triumphant ending.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439490Tue, 02 Mar 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More Than You Can Handle: A Rare Disease, A Family in Crisis, and the Cutting-Edge Medicine That Cured the Incurable Author: Miguel Sancho Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More Than You Can Handle: A Rare Disease, A Family in Crisis, and the Cutting-Edge Medicine That Cured the Incurable Author: Miguel Sancho Narrator: Miguel Sancho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The personally harrowing and medically enthralling story of a family's struggle to save a child from a deadly immune deficiency. A journey through the deepest valleys and highest peaks of parenting. When a two-month-old baby falls ill, his apparently ordinary symptoms turn out to signal a rare and lethal immune deficiency. For parents Miguel Sancho and Felicia Morton, the discovery that their son, Sebastian, has chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) upends their lives and leaves the family with few options, all of them terrifying. With Sebastian at constant risk of deadly infection, they spend the next six years in some degree of self-quarantine, with all its attendant anxieties and stressors, as they struggle to keep their son alive, their marriage intact, and themselves sane. The quest for a cure leads them into the alternate universe of the rare-disease community, and to the cutting edge of modern medicine, as their personal crises send them fumbling through various modalities of self-help, including faith, therapy, and meditation. With brutal honesty, Sancho describes how his struggles derail his career, put his marriage on life support, get his family evicted from a Ronald McDonald House, and ruin a Make-A-Wish trip. Sancho's riveting tale of the diagnosis and treatment of his son's illness takes us deep inside the workings of the immune system, and into the radically innovative treatment used to repair it. Ultimately Sebastian is saved with a stem cell transplant using discarded umbilical cord blood, a groundbreaking technique pioneered and practiced by the medical wizards at Duke University Hospital. Deeply researched and darkly humorous, this is a wrenching tale with a triumphant ending.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mr-humble-and-dr-butcher-monkey-s-head-the-pope-s-neuroscientist-and-the-quest-to-transplant-the-soul-by-brandy-schillace--65148260https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451850 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul Author: Brandy Schillace Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The “delightfully macabre” (The New York Times) true tale of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon…and his quest to transplant the human soul. In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that we all know, but a race to master the inner space of the human body. While surgeons on either side of the Iron Curtain competed to become the first to transplant organs like the kidney and heart, a young American neurosurgeon had an even more ambitious thought: Why not transplant the brain? Dr. Robert White was a friend to two popes and a founder of the Vatican’s Commission on Bioethics. He developed lifesaving neurosurgical techniques still used in hospitals today and was nominated for the Nobel Prize. But like Dr. Jekyll before him, Dr. White had another identity. In his lab, he was waging a battle against the limits of science and against mortality itself—working to perfect a surgery that would allow the soul to live on after the human body had died. This “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal), “provocative” (The Washington Post) tale follows his decades-long quest into tangled matters of science, Cold War politics, and faith, revealing the complex (and often murky) ethics of experimentation and remarkable innovations that today save patients from certain death. It’s a “masterful” (Science) look at our greatest fears and our greatest hopes—and the long, strange journey from science fiction to science fact.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451850Tue, 02 Mar 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451850 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul Author: Brandy Schillace Narrator: Jean Ann...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451850 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul Author: Brandy Schillace Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The “delightfully macabre” (The New York Times) true tale of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon…and his quest to transplant the human soul. In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that we all know, but a race to master the inner space of the human body. While surgeons on either side of the Iron Curtain competed to become the first to transplant organs like the kidney and heart, a young American neurosurgeon had an even more ambitious thought: Why not transplant the brain? Dr. Robert White was a friend to two popes and a founder of the Vatican’s Commission on Bioethics. He developed lifesaving neurosurgical techniques still used in hospitals today and was nominated for the Nobel Prize. But like Dr. Jekyll before him, Dr. White had another identity. In his lab, he was waging a battle against the limits of science and against mortality itself—working to perfect a surgery that would allow the soul to live on after the human body had died. This “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal), “provocative” (The Washington Post) tale follows his decades-long quest into tangled matters of science, Cold War politics, and faith, revealing the complex (and often murky) ethics of experimentation and remarkable innovations that today save patients from certain death. It’s a “masterful” (Science) look at our greatest fears and our greatest hopes—and the long, strange journey from science fiction to science fact.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hostile-skies-the-battle-for-the-falklands-by-david-morgan--65148227https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hostile Skies: The Battle for the Falklands Author: David Morgan Narrator: Peter Kenny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 25, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The gripping personal story of a Falklands Fighter Ace. David Morgan, RAF officer and poet, relives his experiences during the Falklands War in this vivid memoir. On secondment to the Royal Navy when the Argentine invasion of the Falklands began and personally credited with shooting down two Argentine Skyhawks as well as enemy helicopters, Morgan was later awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Here he recounts his involvement in the first British air-strike against Argentine positions around Port Stanley and describes being first on the scene when enemy jets bombed the landing ships SIR TRISTRAM and SIR GALAHAD. Including the author's heartfelt letters sent back to England to close family and friends, HOSTILE SKIES dramatically recalls what it was really like to fight, live and love during the Falklands War. “Graphically told, this is the story of an intense and fraught conflict enacted on the edge of endurance. Gripping... “ FLYPAST]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453816Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hostile Skies: The Battle for the Falklands Author: David Morgan Narrator: Peter Kenny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hostile Skies: The Battle for the Falklands Author: David Morgan Narrator: Peter Kenny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 25, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The gripping personal story of a Falklands Fighter Ace. David Morgan, RAF officer and poet, relives his experiences during the Falklands War in this vivid memoir. On secondment to the Royal Navy when the Argentine invasion of the Falklands began and personally credited with shooting down two Argentine Skyhawks as well as enemy helicopters, Morgan was later awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Here he recounts his involvement in the first British air-strike against Argentine positions around Port Stanley and describes being first on the scene when enemy jets bombed the landing ships SIR TRISTRAM and SIR GALAHAD. Including the author's heartfelt letters sent back to England to close family and friends, HOSTILE SKIES dramatically recalls what it was really like to fight, live and love during the Falklands War. “Graphically told, this is the story of an intense and fraught conflict enacted on the edge of endurance. Gripping... “ FLYPAST]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-york-patrol-the-real-story-of-alvin-york-and-the-unsung-heroes-who-made-him-world-war-i-s-most-famous-soldier-by-james-carl-nelson--65148255https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The York Patrol: The Real Story of Alvin York and the Unsung Heroes Who Made Him World War I's Most Famous Soldier Author: James Carl Nelson Narrator: Jacques Roy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: February 23, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the vein of Band of Brothers and American Sniper, a riveting history of Alvin York, the World War I legend who killed two dozen Germans and captured more than 100, detailing York's heroics yet also restoring the unsung heroes of his patrol to their rightful place in history—from renowned World War I historian James Carl Nelson. October 8, 1918 was a banner day for heroes of the American Expeditionary Force. Thirteen men performed heroic deeds that would earn them Medals of Honor. Of this group, one man emerged as the single greatest American hero of the Great War: Alvin Cullum York. A poor young farmer from Tennessee, Sergeant York was said to have single-handedly killed two dozen Germans and captured another 132 of the enemy plus thirty-five machine guns before noon on that fateful Day of Valor.  York would become an American legend, celebrated in magazines, books, and a blockbuster biopic starring Gary Cooper. The film, Sergeant York, told of a hell-raiser from backwoods Tennessee who had a come-to-Jesus moment, then wrestled with his newfound Christian convictions to become one of the greatest heroes the U.S. Army had ever known. It was a great story—but not the whole story. In this absorbing history, James Carl Nelson unspools, for the first time, the complete story of Alvin York and the events that occurred in the Argonne Forest on that day. Nelson gives voice, in particular, to the sixteen “others” who fought beside York. Hailing from big cities and small towns across the U.S. as well as several foreign countries, these soldiers included a patrician Connecticut farmer whose lineage could be traced back to the American Revolution, a poor runaway from Massachusetts who joined the Army under a false name, and a Polish immigrant who enlisted in hopes of expediting his citizenship. The York Patrol shines a long overdue spotlight on these men and York, and pays homage to their bravery and sacrifice.  The York Patrol is a rousing tale of courage, tragedy, and heroism. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440197Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The York Patrol: The Real Story of Alvin York and the Unsung Heroes Who Made Him World War I's Most Famous Soldier Author: James Carl Nelson Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The York Patrol: The Real Story of Alvin York and the Unsung Heroes Who Made Him World War I's Most Famous Soldier Author: James Carl Nelson Narrator: Jacques Roy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: February 23, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the vein of Band of Brothers and American Sniper, a riveting history of Alvin York, the World War I legend who killed two dozen Germans and captured more than 100, detailing York's heroics yet also restoring the unsung heroes of his patrol to their rightful place in history—from renowned World War I historian James Carl Nelson. October 8, 1918 was a banner day for heroes of the American Expeditionary Force. Thirteen men performed heroic deeds that would earn them Medals of Honor. Of this group, one man emerged as the single greatest American hero of the Great War: Alvin Cullum York. A poor young farmer from Tennessee, Sergeant York was said to have single-handedly killed two dozen Germans and captured another 132 of the enemy plus thirty-five machine guns before noon on that fateful Day of Valor.  York would become an American legend, celebrated in magazines, books, and a blockbuster biopic starring Gary Cooper. The film, Sergeant York, told of a hell-raiser from backwoods Tennessee who had a come-to-Jesus moment, then wrestled with his newfound Christian convictions to become one of the greatest heroes the U.S. Army had ever known. It was a great story—but not the whole story. In this absorbing history, James Carl Nelson unspools, for the first time, the complete story of Alvin York and the events that occurred in the Argonne Forest on that day. Nelson gives voice, in particular, to the sixteen “others” who fought beside York. Hailing from big cities and small towns across the U.S. as well as several foreign countries, these soldiers included a patrician Connecticut farmer whose lineage could be traced back to the American Revolution, a poor runaway from Massachusetts who joined the Army under a false name, and a Polish immigrant who enlisted in hopes of expediting his citizenship. The York Patrol shines a long overdue spotlight on these men and York, and pays homage to their bravery and sacrifice.  The York Patrol is a rousing tale of courage, tragedy, and heroism. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-had-a-little-real-estate-problem-the-unheralded-story-of-native-americans-comedy-by-kliph-nesteroff--65148299https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy Author: Kliph Nesteroff Narrator: Kliph Nesteroff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy. It was one of the most reliable jokes in Charlie Hill’s stand-up routine: “My people are from Wisconsin. We used to be from New York. We had a little real estate problem.” In We Had a Little Real Estate Problem, acclaimed comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff focuses on one of comedy’s most significant and little-known stories: how, despite having been denied representation in the entertainment industry, Native Americans have influenced and advanced the art form. The account begins in the late 1880s, when Native Americans were forced to tour in wild west shows as an alternative to prison. (One modern comedian said it was as “if a Guantanamo detainee suddenly had to appear on X-Factor.”) This is followed by a detailed look at the life and work of seminal figures such as Cherokee humorist Will Rogers and Hill, who in the 1970s was the first Native American comedian to appear The Tonight Show. Also profiled are several contemporary comedians, including Jonny Roberts, a social worker from the Red Lake Nation who drives five hours to the closest comedy club to pursue his stand-up dreams; Kiowa-Apache comic Adrianne Chalepah, who formed the touring group the Native Ladies of Comedy; and the 1491s, a sketch troupe whose satire is smashing stereotypes to critical acclaim. As Ryan Red Corn, the Osage member of the 1491s, says: “The American narrative dictates that Indians are supposed to be sad. It’s not really true and it’s not indicative of the community experience itself…Laughter and joy is very much a part of Native culture.” Featuring dozens of original interviews and the exhaustive research that is Nesteroff’s trademark, We Had a Little Real Estate Problem is a powerful tribute to a neglected legacy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442929Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy Author: Kliph Nesteroff Narrator: Kliph Nesteroff Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy Author: Kliph Nesteroff Narrator: Kliph Nesteroff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy. It was one of the most reliable jokes in Charlie Hill’s stand-up routine: “My people are from Wisconsin. We used to be from New York. We had a little real estate problem.” In We Had a Little Real Estate Problem, acclaimed comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff focuses on one of comedy’s most significant and little-known stories: how, despite having been denied representation in the entertainment industry, Native Americans have influenced and advanced the art form. The account begins in the late 1880s, when Native Americans were forced to tour in wild west shows as an alternative to prison. (One modern comedian said it was as “if a Guantanamo detainee suddenly had to appear on X-Factor.”) This is followed by a detailed look at the life and work of seminal figures such as Cherokee humorist Will Rogers and Hill, who in the 1970s was the first Native American comedian to appear The Tonight Show. Also profiled are several contemporary comedians, including Jonny Roberts, a social worker from the Red Lake Nation who drives five hours to the closest comedy club to pursue his stand-up dreams; Kiowa-Apache comic Adrianne Chalepah, who formed the touring group the Native Ladies of Comedy; and the 1491s, a sketch troupe whose satire is smashing stereotypes to critical acclaim. As Ryan Red Corn, the Osage member of the 1491s, says: “The American narrative dictates that Indians are supposed to be sad. It’s not really true and it’s not indicative of the community experience itself…Laughter and joy is very much a part of Native culture.” Featuring dozens of original interviews and the exhaustive research that is Nesteroff’s trademark, We Had a Little Real Estate Problem is a powerful tribute to a neglected legacy.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-officer-s-daughter-a-memoir-of-family-and-forgiveness-by-elle-johnson--65148296https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Officer's Daughter: A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness Author: Elle Johnson Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: February 16, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ''The Officer’s Daughter is a masterpiece. More than that, it's the perfect book for our troubled time. Johnson has written the deepest, most emotionally resonant understanding of forgiveness and justice I have ever read.''—Darin Strauss, bestselling author of Half a Life The author reflects on a terrible tragedy that forever altered the fabric of her family in this remarkable memoir, a heart-wrenching story of love, violence, coming of age, secrets, justice, and forgiveness.  When she was sixteen, Elle Johnson lived in Queens with her family; she dreamed of being best friends with her popular, cool cousin Karen from the Bronx.  Coming from a family of black law enforcement officers, Elle felt that Karen would understand her in a way no one else could. Elle’s father was a highly protective, at times overbearing, parole officer; her uncle, Karen’s dad, was a homicide detective.  On an ordinary night, the Johnson family’s lives were changed forever. Karen was shot and killed in a robbery gone wrong at the Burger King where she worked. The NYPD and FBI launched a cross-country manhunt to find the killers, and the subsequent trials and media circus marked the end of Elle's childhood innocence. Thirty years later, Elle was living in Los Angeles and working as a television writer, including on many police procedural shows, when she received an unexpected request. One of Karen’s killers was eligible for parole, and her older brother asked Elle to write a letter to the parole board arguing against his release. Elle realized that before she could condemn a man she’d never met to remain in prison, she had to face the hard truths of her own past: of a family who didn’t speak of the murder and its devastating effect, of the secrets they buried, of a complicated father she never truly understood.  The Officer's Daughter is a piercing memoir that explores with unflinching honesty what parents can and cannot do to protect their children, the reverberations of violence on survivors’ lives, and the overwhelming power of forgiveness, even in the face of unspeakable tragedy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436636Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Officer's Daughter: A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness Author: Elle Johnson Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Officer's Daughter: A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness Author: Elle Johnson Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: February 16, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ''The Officer’s Daughter is a masterpiece. More than that, it's the perfect book for our troubled time. Johnson has written the deepest, most emotionally resonant understanding of forgiveness and justice I have ever read.''—Darin Strauss, bestselling author of Half a Life The author reflects on a terrible tragedy that forever altered the fabric of her family in this remarkable memoir, a heart-wrenching story of love, violence, coming of age, secrets, justice, and forgiveness.  When she was sixteen, Elle Johnson lived in Queens with her family; she dreamed of being best friends with her popular, cool cousin Karen from the Bronx.  Coming from a family of black law enforcement officers, Elle felt that Karen would understand her in a way no one else could. Elle’s father was a highly protective, at times overbearing, parole officer; her uncle, Karen’s dad, was a homicide detective.  On an ordinary night, the Johnson family’s lives were changed forever. Karen was shot and killed in a robbery gone wrong at the Burger King where she worked. The NYPD and FBI launched a cross-country manhunt to find the killers, and the subsequent trials and media circus marked the end of Elle's childhood innocence. Thirty years later, Elle was living in Los Angeles and working as a television writer, including on many police procedural shows, when she received an unexpected request. One of Karen’s killers was eligible for parole, and her older brother asked Elle to write a letter to the parole board arguing against his release. Elle realized that before she could condemn a man she’d never met to remain in prison, she had to face the hard truths of her own past: of a family who didn’t speak of the murder and its devastating effect, of the secrets they buried, of a complicated father she never truly understood.  The Officer's Daughter is a piercing memoir that explores with unflinching honesty what parents can and cannot do to protect their children, the reverberations of violence on survivors’ lives, and the overwhelming power of forgiveness, even in the face of unspeakable tragedy.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-good-hand-a-memoir-of-work-brotherhood-and-transformation-in-an-american-boomtown-by-michael-patrick-f-smith--65148259https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown Author: Michael Patrick F. Smith Narrator: Michael Patrick F. Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Remarkable . . . this is the book that Hillbilly Elegy should have been.' --Kirkus Reviews A vivid window into the world of working class men set during the Bakken fracking boom in North Dakota Like thousands of restless men left unmoored in the wake of the 2008 economic crash, Michael Patrick Smith arrived in the fracking boomtown of Williston, North Dakota five years later homeless, unemployed, and desperate for a job. Renting a mattress on a dirty flophouse floor, he slept boot to beard with migrant men who came from all across America and as far away as Jamaica, Africa and the Philippines. They ate together, drank together, argued like crows and searched for jobs they couldn't get back home. Smith's goal was to find the hardest work he could do--to find out if he could do it. He hired on in the oil patch where he toiled fourteen hour shifts from summer's 100 degree dog days to deep into winter's bracing whiteouts, all the while wrestling with the demons of a turbulent past, his broken relationships with women, and the haunted memories of a family riven by violence. The Good Hand is a saga of fear, danger, exhaustion, suffering, loneliness, and grit that explores the struggles of America's marginalized boomtown workers--the rough-hewn, castoff, seemingly disposable men who do an indispensable job that few would exalt: oil field hands who, in the age of climate change, put the gas in our tanks and the food in our homes. Smith, who had pursued theater and played guitar in New York, observes this world with a critical eye; yet he comes to love his coworkers, forming close bonds with Huck, a goofy giant of a young man whose lead foot and quick fists get him into trouble with the law, and The Wildebeest, a foul-mouthed, dip-spitting truck driver who torments him but also trains him up, and helps Smith 'make a hand.' The Good Hand is ultimately a book about transformation--a classic American story of one man's attempt to burn himself clean through hard work, to reconcile himself to himself, to find community, and to become whole. * This audiobook edition includes an original score and seven songs performed by The Good Hand.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449818Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown Author: Michael Patrick F. Smith Narrator: Michael Patrick F....https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown Author: Michael Patrick F. Smith Narrator: Michael Patrick F. Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Remarkable . . . this is the book that Hillbilly Elegy should have been.' --Kirkus Reviews A vivid window into the world of working class men set during the Bakken fracking boom in North Dakota Like thousands of restless men left unmoored in the wake of the 2008 economic crash, Michael Patrick Smith arrived in the fracking boomtown of Williston, North Dakota five years later homeless, unemployed, and desperate for a job. Renting a mattress on a dirty flophouse floor, he slept boot to beard with migrant men who came from all across America and as far away as Jamaica, Africa and the Philippines. They ate together, drank together, argued like crows and searched for jobs they couldn't get back home. Smith's goal was to find the hardest work he could do--to find out if he could do it. He hired on in the oil patch where he toiled fourteen hour shifts from summer's 100 degree dog days to deep into winter's bracing whiteouts, all the while wrestling with the demons of a turbulent past, his broken relationships with women, and the haunted memories of a family riven by violence. The Good Hand is a saga of fear, danger, exhaustion, suffering, loneliness, and grit that explores the struggles of America's marginalized boomtown workers--the rough-hewn, castoff, seemingly disposable men who do an indispensable job that few would exalt: oil field hands who, in the age of climate change, put the gas in our tanks and the food in our homes. Smith, who had pursued theater and played guitar in New York, observes this world with a critical eye; yet he comes to love his coworkers, forming close bonds with Huck, a goofy giant of a young man whose lead foot and quick fists get him into trouble with the law, and The Wildebeest, a foul-mouthed, dip-spitting truck driver who torments him but also trains him up, and helps Smith 'make a hand.' The Good Hand is ultimately a book about transformation--a classic American story of one man's attempt to burn himself clean through hard work, to reconcile himself to himself, to find community, and to become whole. * This audiobook edition includes an original score and seven songs performed by The Good Hand.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bright-star-green-light-the-beautiful-and-damned-lives-of-john-keats-and-f-scott-fitzgerald-by-jonathan-bate--65148263https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald Author: Jonathan Bate Narrator: Paul Hilliar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 4, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. ‘Highly engaging … Go now, read this book’ THE TIMES ‘For awhile after you quit Keats,’ Fitzgerald once wrote, ‘All other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.’ John Keats died two hundred years ago, in February 1821. F. Scott Fitzgerald defined a decade that began one hundred years ago, the Jazz Age. In this biography, prizewinning author Jonathan Bate recreates these two shining, tragic lives in parallel. Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced by Keats, titling Tender is the Night and other works from the poet’s lines, but the two lived with echoing fates: both died young, loved to drink, were plagued by tuberculosis, were haunted by their first love, and wrote into a new decade of release, experimentation and decadence. Luminous and vital, this biography goes through the looking glass to meet afresh two of the greatest and best-known Romantic writers in their twinned centuries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445743Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald Author: Jonathan Bate Narrator: Paul Hilliar Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald Author: Jonathan Bate Narrator: Paul Hilliar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 4, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. ‘Highly engaging … Go now, read this book’ THE TIMES ‘For awhile after you quit Keats,’ Fitzgerald once wrote, ‘All other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.’ John Keats died two hundred years ago, in February 1821. F. Scott Fitzgerald defined a decade that began one hundred years ago, the Jazz Age. In this biography, prizewinning author Jonathan Bate recreates these two shining, tragic lives in parallel. Not only was Fitzgerald profoundly influenced by Keats, titling Tender is the Night and other works from the poet’s lines, but the two lived with echoing fates: both died young, loved to drink, were plagued by tuberculosis, were haunted by their first love, and wrote into a new decade of release, experimentation and decadence. Luminous and vital, this biography goes through the looking glass to meet afresh two of the greatest and best-known Romantic writers in their twinned centuries.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/waiting-for-superman-by-ron-davis-tracie-white--65148195https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/461199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting for Superman Author: Ron Davis, Tracie White Narrator: Lyssa Browne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 4, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For the past six years, Whitney Dafoe has been confined to a bedroom in the back of his parents' home, unable to walk, eat or speak. His diagnosis? The mysterious disease myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) which affects 20 million people around the world who largely suffer in silence because the condition is little known and much misunderstood. Waiting for Superman follows Whitney's father, groundbreaking geneticist Ron, as he uncovers new possibilities for treatments and potentially a cure. At its heart, this book is about more than just cutting-edge research or a race to find an answer - it's about the lengths to which a parent will go to save their child's life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/461199Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/461199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting for Superman Author: Ron Davis, Tracie White Narrator: Lyssa Browne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 11 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/461199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting for Superman Author: Ron Davis, Tracie White Narrator: Lyssa Browne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 11 minutes Release date: February 4, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For the past six years, Whitney Dafoe has been confined to a bedroom in the back of his parents' home, unable to walk, eat or speak. His diagnosis? The mysterious disease myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) which affects 20 million people around the world who largely suffer in silence because the condition is little known and much misunderstood. Waiting for Superman follows Whitney's father, groundbreaking geneticist Ron, as he uncovers new possibilities for treatments and potentially a cure. At its heart, this book is about more than just cutting-edge research or a race to find an answer - it's about the lengths to which a parent will go to save their child's life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lincoln-s-mentors-the-education-of-a-leader-by-michael-j-gerhardt--65148366https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader Author: Michael J. Gerhardt Narrator: James Lurie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 48 minutes Release date: February 2, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership, revealing how five men mentored an obscure lawyer with no executive experience to become America’s greatest president “Gerhardt has devised an ingenious solution for demystifying America’s most enigmatic president: examining the key people who influenced Lincoln as he developed his own unique skills and leadership style.” –Russell L. Riley, UVA’s Miller Center In 1849, when Abraham Lincoln returned to Springfield, Illinois, after two seemingly uninspiring years in the U.S. House of Representatives, his political career appeared all but finished. His sense of failure was so great that friends worried about his sanity. Yet within a decade, Lincoln would reenter politics, become a leader of the Republican Party, win the 1860 presidential election, and keep America together during its most perilous period. What accounted for the turnaround? As Michael J. Gerhardt reveals, Lincoln’s reemergence followed the same path he had taken before, in which he read voraciously and learned from the successes, failures, oratory, and political maneuvering of a surprisingly diverse handful of men, some of whom he had never met but others of whom he knew intimately—Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, John Todd Stuart, and Orville Browning. From their experiences and his own, Lincoln learned valuable lessons on leadership, mastering party politics, campaigning, conventions, understanding and using executive power, managing a cabinet, speechwriting and oratory, and—what would become his most enduring legacy—developing policies and rhetoric to match a constitutional vision that spoke to the monumental challenges of his time. Without these mentors, Abraham Lincoln would likely have remained a small-town lawyer—and without Lincoln, the United States as we know it may not have survived. This book tells the unique story of how Lincoln emerged from obscurity and learned how to lead.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433592Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader Author: Michael J. Gerhardt Narrator: James Lurie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 48 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader Author: Michael J. Gerhardt Narrator: James Lurie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 48 minutes Release date: February 2, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership, revealing how five men mentored an obscure lawyer with no executive experience to become America’s greatest president “Gerhardt has devised an ingenious solution for demystifying America’s most enigmatic president: examining the key people who influenced Lincoln as he developed his own unique skills and leadership style.” –Russell L. Riley, UVA’s Miller Center In 1849, when Abraham Lincoln returned to Springfield, Illinois, after two seemingly uninspiring years in the U.S. House of Representatives, his political career appeared all but finished. His sense of failure was so great that friends worried about his sanity. Yet within a decade, Lincoln would reenter politics, become a leader of the Republican Party, win the 1860 presidential election, and keep America together during its most perilous period. What accounted for the turnaround? As Michael J. Gerhardt reveals, Lincoln’s reemergence followed the same path he had taken before, in which he read voraciously and learned from the successes, failures, oratory, and political maneuvering of a surprisingly diverse handful of men, some of whom he had never met but others of whom he knew intimately—Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, John Todd Stuart, and Orville Browning. From their experiences and his own, Lincoln learned valuable lessons on leadership, mastering party politics, campaigning, conventions, understanding and using executive power, managing a cabinet, speechwriting and oratory, and—what would become his most enduring legacy—developing policies and rhetoric to match a constitutional vision that spoke to the monumental challenges of his time. Without these mentors, Abraham Lincoln would likely have remained a small-town lawyer—and without Lincoln, the United States as we know it may not have survived. This book tells the unique story of how Lincoln emerged from obscurity and learned how to lead.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-doesn-t-kill-you-a-life-with-chronic-illness-lessons-from-a-body-in-revolt-by-tessa-miller--65148244https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt Author: Tessa Miller Narrator: Tessa Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A riveting and candid account of a young journalist's awakening to a life of chronic illness, weaving together her personal story with reporting to shed light on how Americans live with long-term diagnoses today. Tessa Miller was an ambitious twentysomething writer in New York City when, on a random fall day, her stomach began to seize up. At first, she tried to push through the searing pain, taking time off work and staying home, glued to the toilet. But when it became glaringly apparent something was wrong, Miller gave in to her family's requests and went to the hospital-and thus started a years-long personal nightmare that included procedures, misdiagnoses, and life-threatening infections. Once Miller was finally correctly diagnosed with Crohn's disease, she had yet another new battle to face: accepting that she will, in truth, never get better. Today, 3 in 5 adults in the United States suffer from a chronic ailment, whether the illness is endometriosis, IBD, IBS, Crohn's, ulcerative colitis, asthma, depression, anxiety, diabetes, or any other chronic ailment. However, despite the prevalence of these illnesses and the impact they have on just about everyone-whether the sufferer is a colleague, a loved one, or you personally-there remains an air of shame and isolation around the topic. Millions endure these diseases alone, not only physically but also emotionally, balancing the stress of relationships and work amidst the ever-looming threat of health complications. Moving from Miller's maddening yet all too relatable experience into a deeper look at how the medical community handles chronic illness, What Doesn't Kill You exposes the realities of what it means to accept a lifetime diagnosis, pushing past the good, the bad, and the ugly to offer wisdom and solidarity for those trying to make sense of it all. *This audiobook includes a PDF of resources from the appendix of the book.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453059Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt Author: Tessa Miller Narrator: Tessa Miller Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt Author: Tessa Miller Narrator: Tessa Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A riveting and candid account of a young journalist's awakening to a life of chronic illness, weaving together her personal story with reporting to shed light on how Americans live with long-term diagnoses today. Tessa Miller was an ambitious twentysomething writer in New York City when, on a random fall day, her stomach began to seize up. At first, she tried to push through the searing pain, taking time off work and staying home, glued to the toilet. But when it became glaringly apparent something was wrong, Miller gave in to her family's requests and went to the hospital-and thus started a years-long personal nightmare that included procedures, misdiagnoses, and life-threatening infections. Once Miller was finally correctly diagnosed with Crohn's disease, she had yet another new battle to face: accepting that she will, in truth, never get better. Today, 3 in 5 adults in the United States suffer from a chronic ailment, whether the illness is endometriosis, IBD, IBS, Crohn's, ulcerative colitis, asthma, depression, anxiety, diabetes, or any other chronic ailment. However, despite the prevalence of these illnesses and the impact they have on just about everyone-whether the sufferer is a colleague, a loved one, or you personally-there remains an air of shame and isolation around the topic. Millions endure these diseases alone, not only physically but also emotionally, balancing the stress of relationships and work amidst the ever-looming threat of health complications. Moving from Miller's maddening yet all too relatable experience into a deeper look at how the medical community handles chronic illness, What Doesn't Kill You exposes the realities of what it means to accept a lifetime diagnosis, pushing past the good, the bad, and the ugly to offer wisdom and solidarity for those trying to make sense of it all. *This audiobook includes a PDF of resources from the appendix of the book.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ida-b-the-queen-by-michelle-duster--65148339https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/437129 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ida B. the Queen Author: Michelle Duster Narrator: Michelle Duster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 43 minutes Release date: January 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Journalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize. Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI, this made her a “dangerous negro agitator.” In the annals of history, it makes her an icon. Ida B. the Queen tells the awe-inspiring story of an pioneering woman who was often overlooked and underestimated—a woman who refused to exit a train car meant for white passengers; a woman brought to light the horrors of lynching in America; a woman who cofounded the NAACP. Written by Wells’s great-granddaughter Michelle Duster, this “warm remembrance of a civil rights icon” (Kirkus Reviews) is a unique visual celebration of Wells’s life, and of the Black experience. A century after her death, Wells’s genius is being celebrated in popular culture by politicians, through song, public artwork, and landmarks. Like her contemporaries Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, Wells left an indelible mark on history—one that can still be felt today. As America confronts the unfinished business of systemic racism, Ida B. the Queen pays tribute to a transformational leader and reminds us of the power we all hold to smash the status quo.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/437129Tue, 26 Jan 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/437129 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ida B. the Queen Author: Michelle Duster Narrator: Michelle Duster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 43 minutes Release date: January 26,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/437129 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ida B. the Queen Author: Michelle Duster Narrator: Michelle Duster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 43 minutes Release date: January 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Journalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize. Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI, this made her a “dangerous negro agitator.” In the annals of history, it makes her an icon. Ida B. the Queen tells the awe-inspiring story of an pioneering woman who was often overlooked and underestimated—a woman who refused to exit a train car meant for white passengers; a woman brought to light the horrors of lynching in America; a woman who cofounded the NAACP. Written by Wells’s great-granddaughter Michelle Duster, this “warm remembrance of a civil rights icon” (Kirkus Reviews) is a unique visual celebration of Wells’s life, and of the Black experience. A century after her death, Wells’s genius is being celebrated in popular culture by politicians, through song, public artwork, and landmarks. Like her contemporaries Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, Wells left an indelible mark on history—one that can still be felt today. As America confronts the unfinished business of systemic racism, Ida B. the Queen pays tribute to a transformational leader and reminds us of the power we all hold to smash the status quo.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-emperor-charlemagne-by-e-r-chamberlin--65148226https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462665 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Emperor Charlemagne Author: E.R. Chamberlin Narrator: Nigel Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: On Christmas Day, 800, Charlemagne was crowned 'Emperor of the Romans' by Pope Leo III. Under his guidance the Carolingian Renaissance flourished, with his capital of Aachen becoming a center of learning and artistic genius. The legacy of Charlemagne on European history and culture is monumental. Yet, within thirty years of his death, his empire had fragmented. Who was this legendary ruler? How had he managed to rule these vast domains? And why has his legacy continued to influence Europeans to this day? E. R. Chamberlin's masterful biography of Charlemagne demonstrates the sheer force of will that this charismatic leader was able to command as he created a realm to rival the Byzantines in the east. Through the course of the book Chamberlin brings to life how Charlemagne forged his empire, and uncovers the people, the religious and political controversies, the social and agricultural conditions, and the changes in warfare that took place over one thousand years ago.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462665Tue, 26 Jan 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462665 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Emperor Charlemagne Author: E.R. Chamberlin Narrator: Nigel Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462665 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Emperor Charlemagne Author: E.R. Chamberlin Narrator: Nigel Patterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: On Christmas Day, 800, Charlemagne was crowned 'Emperor of the Romans' by Pope Leo III. Under his guidance the Carolingian Renaissance flourished, with his capital of Aachen becoming a center of learning and artistic genius. The legacy of Charlemagne on European history and culture is monumental. Yet, within thirty years of his death, his empire had fragmented. Who was this legendary ruler? How had he managed to rule these vast domains? And why has his legacy continued to influence Europeans to this day? E. R. Chamberlin's masterful biography of Charlemagne demonstrates the sheer force of will that this charismatic leader was able to command as he created a realm to rival the Byzantines in the east. Through the course of the book Chamberlin brings to life how Charlemagne forged his empire, and uncovers the people, the religious and political controversies, the social and agricultural conditions, and the changes in warfare that took place over one thousand years ago.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-boy-who-drew-auschwitz-a-powerful-true-story-of-hope-and-survival-by-thomas-geve--65148272https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival Author: Thomas Geve Narrator: Mark Meadows Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 21, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ‘We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis’ evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our struggle to survive.’ Thomas Geve was just 15 years old when he was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp on 11 April 1945. It was the third concentration camp he had survived. Upon arrival at Auschwitz- Birkenau, Thomas was separated from his mother and left to fend for himself in the men’s camp of Auschwitz I, at the age of 13. During the 22 months he was imprisoned, he was subjected to, and forced to observe first-hand, the inhumane world of Nazi concentration camps. On his eventual release Thomas felt compelled to capture daily life in the death camps in more than eighty profoundly moving drawings. Infamous scenarios synonymous with this dark period of history were portrayed in poignant but simplistic detail with extraordinary accuracy. Despite the unspeakable events he experienced, Thomas decided to become an active witness and tell the truth about life in the camps. He has spoken to audiences from around the world and continues to raise awareness about the Holocaust. The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz presents a rare living testimony through the eyes of a child who had the unique ability to observe and remember every detail around him and chose to document it all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449786Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival Author: Thomas Geve Narrator: Mark Meadows Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival Author: Thomas Geve Narrator: Mark Meadows Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 21, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ‘We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis’ evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our struggle to survive.’ Thomas Geve was just 15 years old when he was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp on 11 April 1945. It was the third concentration camp he had survived. Upon arrival at Auschwitz- Birkenau, Thomas was separated from his mother and left to fend for himself in the men’s camp of Auschwitz I, at the age of 13. During the 22 months he was imprisoned, he was subjected to, and forced to observe first-hand, the inhumane world of Nazi concentration camps. On his eventual release Thomas felt compelled to capture daily life in the death camps in more than eighty profoundly moving drawings. Infamous scenarios synonymous with this dark period of history were portrayed in poignant but simplistic detail with extraordinary accuracy. Despite the unspeakable events he experienced, Thomas decided to become an active witness and tell the truth about life in the camps. He has spoken to audiences from around the world and continues to raise awareness about the Holocaust. The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz presents a rare living testimony through the eyes of a child who had the unique ability to observe and remember every detail around him and chose to document it all.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-solve-a-murder-true-stories-from-a-life-in-forensic-medicine-by-derek-tremain-pauline-tremain--65148235https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Solve a Murder: True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine Author: Derek Tremain, Pauline Tremain Narrator: John Sackville, Kim Hicks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 21, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: As gripping as it is gruesome, How to Solve a Murder is a fascinating insight into the career of a pathologist told by experts in the field. Includes a foreword from Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes. FRACTURED SKULLS. GAS MASKS. BRAIN BUCKETS. VATS OF ACID. PICKLED BODY PARTS. Not the usual tools of trade, but for Chief Forensic Medical Scientist Derek and Forensic Secretary Pauline they were just part of a normal day in the office inside the world-famous Department of Forensic Medicine at Guy’s Hospital in London. Derek has played a pivotal role in investigating some of the UK’s most high-profile mass disasters and murder cases. Derek’s innovative work on murder cases, in particular, has seen him credited as a pioneer of forensic medical science, after developing ground-breaking techniques that make it easier to secure a conviction and also identify a serial killer. Warmly recalled and brilliantly told, these intriguing revelations will open your eyes to the dark world inhabited by those who investigate death and murder (typically most horrid), and unveil the secrets of how each case is solved.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454431Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Solve a Murder: True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine Author: Derek Tremain, Pauline Tremain Narrator: John Sackville, Kim Hicks Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Solve a Murder: True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine Author: Derek Tremain, Pauline Tremain Narrator: John Sackville, Kim Hicks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 21, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: As gripping as it is gruesome, How to Solve a Murder is a fascinating insight into the career of a pathologist told by experts in the field. Includes a foreword from Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes. FRACTURED SKULLS. GAS MASKS. BRAIN BUCKETS. VATS OF ACID. PICKLED BODY PARTS. Not the usual tools of trade, but for Chief Forensic Medical Scientist Derek and Forensic Secretary Pauline they were just part of a normal day in the office inside the world-famous Department of Forensic Medicine at Guy’s Hospital in London. Derek has played a pivotal role in investigating some of the UK’s most high-profile mass disasters and murder cases. Derek’s innovative work on murder cases, in particular, has seen him credited as a pioneer of forensic medical science, after developing ground-breaking techniques that make it easier to secure a conviction and also identify a serial killer. Warmly recalled and brilliantly told, these intriguing revelations will open your eyes to the dark world inhabited by those who investigate death and murder (typically most horrid), and unveil the secrets of how each case is solved.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-be-a-refugee-the-gripping-true-story-of-how-one-family-hid-their-jewish-origins-to-survive-the-nazis-by-simon-may--65148219https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Be a Refugee: The gripping true story of how one family hid their Jewish origins to survive the Nazis Author: Simon May Narrator: David Timson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 21, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception and, at least for the main characters, survival.' Literary Review 'Simon May's remarkable How to Be a Refugee is a memoir of family secrets with a ruminative twist, one that's more interested in what we keep from ourselves than the ones we conceal from others.' Irish Times The most familiar fate of Jews living in Hitler’s Germany is either emigration or deportation to concentration camps. But there was another, much rarer, side to Jewish life at that time: denial of your origin to the point where you manage to erase almost all consciousness of it. You refuse to believe that you are Jewish. How to Be a Refugee is Simon May’s gripping account of how three sisters – his mother and his two aunts – grappled with what they felt to be a lethal heritage. Their very different trajectories included conversion to Catholicism, marriage into the German aristocracy, securing ‘Aryan’ status with high-ranking help from inside Hitler’s regime, and engagement to a card-carrying Nazi. Even after his mother fled to London from Nazi Germany and Hitler had been defeated, her instinct for self-concealment didn’t abate. Following the early death of his father, also a German Jewish refugee, May was raised a Catholic and forbidden to identify as Jewish or German or British. In the face of these banned inheritances, May embarks on a quest to uncover the lives of the three sisters as well as the secrets of a grandfather he never knew. His haunting story forcefully illuminates questions of belonging and home – questions that continue to press in on us today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455969Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Be a Refugee: The gripping true story of how one family hid their Jewish origins to survive the Nazis Author: Simon May Narrator: David Timson...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Be a Refugee: The gripping true story of how one family hid their Jewish origins to survive the Nazis Author: Simon May Narrator: David Timson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: January 21, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception and, at least for the main characters, survival.' Literary Review 'Simon May's remarkable How to Be a Refugee is a memoir of family secrets with a ruminative twist, one that's more interested in what we keep from ourselves than the ones we conceal from others.' Irish Times The most familiar fate of Jews living in Hitler’s Germany is either emigration or deportation to concentration camps. But there was another, much rarer, side to Jewish life at that time: denial of your origin to the point where you manage to erase almost all consciousness of it. You refuse to believe that you are Jewish. How to Be a Refugee is Simon May’s gripping account of how three sisters – his mother and his two aunts – grappled with what they felt to be a lethal heritage. Their very different trajectories included conversion to Catholicism, marriage into the German aristocracy, securing ‘Aryan’ status with high-ranking help from inside Hitler’s regime, and engagement to a card-carrying Nazi. Even after his mother fled to London from Nazi Germany and Hitler had been defeated, her instinct for self-concealment didn’t abate. Following the early death of his father, also a German Jewish refugee, May was raised a Catholic and forbidden to identify as Jewish or German or British. In the face of these banned inheritances, May embarks on a quest to uncover the lives of the three sisters as well as the secrets of a grandfather he never knew. His haunting story forcefully illuminates questions of belonging and home – questions that continue to press in on us today.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/with-her-fist-raised-dorothy-pitman-hughes-and-the-transformative-power-of-black-community-activism-by-laura-l-lovett--65148347https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism Author: Laura L. Lovett Narrator: Sandra Sims Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 19, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the women’s movement. Dorothy Pitman Hughes was a transformative community organizer in New York City in the 1970s who shared the stage with Gloria Steinem for 5 years, captivating audiences around the country. After leaving rural Georgia in the 1950s, she moved to New York, determined to fight for civil rights and equality. Historian Laura L. Lovett traces Hughes’s journey as she became a powerhouse activist, responding to the needs of her community and building a platform for its empowerment. She created lasting change by revitalizing her West Side neighborhood, which was subjected to racial discrimination, with nonexistent childcare and substandard housing, where poverty, drug use, a lack of job training, and the effects of the Vietnam War were evident. Hughes created a high-quality childcare center that also offered job training, adult education classes, a Youth Action corps, housing assistance, and food resources. Hughes’s realization that her neighborhood could be revitalized by actively engaging and including the community was prescient and is startlingly relevant. As her stature grew to a national level, Hughes spent several years traversing the country with Steinem and educating people about feminism, childcare, and race. She moved to Harlem in the 1970s to counter gentrification and bought the franchise to the Miss Greater New York City pageant to demonstrate that Black was beautiful. She also opened an office supply store and became a powerful voice for Black women entrepreneurs and Black-owned businesses. Throughout every phase of her life, Hughes understood the transformative power of activism for Black communities. With expert research, which includes Hughes’s own accounts of her life, With Her Fist Raised is the necessary biography of a pivotal figure in women’s history and Black feminism whose story will finally be told.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431056Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism Author: Laura L. Lovett Narrator: Sandra Sims...