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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 Devan Lubowitzhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/47327daf47a4fc608214ee33879381e9.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/listen-to-latest-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-women--6573525Thu, 27 Mar 2025 04:26:53 +0000Devan LubowitzDevan Lubowitzfeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/320/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Do you love Horror, Mystery stories, or want to learn about Astronomy & Physics? Our library with over 500,000+...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/320/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Do you love Horror, Mystery stories, or want to learn about Astronomy & Physics? Our library with over 500,000+ audiobooks will meet all your needs. Get 3 free audiobooks right away and start your journey of exploration. Easily listen to books on iPhone, iPad, Android, and other devices. Let audiobooks become your reliable companion! 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/the-world-she-edited-katharine-s-white-at-the-new-yorker-by-amy-reading--65151079https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702942 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker Author: Amy Reading Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A lively and intimate biography of trailblazing and era-defining New Yorker editor Katharine S. White, who helped build the magazine’s prestigious legacy and transform the 20th century literary landscape for women. In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker’s midtown office and left with a job as an editor. The magazine was only a few months old. Over the next thirty-six years, White would transform the publication into a literary powerhouse. This exquisite biography brings to life the remarkable relationships White fostered with her writers and how these relationships nurtured an astonishing array of literary talent. She edited a young John Updike, to whom she sent seventeen rejections before a single acceptance, as well as Vladimir Nabokov, with whom she fought incessantly, urging that he drop needlessly obscure, confusing words. White’s biggest contribution, however, was her cultivation of women writers whose careers were made at The New Yorker—Janet Flanner, Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop, Jean Stafford, Nadine Gordimer, Elizabeth Taylor, Emily Hahn, Kay Boyle, and more. She cleared their mental and financial obstacles, introduced them to each other, and helped them create now classic stories and essays. She propelled these women to great literary heights and, in the process, reinvented the role of the editor, transforming the relationship to be not just a way to improve a writer’s work but also their life. Based on years of scrupulous research, acclaimed author Amy Reading creates a rare and deeply intimate portrait of a prolific editor—through both her incredible tenure at The New Yorker, and her famous marriage to E.B. White—and reveals how she transformed our understanding of literary culture and community.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702942Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702942 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker Author: Amy Reading Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 59...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702942 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker Author: Amy Reading Narrator: Christa Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A lively and intimate biography of trailblazing and era-defining New Yorker editor Katharine S. White, who helped build the magazine’s prestigious legacy and transform the 20th century literary landscape for women. In the summer of 1925, Katharine Sergeant Angell White walked into The New Yorker’s midtown office and left with a job as an editor. The magazine was only a few months old. Over the next thirty-six years, White would transform the publication into a literary powerhouse. This exquisite biography brings to life the remarkable relationships White fostered with her writers and how these relationships nurtured an astonishing array of literary talent. She edited a young John Updike, to whom she sent seventeen rejections before a single acceptance, as well as Vladimir Nabokov, with whom she fought incessantly, urging that he drop needlessly obscure, confusing words. White’s biggest contribution, however, was her cultivation of women writers whose careers were made at The New Yorker—Janet Flanner, Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop, Jean Stafford, Nadine Gordimer, Elizabeth Taylor, Emily Hahn, Kay Boyle, and more. She cleared their mental and financial obstacles, introduced them to each other, and helped them create now classic stories and essays. She propelled these women to great literary heights and, in the process, reinvented the role of the editor, transforming the relationship to be not just a way to improve a writer’s work but also their life. Based on years of scrupulous research, acclaimed author Amy Reading creates a rare and deeply intimate portrait of a prolific editor—through both her incredible tenure at The New Yorker, and her famous marriage to E.B. White—and reveals how she transformed our understanding of literary culture and community.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-girl-from-busan-a-mother-s-prayer-by-okhui-lee--65151090https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Girl from Busan: A Mother's Prayer Author: Okhui Lee Narrator: Jin Thompson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A Girl from Busan is an epic generational tale of resilience, where unwavering faith and the unbreakable bond of a mother’s love transcend devastating personal trials in a foreign culture. Amidst the tumult of the Korean War, young Okhui wandered the streets of Busan, seeking solace in the flickering shadows of the Munhwa theater. There, surrounded by the glamourous billboards of Hollywood cinema, she dreamt of gliding across the silver screen like Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. Holding these dreams close to her heart, she ventured to America as a young bride, bearing the burden of a child born out of wedlock and escaping the harsh scrutiny of a conservative Korean society. Despite these formidable challenges, she carved a path of resilience and grace, ultimately rising to prominence as a celebrated burlesque dancer in the vibrant heart of Hollywood. Her journey continued with relentless resolve to the tropical shores of Hawaii, where she established a Korean hostess bar that swiftly rose to legendary status. This establishment became a magnetic hub for celebrities, political dignitaries, and even the enigmatic Hawaiian syndicate. Her resilience profoundly impacted her eldest son, whose early successes significantly contributed to the emergence of the Korean Hallyu entertainment wave in the United States. He played a key role in producing one of the most successful Korean films ever made. However, his battle with addiction eventually overtook him, leading to homelessness on the streets of Los Angeles. Okhui’s faith was truly tested. The profound spiritual wisdom imparted by her mother served as a cornerstone, urging her to embrace prayer and seek divine assistance to save her son. As she navigated the tumultuous peaks and valleys of their shared journey, prayer became her steadfast refuge. Okhui’s story embodies the relentless power of a mother’s love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696197Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Girl from Busan: A Mother's Prayer Author: Okhui Lee Narrator: Jin Thompson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Girl from Busan: A Mother's Prayer Author: Okhui Lee Narrator: Jin Thompson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A Girl from Busan is an epic generational tale of resilience, where unwavering faith and the unbreakable bond of a mother’s love transcend devastating personal trials in a foreign culture. Amidst the tumult of the Korean War, young Okhui wandered the streets of Busan, seeking solace in the flickering shadows of the Munhwa theater. There, surrounded by the glamourous billboards of Hollywood cinema, she dreamt of gliding across the silver screen like Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. Holding these dreams close to her heart, she ventured to America as a young bride, bearing the burden of a child born out of wedlock and escaping the harsh scrutiny of a conservative Korean society. Despite these formidable challenges, she carved a path of resilience and grace, ultimately rising to prominence as a celebrated burlesque dancer in the vibrant heart of Hollywood. Her journey continued with relentless resolve to the tropical shores of Hawaii, where she established a Korean hostess bar that swiftly rose to legendary status. This establishment became a magnetic hub for celebrities, political dignitaries, and even the enigmatic Hawaiian syndicate. Her resilience profoundly impacted her eldest son, whose early successes significantly contributed to the emergence of the Korean Hallyu entertainment wave in the United States. He played a key role in producing one of the most successful Korean films ever made. However, his battle with addiction eventually overtook him, leading to homelessness on the streets of Los Angeles. Okhui’s faith was truly tested. The profound spiritual wisdom imparted by her mother served as a cornerstone, urging her to embrace prayer and seek divine assistance to save her son. As she navigated the tumultuous peaks and valleys of their shared journey, prayer became her steadfast refuge. Okhui’s story embodies the relentless power of a mother’s love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-scandal-of-the-century-by-lisa-hilton--65151215https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630742 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Scandal of the Century Author: Lisa Hilton Narrator: Emma Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 9, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A CLANDESTINE AFFAIR. AN OUTRAGEOUS ELOPEMENT. STOLEN LETTERS. SCHEMING SERVANTS. SEX. SENSATION. CELEBRITY. THIS IS THE SCANDAL OF THE CENTURY. There are few labels not attached to Aphra Behn - playwright, poet, a spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals. And yet, for all her notoriety Aphra Behn is an enigma. Born in around 1640, her early life isn't well recorded and facts about her are continually disputed. Her birth name may have been Eaffrey Johnson and she could have been the daughter of a Canterbury barber, although neither fact is certain. And, just after the Restoration she probably briefly lived in the English colony of Surinam in South America, where she was perhaps embroiled in political espionage. Whatever the truth, Behn was in London by 1664 and six years later was writing for the stage. For a decade, Behn's work dominated the London stage. Then, suddenly in 1682, she was charged with libel. Her plays could not be produced and by the time of the trial of the century Behn was broke. She decided that writing would be her way out and began to write a novel based on the most notorious adultress of a notoriously adulterous age - Lady Henrietta Berkeley. ©2024 Lisa Hilton (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630742Thu, 09 May 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630742 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Scandal of the Century Author: Lisa Hilton Narrator: Emma Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 9,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630742 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Scandal of the Century Author: Lisa Hilton Narrator: Emma Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 9, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A CLANDESTINE AFFAIR. AN OUTRAGEOUS ELOPEMENT. STOLEN LETTERS. SCHEMING SERVANTS. SEX. SENSATION. CELEBRITY. THIS IS THE SCANDAL OF THE CENTURY. There are few labels not attached to Aphra Behn - playwright, poet, a spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals. And yet, for all her notoriety Aphra Behn is an enigma. Born in around 1640, her early life isn't well recorded and facts about her are continually disputed. Her birth name may have been Eaffrey Johnson and she could have been the daughter of a Canterbury barber, although neither fact is certain. And, just after the Restoration she probably briefly lived in the English colony of Surinam in South America, where she was perhaps embroiled in political espionage. Whatever the truth, Behn was in London by 1664 and six years later was writing for the stage. For a decade, Behn's work dominated the London stage. Then, suddenly in 1682, she was charged with libel. Her plays could not be produced and by the time of the trial of the century Behn was broke. She decided that writing would be her way out and began to write a novel based on the most notorious adultress of a notoriously adulterous age - Lady Henrietta Berkeley. ©2024 Lisa Hilton (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/closer-together-knowing-ourselves-loving-each-other-by-sophie-gregoire-trudeau--65151113https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688237 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other Author: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau Narrator: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, Maggie Huculak, Tess Degenstein, Jonathan Watton, Richard Clarkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: INSTANT #1 TORONTO STAR and GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER Sophie Grégoire Trudeau invites readers on a deeply personal journey toward self-knowledge, acceptance, and empowerment, drawing on the expertise of top psychologists, psychiatrists, scientists, and thought leaders. As a passionate advocate for mental health, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau believes that in order to know and accept ourselves fully, we need to understand why we think and feel the way we do, and recognize the experiences, attitudes, and patterns that may be holding us back. And yet, all of us are capable of growth and positive change, if we're willing to stay open and curious throughout our lives. In Closer Together, Sophie shares moments from her own journey: from her childhood, through her struggles with an eating disorder in her teens and early adulthood; from a career as a speaker and television host to de facto 'first lady' and mother of three. Above all, Sophie is a warm and empathetic connector, and her book is enriched by exclusive interviews with experts such as Gabor Maté, Liz Plank, Terrence Real, Catherine Price, Harville Hendrix, and Helen LaKelly Hunt—to name just a few—as she delves into the science behind brain health and our unique emotional signatures. She explores the questions that matter the most for our individual and collective growth, and in how we interact with others: - How does the way we were raised contribute to our sense of self? - How can we better prepare ourselves to deal with big emotions? - What do we need from our relationships, and what can we contribute to them? - What role do physical activity and creative pursuits play in mental health? - How can we let go of what doesn’t serve us and nurture what does? Drawing on her own mindfulness and yoga practices, Sophie also offers journalling prompts and other tools that will guide readers as they explore these questions in their own lives. In creating a space for openness, playfulness, and creativity, Sophie inspires us to see that there are more things that bring us together than separate us, allowing us to stand in the light of our true potential.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688237Tue, 23 Apr 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688237 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other Author: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau Narrator: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, Maggie Huculak, Tess...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688237 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other Author: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau Narrator: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, Maggie Huculak, Tess Degenstein, Jonathan Watton, Richard Clarkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: INSTANT #1 TORONTO STAR and GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER Sophie Grégoire Trudeau invites readers on a deeply personal journey toward self-knowledge, acceptance, and empowerment, drawing on the expertise of top psychologists, psychiatrists, scientists, and thought leaders. As a passionate advocate for mental health, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau believes that in order to know and accept ourselves fully, we need to understand why we think and feel the way we do, and recognize the experiences, attitudes, and patterns that may be holding us back. And yet, all of us are capable of growth and positive change, if we're willing to stay open and curious throughout our lives. In Closer Together, Sophie shares moments from her own journey: from her childhood, through her struggles with an eating disorder in her teens and early adulthood; from a career as a speaker and television host to de facto 'first lady' and mother of three. Above all, Sophie is a warm and empathetic connector, and her book is enriched by exclusive interviews with experts such as Gabor Maté, Liz Plank, Terrence Real, Catherine Price, Harville Hendrix, and Helen LaKelly Hunt—to name just a few—as she delves into the science behind brain health and our unique emotional signatures. She explores the questions that matter the most for our individual and collective growth, and in how we interact with others: - How does the way we were raised contribute to our sense of self? - How can we better prepare ourselves to deal with big emotions? - What do we need from our relationships, and what can we contribute to them? - What role do physical activity and creative pursuits play in mental health? - How can we let go of what doesn’t serve us and nurture what does? Drawing on her own mindfulness and yoga practices, Sophie also offers journalling prompts and other tools that will guide readers as they explore these questions in their own lives. In creating a space for openness, playfulness, and creativity, Sophie inspires us to see that there are more things that bring us together than separate us, allowing us to stand in the light of our true potential.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/between-two-trailers-a-memoir-by-j-dana-trent--65151056https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Between Two Trailers: A Memoir Author: J. Dana Trent Narrator: J. Dana Trent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A powerful, unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer in rural Indiana—only to find that no one can really “make it out” until they make peace with where their story began: home Home, it turns out, is where the war is. It’s also where the healing begins. Dana Trent is only a preschooler the first time she uses a razor blade to cut up weed and fill dime bags for her schizophrenic father, King. While King struggles with his unmedicated psychosis, Dana’s mother, the Lady, a cold and self-absorbed woman whose personality disorders rule the home, guards large bricks of drugs from the safety of their squalid trailer. But when the Lady impulsively plucks Dana from the Midwest and moves the two of them south, their fresh start results in homelessness and bankruptcy. In North Carolina, Dana becomes torn between her gritty midwestern past and her newfound desire to be a polite southern girl, struggling to reconcile her shame with an ache to figure out who she is, and where she belongs. But the past is never far behind. After persevering through childhood and eventually graduating from Duke University, Dana imagines that her hidden Indiana life is finally behind her, only to realize that running from her upbringing has kept her from making peace with the people and places that shaped her. Ultimately, Dana finds that though love for family is universally complicated, there is no shame in survival, and for those who want it, there is always a path home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702334Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Between Two Trailers: A Memoir Author: J. Dana Trent Narrator: J. Dana Trent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Between Two Trailers: A Memoir Author: J. Dana Trent Narrator: J. Dana Trent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A powerful, unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer in rural Indiana—only to find that no one can really “make it out” until they make peace with where their story began: home Home, it turns out, is where the war is. It’s also where the healing begins. Dana Trent is only a preschooler the first time she uses a razor blade to cut up weed and fill dime bags for her schizophrenic father, King. While King struggles with his unmedicated psychosis, Dana’s mother, the Lady, a cold and self-absorbed woman whose personality disorders rule the home, guards large bricks of drugs from the safety of their squalid trailer. But when the Lady impulsively plucks Dana from the Midwest and moves the two of them south, their fresh start results in homelessness and bankruptcy. In North Carolina, Dana becomes torn between her gritty midwestern past and her newfound desire to be a polite southern girl, struggling to reconcile her shame with an ache to figure out who she is, and where she belongs. But the past is never far behind. After persevering through childhood and eventually graduating from Duke University, Dana imagines that her hidden Indiana life is finally behind her, only to realize that running from her upbringing has kept her from making peace with the people and places that shaped her. Ultimately, Dana finds that though love for family is universally complicated, there is no shame in survival, and for those who want it, there is always a path home.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/did-i-ever-tell-you-a-memoir-by-genevieve-kingston--65151053https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Did I Ever Tell You?: A Memoir Author: Genevieve Kingston Narrator: Genevieve Kingston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The most “profound” (Booklist, starred review) memoir you will ever read about the power of love. Did I Ever Tell You? reads like a novel but is an unforgettable true story. Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston was just eleven years old when her mother passed away, leaving behind a chest filled with gifts and letters to celebrate the milestones of Gwen’s life and each of her birthdays until age thirty. When Did I Ever Tell You? opens, just three packages remain: engagement, marriage, and first baby. Tracing Gwen’s coming-of-age, the book reveals a treasure hunt, with each gift and letter unveiling more about her mother, her family, and—ultimately—herself. This transformative memoir is a moving coming-of age story and an “extraordinary testament to the power of love over death” (Sarah Ruhl, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Smile). Like Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner and The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Did I Ever Tell You? is a life-changing story that “has a scope and power that will take your breath away” (Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful and Dear Edward).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693916Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Did I Ever Tell You?: A Memoir Author: Genevieve Kingston Narrator: Genevieve Kingston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Did I Ever Tell You?: A Memoir Author: Genevieve Kingston Narrator: Genevieve Kingston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The most “profound” (Booklist, starred review) memoir you will ever read about the power of love. Did I Ever Tell You? reads like a novel but is an unforgettable true story. Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston was just eleven years old when her mother passed away, leaving behind a chest filled with gifts and letters to celebrate the milestones of Gwen’s life and each of her birthdays until age thirty. When Did I Ever Tell You? opens, just three packages remain: engagement, marriage, and first baby. Tracing Gwen’s coming-of-age, the book reveals a treasure hunt, with each gift and letter unveiling more about her mother, her family, and—ultimately—herself. This transformative memoir is a moving coming-of age story and an “extraordinary testament to the power of love over death” (Sarah Ruhl, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Smile). Like Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner and The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Did I Ever Tell You? is a life-changing story that “has a scope and power that will take your breath away” (Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful and Dear Edward).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wives-a-memoir-by-simone-gorrindo--65151070https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wives: A Memoir Author: Simone Gorrindo Narrator: Simone Gorrindo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “[Simone] Gorrindo’s prose is inviting and fluid, and her storytelling is intimate and vivid...[an] engaging, evocative memoir.” —The New York Times Book Review “A hopeful, unifying memoir.” —People This profoundly intimate memoir about marriage, friendship, and the power of human connection tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City job. When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia. With her husband frequently deployed, Simone is left to find her place in this new world, alone—until she meets the wives. Gorrindo gives us an intimate look into the inner lives of a remarkable group of women and a tender, unflinching portrait of a marriage. A love story, an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, and a bracing tour of the intractable divisions that plague our country today, The Wives offers a rare and powerful gift: a hopeful stitch in the fabric of a torn America.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693905Tue, 09 Apr 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wives: A Memoir Author: Simone Gorrindo Narrator: Simone Gorrindo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 9,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693905 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wives: A Memoir Author: Simone Gorrindo Narrator: Simone Gorrindo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “[Simone] Gorrindo’s prose is inviting and fluid, and her storytelling is intimate and vivid...[an] engaging, evocative memoir.” —The New York Times Book Review “A hopeful, unifying memoir.” —People This profoundly intimate memoir about marriage, friendship, and the power of human connection tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army wives after leaving her New York City job. When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia. With her husband frequently deployed, Simone is left to find her place in this new world, alone—until she meets the wives. Gorrindo gives us an intimate look into the inner lives of a remarkable group of women and a tender, unflinching portrait of a marriage. A love story, an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, and a bracing tour of the intractable divisions that plague our country today, The Wives offers a rare and powerful gift: a hopeful stitch in the fabric of a torn America.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bound-feet-western-dress-a-memoir-by-pang-mei-natasha-chang--65151066https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703070 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bound Feet & Western Dress: A Memoir Author: Pang-Mei Natasha Chang Narrator: Nancy Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A harrowing dual memoir that braids the story of a Chinese-American woman’s search for identity with the dramatic tale of her great-aunt, who was born at the turn of the century in tradition-bound China and went on to become Vice President of China’s first women’s bank. 'In China, a woman is nothing.' Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Chang Yu-i's life is marked by a series of rebellions: her refusal as a child to let her mother bind her feet, her scandalous divorce, and her rise to Vice President of China's first women's bank in her later years. In the alternating voices of two generations, this literary debut brings together a deeply textured portrait of a woman's life in China with the very American story of Yu-i's brilliant and assimilated grandniece, struggling with her own search for identity and belonging. Written in pitch-perfect prose and alive with detail, Bound Feet and Western Dress is the story of independent women struggling to emerge from centuries of customs and duty.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703070Tue, 09 Apr 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703070 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bound Feet & Western Dress: A Memoir Author: Pang-Mei Natasha Chang Narrator: Nancy Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703070 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bound Feet & Western Dress: A Memoir Author: Pang-Mei Natasha Chang Narrator: Nancy Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A harrowing dual memoir that braids the story of a Chinese-American woman’s search for identity with the dramatic tale of her great-aunt, who was born at the turn of the century in tradition-bound China and went on to become Vice President of China’s first women’s bank. 'In China, a woman is nothing.' Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Chang Yu-i's life is marked by a series of rebellions: her refusal as a child to let her mother bind her feet, her scandalous divorce, and her rise to Vice President of China's first women's bank in her later years. In the alternating voices of two generations, this literary debut brings together a deeply textured portrait of a woman's life in China with the very American story of Yu-i's brilliant and assimilated grandniece, struggling with her own search for identity and belonging. Written in pitch-perfect prose and alive with detail, Bound Feet and Western Dress is the story of independent women struggling to emerge from centuries of customs and duty.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/chasing-beauty-the-life-of-isabella-stewart-gardner-by-natalie-dykstra--65151083https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner Author: Natalie Dykstra Narrator: Maggie-Meg Reed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America’s most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art. Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture. An extraordinary achievement of storytelling and scholarship, Chasing Beauty illuminates the fascinating ways the museum and its holdings can be seen as a kind of memoir, dazzling and haunting, created with objects instead of words and displayed per Isabella’s wishes in the exact placements she initially curated. Born in 1840 to a privileged New York family, Isabella Stewart married Boston Brahmin Jack Gardner as she turned twenty. She was misunderstood by Boston’s insular society and suffered the death of her only child, a beloved boy, not yet two years old. But in time came friendships, glittering and bohemian; awe-inspiring world travels; and collecting beautiful things with a keen eye and competitive pace—all these were balm for loss. Henry James and John Singer Sargent—whose portrait of Isabella was a masterpiece and a scandal—came to recognize her originality. Bernard Berenson, leading connoisseur of the Italian Renaissance, was her art dealer. From award-winning author Natalie Dykstra, Chasing Beauty is the story of the complex and singular woman behind one of the most fascinating museums in the nation and the world—a tale of beauty and loss, grit and American self-invention. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695277Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner Author: Natalie Dykstra Narrator: Maggie-Meg Reed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 58...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner Author: Natalie Dykstra Narrator: Maggie-Meg Reed Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America’s most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art. Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Its treasures encompassed not only masterwork paintings but tapestries, rare books, prints, porcelains, and fine furniture. An extraordinary achievement of storytelling and scholarship, Chasing Beauty illuminates the fascinating ways the museum and its holdings can be seen as a kind of memoir, dazzling and haunting, created with objects instead of words and displayed per Isabella’s wishes in the exact placements she initially curated. Born in 1840 to a privileged New York family, Isabella Stewart married Boston Brahmin Jack Gardner as she turned twenty. She was misunderstood by Boston’s insular society and suffered the death of her only child, a beloved boy, not yet two years old. But in time came friendships, glittering and bohemian; awe-inspiring world travels; and collecting beautiful things with a keen eye and competitive pace—all these were balm for loss. Henry James and John Singer Sargent—whose portrait of Isabella was a masterpiece and a scandal—came to recognize her originality. Bernard Berenson, leading connoisseur of the Italian Renaissance, was her art dealer. From award-winning author Natalie Dykstra, Chasing Beauty is the story of the complex and singular woman behind one of the most fascinating museums in the nation and the world—a tale of beauty and loss, grit and American self-invention. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/candy-darling-dreamer-icon-superstar-by-cynthia-carr--65151110https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar Author: Cynthia Carr Narrator: Justin Vivian Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This program is read by cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond. A Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review, Nylon, Star Tribune, Ms., Kirkus Reviews, The Bay Area Reporter, Town & Country, InsideHook “[A] monumental biography.” —Hilton Als, The New Yorker “A rich portrait of a glittering, communal, and bygone NYC . . . [and] of the glamorous queer icon.” —Arimeta Diop, Vanity Fair From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar Candy Darling. Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world. Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet and queer, she was enchanted by Hollywood starlets like Kim Novak. She found her turn in New York’s early Off-Off-Broadway theater scene, in Warhol’s films Flesh and Women in Revolt, and at the famed nightclub Max's Kansas City. She inspired songs by Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones. She became friends with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, borrowed a dress from Lauren Hutton, posed for Richard Avedon, and performed alongside Tennessee Williams in his own play. Yet Candy lived on the edge, relying on the kindness of strangers, friends, and her quietly devoted mother, sleeping on couches and in cheap hotel rooms, keeping a part of herself hidden. She wanted to be a star, but mostly she wanted to be loved. Her last diary entry was: “I shall try to be grateful for life . . . Cannot imagine who would want me.' Candy died at twenty-nine in 1974, as conversations about gender and identity were really just starting. She never knew it, but she changed the world. Packed with tales of luminaries and gossip and meticulous research, immersive and laced with Candy’s words and her friends' recollections, Cynthia Carr's Candy Darling is Candy's long-overdue return to the spotlight. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689716Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar Author: Cynthia Carr Narrator: Justin Vivian Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 2 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar Author: Cynthia Carr Narrator: Justin Vivian Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This program is read by cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond. A Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review, Nylon, Star Tribune, Ms., Kirkus Reviews, The Bay Area Reporter, Town & Country, InsideHook “[A] monumental biography.” —Hilton Als, The New Yorker “A rich portrait of a glittering, communal, and bygone NYC . . . [and] of the glamorous queer icon.” —Arimeta Diop, Vanity Fair From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar Candy Darling. Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world. Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet and queer, she was enchanted by Hollywood starlets like Kim Novak. She found her turn in New York’s early Off-Off-Broadway theater scene, in Warhol’s films Flesh and Women in Revolt, and at the famed nightclub Max's Kansas City. She inspired songs by Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones. She became friends with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, borrowed a dress from Lauren Hutton, posed for Richard Avedon, and performed alongside Tennessee Williams in his own play. Yet Candy lived on the edge, relying on the kindness of strangers, friends, and her quietly devoted mother, sleeping on couches and in cheap hotel rooms, keeping a part of herself hidden. She wanted to be a star, but mostly she wanted to be loved. Her last diary entry was: “I shall try to be grateful for life . . . Cannot imagine who would want me.' Candy died at twenty-nine in 1974, as conversations about gender and identity were really just starting. She never knew it, but she changed the world. Packed with tales of luminaries and gossip and meticulous research, immersive and laced with Candy’s words and her friends' recollections, Cynthia Carr's Candy Darling is Candy's long-overdue return to the spotlight. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/where-rivers-part-a-story-of-my-mother-s-life-by-kao-kalia-yang--65151082https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life Author: Kao Kalia Yang Narrator: Pamela Xiong, Kao Kalia Yang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This powerful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety is a profound “testament to the miraculous strength of women and the indomitable resolve of the human spirit” (Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans). Born in 1961 in war-torn Laos, Tswb’s childhood was marked by the violence of America’s Secret War and the CIA recruitment of the Hmong and other ethnic minorities into the lost cause. By the time Tswb was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were labeled as traitors. Fearing for their lives, Tswb and her family left everything they knew behind and fled their village for the jungle. Perpetually on the run and on the brink of starvation, Tswb eventually crossed paths with the man who would become her future husband. Leaving her own mother behind, she joined his family at a refugee camp, a choice that would haunt her for the rest of her life. Eventually becoming a mother herself, Tswb raised her daughters in a state of constant fear and hunger until they were able to emigrate to the US, where the determined couple enrolled in high school even though they were both nearly thirty and worked grueling jobs to provide for their children. Now, her daughter, Kao Kalia Yang, reveals her mother’s astonishing saga with tenderness and clarity, giving voice to the countless resilient refugees who are often overlooked as one of the essential foundations of this country. “Haunting and painfully relevant” (Booklist), Where Rivers Part is destined to become a classic.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693925Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life Author: Kao Kalia Yang Narrator: Pamela Xiong, Kao Kalia Yang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life Author: Kao Kalia Yang Narrator: Pamela Xiong, Kao Kalia Yang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This powerful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety is a profound “testament to the miraculous strength of women and the indomitable resolve of the human spirit” (Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans). Born in 1961 in war-torn Laos, Tswb’s childhood was marked by the violence of America’s Secret War and the CIA recruitment of the Hmong and other ethnic minorities into the lost cause. By the time Tswb was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were labeled as traitors. Fearing for their lives, Tswb and her family left everything they knew behind and fled their village for the jungle. Perpetually on the run and on the brink of starvation, Tswb eventually crossed paths with the man who would become her future husband. Leaving her own mother behind, she joined his family at a refugee camp, a choice that would haunt her for the rest of her life. Eventually becoming a mother herself, Tswb raised her daughters in a state of constant fear and hunger until they were able to emigrate to the US, where the determined couple enrolled in high school even though they were both nearly thirty and worked grueling jobs to provide for their children. Now, her daughter, Kao Kalia Yang, reveals her mother’s astonishing saga with tenderness and clarity, giving voice to the countless resilient refugees who are often overlooked as one of the essential foundations of this country. “Haunting and painfully relevant” (Booklist), Where Rivers Part is destined to become a classic.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/not-your-china-doll-the-wild-and-shimmering-life-of-anna-may-wong-by-katie-gee-salisbury--65151076https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong Author: Katie Gee Salisbury Narrator: Katie Gee Salisbury, Caroline Mclaughlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Enlightening, nuanced, and honest.”—Lisa See Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her place in cinema history. One of Entertainment Weekly's 'Books We Are Excited to Read in 2024'   Before Constance Wu, Sandra Oh, Awkwafina, or Lucy Liu, there was Anna May Wong. In her time, she was a legendary beauty, witty conversationalist, and fashion icon. Plucked from her family’s laundry business in Los Angeles, Anna May Wong rose to stardom in Douglas Fairbanks’s blockbuster The Thief of Bagdad. Fans and the press clamored to see more of this unlikely actress, but when Hollywood repeatedly cast her in stereotypical roles, she headed abroad in protest.   Anna May starred in acclaimed films in Berlin, Paris, and London. She dazzled royalty and heads of state across several nations, leaving trails of suitors in her wake. She returned to challenge Hollywood at its own game by speaking out about the industry’s blatant racism. She used her new stature to move away from her typecasting as the China doll or dragon lady, and worked to reshape Asian American representation in film.   Filled with stories of capricious directors and admiring costars, glamorous parties and far-flung love affairs, Not Your China Doll showcases the vibrant, radical life of a groundbreaking artist.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697197Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong Author: Katie Gee Salisbury Narrator: Katie Gee Salisbury, Caroline Mclaughlin...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong Author: Katie Gee Salisbury Narrator: Katie Gee Salisbury, Caroline Mclaughlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Enlightening, nuanced, and honest.”—Lisa See Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her place in cinema history. One of Entertainment Weekly's 'Books We Are Excited to Read in 2024'   Before Constance Wu, Sandra Oh, Awkwafina, or Lucy Liu, there was Anna May Wong. In her time, she was a legendary beauty, witty conversationalist, and fashion icon. Plucked from her family’s laundry business in Los Angeles, Anna May Wong rose to stardom in Douglas Fairbanks’s blockbuster The Thief of Bagdad. Fans and the press clamored to see more of this unlikely actress, but when Hollywood repeatedly cast her in stereotypical roles, she headed abroad in protest.   Anna May starred in acclaimed films in Berlin, Paris, and London. She dazzled royalty and heads of state across several nations, leaving trails of suitors in her wake. She returned to challenge Hollywood at its own game by speaking out about the industry’s blatant racism. She used her new stature to move away from her typecasting as the China doll or dragon lady, and worked to reshape Asian American representation in film.   Filled with stories of capricious directors and admiring costars, glamorous parties and far-flung love affairs, Not Your China Doll showcases the vibrant, radical life of a groundbreaking artist.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-manicurist-s-daughter-a-memoir-by-susan-lieu--65151073https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir Author: Susan Lieu Narrator: Susan Lieu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'Susan Lieu's narration of her memoir, The Manicurist's Daughter, adds to the already raw emotion that flows throughout her journey to know her mother.'—The Berkshire Eagle This program is read by the author. An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family’s past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan’s family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan’s mother was their savvy, charismatic North Star, setting up two successful nail salons and orchestrating every success—until Susan was eleven. That year, her mother died from a botched tummy tuck. After the funeral, no one was ever allowed to talk about her or what had happened. For the next twenty years, Susan navigated a series of cascading questions alone—why did the most perfect person in her life want to change her body? Why would no one tell her about her mother’s life in Vietnam? And how did this surgeon, who preyed on Vietnamese immigrants, go on operating after her mother’s death? Sifting through depositions, tracking down the surgeon’s family, and enlisting the help of spirit channelers, Susan uncovers the painful truth of her mother, herself, and the impossible ideal of beauty. The Manicurist’s Daughter is much more than a memoir about grief, trauma, and body image. It is a story of fierce determination, strength in shared culture, and finding your place in the world. A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682244Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir Author: Susan Lieu Narrator: Susan Lieu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir Author: Susan Lieu Narrator: Susan Lieu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'Susan Lieu's narration of her memoir, The Manicurist's Daughter, adds to the already raw emotion that flows throughout her journey to know her mother.'—The Berkshire Eagle This program is read by the author. An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family’s past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan’s family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan’s mother was their savvy, charismatic North Star, setting up two successful nail salons and orchestrating every success—until Susan was eleven. That year, her mother died from a botched tummy tuck. After the funeral, no one was ever allowed to talk about her or what had happened. For the next twenty years, Susan navigated a series of cascading questions alone—why did the most perfect person in her life want to change her body? Why would no one tell her about her mother’s life in Vietnam? And how did this surgeon, who preyed on Vietnamese immigrants, go on operating after her mother’s death? Sifting through depositions, tracking down the surgeon’s family, and enlisting the help of spirit channelers, Susan uncovers the painful truth of her mother, herself, and the impossible ideal of beauty. The Manicurist’s Daughter is much more than a memoir about grief, trauma, and body image. It is a story of fierce determination, strength in shared culture, and finding your place in the world. A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-legitimate-kid-hija-legitima-spanish-edition-una-vida-entre-el-dolor-y-la-risa-by-aida-rodriguez--65151151https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Legitimate Kid Hija legítima (Spanish edition): Una vida entre el dolor y la risa Author: Aida Rodriguez Narrator: Kianny Antigua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Un divertido y conmovedor libro de memorias en ensayo de la comediante Aida Rodríguez sobre el poder de superar las dificultades y transformar el dolor en risa. Aida Rodríguez ha vivido, por decir poco, una vida de torbellino. La historia de cómo pasó de la pobreza a la opulencia es alucinante: cuando era niña, su madre la secuestró y se la llevó de la República Dominicana a los Estados Unidos. Más tarde, un nuevo secuestro, esta vez a manos de su abuela y su tío, la dejó en Florida. Ya de adulta, escapó de un matrimonio tormentoso y terminó, junto con sus hijos, mendigando por las calles de Los Ángeles. Durante todas esas adversidades, Aida nunca perdió su sentido del humor. Nacida con un maravilloso ingenio y un espíritu irrefrenable, Aida ha utilizado su talento y trabajado sin descanso para convertir la tragedia y el dolor en una comedia mordaz que abarca todo, desde la misoginia y el racismo hasta las redes sociales y los titulares de prensa. Con el tiempo, lanzó un exitoso especial en HOB Max que la llevó a múltiples acuerdos de desarrollo, un logro que le ganó una audiencia nacional, le abrió puertas y la ayudó expandir la forma en que los latinos están representados en la comedia. En este, su tan esperado primer libro, Aida dibuja sus muchos altibajos. Desde los contratiempos personales hasta los éxitos profesionales, Hija legítima es entrañable, impactante y, en última instancia, vivificante.  A hilarious and heartbreaking memoir-in-essays from comic Aida Rodriguez on the power of overcoming hardship and transforming pain into laughter. Aida Rodriguez has, to put it mildly, lived a whirlwind life. Her rags to-riches story is mind-blowing: She was kidnapped as a child by her mother in the Dominican Republic and brought to the US. She was later kidnapped again by her grandmother and uncle, and moved from New York to Florida. As an adult, she ended a difficult marriage and endured homelessness with her children in Los Angeles. But through it all she never lost her sense of humor. Born with a wonderful wit and an irrepressible spirit, Aida used her gifts and worked tirelessly, turning tragedy and pain into biting comedy that takes on everything from misogyny and racism to social media and news headlines. She eventually released a hit HBO Max special which led to multiple development deals—success that won her a nationwide audience, opened doors, and helped her expand the way Latinos are represented in comedy. In this, her highly anticipated first book, Aida charts her many ups and downs. From personal setbacks to career highs and everything in between, Legitimate Kid is endearing, shocking, and ultimately life-affirming.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656192Tue, 05 Mar 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Legitimate Kid Hija legítima (Spanish edition): Una vida entre el dolor y la risa Author: Aida Rodriguez Narrator: Kianny Antigua Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Legitimate Kid Hija legítima (Spanish edition): Una vida entre el dolor y la risa Author: Aida Rodriguez Narrator: Kianny Antigua Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Un divertido y conmovedor libro de memorias en ensayo de la comediante Aida Rodríguez sobre el poder de superar las dificultades y transformar el dolor en risa. Aida Rodríguez ha vivido, por decir poco, una vida de torbellino. La historia de cómo pasó de la pobreza a la opulencia es alucinante: cuando era niña, su madre la secuestró y se la llevó de la República Dominicana a los Estados Unidos. Más tarde, un nuevo secuestro, esta vez a manos de su abuela y su tío, la dejó en Florida. Ya de adulta, escapó de un matrimonio tormentoso y terminó, junto con sus hijos, mendigando por las calles de Los Ángeles. Durante todas esas adversidades, Aida nunca perdió su sentido del humor. Nacida con un maravilloso ingenio y un espíritu irrefrenable, Aida ha utilizado su talento y trabajado sin descanso para convertir la tragedia y el dolor en una comedia mordaz que abarca todo, desde la misoginia y el racismo hasta las redes sociales y los titulares de prensa. Con el tiempo, lanzó un exitoso especial en HOB Max que la llevó a múltiples acuerdos de desarrollo, un logro que le ganó una audiencia nacional, le abrió puertas y la ayudó expandir la forma en que los latinos están representados en la comedia. En este, su tan esperado primer libro, Aida dibuja sus muchos altibajos. Desde los contratiempos personales hasta los éxitos profesionales, Hija legítima es entrañable, impactante y, en última instancia, vivificante.  A hilarious and heartbreaking memoir-in-essays from comic Aida Rodriguez on the power of overcoming hardship and transforming pain into laughter. Aida Rodriguez has, to put it mildly, lived a whirlwind life. Her rags to-riches story is mind-blowing: She was kidnapped as a child by her mother in the Dominican Republic and brought to the US. She was later kidnapped again by her grandmother and uncle, and moved from New York to Florida. As an adult, she ended a difficult marriage and endured homelessness with her children in Los Angeles. But through it all she never lost her sense of humor. Born with a wonderful wit and an irrepressible spirit, Aida used her gifts and worked tirelessly, turning tragedy and pain into biting comedy that takes on everything from misogyny and racism to social media and news headlines. She eventually released a hit HBO Max special which led to multiple development deals—success that won her a nationwide audience, opened doors, and helped her expand the way Latinos are represented in comedy. In this, her highly anticipated first book, Aida charts her many ups and downs. From personal setbacks to career highs and everything in between, Legitimate Kid is endearing, shocking, and ultimately life-affirming.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/double-click-twin-photographers-in-the-golden-age-of-magazines-by-carol-kino--65151099https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines Author: Carol Kino Narrator: Carlotta Brentan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A Town & Country Must-Read Book of Spring 2024 “Fashion, photography, and pop culture aficionados will be captivated” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) by this riveting dual biography of the McLaughlins—identical twin sisters who became groundbreaking magazine photographers in New York during the glamorous golden age of the 1930s and ’40s. In Double Click, author Carol Kino “has interwoven a biography of the McLaughlins with an authoritative, detailed history of fashion, the art world and photography in midcentury New York” (The Wall Street Journal). The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been forgotten since. Here, in Double Click, Carol Kino brings these two brilliant women and their remarkable accomplishments to vivid life. Frances was the only female photographer on staff in Condé Nast’s photo studio, hired just after Irving Penn, and became known for streetwise, cinema verité-style work, which appeared in the pages of Glamour and Vogue. Her sister Kathryn’s surrealistic portraits filled the era’s new “career girl” magazines, including Charm and Mademoiselle. Both twins married Harper’s Bazaar photographers and socialized with a glittering crowd that included the supermodel Lisa Fonssagrives and the photographer Richard Avedon. Kino uses their careers to illuminate the lives of young women during this time, an early 20th-century moment marked by proto-feminist thinking, excitement about photography’s burgeoning creative potential, and the ferment of wartime New York. Toward the end of the 1940s, and moving into the early 1950s, conventionality took over, women were pushed back into the home, and the window of opportunity began to close. Kino renders this fleeting moment of possibility in gleaming multi-color, so that the reader cherishes its abundance, mourns its passing, and gains new appreciation for the talent that was fostered at its peak. Pulling back the curtain on an electric, creative time in New York’s history, and rich with original research, Double Click is cultural reportage and biography at its finest.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702411Tue, 05 Mar 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines Author: Carol Kino Narrator: Carlotta Brentan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines Author: Carol Kino Narrator: Carlotta Brentan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A Town & Country Must-Read Book of Spring 2024 “Fashion, photography, and pop culture aficionados will be captivated” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) by this riveting dual biography of the McLaughlins—identical twin sisters who became groundbreaking magazine photographers in New York during the glamorous golden age of the 1930s and ’40s. In Double Click, author Carol Kino “has interwoven a biography of the McLaughlins with an authoritative, detailed history of fashion, the art world and photography in midcentury New York” (The Wall Street Journal). The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been forgotten since. Here, in Double Click, Carol Kino brings these two brilliant women and their remarkable accomplishments to vivid life. Frances was the only female photographer on staff in Condé Nast’s photo studio, hired just after Irving Penn, and became known for streetwise, cinema verité-style work, which appeared in the pages of Glamour and Vogue. Her sister Kathryn’s surrealistic portraits filled the era’s new “career girl” magazines, including Charm and Mademoiselle. Both twins married Harper’s Bazaar photographers and socialized with a glittering crowd that included the supermodel Lisa Fonssagrives and the photographer Richard Avedon. Kino uses their careers to illuminate the lives of young women during this time, an early 20th-century moment marked by proto-feminist thinking, excitement about photography’s burgeoning creative potential, and the ferment of wartime New York. Toward the end of the 1940s, and moving into the early 1950s, conventionality took over, women were pushed back into the home, and the window of opportunity began to close. Kino renders this fleeting moment of possibility in gleaming multi-color, so that the reader cherishes its abundance, mourns its passing, and gains new appreciation for the talent that was fostered at its peak. Pulling back the curtain on an electric, creative time in New York’s history, and rich with original research, Double Click is cultural reportage and biography at its finest.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-true-face-a-woman-s-life-in-the-cia-unmasked-by-jonna-mendez--65151064https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697412 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked Author: Jonna Mendez Narrator: Barbara Benjamin-Creel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to their apartment. Yet Mendez had a talent for espionage, too, and she soon took on bigger and more significant roles at the Agency. She parlayed her interest in photography into an operational role overseas, an unlikely area for a woman in the CIA. Often underestimated, occasionally undermined, she lived under cover and served tours of duty all over the globe, rising first to become an international spy and ultimately to Chief of Disguise at CIA’s Office of Technical Service. In True Face recounts not only the drama of Mendez’s high-stakes work—how this savvy operator parlayed her “everywoman” appeal into incredible subterfuge—but also the grit and good fortune it took for her to navigate a misogynistic world. This is the story of an incredible spy career and what it took to achieve it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697412Tue, 05 Mar 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697412 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked Author: Jonna Mendez Narrator: Barbara Benjamin-Creel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697412 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked Author: Jonna Mendez Narrator: Barbara Benjamin-Creel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to their apartment. Yet Mendez had a talent for espionage, too, and she soon took on bigger and more significant roles at the Agency. She parlayed her interest in photography into an operational role overseas, an unlikely area for a woman in the CIA. Often underestimated, occasionally undermined, she lived under cover and served tours of duty all over the globe, rising first to become an international spy and ultimately to Chief of Disguise at CIA’s Office of Technical Service. In True Face recounts not only the drama of Mendez’s high-stakes work—how this savvy operator parlayed her “everywoman” appeal into incredible subterfuge—but also the grit and good fortune it took for her to navigate a misogynistic world. This is the story of an incredible spy career and what it took to achieve it.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/normal-women-nine-hundred-years-of-making-history-by-philippa-gregory--65151187https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Joe Jameson, James Goode, Tania Rodrigues, Clare Corbett, Nneka Okoye, Philippa Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 15 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opus—a landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history and “should be included in every history lesson” (Glamour UK) “As author and lead narrator, Gregory’s passion for this topic is evidence in her confident narration. . . . This audio should be savored. . . . This stellar work will be of interest to feminists, historians, Anglophiles, and those who like learning more about women throughout history.” —Booklist (starred review) Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they’d evolve to become ever more inferior? These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory’s Normal Women. In this ambitious and groundbreaking book, she tells the story of England over 900 years, for the very first time placing women—some fifty per cent of the population—center stage. Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, Gregory trawled through court records, newspapers, and journals to find highwaywomen and beggars, murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. The “normal women” you will meet in these pages went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency, and built ships, corn mills and houses. They committed crimes or treason, worshipped many gods, cooked and nursed, invented things, and rioted. A lot. A landmark work of scholarship and storytelling, Normal Women chronicles centuries of social and cultural change—from 1066 to modern times—powered by the determination, persistence, and effectiveness of women. “Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain’s past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating heart.” —Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets “Stunning. . . . Full of surprises. . . . A brilliant, essential read.” —The Independent (UK)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650883Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Joe Jameson, James Goode, Tania Rodrigues, Clare Corbett, Nneka...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650883 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Joe Jameson, James Goode, Tania Rodrigues, Clare Corbett, Nneka Okoye, Philippa Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 15 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opus—a landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history and “should be included in every history lesson” (Glamour UK) “As author and lead narrator, Gregory’s passion for this topic is evidence in her confident narration. . . . This audio should be savored. . . . This stellar work will be of interest to feminists, historians, Anglophiles, and those who like learning more about women throughout history.” —Booklist (starred review) Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they’d evolve to become ever more inferior? These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory’s Normal Women. In this ambitious and groundbreaking book, she tells the story of England over 900 years, for the very first time placing women—some fifty per cent of the population—center stage. Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, Gregory trawled through court records, newspapers, and journals to find highwaywomen and beggars, murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. The “normal women” you will meet in these pages went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency, and built ships, corn mills and houses. They committed crimes or treason, worshipped many gods, cooked and nursed, invented things, and rioted. A lot. A landmark work of scholarship and storytelling, Normal Women chronicles centuries of social and cultural change—from 1066 to modern times—powered by the determination, persistence, and effectiveness of women. “Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain’s past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating heart.” —Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets “Stunning. . . . Full of surprises. . . . A brilliant, essential read.” —The Independent (UK)]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/american-woman-the-transformation-of-the-modern-first-lady-from-hillary-clinton-to-jill-biden-by-katie-rogers--65151120https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden Author: Katie Rogers Narrator: Katie Rogers, Karen Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden—from a White House correspondent for The New York Times “A fascinating and deeply researched exploration into the most public facing and least understood role in Washington.”—Kate Andersen Brower, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women Since the Clinton era, shifts in media, politics, and pop culture have all redefined expectations of First Ladies, even as the boundaries set upon them have often remained anachronistic. With sharp insights and dozens of firsthand interviews with major players in the Biden, Obama, Trump, Bush, and Clinton orbits, including Jill Biden and Hillary Clinton, New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers traces the evolution of the role of the twenty-first-century First Lady from a ceremonial figurehead to a powerful political operator, which culminates in the tenure of First Lady Jill Biden.   Dr. Jill Biden began her journey toward public life in 1975 as a twenty-three-year-old who caught the eye of a widowed Senator Joe Biden. Recovering from the heartbreak of her failed first marriage, she found a man who was still grieving. She knitted his life together after unspeakable tragedy and stood by his side through three presidential campaigns.   In some ways, her legacy as First Lady was set before she ever entered the White House: She is the first presidential spouse in history to work in a paid role outside the White House, a decision that blazes the path for future first spouses. But as a prime guardian of one of the most insular operations in modern politics, she is also a central part of her husband’s presidential legacy.   Through deep reporting and newly discovered correspondence, American Woman is the first book to paint a full picture of Jill Biden while exploring how she helps answer the evolving question of what the role of the modern First Lady should be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652403Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden Author: Katie Rogers Narrator: Katie Rogers, Karen...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden Author: Katie Rogers Narrator: Katie Rogers, Karen Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden—from a White House correspondent for The New York Times “A fascinating and deeply researched exploration into the most public facing and least understood role in Washington.”—Kate Andersen Brower, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women Since the Clinton era, shifts in media, politics, and pop culture have all redefined expectations of First Ladies, even as the boundaries set upon them have often remained anachronistic. With sharp insights and dozens of firsthand interviews with major players in the Biden, Obama, Trump, Bush, and Clinton orbits, including Jill Biden and Hillary Clinton, New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers traces the evolution of the role of the twenty-first-century First Lady from a ceremonial figurehead to a powerful political operator, which culminates in the tenure of First Lady Jill Biden.   Dr. Jill Biden began her journey toward public life in 1975 as a twenty-three-year-old who caught the eye of a widowed Senator Joe Biden. Recovering from the heartbreak of her failed first marriage, she found a man who was still grieving. She knitted his life together after unspeakable tragedy and stood by his side through three presidential campaigns.   In some ways, her legacy as First Lady was set before she ever entered the White House: She is the first presidential spouse in history to work in a paid role outside the White House, a decision that blazes the path for future first spouses. But as a prime guardian of one of the most insular operations in modern politics, she is also a central part of her husband’s presidential legacy.   Through deep reporting and newly discovered correspondence, American Woman is the first book to paint a full picture of Jill Biden while exploring how she helps answer the evolving question of what the role of the modern First Lady should be.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/carson-mccullers-a-life-by-mary-v-dearborn--65151112https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carson McCullers: A Life Author: Mary V. Dearborn Narrator: Barrie Kreinik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journals V. S. Pritchett called her “a genius.” Gore Vidal described her as a “beloved novelist of singular brilliance . . . Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure . . .” And Tennessee Williams said, “The only real writer the South ever turned out, was Carson.” She was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia. Her dream was to become a concert pianist, though she’d been writing since she was sixteen and the influence of music was evident throughout her work. As a child, she said she’d been “born a man.” At twenty, she married Reeves McCullers, a fellow southerner, ex-soldier, and aspiring writer (“He was the best-looking man I had ever seen”). They had a fraught, tumultuous marriage lasting twelve years and ending with his suicide in 1953. Reeves was devoted to her and to her writing, and he envied her talent; she yearned for attention, mostly from women who admired her but rebuffed her sexually. Her first novel—The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter—was published in 1940, when she was twenty-three, and overnight, Carson McCullers became the most widely talked about writer of the time. While McCullers’s literary stature continues to endure, her private life has remained enigmatic and largely unexamined. Now, with unprecedented access to the cache of materials that has surfaced in the past decade, Mary Dearborn gives us the first full picture of this brilliant, complex artist who was decades ahead of her time, a writer who understood—and captured—the heart and longing of the outcast. Cover image: Carson McCullers, 1940 [detail] by Louise Dahl-Wolfe © 2024 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents / Artists Rights Society (ARS)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692333Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carson McCullers: A Life Author: Mary V. Dearborn Narrator: Barrie Kreinik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 14 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carson McCullers: A Life Author: Mary V. Dearborn Narrator: Barrie Kreinik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journals V. S. Pritchett called her “a genius.” Gore Vidal described her as a “beloved novelist of singular brilliance . . . Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure . . .” And Tennessee Williams said, “The only real writer the South ever turned out, was Carson.” She was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia. Her dream was to become a concert pianist, though she’d been writing since she was sixteen and the influence of music was evident throughout her work. As a child, she said she’d been “born a man.” At twenty, she married Reeves McCullers, a fellow southerner, ex-soldier, and aspiring writer (“He was the best-looking man I had ever seen”). They had a fraught, tumultuous marriage lasting twelve years and ending with his suicide in 1953. Reeves was devoted to her and to her writing, and he envied her talent; she yearned for attention, mostly from women who admired her but rebuffed her sexually. Her first novel—The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter—was published in 1940, when she was twenty-three, and overnight, Carson McCullers became the most widely talked about writer of the time. While McCullers’s literary stature continues to endure, her private life has remained enigmatic and largely unexamined. Now, with unprecedented access to the cache of materials that has surfaced in the past decade, Mary Dearborn gives us the first full picture of this brilliant, complex artist who was decades ahead of her time, a writer who understood—and captured—the heart and longing of the outcast. Cover image: Carson McCullers, 1940 [detail] by Louise Dahl-Wolfe © 2024 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents / Artists Rights Society (ARS)]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dead-weight-essays-on-hunger-and-harm-by-emmeline-clein--65151102https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm Author: Emmeline Clein Narrator: Karissa Vacker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought 'An authoritative, generous, and persuasive debut that I wish I could go back in time and gift to my teenage self.”—Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood “Electric with insight, and suffused with a strange, stubborn tenderness—a deep regard for what intimacy, hope, and resistance might look like in a world where women are taught to devote their lives to destroying themselves.” —Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein recounts her struggle with disordered eating alongside the stories of other women: historical figures, pop culture celebrities, and the girls she’s known and loved. Through the story of her own sickness, the raw recollections of interview subjects, and dispatches from social media rabbit holes, Clein challenges stereotypes and renders statistics and science deeply personal and urgent. From her first encounters with icons of the thin ideal to her years ricocheting between hunger and bingeing, from the pro-anorexia blog that unexpectedly saved someone’s life to the residential treatment centers that make so many people sicker, from a wrenching elegy for those who didn’t survive to a manifesto for sisterhood, solidarity, and recovery, Clein uncovers girlhood’s appetites and injuries to reveal the economic, cultural, and political history of an epidemic. Dead Weight makes the case that we are faced with a culture of suppression, self-denial, and self-harm, an insidious, pervasive, and dangerous American cult of femininity rooted in racism and misogyny. Tracing the medical and cultural histories of anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder and investigating the recent rise of orthorexia, Clein reveals the economic conditions underpinning diet culture, and grapples with the ways today’s feminism can be complicit in propping up the fetish of self-shrinking. Drawing on a kaleidoscopic array of sources—from cult classic films like Jennifer’s Body to the aughts-era Tumblrverse, the writing of Simone Weil, Chris Kraus, and Anne Boyer to the medieval canon of anorexic saints—Clein calls for a feminism that doesn’t compel women to shrink their bodies to increase their value, urging radical acceptance of all our appetites instead: for food, connection, and love. A sharp, perceptive, and revelatory polemic about the external forces that shape our lives, Dead Weight is electrifying, unapologetically bold, and fiercely compassionate.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692323Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm Author: Emmeline Clein Narrator: Karissa Vacker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm Author: Emmeline Clein Narrator: Karissa Vacker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought 'An authoritative, generous, and persuasive debut that I wish I could go back in time and gift to my teenage self.”—Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood “Electric with insight, and suffused with a strange, stubborn tenderness—a deep regard for what intimacy, hope, and resistance might look like in a world where women are taught to devote their lives to destroying themselves.” —Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein recounts her struggle with disordered eating alongside the stories of other women: historical figures, pop culture celebrities, and the girls she’s known and loved. Through the story of her own sickness, the raw recollections of interview subjects, and dispatches from social media rabbit holes, Clein challenges stereotypes and renders statistics and science deeply personal and urgent. From her first encounters with icons of the thin ideal to her years ricocheting between hunger and bingeing, from the pro-anorexia blog that unexpectedly saved someone’s life to the residential treatment centers that make so many people sicker, from a wrenching elegy for those who didn’t survive to a manifesto for sisterhood, solidarity, and recovery, Clein uncovers girlhood’s appetites and injuries to reveal the economic, cultural, and political history of an epidemic. Dead Weight makes the case that we are faced with a culture of suppression, self-denial, and self-harm, an insidious, pervasive, and dangerous American cult of femininity rooted in racism and misogyny. Tracing the medical and cultural histories of anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder and investigating the recent rise of orthorexia, Clein reveals the economic conditions underpinning diet culture, and grapples with the ways today’s feminism can be complicit in propping up the fetish of self-shrinking. Drawing on a kaleidoscopic array of sources—from cult classic films like Jennifer’s Body to the aughts-era Tumblrverse, the writing of Simone Weil, Chris Kraus, and Anne Boyer to the medieval canon of anorexic saints—Clein calls for a feminism that doesn’t compel women to shrink their bodies to increase their value, urging radical acceptance of all our appetites instead: for food, connection, and love. A sharp, perceptive, and revelatory polemic about the external forces that shape our lives, Dead Weight is electrifying, unapologetically bold, and fiercely compassionate.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/whiskey-tender-a-memoir-by-deborah-taffa--65151093https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir Author: Deborah Taffa Narrator: Charley Flyte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for a Carnegie Medal for Excellence An Oprah Daily ''Best New Book'' and ''Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read'' * A New York Times ''New Book to Read'' * An Esquire ''Best Nonfiction Book'' * A Washington Post ''Book to read this summer'' * An Elle ''Best Book'' * A Zibby Mag ''Most Anticipated Book'' * A San Francisco Chronicle ''New Book to Cozy Up With'' * The Millions ''Most Anticipated'' * An Electric Lit “Books By Women of Color to Read'' * An Amazon Editors ''Best Book of the Month'' * Publishers Weekly ''Best Book of the Year'' A Parade ''Best New Work By Indigenous Writers'' “We have more Native stories now, but we have not heard one like this. Whiskey Tender is unexpected and propulsive, indeed tender, but also bold, and beautifully told, like a drink you didn’t know you were thirsty for. This book, never anything less than mesmerizing, is full of family stories and vital Native history. It pulses and it aches, and it lifts, consistently. It threads together so much truth by the time we are done, what has been woven together equals a kind of completeness from brokenness, and a hope from knowing love and loss and love again by naming it so.”  — Tommy Orange, National Bestselling Author of There There  Reminiscent of the works of Mary Karr and Terese Marie Mailhot, a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance; assimilation and reverence for tradition. Deborah Jackson Taffa was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents—citizens of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe—were sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation. Assimilation meant relocation, but as Taffa matured into adulthood, she began to question the promise handed down by her elders and by American society: that if she gave up her culture, her land, and her traditions, she would not only be accepted, but would be able to achieve the “American Dream.” Whiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl—born on the California Yuma reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico—comes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parent’s desires for her to transcend the class and “Indian” status of her birth through education, and despite the Quechan tribe’s particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories. Taffa’s childhood memories unspool into meditations on tribal identity, the rampant criminalization of Native men, governmental assimilation policies, the Red Power movement, and the negotiation between belonging and resisting systemic oppression. Pan-Indian, as well as specific tribal histories and myths, blend with stories of a 1970s and 1980s childhood spent on and off the reservation. Taffa offers a sharp and thought-provoking historical analysis laced with humor and heart. As she reflects on her past and present—the promise of assimilation and the many betrayals her family has suffered, both personal and historical; trauma passed down through generations—she reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the “melting pot” of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690814Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir Author: Deborah Taffa Narrator: Charley Flyte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir Author: Deborah Taffa Narrator: Charley Flyte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for a Carnegie Medal for Excellence An Oprah Daily ''Best New Book'' and ''Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read'' * A New York Times ''New Book to Read'' * An Esquire ''Best Nonfiction Book'' * A Washington Post ''Book to read this summer'' * An Elle ''Best Book'' * A Zibby Mag ''Most Anticipated Book'' * A San Francisco Chronicle ''New Book to Cozy Up With'' * The Millions ''Most Anticipated'' * An Electric Lit “Books By Women of Color to Read'' * An Amazon Editors ''Best Book of the Month'' * Publishers Weekly ''Best Book of the Year'' A Parade ''Best New Work By Indigenous Writers'' “We have more Native stories now, but we have not heard one like this. Whiskey Tender is unexpected and propulsive, indeed tender, but also bold, and beautifully told, like a drink you didn’t know you were thirsty for. This book, never anything less than mesmerizing, is full of family stories and vital Native history. It pulses and it aches, and it lifts, consistently. It threads together so much truth by the time we are done, what has been woven together equals a kind of completeness from brokenness, and a hope from knowing love and loss and love again by naming it so.”  — Tommy Orange, National Bestselling Author of There There  Reminiscent of the works of Mary Karr and Terese Marie Mailhot, a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance; assimilation and reverence for tradition. Deborah Jackson Taffa was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents—citizens of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe—were sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation. Assimilation meant relocation, but as Taffa matured into adulthood, she began to question the promise handed down by her elders and by American society: that if she gave up her culture, her land, and her traditions, she would not only be accepted, but would be able to achieve the “American Dream.” Whiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl—born on the California Yuma reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico—comes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parent’s desires for her to transcend the class and “Indian” status of her birth through education, and despite the Quechan tribe’s particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories. Taffa’s childhood memories unspool into meditations on tribal identity, the rampant criminalization of Native men, governmental assimilation policies, the Red Power movement, and the negotiation between belonging and resisting systemic oppression. Pan-Indian, as well as specific tribal histories and myths, blend with stories of a 1970s and 1980s childhood spent on and off the reservation. Taffa offers a sharp and thought-provoking historical analysis laced with humor and heart. As she reflects on her past and present—the promise of assimilation and the many betrayals her family has suffered, both personal and historical; trauma passed down through generations—she reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the “melting pot” of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/outspoken-my-fight-for-freedom-and-human-rights-in-afghanistan-by-sima-samar--65151055https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/701677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan Author: Sima Samar Narrator: Wajma Soroor, Sally Armstrong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER The impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima Samar: medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lifelong advocate for girls and women. “I have three strikes against me. I’m a woman, I speak out for women, and I’m Hazara, the most persecuted ethnic group in Afghanistan.” Dr. Sima Samar has been fighting for equality and justice for most of her life. Born into a polygamous family, she learned early that girls had inferior status, and she had to agree to an arranged marriage if she wanted to go to university. By the time she was in medical school, she had a son, Ali, and had become a revolutionary. After her husband was disappeared by the pro-Russian regime, she escaped. With her son and medical degree, she took off into the rural areas—by horseback, by donkey, even on foot—to treat people who had never had medical help before. Sima Samar's wide-ranging experiences both in her home country and on the world stage have given her inside access to the dishonesty, the collusion, the corruption, the self-serving leaders, and the hijacking of religion. And as a former Vice President, she knows all the players in this chess game called Afghanistan. With stories that are at times poignant, at times terrifying, inspiring as well as disheartening, Sima provides an unparalleled view of Afghanistan’s past and its present.  Despite being in grave personal danger for many years, she has worked tirelessly for the dream she is convinced is an achievable one: justice and full human rights for all the citizens of her country.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/701677Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/701677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan Author: Sima Samar Narrator: Wajma Soroor, Sally Armstrong Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/701677 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan Author: Sima Samar Narrator: Wajma Soroor, Sally Armstrong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER The impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima Samar: medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lifelong advocate for girls and women. “I have three strikes against me. I’m a woman, I speak out for women, and I’m Hazara, the most persecuted ethnic group in Afghanistan.” Dr. Sima Samar has been fighting for equality and justice for most of her life. Born into a polygamous family, she learned early that girls had inferior status, and she had to agree to an arranged marriage if she wanted to go to university. By the time she was in medical school, she had a son, Ali, and had become a revolutionary. After her husband was disappeared by the pro-Russian regime, she escaped. With her son and medical degree, she took off into the rural areas—by horseback, by donkey, even on foot—to treat people who had never had medical help before. Sima Samar's wide-ranging experiences both in her home country and on the world stage have given her inside access to the dishonesty, the collusion, the corruption, the self-serving leaders, and the hijacking of religion. And as a former Vice President, she knows all the players in this chess game called Afghanistan. With stories that are at times poignant, at times terrifying, inspiring as well as disheartening, Sima provides an unparalleled view of Afghanistan’s past and its present.  Despite being in grave personal danger for many years, she has worked tirelessly for the dream she is convinced is an achievable one: justice and full human rights for all the citizens of her country.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/splinters-another-kind-of-love-story-by-leslie-jamison--65151122https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689710 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story Author: Leslie Jamison Narrator: Leslie Jamison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 20, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.   Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, acclaimed for her powerful thinking, deep feeling, and electric prose. But while Jamison has never shied away from challenging material—scouring her own psyche and digging into our most unanswerable questions across four books—Splinters enters a new realm.   In her first memoir, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond. In examining what it means for a woman to be many things at once—a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover—Jamison places the magical and the mundane side by side in surprising ways: pumping breastmilk in a shared university office, driving the open highway in the throes of new love, growing a tender second skin of consciousness as she watches her daughter come alive to the world. The result is a work of nonfiction like no other, an almost impossibly deep reckoning with the muchness of life and art, and a book that grieves the departure of one love even as it celebrates the arrival of another.   How do we move forward into joy when we are haunted by loss? How do we claim hope alongside the harm we’ve caused? A memoir for which the very term tour de force seems to have been coined, Splinters plumbs these and other pressing questions with writing that is revelatory to the last page. Jamison has delivered a book with the linguistic daring and emotional acuity that made The Empathy Exams and The Recovering instant classics, even as she reaches new depths of understanding, piercing the reader to the core. A master of nonfiction, she evinces once again her ability to “stitch together the intellectual and the emotional with the finesse of a crackerjack surgeon” (NPR).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689710Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689710 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story Author: Leslie Jamison Narrator: Leslie Jamison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689710 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story Author: Leslie Jamison Narrator: Leslie Jamison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 20, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.   Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared to Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, acclaimed for her powerful thinking, deep feeling, and electric prose. But while Jamison has never shied away from challenging material—scouring her own psyche and digging into our most unanswerable questions across four books—Splinters enters a new realm.   In her first memoir, Jamison turns her unrivaled powers of perception on some of the most intimate relationships of her life: her consuming love for her young daughter, a ruptured marriage once swollen with hope, and the shaping legacy of her own parents’ complicated bond. In examining what it means for a woman to be many things at once—a mother, an artist, a teacher, a lover—Jamison places the magical and the mundane side by side in surprising ways: pumping breastmilk in a shared university office, driving the open highway in the throes of new love, growing a tender second skin of consciousness as she watches her daughter come alive to the world. The result is a work of nonfiction like no other, an almost impossibly deep reckoning with the muchness of life and art, and a book that grieves the departure of one love even as it celebrates the arrival of another.   How do we move forward into joy when we are haunted by loss? How do we claim hope alongside the harm we’ve caused? A memoir for which the very term tour de force seems to have been coined, Splinters plumbs these and other pressing questions with writing that is revelatory to the last page. Jamison has delivered a book with the linguistic daring and emotional acuity that made The Empathy Exams and The Recovering instant classics, even as she reaches new depths of understanding, piercing the reader to the core. A master of nonfiction, she evinces once again her ability to “stitch together the intellectual and the emotional with the finesse of a crackerjack surgeon” (NPR).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/people-who-lunch-on-work-leisure-and-loose-living-by-sally-olds--65151080https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: People Who Lunch: On Work, Leisure, and Loose Living Author: Sally Olds Narrator: Christine Lakin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 6, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A riveting investigation of the utopian experiments attempting to resist the unrelenting demands of late-stage capitalism—only to end up living comfortably alongside it What do post‑work politics, the cult of crypto, clubbing, and polyamory have in common? All have spawned thriving subcultures united in their rejection of the patriarchal capitalist order: from wage labor, to the reign of the shareholder class over capital markets, to romantic relationships that feel like contractual arrangements to be negotiated, and more. People Who Lunch is about hating work and needing to work, intimacy and technology, labor and leisure, and the challenge of living our ideals in a less than ideal world. In it, Sally Olds brings her “unsparing scrutiny to bear…as she grapples with the sense of entrapment in the machinery of capitalism and remorseless logic of commodification” (ABC Arts). In one essay, Olds’s brief flirtation with post-monogamy forces her to confront the emotional prison of the “open relationship”; in another, a multi-hour viewing of a critically acclaimed performance art piece highlights how even the highest forms of culture exist to convert pleasure into capital. In the end, her forays into these colorful worlds betray a deep irony: escaping a system built on the exchange of wage labor is, quite simply, a lot of work.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693011Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: People Who Lunch: On Work, Leisure, and Loose Living Author: Sally Olds Narrator: Christine Lakin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: People Who Lunch: On Work, Leisure, and Loose Living Author: Sally Olds Narrator: Christine Lakin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 6, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A riveting investigation of the utopian experiments attempting to resist the unrelenting demands of late-stage capitalism—only to end up living comfortably alongside it What do post‑work politics, the cult of crypto, clubbing, and polyamory have in common? All have spawned thriving subcultures united in their rejection of the patriarchal capitalist order: from wage labor, to the reign of the shareholder class over capital markets, to romantic relationships that feel like contractual arrangements to be negotiated, and more. People Who Lunch is about hating work and needing to work, intimacy and technology, labor and leisure, and the challenge of living our ideals in a less than ideal world. In it, Sally Olds brings her “unsparing scrutiny to bear…as she grapples with the sense of entrapment in the machinery of capitalism and remorseless logic of commodification” (ABC Arts). In one essay, Olds’s brief flirtation with post-monogamy forces her to confront the emotional prison of the “open relationship”; in another, a multi-hour viewing of a critically acclaimed performance art piece highlights how even the highest forms of culture exist to convert pleasure into capital. In the end, her forays into these colorful worlds betray a deep irony: escaping a system built on the exchange of wage labor is, quite simply, a lot of work.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/only-say-good-things-surviving-playboy-and-finding-myself-by-crystal-hefner--65151114https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself Author: Crystal Hefner Narrator: Crystal Hefner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.88 of Total 16 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From a former Playboy Playmate, an unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s stolen young adulthood, and her journey to self-acceptance–plus a rare look inside Hugh Hefner’s final days. Crystal Harris’ life changed forever when she was just twenty-one and attended a party at the notorious Playboy mansion. Picked out of the crowd by Hugh Hefner, Crystal Harris became one of his infamous “girlfriends,” attending glamorous Hollywood parties and traveling the world. But being Hef’s number one girlfriend came at the cost of Crystal’s identity outside her role in the Playboy universe, and she grew increasingly restless to understand who she truly was away from what she saw as Playboy’s toxic culture. Hef controlled his girlfriends with strict rules regarding everything from their hair and makeup to their curfews, forcing them to compete with one another as part of a highly hierarchal system.  Only Say Good Things provides a fascinating look behind the scenes at a powerful cultural icon and brand, and an empowering perspective on hard-won lessons about who we allow to determine our value. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A JANUARY 2024 APPLE BOOKS STAFF PICK AND AUDIBLE EDITORS SELECT NAMED A BEST BOOK TO READ THIS JANUARY BY THE GLOSS]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684244Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself Author: Crystal Hefner Narrator: Crystal Hefner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself Author: Crystal Hefner Narrator: Crystal Hefner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 32 Ratings of Narrator: 4.88 of Total 16 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From a former Playboy Playmate, an unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s stolen young adulthood, and her journey to self-acceptance–plus a rare look inside Hugh Hefner’s final days. Crystal Harris’ life changed forever when she was just twenty-one and attended a party at the notorious Playboy mansion. Picked out of the crowd by Hugh Hefner, Crystal Harris became one of his infamous “girlfriends,” attending glamorous Hollywood parties and traveling the world. But being Hef’s number one girlfriend came at the cost of Crystal’s identity outside her role in the Playboy universe, and she grew increasingly restless to understand who she truly was away from what she saw as Playboy’s toxic culture. Hef controlled his girlfriends with strict rules regarding everything from their hair and makeup to their curfews, forcing them to compete with one another as part of a highly hierarchal system.  Only Say Good Things provides a fascinating look behind the scenes at a powerful cultural icon and brand, and an empowering perspective on hard-won lessons about who we allow to determine our value. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A JANUARY 2024 APPLE BOOKS STAFF PICK AND AUDIBLE EDITORS SELECT NAMED A BEST BOOK TO READ THIS JANUARY BY THE GLOSS]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-counterfeit-countess-the-jewish-woman-who-rescued-thousands-of-poles-during-the-holocaust-by-joanna-sliwa-elizabeth-b-white--65151095https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust Author: Joanna Sliwa, Elizabeth B. White Narrator: Gilli Messer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The “remarkable…inspiring” (The Wall Street Journal) true story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat—drawing on Mehlberg’s own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the astonishing unknown story of “Countess Janina Suchodolska,” a Jewish woman who rescued more than 10,000 Poles imprisoned by Poland’s Nazi occupiers, becoming “a heroine for the ages” (Larry Loftis, author of The Watchmaker’s Daughter). Mehlberg operated in Lublin, Poland, headquarters of Aktion Reinhard, the SS operation that murdered 1.7 million Jews in occupied Poland. Using the identity papers of a Polish aristocrat, she worked as a welfare official while also serving in the Polish resistance. With guile, cajolery, and steely persistence, the “Countess” persuaded SS officials to release thousands of Poles from the Majdanek concentration camp. She won permission to deliver food and medicine—even decorated Christmas trees—for thousands more of the camp’s prisoners. At the same time, she personally smuggled supplies and messages to resistance fighters imprisoned in Majdanek, where 63,000 Jews were murdered in gas chambers and shooting pits. Incredibly, she eluded detection, and ultimately survived the war and emigrated to the US. Drawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg’s own unpublished memoir supplemented with prodigious research, Elizabeth White and Joanna Sliwa, professional historians and Holocaust experts, have uncovered the full story of this remarkable woman. They interweave Mehlberg’s sometimes harrowing personal testimony with broader historical narrative. Like The Light of Days, Schindler’s List, and Irena’s Children, The Counterfeit Countess is a “riveting…stunning” (Debbie Cenziper, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Citizen 865) account of inspiring courage in the face of unspeakable cruelty.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693893Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust Author: Joanna Sliwa, Elizabeth B. White Narrator: Gilli...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles during the Holocaust Author: Joanna Sliwa, Elizabeth B. White Narrator: Gilli Messer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The “remarkable…inspiring” (The Wall Street Journal) true story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat—drawing on Mehlberg’s own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the astonishing unknown story of “Countess Janina Suchodolska,” a Jewish woman who rescued more than 10,000 Poles imprisoned by Poland’s Nazi occupiers, becoming “a heroine for the ages” (Larry Loftis, author of The Watchmaker’s Daughter). Mehlberg operated in Lublin, Poland, headquarters of Aktion Reinhard, the SS operation that murdered 1.7 million Jews in occupied Poland. Using the identity papers of a Polish aristocrat, she worked as a welfare official while also serving in the Polish resistance. With guile, cajolery, and steely persistence, the “Countess” persuaded SS officials to release thousands of Poles from the Majdanek concentration camp. She won permission to deliver food and medicine—even decorated Christmas trees—for thousands more of the camp’s prisoners. At the same time, she personally smuggled supplies and messages to resistance fighters imprisoned in Majdanek, where 63,000 Jews were murdered in gas chambers and shooting pits. Incredibly, she eluded detection, and ultimately survived the war and emigrated to the US. Drawing on the manuscript of Mehlberg’s own unpublished memoir supplemented with prodigious research, Elizabeth White and Joanna Sliwa, professional historians and Holocaust experts, have uncovered the full story of this remarkable woman. They interweave Mehlberg’s sometimes harrowing personal testimony with broader historical narrative. Like The Light of Days, Schindler’s List, and Irena’s Children, The Counterfeit Countess is a “riveting…stunning” (Debbie Cenziper, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Citizen 865) account of inspiring courage in the face of unspeakable cruelty.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-are-free-to-change-the-world-hannah-arendt-s-lessons-in-love-and-disobedience-by-lyndsey-stonebridge--65151094https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience Author: Lyndsey Stonebridge Narrator: Cosima Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A timely guide on how to live—and think—through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century’s foremost opponents of totalitarianism “We are free to change the world and to start something new in it.”—Hannah Arendt The violent unease of today’s world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration: She lived through them all. Born in the first decade of the last century, she escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for herself in America, where she became one of its most influential—and controversial—public intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and above all, about freedom. Questioning—thinking—was her first defense against tyranny. She advocated a politics of action and plurality, courage and, when necessary, disobedience. We Are Free to Change the World is a book about the Arendt we need for the twenty-first century. It tells us how and why Arendt came to think the way she did, and how to think when our own politics goes off the rails. Both a guide to Arendt’s life and work, and its dialogue with our troubled present, We Are Free to Change the World is an urgent call for us to think, as Hannah Arendt did—unflinchingly, lovingly, and defiantly—through our own unpredictable times.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684411Tue, 16 Jan 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience Author: Lyndsey Stonebridge Narrator: Cosima Shaw Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience Author: Lyndsey Stonebridge Narrator: Cosima Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A timely guide on how to live—and think—through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century’s foremost opponents of totalitarianism “We are free to change the world and to start something new in it.”—Hannah Arendt The violent unease of today’s world would have been familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy theories, racism, mass migration: She lived through them all. Born in the first decade of the last century, she escaped fascist Europe to make a new life for herself in America, where she became one of its most influential—and controversial—public intellectuals. She wrote about power and terror, exile and love, and above all, about freedom. Questioning—thinking—was her first defense against tyranny. She advocated a politics of action and plurality, courage and, when necessary, disobedience. We Are Free to Change the World is a book about the Arendt we need for the twenty-first century. It tells us how and why Arendt came to think the way she did, and how to think when our own politics goes off the rails. Both a guide to Arendt’s life and work, and its dialogue with our troubled present, We Are Free to Change the World is an urgent call for us to think, as Hannah Arendt did—unflinchingly, lovingly, and defiantly—through our own unpredictable times.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/drunk-ish-a-memoir-of-loving-and-leaving-alcohol-by-stefanie-wilder-taylor--65151091https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol Author: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor Narrator: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This “perfect balance of bold honesty and riotous wit” (Shelf Awareness) from the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay explores Stefanie Wilder-Taylor’s journey to breaking up with alcohol for good. For Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, alcohol was the seasoning that could give almost any activity more flavor—from liquor cabinet concoctions in high school to tequila shots in her early stand-up comedy days to grocery store wine in young motherhood. A drink instantly took the edge off and made even the most difficult adversary (be it a tough crowd in a comedy club or a judgmental PTA mom) not just bearable but fun. As the years go by, Stefanie wonders if her relationship with alcohol is different from other people’s. Is everyone else struggling this hard to moderate? Is it even legal to watch The Bachelor without a glass of white wine? Having spent a lifetime grappling with the question of whether or not she is a “real” alcoholic, one evening brings Stefanie close to the edge of losing it all. Miraculously unscathed, she decides that she doesn’t need to dive all the way down to a stereotypical rock bottom before deciding to stop drinking; if sobriety will improve her life, that’s a good enough reason to quit. A tender and funny farewell letter to a beloved but toxic friend, Drunk-ish is “a roller coaster of a book. You will love this candid and funny memoir even if you’re not sober. Trust me” (Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697340Tue, 16 Jan 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol Author: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor Narrator: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol Author: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor Narrator: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This “perfect balance of bold honesty and riotous wit” (Shelf Awareness) from the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay explores Stefanie Wilder-Taylor’s journey to breaking up with alcohol for good. For Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, alcohol was the seasoning that could give almost any activity more flavor—from liquor cabinet concoctions in high school to tequila shots in her early stand-up comedy days to grocery store wine in young motherhood. A drink instantly took the edge off and made even the most difficult adversary (be it a tough crowd in a comedy club or a judgmental PTA mom) not just bearable but fun. As the years go by, Stefanie wonders if her relationship with alcohol is different from other people’s. Is everyone else struggling this hard to moderate? Is it even legal to watch The Bachelor without a glass of white wine? Having spent a lifetime grappling with the question of whether or not she is a “real” alcoholic, one evening brings Stefanie close to the edge of losing it all. Miraculously unscathed, she decides that she doesn’t need to dive all the way down to a stereotypical rock bottom before deciding to stop drinking; if sobriety will improve her life, that’s a good enough reason to quit. A tender and funny farewell letter to a beloved but toxic friend, Drunk-ish is “a roller coaster of a book. You will love this candid and funny memoir even if you’re not sober. Trust me” (Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/american-girls-one-woman-s-journey-into-the-islamic-state-and-her-sister-s-fight-to-bring-her-home-by-jessica-roy--65151088https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Girls: One Woman's Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister's Fight to Bring Her Home Author: Jessica Roy Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle A CNN, NPR, and Today Most-Anticipated Book of 2024 A “gripping” (CNN), true account of religious extremism, radicalization, and the bonds of family: the story of an American woman who traveled to ISIS-controlled Syria with her two children and extremist husband and the sister back home who worked tirelessly to help her escape. Raised in a restrictive Jehovah’s Witness community in Arkansas, sisters Lori and Sam Sally spent their teens and twenties moving around the South and Midwest, working low-wage jobs and falling in and out of relationships. Caught in an eternal sibling rivalry—where younger, quieter Lori protected outgoing, reckless Sam—the two women eventually married a pair of brothers and settled down in Elkhart, Indiana, just around the corner from each other. It was there that their lives, once mirrors of each other’s, dramatically diverged. While Lori was ultimately able to leave her violent marriage, Sam was drawn deeper into hers—ensnared under the influence of a husband who slowly radicalized, via the internet, into a jihadist. With their daughter and Sam’s child from a previous relationship, the couple moved to Raqqa, Syria, where Moussa fought for ISIS and Sam, who never even converted to Islam, attempted to survive and protect her children from airstrikes, extremist indoctrination, and the brutality of ISIS. In Raqqa, Sam’s oldest son appeared in several Islamic State propaganda videos, and she participated in ISIS’s practice of enslaving Yezidi women and children. Sam says her husband coerced her to move, but Lori—who quit her job and worked nonstop to get Sam out of Syria—isn’t so sure. American Girls combines an in-depth examination of Sam and Lori's lives with on-the-ground reporting from Iraq, providing a rare glimpse into the world of American women who join ISIS. Interweaving deeply reported narrative drama with expert analysis, the book explores how the subjugation and abuse experienced by women in the United States, women like Sam and Lori, are one in the same with the conditions that enable the rise of patriarchal, extremist ideologies like those espoused by ISIS. Fascinating, “timely, and chilling” (Booklist), American Girls is an unforgettable journey—from small-town Arkansas to Raqqa, from domestic abuse to a militant terrorist organization—all told through the extraordinary story of two close, complicated sisters.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693864Tue, 16 Jan 2024 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Girls: One Woman's Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister's Fight to Bring Her Home Author: Jessica Roy Narrator: Cassandra Campbell...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Girls: One Woman's Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister's Fight to Bring Her Home Author: Jessica Roy Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle A CNN, NPR, and Today Most-Anticipated Book of 2024 A “gripping” (CNN), true account of religious extremism, radicalization, and the bonds of family: the story of an American woman who traveled to ISIS-controlled Syria with her two children and extremist husband and the sister back home who worked tirelessly to help her escape. Raised in a restrictive Jehovah’s Witness community in Arkansas, sisters Lori and Sam Sally spent their teens and twenties moving around the South and Midwest, working low-wage jobs and falling in and out of relationships. Caught in an eternal sibling rivalry—where younger, quieter Lori protected outgoing, reckless Sam—the two women eventually married a pair of brothers and settled down in Elkhart, Indiana, just around the corner from each other. It was there that their lives, once mirrors of each other’s, dramatically diverged. While Lori was ultimately able to leave her violent marriage, Sam was drawn deeper into hers—ensnared under the influence of a husband who slowly radicalized, via the internet, into a jihadist. With their daughter and Sam’s child from a previous relationship, the couple moved to Raqqa, Syria, where Moussa fought for ISIS and Sam, who never even converted to Islam, attempted to survive and protect her children from airstrikes, extremist indoctrination, and the brutality of ISIS. In Raqqa, Sam’s oldest son appeared in several Islamic State propaganda videos, and she participated in ISIS’s practice of enslaving Yezidi women and children. Sam says her husband coerced her to move, but Lori—who quit her job and worked nonstop to get Sam out of Syria—isn’t so sure. American Girls combines an in-depth examination of Sam and Lori's lives with on-the-ground reporting from Iraq, providing a rare glimpse into the world of American women who join ISIS. Interweaving deeply reported narrative drama with expert analysis, the book explores how the subjugation and abuse experienced by women in the United States, women like Sam and Lori, are one in the same with the conditions that enable the rise of patriarchal, extremist ideologies like those espoused by ISIS. Fascinating, “timely, and chilling” (Booklist), American Girls is an unforgettable journey—from small-town Arkansas to Raqqa, from domestic abuse to a militant terrorist organization—all told through the extraordinary story of two close, complicated sisters.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/overlooked-a-celebration-of-remarkable-underappreciated-people-who-broke-the-rules-and-changed-the-world-by-amisha-padnani--65151227https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World Author: Amisha Padnani Narrator: Amisha Padnani, January LaVoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable collection of diverse, remarkable lives inspired by “Overlooked,” the groundbreaking New York Times series that publishes the obituaries of extraordinary people whose deaths went unreported in the newspaper—including new, never-before-published content Since 1851, The New York Times has published thousands of obituaries—for heads of state, celebrities, scientists, and athletes. There’s even one for the person who invented the sock puppet. But, until recently, only a fraction of the Times’s obits chronicled the lives of women or people of color. The vast majority tell of the lives of men—mostly white men. Started in 2018 as a series in the Obituary section, “Overlooked” has sought to rectify this, revisiting the Times’s 170-year history to celebrate people who were left out. It seeks to correct past mistakes, establish a new precedent for equitable coverage of lives lost, and refocus society’s lens on who is considered worthy of remembrance. Now, in the first book connected to the trailblazing series, Overlooked shares 66 extraordinary stories of women, BIPOC and LGBTQIA figures, and people with disabilities who have broken rules and overcome obstacles. Some achieved a measure of fame in their lifetime but were surprisingly omitted from the paper, including Ida B. Wells, Sylvia Plath, Alan Turing, and Major Taylor. Others were lesser-known, but noteworthy nonetheless, such as Katherine McHale Slaughterback, a farmer who found fame as “Rattlesnake Kate”; Ángela Ruiz Robles, the inventor of an early e-reader; Terri Rogers, a transgender ventriloquist and magician; and Stella Young, a disabled comedian who rejected “inspiration porn.” These overlooked figures might have lived in different times, and had different experiences, but they were all ambitious and creative, and used their imaginations to invent, innovate, and change the world. Featuring exclusive content about the process of writing obituaries and contributions by writers such as Veronica Chambers, Jon Pareles, Amanda Hess, and more, this arresting book compels us to revisit who and what we value as a society—and reminds us that some of our most important stories are hidden among the lives of those who have been overlooked.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679461Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World Author: Amisha Padnani Narrator: Amisha...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World Author: Amisha Padnani Narrator: Amisha Padnani, January LaVoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable collection of diverse, remarkable lives inspired by “Overlooked,” the groundbreaking New York Times series that publishes the obituaries of extraordinary people whose deaths went unreported in the newspaper—including new, never-before-published content Since 1851, The New York Times has published thousands of obituaries—for heads of state, celebrities, scientists, and athletes. There’s even one for the person who invented the sock puppet. But, until recently, only a fraction of the Times’s obits chronicled the lives of women or people of color. The vast majority tell of the lives of men—mostly white men. Started in 2018 as a series in the Obituary section, “Overlooked” has sought to rectify this, revisiting the Times’s 170-year history to celebrate people who were left out. It seeks to correct past mistakes, establish a new precedent for equitable coverage of lives lost, and refocus society’s lens on who is considered worthy of remembrance. Now, in the first book connected to the trailblazing series, Overlooked shares 66 extraordinary stories of women, BIPOC and LGBTQIA figures, and people with disabilities who have broken rules and overcome obstacles. Some achieved a measure of fame in their lifetime but were surprisingly omitted from the paper, including Ida B. Wells, Sylvia Plath, Alan Turing, and Major Taylor. Others were lesser-known, but noteworthy nonetheless, such as Katherine McHale Slaughterback, a farmer who found fame as “Rattlesnake Kate”; Ángela Ruiz Robles, the inventor of an early e-reader; Terri Rogers, a transgender ventriloquist and magician; and Stella Young, a disabled comedian who rejected “inspiration porn.” These overlooked figures might have lived in different times, and had different experiences, but they were all ambitious and creative, and used their imaginations to invent, innovate, and change the world. Featuring exclusive content about the process of writing obituaries and contributions by writers such as Veronica Chambers, Jon Pareles, Amanda Hess, and more, this arresting book compels us to revisit who and what we value as a society—and reminds us that some of our most important stories are hidden among the lives of those who have been overlooked.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hungry-season-a-journey-of-war-love-and-survival-by-lisa-m-hamilton--65151170https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival Author: Lisa M. Hamilton Narrator: Lisa M. Hamilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice | A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year In the tradition of Katherine Boo and Tracy Kidder, The Hungry Season is a “lyrical” narrative with "real suspense" (New York Times): a nonfiction drama that “reads like the best of fiction” (Mark Arax), tracing one woman’s journey from the mist-covered mountains of Laos to the sunbaked flatlands of Fresno, California as she struggles to overcome the wounds inflicted by war and family alike​. As combat rages across the highlands of Vietnam and Laos, a child is born. Ia Moua enters the world at the bottom of the social order, both because she is part of the Hmong minority and because she is a daughter, not a son. When, at thirteen, she is promised in marriage to a man three times her age, it appears that Ia’s future has been decided for her. But after brutal communist rule upends her life, this intrepid girl resolves to chart her own defiant path.   With ceaseless ambition and an indestructible spirit, Ia builds a new existence for herself and, before long, for her children, first in the refugee camps of Thailand and then in the industrial heartland of California’s San Joaquin Valley. At the root of her success is a simple act: growing Hmong rice, just as her ancestors did, and selling it to those who hunger for the Laos of their memories. While the booming business brings her newfound power, it also forces her to face her own past. In order to endure the present, Ia must confront all that she left behind, and somehow find a place in her heart for those who chose to leave her.   Meticulously reported over seven years and written with the intimacy of a novel, The Hungry Season is the story of one radiant woman’s quest for survival—and for the nourishment that matters most.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653783Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival Author: Lisa M. Hamilton Narrator: Lisa M. Hamilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival Author: Lisa M. Hamilton Narrator: Lisa M. Hamilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice | A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year In the tradition of Katherine Boo and Tracy Kidder, The Hungry Season is a “lyrical” narrative with "real suspense" (New York Times): a nonfiction drama that “reads like the best of fiction” (Mark Arax), tracing one woman’s journey from the mist-covered mountains of Laos to the sunbaked flatlands of Fresno, California as she struggles to overcome the wounds inflicted by war and family alike​. As combat rages across the highlands of Vietnam and Laos, a child is born. Ia Moua enters the world at the bottom of the social order, both because she is part of the Hmong minority and because she is a daughter, not a son. When, at thirteen, she is promised in marriage to a man three times her age, it appears that Ia’s future has been decided for her. But after brutal communist rule upends her life, this intrepid girl resolves to chart her own defiant path.   With ceaseless ambition and an indestructible spirit, Ia builds a new existence for herself and, before long, for her children, first in the refugee camps of Thailand and then in the industrial heartland of California’s San Joaquin Valley. At the root of her success is a simple act: growing Hmong rice, just as her ancestors did, and selling it to those who hunger for the Laos of their memories. While the booming business brings her newfound power, it also forces her to face her own past. In order to endure the present, Ia must confront all that she left behind, and somehow find a place in her heart for those who chose to leave her.   Meticulously reported over seven years and written with the intimacy of a novel, The Hungry Season is the story of one radiant woman’s quest for survival—and for the nourishment that matters most.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/class-a-memoir-by-stephanie-land--65151138https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/667014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Class: A Memoir Author: Stephanie Land Narrator: Stephanie Land Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A New York Times Most Anticipated Books of Fall From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner, a “raw and inspiring” (People) memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid. When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, he called it an “unflinching look at America’s class divide…and a reminder of the dignity of all work.” Later, it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by sixty-seven million households and was Netflix’s fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie’s escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions. Maid was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class, Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, food insecurity, the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn’t understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line—Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties. Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples with these questions, offering a searing indictment of America’s educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother’s triumph against all odds.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/667014Tue, 07 Nov 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/667014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Class: A Memoir Author: Stephanie Land Narrator: Stephanie Land Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/667014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Class: A Memoir Author: Stephanie Land Narrator: Stephanie Land Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A New York Times Most Anticipated Books of Fall From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner, a “raw and inspiring” (People) memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid. When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, he called it an “unflinching look at America’s class divide…and a reminder of the dignity of all work.” Later, it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by sixty-seven million households and was Netflix’s fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie’s escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions. Maid was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class, Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, food insecurity, the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn’t understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line—Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties. Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples with these questions, offering a searing indictment of America’s educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother’s triumph against all odds.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bernardine-s-shanghai-salon-the-story-of-the-doyenne-of-old-china-by-susan-blumberg-kason--65151135https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China Author: Susan Blumberg-Kason Narrator: Nancy Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Bernardine Szold Fritz arrived in Shanghai in 1929 to marry her fourth husband. Only thirty-three years old, she found herself in a time and place like no other. Political intrigue and scandal lurked on every street corner. Art Deco cinemas showed the latest Hollywood flicks, while dancehall owners and jazz musicians turned Shanghai into Asia's top nightlife destination. Yet from the night of their wedding, Bernardine's new husband did not live up to his promises. Instead of feeling sorry for herself or leaving Shanghai, Bernardine decided to make a place for herself. Like other Jewish women before her, she started a salon in her home, drawing famous names from the world of politics, the arts, and the intelligentsia. And when Hollywood stars Anna May Wong, Charlie Chaplin, and Claudette Colbert passed through Shanghai, Bernardine organized gatherings to introduce them to their Shanghai contemporaries. When Bernardine's salon could not accommodate all who wanted to attend, she founded the International Arts Theater to produce avant-garde plays, ballets, lectures, and visual arts exhibits, often pushing audiences beyond their comfort zones. As civil war brewed and World War II soon followed, Bernardine's devotion to the arts and the people of Shanghai brought joy to the city just before it would change forever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690772Tue, 07 Nov 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China Author: Susan Blumberg-Kason Narrator: Nancy Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China Author: Susan Blumberg-Kason Narrator: Nancy Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Bernardine Szold Fritz arrived in Shanghai in 1929 to marry her fourth husband. Only thirty-three years old, she found herself in a time and place like no other. Political intrigue and scandal lurked on every street corner. Art Deco cinemas showed the latest Hollywood flicks, while dancehall owners and jazz musicians turned Shanghai into Asia's top nightlife destination. Yet from the night of their wedding, Bernardine's new husband did not live up to his promises. Instead of feeling sorry for herself or leaving Shanghai, Bernardine decided to make a place for herself. Like other Jewish women before her, she started a salon in her home, drawing famous names from the world of politics, the arts, and the intelligentsia. And when Hollywood stars Anna May Wong, Charlie Chaplin, and Claudette Colbert passed through Shanghai, Bernardine organized gatherings to introduce them to their Shanghai contemporaries. When Bernardine's salon could not accommodate all who wanted to attend, she founded the International Arts Theater to produce avant-garde plays, ballets, lectures, and visual arts exhibits, often pushing audiences beyond their comfort zones. As civil war brewed and World War II soon followed, Bernardine's devotion to the arts and the people of Shanghai brought joy to the city just before it would change forever.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/candace-pert-genius-greed-and-madness-in-the-world-of-science-by-pamela-ryckman--65151104https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672544 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science Author: Pamela Ryckman Narrator: Pamela Ryckman, Jess Nahikian Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The story of maverick scientist Candace Pert, whose groundbreaking research introduced the world to the mind-body connection, opioid receptors, and peptide T, and her fight for recognition in a toxic healthcare system. Candace Pert stood at the dawn of three revolutions: the women’s movement, integrative health, and psychopharmacology. A scientific prodigy, she was 30 years ahead of her time, preaching a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to healthcare and medicine long before yoga hit the mainstream and “wellness” took root in our vernacular. Her bestselling book Molecules of Emotion made her the mother of the Mind/Body Revolution, launching a paradigm shift in medicine. Deepak Chopra credits her with creating his career, and he said as much in his eulogy at her funeral.    Candace began her career as an unbridled maverick. In 1972, as a 26-year-old graduate student at Johns Hopkins, she discovered the opiate receptor, revolutionizing her field and enabling pharmacologists to design new classifications of drugs from Prozac to Viagra to Percocet and OxyContin. The tragic irony of her breakthrough, touted as the first step to end heroin addiction, is that it helped spawn a virulent epidemic of drug dependence. Facing the largest public health crisis of the 21st century, Candace was incensed that the Hippocratic oath—“first, do no harm”—would succumb to greed, and as witness to this abuse of power, she was one of few scientists courageous enough to protest.   Later, as Chief of Brain Biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health, Candace created Peptide T, the non-toxic treatment for HIV featured in Dallas BuyersClub. As the AIDS pandemic raged, triggering panic across Reagan-era America, the U.S. government poured massive amounts of money into finding a cure, sparking a battle among scientists for funding and power. Bested by rivals with competing drugs yet desperate to help, Candace went rogue, becoming a lynchpin in the black market for Peptide T.   After a scandalous departure from her tenured position at the NIH, Candace launched a series of private companies with Michael Ruff, her second husband and collaborator. Naïve to the world of business, she was manipulated by investors keen to wrest control of her discoveries. But Candace too became tainted, believing that her noble ends would justify devious means. Like a mythic hero, she succumbed to a fatal flaw, and her greatest strengths—singularity of purpose and blind faith in her own virtuosity—would prove to be her undoing.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672544Tue, 07 Nov 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672544 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science Author: Pamela Ryckman Narrator: Pamela Ryckman, Jess Nahikian Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672544 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science Author: Pamela Ryckman Narrator: Pamela Ryckman, Jess Nahikian Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The story of maverick scientist Candace Pert, whose groundbreaking research introduced the world to the mind-body connection, opioid receptors, and peptide T, and her fight for recognition in a toxic healthcare system. Candace Pert stood at the dawn of three revolutions: the women’s movement, integrative health, and psychopharmacology. A scientific prodigy, she was 30 years ahead of her time, preaching a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to healthcare and medicine long before yoga hit the mainstream and “wellness” took root in our vernacular. Her bestselling book Molecules of Emotion made her the mother of the Mind/Body Revolution, launching a paradigm shift in medicine. Deepak Chopra credits her with creating his career, and he said as much in his eulogy at her funeral.    Candace began her career as an unbridled maverick. In 1972, as a 26-year-old graduate student at Johns Hopkins, she discovered the opiate receptor, revolutionizing her field and enabling pharmacologists to design new classifications of drugs from Prozac to Viagra to Percocet and OxyContin. The tragic irony of her breakthrough, touted as the first step to end heroin addiction, is that it helped spawn a virulent epidemic of drug dependence. Facing the largest public health crisis of the 21st century, Candace was incensed that the Hippocratic oath—“first, do no harm”—would succumb to greed, and as witness to this abuse of power, she was one of few scientists courageous enough to protest.   Later, as Chief of Brain Biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health, Candace created Peptide T, the non-toxic treatment for HIV featured in Dallas BuyersClub. As the AIDS pandemic raged, triggering panic across Reagan-era America, the U.S. government poured massive amounts of money into finding a cure, sparking a battle among scientists for funding and power. Bested by rivals with competing drugs yet desperate to help, Candace went rogue, becoming a lynchpin in the black market for Peptide T.   After a scandalous departure from her tenured position at the NIH, Candace launched a series of private companies with Michael Ruff, her second husband and collaborator. Naïve to the world of business, she was manipulated by investors keen to wrest control of her discoveries. But Candace too became tainted, believing that her noble ends would justify devious means. Like a mythic hero, she succumbed to a fatal flaw, and her greatest strengths—singularity of purpose and blind faith in her own virtuosity—would prove to be her undoing.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unsung-a-compendium-of-creativity-by-kate-ceberano--65151081https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unsung: A Compendium of Creativity Author: Kate Ceberano Narrator: Kate Ceberano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 16 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An intimate memoir from beloved Australian musician Kate Ceberano, featuring her inspirational song lyrics and stories, to celebrate four decades of songwriting and recording on the release of her 30th album.    Kate Ceberano is used to a hush descending as she draws breath to release that magnificent voice but when the whole world quietened in 2020, she found the silence disorientating. Without an audience or long hours of travel with her tribe of musicians, there was time to think. But what does an artist do when they can’t make art? They find a way.   With characteristic passion, abundance and joy, Kate liberated her unsung songs. They flowed through her paintbrush as she embellished guitars, her needle as she stitched quilts to envelop her beloveds and her pen as she unfurled stories, poems and songs.   In Unsung Kate muses on the people and experiences that have inspired her, on what has humbled her, what hurts and what sustains. This is the story of a powerful woman in her prime, but also of a reflective, romantic and vulnerable artist making sense of the universe. It’s proof of a lifetime lived in music. It’s a tribute to songs, wherever they come from and wherever they go.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692616Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unsung: A Compendium of Creativity Author: Kate Ceberano Narrator: Kate Ceberano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 16 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unsung: A Compendium of Creativity Author: Kate Ceberano Narrator: Kate Ceberano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 16 minutes Release date: October 31, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An intimate memoir from beloved Australian musician Kate Ceberano, featuring her inspirational song lyrics and stories, to celebrate four decades of songwriting and recording on the release of her 30th album.    Kate Ceberano is used to a hush descending as she draws breath to release that magnificent voice but when the whole world quietened in 2020, she found the silence disorientating. Without an audience or long hours of travel with her tribe of musicians, there was time to think. But what does an artist do when they can’t make art? They find a way.   With characteristic passion, abundance and joy, Kate liberated her unsung songs. They flowed through her paintbrush as she embellished guitars, her needle as she stitched quilts to envelop her beloveds and her pen as she unfurled stories, poems and songs.   In Unsung Kate muses on the people and experiences that have inspired her, on what has humbled her, what hurts and what sustains. This is the story of a powerful woman in her prime, but also of a reflective, romantic and vulnerable artist making sense of the universe. It’s proof of a lifetime lived in music. It’s a tribute to songs, wherever they come from and wherever they go.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/our-secret-society-mollie-moon-and-the-glamour-money-and-power-behind-the-civil-rights-movement-by-tanisha-ford--65151136https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement Author: Tanisha Ford Narrator: Allyson Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An engrossing social history and memoir of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering ''Beaux Arts Ball,” the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years—a glamorous event rivalling today’s Met Gala, drawing America’s wealthy and cultured, both Black and white. Our Secret Society brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlooked—the powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the movement—the luncheons, galas, cabarets, and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working-class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry, including Winthrop Rockefeller. No one knew this world better or ruled over it with more authority than Mollie Moon. With her husband Henry Lee Moon, the longtime publicist for the NAACP, Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples of the period. Vivacious and intellectually curious, Mollie frequently hosted political salons attended by guests ranging from Langston Hughes to Lorraine Hansberry. As the president of the National Urban League Guild, the fundraising arm of the National Urban League; Mollie raised millions to fund grassroots activists battling for economic justice and racial equality. She was a force behind the mutual aid network that connected Black churches, domestic and blue-collar laborers, social clubs, and sororities and fraternities across the country. Historian and cultural critic Tanisha C. Ford brings Mollie into focus as never before, charting her rise from Jim Crow Mississippi to doyenne of Manhattan and Harlem, where she became one of the most influential philanthropists of her time—a woman feared, resented, yet widely respected. She chronicles Mollie’s larger-than-life antics through exhaustive research, never-before-revealed letters, and dozens of interviews, including with Mollie’s daughter and namesake. Our Secret Society ushers us into a world with its own rhythm and rules, led by its own Who’s Who of African Americans in politics, sports, business, and entertainment. It is both a searing portrait of a remarkable period in America, spanning from the early 1930s through the late 1960s, and a strategic economic blueprint today’s activists can emulate. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655141Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement Author: Tanisha Ford Narrator: Allyson Johnson...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement Author: Tanisha Ford Narrator: Allyson Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An engrossing social history and memoir of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering ''Beaux Arts Ball,” the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years—a glamorous event rivalling today’s Met Gala, drawing America’s wealthy and cultured, both Black and white. Our Secret Society brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlooked—the powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the movement—the luncheons, galas, cabarets, and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working-class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry, including Winthrop Rockefeller. No one knew this world better or ruled over it with more authority than Mollie Moon. With her husband Henry Lee Moon, the longtime publicist for the NAACP, Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples of the period. Vivacious and intellectually curious, Mollie frequently hosted political salons attended by guests ranging from Langston Hughes to Lorraine Hansberry. As the president of the National Urban League Guild, the fundraising arm of the National Urban League; Mollie raised millions to fund grassroots activists battling for economic justice and racial equality. She was a force behind the mutual aid network that connected Black churches, domestic and blue-collar laborers, social clubs, and sororities and fraternities across the country. Historian and cultural critic Tanisha C. Ford brings Mollie into focus as never before, charting her rise from Jim Crow Mississippi to doyenne of Manhattan and Harlem, where she became one of the most influential philanthropists of her time—a woman feared, resented, yet widely respected. She chronicles Mollie’s larger-than-life antics through exhaustive research, never-before-revealed letters, and dozens of interviews, including with Mollie’s daughter and namesake. Our Secret Society ushers us into a world with its own rhythm and rules, led by its own Who’s Who of African Americans in politics, sports, business, and entertainment. It is both a searing portrait of a remarkable period in America, spanning from the early 1930s through the late 1960s, and a strategic economic blueprint today’s activists can emulate. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/worthy-by-jada-pinkett-smith--65151071https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Worthy Author: Jada Pinkett Smith Narrator: Jada Pinkett Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 56 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 16 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: **The New York Times Bestseller** **Parade magazine must-read books by celebrities 2023** ''I went through so many emotions reading this book. Reconnecting to one's ancestors and truly feeling, not only hearing, their stories are fertile ground for true ecstatic embodiment of the self. We have to know where we've been to see where we're going.'' -Willow Smith ''[Smith] is candid and honest... For the first time she reveals the truth behind [the] happy images. An incredible read.'' -Hoda Kotb, The Today Show A gripping, at times painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith.  Jada Pinkett Smith was living what many would view as a fairy-tale of Hollywood success. But appearances can be deceiving, and as she felt more and more separated from her sense of self, emotional turmoil took hold. Sparing no detail, Worthy chronicles her life—from a rebellious youth running the Baltimore streets as an observer and participant in the drug trade, to the deep bond she shared with Tupac Shakur from the moment they met, to her move to Los Angeles and the successful career she built on her own terms, to becoming the wife of superstar Will Smith and mother to Jaden, Willow and bonus-mom to Trey . A rollercoaster from the depths of suicidal depression to the heights of self-acceptance and spiritual healing, Worthy is a woman’s journey to finding herself again.  In a media driven landscape that crafts narratives for our celebrities, Smith shares herself in an intimate conversation with readers. She answers questions about her difficult childhood, her marriage, her parenting style, her career choices, and the intense scrutiny that followed “the slap.” An impactful and rare memoir that engages and educates, Worthy shows why adhering to the status quo has never been the plan for Jada Pinkett Smith and why labels and stories crafted by others strip women of their authenticity. Worthy teaches us who Jada is, and how to embrace our most lovable qualities. Complete with thought-provoking writing prompts and meditations on how to discover who we really are and nourish our self-worth.