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism Author: Laura L. Lovett Narrator: Sandra Sims Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 19, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the women’s movement. Dorothy Pitman Hughes was a transformative community organizer in New York City in the 1970s who shared the stage with Gloria Steinem for 5 years, captivating audiences around the country. After leaving rural Georgia in the 1950s, she moved to New York, determined to fight for civil rights and equality. Historian Laura L. Lovett traces Hughes’s journey as she became a powerhouse activist, responding to the needs of her community and building a platform for its empowerment. She created lasting change by revitalizing her West Side neighborhood, which was subjected to racial discrimination, with nonexistent childcare and substandard housing, where poverty, drug use, a lack of job training, and the effects of the Vietnam War were evident. Hughes created a high-quality childcare center that also offered job training, adult education classes, a Youth Action corps, housing assistance, and food resources. Hughes’s realization that her neighborhood could be revitalized by actively engaging and including the community was prescient and is startlingly relevant. As her stature grew to a national level, Hughes spent several years traversing the country with Steinem and educating people about feminism, childcare, and race. She moved to Harlem in the 1970s to counter gentrification and bought the franchise to the Miss Greater New York City pageant to demonstrate that Black was beautiful. She also opened an office supply store and became a powerful voice for Black women entrepreneurs and Black-owned businesses. Throughout every phase of her life, Hughes understood the transformative power of activism for Black communities. With expert research, which includes Hughes’s own accounts of her life, With Her Fist Raised is the necessary biography of a pivotal figure in women’s history and Black feminism whose story will finally be told.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/harnessing-grief-a-mother-s-quest-for-meaning-and-miracles-by-maria-j-kefalas--65148336https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431055 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Harnessing Grief: A Mother's Quest for Meaning and Miracles Author: Maria J. Kefalas Narrator: Rosemary Benson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 19, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The inspiring story of a mother who took unimaginable tragedy and used her grief as a force to do good by transforming the lives of others. When Maria Kefalas’s daughter Calliope was diagnosed with a degenerative, uncurable genetic disease, the last thing Maria expected to discover in herself was a superpower. She and her husband, Pat, were head over heels in love with their youngest daughter, whose spirit, dancing eyes, and appetite for life captured the best of each of them. When they learned that Cal had MLD (metachromatic leukodystrophy), their world was shattered. But as she spent time listening to and learning from Cal, Maria developed the superpower of grief. It made her a fearless warrior for her daughter. And it gave her voice a bell-like clarity—poignant and funny all at once. This superpower of grief also revealed a miracle—not the conventional sort that fuels the prayers of friends and strangers but a realization that, in order to save themselves, Maria and Pat would need to find a way to save others. And so, with their two older children, they set out to raise money so that they, in their son PJ’s words, could “find a cure for Cal’s disease.” They had no way of knowing that a research team in Italy was closing in on an effective gene therapy for MLD. Though the therapy came too late to help Cal, this news would be the start of an unexpected journey that would introduce Maria and her family to world-famous scientists, brilliant doctors, biotech CEOs, a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback, and a wise nun, and it would also involve selling 50 thousand cupcakes. They would travel to the FDA, the NIH, and the halls of Congress in search of a cure that would never save their child. And their lives would become inextricably intertwined with the families of 13 children whose lives would be transformed by the biggest medical breakthrough in a generation. A memoir about heartbreak that is also about joy, Harnessing Grief is both unsparing and generous. Steeped in love, it is a story about possibility.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431055Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431055 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Harnessing Grief: A Mother's Quest for Meaning and Miracles Author: Maria J. Kefalas Narrator: Rosemary Benson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431055 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Harnessing Grief: A Mother's Quest for Meaning and Miracles Author: Maria J. Kefalas Narrator: Rosemary Benson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 19, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The inspiring story of a mother who took unimaginable tragedy and used her grief as a force to do good by transforming the lives of others. When Maria Kefalas’s daughter Calliope was diagnosed with a degenerative, uncurable genetic disease, the last thing Maria expected to discover in herself was a superpower. She and her husband, Pat, were head over heels in love with their youngest daughter, whose spirit, dancing eyes, and appetite for life captured the best of each of them. When they learned that Cal had MLD (metachromatic leukodystrophy), their world was shattered. But as she spent time listening to and learning from Cal, Maria developed the superpower of grief. It made her a fearless warrior for her daughter. And it gave her voice a bell-like clarity—poignant and funny all at once. This superpower of grief also revealed a miracle—not the conventional sort that fuels the prayers of friends and strangers but a realization that, in order to save themselves, Maria and Pat would need to find a way to save others. And so, with their two older children, they set out to raise money so that they, in their son PJ’s words, could “find a cure for Cal’s disease.” They had no way of knowing that a research team in Italy was closing in on an effective gene therapy for MLD. Though the therapy came too late to help Cal, this news would be the start of an unexpected journey that would introduce Maria and her family to world-famous scientists, brilliant doctors, biotech CEOs, a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback, and a wise nun, and it would also involve selling 50 thousand cupcakes. They would travel to the FDA, the NIH, and the halls of Congress in search of a cure that would never save their child. And their lives would become inextricably intertwined with the families of 13 children whose lives would be transformed by the biggest medical breakthrough in a generation. A memoir about heartbreak that is also about joy, Harnessing Grief is both unsparing and generous. Steeped in love, it is a story about possibility.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dog-flowers-a-memoir-by-danielle-geller--65148372https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dog Flowers: A Memoir Author: Danielle Geller Narrator: Charley Flyte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history   “An honest, intimate, and heart-wrenching memoir that explores the fractured family, the damaging effects of alcoholism and poverty, and what it means to seek healing from the legacies of trauma.”—Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina   When Danielle Geller’s mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober, Geller returns to Florida and finds her mother’s life packed into eight suitcases. Most were filled with clothes, except for the last one, which contained diaries, photos, and letters, a few undeveloped disposable cameras, dried sage, jewelry, and the bandana her mother wore on days she skipped a hair wash. Geller, an archivist and a writer, uses these pieces of her mother’s life to try and understand her mother’s relationship to home, and their shared need to leave it. Geller embarks on a journey where she confronts her family's history and the decisions that she herself had been forced to make while growing up, a journey that will end at her mother's home: the Navajo reservation. Dog Flowers is an arresting memoir that examines mothers and mothering, sisters and caretaking, and colonized bodies. Exploring loss and inheritance, beauty and balance, Danielle Geller pays homage to our pasts, traditions, and heritage, to the families we are given and the families we choose. *This audiobook includes a PDF containing images from the book.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430546Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dog Flowers: A Memoir Author: Danielle Geller Narrator: Charley Flyte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 12,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dog Flowers: A Memoir Author: Danielle Geller Narrator: Charley Flyte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history   “An honest, intimate, and heart-wrenching memoir that explores the fractured family, the damaging effects of alcoholism and poverty, and what it means to seek healing from the legacies of trauma.”—Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina   When Danielle Geller’s mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober, Geller returns to Florida and finds her mother’s life packed into eight suitcases. Most were filled with clothes, except for the last one, which contained diaries, photos, and letters, a few undeveloped disposable cameras, dried sage, jewelry, and the bandana her mother wore on days she skipped a hair wash. Geller, an archivist and a writer, uses these pieces of her mother’s life to try and understand her mother’s relationship to home, and their shared need to leave it. Geller embarks on a journey where she confronts her family's history and the decisions that she herself had been forced to make while growing up, a journey that will end at her mother's home: the Navajo reservation. Dog Flowers is an arresting memoir that examines mothers and mothering, sisters and caretaking, and colonized bodies. Exploring loss and inheritance, beauty and balance, Danielle Geller pays homage to our pasts, traditions, and heritage, to the families we are given and the families we choose. *This audiobook includes a PDF containing images from the book.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/so-called-normal-a-memoir-of-family-depression-and-resilience-by-mark-henick--65148348https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience Author: Mark Henick Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: January 12, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Mark Henick is a powerful storyteller.” —Rosie O’Donnell “So-Called Normal is a call to arms, yes, but it’s also a call to care, highlighting the power of kindness. Required reading for anyone working with children and teens.” —The Globe and Mail A vital and triumphant story of perseverance and recovery by one of Canada’s foremost advocates for mental health When Mark Henick was a teenager in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, he was overwhelmed by depression and anxiety that led to a series of increasingly dangerous suicide attempts. One night, he climbed onto a bridge over an overpass and stood in the wind, clinging to a girder. Someone shouted, “Jump, you coward!” Another man, a stranger in a brown coat, talked to him quietly, calmly and with deep empathy. Just as Henick’s feet touched open air, the man in the brown coat encircled his chest and pulled him to safety. This near-death experience changed Henick’s life forever. So-Called Normal is Henick’s memoir about growing up in a broken home and the events that led to that fateful night on the bridge. It is a vivid and personal account of the mental health challenges he experienced in childhood and his subsequent journey toward healing and recovery.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430644Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience Author: Mark Henick Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience Author: Mark Henick Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: January 12, 2021 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Mark Henick is a powerful storyteller.” —Rosie O’Donnell “So-Called Normal is a call to arms, yes, but it’s also a call to care, highlighting the power of kindness. Required reading for anyone working with children and teens.” —The Globe and Mail A vital and triumphant story of perseverance and recovery by one of Canada’s foremost advocates for mental health When Mark Henick was a teenager in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, he was overwhelmed by depression and anxiety that led to a series of increasingly dangerous suicide attempts. One night, he climbed onto a bridge over an overpass and stood in the wind, clinging to a girder. Someone shouted, “Jump, you coward!” Another man, a stranger in a brown coat, talked to him quietly, calmly and with deep empathy. Just as Henick’s feet touched open air, the man in the brown coat encircled his chest and pulled him to safety. This near-death experience changed Henick’s life forever. So-Called Normal is Henick’s memoir about growing up in a broken home and the events that led to that fateful night on the bridge. It is a vivid and personal account of the mental health challenges he experienced in childhood and his subsequent journey toward healing and recovery.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/icebound-shipwrecked-at-the-edge-of-the-world-by-andrea-pitzer--65148232https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World Author: Andrea Pitzer Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions—the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for survival. The human story has always been one of perseverance—often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar exploration, lost their ship off the frozen coast of Nova Zembla to unforgiving ice. The men would spend the next year fighting off ravenous polar bears, gnawing hunger, and endless winter. In Icebound, Andrea Pitzer masterfully combines a gripping tale of survival with a sweeping history of the great Age of Exploration—a time of hope, adventure, and seemingly unlimited geographic frontiers. At the story’s center is William Barents, one of the 16th century’s greatest navigators whose larger-than-life ambitions and obsessive quest to chart a path through the deepest, most remote regions of the Arctic ended in both tragedy and glory. Journalist Pitzer did extensive research, learning how to use four-hundred-year-old navigation equipment, setting out on three Arctic expeditions to retrace Barents’s steps, and visiting replicas of Barents’s ship and cabin. “A resonant meditation on human ingenuity, resilience, and hope” (The New Yorker), Pitzer’s reenactment of Barents’s ill-fated journey shows us how the human body can function at twenty degrees below, the history of mutiny, the art of celestial navigation, and the intricacies of building shelters. But above all, it gives us a firsthand glimpse into the true nature of courage.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449919Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World Author: Andrea Pitzer Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449919 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World Author: Andrea Pitzer Narrator: Fred Sanders Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 12, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions—the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for survival. The human story has always been one of perseverance—often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar exploration, lost their ship off the frozen coast of Nova Zembla to unforgiving ice. The men would spend the next year fighting off ravenous polar bears, gnawing hunger, and endless winter. In Icebound, Andrea Pitzer masterfully combines a gripping tale of survival with a sweeping history of the great Age of Exploration—a time of hope, adventure, and seemingly unlimited geographic frontiers. At the story’s center is William Barents, one of the 16th century’s greatest navigators whose larger-than-life ambitions and obsessive quest to chart a path through the deepest, most remote regions of the Arctic ended in both tragedy and glory. Journalist Pitzer did extensive research, learning how to use four-hundred-year-old navigation equipment, setting out on three Arctic expeditions to retrace Barents’s steps, and visiting replicas of Barents’s ship and cabin. “A resonant meditation on human ingenuity, resilience, and hope” (The New Yorker), Pitzer’s reenactment of Barents’s ill-fated journey shows us how the human body can function at twenty degrees below, the history of mutiny, the art of celestial navigation, and the intricacies of building shelters. But above all, it gives us a firsthand glimpse into the true nature of courage.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sometimes-you-have-to-lie-the-life-and-times-of-louise-fitzhugh-renegade-author-of-harriet-the-spy-by-leslie-brody--65148356https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy Author: Leslie Brody Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this inspiring biography, discover the true story of Harriet the Spy author Louise Fitzhugh -- and learn about the woman behind one of literature's most beloved heroines. Harriet the Spy, first published in 1964, has mesmerized generations of readers and launched a million diarists. Its beloved antiheroine, Harriet, is erratic, unsentimental, and endearing -- very much like the woman who created her, Louise Fitzhugh.  Born in 1928, Fitzhugh was raised in segregated Memphis, but she soon escaped her cloistered world and headed for New York, where her expanded milieu stretched from the lesbian bars of Greenwich Village to the art world of postwar Europe, and her circle of friends included members of the avant-garde like Maurice Sendak and Lorraine Hansberry. Fitzhugh's novels, written in an era of political defiance, are full of resistance: to authority, to conformity, and even -- radically, for a children's author -- to make-believe.  As a children's author and a lesbian, Fitzhugh was often pressured to disguise her true nature. Sometimes You Have to Lie tells the story of her hidden life and of the creation of her masterpiece, which remains long after her death as a testament to the complicated relationship between truth, secrecy, and individualism.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429051Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy Author: Leslie Brody Narrator: Suzanne Toren...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy Author: Leslie Brody Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this inspiring biography, discover the true story of Harriet the Spy author Louise Fitzhugh -- and learn about the woman behind one of literature's most beloved heroines. Harriet the Spy, first published in 1964, has mesmerized generations of readers and launched a million diarists. Its beloved antiheroine, Harriet, is erratic, unsentimental, and endearing -- very much like the woman who created her, Louise Fitzhugh.  Born in 1928, Fitzhugh was raised in segregated Memphis, but she soon escaped her cloistered world and headed for New York, where her expanded milieu stretched from the lesbian bars of Greenwich Village to the art world of postwar Europe, and her circle of friends included members of the avant-garde like Maurice Sendak and Lorraine Hansberry. Fitzhugh's novels, written in an era of political defiance, are full of resistance: to authority, to conformity, and even -- radically, for a children's author -- to make-believe.  As a children's author and a lesbian, Fitzhugh was often pressured to disguise her true nature. Sometimes You Have to Lie tells the story of her hidden life and of the creation of her masterpiece, which remains long after her death as a testament to the complicated relationship between truth, secrecy, and individualism.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/paddling-north-a-solo-adventure-along-the-inside-passage-by-audrey-sutherland--65148287https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage Author: Audrey Sutherland Narrator: Mapuana Makia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: December 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An Epic Memoir of an Intrepid Solo Adventurer, a Woman Who Lived by the Philosophy 'Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now' In a memoir remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii and Paddling My Own Canoe begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the southeast coast of Alaska in an inflatable kayak. Paddling North is a compilation of Sutherland's first two (of over 20) such annual trips and her day-by-day travels through the Inside Passage from Ketchikan to Skagway. In 22 years she encountered over 30 bears, four wolves, and hundreds of whales. Her lifelong philosophy, 'Go simple, go solo, go now,' is illustrated in this reflection-filled story of kayaking adventure.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445745Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage Author: Audrey Sutherland Narrator: Mapuana Makia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paddling North: A Solo Adventure Along the Inside Passage Author: Audrey Sutherland Narrator: Mapuana Makia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: December 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An Epic Memoir of an Intrepid Solo Adventurer, a Woman Who Lived by the Philosophy 'Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now' In a memoir remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling Hawaii and Paddling My Own Canoe begins with her decision, at age 60, to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the southeast coast of Alaska in an inflatable kayak. Paddling North is a compilation of Sutherland's first two (of over 20) such annual trips and her day-by-day travels through the Inside Passage from Ketchikan to Skagway. In 22 years she encountered over 30 bears, four wolves, and hundreds of whales. Her lifelong philosophy, 'Go simple, go solo, go now,' is illustrated in this reflection-filled story of kayaking adventure.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/paddling-my-own-canoe-a-solo-adventure-on-the-coast-of-molokai-by-audrey-sutherland--65148273https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445744 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paddling My Own Canoe: A Solo Adventure On the Coast of Molokai Author: Audrey Sutherland Narrator: Mapuana Makia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 59 minutes Release date: December 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Book for Connoisseurs of Wild Places of the EarthAn Epic Memoir of an Intrepid Solo Adventurer, a Woman Who Lived by the Philosophy 'Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now' Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now In 1958, while flying from one island to another, Audrey Sutherland sees the remote and roadless northeast side of Molokai, with its spectacular sea cliffs and waterfalls. Always an adventurer, she decides that she must find a way to explore this then inaccessible area. After much study, she determines that the best way for her to navigate these treacherous sea walls is to swim while towing an inflatable kayak. This is the story of fulfilling her dream, of planning then implementing, of launching and advancing, of retreating and reconnoitering, of challenge and success. This is the story of the trip that convinced her that personal growth comes when one goes simple, goes solo, goes now.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445744Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445744 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paddling My Own Canoe: A Solo Adventure On the Coast of Molokai Author: Audrey Sutherland Narrator: Mapuana Makia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445744 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paddling My Own Canoe: A Solo Adventure On the Coast of Molokai Author: Audrey Sutherland Narrator: Mapuana Makia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 59 minutes Release date: December 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A Book for Connoisseurs of Wild Places of the EarthAn Epic Memoir of an Intrepid Solo Adventurer, a Woman Who Lived by the Philosophy 'Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now' Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now In 1958, while flying from one island to another, Audrey Sutherland sees the remote and roadless northeast side of Molokai, with its spectacular sea cliffs and waterfalls. Always an adventurer, she decides that she must find a way to explore this then inaccessible area. After much study, she determines that the best way for her to navigate these treacherous sea walls is to swim while towing an inflatable kayak. This is the story of fulfilling her dream, of planning then implementing, of launching and advancing, of retreating and reconnoitering, of challenge and success. This is the story of the trip that convinced her that personal growth comes when one goes simple, goes solo, goes now.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-woman-of-valor-clara-barton-and-the-civil-war-by-stephen-b-oates--65148240https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War Author: Stephen B. Oates Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 17 minutes Release date: December 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency operating in the heart of the conflict. Now, award-winning author Stephen B. Oates, drawing on archival materials not used by her previous biographers, has written the first complete account of Clara Barton's active engagement in the Civil War. By the summer of 1862, with no institutional affiliation or official government appointment, but impelled by a sense of duty and a need to heal, she made her way to the front lines and the heat of battle. Oates tells the dramatic story of this woman who gave the world a new definition of courage, supplying medical relief to the wounded at some of the most famous battles of the war—including Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Battery Wagner, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg. Committed to healing soldiers' spirits as well as their bodies, she served not only as nurse and relief worker, but as surrogate mother, sister, wife, or sweetheart to thousands of sick, wounded, and dying men.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447157Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War Author: Stephen B. Oates Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 17...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War Author: Stephen B. Oates Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 17 minutes Release date: December 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency operating in the heart of the conflict. Now, award-winning author Stephen B. Oates, drawing on archival materials not used by her previous biographers, has written the first complete account of Clara Barton's active engagement in the Civil War. By the summer of 1862, with no institutional affiliation or official government appointment, but impelled by a sense of duty and a need to heal, she made her way to the front lines and the heat of battle. Oates tells the dramatic story of this woman who gave the world a new definition of courage, supplying medical relief to the wounded at some of the most famous battles of the war—including Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Battery Wagner, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg. Committed to healing soldiers' spirits as well as their bodies, she served not only as nurse and relief worker, but as surrogate mother, sister, wife, or sweetheart to thousands of sick, wounded, and dying men.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-american-aristocrat-the-brilliant-life-and-improbable-education-of-henry-adams-by-david-s-brown--65148314https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams Author: David S. Brown Narrator: Jacques Roy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 24, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A “marvelous…compelling” (The New York Times Book Review) biography of literary icon Henry Adams—one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals, who witnessed and contributed to the United States’ dramatic transition from a colonial society to a modern nation. Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family—after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams—to gain national attention, he is remembered today as an historian, a political commentator, and a memoirist. Now, historian David Brown sheds light on the brilliant yet under-celebrated life of this major American intellectual. Adams not only lived through the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution but he met Abraham Lincoln, bowed before Queen Victoria, and counted Secretary of State John Hay, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and President Theodore Roosevelt as friends and neighbors. His observations of these powerful men and their policies in his private letters provide a penetrating assessment of Gilded Age America on the cusp of the modern era. “Thoroughly researched and gracefully written” (The Wall Street Journal), The Last American Aristocrat details Adams’s relationships with his wife (Marian “Clover” Hooper) and, following her suicide, Elizabeth Cameron, the young wife of a senator and part of the famous Sherman clan from Ohio. Henry Adams’s letters—thousands of them—demonstrate his struggles with depression, familial expectations, and reconciling with his unwanted widower’s existence. Offering a fresh window on nineteenth century US history, as well as a more “modern” and “human” Henry Adams than ever before, The Last American Aristocrat is a “standout portrait of the man and his era” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434833Tue, 24 Nov 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams Author: David S. Brown Narrator: Jacques Roy Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams Author: David S. Brown Narrator: Jacques Roy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 24, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A “marvelous…compelling” (The New York Times Book Review) biography of literary icon Henry Adams—one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals, who witnessed and contributed to the United States’ dramatic transition from a colonial society to a modern nation. Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family—after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams—to gain national attention, he is remembered today as an historian, a political commentator, and a memoirist. Now, historian David Brown sheds light on the brilliant yet under-celebrated life of this major American intellectual. Adams not only lived through the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution but he met Abraham Lincoln, bowed before Queen Victoria, and counted Secretary of State John Hay, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and President Theodore Roosevelt as friends and neighbors. His observations of these powerful men and their policies in his private letters provide a penetrating assessment of Gilded Age America on the cusp of the modern era. “Thoroughly researched and gracefully written” (The Wall Street Journal), The Last American Aristocrat details Adams’s relationships with his wife (Marian “Clover” Hooper) and, following her suicide, Elizabeth Cameron, the young wife of a senator and part of the famous Sherman clan from Ohio. Henry Adams’s letters—thousands of them—demonstrate his struggles with depression, familial expectations, and reconciling with his unwanted widower’s existence. Offering a fresh window on nineteenth century US history, as well as a more “modern” and “human” Henry Adams than ever before, The Last American Aristocrat is a “standout portrait of the man and his era” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-unlikely-peace-at-cuchumaquic-the-parallel-lives-of-people-as-plants-keeping-the-seeds-alive-by-martin-prechtel--65148247https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452074 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive Author: Martín Prechtel Narrator: Martín Prechtel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 24, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is both an epic story and a cry to the heart of humanity based on the author’s realization that human survival depends on keeping alive the seeds of our “original forgotten spiritual excellence.”   Prechtel relates our current state of ecological crisis to the rapid disappearance of biodiversity, indigenous cultures, and shared human values. He demonstrates how real human culture is exterminated when real (not genetically modified) seeds are lost. Like plants that become extinct once their required conditions are no longer met, authentic, unmonetized human cultures can no longer survive in the modern world. To “keep the seeds alive”—both literally and metaphorically—they must be planted, harvested, and replanted, just as human culture must become truly engaging and meaningful to the soul, as necessary as food is to the body. The viable seeds of spirituality and culture that lie dormant within us need to “sprout” into broad daylight to create real sets of cultures welcome on Earth.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452074Tue, 24 Nov 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452074 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive Author: Martín Prechtel Narrator: Martín Prechtel...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452074 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive Author: Martín Prechtel Narrator: Martín Prechtel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 24, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is both an epic story and a cry to the heart of humanity based on the author’s realization that human survival depends on keeping alive the seeds of our “original forgotten spiritual excellence.”   Prechtel relates our current state of ecological crisis to the rapid disappearance of biodiversity, indigenous cultures, and shared human values. He demonstrates how real human culture is exterminated when real (not genetically modified) seeds are lost. Like plants that become extinct once their required conditions are no longer met, authentic, unmonetized human cultures can no longer survive in the modern world. To “keep the seeds alive”—both literally and metaphorically—they must be planted, harvested, and replanted, just as human culture must become truly engaging and meaningful to the soul, as necessary as food is to the body. The viable seeds of spirituality and culture that lie dormant within us need to “sprout” into broad daylight to create real sets of cultures welcome on Earth.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fix-what-you-can-schizophrenia-and-a-lawmaker-s-fight-for-her-son-by-mindy-greiling--65148225https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for Her Son Author: Mindy Greiling Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 24, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In his early twenties, Mindy Greiling's son, Jim, was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after experiencing delusions that demanded he kill his mother. At the time, and for more than a decade after, Greiling was a Minnesota state legislator who struggled, along with her husband, to navigate and improve the state's inadequate mental health system. Fix What You Can is an illuminating and frank account of caring for a person with a mental illness, told by a parent and advocate. Greiling describes challenges shared by many families, ranging from the practical to the heartbreaking. Greiling confronts the reality that some people with serious mental illness may be dangerous and reminds us that medication works—if taken. The book chronicles her efforts to pass legislation to address problems in the mental health system. It also recounts Greiling's painful memories of her grandmother, who was confined in an institution for twenty-three years—recollections that strengthen her determination that Jim's treatment be more humane. Written with her son's cooperation, Fix What You Can offers hard-won perspective, practical advice, and useful resources through a brave and personal story that takes the long view of what success means when coping with mental illness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455782Tue, 24 Nov 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for Her Son Author: Mindy Greiling Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for Her Son Author: Mindy Greiling Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 24, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In his early twenties, Mindy Greiling's son, Jim, was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after experiencing delusions that demanded he kill his mother. At the time, and for more than a decade after, Greiling was a Minnesota state legislator who struggled, along with her husband, to navigate and improve the state's inadequate mental health system. Fix What You Can is an illuminating and frank account of caring for a person with a mental illness, told by a parent and advocate. Greiling describes challenges shared by many families, ranging from the practical to the heartbreaking. Greiling confronts the reality that some people with serious mental illness may be dangerous and reminds us that medication works—if taken. The book chronicles her efforts to pass legislation to address problems in the mental health system. It also recounts Greiling's painful memories of her grandmother, who was confined in an institution for twenty-three years—recollections that strengthen her determination that Jim's treatment be more humane. Written with her son's cooperation, Fix What You Can offers hard-won perspective, practical advice, and useful resources through a brave and personal story that takes the long view of what success means when coping with mental illness.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-together-now-a-newfoundlander-s-light-tales-for-heavy-times-by-alan-doyle--65148210https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462973 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Together Now: A Newfoundlander's Light Tales for Heavy Times Author: Alan Doyle Narrator: Alan Doyle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 24, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: National Bestseller One of Newfoundland's funniest and most beloved storytellers offers his cure for the Covid blues. Is there a more sociable province than Newfoundland and Labrador? Or anywhere in Canada with a greater reputation for coming to the rescue of those in need? At this time of Covid, singer, songwriter and bestselling author Alan Doyle is feeling everyone's pain. Off the road and spending more days at home than he has since he was a child hawking cod tongues on the wharfs of Petty Harbour, he misses the crowds and companionship of performing across the country and beyond. But most of all he misses the cheery clamour of pubs in his hometown, where one yarn follows another so quickly 'you have to be as ready as an Olympian at the start line to get your tale in before someone is well into theirs already.' We're all experiencing our own version of that deprivation, and Alan, one of Newfoundland's finest storytellers, wants to offer a little balm. All Together Now is a gathering in book form--a virtual Newfoundland pub. There are adventures in foreign lands, including an apparently filthy singalong in Polish (well, he would have sung along if he'd understood the language), a real-life ghost story involving an elderly neighbour, a red convertible and a clown horn, a potted history of his social drinking, and heartwarming reminiscences from another past world, childhood--all designed to put a smile on the faces of the isolated-addled. Alan Doyle has never been in better form--nor more welcome. As he says about this troubling time: 'We get through it. We do what has to be done. Then, we celebrate. With the best of them.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462973Tue, 24 Nov 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462973 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Together Now: A Newfoundlander's Light Tales for Heavy Times Author: Alan Doyle Narrator: Alan Doyle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/462973 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All Together Now: A Newfoundlander's Light Tales for Heavy Times Author: Alan Doyle Narrator: Alan Doyle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 24, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: National Bestseller One of Newfoundland's funniest and most beloved storytellers offers his cure for the Covid blues. Is there a more sociable province than Newfoundland and Labrador? Or anywhere in Canada with a greater reputation for coming to the rescue of those in need? At this time of Covid, singer, songwriter and bestselling author Alan Doyle is feeling everyone's pain. Off the road and spending more days at home than he has since he was a child hawking cod tongues on the wharfs of Petty Harbour, he misses the crowds and companionship of performing across the country and beyond. But most of all he misses the cheery clamour of pubs in his hometown, where one yarn follows another so quickly 'you have to be as ready as an Olympian at the start line to get your tale in before someone is well into theirs already.' We're all experiencing our own version of that deprivation, and Alan, one of Newfoundland's finest storytellers, wants to offer a little balm. All Together Now is a gathering in book form--a virtual Newfoundland pub. There are adventures in foreign lands, including an apparently filthy singalong in Polish (well, he would have sung along if he'd understood the language), a real-life ghost story involving an elderly neighbour, a red convertible and a clown horn, a potted history of his social drinking, and heartwarming reminiscences from another past world, childhood--all designed to put a smile on the faces of the isolated-addled. Alan Doyle has never been in better form--nor more welcome. As he says about this troubling time: 'We get through it. We do what has to be done. Then, we celebrate. With the best of them.']]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-moth-and-the-mountain-a-true-story-of-love-war-and-everest-by-ed-caesar--65148322https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434834 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest Author: Ed Caesar Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 17, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “An outstanding book.” —The Wall Street Journal * “Gripping at every turn.” —Outside * “A hell of a ride.” —The Times (London) An extraordinary true story about one man’s attempt to salve the wounds of war and save his own soul through an audacious adventure. In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit—completely alone. Wilson doesn’t know how to climb. He barely knows how to fly. But he has the right plane, the right equipment, and a deep yearning to achieve his goal. In 1933, he takes off from London in a Gipsy Moth biplane with his course set for the highest mountain on earth. Wilson’s eleven-month journey to Everest is wild: full of twists, turns, and daring. Eventually, in disguise, he sneaks into Tibet. His icy ordeal is just beginning. Wilson is one of the Great War’s heroes, but also one of its victims. His hometown of Bradford in northern England is ripped apart by the fighting. So is his family. He barely survives the war himself. Wilson returns from the conflict unable to cope with the sadness that engulfs him. He begins a years-long trek around the world, burning through marriages and relationships, leaving damaged lives in his wake. When he finally returns to England, nearly a decade after he first left, he finds himself falling in love once more—this time with his best friend’s wife—before depression overcomes him again. He emerges from his funk with a crystalline ambition. He wants to be the first man to stand on top of the world. Wilson believes that Everest can redeem him. This is the “rollicking” (The Economist) tale of an adventurer unlike any you have ever encountered: complex, driven, wry, haunted, and fully alive. He is a man written out of the history books—dismissed as an eccentric and gossiped about because of rumors of his transvestism. The Moth and the Mountain restores Maurice Wilson to his rightful place in the annals of Everest and tells an unforgettable story about the power of the human spirit in the face of adversity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434834Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434834 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest Author: Ed Caesar Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434834 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest Author: Ed Caesar Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 17, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “An outstanding book.” —The Wall Street Journal * “Gripping at every turn.” —Outside * “A hell of a ride.” —The Times (London) An extraordinary true story about one man’s attempt to salve the wounds of war and save his own soul through an audacious adventure. In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit—completely alone. Wilson doesn’t know how to climb. He barely knows how to fly. But he has the right plane, the right equipment, and a deep yearning to achieve his goal. In 1933, he takes off from London in a Gipsy Moth biplane with his course set for the highest mountain on earth. Wilson’s eleven-month journey to Everest is wild: full of twists, turns, and daring. Eventually, in disguise, he sneaks into Tibet. His icy ordeal is just beginning. Wilson is one of the Great War’s heroes, but also one of its victims. His hometown of Bradford in northern England is ripped apart by the fighting. So is his family. He barely survives the war himself. Wilson returns from the conflict unable to cope with the sadness that engulfs him. He begins a years-long trek around the world, burning through marriages and relationships, leaving damaged lives in his wake. When he finally returns to England, nearly a decade after he first left, he finds himself falling in love once more—this time with his best friend’s wife—before depression overcomes him again. He emerges from his funk with a crystalline ambition. He wants to be the first man to stand on top of the world. Wilson believes that Everest can redeem him. This is the “rollicking” (The Economist) tale of an adventurer unlike any you have ever encountered: complex, driven, wry, haunted, and fully alive. He is a man written out of the history books—dismissed as an eccentric and gossiped about because of rumors of his transvestism. The Moth and the Mountain restores Maurice Wilson to his rightful place in the annals of Everest and tells an unforgettable story about the power of the human spirit in the face of adversity.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/soldier-respect-is-earned-by-jay-morton--65148334https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439458 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soldier: Respect Is Earned Author: Jay Morton Narrator: Jay Morton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 12, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one is better equipped than Jay Morton to reveal what it takes to become the best of the best. Soldier is Jay Morton’s masterclass in mindset, strategy and excellence. Drawing on his extraordinary personal experience, it provides in-depth, comprehensive lessons and practical takeaways. Whether serving as an elite soldier, training as a high-level shooter or becoming an expert in HALO (high-altitude, low-opening) and HAHO (high-altitude, high-opening) parachuting, Jay has always strived to be at the very top of the game. More than most, Jay knows that military service develops skillsets you’d never dreamed of having, and which can be applied to our day-to-day lives. We are prone to underestimating ourselves, but physical and mental endurance and resilience – as well as realising our own full potential – are well within our reach.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439458Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439458 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soldier: Respect Is Earned Author: Jay Morton Narrator: Jay Morton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 12,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439458 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soldier: Respect Is Earned Author: Jay Morton Narrator: Jay Morton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 12, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one is better equipped than Jay Morton to reveal what it takes to become the best of the best. Soldier is Jay Morton’s masterclass in mindset, strategy and excellence. Drawing on his extraordinary personal experience, it provides in-depth, comprehensive lessons and practical takeaways. Whether serving as an elite soldier, training as a high-level shooter or becoming an expert in HALO (high-altitude, low-opening) and HAHO (high-altitude, high-opening) parachuting, Jay has always strived to be at the very top of the game. More than most, Jay knows that military service develops skillsets you’d never dreamed of having, and which can be applied to our day-to-day lives. We are prone to underestimating ourselves, but physical and mental endurance and resilience – as well as realising our own full potential – are well within our reach.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/meghan-misunderstood-by-sean-smith--65148308https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Meghan Misunderstood Author: Sean Smith Narrator: Jessica Hayles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 12, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Meghan Misunderstood is a pioneering book that sets the record straight on the most talked about, unfairly vilified and misrepresented woman in the world. Meghan Markle was eleven when she first advocated for women’s rights; a teenager when she worked in a soup kitchen feeding the homeless; a popular actress when she campaigned for clean water in Africa and passionately championed gender equality in a speech to a United Nations Women’s Conference. Even before she met Prince Harry, hers was an extraordinarily accomplished life. Meghan’s wedding to Harry was a joyful occasion, marking happiness at last for the Queen’s grandson who had captured our hearts twenty years earlier when he bravely walked behind his mother Diana’s coffin. Theirs was a story that the screenwriters of Hollywood – where Meghan had made her name – could scarcely have imagined. The rom-com fantasy, however, soon turned into disturbing drama: any expectation of a life happily-ever-after was cruelly dashed by bullying tabloid newspapers and their allies, both on social media and within the walls of the Palace itself. Meghan was targeted for her gender, her race, her nationality and her profession. The abuse became so bad that seventy-two female MPs signed a letter of solidarity against the ‘often distasteful and misleading press’, calling out the ‘outdated colonial undertones’ of the stories. Now, Sean Smith, the UK’s leading celebrity biographer, pulls no punches as he reveals the remarkable and powerful story of this self-made, intelligent American woman with a strong social conscience who has made such an impact on our lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441122Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Meghan Misunderstood Author: Sean Smith Narrator: Jessica Hayles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 12,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Meghan Misunderstood Author: Sean Smith Narrator: Jessica Hayles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 12, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Meghan Misunderstood is a pioneering book that sets the record straight on the most talked about, unfairly vilified and misrepresented woman in the world. Meghan Markle was eleven when she first advocated for women’s rights; a teenager when she worked in a soup kitchen feeding the homeless; a popular actress when she campaigned for clean water in Africa and passionately championed gender equality in a speech to a United Nations Women’s Conference. Even before she met Prince Harry, hers was an extraordinarily accomplished life. Meghan’s wedding to Harry was a joyful occasion, marking happiness at last for the Queen’s grandson who had captured our hearts twenty years earlier when he bravely walked behind his mother Diana’s coffin. Theirs was a story that the screenwriters of Hollywood – where Meghan had made her name – could scarcely have imagined. The rom-com fantasy, however, soon turned into disturbing drama: any expectation of a life happily-ever-after was cruelly dashed by bullying tabloid newspapers and their allies, both on social media and within the walls of the Palace itself. Meghan was targeted for her gender, her race, her nationality and her profession. The abuse became so bad that seventy-two female MPs signed a letter of solidarity against the ‘often distasteful and misleading press’, calling out the ‘outdated colonial undertones’ of the stories. Now, Sean Smith, the UK’s leading celebrity biographer, pulls no punches as he reveals the remarkable and powerful story of this self-made, intelligent American woman with a strong social conscience who has made such an impact on our lives.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-moth-and-the-mountain-by-ed-caesar--65148301https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/446152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Moth and the Mountain Author: Ed Caesar Narrator: Kris Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: November 12, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest. A fine, fine slice of history by a truly special writer who proves time and time again that he is among the best of his generation' Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets The untold story of Britain's most mysterious mountaineering legend - Maurice Wilson - and his heroic attempt to climb Everest alone. In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan: he would fly a Gipsy Moth aeroplane from England to Everest, crash land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit - all utterly alone. Wilson didn't know how to climb. He barely knew how to fly. But he had pluck, daring and a vision - he wanted to be the first man to stand on top of the world. Traumatised by his wartime experiences and leaving behind a trail of broken hearts, Wilson believed that Everest could redeem him. This is the tale of an adventurer unlike any you have ever encountered: an unforgettable story about the power of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Maurice Wilson is a man written out of the history books - dismissed as an eccentric and a charlatan by many, but held in the highest regard by renowned mountaineers such as Reinhold Messner. The Moth and the Mountain restores him to his rightful place in the annals of Everest and in doing so attempts to answer that eternal question - why do we climb mountains?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/446152Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/446152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Moth and the Mountain Author: Ed Caesar Narrator: Kris Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: November 12, 2020...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/446152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Moth and the Mountain Author: Ed Caesar Narrator: Kris Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: November 12, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest. A fine, fine slice of history by a truly special writer who proves time and time again that he is among the best of his generation' Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets The untold story of Britain's most mysterious mountaineering legend - Maurice Wilson - and his heroic attempt to climb Everest alone. In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan: he would fly a Gipsy Moth aeroplane from England to Everest, crash land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit - all utterly alone. Wilson didn't know how to climb. He barely knew how to fly. But he had pluck, daring and a vision - he wanted to be the first man to stand on top of the world. Traumatised by his wartime experiences and leaving behind a trail of broken hearts, Wilson believed that Everest could redeem him. This is the tale of an adventurer unlike any you have ever encountered: an unforgettable story about the power of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Maurice Wilson is a man written out of the history books - dismissed as an eccentric and a charlatan by many, but held in the highest regard by renowned mountaineers such as Reinhold Messner. The Moth and the Mountain restores him to his rightful place in the annals of Everest and in doing so attempts to answer that eternal question - why do we climb mountains?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/everyone-versus-racism-a-letter-to-my-children-by-patrick-hutchinson--65148278https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children Author: Patrick Hutchinson Narrator: Patrick Hutchinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 12, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'The best of England' The New Statesman 'A powerful open letter about racism' The Sun ‘I just want equality, equality for all of us. At the moment, the scales are unfairly balanced and I just want things to be fair for my children, my grandchildren and future generations.’ On 13 June 2020, Patrick Hutchinson, a black man, was photographed carrying a white injured man to safety during a confrontation in London between Black Lives Matter demonstrators and counter-protestors. The powerful image was shared and discussed all around the world. Everyone versus Racism is a poignant letter from Patrick to his children and grandchildren. Writing from the heart, he describes the realities of life as a black man today and why we must unite to inspire change for generations to come.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447076Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children Author: Patrick Hutchinson Narrator: Patrick Hutchinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children Author: Patrick Hutchinson Narrator: Patrick Hutchinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 12, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'The best of England' The New Statesman 'A powerful open letter about racism' The Sun ‘I just want equality, equality for all of us. At the moment, the scales are unfairly balanced and I just want things to be fair for my children, my grandchildren and future generations.’ On 13 June 2020, Patrick Hutchinson, a black man, was photographed carrying a white injured man to safety during a confrontation in London between Black Lives Matter demonstrators and counter-protestors. The powerful image was shared and discussed all around the world. Everyone versus Racism is a poignant letter from Patrick to his children and grandchildren. Writing from the heart, he describes the realities of life as a black man today and why we must unite to inspire change for generations to come.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/walk-through-this-harness-the-healing-power-of-nature-and-travel-the-road-to-forgiveness-by-sara-schulting-kranz--65148373https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walk Through This: Harness the Healing Power of Nature and Travel the Road to Forgiveness Author: Sara Schulting Kranz Narrator: Sara Schulting-Kranz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 10, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: If you’ve suffered from setbacks or trauma in life, discover a path forward by learning to embrace the power of nature and the beauty in your experiences and pains. As a young, single?mother, Sara Schulting Kranz discovered her path to forgiveness and healing from the scars of sexual abuse and the trauma of an unexpected divorce started with a daily practice of actively embracing the power and beauty of nature. Along the way, Sara learned a key lesson that to heal from anything you must walk through it on your own terms. In?this book, life coach and certified wilderness guide Sara shares a step-by-step handbook that shows you how to reconnect with nature--wherever you may be--and begin your healing journey. In Walk Through This, you’ll be equipped with tools to use along the way, such as: - Foundational information about nature deficit disorder and the negative impact it has on our minds and bodies - Exercise prompts to help you evaluate where you are on the path and check your progress along the way - Meditations to guide you deeper into the process - Practical steps to guide you to forgiveness To heal from anything, you have to feel everything. You must walk through your experiences and your pains, and you have to embrace everything around you that got you to where you are at this moment. Everyone has the capacity to forgive and to heal. All you need to do is take that first step.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425849Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walk Through This: Harness the Healing Power of Nature and Travel the Road to Forgiveness Author: Sara Schulting Kranz Narrator: Sara Schulting-Kranz...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walk Through This: Harness the Healing Power of Nature and Travel the Road to Forgiveness Author: Sara Schulting Kranz Narrator: Sara Schulting-Kranz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 10, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: If you’ve suffered from setbacks or trauma in life, discover a path forward by learning to embrace the power of nature and the beauty in your experiences and pains. As a young, single?mother, Sara Schulting Kranz discovered her path to forgiveness and healing from the scars of sexual abuse and the trauma of an unexpected divorce started with a daily practice of actively embracing the power and beauty of nature. Along the way, Sara learned a key lesson that to heal from anything you must walk through it on your own terms. In?this book, life coach and certified wilderness guide Sara shares a step-by-step handbook that shows you how to reconnect with nature--wherever you may be--and begin your healing journey. In Walk Through This, you’ll be equipped with tools to use along the way, such as: - Foundational information about nature deficit disorder and the negative impact it has on our minds and bodies - Exercise prompts to help you evaluate where you are on the path and check your progress along the way - Meditations to guide you deeper into the process - Practical steps to guide you to forgiveness To heal from anything, you have to feel everything. You must walk through your experiences and your pains, and you have to embrace everything around you that got you to where you are at this moment. Everyone has the capacity to forgive and to heal. All you need to do is take that first step.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-voyage-of-the-cormorant-a-memoir-of-the-changeable-sea-by-christian-beamish--65148294https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Voyage of the Cormorant: A Memoir of the Changeable Sea Author: Christian Beamish Narrator: Christian Beamish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 10, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Christian Beamish, a notable writer for The Surfer's Journal, has done what every guy since Huck Finn has dreamed of doing: making his own boat and sailing it to paradise, with adventures along the way. Christian Beamish, a former editor at The Surfer's Journal, envisioned a low-tech, self-reliant exploration for surf along the coast of North America, using primarily clothes and instruments available to his ancestors, and the 18-foot boat he would build by hand in his garage. How the vision met reality - and how the two came to shape each other - places The Voyage of the Cormorant in the great American tradition of tales of life at sea, and what it has to teach us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445770Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Voyage of the Cormorant: A Memoir of the Changeable Sea Author: Christian Beamish Narrator: Christian Beamish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Voyage of the Cormorant: A Memoir of the Changeable Sea Author: Christian Beamish Narrator: Christian Beamish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 10, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Christian Beamish, a notable writer for The Surfer's Journal, has done what every guy since Huck Finn has dreamed of doing: making his own boat and sailing it to paradise, with adventures along the way. Christian Beamish, a former editor at The Surfer's Journal, envisioned a low-tech, self-reliant exploration for surf along the coast of North America, using primarily clothes and instruments available to his ancestors, and the 18-foot boat he would build by hand in his garage. How the vision met reality - and how the two came to shape each other - places The Voyage of the Cormorant in the great American tradition of tales of life at sea, and what it has to teach us.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-japanese-a-history-in-twenty-lives-by-christopher-harding--65148344https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives Author: Christopher Harding Narrator: Christopher Harding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 5, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. These vivid and entertaining portraits take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako. We encounter shamans and warlords, poets and revolutionaries, scientists, artists and adventurers - each offering insights of their own into this extraordinary place. For anyone new to Japan, this book is the ideal introduction. For anyone already deeply involved with it, this is a book filled with surprises and pleasures. © Christopher Harding 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435743Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives Author: Christopher Harding Narrator: Christopher Harding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 44...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives Author: Christopher Harding Narrator: Christopher Harding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 5, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. These vivid and entertaining portraits take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako. We encounter shamans and warlords, poets and revolutionaries, scientists, artists and adventurers - each offering insights of their own into this extraordinary place. For anyone new to Japan, this book is the ideal introduction. For anyone already deeply involved with it, this is a book filled with surprises and pleasures. © Christopher Harding 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-book-collectors-a-band-of-syrian-rebels-and-the-stories-that-carried-them-through-a-war-by-delphine-minoui--65148380https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/426058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War Author: Delphine Minoui Narrator: Nikki Massoud Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 22 minutes Release date: November 3, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion.' ―Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a besieged Syrian town, and an underground library built from the rubble of war Reading is an act of resistance. Daraya is a town outside Damascus, the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Long a site of peaceful resistance to the Assad regimes, Daraya fell under siege in 2012. For four years, no one entered or left, and aid was blocked. Every single day, bombs fell on this place―a place of homes and families, schools and children, now emptied and broken into bits. And then a group searching for survivors stumbled upon a cache of books in the rubble. In a week, they had six thousand volumes; in a month, fifteen thousand. A sanctuary was born: a library where people could escape the blockade, a paper fortress to protect their humanity. The library offered a marvelous range of books―from Arabic poetry to American self-help, Shakespearean plays to stories of war in other times and places. The visitors shared photos and tales of their lives before the war, planned how to build a democracy, and tended the roots of their community despite shell-shocked soil. In the midst of the siege, the journalist Delphine Minoui tracked down one of the library’s founders, twenty-three-year-old Ahmad. Over text messages, WhatsApp, and Facebook, Minoui came to know the young men who gathered in the library, exchanged ideas, learned English, and imagined how to shape the future, even as bombs kept falling from above. By telling their stories, Minoui makes a far-off, complicated war immediate and reveals these young men to be everyday heroes as inspiring as the books they read. The Book Collectors is a testament to their bravery and a celebration of the power of words.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/426058Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/426058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War Author: Delphine Minoui Narrator: Nikki Massoud Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/426058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War Author: Delphine Minoui Narrator: Nikki Massoud Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 22 minutes Release date: November 3, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion.' ―Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a besieged Syrian town, and an underground library built from the rubble of war Reading is an act of resistance. Daraya is a town outside Damascus, the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Long a site of peaceful resistance to the Assad regimes, Daraya fell under siege in 2012. For four years, no one entered or left, and aid was blocked. Every single day, bombs fell on this place―a place of homes and families, schools and children, now emptied and broken into bits. And then a group searching for survivors stumbled upon a cache of books in the rubble. In a week, they had six thousand volumes; in a month, fifteen thousand. A sanctuary was born: a library where people could escape the blockade, a paper fortress to protect their humanity. The library offered a marvelous range of books―from Arabic poetry to American self-help, Shakespearean plays to stories of war in other times and places. The visitors shared photos and tales of their lives before the war, planned how to build a democracy, and tended the roots of their community despite shell-shocked soil. In the midst of the siege, the journalist Delphine Minoui tracked down one of the library’s founders, twenty-three-year-old Ahmad. Over text messages, WhatsApp, and Facebook, Minoui came to know the young men who gathered in the library, exchanged ideas, learned English, and imagined how to shape the future, even as bombs kept falling from above. By telling their stories, Minoui makes a far-off, complicated war immediate and reveals these young men to be everyday heroes as inspiring as the books they read. The Book Collectors is a testament to their bravery and a celebration of the power of words.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-science-of-james-smithson-discoveries-from-the-smithsonian-founder-by-steven-turner--65148217https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Science of James Smithson: Discoveries from The Smithsonian Founder Author: Steven Turner Narrator: John Curless Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 3, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Accessible exploration of the noteworthy scientific career of James Smithson, who left his fortune to establish the Smithsonian Institution.James Smithson is best known as the founder of the Smithsonian Institution, but few people know his full and fascinating story. He was a widely respected chemist and mineralogist and a member of the Royal Society, but in 1865, his letters, collection of 10,000 minerals, and more than 200 unpublished papers were lost to a fire in the Smithsonian Castle. His scientific legacy was further written off as insignificant in an 1879 essay published through the Smithsonian fifty years after his death--a claim that author Steven Turner demonstrates is far from the truth.By providing scientific and intellectual context to his work, The Science of James Smithson is a comprehensive tribute to Smithson's contributions to his fields, including chemistry, mineralogy, and more. This detailed narrative illuminates Smithson and his quest for knowledge at a time when chemists still debated thing as basic as the nature of fire, and struggled to maintain their networks amid the ever-changing conditions of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455410Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Science of James Smithson: Discoveries from The Smithsonian Founder Author: Steven Turner Narrator: John Curless Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Science of James Smithson: Discoveries from The Smithsonian Founder Author: Steven Turner Narrator: John Curless Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 3, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Accessible exploration of the noteworthy scientific career of James Smithson, who left his fortune to establish the Smithsonian Institution.James Smithson is best known as the founder of the Smithsonian Institution, but few people know his full and fascinating story. He was a widely respected chemist and mineralogist and a member of the Royal Society, but in 1865, his letters, collection of 10,000 minerals, and more than 200 unpublished papers were lost to a fire in the Smithsonian Castle. His scientific legacy was further written off as insignificant in an 1879 essay published through the Smithsonian fifty years after his death--a claim that author Steven Turner demonstrates is far from the truth.By providing scientific and intellectual context to his work, The Science of James Smithson is a comprehensive tribute to Smithson's contributions to his fields, including chemistry, mineralogy, and more. This detailed narrative illuminates Smithson and his quest for knowledge at a time when chemists still debated thing as basic as the nature of fire, and struggled to maintain their networks amid the ever-changing conditions of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-patriots-alexander-hamilton-thomas-jefferson-john-adams-and-the-making-of-america-by-winston-groom--65148215https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America Author: Winston Groom Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: November 3, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this masterful narrative, historian Winston Groom transports readers to the world of the American Revolution, where bold ideas, improbable events, and three extraordinary characters led to theremarkable birth of the country we know today. When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable democratic government in the vast, newly independent country. Groom tells the unique story of how three brilliant men—John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton—emerged from a population of just five million to build the very foundation of the United States. With skill and subtlety, Groom shines an unparalleled light on the differing personalities, life circumstances, and political policies that caused frequent animosity among each of these three founders: Adams, the brilliant, dour New Englander; Jefferson, the aristocratic southern renaissance man; and Hamilton, an immigrant from the Caribbean island of Nevis. While all served in George Washington’s first cabinet—and all shared the ultimate goal of liberty and freedom—their excitement was often strained by deep antagonisms, many of which bear a striking resemblance to the intense political polarization of today. The drama of the American Revolution is the greatest stage yet for Groom’s signature storytelling panache. Offering rare insight into these larger-than-life characters, he draws on extensive correspondence, epic tales of war, and the rich histories of theirday-to-day interactions to tell the astonishing story of how three men—patriots, rivals, and ultimately friends—put aside their differences to create a great nation.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463851Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America Author: Winston Groom Narrator: George Guidall Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/463851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America Author: Winston Groom Narrator: George Guidall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: November 3, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this masterful narrative, historian Winston Groom transports readers to the world of the American Revolution, where bold ideas, improbable events, and three extraordinary characters led to theremarkable birth of the country we know today. When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable democratic government in the vast, newly independent country. Groom tells the unique story of how three brilliant men—John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton—emerged from a population of just five million to build the very foundation of the United States. With skill and subtlety, Groom shines an unparalleled light on the differing personalities, life circumstances, and political policies that caused frequent animosity among each of these three founders: Adams, the brilliant, dour New Englander; Jefferson, the aristocratic southern renaissance man; and Hamilton, an immigrant from the Caribbean island of Nevis. While all served in George Washington’s first cabinet—and all shared the ultimate goal of liberty and freedom—their excitement was often strained by deep antagonisms, many of which bear a striking resemblance to the intense political polarization of today. The drama of the American Revolution is the greatest stage yet for Groom’s signature storytelling panache. Offering rare insight into these larger-than-life characters, he draws on extensive correspondence, epic tales of war, and the rich histories of theirday-to-day interactions to tell the astonishing story of how three men—patriots, rivals, and ultimately friends—put aside their differences to create a great nation.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/call-the-vet-my-life-as-a-young-vet-in-1970s-london-by-bruce-fogle--65148325https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call the Vet: My Life as a Young Vet in 1970s London Author: Bruce Fogle Narrator: Bruce Fogle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 29, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Arriving in 1970s’ London as a fresh-faced Canadian, Bruce Fogle assumed that because he knew the language, he would understand the English. As a graduate of the world’s best veterinary school, he also thought his profession would come naturally to him. He quickly learned not to make assumptions… Bruce began his career at the prestigious Woodrow & Singleton surgery in the heart of the Knightsbridge. Frequented by Britain’s most distinguished pet owners, from Duchesses and Sultans to Paul McCartney and Elizabeth Taylor, it also cared for the exotic inhabitants of the Harrods’ ‘Zoo Department.’ Over the next few years, an arc of clients would cross Bruce’s table, from cats and dogs to alligators, pumas and even a capuchin monkey. Each adventure taught Bruce far more than any textbook ever could, while skilful veterinary nurses provided the greatest lessons of all. Call the Vet is a wonderfully rich and warmly funny memoir. Set against the vibrant backdrop of 1970s’ London, it explores the unique bond between pets and their owners; the common thread of compassion that unites all cultures and classes, and the discovery of love and joy in unexpected places.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442303Thu, 29 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call the Vet: My Life as a Young Vet in 1970s London Author: Bruce Fogle Narrator: Bruce Fogle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call the Vet: My Life as a Young Vet in 1970s London Author: Bruce Fogle Narrator: Bruce Fogle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 29, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Arriving in 1970s’ London as a fresh-faced Canadian, Bruce Fogle assumed that because he knew the language, he would understand the English. As a graduate of the world’s best veterinary school, he also thought his profession would come naturally to him. He quickly learned not to make assumptions… Bruce began his career at the prestigious Woodrow & Singleton surgery in the heart of the Knightsbridge. Frequented by Britain’s most distinguished pet owners, from Duchesses and Sultans to Paul McCartney and Elizabeth Taylor, it also cared for the exotic inhabitants of the Harrods’ ‘Zoo Department.’ Over the next few years, an arc of clients would cross Bruce’s table, from cats and dogs to alligators, pumas and even a capuchin monkey. Each adventure taught Bruce far more than any textbook ever could, while skilful veterinary nurses provided the greatest lessons of all. Call the Vet is a wonderfully rich and warmly funny memoir. Set against the vibrant backdrop of 1970s’ London, it explores the unique bond between pets and their owners; the common thread of compassion that unites all cultures and classes, and the discovery of love and joy in unexpected places.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/you-re-the-only-one-i-ve-told-the-stories-behind-abortion-by-dr-meera-shah--65148350https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion Author: Dr. Meera Shah Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts, Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For a long time, when people asked Dr. Meera Shah what she did, she would tell them she was a doctor and leave it at that. But over the last few years, Shah decided it was time to be direct. 'I'm an abortion provider,' she will now say. And an interesting thing started to happen each time she met someone new. One by one, people would confide—at BBQs, at jury duty, in the middle of the greeting card aisle at Target—that in fact they'd had an abortion themselves. And the refrain was often the same: You're the only one I've told. This book collects those stories as they've been told to Shah to humanize abortion and to combat myths that persist in the discourse that surrounds it. An intentionally wide range of ages, races, socioeconomic factors, and experiences shows that abortion does not happen in isolation—it always occurs in a unique context. Today, a healthcare issue that's so foundational to reproductive, social, and economic freedom for millions of people is exploited by politicians who lack understanding or compassion about the context in which abortion occurs. Stories have power to break down stigmas and help us to empathize with those whose experiences are unlike our own. They can also help us find community and a shared sense of camaraderie over experiences just like ours. You're the Only One I've Told will do both.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441574Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion Author: Dr. Meera Shah Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts, Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion Author: Dr. Meera Shah Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts, Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For a long time, when people asked Dr. Meera Shah what she did, she would tell them she was a doctor and leave it at that. But over the last few years, Shah decided it was time to be direct. 'I'm an abortion provider,' she will now say. And an interesting thing started to happen each time she met someone new. One by one, people would confide—at BBQs, at jury duty, in the middle of the greeting card aisle at Target—that in fact they'd had an abortion themselves. And the refrain was often the same: You're the only one I've told. This book collects those stories as they've been told to Shah to humanize abortion and to combat myths that persist in the discourse that surrounds it. An intentionally wide range of ages, races, socioeconomic factors, and experiences shows that abortion does not happen in isolation—it always occurs in a unique context. Today, a healthcare issue that's so foundational to reproductive, social, and economic freedom for millions of people is exploited by politicians who lack understanding or compassion about the context in which abortion occurs. Stories have power to break down stigmas and help us to empathize with those whose experiences are unlike our own. They can also help us find community and a shared sense of camaraderie over experiences just like ours. You're the Only One I've Told will do both.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fight-or-submit-standing-tall-in-two-worlds-by-grand-chief-ronald-m-derrickson--65148277https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453645 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fight or Submit: Standing Tall in Two Worlds Author: Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson Narrator: Kaipo Schwab Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the opening to his memoir, Grand Chief Ron Derrickson says his 'story is not a litany of complaints but a list of battles' that he has fought. And he promises he will not be overly pious in his telling of them. 'As a businessman,' he writes, 'I like to give the straight goods.' In Fight or Submit, Derrickson delivers on his promise and it turns out he has a hell of a story to tell. Born and raised in a tarpaper shack, he went on to become one of the most successful Indigenous businessmen in Canada. As a political leader, he served as Chief of the Westbank First Nation for a dozen years and was made a Grand Chief by the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. Along the way, he has been the target of a full Royal Commission and an assassination attempt by a hitman hired by local whites. As Chief, he increased his community's revenues by 3500% and led his people into a war in the forest over logging rights. In 2015, he became an award-winning author when Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call, a book he coauthored with Arthur Manuel, won the Canadian History Association Literary Award. His second book coauthored with Manuel, Reconciliation Manifesto, won the BC Book Prize for nonfiction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453645Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453645 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fight or Submit: Standing Tall in Two Worlds Author: Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson Narrator: Kaipo Schwab Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453645 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fight or Submit: Standing Tall in Two Worlds Author: Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson Narrator: Kaipo Schwab Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 27, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the opening to his memoir, Grand Chief Ron Derrickson says his 'story is not a litany of complaints but a list of battles' that he has fought. And he promises he will not be overly pious in his telling of them. 'As a businessman,' he writes, 'I like to give the straight goods.' In Fight or Submit, Derrickson delivers on his promise and it turns out he has a hell of a story to tell. Born and raised in a tarpaper shack, he went on to become one of the most successful Indigenous businessmen in Canada. As a political leader, he served as Chief of the Westbank First Nation for a dozen years and was made a Grand Chief by the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. Along the way, he has been the target of a full Royal Commission and an assassination attempt by a hitman hired by local whites. As Chief, he increased his community's revenues by 3500% and led his people into a war in the forest over logging rights. In 2015, he became an award-winning author when Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call, a book he coauthored with Arthur Manuel, won the Canadian History Association Literary Award. His second book coauthored with Manuel, Reconciliation Manifesto, won the BC Book Prize for nonfiction.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-berliner-kindheit-um-neunzehnhundert-ungekurzte-lesung-by-walter-benjamin--65148209https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Walter Benjamin Narrator: Christian Brückner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 23, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: O braungebackene Siegessäule / Mit Nebelzucker in den Wintertagen / Französische Kanonen überragen / Meine Fragen 'Im Jahr 1932, als ich im Ausland war, begann mir klar zu werden, daß ich in Bälde einen längeren, vielleicht einen dauernden Abschied von der Stadt, in der ich geboren bin, würde nehmen müssen. Ich rief die Bilder, die im Exil das Heimweh am stärksten zu wecken pflegen - die der Kindheit - mit Absicht in mir hervor...' Walter Benjamin]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460888Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Walter Benjamin Narrator: Christian Brückner Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Walter Benjamin Narrator: Christian Brückner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 23, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: O braungebackene Siegessäule / Mit Nebelzucker in den Wintertagen / Französische Kanonen überragen / Meine Fragen 'Im Jahr 1932, als ich im Ausland war, begann mir klar zu werden, daß ich in Bälde einen längeren, vielleicht einen dauernden Abschied von der Stadt, in der ich geboren bin, würde nehmen müssen. Ich rief die Bilder, die im Exil das Heimweh am stärksten zu wecken pflegen - die der Kindheit - mit Absicht in mir hervor...' Walter Benjamin]]>185rztecleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-dead-are-arising-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize-for-biography-by-tamara-payne-les-payne--65148251https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Author: Tamara Payne, Les Payne Narrator: Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 6 minutes Release date: October 22, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. **WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY** **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)** Finalist, LA Times Book Prize A landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X - including siblings, classmates, friends, cellmates, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become hundreds of hours of interviews into a portrait that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this magisterial work that conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist, whose title is inspired by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his followers stir with purpose to overcome the obstacles of racism. Setting his life not only within the political struggles of his day but also against the larger backdrop of American history, this remarkable masterpiece traces his path from street criminal to devoted moralist and revolutionary. An author who saw Malcolm X speak and could not stand the phrase 'we may never know', Payne writes cinematically from start to finish and delivers extraordinary revelations - from a hair-raising scene of Malcolm's clandestine meeting with the KKK, to a minute-by-minute account of his murder in Harlem in 1965, in which he makes the case for the complicity of the American government. Introduced by Payne's daughter and primary researcher, Tamara Payne, who, following her father's death, heroically completed the biography, The Dead Are Arising is a penetrating and riveting work that affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle and the story of the twentieth century. © Les Payne, Tamara Payne 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452656Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Author: Tamara Payne, Les Payne Narrator: Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452656 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Author: Tamara Payne, Les Payne Narrator: Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 6 minutes Release date: October 22, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. **WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY** **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)** Finalist, LA Times Book Prize A landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X - including siblings, classmates, friends, cellmates, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become hundreds of hours of interviews into a portrait that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this magisterial work that conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist, whose title is inspired by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his followers stir with purpose to overcome the obstacles of racism. Setting his life not only within the political struggles of his day but also against the larger backdrop of American history, this remarkable masterpiece traces his path from street criminal to devoted moralist and revolutionary. An author who saw Malcolm X speak and could not stand the phrase 'we may never know', Payne writes cinematically from start to finish and delivers extraordinary revelations - from a hair-raising scene of Malcolm's clandestine meeting with the KKK, to a minute-by-minute account of his murder in Harlem in 1965, in which he makes the case for the complicity of the American government. Introduced by Payne's daughter and primary researcher, Tamara Payne, who, following her father's death, heroically completed the biography, The Dead Are Arising is a penetrating and riveting work that affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle and the story of the twentieth century. © Les Payne, Tamara Payne 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/finding-latinx-in-search-of-the-voices-redefining-latino-identity-by-paola-ramos--65148340https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity Author: Paola Ramos Narrator: Paola Ramos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 20, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many—Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns—are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the diverse population of almost sixty million Latinos in the U.S. has been represented. No longer. In this empowering cross-country travelogue, journalist and activist Paola Ramos embarks on a journey to find the communities of people defining the controversial term, “Latinx.” She introduces us to the indigenous Oaxacans who rebuilt the main street in a post-industrial town in upstate New York, the “Las Poderosas” who fight for reproductive rights in Texas, the musicians in Milwaukee whose beats reassure others of their belonging, as well as drag queens, environmental activists, farmworkers, and the migrants detained at our border. Drawing on intensive field research as well as her own personal story, Ramos chronicles how “Latinx” has given rise to a sense of collectivity and solidarity among Latinos unseen in this country for decades. A vital and inspiring work of reportage, Finding Latinx calls on all of us to expand our understanding of what it means to be Latino and what it means to be American. The first step towards change, writes Ramos, is for us to recognize who we are.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429297Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity Author: Paola Ramos Narrator: Paola Ramos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity Author: Paola Ramos Narrator: Paola Ramos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 20, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many—Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns—are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the diverse population of almost sixty million Latinos in the U.S. has been represented. No longer. In this empowering cross-country travelogue, journalist and activist Paola Ramos embarks on a journey to find the communities of people defining the controversial term, “Latinx.” She introduces us to the indigenous Oaxacans who rebuilt the main street in a post-industrial town in upstate New York, the “Las Poderosas” who fight for reproductive rights in Texas, the musicians in Milwaukee whose beats reassure others of their belonging, as well as drag queens, environmental activists, farmworkers, and the migrants detained at our border. Drawing on intensive field research as well as her own personal story, Ramos chronicles how “Latinx” has given rise to a sense of collectivity and solidarity among Latinos unseen in this country for decades. A vital and inspiring work of reportage, Finding Latinx calls on all of us to expand our understanding of what it means to be Latino and what it means to be American. The first step towards change, writes Ramos, is for us to recognize who we are.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/prince-philip-revealed-by-ingrid-seward--65148288https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prince Philip Revealed Author: Ingrid Seward Narrator: Julie Teal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 20, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Discover the full and fascinating story of Prince Philip—one of the most important, elusive, and intriguing royals—in “the first major biography of Philip in more than thirty years” (Vanity Fair) written by the renowned royal family expert and editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine. The son of Greek and Danish royalty, consort to the queen, and the grandfather of Princes Harry and William, Prince Philip was at the heart of the royal family for decades—yet he remained an enigma to many. Now, Ingrid Seward, the editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, brings her decades of experience covering the royal family to this “authoritative and thorough” (Kirkus Reviews) biography of Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, and father, grandfather, and great-grandfather of the next three kings of England. From his early childhood in Paris among aristocrats and his mother’s battle with schizophrenia to his military service during World War II and marriage to Elizabeth in 1947, Seward chronicles Philip’s life and reveals his many faces—as a father, a philanthropist, a philanderer, and a statesman. Though it took years for Philip to find his place in a royal court that initially distrusted him, he remained one of the most complex, powerful, yet confounding members of Britain’s royal family until his death in April 2021. Entertaining, eye-opening, and informative, Prince Philip Revealed gets to the heart of his multi-faceted character and his crucial role in shaping the monarchy in the twenty-first century.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438088Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prince Philip Revealed Author: Ingrid Seward Narrator: Julie Teal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 20,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Prince Philip Revealed Author: Ingrid Seward Narrator: Julie Teal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 20, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Discover the full and fascinating story of Prince Philip—one of the most important, elusive, and intriguing royals—in “the first major biography of Philip in more than thirty years” (Vanity Fair) written by the renowned royal family expert and editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine. The son of Greek and Danish royalty, consort to the queen, and the grandfather of Princes Harry and William, Prince Philip was at the heart of the royal family for decades—yet he remained an enigma to many. Now, Ingrid Seward, the editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, brings her decades of experience covering the royal family to this “authoritative and thorough” (Kirkus Reviews) biography of Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, and father, grandfather, and great-grandfather of the next three kings of England. From his early childhood in Paris among aristocrats and his mother’s battle with schizophrenia to his military service during World War II and marriage to Elizabeth in 1947, Seward chronicles Philip’s life and reveals his many faces—as a father, a philanthropist, a philanderer, and a statesman. Though it took years for Philip to find his place in a royal court that initially distrusted him, he remained one of the most complex, powerful, yet confounding members of Britain’s royal family until his death in April 2021. Entertaining, eye-opening, and informative, Prince Philip Revealed gets to the heart of his multi-faceted character and his crucial role in shaping the monarchy in the twenty-first century.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/children-of-nazis-the-sons-and-daughters-of-himmler-goring-hoss-mengele-and-others-living-with-a-father-s-monstrous-legacy-by-tania-cra--65148283https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others-Living with a Father’s Monstrous Legacy Author: Tania Crasnianski Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 20, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In 1940, the German sons and daughters of infamous Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four, five, or ten years old, surrounded by affectionate, all-powerful parents. Although innocent and unaware of what was happening at the time, they eventually discovered the extent of their fathers' occupations: These men—who were capable of loving their children and receiving love in return—were leaders of the Third Reich, and would later be convicted as monstrous war criminals. For these children, the German defeat was an earth-shattering source of family rupture, the end of opulence, and the jarring discovery of Hitler's atrocities. How did the offspring of these leaders deal with the aftermath of the war and the skeletons that would haunt them forever? Some chose to disown their past. Others did not. Some condemned their fathers; others worshiped them unconditionally to the end. In this enlightening book, Tania Crasnianski examines the responsibility of eight descendants of Nazi notables, caught somewhere between stigmatization, worship, and amnesia. By tracing the unique experiences of these children, she probes at the relationship between them and their fathers and examines the idea of how responsibility for the fault is continually borne by the descendants.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447168Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others-Living with a Father’s Monstrous Legacy Author: Tania...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others-Living with a Father’s Monstrous Legacy Author: Tania Crasnianski Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 20, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In 1940, the German sons and daughters of infamous Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four, five, or ten years old, surrounded by affectionate, all-powerful parents. Although innocent and unaware of what was happening at the time, they eventually discovered the extent of their fathers' occupations: These men—who were capable of loving their children and receiving love in return—were leaders of the Third Reich, and would later be convicted as monstrous war criminals. For these children, the German defeat was an earth-shattering source of family rupture, the end of opulence, and the jarring discovery of Hitler's atrocities. How did the offspring of these leaders deal with the aftermath of the war and the skeletons that would haunt them forever? Some chose to disown their past. Others did not. Some condemned their fathers; others worshiped them unconditionally to the end. In this enlightening book, Tania Crasnianski examines the responsibility of eight descendants of Nazi notables, caught somewhere between stigmatization, worship, and amnesia. By tracing the unique experiences of these children, she probes at the relationship between them and their fathers and examines the idea of how responsibility for the fault is continually borne by the descendants.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/revolution-or-death-by-justin-gifford--65148204https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolution or Death Author: Justin Gifford Narrator: Corey Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 1 minute Release date: October 20, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the 1960s, no Black political group stood for grassroots insurgency more than the Black Panther Party.And the figure who embodied their militant and controversial spirit more than anyone was Eldridge Cleaver. Charismatic, brilliant, and courageous, Cleaver built a base of power and influence thatstruck fear deep in the heart of white America. It was therefore shocking to many left-wing radicals when Cleaver turned his back on Black revolution, the Nation of Islam, and communism in 1975.While Cleaver seemed sincerely disillusioned with radicalism, his erratic behavior over the next two decades revealed something that had been a latent part of his psyche all along—narcissisticmegalomania. His influence declined significantly through the 1980s until he found himself back on the streets committing petty crimes. By the time he died, in 1998, he was largely viewed as a turncoat who had betrayed the cause of Black freedom. How can we make sense of Cleaver’s precipitous decline from his position as one of America’s most vibrant Black writers and activists? And how do his contradictory identities as criminal, partyleader, international diplomat, Christian conservative, and Republican politician reveal that he was more than just a traitor to the advancement of civil rights? In Revolution or Death, acclaimed biographer Justin Gifford answers these questions and many more by providing, for the first time, the life story of one of the most notorious Black revolutionaries in history. He explores the audacious dreams and spiritual transformations of the eccentric radical andplaces him squarely within the context of his changing times. Gifford was granted exclusive access to declassified files from the French police, the American embassy, and the FBI, as well as Kathleen Cleaver’s private archive, and he explored previously unseen documents from archives around the world. He draws from a massive body of materials to reassemble the story of a man far more compelling and complex than most have given him credit for. In a country defined by its extreme political positions on the right and left, Cleaver embodied both ideologies in pursuit of his conflicting ideals. His inability to resolve these competing desires ultimately destroyed him.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455353Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolution or Death Author: Justin Gifford Narrator: Corey Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 1 minute Release date: October 20, 2020...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolution or Death Author: Justin Gifford Narrator: Corey Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 1 minute Release date: October 20, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In the 1960s, no Black political group stood for grassroots insurgency more than the Black Panther Party.And the figure who embodied their militant and controversial spirit more than anyone was Eldridge Cleaver. Charismatic, brilliant, and courageous, Cleaver built a base of power and influence thatstruck fear deep in the heart of white America. It was therefore shocking to many left-wing radicals when Cleaver turned his back on Black revolution, the Nation of Islam, and communism in 1975.While Cleaver seemed sincerely disillusioned with radicalism, his erratic behavior over the next two decades revealed something that had been a latent part of his psyche all along—narcissisticmegalomania. His influence declined significantly through the 1980s until he found himself back on the streets committing petty crimes. By the time he died, in 1998, he was largely viewed as a turncoat who had betrayed the cause of Black freedom. How can we make sense of Cleaver’s precipitous decline from his position as one of America’s most vibrant Black writers and activists? And how do his contradictory identities as criminal, partyleader, international diplomat, Christian conservative, and Republican politician reveal that he was more than just a traitor to the advancement of civil rights? In Revolution or Death, acclaimed biographer Justin Gifford answers these questions and many more by providing, for the first time, the life story of one of the most notorious Black revolutionaries in history. He explores the audacious dreams and spiritual transformations of the eccentric radical andplaces him squarely within the context of his changing times. Gifford was granted exclusive access to declassified files from the French police, the American embassy, and the FBI, as well as Kathleen Cleaver’s private archive, and he explored previously unseen documents from archives around the world. He draws from a massive body of materials to reassemble the story of a man far more compelling and complex than most have given him credit for. In a country defined by its extreme political positions on the right and left, Cleaver embodied both ideologies in pursuit of his conflicting ideals. His inability to resolve these competing desires ultimately destroyed him.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/four-umbrellas-a-couple-s-journey-into-young-onset-alzheimer-s-by-june-hutton-tony-wanless--65148295https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451268 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Four Umbrellas: A Couple's Journey Into Young-Onset Alzheimer's Author: June Hutton, Tony Wanless Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne, Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 17, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from—memory. At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future dogged by self-doubt and financial worry. June is forty-eight years old then, a writer and a teacher, and over the following nine years she watches as her husband gradually changes—in interests, goals, and behavior—until Tony has a sudden fall, ending their life as they have known it. While it will be another seven years before they receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, the signs of dementia are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip contains four umbrellas jammed into every available space, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The two of them begin looking, researching, and remembering—and make some surprising discoveries about Alzheimer's that lead to one undeniable conclusion: this is not an old person's disease.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451268Sat, 17 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451268 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Four Umbrellas: A Couple's Journey Into Young-Onset Alzheimer's Author: June Hutton, Tony Wanless Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne, Tanya Eby Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451268 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Four Umbrellas: A Couple's Journey Into Young-Onset Alzheimer's Author: June Hutton, Tony Wanless Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne, Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 17, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from—memory. At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future dogged by self-doubt and financial worry. June is forty-eight years old then, a writer and a teacher, and over the following nine years she watches as her husband gradually changes—in interests, goals, and behavior—until Tony has a sudden fall, ending their life as they have known it. While it will be another seven years before they receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer's, the signs of dementia are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip contains four umbrellas jammed into every available space, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The two of them begin looking, researching, and remembering—and make some surprising discoveries about Alzheimer's that lead to one undeniable conclusion: this is not an old person's disease.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/it-takes-two-a-history-of-the-couples-who-dared-to-be-different-by-cathy-newman--65148378https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/426054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared to be Different Author: Cathy Newman Narrator: Laura Costello Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 15, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ‘Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman’s witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make you look at your relationship and wonder, “Could we be doing more this weekend than just going to IKEA?”’ CAITLIN MORAN Throughout history, collaboration has fuelled greatness. From rivals pressuring each other forwards to friends combining their talents, it’s clear: often two heads are better than one. In It Takes Two, Cathy Newman rewrites the history books to expose this strange power of two – the reason Holmes and Watson need to come as a pair, and Apple could not have been started by Steve Jobs alone. Bringing together an extraordinary range of stories from around the world, Newman shows how double acts have relied on each other, how minds have married to usher in miraculous discoveries, and how those we think of as lone geniuses often did not work solo. How did William and Ellen Craft work together to pull off a perilous cross-country escape from slavery? How did the queer artists Marcel Moore and Claude Cahun become icons of the surrealist movement, then heroines of the resistance during WW2? How do today’s most powerful couples – from Beyoncé and Jay-Z to Bill and Melinda Gates – negotiate coupledom and individual achievement in the spotlight? Vibrant, feminist and unexpected, this brilliant history shows the value of friction, obsession, difference and trust when it comes to progress – and retrieves the work of many who have been forgotten, asking why certain collaborators are so often left out of the narrative.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/426054Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/426054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared to be Different Author: Cathy Newman Narrator: Laura Costello Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/426054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared to be Different Author: Cathy Newman Narrator: Laura Costello Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 15, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: ‘Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman’s witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make you look at your relationship and wonder, “Could we be doing more this weekend than just going to IKEA?”’ CAITLIN MORAN Throughout history, collaboration has fuelled greatness. From rivals pressuring each other forwards to friends combining their talents, it’s clear: often two heads are better than one. In It Takes Two, Cathy Newman rewrites the history books to expose this strange power of two – the reason Holmes and Watson need to come as a pair, and Apple could not have been started by Steve Jobs alone. Bringing together an extraordinary range of stories from around the world, Newman shows how double acts have relied on each other, how minds have married to usher in miraculous discoveries, and how those we think of as lone geniuses often did not work solo. How did William and Ellen Craft work together to pull off a perilous cross-country escape from slavery? How did the queer artists Marcel Moore and Claude Cahun become icons of the surrealist movement, then heroines of the resistance during WW2? How do today’s most powerful couples – from Beyoncé and Jay-Z to Bill and Melinda Gates – negotiate coupledom and individual achievement in the spotlight? Vibrant, feminist and unexpected, this brilliant history shows the value of friction, obsession, difference and trust when it comes to progress – and retrieves the work of many who have been forgotten, asking why certain collaborators are so often left out of the narrative.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/battle-of-brothers-william-harry-and-the-inside-story-of-a-family-in-tumult-by-robert-lacey--65148328https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Battle of Brothers: William, Harry and the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult Author: Robert Lacey Narrator: Tim Frances Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: AS SEEN IN THE TIMES AND UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller ‘THE ROYAL BOOK OF THE YEAR’ Daily Mail THIS CRISIS IS AS BIG AS THE ABDICATION – SAYS LACEY, HISTORICAL ADVISOR TO THE CROWN. The world has watched Prince William and Prince Harry since they were born. Raised by Princess Diana to be the closest of brothers, how have the boy princes grown into very different, now distanced men? From royal expert and bestselling author Robert Lacey, this book is an unparalleled insider account of tumult and secrecy revealing the untold details of William and Harry’s early closeness then estrangement. It asks what happens when two sons are raised for vastly different futures – one burdened with the responsibility of one day becoming king, the other with the knowledge that he will always remain spare. How have William and Harry each formed their idea of a modern royal’s duty and how they should behave? Were the seeds of damage sowed as Prince Charles and Diana’s marriage painfully unraveled for all the world to see? In the previous generation, how have Prince Charles and Prince Andrew’s lives unfolded in the shadow of the Crown? What choices has Queen Elizabeth II made in marshalling her feuding heirs? What parts have Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle played in helping their husbands to choose their differing paths? And what is the real, unvarnished story behind Harry and Meghan’s dramatic departure? In the most intimate vision yet of life behind closed doors, with the family’s highs, lows and hardest decisions all laid out, this is a journey into royal life as never offered before.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441281Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Battle of Brothers: William, Harry and the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult Author: Robert Lacey Narrator: Tim Frances Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Battle of Brothers: William, Harry and the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult Author: Robert Lacey Narrator: Tim Frances Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: AS SEEN IN THE TIMES AND UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller ‘THE ROYAL BOOK OF THE YEAR’ Daily Mail THIS CRISIS IS AS BIG AS THE ABDICATION – SAYS LACEY, HISTORICAL ADVISOR TO THE CROWN. The world has watched Prince William and Prince Harry since they were born. Raised by Princess Diana to be the closest of brothers, how have the boy princes grown into very different, now distanced men? From royal expert and bestselling author Robert Lacey, this book is an unparalleled insider account of tumult and secrecy revealing the untold details of William and Harry’s early closeness then estrangement. It asks what happens when two sons are raised for vastly different futures – one burdened with the responsibility of one day becoming king, the other with the knowledge that he will always remain spare. How have William and Harry each formed their idea of a modern royal’s duty and how they should behave? Were the seeds of damage sowed as Prince Charles and Diana’s marriage painfully unraveled for all the world to see? In the previous generation, how have Prince Charles and Prince Andrew’s lives unfolded in the shadow of the Crown? What choices has Queen Elizabeth II made in marshalling her feuding heirs? What parts have Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle played in helping their husbands to choose their differing paths? And what is the real, unvarnished story behind Harry and Meghan’s dramatic departure? In the most intimate vision yet of life behind closed doors, with the family’s highs, lows and hardest decisions all laid out, this is a journey into royal life as never offered before.