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696934Tue, 17 Oct 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Worthy Author: Jada Pinkett Smith Narrator: Jada Pinkett Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Worthy Author: Jada Pinkett Smith Narrator: Jada Pinkett Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.7 of Total 56 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 16 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: **The New York Times Bestseller** **Parade magazine must-read books by celebrities 2023** ''I went through so many emotions reading this book. Reconnecting to one's ancestors and truly feeling, not only hearing, their stories are fertile ground for true ecstatic embodiment of the self. We have to know where we've been to see where we're going.'' -Willow Smith ''[Smith] is candid and honest... For the first time she reveals the truth behind [the] happy images. An incredible read.'' -Hoda Kotb, The Today Show A gripping, at times painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith.  Jada Pinkett Smith was living what many would view as a fairy-tale of Hollywood success. But appearances can be deceiving, and as she felt more and more separated from her sense of self, emotional turmoil took hold. Sparing no detail, Worthy chronicles her life—from a rebellious youth running the Baltimore streets as an observer and participant in the drug trade, to the deep bond she shared with Tupac Shakur from the moment they met, to her move to Los Angeles and the successful career she built on her own terms, to becoming the wife of superstar Will Smith and mother to Jaden, Willow and bonus-mom to Trey . A rollercoaster from the depths of suicidal depression to the heights of self-acceptance and spiritual healing, Worthy is a woman’s journey to finding herself again.  In a media driven landscape that crafts narratives for our celebrities, Smith shares herself in an intimate conversation with readers. She answers questions about her difficult childhood, her marriage, her parenting style, her career choices, and the intense scrutiny that followed “the slap.” An impactful and rare memoir that engages and educates, Worthy shows why adhering to the status quo has never been the plan for Jada Pinkett Smith and why labels and stories crafted by others strip women of their authenticity. Worthy teaches us who Jada is, and how to embrace our most lovable qualities. Complete with thought-provoking writing prompts and meditations on how to discover who we really are and nourish our self-worth.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/breaking-through-my-life-in-science-by-katalin-kariko--65151184https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/666373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breaking Through: My Life in Science Author: Katalin Karikó Narrator: Eva Magyar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A powerful memoir from Katalin Karikó, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines “Katalin Karikó’s story is an inspiration.”—Bill Gates “Riveting . . . a true story of a brilliant biochemist who never gave up or gave in.”—Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination eventually brought her to the United States, where she arrived as a postdoctoral fellow in 1985 with $1,200 sewn into her toddler’s teddy bear and a dream to remake medicine.  Karikó worked in obscurity, battled cockroaches in a windowless lab, and faced outright derision and even deportation threats from her bosses and colleagues. She balked as prestigious research institutions increasingly conflated science and money. Despite setbacks, she never wavered in her belief that an ephemeral and underappreciated molecule called messenger RNA could change the world. Karikó believed that someday mRNA would transform ordinary cells into tiny factories capable of producing their own medicines on demand. She sacrificed nearly everything for this dream, but the obstacles she faced only motivated her, and eventually she succeeded. Karikó’s three-decade-long investigation into mRNA would lead to a staggering achievement: vaccines that protected millions of people from the most dire consequences of COVID-19. These vaccines are just the beginning of mRNA’s potential. Today, the medical community eagerly awaits more mRNA vaccines—for the flu, HIV, and other emerging infectious diseases. Breaking Through isn’t just the story of an extraordinary woman. It’s an indictment of closed-minded thinking and a testament to one woman’s commitment to laboring intensely in obscurity—knowing she might never be recognized in a culture that is driven by prestige, power, and privilege—because she believed her work would save lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/666373Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/666373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breaking Through: My Life in Science Author: Katalin Karikó Narrator: Eva Magyar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/666373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breaking Through: My Life in Science Author: Katalin Karikó Narrator: Eva Magyar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A powerful memoir from Katalin Karikó, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines “Katalin Karikó’s story is an inspiration.”—Bill Gates “Riveting . . . a true story of a brilliant biochemist who never gave up or gave in.”—Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination eventually brought her to the United States, where she arrived as a postdoctoral fellow in 1985 with $1,200 sewn into her toddler’s teddy bear and a dream to remake medicine.  Karikó worked in obscurity, battled cockroaches in a windowless lab, and faced outright derision and even deportation threats from her bosses and colleagues. She balked as prestigious research institutions increasingly conflated science and money. Despite setbacks, she never wavered in her belief that an ephemeral and underappreciated molecule called messenger RNA could change the world. Karikó believed that someday mRNA would transform ordinary cells into tiny factories capable of producing their own medicines on demand. She sacrificed nearly everything for this dream, but the obstacles she faced only motivated her, and eventually she succeeded. Karikó’s three-decade-long investigation into mRNA would lead to a staggering achievement: vaccines that protected millions of people from the most dire consequences of COVID-19. These vaccines are just the beginning of mRNA’s potential. Today, the medical community eagerly awaits more mRNA vaccines—for the flu, HIV, and other emerging infectious diseases. Breaking Through isn’t just the story of an extraordinary woman. It’s an indictment of closed-minded thinking and a testament to one woman’s commitment to laboring intensely in obscurity—knowing she might never be recognized in a culture that is driven by prestige, power, and privilege—because she believed her work would save lives.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hemingway-s-widow-the-life-and-legacy-of-mary-welsh-hemingway-by-tim-christian--65151163https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hemingway's Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway Author: Tim Christian Narrator: Tim Christian Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Mary Welsh, a celebrated wartime journalist during the London Blitz and the liberation of Paris, meets Ernest Hemingway in May 1944. He becomes so infatuated with Mary that he asks her to marry him the third time they meet—although they are married to other people. Eventually, she succumbs to Ernest's campaign, and in the last days of the war joined him at his estate in Cuba. Through Mary's eyes, we see Ernest Hemingway in a fresh light. Their turbulent marriage survives his cruelty and abuse, perhaps because of their sexual compatibility and her essential contribution to his writing. She reads and types his work each day—and makes plot suggestions. She becomes crucial to his work and he depends upon her critical reading of his work to know if he has it right. We watch as they travel to the ski country of the Dolomites, commute to Harry's Bar in Venice; and attend bullfights in Pamplona and Madrid. We see Ernest fall in love with a teenaged Italian countess and wonder at Mary's tolerance of the affair. We witness Ernest's sad decline and Mary's efforts to avoid the stigma of suicide by claiming his death was an accident. Her story is one of an opinionated woman who smokes Camels, drinks gin, swears like a man, sings like Edith Piaf, loves passionately, and experiments with gender fluidity in her extraordinary life with Ernest.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689662Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hemingway's Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway Author: Tim Christian Narrator: Tim Christian Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hemingway's Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway Author: Tim Christian Narrator: Tim Christian Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Mary Welsh, a celebrated wartime journalist during the London Blitz and the liberation of Paris, meets Ernest Hemingway in May 1944. He becomes so infatuated with Mary that he asks her to marry him the third time they meet—although they are married to other people. Eventually, she succumbs to Ernest's campaign, and in the last days of the war joined him at his estate in Cuba. Through Mary's eyes, we see Ernest Hemingway in a fresh light. Their turbulent marriage survives his cruelty and abuse, perhaps because of their sexual compatibility and her essential contribution to his writing. She reads and types his work each day—and makes plot suggestions. She becomes crucial to his work and he depends upon her critical reading of his work to know if he has it right. We watch as they travel to the ski country of the Dolomites, commute to Harry's Bar in Venice; and attend bullfights in Pamplona and Madrid. We see Ernest fall in love with a teenaged Italian countess and wonder at Mary's tolerance of the affair. We witness Ernest's sad decline and Mary's efforts to avoid the stigma of suicide by claiming his death was an accident. Her story is one of an opinionated woman who smokes Camels, drinks gin, swears like a man, sings like Edith Piaf, loves passionately, and experiments with gender fluidity in her extraordinary life with Ernest.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/american-classicist-the-life-and-loves-of-edith-hamilton-by-victoria-houseman--65151130https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679343 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton Author: Victoria Houseman Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical worldEdith Hamilton (1867–1963) didn’t publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former headmistress would become the twentieth century’s most famous interpreter of the classical world. Today, Hamilton’s Mythology (1942) remains the standard version of ancient tales and sells tens of thousands of copies a year. During the Cold War, her influence even extended to politics, as she argued that postwar America could learn from the fate of Athens after its victory in the Persian Wars. In American Classicist, Victoria Houseman tells the fascinating life story of a remarkable classicist whose ideas were shaped by—and aspired to shape—her times.Hamilton studied Latin and Greek from an early age, earned a BA and MA at Bryn Mawr College, and ran a girls’ prep school for twenty-six years. After retiring, she turned to writing and began a relationship with the pianist and stockbroker Doris Fielding Reid. The two women were partners for more than forty years and entertained journalists, diplomats, and politicians in their Washington, D.C., house. Hamilton traveled extensively around the world, formed friendships with Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound, and was made an honorary citizen of Athens. While Hamilton believed that the ancient Greeks represented the peak of world civilization, Houseman shows that this suffragist, pacifist, and anti-imperialist wasfar from an apologist for Western triumphalism.An absorbing narrative of an eventful life, American Classicist reveals how Hamilton’s Greek and Roman worlds held up a mirror to midcentury America even as she strived to convey a timeless beauty that continues to enthrall readers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679343Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679343 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton Author: Victoria Houseman Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679343 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton Author: Victoria Houseman Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical worldEdith Hamilton (1867–1963) didn’t publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former headmistress would become the twentieth century’s most famous interpreter of the classical world. Today, Hamilton’s Mythology (1942) remains the standard version of ancient tales and sells tens of thousands of copies a year. During the Cold War, her influence even extended to politics, as she argued that postwar America could learn from the fate of Athens after its victory in the Persian Wars. In American Classicist, Victoria Houseman tells the fascinating life story of a remarkable classicist whose ideas were shaped by—and aspired to shape—her times.Hamilton studied Latin and Greek from an early age, earned a BA and MA at Bryn Mawr College, and ran a girls’ prep school for twenty-six years. After retiring, she turned to writing and began a relationship with the pianist and stockbroker Doris Fielding Reid. The two women were partners for more than forty years and entertained journalists, diplomats, and politicians in their Washington, D.C., house. Hamilton traveled extensively around the world, formed friendships with Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound, and was made an honorary citizen of Athens. While Hamilton believed that the ancient Greeks represented the peak of world civilization, Houseman shows that this suffragist, pacifist, and anti-imperialist wasfar from an apologist for Western triumphalism.An absorbing narrative of an eventful life, American Classicist reveals how Hamilton’s Greek and Roman worlds held up a mirror to midcentury America even as she strived to convey a timeless beauty that continues to enthrall readers.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/down-the-drain-by-julia-fox--65151101https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Down the Drain Author: Julia Fox Narrator: Julia Fox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 57 Ratings of Narrator: 4.92 of Total 25 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The hotly anticipated book from “one of the all-time pop-culture greats” (New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams. Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow, and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media, where she entertains and educates her millions of followers. But all these share the trait for which she is most famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself. This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in Down the Drain. With writing that is both eloquent and accessible, Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: her parents’ volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs “The Artist”; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son. Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn’t just capture her improbable evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience—it’s all here, in raw, remarkable, and riveting detail. More than a year before the book’s publication, Fox’s description of it as “a masterpiece” in a red carpet interview went viral. As always, she was just being honest. Down the Drain is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672846Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Down the Drain Author: Julia Fox Narrator: Julia Fox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Down the Drain Author: Julia Fox Narrator: Julia Fox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 57 Ratings of Narrator: 4.92 of Total 25 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The hotly anticipated book from “one of the all-time pop-culture greats” (New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams. Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow, and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media, where she entertains and educates her millions of followers. But all these share the trait for which she is most famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself. This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in Down the Drain. With writing that is both eloquent and accessible, Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: her parents’ volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs “The Artist”; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son. Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn’t just capture her improbable evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience—it’s all here, in raw, remarkable, and riveting detail. More than a year before the book’s publication, Fox’s description of it as “a masterpiece” in a red carpet interview went viral. As always, she was just being honest. Down the Drain is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beautiful-and-terrible-things-faith-doubt-and-discovering-a-way-back-to-each-other-by-amy-butler--65151157https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful and Terrible Things: Faith, Doubt, and Discovering a Way Back to Each Other Author: Amy Butler Narrator: Amy Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From one of America’s most prominent ministers comes an inspiring, provocative reflection on the necessity of community, the inevitability of conflict, and the transformative power of radical love. “I so love and admire the work and witness of Pastor Amy Butler.”—Anne Lamott “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid,” said theologian Frederick Buechner. Pastor Amy Butler, the first woman at the helm of New York’s historic Riverside Church, knows firsthand that to navigate such a world, one must be courageous, honest, and compassionate. In Beautiful and Terrible Things, Pastor Amy draws on the most meaningful, challenging, and soul-shaking moments of her own life to offer larger lessons on theology and relationships. Pastor Amy grew up in a conservative Evangelical family in the diverse culture of the Hawaiian Islands. As she realized she was more inclined to be a pastor than to marry one, she began an unlikely journey, breaking one stained-glass ceiling after another. Holding increasingly high-profile ministry positions in New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and New York City, Amy weathered rigidly unwelcoming congregations and enormous trials, ultimately learning that only the radical love of community could generate healing. As she describes her experiences leading a church to publicly affirm its LGBTQ community members, losing a child, and undergoing an unexpected divorce, Amy offers a thoughtful lens on all the ways life can push us to see the world from another’s perspective. In her signature compassionate, witty voice, she offers fresh, nonjudgmental perspectives on faith—which, at its most beautiful expression, allows for the possibility that there is more than one way to experience God.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676377Tue, 03 Oct 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful and Terrible Things: Faith, Doubt, and Discovering a Way Back to Each Other Author: Amy Butler Narrator: Amy Butler Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful and Terrible Things: Faith, Doubt, and Discovering a Way Back to Each Other Author: Amy Butler Narrator: Amy Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From one of America’s most prominent ministers comes an inspiring, provocative reflection on the necessity of community, the inevitability of conflict, and the transformative power of radical love. “I so love and admire the work and witness of Pastor Amy Butler.”—Anne Lamott “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid,” said theologian Frederick Buechner. Pastor Amy Butler, the first woman at the helm of New York’s historic Riverside Church, knows firsthand that to navigate such a world, one must be courageous, honest, and compassionate. In Beautiful and Terrible Things, Pastor Amy draws on the most meaningful, challenging, and soul-shaking moments of her own life to offer larger lessons on theology and relationships. Pastor Amy grew up in a conservative Evangelical family in the diverse culture of the Hawaiian Islands. As she realized she was more inclined to be a pastor than to marry one, she began an unlikely journey, breaking one stained-glass ceiling after another. Holding increasingly high-profile ministry positions in New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and New York City, Amy weathered rigidly unwelcoming congregations and enormous trials, ultimately learning that only the radical love of community could generate healing. As she describes her experiences leading a church to publicly affirm its LGBTQ community members, losing a child, and undergoing an unexpected divorce, Amy offers a thoughtful lens on all the ways life can push us to see the world from another’s perspective. In her signature compassionate, witty voice, she offers fresh, nonjudgmental perspectives on faith—which, at its most beautiful expression, allows for the possibility that there is more than one way to experience God.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/brutalities-a-love-story-by-margo-steines--65151058https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brutalities: A Love Story Author: Margo Steines Narrator: Margo Steines Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Quarantined in a southwestern desert city in the midst of her high-risk pregnancy, Margo Steines felt her life narrow around her growing body, compelling her to reckon with the violence entangled in its history. She was a professional dominatrix in New York City, a homestead farmer in a brutal relationship, a welder on a high-rise building crew, and a Mixed Martial Arts enthusiast; each of her many lives brought a new vantage point from which to see how power and masculinity coalesce?and how her body paid the price. With unflinching candor, Steines searches for the roots of her erstwhile attraction to pain while charting the complicated triumph of tenderness and care.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696281Tue, 03 Oct 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brutalities: A Love Story Author: Margo Steines Narrator: Margo Steines Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/696281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brutalities: A Love Story Author: Margo Steines Narrator: Margo Steines Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Quarantined in a southwestern desert city in the midst of her high-risk pregnancy, Margo Steines felt her life narrow around her growing body, compelling her to reckon with the violence entangled in its history. She was a professional dominatrix in New York City, a homestead farmer in a brutal relationship, a welder on a high-rise building crew, and a Mixed Martial Arts enthusiast; each of her many lives brought a new vantage point from which to see how power and masculinity coalesce?and how her body paid the price. With unflinching candor, Steines searches for the roots of her erstwhile attraction to pain while charting the complicated triumph of tenderness and care.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thicker-than-water-a-memoir-by-kerry-washington--65151160https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thicker than Water: A Memoir Author: Kerry Washington Narrator: Kerry Washington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.37 of Total 52 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 14 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the deeply moving journey of her life so far, and the bravely intimate story of discovering her truth. While on a drive in Los Angeles, on a seemingly average afternoon, Kerry Washington received a text message that would send her on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. In an instant, her very identity was torn apart, with everything she thought she knew about herself thrown into question.   In Thicker than Water, Washington gives readers an intimate view into both her public and private worlds—as an artist, an advocate, an entrepreneur, a mother, a daughter, a wife, a Black woman. Chronicling her upbringing and life’s journey thus far, she reveals how she faced a series of challenges and setbacks, effectively hid childhood traumas, met extraordinary mentors, managed to grow her career, and crossed the threshold into stardom and political advocacy, ultimately discovering her truest self and, with it, a deeper sense of belonging.    Throughout this profoundly moving and beautifully written memoir, Washington attempts to answer the questions so many have struggled with: Who am I? What is my truest and most authentic self? How do I find a deeper sense of connection and belonging? With grace and honesty, Washington inspires readers to search for—and find—themselves. Please note: Based on listener feedback, we have updated the audio of this edition. If you experience any issues, please re-download.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660106Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thicker than Water: A Memoir Author: Kerry Washington Narrator: Kerry Washington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thicker than Water: A Memoir Author: Kerry Washington Narrator: Kerry Washington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.37 of Total 52 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 14 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the deeply moving journey of her life so far, and the bravely intimate story of discovering her truth. While on a drive in Los Angeles, on a seemingly average afternoon, Kerry Washington received a text message that would send her on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. In an instant, her very identity was torn apart, with everything she thought she knew about herself thrown into question.   In Thicker than Water, Washington gives readers an intimate view into both her public and private worlds—as an artist, an advocate, an entrepreneur, a mother, a daughter, a wife, a Black woman. Chronicling her upbringing and life’s journey thus far, she reveals how she faced a series of challenges and setbacks, effectively hid childhood traumas, met extraordinary mentors, managed to grow her career, and crossed the threshold into stardom and political advocacy, ultimately discovering her truest self and, with it, a deeper sense of belonging.    Throughout this profoundly moving and beautifully written memoir, Washington attempts to answer the questions so many have struggled with: Who am I? What is my truest and most authentic self? How do I find a deeper sense of connection and belonging? With grace and honesty, Washington inspires readers to search for—and find—themselves. Please note: Based on listener feedback, we have updated the audio of this edition. If you experience any issues, please re-download.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fear-is-just-a-word-a-missing-daughter-a-violent-cartel-and-a-mother-s-quest-for-vengeance-by-azam-ahmed--65151152https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/671568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance Author: Azam Ahmed Narrator: Sheldon Romero Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her own brand of justice to avenge the kidnapping and murder of her daughter—from a global investigative correspondent for The New York Times “Azam Ahmed has written a page-turning mystery but also a stunning, color-saturated portrait of the collapse of formal justice in one Mexican town.”—Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Directorate S LONGLISTED FOR THE MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New Yorker, The Economist, Chicago Public Library Fear Is Just a Word begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the United States, as fifty-six-year-old Miriam Rodríguez stalks one of the men she believes was involved in the murder of her daughter Karen. He is her target number eleven, a member of the drug cartel that has terrorized and controlled what was once Miriam’s quiet hometown of San Fernando, Mexico, almost one hundred miles from the U.S. border. Having dyed her hair red as a disguise, Miriam watches, waits, and then orchestrates the arrest of this man, exacting her own version of justice. Woven into this deeply researched, moving account is the story of how cartels built their power in Mexico, escalated the use of violence, and kidnapped and murdered tens of thousands. Karen was just one of the many people who disappeared, and Miriam, a brilliant, strategic, and fearless woman, begged for help from the authorities and paid ransom money she could not afford in hopes of saving her daughter. When that failed, she decided that “fear is just a word,” and began a crusade to track down Karen’s killers and to help other victimized families in their search for justice. What do people do when their country and the peaceful town where they have grown up become unrecognizable, suddenly places of violence and fear? Azam Ahmed takes us into the grieving of a country and a family to tell the mesmerizing story of a brave and brilliant woman determined to find out what happened to her daughter, and to see that the criminals who murdered her were punished. Fear Is Just a Word is an unforgettable and moving portrait of a woman, a town, and a country, and of what can happen when violent forces leave people to seek justice on their own.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/671568Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/671568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance Author: Azam Ahmed Narrator: Sheldon Romero Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/671568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance Author: Azam Ahmed Narrator: Sheldon Romero Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her own brand of justice to avenge the kidnapping and murder of her daughter—from a global investigative correspondent for The New York Times “Azam Ahmed has written a page-turning mystery but also a stunning, color-saturated portrait of the collapse of formal justice in one Mexican town.”—Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Directorate S LONGLISTED FOR THE MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New Yorker, The Economist, Chicago Public Library Fear Is Just a Word begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the United States, as fifty-six-year-old Miriam Rodríguez stalks one of the men she believes was involved in the murder of her daughter Karen. He is her target number eleven, a member of the drug cartel that has terrorized and controlled what was once Miriam’s quiet hometown of San Fernando, Mexico, almost one hundred miles from the U.S. border. Having dyed her hair red as a disguise, Miriam watches, waits, and then orchestrates the arrest of this man, exacting her own version of justice. Woven into this deeply researched, moving account is the story of how cartels built their power in Mexico, escalated the use of violence, and kidnapped and murdered tens of thousands. Karen was just one of the many people who disappeared, and Miriam, a brilliant, strategic, and fearless woman, begged for help from the authorities and paid ransom money she could not afford in hopes of saving her daughter. When that failed, she decided that “fear is just a word,” and began a crusade to track down Karen’s killers and to help other victimized families in their search for justice. What do people do when their country and the peaceful town where they have grown up become unrecognizable, suddenly places of violence and fear? Azam Ahmed takes us into the grieving of a country and a family to tell the mesmerizing story of a brave and brilliant woman determined to find out what happened to her daughter, and to see that the criminals who murdered her were punished. Fear Is Just a Word is an unforgettable and moving portrait of a woman, a town, and a country, and of what can happen when violent forces leave people to seek justice on their own.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/betty-friedan-magnificent-disruptor-by-rachel-shteir--65151092https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor Series: Part of Jewish Lives Author: Rachel Shteir Narrator: Kim Niemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921–2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was powerful and polarizing. In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rachel Shteir draws on Friedan's papers and on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends to create a nuanced portrait. Friedan, born Bettye Naomi Goldstein, chafed at society's restrictions from a young age. As a journalist she covered racism, sexism, labor, class inequality, and anti-Semitism. As a wife and mother, she struggled to balance her work and homemaking. Her malaise as a housewife and her research into the feelings of other women resulted in The Feminine Mystique (1963), which made her a celebrity. Using her influence, Friedan cofounded the National Organization for Women, the National Women's Political Caucus, and the National Association to Repeal Abortion Laws. She fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, universal childcare, and workplace protections for mothers, but she disagreed with the women's liberation movement over 'sexual politics.' Shteir considers how Friedan's Judaism was essential to her feminism, presenting a new Friedan for a new era.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702822Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor Series: Part of Jewish Lives Author: Rachel Shteir Narrator: Kim Niemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor Series: Part of Jewish Lives Author: Rachel Shteir Narrator: Kim Niemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921–2006), pathbreaking author of The Feminine Mystique, was powerful and polarizing. In this biography, the first in more than twenty years, Rachel Shteir draws on Friedan's papers and on interviews with family, colleagues, and friends to create a nuanced portrait. Friedan, born Bettye Naomi Goldstein, chafed at society's restrictions from a young age. As a journalist she covered racism, sexism, labor, class inequality, and anti-Semitism. As a wife and mother, she struggled to balance her work and homemaking. Her malaise as a housewife and her research into the feelings of other women resulted in The Feminine Mystique (1963), which made her a celebrity. Using her influence, Friedan cofounded the National Organization for Women, the National Women's Political Caucus, and the National Association to Repeal Abortion Laws. She fought for the Equal Rights Amendment, universal childcare, and workplace protections for mothers, but she disagreed with the women's liberation movement over 'sexual politics.' Shteir considers how Friedan's Judaism was essential to her feminism, presenting a new Friedan for a new era.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-black-angels-the-untold-story-of-the-nurses-who-helped-cure-tuberculosis-by-maria-smilios--65151148https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis Author: Maria Smilios Narrator: Gina Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure one of the world’s deadliest plagues: tuberculosis. During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island, yet again confronting racism and consigned to a woefully understaffed facility, dubbed “the pest house” where “no one left alive.”  Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, this story follows the intrepid young women, the “Black Angels,” who, for twenty years, risked their lives working under dreadful conditions while caring for the city’s poorest—1,800 souls languishing in wards, waiting to die or become “guinea pigs” for experimental (often deadly) drugs. Yet despite their major role in desegregating the NYC hospital system—and regardless of their vital work in helping to find the cure for tuberculosis at Sea View—these nurses were completely erased from history. The Black Angels recovers the voices of these extraordinary women and puts them at the center of this riveting story celebrating their legacy and spirit of survival. Photo of nurses courtesy of NYCHHC/SeaView Archives]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669359Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis Author: Maria Smilios Narrator: Gina Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis Author: Maria Smilios Narrator: Gina Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure one of the world’s deadliest plagues: tuberculosis. During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island, yet again confronting racism and consigned to a woefully understaffed facility, dubbed “the pest house” where “no one left alive.”  Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, this story follows the intrepid young women, the “Black Angels,” who, for twenty years, risked their lives working under dreadful conditions while caring for the city’s poorest—1,800 souls languishing in wards, waiting to die or become “guinea pigs” for experimental (often deadly) drugs. Yet despite their major role in desegregating the NYC hospital system—and regardless of their vital work in helping to find the cure for tuberculosis at Sea View—these nurses were completely erased from history. The Black Angels recovers the voices of these extraordinary women and puts them at the center of this riveting story celebrating their legacy and spirit of survival. Photo of nurses courtesy of NYCHHC/SeaView Archives]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-farmer-s-wife-my-life-in-days-by-helen-rebanks--65151125https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days Author: Helen Rebanks Narrator: Helen Rebanks, Esmée Cook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'An exquisite love-letter to the goodness of the natural world, and to shepherding family, marriage, and a farm to health and prosperity.' —Nick Offerman, award-winning actor, comedian, and writer A heartfelt, unvarnished reflection on the power of domestic life. Helen Rebanks' beautifully written memoir takes place across a single day on her working farm in the Lake District of England. Weaving past and present, through a journey of self-discovery, the book takes us from the farmhouse table of her grandmother and into the home she now shares with her husband, James, their four kids, and an abundance of animals. With honesty and grace, Helen shares her life in days—sometimes a wonder and a joy, others a grind to be survived—weaving in stories that read like a well-written pastoral novel. The Farmer's Wife is a book about the love of life, the nourishing simplicity of everyday work, and sharing stories around a family table full of good food. Full of gentle wisdom, this book is an honest portrait of rural life and an authentic exploration of both the hard work and reward of keeping a home and raising a family—even though the job is often thankless and invisible. Also included are simple recipes and dozens of guilt-free 'Survival Mode' meal ideas. About Helen and Her Farm: Along with her husband, James Rebanks (author of The Shepherd’s Life), Helen and her family work as a tight-knit team. Their farm has become globally important through their nature-friendly farming practices and has been a retreat for many, including actor and comedian Nick Offerman. The Rebanks host events regularly at the farm to share their expertise and encourage others to farm sustainably.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675983Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days Author: Helen Rebanks Narrator: Helen Rebanks, Esmée Cook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 50 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days Author: Helen Rebanks Narrator: Helen Rebanks, Esmée Cook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'An exquisite love-letter to the goodness of the natural world, and to shepherding family, marriage, and a farm to health and prosperity.' —Nick Offerman, award-winning actor, comedian, and writer A heartfelt, unvarnished reflection on the power of domestic life. Helen Rebanks' beautifully written memoir takes place across a single day on her working farm in the Lake District of England. Weaving past and present, through a journey of self-discovery, the book takes us from the farmhouse table of her grandmother and into the home she now shares with her husband, James, their four kids, and an abundance of animals. With honesty and grace, Helen shares her life in days—sometimes a wonder and a joy, others a grind to be survived—weaving in stories that read like a well-written pastoral novel. The Farmer's Wife is a book about the love of life, the nourishing simplicity of everyday work, and sharing stories around a family table full of good food. Full of gentle wisdom, this book is an honest portrait of rural life and an authentic exploration of both the hard work and reward of keeping a home and raising a family—even though the job is often thankless and invisible. Also included are simple recipes and dozens of guilt-free 'Survival Mode' meal ideas. About Helen and Her Farm: Along with her husband, James Rebanks (author of The Shepherd’s Life), Helen and her family work as a tight-knit team. Their farm has become globally important through their nature-friendly farming practices and has been a retreat for many, including actor and comedian Nick Offerman. The Rebanks host events regularly at the farm to share their expertise and encourage others to farm sustainably.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wandering-through-life-a-memoir-by-donna-leon--65151123https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wandering through Life: A Memoir Author: Donna Leon Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her eightiesIn a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, Donna Leon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her than been planned. Following a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather’s farm and its beloved animals, and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Leon got her first taste of the classical music and opera that would enrich her life. She also developed a yen for adventure. In 1976, she made the spontaneous decision to teach English in Iran, before finding herself swept up in the early days of the 1979 Revolution. After teaching stints in China and Saudi Arabia, she finally landed in Venice. Leon vividly animates her decades-long love affair with Italy, from her first magical dinner when serving as a chaperone to a friend, to the hunt for the perfect cappuccino, to the warfare tactics of grandmothers doing their grocery shopping at the Rialto Market.Some things remain constant throughout the decades: her adoration of opera, especially Handel’s vocal music, and her advocacy for the environment, embodied in her passion for bees—which informs the surprising crux of the Brunetti mystery Earthly Remains. Even as mass tourism takes its toll on the patience of residents,Leon’s passion for Venice also remains unchanged: its outrageous beauty and magic still captivate her.Having recently celebrated her eightieth birthday, Leon poignantly confronts the dual challenges and pleasures of aging. Complete with a brief letter dissuading those hoping to meet Guido Brunetti at the Questura, and always suffused with music, food, and her sharp sense of humor, Wandering through Life offers Donna Leon at her most personal.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679341Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wandering through Life: A Memoir Author: Donna Leon Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 7 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wandering through Life: A Memoir Author: Donna Leon Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her eightiesIn a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, Donna Leon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her than been planned. Following a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather’s farm and its beloved animals, and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Leon got her first taste of the classical music and opera that would enrich her life. She also developed a yen for adventure. In 1976, she made the spontaneous decision to teach English in Iran, before finding herself swept up in the early days of the 1979 Revolution. After teaching stints in China and Saudi Arabia, she finally landed in Venice. Leon vividly animates her decades-long love affair with Italy, from her first magical dinner when serving as a chaperone to a friend, to the hunt for the perfect cappuccino, to the warfare tactics of grandmothers doing their grocery shopping at the Rialto Market.Some things remain constant throughout the decades: her adoration of opera, especially Handel’s vocal music, and her advocacy for the environment, embodied in her passion for bees—which informs the surprising crux of the Brunetti mystery Earthly Remains. Even as mass tourism takes its toll on the patience of residents,Leon’s passion for Venice also remains unchanged: its outrageous beauty and magic still captivate her.Having recently celebrated her eightieth birthday, Leon poignantly confronts the dual challenges and pleasures of aging. Complete with a brief letter dissuading those hoping to meet Guido Brunetti at the Questura, and always suffused with music, food, and her sharp sense of humor, Wandering through Life offers Donna Leon at her most personal.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/coco-chanel-the-legend-and-the-life-by-justine-picardie--65151061https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life Author: Justine Picardie Narrator: Karen Cass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Filled with fresh new research, this updated edition of the definitive biography of Coco Chanel deepens our understanding of the history and legacy of the incredible woman who shaped modern fashion and created an empire of haute couture. Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor, conjuring up the little black dress, bobbed hair, trousers for women, contemporary chic, bestselling perfumes, and the most successful fashion brand of all time. But she also invented herself, fashioning the myth of her own life with the same dexterity as her couture; and what lies beneath her own glossy surface is darker, more mysterious, and far more intriguing. Uncovering remarkable new details about Gabrielle Chanel’s humble early years, Justine Picardie picks up the legend Chanel where it began—in orphanhood and poverty. Throwing new light on her passionate and, at times, dark relationships and providing profound insights into her connections with Cocteau, Diaghilev, Picasso, and Dali, this beautifully constructed portrait gives a fresh and penetrating look at what made Coco Chanel the strong-spirited and powerful presence she became. An authoritative account, based on personal observations and interviews with Chanel’s last surviving friends, employees, and relatives, the book also unravels her coded language and symbols and tracks the influence of her formative years on her legendary style. Feared and revered by the rest of the fashion industry, Coco Chanel died in 1971 at the age of 87, but her legacy lives on. This special new edition has been extensively revised and updated and offers a uniquely authoritative account of the world’s greatest designer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702399Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life Author: Justine Picardie Narrator: Karen Cass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life Author: Justine Picardie Narrator: Karen Cass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Filled with fresh new research, this updated edition of the definitive biography of Coco Chanel deepens our understanding of the history and legacy of the incredible woman who shaped modern fashion and created an empire of haute couture. Coco Chanel was an extraordinary inventor, conjuring up the little black dress, bobbed hair, trousers for women, contemporary chic, bestselling perfumes, and the most successful fashion brand of all time. But she also invented herself, fashioning the myth of her own life with the same dexterity as her couture; and what lies beneath her own glossy surface is darker, more mysterious, and far more intriguing. Uncovering remarkable new details about Gabrielle Chanel’s humble early years, Justine Picardie picks up the legend Chanel where it began—in orphanhood and poverty. Throwing new light on her passionate and, at times, dark relationships and providing profound insights into her connections with Cocteau, Diaghilev, Picasso, and Dali, this beautifully constructed portrait gives a fresh and penetrating look at what made Coco Chanel the strong-spirited and powerful presence she became. An authoritative account, based on personal observations and interviews with Chanel’s last surviving friends, employees, and relatives, the book also unravels her coded language and symbols and tracks the influence of her formative years on her legendary style. Feared and revered by the rest of the fashion industry, Coco Chanel died in 1971 at the age of 87, but her legacy lives on. This special new edition has been extensively revised and updated and offers a uniquely authoritative account of the world’s greatest designer.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/crusade-to-heal-america-the-remarkable-life-of-mary-lasker-by-judith-l-pearson--65151050https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker Author: Judith L. Pearson Narrator: Maria Mccann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “I am opposed to heart disease and cancer the way one is opposed to sin.” With that as her battle cry, health activist and philanthropist Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. Known as the “American Nobels,” these became the most prestigious research awards in America. The Laskers’ next step was transforming the sleepy and ineffectual American Society for the Control of Cancer, reinventing it as the American Cancer Society in 1944. But the real increase in medical research funding occurred when Mary discovered a revolutionary source: the federal government. “I’m just a catalytic agent,” she would insist, while she tirelessly lobbied Congress and presidents alike. She played a major role in expanding the National Institutes of Health from a single entity to the largest research facility in the world. A feminist who used her femininity wisely, Mary’s ultimate victory was bringing together two political adversaries to help launch the original cancer moonshot: the 1971 National Cancer Act. This deeply researched biography paints the portrait of a woman who was savvy, steely, and deliberate. Mary Lasker courageously positioned herself at the crossroads of politics, science, and medicine. At a time when women in research laboratories and the halls of Congress were anomalies, she smashed stereotypes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699176Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker Author: Judith L. Pearson Narrator: Maria Mccann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699176 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker Author: Judith L. Pearson Narrator: Maria Mccann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “I am opposed to heart disease and cancer the way one is opposed to sin.” With that as her battle cry, health activist and philanthropist Mary Woodard Lasker had a singular goal: saving lives by increasing medical research. Together with her husband, advertising genius Albert, they created the Lasker Foundation, bestowing the Lasker Awards. Known as the “American Nobels,” these became the most prestigious research awards in America. The Laskers’ next step was transforming the sleepy and ineffectual American Society for the Control of Cancer, reinventing it as the American Cancer Society in 1944. But the real increase in medical research funding occurred when Mary discovered a revolutionary source: the federal government. “I’m just a catalytic agent,” she would insist, while she tirelessly lobbied Congress and presidents alike. She played a major role in expanding the National Institutes of Health from a single entity to the largest research facility in the world. A feminist who used her femininity wisely, Mary’s ultimate victory was bringing together two political adversaries to help launch the original cancer moonshot: the 1971 National Cancer Act. This deeply researched biography paints the portrait of a woman who was savvy, steely, and deliberate. Mary Lasker courageously positioned herself at the crossroads of politics, science, and medicine. At a time when women in research laboratories and the halls of Congress were anomalies, she smashed stereotypes.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pure-wit-the-revolutionary-life-of-margaret-cavendish-by-francesca-peacock--65151051https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish Author: Francesca Peacock Narrator: Anna Cordell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 14, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A biography of the remarkable, and in her time scandalous, seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. 'My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world' - Margaret Cavendish Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to an aristocratic family. In 1644, as England descended into civil war, she joined the court of the formidable Queen Henrietta Maria at Oxford. With the rest of the court she went into self-imposed exile in France. Her family's wealth and lands were forfeited by Parliament. It was in France that she met her much older partner, William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a marriage that would remain at the heart of both her life and career. Cavendish was a passionate writer. She wrote extensively on gender, science, philosophy, and published under her own name at a time when women simply did not do so. Her greatest work was The Blazing World, published in 1666, a utopian proto-novel that is thought to be one of the earliest works of science fiction. Yet hers is a legacy that divides opinion. And history has largely forgotten her, an undeserved fate for a brilliant, courageous proto-feminist. In Pure Wit, Francesca Peacock shines a spotlight on the fascinating, pioneering, yet often complex and controversial life of Margaret Cavendish.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702543Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish Author: Francesca Peacock Narrator: Anna Cordell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/702543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish Author: Francesca Peacock Narrator: Anna Cordell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 14, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A biography of the remarkable, and in her time scandalous, seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. 'My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world' - Margaret Cavendish Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to an aristocratic family. In 1644, as England descended into civil war, she joined the court of the formidable Queen Henrietta Maria at Oxford. With the rest of the court she went into self-imposed exile in France. Her family's wealth and lands were forfeited by Parliament. It was in France that she met her much older partner, William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a marriage that would remain at the heart of both her life and career. Cavendish was a passionate writer. She wrote extensively on gender, science, philosophy, and published under her own name at a time when women simply did not do so. Her greatest work was The Blazing World, published in 1666, a utopian proto-novel that is thought to be one of the earliest works of science fiction. Yet hers is a legacy that divides opinion. And history has largely forgotten her, an undeserved fate for a brilliant, courageous proto-feminist. In Pure Wit, Francesca Peacock shines a spotlight on the fascinating, pioneering, yet often complex and controversial life of Margaret Cavendish.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/exit-interview-the-life-and-death-of-my-ambitious-career-by-kristi-coulter--65151149https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career Author: Kristi Coulter Narrator: Kristi Coulter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This program is read by the author. A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon.com, from the author of Nothing Good Can Come from This. 'A unique and brilliant book.' —Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks What would you sacrifice for your career? All your free time? Your sense of self-worth? Your sanity? In 2006, Kristi Coulter left her cozy but dull job for a promising new position at the fast-growing Amazon.com, but she never expected the soul-crushing pressure that would come with it. In no time she found the challenge and excitement she'd been craving—along with seven-day workweeks, lifeboat exercises, widespread burnout, and a culture driven largely by fear. But the chase, the visibility, and, let's face it, the stock options proved intoxicating, and so, for twelve years, she stayed—until she no longer recognized the face in the mirror or the mission she'd signed up for. Unsparing, absurd, and wickedly funny, Exit Interview is a rare journey inside the crucible that is Amazon. It is an intimate, surprisingly relatable look at the work life of a driven woman in a world that loves the idea of female ambition but balks at the reality. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657968Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career Author: Kristi Coulter Narrator: Kristi Coulter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657968 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career Author: Kristi Coulter Narrator: Kristi Coulter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This program is read by the author. A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon.com, from the author of Nothing Good Can Come from This. 'A unique and brilliant book.' —Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks What would you sacrifice for your career? All your free time? Your sense of self-worth? Your sanity? In 2006, Kristi Coulter left her cozy but dull job for a promising new position at the fast-growing Amazon.com, but she never expected the soul-crushing pressure that would come with it. In no time she found the challenge and excitement she'd been craving—along with seven-day workweeks, lifeboat exercises, widespread burnout, and a culture driven largely by fear. But the chase, the visibility, and, let's face it, the stock options proved intoxicating, and so, for twelve years, she stayed—until she no longer recognized the face in the mirror or the mission she'd signed up for. Unsparing, absurd, and wickedly funny, Exit Interview is a rare journey inside the crucible that is Amazon. It is an intimate, surprisingly relatable look at the work life of a driven woman in a world that loves the idea of female ambition but balks at the reality. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/omega-farm-a-memoir-by-martha-mcphee--65151139https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672859 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Omega Farm: A Memoir Author: Martha McPhee Narrator: Tracy Thorne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: *A New Yorker and Vogue Best Book of 2023* “Compelling... [McPhee] positions herself neither as victim nor saint but as someone who, she says, only wants to be good.” —The Washington Post A moving memoir from an award-winning novelist—a riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that’s fallen into neglect. As Martha works to manage her mother’s care and the sprawling, ramshackle property—a broken septic system, invasive bamboo, dying ash trees—she is swept back, unwillingly, into memories of her fraught, dysfunctional childhood. In this masterful exploration of a complicated family legacy, McPhee “makes no effort to spare her own flaws even as she searches for the roots of her mature turmoil in the shortcomings of adults who failed in the fundamental task of protecting her younger self” (BookPage). Omega Farm is an “expansive” (New Yorker) testament to hope in the face of suffering, and a courageous tale about how returning home can offer a new way to understand the past.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672859Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672859 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Omega Farm: A Memoir Author: Martha McPhee Narrator: Tracy Thorne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 12,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672859 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Omega Farm: A Memoir Author: Martha McPhee Narrator: Tracy Thorne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: *A New Yorker and Vogue Best Book of 2023* “Compelling... [McPhee] positions herself neither as victim nor saint but as someone who, she says, only wants to be good.” —The Washington Post A moving memoir from an award-winning novelist—a riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that’s fallen into neglect. As Martha works to manage her mother’s care and the sprawling, ramshackle property—a broken septic system, invasive bamboo, dying ash trees—she is swept back, unwillingly, into memories of her fraught, dysfunctional childhood. In this masterful exploration of a complicated family legacy, McPhee “makes no effort to spare her own flaws even as she searches for the roots of her mature turmoil in the shortcomings of adults who failed in the fundamental task of protecting her younger self” (BookPage). Omega Farm is an “expansive” (New Yorker) testament to hope in the face of suffering, and a courageous tale about how returning home can offer a new way to understand the past.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/but-will-you-love-me-tomorrow-an-oral-history-of-the-60s-girl-groups-by-laura-flam-emily-sieu-liebowitz--65151198https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/665571 to listen full audiobooks. Title: But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups Author: Laura Flam, Emily Sieu Liebowitz Narrator: Emily Sieu Liebowitz, Laura Flam, Lanecia Edmonds, Leon Nixon, Robin Eller, Janina Edwards, Fred Berman, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Featuring over 300 hours of new interviews with 100+ subjects, an oral history of the girl groups (such as The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas) that redefined the early 1960s    The girl group sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves by capturing the mixture of innocence and rebellion emblematic of America in the 1960s.  As songs like "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Then He Kissed Me," and "Be My Baby" rose to the top of the charts, girl groups cornered the burgeoning post-war market of teenage rock and roll fans, indelibly shaping the trajectory of pop music in the process. While the songs are essential to the American canon, many of the artists remain all but anonymous to most listeners.  With more than 100 subjects that made the music, from the singers to the songwriters, to their agents, managers, and sound engineers—and even to the present-day celebrities inspired by their lasting influence–But Will You Love Me Tomorrow: An Oral History of 60s Girl Groups tells a national coming-of-age story that gives particular insight into the experiences of the female singers and songwriters who created the movement.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/665571Tue, 05 Sep 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/665571 to listen full audiobooks. Title: But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups Author: Laura Flam, Emily Sieu Liebowitz Narrator: Emily Sieu Liebowitz, Laura...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/665571 to listen full audiobooks. Title: But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups Author: Laura Flam, Emily Sieu Liebowitz Narrator: Emily Sieu Liebowitz, Laura Flam, Lanecia Edmonds, Leon Nixon, Robin Eller, Janina Edwards, Fred Berman, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Featuring over 300 hours of new interviews with 100+ subjects, an oral history of the girl groups (such as The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas) that redefined the early 1960s    The girl group sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves by capturing the mixture of innocence and rebellion emblematic of America in the 1960s.  As songs like "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Then He Kissed Me," and "Be My Baby" rose to the top of the charts, girl groups cornered the burgeoning post-war market of teenage rock and roll fans, indelibly shaping the trajectory of pop music in the process. While the songs are essential to the American canon, many of the artists remain all but anonymous to most listeners.  With more than 100 subjects that made the music, from the singers to the songwriters, to their agents, managers, and sound engineers—and even to the present-day celebrities inspired by their lasting influence–But Will You Love Me Tomorrow: An Oral History of 60s Girl Groups tells a national coming-of-age story that gives particular insight into the experiences of the female singers and songwriters who created the movement.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bing-and-billie-and-frank-and-ella-and-judy-and-barbra-by-dan-callahan--65151072https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra Author: Dan Callahan Narrator: Paul Bellantoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers. Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music over a fifty-year period, a roller coaster ride that gains momentum through the 1930s and '40s, reaches a crest of magical creativity in the 1950s and early '60s, and then crashes down by the early 1970s, a half century when the great American songbook dominated the airwaves and the fight for racial equality came to the forefront. Ella was beloved in her time, and she is still beloved. Frank is still the king of the songbook, but Bing's legacy is just as vital once you start listening to his unprecedented 1930s output. The best songs from Judy's greatest triumph, her 1963–64 TV series, are shared endlessly online. The legend of Billie grows by the year, and the basis of this should be appreciation and wonder for her own great artistry in the 1930s. Barbra is a living legend and still a commercial force to be reckoned with, the last exemplar of the songbook and its glories. All six of these singers reach out to us and show us new ways of expression and new ways to dream. Their song is largely ended but the melody lingers on.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700811Tue, 05 Sep 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra Author: Dan Callahan Narrator: Paul Bellantoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 58...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra Author: Dan Callahan Narrator: Paul Bellantoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 58 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers. Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music over a fifty-year period, a roller coaster ride that gains momentum through the 1930s and '40s, reaches a crest of magical creativity in the 1950s and early '60s, and then crashes down by the early 1970s, a half century when the great American songbook dominated the airwaves and the fight for racial equality came to the forefront. Ella was beloved in her time, and she is still beloved. Frank is still the king of the songbook, but Bing's legacy is just as vital once you start listening to his unprecedented 1930s output. The best songs from Judy's greatest triumph, her 1963–64 TV series, are shared endlessly online. The legend of Billie grows by the year, and the basis of this should be appreciation and wonder for her own great artistry in the 1930s. Barbra is a living legend and still a commercial force to be reckoned with, the last exemplar of the songbook and its glories. All six of these singers reach out to us and show us new ways of expression and new ways to dream. Their song is largely ended but the melody lingers on.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fly-girls-revolt-the-story-of-the-women-who-kicked-open-the-door-to-fly-in-combat-by-eileen-a-bjorkman--65151155https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat Author: Eileen A. Bjorkman Narrator: Lisa S. Ware Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In 1993, U.S. women earned the right to fly in combat, but the full story of how it happened is largely unknown. The Fly Girls Revolt chronicles the actions of a band of women who overcame decades of discrimination and prevailed against bureaucrats, chauvinists, anti-feminists, and even other military women. Drawing on extensive research, interviews with women who served in the 1970s and 1980s, and her personal experiences in the Air Force, Eileen Bjorkman weaves together a riveting tale of the women who fought for the right to enter combat and be treated as equal partners in the U.S. military. Although the military had begun training women as aviators in 1973, by a law of Congress they could not fly in harm's way. Time and again when a woman graduated at the top of her pilot training class, a less-qualified male pilot was sent to fly a combat aircraft in her place. Most of the women who fought for change between World War II and today would never fly in combat themselves, but they earned their places in history by strengthening the U.S. military and ensuring future women would not be denied opportunities solely because of their sex. The Fly Girls Revolt is their story.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690769Tue, 29 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat Author: Eileen A. Bjorkman Narrator: Lisa S. Ware Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat Author: Eileen A. Bjorkman Narrator: Lisa S. Ware Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In 1993, U.S. women earned the right to fly in combat, but the full story of how it happened is largely unknown. The Fly Girls Revolt chronicles the actions of a band of women who overcame decades of discrimination and prevailed against bureaucrats, chauvinists, anti-feminists, and even other military women. Drawing on extensive research, interviews with women who served in the 1970s and 1980s, and her personal experiences in the Air Force, Eileen Bjorkman weaves together a riveting tale of the women who fought for the right to enter combat and be treated as equal partners in the U.S. military. Although the military had begun training women as aviators in 1973, by a law of Congress they could not fly in harm's way. Time and again when a woman graduated at the top of her pilot training class, a less-qualified male pilot was sent to fly a combat aircraft in her place. Most of the women who fought for change between World War II and today would never fly in combat themselves, but they earned their places in history by strengthening the U.S. military and ensuring future women would not be denied opportunities solely because of their sex. The Fly Girls Revolt is their story.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/book-of-queens-the-true-story-of-the-middle-eastern-horsewomen-who-fought-the-war-on-terror-by-pardis-mahdavi--65151134https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650352 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror Author: Pardis Mahdavi Narrator: Shila Ommi, Sitara Attaie, Pardis Mahdavi, Sean Rohani, Nikki Massoud, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The untold story of generations of Middle Eastern freedom fighters—horsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horse—and their efforts to defend their homelands from the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them."A breathtaking book that revisits nearly one hundred years of Iranian history, highlighting the power and beauty of women who refuse to be subdued.” ―Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of A Woven World Book of Queens reaches back centuries to the Persian Empire and a woman disguised as a man, facing an invading army, protected only by light armor and the stallion she sat astride. Mahdavi draws a thread from past to present: from her fearless Iranian grandmother, who guided survivors of domestic violence to independent mountain colonies in Afghanistan where the women, led by a general named Mina, became their country’s first line of defense from marauding warlords. To the female warriors who helped train and breed the horses used by US Green Berets when they touched down in October 2001, with a mission but insufficient intelligence on the ground—women whose contributions were then forgotten. Pardis Mahdavi chases the legacy of Caspian horses and the women whose lives are saved by them, drawing on decades of research, newly-discovered diaries, and exclusive military sources. Among those intersecting stories is that of American Louise Firouz, who helped bring the breed back from the brink of extinction, connecting Virginia traders to British royals to the son of the Shah. Firouz’s life is forever changed when she meets Mahdavi’s own family, who run an unusual smuggling operation in addition to raising horses in a wild bid for freedom. Book of Queens is an epic tale of hidden women whose communal knowledge was instrumental in saving an animal as ancient as civilization, and who were the genesis of their own liberation.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650352Tue, 29 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650352 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror Author: Pardis Mahdavi Narrator: Shila Ommi, Sitara...