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/inspire-life-lessons-from-the-wilderness-by-ben-fogle--65148245https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452289 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inspire: Life Lessons from the Wilderness Author: Ben Fogle Narrator: Ben Fogle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The latest adventure from bestselling author Ben Fogle explores what we can learn from nature about living well and living wild. What can rowing across the Atlantic teach us about boredom and about patience? Can coming down from Everest take more resilience than climbing up in the first place? How can the isolation of the South Pole highlight what’s most important? And how can we tap into the same reflective state in our daily lives? Writing during the unprecedented period of the coronavirus pandemic and drawing on a wealth of personal stories, Ben reflects on the significance of nature to all our lives and shows us how we can benefit from living a little more wild. Drawing on his greatest adventures, he shares what his time spent in the wilderness has taught him about life. Ranging across seas, icecaps, jungles and deserts, Ben’s stories are filled with wonder and struggle, with animals, adventure, wilderness, friendships, unexpected acts of kindness and heroism, and are bursting with inspiration directly from nature. Ben’s epic stories reveal a new side to his adventures and show how everyone can find meaning in the wilderness, even if it’s just outside their front door. Full of exciting adventures and practical guidance, this primer on positivity is a story about overcoming obstacles, surpassing your expectations and inspiring your journey of adventure.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452289Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452289 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inspire: Life Lessons from the Wilderness Author: Ben Fogle Narrator: Ben Fogle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452289 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inspire: Life Lessons from the Wilderness Author: Ben Fogle Narrator: Ben Fogle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The latest adventure from bestselling author Ben Fogle explores what we can learn from nature about living well and living wild. What can rowing across the Atlantic teach us about boredom and about patience? Can coming down from Everest take more resilience than climbing up in the first place? How can the isolation of the South Pole highlight what’s most important? And how can we tap into the same reflective state in our daily lives? Writing during the unprecedented period of the coronavirus pandemic and drawing on a wealth of personal stories, Ben reflects on the significance of nature to all our lives and shows us how we can benefit from living a little more wild. Drawing on his greatest adventures, he shares what his time spent in the wilderness has taught him about life. Ranging across seas, icecaps, jungles and deserts, Ben’s stories are filled with wonder and struggle, with animals, adventure, wilderness, friendships, unexpected acts of kindness and heroism, and are bursting with inspiration directly from nature. Ben’s epic stories reveal a new side to his adventures and show how everyone can find meaning in the wilderness, even if it’s just outside their front door. Full of exciting adventures and practical guidance, this primer on positivity is a story about overcoming obstacles, surpassing your expectations and inspiring your journey of adventure.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/codebreaking-sisters-our-secret-war-by-jean-owtram-patricia-owtram--65148222https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War Author: Jean Owtram, Patricia Owtram Narrator: Sally Oliver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 15, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This is the astonishing story of persistence, comradeship and fighting spirit showed by everyday people in bringing the Nazis down. Patricia and Jean Owtram are possibly the only living sisters to have signed the wartime Official Secrets Act. Raised in a Lancashire country house in the 1920s, the family takes in two Austrian Jewish refugees, and the sisters quickly become fluent in German - which will go on to shape their roles for ever. When war breaks out in 1939, Patricia is snapped up by the Wrens and posted to top-secret listening stations along the British coastline. Collaborating with Bletchley Park, she is tasked with intercepting German shipping radio in a bid to crack the seemingly impenetrable Enigma Code. Jean's quick brain for crossword solving lands her a secretive role as Code amp; Cipher Officer in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. At just 18 years of age, Jean is posted to Cairo, before moving on to Italy to aid the Partisan efforts against the Nazis. As the sisters continue to demonstrate their outstanding intelligence, resilience and fierce determination, the tide of war gradually begins to turn in Britain's favour.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455094Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War Author: Jean Owtram, Patricia Owtram Narrator: Sally Oliver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War Author: Jean Owtram, Patricia Owtram Narrator: Sally Oliver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 15, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This is the astonishing story of persistence, comradeship and fighting spirit showed by everyday people in bringing the Nazis down. Patricia and Jean Owtram are possibly the only living sisters to have signed the wartime Official Secrets Act. Raised in a Lancashire country house in the 1920s, the family takes in two Austrian Jewish refugees, and the sisters quickly become fluent in German - which will go on to shape their roles for ever. When war breaks out in 1939, Patricia is snapped up by the Wrens and posted to top-secret listening stations along the British coastline. Collaborating with Bletchley Park, she is tasked with intercepting German shipping radio in a bid to crack the seemingly impenetrable Enigma Code. Jean's quick brain for crossword solving lands her a secretive role as Code amp; Cipher Officer in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. At just 18 years of age, Jean is posted to Cairo, before moving on to Italy to aid the Partisan efforts against the Nazis. As the sisters continue to demonstrate their outstanding intelligence, resilience and fierce determination, the tide of war gradually begins to turn in Britain's favour.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/great-british-spirit-acts-of-kindness-and-heroism-by-charlotte-browne--65148205https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Great British Spirit: Acts of kindness and heroism Author: Charlotte Browne Narrator: Helen Lloyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: October 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'The pride in who we are is not part of our past, it defines our present and our future' - The Queen From Big Ben to James Bond, from the Battle of Hastings to the Beatles, from William Shakespeare to the Royal Family, our tiny island nation has a famed and varied history. But we are special as a country not just because of those who have gone down in history, but for those who haven't. In Great British Spirit, we celebrate the incredible British national character, our sense of community and the superhuman efforts of ordinary people across the United Kingdom, providing the perfect antidote to the turbulent times we live in. This book will champion our nation and its incredible people, while remembering other incredible struggles we have overcome as a nation in the last century. Great British Spirit will remind us all why being British is something not just to be proud of, but to celebrate.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459043Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Great British Spirit: Acts of kindness and heroism Author: Charlotte Browne Narrator: Helen Lloyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Great British Spirit: Acts of kindness and heroism Author: Charlotte Browne Narrator: Helen Lloyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: October 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'The pride in who we are is not part of our past, it defines our present and our future' - The Queen From Big Ben to James Bond, from the Battle of Hastings to the Beatles, from William Shakespeare to the Royal Family, our tiny island nation has a famed and varied history. But we are special as a country not just because of those who have gone down in history, but for those who haven't. In Great British Spirit, we celebrate the incredible British national character, our sense of community and the superhuman efforts of ordinary people across the United Kingdom, providing the perfect antidote to the turbulent times we live in. This book will champion our nation and its incredible people, while remembering other incredible struggles we have overcome as a nation in the last century. Great British Spirit will remind us all why being British is something not just to be proud of, but to celebrate.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-vida-es-suero-historias-de-una-enfermera-saturada-by-enfermera-saturada--65148203https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/461454 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La vida es suero: Historias de una enfermera saturada Author: Enfermera Saturada Narrator: Irene Serrano Guerrero Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Release date: October 15, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Bienvenido al mundo de Enfermera Saturada, un mundo donde el delirio se mezcla con el humor, a veces negro y siempre muy fino, pero donde el día a día del hospital siempre supera a la ficción. Un fenómeno editorial más adictivo que el Lorazepam. Si no tienes claro si una enfermera que pincha en el turno de noche es una DJ. Si estás convencido de que la persona que inventa el tamaño de las pastillas no es buena persona. Si crees firmemente que llamarle pijama a la ropa de trabajo no es serio. Si no soportas a las señoras que te dicen en qué vena tienes que pincharlas o alguna vez te has quedado mirando las venas de alguien en el metro, éste es tu libro. Enfermera Saturada pertenece a una generación de mujeres que ha aprendido a coser heridas antes que botones, por eso es capaz de recuperarse con más facilidad de una relación amorosa complicada que de una cremallera rota en esos tejanos de temporada de Amancio que tanto le ha costado encontrar. Se define como una enfermera española que busca su hueco en la sanidad. Empieza su turno en planta, baja a la UCI, sube a prematuros y termina en urgencias. Esta enfermera se maneja como pocas en las redes sociales, desde donde cada día decenas de miles de personas ven cómo repasa, con humor y descaro la actualidad de su hospital, de cualquier hospital de España. El decálogo de Enfermera Saturada: 1. La vena buena siempre está en el otro brazo. 2. Verás que te falta el tapón cuando ya tengas canalizada la vía. 3. Un timbre de noche nunca suena solo: si uno suena, otro se le sumará. 4. El paciente que más protesta es el que mejorestá. 5. El apósito del tamaño adecuado no existe. 6. Hay dos tipos de esparadrapo: el que no se pega y el que no se puede despegar. 7. Si sólo llevas un tubo de analítica, será el que ha perdido el vacío. 8. Nunca creas lo que el paciente dice que le ha dicho el médico. 9. El cajetín de medicación del paciente de la última habitación siempre vendrá mal. 10. Nadie que llama al timbre lo hace por algo urgente. Puedes encontrar a Enfermera Saturada en: Facebook: EnfermeraSaturada Twitter: @EnfrmraSaturada Instagram: Enfermera_Saturada Web: enfermerasaturada.es Reseñas: «La enfermera escritora que vacuna contra el aburrimiento.» El Mundo «Después de triunfar en las redes sociales, una ingeniosa enfermera española se convierte en escritora superventas.» Amazon.es En los blogs... «El humor está muy presente en este libro. Se trata de un humor fino, muyirónico, con tintes negros que terminarán en una sonrisa. En definitiva, una lectura muy amena.» Blog Books and companies]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/461454Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/461454 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La vida es suero: Historias de una enfermera saturada Author: Enfermera Saturada Narrator: Irene Serrano Guerrero Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/461454 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La vida es suero: Historias de una enfermera saturada Author: Enfermera Saturada Narrator: Irene Serrano Guerrero Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Release date: October 15, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Bienvenido al mundo de Enfermera Saturada, un mundo donde el delirio se mezcla con el humor, a veces negro y siempre muy fino, pero donde el día a día del hospital siempre supera a la ficción. Un fenómeno editorial más adictivo que el Lorazepam. Si no tienes claro si una enfermera que pincha en el turno de noche es una DJ. Si estás convencido de que la persona que inventa el tamaño de las pastillas no es buena persona. Si crees firmemente que llamarle pijama a la ropa de trabajo no es serio. Si no soportas a las señoras que te dicen en qué vena tienes que pincharlas o alguna vez te has quedado mirando las venas de alguien en el metro, éste es tu libro. Enfermera Saturada pertenece a una generación de mujeres que ha aprendido a coser heridas antes que botones, por eso es capaz de recuperarse con más facilidad de una relación amorosa complicada que de una cremallera rota en esos tejanos de temporada de Amancio que tanto le ha costado encontrar. Se define como una enfermera española que busca su hueco en la sanidad. Empieza su turno en planta, baja a la UCI, sube a prematuros y termina en urgencias. Esta enfermera se maneja como pocas en las redes sociales, desde donde cada día decenas de miles de personas ven cómo repasa, con humor y descaro la actualidad de su hospital, de cualquier hospital de España. El decálogo de Enfermera Saturada: 1. La vena buena siempre está en el otro brazo. 2. Verás que te falta el tapón cuando ya tengas canalizada la vía. 3. Un timbre de noche nunca suena solo: si uno suena, otro se le sumará. 4. El paciente que más protesta es el que mejorestá. 5. El apósito del tamaño adecuado no existe. 6. Hay dos tipos de esparadrapo: el que no se pega y el que no se puede despegar. 7. Si sólo llevas un tubo de analítica, será el que ha perdido el vacío. 8. Nunca creas lo que el paciente dice que le ha dicho el médico. 9. El cajetín de medicación del paciente de la última habitación siempre vendrá mal. 10. Nadie que llama al timbre lo hace por algo urgente. Puedes encontrar a Enfermera Saturada en: Facebook: EnfermeraSaturada Twitter: @EnfrmraSaturada Instagram: Enfermera_Saturada Web: enfermerasaturada.es Reseñas: «La enfermera escritora que vacuna contra el aburrimiento.» El Mundo «Después de triunfar en las redes sociales, una ingeniosa enfermera española se convierte en escritora superventas.» Amazon.es En los blogs... «El humor está muy presente en este libro. Se trata de un humor fino, muyirónico, con tintes negros que terminarán en una sonrisa. En definitiva, una lectura muy amena.» Blog Books and companies]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/clouds-a-memoir-by-laura-sobiech--65148201https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/456782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Clouds: A Memoir Author: Laura Sobiech Narrator: Amber Quick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 13, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Originally published as Fly a Little Higher and now updated and revised to coincide with the film release of Clouds, Laura Sobiech tells the amazing, true story behind the song and the movie. “Okay, Lord, you can have him. But if he must die, I want it to be for something big. I want someone’s life to be changed forever.” This is what Laura Sobiech prayed when she found out her seventeen-year-old son had only one year to live. With this desperate prayer, she released her son to God’s will. At that point, Zach Sobiech was just another teenager battling cancer. When his mother told him to think about writing goodbye letters to family and friends, he decided instead to write songs. One of them, “Clouds,” captured hearts and changed lives, making him an international sensation. This story is a testament to what can happen when you live as if each day might be your last. It’s a story about the human spirit. It shows how God used a dying boy from a small town in Minnesota to touch the hearts of millions—including top executives in the entertainment industry, major music artists, news anchors, talk show hosts, actors, priests and pastors, and schoolchildren across the globe. And above all, it’s an example of the amazing things that happen when someone shares the most precious thing he has—himself.   “I’m not a musician; I’m just a filmmaker, and my prayer is that you get an opportunity—both through the reading of this beautiful book and the watching of our film based on it—to experience what I will fail to put into words: the magic and inspiration of Zachary David Sobiech.” —Justin Baldoni, filmmaker and director of Clouds]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/456782Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/456782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Clouds: A Memoir Author: Laura Sobiech Narrator: Amber Quick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 13, 2020...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/456782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Clouds: A Memoir Author: Laura Sobiech Narrator: Amber Quick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 13, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Originally published as Fly a Little Higher and now updated and revised to coincide with the film release of Clouds, Laura Sobiech tells the amazing, true story behind the song and the movie. “Okay, Lord, you can have him. But if he must die, I want it to be for something big. I want someone’s life to be changed forever.” This is what Laura Sobiech prayed when she found out her seventeen-year-old son had only one year to live. With this desperate prayer, she released her son to God’s will. At that point, Zach Sobiech was just another teenager battling cancer. When his mother told him to think about writing goodbye letters to family and friends, he decided instead to write songs. One of them, “Clouds,” captured hearts and changed lives, making him an international sensation. This story is a testament to what can happen when you live as if each day might be your last. It’s a story about the human spirit. It shows how God used a dying boy from a small town in Minnesota to touch the hearts of millions—including top executives in the entertainment industry, major music artists, news anchors, talk show hosts, actors, priests and pastors, and schoolchildren across the globe. And above all, it’s an example of the amazing things that happen when someone shares the most precious thing he has—himself.   “I’m not a musician; I’m just a filmmaker, and my prayer is that you get an opportunity—both through the reading of this beautiful book and the watching of our film based on it—to experience what I will fail to put into words: the magic and inspiration of Zachary David Sobiech.” —Justin Baldoni, filmmaker and director of Clouds]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/elizabethans-how-modern-britain-was-forged-by-andrew-marr--65148335https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged Author: Andrew Marr Narrator: Raj Ghatak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Sunday Times bestseller THE STORY OF BRITAIN during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively portrait of Britain’s Elizabethan Age by bestselling writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr Britain changed fundamentally during the Queen’s long, distinguished reign. So who made modern Britain the country it is today? How do we sum up the kind of people we are? What did it mean to be the new Elizabethans? In this wonderfully told history, spanning back to when Queen Elizabeth became queen in 1953, Andrew Marr traces the people who have made Britain the country it is today. From the activists to the artists, the sports heroes to the innovators, these people pushed us forward, changed the conversation, encouraged us to eat better, to sing, think and to protest. They got things done. How will our generation be remembered in a hundred years’ time? And when you look back at Britain’s toughest moments in the past seventy years, what do you learn about its people and its values? In brilliantly entertaining style and with unexpected insights into some of our sung and unsung heroes, this is our story as Elizabethans – the story of how 1950s Britain evolved into the diverse country we live in today. In short, it is the history of modern Britain. FEATURING: David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan Morris. Diana Dors. Bob Geldof. David Olusoga. Elizabeth David. Zaha Hadid. Frank Crichlow. Quentin Crisp. Dusty Springfield. Captain Tom – and many others]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438530Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged Author: Andrew Marr Narrator: Raj Ghatak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 34 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabethans: How Modern Britain Was Forged Author: Andrew Marr Narrator: Raj Ghatak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Sunday Times bestseller THE STORY OF BRITAIN during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively portrait of Britain’s Elizabethan Age by bestselling writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr Britain changed fundamentally during the Queen’s long, distinguished reign. So who made modern Britain the country it is today? How do we sum up the kind of people we are? What did it mean to be the new Elizabethans? In this wonderfully told history, spanning back to when Queen Elizabeth became queen in 1953, Andrew Marr traces the people who have made Britain the country it is today. From the activists to the artists, the sports heroes to the innovators, these people pushed us forward, changed the conversation, encouraged us to eat better, to sing, think and to protest. They got things done. How will our generation be remembered in a hundred years’ time? And when you look back at Britain’s toughest moments in the past seventy years, what do you learn about its people and its values? In brilliantly entertaining style and with unexpected insights into some of our sung and unsung heroes, this is our story as Elizabethans – the story of how 1950s Britain evolved into the diverse country we live in today. In short, it is the history of modern Britain. FEATURING: David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan Morris. Diana Dors. Bob Geldof. David Olusoga. Elizabeth David. Zaha Hadid. Frank Crichlow. Quentin Crisp. Dusty Springfield. Captain Tom – and many others]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-repurposed-life-by-ronni-kahn-jessica-chapnik-kahn--65148297https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445038 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Repurposed Life Author: Ronni Kahn, Jessica Chapnik Kahn Narrator: Ronni Kahn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: How OzHarvest charity queen and internationally renowned leader Ronni Kahn found her true calling in this passionately uplifting memoir. 'From the founder of OzHarvest, an ebullient, generous memoir with an exhilarating message: it's never too late to do great things.' ANNABEL CRABB 'Brimming with energy, altruism and refreshing candour' QUENTIN BRYCE 'The inspiring story of a woman with a big heart who dared to make a difference. This is a must-read book. I couldn't put it down.' ITA BUTTROSE Life throws us mysterious ingredients. If we are brave enough to put the recipe aside and experiment, it's right there that things get interesting. As the owner of a successful events company, throwing away huge volumes of leftover food at the end of the day came with the territory. But when Ronni Kahn hit midlife, she found herself no longer able to turn a blind eye to her food waste problem. Hand delivering the untouched food to homeless shelters around Sydney became her renegade solution. Little did she know that fixing her small problem at work would lead her to unlock a hidden purpose at the very core of her inner life. Now founder and CEO of the food rescue organisation OzHarvest, Ronni leads hundreds of staff and thousands of volunteers with the goal to nourish Australia. She serves in an advisory capacity to government and is an instrumental leader in changing federal laws to improve social justice and environmental policies. A Repurposed Life is the story of how Ronni found her voice, her heart and her deepest calling. From her early years growing up under the brutal system of apartheid South Africa, to a socialist commune in Israel, Ronni finally settled in Australia to discover a profound new way of living. Shared with the humour, warmth and energy that have made her an internationally renowned keynote speaker, this heartfelt exploration of the choices that define us will speak to anyone seeking a more passionate expression of being alive.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445038Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445038 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Repurposed Life Author: Ronni Kahn, Jessica Chapnik Kahn Narrator: Ronni Kahn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445038 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Repurposed Life Author: Ronni Kahn, Jessica Chapnik Kahn Narrator: Ronni Kahn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: How OzHarvest charity queen and internationally renowned leader Ronni Kahn found her true calling in this passionately uplifting memoir. 'From the founder of OzHarvest, an ebullient, generous memoir with an exhilarating message: it's never too late to do great things.' ANNABEL CRABB 'Brimming with energy, altruism and refreshing candour' QUENTIN BRYCE 'The inspiring story of a woman with a big heart who dared to make a difference. This is a must-read book. I couldn't put it down.' ITA BUTTROSE Life throws us mysterious ingredients. If we are brave enough to put the recipe aside and experiment, it's right there that things get interesting. As the owner of a successful events company, throwing away huge volumes of leftover food at the end of the day came with the territory. But when Ronni Kahn hit midlife, she found herself no longer able to turn a blind eye to her food waste problem. Hand delivering the untouched food to homeless shelters around Sydney became her renegade solution. Little did she know that fixing her small problem at work would lead her to unlock a hidden purpose at the very core of her inner life. Now founder and CEO of the food rescue organisation OzHarvest, Ronni leads hundreds of staff and thousands of volunteers with the goal to nourish Australia. She serves in an advisory capacity to government and is an instrumental leader in changing federal laws to improve social justice and environmental policies. A Repurposed Life is the story of how Ronni found her voice, her heart and her deepest calling. From her early years growing up under the brutal system of apartheid South Africa, to a socialist commune in Israel, Ronni finally settled in Australia to discover a profound new way of living. Shared with the humour, warmth and energy that have made her an internationally renowned keynote speaker, this heartfelt exploration of the choices that define us will speak to anyone seeking a more passionate expression of being alive.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/escape-artist-the-nine-lives-of-harry-perry-robinson-by-joseph-mcaleer--65148271https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447180 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape Artist: The Nine Lives of Harry Perry Robinson Author: Joseph Mcaleer Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The life of Sir Harry Perry Robinson (1859–1930) unfolds like a Boy's Own adventure. Born in India and educated at Oxford, Harry fled to the United States to make his name and fortune. After a stint in the gold mines of the American West, he became a major force in the railroad industry and helped to elect a US president. Returning to England, Harry had a celebrated career as a book publisher and as a journalist for the Times, serving as the oldest correspondent during the First World War and going on to have one of the scoops of the century: the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. Harry's journey unfolds against the background of his equally adventurous and accomplished family. His father, Julian, was an Indian Army chaplain and newspaper editor. His brother Philip was a dashing foreign correspondent, arrested as a spy during the Spanish-American War. Brother Edward ('Kay') gave Rudyard Kipling his first writing job. And troubled sister Valence was rumored to end her days living in a barrel on a roadside in Bulawayo. From the White House to Buckingham Palace, the American West to the Western Front, the sands of Egypt to the shores of India, Harry was a master of reinvention. His innate wanderlust was both a blessing and a curse, but it made for a splendid adventure, and Harry's was a grand life lived in history's shadow.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447180Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447180 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape Artist: The Nine Lives of Harry Perry Robinson Author: Joseph Mcaleer Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447180 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape Artist: The Nine Lives of Harry Perry Robinson Author: Joseph Mcaleer Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The life of Sir Harry Perry Robinson (1859–1930) unfolds like a Boy's Own adventure. Born in India and educated at Oxford, Harry fled to the United States to make his name and fortune. After a stint in the gold mines of the American West, he became a major force in the railroad industry and helped to elect a US president. Returning to England, Harry had a celebrated career as a book publisher and as a journalist for the Times, serving as the oldest correspondent during the First World War and going on to have one of the scoops of the century: the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923. Harry's journey unfolds against the background of his equally adventurous and accomplished family. His father, Julian, was an Indian Army chaplain and newspaper editor. His brother Philip was a dashing foreign correspondent, arrested as a spy during the Spanish-American War. Brother Edward ('Kay') gave Rudyard Kipling his first writing job. And troubled sister Valence was rumored to end her days living in a barrel on a roadside in Bulawayo. From the White House to Buckingham Palace, the American West to the Western Front, the sands of Egypt to the shores of India, Harry was a master of reinvention. His innate wanderlust was both a blessing and a curse, but it made for a splendid adventure, and Harry's was a grand life lived in history's shadow.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-nurse-s-story-my-life-in-a-e-during-the-covid-crisis-by-louise-curtis--65148243https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis Author: Louise Curtis Narrator: Louise Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Moving, honest and inspiring - this is a nurse's story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis. Working in A&E is a challenging job but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was newly qualified as an advanced clinical practitioner, responsible for life or death decisions about the patients she saw, when the unthinkable happened and the country was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. The stress on the NHS was huge and for the first time in her life, the job was going to take a toll on Louise herself. In A Nurse's Story she describes what happened next, as the trickle of Covid patients became a flood. And just as tragically, staff in A&E were faced with the effects of lockdown on society. They worried about their regulars, now missing, and saw an increase in domestic abuse victims and suicide attempts as loneliness hit people hard. By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, this book shines a light on the compassion and dedication of hospital staff during such dark times. 'An important memoir that we all need to read right now.' - Closer THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450957Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis Author: Louise Curtis Narrator: Louise Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis Author: Louise Curtis Narrator: Louise Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Moving, honest and inspiring - this is a nurse's story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis. Working in A&E is a challenging job but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was newly qualified as an advanced clinical practitioner, responsible for life or death decisions about the patients she saw, when the unthinkable happened and the country was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. The stress on the NHS was huge and for the first time in her life, the job was going to take a toll on Louise herself. In A Nurse's Story she describes what happened next, as the trickle of Covid patients became a flood. And just as tragically, staff in A&E were faced with the effects of lockdown on society. They worried about their regulars, now missing, and saw an increase in domestic abuse victims and suicide attempts as loneliness hit people hard. By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, this book shines a light on the compassion and dedication of hospital staff during such dark times. 'An important memoir that we all need to read right now.' - Closer THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/labours-of-love-the-crisis-of-care-by-madeleine-bunting--65148242https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care Author: Madeleine Bunting Narrator: Lydia Rose Bewley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NOMINATED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE An authoritative and deeply reflective investigation into the crisis of care in the UK, with a clarion call for change, from the award-winning author and journalist. We're facing a crisis in care likely to affect every one of us over the course of our lives. Care-work is underpaid; its values disregarded. Britain's society lauds economic growth, productivity and profit over compassion, kindness and empathy. For centuries the caring labours of women have been taken for granted, but with more women now in work, with increasing numbers of elderly and with austerity dismantling the welfare state, care is under pressure as never before. Over five years, Madeleine Bunting travelled the country, speaking to charity workers, doctors, social workers, in-home carers, nurses, palliative care teams and parents, to explore the value of care, the hidden glue that binds us together. She finds remarkable stories, in GP surgeries, in work undertaken by parents for their disabled children and in end-of-life teams, that conjure a different way of imagining our society and the connections between us. Blending these revelatory testimonies with a history and language of care, and with Bunting's own experiences of caring for the young and old in her family, Labours of Love is a hugely important portrait of our nation today - and of how it might be - which raises a clarion call for change. “A moving, forensic and historically grounded examination of how as a society we are falling so badly short in fulfilling our moral responsibilities to each other through life's most difficult passages, The Crisis of Care would have been timely at any point, but never more so than in the epoch-defining circumstances of 2020 as we seek at last to re-define our values” DAVID KYNASTON, author of Engines of Privilege “[Labours of Love] should be compulsory for every MP, every manager in the NHS and the care ‘industry'... Informative, moving and essential” PHILIPPA PERRY]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452324Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care Author: Madeleine Bunting Narrator: Lydia Rose Bewley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care Author: Madeleine Bunting Narrator: Lydia Rose Bewley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NOMINATED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE An authoritative and deeply reflective investigation into the crisis of care in the UK, with a clarion call for change, from the award-winning author and journalist. We're facing a crisis in care likely to affect every one of us over the course of our lives. Care-work is underpaid; its values disregarded. Britain's society lauds economic growth, productivity and profit over compassion, kindness and empathy. For centuries the caring labours of women have been taken for granted, but with more women now in work, with increasing numbers of elderly and with austerity dismantling the welfare state, care is under pressure as never before. Over five years, Madeleine Bunting travelled the country, speaking to charity workers, doctors, social workers, in-home carers, nurses, palliative care teams and parents, to explore the value of care, the hidden glue that binds us together. She finds remarkable stories, in GP surgeries, in work undertaken by parents for their disabled children and in end-of-life teams, that conjure a different way of imagining our society and the connections between us. Blending these revelatory testimonies with a history and language of care, and with Bunting's own experiences of caring for the young and old in her family, Labours of Love is a hugely important portrait of our nation today - and of how it might be - which raises a clarion call for change. “A moving, forensic and historically grounded examination of how as a society we are falling so badly short in fulfilling our moral responsibilities to each other through life's most difficult passages, The Crisis of Care would have been timely at any point, but never more so than in the epoch-defining circumstances of 2020 as we seek at last to re-define our values” DAVID KYNASTON, author of Engines of Privilege “[Labours of Love] should be compulsory for every MP, every manager in the NHS and the care ‘industry'... Informative, moving and essential” PHILIPPA PERRY]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-life-stories-gandhi-by-diane-bailey--65148206https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: DK Life Stories: Gandhi Author: Diane Bailey Narrator: Joseph Balderrama Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 34 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Learn all about Ghandi and his struggle for his country's freedom in this children's biography. In this biography, discover the inspiring life story of Mohandas Gandhi, who successfully used his teachings of non-violence to win his country's freedom. Mohandas Gandhi was born at a time when his home country was choked under the oppression of British rule. Although many thought that violence was the only way to fight this injustice, Gandhi successfully used his teachings of non-violence and civil disobedience to win his country's freedom - and create a philosophy of peace and equality. Called Mahatma, or ''great soul,'' by his many followers, Gandhi's inspiring words and deeds still resonate worldwide today. This new biography series from DK goes beyond the basic facts to tell the true life stories of history's most interesting people. An age-appropriate text to create an engaging audiobook children will enjoy listening to. This is the one biography series everyone will want to collect. © 2019 Diane Bailey © 2020 DK Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459563Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: DK Life Stories: Gandhi Author: Diane Bailey Narrator: Joseph Balderrama Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 34 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: DK Life Stories: Gandhi Author: Diane Bailey Narrator: Joseph Balderrama Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 34 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Learn all about Ghandi and his struggle for his country's freedom in this children's biography. In this biography, discover the inspiring life story of Mohandas Gandhi, who successfully used his teachings of non-violence to win his country's freedom. Mohandas Gandhi was born at a time when his home country was choked under the oppression of British rule. Although many thought that violence was the only way to fight this injustice, Gandhi successfully used his teachings of non-violence and civil disobedience to win his country's freedom - and create a philosophy of peace and equality. Called Mahatma, or ''great soul,'' by his many followers, Gandhi's inspiring words and deeds still resonate worldwide today. This new biography series from DK goes beyond the basic facts to tell the true life stories of history's most interesting people. An age-appropriate text to create an engaging audiobook children will enjoy listening to. This is the one biography series everyone will want to collect. © 2019 Diane Bailey © 2020 DK Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rise-up-confronting-a-country-at-the-crossroads-by-al-sharpton--65148362https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads Author: Al Sharpton Narrator: Leon Nixon, Al Sharpton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 29, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NOW A NATIONAL BESTSELLER “This man is a gift from God to the world. This book is a gift from Al Sharpton to us. Let’s appreciate them both.”—Michael Eric Dyson Beginning with a foreword by Michael Eric Dyson, Rise Up is a rousing call to action for our nation, drawing on lessons learned from Reverend Al Sharpton’s unique experience as a politician, television and radio host, and civil rights leader. Rise Up offers timeless lessons for anyone who’s stood at the crossroads of their personal or political life, weighing their choices of how to proceed. When the young Alfred Charles Sharpton told his mother he wanted to be a preacher, little did he know that his journey would also lead him to prominence as a politician, founder of the National Action Network, civil rights activist, and television and radio talk show host. His enduring ability and willingness to take on the political power structure makes him the preeminent voice for the modern era, a time unprecedented in its challenges. In Rise Up, Reverend Sharpton revisits the highlights of the Obama administration, the 2016 election and Trump’s subsequent hold on the GOP, and draws on his decades-long experience with other key players in politics and activism, including Shirley Chisholm, Hillary Clinton, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and more. The time has come to take a hard look at our collective failures and shortcomings and reclaim our core values in order to build a clear and just path forward for America. Our nation today stands at a crossroads—and change can’t wait. “Full of history, honesty, and valuable suggestions, Rise Up should be a staple in every home, school and library as an essential primer on civil and political rights in America.”—Martin Luther King, III “If you want to learn how to use your voice to change a nation, you should study closely this man—and this book.” —Van Jones “My Bed-Stuy (do or die) brother has been at the forefront of our battles again and again. From way back in da way back to this present revolution the world is in now, Rev. has been about Black Lives Matter from the jump, also at a time when it was not the most popular or hip thing to be about. I look forward, standing next to him, to see, to witness this new energy, this new day that is about to be in these United States of America.”—Spike Lee Don't miss Rev. Sharpton's new book, Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431939Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads Author: Al Sharpton Narrator: Leon Nixon, Al Sharpton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads Author: Al Sharpton Narrator: Leon Nixon, Al Sharpton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 29, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NOW A NATIONAL BESTSELLER “This man is a gift from God to the world. This book is a gift from Al Sharpton to us. Let’s appreciate them both.”—Michael Eric Dyson Beginning with a foreword by Michael Eric Dyson, Rise Up is a rousing call to action for our nation, drawing on lessons learned from Reverend Al Sharpton’s unique experience as a politician, television and radio host, and civil rights leader. Rise Up offers timeless lessons for anyone who’s stood at the crossroads of their personal or political life, weighing their choices of how to proceed. When the young Alfred Charles Sharpton told his mother he wanted to be a preacher, little did he know that his journey would also lead him to prominence as a politician, founder of the National Action Network, civil rights activist, and television and radio talk show host. His enduring ability and willingness to take on the political power structure makes him the preeminent voice for the modern era, a time unprecedented in its challenges. In Rise Up, Reverend Sharpton revisits the highlights of the Obama administration, the 2016 election and Trump’s subsequent hold on the GOP, and draws on his decades-long experience with other key players in politics and activism, including Shirley Chisholm, Hillary Clinton, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and more. The time has come to take a hard look at our collective failures and shortcomings and reclaim our core values in order to build a clear and just path forward for America. Our nation today stands at a crossroads—and change can’t wait. “Full of history, honesty, and valuable suggestions, Rise Up should be a staple in every home, school and library as an essential primer on civil and political rights in America.”—Martin Luther King, III “If you want to learn how to use your voice to change a nation, you should study closely this man—and this book.” —Van Jones “My Bed-Stuy (do or die) brother has been at the forefront of our battles again and again. From way back in da way back to this present revolution the world is in now, Rev. has been about Black Lives Matter from the jump, also at a time when it was not the most popular or hip thing to be about. I look forward, standing next to him, to see, to witness this new energy, this new day that is about to be in these United States of America.”—Spike Lee Don't miss Rev. Sharpton's new book, Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/field-notes-from-a-pandemic-a-journey-through-a-world-suspended-by-ethan-lou--65148309https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey Through a World Suspended Author: Ethan Lou Narrator: Ethan Lou Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 29, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of 2020   In a book equal parts travelogue and pandemic guide, the journalist Ethan Lou examines the societal effects of COVID-19 and takes us on a mesmerizing journey around a world that will never be the same. Visiting Beijing in January 2020 to see his dying grandfather, the Canadian journalist Ethan Lou unknowingly walks into a state under siege. In his journey out of China and—unwittingly—into other hot zones in Asia and Europe, he finds himself witnessing the very earliest stages of a virus that will forever change the world as we know it. Lou argues that the coronavirus outbreak will have a far greater impact than SARS, for example, simply because China is now many more times integrated with the increasingly interconnected world. Over decades, globalization has crafted a world painfully sensitive and susceptible to shocks such as this pandemic. A crisis like it has thus been long overdue—and we have yet to see it unfold fully. In our integrated world, events that may previously be isolated now ripple farther and wider and in ways we do not expect and cannot foresee. We have not seen the worst, and if and when we outlast this pandemic, nothing will ever be the same. Decisions now—or indecisions—will shape and define the world for decades. These ideas are fleshed out through the virus's spawning and how it spread, the unprecedented measures to contain it and an examination of past pandemics and other crises and how they shaped the world--and an argument for why this one's different. Lou shows how drastically the virus has transformed the world and charts the greater and more radical shifts to come. His ideas and arguments are framed around his unintentionally tumultuous journey around the world, whose path the virus seemed to follow until he landed safely in quarantine in a small town in Germany, where he was able to take stock and start telling his story. THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433518Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey Through a World Suspended Author: Ethan Lou Narrator: Ethan Lou Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey Through a World Suspended Author: Ethan Lou Narrator: Ethan Lou Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 29, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of 2020   In a book equal parts travelogue and pandemic guide, the journalist Ethan Lou examines the societal effects of COVID-19 and takes us on a mesmerizing journey around a world that will never be the same. Visiting Beijing in January 2020 to see his dying grandfather, the Canadian journalist Ethan Lou unknowingly walks into a state under siege. In his journey out of China and—unwittingly—into other hot zones in Asia and Europe, he finds himself witnessing the very earliest stages of a virus that will forever change the world as we know it. Lou argues that the coronavirus outbreak will have a far greater impact than SARS, for example, simply because China is now many more times integrated with the increasingly interconnected world. Over decades, globalization has crafted a world painfully sensitive and susceptible to shocks such as this pandemic. A crisis like it has thus been long overdue—and we have yet to see it unfold fully. In our integrated world, events that may previously be isolated now ripple farther and wider and in ways we do not expect and cannot foresee. We have not seen the worst, and if and when we outlast this pandemic, nothing will ever be the same. Decisions now—or indecisions—will shape and define the world for decades. These ideas are fleshed out through the virus's spawning and how it spread, the unprecedented measures to contain it and an examination of past pandemics and other crises and how they shaped the world--and an argument for why this one's different. Lou shows how drastically the virus has transformed the world and charts the greater and more radical shifts to come. His ideas and arguments are framed around his unintentionally tumultuous journey around the world, whose path the virus seemed to follow until he landed safely in quarantine in a small town in Germany, where he was able to take stock and start telling his story. THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unseen-by-jacinta-parsons--65148234https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unseen Author: Jacinta Parsons Narrator: Jacinta Parsons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 29, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Broadcaster Jacinta Parsons was in her twenties when she first began to feel unwell – the kind of unwell that didn't go away. Doctors couldn't explain why, and Jacinta wondered if it might be in her head. She could barely function, was frequently unable to eat or get out of bed for days, and gradually turned into a shadow of herself. Eventually she got a diagnosis: Crohn's disease. But knowing this wouldn't stop her life from spiralling into a big mess of doctors, hospitals and medical disasters. What's most extraordinary about Jacinta's story is how common it is. Nearly half of Australians live with a chronic illness, but most of these conditions are not obvious, often endured in secrecy and little understood. They are unseen. With compelling candour, Jacinta trains a microscope on the unique challenges of living with an invisible condition. She lays bare the struggles with shame, loss of identity, the threat of mortality, and the profoundly complex relationships between the chronically ill and their own bodies, as well as with those around them. It's a story of trying to fix an unfixable illness, getting beaten down then clawing back up, and how that experience can shape a life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453808Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unseen Author: Jacinta Parsons Narrator: Jacinta Parsons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 29, 2020...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unseen Author: Jacinta Parsons Narrator: Jacinta Parsons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 29, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Broadcaster Jacinta Parsons was in her twenties when she first began to feel unwell – the kind of unwell that didn't go away. Doctors couldn't explain why, and Jacinta wondered if it might be in her head. She could barely function, was frequently unable to eat or get out of bed for days, and gradually turned into a shadow of herself. Eventually she got a diagnosis: Crohn's disease. But knowing this wouldn't stop her life from spiralling into a big mess of doctors, hospitals and medical disasters. What's most extraordinary about Jacinta's story is how common it is. Nearly half of Australians live with a chronic illness, but most of these conditions are not obvious, often endured in secrecy and little understood. They are unseen. With compelling candour, Jacinta trains a microscope on the unique challenges of living with an invisible condition. She lays bare the struggles with shame, loss of identity, the threat of mortality, and the profoundly complex relationships between the chronically ill and their own bodies, as well as with those around them. It's a story of trying to fix an unfixable illness, getting beaten down then clawing back up, and how that experience can shape a life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/amazing-tales-for-making-men-out-of-boys-by-neil-oliver--65148236https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453966 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys Author: Neil Oliver Narrator: Neil Oliver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: September 24, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Discover inspiring stories of heroism, adventure, endurance and survival from throughout history. Captain Robert Falcon Scott didn't start out life as a hero. In fact, as a boy he was considered small, frail and shy. So what was it that turned this ordinary man into a legend? Through his gripping account of how this modest naval officer became Scott of the Antarctic, Neil Oliver vividly relates the awe-inspiring tales of brave men that inspired Britain's greatest hero, including Nelson, Sir John Moore, and the Demons of Camerone. And alongside these epic stories of courage, fortitude and sacrifice, Oliver recounts how the spirit of Scott lives on - from Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 13 mission, to the SAS and the Battle of Mirbat. Young and old alike will enjoy reading these brave stories of men who understood - as Scott always did - that it was more important to die a hero than live a coward's life. 'A joy from start to finish' Sunday Telegraph 'A great book . . . I shall treasure it' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'A must-have collection' The Times © Neil Oliver 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2020]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453966Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453966 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys Author: Neil Oliver Narrator: Neil Oliver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453966 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys Author: Neil Oliver Narrator: Neil Oliver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: September 24, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Discover inspiring stories of heroism, adventure, endurance and survival from throughout history. Captain Robert Falcon Scott didn't start out life as a hero. In fact, as a boy he was considered small, frail and shy. So what was it that turned this ordinary man into a legend? Through his gripping account of how this modest naval officer became Scott of the Antarctic, Neil Oliver vividly relates the awe-inspiring tales of brave men that inspired Britain's greatest hero, including Nelson, Sir John Moore, and the Demons of Camerone. And alongside these epic stories of courage, fortitude and sacrifice, Oliver recounts how the spirit of Scott lives on - from Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 13 mission, to the SAS and the Battle of Mirbat. Young and old alike will enjoy reading these brave stories of men who understood - as Scott always did - that it was more important to die a hero than live a coward's life. 'A joy from start to finish' Sunday Telegraph 'A great book . . . I shall treasure it' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'A must-have collection' The Times © Neil Oliver 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2020]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/handle-with-care-true-confessions-of-an-nhs-health-visitor-by-rachael-hearson--65148224https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Handle With Care: True Confessions of an NHS Health Visitor Author: Rachael Hearson Narrator: Rachael Hearson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 24, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Health Visiting is one of those professions that most people think is a bit of a non-job. 'You just sit on sofas and drink tea, don't you? It's not like you're a real nurse, in hospital.' Well, Health Visitors are real nurses, with at least three years' training, and they are out there, on their own. No back-up team or support structures to call for help if they're in a dicey situation. No warm lights, tea breaks spent chatting in the canteen, nobody else to ask, 'is this okay, what do you think?' Over 40 years working in the NHS, Rachael Hearson has been chased down an isolated stairwell by crack-fuelled drug-addicted pimps, threatened by a knife-wielding wife-beater in a hostel, unwittingly visited a brothel...And that's just the tip of the iceberg. '[It] manages to be funny, moving, activist, and challenging.' Harriet Minter, TalkRadio 'I loved this book - I thought it was really interesting' Jane Garvey, BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455087Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Handle With Care: True Confessions of an NHS Health Visitor Author: Rachael Hearson Narrator: Rachael Hearson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Handle With Care: True Confessions of an NHS Health Visitor Author: Rachael Hearson Narrator: Rachael Hearson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 24, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Health Visiting is one of those professions that most people think is a bit of a non-job. 'You just sit on sofas and drink tea, don't you? It's not like you're a real nurse, in hospital.' Well, Health Visitors are real nurses, with at least three years' training, and they are out there, on their own. No back-up team or support structures to call for help if they're in a dicey situation. No warm lights, tea breaks spent chatting in the canteen, nobody else to ask, 'is this okay, what do you think?' Over 40 years working in the NHS, Rachael Hearson has been chased down an isolated stairwell by crack-fuelled drug-addicted pimps, threatened by a knife-wielding wife-beater in a hostel, unwittingly visited a brothel...And that's just the tip of the iceberg. '[It] manages to be funny, moving, activist, and challenging.' Harriet Minter, TalkRadio 'I loved this book - I thought it was really interesting' Jane Garvey, BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hunting-fear-the-adventure-of-a-lifetime-by-benji-brundin--65148198https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hunting Fear - the adventure of a lifetime Author: Benji Brundin Narrator: Benji Brundin, Dave Stokes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: September 22, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In 2015 Benji had the picket-fence cottage in the quiet suburban street, a promising career and a loving wife. Three months later it was all gone. What do you do when the world crumbles around you? Where do you go when you have nothing to lose?Benji tells his story with brutal honesty, describing some of the wildest parts of Australia with a passionate attention to detail. Jump on and hold tight for the ride of a lifetime as he takes you from his rock bottom to the highs of setting a new Guinness World Record: The fastest man across 10 Australian deserts...