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650352 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror Author: Pardis Mahdavi Narrator: Shila Ommi, Sitara Attaie, Pardis Mahdavi, Sean Rohani, Nikki Massoud, Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The untold story of generations of Middle Eastern freedom fighters—horsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horse—and their efforts to defend their homelands from the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them."A breathtaking book that revisits nearly one hundred years of Iranian history, highlighting the power and beauty of women who refuse to be subdued.” ―Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of A Woven World Book of Queens reaches back centuries to the Persian Empire and a woman disguised as a man, facing an invading army, protected only by light armor and the stallion she sat astride. Mahdavi draws a thread from past to present: from her fearless Iranian grandmother, who guided survivors of domestic violence to independent mountain colonies in Afghanistan where the women, led by a general named Mina, became their country’s first line of defense from marauding warlords. To the female warriors who helped train and breed the horses used by US Green Berets when they touched down in October 2001, with a mission but insufficient intelligence on the ground—women whose contributions were then forgotten. Pardis Mahdavi chases the legacy of Caspian horses and the women whose lives are saved by them, drawing on decades of research, newly-discovered diaries, and exclusive military sources. Among those intersecting stories is that of American Louise Firouz, who helped bring the breed back from the brink of extinction, connecting Virginia traders to British royals to the son of the Shah. Firouz’s life is forever changed when she meets Mahdavi’s own family, who run an unusual smuggling operation in addition to raising horses in a wild bid for freedom. Book of Queens is an epic tale of hidden women whose communal knowledge was instrumental in saving an animal as ancient as civilization, and who were the genesis of their own liberation.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/finding-elevation-fear-and-courage-on-the-world-s-most-dangerous-mountain-by-lisa-thompson--65151129https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Elevation: Fear and Courage on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain Author: Lisa Thompson Narrator: Holly Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Defiance led Lisa Thompson to the male-dominated world of mountain climbing. But after battling breast cancer, she needed to understand the motivations behind the risks she took while climbing. Finding Elevation is more than her climbing memoir. It is an examination of the human spirit and motivation. Listeners will be gripped by Lisa's path from amateur mountain climber to world-class mountaineer as she: ● Becomes the second American woman to summit K2 ● Conquers the world's most dangerous mountains ● Defines her own limits, and ● Discovers what she's truly capable of In this inspirational book, listeners will be moved by Lisa's story of heartbreak, resilience, and the discovery that we must define our own boundaries, find our own happiness, and face our fears head-on.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691587Tue, 29 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Elevation: Fear and Courage on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain Author: Lisa Thompson Narrator: Holly Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Elevation: Fear and Courage on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain Author: Lisa Thompson Narrator: Holly Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Defiance led Lisa Thompson to the male-dominated world of mountain climbing. But after battling breast cancer, she needed to understand the motivations behind the risks she took while climbing. Finding Elevation is more than her climbing memoir. It is an examination of the human spirit and motivation. Listeners will be gripped by Lisa's path from amateur mountain climber to world-class mountaineer as she: ● Becomes the second American woman to summit K2 ● Conquers the world's most dangerous mountains ● Defines her own limits, and ● Discovers what she's truly capable of In this inspirational book, listeners will be moved by Lisa's story of heartbreak, resilience, and the discovery that we must define our own boundaries, find our own happiness, and face our fears head-on.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/trailblazers-the-unmatched-story-of-women-s-tennis-by-cynthia-starr-billie-jean-king--65151054https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trailblazers: The Unmatched Story of Women's Tennis Author: Cynthia Starr, Billie Jean King Narrator: Billie Jean King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Legendary tennis player Billie Jean King details the remarkable history of women’s tennis in this stunning edition of Trailblazers: The Unmatched Story of Women's Tennis. In celebration of the Women’s Tennis Association’s 50th anniversary, this updated and expanded edition—based on the 1988 original We Have Come a Long Way: The Story of Women's Tennis—includes more than 250 photographs and 33 years’ worth of stories about inspiring women and their achievements. The book arrives 53 years after King and eight other women players broke with the male tennis establishment and launched their own professional tour. With this gorgeous, photographically forward, and deeply moving ode to women’s tennis, King and coauathor Cynthia Star will continue the remarkable story in which King has played such an integral role, shedding new light on barriers that were overcome and milestones that were achieved. Women’s tennis today has never been more popular across the globe and, as this book demonstrates, has never been more diverse and inclusive.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699693Tue, 29 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trailblazers: The Unmatched Story of Women's Tennis Author: Cynthia Starr, Billie Jean King Narrator: Billie Jean King Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trailblazers: The Unmatched Story of Women's Tennis Author: Cynthia Starr, Billie Jean King Narrator: Billie Jean King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Legendary tennis player Billie Jean King details the remarkable history of women’s tennis in this stunning edition of Trailblazers: The Unmatched Story of Women's Tennis. In celebration of the Women’s Tennis Association’s 50th anniversary, this updated and expanded edition—based on the 1988 original We Have Come a Long Way: The Story of Women's Tennis—includes more than 250 photographs and 33 years’ worth of stories about inspiring women and their achievements. The book arrives 53 years after King and eight other women players broke with the male tennis establishment and launched their own professional tour. With this gorgeous, photographically forward, and deeply moving ode to women’s tennis, King and coauathor Cynthia Star will continue the remarkable story in which King has played such an integral role, shedding new light on barriers that were overcome and milestones that were achieved. Women’s tennis today has never been more popular across the globe and, as this book demonstrates, has never been more diverse and inclusive.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wifedom-mrs-orwell-s-invisible-life-by-anna-funder--65151205https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life Author: Anna Funder Narrator: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood, Jane Slavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century —and a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world 'Simply, a masterpiece...Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full.' —Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author of Horse At the end of summer 2017, Anna Funder found herself at a moment of peak overload. Family obligations and household responsibilities were crushing her soul and taking her away from her writing deadlines. She needed help, and George Orwell came to her rescue. 'I’ve always loved Orwell,' Funder writes, 'his self-deprecating humour, his laser vision about how power works, and who it works on.' So after rereading and savoring books Orwell had written, she devoured six major biographies tracing his life and work. But then she read about his forgotten wife, and it was a revelation. Eileen O’Shaughnessy married Orwell in 1936. O’Shaughnessy was a writer herself, and her literary brilliance not only shaped Orwell’s work, but her practical common sense saved his life. But why and how, Funder wondered, was she written out of their story? Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder re-creates the Orwells’ marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War in London. As she peeks behind the curtain of Orwell’s private life she is led to question what it takes to be a writer—and what it is to be a wife. A breathtakingly intimate view of one of the most important literary marriages of the twentieth century, Wifedom speaks to our present moment as much as it illuminates the past. Genre-bending and utterly original, it is an ode to the unsung work of women everywhere. *Includes a downloadable PDF of photographs and notes from the book]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631014Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life Author: Anna Funder Narrator: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood, Jane Slavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life Author: Anna Funder Narrator: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood, Jane Slavin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century —and a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world 'Simply, a masterpiece...Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full.' —Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author of Horse At the end of summer 2017, Anna Funder found herself at a moment of peak overload. Family obligations and household responsibilities were crushing her soul and taking her away from her writing deadlines. She needed help, and George Orwell came to her rescue. 'I’ve always loved Orwell,' Funder writes, 'his self-deprecating humour, his laser vision about how power works, and who it works on.' So after rereading and savoring books Orwell had written, she devoured six major biographies tracing his life and work. But then she read about his forgotten wife, and it was a revelation. Eileen O’Shaughnessy married Orwell in 1936. O’Shaughnessy was a writer herself, and her literary brilliance not only shaped Orwell’s work, but her practical common sense saved his life. But why and how, Funder wondered, was she written out of their story? Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder re-creates the Orwells’ marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War in London. As she peeks behind the curtain of Orwell’s private life she is led to question what it takes to be a writer—and what it is to be a wife. A breathtakingly intimate view of one of the most important literary marriages of the twentieth century, Wifedom speaks to our present moment as much as it illuminates the past. Genre-bending and utterly original, it is an ode to the unsung work of women everywhere. *Includes a downloadable PDF of photographs and notes from the book]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/they-called-us-exceptional-and-other-lies-that-raised-us-by-prachi-gupta--65151172https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us Author: Prachi Gupta Narrator: Prachi Gupta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “In this vulnerable and courageous memoir, Prachi Gupta takes the myth of the exceptional Indian American family to task.”—The Washington Post “I read it in one sitting. Wow. It aims right at the tender spot where racism, sexism, and family dynamics collide, and somehow manages to be both searingly honest and deeply compassionate.”—Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere A SHE READS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE SEASON: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Bustle How do we understand ourselves when the story about who we are supposed to be is stronger than our sense of self? What do we stand to gain—and lose—by taking control of our narrative? Family defined the cultural identity of Prachi and her brother, Yush, connecting them to a larger Indian American community amid white suburbia. But their belonging was predicated on a powerful myth: the idea that Asian Americans, and Indian Americans in particular, have perfected the alchemy of middle-class life, raising tight-knit, high-achieving families that are immune to hardship. Molding oneself to fit this image often comes at a steep, but hidden, cost. In They Called Us Exceptional, Gupta articulates the dissonance, shame, and isolation of being upheld as an American success story while privately navigating traumas the world says do not exist. Gupta addresses her story to her mother, braiding a deeply vulnerable personal narrative with history, postcolonial theory, and research on mental health to show how she slowly made sense of her reality and freed herself from the pervasive, reductive myth that had once defined her. But tragically, the act that liberated Gupta was also the act that distanced her from those she loved most. By charting her family’s slow unraveling, and her determination to break the cycle, Gupta shows how traditional notions of success keep us disconnected from ourselves and one another—and passionately argues why we must orient ourselves toward compassion over belonging.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657348Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us Author: Prachi Gupta Narrator: Prachi Gupta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us Author: Prachi Gupta Narrator: Prachi Gupta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “In this vulnerable and courageous memoir, Prachi Gupta takes the myth of the exceptional Indian American family to task.”—The Washington Post “I read it in one sitting. Wow. It aims right at the tender spot where racism, sexism, and family dynamics collide, and somehow manages to be both searingly honest and deeply compassionate.”—Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere A SHE READS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE SEASON: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Bustle How do we understand ourselves when the story about who we are supposed to be is stronger than our sense of self? What do we stand to gain—and lose—by taking control of our narrative? Family defined the cultural identity of Prachi and her brother, Yush, connecting them to a larger Indian American community amid white suburbia. But their belonging was predicated on a powerful myth: the idea that Asian Americans, and Indian Americans in particular, have perfected the alchemy of middle-class life, raising tight-knit, high-achieving families that are immune to hardship. Molding oneself to fit this image often comes at a steep, but hidden, cost. In They Called Us Exceptional, Gupta articulates the dissonance, shame, and isolation of being upheld as an American success story while privately navigating traumas the world says do not exist. Gupta addresses her story to her mother, braiding a deeply vulnerable personal narrative with history, postcolonial theory, and research on mental health to show how she slowly made sense of her reality and freed herself from the pervasive, reductive myth that had once defined her. But tragically, the act that liberated Gupta was also the act that distanced her from those she loved most. By charting her family’s slow unraveling, and her determination to break the cycle, Gupta shows how traditional notions of success keep us disconnected from ourselves and one another—and passionately argues why we must orient ourselves toward compassion over belonging.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/trail-of-the-lost-the-relentless-search-to-bring-home-the-missing-hikers-of-the-pacific-crest-trail-by-andrea-lankford--65151165https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail Author: Andrea Lankford Narrator: Kristi Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.09 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies.  ​   As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of the most beautiful (and dangerous) landscapes across America, from Yosemite to the Grand Canyon. But though she had the support of the agency, Andrea grew frustrated with the service's bureaucratic idiosyncrasies, and left the force after twelve years. Two decades later, however, she stumbles across a mystery that pulls her right back where she left off: three young men have vanished from the Pacific Crest Trail, the 2,650-mile trek made famous by Cheryl Strayed's Wild, and no one has been able to find them. It’s bugging the hell out of her.   Andrea’s concern soon leads her to a wild environment unlike any she’s ever encountered: missing person Facebook groups. Andrea launches an investigation, joining forces with an eclectic team of amateurs who are determined to solve the cases by land and by screen: a mother of the missing, a retired pharmacy manager, and a mapmaker who monitors terrorist activity for the government. Together, they track the activities of kidnappers and murderers, investigate a cult, rescue a psychic in peril, cross paths with an unconventional scientist, and reunite an international fugitive with his family. Searching for the missing is a brutal psychological and physical test with the highest stakes, but eventually their hardships begin to bear strange fruits—ones that lead them to places and people they never saw coming.   Beautifully written, heartfelt, and at times harrowing, TRAIL OF THE LOST paints a vivid picture of hiker culture and its complicated relationship with the ever-expanding online realm, all while exploring the power and limits of determination, generosity, and hope. It also offers a deep awe of the natural world, even as it unearths just how vast and treacherous it can be.    On the TRAIL OF THE LOST, you may not find what you are looking for, but you will certainly find more than you seek. ** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650341Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail Author: Andrea Lankford Narrator: Kristi Burns...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail Author: Andrea Lankford Narrator: Kristi Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.09 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies.  ​   As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of the most beautiful (and dangerous) landscapes across America, from Yosemite to the Grand Canyon. But though she had the support of the agency, Andrea grew frustrated with the service's bureaucratic idiosyncrasies, and left the force after twelve years. Two decades later, however, she stumbles across a mystery that pulls her right back where she left off: three young men have vanished from the Pacific Crest Trail, the 2,650-mile trek made famous by Cheryl Strayed's Wild, and no one has been able to find them. It’s bugging the hell out of her.   Andrea’s concern soon leads her to a wild environment unlike any she’s ever encountered: missing person Facebook groups. Andrea launches an investigation, joining forces with an eclectic team of amateurs who are determined to solve the cases by land and by screen: a mother of the missing, a retired pharmacy manager, and a mapmaker who monitors terrorist activity for the government. Together, they track the activities of kidnappers and murderers, investigate a cult, rescue a psychic in peril, cross paths with an unconventional scientist, and reunite an international fugitive with his family. Searching for the missing is a brutal psychological and physical test with the highest stakes, but eventually their hardships begin to bear strange fruits—ones that lead them to places and people they never saw coming.   Beautifully written, heartfelt, and at times harrowing, TRAIL OF THE LOST paints a vivid picture of hiker culture and its complicated relationship with the ever-expanding online realm, all while exploring the power and limits of determination, generosity, and hope. It also offers a deep awe of the natural world, even as it unearths just how vast and treacherous it can be.    On the TRAIL OF THE LOST, you may not find what you are looking for, but you will certainly find more than you seek. ** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/twitch-upon-a-star-the-bewitched-life-and-career-of-elizabeth-montgomery-by-herbie-j-pilato--65151137https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692765 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twitch Upon a Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery Author: Herbie J Pilato Narrator: Herbie J Pilato, Michael Butler Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Based on author Herbie J Pilato's exclusive interviews with Elizabeth Montgomery prior to her death in 1995, Twitch Upon a Star includes insider material and commentary from several individuals associated with her remarkable life and career before, during, and after Bewitched, including her classic feature films The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955), Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed? (1963), and Johnny Cool (1963). Two of Montgomery's many popular TV movies, A Case of Rape (which remains one of the highest-rated TV movies of all time) and The Legend of Lizzie Borden, were groundbreaking and remain classics. But Twitch Upon a Star also goes behind the scenes to explore Montgomery's political activism, including her early advocacy for AIDS sufferers and the peace movement; her support for all minorities, including the gay community and the disabled; and her controversial participation as narrator of the 1988 feature film documentary Cover-Up and its 1991 Oscar-winning sequel, The Panama Deception. The book also explores Montgomery's tumultuous relationships with her father, screen legend Robert Montgomery (she was a liberal; he was a staunch conservative), and her four husbands. Through it all—and to family and friends—she was just Lizzie: down-to-earth and unaffected, just like Samantha, the 'witch-with-a-twitch' Stephens, her most famous role.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692765Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692765 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twitch Upon a Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery Author: Herbie J Pilato Narrator: Herbie J Pilato, Michael Butler Murray...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692765 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twitch Upon a Star: The Bewitched Life and Career of Elizabeth Montgomery Author: Herbie J Pilato Narrator: Herbie J Pilato, Michael Butler Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Based on author Herbie J Pilato's exclusive interviews with Elizabeth Montgomery prior to her death in 1995, Twitch Upon a Star includes insider material and commentary from several individuals associated with her remarkable life and career before, during, and after Bewitched, including her classic feature films The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955), Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed? (1963), and Johnny Cool (1963). Two of Montgomery's many popular TV movies, A Case of Rape (which remains one of the highest-rated TV movies of all time) and The Legend of Lizzie Borden, were groundbreaking and remain classics. But Twitch Upon a Star also goes behind the scenes to explore Montgomery's political activism, including her early advocacy for AIDS sufferers and the peace movement; her support for all minorities, including the gay community and the disabled; and her controversial participation as narrator of the 1988 feature film documentary Cover-Up and its 1991 Oscar-winning sequel, The Panama Deception. The book also explores Montgomery's tumultuous relationships with her father, screen legend Robert Montgomery (she was a liberal; he was a staunch conservative), and her four husbands. Through it all—and to family and friends—she was just Lizzie: down-to-earth and unaffected, just like Samantha, the 'witch-with-a-twitch' Stephens, her most famous role.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/brass-unity-one-woman-s-journey-through-the-hell-of-afghanistan-and-back-by-kelsi-sheren--65151119https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695366 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brass & Unity: One Woman's Journey Through the Hell of Afghanistan and Back Author: Kelsi Sheren Narrator: Kelsi Sheren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This is the story of a woman who witnessed the worst in the War in Afghanistan, was confronted by demons of post-traumatic stress, and fought for her life to become stronger than ever. Fresh out of high school, Kelsi Sheren, a diminutive nineteen-year-old woman, sought to join the military to help liberate those oppressed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. While she was often the smallest person in basic training, she proved she had the biggest heart and often the most energy. She made it to Afghanistan and joined a British military unit for house-to-house insurgent patrol. What she saw there was unimaginable death and destruction—including the killing of a brother-in-arms. Devastated, Kelsi was sent home to get her head straight, but even therapy and medication couldn't clear her mind—or let her sleep. When two others who served with her later took their own lives, she feared that was the only way out. Clinging to life and the love of her husband and child, she knew she wasn't ready to give in. Finding respite in a jewelry business that utilized spent shell casings, and with the help of innovative grief therapy, Kelsi not only survived but continues to thrive—and works tirelessly to spread the word and help others.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695366Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695366 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brass & Unity: One Woman's Journey Through the Hell of Afghanistan and Back Author: Kelsi Sheren Narrator: Kelsi Sheren Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695366 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brass & Unity: One Woman's Journey Through the Hell of Afghanistan and Back Author: Kelsi Sheren Narrator: Kelsi Sheren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This is the story of a woman who witnessed the worst in the War in Afghanistan, was confronted by demons of post-traumatic stress, and fought for her life to become stronger than ever. Fresh out of high school, Kelsi Sheren, a diminutive nineteen-year-old woman, sought to join the military to help liberate those oppressed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. While she was often the smallest person in basic training, she proved she had the biggest heart and often the most energy. She made it to Afghanistan and joined a British military unit for house-to-house insurgent patrol. What she saw there was unimaginable death and destruction—including the killing of a brother-in-arms. Devastated, Kelsi was sent home to get her head straight, but even therapy and medication couldn't clear her mind—or let her sleep. When two others who served with her later took their own lives, she feared that was the only way out. Clinging to life and the love of her husband and child, she knew she wasn't ready to give in. Finding respite in a jewelry business that utilized spent shell casings, and with the help of innovative grief therapy, Kelsi not only survived but continues to thrive—and works tirelessly to spread the word and help others.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-country-year-living-the-questions-by-sue-hubbell--65151207https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Country Year: Living the Questions Author: Sue Hubbell Narrator: Jennifer Pickens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A 'delightful, witty' memoir about starting over as a beekeeper in the Ozarks (Library Journal). Alone on a small Missouri farm after a thirty-year marriage, Sue Hubbell found a new love—of the winged, buzzing variety. Left with little but the commercial beekeeping and honey-producing business she started with her husband, Hubbell found solace in the natural world. Then she began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things she cared about. Describing the ups and downs of beekeeping from one springtime to the next, A Country Year transports listeners to a different, simpler place. In a series of exquisite vignettes, Hubbell reveals the joys of a life attuned to nature in this heartfelt memoir about life on the land, and of a woman finding her way in middle age.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694226Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Country Year: Living the Questions Author: Sue Hubbell Narrator: Jennifer Pickens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694226 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Country Year: Living the Questions Author: Sue Hubbell Narrator: Jennifer Pickens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A 'delightful, witty' memoir about starting over as a beekeeper in the Ozarks (Library Journal). Alone on a small Missouri farm after a thirty-year marriage, Sue Hubbell found a new love—of the winged, buzzing variety. Left with little but the commercial beekeeping and honey-producing business she started with her husband, Hubbell found solace in the natural world. Then she began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things she cared about. Describing the ups and downs of beekeeping from one springtime to the next, A Country Year transports listeners to a different, simpler place. In a series of exquisite vignettes, Hubbell reveals the joys of a life attuned to nature in this heartfelt memoir about life on the land, and of a woman finding her way in middle age.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tod-is-god-the-authorized-story-of-how-i-created-extreme-championship-wrestling-by-tod-gordon-sean-oliver--65151127https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tod is God: The Authorized Story of How I Created Extreme Championship Wrestling Author: Tod Gordon, Sean Oliver Narrator: Sean Oliver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The uncensored inside story of ECW's founder Tod Gordon's journey from jewelry store owner to one of the three most powerful promoters in pro wrestling. In Tod is God—so named for a chant the ECW fans created to honor the founder—Gordon chronicles each step of the company's meteoric rise to prominence, as well as the elements that led to his removing himself from the company before its demise. Gordon's former partnership with ECW booker Paul Heyman made for magical TV and in-ring moments. The friendship between Gordon and Heyman, both a blessing and curse, was the once-in-a-lifetime bond responsible for so many of history's greatest teams, bands, and partners. Gordon has stayed silent on the causes for the split and, by doing so, assumed blame for it. Until now. Tod is God is the closest you'll ever get to living ECW's ride to the top. Come sit beside Sandman, Sabu, Terry Funk, Cactus Jack, and other ECW stars as Gordon brings you inside the locker rooms, hotel rooms, and car rides. From the triumphs and breakthroughs to the frustrations and tragedies, you'll live it all alongside the man who started it all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689687Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tod is God: The Authorized Story of How I Created Extreme Championship Wrestling Author: Tod Gordon, Sean Oliver Narrator: Sean Oliver Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tod is God: The Authorized Story of How I Created Extreme Championship Wrestling Author: Tod Gordon, Sean Oliver Narrator: Sean Oliver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The uncensored inside story of ECW's founder Tod Gordon's journey from jewelry store owner to one of the three most powerful promoters in pro wrestling. In Tod is God—so named for a chant the ECW fans created to honor the founder—Gordon chronicles each step of the company's meteoric rise to prominence, as well as the elements that led to his removing himself from the company before its demise. Gordon's former partnership with ECW booker Paul Heyman made for magical TV and in-ring moments. The friendship between Gordon and Heyman, both a blessing and curse, was the once-in-a-lifetime bond responsible for so many of history's greatest teams, bands, and partners. Gordon has stayed silent on the causes for the split and, by doing so, assumed blame for it. Until now. Tod is God is the closest you'll ever get to living ECW's ride to the top. Come sit beside Sandman, Sabu, Terry Funk, Cactus Jack, and other ECW stars as Gordon brings you inside the locker rooms, hotel rooms, and car rides. From the triumphs and breakthroughs to the frustrations and tragedies, you'll live it all alongside the man who started it all.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/up-the-down-escalator-medicine-motherhood-and-multiple-sclerosis-by-lisa-doggett--65151126https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up The Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis Author: Lisa Doggett Narrator: Lisa Doggett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett's startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns to live with multiple sclerosis while running a clinic for uninsured patients in central Austin. Facing the prospect of a career-ending disability as she adjusts to life with multiple sclerosis, Dr. Lisa Doggett is forced to deal with a new level of uncertainty and vulnerability, and the everyday fear that something new will go wrong. Taking off her white coat—becoming a patient herself—she confronts unimaginable fears, copes with her limitations, and sidesteps her skepticism of alternative medicine to seek help from unlikely sources. MS pushes Doggett—a perfectionist at heart—to embrace self-compassion. As a patient, she learns to advocate for herself to ensure on-time medication deliveries and satisfactory treatment plans; to navigate chronic dizziness, relapses, and parenting frustrations; and to push her physical limits as a runner to go farther than ever before. This hopeful and uplifting book will encourage those living with chronic disease, and those supporting them, to power forward with courage and grace.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689639Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up The Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis Author: Lisa Doggett Narrator: Lisa Doggett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up The Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis Author: Lisa Doggett Narrator: Lisa Doggett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett's startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns to live with multiple sclerosis while running a clinic for uninsured patients in central Austin. Facing the prospect of a career-ending disability as she adjusts to life with multiple sclerosis, Dr. Lisa Doggett is forced to deal with a new level of uncertainty and vulnerability, and the everyday fear that something new will go wrong. Taking off her white coat—becoming a patient herself—she confronts unimaginable fears, copes with her limitations, and sidesteps her skepticism of alternative medicine to seek help from unlikely sources. MS pushes Doggett—a perfectionist at heart—to embrace self-compassion. As a patient, she learns to advocate for herself to ensure on-time medication deliveries and satisfactory treatment plans; to navigate chronic dizziness, relapses, and parenting frustrations; and to push her physical limits as a runner to go farther than ever before. This hopeful and uplifting book will encourage those living with chronic disease, and those supporting them, to power forward with courage and grace.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/queen-of-the-court-the-many-lives-of-tennis-legend-alice-marble-by-madeleine-blais--65151106https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble Author: Madeleine Blais Narrator: Moniqua Plante Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In August 1939, Alice Marble graced the cover of Life magazine, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt. She was a glamorous worldwide celebrity, having that year won singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles tennis titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open, then an unprecedented feat. Yet today one of America's greatest female athletes and most charismatic characters is largely forgotten. Queen of the Court places her back on center stage. Given a tennis racket at thirteen, she took to the sport immediately, rising to the top with a powerful, aggressive serve-and-volley style unseen in women's tennis. A champion at the height of her fame in the late 1930s, she also designed a clothing line and sang as a performer. World War II derailed her amateur tennis career, but her life off the court was even more eventful. Perhaps her greatest legacy lies in her successful efforts to persuade the all-white US Lawn Tennis Association to change its policy and allow African American star Althea Gibson to compete for the US championship in 1950, thereby breaking tennis's color barrier. In two memoirs, Marble showed herself to be an at-times unreliable narrator of her own life, which Madeleine Blais navigates skillfully, especially Marble's claims of having been a spy during World War II. In Queen of the Court, Blais recaptures a glittering life story.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679939Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble Author: Madeleine Blais Narrator: Moniqua Plante Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble Author: Madeleine Blais Narrator: Moniqua Plante Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In August 1939, Alice Marble graced the cover of Life magazine, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt. She was a glamorous worldwide celebrity, having that year won singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles tennis titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open, then an unprecedented feat. Yet today one of America's greatest female athletes and most charismatic characters is largely forgotten. Queen of the Court places her back on center stage. Given a tennis racket at thirteen, she took to the sport immediately, rising to the top with a powerful, aggressive serve-and-volley style unseen in women's tennis. A champion at the height of her fame in the late 1930s, she also designed a clothing line and sang as a performer. World War II derailed her amateur tennis career, but her life off the court was even more eventful. Perhaps her greatest legacy lies in her successful efforts to persuade the all-white US Lawn Tennis Association to change its policy and allow African American star Althea Gibson to compete for the US championship in 1950, thereby breaking tennis's color barrier. In two memoirs, Marble showed herself to be an at-times unreliable narrator of her own life, which Madeleine Blais navigates skillfully, especially Marble's claims of having been a spy during World War II. In Queen of the Court, Blais recaptures a glittering life story.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/whatever-happened-to-margo-by-margaret-durrell--65151057https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whatever Happened to Margo? Author: Margaret Durrell Narrator: Roy Mcmillan, Polly Edsell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 10, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. *With a foreword from Gerald Durrell* In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics: from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young nurses whose late-night shifts combined with an ever-revolving roster of gentleman callers leading to a neighbourhood rumour that Margo is running a brothel. Margo's own two sons, Gerry and Nicholas, prove to be every bit as mischievous as their famous Uncle Gerald - and he himself returns periodically with weird and wonderful animals, from marmosets to monkeys, that are quite unsuitable for life in a Bournemouth garden. ©1995 Margaret Durrell (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694994Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whatever Happened to Margo? Author: Margaret Durrell Narrator: Roy Mcmillan, Polly Edsell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/694994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whatever Happened to Margo? Author: Margaret Durrell Narrator: Roy Mcmillan, Polly Edsell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: August 10, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. *With a foreword from Gerald Durrell* In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics: from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young nurses whose late-night shifts combined with an ever-revolving roster of gentleman callers leading to a neighbourhood rumour that Margo is running a brothel. Margo's own two sons, Gerry and Nicholas, prove to be every bit as mischievous as their famous Uncle Gerald - and he himself returns periodically with weird and wonderful animals, from marmosets to monkeys, that are quite unsuitable for life in a Bournemouth garden. ©1995 Margaret Durrell (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hope-and-hard-truth-a-life-in-texas-politics-by-mary-beth-rogers--65151180https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hope and Hard Truth: A Life in Texas Politics Author: Mary Beth Rogers Narrator: Mary Beth Rogers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Mary Beth Rogers has led an eventful life rooted in the weeds of Texas politics, occasionally savoring a few victories—particularly the 1990 governor's race when, as campaign manager for Ann Richards, she did the impossible and put a Democratic woman in office. She also learned to absorb her losses—after all, she was a liberal feminist in America's most aggressively conservative state. Rogers's road to a political life was complex. Candidly and vulnerably, she shares both public and private memories of how she tried to maintain a rich family life with growing children and a husband with a debilitating illness. She goes on to provide an insider's account of her experiences as Richards's first chief of staff while weaving her way through the highs and lows of political intrigue and legislative maneuvering. Reflecting on her family heritage and nascent spiritual quest, Rogers discovers a reality at once sobering and invigorating: nothing is ever completely lost or completely won. It is a constant struggle to create humane public policies built on a foundation of fairness and justice—particularly in her beloved Texas.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679964Tue, 01 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hope and Hard Truth: A Life in Texas Politics Author: Mary Beth Rogers Narrator: Mary Beth Rogers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hope and Hard Truth: A Life in Texas Politics Author: Mary Beth Rogers Narrator: Mary Beth Rogers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Mary Beth Rogers has led an eventful life rooted in the weeds of Texas politics, occasionally savoring a few victories—particularly the 1990 governor's race when, as campaign manager for Ann Richards, she did the impossible and put a Democratic woman in office. She also learned to absorb her losses—after all, she was a liberal feminist in America's most aggressively conservative state. Rogers's road to a political life was complex. Candidly and vulnerably, she shares both public and private memories of how she tried to maintain a rich family life with growing children and a husband with a debilitating illness. She goes on to provide an insider's account of her experiences as Richards's first chief of staff while weaving her way through the highs and lows of political intrigue and legislative maneuvering. Reflecting on her family heritage and nascent spiritual quest, Rogers discovers a reality at once sobering and invigorating: nothing is ever completely lost or completely won. It is a constant struggle to create humane public policies built on a foundation of fairness and justice—particularly in her beloved Texas.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/summons-to-berlin-nazi-theft-and-a-daughter-s-quest-for-justice-by-joanne-intrator--65151171https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689672 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Summons to Berlin: Nazi Theft and A Daughter's Quest for Justice Author: Joanne Intrator Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: On his deathbed, Dr. Joanne Intrator's father poses two unsettling questions: 'Are you tough enough? Do they know who you are?' Joanne soon realizes that these haunting questions relate to a center-city Berlin building at 16 Wallstrasse that the Nazis ripped away from her family in 1938. But a decade is to pass before she will fully come to grasp why her father threw down the gauntlet as he did. Repeatedly, Joanne's restitution quest brings her into confrontation with yet another of her profound fears surrounding Germany and the Holocaust. Having to call on reserves of strength she's unsure she possesses, the author leans into her professional command of psychiatry, often overcoming flabbergasting obstacles perniciously dumped in her path. The depth and lucidity of psychological insight threaded throughout Summons to Berlin makes it an attention-grabbing standout among books on like topics. As a listener, you'll come away delighted to know just who Dr. Joanne Intrator is. You'll also finish the book cheering for her, because in the end, she proves far more than tough enough to satisfy her father's unnerving final demands.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689672Tue, 01 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689672 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Summons to Berlin: Nazi Theft and A Daughter's Quest for Justice Author: Joanne Intrator Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/689672 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Summons to Berlin: Nazi Theft and A Daughter's Quest for Justice Author: Joanne Intrator Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: On his deathbed, Dr. Joanne Intrator's father poses two unsettling questions: 'Are you tough enough? Do they know who you are?' Joanne soon realizes that these haunting questions relate to a center-city Berlin building at 16 Wallstrasse that the Nazis ripped away from her family in 1938. But a decade is to pass before she will fully come to grasp why her father threw down the gauntlet as he did. Repeatedly, Joanne's restitution quest brings her into confrontation with yet another of her profound fears surrounding Germany and the Holocaust. Having to call on reserves of strength she's unsure she possesses, the author leans into her professional command of psychiatry, often overcoming flabbergasting obstacles perniciously dumped in her path. The depth and lucidity of psychological insight threaded throughout Summons to Berlin makes it an attention-grabbing standout among books on like topics. As a listener, you'll come away delighted to know just who Dr. Joanne Intrator is. You'll also finish the book cheering for her, because in the end, she proves far more than tough enough to satisfy her father's unnerving final demands.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/flirting-with-danger-the-mysterious-life-of-marguerite-harrison-socialite-spy-by-janet-wallach--65151161https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649117 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy Author: Janet Wallach Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE 'A compelling story that pulsates with the energy of a thriller'—The Wall Street Journal 'Suspense, élan and a generous helping of glamour: Think George Smiley in a mink-trimmed coat.'—The New York Times Book Review The true story of socialite Marguerite Harrison, who spied for U.S. military intelligence in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars Born a privileged child of America’s Gilded Age, Marguerite Harrison rebelled against her mother’s ambitions, married the man she loved, was widowed at thirty-seven, and set off on a life of adventure. Hired as a society reporter, when America entered World War I she applied to Military Intelligence to work as a spy. She arrived in Berlin immediately after the Armistice and befriended the enemy, dining with aristocrats and dancing with socialists. Late into the night she wrote prescient reports on the growing power of the German right. Sent to Moscow, she sneaked into Russia to observe the results of the Bolshevik Revolution. Although she carried press credentials she was caught and imprisoned as an American spy. Terrified when told her only way out was to spy for the Cheka, she became a double agent, aiming to convince the Russian rulers she was working for them while striving to stay loyal to her country. In Germany and Russia, Harrison saw the future—a second war with Germany, a cold war with the Soviets—but her reports were ignored by many back home. Over a decade, Harrison’s mysterious adventures took her to Europe, Baghdad, and the Far East, as a socialite, secret agent, and documentary filmmaker. Janet Wallach captures Harrison’s daring and glamour in this stranger-than-fiction history of a woman drawn to the impossible.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649117Tue, 01 Aug 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649117 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy Author: Janet Wallach Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649117 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy Author: Janet Wallach Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE 'A compelling story that pulsates with the energy of a thriller'—The Wall Street Journal 'Suspense, élan and a generous helping of glamour: Think George Smiley in a mink-trimmed coat.'—The New York Times Book Review The true story of socialite Marguerite Harrison, who spied for U.S. military intelligence in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars Born a privileged child of America’s Gilded Age, Marguerite Harrison rebelled against her mother’s ambitions, married the man she loved, was widowed at thirty-seven, and set off on a life of adventure. Hired as a society reporter, when America entered World War I she applied to Military Intelligence to work as a spy. She arrived in Berlin immediately after the Armistice and befriended the enemy, dining with aristocrats and dancing with socialists. Late into the night she wrote prescient reports on the growing power of the German right. Sent to Moscow, she sneaked into Russia to observe the results of the Bolshevik Revolution. Although she carried press credentials she was caught and imprisoned as an American spy. Terrified when told her only way out was to spy for the Cheka, she became a double agent, aiming to convince the Russian rulers she was working for them while striving to stay loyal to her country. In Germany and Russia, Harrison saw the future—a second war with Germany, a cold war with the Soviets—but her reports were ignored by many back home. Over a decade, Harrison’s mysterious adventures took her to Europe, Baghdad, and the Far East, as a socialite, secret agent, and documentary filmmaker. Janet Wallach captures Harrison’s daring and glamour in this stranger-than-fiction history of a woman drawn to the impossible.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-is-mostly-edges-a-memoir-by-calvin-miller--65151176https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Is Mostly Edges: A Memoir Author: Calvin Miller Narrator: Wayne Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date: July 25, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: One man’s backward glance at unexpected lessons, the beauty of relationship, and God’s mysterious guiding hand. Bestselling author and poet Calvin Miller turns his hand to the most moving story of all – his own. The reader is taken through a myriad of experiences of a young man coming of age in mid-20th century America. Following his life into college, seminary, a small local church and eventually to a new life as an author and professor, the memoir touches on those points that make all of us uniquely human and intensely vulnerable.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646949Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Is Mostly Edges: A Memoir Author: Calvin Miller Narrator: Wayne Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Is Mostly Edges: A Memoir Author: Calvin Miller Narrator: Wayne Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date: July 25, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: One man’s backward glance at unexpected lessons, the beauty of relationship, and God’s mysterious guiding hand. Bestselling author and poet Calvin Miller turns his hand to the most moving story of all – his own. The reader is taken through a myriad of experiences of a young man coming of age in mid-20th century America. Following his life into college, seminary, a small local church and eventually to a new life as an author and professor, the memoir touches on those points that make all of us uniquely human and intensely vulnerable.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/these-days-are-numbered-diary-of-a-high-rise-lockdown-by-rebecca-rosenblum--65151167https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Days Are Numbered: Diary of a High-Rise Lockdown Author: Rebecca Rosenblum Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: We all lived our own pandemics. For writer Rebecca Rosenblum, the pandemic meant watching and considering the city she loves. From milestones such as crying when the parks closed to the little moments with strangers on the street and with loved ones across the six-foot divide, Rebecca wondered, worried, and wrote it down.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684151Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Days Are Numbered: Diary of a High-Rise Lockdown Author: Rebecca Rosenblum Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Days Are Numbered: Diary of a High-Rise Lockdown Author: Rebecca Rosenblum Narrator: Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: We all lived our own pandemics. For writer Rebecca Rosenblum, the pandemic meant watching and considering the city she loves. From milestones such as crying when the parks closed to the little moments with strangers on the street and with loved ones across the six-foot divide, Rebecca wondered, worried, and wrote it down.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-real-queen-charlotte-inside-the-real-bridgerton-court-by-catherine-curzon--65151162https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684131 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real Queen Charlotte: Inside the Real Bridgerton Court Author: Catherine Curzon Narrator: Kim Bretton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Known to millions as the imperious matriarch of Bridgerton's court, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was still a teenager when she was chosen to be the bride of King George III. Shy, innocent, and sheltered, the orphaned princess and her groom carried the hopes of a nation on their shoulders. The unassuming young couple symbolized a new beginning, but soon those hopes began to sour. Charlotte and George's marriage lasted for nearly sixty years and produced more than a dozen children, but it was beset by unrest at home, war in the colonies, and the king's encroaching madness. As the royal couple battled against their critics, their political opponents, and sometimes their own family, Charlotte learned what it really meant to be queen. Locked in a bitter struggle with her eldest son for the king's future and with her daughters for their freedom, the timid young girl grew into an insular and domineering woman that few dared to cross. Shouldering the burden of family disputes, ambitious courtiers, and the care of the man she adored, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz presided over one of the most tumultuous eras that the monarchy has ever seen. This is the story of her extraordinary life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684131Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684131 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real Queen Charlotte: Inside the Real Bridgerton Court Author: Catherine Curzon Narrator: Kim Bretton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684131 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Real Queen Charlotte: Inside the Real Bridgerton Court Author: Catherine Curzon Narrator: Kim Bretton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Known to millions as the imperious matriarch of Bridgerton's court, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was still a teenager when she was chosen to be the bride of King George III. Shy, innocent, and sheltered, the orphaned princess and her groom carried the hopes of a nation on their shoulders. The unassuming young couple symbolized a new beginning, but soon those hopes began to sour. Charlotte and George's marriage lasted for nearly sixty years and produced more than a dozen children, but it was beset by unrest at home, war in the colonies, and the king's encroaching madness. As the royal couple battled against their critics, their political opponents, and sometimes their own family, Charlotte learned what it really meant to be queen. Locked in a bitter struggle with her eldest son for the king's future and with her daughters for their freedom, the timid young girl grew into an insular and domineering woman that few dared to cross. Shouldering the burden of family disputes, ambitious courtiers, and the care of the man she adored, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz presided over one of the most tumultuous eras that the monarchy has ever seen. This is the story of her extraordinary life.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/italian-maria-montessori-una-storia-attuale-la-vita-il-pensiero-le-testimonianze-by-grazia-honegger-fresco--65151052https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Italian] - Maria Montessori, una storia attuale: La vita, il pensiero, le testimonianze Series: #1 of Appunti Montessori Author: Grazia Honegger Fresco Narrator: Daria Esposito Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 10, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Maria Montessori non fu certo una donna comune. Capace di destare le più entusiastiche adesioni e le critiche più malevole, fu oggetto al suo tempo di illazioni, maldicenze, pettegolezzi e, ancor oggi, il suo senso di libertà e le scomode novità del suo pensiero suscitano reazioni contrastanti. Si ripercorrono qui le tappe della sua vita: dagli anni della formazione, segnati dalla difficoltà di essere una delle prime donne medico in Italia, all'esperienza dolorosa della maternità nascosta; dalle lotte femministe, che fondano in lei un nuovo senso di giustizia sociale e una nuova consapevolezza del ruolo della donna, all’impegno a favore dei bambini svantaggiati fino al suo innovativo progetto pedagogico, basato sulla valorizzazione delle risorse e della libertà del bambino. La presente edizione, rivista e aggiornata, accoglie numerose aggiunte, modifiche, correzioni e capitoli nuovi, grazie anche al prezioso contributo della bisnipote di Maria, Carolina Montessori.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695025Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Italian] - Maria Montessori, una storia attuale: La vita, il pensiero, le testimonianze Series: #1 of Appunti Montessori Author: Grazia Honegger...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Italian] - Maria Montessori, una storia attuale: La vita, il pensiero, le testimonianze Series: #1 of Appunti Montessori Author: Grazia Honegger Fresco Narrator: Daria Esposito Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 10, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Maria Montessori non fu certo una donna comune. Capace di destare le più entusiastiche adesioni e le critiche più malevole, fu oggetto al suo tempo di illazioni, maldicenze, pettegolezzi e, ancor oggi, il suo senso di libertà e le scomode novità del suo pensiero suscitano reazioni contrastanti. Si ripercorrono qui le tappe della sua vita: dagli anni della formazione, segnati dalla difficoltà di essere una delle prime donne medico in Italia, all'esperienza dolorosa della maternità nascosta; dalle lotte femministe, che fondano in lei un nuovo senso di giustizia sociale e una nuova consapevolezza del ruolo della donna, all’impegno a favore dei bambini svantaggiati fino al suo innovativo progetto pedagogico, basato sulla valorizzazione delle risorse e della libertà del bambino. La presente edizione, rivista e aggiornata, accoglie numerose aggiunte, modifiche, correzioni e capitoli nuovi, grazie anche al prezioso contributo della bisnipote di Maria, Carolina Montessori.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/owner-of-a-lonely-heart-a-memoir-by-beth-nguyen--65151216https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir Author: Beth Nguyen Narrator: Beth Nguyen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Named a Best Memoir of 2023 by Oprah Daily • Selected by Time, NPR, and BookPage as a Best Book of 2023 “This book…is what memoir writing in the hands of a caring, curious wunderkind can be.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fractured by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her family fled Saigon for America. Only Beth’s mother stayed—or was left—behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than twenty-four hours together. Owner of a Lonely Heart is “a portrait of things left unsaid” (The New York Times), a memoir about parenthood, absence, and the condition of being a refugee: the story of Beth’s relationship with her mother. Framed by a handful of visits over the course of many years—sometimes brief, sometimes interrupted, some alone with her mother and others with the company of her sister—Beth tells an “unforgettable” (People) coming-of-age story that spans her childhood in the Midwest, her first meeting with her mother, and her own experience of parenthood.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633596Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir Author: Beth Nguyen Narrator: Beth Nguyen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir Author: Beth Nguyen Narrator: Beth Nguyen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Named a Best Memoir of 2023 by Oprah Daily • Selected by Time, NPR, and BookPage as a Best Book of 2023 “This book…is what memoir writing in the hands of a caring, curious wunderkind can be.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fractured by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her family fled Saigon for America. Only Beth’s mother stayed—or was left—behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than twenty-four hours together. Owner of a Lonely Heart is “a portrait of things left unsaid” (The New York Times), a memoir about parenthood, absence, and the condition of being a refugee: the story of Beth’s relationship with her mother. Framed by a handful of visits over the course of many years—sometimes brief, sometimes interrupted, some alone with her mother and others with the company of her sister—Beth tells an “unforgettable” (People) coming-of-age story that spans her childhood in the Midwest, her first meeting with her mother, and her own experience of parenthood.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-journey-to-the-world-cup-updated-edition-by-sam-kerr--65151107https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Journey to the World Cup: Updated Edition Author: Sam Kerr Narrator: Lisa Bailey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Follow Sam Kerr’s incredible journey from playing Aussie Rules as a kid to becoming one of the world’s greatest athletes, after the Matildas achieved their best-ever result at a World Cup. Sam Kerr is widely considered to be one of the best female footballers of all time. She is famous worldwide for her skills on the soccer pitch – but before she was Matildas captain and leading goal scorer for Chelsea, she was just an average Aussie kid who wanted to play AFL. This is her incredible football journey to the 2023 FIFA World Cup and beyond, from making the switch to soccer to becoming one of the best female strikers in the world. Sam gives us insights into what keeps her motivated, how she handles the pressures of life as a professional athlete and what she believes is really important in life. Inside you will find: - Sam’s most memorable World Cup moments - facts about the 2023 FIFA World Cup - everything you want to know about the Matildas - amazing facts about Sam – her early days, family life, teams, playing for Chelsea and the Matildas.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676580Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Journey to the World Cup: Updated Edition Author: Sam Kerr Narrator: Lisa Bailey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 38 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Journey to the World Cup: Updated Edition Author: Sam Kerr Narrator: Lisa Bailey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Follow Sam Kerr’s incredible journey from playing Aussie Rules as a kid to becoming one of the world’s greatest athletes, after the Matildas achieved their best-ever result at a World Cup. Sam Kerr is widely considered to be one of the best female footballers of all time. She is famous worldwide for her skills on the soccer pitch – but before she was Matildas captain and leading goal scorer for Chelsea, she was just an average Aussie kid who wanted to play AFL. This is her incredible football journey to the 2023 FIFA World Cup and beyond, from making the switch to soccer to becoming one of the best female strikers in the world. Sam gives us insights into what keeps her motivated, how she handles the pressures of life as a professional athlete and what she believes is really important in life. Inside you will find: - Sam’s most memorable World Cup moments - facts about the 2023 FIFA World Cup - everything you want to know about the Matildas - amazing facts about Sam – her early days, family life, teams, playing for Chelsea and the Matildas.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/deer-grandma-nine-short-stories-about-deer-deer-hunting-family-and-friendships-by-elizabeth-anne-wilkens--65151089https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deer Grandma: Nine Short Stories About Deer, Deer Hunting, Family And Friendships Author: Elizabeth Anne Wilkens Narrator: Elizabeth Anne Wilkens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 52 minutes Release date: June 29, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Setting of these nine short stories is east central Minnesota, time period is from 1964 to turn of the century. The first story describes the author, a young wife and avid outdoors woman, as she begins her journey hunting deer on the family farm. Through the decades going from mother to grandmother, her knowledge and skill as a naturalist and hunter grew along with love for the riverland and wooded acres she and her family call home. Family and friends join her on this journey. A poem written in 2008, The Land Remembers, ends the book, and describes what Deer Grandma has learned about belonging to the land.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697998Thu, 29 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deer Grandma: Nine Short Stories About Deer, Deer Hunting, Family And Friendships Author: Elizabeth Anne Wilkens Narrator: Elizabeth Anne Wilkens...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/697998 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Deer Grandma: Nine Short Stories About Deer, Deer Hunting, Family And Friendships Author: Elizabeth Anne Wilkens Narrator: Elizabeth Anne Wilkens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 52 minutes Release date: June 29, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Setting of these nine short stories is east central Minnesota, time period is from 1964 to turn of the century. The first story describes the author, a young wife and avid outdoors woman, as she begins her journey hunting deer on the family farm. Through the decades going from mother to grandmother, her knowledge and skill as a naturalist and hunter grew along with love for the riverland and wooded acres she and her family call home. Family and friends join her on this journey. A poem written in 2008, The Land Remembers, ends the book, and describes what Deer Grandma has learned about belonging to the land.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-nicht-nur-heldinnen-20-frauen-die-geschichte-schrieben-by-jasmin-lorchner--65151075https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Nicht nur Heldinnen: 20 Frauen, die Geschichte schrieben Author: Jasmin Lörchner Narrator: Jasmin Lörchner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 29, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Ob auf dem Thron, im Gerichtssaal oder auf den Weltmeeren: Frauen haben Geschichte geschrieben – aber nicht nur als Heldinnen. Manche kämpften bewundernswert für ihre Ziele, andere stellten sich über ihre Mitmenschen, verfolgten vor allem wirtschaftlichen Profit oder wählten umstrittene Allianzen, um ihre Interessen durchzusetzen. Jasmin Lörchner, die Stimme hinter dem Podcast »HerStory«, stellt zwanzig vielschichtige Frauen vor: Von der ägyptischen Herrscherin Hatschepsut über die deutsche Juristin Elisabeth Selbert bis zur chinesischen Piratin Zheng Yisao. Sie porträtiert Protagonistinnen mit Kampfgeist und Akteurinnen mit Schattenseiten: Frauen, die uns bis heute faszinieren.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695423Thu, 29 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Nicht nur Heldinnen: 20 Frauen, die Geschichte schrieben Author: Jasmin Lörchner Narrator: Jasmin Lörchner Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Nicht nur Heldinnen: 20 Frauen, die Geschichte schrieben Author: Jasmin Lörchner Narrator: Jasmin Lörchner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 29, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Ob auf dem Thron, im Gerichtssaal oder auf den Weltmeeren: Frauen haben Geschichte geschrieben – aber nicht nur als Heldinnen. Manche kämpften bewundernswert für ihre Ziele, andere stellten sich über ihre Mitmenschen, verfolgten vor allem wirtschaftlichen Profit oder wählten umstrittene Allianzen, um ihre Interessen durchzusetzen. Jasmin Lörchner, die Stimme hinter dem Podcast »HerStory«, stellt zwanzig vielschichtige Frauen vor: Von der ägyptischen Herrscherin Hatschepsut über die deutsche Juristin Elisabeth Selbert bis zur chinesischen Piratin Zheng Yisao. Sie porträtiert Protagonistinnen mit Kampfgeist und Akteurinnen mit Schattenseiten: Frauen, die uns bis heute faszinieren.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/good-morning-hope-a-true-story-of-refugee-twin-sisters-and-their-triumph-over-war-poverty-and-heartbreak-by-argita-zalli-detina-zalli--65151237https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Morning, Hope: A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak Author: Argita Zalli, Detina Zalli Narrator: Allyson Voller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Born in poverty-stricken Albania, twin sisters Argita and Detina Zalli always dreamed of becoming doctors. Their parents scrimped and sacrificed, committed to giving them a better life. But then the unthinkable happened. In 1997, the government collapsed, plunging the country into anarchy and civil war. The twins' dream unraveled along with their homeland. Their parents had to find a way to leave and save their daughters' futures—not to mention their very lives. It took over two years for the Zalli family to escape. After several dangerous attempts, they finally made it to England, where the thirteen-year-old twins believed everything would be much better. They soon found out otherwise. Now refugees, with little more than the clothes on their backs, the girls were mercilessly bullied and constantly afraid they would be sent back to Albania, and their parents would be sent to jail. Still, the twins persevered and learned how to navigate their harsh new reality. When tragedy struck yet again, the girls had to come to terms with the high price they had all paid to survive. In Good Morning, Hope, Argita and Detina share their harrowing story of courage and resilience. It was the strength of their family, particularly the sisters' unique, unbreakable bond as twins, that nurtured and sustained them throughout their perilous ordeal.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673025Tue, 27 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Morning, Hope: A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak Author: Argita Zalli, Detina Zalli...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Morning, Hope: A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak Author: Argita Zalli, Detina Zalli Narrator: Allyson Voller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Born in poverty-stricken Albania, twin sisters Argita and Detina Zalli always dreamed of becoming doctors. Their parents scrimped and sacrificed, committed to giving them a better life. But then the unthinkable happened. In 1997, the government collapsed, plunging the country into anarchy and civil war. The twins' dream unraveled along with their homeland. Their parents had to find a way to leave and save their daughters' futures—not to mention their very lives. It took over two years for the Zalli family to escape. After several dangerous attempts, they finally made it to England, where the thirteen-year-old twins believed everything would be much better. They soon found out otherwise. Now refugees, with little more than the clothes on their backs, the girls were mercilessly bullied and constantly afraid they would be sent back to Albania, and their parents would be sent to jail. Still, the twins persevered and learned how to navigate their harsh new reality. When tragedy struck yet again, the girls had to come to terms with the high price they had all paid to survive. In Good Morning, Hope, Argita and Detina share their harrowing story of courage and resilience. It was the strength of their family, particularly the sisters' unique, unbreakable bond as twins, that nurtured and sustained them throughout their perilous ordeal.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/directions-to-myself-a-memoir-of-four-years-by-heidi-julavits--65151159https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/666361 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years Author: Heidi Julavits Narrator: Heidi Julavits Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls “witty, sly, critical, inventive” and whose mind Leslie Jamison calls “electric.” “An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly surprising.”—George Saunders That night, in his bed, I spread my son’s palm wide and tried to read it. If the hand was a map that led to a future person, was there any changing the destination? One summer Heidi Julavits sees her son silhouetted by the sun and notices he is at the threshold of what she calls “the end times of childhood.” When did this happen, she asks herself. Who is my son becoming—and what qualifies me to be his guide? The next four years feel like uncharted waters. Rape allegations rock the university campus where Julavits teaches, unleashing questions of justice and accountability, as well as education and prevention. She begins to wonder how to prepare her son to be the best possible citizen of the world he’s about to enter. And what she must learn about herself to responsibly steer him. Looking back to her childhood in Maine, where she and her family often navigated the tricky coastline in a small boat, relying on a decades-old nautical guide, Julavits takes us on an intellectual navigation of the self. Throughout, she intertwines her internal analysis with a wide-ranging exploration of what it means to raise a child in a time full of contradictions and moral complexity. Using the past and present as points of orientation, Directions to Myself examines the messy minutiae of family life alongside knottier questions of politics and gender. Through it all, Julavits discovers the beauty and the peril of telling stories as a way to locate ourselves and help others find us. Intimate, rigorous, and refreshingly unsentimental, Directions to Myself cements Julavits’s reputation as one of the most shrewdly innovative nonfiction writers at work today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/666361Tue, 27 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/666361 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years Author: Heidi Julavits Narrator: Heidi Julavits Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/666361 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years Author: Heidi Julavits Narrator: Heidi Julavits Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls “witty, sly, critical, inventive” and whose mind Leslie Jamison calls “electric.” “An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly surprising.”—George Saunders That night, in his bed, I spread my son’s palm wide and tried to read it. If the hand was a map that led to a future person, was there any changing the destination? One summer Heidi Julavits sees her son silhouetted by the sun and notices he is at the threshold of what she calls “the end times of childhood.” When did this happen, she asks herself. Who is my son becoming—and what qualifies me to be his guide? The next four years feel like uncharted waters. Rape allegations rock the university campus where Julavits teaches, unleashing questions of justice and accountability, as well as education and prevention. She begins to wonder how to prepare her son to be the best possible citizen of the world he’s about to enter. And what she must learn about herself to responsibly steer him. Looking back to her childhood in Maine, where she and her family often navigated the tricky coastline in a small boat, relying on a decades-old nautical guide, Julavits takes us on an intellectual navigation of the self. Throughout, she intertwines her internal analysis with a wide-ranging exploration of what it means to raise a child in a time full of contradictions and moral complexity. Using the past and present as points of orientation, Directions to Myself examines the messy minutiae of family life alongside knottier questions of politics and gender. Through it all, Julavits discovers the beauty and the peril of telling stories as a way to locate ourselves and help others find us. Intimate, rigorous, and refreshingly unsentimental, Directions to Myself cements Julavits’s reputation as one of the most shrewdly innovative nonfiction writers at work today.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sergeant-york-by-john-perry--65151199https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646978 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sergeant York Series: Part of Christian Encounters Series Author: John Perry Narrator: Milton Bagby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Growing up in the Tennessee hills, Alvin York was equally renowned as a marksman and as a hard-drinking brawler. A dramatic New Year’s conversion convinced him that killing was against God’s will, and yet this shy, big-boned mountaineer singlehandedly dispatched two dozen Germans and captured 132 in the closing days of World War I. He earned the Medal of Honor and a ticker tape parade but refused to cash in on his fame, insisting “Uncle Sam’s uniform ain’t for sale.” This succinct and gripping new account of Sgt. York’s remarkable life includes details from exclusive interviews with the sergeant’s three surviving children and information drawn from battlefield eyewitness reports and original film studio archives: fresh reminders of the legacy of one of America’s great Christian patriots. We learn about life through the lives of others. Their experiences, their trials, their adventures become our schools, our chapels, our playgrounds. Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church through prose as accessible and concise as it is personal and engaging. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. Whether the person is D.L. Moody, Sergeant York, Saint Nicholas, John Bunyan, or William F. Buckley, we are now living in the world that they created and understand both it and ourselves better in the light of their lives. Their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires uniquely illuminate our shared experience.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646978Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646978 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sergeant York Series: Part of Christian Encounters Series Author: John Perry Narrator: Milton Bagby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646978 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sergeant York Series: Part of Christian Encounters Series Author: John Perry Narrator: Milton Bagby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Growing up in the Tennessee hills, Alvin York was equally renowned as a marksman and as a hard-drinking brawler. A dramatic New Year’s conversion convinced him that killing was against God’s will, and yet this shy, big-boned mountaineer singlehandedly dispatched two dozen Germans and captured 132 in the closing days of World War I. He earned the Medal of Honor and a ticker tape parade but refused to cash in on his fame, insisting “Uncle Sam’s uniform ain’t for sale.” This succinct and gripping new account of Sgt. York’s remarkable life includes details from exclusive interviews with the sergeant’s three surviving children and information drawn from battlefield eyewitness reports and original film studio archives: fresh reminders of the legacy of one of America’s great Christian patriots. We learn about life through the lives of others. Their experiences, their trials, their adventures become our schools, our chapels, our playgrounds. Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church through prose as accessible and concise as it is personal and engaging. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. Whether the person is D.L. Moody, Sergeant York, Saint Nicholas, John Bunyan, or William F. Buckley, we are now living in the world that they created and understand both it and ourselves better in the light of their lives. Their relationships, struggles, prayers, and desires uniquely illuminate our shared experience.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/saint-patrick-by-jonathan-rogers--65151191https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646981 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saint Patrick Series: Part of Christian Encounters Series Author: Jonathan Rogers Narrator: Peter Warnock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In this Christian Encounter Series biography, author Jonathan Rogers explores the life of Saint Patrick: slave, shepherd, and courageous missionary. Patrick was born the son of privilege and position, but he was only a teenager when he was taken from his home in Roman Britain by marauders and sold into slavery in Ireland. Despite his terrible circumstances, young Patrick did not give way to despair. As he worked as a shepherd in the pastures of his new owner, he kindled the faith he’d inherited from his family and eventually escaped to freedom. Then, after returning home, he experienced a dream that changed everything: God wanted him to go back and take the Gospel to the country of his captors. Patrick heeded the call. Both humble enough to minister to beggars and bold enough to confront kings, Patrick led the Irish through his brave and compassionate service into the Christian faith and baptized thousands. Separating the many myths from the facts, Jonathan Rogers weaves a wonder-filled tale of courage, barbarism, betrayal, and hope in God’s unceasing faithfulness. Countless miracles have been attributed to Saint Patrick, but perhaps one of the simplest and most amazing is that he won the hearts and souls of the same fierce and indomitable people who had enslaved him.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646981Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646981 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saint Patrick Series: Part of Christian Encounters Series Author: Jonathan Rogers Narrator: Peter Warnock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646981 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saint Patrick Series: Part of Christian Encounters Series Author: Jonathan Rogers Narrator: Peter Warnock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In this Christian Encounter Series biography, author Jonathan Rogers explores the life of Saint Patrick: slave, shepherd, and courageous missionary. Patrick was born the son of privilege and position, but he was only a teenager when he was taken from his home in Roman Britain by marauders and sold into slavery in Ireland. Despite his terrible circumstances, young Patrick did not give way to despair. As he worked as a shepherd in the pastures of his new owner, he kindled the faith he’d inherited from his family and eventually escaped to freedom. Then, after returning home, he experienced a dream that changed everything: God wanted him to go back and take the Gospel to the country of his captors. Patrick heeded the call. Both humble enough to minister to beggars and bold enough to confront kings, Patrick led the Irish through his brave and compassionate service into the Christian faith and baptized thousands. Separating the many myths from the facts, Jonathan Rogers weaves a wonder-filled tale of courage, barbarism, betrayal, and hope in God’s unceasing faithfulness. Countless miracles have been attributed to Saint Patrick, but perhaps one of the simplest and most amazing is that he won the hearts and souls of the same fierce and indomitable people who had enslaved him.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/then-there-was-you-captivating-true-life-stories-of-self-discovery-and-reinvention-by-sophie-cachia--65151183https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659280 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Then There Was You: Captivating true life stories of self-discovery and reinvention Author: Sophie Cachia Narrator: Sophie Cachia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Then There Was You is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Sophie Cachia’s bestselling memoir Then There Was Her. In Then There Was Her, Sophie Cachia revealed how falling in love with a woman turned her whole world upside down. Her story inspired thousands of readers to reach out, wanting to share their own journeys of sexual and romantic discovery.   Then There Was You is a captivating true life collection of stories told to Sophie about heartbreak, passion, bravery and the healing power of shared experiences. - After 18 years (and two kids) with her male partner, a woman finds her missing puzzle piece following a chance encounter with a beautiful woman at a wedding. - A woman and her husband are house-hunting for a bigger place ... so her boyfriend can move in with them all. - Her first serious relationship was toxic, and emotionally and psychologically abusive – and it ends in tragedy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659280Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659280 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Then There Was You: Captivating true life stories of self-discovery and reinvention Author: Sophie Cachia Narrator: Sophie Cachia Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659280 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Then There Was You: Captivating true life stories of self-discovery and reinvention Author: Sophie Cachia Narrator: Sophie Cachia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Then There Was You is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Sophie Cachia’s bestselling memoir Then There Was Her. In Then There Was Her, Sophie Cachia revealed how falling in love with a woman turned her whole world upside down. Her story inspired thousands of readers to reach out, wanting to share their own journeys of sexual and romantic discovery.   Then There Was You is a captivating true life collection of stories told to Sophie about heartbreak, passion, bravery and the healing power of shared experiences. - After 18 years (and two kids) with her male partner, a woman finds her missing puzzle piece following a chance encounter with a beautiful woman at a wedding. - A woman and her husband are house-hunting for a bigger place ... so her boyfriend can move in with them all. - Her first serious relationship was toxic, and emotionally and psychologically abusive – and it ends in tragedy.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/andale-prieta-a-love-letter-to-my-family-by-yasmin-ramirez--65151153https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: ¡Ándale, Prieta!: A Love Letter to My Family Author: Yasmín Ramírez Narrator: Kim Ramirez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: When I tell people who don’t speak Spanish what “prieta” means—“dark” or “the dark one”—their eyes pop open and a small gasp escapes. … How do I tell them that now, even after the cruelty of children, “Prieta” means love? That each time “Prieta” fell from my grandmother’s lips, I learned to love my dark skin. My Ita called me Prieta. When she died, she took the name with her.Yasmín Ramírez spent her twenties feeling lost—working an intensely taxing retail job and turning to bars for comfort. When her beloved grandmother dies, she comes home to El Paso, Texas, where people know how to spell her accented name. As she pulls her life together, she finds comfort in celebrating her Ita, a resilient matriarch who was far from the stereotypical domestic abuelita. Yasmín remembers Ita wistfully singing old Mexican rancheras, her mastectomy scar, the hours they spent watching boxing matches at a dive bar, and of course, Ita’s lesson on how to ball a fist for a good punch. Interviewing her mom and older sister, Yasmín learns even more about why her Ita was so tough—the abusive men, the lost pregnancies, and the toil of almost literally back-breaking jobs. In time, the writer finds her grandmother calling her forth to live with the same bravery and tenacity: “¡Ándale, Prieta!”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660898Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: ¡Ándale, Prieta!: A Love Letter to My Family Author: Yasmín Ramírez Narrator: Kim Ramirez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: ¡Ándale, Prieta!: A Love Letter to My Family Author: Yasmín Ramírez Narrator: Kim Ramirez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: When I tell people who don’t speak Spanish what “prieta” means—“dark” or “the dark one”—their eyes pop open and a small gasp escapes. … How do I tell them that now, even after the cruelty of children, “Prieta” means love? That each time “Prieta” fell from my grandmother’s lips, I learned to love my dark skin. My Ita called me Prieta. When she died, she took the name with her.Yasmín Ramírez spent her twenties feeling lost—working an intensely taxing retail job and turning to bars for comfort. When her beloved grandmother dies, she comes home to El Paso, Texas, where people know how to spell her accented name. As she pulls her life together, she finds comfort in celebrating her Ita, a resilient matriarch who was far from the stereotypical domestic abuelita. Yasmín remembers Ita wistfully singing old Mexican rancheras, her mastectomy scar, the hours they spent watching boxing matches at a dive bar, and of course, Ita’s lesson on how to ball a fist for a good punch. Interviewing her mom and older sister, Yasmín learns even more about why her Ita was so tough—the abusive men, the lost pregnancies, and the toil of almost literally back-breaking jobs. In time, the writer finds her grandmother calling her forth to live with the same bravery and tenacity: “¡Ándale, Prieta!”]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kindergarten-at-60-by-dian-seidel--65151078https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692080 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kindergarten at 60 Author: Dian Seidel Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Teaching kindergarten in Thailand wasn’t the job Dian Seidel had in mind when, at age sixty and craving adventure, she convinced her husband that they should try working abroad. But coping with rambunctious children, sweltering heat, and Covid-19 turned out to be the challenge she needed. Struggling to understand Thai culture, their school, and their marriage, could she learn Thailand’s essential lesson: mai pen rai, don’t worry, keep cool? Part travel memoir and part second act story, Kindergarten at 60 is a retirement tale like none other. With gentle humor and polished prose, Seidel explores universal themes via the adventures of everyday life. Job-hunting retirees confront age restrictions. A couple navigates 24/7 togetherness for the first time in their lives. Professionals accustomed to working with adults are overwhelmed, and charmed, by a passel of two-, three-, and four-year-olds. An introvert struggles to forge cross-cultural and cross-generational friendships. Americans face the challenges of the five-tone Thai language and five-alarm Thai chilies. Seidel’s heartwarming story offers a unique perspective on contemporary Thailand and introduces readers to an unforgettable cast of characters at Pathum Thani Prep. Join the journey, meet the kids, and experience Kindergarten at 60.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692080Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692080 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kindergarten at 60 Author: Dian Seidel Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692080 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kindergarten at 60 Author: Dian Seidel Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Teaching kindergarten in Thailand wasn’t the job Dian Seidel had in mind when, at age sixty and craving adventure, she convinced her husband that they should try working abroad. But coping with rambunctious children, sweltering heat, and Covid-19 turned out to be the challenge she needed. Struggling to understand Thai culture, their school, and their marriage, could she learn Thailand’s essential lesson: mai pen rai, don’t worry, keep cool? Part travel memoir and part second act story, Kindergarten at 60 is a retirement tale like none other. With gentle humor and polished prose, Seidel explores universal themes via the adventures of everyday life. Job-hunting retirees confront age restrictions. A couple navigates 24/7 togetherness for the first time in their lives. Professionals accustomed to working with adults are overwhelmed, and charmed, by a passel of two-, three-, and four-year-olds. An introvert struggles to forge cross-cultural and cross-generational friendships. Americans face the challenges of the five-tone Thai language and five-alarm Thai chilies. Seidel’s heartwarming story offers a unique perspective on contemporary Thailand and introduces readers to an unforgettable cast of characters at Pathum Thani Prep. Join the journey, meet the kids, and experience Kindergarten at 60.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-becoming-by-nicole-luongo--65151062https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Becoming Author: Nicole Luongo Narrator: Lauren Vandenbrook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 15, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The Becoming is a brutal account of mental illness by a woman who doesn't believe in mental illness. As the author embarks on a PhD at the University of Oxford, a lifetime of addiction, eating disorders, and trauma culminates in an explosive hospital stay that sees her achieve liberation through psychosis. Her journey from terror to acceptance is grueling, and she makes meaning of it by weaving reflexive narrative with classic and nascent scholarship. Part phenomenological recounting, part social critique, the text disrupts biomedical approaches to altered states by exploring their emancipatory potential. It also illuminates how conventional mental health treatment pathologizes human suffering. In doing so, The Becoming contributes to anti-psychiatry and Mad studies projects, each asking, 'What does it mean to be normal?' and 'Should we be sane in an insane world?']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698969Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Becoming Author: Nicole Luongo Narrator: Lauren Vandenbrook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 15, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Becoming Author: Nicole Luongo Narrator: Lauren Vandenbrook Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 15, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The Becoming is a brutal account of mental illness by a woman who doesn't believe in mental illness. As the author embarks on a PhD at the University of Oxford, a lifetime of addiction, eating disorders, and trauma culminates in an explosive hospital stay that sees her achieve liberation through psychosis. Her journey from terror to acceptance is grueling, and she makes meaning of it by weaving reflexive narrative with classic and nascent scholarship. Part phenomenological recounting, part social critique, the text disrupts biomedical approaches to altered states by exploring their emancipatory potential. It also illuminates how conventional mental health treatment pathologizes human suffering. In doing so, The Becoming contributes to anti-psychiatry and Mad studies projects, each asking, 'What does it mean to be normal?' and 'Should we be sane in an insane world?']]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beyond-this-harbor-adventurous-tales-of-the-heart-by-rose-styron--65151226https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart Author: Rose Styron Narrator: Rose Styron, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A memoir of an extraordinary life—poet, international human rights activist, founding member of Amnesty International USA, journalist, hostess, famous beauty, foreign policy advisor; friend to politicians, movie stars, the legendary; discoverer of Philip Roth, longtime wife of Bill Styron and together, America’s literary golden couple at home and abroad “[Rose Styron] has lived a life in interesting times, among legendary characters, a life well worth telling—and reading about.” —The Washington Post An intimate portrait of a celebrated magic life and the famous and infamous who dropped in, summered, traveled with, played with, and the decades of friendship with everyone from Truman Capote and Robert Penn Warren to the Kennedys, the Bernsteins, Alexander Calder, John Hersey, and Lillian Hellman. Here as well are the years of dedication and risk, traveling the world, from Pinochet’s Chile to El Salvador, Belfast, and Sarajevo, as Rose Styron, in search of those hiding from dictators and autocrats, bore witness to atrocities and human rights violations . . .  Styron writes of her childhood, born into a German Jewish, assimilated Baltimore family; a rebel from the start, studying poetry at Wellesley, Harvard, Johns Hopkins; traveling to Rome and her (second) meeting with Bill (the first time, “I can’t remember even shaking hands. I wasn’t thinking about him at all.”); their eventual marriage, and their more than fifty years together—in bucolic Roxbury, Connecticut, and on Martha's Vineyard.  She writes of Bill's writing and of retyping his manuscripts, discussing his writing progress, having babies, with visits from neighbors Arthur Miller; Mike Nichols and various wives; Dustin Hoffman buying the house over the hill; James Baldwin moving in to Styron’s writing studio and writing The Fire Next Time, with Baldwin encouraging Styron to write Nat Turner in first person; Frank Sinatra, sailing into Vineyard Haven Harbor and soon dropping by for dinners chez Styrons; the Kennedys having rowdy sleepovers . . .  And she writes in detail about Bill Styron's full-on breakdowns, his recovery from the first depression; writing Darkness Visible. And fifteen years later, the second much worse crash; Bill Styron’s death; her year of grief, teaching at Harvard; living full time on the Vineyard and making a new full life there . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631012Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart Author: Rose Styron Narrator: Rose Styron, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart Author: Rose Styron Narrator: Rose Styron, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A memoir of an extraordinary life—poet, international human rights activist, founding member of Amnesty International USA, journalist, hostess, famous beauty, foreign policy advisor; friend to politicians, movie stars, the legendary; discoverer of Philip Roth, longtime wife of Bill Styron and together, America’s literary golden couple at home and abroad “[Rose Styron] has lived a life in interesting times, among legendary characters, a life well worth telling—and reading about.” —The Washington Post An intimate portrait of a celebrated magic life and the famous and infamous who dropped in, summered, traveled with, played with, and the decades of friendship with everyone from Truman Capote and Robert Penn Warren to the Kennedys, the Bernsteins, Alexander Calder, John Hersey, and Lillian Hellman. Here as well are the years of dedication and risk, traveling the world, from Pinochet’s Chile to El Salvador, Belfast, and Sarajevo, as Rose Styron, in search of those hiding from dictators and autocrats, bore witness to atrocities and human rights violations . . .  Styron writes of her childhood, born into a German Jewish, assimilated Baltimore family; a rebel from the start, studying poetry at Wellesley, Harvard, Johns Hopkins; traveling to Rome and her (second) meeting with Bill (the first time, “I can’t remember even shaking hands. I wasn’t thinking about him at all.”); their eventual marriage, and their more than fifty years together—in bucolic Roxbury, Connecticut, and on Martha's Vineyard.  She writes of Bill's writing and of retyping his manuscripts, discussing his writing progress, having babies, with visits from neighbors Arthur Miller; Mike Nichols and various wives; Dustin Hoffman buying the house over the hill; James Baldwin moving in to Styron’s writing studio and writing The Fire Next Time, with Baldwin encouraging Styron to write Nat Turner in first person; Frank Sinatra, sailing into Vineyard Haven Harbor and soon dropping by for dinners chez Styrons; the Kennedys having rowdy sleepovers . . .  And she writes in detail about Bill Styron's full-on breakdowns, his recovery from the first depression; writing Darkness Visible. And fifteen years later, the second much worse crash; Bill Styron’s death; her year of grief, teaching at Harvard; living full time on the Vineyard and making a new full life there . . .]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/young-and-restless-the-girls-who-sparked-america-s-revolutions-by-mattie-kahn--65151200https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions Author: Mattie Kahn Narrator: Eunice Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: NPR's Books We Love 2023 Glamour's 'The 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023, So Far' Vogue's 'Best Books of 2023 (So Far)' Town & Country's 'The Best Books of 2023' A 'heartening inspiration'(The New York Times), the untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girls Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was fifteen. In 1912, women’s rights activists organized a massive march in support of women’s suffrage. Leading them up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan was not one of the mothers of the movement, but a teenage Chinese immigrant named Mabel Ping-Hua Lee. Half a century before the better-known movements for workers’ rights began, over 1,500 girls—some as young as ten—walked out of factories in Lowell, Massachusetts, demanding safer working conditions and higher wages in one of the nation’s first-ever labor strikes. Young women have been disenfranchised and discounted, but the true retelling of major social movements in America reveals their might: they have ignited almost every single one. Young and Restless recounts one of the most foundational and underappreciated forces in moments of American revolution: teenage girls. From the American Revolution itself to the Civil Rights Movement to nuclear disarmament protests and the women’s liberation movement, through Black Lives Matter and school strikes for climate, Mattie Kahn uncovers how girls have leveraged their unique strengths, from fandom to intimate friendships, to organize and lay serious political groundwork for movements that often sidelined them. Their stories illuminate how much we owe to girls throughout the generations, what skills young women use to mobilize and find their voices, and, crucially, what we can all stand to learn from them.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630961Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions Author: Mattie Kahn Narrator: Eunice Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630961 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions Author: Mattie Kahn Narrator: Eunice Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: NPR's Books We Love 2023 Glamour's 'The 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023, So Far' Vogue's 'Best Books of 2023 (So Far)' Town & Country's 'The Best Books of 2023' A 'heartening inspiration'(The New York Times), the untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girls Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was fifteen. In 1912, women’s rights activists organized a massive march in support of women’s suffrage. Leading them up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan was not one of the mothers of the movement, but a teenage Chinese immigrant named Mabel Ping-Hua Lee. Half a century before the better-known movements for workers’ rights began, over 1,500 girls—some as young as ten—walked out of factories in Lowell, Massachusetts, demanding safer working conditions and higher wages in one of the nation’s first-ever labor strikes. Young women have been disenfranchised and discounted, but the true retelling of major social movements in America reveals their might: they have ignited almost every single one. Young and Restless recounts one of the most foundational and underappreciated forces in moments of American revolution: teenage girls. From the American Revolution itself to the Civil Rights Movement to nuclear disarmament protests and the women’s liberation movement, through Black Lives Matter and school strikes for climate, Mattie Kahn uncovers how girls have leveraged their unique strengths, from fandom to intimate friendships, to organize and lay serious political groundwork for movements that often sidelined them. Their stories illuminate how much we owe to girls throughout the generations, what skills young women use to mobilize and find their voices, and, crucially, what we can all stand to learn from them.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/almost-brown-a-memoir-by-charlotte-gill--65151224https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Almost Brown: A Memoir Author: Charlotte Gill Narrator: Seema Doad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'A Canadian masterpiece.'—Toronto Star An award-winning writer retraces her unconventional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill’s father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960s London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a lot of immigration paperwork, and three children, all in varying shades of tan. Together they set off on a journey to Canada and the United States in an elusive pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness—a dream that eventually tears them apart. Almost Brown is an exploration of diasporic intermingling involving two deeply eccentric parents from worlds apart and their half-brown children as they experience the paradoxes and conundrums of life as it’s lived between race checkboxes. Their intercultural experiment features turbans and tube socks, chana masala and Cherry Coke, feminist uprisings, racial alliances and divides, a divorce, multiple grudges, and plenty of bad fashion. The family implodes, but after twenty years of silence, father and daughter reclaim a space for forgiveness and love. Almost Brown is a funny, turbulent, and ultimately heartwarming book about the brilliant messiness of a mixed-race family and a search for answers to the question, What are you? Tender and incisive, it is both a deeply personal memoir and an excavation into ethnicity, ancestry, and race—a historical concept that still informs our beliefs about identity today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648936Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Almost Brown: A Memoir Author: Charlotte Gill Narrator: Seema Doad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Almost Brown: A Memoir Author: Charlotte Gill Narrator: Seema Doad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'A Canadian masterpiece.'—Toronto Star An award-winning writer retraces her unconventional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill’s father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960s London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a lot of immigration paperwork, and three children, all in varying shades of tan. Together they set off on a journey to Canada and the United States in an elusive pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness—a dream that eventually tears them apart. Almost Brown is an exploration of diasporic intermingling involving two deeply eccentric parents from worlds apart and their half-brown children as they experience the paradoxes and conundrums of life as it’s lived between race checkboxes. Their intercultural experiment features turbans and tube socks, chana masala and Cherry Coke, feminist uprisings, racial alliances and divides, a divorce, multiple grudges, and plenty of bad fashion. The family implodes, but after twenty years of silence, father and daughter reclaim a space for forgiveness and love. Almost Brown is a funny, turbulent, and ultimately heartwarming book about the brilliant messiness of a mixed-race family and a search for answers to the question, What are you? Tender and incisive, it is both a deeply personal memoir and an excavation into ethnicity, ancestry, and race—a historical concept that still informs our beliefs about identity today.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/defiant-dreams-the-journey-of-an-afghan-girl-who-risked-everything-for-education-by-malaina-kapoor-sola-mahfouz--65151193https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630987 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education Author: Malaina Kapoor, Sola Mahfouz Narrator: Ariana Delawari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life.   “Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about the world reinforces my optimism about the future.”―BILL GATES Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996, the year the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, presided over brutal public executions, and turned the clock backward on women’s rights, practically imprisoning women within their own homes and forcing them to wear all-concealing burqas. At age eleven, Sola was forced to stop attending school after a group of men threatened to throw acid in her face if she continued. After that she was confined to her home, required to cook and clean and prepare for an arranged marriage. She saw the outside world only a handful of times each year. As time passed, Sola began to understand that she was condemned to the same existence as millions of women in Afghanistan. Her future was empty. The rest of her life would be controlled entirely by men: fathers and husbands and sons who would never allow her to study, to earn money, or even to dream. Driven by this devastating realization, Sola began a years-long fight to change the trajectory of her life, deciding that education would be her way out. At age sixteen, without even the basic ability to add or subtract, she began to teach herself math and English in secret. She progressed rapidly., Within just two years she was already studying subjects such as philosophy and physics. Faced with obstacles at every turn, Sola still managed to sneak into Pakistan to take the SAT. In 2016, she escaped to the United States, where she is now a quantum-computing researcher at Tufts University. An engrossing, dramatic memoir, co-written with young Indian American human rights activist Malaina Kapoor, Defiant Dreams is the story of one girl, but it’s also the untold story of a generation of women brimming with potential and longing for freedom.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630987Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630987 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education Author: Malaina Kapoor, Sola Mahfouz Narrator: Ariana Delawari...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630987 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education Author: Malaina Kapoor, Sola Mahfouz Narrator: Ariana Delawari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life.   “Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about the world reinforces my optimism about the future.”―BILL GATES Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996, the year the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, presided over brutal public executions, and turned the clock backward on women’s rights, practically imprisoning women within their own homes and forcing them to wear all-concealing burqas. At age eleven, Sola was forced to stop attending school after a group of men threatened to throw acid in her face if she continued. After that she was confined to her home, required to cook and clean and prepare for an arranged marriage. She saw the outside world only a handful of times each year. As time passed, Sola began to understand that she was condemned to the same existence as millions of women in Afghanistan. Her future was empty. The rest of her life would be controlled entirely by men: fathers and husbands and sons who would never allow her to study, to earn money, or even to dream. Driven by this devastating realization, Sola began a years-long fight to change the trajectory of her life, deciding that education would be her way out. At age sixteen, without even the basic ability to add or subtract, she began to teach herself math and English in secret. She progressed rapidly., Within just two years she was already studying subjects such as philosophy and physics. Faced with obstacles at every turn, Sola still managed to sneak into Pakistan to take the SAT. In 2016, she escaped to the United States, where she is now a quantum-computing researcher at Tufts University. An engrossing, dramatic memoir, co-written with young Indian American human rights activist Malaina Kapoor, Defiant Dreams is the story of one girl, but it’s also the untold story of a generation of women brimming with potential and longing for freedom.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-friend-anne-frank-the-inspiring-and-heartbreaking-true-story-of-best-friends-torn-apart-and-reunited-against-all-odds-by-hannah-pick-gos--65151189https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds Author: Hannah Pick-Goslar Narrator: Alix Dunmore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: "Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice), the long-awaited memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank. In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942, Hannah and Anne's lives abruptly changed forever. As the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam progressed, Anne and the Frank family seemingly vanished, leaving behind unmade beds and dishes in the sink—but no trace of Anne's precious diary. Torn from her dear friend without warning, Hannah spent the next two years tormented by questions about Anne's fate, wondering if she had, by some miracle, managed to escape danger.   In this long‑awaited memoir, Hannah shares the story of her childhood during the Holocaust, from the introduction of anti-Jewish laws in Amsterdam to the gradual disappearance of classmates and, eventually, the Frank family, to Hannah and her family's imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As Hannah chronicles the experiences of her own life during and after the war, she provides a searing look at what countless children endured at the hands of the Nazi regime, as well as an intimate, never‑before‑seen portrait of the most recognizable victim of the Holocaust. Culminating in an astonishing fateful reunion, My Friend Anne Frank is the profoundly moving story of childhood and friendship during one of the darkest periods in the world's history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629612Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds Author: Hannah Pick-Goslar...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds Author: Hannah Pick-Goslar Narrator: Alix Dunmore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: "Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice), the long-awaited memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank. In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942, Hannah and Anne's lives abruptly changed forever. As the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam progressed, Anne and the Frank family seemingly vanished, leaving behind unmade beds and dishes in the sink—but no trace of Anne's precious diary. Torn from her dear friend without warning, Hannah spent the next two years tormented by questions about Anne's fate, wondering if she had, by some miracle, managed to escape danger.   In this long‑awaited memoir, Hannah shares the story of her childhood during the Holocaust, from the introduction of anti-Jewish laws in Amsterdam to the gradual disappearance of classmates and, eventually, the Frank family, to Hannah and her family's imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As Hannah chronicles the experiences of her own life during and after the war, she provides a searing look at what countless children endured at the hands of the Nazi regime, as well as an intimate, never‑before‑seen portrait of the most recognizable victim of the Holocaust. Culminating in an astonishing fateful reunion, My Friend Anne Frank is the profoundly moving story of childhood and friendship during one of the darkest periods in the world's history.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-et-j-ai-cesse-de-t-appeler-papa-by-caroline-darian--65151065https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Et j'ai cessé de t'appeler papa Author: Caroline Darian Narrator: Ana Piévic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 5, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Le 2 novembre 2020, Caroline Darian reçoit un appel de la police de Carpentras. Son père est en garde à vue. La saisie de son matériel informatique révèle l'impensable : depuis 2013, il drogue sa femme avant de la livrer, inconsciente, à des hommes, de tous les horizons et sans contrepartie. Caroline Darian, femme debout, raconte cette déflagration, le périlleux vertige de découvrir qu'une personne aimée, son père, est capable du pire. Elle alerte aussi sur la soumission chimique, quand l'armoire à pharmacie du foyer se transforme en arme préférée des violeurs... Une voix forte, exceptionnellement courageuse, qui révèle une autre facette des violences faites aux femmes. ©2022, Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693273Mon, 05 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Et j'ai cessé de t'appeler papa Author: Caroline Darian Narrator: Ana Piévic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 11 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Et j'ai cessé de t'appeler papa Author: Caroline Darian Narrator: Ana Piévic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 5, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Le 2 novembre 2020, Caroline Darian reçoit un appel de la police de Carpentras. Son père est en garde à vue. La saisie de son matériel informatique révèle l'impensable : depuis 2013, il drogue sa femme avant de la livrer, inconsciente, à des hommes, de tous les horizons et sans contrepartie. Caroline Darian, femme debout, raconte cette déflagration, le périlleux vertige de découvrir qu'une personne aimée, son père, est capable du pire. Elle alerte aussi sur la soumission chimique, quand l'armoire à pharmacie du foyer se transforme en arme préférée des violeurs... Une voix forte, exceptionnellement courageuse, qui révèle une autre facette des violences faites aux femmes. ©2022, Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-i-m-glad-my-mom-died-meine-befreiung-aus-einer-toxischen-mutter-tochter-beziehung-ungekurzte-lesung-by-jennette-mccurdy--65151087https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - I'm Glad My Mom Died - Meine Befreiung aus einer toxischen Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Jennette McCurdy Narrator: Dagmar Bittner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Jennette McCurdy erzählt herzergreifend und mit bitterem Humor von ihrem traumatischen Leben als ehemaliger Kinder-Star in iCarly und der krankhaften Beziehung zu ihrer Mutter Seit sie denken kann, wird Jennette von ihrer Mutter beherrscht, emotional erpresst und psychisch wie körperlich missbraucht. Das einzige, was Debra sich für ihre Tochter - aber vor allem für sich selbst - wünscht, ist Jennettes Erfolg als Fernseh-Star. Für Jennette beginnt ein Kreislauf aus Castings, Angstattacken und Selbsthass. Dann bekommt sie die Rolle als Sam Puckett in der Nickelodeon-Serie iCarly - eine Rolle, in der sie sich gedemütigt fühlt und Produzenten ausgesetzt ist, die ihre Macht missbrauchen. Als Debra an Krebs stirbt ist Jennette 21 Jahre alt und hat das Zentrum ihres Lebens verloren. Das einzige, worüber sie noch Kontrolle hat, ist ihr Essverhalten und die junge Frau stürzt ab in Essstörungen, Alkoholsucht und toxische Beziehungen. Einzig eine wegen ihrer Bulimie angefangene Therapie erweist sich als Jennettes Weg in die Freiheit. Es kostet sie Jahre um zu erkennen, was ihre Mutter ihr ein Leben lang angetan hat. Doch jetzt kann sie zum ersten Mal entscheiden, was sie selbst möchte, und es ist an der Zeit, die Kontrolle über ihre eigene Zukunft zu übernehmen.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685266Fri, 02 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - I'm Glad My Mom Died - Meine Befreiung aus einer toxischen Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Jennette McCurdy Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - I'm Glad My Mom Died - Meine Befreiung aus einer toxischen Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Jennette McCurdy Narrator: Dagmar Bittner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.52 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Jennette McCurdy erzählt herzergreifend und mit bitterem Humor von ihrem traumatischen Leben als ehemaliger Kinder-Star in iCarly und der krankhaften Beziehung zu ihrer Mutter Seit sie denken kann, wird Jennette von ihrer Mutter beherrscht, emotional erpresst und psychisch wie körperlich missbraucht. Das einzige, was Debra sich für ihre Tochter - aber vor allem für sich selbst - wünscht, ist Jennettes Erfolg als Fernseh-Star. Für Jennette beginnt ein Kreislauf aus Castings, Angstattacken und Selbsthass. Dann bekommt sie die Rolle als Sam Puckett in der Nickelodeon-Serie iCarly - eine Rolle, in der sie sich gedemütigt fühlt und Produzenten ausgesetzt ist, die ihre Macht missbrauchen. Als Debra an Krebs stirbt ist Jennette 21 Jahre alt und hat das Zentrum ihres Lebens verloren. Das einzige, worüber sie noch Kontrolle hat, ist ihr Essverhalten und die junge Frau stürzt ab in Essstörungen, Alkoholsucht und toxische Beziehungen. Einzig eine wegen ihrer Bulimie angefangene Therapie erweist sich als Jennettes Weg in die Freiheit. Es kostet sie Jahre um zu erkennen, was ihre Mutter ihr ein Leben lang angetan hat. Doch jetzt kann sie zum ersten Mal entscheiden, was sie selbst möchte, und es ist an der Zeit, die Kontrolle über ihre eigene Zukunft zu übernehmen.]]>185rztecleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-minha-historia-escrita-a-mao-eu-sou-by-ana-suarez--65151117https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Minha história escrita à mão - eu sou Series: #1 of Minha história escrita à mão Author: Ana Suarez Narrator: Priscila Scholz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 4 minutes Release date: June 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A felicidade para mim é como uma paisagem, que reúne alguns elementos deixando-a completa: Deus, Família, Saúde e Paz. Ana Suarez conta com detalhes a primeira parte da sua vida, desde a sua infância simples no interior de Goiás até alcançar lugares que ela nunca havia sonhado. Ana acredita que uma história bem contada pode salvar vidas, pois podemos achar uma inspiração na naquela história ou avaliar fatos que podem nos ajudar a não cometer os mesmos erros ou mesmo achar uma solução que parecia tão difícil ou impossível quando estamos no 'olho do furacão'. Este livro pode tirar você da zona de conforto e talvez te faça pensar na sua infância, na adolescência, nos momentos alegres e nos possíveis bloqueios emocionais, que você tenha. Ou este livro pode na sua simplicidade apenas servir de inspiração para você experimentar coisas novas na sua vida.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691616Thu, 01 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Minha história escrita à mão - eu sou Series: #1 of Minha história escrita à mão Author: Ana Suarez Narrator: Priscila Scholz Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Minha história escrita à mão - eu sou Series: #1 of Minha história escrita à mão Author: Ana Suarez Narrator: Priscila Scholz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 4 minutes Release date: June 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A felicidade para mim é como uma paisagem, que reúne alguns elementos deixando-a completa: Deus, Família, Saúde e Paz. Ana Suarez conta com detalhes a primeira parte da sua vida, desde a sua infância simples no interior de Goiás até alcançar lugares que ela nunca havia sonhado. Ana acredita que uma história bem contada pode salvar vidas, pois podemos achar uma inspiração na naquela história ou avaliar fatos que podem nos ajudar a não cometer os mesmos erros ou mesmo achar uma solução que parecia tão difícil ou impossível quando estamos no 'olho do furacão'. Este livro pode tirar você da zona de conforto e talvez te faça pensar na sua infância, na adolescência, nos momentos alegres e nos possíveis bloqueios emocionais, que você tenha. Ou este livro pode na sua simplicidade apenas servir de inspiração para você experimentar coisas novas na sua vida.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-los-suenos-de-la-nina-de-la-montana-narrado-por-la-autora-by-eufrosina-cruz-mendoza--65151115https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los sueños de la niña de la montaña: (Narrado por la autora) Author: Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza Narrator: Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 40 minutes Release date: June 1, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Este libro cuenta una historia de terquedad y rebeldía. La de una niña que a los 12 años decidió escribir su destino y, de paso, ayudar a miles y miles de mexicanas a cambiar su suerte Soy Eufrosina Cruz y nací en la montaña zapoteca. A los 27 años gané la presidencia de mi pueblo, pero no me dejaron gobernar porque era mujer. En ese momento supe que, para cambiar mi vida y la de las mujeres indígenas, debía transformar la ley más importante de mi país. Desde entonces, mi lucha ha sido para que los pueblos indígenas y afro no sean considerados menores de edad y para que las mujeres no sean personas de segunda. En este viaje he logrado modificar la Constitución de mi estado, cambiar la Constitución de México y que la onu adoptara mi iniciativacontra el sexismo y la discriminación. Pero lo que más me enorgullece es que he podido decirles a las niñas que tienen derecho a ser quienes quieran, a que su origen no defina su destino y a que pueden cumplir sus sueños, tal como lo hizo esta niña de las montañas.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691356Thu, 01 Jun 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los sueños de la niña de la montaña: (Narrado por la autora) Author: Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza Narrator: Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691356 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los sueños de la niña de la montaña: (Narrado por la autora) Author: Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza Narrator: Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 40 minutes Release date: June 1, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Este libro cuenta una historia de terquedad y rebeldía. La de una niña que a los 12 años decidió escribir su destino y, de paso, ayudar a miles y miles de mexicanas a cambiar su suerte Soy Eufrosina Cruz y nací en la montaña zapoteca. A los 27 años gané la presidencia de mi pueblo, pero no me dejaron gobernar porque era mujer. En ese momento supe que, para cambiar mi vida y la de las mujeres indígenas, debía transformar la ley más importante de mi país. Desde entonces, mi lucha ha sido para que los pueblos indígenas y afro no sean considerados menores de edad y para que las mujeres no sean personas de segunda. En este viaje he logrado modificar la Constitución de mi estado, cambiar la Constitución de México y que la onu adoptara mi iniciativacontra el sexismo y la discriminación. Pero lo que más me enorgullece es que he podido decirles a las niñas que tienen derecho a ser quienes quieran, a que su origen no defina su destino y a que pueden cumplir sus sueños, tal como lo hizo esta niña de las montañas.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wisdom-of-wildly-creative-women-real-stories-from-inspirational-artistic-and-empowered-women-by-angela-lomenzo--65151236https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women: Real Stories from Inspirational, Artistic, and Empowered Women Author: Angela Lomenzo Narrator: Sara Sheckells Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Angela LoMenzo shares powerful real stories documented from interviews with a diverse group of accomplished women that encourages us to dig deep into our own creative lives! Women from all walks of life. Artists, musicians, authors, fashion designers, entrepreneurs, and others from a multitude of creative careers share their experiences with depression, bullying, infertility, cancer, assault, loss of loved ones, drug addiction, and many other issues women often do not have a safe space to talk about. These stories show you just how real life is. Powerful affirmations and true-life stories to empower you. This book is packed with words of wisdom from women who have both overcome adversity and achieved an authentic life honoring their individuality and freedom of personal expression. Their real stories illustrate that it is possible to live the life you have always desired now. Inside, you'll find: ● Words of wisdom from wildly creative women ● Raw and authentic interviews featuring stories by women redefining the role of a woman ● And much more!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657270Tue, 30 May 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women: Real Stories from Inspirational, Artistic, and Empowered Women Author: Angela Lomenzo Narrator: Sara Sheckells Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women: Real Stories from Inspirational, Artistic, and Empowered Women Author: Angela Lomenzo Narrator: Sara Sheckells Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Angela LoMenzo shares powerful real stories documented from interviews with a diverse group of accomplished women that encourages us to dig deep into our own creative lives! Women from all walks of life. Artists, musicians, authors, fashion designers, entrepreneurs, and others from a multitude of creative careers share their experiences with depression, bullying, infertility, cancer, assault, loss of loved ones, drug addiction, and many other issues women often do not have a safe space to talk about. These stories show you just how real life is. Powerful affirmations and true-life stories to empower you. This book is packed with words of wisdom from women who have both overcome adversity and achieved an authentic life honoring their individuality and freedom of personal expression. Their real stories illustrate that it is possible to live the life you have always desired now. Inside, you'll find: ● Words of wisdom from wildly creative women ● Raw and authentic interviews featuring stories by women redefining the role of a woman ● And much more!]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-my-dna-my-career-investigating-your-worst-nightmares-by-lindsey-wade--65151232https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In My DNA: My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares Author: Lindsey Wade Narrator: Patricia Santomasso Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In 1986, a young girl in Tacoma, Washington, Jennifer Bastian, went out for a bike ride in a local park and never came home. Later her body was found, mutilated and lifeless, but the case went cold, and Jennifer's killer was free. The senseless killing of an innocent girl left an indelible black cloud over Tacoma for three decades and was seared into the memory of young Lindsey Wade, also from Tacoma, who went on to become the detective who would crack the case. Horrifying crimes against women and girls motivated Wade's twenty-one-year law enforcement career and ignited her relentless pursuit of justice for victims. Journey with Detective Wade as she investigates shocking sex crimes and homicides in the Tacoma area, where she has been crucial in bringing new DNA evidence into each cold case. From serial rapists to cold-blooded killers, Wade never backs down from the challenges these investigations present—even adding Ted Bundy's DNA to the national database. At the heart of every lead and DNA test throughout the book, Lindsey's desire to find Jennifer Bastian's murderer never relents.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657295Tue, 30 May 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In My DNA: My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares Author: Lindsey Wade Narrator: Patricia Santomasso Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In My DNA: My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares Author: Lindsey Wade Narrator: Patricia Santomasso Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In 1986, a young girl in Tacoma, Washington, Jennifer Bastian, went out for a bike ride in a local park and never came home. Later her body was found, mutilated and lifeless, but the case went cold, and Jennifer's killer was free. The senseless killing of an innocent girl left an indelible black cloud over Tacoma for three decades and was seared into the memory of young Lindsey Wade, also from Tacoma, who went on to become the detective who would crack the case. Horrifying crimes against women and girls motivated Wade's twenty-one-year law enforcement career and ignited her relentless pursuit of justice for victims. Journey with Detective Wade as she investigates shocking sex crimes and homicides in the Tacoma area, where she has been crucial in bringing new DNA evidence into each cold case. From serial rapists to cold-blooded killers, Wade never backs down from the challenges these investigations present—even adding Ted Bundy's DNA to the national database. At the heart of every lead and DNA test throughout the book, Lindsey's desire to find Jennifer Bastian's murderer never relents.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/carbon-queen-the-remarkable-life-of-nanoscience-pioneer-mildred-dresselhaus-by-maia-weinstock--65151194https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus Author: Maia Weinstock Narrator: Eva Wilhelm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The life of trailblazing physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, who expanded our understanding of the physical world. As a girl in New York City in the 1940s, Mildred 'Millie' Dresselhaus was taught that there were only three career options open to women: secretary, nurse, or teacher. In Carbon Queen, science writer Maia Weinstock describes how, with curiosity and drive, Dresselhaus defied expectations and forged a career as a pioneering scientist and engineer. Dresselhaus made highly influential discoveries about the properties of carbon and other materials and helped reshape our world in countless ways—from electronics to aviation to medicine to energy. She was also a trailblazer for women in STEM and a beloved educator, mentor, and colleague. Her path wasn't easy. Her graduate adviser felt educating women was a waste of time. But Dresselhaus persisted, finding mentors in Nobel Prize–winning physicists Rosalyn Yalow and Enrico Fermi. Eventually, Dresselhaus became one of the first female professors at MIT, where she would spend nearly six decades. Weinstock explores the basics of Dresselhaus's work in carbon nanoscience accessibly and engagingly, describing how she identified key properties of carbon forms, leading to applications that range from lighter, stronger aircraft to more energy-efficient and flexible electronics.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673943Tue, 30 May 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus Author: Maia Weinstock Narrator: Eva Wilhelm Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus Author: Maia Weinstock Narrator: Eva Wilhelm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The life of trailblazing physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, who expanded our understanding of the physical world. As a girl in New York City in the 1940s, Mildred 'Millie' Dresselhaus was taught that there were only three career options open to women: secretary, nurse, or teacher. In Carbon Queen, science writer Maia Weinstock describes how, with curiosity and drive, Dresselhaus defied expectations and forged a career as a pioneering scientist and engineer. Dresselhaus made highly influential discoveries about the properties of carbon and other materials and helped reshape our world in countless ways—from electronics to aviation to medicine to energy. She was also a trailblazer for women in STEM and a beloved educator, mentor, and colleague. Her path wasn't easy. Her graduate adviser felt educating women was a waste of time. But Dresselhaus persisted, finding mentors in Nobel Prize–winning physicists Rosalyn Yalow and Enrico Fermi. Eventually, Dresselhaus became one of the first female professors at MIT, where she would spend nearly six decades. Weinstock explores the basics of Dresselhaus's work in carbon nanoscience accessibly and engagingly, describing how she identified key properties of carbon forms, leading to applications that range from lighter, stronger aircraft to more energy-efficient and flexible electronics.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/horse-barbie-a-memoir-by-geena-rocero--65151188https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Horse Barbie: A Memoir Author: Geena Rocero Narrator: Geena Rocero Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy” (Vogue) from one of Out100’s Most Impactful and Influential LGBTQ+ Storytellers “Groundbreaking . . . [Rocero] quite literally models what triumph can look like.”—Glamour (Women of the Year) WINNER OF THEM’S AWARD FOR LITERATURE • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Book Riot, Elle, Esquire As a young femme in 1990s Manila, Geena Rocero heard, “Bakla, bakla!,” a taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the tiny universe of her eskinita. Eventually, she found her place in trans pageants, the Philippines’ informal national sport. When her competitors mocked her as a “horse Barbie” due to her statuesque physique, tumbling hair, long neck, and dark skin, she leaned into the epithet. By seventeen, she was the Philippines’ highest-earning trans pageant queen. A year later, Geena moved to the United States where she could change her name and gender marker on her documents. But legal recognition didn’t mean safety. In order to survive, Geena went stealth and hid her trans identity, gaining one type of freedom at the expense of another. For a while, it worked. She became an in-demand model. But as her star rose, her sense of self eroded. She craved acceptance as her authentic self yet had to remain vigilant in order to protect her dream career. The high-stakes double life finally forced Geena to decide herself if she wanted to reclaim the power of Horse Barbie once and for all: radiant, head held high, and unabashedly herself. A dazzling testimony from an icon who sits at the center of transgender history and activism, Horse Barbie is a celebratory and universal story of survival, love, and pure joy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648934Tue, 30 May 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Horse Barbie: A Memoir Author: Geena Rocero Narrator: Geena Rocero Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648934 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Horse Barbie: A Memoir Author: Geena Rocero Narrator: Geena Rocero Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy” (Vogue) from one of Out100’s Most Impactful and Influential LGBTQ+ Storytellers “Groundbreaking . . . [Rocero] quite literally models what triumph can look like.”—Glamour (Women of the Year) WINNER OF THEM’S AWARD FOR LITERATURE • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Book Riot, Elle, Esquire As a young femme in 1990s Manila, Geena Rocero heard, “Bakla, bakla!,” a taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the tiny universe of her eskinita. Eventually, she found her place in trans pageants, the Philippines’ informal national sport. When her competitors mocked her as a “horse Barbie” due to her statuesque physique, tumbling hair, long neck, and dark skin, she leaned into the epithet. By seventeen, she was the Philippines’ highest-earning trans pageant queen. A year later, Geena moved to the United States where she could change her name and gender marker on her documents. But legal recognition didn’t mean safety. In order to survive, Geena went stealth and hid her trans identity, gaining one type of freedom at the expense of another. For a while, it worked. She became an in-demand model. But as her star rose, her sense of self eroded. She craved acceptance as her authentic self yet had to remain vigilant in order to protect her dream career. The high-stakes double life finally forced Geena to decide herself if she wanted to reclaim the power of Horse Barbie once and for all: radiant, head held high, and unabashedly herself. A dazzling testimony from an icon who sits at the center of transgender history and activism, Horse Barbie is a celebratory and universal story of survival, love, and pure joy.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-hannelore-kohl-zwei-leben-by-patricia-clough--65151069https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Hannelore Kohl – Zwei Leben Author: Patricia Clough Narrator: Dagmar Heller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 29, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Hannelore Kohl (1933–2001) war First Lady, Zeitzeugin und engagierte Ehrenamtlerin. Sie hat die deutsche Nachkriegsgeschichte hautnah erlebt und als Frau des früheren Bundeskanzlers Helmut Kohl in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts mitgeprägt. Doch Hannelore Kohl hatte auch eine zweite, private Seite, die sie in der Öffentlichkeit nie zeigen konnte. Patricia Clough hat mit vielen Wegbegleitern von Hannelore Kohl gesprochen und zeichnet in dieser Biografie das Bild einer starken Frau, die viel mehr war als nur Kanzlergattin. -]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691738Mon, 29 May 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Hannelore Kohl – Zwei Leben Author: Patricia Clough Narrator: Dagmar Heller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Hannelore Kohl – Zwei Leben Author: Patricia Clough Narrator: Dagmar Heller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 29, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Hannelore Kohl (1933–2001) war First Lady, Zeitzeugin und engagierte Ehrenamtlerin. Sie hat die deutsche Nachkriegsgeschichte hautnah erlebt und als Frau des früheren Bundeskanzlers Helmut Kohl in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts mitgeprägt. Doch Hannelore Kohl hatte auch eine zweite, private Seite, die sie in der Öffentlichkeit nie zeigen konnte. Patricia Clough hat mit vielen Wegbegleitern von Hannelore Kohl gesprochen und zeichnet in dieser Biografie das Bild einer starken Frau, die viel mehr war als nur Kanzlergattin. -]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/truth-matters-love-wins-a-memoir-of-choosing-faith-over-fear-in-the-face-of-false-accusations-by-alexandra-j-kuisis--65151086https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Truth Matters, Love Wins: A Memoir of Choosing Faith over Fear in the Face of False Accusations Author: Alexandra J. Kuisis Narrator: Alexandra J. Kuisis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 57 minutes Release date: May 24, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: *International Book Awards Finalist *Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite Truth Matters, Love Wins is both an astounding account of fighting false accusations in a slanted criminal justice system, and an uplifting testament to choosing faith, love, and personal growth in response to staggering betrayal. Alex's dedication to surviving her darkest hour will captivate and inspire you. A must-read for anyone curious about how to handle the pain and anger that accompanies life's most devastating curveballs, Truth Matters, Love Wins showcases the power of keeping love close when you know you have the truth on your side]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691367Wed, 24 May 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Truth Matters, Love Wins: A Memoir of Choosing Faith over Fear in the Face of False Accusations Author: Alexandra J. Kuisis Narrator: Alexandra J....https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Truth Matters, Love Wins: A Memoir of Choosing Faith over Fear in the Face of False Accusations Author: Alexandra J. Kuisis Narrator: Alexandra J. Kuisis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 57 minutes Release date: May 24, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: *International Book Awards Finalist *Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite Truth Matters, Love Wins is both an astounding account of fighting false accusations in a slanted criminal justice system, and an uplifting testament to choosing faith, love, and personal growth in response to staggering betrayal. Alex's dedication to surviving her darkest hour will captivate and inspire you. A must-read for anyone curious about how to handle the pain and anger that accompanies life's most devastating curveballs, Truth Matters, Love Wins showcases the power of keeping love close when you know you have the truth on your side]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/brave-the-wild-river-the-untold-story-of-two-women-who-mapped-the-botany-of-the-grand-canyon-by-melissa-l-sevigny--65151142https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon Author: Melissa L. Sevigny Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 53 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first. Through the vibrant letters and diaries of the two women, science journalist Melissa L. Sevigny traces their daring forty-three-day journey down the river, during which they meticulously cataloged the thorny plants that thrived in the Grand Canyon's secret nooks and crannies. Along the way, they chased a runaway boat, ran the river's most fearsome rapids, and turned the harshest critic of female river runners into an ally. Clover and Jotter's plant list, including four new cactus species, would one day become vital for efforts to protect and restore the river ecosystem. Brave the Wild River is a spellbinding adventure of two women who risked their lives to make an unprecedented botanical survey of a defining landscape in the American West.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670900Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon Author: Melissa L. Sevigny Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon Author: Melissa L. Sevigny Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 53 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran river runners boldly proclaimed that the motley crew would never make it out alive. But for Clover and Jotter, the expedition held a tantalizing appeal: no one had yet surveyed the plant life of the Grand Canyon, and they were determined to be the first. Through the vibrant letters and diaries of the two women, science journalist Melissa L. Sevigny traces their daring forty-three-day journey down the river, during which they meticulously cataloged the thorny plants that thrived in the Grand Canyon's secret nooks and crannies. Along the way, they chased a runaway boat, ran the river's most fearsome rapids, and turned the harshest critic of female river runners into an ally. Clover and Jotter's plant list, including four new cactus species, would one day become vital for efforts to protect and restore the river ecosystem. Brave the Wild River is a spellbinding adventure of two women who risked their lives to make an unprecedented botanical survey of a defining landscape in the American West.