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460514Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hunting Fear - the adventure of a lifetime Author: Benji Brundin Narrator: Benji Brundin, Dave Stokes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hunting Fear - the adventure of a lifetime Author: Benji Brundin Narrator: Benji Brundin, Dave Stokes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: September 22, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In 2015 Benji had the picket-fence cottage in the quiet suburban street, a promising career and a loving wife. Three months later it was all gone. What do you do when the world crumbles around you? Where do you go when you have nothing to lose?Benji tells his story with brutal honesty, describing some of the wildest parts of Australia with a passionate attention to detail. Jump on and hold tight for the ride of a lifetime as he takes you from his rock bottom to the highs of setting a new Guinness World Record: The fastest man across 10 Australian deserts...]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/explorers-amazing-tales-of-the-world-s-greatest-adventurers-by-nellie-huang--65148208https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455069 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World's Greatest Adventurers Author: Nellie Huang Narrator: William Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 17, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Meet famous explorers and adventurers in this exciting non-fiction storybook for children. Venture into steaming jungles in search of lost temples, fight off frostbite in the Arctic, and blast off into space! Great explorers have one thing in common - a desire to leap into the unknown, no matter how dangerous that might be. From Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the world 500 years ago to Barbara Hillary's treks to the North and South poles while in her seventies, Explorers documents the trials and hardships of the men and women who rewrote our understanding of the world, and showed us what humans are capable of. Explorers looks at the towering achievements of more than 50 explorers in great detail, with incredible cross-sections revealing the amazing detail inside Spanish galleons, lost cities, and spaceships. Hand-drawn maps reveal their intrepid journeys in great detail, and photographs highlight the artefacts and relics they found along the way. The explorers come from all walks of life and parts of the world. Packed with jaw-dropping facts and written in language that will get the heart racing, Explorers is the perfect book for any budding young adventurer, combining both beautiful illustrations by Jessamy Hawke and fantastic photography.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455069Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455069 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World's Greatest Adventurers Author: Nellie Huang Narrator: William Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455069 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World's Greatest Adventurers Author: Nellie Huang Narrator: William Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 17, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Meet famous explorers and adventurers in this exciting non-fiction storybook for children. Venture into steaming jungles in search of lost temples, fight off frostbite in the Arctic, and blast off into space! Great explorers have one thing in common - a desire to leap into the unknown, no matter how dangerous that might be. From Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the world 500 years ago to Barbara Hillary's treks to the North and South poles while in her seventies, Explorers documents the trials and hardships of the men and women who rewrote our understanding of the world, and showed us what humans are capable of. Explorers looks at the towering achievements of more than 50 explorers in great detail, with incredible cross-sections revealing the amazing detail inside Spanish galleons, lost cities, and spaceships. Hand-drawn maps reveal their intrepid journeys in great detail, and photographs highlight the artefacts and relics they found along the way. The explorers come from all walks of life and parts of the world. Packed with jaw-dropping facts and written in language that will get the heart racing, Explorers is the perfect book for any budding young adventurer, combining both beautiful illustrations by Jessamy Hawke and fantastic photography.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-other-side-of-me-memoir-of-a-bipolar-mind-by-julie-kraft--65148326https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/443900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Side of Me: Memoir of a Bipolar Mind Author: Julie Kraft Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this unforgettable memoir, first-time author Julie Kraft takes listeners on an intimate journey through her struggles and triumphs with bipolar disorder. No stone is left unturned. In baring her skeletons and soul, Julie offers a rare glimpse into a world that affects millions but is often misrepresented, feared, or hidden. It is Julie's greatest hope that in sharing her story she will open minds, shatter stigma, and offer help to those walking a similar path.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/443900Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/443900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Side of Me: Memoir of a Bipolar Mind Author: Julie Kraft Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 3 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/443900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Other Side of Me: Memoir of a Bipolar Mind Author: Julie Kraft Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this unforgettable memoir, first-time author Julie Kraft takes listeners on an intimate journey through her struggles and triumphs with bipolar disorder. No stone is left unturned. In baring her skeletons and soul, Julie offers a rare glimpse into a world that affects millions but is often misrepresented, feared, or hidden. It is Julie's greatest hope that in sharing her story she will open minds, shatter stigma, and offer help to those walking a similar path.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/finding-my-father-his-century-long-journey-from-world-war-i-warsaw-and-my-quest-to-follow-by-deborah-tannen--65148268https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439505 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War I Warsaw and My Quest to Follow Author: Deborah Tannen Narrator: Deborah Tannen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A #1 New York Times bestselling author traces her father’s life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. “An accomplished, clear-eyed, and affecting memoir about a man who is at once ordinary and extraordinary.”—Forward Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking book about women and men, praised by Oliver Sacks for having “a novelist’s ear for the way people speak,” Deborah Tannen was a girl who adored her father. Though he was often absent during her childhood, she was profoundly influenced by his gift for writing and storytelling. As she grew up and he grew older, she spent countless hours recording conversations with her father for the account of his life she had promised him she’d write. But when he hands Tannen journals he kept in his youth, and she discovers letters he saved from a woman he might have married instead of her mother, she is forced to rethink her assumptions about her father’s life and her parents’ marriage.  In this memoir, Tannen embarks on the poignant, yet perilous, quest to piece together the puzzle of her father’s life. Beginning with his astonishingly vivid memories of the Hasidic community in Warsaw, where he was born in 1908, she traces his journey: from arriving in New York City in 1920 to quitting high school at fourteen to support his mother and sister, through a vast array of jobs, including prison guard and gun-toting alcohol tax inspector, to eventually establishing the largest workers’ compensation law practice in New York and running for Congress. As Tannen comes to better understand her father’s—and her own—relationship to Judaism, she uncovers aspects of his life she would never have imagined. Finding My Father is a memoir of Eli Tannen’s life and the ways in which it reflects the near century that he lived. Even more than that, it’s an unflinching account of a daughter’s struggle to see her father clearly, to know him more deeply, and to find a more truthful story about her family and herself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439505Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439505 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War I Warsaw and My Quest to Follow Author: Deborah Tannen Narrator: Deborah Tannen Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439505 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War I Warsaw and My Quest to Follow Author: Deborah Tannen Narrator: Deborah Tannen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A #1 New York Times bestselling author traces her father’s life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. “An accomplished, clear-eyed, and affecting memoir about a man who is at once ordinary and extraordinary.”—Forward Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking book about women and men, praised by Oliver Sacks for having “a novelist’s ear for the way people speak,” Deborah Tannen was a girl who adored her father. Though he was often absent during her childhood, she was profoundly influenced by his gift for writing and storytelling. As she grew up and he grew older, she spent countless hours recording conversations with her father for the account of his life she had promised him she’d write. But when he hands Tannen journals he kept in his youth, and she discovers letters he saved from a woman he might have married instead of her mother, she is forced to rethink her assumptions about her father’s life and her parents’ marriage.  In this memoir, Tannen embarks on the poignant, yet perilous, quest to piece together the puzzle of her father’s life. Beginning with his astonishingly vivid memories of the Hasidic community in Warsaw, where he was born in 1908, she traces his journey: from arriving in New York City in 1920 to quitting high school at fourteen to support his mother and sister, through a vast array of jobs, including prison guard and gun-toting alcohol tax inspector, to eventually establishing the largest workers’ compensation law practice in New York and running for Congress. As Tannen comes to better understand her father’s—and her own—relationship to Judaism, she uncovers aspects of his life she would never have imagined. Finding My Father is a memoir of Eli Tannen’s life and the ways in which it reflects the near century that he lived. Even more than that, it’s an unflinching account of a daughter’s struggle to see her father clearly, to know him more deeply, and to find a more truthful story about her family and herself.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-interpreter-by-marcelle-kellermann--65148216https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/456118 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Interpreter Author: Marcelle Kellermann Narrator: Christian Solskjaer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This story is set during the occupation of France of 1940-44, during which time the author fought as a member of the Resistance. It follows her interrogation, imprisonment and her subsequent unexpected release by the German Nazi Officer Frank Van Heugen, the official interpreter in the German Kommandatur of Vichy France. - -]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/456118Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/456118 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Interpreter Author: Marcelle Kellermann Narrator: Christian Solskjaer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 33 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/456118 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Interpreter Author: Marcelle Kellermann Narrator: Christian Solskjaer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 33 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This story is set during the occupation of France of 1940-44, during which time the author fought as a member of the Resistance. It follows her interrogation, imprisonment and her subsequent unexpected release by the German Nazi Officer Frank Van Heugen, the official interpreter in the German Kommandatur of Vichy France. - -]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/che-guevara-the-definitive-portrait-of-one-of-the-twentieth-century-s-most-fascinating-historical-figures-by-critically-acclaimed-new-york--65148258https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Che Guevara: the definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating historical figures, by critically-acclaimed New York Times journalist Jon Lee Anderson Author: Jon Lee Anderson Narrator: Armando Duran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 36 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 10, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. He became a myth in his own lifetime and an international martyr-figure upon his death; he was a revolutionary fighter, a military strategist, a social philosopher, an economist, a medical doctor, and a friend and confidant of Fidel Castro. Che Guevara's dream was an epic one - to unite Latin America and the rest of the developing world through armed revolution, and to end once and for all the poverty, injustice and petty nationalisms that had bled it for centuries. In the end Che failed in his quest but he is recognized as that one-in-a-million personality who just might have pulled it off. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life shuttles between the revolutionary capitals of Havana and Algiers to the battlegrounds of Bolivia and the Congo; from the halls of power in Moscow and Washington to the exile havens of Miami, Mexico and Guatemala, in a gripping tale of revolution, international intrigue and covert operations. It has an epic sweep as it evokes an era of tumultuous change, describing major events like the Bay of Pigs invasion, the October Missile crisis and Kennedy's assassination. Among its cast of characters are scores of historic personalities including Castro, Kennedy, Kruschev, Mao Tse-tung, Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, to name but a few. Jon Lee Anderson has been given unprecedented access to the Cuban Government's archives and has had total co-operation from Che's widow, Aleida March, who has never previously spoken for publication about her late husband. He has obtained hitherto unpublished documents, including several of Che's personal diaries and, in the course of his research, broke open a twenty-eight-year-old mystery - the whereabouts of Che's body in Bolivia. There is no doubt that this monumental work will stand as the definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating, yet largely unexplored, historical figures. © Jon Lee Anderson 1997 (P) Penguin Audio 2020]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451516Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Che Guevara: the definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating historical figures, by critically-acclaimed New York Times...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Che Guevara: the definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating historical figures, by critically-acclaimed New York Times journalist Jon Lee Anderson Author: Jon Lee Anderson Narrator: Armando Duran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 36 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 10, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. He became a myth in his own lifetime and an international martyr-figure upon his death; he was a revolutionary fighter, a military strategist, a social philosopher, an economist, a medical doctor, and a friend and confidant of Fidel Castro. Che Guevara's dream was an epic one - to unite Latin America and the rest of the developing world through armed revolution, and to end once and for all the poverty, injustice and petty nationalisms that had bled it for centuries. In the end Che failed in his quest but he is recognized as that one-in-a-million personality who just might have pulled it off. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life shuttles between the revolutionary capitals of Havana and Algiers to the battlegrounds of Bolivia and the Congo; from the halls of power in Moscow and Washington to the exile havens of Miami, Mexico and Guatemala, in a gripping tale of revolution, international intrigue and covert operations. It has an epic sweep as it evokes an era of tumultuous change, describing major events like the Bay of Pigs invasion, the October Missile crisis and Kennedy's assassination. Among its cast of characters are scores of historic personalities including Castro, Kennedy, Kruschev, Mao Tse-tung, Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, to name but a few. Jon Lee Anderson has been given unprecedented access to the Cuban Government's archives and has had total co-operation from Che's widow, Aleida March, who has never previously spoken for publication about her late husband. He has obtained hitherto unpublished documents, including several of Che's personal diaries and, in the course of his research, broke open a twenty-eight-year-old mystery - the whereabouts of Che's body in Bolivia. There is no doubt that this monumental work will stand as the definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating, yet largely unexplored, historical figures. © Jon Lee Anderson 1997 (P) Penguin Audio 2020]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/membering-by-austin-clarke--65148233https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453978 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 'Membering Author: Austin Clarke Narrator: Nigel Shawn Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 8, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (Longlisted) 2016 RBC Taylor Prize (Longlisted) The unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize-winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called "Canada's first multicultural writer." Austin Clarke is a distinguished and celebrated novelist and short-story writer. His works often centre around the immigrant experience, of which he writes with humour and compassion, happiness and sorrow. In 'Membering, Clarke shares his own experiences growing up in Barbados and moving to Toronto to attend university in 1955 before becoming a journalist. With vivid realism he describes Harlem of the '60s, meeting and interviewing Malcolm X and writers Chinua Achebe and LeRoi Jones. Clarke went on to become a pioneering instructor of Afro-American Literature at Yale University and inspired a new generation of Afro-American writers. Clarke has been called Canada's first multicultural writer. Here he eschews a traditional chronological order of events and takes the reader on a lyrical tour of his extraordinary life, interspersed with thought-provoking meditations on politics and race. Telling things as he 'members them. Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country's greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453978Tue, 08 Sep 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453978 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 'Membering Author: Austin Clarke Narrator: Nigel Shawn Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 8,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/453978 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 'Membering Author: Austin Clarke Narrator: Nigel Shawn Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 8, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (Longlisted) 2016 RBC Taylor Prize (Longlisted) The unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize-winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called "Canada's first multicultural writer." Austin Clarke is a distinguished and celebrated novelist and short-story writer. His works often centre around the immigrant experience, of which he writes with humour and compassion, happiness and sorrow. In 'Membering, Clarke shares his own experiences growing up in Barbados and moving to Toronto to attend university in 1955 before becoming a journalist. With vivid realism he describes Harlem of the '60s, meeting and interviewing Malcolm X and writers Chinua Achebe and LeRoi Jones. Clarke went on to become a pioneering instructor of Afro-American Literature at Yale University and inspired a new generation of Afro-American writers. Clarke has been called Canada's first multicultural writer. Here he eschews a traditional chronological order of events and takes the reader on a lyrical tour of his extraordinary life, interspersed with thought-provoking meditations on politics and race. Telling things as he 'members them. Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country's greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-ab-jetzt-ist-ruhe-roman-meiner-fabelhaften-familie-ungekurzte-autorinnenlesung-by-marion-brasch--65148229https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ab jetzt ist Ruhe - Roman meiner fabelhaften Familie (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung) Author: Marion Brasch Narrator: Marion Brasch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 4, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Marion Braschs autobiografischer Roman erzählt die Geschichte einer außergewöhnlichen Familie. Der Vater, konvertierter Jude, der den Holocaust im englischen Exil überlebt, lässt sich mit seiner jungen Familie in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone nieder und wird später stellvertretender Kulturminister der DDR. Die Brüder, darunter Thomas Brasch, werden als Schriftsteller, Dramatiker und Schauspieler bekannt.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455028Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ab jetzt ist Ruhe - Roman meiner fabelhaften Familie (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung) Author: Marion Brasch Narrator: Marion Brasch Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/455028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ab jetzt ist Ruhe - Roman meiner fabelhaften Familie (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung) Author: Marion Brasch Narrator: Marion Brasch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 4, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Marion Braschs autobiografischer Roman erzählt die Geschichte einer außergewöhnlichen Familie. Der Vater, konvertierter Jude, der den Holocaust im englischen Exil überlebt, lässt sich mit seiner jungen Familie in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone nieder und wird später stellvertretender Kulturminister der DDR. Die Brüder, darunter Thomas Brasch, werden als Schriftsteller, Dramatiker und Schauspieler bekannt.]]>185rztecleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/above-the-clouds-how-i-carved-my-own-path-to-the-top-of-the-world-by-kilian-jornet--65148377https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Above the Clouds: How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World Author: Kilian Jornet Narrator: Steven Brand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 3, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount Everest in this profound and free-flowing memoir—an intellectual and spiritual journey that moves from the earth’s highest peak to the soul’s deepest reaches. What drives a person to the edge of one of the most difficult and revered mountains in the world? How much is one willing to sacrifice and suffer to pursue an authentic and bold life? The most accomplished mountain runner of all time, Kilian Jornet ponders these questions as he contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount Everest, exploring the mountain’s changing nature over four seasons and his own existence. As he recounts a life spent studying, tending, and ascending the greatest peaks on earth, Jornet ruminates on what he has found in nature—simplicity, freedom, and spiritual joy—and offers a poetic yet clearheaded assessment of his relationship to the mountain . . . at times his opponent, at others, his greatest muse. In this sweeping, soulful journey—the flip side of stories like Into Thin Air—Jornet illuminates with beauty and brilliance what it means to be an athlete, a competitor, and a human facing the greatest life challenges—for him, the mountain he yearns to climb and honour.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425759Thu, 03 Sep 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Above the Clouds: How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World Author: Kilian Jornet Narrator: Steven Brand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Above the Clouds: How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World Author: Kilian Jornet Narrator: Steven Brand Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 3, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount Everest in this profound and free-flowing memoir—an intellectual and spiritual journey that moves from the earth’s highest peak to the soul’s deepest reaches. What drives a person to the edge of one of the most difficult and revered mountains in the world? How much is one willing to sacrifice and suffer to pursue an authentic and bold life? The most accomplished mountain runner of all time, Kilian Jornet ponders these questions as he contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount Everest, exploring the mountain’s changing nature over four seasons and his own existence. As he recounts a life spent studying, tending, and ascending the greatest peaks on earth, Jornet ruminates on what he has found in nature—simplicity, freedom, and spiritual joy—and offers a poetic yet clearheaded assessment of his relationship to the mountain . . . at times his opponent, at others, his greatest muse. In this sweeping, soulful journey—the flip side of stories like Into Thin Air—Jornet illuminates with beauty and brilliance what it means to be an athlete, a competitor, and a human facing the greatest life challenges—for him, the mountain he yearns to climb and honour.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/duty-of-care-one-doctor-s-story-of-the-covid-19-crisis-by-dr-dominic-pimenta--65148282https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duty of Care: One Doctor's Story of the Covid-19 Crisis Author: Dr. Dominic Pimenta Narrator: Dominic Pimenta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 3, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The first book to tell the full story of the Covid-19 pandemic, from an NHS doctor working inside hospitals to save lives and combat the virus on the front line. This audiobook features additional questions and answers with the author Dr Dominic Pimenta, providing even further expert insights. On the 8th of February, Dr Dominic Pimenta encountered his first suspected case of coronavirus. Within a week, he began wearing a mask on the tube and within a month, he was moved over to the Intensive Care Unit to help fight the virus. Duty of Care is the first book to tell the full story of the Covid-19 pandemic from someone on the frontline, working in one of the NHS's hardest hit areas. From the initial whispers coming out of China and the collective hesitation to class this as a pandemic to full lockdown and the continued battle to treat whoever came through the doors, Dr Pimenta tells the heroic stories of how the entire system shifted to tackle this outbreak and how, ultimately, the staff managed to save lives. This incredible account captures the shock and surprise, the panic and power of an unprecedented time, and how, at this moment of despair, human generosity and kindness prevailed. "Beautifully written, passionate and moving."KATE MOSSE "Gripping, humane, eye-opening and seriously tense." IAN DUNT THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445034Thu, 03 Sep 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duty of Care: One Doctor's Story of the Covid-19 Crisis Author: Dr. Dominic Pimenta Narrator: Dominic Pimenta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duty of Care: One Doctor's Story of the Covid-19 Crisis Author: Dr. Dominic Pimenta Narrator: Dominic Pimenta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 3, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The first book to tell the full story of the Covid-19 pandemic, from an NHS doctor working inside hospitals to save lives and combat the virus on the front line. This audiobook features additional questions and answers with the author Dr Dominic Pimenta, providing even further expert insights. On the 8th of February, Dr Dominic Pimenta encountered his first suspected case of coronavirus. Within a week, he began wearing a mask on the tube and within a month, he was moved over to the Intensive Care Unit to help fight the virus. Duty of Care is the first book to tell the full story of the Covid-19 pandemic from someone on the frontline, working in one of the NHS's hardest hit areas. From the initial whispers coming out of China and the collective hesitation to class this as a pandemic to full lockdown and the continued battle to treat whoever came through the doors, Dr Pimenta tells the heroic stories of how the entire system shifted to tackle this outbreak and how, ultimately, the staff managed to save lives. This incredible account captures the shock and surprise, the panic and power of an unprecedented time, and how, at this moment of despair, human generosity and kindness prevailed. "Beautifully written, passionate and moving."KATE MOSSE "Gripping, humane, eye-opening and seriously tense." IAN DUNT THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-time-for-all-things-the-life-of-michael-e-debakey-by-craig-a-miller--65148382https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425999 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey Author: Craig A. Miller Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease, in particular, were innumerable and epoch-making. DeBakey led a life of high drama, from the streets of Jazz Age New Orleans and the operating theaters of pre-war Europe, to the battlefields of World War II and the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. An advisor to Presidents, a health care statesman, and a physician to royalty and commoner alike, he helped build Houston's Texas Medical Center into a jewel of the medical world. Yet DeBakey's own family paid a tremendous cost for his commitment to his fellow man. Buoyed by unique access to primary resources, A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey is the first to tell the remarkable story of a driven genius who led a scientific and therapeutic revolution in all its dramatic depth.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425999Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425999 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey Author: Craig A. Miller Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425999 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey Author: Craig A. Miller Narrator: Eric Jason Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: He has been called the greatest surgeon of the 20th century. The son of Lebanese immigrants, Michael DeBakey rose from humble beginnings in a backwater Louisiana town to dominate the landscape of modern medicine. His contributions to our understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease, in particular, were innumerable and epoch-making. DeBakey led a life of high drama, from the streets of Jazz Age New Orleans and the operating theaters of pre-war Europe, to the battlefields of World War II and the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. An advisor to Presidents, a health care statesman, and a physician to royalty and commoner alike, he helped build Houston's Texas Medical Center into a jewel of the medical world. Yet DeBakey's own family paid a tremendous cost for his commitment to his fellow man. Buoyed by unique access to primary resources, A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey is the first to tell the remarkable story of a driven genius who led a scientific and therapeutic revolution in all its dramatic depth.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lawrence-in-arabia-war-deceit-imperial-folly-and-the-making-of-the-modern-middle-east-by-scott-anderson--65148343https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East  Author: Scott Anderson Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY New York Times • Christian Science Monitor • NPR • Seattle Times • St. Louis Dispatch National Book Critics Circle Finalist -- American Library Association Notable Book A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East        The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, “a sideshow of a sideshow.”  Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theater.  As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power.    Curt Prüfer was an effete academic attached to the German embassy in Cairo, whose clandestine role was to foment Islamic jihad against British rule.  Aaron Aaronsohn was a renowned agronomist and committed Zionist who gained the trust of the Ottoman governor of Syria. William Yale was the fallen scion of the American aristocracy, who traveled the Ottoman Empire on behalf of Standard Oil, dissembling to the Turks in order gain valuable oil concessions.  At the center of it all was Lawrence.  In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in the sands of Syria; by 1917 he was the most romantic figure of World War One, battling both the enemy and his own government to bring about the vision he had for the Arab people.   The intertwined paths of these four men – the schemes they put in place, the battles they fought, the betrayals they endured and committed – mirror the grandeur, intrigue and tragedy of the war in the desert.  Prüfer became Germany’s grand spymaster in the Middle East.  Aaronsohn constructed an elaborate Jewish spy-ring in Palestine, only to have the anti-Semitic and bureaucratically-inept British first ignore and then misuse his organization, at tragic personal cost.  Yale would become the only American intelligence agent in the entire Middle East – while still secretly on the payroll of Standard Oil.  And the enigmatic Lawrence rode into legend at the head of an Arab army, even as he waged secret war against his own nation’s imperial ambitions.   Based on years of intensive primary document research, LAWRENCE IN ARABIA definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed.  Sweeping in its action, keen in its portraiture, acid in its condemnation of the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, this is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432278Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East  Author: Scott Anderson Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East  Author: Scott Anderson Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY New York Times • Christian Science Monitor • NPR • Seattle Times • St. Louis Dispatch National Book Critics Circle Finalist -- American Library Association Notable Book A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East        The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, “a sideshow of a sideshow.”  Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theater.  As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power.    Curt Prüfer was an effete academic attached to the German embassy in Cairo, whose clandestine role was to foment Islamic jihad against British rule.  Aaron Aaronsohn was a renowned agronomist and committed Zionist who gained the trust of the Ottoman governor of Syria. William Yale was the fallen scion of the American aristocracy, who traveled the Ottoman Empire on behalf of Standard Oil, dissembling to the Turks in order gain valuable oil concessions.  At the center of it all was Lawrence.  In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in the sands of Syria; by 1917 he was the most romantic figure of World War One, battling both the enemy and his own government to bring about the vision he had for the Arab people.   The intertwined paths of these four men – the schemes they put in place, the battles they fought, the betrayals they endured and committed – mirror the grandeur, intrigue and tragedy of the war in the desert.  Prüfer became Germany’s grand spymaster in the Middle East.  Aaronsohn constructed an elaborate Jewish spy-ring in Palestine, only to have the anti-Semitic and bureaucratically-inept British first ignore and then misuse his organization, at tragic personal cost.  Yale would become the only American intelligence agent in the entire Middle East – while still secretly on the payroll of Standard Oil.  And the enigmatic Lawrence rode into legend at the head of an Arab army, even as he waged secret war against his own nation’s imperial ambitions.   Based on years of intensive primary document research, LAWRENCE IN ARABIA definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed.  Sweeping in its action, keen in its portraiture, acid in its condemnation of the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, this is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/swords-and-saints-a-doctor-s-journey-by-robert-adams-md--65148323https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Swords and Saints: A Doctor's Journey Author: Robert Adams MD Narrator: Adam Lofbomm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: These stories from the life and medical career of a Navy SEAL turned doctor are surprising, riveting, and inspiring. A family physician delivering babies, managing disease and trauma, and dealing with death, discovers new dimensions when he goes to war in Iraq. Treating the military, civilians and their families, 'Dr. Bob' experienced tremendous joy, unbearable heartache, and deep gratitude. He shares those emotional experiences in this deeply personal memoir. If you want to be a doctor . . . If you wonder how physicians learn their craft . . . If you crave a glimpse into the rapidly changing world of medicine, then these adventures are for you. Some make you laugh; others make you cry. All provide insight into the challenges faced by a caring family practice doctor devoted to sharing these struggles and elations as his patients fight to live well in a dangerous world. These are medical adventures you will never forget.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440109Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Swords and Saints: A Doctor's Journey Author: Robert Adams MD Narrator: Adam Lofbomm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Swords and Saints: A Doctor's Journey Author: Robert Adams MD Narrator: Adam Lofbomm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: These stories from the life and medical career of a Navy SEAL turned doctor are surprising, riveting, and inspiring. A family physician delivering babies, managing disease and trauma, and dealing with death, discovers new dimensions when he goes to war in Iraq. Treating the military, civilians and their families, 'Dr. Bob' experienced tremendous joy, unbearable heartache, and deep gratitude. He shares those emotional experiences in this deeply personal memoir. If you want to be a doctor . . . If you wonder how physicians learn their craft . . . If you crave a glimpse into the rapidly changing world of medicine, then these adventures are for you. Some make you laugh; others make you cry. All provide insight into the challenges faced by a caring family practice doctor devoted to sharing these struggles and elations as his patients fight to live well in a dangerous world. These are medical adventures you will never forget.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/his-truth-is-marching-on-john-lewis-and-the-power-of-hope-by-jon-meacham--65148306https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope Author: Jon Meacham Narrator: Jd Jackson, Jon Meacham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America    John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, was a visionary and a man of faith. Drawing on decades of wide-ranging interviews with Lewis, Jon Meacham writes of how this great-grandson of a slave and son of an Alabama tenant farmer was inspired by the Bible and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr., to put his life on the line in the service of what Abraham Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature.” From an early age, Lewis learned that nonviolence was not only a tactic but a philosophy, a biblical imperative, and a transforming reality. At the age of four, Lewis, ambitious to become a minister, practiced by preaching to his family’s chickens. When his mother cooked one of the chickens, the boy refused to eat it—his first act, he wryly recalled, of nonviolent protest. Integral to Lewis’s commitment to bettering the nation was his faith in humanity and in God—and an unshakable belief in the power of hope.    Meacham calls Lewis “as important to the founding of a modern and multiethnic twentieth- and twenty-first-century America as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and Samuel Adams were to the initial creation of the Republic itself in the eighteenth century.” A believer in the injunction that one should love one's neighbor as oneself, Lewis was arguably a saint in our time, risking limb and life to bear witness for the powerless in the face of the powerful. In many ways he brought a still-evolving nation closer to realizing its ideals, and his story offers inspiration and illumination for Americans today who are working for social and political change.  This audiobook includes a PDF of the book’s Appendix.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438554Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope Author: Jon Meacham Narrator: Jd Jackson, Jon Meacham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope Author: Jon Meacham Narrator: Jd Jackson, Jon Meacham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America    John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma, Alabama, and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, was a visionary and a man of faith. Drawing on decades of wide-ranging interviews with Lewis, Jon Meacham writes of how this great-grandson of a slave and son of an Alabama tenant farmer was inspired by the Bible and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr., to put his life on the line in the service of what Abraham Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature.” From an early age, Lewis learned that nonviolence was not only a tactic but a philosophy, a biblical imperative, and a transforming reality. At the age of four, Lewis, ambitious to become a minister, practiced by preaching to his family’s chickens. When his mother cooked one of the chickens, the boy refused to eat it—his first act, he wryly recalled, of nonviolent protest. Integral to Lewis’s commitment to bettering the nation was his faith in humanity and in God—and an unshakable belief in the power of hope.    Meacham calls Lewis “as important to the founding of a modern and multiethnic twentieth- and twenty-first-century America as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and Samuel Adams were to the initial creation of the Republic itself in the eighteenth century.” A believer in the injunction that one should love one's neighbor as oneself, Lewis was arguably a saint in our time, risking limb and life to bear witness for the powerless in the face of the powerful. In many ways he brought a still-evolving nation closer to realizing its ideals, and his story offers inspiration and illumination for Americans today who are working for social and political change.  This audiobook includes a PDF of the book’s Appendix.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pen-pal-prison-letters-from-a-free-spirit-on-slow-death-row-by-tiyo-attallah-salah-el--65148221https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/458392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pen Pal (Prison Letters From A Free Spirit On Slow Death Row) Author: Tiyo Attallah Salah-El Narrator: Mike Africa Jr., Jerry Levine, Michelle Dunker, Danna Hyams, Lance Guest, Wendy Shapero, Jack Daniel, Carl Weathers, Adam Arkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Tiyo Attallah Salah-El died in 2018 on “Slow Death Row” while serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania prison. He was a man with a dizzying array of talents and vocations: author, scholar, teacher, musician, and activist: he was the founder of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons. He was also, as is apparent from the letters written over a decade and half to his friend Paul Alan Smith that make up this book, an extraordinarily eloquent correspondent. Tiyo’s missives present a vivid picture of the tribulations faced by those incarcerated, especially the nearly 60% who are non-white: habitual racism, arbitrary lockdowns, brutal beatings and hospitalizations, stifling heat and bitter cold. Here too are descriptions of Tiyo’s individual struggles with cancer, aging, and the sirens of personal demons. Tiyo’s refusal to succumb to such hardships is evident in dispatches that are generous, philosophical and often laugh-out-loud funny. Through them we learn of his many friendships, including those with the historian Howard Zinn, a range of activist/advocate supporters on the outside, and two fellow inmates who were leaders of the Black liberation group MOVE. At a time when the appalling racial bias of America’s police and criminal justice system is under the spotlight as never before, Pen Pal is both a vital intervention and moving portrait of someone whose physical confinement could never extinguish an extraordinary free spirit. All proceeds from the sale of this audiobook for the life of the work, will be donated by the publisher to the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where Tiyo’s papers are archived.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/458392Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/458392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pen Pal (Prison Letters From A Free Spirit On Slow Death Row) Author: Tiyo Attallah Salah-El Narrator: Mike Africa Jr., Jerry Levine, Michelle Dunker,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/458392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pen Pal (Prison Letters From A Free Spirit On Slow Death Row) Author: Tiyo Attallah Salah-El Narrator: Mike Africa Jr., Jerry Levine, Michelle Dunker, Danna Hyams, Lance Guest, Wendy Shapero, Jack Daniel, Carl Weathers, Adam Arkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 25, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Tiyo Attallah Salah-El died in 2018 on “Slow Death Row” while serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania prison. He was a man with a dizzying array of talents and vocations: author, scholar, teacher, musician, and activist: he was the founder of the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons. He was also, as is apparent from the letters written over a decade and half to his friend Paul Alan Smith that make up this book, an extraordinarily eloquent correspondent. Tiyo’s missives present a vivid picture of the tribulations faced by those incarcerated, especially the nearly 60% who are non-white: habitual racism, arbitrary lockdowns, brutal beatings and hospitalizations, stifling heat and bitter cold. Here too are descriptions of Tiyo’s individual struggles with cancer, aging, and the sirens of personal demons. Tiyo’s refusal to succumb to such hardships is evident in dispatches that are generous, philosophical and often laugh-out-loud funny. Through them we learn of his many friendships, including those with the historian Howard Zinn, a range of activist/advocate supporters on the outside, and two fellow inmates who were leaders of the Black liberation group MOVE. At a time when the appalling racial bias of America’s police and criminal justice system is under the spotlight as never before, Pen Pal is both a vital intervention and moving portrait of someone whose physical confinement could never extinguish an extraordinary free spirit. All proceeds from the sale of this audiobook for the life of the work, will be donated by the publisher to the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where Tiyo’s papers are archived.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-doctor-will-see-you-now-the-highs-and-lows-of-my-life-as-an-nhs-gp-by-amir-khan--65148293https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Doctor Will See You Now: The highs and lows of my life as an NHS GP Author: Amir Khan Narrator: Amir Khan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 20, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 60 hours a week 240 patients 10 minutes to make a diagnosis Welcome to the surgery. Charting his 15 years working as a GP, from rookie to becoming a partner in one of the UK's busiest surgeries, Dr Amir Khan's stories are as much about community and care as they are about blood tests and bodily fluids. Along the way, he introduces us to the patients that have taught him about love, loss and family - from the regulars to the rarities - giving him the most unbelievable highs and crushing lows, and often in just 10 minutes. There is the unsuspecting pregnant woman about to give birth at the surgery; the man offering to drop his trousers and take a urine sample there and then; the family who needs support through bereavement, the vulnerable child who will need continuing care for a long-term health condition; and, of course, the onset of the COVID-19 that tested the surgery at every twist and turn. But, it's all in a day's work for Amir. The Doctor Will See You Now is a powerful story of hope, love and compassion, but it's also a rare insider account of what really goes on behind those surgery doors. © Amir Khan 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020 THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436889Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Doctor Will See You Now: The highs and lows of my life as an NHS GP Author: Amir Khan Narrator: Amir Khan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Doctor Will See You Now: The highs and lows of my life as an NHS GP Author: Amir Khan Narrator: Amir Khan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 20, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 60 hours a week 240 patients 10 minutes to make a diagnosis Welcome to the surgery. Charting his 15 years working as a GP, from rookie to becoming a partner in one of the UK's busiest surgeries, Dr Amir Khan's stories are as much about community and care as they are about blood tests and bodily fluids. Along the way, he introduces us to the patients that have taught him about love, loss and family - from the regulars to the rarities - giving him the most unbelievable highs and crushing lows, and often in just 10 minutes. There is the unsuspecting pregnant woman about to give birth at the surgery; the man offering to drop his trousers and take a urine sample there and then; the family who needs support through bereavement, the vulnerable child who will need continuing care for a long-term health condition; and, of course, the onset of the COVID-19 that tested the surgery at every twist and turn. But, it's all in a day's work for Amir. The Doctor Will See You Now is a powerful story of hope, love and compassion, but it's also a rare insider account of what really goes on behind those surgery doors. © Amir Khan 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020 THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-earp-brothers-by-charles-rivers--65148252https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Earp Brothers Author: Charles Rivers Narrator: Alex Hyde-White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 13, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'The Earp Brothers' weaves the lives of the Earp brothers into one entertaining and educational narrative. It explains the origins of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the controversial details that continue to be debated today. Of all the colorful characters that inhabited the West during the 19th century, the most famous of them all is Wyatt Earp (1848-1929), who has long been regarded as the embodiment of the Wild West.  - Charles Rivers (Editors) in an independant publisher, which had created a multitude of non-fiction titles on a wide series of subjects. They have published books such as 'The Titanic: The History and Legacy of the World’s Most Famous Ship from 1907 to Today', 'The Rise of Nazi Germany: The History of the Events that Brought Adolf Hitler to Power' and 'The Trail of Tears: The Forced Removal of the Five Civilized Tribes.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450307Thu, 13 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Earp Brothers Author: Charles Rivers Narrator: Alex Hyde-White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 13,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Earp Brothers Author: Charles Rivers Narrator: Alex Hyde-White Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 13, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'The Earp Brothers' weaves the lives of the Earp brothers into one entertaining and educational narrative. It explains the origins of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the controversial details that continue to be debated today. Of all the colorful characters that inhabited the West during the 19th century, the most famous of them all is Wyatt Earp (1848-1929), who has long been regarded as the embodiment of the Wild West.  - Charles Rivers (Editors) in an independant publisher, which had created a multitude of non-fiction titles on a wide series of subjects. They have published books such as 'The Titanic: The History and Legacy of the World’s Most Famous Ship from 1907 to Today', 'The Rise of Nazi Germany: The History of the Events that Brought Adolf Hitler to Power' and 'The Trail of Tears: The Forced Removal of the Five Civilized Tribes.']]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/finding-freedom-harry-and-meghan-and-the-making-of-a-modern-royal-family-by-carolyn-durand-omid-scobie--65148371https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433512 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family Author: Carolyn Durand, Omid Scobie Narrator: To Be Announced Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 29 minutes Release date: August 11, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 10 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * ONE OF THE TOP 10 BEST-SELLING ROYAL BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME When news of the budding romance between a beloved English prince and an American actress broke, it captured the world’s attention and sparked an international media frenzy. But while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have continued to make headlines – from their engagement, wedding, and birth of their son Archie to their unprecedented decision to step back from their royal lives – few know the true story of Harry and Meghan. For the very first time, FINDING FREEDOM goes beyond the headlines to reveal unknown details of Harry and Meghan’s life together, dispelling the many rumours and misconceptions that plague the couple on both sides of the pond. As members of the select group of reporters that cover the British Royal Family and their engagements, Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand have witnessed the young couple’s lives as few outsiders can. With unique access and written with the participation of those closest to the couple, FINDING FREEDOM is an honest, up-close, and disarming portrait of a confident, influential, and forward-thinking couple who are unafraid to break with tradition, determined to create a new path away from the spotlight, and dedicated to building a humanitarian legacy that will make a profound difference in the world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433512Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433512 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family Author: Carolyn Durand, Omid Scobie Narrator: To Be Announced Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433512 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family Author: Carolyn Durand, Omid Scobie Narrator: To Be Announced Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 29 minutes Release date: August 11, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 10 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * ONE OF THE TOP 10 BEST-SELLING ROYAL BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME When news of the budding romance between a beloved English prince and an American actress broke, it captured the world’s attention and sparked an international media frenzy. But while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have continued to make headlines – from their engagement, wedding, and birth of their son Archie to their unprecedented decision to step back from their royal lives – few know the true story of Harry and Meghan. For the very first time, FINDING FREEDOM goes beyond the headlines to reveal unknown details of Harry and Meghan’s life together, dispelling the many rumours and misconceptions that plague the couple on both sides of the pond. As members of the select group of reporters that cover the British Royal Family and their engagements, Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand have witnessed the young couple’s lives as few outsiders can. With unique access and written with the participation of those closest to the couple, FINDING FREEDOM is an honest, up-close, and disarming portrait of a confident, influential, and forward-thinking couple who are unafraid to break with tradition, determined to create a new path away from the spotlight, and dedicated to building a humanitarian legacy that will make a profound difference in the world.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-mind-spread-out-on-the-ground-by-alicia-elliott--65148248https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Mind Spread out on the Ground Author: Alicia Elliott Narrator: Kyla Garcia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 10, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as ''a mind spread out on the ground.'' In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of the personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white communities—a divide reflected in her own family—and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation. Throughout, she makes thrilling connections, both large and small, between the past and present, the personal and political. A national bestseller in Canada, this updated and expanded American edition helps us better understand legacy, oppression, and racism throughout North America and offers us a profound new way to decolonize our minds.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450736Mon, 10 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Mind Spread out on the Ground Author: Alicia Elliott Narrator: Kyla Garcia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Mind Spread out on the Ground Author: Alicia Elliott Narrator: Kyla Garcia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 10, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as ''a mind spread out on the ground.'' In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of the personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white communities—a divide reflected in her own family—and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation. Throughout, she makes thrilling connections, both large and small, between the past and present, the personal and political. A national bestseller in Canada, this updated and expanded American edition helps us better understand legacy, oppression, and racism throughout North America and offers us a profound new way to decolonize our minds.