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-lady-s-life-in-the-rocky-mountains-by-isabella-bird--65151060https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691857 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains Author: Isabella Bird Narrator: Clare Wille Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From sickly child to pioneering Victorian explorer, Isabella Bird defied convention. After back surgery in 1850 and the recommendation of life in the open air, she finally looked her malaise and her pain in the eye and set off across the world completely alone. In Colorado she covered 800 miles on horseback, climbing mountains, wrangling cattle, sleeping in snow and finding herself drawn to a violent, one-eyed outlaw with a soft spot for poetry, known as ‘Mountain Jim’. With the writing skills to match her spirit of adventure, she documented her journey in these letters to her sister, which were published as a collection in 1879. She was a true trailblazer – a Victorian woman of 4’11” with debilitating pain who chose to blow open life’s limits.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691857Tue, 23 May 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691857 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains Author: Isabella Bird Narrator: Clare Wille Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691857 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains Author: Isabella Bird Narrator: Clare Wille Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From sickly child to pioneering Victorian explorer, Isabella Bird defied convention. After back surgery in 1850 and the recommendation of life in the open air, she finally looked her malaise and her pain in the eye and set off across the world completely alone. In Colorado she covered 800 miles on horseback, climbing mountains, wrangling cattle, sleeping in snow and finding herself drawn to a violent, one-eyed outlaw with a soft spot for poetry, known as ‘Mountain Jim’. With the writing skills to match her spirit of adventure, she documented her journey in these letters to her sister, which were published as a collection in 1879. She was a true trailblazer – a Victorian woman of 4’11” with debilitating pain who chose to blow open life’s limits.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-paula-modersohn-becker-briefe-und-tagebuchblatter-mit-biographischen-bemerkungen-von-sophie-dorothee-gallwitz-by-sophie-dorothe--65151105https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690850 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Paula Modersohn-Becker: Briefe und Tagebuchblätter: Mit biographischen Bemerkungen von Sophie Dorothee Gallwitz Author: Sophie Dorothee Gallwitz, Paula Modersohn-Becker Narrator: Sonja Szylowicki, Ilka Sehnert Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: May 22, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Paula Modersohn-Becker: Briefe und Tagebuchblätter Mit biographischen Bemerkungen von Sophie Dorothee Gallwitz, gelesen von Sonja Szylowicki und Ilka Sehnert. Als Paula Modersohn-Becker am 20. November 1907 starb, gab es nur zwei Menschen, welche wussten, dass in diesem Tod eine große Künstlerin hinweg genommen wurde. Die beiden waren ihr Ehemann, der Maler Otto Modersohn, und der Bildhauer Bernhard Hoetger. Für alle andern Personen und Kreise, eingeschlossen der Worpsweder Künstlerkreis, zu dem die Verstorbene äußerlich dazugehörte, war sie eine begabte Malerin neben anderen gewesen; für manche vielleicht auch nur ein irregeleitetes Talent. Das bedeutende malerische Werk, das die Verstorbene hinterließ, setzte sich in nachfolgenden Jahren, in Bewusstsein und Urteil der künstlerisch maßgebenden Öffentlichkeit immer stärker und umfassender durch. In den knapp 14 Jahren, in denen sie künstlerisch tätig war, schuf sie 750 Gemälde, etwa 1000 Zeichnungen und 13 Radierungen, die die bedeutendsten Aspekte der Kunst des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts in sich vereinen. Aber auch ihre schriftlichen Hinterlassenschaften sind wichtige Zeugnisse ihres künstlerischen Werdegangs. Ganze fünfzehn Jahre umfassen ihre Briefe und Tagebucheinträge. Sie spiegeln genau jene Jahre, die ihren Werdegang als Mensch und Künstlerin vom jungen Mädchen aus bürgerlichem Hause bis zur selbstbewussten Malerin dokumentieren. In ihren privaten Aufzeichnungen und Briefen werden ihre Wünsche und Phantasien, ihre Zweifel und Unsicherheiten, aber auch ihr stark ausgeprägter künstlerischer Schaffensdrang eindrucksvoll erlebbar. Die Reihe words&music/audiolab verbindet ausgewählte literarische Texte aus aller Welt mit emotionaler Musik. Es entstehen vielleicht bisher ungeahnte Zugänge zum Textverständnis oder eröffnen im Zusammenspiel zwischen Inhalt, Klang und Form ganz neue Möglichkeiten des eigenen genussvollen Hörerlebens. Die Hörbuchfassung folgt der deutschen Erstausgabe: Sophie Dorothee Gallwitz: Eine Künstlerin - Paula Becker-Modersohn. Briefe und Tagebuchblätter. Kurt Wolff Verlag A.-G. Berlin 1920. Der Originaltext wurde für dieses Hörbuch gekürzt und dramaturgisch eingerichtet. Coverabbildung: unter Verwendung eines Selbstbildnisses von Paula Modersohn-Becker: 'Selbstbildnis am 6. Hochzeitstag', 25. Mai 1906, Öl auf Karton. © Museen Böttcherstraße. Coverschrift: gesetzt aus der Fitzgerald. Musik: Suite Bergamasque, L.75: III. Clair de lune / Reflets dans l'eau / Sérénade à la Poupée / La Cathédrale Engloutie / Rêverie / Préludes, Buch 1 / Alle Kompositionen: Claude Debussy . Über die Sprecherinnen: Sonja Szylowicki, geboren in Kaiserslautern, studierte Schauspiel und Musical in Hamburg und Berlin. Festengagements führten sie an Stadttheater in Ost und West, so nach Wittenberg, Detmold, Aachen, Düsseldorf und Hamburg, wo sie viele Hauptrollen spielte. Seit mehr als 20 Jahren ist sie schwerpunktmäßig als Sprecherin aktiv, so kennt man ihre Stimme vom NDR-Hörfunk, aus TV-Dokumentationen, Werbespots, Hörspielen und Hörbüchern u.v.m. Sie liest bei Literaturveranstaltungen und gestaltet eigene Lesungen und Soloprogramme mit Musik. Ilka Sehnert, geboren 1963 in Magdeburg, studierte 1984-90 an der Hochschule für Musik 'Hanns Eisler' Berlin klassischen Gesang. Neben verschiedenen Opern-und Operettenpartien in Festengagements und mit Gastspielverträgen in Deutschland und der Schweiz kamen im Laufe der Jahre zunächst Musical- und später Schauspielrollen dazu. Spätestens hier entdeckte sie ihre Sprechstimme und die Lust, damit neben ihrer Bühnentätigkeit mehr anzufangen. Der Beginn war Synchron, und inzwischen ist sie neben ihrer Theaterarbeit auch als Sprecherin für verschiedene Formate von Werbung bis Doku tätig. Ihre besondere Liebe aber gehört dem Hörbuch.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690850Mon, 22 May 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690850 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Paula Modersohn-Becker: Briefe und Tagebuchblätter: Mit biographischen Bemerkungen von Sophie Dorothee Gallwitz Author: Sophie Dorothee...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/690850 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Paula Modersohn-Becker: Briefe und Tagebuchblätter: Mit biographischen Bemerkungen von Sophie Dorothee Gallwitz Author: Sophie Dorothee Gallwitz, Paula Modersohn-Becker Narrator: Sonja Szylowicki, Ilka Sehnert Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: May 22, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Paula Modersohn-Becker: Briefe und Tagebuchblätter Mit biographischen Bemerkungen von Sophie Dorothee Gallwitz, gelesen von Sonja Szylowicki und Ilka Sehnert. Als Paula Modersohn-Becker am 20. November 1907 starb, gab es nur zwei Menschen, welche wussten, dass in diesem Tod eine große Künstlerin hinweg genommen wurde. Die beiden waren ihr Ehemann, der Maler Otto Modersohn, und der Bildhauer Bernhard Hoetger. Für alle andern Personen und Kreise, eingeschlossen der Worpsweder Künstlerkreis, zu dem die Verstorbene äußerlich dazugehörte, war sie eine begabte Malerin neben anderen gewesen; für manche vielleicht auch nur ein irregeleitetes Talent. Das bedeutende malerische Werk, das die Verstorbene hinterließ, setzte sich in nachfolgenden Jahren, in Bewusstsein und Urteil der künstlerisch maßgebenden Öffentlichkeit immer stärker und umfassender durch. In den knapp 14 Jahren, in denen sie künstlerisch tätig war, schuf sie 750 Gemälde, etwa 1000 Zeichnungen und 13 Radierungen, die die bedeutendsten Aspekte der Kunst des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts in sich vereinen. Aber auch ihre schriftlichen Hinterlassenschaften sind wichtige Zeugnisse ihres künstlerischen Werdegangs. Ganze fünfzehn Jahre umfassen ihre Briefe und Tagebucheinträge. Sie spiegeln genau jene Jahre, die ihren Werdegang als Mensch und Künstlerin vom jungen Mädchen aus bürgerlichem Hause bis zur selbstbewussten Malerin dokumentieren. In ihren privaten Aufzeichnungen und Briefen werden ihre Wünsche und Phantasien, ihre Zweifel und Unsicherheiten, aber auch ihr stark ausgeprägter künstlerischer Schaffensdrang eindrucksvoll erlebbar. Die Reihe words&music/audiolab verbindet ausgewählte literarische Texte aus aller Welt mit emotionaler Musik. Es entstehen vielleicht bisher ungeahnte Zugänge zum Textverständnis oder eröffnen im Zusammenspiel zwischen Inhalt, Klang und Form ganz neue Möglichkeiten des eigenen genussvollen Hörerlebens. Die Hörbuchfassung folgt der deutschen Erstausgabe: Sophie Dorothee Gallwitz: Eine Künstlerin - Paula Becker-Modersohn. Briefe und Tagebuchblätter. Kurt Wolff Verlag A.-G. Berlin 1920. Der Originaltext wurde für dieses Hörbuch gekürzt und dramaturgisch eingerichtet. Coverabbildung: unter Verwendung eines Selbstbildnisses von Paula Modersohn-Becker: 'Selbstbildnis am 6. Hochzeitstag', 25. Mai 1906, Öl auf Karton. © Museen Böttcherstraße. Coverschrift: gesetzt aus der Fitzgerald. Musik: Suite Bergamasque, L.75: III. Clair de lune / Reflets dans l'eau / Sérénade à la Poupée / La Cathédrale Engloutie / Rêverie / Préludes, Buch 1 / Alle Kompositionen: Claude Debussy . Über die Sprecherinnen: Sonja Szylowicki, geboren in Kaiserslautern, studierte Schauspiel und Musical in Hamburg und Berlin. Festengagements führten sie an Stadttheater in Ost und West, so nach Wittenberg, Detmold, Aachen, Düsseldorf und Hamburg, wo sie viele Hauptrollen spielte. Seit mehr als 20 Jahren ist sie schwerpunktmäßig als Sprecherin aktiv, so kennt man ihre Stimme vom NDR-Hörfunk, aus TV-Dokumentationen, Werbespots, Hörspielen und Hörbüchern u.v.m. Sie liest bei Literaturveranstaltungen und gestaltet eigene Lesungen und Soloprogramme mit Musik. Ilka Sehnert, geboren 1963 in Magdeburg, studierte 1984-90 an der Hochschule für Musik 'Hanns Eisler' Berlin klassischen Gesang. Neben verschiedenen Opern-und Operettenpartien in Festengagements und mit Gastspielverträgen in Deutschland und der Schweiz kamen im Laufe der Jahre zunächst...]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/helicopter-heroine-valerie-andre-surgeon-pioneer-rescue-pilot-and-her-courage-under-fire-by-charles-morgan-evans--65151234https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Helicopter Heroine: Valérie André - Surgeon, Pioneer Rescue Pilot, and Her Courage Under Fire Author: Charles Morgan Evans Narrator: Nancy Peterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Valérie André was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1922. From an early age, she wanted to fly, but as a woman, she faced challenges. While boys could receive government-funded flight lessons, André had to pay for hers by tutoring. During World War II, she left Strasbourg against German prohibitions in order to study medicine in Paris, where she completed her studies under threat of arrest by the Gestapo. Assigned to an army hospital in Saigon in French Indochina in the late 1940s, André trained as a neurosurgeon. When the French medical corps developed mobile surgical units to be air-dropped into military outposts, she volunteered, and when the service acquired a few primitive helicopters, she volunteered for that, which meant learning to fly helicopters in combat. Flying through bullets and bombs, fatigue, parasitic illness, and mechanical issues with the helicopters, André nonetheless became a legend in Indochina. After Indochina, she continued to be an innovator in military aviation and medicine as well as an advocate for women's integration into the French military. In 1975, she became the first female general in the French army, and at her retirement, she had flown nearly 500 combat missions, logged 4,000 hours in helicopters, and won the Croix de Guerre five times, the Cross of Military Valor twice, and the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655990Tue, 16 May 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Helicopter Heroine: Valérie André - Surgeon, Pioneer Rescue Pilot, and Her Courage Under Fire Author: Charles Morgan Evans Narrator: Nancy Peterson...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655990 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Helicopter Heroine: Valérie André - Surgeon, Pioneer Rescue Pilot, and Her Courage Under Fire Author: Charles Morgan Evans Narrator: Nancy Peterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Valérie André was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1922. From an early age, she wanted to fly, but as a woman, she faced challenges. While boys could receive government-funded flight lessons, André had to pay for hers by tutoring. During World War II, she left Strasbourg against German prohibitions in order to study medicine in Paris, where she completed her studies under threat of arrest by the Gestapo. Assigned to an army hospital in Saigon in French Indochina in the late 1940s, André trained as a neurosurgeon. When the French medical corps developed mobile surgical units to be air-dropped into military outposts, she volunteered, and when the service acquired a few primitive helicopters, she volunteered for that, which meant learning to fly helicopters in combat. Flying through bullets and bombs, fatigue, parasitic illness, and mechanical issues with the helicopters, André nonetheless became a legend in Indochina. After Indochina, she continued to be an innovator in military aviation and medicine as well as an advocate for women's integration into the French military. In 1975, she became the first female general in the French army, and at her retirement, she had flown nearly 500 combat missions, logged 4,000 hours in helicopters, and won the Croix de Guerre five times, the Cross of Military Valor twice, and the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-die-schule-des-lebens-ein-geschenk-des-himmels-ungekurzt-by-sacide-gopferich--65151121https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Schule des Lebens - Ein Geschenk des Himmels (ungekürzt) Author: Sacide Göpferich Narrator: Patrick Penot, Sacide Göpferich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 12, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Sacide Göpferich - Als türkisches Gastarbeiterkind hat Sacide von klein auf immer nur die Unterschiede und Gegensätze von Türken, Deutschen, Christen und Moslems erzählt bekommen und erfahren - von beiden Seiten. Sie entschied sich dafür, nicht einfach blind die Meinung der anderen zu übernehmen, sondern ihre eigenen Erfahrungen zu machen. Indem sie sich von ihrer inneren Stimme führen ließ, entdeckte sie exakt das Gegenteil: viele Gemeinsamkeiten und Ähnlichkeiten. Heute erkennt sie, dass wir alle (nur) Menschen sind- und alle Kinder Gottes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682371Fri, 12 May 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Schule des Lebens - Ein Geschenk des Himmels (ungekürzt) Author: Sacide Göpferich Narrator: Patrick Penot, Sacide Göpferich Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Schule des Lebens - Ein Geschenk des Himmels (ungekürzt) Author: Sacide Göpferich Narrator: Patrick Penot, Sacide Göpferich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 12, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Sacide Göpferich - Als türkisches Gastarbeiterkind hat Sacide von klein auf immer nur die Unterschiede und Gegensätze von Türken, Deutschen, Christen und Moslems erzählt bekommen und erfahren - von beiden Seiten. Sie entschied sich dafür, nicht einfach blind die Meinung der anderen zu übernehmen, sondern ihre eigenen Erfahrungen zu machen. Indem sie sich von ihrer inneren Stimme führen ließ, entdeckte sie exakt das Gegenteil: viele Gemeinsamkeiten und Ähnlichkeiten. Heute erkennt sie, dass wir alle (nur) Menschen sind- und alle Kinder Gottes.]]>185rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/camera-girl-the-coming-of-age-of-jackie-bouvier-kennedy-by-carl-sferrazza-anthony--65151208https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Author: Carl Sferrazza Anthony Narrator: Imani Jade Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023 “One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.” —The Washington Post An illuminating and “wholly refreshing” (David Maraniss, New York Times bestselling author) biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer in Washington, DC; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts congressman who shared her intellectual passion. Camera Girl “shines with wit and intelligence” (Library Journal, starred review) as it brings to life Jackie’s years as a young, single woman trying to figure out who she wanted to become. Chafing at the expectations of her family and the societal limitations placed on women in that era, Jackie pursued her dream career as a writer. Set primarily during the years of 1949 to 1953, when Jackie was in her early twenties, the book recounts in heretofore unrevealed detail the story of her late college years and her early adulthood as a working woman. Before she met John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier was the Washington Times-Herald’s “Inquiring Camera Girl,” posing compelling questions to members of the public on the streets of DC and snapping their photos with her unwieldy Graflex camera. She then fashioned the results into a daily column, of which six hundred were published. Carl Sferrazza Anthony, a historian and leading expert on First Ladies, draws on these columns and previously unseen archives of Jackie’s writings from this time, along with insights gleaned from interviews he conducted with her friends, colleagues, and family members. Camera Girl offers a fresh perspective on the woman later known as Jacqueline Kennedy and Jackie O, introducing us to the headstrong, self-assured young woman who went on to be one of the world’s most famous people. “For anyone of any age, the Jackie in Camera Girl offers an example of intentional living” (Hillary Rodham Clinton).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631047Tue, 02 May 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Author: Carl Sferrazza Anthony Narrator: Imani Jade Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Author: Carl Sferrazza Anthony Narrator: Imani Jade Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023 “One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.” —The Washington Post An illuminating and “wholly refreshing” (David Maraniss, New York Times bestselling author) biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer in Washington, DC; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts congressman who shared her intellectual passion. Camera Girl “shines with wit and intelligence” (Library Journal, starred review) as it brings to life Jackie’s years as a young, single woman trying to figure out who she wanted to become. Chafing at the expectations of her family and the societal limitations placed on women in that era, Jackie pursued her dream career as a writer. Set primarily during the years of 1949 to 1953, when Jackie was in her early twenties, the book recounts in heretofore unrevealed detail the story of her late college years and her early adulthood as a working woman. Before she met John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier was the Washington Times-Herald’s “Inquiring Camera Girl,” posing compelling questions to members of the public on the streets of DC and snapping their photos with her unwieldy Graflex camera. She then fashioned the results into a daily column, of which six hundred were published. Carl Sferrazza Anthony, a historian and leading expert on First Ladies, draws on these columns and previously unseen archives of Jackie’s writings from this time, along with insights gleaned from interviews he conducted with her friends, colleagues, and family members. Camera Girl offers a fresh perspective on the woman later known as Jacqueline Kennedy and Jackie O, introducing us to the headstrong, self-assured young woman who went on to be one of the world’s most famous people. “For anyone of any age, the Jackie in Camera Girl offers an example of intentional living” (Hillary Rodham Clinton).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/seduced-by-the-light-the-mina-miller-edison-story-by-alexandra-rimer--65151158https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652158 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story Author: Alexandra Rimer Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Seduced by the Light is the first and only biography of Mina Miller Edison, the wife of Thomas Edison, the woman who created and shaped the myth of one of the most seminal figures in America’s history. The Thomas Edison we think we know was essentially created by Mina Miller Edison. Exhaustively researched by author Alexandra Rimer, this account draws on unprecedented access to Edison family diaries, memoirs, and letters to look below the surface of the Edison family during the Gilded Age from the little-known perspective of this female protagonist. Following his first wife’s death, Thomas Edison went in search of the next mother to his children and chose a wealthy twenty-year-old socialite from Ohio who was nineteen years his junior. What Mina did not know at the time was that Edison was a terrible father, completely neglecting his children and, ultimately, Mina herself. Absorbed in his work, he only interacted with his family at dinner, and sometimes not even then. The result was a dysfunctional family overseen by a saintly matriarch who went to great lengths to protect Edison’s reputation as well as that of his wayward children.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652158Tue, 02 May 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652158 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story Author: Alexandra Rimer Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 27...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/652158 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story Author: Alexandra Rimer Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Seduced by the Light is the first and only biography of Mina Miller Edison, the wife of Thomas Edison, the woman who created and shaped the myth of one of the most seminal figures in America’s history. The Thomas Edison we think we know was essentially created by Mina Miller Edison. Exhaustively researched by author Alexandra Rimer, this account draws on unprecedented access to Edison family diaries, memoirs, and letters to look below the surface of the Edison family during the Gilded Age from the little-known perspective of this female protagonist. Following his first wife’s death, Thomas Edison went in search of the next mother to his children and chose a wealthy twenty-year-old socialite from Ohio who was nineteen years his junior. What Mina did not know at the time was that Edison was a terrible father, completely neglecting his children and, ultimately, Mina herself. Absorbed in his work, he only interacted with his family at dinner, and sometimes not even then. The result was a dysfunctional family overseen by a saintly matriarch who went to great lengths to protect Edison’s reputation as well as that of his wayward children.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unmoored-coming-of-age-in-troubled-waters-by-j-r-roessl--65151178https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645354 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unmoored: Coming of Age in Troubled Waters Author: J. R. Roessl Narrator: J. R. Roessl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: It’s the sixties. Everything’s groovy. Teenagers bask in the freedom of a country transformed. Counterculture is on the rise, and the times, they-are-a-changing. Everything, that is, except the author’s young life. She doesn’t swoon for the Beatles or scream for the Stones. She doesn’t protest the Vietnam War or fight for women’s rights. Instead, from age seven to sixteen, she accompanies her father to a dilapidated barn on the edge of a dusty little town located on the outskirts of San Francisco, where she works after school, on weekends, and summers building a ship that is supposed to set her free. It is her father’s promise of one day sailing the ocean on a three-year, around-the-world adventure that keeps her going. With the sixties and teenage torment as a backdrop, Unmoored is the parallel story of growth and redemption through the travails of a forty-four-foot schooner and the girl who helped guide it through storms, fire, near destitution and, ultimately, disaster, notwithstanding coping with a cold and moody father. But in the end, she learns that “Heritage’s worth, like ours, is not measured in terms of where she landed nor by what others thought of her, but in the attempt to get somewhere better than where she’d started. In that, she succeeded, and by default, so did we.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645354Mon, 01 May 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645354 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unmoored: Coming of Age in Troubled Waters Author: J. R. Roessl Narrator: J. R. Roessl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645354 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unmoored: Coming of Age in Troubled Waters Author: J. R. Roessl Narrator: J. R. Roessl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: It’s the sixties. Everything’s groovy. Teenagers bask in the freedom of a country transformed. Counterculture is on the rise, and the times, they-are-a-changing. Everything, that is, except the author’s young life. She doesn’t swoon for the Beatles or scream for the Stones. She doesn’t protest the Vietnam War or fight for women’s rights. Instead, from age seven to sixteen, she accompanies her father to a dilapidated barn on the edge of a dusty little town located on the outskirts of San Francisco, where she works after school, on weekends, and summers building a ship that is supposed to set her free. It is her father’s promise of one day sailing the ocean on a three-year, around-the-world adventure that keeps her going. With the sixties and teenage torment as a backdrop, Unmoored is the parallel story of growth and redemption through the travails of a forty-four-foot schooner and the girl who helped guide it through storms, fire, near destitution and, ultimately, disaster, notwithstanding coping with a cold and moody father. But in the end, she learns that “Heritage’s worth, like ours, is not measured in terms of where she landed nor by what others thought of her, but in the attempt to get somewhere better than where she’d started. In that, she succeeded, and by default, so did we.”]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ashes-a-story-about-cigarettes-cremation-and-hope-by-mala-mukherji--65151067https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ashes: a story about cigarettes, cremation, and hope Author: Mala Mukherji Narrator: Mala Mukherji Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: May 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Ashes is a memoir by the firstborn child of Bengali immigrants from Calcutta, India, that brings forth universal life lessons that transcend ethnicity. With raw honesty and simple prose, Ms. Mukherji depicts her childhood of cultural confusion, schoolyard bullies, and the demands of her brilliant, abusive alcoholic father. She offers her mother's stoic wisdom and love for all to share. By her early 20s, Ms. Mukherji seeks clarity instead of pity and details her search for herself through psychotherapy and spiritual studies. The result of that search costs her everything. The suicide of her mother leaves Ms. Mukherji in the thick darkness of grief and sorrow. Both propel her into destructive yet illuminating choices. In time, she gathers her experiences and uses them to transform her life into the one she wants and the one she may claim in her mother's absence. Ashes shows the listener they are not alone in their struggles and that they can look within themselves to survive and grow from life's precious and painful surprises.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685076Mon, 01 May 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ashes: a story about cigarettes, cremation, and hope Author: Mala Mukherji Narrator: Mala Mukherji Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ashes: a story about cigarettes, cremation, and hope Author: Mala Mukherji Narrator: Mala Mukherji Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: May 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Ashes is a memoir by the firstborn child of Bengali immigrants from Calcutta, India, that brings forth universal life lessons that transcend ethnicity. With raw honesty and simple prose, Ms. Mukherji depicts her childhood of cultural confusion, schoolyard bullies, and the demands of her brilliant, abusive alcoholic father. She offers her mother's stoic wisdom and love for all to share. By her early 20s, Ms. Mukherji seeks clarity instead of pity and details her search for herself through psychotherapy and spiritual studies. The result of that search costs her everything. The suicide of her mother leaves Ms. Mukherji in the thick darkness of grief and sorrow. Both propel her into destructive yet illuminating choices. In time, she gathers her experiences and uses them to transform her life into the one she wants and the one she may claim in her mother's absence. Ashes shows the listener they are not alone in their struggles and that they can look within themselves to survive and grow from life's precious and painful surprises.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-unexpected-benefits-of-being-run-over-by-naseem-rochette--65151100https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Run Over Author: Naseem Rochette Narrator: Naseem Rochette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 28, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In a pedestrian crosswalk on a quiet tree-lined street, Naseem is hit and then run over three times. Onlookers yell for the driver to stop as she hears her fate in her husband’s screams. Is he is watching the mother of his children die? Miraculously, she survives, yet she is no longer the person she worked so hard to be. Her “cracks”—the changes to her body and mind—initially feel impossible to accept. In learning to embrace this new, unrecognizable self, Naseem decides to celebrate the day she almost lost her life as the day she discovered her true strength—her Unbreakable Day. In this unique memoir, equal parts heart wrenching and inspiring, Naseem lays bare the reality of personal trauma—and how we each have the power to reimagine our lives and find beauty in being both broken and unbreakable.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685527Fri, 28 Apr 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Run Over Author: Naseem Rochette Narrator: Naseem Rochette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 37 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Run Over Author: Naseem Rochette Narrator: Naseem Rochette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 28, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In a pedestrian crosswalk on a quiet tree-lined street, Naseem is hit and then run over three times. Onlookers yell for the driver to stop as she hears her fate in her husband’s screams. Is he is watching the mother of his children die? Miraculously, she survives, yet she is no longer the person she worked so hard to be. Her “cracks”—the changes to her body and mind—initially feel impossible to accept. In learning to embrace this new, unrecognizable self, Naseem decides to celebrate the day she almost lost her life as the day she discovered her true strength—her Unbreakable Day. In this unique memoir, equal parts heart wrenching and inspiring, Naseem lays bare the reality of personal trauma—and how we each have the power to reimagine our lives and find beauty in being both broken and unbreakable.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gin-and-phonics-my-journey-through-middle-class-motherhood-via-the-occasional-pub-by-clara-batten--65151213https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632579 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gin and Phonics: My journey through middle-class motherhood (via the occasional pub) Author: Clara Batten Narrator: Clara Batten Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ‘I was asked the other day what I thought the hardest part of parenting was. I’d have to say that it’s definitely the kids.’ TikTok sensation Clara Batten has dedicated the last few years to seeking the answer to one of life’s most crucial questions: Is it possible to raise and nurture two small humans without losing your bloody mind? The good news is, now she’s found (some of) the answers and is sharing her secrets with the rest of us! In this riotous book, Clara reveals: - when it’s acceptable to buy your kids lunch from a kebab shop. - why a jar of pickled herrings from Waitrose is the ultimate guilty pleasure, nay necessity, for a sleep-deprived parent. - how to finally pursue your acting ambitions in your forties (despite a toddler sh*tting on the stairs during a self-tape audition). Most importantly, Clara shows us that no matter how much we adore our little treasures, life isn’t just about their A, B and bloody Cs.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632579Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632579 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gin and Phonics: My journey through middle-class motherhood (via the occasional pub) Author: Clara Batten Narrator: Clara Batten Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632579 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gin and Phonics: My journey through middle-class motherhood (via the occasional pub) Author: Clara Batten Narrator: Clara Batten Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ‘I was asked the other day what I thought the hardest part of parenting was. I’d have to say that it’s definitely the kids.’ TikTok sensation Clara Batten has dedicated the last few years to seeking the answer to one of life’s most crucial questions: Is it possible to raise and nurture two small humans without losing your bloody mind? The good news is, now she’s found (some of) the answers and is sharing her secrets with the rest of us! In this riotous book, Clara reveals: - when it’s acceptable to buy your kids lunch from a kebab shop. - why a jar of pickled herrings from Waitrose is the ultimate guilty pleasure, nay necessity, for a sleep-deprived parent. - how to finally pursue your acting ambitions in your forties (despite a toddler sh*tting on the stairs during a self-tape audition). Most importantly, Clara shows us that no matter how much we adore our little treasures, life isn’t just about their A, B and bloody Cs.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/catholic-girl-in-the-50s-by-mary-ellen-kauth-olsson--65151150https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catholic Girl in the '50s Author: Mary Ellen Kauth Olsson Narrator: Annette Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 24, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This collection of memoirs walks the reader through the experiences of a child growing up in Omaha, Nebraska in the 1950s. Her young life in Cathedral parish centers around church, school, and neighborhood whose ever-widening perimeters became her arena of learning, mischief, and play. School stories began with the bewilderment of a five-year-old, meeting for the first time a traditionally dressed Dominican sister, her first-grade teacher. Then through other stories with a child's vision, we see the education she received, activities in which she participated, and the people surrounding her in her twelve years at Saint Cecilia's Grade School and Cathedral High School. Her stories also visit places that no longer exist, like Peony Park, Aksarben, Blackburn Pharmacy and even, sadly enough, our Cathedral High School. Although these places no longer exist, visiting them again will show you how special they were, and how much fun they brought to young lives. The real stars of these memoirs are the people that made them memorable. Usually identified only with their initials, they bring forth stories that were fun to revisit. Each person was one component in the development of a young life so different from those growing up in the twenty-first century. The all-important family, the class of thirty-five first graders that grew to 111 high school graduates, the sisters and priests that gave their lives to their God, and to their students were all important pieces in the development of this Catholic Girl in the '50s. Mary Ellen Kauth Olsson (AKA Baba Herk) is a wife, mother of four, and grandmother of one and a retired alternative educator with a BA in English and history from Duchesne College and an MS degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She has written stories and poems throughout her seventy-seven years, but writing her memories for the Echo section of the 'Cathedral Chimes' and the desire to share her family stories with her grandson developed this...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684331Mon, 24 Apr 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catholic Girl in the '50s Author: Mary Ellen Kauth Olsson Narrator: Annette Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 10 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catholic Girl in the '50s Author: Mary Ellen Kauth Olsson Narrator: Annette Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 24, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This collection of memoirs walks the reader through the experiences of a child growing up in Omaha, Nebraska in the 1950s. Her young life in Cathedral parish centers around church, school, and neighborhood whose ever-widening perimeters became her arena of learning, mischief, and play. School stories began with the bewilderment of a five-year-old, meeting for the first time a traditionally dressed Dominican sister, her first-grade teacher. Then through other stories with a child's vision, we see the education she received, activities in which she participated, and the people surrounding her in her twelve years at Saint Cecilia's Grade School and Cathedral High School. Her stories also visit places that no longer exist, like Peony Park, Aksarben, Blackburn Pharmacy and even, sadly enough, our Cathedral High School. Although these places no longer exist, visiting them again will show you how special they were, and how much fun they brought to young lives. The real stars of these memoirs are the people that made them memorable. Usually identified only with their initials, they bring forth stories that were fun to revisit. Each person was one component in the development of a young life so different from those growing up in the twenty-first century. The all-important family, the class of thirty-five first graders that grew to 111 high school graduates, the sisters and priests that gave their lives to their God, and to their students were all important pieces in the development of this Catholic Girl in the '50s. Mary Ellen Kauth Olsson (AKA Baba Herk) is a wife, mother of four, and grandmother of one and a retired alternative educator with a BA in English and history from Duchesne College and an MS degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She has written stories and poems throughout her seventy-seven years, but writing her memories for the Echo section of the 'Cathedral Chimes' and the desire to share her family stories with her grandson developed this...]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-acquittee-je-l-ai-tue-pour-ne-pas-mourir-by-alexandra-lange--65151084https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Acquittée : Je l'ai tué pour ne pas mourir Author: Alexandra Lange Narrator: Bénédicte Charton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Ce livre n'est pas l'histoire d'un fait divers, mais celle de l'emprise criminelle d'un homme sur une jeune épouse qui a subi pendant onze ans le harcèlement moral, les humiliations, et la violence d'un mari qu'elle avait épousé par amour, à dix-huit ans. Sans doute Alexandra est-elle restée au début par amour. Il y a eu les promesses, également. Puis les coups, les insultes, les humiliations, les viols, les strangulations, la peur. C'est cette peur qui l'empêche de partir. Peur de se retrouver à la rue avec ses enfants, peur des représailles sur ses proches, peur des menaces de son mari : 'Si tu fais ça, je te tuerai.' Le soir du drame, Alexandra lui annonce qu'elle va partir. L'ultime tentative d'étranglement la terrifie au point qu'elle commet le geste fatal. Au delà de ce long calvaire, ce livre fustige aussi le silence des témoins de l'enfer vécu par la jeune femme, l'indifférence policière, et l'omerta indigne qui perdure face à la violence conjugale. ©Éditions Michel Lafon, 2012]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680887Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Acquittée : Je l'ai tué pour ne pas mourir Author: Alexandra Lange Narrator: Bénédicte Charton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Acquittée : Je l'ai tué pour ne pas mourir Author: Alexandra Lange Narrator: Bénédicte Charton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Ce livre n'est pas l'histoire d'un fait divers, mais celle de l'emprise criminelle d'un homme sur une jeune épouse qui a subi pendant onze ans le harcèlement moral, les humiliations, et la violence d'un mari qu'elle avait épousé par amour, à dix-huit ans. Sans doute Alexandra est-elle restée au début par amour. Il y a eu les promesses, également. Puis les coups, les insultes, les humiliations, les viols, les strangulations, la peur. C'est cette peur qui l'empêche de partir. Peur de se retrouver à la rue avec ses enfants, peur des représailles sur ses proches, peur des menaces de son mari : 'Si tu fais ça, je te tuerai.' Le soir du drame, Alexandra lui annonce qu'elle va partir. L'ultime tentative d'étranglement la terrifie au point qu'elle commet le geste fatal. Au delà de ce long calvaire, ce livre fustige aussi le silence des témoins de l'enfer vécu par la jeune femme, l'indifférence policière, et l'omerta indigne qui perdure face à la violence conjugale. ©Éditions Michel Lafon, 2012]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/woman-captain-rebel-the-extraordinary-true-story-of-a-daring-icelandic-sea-captain-by-margaret-willson--65151230https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657817 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain Author: Margaret Willson Narrator: Ann Richardson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: History would have us believe the sea has always been a male realm, the idea of female captains almost unthinkable. But there is one exception, so notable she defies any expectation. This is her remarkable story. Captain Thurídur, born in Iceland in 1777, lived a life that was both controversial and unconventional. Her first time fishing, on the open unprotected rowboats of her time, was at age eleven. Soon after, she audaciously began wearing trousers. She later became an acclaimed fishing captain brilliant at weather-reading and seacraft and consistently brought in the largest catches. In the Arctic seas where drownings occurred with terrifying regularity, she never lost a single crewmember. Renowned for her acute powers of observation, she also solved a notorious crime. In this extremely unequal society, she used the courts to fight for justice for the abused, and in her sixties, embarked on perilous journeys over trackless mountains. Weaving together fastidious research and captivating prose, Margaret Willson reveals Captain Thurídur's fascinating story, her extraordinary courage, intelligence, and personal integrity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657817Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657817 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain Author: Margaret Willson Narrator: Ann Richardson Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657817 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain Author: Margaret Willson Narrator: Ann Richardson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: History would have us believe the sea has always been a male realm, the idea of female captains almost unthinkable. But there is one exception, so notable she defies any expectation. This is her remarkable story. Captain Thurídur, born in Iceland in 1777, lived a life that was both controversial and unconventional. Her first time fishing, on the open unprotected rowboats of her time, was at age eleven. Soon after, she audaciously began wearing trousers. She later became an acclaimed fishing captain brilliant at weather-reading and seacraft and consistently brought in the largest catches. In the Arctic seas where drownings occurred with terrifying regularity, she never lost a single crewmember. Renowned for her acute powers of observation, she also solved a notorious crime. In this extremely unequal society, she used the courts to fight for justice for the abused, and in her sixties, embarked on perilous journeys over trackless mountains. Weaving together fastidious research and captivating prose, Margaret Willson reveals Captain Thurídur's fascinating story, her extraordinary courage, intelligence, and personal integrity.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-swear-politics-is-messier-than-my-minivan-by-katie-porter--65151211https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan Author: Katie Porter Narrator: Katie Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: April 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “high-octane, no-bullshit” (The New Republic) memoir about re-energizing our politics and standing up to corporate America—while carting three kids around in a minivan.   “Just like her whiteboard schoolings of CEOs, this book showcases Katie’s ability to entertain while making the inner workings of Congress more accessible than ever before.”—Julia Louis-Dreyfus Never having run for office before, Katie Porter charted a new path in 2018 when she was elected to Congress as a Democrat in historically conservative Orange County, California. Underestimated as a single mom and chided for her progressive values, Katie defied expectations. Then, using her signature whiteboard, she began to take CEOs and corrupt government officials to task in Congressional hearings. The videos went viral, introducing Americans to her no-bullshit style, and making her a coveted guest on cable news and late-night television.     I SWEAR: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan is a witty, down-to-earth exploration of what it’s really like to serve in Congress, particularly as a single mom. Katie offers Americans a clear picture of what their elected leaders are doing—and how they’re doing it—exposing the gaps between politicians’ press conferences and real people’s lives.    Katie reveals how her challenges as an Iowa farmgirl diverted her to the Ivy League and how she came to see herself as a Californian, teaching law and raising three kids in Orange County. She shares why she made the jump from academia to politics and how she quickly mastered the art of making CEOs and cabinet members squirm when they bluff and bloviate instead of doing the job for America.   With the same clarity she demonstrates in Congressional hearings, Katie makes the case for consumer protection, corporate accountability, and anti-corruption reforms. She pulls back the curtain on the political messaging machine, campaign fundraising, and Congress’ traditions, showing that the way things have always worked, in fact, does not work for a Congressperson without someone at home to do the shopping and take care of the kids. Along the way, she provides whiteboard lessons on where your campaign donations go, how to fight the corporations that cheat you, and how to conduct her trademark robust oversight.    Full of candid and inspiring stories—from how Katie lent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a pair of sneakers during the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, to her kids’ lightly illegal campaign hijinks—this is a book by an exhausted, committed parent who just doesn’t have the time for nonsense in her house or in the House of Representatives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629650Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan Author: Katie Porter Narrator: Katie Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan Author: Katie Porter Narrator: Katie Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: April 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “high-octane, no-bullshit” (The New Republic) memoir about re-energizing our politics and standing up to corporate America—while carting three kids around in a minivan.   “Just like her whiteboard schoolings of CEOs, this book showcases Katie’s ability to entertain while making the inner workings of Congress more accessible than ever before.”—Julia Louis-Dreyfus Never having run for office before, Katie Porter charted a new path in 2018 when she was elected to Congress as a Democrat in historically conservative Orange County, California. Underestimated as a single mom and chided for her progressive values, Katie defied expectations. Then, using her signature whiteboard, she began to take CEOs and corrupt government officials to task in Congressional hearings. The videos went viral, introducing Americans to her no-bullshit style, and making her a coveted guest on cable news and late-night television.     I SWEAR: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan is a witty, down-to-earth exploration of what it’s really like to serve in Congress, particularly as a single mom. Katie offers Americans a clear picture of what their elected leaders are doing—and how they’re doing it—exposing the gaps between politicians’ press conferences and real people’s lives.    Katie reveals how her challenges as an Iowa farmgirl diverted her to the Ivy League and how she came to see herself as a Californian, teaching law and raising three kids in Orange County. She shares why she made the jump from academia to politics and how she quickly mastered the art of making CEOs and cabinet members squirm when they bluff and bloviate instead of doing the job for America.   With the same clarity she demonstrates in Congressional hearings, Katie makes the case for consumer protection, corporate accountability, and anti-corruption reforms. She pulls back the curtain on the political messaging machine, campaign fundraising, and Congress’ traditions, showing that the way things have always worked, in fact, does not work for a Congressperson without someone at home to do the shopping and take care of the kids. Along the way, she provides whiteboard lessons on where your campaign donations go, how to fight the corporations that cheat you, and how to conduct her trademark robust oversight.    Full of candid and inspiring stories—from how Katie lent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a pair of sneakers during the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, to her kids’ lightly illegal campaign hijinks—this is a book by an exhausted, committed parent who just doesn’t have the time for nonsense in her house or in the House of Representatives.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/serving-herself-the-life-and-times-of-althea-gibson-by-ashley-brown--65151192https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson Author: Ashley Brown Narrator: Karen Chilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 4 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grand Slam tennis wins to her professional golf career, Althea Gibson became the most famous Black sportswoman of the mid-twentieth century. In her unprecedented athletic career, she was the first African American to win titles at the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open.In this first full-scale biography, Ashley Brown narrates the public career and private struggles of Althea Gibson (1927–2003). Based on extensive archival work and oral histories, Serving Herself sets Gibson’s life and choices against the backdrop of the Great Migration, Jim Crow racism, the integration of American sports, the civil rights movement, the Cold War, and second wave feminism. Throughout her life Gibson continuously negotiated the expectations of her supporters and adversaries, including her patrons in the Black-led American Tennis Association, the white-led United States Lawn Tennis Association, and the media, particularly the Black press and community’s expectations that she selflessly serve as a representative of her race. An incredibly talented, ultracompetitive, and not always likeable athlete, Gibson wanted to be treated as an individual first and foremost, not as a member of a specific race or gender. She was reluctant to speak openly about the indignities and prejudices she navigated as an African American woman, though she faced numerous institutional and societal barriers in achieving her goals. She frequently bucked conventional normsof femininity and put her career ahead of romantic relationships, making her personal life the subject of constant scrutiny and rumors. Despite her major wins and international recognition, including a ticker-tape parade in New York City and the covers of Sports Illustrated and Time, Gibson endeavored to find commercial sponsorship and permanent economic stability. Committed to self-sufficiency, she pivoted from the elite amateur tennis circuit to State Department–sponsored goodwill tours, attempts to find success as a singer and Hollywood actress, the professional golf circuit, a tour with the Harlem Globetrotters and her own professional tennis tour, coaching, teaching children at tennis clinics, and a stint as New Jersey Athletics Commissioner. As she struggled to support herself in old age, she was left with disappointment, recounting her past achievements decades before female tennis players were able to garner substantial earnings.A compelling life and times portrait, Serving Herself offers a revealing look at the rise and fall of a fiercely independent trailblazer who satisfied her own needs and simultaneously set a pathbreaking course for Black athletes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630273Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson Author: Ashley Brown Narrator: Karen Chilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson Author: Ashley Brown Narrator: Karen Chilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 4 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grand Slam tennis wins to her professional golf career, Althea Gibson became the most famous Black sportswoman of the mid-twentieth century. In her unprecedented athletic career, she was the first African American to win titles at the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open.In this first full-scale biography, Ashley Brown narrates the public career and private struggles of Althea Gibson (1927–2003). Based on extensive archival work and oral histories, Serving Herself sets Gibson’s life and choices against the backdrop of the Great Migration, Jim Crow racism, the integration of American sports, the civil rights movement, the Cold War, and second wave feminism. Throughout her life Gibson continuously negotiated the expectations of her supporters and adversaries, including her patrons in the Black-led American Tennis Association, the white-led United States Lawn Tennis Association, and the media, particularly the Black press and community’s expectations that she selflessly serve as a representative of her race. An incredibly talented, ultracompetitive, and not always likeable athlete, Gibson wanted to be treated as an individual first and foremost, not as a member of a specific race or gender. She was reluctant to speak openly about the indignities and prejudices she navigated as an African American woman, though she faced numerous institutional and societal barriers in achieving her goals. She frequently bucked conventional normsof femininity and put her career ahead of romantic relationships, making her personal life the subject of constant scrutiny and rumors. Despite her major wins and international recognition, including a ticker-tape parade in New York City and the covers of Sports Illustrated and Time, Gibson endeavored to find commercial sponsorship and permanent economic stability. Committed to self-sufficiency, she pivoted from the elite amateur tennis circuit to State Department–sponsored goodwill tours, attempts to find success as a singer and Hollywood actress, the professional golf circuit, a tour with the Harlem Globetrotters and her own professional tennis tour, coaching, teaching children at tennis clinics, and a stint as New Jersey Athletics Commissioner. As she struggled to support herself in old age, she was left with disappointment, recounting her past achievements decades before female tennis players were able to garner substantial earnings.A compelling life and times portrait, Serving Herself offers a revealing look at the rise and fall of a fiercely independent trailblazer who satisfied her own needs and simultaneously set a pathbreaking course for Black athletes.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-life-back-by-lisa-ann--65151128https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680610 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life Back Author: Lisa Ann Narrator: Lisa Ann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This is the story of life after The Life. In December of 2014, Lisa Ann announced her retirement from the adult entertainment industry. She released her first book, The Life, in December of 2015. On New Year’s Eve, she received a phone call threatening her life—a call that came from inside her own home. For Lisa Ann, this was only the beginning of a terrifying year that would spiral completely out of control. In public, she was still entertaining her fans and maintaining her persona on her wildly popular Fantasy Sports Radio shows. In private, she descended through layer after layer of depression, isolation, fear, and darkness. But the more her life contracted physically—as she retreated into the small, quiet places where she could feel safe—the more her mind began to open. The force to be still created a silence that gave her room to listen. Room to learn. Room to change. And the chance to break free. The Life Back chronicles her three-year odyssey through terror, chaos, forgiveness—and becoming unstoppable.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680610Fri, 07 Apr 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680610 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life Back Author: Lisa Ann Narrator: Lisa Ann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680610 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life Back Author: Lisa Ann Narrator: Lisa Ann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This is the story of life after The Life. In December of 2014, Lisa Ann announced her retirement from the adult entertainment industry. She released her first book, The Life, in December of 2015. On New Year’s Eve, she received a phone call threatening her life—a call that came from inside her own home. For Lisa Ann, this was only the beginning of a terrifying year that would spiral completely out of control. In public, she was still entertaining her fans and maintaining her persona on her wildly popular Fantasy Sports Radio shows. In private, she descended through layer after layer of depression, isolation, fear, and darkness. But the more her life contracted physically—as she retreated into the small, quiet places where she could feel safe—the more her mind began to open. The force to be still created a silence that gave her room to listen. Room to learn. Room to change. And the chance to break free. The Life Back chronicles her three-year odyssey through terror, chaos, forgiveness—and becoming unstoppable.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-politica-sin-anestesia-by-monica-garcia--65151223https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637547 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Política sin anestesia Author: Mónica García Narrator: Mónica García Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Médica, madre, mujer. Tres palabras que no solo eran un eslogan de campaña electoral, sino que definían a la persona que encarnaba la candidatura de Más Madrid a la presidencia de la Comunidad de Madrid. Mónica García, anestesista del hospital público 12 de Octubre, fue arrastrada por las mareas que siguieron al 15M y entró en política, como tantos ciudadanos de a pie en aquel ciclo histórico. Mónica García nos narra en primera persona el largo camino que la llevó del quirófano a la Asamblea de Madrid; desde las reuniones familiares en las que se debatía sobre política hasta el resultado histórico en las elecciones que la convirtieron en líder de la oposición, pasando por grandes manifestaciones en defensa de la Sanidad Pública, campeonatos de atletismo o su experiencia de la maternidad. Y lo hace sin anestesia, sin enmascarar emociones tan dolorosas como las que aún le provoca el recuerdo de los pasillos de los hospitales colapsados, en los que afloraba la desesperación durante los peores momentos de la pandemia. Un testimonio honesto, no exento de ironía y humor, en el que ajusta cuentas con aquellos que fueron negligentes, al tiempo que reflexiona sobre la banalización de la política o la degradación del debate en una realidad que algunos tratan de convertir en un lugar cada vez más individualista y competitivo. Política sin anestesia es el relato vehemente y apasionado de una mujer dispuesta a poner alma, corazón y cerebro en la lucha por un mundo más solidario, más compasivo, más justo. Mejor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637547Thu, 06 Apr 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637547 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Política sin anestesia Author: Mónica García Narrator: Mónica García Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637547 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Política sin anestesia Author: Mónica García Narrator: Mónica García Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Médica, madre, mujer. Tres palabras que no solo eran un eslogan de campaña electoral, sino que definían a la persona que encarnaba la candidatura de Más Madrid a la presidencia de la Comunidad de Madrid. Mónica García, anestesista del hospital público 12 de Octubre, fue arrastrada por las mareas que siguieron al 15M y entró en política, como tantos ciudadanos de a pie en aquel ciclo histórico. Mónica García nos narra en primera persona el largo camino que la llevó del quirófano a la Asamblea de Madrid; desde las reuniones familiares en las que se debatía sobre política hasta el resultado histórico en las elecciones que la convirtieron en líder de la oposición, pasando por grandes manifestaciones en defensa de la Sanidad Pública, campeonatos de atletismo o su experiencia de la maternidad. Y lo hace sin anestesia, sin enmascarar emociones tan dolorosas como las que aún le provoca el recuerdo de los pasillos de los hospitales colapsados, en los que afloraba la desesperación durante los peores momentos de la pandemia. Un testimonio honesto, no exento de ironía y humor, en el que ajusta cuentas con aquellos que fueron negligentes, al tiempo que reflexiona sobre la banalización de la política o la degradación del debate en una realidad que algunos tratan de convertir en un lugar cada vez más individualista y competitivo. Política sin anestesia es el relato vehemente y apasionado de una mujer dispuesta a poner alma, corazón y cerebro en la lucha por un mundo más solidario, más compasivo, más justo. Mejor.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/minnie-the-remarkable-story-of-a-true-trailblazer-who-found-freedom-and-adventure-in-the-outback-by-marianne-van-velzen--65151133https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/663322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Minnie: The remarkable story of a true trailblazer who found freedom and adventure in the outback Author: Marianne Van Velzen Narrator: Ella James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The inspiring story of a feisty pioneering woman who sought freedom and adventure in the outback and became the first woman to work as an opal miner in Australia. People always asked her if she was ever afraid, living out in the desert alone with all those rough and scruffy men. But Minnie Berrington was not the faint-hearted type, and never had been. Being tough came naturally to her, growing up with three brothers and a family that went from riches to ruins. Only a slip of a girl, Minnie could match any man in stamina, perseverance and strength. She arrived in Coober Pedy when camels still brought in essential supplies, and water was so scarce that no-one washed. Together with the other miners, she braved the heat, the flies and the dust. Every day she waited for that special sound the pick made when it cracked opal. The first woman to dig her own shafts in the Australian opal fields, Minnie began her working life as a typist in London. But she and her younger brother, Victor, sought freedom and adventure in the 1920s and found plenty of it in the outback. 'Destined to become an outback classic' LIZ HARFULL, bestselling author of Women of the Land 'Minnie brings to life a gutsy, independent woman living a remarkable but simple life in the harshest of conditions' JULIET WILLS, author of The Diamond Dakota Mystery]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/663322Tue, 04 Apr 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/663322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Minnie: The remarkable story of a true trailblazer who found freedom and adventure in the outback Author: Marianne Van Velzen Narrator: Ella James...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/663322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Minnie: The remarkable story of a true trailblazer who found freedom and adventure in the outback Author: Marianne Van Velzen Narrator: Ella James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The inspiring story of a feisty pioneering woman who sought freedom and adventure in the outback and became the first woman to work as an opal miner in Australia. People always asked her if she was ever afraid, living out in the desert alone with all those rough and scruffy men. But Minnie Berrington was not the faint-hearted type, and never had been. Being tough came naturally to her, growing up with three brothers and a family that went from riches to ruins. Only a slip of a girl, Minnie could match any man in stamina, perseverance and strength. She arrived in Coober Pedy when camels still brought in essential supplies, and water was so scarce that no-one washed. Together with the other miners, she braved the heat, the flies and the dust. Every day she waited for that special sound the pick made when it cracked opal. The first woman to dig her own shafts in the Australian opal fields, Minnie began her working life as a typist in London. But she and her younger brother, Victor, sought freedom and adventure in the 1920s and found plenty of it in the outback. 'Destined to become an outback classic' LIZ HARFULL, bestselling author of Women of the Land 'Minnie brings to life a gutsy, independent woman living a remarkable but simple life in the harshest of conditions' JULIET WILLS, author of The Diamond Dakota Mystery]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-meine-reise-mit-den-meeresschildkroten-wie-ich-als-meeresbiologin-fur-unsere-ozeane-kampfe-by-christine-figgener--65151132https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Meine Reise mit den Meeresschildkröten: Wie ich als Meeresbiologin für unsere Ozeane kämpfe Author: Christine Figgener Narrator: Lisa Rauen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Von einer, die auszog, die Schildkröten zu retten. Elegant gleiten sie durchs Wasser, legen Tausende Kilometer zurück und finden selbst Jahre später noch den Weg an die Strände ihrer Geburt. Meeresschildkröten sind faszinierende Urzeitwesen, und Christine Figgener macht sich seit Langem für ihre Erforschung und ihren Schutz stark. Expertenwissen einer engagierten Meeresbiologin. Nun nimmt sie uns mit auf eine Reise durch das Leben dieser Tiere und durch ihr eigenes. Sie erzählt eindrucksvoll von der Suche nach nistenden Weibchen an nächtlichen Karibikstränden oder von schwankenden Bootsfahrten auf dem Pazifik und beschreibt die Gefahren, denen sowohl Schildkröten als auch Schildkrötenforscher:innen ausgesetzt sind. Vor allem aber vermittelt sie ihre große Liebe für diese Wesen und steckt an mit ihrer Begeisterung und Leidenschaft. »Solange ich atme, werde ich versuchen, etwas zu bewegen!« Christine Figgener im TIME Magazine. Die Autorin ist ausgezeichnet als »TIME's Next Generation Leader«.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673191Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Meine Reise mit den Meeresschildkröten: Wie ich als Meeresbiologin für unsere Ozeane kämpfe Author: Christine Figgener Narrator: Lisa Rauen...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/673191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Meine Reise mit den Meeresschildkröten: Wie ich als Meeresbiologin für unsere Ozeane kämpfe Author: Christine Figgener Narrator: Lisa Rauen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Von einer, die auszog, die Schildkröten zu retten. Elegant gleiten sie durchs Wasser, legen Tausende Kilometer zurück und finden selbst Jahre später noch den Weg an die Strände ihrer Geburt. Meeresschildkröten sind faszinierende Urzeitwesen, und Christine Figgener macht sich seit Langem für ihre Erforschung und ihren Schutz stark. Expertenwissen einer engagierten Meeresbiologin. Nun nimmt sie uns mit auf eine Reise durch das Leben dieser Tiere und durch ihr eigenes. Sie erzählt eindrucksvoll von der Suche nach nistenden Weibchen an nächtlichen Karibikstränden oder von schwankenden Bootsfahrten auf dem Pazifik und beschreibt die Gefahren, denen sowohl Schildkröten als auch Schildkrötenforscher:innen ausgesetzt sind. Vor allem aber vermittelt sie ihre große Liebe für diese Wesen und steckt an mit ihrer Begeisterung und Leidenschaft. »Solange ich atme, werde ich versuchen, etwas zu bewegen!« Christine Figgener im TIME Magazine. Die Autorin ist ausgezeichnet als »TIME's Next Generation Leader«.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-elena-garro-los-recuerdos-sin-porvenir-retratos-de-dolor-rabia-y-anoranza-de-los-ultimos-anos-de-una-escritora-inolvidable-by-l--65151131https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Elena Garro:Los recuerdos sin porvenir: Retratos de dolor rabia y añoranza de los últimos años de una escritora inolvidable Author: Laura Ramos Narrator: Yopa Ponce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Retratos de dolor, rabia y añoranza de los últimos años de una escritora inolvidable Pasan los años y la figura de Elena Garro crece por su grandeza literaria, por sus personajes apasionados y llenos de ternura inscritos en historias memorables con enorme carga histórica y existencial; por su inigualable mirada al deseo, al dolor, al abismo. Gracias a los estudiosos de la literatura hispanoamericana sabemos de su vida, sus amores, sus reclamos… y gracias a Laura Ramos sabemos cómo vivió los últimos años, cómo soportó la soledad y el olvido con su hija Helena Paz,cómo recordaban y conjuraban estas mujeres coléricas, furiosas, lastimadas, luminosas, ensoñadoras, llenas de lumbre y ternura. Elena Garro: los recuerdos sin porvenir es una obra única por su acercamiento frontal a la escritora y su hija por una editora que convivió con ellas los últimos años de su vida. Recorre las horas de penuria y rencor de estas mujeres, los momentos lamentables de hambre y vicio, el asedio de la enfermedad, el alcohol, la violencia doméstica y sus amados gatos: testigos de esta tragedia que sóloatemperaba la contemplación del cielo de México, las postales de París, las fotografías de Madrid, los anhelos de Buenos Aires. Entrar en estas páginas nos permite conocer detalles íntimos de Elena Garro y sus evocaciones de Bioy Casares, Rufino y Olga Tamayo, Pablo Picasso, Ernst Jünger y el eternamente amado/odiado Octavio Paz. Laura Ramos no juzga ni condena, sólo comparte sumaravillosa experiencia con la escritora magistral y sus intentos por ayudarla a sobrellevar el pantano donde vivió sus últimos tiempos; el libro es una aportación a la biografía de Elena Garro, condenada con su hija a ser un personaje maldito y perseguido, las páginas descubren vivencias totalmente inéditas de la escritora, una voz candorosa y furibunda que dejó siempre su sangre ardiente, rebelde y amorosa en cada uno de sus actos y sus escritos.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675636Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Elena Garro:Los recuerdos sin porvenir: Retratos de dolor rabia y añoranza de los últimos años de una escritora inolvidable Author: Laura...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/675636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Elena Garro:Los recuerdos sin porvenir: Retratos de dolor rabia y añoranza de los últimos años de una escritora inolvidable Author: Laura Ramos Narrator: Yopa Ponce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Retratos de dolor, rabia y añoranza de los últimos años de una escritora inolvidable Pasan los años y la figura de Elena Garro crece por su grandeza literaria, por sus personajes apasionados y llenos de ternura inscritos en historias memorables con enorme carga histórica y existencial; por su inigualable mirada al deseo, al dolor, al abismo. Gracias a los estudiosos de la literatura hispanoamericana sabemos de su vida, sus amores, sus reclamos… y gracias a Laura Ramos sabemos cómo vivió los últimos años, cómo soportó la soledad y el olvido con su hija Helena Paz,cómo recordaban y conjuraban estas mujeres coléricas, furiosas, lastimadas, luminosas, ensoñadoras, llenas de lumbre y ternura. Elena Garro: los recuerdos sin porvenir es una obra única por su acercamiento frontal a la escritora y su hija por una editora que convivió con ellas los últimos años de su vida. Recorre las horas de penuria y rencor de estas mujeres, los momentos lamentables de hambre y vicio, el asedio de la enfermedad, el alcohol, la violencia doméstica y sus amados gatos: testigos de esta tragedia que sóloatemperaba la contemplación del cielo de México, las postales de París, las fotografías de Madrid, los anhelos de Buenos Aires. Entrar en estas páginas nos permite conocer detalles íntimos de Elena Garro y sus evocaciones de Bioy Casares, Rufino y Olga Tamayo, Pablo Picasso, Ernst Jünger y el eternamente amado/odiado Octavio Paz. Laura Ramos no juzga ni condena, sólo comparte sumaravillosa experiencia con la escritora magistral y sus intentos por ayudarla a sobrellevar el pantano donde vivió sus últimos tiempos; el libro es una aportación a la biografía de Elena Garro, condenada con su hija a ser un personaje maldito y perseguido, las páginas descubren vivencias totalmente inéditas de la escritora, una voz candorosa y furibunda que dejó siempre su sangre ardiente, rebelde y amorosa en cada uno de sus actos y sus escritos.