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-juan-carlos-i-el-hombre-que-pudo-reinar-by-fernando-onega--65148276https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Juan Carlos I: El hombre que pudo reinar Author: Fernando ónega Narrator: Arturo López Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 7, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: El 19 de junio de 2014 Juan Carlos I ponía fin a su reinado dejando tras de sí una vida dedicada a la consolidación de la monarquía y la democracia en España. Cuarenta años después de su llegada al trono, este libro ofrece un balance del significado de su labor en un momento crucial para la monarquía. Este libro recoge los primeros testimonios de Juan Carlos I tras su abdicación y hace balance de su reinado apoyándose en los recuerdos de aquellos que lo conocieron y trataron de cerca, ahora que los cimientosde aquella Transición parecen tambalearse bajo el empuje de una nueva generación que no reconoce la importancia de su labor al frente de la corona. La figura de Juan Carlos I resume a la perfección las contradicciones del último siglo de historia de este país: nacido en el exilio en Roma durante la Guerra Civil, su ascensión al trono significó el regreso de esa «otra España» derrotada en el conflicto. Nombrado «sucesor a título de Rey» por Francisco Franco, sus primeros pasos sin la tutela del dictador estuvieron dirigidos a desmontar el franquismo que lo había aupado al poder. Y su firme apuesta por la democracia parlamentaria que limitaba sus poderes, consiguió irritar a ciertos sectores del ejército hasta el punto de llevar a cabo sucesivas conspiraciones en contra del rey al que habían jurado obediencia. Fernando Ónega aborda la difícil tarea de retratar al hombre tantas veces retratado, y nos ofrece uno de sus perfiles más personales: el del hombre que pudo reinar. «Nos vamos, ¿no?» Se lo preguntó dos veces, como si necesitara reafirmar el permiso para marcharse. Su hijo hizo un gesto de asentimiento. Y él giró su cuerpo maltrecho, castigado por los años, dolido a causa de los accidentes, la cadera tantas veces rota y las «visitas al taller», y entró en la penumbra del palacio, que era la penumbra de la historia. Se apoyó en su bastón y se desvaneció tras aquella puerta que daba al balcón de la plaza de Oriente.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451437Fri, 07 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Juan Carlos I: El hombre que pudo reinar Author: Fernando ónega Narrator: Arturo López Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Juan Carlos I: El hombre que pudo reinar Author: Fernando ónega Narrator: Arturo López Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 7, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: El 19 de junio de 2014 Juan Carlos I ponía fin a su reinado dejando tras de sí una vida dedicada a la consolidación de la monarquía y la democracia en España. Cuarenta años después de su llegada al trono, este libro ofrece un balance del significado de su labor en un momento crucial para la monarquía. Este libro recoge los primeros testimonios de Juan Carlos I tras su abdicación y hace balance de su reinado apoyándose en los recuerdos de aquellos que lo conocieron y trataron de cerca, ahora que los cimientosde aquella Transición parecen tambalearse bajo el empuje de una nueva generación que no reconoce la importancia de su labor al frente de la corona. La figura de Juan Carlos I resume a la perfección las contradicciones del último siglo de historia de este país: nacido en el exilio en Roma durante la Guerra Civil, su ascensión al trono significó el regreso de esa «otra España» derrotada en el conflicto. Nombrado «sucesor a título de Rey» por Francisco Franco, sus primeros pasos sin la tutela del dictador estuvieron dirigidos a desmontar el franquismo que lo había aupado al poder. Y su firme apuesta por la democracia parlamentaria que limitaba sus poderes, consiguió irritar a ciertos sectores del ejército hasta el punto de llevar a cabo sucesivas conspiraciones en contra del rey al que habían jurado obediencia. Fernando Ónega aborda la difícil tarea de retratar al hombre tantas veces retratado, y nos ofrece uno de sus perfiles más personales: el del hombre que pudo reinar. «Nos vamos, ¿no?» Se lo preguntó dos veces, como si necesitara reafirmar el permiso para marcharse. Su hijo hizo un gesto de asentimiento. Y él giró su cuerpo maltrecho, castigado por los años, dolido a causa de los accidentes, la cadera tantas veces rota y las «visitas al taller», y entró en la penumbra del palacio, que era la penumbra de la historia. Se apoyó en su bastón y se desvaneció tras aquella puerta que daba al balcón de la plaza de Oriente.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-infiltrators-the-lovers-who-led-germany-s-resistance-against-the-nazis-by-norman-ohler--65148364https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434104 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis Author: Norman Ohler Narrator: Kris Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 6, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Drawing on unpublished diaries, letters and Gestapo files, Norman Ohler spins an unforgettable tale of love, heroism and sacrifice. Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet - and one of history's greatest conspiracies is born. Harro Schulze-Boysen had already shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of antifascists that stretched across Berlin's bohemian underworld. Harro himself infiltrated German intelligence and began funnelling Nazi battle plans to the Allies, including the details of Hitler's surprise attack on the Soviet Union. But nothing could prepare Harro and Libertas for the betrayals they would suffer in this war of secrets - a struggle in which friend could be indistinguishable from foe. “The Infiltrators is an astonishing story of the anti-Nazi resistance - a story of love, incredible bravery and self-sacrifice, which could end only in death - and it is brilliantly told.” ANTONY BEEVOR]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434104Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434104 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis Author: Norman Ohler Narrator: Kris Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434104 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis Author: Norman Ohler Narrator: Kris Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 6, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Drawing on unpublished diaries, letters and Gestapo files, Norman Ohler spins an unforgettable tale of love, heroism and sacrifice. Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet - and one of history's greatest conspiracies is born. Harro Schulze-Boysen had already shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of antifascists that stretched across Berlin's bohemian underworld. Harro himself infiltrated German intelligence and began funnelling Nazi battle plans to the Allies, including the details of Hitler's surprise attack on the Soviet Union. But nothing could prepare Harro and Libertas for the betrayals they would suffer in this war of secrets - a struggle in which friend could be indistinguishable from foe. “The Infiltrators is an astonishing story of the anti-Nazi resistance - a story of love, incredible bravery and self-sacrifice, which could end only in death - and it is brilliantly told.” ANTONY BEEVOR]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/meghan-and-harry-the-real-story-by-lady-colin-campbell--65148285https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449525 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Meghan and Harry: The Real Story Author: Lady Colin Campbell Narrator: Lucinda Bell Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 6, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.31 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A balanced account of game changes, conflicts and ambitions. The fall from popular grace of the previously adulated brother of the heir to the British throne as a consequence of his marriage to a beautiful and dynamic Hollywood starlet of colour makes for fascinating reading in best-selling royal author Lady Colin Campbell's balanced account. Lady Colin knows her royal history and psychology, and as the first seven years of her adult life were spent in the USA she has a foot in both the American and British camps. With unique breadth of insight she goes behind the scenes, speaking to friends, relations, courtiers, and colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic to reveal the most unexpected royal story since the Abdication. She highlights the dilemmas involved and the issues that lurk beneath the surface, as to why the couple decided to step down as senior royals. She analyses the implications of the actions of a young and ambitious couple, in love with each other and with the empowering lure of fame and fortune. She leads the reader through the maze of contradictions, revealing how Californian culture has influenced the couple's conduct. She exposes how they tried and failed to change the royal system by adapting it to their own needs and ambitions, and, upon failing, how they decided to create a new system altogether.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449525Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449525 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Meghan and Harry: The Real Story Author: Lady Colin Campbell Narrator: Lucinda Bell Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 40 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/449525 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Meghan and Harry: The Real Story Author: Lady Colin Campbell Narrator: Lucinda Bell Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 6, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.31 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A balanced account of game changes, conflicts and ambitions. The fall from popular grace of the previously adulated brother of the heir to the British throne as a consequence of his marriage to a beautiful and dynamic Hollywood starlet of colour makes for fascinating reading in best-selling royal author Lady Colin Campbell's balanced account. Lady Colin knows her royal history and psychology, and as the first seven years of her adult life were spent in the USA she has a foot in both the American and British camps. With unique breadth of insight she goes behind the scenes, speaking to friends, relations, courtiers, and colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic to reveal the most unexpected royal story since the Abdication. She highlights the dilemmas involved and the issues that lurk beneath the surface, as to why the couple decided to step down as senior royals. She analyses the implications of the actions of a young and ambitious couple, in love with each other and with the empowering lure of fame and fortune. She leads the reader through the maze of contradictions, revealing how Californian culture has influenced the couple's conduct. She exposes how they tried and failed to change the royal system by adapting it to their own needs and ambitions, and, upon failing, how they decided to create a new system altogether.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/angela-davis-listen-humanity-by-geoffrey-giuliano--65148223https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Angela Davis; Listen Humanity Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 5, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This unique audiobook from historian and author Geoffrey Giuliano chronicles the life, times, trials, and triumphs of the remarkable scholar, activist, feminist, teacher, and reformer Angela Davis, using informed commentary, but most significantly, the words and wisdom of Ms. Davis herself. Forget the rhetoric, rumors, and urban legends surrounding this polarizing figure and listen directly to Ms. Davis. Prison reform, civil rights, racial equality - all these topics are presented by author and producer Giuliano. Icon Audio Arts is privileged to present the important, liberating teachings of the dame of American civil rights and a tireless lifetime champion of the poor and oppressed. This audiobook is a must for all university library collections and institutions. Edited by Macc Kay Production executive Avalon Giuliano ICON Intern Eden Giuliano Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission ©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) Eden Garret Giuliano Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced over seven hundred original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well known movie actor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451962Wed, 05 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Angela Davis; Listen Humanity Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 4 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/451962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Angela Davis; Listen Humanity Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 5, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This unique audiobook from historian and author Geoffrey Giuliano chronicles the life, times, trials, and triumphs of the remarkable scholar, activist, feminist, teacher, and reformer Angela Davis, using informed commentary, but most significantly, the words and wisdom of Ms. Davis herself. Forget the rhetoric, rumors, and urban legends surrounding this polarizing figure and listen directly to Ms. Davis. Prison reform, civil rights, racial equality - all these topics are presented by author and producer Giuliano. Icon Audio Arts is privileged to present the important, liberating teachings of the dame of American civil rights and a tireless lifetime champion of the poor and oppressed. This audiobook is a must for all university library collections and institutions. Edited by Macc Kay Production executive Avalon Giuliano ICON Intern Eden Giuliano Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission ©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) Eden Garret Giuliano Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced over seven hundred original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well known movie actor.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-torture-machine-racism-and-police-violence-in-chicago-by-flint-taylor--65148254https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447406 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago Author: Flint Taylor Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 18 minutes Release date: August 4, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: With his colleagues at the People’s Law Office (PLO), Flint Taylor has argued landmark civil-rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city’s corrupt political machine. The Torture Machine takes listeners from the 1969 murders of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark—and the historic thirteen-years of litigation that followed—through the dogged pursuit of commander Jon Burge, the leader of a torture ring within the CPD that used barbaric methods, including electric shock, to elicit false confessions from suspects. Joining forces with community activists, torture survivors and their families, other lawyers, and local reporters, Taylor and the PLO gathered evidence from multiple cases to bring suit against the CPD officers and the City of Chicago. As the struggle expanded beyond the torture scandal to the ultimately successful campaign to end the death penalty in Illinois, and obtained reparations for many of the torture survivors, it set human-rights precedents that have since been adopted across the United States.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447406Tue, 04 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447406 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago Author: Flint Taylor Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 18...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447406 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago Author: Flint Taylor Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 18 minutes Release date: August 4, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: With his colleagues at the People’s Law Office (PLO), Flint Taylor has argued landmark civil-rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city’s corrupt political machine. The Torture Machine takes listeners from the 1969 murders of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark—and the historic thirteen-years of litigation that followed—through the dogged pursuit of commander Jon Burge, the leader of a torture ring within the CPD that used barbaric methods, including electric shock, to elicit false confessions from suspects. Joining forces with community activists, torture survivors and their families, other lawyers, and local reporters, Taylor and the PLO gathered evidence from multiple cases to bring suit against the CPD officers and the City of Chicago. As the struggle expanded beyond the torture scandal to the ultimately successful campaign to end the death penalty in Illinois, and obtained reparations for many of the torture survivors, it set human-rights precedents that have since been adopted across the United States.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-autobiography-of-a-hunted-priest-by-father-john-gerard--65148266https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest Author: Father John Gerard Narrator: Gareth Armstrong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 1, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Jesuit priest John Gerard (1564-1637) hid from English authorities for eight years before his eventual capture and torture in the Tower of London. Risking everything to preserve Catholicism in Tudor England, Gerard moved from house to house, converting many people and evading capture by mere seconds. Following a hair's-breadth escape from the Tower to the Continent, he survived to tell his tale and pass on his experience to future missionaries and martyrs in The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest, a fascinating tale of espionage, disguise, priest hunters, invisible ink and brilliantly designed hideouts. A heroic story of grit and determination, Gerard's Autobiography unequivocally captures humanity's courage and resolve in the face of oppression.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454785Sat, 01 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest Author: Father John Gerard Narrator: Gareth Armstrong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest Author: Father John Gerard Narrator: Gareth Armstrong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 1, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Jesuit priest John Gerard (1564-1637) hid from English authorities for eight years before his eventual capture and torture in the Tower of London. Risking everything to preserve Catholicism in Tudor England, Gerard moved from house to house, converting many people and evading capture by mere seconds. Following a hair's-breadth escape from the Tower to the Continent, he survived to tell his tale and pass on his experience to future missionaries and martyrs in The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest, a fascinating tale of espionage, disguise, priest hunters, invisible ink and brilliantly designed hideouts. A heroic story of grit and determination, Gerard's Autobiography unequivocally captures humanity's courage and resolve in the face of oppression.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/eminent-victorians-by-lytton-strachey--65148220https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454789 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eminent Victorians Author: Lytton Strachey Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey's wonderfully witty and Wildean quartet of biographies, stands out as one of the most radical and groundbreaking works of its genre. With relentless precision, Strachey explores the lives of four exemplars of the Victorian age: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon, irreverently bringing to light the flaws, strengths, ambitions and hypocrisies of these treasured legends. The combination of thrilling and imaginative narratives with Strachey's ironic reckoning shocked many contemporary readers of the time, and even altered the course of biography, making a powerful case for its elevation to high art.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454789Sat, 01 Aug 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454789 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eminent Victorians Author: Lytton Strachey Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454789 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eminent Victorians Author: Lytton Strachey Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey's wonderfully witty and Wildean quartet of biographies, stands out as one of the most radical and groundbreaking works of its genre. With relentless precision, Strachey explores the lives of four exemplars of the Victorian age: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon, irreverently bringing to light the flaws, strengths, ambitions and hypocrisies of these treasured legends. The combination of thrilling and imaginative narratives with Strachey's ironic reckoning shocked many contemporary readers of the time, and even altered the course of biography, making a powerful case for its elevation to high art.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-boy-with-two-hearts-a-story-of-hope-by-hamed-amiri--65148262https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy with Two Hearts: A Story of Hope Author: Hamed Amiri Narrator: Homer Todiwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 30, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When Hamed Amiri was ten years old he watched his mother give a speech in his home town of Herat, Afghanistan, speaking out for women's rights and education, and against the ruling Taliban. That night, an order was given for her execution. The family packed up their most precious belongings and escaped in darkness, starting what would be a long and dangerous journey. But his mother's was not the only life in danger. Hamed's older brother suffered from a rare heart condition, and this escape offered a chance of life-saving treatment in the West. Exploring the humanity of refugeeism, this is not only a tale of a family in crisis, but a love letter to the NHS, which provided hope and reassurance as they sought asylum in the UK and fought to save their loved ones.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440901Thu, 30 Jul 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy with Two Hearts: A Story of Hope Author: Hamed Amiri Narrator: Homer Todiwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/440901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy with Two Hearts: A Story of Hope Author: Hamed Amiri Narrator: Homer Todiwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 30, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When Hamed Amiri was ten years old he watched his mother give a speech in his home town of Herat, Afghanistan, speaking out for women's rights and education, and against the ruling Taliban. That night, an order was given for her execution. The family packed up their most precious belongings and escaped in darkness, starting what would be a long and dangerous journey. But his mother's was not the only life in danger. Hamed's older brother suffered from a rare heart condition, and this escape offered a chance of life-saving treatment in the West. Exploring the humanity of refugeeism, this is not only a tale of a family in crisis, but a love letter to the NHS, which provided hope and reassurance as they sought asylum in the UK and fought to save their loved ones.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-real-james-bond-a-true-story-of-identity-theft-avian-intrigue-and-ian-fleming-by-jim-wright--65148238https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real James Bond: A True Story of Identity Theft, Avian Intrigue, and Ian Fleming Author: Jim Wright Narrator: Rafael Corkhill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: July 30, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Whatever happened to him actually outshines anything I’ve had my James Bond do. —Ian Fleming  James Bond: author, ornithologist, marksman, and . . . identity-theft victim? When James Bond published his landmark book, Birds of the West Indies, he had no idea it would set in motion events that would link him to the most iconic spy in the Western world and turn his life upside down. Born into a wealthy family but cut off in his early twenties, James Bond took off to the West Indies in search of adventure. Armed with arsenic and a shotgun, he took months-long excursions to the Caribbean to collect material for his iconic book, Birds of the West Indies, navigating snake-infested swamps, sleeping in hammocks, and island-hopping on tramp steamers and primitive boats. Here is the real story of the pipe-smoking, ruthless ornithologist who introduced the world to the exotic birds of the West Indies.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450743Thu, 30 Jul 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real James Bond: A True Story of Identity Theft, Avian Intrigue, and Ian Fleming Author: Jim Wright Narrator: Rafael Corkhill Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real James Bond: A True Story of Identity Theft, Avian Intrigue, and Ian Fleming Author: Jim Wright Narrator: Rafael Corkhill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: July 30, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Whatever happened to him actually outshines anything I’ve had my James Bond do. —Ian Fleming  James Bond: author, ornithologist, marksman, and . . . identity-theft victim? When James Bond published his landmark book, Birds of the West Indies, he had no idea it would set in motion events that would link him to the most iconic spy in the Western world and turn his life upside down. Born into a wealthy family but cut off in his early twenties, James Bond took off to the West Indies in search of adventure. Armed with arsenic and a shotgun, he took months-long excursions to the Caribbean to collect material for his iconic book, Birds of the West Indies, navigating snake-infested swamps, sleeping in hammocks, and island-hopping on tramp steamers and primitive boats. Here is the real story of the pipe-smoking, ruthless ornithologist who introduced the world to the exotic birds of the West Indies.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/radioactive-marie-pierre-curie-a-tale-of-love-and-fallout-by-lauren-redniss--65148315https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438579 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout Author: Lauren Redniss Narrator: Nicola Barber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 28, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Marjane Sartrapi, starring Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley.  NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINIALIST.  'Vivid and ethereal.' —New York Times  “Radioactive is quite unlike any book I have ever read—part history, part love story, part art work and all parts sheer imaginative genius.” — Malcolm Gladwell Radioactive is the mesmerizing, landmark biography of Marie Curie, by acclaimed author and artist Lauren Redniss. Through brilliant storytelling, Redniss walks us through Curie’s life, which was marked by extraordinary scientific discovery and dramatic personal trauma—from her complex working and romantic relationship with Pierre Curie, to their discovery of two new scientific elements, to Pierre’s tragic death, to Marie’s two Nobel Prizes. A haunting and wondrous portrait of one of history's most intriguing figures, Radioactive is a stunning biography and a true work of art. Whether young or old, scientific novice or expert, no one will fail to be moved by Lauren Redniss’s eerie and wondrous evocation of one of history’s most intriguing figures. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438579Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438579 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout Author: Lauren Redniss Narrator: Nicola Barber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438579 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout Author: Lauren Redniss Narrator: Nicola Barber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 28, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Marjane Sartrapi, starring Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley.  NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINIALIST.  'Vivid and ethereal.' —New York Times  “Radioactive is quite unlike any book I have ever read—part history, part love story, part art work and all parts sheer imaginative genius.” — Malcolm Gladwell Radioactive is the mesmerizing, landmark biography of Marie Curie, by acclaimed author and artist Lauren Redniss. Through brilliant storytelling, Redniss walks us through Curie’s life, which was marked by extraordinary scientific discovery and dramatic personal trauma—from her complex working and romantic relationship with Pierre Curie, to their discovery of two new scientific elements, to Pierre’s tragic death, to Marie’s two Nobel Prizes. A haunting and wondrous portrait of one of history's most intriguing figures, Radioactive is a stunning biography and a true work of art. Whether young or old, scientific novice or expert, no one will fail to be moved by Lauren Redniss’s eerie and wondrous evocation of one of history’s most intriguing figures. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-icon-true-history-series-george-washington-a-biography-for-young-people-by-james-frederick-brown--65148267https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450003 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Icon True History Series; George Washington, A Biography for Young People Author: James Frederick Brown Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano And The Icon Players Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 19, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: George Washington was born on December 14, 1799. He was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and founding father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Previously, he led Patriot forces to victory in the nation's War for Independence. He presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which established the U.S. Constitution and a federal government. Washington has been called the 'Father of His Country' for his manifold leadership in the formative days of the new nation. Edited by Macc Kay Production executive Avalon Giuliano ICON Intern Eden Giuliano Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission ©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) Eden Garret Giuliano Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced over seven hundred original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well known movie actor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450003Sun, 19 Jul 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450003 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Icon True History Series; George Washington, A Biography for Young People Author: James Frederick Brown Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano And The Icon...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450003 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Icon True History Series; George Washington, A Biography for Young People Author: James Frederick Brown Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano And The Icon Players Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 19, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: George Washington was born on December 14, 1799. He was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and founding father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Previously, he led Patriot forces to victory in the nation's War for Independence. He presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which established the U.S. Constitution and a federal government. Washington has been called the 'Father of His Country' for his manifold leadership in the formative days of the new nation. Edited by Macc Kay Production executive Avalon Giuliano ICON Intern Eden Giuliano Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission ©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) Eden Garret Giuliano Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced over seven hundred original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well known movie actor.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-icon-black-lives-matter-series-frederick-douglass-black-revolutionary-by-geoffrey-giuliano--65148257https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/446976 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Icon Black Lives Matter Series; Frederick Douglass, Black Revolutionary Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 16, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave. This is his story. Edited by Macc Kay Production executive Avalon Giuliano ICON Intern Eden Giuliano Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission ©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) Eden Garret Giuliano Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has wri tten and produced over seven hundred original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well known movie actor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/446976Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/446976 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Icon Black Lives Matter Series; Frederick Douglass, Black Revolutionary Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/446976 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Icon Black Lives Matter Series; Frederick Douglass, Black Revolutionary Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 16, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counter-example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave. This is his story. Edited by Macc Kay Production executive Avalon Giuliano ICON Intern Eden Giuliano Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission ©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) Eden Garret Giuliano Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has wri tten and produced over seven hundred original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. He is also a well known movie actor.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-blood-breaks-down-life-lessons-from-leukemia-by-mikkael-a-sekeres--65148384https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia Author: Mikkael A. Sekeres Narrator: Mike Lenz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: July 7, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When you are told that you have leukemia, your world stops. Your brain can't function. You are asked to make decisions about treatment almost immediately, when you are not in your right mind. And yet you pull yourself together and start asking questions. Beside you is your doctor, whose job it is to solve the awful puzzle of bone marrow gone wrong. The two of you are in it together. In When Blood Breaks Down, Mikkael Sekeres, a leading cancer specialist, takes listeners on the journey that patient and doctor travel together. Sekeres tells the compelling stories of three people who receive diagnoses of adult leukemia within hours of each other: Joan, a forty-eight-year-old surgical nurse, a caregiver who becomes a patient; David, a sixty-eight-year-old former factory worker who bows to his family's wishes and pursues the most aggressive treatment; and Sarah, a thirty-six-year-old pregnant woman who must decide whether to undergo chemotherapy and put her fetus at risk. We join the intimacy of the conversations Sekeres has with his patients, and watch as he teaches trainees. Along the way, Sekeres also explores leukemia in its different forms and the development of drugs to treat it—describing, among many other fascinating details, the invention of the bone marrow transplant and a treatment that targets the genetics of leukemia.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430151Tue, 07 Jul 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia Author: Mikkael A. Sekeres Narrator: Mike Lenz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia Author: Mikkael A. Sekeres Narrator: Mike Lenz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: July 7, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When you are told that you have leukemia, your world stops. Your brain can't function. You are asked to make decisions about treatment almost immediately, when you are not in your right mind. And yet you pull yourself together and start asking questions. Beside you is your doctor, whose job it is to solve the awful puzzle of bone marrow gone wrong. The two of you are in it together. In When Blood Breaks Down, Mikkael Sekeres, a leading cancer specialist, takes listeners on the journey that patient and doctor travel together. Sekeres tells the compelling stories of three people who receive diagnoses of adult leukemia within hours of each other: Joan, a forty-eight-year-old surgical nurse, a caregiver who becomes a patient; David, a sixty-eight-year-old former factory worker who bows to his family's wishes and pursues the most aggressive treatment; and Sarah, a thirty-six-year-old pregnant woman who must decide whether to undergo chemotherapy and put her fetus at risk. We join the intimacy of the conversations Sekeres has with his patients, and watch as he teaches trainees. Along the way, Sekeres also explores leukemia in its different forms and the development of drugs to treat it—describing, among many other fascinating details, the invention of the bone marrow transplant and a treatment that targets the genetics of leukemia.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/europa-europa-by-solomon-perel--65148302https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Europa, Europa Author: Solomon Perel Narrator: Christopher David Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: July 7, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This is the powerful memoir of Solomon Perel, a man who survived the Holocaust by hiding his Jewish identity and becoming a member of the Hitler Youth. This book was the basis of Agnieska Hollands' award-winning film Europa, Europa. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it is an important and controversial contribution to a better understanding of the complexity of life under the Nazis.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442011Tue, 07 Jul 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Europa, Europa Author: Solomon Perel Narrator: Christopher David Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: July 7, 2020...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Europa, Europa Author: Solomon Perel Narrator: Christopher David Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: July 7, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This is the powerful memoir of Solomon Perel, a man who survived the Holocaust by hiding his Jewish identity and becoming a member of the Hitler Youth. This book was the basis of Agnieska Hollands' award-winning film Europa, Europa. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it is an important and controversial contribution to a better understanding of the complexity of life under the Nazis.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/other-people-s-houses-by-hilary-mcphee--65148379https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427486 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Other People's Houses Author: Hilary Mcphee Narrator: Margot Knight Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In Other People's Houses publishing legend Hilary McPhee exchanges one hemisphere for another. Fleeing the aftermath of a failed marriage, Hilary McPhee embarks on a writing project in the Middle East for a member of the Hashemite royal family, a man she greatly respects. There she finds herself faced with different kinds of exile, new kinds of banishment. From apartments in Cortona and Amman and an attic in London, McPhee watches other women managing magnificently alone as she flounders through the mire of Extreme Loneliness. Other People's Houses is a brutally honest memoir, funny, sad, full of insights into worlds to which she was given privileged access, and of the friendships that sustained her. And ultimately, of course, it is a story of returning home, of picking up the pieces, and facing the music as her house and her life takes on new shapes. “What is the instinct to flee? When home offers no comfort McPhee seeks solace in Europe and the Middle East. With an archaeological eye and penetrating intelligence she excavates her own history, politics in the Middle East, life-sustaining friendships and the quiet despair of loneliness. An engrossing and affecting memoir. McPhee is fierce, frank, tender and resolute.” CARRIE TIFFANY]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427486Wed, 01 Jul 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427486 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Other People's Houses Author: Hilary Mcphee Narrator: Margot Knight Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 1, 2020...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427486 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Other People's Houses Author: Hilary Mcphee Narrator: Margot Knight Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In Other People's Houses publishing legend Hilary McPhee exchanges one hemisphere for another. Fleeing the aftermath of a failed marriage, Hilary McPhee embarks on a writing project in the Middle East for a member of the Hashemite royal family, a man she greatly respects. There she finds herself faced with different kinds of exile, new kinds of banishment. From apartments in Cortona and Amman and an attic in London, McPhee watches other women managing magnificently alone as she flounders through the mire of Extreme Loneliness. Other People's Houses is a brutally honest memoir, funny, sad, full of insights into worlds to which she was given privileged access, and of the friendships that sustained her. And ultimately, of course, it is a story of returning home, of picking up the pieces, and facing the music as her house and her life takes on new shapes. “What is the instinct to flee? When home offers no comfort McPhee seeks solace in Europe and the Middle East. With an archaeological eye and penetrating intelligence she excavates her own history, politics in the Middle East, life-sustaining friendships and the quiet despair of loneliness. An engrossing and affecting memoir. McPhee is fierce, frank, tender and resolute.” CARRIE TIFFANY]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-confessions-of-jeanjacques-rousseau-by-jeanjacques-rousseau--65148250https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450239 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Confessions of JeanJacques Rousseau Author: Jeanjacques Rousseau Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 1, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Published four years after Rousseau's death, Confessions is a remarkably frank and honest selfportrait, described by Rousseau as 'the history of my soul'. From his idyllic youth in the Swiss mountains, to his career as a composer in Paris and his abandonment of his children, Rousseau lays bare his entire life with preternatural honesty. He relates his scandals, follies, jealousies, sexual exploits and unrequited loves, as well as the torrential events surrounding his controversial works Discourses, E?mile and The Social Contract, which led to his persecution and wanderings in exile. Confessions provides an invaluable window into the making of the man, the society he lived in, and the development of ideas that would have a profound influence on philosophers and political theorists to come.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450239Wed, 01 Jul 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450239 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Confessions of JeanJacques Rousseau Author: Jeanjacques Rousseau Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 6 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450239 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Confessions of JeanJacques Rousseau Author: Jeanjacques Rousseau Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 1, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Published four years after Rousseau's death, Confessions is a remarkably frank and honest selfportrait, described by Rousseau as 'the history of my soul'. From his idyllic youth in the Swiss mountains, to his career as a composer in Paris and his abandonment of his children, Rousseau lays bare his entire life with preternatural honesty. He relates his scandals, follies, jealousies, sexual exploits and unrequited loves, as well as the torrential events surrounding his controversial works Discourses, E?mile and The Social Contract, which led to his persecution and wanderings in exile. Confessions provides an invaluable window into the making of the man, the society he lived in, and the development of ideas that would have a profound influence on philosophers and political theorists to come.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-doctors-plague-germs-childbed-fever-and-the-strange-story-of-ignac-semmelweis-by-dr-sherwin-b-nuland--65148327https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis Author: Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland Narrator: Peter Lerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 30, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Surgeon, scholar, bestselling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately—childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared—they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432203Tue, 30 Jun 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis Author: Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland Narrator: Peter Lerman Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis Author: Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland Narrator: Peter Lerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 30, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Surgeon, scholar, bestselling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately—childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared—they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ada-blackjack-a-true-story-of-survival-in-the-arctic-by-jennifer-niven--65148324https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430115 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic Author: Jennifer Niven Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 30, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive twenty-five-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition. This young, unskilled woman—who had headed to the Arctic in search of money and a husband—conquered the seemingly unconquerable north and survived all alone after her male companions had perished. Following her triumphant return to civilization, the international press proclaimed her the female Robinson Crusoe. But whatever stories the press turned out came from the imaginations of reporters: Ada Blackjack refused to speak to anyone about her horrific two years in the Arctic. Only on one occasion—after charges were published falsely accusing her of causing the death of one her companions—did she speak up for herself. Jennifer Niven has created a compelling history of this remarkable woman, taking full advantage of the wealth of first-hand resources about Ada that exist, including her never-before-seen diaries, the unpublished diaries from other primary characters, and interviews with Ada's surviving son. Ada Blackjack is more than a rugged tale of a woman battling the elements to survive in the frozen north—it is the story of a hero.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430115Tue, 30 Jun 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430115 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic Author: Jennifer Niven Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430115 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic Author: Jennifer Niven Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 30, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive twenty-five-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition. This young, unskilled woman—who had headed to the Arctic in search of money and a husband—conquered the seemingly unconquerable north and survived all alone after her male companions had perished. Following her triumphant return to civilization, the international press proclaimed her the female Robinson Crusoe. But whatever stories the press turned out came from the imaginations of reporters: Ada Blackjack refused to speak to anyone about her horrific two years in the Arctic. Only on one occasion—after charges were published falsely accusing her of causing the death of one her companions—did she speak up for herself. Jennifer Niven has created a compelling history of this remarkable woman, taking full advantage of the wealth of first-hand resources about Ada that exist, including her never-before-seen diaries, the unpublished diaries from other primary characters, and interviews with Ada's surviving son. Ada Blackjack is more than a rugged tale of a woman battling the elements to survive in the frozen north—it is the story of a hero.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/child-of-gulag-by-dr-yuri-c-feynberg--65148249https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445727 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Child of Gulag Author: Dr. Yuri C. Feynberg Narrator: Chris Barnes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 24, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This story is based on the life of author Yuri Feynberg, who is one of the last surviving children of the Soviet Penal System, known to the world as the GULAG. Although not a prisoner, Yuri spent his childhood behind the barbed wired fence in a remote Siberian hard labor camp, where his mother worked as a medical doctor. As the only child there, he lived among Stalins political prisoners, hardcore criminals, and security guards. This extraordinary childhood created an unusual personality and an unbendable character, which made it possible for Yuri to excel in the Soviet Special Forces, survive prosecution, and overcome unfathomable personal tragedies without losing his humanity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445727Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445727 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Child of Gulag Author: Dr. Yuri C. Feynberg Narrator: Chris Barnes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 24, 2020...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/445727 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Child of Gulag Author: Dr. Yuri C. Feynberg Narrator: Chris Barnes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 24, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This story is based on the life of author Yuri Feynberg, who is one of the last surviving children of the Soviet Penal System, known to the world as the GULAG. Although not a prisoner, Yuri spent his childhood behind the barbed wired fence in a remote Siberian hard labor camp, where his mother worked as a medical doctor. As the only child there, he lived among Stalins political prisoners, hardcore criminals, and security guards. This extraordinary childhood created an unusual personality and an unbendable character, which made it possible for Yuri to excel in the Soviet Special Forces, survive prosecution, and overcome unfathomable personal tragedies without losing his humanity.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/letters-to-a-young-therapist-by-mary-pipher--65148342https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/428517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters to a Young Therapist Author: Mary Pipher Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 23, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Mary Pipher's groundbreaking investigation of America's 'girl-poisoning culture,' Reviving Ophelia, has sold nearly two million copies and established its author as one of the nation's foremost authorities on family issues. In Letters to a Young Therapist, Dr. Pipher shares what she has learned in thirty years as a therapist, helping warring families, alienated adolescents, and harried professionals restore peace and beauty to their lives. Letters to a Young Therapist gives voice to her practice with an exhilarating mix of storytelling and sharp-eyed observation. And while her letters are addressed to an imagined young therapist, every one of us can take something away from them. Long before 'positive psychology' became a buzzword, Dr. Pipher practiced a refreshingly inventive therapy -- fiercely optimistic, free of dogma or psychobabble, and laced with generous warmth and practical common sense. But not until now has this gifted healer described her unique perspective on how therapy can help us revitalize our emotional landscape in an increasingly stressful world. Whether she's recommending daily swims for a sluggish teenager, encouraging a timid husband to become bolder, or simply bearing witness to a bereaved parent's sorrow, Dr. Pipher's compassion and insight shine from every page of this thoughtful and engaging book.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/428517Tue, 23 Jun 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/428517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters to a Young Therapist Author: Mary Pipher Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 23,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/428517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters to a Young Therapist Author: Mary Pipher Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 23, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Mary Pipher's groundbreaking investigation of America's 'girl-poisoning culture,' Reviving Ophelia, has sold nearly two million copies and established its author as one of the nation's foremost authorities on family issues. In Letters to a Young Therapist, Dr. Pipher shares what she has learned in thirty years as a therapist, helping warring families, alienated adolescents, and harried professionals restore peace and beauty to their lives. Letters to a Young Therapist gives voice to her practice with an exhilarating mix of storytelling and sharp-eyed observation. And while her letters are addressed to an imagined young therapist, every one of us can take something away from them. Long before 'positive psychology' became a buzzword, Dr. Pipher practiced a refreshingly inventive therapy -- fiercely optimistic, free of dogma or psychobabble, and laced with generous warmth and practical common sense. But not until now has this gifted healer described her unique perspective on how therapy can help us revitalize our emotional landscape in an increasingly stressful world. Whether she's recommending daily swims for a sluggish teenager, encouraging a timid husband to become bolder, or simply bearing witness to a bereaved parent's sorrow, Dr. Pipher's compassion and insight shine from every page of this thoughtful and engaging book.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-doctor-what-really-goes-on-inside-your-doctor-s-surgery-by-dr-max-skittle--65148341https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Doctor: What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery Author: Dr Max Skittle Narrator: Kris Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 18, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Welcome to the life of Dr Max Skittle. Therapist, relationship counsellor, social worker, friend, parent-figure - and, yes: doctor. Join Max - and his patients - as he takes us on a rollercoaster journey through a year in the life of a doctor: from infected toenails, to wonky elbows, to erectile disfunction, to bed bugs; the happy couple expecting a surprise new baby; the teenage girl struggling with body image issues; the loving family grappling with grief, Max shows us all the highs and crushing lows that come with being a GP - and how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed all our lives forever. This is what really goes on in your local doctor's surgery - spilt urine bottles, existential crises, emails back and forth with social services, utterly unexplainable health problems and appointments always running late - told by a man who, despite it all, really loves his job. Previously published as 'The Secret GP' THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432017Thu, 18 Jun 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Doctor: What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery Author: Dr Max Skittle Narrator: Kris Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Doctor: What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery Author: Dr Max Skittle Narrator: Kris Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 18, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Welcome to the life of Dr Max Skittle. Therapist, relationship counsellor, social worker, friend, parent-figure - and, yes: doctor. Join Max - and his patients - as he takes us on a rollercoaster journey through a year in the life of a doctor: from infected toenails, to wonky elbows, to erectile disfunction, to bed bugs; the happy couple expecting a surprise new baby; the teenage girl struggling with body image issues; the loving family grappling with grief, Max shows us all the highs and crushing lows that come with being a GP - and how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed all our lives forever. This is what really goes on in your local doctor's surgery - spilt urine bottles, existential crises, emails back and forth with social services, utterly unexplainable health problems and appointments always running late - told by a man who, despite it all, really loves his job. Previously published as 'The Secret GP' THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rescue-911-tales-from-a-first-responder-by-michael-morse--65148368https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rescue 911: Tales from a First Responder Author: Michael Morse Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: June 16, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: People from all walks of life call 911 when things go bad. These are their stories, told by the people who respond and make things better. First responders often don't tell stories, preferring to keep what happens at work private. Rescue Captain Michael Morse changes that with these heartfelt descriptions of hundreds of emergency calls, with the usual coverings peeled back, exposing the bizarre, heartbreaking, and often hilarious reactions to 911 emergencies.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429497Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rescue 911: Tales from a First Responder Author: Michael Morse Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rescue 911: Tales from a First Responder Author: Michael Morse Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: June 16, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: People from all walks of life call 911 when things go bad. These are their stories, told by the people who respond and make things better. First responders often don't tell stories, preferring to keep what happens at work private. Rescue Captain Michael Morse changes that with these heartfelt descriptions of hundreds of emergency calls, with the usual coverings peeled back, exposing the bizarre, heartbreaking, and often hilarious reactions to 911 emergencies.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-nelson-mandela-by-luis-machado--65148316https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Nelson Mandela Author: Luis Machado Narrator: Varios Narradores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 16, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: - Este audiolibro está narrado en Español neutral. La historia de Nelson Mandela, héroe nacional surafricano y ganador premio nobel de la paz, será recordada a través de los tiempos por contar con múltiples altibajos durante su carrera política. Representado en la pantalla grande por Morgan Freeman, Mandela nació en una Sur África muy diferente a la Sur África que hoy existe, gracias a él. Conocido por sus seguidores como Madiba, Mandela vivió durante los duros y oscuros tiempos de la segregación racial producto del Apartheid Sur Africano. Por estar contra de esta injusticia, Mandela cayó preso durante 27 años hasta su liberación en 1990. Tras su liberación Mandela fue el primer presidente Surafricano con un gabinete multirracial, electo democráticamente. Anímate a escuchar esta historia real de persistencia y superación en contra de barreras raciales y sociales. - -]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438623Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Nelson Mandela Author: Luis Machado Narrator: Varios Narradores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date: June...