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/horses-in-the-sand-a-memoir-by-lorrie-potvin--65151068https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676885 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Horses in the Sand: A Memoir Author: Lorrie Potvin Narrator: Cheri Maracle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A sequel to First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir, Horses in the Sand is a collection of stories that document a queer Métis woman’s journey from her sparse beginnings as a child to becoming a tradeswoman, teacher, and artist. With courage, humour, and frank honesty, the stories describe what it was like to grow up as a girl who was starkly different from 'normal' and how 'coming out' became a lifelong process of self-acceptance and changing identities. Potvin’s tales also speak to the difficulties in participating in and maintaining healthy adult relationships when childhood foundations are rooted in violence and trauma, culminating with a triumphant account of fulfilling a long-time dream of buying land and building a home with her own hands. Ultimately, this memoir is a celebration of making art, telling stories, and of finding her birth father, a family of half siblings, and an Indigenous community whose presence she had always felt, but to which she never knew she belonged.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676885Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676885 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Horses in the Sand: A Memoir Author: Lorrie Potvin Narrator: Cheri Maracle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676885 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Horses in the Sand: A Memoir Author: Lorrie Potvin Narrator: Cheri Maracle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A sequel to First Gear: A Motorcycle Memoir, Horses in the Sand is a collection of stories that document a queer Métis woman’s journey from her sparse beginnings as a child to becoming a tradeswoman, teacher, and artist. With courage, humour, and frank honesty, the stories describe what it was like to grow up as a girl who was starkly different from 'normal' and how 'coming out' became a lifelong process of self-acceptance and changing identities. Potvin’s tales also speak to the difficulties in participating in and maintaining healthy adult relationships when childhood foundations are rooted in violence and trauma, culminating with a triumphant account of fulfilling a long-time dream of buying land and building a home with her own hands. Ultimately, this memoir is a celebration of making art, telling stories, and of finding her birth father, a family of half siblings, and an Indigenous community whose presence she had always felt, but to which she never knew she belonged.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-liars-club-a-memoir-by-mary-karr--65151233https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Liars' Club: A Memoir Author: Mary Karr Narrator: Mary Karr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.” –Oprah.com   The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation. The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr’s comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger’s—a hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sheriff at age twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all. This unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as “funny, lively, and un-put-downable” (USA Today) today as it ever was.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654086Tue, 28 Mar 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Liars' Club: A Memoir Author: Mary Karr Narrator: Mary Karr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Liars' Club: A Memoir Author: Mary Karr Narrator: Mary Karr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.” –Oprah.com   The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr’s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation. The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr’s comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger’s—a hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sheriff at age twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all. This unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as “funny, lively, and un-put-downable” (USA Today) today as it ever was.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/family-lexicon-by-natalia-ginzburg--65151169https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657796 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Family Lexicon Author: Natalia Ginzburg Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon. Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking—when he isn't provoked into angry remonstration by someone misspeaking or misbehaving or wearing the wrong thing. Giuseppe is Jewish, married to Lidia, a Catholic, though neither is religious; they live in the industrial city of Turin where, as the years pass, their children find ways of their own to medicine, marriage, literature, politics. It is all very ordinary, except that the background to the story is Mussolini's Italy in its steady downward descent to race law and world war. The Levis are, among other things, unshakeable anti-fascists. That will complicate their lives. Family Lexicon is about a family and language—and about storytelling not only as a form of survival but also as an instrument of deception and domination. The book takes the shape of a novel, yet everything is true. 'Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist, I have felt impelled at once to destroy [it],' Ginzburg tells us at the start. 'The places, events, and people are all real.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657796Tue, 28 Mar 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657796 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Family Lexicon Author: Natalia Ginzburg Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657796 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Family Lexicon Author: Natalia Ginzburg Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon. Giuseppe Levi, the father, is a scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking—when he isn't provoked into angry remonstration by someone misspeaking or misbehaving or wearing the wrong thing. Giuseppe is Jewish, married to Lidia, a Catholic, though neither is religious; they live in the industrial city of Turin where, as the years pass, their children find ways of their own to medicine, marriage, literature, politics. It is all very ordinary, except that the background to the story is Mussolini's Italy in its steady downward descent to race law and world war. The Levis are, among other things, unshakeable anti-fascists. That will complicate their lives. Family Lexicon is about a family and language—and about storytelling not only as a form of survival but also as an instrument of deception and domination. The book takes the shape of a novel, yet everything is true. 'Every time that I have found myself inventing something in accordance with my old habits as a novelist, I have felt impelled at once to destroy [it],' Ginzburg tells us at the start. 'The places, events, and people are all real.']]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-invention-of-jane-harrison-by-mary-beard--65151222https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629505 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Invention of Jane Harrison Author: Mary Beard Narrator: Lucy Rayner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman—as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room of One's Own, she claims to have glimpsed Harrison's ghost in the college gardens. This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame. Mary Beard captures Harrison's ability to create her own image. And she contrasts her story with that of Eugénie Sellers Strong, a younger contemporary and onetime intimate, the author of major work on Roman art, and once a glittering figure at the British School in Rome—but who lost the race for renown. The setting for the story of Harrison's career is Classical scholarship in this period—its internal arguments and allegiances and especially the influence of the anthropological strain most strikingly exemplified by Sir James Frazer. Questioning the common criteria for identifying intellectual 'influence' and 'movements,' Beard exposes the mythology that is embedded in the history of Classics. At the same time she provides a vivid picture of a sparkling intellectual scene. The Invention of Jane Harrison offers shrewd history and undiluted fun.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629505Tue, 14 Mar 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629505 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Invention of Jane Harrison Author: Mary Beard Narrator: Lucy Rayner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 14,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629505 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Invention of Jane Harrison Author: Mary Beard Narrator: Lucy Rayner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge woman—as Virginia Woolf suggested when, in A Room of One's Own, she claims to have glimpsed Harrison's ghost in the college gardens. This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame. Mary Beard captures Harrison's ability to create her own image. And she contrasts her story with that of Eugénie Sellers Strong, a younger contemporary and onetime intimate, the author of major work on Roman art, and once a glittering figure at the British School in Rome—but who lost the race for renown. The setting for the story of Harrison's career is Classical scholarship in this period—its internal arguments and allegiances and especially the influence of the anthropological strain most strikingly exemplified by Sir James Frazer. Questioning the common criteria for identifying intellectual 'influence' and 'movements,' Beard exposes the mythology that is embedded in the history of Classics. At the same time she provides a vivid picture of a sparkling intellectual scene. The Invention of Jane Harrison offers shrewd history and undiluted fun.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-of-me-by-anne-murray--65151154https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/671297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All of Me Author: Anne Murray Narrator: Anne Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid. “After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was swept up like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, and catapulted into a strange new universe … If I thought for a moment that I was really in control of events, I was deluded.” Anne Murray An unflinching self-portrait of Canada’s first great female recording artist, All of Me documents the life of Anne Murray, from her humble origins in the tragedy-plagued coal-mining town of Springhill, Nova Scotia, to her arrival on the world stage. Anne recounts her story: the battles with her record companies over singles and albums; the struggle with drug- and alcohol-ridden band members; the terrible guilt and loneliness of being away from her two young children; her divorce from the man who helped launch her career, Bill Langstroth; and the deaths of two of her closest confidantes. The result is a must-read autobiography by Canada’s beloved songbird.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/671297Tue, 14 Mar 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/671297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All of Me Author: Anne Murray Narrator: Anne Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Women...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/671297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All of Me Author: Anne Murray Narrator: Anne Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid. “After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was swept up like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, and catapulted into a strange new universe … If I thought for a moment that I was really in control of events, I was deluded.” Anne Murray An unflinching self-portrait of Canada’s first great female recording artist, All of Me documents the life of Anne Murray, from her humble origins in the tragedy-plagued coal-mining town of Springhill, Nova Scotia, to her arrival on the world stage. Anne recounts her story: the battles with her record companies over singles and albums; the struggle with drug- and alcohol-ridden band members; the terrible guilt and loneliness of being away from her two young children; her divorce from the man who helped launch her career, Bill Langstroth; and the deaths of two of her closest confidantes. The result is a must-read autobiography by Canada’s beloved songbird.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/concealed-by-esther-amini--65151103https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Concealed Author: Esther Amini Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: March 13, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Esther Amini grew up in Queens, New York, during the free-wheeling 1960s. She also grew up in a Persian-Jewish household, the American- born daughter of parents who had fled Mashhad, Iran. In CONCEALED she tells the story of being caught between these two worlds: the dutiful daughter of tradition-bound parents who hungers for more self-determination than tradition allows. Exploring the roots of her father's deep silences and explosive temper, her mother's flamboyance and flights from home, and her own sense of indebtedness to her two Iranian-born brothers, Amini uncovers the story of her parents' early years in Mashhad, Iran's holiest Muslim city; the little known history and persecution of Mashhad's underground Jews; the incident that steeled her mother's resolve to leave; and her parents' arduous journey to the United States, where they found themselves facing a new threat to their traditions: the threat of freedom. Determined to protect his only daughter from corruption, Amini's father prohibits talk, books, higher education, and tries to push her into an early Persian marriage. Can she resist? Should she? Focused intently on what she stands to gain, Amini eventually comes to see what she also stands to lose: a family and community bound together by food, celebrations, sibling escapades, and unexpected acts of devotion by parents to whom she feels invisible. In this poignant, funny, entertaining and uplifting memoir, Amini documents with keen eye, quick wit, and warm heart, how family members build, buoy, wound, and save one another across generations; how lives are shaped by the demands and burdens of loyalty and legacy; and how she rose to the challenge of deciding what to keep and what to discard.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676287Mon, 13 Mar 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Concealed Author: Esther Amini Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: March 13, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676287 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Concealed Author: Esther Amini Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: March 13, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Esther Amini grew up in Queens, New York, during the free-wheeling 1960s. She also grew up in a Persian-Jewish household, the American- born daughter of parents who had fled Mashhad, Iran. In CONCEALED she tells the story of being caught between these two worlds: the dutiful daughter of tradition-bound parents who hungers for more self-determination than tradition allows. Exploring the roots of her father's deep silences and explosive temper, her mother's flamboyance and flights from home, and her own sense of indebtedness to her two Iranian-born brothers, Amini uncovers the story of her parents' early years in Mashhad, Iran's holiest Muslim city; the little known history and persecution of Mashhad's underground Jews; the incident that steeled her mother's resolve to leave; and her parents' arduous journey to the United States, where they found themselves facing a new threat to their traditions: the threat of freedom. Determined to protect his only daughter from corruption, Amini's father prohibits talk, books, higher education, and tries to push her into an early Persian marriage. Can she resist? Should she? Focused intently on what she stands to gain, Amini eventually comes to see what she also stands to lose: a family and community bound together by food, celebrations, sibling escapades, and unexpected acts of devotion by parents to whom she feels invisible. In this poignant, funny, entertaining and uplifting memoir, Amini documents with keen eye, quick wit, and warm heart, how family members build, buoy, wound, and save one another across generations; how lives are shaped by the demands and burdens of loyalty and legacy; and how she rose to the challenge of deciding what to keep and what to discard.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-trinkerbelle-mein-leben-im-rausch-by-mimi--65151156https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Trinkerbelle: Mein Leben im Rausch Author: Mimi Narrator: Mimi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 9, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: MIMI ist schön, begabt und erfolgreich – und aus der deutschen Fernsehlandschaft nicht wegzudenken. Mit ihrer lebenslustigen Art ist sie nicht nur ein beliebter Gast in den Talkshows, sondern auch für viele ein Vorbild. Doch was lange nur wenige wussten: Die sympathische Entertainerin betäubte ihren Schmerz und ihre Schuldgefühle fast 30 Jahre mit Alkohol und verlor regelmäßig die Kontrolle über ihr Leben. Sie wahrte nach außen den Schein – und wurde dabei immer kränker. Heute ist sie trockene Alkoholikerin und erzählt in ihrem Buch schonungslos offen von ihrem Leben mit der Volksdroge – und ihren Dämonen, die sie mit ihm zu bekämpfen glaubte. „Trinkerbelle“ ist die berührende und wahre Geschichte einer Frau, die nach jahrelangen Kämpfen endlich nüchtern werden durfte und seit Maria Himmelfahrt 2018 nicht mehr trinken muss. 'Ich habe fast dreißig Jahre zu den klassischen funktionalen Trinkerinnen gehört, wobei der Ausdruck funktional in diesem Zusammenhang immer auch ein bisschen seltsam klingt. Denn so richtig funktioniert hat eigentlich recht wenig in meinem Leben. Ich war vollgetankt und bin trotzdem immer auf Reserve gefahren. Mein Leben war durch die Sucht ein Konstrukt aus Lügen und Vertuschungen, aus körperlichen und seelischen Schmerzen, von denen ich niemandem erzählen konnte – weil ich dann hätte zugeben müssen, woher sie kommen. Ich wollte leben, aber ich wollte so nicht mehr weiterleben.“ MIMI]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670452Thu, 09 Mar 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Trinkerbelle: Mein Leben im Rausch Author: Mimi Narrator: Mimi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/670452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Trinkerbelle: Mein Leben im Rausch Author: Mimi Narrator: Mimi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 9, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: MIMI ist schön, begabt und erfolgreich – und aus der deutschen Fernsehlandschaft nicht wegzudenken. Mit ihrer lebenslustigen Art ist sie nicht nur ein beliebter Gast in den Talkshows, sondern auch für viele ein Vorbild. Doch was lange nur wenige wussten: Die sympathische Entertainerin betäubte ihren Schmerz und ihre Schuldgefühle fast 30 Jahre mit Alkohol und verlor regelmäßig die Kontrolle über ihr Leben. Sie wahrte nach außen den Schein – und wurde dabei immer kränker. Heute ist sie trockene Alkoholikerin und erzählt in ihrem Buch schonungslos offen von ihrem Leben mit der Volksdroge – und ihren Dämonen, die sie mit ihm zu bekämpfen glaubte. „Trinkerbelle“ ist die berührende und wahre Geschichte einer Frau, die nach jahrelangen Kämpfen endlich nüchtern werden durfte und seit Maria Himmelfahrt 2018 nicht mehr trinken muss. 'Ich habe fast dreißig Jahre zu den klassischen funktionalen Trinkerinnen gehört, wobei der Ausdruck funktional in diesem Zusammenhang immer auch ein bisschen seltsam klingt. Denn so richtig funktioniert hat eigentlich recht wenig in meinem Leben. Ich war vollgetankt und bin trotzdem immer auf Reserve gefahren. Mein Leben war durch die Sucht ein Konstrukt aus Lügen und Vertuschungen, aus körperlichen und seelischen Schmerzen, von denen ich niemandem erzählen konnte – weil ich dann hätte zugeben müssen, woher sie kommen. Ich wollte leben, aber ich wollte so nicht mehr weiterleben.“ MIMI]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/overland-before-the-hippie-trail-by-patricia-noble-sullivan--65151143https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Overland Before the Hippie Trail Author: Patricia Noble Sullivan Narrator: Margie Valine, Nathan Agin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: March 3, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: It is 1965 in this memoir when Patricia and her new husband set off on to Europe on their honeymoon. Little did she know that this trip would stretch into a two-year journey that would take them around the world on a bare-bones budget. While living rarely more than an arm’s distance apart in their VW van, they make their way from Europe and West Asia to South Asia, then continue across East Asia by train, bus, and hitchhiking. In those days with no mobile phones, no Internet, and few guidebooks, they were out of contact with family for months at a time while dodging a cholera epidemic in Iraq, staying in a palace in Pakistan, meeting a maharaja in India, and floating down the Mekong River in Laos. The journey had become a way of life, one in which they found a world that was not only large and varied, but filled with people who were curious, welcoming, and generous.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676275Fri, 03 Mar 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Overland Before the Hippie Trail Author: Patricia Noble Sullivan Narrator: Margie Valine, Nathan Agin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Overland Before the Hippie Trail Author: Patricia Noble Sullivan Narrator: Margie Valine, Nathan Agin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: March 3, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: It is 1965 in this memoir when Patricia and her new husband set off on to Europe on their honeymoon. Little did she know that this trip would stretch into a two-year journey that would take them around the world on a bare-bones budget. While living rarely more than an arm’s distance apart in their VW van, they make their way from Europe and West Asia to South Asia, then continue across East Asia by train, bus, and hitchhiking. In those days with no mobile phones, no Internet, and few guidebooks, they were out of contact with family for months at a time while dodging a cholera epidemic in Iraq, staying in a palace in Pakistan, meeting a maharaja in India, and floating down the Mekong River in Laos. The journey had become a way of life, one in which they found a world that was not only large and varied, but filled with people who were curious, welcoming, and generous.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/amy-carmichael-rescuer-of-precious-gems-by-janet-and-geoff-benge--65151145https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672835 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amy Carmichael: Rescuer of Precious Gems Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Amy Carmichael stood on the deck of the steamer, waving good-bye once again to her old friend Robert Wilson. How could she have known she would never see him or the British Isles again? Amy was certain God had called her to India. Indeed! India would be home for the rest of her life. Amy's life was marked by a simple, determined obedience to God, regardless of circumstances. Her story and legacy are stunning reminders of the impact of one person who will fear God and nothing else. Driven by love and compassion, and sustained by faith and determination, Amy Carmichael defied the cruel barriers of India's caste system. The story of this young woman from Northern Ireland is a brilliant, sparkling example of God's love generously poured out to "the least of these among us."]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672835Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672835 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amy Carmichael: Rescuer of Precious Gems Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/672835 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amy Carmichael: Rescuer of Precious Gems Author: Janet And Geoff Benge Narrator: Rebecca Gallagher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Amy Carmichael stood on the deck of the steamer, waving good-bye once again to her old friend Robert Wilson. How could she have known she would never see him or the British Isles again? Amy was certain God had called her to India. Indeed! India would be home for the rest of her life. Amy's life was marked by a simple, determined obedience to God, regardless of circumstances. Her story and legacy are stunning reminders of the impact of one person who will fear God and nothing else. Driven by love and compassion, and sustained by faith and determination, Amy Carmichael defied the cruel barriers of India's caste system. The story of this young woman from Northern Ireland is a brilliant, sparkling example of God's love generously poured out to "the least of these among us."]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-dorfschul-rose-historischer-roman-by-helga-harter--65151111https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Dorfschul-Rose: Historischer Roman Author: Helga Harter Narrator: Helga Harter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 27, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Von der Autorin gelesen. Historischer Roman nach einer wahren Geschichte aus der Zeit zwischen 1937 und 1948. Wie Schlesier im Westen eine neue Heimat suchen.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669056Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Dorfschul-Rose: Historischer Roman Author: Helga Harter Narrator: Helga Harter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Dorfschul-Rose: Historischer Roman Author: Helga Harter Narrator: Helga Harter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 27, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Von der Autorin gelesen. Historischer Roman nach einer wahren Geschichte aus der Zeit zwischen 1937 und 1948. Wie Schlesier im Westen eine neue Heimat suchen.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-broken-glass-floats-growing-up-under-the-khmer-rouge-by-chanrithy-him--65151225https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649617 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge Author: Chanrithy Him Narrator: Kalean Ung Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'A gut-wrenching story told with honesty, restraint, and dignity.' —Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way 'worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child.' In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the 'killing fields.' She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no longer exists. Death becomes a companion in the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, the members of Chanrithy's family remain loyal to one another, and she and her siblings who survive will find redeemed lives in America. A Finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649617Tue, 21 Feb 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649617 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge Author: Chanrithy Him Narrator: Kalean Ung Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649617 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge Author: Chanrithy Him Narrator: Kalean Ung Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'A gut-wrenching story told with honesty, restraint, and dignity.' —Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way 'worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child.' In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the 'killing fields.' She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no longer exists. Death becomes a companion in the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, the members of Chanrithy's family remain loyal to one another, and she and her siblings who survive will find redeemed lives in America. A Finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/daughters-of-the-puritans-a-group-of-brief-biographies-by-seth-curtis-beach--65151124https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies Author: Seth Curtis Beach Narrator: Rebecca H. Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Originally published in 1905, Daughters of the Puritans captures the lives of seven extraordinary American women from the New England area, whose influential writings and work in the nineteenth century transformed the nation. This audiobook contains biographies of: Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1789–1867Mary Lovell Ware - 1798–1849Lydia Maria Child - 1802–1880Dorothea Lynde Dix - 1802–1887Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli - 1810–1850Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1811–1896Louisa May Alcott - 1832–1888]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657048Tue, 14 Feb 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies Author: Seth Curtis Beach Narrator: Rebecca H. Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies Author: Seth Curtis Beach Narrator: Rebecca H. Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Originally published in 1905, Daughters of the Puritans captures the lives of seven extraordinary American women from the New England area, whose influential writings and work in the nineteenth century transformed the nation. This audiobook contains biographies of: Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1789–1867Mary Lovell Ware - 1798–1849Lydia Maria Child - 1802–1880Dorothea Lynde Dix - 1802–1887Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli - 1810–1850Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1811–1896Louisa May Alcott - 1832–1888]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/under-the-boab-tree-by-franceska-jordan--65151108https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under the Boab Tree Author: Franceska Jordan Narrator: Franceska Jordan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Boaboa - pronounced ‘Bow-a-Bow-a’ - is the name given to a real tree—the Baobab—that imparts wisdom to a growing child in a South African garden. This stirring memoir traverses Africa and Australia following the Speer-Jordan family, who fled persecution and poverty in Varniai, Lithuania, to South Africa. The political machinations they witnessed in that time in South Africa changed the women forever in this unusual family. As the story unfolds, Isabella and Franceska’s tenacity and courage surface as they prove to be hardy and, at times, seemingly indestructible with their strong roots. Under The Boab Tree is a tale about the souls of these women connecting to the people they meet—like Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Rita Hayworth’s daughter—and the richness of their hearts. The mother and daughter’s spiritual, political, and humanitarian awakenings in this chronicle give them power and purpose in finding truth and justice for others and themselves through adversity. This is a story about how Isabella and Franceska came to a place of acceptance and stillness, finding their ultimate saviour: love. A love that unravels and transcends exploitation and fear.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682043Tue, 14 Feb 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under the Boab Tree Author: Franceska Jordan Narrator: Franceska Jordan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/682043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under the Boab Tree Author: Franceska Jordan Narrator: Franceska Jordan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Boaboa - pronounced ‘Bow-a-Bow-a’ - is the name given to a real tree—the Baobab—that imparts wisdom to a growing child in a South African garden. This stirring memoir traverses Africa and Australia following the Speer-Jordan family, who fled persecution and poverty in Varniai, Lithuania, to South Africa. The political machinations they witnessed in that time in South Africa changed the women forever in this unusual family. As the story unfolds, Isabella and Franceska’s tenacity and courage surface as they prove to be hardy and, at times, seemingly indestructible with their strong roots. Under The Boab Tree is a tale about the souls of these women connecting to the people they meet—like Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, Rita Hayworth’s daughter—and the richness of their hearts. The mother and daughter’s spiritual, political, and humanitarian awakenings in this chronicle give them power and purpose in finding truth and justice for others and themselves through adversity. This is a story about how Isabella and Franceska came to a place of acceptance and stillness, finding their ultimate saviour: love. A love that unravels and transcends exploitation and fear.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-sexo-vino-viajes-by-maria-paz-ruiz--65151109https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669564 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sexo, Vino, Viajes Author: María Paz Ruíz Narrator: Adriana Galindo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 12, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ¿A quién no le gusta el sexo, el vino o los viajes? Combinarlos en un texto breve y con un estilo valiente, potente y fresco es prácticamente garantía de éxito. Efectivamente, el libro se lee fácilmente, con curiosidad e interés. Desde las primeras líneas descubrimos una narradora fuerte, leída y arriesgada con un discurso rico en imágenes personales, divertidas reflexiones y buen ritmo. Sexo, vino y viajes es un libro de crónicas, un conjunto de relatos en primera persona sobre diferentes experiencias vitales de la autora, en las cuales los hombres, el alcohol y diferentes ciudades del mundo juegan un papel importante. Con un orden que intenta ajustarse al cronológico, de cada etapa de su vida-viaje la autora selecciona momentos más o menos festivos, pero todos con un componente importante de afirmación personal, como por ejemplo cuando de niña le gustaba marcar su territorio orinando por las esquinas, de adolescente prefería hombres que la superaban en edad y experiencia o de adulta buscará parejas, hogares y ocupaciones tan fuera del sistema como sea posible. La colombiana María Paz pasa sus primeros años envuelta en la protección que la ofrece la posición acomodada de su familia y el mundo paralelo de los colegios privados, pero la curiosidad que desde siempre siente por su cuerpo, su sexo, su libertad y sus límites la van llevando a explorar por su cuenta el mundo exterior en cuanto llega a los catorce.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669564Sun, 12 Feb 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669564 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sexo, Vino, Viajes Author: María Paz Ruíz Narrator: Adriana Galindo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/669564 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sexo, Vino, Viajes Author: María Paz Ruíz Narrator: Adriana Galindo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 12, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: ¿A quién no le gusta el sexo, el vino o los viajes? Combinarlos en un texto breve y con un estilo valiente, potente y fresco es prácticamente garantía de éxito. Efectivamente, el libro se lee fácilmente, con curiosidad e interés. Desde las primeras líneas descubrimos una narradora fuerte, leída y arriesgada con un discurso rico en imágenes personales, divertidas reflexiones y buen ritmo. Sexo, vino y viajes es un libro de crónicas, un conjunto de relatos en primera persona sobre diferentes experiencias vitales de la autora, en las cuales los hombres, el alcohol y diferentes ciudades del mundo juegan un papel importante. Con un orden que intenta ajustarse al cronológico, de cada etapa de su vida-viaje la autora selecciona momentos más o menos festivos, pero todos con un componente importante de afirmación personal, como por ejemplo cuando de niña le gustaba marcar su territorio orinando por las esquinas, de adolescente prefería hombres que la superaban en edad y experiencia o de adulta buscará parejas, hogares y ocupaciones tan fuera del sistema como sea posible. La colombiana María Paz pasa sus primeros años envuelta en la protección que la ofrece la posición acomodada de su familia y el mundo paralelo de los colegios privados, pero la curiosidad que desde siempre siente por su cuerpo, su sexo, su libertad y sus límites la van llevando a explorar por su cuenta el mundo exterior en cuanto llega a los catorce.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-rosario-castellanos-materia-que-arde-by-sara-uribe-veronica-gerber-bicecci--65151146https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Rosario Castellanos: Materia que arde Author: Sara Uribe, Verónica Gerber Bicecci Narrator: Astrid Mariel Romo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 9, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Este nudo que fui (inextricable de cóleras, traiciones, esperanzas, vislumbres repentinos, abandonos, hambres, gritos de miedo y desamparo y alegría fulgiendo en las tinieblas y palabras y amor y amor y amores) lo cortarán los años. Rosario Castellanos «Este libro es nuestro intento por recontar el relato que existe sobre Rosario Castellanos; escuchándola, pensándola desde sus palabras. Queríamos dotarlo, sobre todo, de preguntas. Conforme leíamos, audioleíamos y releíamos sus cartas, artículos, teatro, ensayos,cuentos, poemas y novelas, descubrimos a una escritora que no era la que habíamos conocido cuando fuimos adolescentes. No, no era la misma. Por eso, para compartir su vida y obra, abrimos un espacio para platicar con ella, para cuestionarla e interpelarla, y sugerir que ustedes también pueden hacerlo.»]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659847Thu, 09 Feb 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Rosario Castellanos: Materia que arde Author: Sara Uribe, Verónica Gerber Bicecci Narrator: Astrid Mariel Romo Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659847 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Rosario Castellanos: Materia que arde Author: Sara Uribe, Verónica Gerber Bicecci Narrator: Astrid Mariel Romo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 9, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Este nudo que fui (inextricable de cóleras, traiciones, esperanzas, vislumbres repentinos, abandonos, hambres, gritos de miedo y desamparo y alegría fulgiendo en las tinieblas y palabras y amor y amor y amores) lo cortarán los años. Rosario Castellanos «Este libro es nuestro intento por recontar el relato que existe sobre Rosario Castellanos; escuchándola, pensándola desde sus palabras. Queríamos dotarlo, sobre todo, de preguntas. Conforme leíamos, audioleíamos y releíamos sus cartas, artículos, teatro, ensayos,cuentos, poemas y novelas, descubrimos a una escritora que no era la que habíamos conocido cuando fuimos adolescentes. No, no era la misma. Por eso, para compartir su vida y obra, abrimos un espacio para platicar con ella, para cuestionarla e interpelarla, y sugerir que ustedes también pueden hacerlo.»]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-comoda-en-mi-piel-by-raquel-bessudo--65151116https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657614 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cómoda en mi piel Author: Raquel Bessudo Narrator: Zaida Durán Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 2, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: La autobiografía de una mujer que ha roto paradigmas con su fortaleza, entrega, resistencia y pasión. En Cómoda en mi piel Raquel se muestra tal y como es: auténtica, imperfecta y en una búsqueda constante para mejorar y lograr un cambio esencial. Aunque para algunos su vida pudiera parecer perfecta, Raquel ha enfrentado pérdidas, abusos, dificultades y altibajos. En este libro nos presenta su vida a través de sus propios ojos falibles, llenos de deseo, esperanza, nostalgia y profundo aprendizaje. Escrito en cuatro partes o movimientos sinfónicos, que corresponden a cada etapa de su vida, Raquel aborda sus primeros años, la llegada de su esposo a su vida, sus años iniciales de matrimonio, lo que enfrentó al entrar a una familia nueva y cómo sobrepasó los retos más definitorios de ésta; asimismo nos cuenta de su vida como una profesional, los distintos proyectos que ha emprendido y, finalmente, la muerte de su esposo y lo que ahora significa seguir adelante sin él. Al final de cada movimiento hay una coda en la que Raquel brinda al lector reflexiones sobre los aprendizajes más importantes de cada etapa de su vida, esperando que sirvan de inspiración a quien esté dispuesto a recibirlas; que los retos que enfrentó durante su vida sean unejemplo de resistencia y entereza y que este libro siembre una semilla que dé fortaleza para enfrentar cualquier dificultad. autobiografia de raquel bessudo, raquel birman; esposa de leon bessudo; familia dueña de jarritos; biografia de mujeres empoderadas que luchan por los derechos de las mujeres; mujer con un papel importante en la cultura del pais, mexico; mujer con una vida ejemplar; como sobrellevar la perdida de un hijo; abuso en las relaciones; si con raquel bessudo; cuidate de la camara; mexican dynasties; Vicepresidenta del Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros; [Críticas/Reseñas]]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657614Thu, 02 Feb 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657614 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cómoda en mi piel Author: Raquel Bessudo Narrator: Zaida Durán Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 43 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657614 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cómoda en mi piel Author: Raquel Bessudo Narrator: Zaida Durán Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 2, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: La autobiografía de una mujer que ha roto paradigmas con su fortaleza, entrega, resistencia y pasión. En Cómoda en mi piel Raquel se muestra tal y como es: auténtica, imperfecta y en una búsqueda constante para mejorar y lograr un cambio esencial. Aunque para algunos su vida pudiera parecer perfecta, Raquel ha enfrentado pérdidas, abusos, dificultades y altibajos. En este libro nos presenta su vida a través de sus propios ojos falibles, llenos de deseo, esperanza, nostalgia y profundo aprendizaje. Escrito en cuatro partes o movimientos sinfónicos, que corresponden a cada etapa de su vida, Raquel aborda sus primeros años, la llegada de su esposo a su vida, sus años iniciales de matrimonio, lo que enfrentó al entrar a una familia nueva y cómo sobrepasó los retos más definitorios de ésta; asimismo nos cuenta de su vida como una profesional, los distintos proyectos que ha emprendido y, finalmente, la muerte de su esposo y lo que ahora significa seguir adelante sin él. Al final de cada movimiento hay una coda en la que Raquel brinda al lector reflexiones sobre los aprendizajes más importantes de cada etapa de su vida, esperando que sirvan de inspiración a quien esté dispuesto a recibirlas; que los retos que enfrentó durante su vida sean unejemplo de resistencia y entereza y que este libro siembre una semilla que dé fortaleza para enfrentar cualquier dificultad. autobiografia de raquel bessudo, raquel birman; esposa de leon bessudo; familia dueña de jarritos; biografia de mujeres empoderadas que luchan por los derechos de las mujeres; mujer con un papel importante en la cultura del pais, mexico; mujer con una vida ejemplar; como sobrellevar la perdida de un hijo; abuso en las relaciones; si con raquel bessudo; cuidate de la camara; mexican dynasties; Vicepresidenta del Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros; [Críticas/Reseñas]]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-lauft-schon-how-to-run-eine-anleitung-von-der-unsportlichsten-joggerin-der-welt-ungekurzte-autorinnenlesung-by-nicole-stau--65151182https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Läuft schon! - How to run - eine Anleitung von der unsportlichsten Joggerin der Welt (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung) Author: Nicole Staudinger Narrator: Nicole Staudinger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: February 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Keine Ausreden mehr: In diesem Hörbuch bringt Bestsellerautorin Nicole Staudinger auch Sportmuffel in Bewegung. Das Laufhörbuch ohne Laufplan - aber mit umso mehr Spaß! 'Mein erster Lauf-Versuch scheiterte kläglich. Nach nur siebzehn Sekunden. Mehr war als etwas moppelnde Sport-Newcomerin einfach nicht drin. Heute laufe ich drei bis fünf Mal pro Woche - jeweils zwischen fünf und achtzehn Kilometer. Am Stück. Und das seit mehreren Jahren. Wie es zu diesem Weltwunder kommen konnte, was es dafür gebraucht hat (und was nicht), davon erzähle ich in diesem Hörbuch. Denn: Wenn ich das schaffe, schaffen Sie es auch!' - Die perfekte Motivation für alle, die endlich in Bewegung kommen wollen - Freude am Laufen - ganz ohne Druck und Plan - Scheiter heiter: Warum alles besser klappt, wenn wir es nicht ganz so ernst nehmen Lange Zeit stand für Nicole Staudinger fest: Sport ist Mord. Doch um nach ihrer Brustkrebserkrankung wieder zurückzufinden in ein gesundes und bewegliches Leben - und um ein paar Pfunde zu verlieren - begann die Schlagfertigkeitsqueen zu laufen. Und hörte nicht mehr auf: Mittlerweile hat sie ihren ersten Halbmarathon erfolgreich geschafft. Wie es ihr gelang, ihren inneren Schweinehund zu überwinden und Freude am Laufen zu finden, davon erzählt sie gewohnt humorvoll und mit viel Selbstironie. Motivation pur für alle, die mehr Bewegung in ihr Leben holen möchten - ganz ohne Perfektionsdruck.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656734Wed, 01 Feb 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Läuft schon! - How to run - eine Anleitung von der unsportlichsten Joggerin der Welt (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung) Author: Nicole Staudinger...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Läuft schon! - How to run - eine Anleitung von der unsportlichsten Joggerin der Welt (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung) Author: Nicole Staudinger Narrator: Nicole Staudinger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: February 1, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Keine Ausreden mehr: In diesem Hörbuch bringt Bestsellerautorin Nicole Staudinger auch Sportmuffel in Bewegung. Das Laufhörbuch ohne Laufplan - aber mit umso mehr Spaß! 'Mein erster Lauf-Versuch scheiterte kläglich. Nach nur siebzehn Sekunden. Mehr war als etwas moppelnde Sport-Newcomerin einfach nicht drin. Heute laufe ich drei bis fünf Mal pro Woche - jeweils zwischen fünf und achtzehn Kilometer. Am Stück. Und das seit mehreren Jahren. Wie es zu diesem Weltwunder kommen konnte, was es dafür gebraucht hat (und was nicht), davon erzähle ich in diesem Hörbuch. Denn: Wenn ich das schaffe, schaffen Sie es auch!' - Die perfekte Motivation für alle, die endlich in Bewegung kommen wollen - Freude am Laufen - ganz ohne Druck und Plan - Scheiter heiter: Warum alles besser klappt, wenn wir es nicht ganz so ernst nehmen Lange Zeit stand für Nicole Staudinger fest: Sport ist Mord. Doch um nach ihrer Brustkrebserkrankung wieder zurückzufinden in ein gesundes und bewegliches Leben - und um ein paar Pfunde zu verlieren - begann die Schlagfertigkeitsqueen zu laufen. Und hörte nicht mehr auf: Mittlerweile hat sie ihren ersten Halbmarathon erfolgreich geschafft. Wie es ihr gelang, ihren inneren Schweinehund zu überwinden und Freude am Laufen zu finden, davon erzählt sie gewohnt humorvoll und mit viel Selbstironie. Motivation pur für alle, die mehr Bewegung in ihr Leben holen möchten - ganz ohne Perfektionsdruck.]]>185rztecleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/getting-lost-by-annie-ernaux--65151209https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting Lost Author: Annie Ernaux Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries, it is 1989, and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris, and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there, and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters, saying “his desire for me is the only thing I can be sure of.” She cannot write; she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world; she awaits his next call; she lives only to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death. Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Getting Lost is as strong a book as any she has written, a haunting, desperate view of a strong and successful woman who seduces a man only to lose herself in love and desire.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640631Tue, 31 Jan 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting Lost Author: Annie Ernaux Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting Lost Author: Annie Ernaux Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries, it is 1989, and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris, and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there, and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters, saying “his desire for me is the only thing I can be sure of.” She cannot write; she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world; she awaits his next call; she lives only to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death. Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Getting Lost is as strong a book as any she has written, a haunting, desperate view of a strong and successful woman who seduces a man only to lose herself in love and desire.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-ce-n-etait-pas-de-l-amour-survivre-a-un-pere-abusif-se-reconstruire-apres-une-enfance-brisee-by-betty-mannechez--65151174https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Ce n'était pas de l'amour: Survivre à un père abusif. Se reconstruire après une enfance brisée. Author: Betty Mannechez Narrator: Nadine Girard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 23, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Aux yeux de tout le monde, la famille de Betty est dévouée et aimante. Dans son village de la région parisienne, elle donne l'impression d'une famille parfaite avec un père qui travaille dans l'informatique et une mère au foyer modèle. Mais, derrière les portes closes de la maison, les parents se révèlent être de véritables bourreaux. Les enfants subissent sans arrêt coups et insultes. Pire : le père de Betty commence à abuser d'elle, un calvaire qui durera des années. Virginie, sa sœur, subit le même sort, jusqu'au jour où un enfant naît de ces abus répétés. Épuisée, écœurée, Betty trouve la force de dénoncer son père à la justice française. Mais, là encore, la jeune femme se retrouve seule face à un système insensible, incapable d'agir. Et, pendant dix années, les abus vont continuer. Jusqu'à l'impensable...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653359Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Ce n'était pas de l'amour: Survivre à un père abusif. Se reconstruire après une enfance brisée. Author: Betty Mannechez Narrator: Nadine...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/653359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Ce n'était pas de l'amour: Survivre à un père abusif. Se reconstruire après une enfance brisée. Author: Betty Mannechez Narrator: Nadine Girard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: January 23, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Aux yeux de tout le monde, la famille de Betty est dévouée et aimante. Dans son village de la région parisienne, elle donne l'impression d'une famille parfaite avec un père qui travaille dans l'informatique et une mère au foyer modèle. Mais, derrière les portes closes de la maison, les parents se révèlent être de véritables bourreaux. Les enfants subissent sans arrêt coups et insultes. Pire : le père de Betty commence à abuser d'elle, un calvaire qui durera des années. Virginie, sa sœur, subit le même sort, jusqu'au jour où un enfant naît de ces abus répétés. Épuisée, écœurée, Betty trouve la force de dénoncer son père à la justice française. Mais, là encore, la jeune femme se retrouve seule face à un système insensible, incapable d'agir. Et, pendant dix années, les abus vont continuer. Jusqu'à l'impensable...]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dirty-laundry-by-lily-arthur--65151063https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dirty Laundry Author: Lily Arthur Narrator: Lily Arthur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 23, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: At seventeen years old, Lily Arthur was caught between an era of women's liberation and the draconian ideology that young women should be punished for deviating from society's 'moral codes'. For the 'crime' of being pregnant, Lily was forcibly taken from the man she planned to marry and incarcerated in Brisbane Watch House before being sent to work in a notorious Magdalene laundry. Committed to the Holy Cross home for unwed mothers in Woolowin, Lily's son was taken from her in the labour ward and put up for adoption. She promised him: 'I will see you again, little one. I will see you again.' A true story from the war-torn ravages for East End London to the far north of Queensland, Australia, Dirty Laundry recounts a journey that took Lily and a movement of women like her on a lifelong battle for justice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683329Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dirty Laundry Author: Lily Arthur Narrator: Lily Arthur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 23, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dirty Laundry Author: Lily Arthur Narrator: Lily Arthur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: January 23, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: At seventeen years old, Lily Arthur was caught between an era of women's liberation and the draconian ideology that young women should be punished for deviating from society's 'moral codes'. For the 'crime' of being pregnant, Lily was forcibly taken from the man she planned to marry and incarcerated in Brisbane Watch House before being sent to work in a notorious Magdalene laundry. Committed to the Holy Cross home for unwed mothers in Woolowin, Lily's son was taken from her in the labour ward and put up for adoption. She promised him: 'I will see you again, little one. I will see you again.' A true story from the war-torn ravages for East End London to the far north of Queensland, Australia, Dirty Laundry recounts a journey that took Lily and a movement of women like her on a lifelong battle for justice.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/iulia-farnesia-letters-from-a-soul-by-roberta-mezzabarba--65151204https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: IULIA FARNESIA - Letters From A Soul Author: Roberta Mezzabarba Narrator: Andrew James Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 20, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Can the soul of a woman, sold to the highest bidder by her family, find redemption? The real story of Giulia Farnese, a woman far beyond time. Giulia Farnese, a woman who traverses time to find, in this novel, her redemption. Her real story is that of a woman who goes far beyond the figure of Sponsa Christi as she was known throughout the world. The writer traces the profile of a strong woman who, once free from the trammels of a family that raised her to be obedient, rises from her ashes and the damnatio memoriæ to become the mater and the domina of the feud of Carbognano. With an absorbing prose, and based on an historical plot of true events, the author gives back to La Bella the dignity that historical documentation has always overlooked, preferring to chase after fifth century gossip. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657703Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: IULIA FARNESIA - Letters From A Soul Author: Roberta Mezzabarba Narrator: Andrew James Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/657703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: IULIA FARNESIA - Letters From A Soul Author: Roberta Mezzabarba Narrator: Andrew James Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 20, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Can the soul of a woman, sold to the highest bidder by her family, find redemption? The real story of Giulia Farnese, a woman far beyond time. Giulia Farnese, a woman who traverses time to find, in this novel, her redemption. Her real story is that of a woman who goes far beyond the figure of Sponsa Christi as she was known throughout the world. The writer traces the profile of a strong woman who, once free from the trammels of a family that raised her to be obedient, rises from her ashes and the damnatio memoriæ to become the mater and the domina of the feud of Carbognano. With an absorbing prose, and based on an historical plot of true events, the author gives back to La Bella the dignity that historical documentation has always overlooked, preferring to chase after fifth century gossip. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-diez-anos-de-destierro-by-madame-de-stael--65151210https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Diez años de destierro Author: Madame De Staël Narrator: Beatriz Melgares Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 12, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Las apasionantes memorias de la madre espiritual de la Europa moderna. «Las desgracias sufridas, por mucha amargura que me hayan causado, son poca cosa al lado de los desastres públicos de los que hoy somos testigos.» «Mi imaginación concibe antes el dolor que la esperanza.» Escritas durante el destierro que Napoleón Bonaparte impuso a la autora, estas memorias registran con acuidad, ironía y elegancia los vaivenes sociales, políticos y militares de Europa durante el ascenso y apogeo del emperador francés. Diez años de destierro constituye, pues, una confesión íntima, sincera, hiriente e irónica, un retrato pormenorizado y muy personal de personajes, lugares y acontecimientos históricos de primer orden.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649494Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Diez años de destierro Author: Madame De Staël Narrator: Beatriz Melgares Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Diez años de destierro Author: Madame De Staël Narrator: Beatriz Melgares Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 12, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Las apasionantes memorias de la madre espiritual de la Europa moderna. «Las desgracias sufridas, por mucha amargura que me hayan causado, son poca cosa al lado de los desastres públicos de los que hoy somos testigos.» «Mi imaginación concibe antes el dolor que la esperanza.» Escritas durante el destierro que Napoleón Bonaparte impuso a la autora, estas memorias registran con acuidad, ironía y elegancia los vaivenes sociales, políticos y militares de Europa durante el ascenso y apogeo del emperador francés. Diez años de destierro constituye, pues, una confesión íntima, sincera, hiriente e irónica, un retrato pormenorizado y muy personal de personajes, lugares y acontecimientos históricos de primer orden.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/growing-up-rocky-by-patty-beecham--65151166https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Growing Up, Rocky Author: Patty Beecham Narrator: Viv Marena Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 11, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Written over 51 chapters, we follow the unusual family upbringing on an Aboriginal mission on Cape York. The family live apart for a year in three locations in Queensland as the father trains to become an Anglican priest at 44 years of age, and then they have to re-learn who to live again as a family under the one roof in Rockhampton. This is the true story of the youngest daughter of a Sydney couple living at Lockhart River Mission for 9 years, raising their children within an Aboriginal village of five tribes. Conceived on Cape York, and finally moving to Rockhampton as a young child. A family tragedy in 1971 with the shocking death of brother Chris, two days before a family wedding, sees the upheaval of family life. Patty feels abandoned and has to educate and raise herself as well as learn to iron a cassock! Patty brings herself up with her distracted parents, marries young and then flees a violent marriage. Patty dreamed of a bigger life than what was offered in her sleepy country town. Life became a series of ground-breaking adventures, and we follow her turbulent relationships and jobs, learning how to survive. Share her adventures in this gentle, humorous and insightful early memoir.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656800Wed, 11 Jan 2023 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Growing Up, Rocky Author: Patty Beecham Narrator: Viv Marena Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 11, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/656800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Growing Up, Rocky Author: Patty Beecham Narrator: Viv Marena Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 11, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Written over 51 chapters, we follow the unusual family upbringing on an Aboriginal mission on Cape York. The family live apart for a year in three locations in Queensland as the father trains to become an Anglican priest at 44 years of age, and then they have to re-learn who to live again as a family under the one roof in Rockhampton. This is the true story of the youngest daughter of a Sydney couple living at Lockhart River Mission for 9 years, raising their children within an Aboriginal village of five tribes. Conceived on Cape York, and finally moving to Rockhampton as a young child. A family tragedy in 1971 with the shocking death of brother Chris, two days before a family wedding, sees the upheaval of family life. Patty feels abandoned and has to educate and raise herself as well as learn to iron a cassock! Patty brings herself up with her distracted parents, marries young and then flees a violent marriage. Patty dreamed of a bigger life than what was offered in her sleepy country town. Life became a series of ground-breaking adventures, and we follow her turbulent relationships and jobs, learning how to survive. Share her adventures in this gentle, humorous and insightful early memoir.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-mi-historia-by-emmeline-pankhurst--65151140https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi historia Author: Emmeline Pankhurst Narrator: Adriana Galindo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: December 20, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Emmeline Pankhurst creció muy consciente de la actitud predominante en su época: que los hombres eran considerados superiores a las mujeres. Cuando tenía solo catorce años asistió a su primera reunión por el sufragio femenino y regresó a casa como sufragista confirmada. A lo largo de su carrera soportó la humillación, la prisión, las huelgas de hambre y la reiterada frustración de sus objetivos por parte de los hombres que ostentaban el poder, pero ascendió hasta convertirse en una luz guía del movimiento sufragista. Escrita al comienzo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, ‘Mi historia’ llama la atención sobre la causa de Pankhurst mientras defiende su decisión de cesar el activismo hasta el final de la guerra. Notable por sus descripciones del sistema penitenciario británico, ‘Mi historia’ es un documento invaluable de una vida dedicada a los demás, de un momento histórico en el que un grupo oprimido se levantó para defender la más simple de las demandas: la igualdad. Pankhurst desarrolló un estilo de protesta de confrontación que haría que ella y sus seguidoras fueran arrestados muchas veces antes de que finalmente todas las mujeres mayores de veintiún años obtuvieran el derecho al voto. En 1927 se postularía para el parlamento. Contada con sus propias palabras, esta es la historia de la organización e indignación, las penurias y las huelgas de hambre de Pankhurst y su obstinada determinación de desmantelar los numerosos obstáculos diseñados para impedir que ella y todas las mujeres reclamasen su libertad. ‘Mi historia’ es un registro de la incansable defensa de una mujer por el bien de muchas otras.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651152Tue, 20 Dec 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi historia Author: Emmeline Pankhurst Narrator: Adriana Galindo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi historia Author: Emmeline Pankhurst Narrator: Adriana Galindo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: December 20, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Emmeline Pankhurst creció muy consciente de la actitud predominante en su época: que los hombres eran considerados superiores a las mujeres. Cuando tenía solo catorce años asistió a su primera reunión por el sufragio femenino y regresó a casa como sufragista confirmada. A lo largo de su carrera soportó la humillación, la prisión, las huelgas de hambre y la reiterada frustración de sus objetivos por parte de los hombres que ostentaban el poder, pero ascendió hasta convertirse en una luz guía del movimiento sufragista. Escrita al comienzo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, ‘Mi historia’ llama la atención sobre la causa de Pankhurst mientras defiende su decisión de cesar el activismo hasta el final de la guerra. Notable por sus descripciones del sistema penitenciario británico, ‘Mi historia’ es un documento invaluable de una vida dedicada a los demás, de un momento histórico en el que un grupo oprimido se levantó para defender la más simple de las demandas: la igualdad. Pankhurst desarrolló un estilo de protesta de confrontación que haría que ella y sus seguidoras fueran arrestados muchas veces antes de que finalmente todas las mujeres mayores de veintiún años obtuvieran el derecho al voto. En 1927 se postularía para el parlamento. Contada con sus propias palabras, esta es la historia de la organización e indignación, las penurias y las huelgas de hambre de Pankhurst y su obstinada determinación de desmantelar los numerosos obstáculos diseñados para impedir que ella y todas las mujeres reclamasen su libertad. ‘Mi historia’ es un registro de la incansable defensa de una mujer por el bien de muchas otras.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-amar-y-ser-amado-un-retrato-personal-de-la-madre-teresa-by-jim-towey--65151218https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Amar y ser amado: Un retrato personal de la madre Teresa Author: Jim Towey Narrator: Raúl Arrieta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: December 8, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Mientras gozaba de su compañía, yo era lo mejor que podía ser. Vi la bondad que era capaz de vivir, como si su santidad se me pegara un poco. Hace un cuarto de siglo que se ha ido y aún me siento huérfano”. —Jim Towey La Madre Teresa fue una de las mujeres más admiradas del siglo XX y su memoria continúa inspirando a muchos alrededor del mundo, pues incluso una santa puede amar los chocolates, hacer bromas o regañar al presidente de los Estados Unidos. Esta fue la mujer a la que Jim Towey conoció a mediados de los noventa — cuando era congresista y abogado de alto nivel—, la que iluminó el vacío que había en su vida. Durante más de una década, Towey viajó frecuentemente con ella, gestionó encuentros con políticos y donantes de Estados Unidos, y manejó muchos de sus asuntos legales y personales. Amar y ser amado es su recuento de esos años, un libro en el que veremos la dimensión más humana de la Madre Teresa, pero sobre todo su extraordinaria devoción a Dios y a sus hijos más pobres. La Madre Teresa nutrió el alma de Towey hasta hacerla renacer. Le enseñó a orar más, a ser menos egoísta, más humilde, a estar más enamorado de Dios y menos de sí mismo. Esas son las enseñanzas que están en estas páginas para que todos las recibamos. De manos de un consejero de confianza y devoto amigo de la Madre Teresa, tenemos un extraordinario recuento de primera mano de la milagrosa mujer detrás de la santa.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644030Thu, 08 Dec 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Amar y ser amado: Un retrato personal de la madre Teresa Author: Jim Towey Narrator: Raúl Arrieta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Amar y ser amado: Un retrato personal de la madre Teresa Author: Jim Towey Narrator: Raúl Arrieta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: December 8, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “Mientras gozaba de su compañía, yo era lo mejor que podía ser. Vi la bondad que era capaz de vivir, como si su santidad se me pegara un poco. Hace un cuarto de siglo que se ha ido y aún me siento huérfano”. —Jim Towey La Madre Teresa fue una de las mujeres más admiradas del siglo XX y su memoria continúa inspirando a muchos alrededor del mundo, pues incluso una santa puede amar los chocolates, hacer bromas o regañar al presidente de los Estados Unidos. Esta fue la mujer a la que Jim Towey conoció a mediados de los noventa — cuando era congresista y abogado de alto nivel—, la que iluminó el vacío que había en su vida. Durante más de una década, Towey viajó frecuentemente con ella, gestionó encuentros con políticos y donantes de Estados Unidos, y manejó muchos de sus asuntos legales y personales. Amar y ser amado es su recuento de esos años, un libro en el que veremos la dimensión más humana de la Madre Teresa, pero sobre todo su extraordinaria devoción a Dios y a sus hijos más pobres. La Madre Teresa nutrió el alma de Towey hasta hacerla renacer. Le enseñó a orar más, a ser menos egoísta, más humilde, a estar más enamorado de Dios y menos de sí mismo. Esas son las enseñanzas que están en estas páginas para que todos las recibamos. De manos de un consejero de confianza y devoto amigo de la Madre Teresa, tenemos un extraordinario recuento de primera mano de la milagrosa mujer detrás de la santa.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-mariscala-la-historia-no-contada-de-francisca-zubiaga-y-bernales-la-primera-presidenta-del-peru-by-claudia-nunez--65151196https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La mariscala: La historia no contada de Francisca Zubiaga y Bernales, la primera presidenta del Perú Author: Claudia Nuñez Narrator: Kámala Videla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 30, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: La historia no contada de Francisca Zubiaga y Bernales, la primera presidenta del Perú]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646022Wed, 30 Nov 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La mariscala: La historia no contada de Francisca Zubiaga y Bernales, la primera presidenta del Perú Author: Claudia Nuñez Narrator: Kámala...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La mariscala: La historia no contada de Francisca Zubiaga y Bernales, la primera presidenta del Perú Author: Claudia Nuñez Narrator: Kámala Videla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 30, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: La historia no contada de Francisca Zubiaga y Bernales, la primera presidenta del Perú]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-un-cri-du-ventre-by-enora-malagre--65151221https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Un cri du ventre Author: Enora Malagré Narrator: Enora Malagré Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 28, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'J'ai un mal qui me ronge, l'endométriose'. « En février 2017, au cours d'un prime de Touche pas à mon poste !, un internaute m'a posé une question très personnelle, intime, à laquelle j'ai décidé de répondre. Dire la vérité était une évidence, et j'en étais là de l'existence : arrêter de me cacher, de m'anesthésier, de fuir. Assumer mon désir plus fort que tout d'avoir un enfant et me dresser pour vivre avec mes bleus, mes bosses, mes peurs. Mon cri venait du ventre. En parlant de mon endométriose, la maladie avec laquelle je cohabite depuis dix ans, j'ai rompu la loi du silence. » À l'aube de la quarantaine, Enora Malagré jette un regard franc sur son parcours et lance un cri d'espoir pour toutes les femmes, les mères et celles qui ne le sont pas.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641292Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Un cri du ventre Author: Enora Malagré Narrator: Enora Malagré Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: November...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Un cri du ventre Author: Enora Malagré Narrator: Enora Malagré Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 28, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'J'ai un mal qui me ronge, l'endométriose'. « En février 2017, au cours d'un prime de Touche pas à mon poste !, un internaute m'a posé une question très personnelle, intime, à laquelle j'ai décidé de répondre. Dire la vérité était une évidence, et j'en étais là de l'existence : arrêter de me cacher, de m'anesthésier, de fuir. Assumer mon désir plus fort que tout d'avoir un enfant et me dresser pour vivre avec mes bleus, mes bosses, mes peurs. Mon cri venait du ventre. En parlant de mon endométriose, la maladie avec laquelle je cohabite depuis dix ans, j'ai rompu la loi du silence. » À l'aube de la quarantaine, Enora Malagré jette un regard franc sur son parcours et lance un cri d'espoir pour toutes les femmes, les mères et celles qui ne le sont pas.