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Nelson Mandela Author: Luis Machado Narrator: Varios Narradores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 16, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: - Este audiolibro está narrado en Español neutral. La historia de Nelson Mandela, héroe nacional surafricano y ganador premio nobel de la paz, será recordada a través de los tiempos por contar con múltiples altibajos durante su carrera política. Representado en la pantalla grande por Morgan Freeman, Mandela nació en una Sur África muy diferente a la Sur África que hoy existe, gracias a él. Conocido por sus seguidores como Madiba, Mandela vivió durante los duros y oscuros tiempos de la segregación racial producto del Apartheid Sur Africano. Por estar contra de esta injusticia, Mandela cayó preso durante 27 años hasta su liberación en 1990. Tras su liberación Mandela fue el primer presidente Surafricano con un gabinete multirracial, electo democráticamente. Anímate a escuchar esta historia real de persistencia y superación en contra de barreras raciales y sociales. - -]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-lady-di-by-luis-machado--65148310https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438625 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Lady Di Author: Luis Machado Narrator: Varios Narradores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 16, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: - Este audiolibro está narrado en Español neutral. Considerada como la princesa contemporánea más recordada de la monarquía inglesa, la historia de Diana de Gales tratará sobre un personaje muy diferente al prototipo real. Casada con el príncipe Carlos, hijo de la reina Isabel II, la princesa Diana vivió una corta pero placentera vida siendo parte de la monarquía inglesa. Madre de los herederos actuales al trono, la vida de la princesa Diana se caracterizó por su frecuente trabajo social y humanitario hasta su misteriosa muerte bajo una oscura noche parisina. - -]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438625Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438625 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Lady Di Author: Luis Machado Narrator: Varios Narradores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 16,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438625 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Lady Di Author: Luis Machado Narrator: Varios Narradores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 16, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: - Este audiolibro está narrado en Español neutral. Considerada como la princesa contemporánea más recordada de la monarquía inglesa, la historia de Diana de Gales tratará sobre un personaje muy diferente al prototipo real. Casada con el príncipe Carlos, hijo de la reina Isabel II, la princesa Diana vivió una corta pero placentera vida siendo parte de la monarquía inglesa. Madre de los herederos actuales al trono, la vida de la princesa Diana se caracterizó por su frecuente trabajo social y humanitario hasta su misteriosa muerte bajo una oscura noche parisina. - -]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/touching-the-jaguar-transforming-fear-into-action-to-change-your-life-and-the-world-by-john-perkins--65148303https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Touching the Jaguar: Transforming Fear into Action to Change Your Life and the World Author: John Perkins Narrator: Tom Taylorson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 16, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'This eloquent book inspires us to create a new reality of what it means to be humans on this magnificent planet.' -Deepak Chopra When New York Times bestselling author John Perkins was a young Peace Corps volunteer, his life was saved by an Amazonian shaman who taught him to 'touch the jaguar'-to transform his fears into positive action. He went on to become an 'economic hit man' (EHM), convincing developing countries to build huge infrastructure projects that put them perpetually in debt to the World Bank and other US-controlled institutions. Although he sincerely believed this was the best model for economic development, he came to realize it was really a new form of colonialism. Returning to the Amazon, he saw the destructive impact of his EHM work. But he also was inspired by a previously uncontacted tribe that touched its jaguar by uniting with its enemies to defend its territory against invading oil and mining companies. For the first time, Perkins details how his experiences in the Amazon converted him from an EHM to a crusader for transforming our failing Death Economy that destroys its own resources and nature itself into a flourishing Life Economy that renews itself. He provides a strategy for each of us to change our lives and defend our territory-the earth-against destructive policies and systems.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439915Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Touching the Jaguar: Transforming Fear into Action to Change Your Life and the World Author: John Perkins Narrator: Tom Taylorson Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/439915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Touching the Jaguar: Transforming Fear into Action to Change Your Life and the World Author: John Perkins Narrator: Tom Taylorson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 16, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'This eloquent book inspires us to create a new reality of what it means to be humans on this magnificent planet.' -Deepak Chopra When New York Times bestselling author John Perkins was a young Peace Corps volunteer, his life was saved by an Amazonian shaman who taught him to 'touch the jaguar'-to transform his fears into positive action. He went on to become an 'economic hit man' (EHM), convincing developing countries to build huge infrastructure projects that put them perpetually in debt to the World Bank and other US-controlled institutions. Although he sincerely believed this was the best model for economic development, he came to realize it was really a new form of colonialism. Returning to the Amazon, he saw the destructive impact of his EHM work. But he also was inspired by a previously uncontacted tribe that touched its jaguar by uniting with its enemies to defend its territory against invading oil and mining companies. For the first time, Perkins details how his experiences in the Amazon converted him from an EHM to a crusader for transforming our failing Death Economy that destroys its own resources and nature itself into a flourishing Life Economy that renews itself. He provides a strategy for each of us to change our lives and defend our territory-the earth-against destructive policies and systems.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-nestor-un-lider-nacional-y-popular-by-luis-machado--65148286https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Néstor, Un líder nacional y popular Author: Luis Machado Narrator: Varios Narradores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: June 16, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: - Este audiolibro está narrado en Español neutral. Néstor Kirchner asumió como presidente de Argentina en 2003. Su alineación política, considerada dentro de Argentina como centro-izquierda estaba caracterizada por un fuerte sentido de justicia social y el empoderamiento del pueblo. Entre sus mandatos más reconocidos están la abolición de las leyes de obediencia debida y punto final, las cuales dejaban impunes a los involucrados en las desapariciones y otros crímenes cometidos en la dictadura militar de 1974 a 1983. ¿Quién era el hombre detrás del nombre que ahora es sinónimo de su forma única de gobernar? ¿Qué llevó al creador del Kirchnerismo desde estudiar leyes a convertirse en el presidente de Argentina? Anímate a escuchar la increíble historia de pasión y justicia que cambió por siempre el camino de una nación. - Néstor Carlos Kirchner, nacido en Río Gallegos, Argentina, estudió leyes en la Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Fue aquí donde conoció a su futura esposa y sucesora presidencial, Cristina Fernández. Después de graduarse, volvió a su ciudad natal donde abrió una consulta de abogados que mantuvo durante la Guerra Sucia de Argentina. Una vez reinstaurada la democracia, postuló al puesto de alcalde en 1987, comenzando su carrera política. Hoy en día es recordado cómo un presidente que buscaba la unificación de Latinoamérica y le protección de los derechos humanos con respecto a las víctimas de la Guerra Sucia.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438633Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Néstor, Un líder nacional y popular Author: Luis Machado Narrator: Varios Narradores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/438633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Néstor, Un líder nacional y popular Author: Luis Machado Narrator: Varios Narradores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: June 16, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: - Este audiolibro está narrado en Español neutral. Néstor Kirchner asumió como presidente de Argentina en 2003. Su alineación política, considerada dentro de Argentina como centro-izquierda estaba caracterizada por un fuerte sentido de justicia social y el empoderamiento del pueblo. Entre sus mandatos más reconocidos están la abolición de las leyes de obediencia debida y punto final, las cuales dejaban impunes a los involucrados en las desapariciones y otros crímenes cometidos en la dictadura militar de 1974 a 1983. ¿Quién era el hombre detrás del nombre que ahora es sinónimo de su forma única de gobernar? ¿Qué llevó al creador del Kirchnerismo desde estudiar leyes a convertirse en el presidente de Argentina? Anímate a escuchar la increíble historia de pasión y justicia que cambió por siempre el camino de una nación. - Néstor Carlos Kirchner, nacido en Río Gallegos, Argentina, estudió leyes en la Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Fue aquí donde conoció a su futura esposa y sucesora presidencial, Cristina Fernández. Después de graduarse, volvió a su ciudad natal donde abrió una consulta de abogados que mantuvo durante la Guerra Sucia de Argentina. Una vez reinstaurada la democracia, postuló al puesto de alcalde en 1987, comenzando su carrera política. Hoy en día es recordado cómo un presidente que buscaba la unificación de Latinoamérica y le protección de los derechos humanos con respecto a las víctimas de la Guerra Sucia.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/booker-t-washington-builder-of-a-civilization-by-lymann-beecher-stone-emmett-j-scott-theodore-roosevelt--65148321https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Booker T. Washington: Builder of a Civilization Author: Lymann Beecher Stone, Emmett J. Scott, Theodore Roosevelt Narrator: Andrew L. Barnes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 15, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization by Emmett J. Scott, Lyman Beecher Stowe IT IS not hyperbole to say that Booker T. Washington was a great American. For twenty years before his death, he had been the most useful, as well as the most distinguished, member of his race in the world, and one of the most useful, as well as one of the most distinguished, of American citizens of any race. Eminent though his services were to the people of his own color, the white men of our Republic were almost as much indebted to him, both directly and indirectly. They were indebted to him directly, because of the work he did on behalf of industrial education for the Negro, thus giving impetus to the work for the industrial education of the White Man, which is, at least, as necessary; and, moreover, every successful effort to turn the thoughts of the natural leaders of the Negro race into the fields of business endeavor, of agricultural effort, of every species of success in private life, is not only to their advantage but to the advantage of the White Man, as tending to remove the friction and trouble that inevitably come throughout the South at this time in any Negro district where the Negroes turn for their advancement primarily to political life. The indirect indebtedness of the White Race to Booker T. Washington is due to the simple fact that here in America we are all, in the end, going up or down together; and therefore, in the long run, the man who makes a substantial contribution toward uplifting any part of the community has helped to uplift all of the community. Wherever in our land the Negro remains uneducated, and liable to criminal suggestion, it is absolutely certain that the whites will themselves tend to tread the paths of barbarism; and wherever we find people of color as a whole engaged in successful work to better themselves, and respecting both themselves and others, there we shall also find the tone of the white community high.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441808Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Booker T. Washington: Builder of a Civilization Author: Lymann Beecher Stone, Emmett J. Scott, Theodore Roosevelt Narrator: Andrew L. Barnes Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Booker T. Washington: Builder of a Civilization Author: Lymann Beecher Stone, Emmett J. Scott, Theodore Roosevelt Narrator: Andrew L. Barnes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 15, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization by Emmett J. Scott, Lyman Beecher Stowe IT IS not hyperbole to say that Booker T. Washington was a great American. For twenty years before his death, he had been the most useful, as well as the most distinguished, member of his race in the world, and one of the most useful, as well as one of the most distinguished, of American citizens of any race. Eminent though his services were to the people of his own color, the white men of our Republic were almost as much indebted to him, both directly and indirectly. They were indebted to him directly, because of the work he did on behalf of industrial education for the Negro, thus giving impetus to the work for the industrial education of the White Man, which is, at least, as necessary; and, moreover, every successful effort to turn the thoughts of the natural leaders of the Negro race into the fields of business endeavor, of agricultural effort, of every species of success in private life, is not only to their advantage but to the advantage of the White Man, as tending to remove the friction and trouble that inevitably come throughout the South at this time in any Negro district where the Negroes turn for their advancement primarily to political life. The indirect indebtedness of the White Race to Booker T. Washington is due to the simple fact that here in America we are all, in the end, going up or down together; and therefore, in the long run, the man who makes a substantial contribution toward uplifting any part of the community has helped to uplift all of the community. Wherever in our land the Negro remains uneducated, and liable to criminal suggestion, it is absolutely certain that the whites will themselves tend to tread the paths of barbarism; and wherever we find people of color as a whole engaged in successful work to better themselves, and respecting both themselves and others, there we shall also find the tone of the white community high.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-day-the-nazis-came-my-childhood-journey-from-britain-to-a-german-concentration-camp-by-stephen-r-matthews--65148357https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Day the Nazis Came: My childhood journey from Britain to a German concentration camp Author: Stephen R. Matthews Narrator: Barnaby Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 11, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: By the time he was six years old, Stephen Matthews had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. He had seen men die in front of him and walked with Jews straight off the cattle-trucks from Bergen-Belsen. He had nearly drowned, menaced by Alsatian guard dogs, been beaten by a member of the SS, stranded in a minefield and had his hand broken by a German guard for attempting to feed Russian prisoners. The family kept going through over three of imprisonment, held together by their will to survival and their love for each other. But the island home they eventually returned to had been scarred and stricken by Nazi occupation. The Day the Nazis Came is an utterly unique memoir, depicting the world of Nazi prison camps through the eyes of a child - a world in which the real dangers often seemed trivial and every day was a new adventure. Above all, it pays tribute to the preciousness of hope, and shows that human kindness may flower in the unlikeliest of places.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431176Thu, 11 Jun 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Day the Nazis Came: My childhood journey from Britain to a German concentration camp Author: Stephen R. Matthews Narrator: Barnaby Edwards Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Day the Nazis Came: My childhood journey from Britain to a German concentration camp Author: Stephen R. Matthews Narrator: Barnaby Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 11, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: By the time he was six years old, Stephen Matthews had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from occupied Guernsey, along with his family, to a prison camp in the heart of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. He had seen men die in front of him and walked with Jews straight off the cattle-trucks from Bergen-Belsen. He had nearly drowned, menaced by Alsatian guard dogs, been beaten by a member of the SS, stranded in a minefield and had his hand broken by a German guard for attempting to feed Russian prisoners. The family kept going through over three of imprisonment, held together by their will to survival and their love for each other. But the island home they eventually returned to had been scarred and stricken by Nazi occupation. The Day the Nazis Came is an utterly unique memoir, depicting the world of Nazi prison camps through the eyes of a child - a world in which the real dangers often seemed trivial and every day was a new adventure. Above all, it pays tribute to the preciousness of hope, and shows that human kindness may flower in the unlikeliest of places.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/taking-a-knee-taking-a-stand-african-american-athletes-and-the-fight-for-social-justice-by-bob-schron--65148346https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taking a Knee, Taking a Stand: African American Athletes and the Fight for Social Justice Author: Bob Schron Narrator: Mirron Willis, Henry Strozier Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 9, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A history of the activism and achievement of African American athletes from Jesse Owens to Serena Williams to Colin Kaepernick, who advanced the cause of social justice through their outspokenness, commitment, and integrity.Muhammad Ali refused to fight in a war he believed was immoral. Wilma Rudolph retired from track and field to campaign for civil rights. Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem to draw attention to the oppression of black bodies. Taking a Knee, Taking a Stand tells their stories and the stories of other prominent African American male and female athletes who often risked their careers to fight racial discrimination and promote social justice.From Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in major league baseball to NBA great Bill Russell sitting at the feet of Dr. Martin Luther King at the 1963 March on Washington to Althea Gibson asserting her tennis dominance at a time when many clubs would not allow African Americans to play on their courts, this moving and celebratory history shows how the tradition of black protest in sports has been consistent, necessary, and organic, and that the present crisis of misunderstanding and intolerance demands that this tradition continue as the country struggles toward fairness and equity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424881Tue, 09 Jun 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taking a Knee, Taking a Stand: African American Athletes and the Fight for Social Justice Author: Bob Schron Narrator: Mirron Willis, Henry Strozier...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424881 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Taking a Knee, Taking a Stand: African American Athletes and the Fight for Social Justice Author: Bob Schron Narrator: Mirron Willis, Henry Strozier Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 9, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A history of the activism and achievement of African American athletes from Jesse Owens to Serena Williams to Colin Kaepernick, who advanced the cause of social justice through their outspokenness, commitment, and integrity.Muhammad Ali refused to fight in a war he believed was immoral. Wilma Rudolph retired from track and field to campaign for civil rights. Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem to draw attention to the oppression of black bodies. Taking a Knee, Taking a Stand tells their stories and the stories of other prominent African American male and female athletes who often risked their careers to fight racial discrimination and promote social justice.From Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in major league baseball to NBA great Bill Russell sitting at the feet of Dr. Martin Luther King at the 1963 March on Washington to Althea Gibson asserting her tennis dominance at a time when many clubs would not allow African Americans to play on their courts, this moving and celebratory history shows how the tradition of black protest in sports has been consistent, necessary, and organic, and that the present crisis of misunderstanding and intolerance demands that this tradition continue as the country struggles toward fairness and equity.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-belong-to-vienna-a-jewish-family-s-story-of-exile-and-return-by-anna-goldenberg-alta-l-price--65148304https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435145 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return Author: Anna Goldenberg, Alta L. Price Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 9, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg’s great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hans, their elder son, survives by hiding in an apartment in the middle of Nazi-controlled Vienna. But this is no Anne Frank-like existence; teenage Hans passes time in the municipal library and buys standing-room tickets to the Vienna State Opera. Hans never sees his family again. Goldenberg reconstructs this unique story in magnificent reportage. She also portrays Vienna’s undying allure—although they tried living in the United States after World War Two, both grandparents eventually returned to the Austrian capital. The author, too, has returned to her native Vienna after studying and working in New York, and her fierce attachment to her birthplace enlivens her engrossing biographical history. This probing tale of heroism, identity, and belonging is marked by a surprising freshness as a new generation comes to terms with history’s darkest era.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435145Tue, 09 Jun 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435145 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return Author: Anna Goldenberg, Alta L. Price Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435145 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return Author: Anna Goldenberg, Alta L. Price Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 9, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg’s great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hans, their elder son, survives by hiding in an apartment in the middle of Nazi-controlled Vienna. But this is no Anne Frank-like existence; teenage Hans passes time in the municipal library and buys standing-room tickets to the Vienna State Opera. Hans never sees his family again. Goldenberg reconstructs this unique story in magnificent reportage. She also portrays Vienna’s undying allure—although they tried living in the United States after World War Two, both grandparents eventually returned to the Austrian capital. The author, too, has returned to her native Vienna after studying and working in New York, and her fierce attachment to her birthplace enlivens her engrossing biographical history. This probing tale of heroism, identity, and belonging is marked by a surprising freshness as a new generation comes to terms with history’s darkest era.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/henry-a-polish-swimmer-s-true-story-of-friendship-from-auschwitz-to-america-by-katrina-shawver--65148275https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/446568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henry: A Polish Swimmer's True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America Author: Katrina Shawver Narrator: Chris Kayser, Cynthia Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 29, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A top 'must-have' for any reader of Holocaust and World War II survival accounts. This incredible true story is both a witness to the Holocaust through Polish eyes and the story of how Henry Zguda, a Polish Catholic swimmer, survives Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald. At times humorous, always gut-honest, this account fills a huge gap in historical accounts of Poles during World War II. Winner of 2018 Arizona Authors Association Literary Contest - First Place for Published Nonfiction, 2018 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award – Silver for Biography, and other recognitions.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/446568Fri, 29 May 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/446568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henry: A Polish Swimmer's True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America Author: Katrina Shawver Narrator: Chris Kayser, Cynthia Barrett Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/446568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henry: A Polish Swimmer's True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America Author: Katrina Shawver Narrator: Chris Kayser, Cynthia Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 29, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: A top 'must-have' for any reader of Holocaust and World War II survival accounts. This incredible true story is both a witness to the Holocaust through Polish eyes and the story of how Henry Zguda, a Polish Catholic swimmer, survives Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald. At times humorous, always gut-honest, this account fills a huge gap in historical accounts of Poles during World War II. Winner of 2018 Arizona Authors Association Literary Contest - First Place for Published Nonfiction, 2018 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award – Silver for Biography, and other recognitions.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/n-of-1-one-man-s-harvard-documented-remission-of-incurable-cancer-using-only-natural-methods-by-glenn-sabin--65148383https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: n of 1: One man's Harvard-documented remission of incurable cancer using only natural methods Author: Glenn Sabin Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 6 minutes Release date: May 26, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Twenty-five years ago my doctors had no cure for my cancer. So I went on a quest to find my own treatment. This is my story . . . In 1991, Glenn Sabin was a twenty-eight-year-old newlywed diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)–a disease doctors called 'uniformly fatal.' Treatments could buy him some time and eventually ease his discomfort, but there was no conventional cure. Glenn's prognosis was clear: he was going to die. Although Glenn and his wife, Linda, continued to consult with doctors, cancer specialists and top oncologists, Glenn made a monumental decision: he would become his own health advocate. While he continued to 'watch and wait,' Glenn would figure out how to stay alive. No one could predict when a large-scale clinical trial would discover a cure for CLL, so Glenn began his own, medically monitored and carefully researched lifestyle changes. He would conduct his own, single patient clinical trial. He would become an 'n of 1.' Today, Glenn is not only alive, but a 2012 biopsy at Harvard confirmed that his bone marrow contains no leukemic cells. His case is now part of the medical literature.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427054Tue, 26 May 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: n of 1: One man's Harvard-documented remission of incurable cancer using only natural methods Author: Glenn Sabin Narrator: Charles Constant Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: n of 1: One man's Harvard-documented remission of incurable cancer using only natural methods Author: Glenn Sabin Narrator: Charles Constant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 6 minutes Release date: May 26, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Twenty-five years ago my doctors had no cure for my cancer. So I went on a quest to find my own treatment. This is my story . . . In 1991, Glenn Sabin was a twenty-eight-year-old newlywed diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)–a disease doctors called 'uniformly fatal.' Treatments could buy him some time and eventually ease his discomfort, but there was no conventional cure. Glenn's prognosis was clear: he was going to die. Although Glenn and his wife, Linda, continued to consult with doctors, cancer specialists and top oncologists, Glenn made a monumental decision: he would become his own health advocate. While he continued to 'watch and wait,' Glenn would figure out how to stay alive. No one could predict when a large-scale clinical trial would discover a cure for CLL, so Glenn began his own, medically monitored and carefully researched lifestyle changes. He would conduct his own, single patient clinical trial. He would become an 'n of 1.' Today, Glenn is not only alive, but a 2012 biopsy at Harvard confirmed that his bone marrow contains no leukemic cells. His case is now part of the medical literature.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jesus-through-middle-eastern-eyes-cultural-studies-in-the-gospels-by-kenneth-e-bailey--65148358https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430233 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels Author: Kenneth E. Bailey Narrator: Lloyd James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 26, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Kenneth E. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus's relationship to women, and especially Jesus's parables. Through it all, Bailey employs his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture to lead listeners into a deeper understanding of the person and significance of Jesus within his own cultural context. With a sure but gentle hand, Bailey lifts away the obscuring layers of modern Western interpretation to reveal Jesus in the light of his actual historical and cultural setting. This entirely new material from the pen of Ken Bailey is a must-have for any student of the New Testament. If you have benefited from Bailey's work over the years, this book will be a welcome and indispensable addition to your library. If you are unfamiliar with Bailey's work, this book will introduce you to a very old yet entirely new way of understanding Jesus.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430233Tue, 26 May 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430233 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels Author: Kenneth E. Bailey Narrator: Lloyd James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430233 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels Author: Kenneth E. Bailey Narrator: Lloyd James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 26, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 26 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Kenneth E. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus's relationship to women, and especially Jesus's parables. Through it all, Bailey employs his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture to lead listeners into a deeper understanding of the person and significance of Jesus within his own cultural context. With a sure but gentle hand, Bailey lifts away the obscuring layers of modern Western interpretation to reveal Jesus in the light of his actual historical and cultural setting. This entirely new material from the pen of Ken Bailey is a must-have for any student of the New Testament. If you have benefited from Bailey's work over the years, this book will be a welcome and indispensable addition to your library. If you are unfamiliar with Bailey's work, this book will introduce you to a very old yet entirely new way of understanding Jesus.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wuhan-diary-dispatches-from-a-quarantined-city-by-fang-fang-michael-berry--65148354https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/428209 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City Author: Fang Fang, Michael Berry Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: May 26, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From one of China's most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak. On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang's nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of millions of her fellow citizens, reflecting on the psychological impact of forced isolation, the role of the internet as both community lifeline and source of misinformation, and most tragically, the lives of neighbors and friends taken by the deadly virus.  A fascinating eyewitness account of events as they unfold, Wuhan Diary captures the challenges of daily life and the changing moods and emotions of being quarantined without reliable information. Fang Fang finds solace in small domestic comforts and is inspired by the courage of friends, health professionals and volunteers, as well as the resilience and perseverance of Wuhan's nine million residents. But, by claiming the writer´s duty to record she also speaks out against social injustice, abuse of power, and other problems which impeded the response to the epidemic and gets herself embroiled in online controversies because of it. As Fang Fang documents the beginning of the global health crisis in real time, we are able to identify patterns and mistakes that many of the countries dealing with the novel coronavirus have later repeated. She reminds us that, in the face of the new virus, the plight of the citizens of Wuhan is also that of citizens everywhere. As Fang Fang writes: "The virus is the common enemy of humankind; that is a lesson for all humanity. The only way we can conquer this virus and free ourselves from its grip is for all members of humankind to work together."  Blending the intimate and the epic, the profound and the quotidian, Wuhan Diary is a remarkable record of an extraordinary time.  Translated from the Chinese by Michael Berry THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/428209Tue, 26 May 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/428209 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City Author: Fang Fang, Michael Berry Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/428209 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City Author: Fang Fang, Michael Berry Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: May 26, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From one of China's most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak. On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang's nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of millions of her fellow citizens, reflecting on the psychological impact of forced isolation, the role of the internet as both community lifeline and source of misinformation, and most tragically, the lives of neighbors and friends taken by the deadly virus.  A fascinating eyewitness account of events as they unfold, Wuhan Diary captures the challenges of daily life and the changing moods and emotions of being quarantined without reliable information. Fang Fang finds solace in small domestic comforts and is inspired by the courage of friends, health professionals and volunteers, as well as the resilience and perseverance of Wuhan's nine million residents. But, by claiming the writer´s duty to record she also speaks out against social injustice, abuse of power, and other problems which impeded the response to the epidemic and gets herself embroiled in online controversies because of it. As Fang Fang documents the beginning of the global health crisis in real time, we are able to identify patterns and mistakes that many of the countries dealing with the novel coronavirus have later repeated. She reminds us that, in the face of the new virus, the plight of the citizens of Wuhan is also that of citizens everywhere. As Fang Fang writes: "The virus is the common enemy of humankind; that is a lesson for all humanity. The only way we can conquer this virus and free ourselves from its grip is for all members of humankind to work together."  Blending the intimate and the epic, the profound and the quotidian, Wuhan Diary is a remarkable record of an extraordinary time.  Translated from the Chinese by Michael Berry THIS AUDIOBOOK MAY INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. INFORMATION RELATED TO COVID-19 CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. AUDIOBOOKS.COM ENCOURAGES YOU TO SEEK UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-el-che-guevara-by-luis-machado--65148359https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El Che Guevara Author: Luis Machado Narrator: Varios Narradores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date: May 22, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: - Este audiolibro está narrado en Español neutral. Nacido en la ciudad Argentina de Rosario, Ernesto el Che Guevara es un histórico y controversial personaje cuya influencia y contribución despierta múltiples sentimientos a través de la historia. Alzado en armas en contra de un sistema capitalista voraz, la figura del Che Guevara representó un ejemplo de liderazgo para distintos movimientos guerrilleros comunistas Latinoamericanos del siglo XX. Anímate a escuchar como el Che sirvió junto a Fidel Castro como caudillo durante la exitosa operación de la revolución Cubana. - -]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435654Fri, 22 May 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El Che Guevara Author: Luis Machado Narrator: Varios Narradores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date: May...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El Che Guevara Author: Luis Machado Narrator: Varios Narradores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 29 minutes Release date: May 22, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: - Este audiolibro está narrado en Español neutral. Nacido en la ciudad Argentina de Rosario, Ernesto el Che Guevara es un histórico y controversial personaje cuya influencia y contribución despierta múltiples sentimientos a través de la historia. Alzado en armas en contra de un sistema capitalista voraz, la figura del Che Guevara representó un ejemplo de liderazgo para distintos movimientos guerrilleros comunistas Latinoamericanos del siglo XX. Anímate a escuchar como el Che sirvió junto a Fidel Castro como caudillo durante la exitosa operación de la revolución Cubana. - -]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/aleister-crowley-the-book-of-law-by-geoffrey-giuliano--65148312https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436217 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aleister Crowley; The Book of Law Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 15, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.' “I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make it.' 'Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness'. Edward Alexander Crowley, (born October 12, 1875, Royal Leamington Spa, England—died December 1, 1947, Hastings) was a British occultist, writer, and mountaineer, who was a practitioner of “magick” (as he spelled it) and called himself 'the Beast 666'. He was denounced in his own time for his decadent lifestyle and had few followers, but he became an iconic cult figure after his death. DEDICATED TO ROBERT NOEL GIULIANO Produced by Devin Lawrence in Vrindavana Edited by Macc Kay in Bangkok Musical consultant Alex Franchi in Milan Production executive Avalon Giuliano in London ICON Intern Eden Giuliano in Delhi Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission ©2020 Icon Audio Arts (P) 2020 Icon Audio Arts LLC]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436217Fri, 15 May 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436217 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aleister Crowley; The Book of Law Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436217 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aleister Crowley; The Book of Law Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 15, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 'Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.' “I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make it.' 'Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness'. Edward Alexander Crowley, (born October 12, 1875, Royal Leamington Spa, England—died December 1, 1947, Hastings) was a British occultist, writer, and mountaineer, who was a practitioner of “magick” (as he spelled it) and called himself 'the Beast 666'. He was denounced in his own time for his decadent lifestyle and had few followers, but he became an iconic cult figure after his death. DEDICATED TO ROBERT NOEL GIULIANO Produced by Devin Lawrence in Vrindavana Edited by Macc Kay in Bangkok Musical consultant Alex Franchi in Milan Production executive Avalon Giuliano in London ICON Intern Eden Giuliano in Delhi Music By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission ©2020 Icon Audio Arts (P) 2020 Icon Audio Arts LLC]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/such-a-pretty-girl-a-story-of-struggle-empowerment-and-disability-pride-by-nadina-laspina--65148351https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride Author: Nadina Laspina Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: May 12, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This is Nadina LaSpina's story—from her early years in her native Sicily, where she contracts polio as a baby, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness, to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer belongs to her and to her rebellion and her activism in the disability-rights movement. LaSpina’s personal growth parallels the movement’s political development—from coming together, organizing, and fighting against exclusion from public and social life to the forging of a common identity, the blossoming of disability arts and culture, and the embracing of disability pride. While unique, LaSpina's journey is also one with which many disabled people can identify. It is the journey to find one's place in an ableist world—a world not made for disabled people, where disability is only seen in negative terms. LaSpina refutes all stereotypical narratives of disability. Through the telling of her life’s story, without editorializing, she shows the harm that the overwhelming focus on pity and on a cure that remains elusive has done to disabled people. Her story exposes the disability prejudice ingrained in our sociopolitical system and denounces the oppressive standards of normalcy in a society that devalues those who are different and denies them basic rights.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430241Tue, 12 May 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride Author: Nadina Laspina Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride Author: Nadina Laspina Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: May 12, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This is Nadina LaSpina's story—from her early years in her native Sicily, where she contracts polio as a baby, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness, to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer belongs to her and to her rebellion and her activism in the disability-rights movement. LaSpina’s personal growth parallels the movement’s political development—from coming together, organizing, and fighting against exclusion from public and social life to the forging of a common identity, the blossoming of disability arts and culture, and the embracing of disability pride. While unique, LaSpina's journey is also one with which many disabled people can identify. It is the journey to find one's place in an ableist world—a world not made for disabled people, where disability is only seen in negative terms. LaSpina refutes all stereotypical narratives of disability. Through the telling of her life’s story, without editorializing, she shows the harm that the overwhelming focus on pity and on a cure that remains elusive has done to disabled people. Her story exposes the disability prejudice ingrained in our sociopolitical system and denounces the oppressive standards of normalcy in a society that devalues those who are different and denies them basic rights.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blackbeard-america-s-most-notorious-pirate-by-angus-konstam--65148330https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430174 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate Author: Angus Konstam Narrator: Eric G. Dove Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 12, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early eighteenth century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard. As unforgettable as his savage career was, much of Blackbeard's life has been shrouded in mystery—until now. Drawing on vivid descriptions of Blackbeard's attacks from his rare surviving victims, pirate expert Angus Konstam traces Blackbeard's career from its beginnings to his final defeat in a tremendous sea battle near his base at Ocracoke Island. Presenting dramatic accounts of the pirate's very effective tactics and his reputation for cruelty, Konstam offers a fascinating examination of the life and business of piracy and the lure of this brutal and bloody trade.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430174Tue, 12 May 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430174 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate Author: Angus Konstam Narrator: Eric G. Dove Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 8 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/430174 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate Author: Angus Konstam Narrator: Eric G. Dove Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 12, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early eighteenth century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard. As unforgettable as his savage career was, much of Blackbeard's life has been shrouded in mystery—until now. Drawing on vivid descriptions of Blackbeard's attacks from his rare surviving victims, pirate expert Angus Konstam traces Blackbeard's career from its beginnings to his final defeat in a tremendous sea battle near his base at Ocracoke Island. Presenting dramatic accounts of the pirate's very effective tactics and his reputation for cruelty, Konstam offers a fascinating examination of the life and business of piracy and the lure of this brutal and bloody trade.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bi-cultural-living-and-leaving-the-world-of-illusions-by-mus-zoser-ankh-hat--65148318https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bi-Cultural: Living and Leaving The World of Illusions Author: Mus Zoser Ankh Hat Narrator: Mus Zoser Ankh Hat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 6 minutes Release date: May 7, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Bi Cultural Living And Living The Word of Illusion is a story about an African-American man experiencing life growing up in suburban America. Battling racism, self-hate, and self-esteem Issues, he finds power in music, travel and self-study, and is introduced to African Spiritually and culture. The book finds the author at this developed stage, being able to share his perspective and advice on the world, and how to make the most of this physical experience.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434851Thu, 07 May 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bi-Cultural: Living and Leaving The World of Illusions Author: Mus Zoser Ankh Hat Narrator: Mus Zoser Ankh Hat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/434851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bi-Cultural: Living and Leaving The World of Illusions Author: Mus Zoser Ankh Hat Narrator: Mus Zoser Ankh Hat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 6 minutes Release date: May 7, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Bi Cultural Living And Living The Word of Illusion is a story about an African-American man experiencing life growing up in suburban America. Battling racism, self-hate, and self-esteem Issues, he finds power in music, travel and self-study, and is introduced to African Spiritually and culture. The book finds the author at this developed stage, being able to share his perspective and advice on the world, and how to make the most of this physical experience.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/masters-of-the-air-how-the-bomber-boys-broke-down-the-nazi-war-machine-by-donald-l-miller--65148298https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Masters of the Air: How The Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine Author: Donald L. Miller Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 7, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Seconds after Brady’s plane was hit, the Hundredth’s entire formation was broken up and scattered by swarms of single-engine planes, and by rockets launched by twin-engine planes that flew parallel’ Meet the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force, Britain’s Lancaster comrades, who helped to bring down the Nazis Historian and World War II expert Donald Miller brings us the story of the bomber boys who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. Unlike ground soldiers they slept on clean beds, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of the travelling Air Force bands. But they were also an elite group of fighters who put their lives on the line in the most dangerous role of all. Miller takes readers from the adrenaline filled battles in the sky, to the airbases across England, the German prison camps, and onto the ground to understand the devastation faced by civilians. Drawn from interviews, oral histories, and American, British and German archives, Masters of the Air is the authoritative, deeply moving and important account of the world's first and only bomber war. (c) Donald L. Miller 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432755Thu, 07 May 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Masters of the Air: How The Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine Author: Donald L. Miller Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Masters of the Air: How The Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine Author: Donald L. Miller Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 7, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Seconds after Brady’s plane was hit, the Hundredth’s entire formation was broken up and scattered by swarms of single-engine planes, and by rockets launched by twin-engine planes that flew parallel’ Meet the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force, Britain’s Lancaster comrades, who helped to bring down the Nazis Historian and World War II expert Donald Miller brings us the story of the bomber boys who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. Unlike ground soldiers they slept on clean beds, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of the travelling Air Force bands. But they were also an elite group of fighters who put their lives on the line in the most dangerous role of all. Miller takes readers from the adrenaline filled battles in the sky, to the airbases across England, the German prison camps, and onto the ground to understand the devastation faced by civilians. Drawn from interviews, oral histories, and American, British and German archives, Masters of the Air is the authoritative, deeply moving and important account of the world's first and only bomber war. (c) Donald L. Miller 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stan-the-life-of-stan-laurel-fred-lawrence-guiles-hollywood-collection-by-fred-lawrence-guiles--65148353https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stan: The Life of Stan Laurel: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Surprisingly, this is the first full-length biography of the legendary comic who was the creative half of the universally loved duo Laurel and Hardy. Based upon scores of interviews with family and friends (including the intimate diaries of Virginia Ruth Laurel, whom Stan married three times), Stan tells the very human story of Laurel’s struggle to survive against difficult odds, personal and professional. From precarious beginnings in vaudeville with Charlie Chaplin, skinny Stan changed his name and rose to enjoy success and universal acclaim with his big-bellied partner Oliver Hardy. Yet, beneath the exterior of the wistful comic whose sense of humor gave pleasure to so many millions was a man beset by financial worries, alcohol, and unhappy personal relationships that encompassed many dalliances and six marriages. This superb biography provides new insight into the supremely talented man behind the screen image and a fascinating panorama of show business in the first half of this century. A supplemental PDF is included with this audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431238Tue, 28 Apr 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stan: The Life of Stan Laurel: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stan: The Life of Stan Laurel: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Sean Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Surprisingly, this is the first full-length biography of the legendary comic who was the creative half of the universally loved duo Laurel and Hardy. Based upon scores of interviews with family and friends (including the intimate diaries of Virginia Ruth Laurel, whom Stan married three times), Stan tells the very human story of Laurel’s struggle to survive against difficult odds, personal and professional. From precarious beginnings in vaudeville with Charlie Chaplin, skinny Stan changed his name and rose to enjoy success and universal acclaim with his big-bellied partner Oliver Hardy. Yet, beneath the exterior of the wistful comic whose sense of humor gave pleasure to so many millions was a man beset by financial worries, alcohol, and unhappy personal relationships that encompassed many dalliances and six marriages. This superb biography provides new insight into the supremely talented man behind the screen image and a fascinating panorama of show business in the first half of this century. A supplemental PDF is included with this audiobook.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/joan-crawford-the-last-word-fred-lawrence-guiles-hollywood-collection-by-fred-lawrence-guiles--65148352https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433680 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joan Crawford: The Last Word: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For most of her adult life, Joan Crawford was a star who dedicated herself entirely to her career. But since her death, her luster has been tarnished. Here, at last, is a biography that sets the record straight. In her heyday, Joan Crawford was probably the most imitated woman in the world. Magazine covers featured her face, and high-school and college girls copied her makeup and clothing. Born Lucille Fay LeSueur in Kansas City, she spent her childhood on the edge of poverty. But an iron will developed in adolescence drove her to New York City and eventual work in a chorus line. Spotted by a Hollywood talent scout, she was soon on her way to the film capital. Four times married (to actors Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Franchot Tone, and Philip Terry and Pepsi-Cola executive Alfred Steele) and driven by powerful sexuality, Joan Crawford lived her life on the razor’s edge. Yet she was a woman of great generosity who cared deeply for her four adopted children, although her ideas about discipline were colored by her own harsh upbringing. Her professional career spanned more than forty years and included such classics as Grand Hotel, Mildred Pierce, and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Her remarkable progression from silent films to talkies to television exemplified her ability to adapt, chameleon-like, to the ever-changing demands of the industry that in many senses invented her. A supplemental PDF is included with this audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433680Tue, 28 Apr 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433680 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joan Crawford: The Last Word: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/433680 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joan Crawford: The Last Word: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: For most of her adult life, Joan Crawford was a star who dedicated herself entirely to her career. But since her death, her luster has been tarnished. Here, at last, is a biography that sets the record straight. In her heyday, Joan Crawford was probably the most imitated woman in the world. Magazine covers featured her face, and high-school and college girls copied her makeup and clothing. Born Lucille Fay LeSueur in Kansas City, she spent her childhood on the edge of poverty. But an iron will developed in adolescence drove her to New York City and eventual work in a chorus line. Spotted by a Hollywood talent scout, she was soon on her way to the film capital. Four times married (to actors Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Franchot Tone, and Philip Terry and Pepsi-Cola executive Alfred Steele) and driven by powerful sexuality, Joan Crawford lived her life on the razor’s edge. Yet she was a woman of great generosity who cared deeply for her four adopted children, although her ideas about discipline were colored by her own harsh upbringing. Her professional career spanned more than forty years and included such classics as Grand Hotel, Mildred Pierce, and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Her remarkable progression from silent films to talkies to television exemplified her ability to adapt, chameleon-like, to the ever-changing demands of the industry that in many senses invented her. A supplemental PDF is included with this audiobook.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/marion-davies-a-biography-fred-lawrence-guiles-hollywood-collection-by-fred-lawrence-guiles--65148337https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marion Davies: A Biography: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Romy Nordlinger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Marion Davies was, in so many ways, created by and for William Randolph Hearst—their symbiotic relationship spanned from 1915 when W.R. first ogled her chorus-girl charms until his death in 1951. But she was much more quickly superannuated, cinema-historically speaking, by the Orson Welles-Herman Mankiewicz dumb-blonde caricature in Citizen Kane, paradoxically the most important film in her life. Fred Lawrence Guiles presents the life story of one of the most deft comedians in silent pictures—touching on Brooklyn, show biz, the engaging stammer, private-then-public Hearst inamorata, Hollywood, the Chaplin liaison, encounters with the famous, San Simeon, W.R.'s demise, the constant drinking (she hid her gin from Hearst in the water tank of the toilet), her quick marriage to Captain Horace Brown, and, finally, her death from cancer in 1961. A supplemental PDF is included with this audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432444Tue, 28 Apr 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marion Davies: A Biography: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Romy Nordlinger Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marion Davies: A Biography: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Romy Nordlinger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Marion Davies was, in so many ways, created by and for William Randolph Hearst—their symbiotic relationship spanned from 1915 when W.R. first ogled her chorus-girl charms until his death in 1951. But she was much more quickly superannuated, cinema-historically speaking, by the Orson Welles-Herman Mankiewicz dumb-blonde caricature in Citizen Kane, paradoxically the most important film in her life. Fred Lawrence Guiles presents the life story of one of the most deft comedians in silent pictures—touching on Brooklyn, show biz, the engaging stammer, private-then-public Hearst inamorata, Hollywood, the Chaplin liaison, encounters with the famous, San Simeon, W.R.'s demise, the constant drinking (she hid her gin from Hearst in the water tank of the toilet), her quick marriage to Captain Horace Brown, and, finally, her death from cancer in 1961. A supplemental PDF is included with this audiobook.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/norma-jean-the-life-of-marilyn-monroe-fred-lawrence-guiles-hollywood-collection-by-fred-lawrence-guiles--65148331https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Norma Jean: The Life of Marilyn Monroe: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Madeleine Lambert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: What you may have known about Marilyn Monroe before was only the tip of the iceberg. For twenty years, the men and women who knew Marilyn best saw what they knew suppressed because certain important people were still living and the tenor of the times prohibited frankness. Instead, rumors ballooned. This book finally sets the record straight. Fred Lawrence Guiles―whom Norman Mailer acknowledges as the chief source of facts about Marilyn Monroe―has written about the life behind the legend. He reveals what really happened in the careening career of the pretty waif named Norma Jean Mortensen, who married the boy next door, became a model, an actress, and a movie star, married an incompatible legend named Joe DiMaggio, sought to improve the mind that came with her near-perfect body, married playwright Arthur Miller, lent herself to the Svengali-like ministrations of Paula and Lee Strasberg, became the mistress of John and then Robert Kennedy when they ran the country, and kept camera crews and studios waiting―but couldn’t keep death waiting, for it took her under the most unusual circumstances at the age of thirty-six. A legend, by definition, is unaltered by fact, but enthralled listeners will find the revelations in this book— coming to understand at last what happened to the Queen of Need—no deterrent to loving Marilyn Monroe. A supplemental PDF that includes artistic depictions of nudity is included with this audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432447Tue, 28 Apr 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Norma Jean: The Life of Marilyn Monroe: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Madeleine Lambert Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Norma Jean: The Life of Marilyn Monroe: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Madeleine Lambert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: What you may have known about Marilyn Monroe before was only the tip of the iceberg. For twenty years, the men and women who knew Marilyn best saw what they knew suppressed because certain important people were still living and the tenor of the times prohibited frankness. Instead, rumors ballooned. This book finally sets the record straight. Fred Lawrence Guiles―whom Norman Mailer acknowledges as the chief source of facts about Marilyn Monroe―has written about the life behind the legend. He reveals what really happened in the careening career of the pretty waif named Norma Jean Mortensen, who married the boy next door, became a model, an actress, and a movie star, married an incompatible legend named Joe DiMaggio, sought to improve the mind that came with her near-perfect body, married playwright Arthur Miller, lent herself to the Svengali-like ministrations of Paula and Lee Strasberg, became the mistress of John and then Robert Kennedy when they ran the country, and kept camera crews and studios waiting―but couldn’t keep death waiting, for it took her under the most unusual circumstances at the age of thirty-six. A legend, by definition, is unaltered by fact, but enthralled listeners will find the revelations in this book— coming to understand at last what happened to the Queen of Need—no deterrent to loving Marilyn Monroe. A supplemental PDF that includes artistic depictions of nudity is included with this audiobook.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jane-fonda-the-actress-in-her-time-fred-lawrence-guiles-hollywood-collection-by-fred-lawrence-guiles--65148317https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jane Fonda: The Actress in her Time: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: It would take a restless camera to document Jane Fonda’s life for she is a woman of formidable energy, but Fred Lawrence Guiles’ expert commentary captures her in motion. We pursue her in a tireless route of study, self-discovery, and social awareness that causes her to ultimately reject the lifestyle of her first husband Roger Vadim for the role of political activist with her present husband Tom Hayden. We witness how the shift in political climate transforms her from history’s scourge to history’s darling. Yet, despite governmental harassment and public scorn for her radical beliefs, she, nonetheless, achieves international acclaim for her acting and twice received the Academy Award for Best Actress. Candid interviews with friends, relatives, and colleagues enrich this admiring but honest portrait. An unmistakable impression remains that Jane Fonda will continue to grow, and the world will continue to watch. A supplemental PDF is included with this audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432443Tue, 28 Apr 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jane Fonda: The Actress in her Time: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jane Fonda: The Actress in her Time: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: It would take a restless camera to document Jane Fonda’s life for she is a woman of formidable energy, but Fred Lawrence Guiles’ expert commentary captures her in motion. We pursue her in a tireless route of study, self-discovery, and social awareness that causes her to ultimately reject the lifestyle of her first husband Roger Vadim for the role of political activist with her present husband Tom Hayden. We witness how the shift in political climate transforms her from history’s scourge to history’s darling. Yet, despite governmental harassment and public scorn for her radical beliefs, she, nonetheless, achieves international acclaim for her acting and twice received the Academy Award for Best Actress. Candid interviews with friends, relatives, and colleagues enrich this admiring but honest portrait. An unmistakable impression remains that Jane Fonda will continue to grow, and the world will continue to watch. A supplemental PDF is included with this audiobook.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tyrone-powers-the-last-idol-fred-lawrence-guiles-hollywood-collection-by-fred-lawrence-guiles--65148292https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tyrone Powers: The Last Idol: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Johnny Heller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Tyrone Power was as versatile in life as he was on the screen. He was a multifaceted man and was the last idol created by the vast star-making machine Twentieth Century Fox. Coming from a family of multi-generational actors, Tyrone Power broke the proverbial mold. His on-screen charisma in the '30s and '40s propelled him to the forefront of must-have actors. His on-screen accomplishments were many, yet he did not hesitate to enter the military when his country went to war. After the war, he continued in his career, but the years took their toll. This look into the actor's life by one of the most renowned Hollywood biographers of all time is a must-have for everyone interested in film, old Hollywood, or acting.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435152Tue, 28 Apr 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tyrone Powers: The Last Idol: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Johnny Heller Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tyrone Powers: The Last Idol: Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles Narrator: Johnny Heller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Tyrone Power was as versatile in life as he was on the screen. He was a multifaceted man and was the last idol created by the vast star-making machine Twentieth Century Fox. Coming from a family of multi-generational actors, Tyrone Power broke the proverbial mold. His on-screen charisma in the '30s and '40s propelled him to the forefront of must-have actors. His on-screen accomplishments were many, yet he did not hesitate to enter the military when his country went to war. After the war, he continued in his career, but the years took their toll. This look into the actor's life by one of the most renowned Hollywood biographers of all time is a must-have for everyone interested in film, old Hollywood, or acting.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/queen-victoria-by-lytton-strachey--65148230https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Victoria Author: Lytton Strachey Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “The girl, the wife, the aged woman, were the same: vitality, conscientiousness, pride, and simplicity were hers to the latest hour.” A remarkably fresh and engaging account of Britain’s long-reigning monarch, Queen Victoria, who ascended to the throne at eighteen, in 1837, and died in 1901. Lytton Strachey captures her essential spirit in concise and elegant prose, with an eye and an ear keenly attuned to human nature, and its foibles. The portraits he draws of Victoria’s husband, Albert, her family members, and the procession of Prime Ministers, beginning with her beloved Lord M, are vivid and trenchant. Written only twenty years after her death, this biography exemplifies the emergence of modern thought from the Victorian Era.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450385Tue, 28 Apr 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Victoria Author: Lytton Strachey Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Victoria Author: Lytton Strachey Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 28, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “The girl, the wife, the aged woman, were the same: vitality, conscientiousness, pride, and simplicity were hers to the latest hour.” A remarkably fresh and engaging account of Britain’s long-reigning monarch, Queen Victoria, who ascended to the throne at eighteen, in 1837, and died in 1901. Lytton Strachey captures her essential spirit in concise and elegant prose, with an eye and an ear keenly attuned to human nature, and its foibles. The portraits he draws of Victoria’s husband, Albert, her family members, and the procession of Prime Ministers, beginning with her beloved Lord M, are vivid and trenchant. Written only twenty years after her death, this biography exemplifies the emergence of modern thought from the Victorian Era.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-life-of-prophet-hud-as-eber-ultimate-version-by-jannah-firdaus-mediapro--65148370https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life of Prophet Hud AS (Eber) Ultimate Version Author: Jannah Firdaus Mediapro Narrator: Maghfirah Maulany Aqmarina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 27, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Prophet Hud AS (Eber) was a prophet of ancient Arabia mentioned in The Holy Quran. The eleventh surah (chapter) of The Holy Quran, Hud, is named after him, though the narrative of Surah Hud comprises only a small portion of the chapter. Prophet Hud AS has sometimes been identified with Prophet Eber AS, an ancestor of the Israelites who is mentioned in the Old Testament. The people of 'Ad lived many years in the windswept hills of an area between Yemen and Oman, they were physically well built and renowned for their craftsmanship especially in the construction of tall buildings with lofty towers. They were outstanding among all the nations in power and wealth, which, unfortunately, made them arrogant and boastful. Their political power was held in the hand of unjust rulers, against whom no one dared to raise a voice.They were not ignorant of the existence of Allah SWT (God), nor did they refuse to worship Him. What they did refuse was to worship Allah SWT alone. They worshipped other gods, also, including idols. This is one sin Allah SWT (God) does not forgive. Allah SWT wanted to guide and discipline these people so He sent a prophet from among them. This prophet was Prophet Hud AS (Eber), a noble man who handled this task with great resoluteness and tolerance.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432341Mon, 27 Apr 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life of Prophet Hud AS (Eber) Ultimate Version Author: Jannah Firdaus Mediapro Narrator: Maghfirah Maulany Aqmarina Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life of Prophet Hud AS (Eber) Ultimate Version Author: Jannah Firdaus Mediapro Narrator: Maghfirah Maulany Aqmarina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 27, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Prophet Hud AS (Eber) was a prophet of ancient Arabia mentioned in The Holy Quran. The eleventh surah (chapter) of The Holy Quran, Hud, is named after him, though the narrative of Surah Hud comprises only a small portion of the chapter. Prophet Hud AS has sometimes been identified with Prophet Eber AS, an ancestor of the Israelites who is mentioned in the Old Testament. The people of 'Ad lived many years in the windswept hills of an area between Yemen and Oman, they were physically well built and renowned for their craftsmanship especially in the construction of tall buildings with lofty towers. They were outstanding among all the nations in power and wealth, which, unfortunately, made them arrogant and boastful. Their political power was held in the hand of unjust rulers, against whom no one dared to raise a voice.They were not ignorant of the existence of Allah SWT (God), nor did they refuse to worship Him. What they did refuse was to worship Allah SWT alone. They worshipped other gods, also, including idols. This is one sin Allah SWT (God) does not forgive. Allah SWT wanted to guide and discipline these people so He sent a prophet from among them. This prophet was Prophet Hud AS (Eber), a noble man who handled this task with great resoluteness and tolerance.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-meaning-of-surah-75-al-qiyamah-the-resurrection-from-holy-quran-bilingual-edition-english-spanish-ultimate-version-by-jannah-firdaus-m--65148361https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Meaning of Surah 75 Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection) From Holy Quran Bilingual Edition English Spanish Ultimate Version Author: Jannah Firdaus Mediapro Narrator: Jannah Firdaus Mediapro Studio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 24 minutes Release date: April 6, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Meaning of Surah 75 Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection) From the Holy Quran Bilingual Edition In English and Spanish Languange Ultimate Version. The blessed Chapter, revealed in Mecca, has forty Verses. The designation of the Chapter, denoting Resurrection, derives from the opening Verse. The Chapter, as reflected in its title, mainly treats of the Day of Resurrection. It opens with an enumeration of the harsh and frightening incidents to occur at the end of the world and proceeds to make mention of the happy and sad appearances of the good and evil doers. Further, the blessed Chapter deals with the states of mankind in the throes of death, the creation of man from a drop of semen as a token of Divine Omnipotence in recreating him. It is noteworthy that four Verses in the middle of the Chapter treat of the manner of Revelation and recitation of the Holy Qur’an. According to the traditions, one who perseveres in the recitation of the blessed Chapter and acts upon it shall be able to happily and smilingly cross the Bridge Spanning Hellfire (sirat).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429332Mon, 06 Apr 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Meaning of Surah 75 Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection) From Holy Quran Bilingual Edition English Spanish Ultimate Version Author: Jannah Firdaus...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Meaning of Surah 75 Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection) From Holy Quran Bilingual Edition English Spanish Ultimate Version Author: Jannah Firdaus Mediapro Narrator: Jannah Firdaus Mediapro Studio Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 24 minutes Release date: April 6, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The Meaning of Surah 75 Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection) From the Holy Quran Bilingual Edition In English and Spanish Languange Ultimate Version. The blessed Chapter, revealed in Mecca, has forty Verses. The designation of the Chapter, denoting Resurrection, derives from the opening Verse. The Chapter, as reflected in its title, mainly treats of the Day of Resurrection. It opens with an enumeration of the harsh and frightening incidents to occur at the end of the world and proceeds to make mention of the happy and sad appearances of the good and evil doers. Further, the blessed Chapter deals with the states of mankind in the throes of death, the creation of man from a drop of semen as a token of Divine Omnipotence in recreating him. It is noteworthy that four Verses in the middle of the Chapter treat of the manner of Revelation and recitation of the Holy Qur’an. According to the traditions, one who perseveres in the recitation of the blessed Chapter and acts upon it shall be able to happily and smilingly cross the Bridge Spanning Hellfire (sirat).]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gunhild-s-granddaughter-by-myrtle-siebert--65148375https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gunhild's Granddaughter Author: Myrtle Siebert Narrator: Cia Penner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 8 minutes Release date: March 25, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When Myrtle Rae Forberg steps from her father’s boat to the floating dock at Rock Bay, BC, and walks along the board walk to school, she takes her first steps from the water-constrained world in which she has lived since birth to the freedom and independence of a land based world in which she will live the remainder of her life. A nine-year-old granddaughter of Norwegian immigrants, Myrtle’s story moves through bewildering and lonely experiences. First there is an adjustment from homeschooling, taught by her mother in their floathouse kitchen, to a one-room school with eight grades on land, in a truck logging camp. Then it was off to high school leaving a home with parents, sister and familiar faces to a world of strangers, boarding with a different family each year, being the new kid in a school that involved moving from room to room for each course taught by a different teacher and surrounded by four hundred new classmates. At age 13 she was on her own.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427907Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gunhild's Granddaughter Author: Myrtle Siebert Narrator: Cia Penner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 8 minutes Release date: March 25, 2020...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gunhild's Granddaughter Author: Myrtle Siebert Narrator: Cia Penner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 8 minutes Release date: March 25, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When Myrtle Rae Forberg steps from her father’s boat to the floating dock at Rock Bay, BC, and walks along the board walk to school, she takes her first steps from the water-constrained world in which she has lived since birth to the freedom and independence of a land based world in which she will live the remainder of her life. A nine-year-old granddaughter of Norwegian immigrants, Myrtle’s story moves through bewildering and lonely experiences. First there is an adjustment from homeschooling, taught by her mother in their floathouse kitchen, to a one-room school with eight grades on land, in a truck logging camp. Then it was off to high school leaving a home with parents, sister and familiar faces to a world of strangers, boarding with a different family each year, being the new kid in a school that involved moving from room to room for each course taught by a different teacher and surrounded by four hundred new classmates. At age 13 she was on her own.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sick-souls-healthy-minds-how-william-james-can-save-your-life-by-john-kaag--65148367https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424871 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life Author: John Kaag Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 17, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled 'Is Life Worth Living?' It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, 'James's entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life'?and that's why it just might be able to save yours, too. Sick Souls, Healthy Minds is a compelling introduction to James's life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology?and an inspiration for Alcoholics Anonymous?can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living.Kaag tells how James's experiences as one of what he called the 'sick-souled,' those who think that life might be meaningless, drove him to articulate an ideal of 'healthy-mindedness'?an attitude toward life that is open, active, and hopeful, but also realistic about its risks. In fact, all of James's pragmatism, resting on the idea that truth should be judged by its practical consequences for our lives, is a response to, and possible antidote for, crises of meaning that threaten to undo many of us at one time or another. Along the way, Kaag also movingly describes how his own life has been endlessly enriched by James.Eloquent, inspiring, and filled with insight, Sick Souls, Healthy Minds may be the smartest and most important self-help book you'll ever read.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424871Tue, 17 Mar 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424871 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life Author: John Kaag Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424871 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life Author: John Kaag Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 17, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled 'Is Life Worth Living?' It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, 'James's entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life'?and that's why it just might be able to save yours, too. Sick Souls, Healthy Minds is a compelling introduction to James's life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology?and an inspiration for Alcoholics Anonymous?can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living.Kaag tells how James's experiences as one of what he called the 'sick-souled,' those who think that life might be meaningless, drove him to articulate an ideal of 'healthy-mindedness'?an attitude toward life that is open, active, and hopeful, but also realistic about its risks. In fact, all of James's pragmatism, resting on the idea that truth should be judged by its practical consequences for our lives, is a response to, and possible antidote for, crises of meaning that threaten to undo many of us at one time or another. Along the way, Kaag also movingly describes how his own life has been endlessly enriched by James.Eloquent, inspiring, and filled with insight, Sick Souls, Healthy Minds may be the smartest and most important self-help book you'll ever read.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-native-s-return-1945-1988-by-william-l-shirer--65148333https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/437805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Native’s Return, 1945–1988 Series: #3 of Twentieth Century Journey Series Author: William L. Shirer Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 25, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The prominent journalist, historian, and author—an eyewitness to some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century—tells the story of his final years. In this last book of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer recounts his return to Berlin after the Third Reich’s defeat. Having fled Berlin and imminent arrest by the Gestapo in 1940, Shirer returned to Europe in October 1945 to verify the facts of the Fuhrer’s death, thus bringing to a close—or so he thought—his involvement with the Third Reich. He describes his return to his homeland and his ensuing careers as a broadcast journalist and author. He describes the McCarthy years and how the blacklist affected his own network, CBS. More personal than the first two volumes, this final installment takes an unflinching look at the author’s own struggles after World War II, his shocking firing by CBS News, and his final visit to Paris sixty years after he first lived there as a cub reporter in the 1920s. Here is also his vindication after the publication of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, his most acclaimed work. It also provides intimate details of his often-troubled marriage, and it paints a bittersweet picture of his final decades, friends lost to old age, and a changing world. This book gives listeners a surprising and moving account of the last years of a true historian—and an important witness to history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/437805Tue, 25 Feb 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/437805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Native’s Return, 1945–1988 Series: #3 of Twentieth Century Journey Series Author: William L. Shirer Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/437805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Native’s Return, 1945–1988 Series: #3 of Twentieth Century Journey Series Author: William L. Shirer Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 25, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The prominent journalist, historian, and author—an eyewitness to some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century—tells the story of his final years. In this last book of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer recounts his return to Berlin after the Third Reich’s defeat. Having fled Berlin and imminent arrest by the Gestapo in 1940, Shirer returned to Europe in October 1945 to verify the facts of the Fuhrer’s death, thus bringing to a close—or so he thought—his involvement with the Third Reich. He describes his return to his homeland and his ensuing careers as a broadcast journalist and author. He describes the McCarthy years and how the blacklist affected his own network, CBS. More personal than the first two volumes, this final installment takes an unflinching look at the author’s own struggles after World War II, his shocking firing by CBS News, and his final visit to Paris sixty years after he first lived there as a cub reporter in the 1920s. Here is also his vindication after the publication of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, his most acclaimed work. It also provides intimate details of his often-troubled marriage, and it paints a bittersweet picture of his final decades, friends lost to old age, and a changing world. This book gives listeners a surprising and moving account of the last years of a true historian—and an important witness to history.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-persian-expedition-by-xenophon--65148381https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Persian Expedition Author: Xenophon Narrator: David Timson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 18, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In The Persian Expedition (also known as The March of the Ten Thousand and Anabasis), Xenophon, a disciple of Socrates, relates his experiences of fighting with the Greek mercenary army ‘The Ten Thousand’ in Persia, and how he led them back to the safety of the Black Sea coast. Seeking to depose his brother Artaxerxes and take his place upon the Persian throne, Cyrus the Younger leads the 10,000 mercenaries on a dangerous campaign deep into the heart of Persia. There Cyrus is killed and his generals overthrown, leaving a young Xenophon to lead the army on its treacherous journey home. Snowy mountains, wide rivers, violent blizzards and hostile tribes obstruct their way, testing Xenophon’s leadership and his soldiers’ perseverance to the extreme.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425245Tue, 18 Feb 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Persian Expedition Author: Xenophon Narrator: David Timson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 18, 2020...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Persian Expedition Author: Xenophon Narrator: David Timson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 18, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In The Persian Expedition (also known as The March of the Ten Thousand and Anabasis), Xenophon, a disciple of Socrates, relates his experiences of fighting with the Greek mercenary army ‘The Ten Thousand’ in Persia, and how he led them back to the safety of the Black Sea coast. Seeking to depose his brother Artaxerxes and take his place upon the Persian throne, Cyrus the Younger leads the 10,000 mercenaries on a dangerous campaign deep into the heart of Persia. There Cyrus is killed and his generals overthrown, leaving a young Xenophon to lead the army on its treacherous journey home. Snowy mountains, wide rivers, violent blizzards and hostile tribes obstruct their way, testing Xenophon’s leadership and his soldiers’ perseverance to the extreme.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lost-childhood-a-memoir-by-yehuda-nir--65148300https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Childhood: A Memoir Author: Yehuda Nir Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 18, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This compelling memoir takes listeners through the eyes of a child surviving World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a nine-year-old, the author witnessed his father being herded into a truck—never to be seen again. He, his mother, and sister fled to Warsaw to live in disguise as Catholics under the noses of the Nazi SS, constantly fearful of discovery and persecution. A sobering reminder of the personal toll of the Holocaust on Jews during World War II, this book is a harrowing portrait of one child’s loss of innocence.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436420Tue, 18 Feb 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Childhood: A Memoir Author: Yehuda Nir Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Childhood: A Memoir Author: Yehuda Nir Narrator: Robertson Dean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 18, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: This compelling memoir takes listeners through the eyes of a child surviving World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a nine-year-old, the author witnessed his father being herded into a truck—never to be seen again. He, his mother, and sister fled to Warsaw to live in disguise as Catholics under the noses of the Nazi SS, constantly fearful of discovery and persecution. A sobering reminder of the personal toll of the Holocaust on Jews during World War II, this book is a harrowing portrait of one child’s loss of innocence.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-nightmare-years-1930-1940-by-william-l-shirer--65148365https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nightmare Years, 1930–1940 Series: #2 of Twentieth Century Journey Series Author: William L. Shirer Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 56 minutes Release date: January 28, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The famous journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich documents his front-row seat at the pivotal events leading up to World War II. In the second of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer tells the story of his own eventful life, detailing the most notable moments of his career as a journalist stationed in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Shirer was there while Hitler celebrated his new domination of Germany, unleashed the Blitzkrieg on Poland, and began the conflict that would come to be known as World War II. This remarkable account tells the story of an American reporter caught in a maelstrom of war and politics, desperately trying to warn Europe and the United States about the dangers to come. This memoir gives readers a chance to relive one of the most turbulent periods in twentieth century history—painting a stunningly intimate portrait of a dangerous decade.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432846Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nightmare Years, 1930–1940 Series: #2 of Twentieth Century Journey Series Author: William L. Shirer Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nightmare Years, 1930–1940 Series: #2 of Twentieth Century Journey Series Author: William L. Shirer Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 26 hours 56 minutes Release date: January 28, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The famous journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich documents his front-row seat at the pivotal events leading up to World War II. In the second of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer tells the story of his own eventful life, detailing the most notable moments of his career as a journalist stationed in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Shirer was there while Hitler celebrated his new domination of Germany, unleashed the Blitzkrieg on Poland, and began the conflict that would come to be known as World War II. This remarkable account tells the story of an American reporter caught in a maelstrom of war and politics, desperately trying to warn Europe and the United States about the dangers to come. This memoir gives readers a chance to relive one of the most turbulent periods in twentieth century history—painting a stunningly intimate portrait of a dangerous decade.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/captured-by-history-one-man-s-vision-of-our-tumultuous-century-by-john-toland--65148313https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432858 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captured by History: One Man’s Vision of Our Tumultuous Century Author: John Toland Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 28, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Captured by History is an autobiography like none other, for few historians have interviewed as many men and women who helped shape the most momentous events of our century than John Toland. Here, for the first time, Toland reveals how he found these key players and how he persuaded them to talk to him. From disgraced Japanese generals to the German doctor who nearly succeeded in assassinating Hitler, Toland’s sources are remarkable for what they reveal about their subjects, along with the secrets and stories they would tell no one else.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432858Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432858 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captured by History: One Man’s Vision of Our Tumultuous Century Author: John Toland Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/432858 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Captured by History: One Man’s Vision of Our Tumultuous Century Author: John Toland Narrator: Traber Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 28, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Captured by History is an autobiography like none other, for few historians have interviewed as many men and women who helped shape the most momentous events of our century than John Toland. Here, for the first time, Toland reveals how he found these key players and how he persuaded them to talk to him. From disgraced Japanese generals to the German doctor who nearly succeeded in assassinating Hitler, Toland’s sources are remarkable for what they reveal about their subjects, along with the secrets and stories they would tell no one else.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/just-another-southern-town-mary-church-terrell-and-the-struggle-for-racial-justice-in-the-nation-s-capital-by-joan-quigley--65148319https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital Author: Joan Quigley Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 8 minutes Release date: January 21, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an eighty-six-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson’s Restaurant, just a few blocks from the White House, and requested to be served. She and her companions were informed by the manager that they could not eat in his establishment, because they were “colored.” Terrell, a former suffragette and one of the country’s first college-educated African-American women, took the matter to court. Three years later, the Supreme Court vindicated her outrage: District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co., Inc. was decided in June 1953, invalidating the segregation of restaurants and cafes in the nation’s capital. In Just Another Southern Town, Joan Quigley recounts an untold chapter of the civil rights movement: an epic battle to topple segregation in Washington, the symbolic home of American democracy. At the book’s heart is the formidable Mary Church Terrell and the test case she mounts seeking to enforce Reconstruction-era laws prohibiting segregation in DC restaurants. Through the prism of Terrell’s story, Quigley reassesses Washington’s relationship to civil rights history, bringing to life a pivotal fight for equality that erupted five years before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus and a decade before the student sit-in movement rocked segregated lunch counters across the South. At a time when most civil rights scholarship begins with Brown v. Board of Education, Just Another Southern Town unearths the story of the nation’s capital as an early flashpoint on race. A rich portrait of American politics and society in the mid-20th century, it interweaves Terrell’s narrative with the courtroom drama of the case and the varied personalities of the justices who ultimately voted unanimously to prohibit segregated restaurants. This work restores Mary Church Terrell and the case that launched a crusade to their rightful place in the pantheon of civil rights history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431552Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital Author: Joan Quigley Narrator: Kate Reading...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital Author: Joan Quigley Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 8 minutes Release date: January 21, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an eighty-six-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson’s Restaurant, just a few blocks from the White House, and requested to be served. She and her companions were informed by the manager that they could not eat in his establishment, because they were “colored.” Terrell, a former suffragette and one of the country’s first college-educated African-American women, took the matter to court. Three years later, the Supreme Court vindicated her outrage: District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co., Inc. was decided in June 1953, invalidating the segregation of restaurants and cafes in the nation’s capital. In Just Another Southern Town, Joan Quigley recounts an untold chapter of the civil rights movement: an epic battle to topple segregation in Washington, the symbolic home of American democracy. At the book’s heart is the formidable Mary Church Terrell and the test case she mounts seeking to enforce Reconstruction-era laws prohibiting segregation in DC restaurants. Through the prism of Terrell’s story, Quigley reassesses Washington’s relationship to civil rights history, bringing to life a pivotal fight for equality that erupted five years before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus and a decade before the student sit-in movement rocked segregated lunch counters across the South. At a time when most civil rights scholarship begins with Brown v. Board of Education, Just Another Southern Town unearths the story of the nation’s capital as an early flashpoint on race. A rich portrait of American politics and society in the mid-20th century, it interweaves Terrell’s narrative with the courtroom drama of the case and the varied personalities of the justices who ultimately voted unanimously to prohibit segregated restaurants. This work restores Mary Church Terrell and the case that launched a crusade to their rightful place in the pantheon of civil rights history.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-shadow-of-vesuvius-a-life-of-pliny-by-daisy-dunn--65148376https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny Author: Daisy Dunn Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: December 10, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder’s notebooks―filled with pearls of wisdom―and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the younger man, who would grow up to become a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, and chronicler of the Roman Empire from the dire days of terror under Emperor Domitian to the gentler times of Emperor Trajan. A biography that will appeal to lovers of Mary Beard books, it is also a moving narrative about the profound influence of a father figure on his adopted son. Interweaving the younger Pliny’s Letters with extracts from the Elder’s Natural History, Daisy Dunn paints a vivid, compellingly readable portrait of two of antiquity’s greatest minds.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424948Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny Author: Daisy Dunn Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny Author: Daisy Dunn Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: December 10, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder’s notebooks―filled with pearls of wisdom―and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the younger man, who would grow up to become a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, and chronicler of the Roman Empire from the dire days of terror under Emperor Domitian to the gentler times of Emperor Trajan. A biography that will appeal to lovers of Mary Beard books, it is also a moving narrative about the profound influence of a father figure on his adopted son. Interweaving the younger Pliny’s Letters with extracts from the Elder’s Natural History, Daisy Dunn paints a vivid, compellingly readable portrait of two of antiquity’s greatest minds.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sesame-street-palestine-the-ups-and-downs-of-producing-a-children-s-program-by-daoud-kuttab--65148355https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sesame Street, Palestine: The Ups and Downs of Producing a Children’s Program Author: Daoud Kuttab Narrator: Nat Segaloff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 10, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Big Birds are rare in Palestine. After a surprise phone call from Children’s Television Workshop, Daoud Kuttab took the chance of a lifetime to create a Palestinian coproduction of Sesame Street. But the challenges of producing a world-famous children’s program quickly escalated beyond just teaching Elmo to speak Arabic. From finding actors and puppeteers in a country starved of training to dealing with a community that considered the production too provocative, the early days were less than easy. Animating hand puppets against a backdrop of the turbulent Palestinian-Israeli peace process drew him into exciting, tense times that made Cookie Monster’s search for sweets seem like child’s play. Days after the first episode aired, Daoud was arrested. Journey into Kuttab’s unusual world, where the signing of the Oslo Accords, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Hollywood star Richard Gere, and the King of Jordan played important roles. Not even Kermit could have imagined this unique, exciting, and undeniably fascinating expansion of America’s most enduring children’s show into a new world bound by the West Bank desert, politics, media, and money.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424969Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sesame Street, Palestine: The Ups and Downs of Producing a Children’s Program Author: Daoud Kuttab Narrator: Nat Segaloff Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/424969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sesame Street, Palestine: The Ups and Downs of Producing a Children’s Program Author: Daoud Kuttab Narrator: Nat Segaloff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 10, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Big Birds are rare in Palestine. After a surprise phone call from Children’s Television Workshop, Daoud Kuttab took the chance of a lifetime to create a Palestinian coproduction of Sesame Street. But the challenges of producing a world-famous children’s program quickly escalated beyond just teaching Elmo to speak Arabic. From finding actors and puppeteers in a country starved of training to dealing with a community that considered the production too provocative, the early days were less than easy. Animating hand puppets against a backdrop of the turbulent Palestinian-Israeli peace process drew him into exciting, tense times that made Cookie Monster’s search for sweets seem like child’s play. Days after the first episode aired, Daoud was arrested. Journey into Kuttab’s unusual world, where the signing of the Oslo Accords, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Hollywood star Richard Gere, and the King of Jordan played important roles. Not even Kermit could have imagined this unique, exciting, and undeniably fascinating expansion of America’s most enduring children’s show into a new world bound by the West Bank desert, politics, media, and money.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-was-socrates-executed-and-other-papers-on-plato-by-j-m-kuczynski--65148369https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/428529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Was Socrates Executed?: And Other Papers on Plato Author: J.-M. Kuczynski Narrator: Cameron Scriven Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 3, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Pithy, easy-to-understand papers on Plato's epistemology, metaphysics, and political philosophy. Table of contents: 'Why was Socrates executed?' 'The Meaning of Plato's Cave Allegory' 'A One Page Proof of Plato's Theory of Forms' 'Plato's Republic as Pol Potist Bureaucracy' 'The Sociology of Epistemology: The Epistemological Views of Plato and Descartes' 'The Negative Relevance of What Philosophers, especially Plato, Have to Say about Politics']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/428529Sun, 03 Nov 2019 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/428529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Was Socrates Executed?: And Other Papers on Plato Author: J.-M. Kuczynski Narrator: Cameron Scriven Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/428529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Was Socrates Executed?: And Other Papers on Plato Author: J.-M. Kuczynski Narrator: Cameron Scriven Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 3, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Pithy, easy-to-understand papers on Plato's epistemology, metaphysics, and political philosophy. Table of contents: 'Why was Socrates executed?' 'The Meaning of Plato's Cave Allegory' 'A One Page Proof of Plato's Theory of Forms' 'Plato's Republic as Pol Potist Bureaucracy' 'The Sociology of Epistemology: The Epistemological Views of Plato and Descartes' 'The Negative Relevance of What Philosophers, especially Plato, Have to Say about Politics']]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jesse-james-last-rebel-of-the-civil-war-by-t-j-stiles--65148214https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War Author: T. J. Stiles Narrator: Christopher Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 35 minutes Release date: October 1, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure. Raised in a fiercely pro-slavery household in bitterly divided Misssouri, at age sixteen James became a bushwhacker, one of the savage Confederate guerrillas that terrorized the border states. After the end of the war, James continued his campaign of robbery and murder into the brutal era of reconstruction, when his reckless daring, his partisan pronouncements, and his alliance with the sympathetic editor John Newman Edwards placed him squarely at the forefront of the former Confederates’ bid to recapture political power. With meticulous research and vivid accounts of the dramatic adventures of the famous gunman, T. J. Stiles shows how he resembles not the apolitical hero of legend, but rather a figure ready to use violence to command attention for a political cause—in many ways, a forerunner of the modern terrorist.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460035Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War Author: T. J. Stiles Narrator: Christopher Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 35 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/460035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War Author: T. J. Stiles Narrator: Christopher Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 35 minutes Release date: October 1, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure. Raised in a fiercely pro-slavery household in bitterly divided Misssouri, at age sixteen James became a bushwhacker, one of the savage Confederate guerrillas that terrorized the border states. After the end of the war, James continued his campaign of robbery and murder into the brutal era of reconstruction, when his reckless daring, his partisan pronouncements, and his alliance with the sympathetic editor John Newman Edwards placed him squarely at the forefront of the former Confederates’ bid to recapture political power. With meticulous research and vivid accounts of the dramatic adventures of the famous gunman, T. J. Stiles shows how he resembles not the apolitical hero of legend, but rather a figure ready to use violence to command attention for a political cause—in many ways, a forerunner of the modern terrorist.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-greater-freedom-life-as-a-middle-eastern-woman-outside-the-stereotypes-by-alya-mooro--65148197https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459996 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes Author: Alya Mooro Narrator: Alya Mooro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 1, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The greater freedom is to be who you actually are; to be able to live your life in the way you deem best, free from any sort of restriction to do that, or fear of repercussions for doing so. Egyptian-born and London-raised, Alya Mooro grew up between two cultures and felt a pull from both. Where could she turn for advice and inspiration when it seemed there was nobody else like her? Today, Mooro is determined to explore and explode the myth that she must identify either as ‘Western’ or as one of almost 400 million other ‘Arabs’ across the Middle East. Through countless interviews and meticulous research, as well as her own unique experience, Mooro gives voice to the Middle Eastern women who, like her, don’t fit the mould. Women under pressure to conform to society’s ideals of how a woman should look and behave, what she should want and be. Women who want to think and act and love freely, without feeling that every choice means ‘picking a side’. Women who are two things at once and, consequently, neither. Part memoir, part social exploration, this is a book for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459996Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459996 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes Author: Alya Mooro Narrator: Alya Mooro Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/459996 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes Author: Alya Mooro Narrator: Alya Mooro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 1, 2019 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: The greater freedom is to be who you actually are; to be able to live your life in the way you deem best, free from any sort of restriction to do that, or fear of repercussions for doing so. Egyptian-born and London-raised, Alya Mooro grew up between two cultures and felt a pull from both. Where could she turn for advice and inspiration when it seemed there was nobody else like her? Today, Mooro is determined to explore and explode the myth that she must identify either as ‘Western’ or as one of almost 400 million other ‘Arabs’ across the Middle East. Through countless interviews and meticulous research, as well as her own unique experience, Mooro gives voice to the Middle Eastern women who, like her, don’t fit the mould. Women under pressure to conform to society’s ideals of how a woman should look and behave, what she should want and be. Women who want to think and act and love freely, without feeling that every choice means ‘picking a side’. Women who are two things at once and, consequently, neither. Part memoir, part social exploration, this is a book for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-das-siebte-jahr-von-tibet-nach-indien-gekurzt-by-sabriye-tenberken--65148338https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das siebte Jahr - Von Tibet nach Indien (gekürzt) Author: Sabriye Tenberken Narrator: Sabriye Tenberken Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 15, 2015 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Sabriye Tenberken und deutsche blinde Kinder erzählen die Lebensgeschichten der blinden Kinder von Lhasa - und berichten von der spektakulären Besteigung des Lhagpa Ri im Himalaya - dokumentiert auch in dem Film 'Blindsight' - zusammen mit Erik Weihenmayer, der als erster blinder Bergsteiger den Mount Everest bezwungen hat.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435422Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das siebte Jahr - Von Tibet nach Indien (gekürzt) Author: Sabriye Tenberken Narrator: Sabriye Tenberken Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/435422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das siebte Jahr - Von Tibet nach Indien (gekürzt) Author: Sabriye Tenberken Narrator: Sabriye Tenberken Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 15, 2015 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Sabriye Tenberken und deutsche blinde Kinder erzählen die Lebensgeschichten der blinden Kinder von Lhasa - und berichten von der spektakulären Besteigung des Lhagpa Ri im Himalaya - dokumentiert auch in dem Film 'Blindsight' - zusammen mit Erik Weihenmayer, der als erster blinder Bergsteiger den Mount Everest bezwungen hat.]]>185rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-tagebuch-einer-reise-mit-alexander-von-humboldt-by-steven-jan-van-geuns--65148256https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444817 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Tagebuch einer Reise mit Alexander von Humboldt Author: Steven Jan Van Geuns Narrator: Konrad Beikircher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 29 minutes Release date: September 9, 2011 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Während in Paris die Revolution tobt, die Menschenrechte ausgerufen werden und der Sturm auf Versailles stattfindet, reisen der zwanzigjährige Alexander von Humboldt und sein Freund Steven Jan van Geuns (22) im Herbst 1789 sechs Wochen lang durch Deutschland. Während der letzte große Universalgelehrte Europas naturhistorische Interessen verfolgte, war sein Freund, der junge Arzt van Geuns, neben der Wissenschaft an Land und Leuten, kuriosen Persönlichkeiten und Städten interessiert. Er schrieb auf dieser Reise in sein Tagebuch, warum die Studenten in Giessen so viel trinken, wie abergläubisch, intolerant und faul die Kölner sind - auf solch anschauliche Weise, dass wir meinen, neben den beiden auf dem Kutschbock zu sitzen]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444817Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444817 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Tagebuch einer Reise mit Alexander von Humboldt Author: Steven Jan Van Geuns Narrator: Konrad Beikircher Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444817 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Tagebuch einer Reise mit Alexander von Humboldt Author: Steven Jan Van Geuns Narrator: Konrad Beikircher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 29 minutes Release date: September 9, 2011 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Während in Paris die Revolution tobt, die Menschenrechte ausgerufen werden und der Sturm auf Versailles stattfindet, reisen der zwanzigjährige Alexander von Humboldt und sein Freund Steven Jan van Geuns (22) im Herbst 1789 sechs Wochen lang durch Deutschland. Während der letzte große Universalgelehrte Europas naturhistorische Interessen verfolgte, war sein Freund, der junge Arzt van Geuns, neben der Wissenschaft an Land und Leuten, kuriosen Persönlichkeiten und Städten interessiert. Er schrieb auf dieser Reise in sein Tagebuch, warum die Studenten in Giessen so viel trinken, wie abergläubisch, intolerant und faul die Kölner sind - auf solch anschauliche Weise, dass wir meinen, neben den beiden auf dem Kutschbock zu sitzen]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-berthold-beitz-die-biographie-by-joachim-kappner--65148305https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Berthold Beitz: Die Biographie Author: Joachim Käppner Narrator: Frank Arnold Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 9, 2011 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Berthold Beitz war einer der bedeutendsten Wirtschaftsführer Deutschlands. Er stand Jahrzehnte an der Spitze des Krupp-Konzerns, wobei er seine soziale Verantwortung als Manager sehr ernst nahm. Beitz trat frühzeitig für eine neue Ostpolitik und die Entschädigung der Zwangsarbeiter ein. Erst spät wurde bekannt, daß er während des II. Weltkriegs in Polen das Leben Hunderter verfolgter Juden rettete. Die israelische Holocaust-Gedenkstätte Yad Vashem ehrte ihn dafür als 'Gerechter unter den Völkern'.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441743Mon, 09 May 2011 09:25:10 +0000Alexis WillmsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Berthold Beitz: Die Biographie Author: Joachim Käppner Narrator: Frank Arnold Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/441743 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Berthold Beitz: Die Biographie Author: Joachim Käppner Narrator: Frank Arnold Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 9, 2011 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: Berthold Beitz war einer der bedeutendsten Wirtschaftsführer Deutschlands. Er stand Jahrzehnte an der Spitze des Krupp-Konzerns, wobei er seine soziale Verantwortung als Manager sehr ernst nahm. Beitz trat frühzeitig für eine neue Ostpolitik und die Entschädigung der Zwangsarbeiter ein. Erst spät wurde bekannt, daß er während des II. Weltkriegs in Polen das Leben Hunderter verfolgter Juden rettete. Die israelische Holocaust-Gedenkstätte Yad Vashem ehrte ihn dafür als 'Gerechter unter den Völkern'.]]>185cleanfull