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-mein-weg-aus-dem-fegefeuer-missbrauch-leid-in-der-dunkelheit-by-brenda-leb--65151175https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mein Weg aus dem Fegefeuer: Missbrauch - Leid in der Dunkelheit Author: Brenda Leb Narrator: Brigitte Kaindl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 21, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Das ist der erschütternde Bericht einer Frau, die als Jugendliche jahrelang vom eigenen Vater sexuell missbraucht und unter Drohungen zum Schweigen gebracht wurde. Für das gläubige Mädchen war diese Zeit das Fegefeuer auf Erden und selbst die Flucht aus dem Elternhaus konnte sie daraus nicht befreien. Die Dämonen des Missbrauchs verfolgten und beherrschten sie weiter in zwei unglücklichen Ehen. Ihre neurotischen Störungen, Panikattacken und ihr grenzenloser Hass trieben sie eines Tages an den Rand des Abgrunds. Als sie nur mehr Selbstmord als Ausweg sah, erkannte sie, dass sie es ihren Kindern schuldig war, weiterzuleben, weiterzukämpfen. Am tiefsten Punkt ihres Lebens angekommen, nahm sie daher den Kampf um ihre seelische Gesundung aktiv in die Hand. Brenda Leb schaffe das schier Unmögliche, bekämpfte verzweifelt die Dämonen, wandelte negative Energie in positive und tauchte ein in das warme Licht des Glücks. Wie neugeboren erkannte sie, dass Leid getarntes Glück sein kann. Daher wurde sie gerade wegen ihres Leidensweges stark, tolerant und glücklich. Stark wird man durch die Liebe - stärker noch durch das Leid]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647292Mon, 21 Nov 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mein Weg aus dem Fegefeuer: Missbrauch - Leid in der Dunkelheit Author: Brenda Leb Narrator: Brigitte Kaindl Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mein Weg aus dem Fegefeuer: Missbrauch - Leid in der Dunkelheit Author: Brenda Leb Narrator: Brigitte Kaindl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 21, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Das ist der erschütternde Bericht einer Frau, die als Jugendliche jahrelang vom eigenen Vater sexuell missbraucht und unter Drohungen zum Schweigen gebracht wurde. Für das gläubige Mädchen war diese Zeit das Fegefeuer auf Erden und selbst die Flucht aus dem Elternhaus konnte sie daraus nicht befreien. Die Dämonen des Missbrauchs verfolgten und beherrschten sie weiter in zwei unglücklichen Ehen. Ihre neurotischen Störungen, Panikattacken und ihr grenzenloser Hass trieben sie eines Tages an den Rand des Abgrunds. Als sie nur mehr Selbstmord als Ausweg sah, erkannte sie, dass sie es ihren Kindern schuldig war, weiterzuleben, weiterzukämpfen. Am tiefsten Punkt ihres Lebens angekommen, nahm sie daher den Kampf um ihre seelische Gesundung aktiv in die Hand. Brenda Leb schaffe das schier Unmögliche, bekämpfte verzweifelt die Dämonen, wandelte negative Energie in positive und tauchte ein in das warme Licht des Glücks. Wie neugeboren erkannte sie, dass Leid getarntes Glück sein kann. Daher wurde sie gerade wegen ihres Leidensweges stark, tolerant und glücklich. Stark wird man durch die Liebe - stärker noch durch das Leid]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-yo-solo-soy-sofia-testimonios-sobre-la-libertad-y-el-amor-libre-by-sofia-duplan--65151164https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Yo sólo soy Sofía: Testimonios sobre la libertad y el amor libre Author: Sofía Duplán Narrator: Yotzmit Ramírez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 17, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Basadas en la vida real y con mágicas dosis de fantasía, estas historias irreverentes y divertidas —de una chica como tú: en busca del amor libre, la celebración de la vida y la felicidad— están escritas con humor e inigualable pasión romántica. Sofía es una joven llena de energía e ilusiones, un ave que vuela sobre los árboles, el mar,las esperanzas y los placeres; su vida es una apuesta por el amor sin barreras en situaciones nada convencionales: en una fiesta de disfraces alucinante en Nueva York, en un retiro erótico en la Patagonia, con la realeza europea más extravagante en Holanda; sin faltar las experiencias tristes y con muchas lágrimas, aunque sus alas de alegría nunca dejan de elevarse ni de adentrarse en los misterios de calles nocturnas fantasmales, bares de excesos inimaginables o amaneceres en las montañas. Descubre en Yo sólo soy Sofía lo que una mujer sin límites hace para lograr sus sueños; entérate de sus romances con un actor de Hollywood famoso; un artista brasileño nacido en las favelas; un chef sudamericano reconocido en el mundo o un príncipe europeo sui generis y ríe con los dramas y festejos delirantes de esta encantadora ave del paraíso que nos convence de que no hay nada más bello que amar con libertad y dejarse amar]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641982Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Yo sólo soy Sofía: Testimonios sobre la libertad y el amor libre Author: Sofía Duplán Narrator: Yotzmit Ramírez Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Yo sólo soy Sofía: Testimonios sobre la libertad y el amor libre Author: Sofía Duplán Narrator: Yotzmit Ramírez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 17, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Basadas en la vida real y con mágicas dosis de fantasía, estas historias irreverentes y divertidas —de una chica como tú: en busca del amor libre, la celebración de la vida y la felicidad— están escritas con humor e inigualable pasión romántica. Sofía es una joven llena de energía e ilusiones, un ave que vuela sobre los árboles, el mar,las esperanzas y los placeres; su vida es una apuesta por el amor sin barreras en situaciones nada convencionales: en una fiesta de disfraces alucinante en Nueva York, en un retiro erótico en la Patagonia, con la realeza europea más extravagante en Holanda; sin faltar las experiencias tristes y con muchas lágrimas, aunque sus alas de alegría nunca dejan de elevarse ni de adentrarse en los misterios de calles nocturnas fantasmales, bares de excesos inimaginables o amaneceres en las montañas. Descubre en Yo sólo soy Sofía lo que una mujer sin límites hace para lograr sus sueños; entérate de sus romances con un actor de Hollywood famoso; un artista brasileño nacido en las favelas; un chef sudamericano reconocido en el mundo o un príncipe europeo sui generis y ríe con los dramas y festejos delirantes de esta encantadora ave del paraíso que nos convence de que no hay nada más bello que amar con libertad y dejarse amar]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sadalakshmi-by-y-b-satyanarayana--65151202https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644029 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sadalakshmi Author: Y B Satyanarayana Narrator: Sreela Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 12, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Biography of a scavenging lady who was the first Legislator from this community and First Endowment and Women Welfare Minister in the combined state of Andhra Pradesh. She was a fearless leader and inspired Dalit's to get into political field and made many political activists into Leaders.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644029Sat, 12 Nov 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644029 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sadalakshmi Author: Y B Satyanarayana Narrator: Sreela Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 12, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644029 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sadalakshmi Author: Y B Satyanarayana Narrator: Sreela Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 12, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Biography of a scavenging lady who was the first Legislator from this community and First Endowment and Women Welfare Minister in the combined state of Andhra Pradesh. She was a fearless leader and inspired Dalit's to get into political field and made many political activists into Leaders.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dare-by-diane-demetre--65151179https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641853 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dare Author: Diane Demetre Narrator: Diane Demetre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 2, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Long before the global #metoo movement, Diane Demetre was dramatically sacked by her producer for apparently being 'too fat' after she refused his sexual advances. She took him to court, and the ensuing court cases for wrongful dismissal became some of the highest-profile cases in Australia in the 1980s. Dare is a no-holds-barred account of Diane's rise from being born an illegitimate child given up for adoption to fulfilling her dream in the entertainment industry and directing the largest production shows staged in Australia. But when she was terminated, there were no laws to protect her. Now, Diane reveals the unimaginable public humiliation and heartbreak of losing herself, her career, and her destiny. Follow Diane's thirty-year quest for truth as she discovers that our lives aren't random events over which we have little influence. Calling on her background as an educator, speaker, and successful entrepreneur, Diane uses touchstones in her life to outline fifty insights that expanded her consciousness, connected her to being, and transformed her life. Join this journey within, Dare to master your destiny, and be more than you ever imagined. Demetre is a strong, determined, successful woman who has self-actualized more than most. This is evident in this engaging memoir. She is clearly a passionate and experienced writer, her prose sophisticated, her narrative moving. Her spiritual experiences are compelling, unique, and very readable making this book a strong, fascinating addition to the memoir/spiritual journey genre. -Book Life Review Diane Demetre is a fiercely vibrant, brilliant, dynamic, and professional leader who has laid her life bare in DARE. Much more than a memoir, DARE is a handbook on life and one that should sit on the self-help shelves of reader's library (sic). Not only is DARE required reading for every woman, it awakened something in me which has made a lasting impact on my life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641853Wed, 02 Nov 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641853 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dare Author: Diane Demetre Narrator: Diane Demetre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 2, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641853 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dare Author: Diane Demetre Narrator: Diane Demetre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 2, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Long before the global #metoo movement, Diane Demetre was dramatically sacked by her producer for apparently being 'too fat' after she refused his sexual advances. She took him to court, and the ensuing court cases for wrongful dismissal became some of the highest-profile cases in Australia in the 1980s. Dare is a no-holds-barred account of Diane's rise from being born an illegitimate child given up for adoption to fulfilling her dream in the entertainment industry and directing the largest production shows staged in Australia. But when she was terminated, there were no laws to protect her. Now, Diane reveals the unimaginable public humiliation and heartbreak of losing herself, her career, and her destiny. Follow Diane's thirty-year quest for truth as she discovers that our lives aren't random events over which we have little influence. Calling on her background as an educator, speaker, and successful entrepreneur, Diane uses touchstones in her life to outline fifty insights that expanded her consciousness, connected her to being, and transformed her life. Join this journey within, Dare to master your destiny, and be more than you ever imagined. Demetre is a strong, determined, successful woman who has self-actualized more than most. This is evident in this engaging memoir. She is clearly a passionate and experienced writer, her prose sophisticated, her narrative moving. Her spiritual experiences are compelling, unique, and very readable making this book a strong, fascinating addition to the memoir/spiritual journey genre. -Book Life Review Diane Demetre is a fiercely vibrant, brilliant, dynamic, and professional leader who has laid her life bare in DARE. Much more than a memoir, DARE is a handbook on life and one that should sit on the self-help shelves of reader's library (sic). Not only is DARE required reading for every woman, it awakened something in me which has made a lasting impact on my life.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-handful-of-raisins-in-an-otherwise-empty-room-a-journey-from-tragedy-to-joy-by-michele-misino-de-luca--65151186https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Handful of Raisins in an Otherwise Empty Room: A Journey From Tragedy to Joy Author: Michele Misino De Luca Narrator: Michele Misino De Luca Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A Handful of Raisins is a heart-stirring memoir about survival, strength and courage. For Michèle Misino de Luca, life began as a series of dark, traumatic episodes and continued as deeply challenging events beset her incessantly throughout her youth. Yet somehow, she rises to value life, viewing it as a miracle. She was five years old when she first felt completely on her own, and although food, clothing and a warm bed were provided, it seemed her survival was not ensured. Every night, when she was handed those raisins, there was a moment of intimacy in her soul. She ate those raisins ever so slowly, savoring not just their sweetness, but the sweetness of a few moments when everything was alright. Imagine being a child seemingly dropped into a dark hole. Nothing around you but strangers. Nothing familiar. Throughout this memoir, readers will gain a true understanding of loneliness and despair, while receiving the gratifying reminder that you do not have to succumb and be formed by your painful experiences. You can become who you say you are, and who you say you are can be based on what you value most. Our author declares herself fully alive and becomes so alive with dignity, wonder and joy. In her groundbreaking and raw story, Michèle Misino de Luca had the tenacity not only to survive, but to thrive. Unwilling to surrender to victimhood, she had to change. She had to find joy. It certainly was not easy, but in a world by herself, she created her own silver lining. This is a memoir about celebrating the fullness of life, written by a truly extraordinary person. This is a story about seeking and accepting the handful of raisins in an otherwise empty room.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643595Tue, 01 Nov 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Handful of Raisins in an Otherwise Empty Room: A Journey From Tragedy to Joy Author: Michele Misino De Luca Narrator: Michele Misino De Luca Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Handful of Raisins in an Otherwise Empty Room: A Journey From Tragedy to Joy Author: Michele Misino De Luca Narrator: Michele Misino De Luca Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A Handful of Raisins is a heart-stirring memoir about survival, strength and courage. For Michèle Misino de Luca, life began as a series of dark, traumatic episodes and continued as deeply challenging events beset her incessantly throughout her youth. Yet somehow, she rises to value life, viewing it as a miracle. She was five years old when she first felt completely on her own, and although food, clothing and a warm bed were provided, it seemed her survival was not ensured. Every night, when she was handed those raisins, there was a moment of intimacy in her soul. She ate those raisins ever so slowly, savoring not just their sweetness, but the sweetness of a few moments when everything was alright. Imagine being a child seemingly dropped into a dark hole. Nothing around you but strangers. Nothing familiar. Throughout this memoir, readers will gain a true understanding of loneliness and despair, while receiving the gratifying reminder that you do not have to succumb and be formed by your painful experiences. You can become who you say you are, and who you say you are can be based on what you value most. Our author declares herself fully alive and becomes so alive with dignity, wonder and joy. In her groundbreaking and raw story, Michèle Misino de Luca had the tenacity not only to survive, but to thrive. Unwilling to surrender to victimhood, she had to change. She had to find joy. It certainly was not easy, but in a world by herself, she created her own silver lining. This is a memoir about celebrating the fullness of life, written by a truly extraordinary person. This is a story about seeking and accepting the handful of raisins in an otherwise empty room.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/war-ready-in-my-father-s-shadow-by-mary-lou-darst--65151195https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War Ready: In My Father's Shadow Author: Mary Lou Darst Narrator: Kristen Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 26, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: For young Mary Lou, life was an adventure. Her father served in the military, and she traveled the world with him and her family. His assignments took them to Alaska, Virginia, Japan, Texas, and Germany, as part of the US Army's responsibilities in policing the world. This candid memoir recounts her family's life in new places and cultures following World War II. What was it like to be a child living in Japan seven years after the war? What was it like to be a thirteen-year-old living in Germany twelve years after the war? What was it like to grow up moving between cultures? This is the story of one family bound to service in the military at a time when the world was being redefined. For a young girl, it was the adventure of a lifetime as she learned the secrets of finding her own way in that new world. The author's story was informed by reading her fathers diary, which offers up intimate and candid insight into the life of a typical soldier in a time of war. His entries describe his time serving aboard a battleship built for 800 soldiers but carrying 6,000 to war. His tales told from the perspective of a young soldier in southern England, Wales, and Scotland from 1943 to 1945are glimpses into a life many will never know firsthand.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645206Wed, 26 Oct 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War Ready: In My Father's Shadow Author: Mary Lou Darst Narrator: Kristen Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War Ready: In My Father's Shadow Author: Mary Lou Darst Narrator: Kristen Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 26, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: For young Mary Lou, life was an adventure. Her father served in the military, and she traveled the world with him and her family. His assignments took them to Alaska, Virginia, Japan, Texas, and Germany, as part of the US Army's responsibilities in policing the world. This candid memoir recounts her family's life in new places and cultures following World War II. What was it like to be a child living in Japan seven years after the war? What was it like to be a thirteen-year-old living in Germany twelve years after the war? What was it like to grow up moving between cultures? This is the story of one family bound to service in the military at a time when the world was being redefined. For a young girl, it was the adventure of a lifetime as she learned the secrets of finding her own way in that new world. The author's story was informed by reading her fathers diary, which offers up intimate and candid insight into the life of a typical soldier in a time of war. His entries describe his time serving aboard a battleship built for 800 soldiers but carrying 6,000 to war. His tales told from the perspective of a young soldier in southern England, Wales, and Scotland from 1943 to 1945are glimpses into a life many will never know firsthand.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/big-love-by-brooke-blurton--65151231https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630793 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Love Author: Brooke Blurton Narrator: Brooke Blurton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 20, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most captivating personalities 'Powerful, heartbreaking and beautiful ... a story of incredible triumph fuelled by love and compassion' Osher Gunsberg 'Brooke Blurton is an icon for people of all generations and backgrounds. I love seeing her star shine.' Clementine Ford My story is about the one thing that I never went without. Love. Big love, that filled me up and made me feel like there was a future for me. The kind of love that's unconditional, and that lasts across time and space ... From the moment Brooke Blurton appeared on Australian television, she dazzled audiences with her authenticity, self-knowledge, generosity and honesty. As a proud young Noongar-Yamatji woman, Brooke's connection to her culture and country is deep, and as an openly queer woman, she knows that love is simply love. Most of all Brooke knows the importance of family, and the uplifting power of unconditional connection. But behind the public persona Brooke presents to the world is a story of epic proportions and awe-inspiring resilience - she had to grow up fast from a very young age, surviving an extremely challenging childhood and youth, and overcoming the shocking legacy of intergenerational trauma, abuse and homelessness. She's also had to defy labels and perceptions about who she is, and her worth, all her life. But through it all, Brooke didn't just survive, she found her voice and thrived, and in this raw, heartbreaking, often funny and ultimately life-affirming memoir, Brooke lays her journey bare about how she refused to allow the past to define her and reclaimed her own identity - and realised the power of love, for herself, for her family, and her community.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630793Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630793 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Love Author: Brooke Blurton Narrator: Brooke Blurton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 20, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630793 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Love Author: Brooke Blurton Narrator: Brooke Blurton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 20, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most captivating personalities 'Powerful, heartbreaking and beautiful ... a story of incredible triumph fuelled by love and compassion' Osher Gunsberg 'Brooke Blurton is an icon for people of all generations and backgrounds. I love seeing her star shine.' Clementine Ford My story is about the one thing that I never went without. Love. Big love, that filled me up and made me feel like there was a future for me. The kind of love that's unconditional, and that lasts across time and space ... From the moment Brooke Blurton appeared on Australian television, she dazzled audiences with her authenticity, self-knowledge, generosity and honesty. As a proud young Noongar-Yamatji woman, Brooke's connection to her culture and country is deep, and as an openly queer woman, she knows that love is simply love. Most of all Brooke knows the importance of family, and the uplifting power of unconditional connection. But behind the public persona Brooke presents to the world is a story of epic proportions and awe-inspiring resilience - she had to grow up fast from a very young age, surviving an extremely challenging childhood and youth, and overcoming the shocking legacy of intergenerational trauma, abuse and homelessness. She's also had to defy labels and perceptions about who she is, and her worth, all her life. But through it all, Brooke didn't just survive, she found her voice and thrived, and in this raw, heartbreaking, often funny and ultimately life-affirming memoir, Brooke lays her journey bare about how she refused to allow the past to define her and reclaimed her own identity - and realised the power of love, for herself, for her family, and her community.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-zarifa-afghanistan-meine-heimat-meine-geschichte-ungekurzt-by-zarifa-ghafari--65151190https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zarifa - Afghanistan - Meine Heimat. Meine Geschichte (Ungekürzt) Author: Zarifa Ghafari Narrator: Kordula Leiße Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 17, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Zarifa Ghafari ist die weibliche Stimme Afghanistans. Mit 24 Jahren zur jüngsten Bürgermeisterin des Landes ernannt, versuchen Taliban, sie gewaltsam von der Ausübung ihres Amtes abzuhalten. Trotz der Anschläge setzt sie sich unermüdlich gegen Korruption, für Frieden und Frauenrechte ein. Als Vergeltung wird ihr Vater ermordet. Nach dem Einmarsch der Taliban 2021 muss Ghafari fliehen. Doch ihr Kampf geht weiter. Eindringlich schreibt sie über ihr Leben und ihr Engagement. Sie erzählt über das Schicksal afghanischer Frauen und ihre gemeinsame Vision, das Leben in einem Land voll religiösem Fanatismus zu verändern. Ihr Bericht ist Zeugnis und Appell zugleich, Afghanistan nicht zu vergessen.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647411Mon, 17 Oct 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zarifa - Afghanistan - Meine Heimat. Meine Geschichte (Ungekürzt) Author: Zarifa Ghafari Narrator: Kordula Leiße Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zarifa - Afghanistan - Meine Heimat. Meine Geschichte (Ungekürzt) Author: Zarifa Ghafari Narrator: Kordula Leiße Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 17, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Zarifa Ghafari ist die weibliche Stimme Afghanistans. Mit 24 Jahren zur jüngsten Bürgermeisterin des Landes ernannt, versuchen Taliban, sie gewaltsam von der Ausübung ihres Amtes abzuhalten. Trotz der Anschläge setzt sie sich unermüdlich gegen Korruption, für Frieden und Frauenrechte ein. Als Vergeltung wird ihr Vater ermordet. Nach dem Einmarsch der Taliban 2021 muss Ghafari fliehen. Doch ihr Kampf geht weiter. Eindringlich schreibt sie über ihr Leben und ihr Engagement. Sie erzählt über das Schicksal afghanischer Frauen und ihre gemeinsame Vision, das Leben in einem Land voll religiösem Fanatismus zu verändern. Ihr Bericht ist Zeugnis und Appell zugleich, Afghanistan nicht zu vergessen.]]>185rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/don-t-be-too-polite-girls-a-memoir-by-wendy-mccarthy--65151197https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637408 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Be Too Polite, Girls: A Memoir Author: Wendy Mccarthy Narrator: Nicolette Mckenzie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 1, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: For more than 50 years, Wendy McCarthy has been on the leading edge of Australian feminism, and her trailblazing advocacy and leadership have made her a widely respected and revered figure: a woman who shaped her times as much as she was shaped by them. Now, at 80 years of age, she shares her remarkable life and achievements. From sheltered country schoolgirl to relentless campaigner for abortion and contraception, from passionate teacher to lifelong advocate for education, Wendy smashed the glass ceiling again and again. She has championed change in human rights, public health, overseas aid and development, conservation, heritage, media and the Arts. This inspiring and enlightening memoir is filled with cautionary tales and insider stories about being female in Australia; as well as a few helpful survival tips. Above all, it encourages the reader to find their own voice - and listen to it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637408Sat, 01 Oct 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637408 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Be Too Polite, Girls: A Memoir Author: Wendy Mccarthy Narrator: Nicolette Mckenzie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 55 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637408 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Be Too Polite, Girls: A Memoir Author: Wendy Mccarthy Narrator: Nicolette Mckenzie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 1, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: For more than 50 years, Wendy McCarthy has been on the leading edge of Australian feminism, and her trailblazing advocacy and leadership have made her a widely respected and revered figure: a woman who shaped her times as much as she was shaped by them. Now, at 80 years of age, she shares her remarkable life and achievements. From sheltered country schoolgirl to relentless campaigner for abortion and contraception, from passionate teacher to lifelong advocate for education, Wendy smashed the glass ceiling again and again. She has championed change in human rights, public health, overseas aid and development, conservation, heritage, media and the Arts. This inspiring and enlightening memoir is filled with cautionary tales and insider stories about being female in Australia; as well as a few helpful survival tips. Above all, it encourages the reader to find their own voice - and listen to it.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/daughters-of-the-brothel-by-deepak-yadav--65151219https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629586 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughters Of The Brothel Author: Deepak Yadav Narrator: Shyam Rajgopal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The book 'Daughters Of The Brothel : Stories From Delhi's Red-light District' by Deepak Yadav covers life stories of female sex workers of Delhi's famous red light area. "My nath utrai (Taking off the nose ring) was performed when I was twelve or thirteen. The initial days were tough but now it gives me pleasure. I have inherited the art of making love from my grandmother." -Roopal, a sex worker from the Bedia community in brothel number 56]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629586Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629586 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughters Of The Brothel Author: Deepak Yadav Narrator: Shyam Rajgopal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629586 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughters Of The Brothel Author: Deepak Yadav Narrator: Shyam Rajgopal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The book 'Daughters Of The Brothel : Stories From Delhi's Red-light District' by Deepak Yadav covers life stories of female sex workers of Delhi's famous red light area. "My nath utrai (Taking off the nose ring) was performed when I was twelve or thirteen. The initial days were tough but now it gives me pleasure. I have inherited the art of making love from my grandmother." -Roopal, a sex worker from the Bedia community in brothel number 56]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/queen-elizabeth-ii-by-geoffrey-giuliano--65151206https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Elizabeth II Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Queen Elizabeth was born on April 21, 1926. in Mayfair, London, as the child of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, making Elizabeth the heir presumptive. She began to undertake public duties during the Second World War. In November of 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince of Greece and Denmark, their marriage lasted 73 years until his death in April 2021. They had four children together: Charles, Prince of Wales; Anne, Princess Royal; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. When she was 25 she became queen regnant of the United Kingdom as well as head of the Commonwealth. Elizabeth reigned as a constitutional monarch through major political changes such as the troubles in Northern Ireland, devolution of the UK, the decolonization of Africa, and the United Kingdom's accession to the European Communities and withdrawal from the European Union. The number of her realms has varied over time as territories have gained independence and some realms have become republics. Prince Philip died on 9 April 2021, She was at her husband's bedside when he died, and remarked in private that his death had 'left a huge void'.Due to the COVID-19 restrictions in place in England at the time, the Queen sat alone at Philip's funeral. On September 8, 2022, Buckingham Palace announced the Queen was under medical supervision at Balmoral Castle. She peacefully passed away at 6:30 pm. She graciously ruled over the United Kingdom and of 14 other sovereign countries for 70 years and 214 days. This is her inspirational story in her own words.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627267Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Elizabeth II Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Elizabeth II Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Queen Elizabeth was born on April 21, 1926. in Mayfair, London, as the child of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, making Elizabeth the heir presumptive. She began to undertake public duties during the Second World War. In November of 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince of Greece and Denmark, their marriage lasted 73 years until his death in April 2021. They had four children together: Charles, Prince of Wales; Anne, Princess Royal; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. When she was 25 she became queen regnant of the United Kingdom as well as head of the Commonwealth. Elizabeth reigned as a constitutional monarch through major political changes such as the troubles in Northern Ireland, devolution of the UK, the decolonization of Africa, and the United Kingdom's accession to the European Communities and withdrawal from the European Union. The number of her realms has varied over time as territories have gained independence and some realms have become republics. Prince Philip died on 9 April 2021, She was at her husband's bedside when he died, and remarked in private that his death had 'left a huge void'.Due to the COVID-19 restrictions in place in England at the time, the Queen sat alone at Philip's funeral. On September 8, 2022, Buckingham Palace announced the Queen was under medical supervision at Balmoral Castle. She peacefully passed away at 6:30 pm. She graciously ruled over the United Kingdom and of 14 other sovereign countries for 70 years and 214 days. This is her inspirational story in her own words.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/war-and-me-a-memoir-by-faleeha-hassan--65151059https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700708 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War and Me: A Memoir Author: Faleeha Hassan Narrator: Christine Tawfik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 1, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An intimate memoir about coming of age in a tight-knit working-class family during Iraq’s seemingly endless series of wars. Faleeha Hassan became intimately acquainted with loss and fear while growing up in Najaf, Iraq. Now, in a deeply personal account of her life, she remembers those she has loved and lost. As a young woman, Faleeha hated seeing her father and brother go off to fight, and when she needed to reach them, she broke all the rules by traveling alone to the war’s front lines—just one of many shocking and moving examples of her resilient spirit. Later, after building a life in the US, she realizes that she will coexist with war for most of the years of her life and chooses to focus on education for herself and her children. In a world on fire, she finds courage, compassion, and a voice. A testament to endurance and a window into unique aspects of life in the Middle East, Faleeha’s memoir offers an intimate perspective on something wars can’t touch—the loving bonds of family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700708Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700708 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War and Me: A Memoir Author: Faleeha Hassan Narrator: Christine Tawfik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/700708 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War and Me: A Memoir Author: Faleeha Hassan Narrator: Christine Tawfik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 1, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An intimate memoir about coming of age in a tight-knit working-class family during Iraq’s seemingly endless series of wars. Faleeha Hassan became intimately acquainted with loss and fear while growing up in Najaf, Iraq. Now, in a deeply personal account of her life, she remembers those she has loved and lost. As a young woman, Faleeha hated seeing her father and brother go off to fight, and when she needed to reach them, she broke all the rules by traveling alone to the war’s front lines—just one of many shocking and moving examples of her resilient spirit. Later, after building a life in the US, she realizes that she will coexist with war for most of the years of her life and chooses to focus on education for herself and her children. In a world on fire, she finds courage, compassion, and a voice. A testament to endurance and a window into unique aspects of life in the Middle East, Faleeha’s memoir offers an intimate perspective on something wars can’t touch—the loving bonds of family.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-maman-je-ne-suis-pas-morte-by-mariela-sr-coline-fanon--65151177https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629975 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Maman, je ne suis pas morte Author: Mariela Sr, Coline Fanon Narrator: Violaine Fumeau Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 25, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: L'incroyable destin de Coline, kidnappée à la naissance. « J'ai 34 ans, je suis mariée et mère de deux merveilleux enfants. J'aime jouer du piano et la photographie me passionne. Je suis presque comme tout le monde. Presque, car j'ai été adoptée. L'histoire dit que ma mère biologique, trop pauvre, m'aurait abandonnée. On est bien loin de la vérité. À 31 ans, j'ai entamé des démarches pour connaître mes origines et j'ai découvert l'indicible.' Victime dans les années 1980 d'un trafic d'enfants au Guatemala, Coline Fanon a en réalité été enlevée à la naissance, puis séquestrée pendant onze mois avant d'être vendue sous le couvert d'une adoption internationale.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629975Mon, 25 Jul 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629975 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Maman, je ne suis pas morte Author: Mariela Sr, Coline Fanon Narrator: Violaine Fumeau Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629975 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Maman, je ne suis pas morte Author: Mariela Sr, Coline Fanon Narrator: Violaine Fumeau Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 25, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: L'incroyable destin de Coline, kidnappée à la naissance. « J'ai 34 ans, je suis mariée et mère de deux merveilleux enfants. J'aime jouer du piano et la photographie me passionne. Je suis presque comme tout le monde. Presque, car j'ai été adoptée. L'histoire dit que ma mère biologique, trop pauvre, m'aurait abandonnée. On est bien loin de la vérité. À 31 ans, j'ai entamé des démarches pour connaître mes origines et j'ai découvert l'indicible.' Victime dans les années 1980 d'un trafic d'enfants au Guatemala, Coline Fanon a en réalité été enlevée à la naissance, puis séquestrée pendant onze mois avant d'être vendue sous le couvert d'une adoption internationale.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bookends-a-memoir-of-love-loss-and-literature-by-zibby-owens--65151074https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698155 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature Author: Zibby Owens Narrator: Zibby Owens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 1, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A deeply personal memoir about one woman’s journey to finding her voice and rewriting her story by the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books™. Zibby Owens has become a well-known personality in the publishing world. Her infectious energy, tasteful authenticity, and smart, steadfast support of authors started in childhood, a precedent set by the profound effect books and libraries had on her own family. But after losing her closest friend on 9/11 and later becoming utterly stressed out and overwhelmed by motherhood, Zibby was forgetting what made her her. She turned to books and writing for help. Just when things seemed particularly bleak, Zibby unexpectedly fell in love with a tennis pro turned movie producer who showed her the path to happiness: away from type-A perfectionism and toward letting things unfold organically. What unfolded was a meaningful career, a great love, and finally, her voice, now heard by millions of listeners. An honest and moving story about relationships, love, food issues, the writing life, and finding one’s true calling, Bookends will inspire and uplift.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698155Fri, 01 Jul 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698155 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature Author: Zibby Owens Narrator: Zibby Owens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698155 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature Author: Zibby Owens Narrator: Zibby Owens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 1, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A deeply personal memoir about one woman’s journey to finding her voice and rewriting her story by the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books™. Zibby Owens has become a well-known personality in the publishing world. Her infectious energy, tasteful authenticity, and smart, steadfast support of authors started in childhood, a precedent set by the profound effect books and libraries had on her own family. But after losing her closest friend on 9/11 and later becoming utterly stressed out and overwhelmed by motherhood, Zibby was forgetting what made her her. She turned to books and writing for help. Just when things seemed particularly bleak, Zibby unexpectedly fell in love with a tennis pro turned movie producer who showed her the path to happiness: away from type-A perfectionism and toward letting things unfold organically. What unfolded was a meaningful career, a great love, and finally, her voice, now heard by millions of listeners. An honest and moving story about relationships, love, food issues, the writing life, and finding one’s true calling, Bookends will inspire and uplift.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-community-a-memoir-by-n-jamiyla-chisholm--65151097https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Community: A Memoir Author: N. Jamiyla Chisholm Narrator: Karen Chilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 37 minutes Release date: June 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An arresting and emotional memoir about a family’s indoctrination into a religious cult, a daughter coming to terms with a parent’s devastating choices, and the trials ahead in post-9/11 New York. In 1978, when Jamiyla was two years old, her mother, Ummi, quit her job, converted to Islam with her husband, and moved into an exclusive Muslim society in Brooklyn. Once inside the Community, the family was separated by its powerful and charismatic leader, Dwight York, who was hiding behind the name Imam Isa. Instead of the devotional refuge they’d imagined, the Community was a nightmare of controlled abuse and unspeakable secrets. Forty years later, Jamiyla was ready to excavate and understand a past buried in bad dreams, disturbing memories, and inexplicable rage. It was a place Ummi never wanted to return to. Jamiyla had to. Jamiyla’s emotional memoir tells her family’s story of life inside and outside the cult, and of escaping into new challenges as conservative Muslims in the secular Brooklyn they left behind. A harrowing and deeply personal history fraught with racial tension and devastating personal betrayals, The Community is also a hopeful story brimming with Black pride, justice, and the long-overdue healing between a daughter and mother.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692133Wed, 01 Jun 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Community: A Memoir Author: N. Jamiyla Chisholm Narrator: Karen Chilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 37 minutes Release date: June...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Community: A Memoir Author: N. Jamiyla Chisholm Narrator: Karen Chilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 37 minutes Release date: June 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An arresting and emotional memoir about a family’s indoctrination into a religious cult, a daughter coming to terms with a parent’s devastating choices, and the trials ahead in post-9/11 New York. In 1978, when Jamiyla was two years old, her mother, Ummi, quit her job, converted to Islam with her husband, and moved into an exclusive Muslim society in Brooklyn. Once inside the Community, the family was separated by its powerful and charismatic leader, Dwight York, who was hiding behind the name Imam Isa. Instead of the devotional refuge they’d imagined, the Community was a nightmare of controlled abuse and unspeakable secrets. Forty years later, Jamiyla was ready to excavate and understand a past buried in bad dreams, disturbing memories, and inexplicable rage. It was a place Ummi never wanted to return to. Jamiyla had to. Jamiyla’s emotional memoir tells her family’s story of life inside and outside the cult, and of escaping into new challenges as conservative Muslims in the secular Brooklyn they left behind. A harrowing and deeply personal history fraught with racial tension and devastating personal betrayals, The Community is also a hopeful story brimming with Black pride, justice, and the long-overdue healing between a daughter and mother.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-queen-of-peace-room-by-magie-dominic--65151147https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Queen of Peace Room Author: Magie Dominic Narrator: Ryanne Chisholm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime? Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a Newfoundlander turned New Yorker, an artist and a writer - and frees herself from the memories of her violent past. On an eight-day retreat with Catholic nuns in a remote location safe from the outside world, she exposes, and captures, fifty years of violent memories and weaves them into a tapestry of unforgettable images. The room she inhabits while there is called The Queen of Peace Room; it becomes, for her, a room of sanctuary. She examines Newfoundland in the 1940s and 1950s and New York in the 1960s; her confrontations with violence, incest, and rape; the devastating loss of friends to AIDS; and the relationship between life and art. These memories she finds stored alongside memories of nature's images of trees pulling themselves up from their roots and fleeing the forest; storms and ley lines, and skies bursting with star-like eyes. In The Queen of Peace Room, from a very personal perspective, Magie Dominic explores violence against women in the second half of the twentieth century, and in doing so unearths the memory of a generation. In eight days, she captures half a century.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655373Tue, 24 May 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Queen of Peace Room Author: Magie Dominic Narrator: Ryanne Chisholm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 24,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/655373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Queen of Peace Room Author: Magie Dominic Narrator: Ryanne Chisholm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime? Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a Newfoundlander turned New Yorker, an artist and a writer - and frees herself from the memories of her violent past. On an eight-day retreat with Catholic nuns in a remote location safe from the outside world, she exposes, and captures, fifty years of violent memories and weaves them into a tapestry of unforgettable images. The room she inhabits while there is called The Queen of Peace Room; it becomes, for her, a room of sanctuary. She examines Newfoundland in the 1940s and 1950s and New York in the 1960s; her confrontations with violence, incest, and rape; the devastating loss of friends to AIDS; and the relationship between life and art. These memories she finds stored alongside memories of nature's images of trees pulling themselves up from their roots and fleeing the forest; storms and ley lines, and skies bursting with star-like eyes. In The Queen of Peace Room, from a very personal perspective, Magie Dominic explores violence against women in the second half of the twentieth century, and in doing so unearths the memory of a generation. In eight days, she captures half a century.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/american-seoul-a-memoir-by-helena-rho--65151085https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Seoul: A Memoir Author: Helena Rho Narrator: Helena Rho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 1, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: She was everything everyone else wanted her to be. Until she followed her own path. Helena Rho was six years old when her family left Seoul, Korea, for America and its opportunities. Years later, her Korean-ness behind her, Helena had everything a model minority was supposed to want: she was married to a white American doctor and had a beautiful home, two children, and a career as an assistant professor of pediatrics. For decades she fulfilled the expectations of others. All the while Helena kept silent about the traumas—both professional and personal—that left her anxious yet determined to escape. It would take a catastrophic event for Helena to abandon her career at the age of forty, recover her Korean identity, and set in motion a journey of self-discovery. In her powerful and moving memoir, Helena Rho reveals the courage it took to break away from the path that was laid out for her, to assert her presence, and to discover the freedom and joy of finally being herself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683084Sun, 01 May 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Seoul: A Memoir Author: Helena Rho Narrator: Helena Rho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 1, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/683084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Seoul: A Memoir Author: Helena Rho Narrator: Helena Rho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 1, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: She was everything everyone else wanted her to be. Until she followed her own path. Helena Rho was six years old when her family left Seoul, Korea, for America and its opportunities. Years later, her Korean-ness behind her, Helena had everything a model minority was supposed to want: she was married to a white American doctor and had a beautiful home, two children, and a career as an assistant professor of pediatrics. For decades she fulfilled the expectations of others. All the while Helena kept silent about the traumas—both professional and personal—that left her anxious yet determined to escape. It would take a catastrophic event for Helena to abandon her career at the age of forty, recover her Korean identity, and set in motion a journey of self-discovery. In her powerful and moving memoir, Helena Rho reveals the courage it took to break away from the path that was laid out for her, to assert her presence, and to discover the freedom and joy of finally being herself.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fallen-stones-chasing-butterflies-discovering-mayan-secrets-and-looking-for-hope-along-the-way-by-diana-marcum--65151141https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way Author: Diana Marcum Narrator: Stacy Gonzalez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: On a butterfly farm in the Maya Mountains, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of the national bestseller The Tenth Island finds enduring hope during cataclysmic times. Atop a hill in the rainforest of Belize, next to the ruins of a fallen civilization, a butterfly farm raises the brilliant blue morpho. What starts out as the worst vacation ever turns into a quest to learn more about the first-of-its-kind farm when journalist Diana Marcum inadvertently discovers this wildlife sanctuary, which is supported by an international live-butterfly trade. She quickly becomes acquainted with Clive, the whimsical British millionaire whose childhood passion created an industry, and Sebastian, the Maya farm manager whose stern expression belies a soft heart. Before long Diana and her partner, Jack Moody—new to being a couple—have moved into a long-empty jungle house, cohabitating with bats, scorpions, toucans, iguanas, and the vulnerable but resilient butterflies. Just ahead, although they don’t know it, are a hurricane and a global pandemic. This warm, funny tale of finding a way forward when the world seems to be falling apart is filled with the beauty of the natural world and a heartfelt cry to protect it—beginning with butterflies.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676113Tue, 01 Mar 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way Author: Diana Marcum Narrator: Stacy Gonzalez...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/676113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way Author: Diana Marcum Narrator: Stacy Gonzalez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: On a butterfly farm in the Maya Mountains, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of the national bestseller The Tenth Island finds enduring hope during cataclysmic times. Atop a hill in the rainforest of Belize, next to the ruins of a fallen civilization, a butterfly farm raises the brilliant blue morpho. What starts out as the worst vacation ever turns into a quest to learn more about the first-of-its-kind farm when journalist Diana Marcum inadvertently discovers this wildlife sanctuary, which is supported by an international live-butterfly trade. She quickly becomes acquainted with Clive, the whimsical British millionaire whose childhood passion created an industry, and Sebastian, the Maya farm manager whose stern expression belies a soft heart. Before long Diana and her partner, Jack Moody—new to being a couple—have moved into a long-empty jungle house, cohabitating with bats, scorpions, toucans, iguanas, and the vulnerable but resilient butterflies. Just ahead, although they don’t know it, are a hurricane and a global pandemic. This warm, funny tale of finding a way forward when the world seems to be falling apart is filled with the beauty of the natural world and a heartfelt cry to protect it—beginning with butterflies.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-ich-bin-mehr-als-porno-verhandlung-mit-seiner-sucht-ungekurzt-by-anna-schatz--65151214https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ich bin mehr als Porno - Verhandlung mit seiner Sucht (ungekürzt) Author: Anna Schatz Narrator: Philipp Engelhardt, Anja Umland, Martha Kindermann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 28, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Anna Schatz beschreibt in diesem Buch, was eine Kombination aus Ratgeber und autobiografischem Roman ist, offen und schonungslos, die Geschichte von Isabel. Dabei nimmt sie Isabels Perspektive ein, die sie als Coachin begleitet hat. Isabel erzählt, wie Sie sich als Frau an der Seite eines pornosüchtigen Ehemannes gefühlt hat. Sie nimmt dabei kein Blatt vor den Mund und schildert die vielen schattenhaften Facetten dieser Sucht, die ihre Ehe jahrelang auf die Zerreißprobe stellte. Jede Beratungsstelle, die sie, nachdem sie erkannt hat, dass ihr Mann daran erkrankt ist, aufgesucht hat, riet ihr zu gehen und die Beziehung aufzugeben. Doch das wollte sie nicht und damit begann sie einen ganz eigenen Weg zu gehen. Isabel machte sich schlau über die Thematik der Sucht und einer möglichen Co-Abhängigkeit, so dass sie die typischen Fettnäpfchen zwar erlebte, doch stark und gesund durch diese Krise gehen konnte. Dennoch riet ihr jeder Mensch, dem sie ihre Situation offenbarte, sich zu trennen, außer ihre Coachin Anna. Doch Isabel Steg wollte diese Liebe nicht aufgeben. Passend zu jedem Kapitel ihrer persönlichen Geschichte, liefert das Buch intensiv recherchierte fachliche Informationen und Handlungs- und Stabilisierungsmöglichkeiten, für den eigenen Alltag.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638381Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ich bin mehr als Porno - Verhandlung mit seiner Sucht (ungekürzt) Author: Anna Schatz Narrator: Philipp Engelhardt, Anja Umland, Martha...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ich bin mehr als Porno - Verhandlung mit seiner Sucht (ungekürzt) Author: Anna Schatz Narrator: Philipp Engelhardt, Anja Umland, Martha Kindermann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 28, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Anna Schatz beschreibt in diesem Buch, was eine Kombination aus Ratgeber und autobiografischem Roman ist, offen und schonungslos, die Geschichte von Isabel. Dabei nimmt sie Isabels Perspektive ein, die sie als Coachin begleitet hat. Isabel erzählt, wie Sie sich als Frau an der Seite eines pornosüchtigen Ehemannes gefühlt hat. Sie nimmt dabei kein Blatt vor den Mund und schildert die vielen schattenhaften Facetten dieser Sucht, die ihre Ehe jahrelang auf die Zerreißprobe stellte. Jede Beratungsstelle, die sie, nachdem sie erkannt hat, dass ihr Mann daran erkrankt ist, aufgesucht hat, riet ihr zu gehen und die Beziehung aufzugeben. Doch das wollte sie nicht und damit begann sie einen ganz eigenen Weg zu gehen. Isabel machte sich schlau über die Thematik der Sucht und einer möglichen Co-Abhängigkeit, so dass sie die typischen Fettnäpfchen zwar erlebte, doch stark und gesund durch diese Krise gehen konnte. Dennoch riet ihr jeder Mensch, dem sie ihre Situation offenbarte, sich zu trennen, außer ihre Coachin Anna. Doch Isabel Steg wollte diese Liebe nicht aufgeben. Passend zu jedem Kapitel ihrer persönlichen Geschichte, liefert das Buch intensiv recherchierte fachliche Informationen und Handlungs- und Stabilisierungsmöglichkeiten, für den eigenen Alltag.]]>185rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/almost-romance-a-memoir-by-nancy-balbirer--65151173https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Almost Romance: A Memoir Author: Nancy Balbirer Narrator: Nancy Balbirer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Finding love is all a matter of timing in a surprising, complicated, and funny memoir by the author of A Marriage in Dog Years. When a mysterious woman summons Nancy Balbirer to a Russian restaurant in New York City, the near stranger’s shocking purple hair and even more shocking news send Balbirer simultaneously reeling back to her past and hurtling toward a future that, at almost fifty years old, she never dreamed possible. This romantic-comedy memoir tells the true story of how a pack of Hollywood television writers and the denizens of a fabled but cursed Manhattan apartment building helped the author and one of her best friends turn a thirty-two-year almost romance into a real one. Witty and heartfelt, Nancy Balbirer’s sublime memoir proves that love is possible anywhere, anytime, and at any age.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659096Tue, 01 Feb 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Almost Romance: A Memoir Author: Nancy Balbirer Narrator: Nancy Balbirer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Almost Romance: A Memoir Author: Nancy Balbirer Narrator: Nancy Balbirer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Finding love is all a matter of timing in a surprising, complicated, and funny memoir by the author of A Marriage in Dog Years. When a mysterious woman summons Nancy Balbirer to a Russian restaurant in New York City, the near stranger’s shocking purple hair and even more shocking news send Balbirer simultaneously reeling back to her past and hurtling toward a future that, at almost fifty years old, she never dreamed possible. This romantic-comedy memoir tells the true story of how a pack of Hollywood television writers and the denizens of a fabled but cursed Manhattan apartment building helped the author and one of her best friends turn a thirty-two-year almost romance into a real one. Witty and heartfelt, Nancy Balbirer’s sublime memoir proves that love is possible anywhere, anytime, and at any age.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/they-said-they-wanted-revolution-a-memoir-of-my-parents-by-neda-toloui-semnani--65151118https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents Author: Neda Toloui-Semnani Narrator: Neda Toloui-Semnani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From a daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers comes a gripping and emotional memoir of family and the tumultuous history of two nations. In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani’s parents left the United States for Iran to join the revolution. But the promise of those early heady days in Tehran was warped by the rise of the Islamic Republic. With the new regime came international isolation, cultural devastation, and profound personal loss for Neda. Her father was arrested and her mother was forced to make a desperate escape, pregnant and with Neda in tow. Conflicted about her parents’ choices for years, Neda realized that to move forward, she had to face the past head-on. Through extensive reporting, journals, and detailed interviews, Neda untangles decades of history in a search for answers. Both an epic family drama and a timely true-life political thriller, They Said They Wanted Revolution illuminates the costs of righteous activism across generations.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659092Tue, 01 Feb 2022 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents Author: Neda Toloui-Semnani Narrator: Neda Toloui-Semnani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents Author: Neda Toloui-Semnani Narrator: Neda Toloui-Semnani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 6 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From a daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers comes a gripping and emotional memoir of family and the tumultuous history of two nations. In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani’s parents left the United States for Iran to join the revolution. But the promise of those early heady days in Tehran was warped by the rise of the Islamic Republic. With the new regime came international isolation, cultural devastation, and profound personal loss for Neda. Her father was arrested and her mother was forced to make a desperate escape, pregnant and with Neda in tow. Conflicted about her parents’ choices for years, Neda realized that to move forward, she had to face the past head-on. Through extensive reporting, journals, and detailed interviews, Neda untangles decades of history in a search for answers. Both an epic family drama and a timely true-life political thriller, They Said They Wanted Revolution illuminates the costs of righteous activism across generations.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/flying-on-the-inside-a-memoir-of-trauma-and-recovery-by-rachel-gotto--65151220https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flying on the Inside: A Memoir of Trauma and Recovery Author: Rachel Gotto Narrator: Rachel Gotto Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: December 1, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The remarkable true story of one woman’s journey back from the brink. Newly widowed and faced with a deadly brain tumour, she was given two years to live. She wanted more… When her six-year-old daughter found her collapsed on the kitchen floor, Rachel had no idea how much her life was about to change. A brain scan revealed a dark shadowy mass, a huge abnormal growth of tissue that, whilst benign, was still growing and would surely kill her. It was too big to operate on. It needed to be ‘managed’, and Rachel had, at best, two years to live. Refusing to accept the bleak prognosis, Rachel was determined to stay alive. She had already lost far too much. She had already watched her brother succumb, at only twenty-eight, to cancer. She had already lost her beloved husband in a terrible scuba diving accident when she was six months pregnant. So she did the only thing she knew how to do. She fought for her life. This gripping and inspiring memoir about overcoming tragedy and trauma charts one tenacious woman’s incredible fight to find light in the darkest of journeys. It is a life-affirming tale of positivity and hope in the face of the most difficult of human experiences.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647156Wed, 01 Dec 2021 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flying on the Inside: A Memoir of Trauma and Recovery Author: Rachel Gotto Narrator: Rachel Gotto Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flying on the Inside: A Memoir of Trauma and Recovery Author: Rachel Gotto Narrator: Rachel Gotto Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: December 1, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The remarkable true story of one woman’s journey back from the brink. Newly widowed and faced with a deadly brain tumour, she was given two years to live. She wanted more… When her six-year-old daughter found her collapsed on the kitchen floor, Rachel had no idea how much her life was about to change. A brain scan revealed a dark shadowy mass, a huge abnormal growth of tissue that, whilst benign, was still growing and would surely kill her. It was too big to operate on. It needed to be ‘managed’, and Rachel had, at best, two years to live. Refusing to accept the bleak prognosis, Rachel was determined to stay alive. She had already lost far too much. She had already watched her brother succumb, at only twenty-eight, to cancer. She had already lost her beloved husband in a terrible scuba diving accident when she was six months pregnant. So she did the only thing she knew how to do. She fought for her life. This gripping and inspiring memoir about overcoming tragedy and trauma charts one tenacious woman’s incredible fight to find light in the darkest of journeys. It is a life-affirming tale of positivity and hope in the face of the most difficult of human experiences.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-diary-of-elisabeth-leseur-the-woman-whose-goodness-changed-her-husband-from-atheist-to-priest-by-elisabeth-leseur--65151229https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/662851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Diary of Elisabeth Leseur: The Woman Whose Goodness Changed Her Husband from Atheist to Priest Author: Elisabeth Leseur Narrator: Diana Cossi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: July 19, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This inspiring book gives you a splendid example of how to live as a Christian in a secular environment that can be indifferent or hostile to your Faith. For Elisabeth Leseur had two great loves: God, and her husband Felix. Felix loved Elisabeth as well; yet to their mutual sorrow, he couldn't share the life of the Spirit that Elisabeth cherished. Occasionally the happiness of their life together in upper-class Parisian society was shattered by Felix's frustration and impatience. How could such an intelligent woman waste her time, as he saw it, with ignorant superstitions? Sometimes he and his friends would even ridicule and mock her faith. But Elisabeth loved Felix too much to allow their home to degenerate into an emotional war zone. She realized that confrontations and arguments were useless; she chose instead to keep quiet and pray for Felix. In her secret diary, she recorded how she used his efforts to destroy her faith as means to grow in love for him and for God. Throughout their life together, it grieved Elisabeth to think that Felix might be separated from her for all eternity because of his rejection of God. For her, life in Heaven wouldn't be happy without him. Yet when she died prematurely, Felix was still an unbeliever. The story doesn't end there. When Felix found this diary, he discovered how Elisabeth's whole life bore witness to the truth of the God she loved. In time, Felix was transformed by the diary and his memories of Elisabeth. He became a Christian and, later, a priest. Now she may even be declared a saint. Elisabeth's diary and spiritual writings (all included in this one volume) map out for you a path to marital harmony and greater love for God - especially if you love someone who stands outside the Faith. Let Elisabeth's two great loves, and her faith and perseverance, inspire you now.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/662851Mon, 19 Jul 2021 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/662851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Diary of Elisabeth Leseur: The Woman Whose Goodness Changed Her Husband from Atheist to Priest Author: Elisabeth Leseur Narrator: Diana...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/662851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Diary of Elisabeth Leseur: The Woman Whose Goodness Changed Her Husband from Atheist to Priest Author: Elisabeth Leseur Narrator: Diana Cossi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: July 19, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This inspiring book gives you a splendid example of how to live as a Christian in a secular environment that can be indifferent or hostile to your Faith. For Elisabeth Leseur had two great loves: God, and her husband Felix. Felix loved Elisabeth as well; yet to their mutual sorrow, he couldn't share the life of the Spirit that Elisabeth cherished. Occasionally the happiness of their life together in upper-class Parisian society was shattered by Felix's frustration and impatience. How could such an intelligent woman waste her time, as he saw it, with ignorant superstitions? Sometimes he and his friends would even ridicule and mock her faith. But Elisabeth loved Felix too much to allow their home to degenerate into an emotional war zone. She realized that confrontations and arguments were useless; she chose instead to keep quiet and pray for Felix. In her secret diary, she recorded how she used his efforts to destroy her faith as means to grow in love for him and for God. Throughout their life together, it grieved Elisabeth to think that Felix might be separated from her for all eternity because of his rejection of God. For her, life in Heaven wouldn't be happy without him. Yet when she died prematurely, Felix was still an unbeliever. The story doesn't end there. When Felix found this diary, he discovered how Elisabeth's whole life bore witness to the truth of the God she loved. In time, Felix was transformed by the diary and his memories of Elisabeth. He became a Christian and, later, a priest. Now she may even be declared a saint. Elisabeth's diary and spiritual writings (all included in this one volume) map out for you a path to marital harmony and greater love for God - especially if you love someone who stands outside the Faith. Let Elisabeth's two great loves, and her faith and perseverance, inspire you now.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-frieda-von-richthofen-eine-frau-sprengt-die-fesseln-ihrer-zeit-die-wahre-lady-chatterley-by-annabel-abbs--65151096https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678993 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Frieda von Richthofen: Eine Frau sprengt die Fesseln ihrer Zeit. Die wahre Lady Chatterley Author: Annabel Abbs Narrator: Birgitta Assheuer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: July 16, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Die spektakuläre Geschichte der Frieda von Richthofen 'Eine kühne und starke Frau.' (Stylist)  Deutschland, 1907: Frieda von Richthofen, in Nottingham mit dem britischen Professor Ernest Weekley verheiratet und Mutter dreier Kinder, besucht ihre Schwestern in München. Sie taucht ein in die Schwabinger Bohème, in die Welt der Künstler, Freigeister und freien Liebe. Sie beginnt eine leidenschaftliche Affäre mit dem Psychoanalytiker Otto Gross und entdeckt, dass sie mehr sein will als Mutter und Ehefrau. England, 1912: Gefangen in ihrer Ehe, trifft Frieda den mittellosen, aber ehrgeizigen jungen Schriftsteller D. H. Lawrence. Ihre stürmische Liebe ist ein gesellschaftlicher Skandal. Und Frieda muss für ihren Mut, die Fesseln ihrer Zeit zu sprengen, einen hohen Preis zahlen.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678993Fri, 16 Jul 2021 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678993 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Frieda von Richthofen: Eine Frau sprengt die Fesseln ihrer Zeit. Die wahre Lady Chatterley Author: Annabel Abbs Narrator: Birgitta Assheuer...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678993 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Frieda von Richthofen: Eine Frau sprengt die Fesseln ihrer Zeit. Die wahre Lady Chatterley Author: Annabel Abbs Narrator: Birgitta Assheuer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: July 16, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Die spektakuläre Geschichte der Frieda von Richthofen 'Eine kühne und starke Frau.' (Stylist)  Deutschland, 1907: Frieda von Richthofen, in Nottingham mit dem britischen Professor Ernest Weekley verheiratet und Mutter dreier Kinder, besucht ihre Schwestern in München. Sie taucht ein in die Schwabinger Bohème, in die Welt der Künstler, Freigeister und freien Liebe. Sie beginnt eine leidenschaftliche Affäre mit dem Psychoanalytiker Otto Gross und entdeckt, dass sie mehr sein will als Mutter und Ehefrau. England, 1912: Gefangen in ihrer Ehe, trifft Frieda den mittellosen, aber ehrgeizigen jungen Schriftsteller D. H. Lawrence. Ihre stürmische Liebe ist ein gesellschaftlicher Skandal. Und Frieda muss für ihren Mut, die Fesseln ihrer Zeit zu sprengen, einen hohen Preis zahlen.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-erlebnisse-einer-landhebamme-by-rosalie-linner--65151098https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Erlebnisse einer Landhebamme Author: Rosalie Linner Narrator: Rosalie Linner Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 12, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Was auf dem Land rund um die Geburt von Kindern so alles geschieht, wie sich eine beherzte Hebamme manchmal zum Wohle von Mutter und Kind in das Eheleben einmischen muss, welche Familie an weiteren Kindern besonders schwer trägt und wo trotz aller Mühsal doch Frieden und Harmonie herrschen, dies erzählt Rosalie Linner in einem neuen Band ihrer überaus beliebten Landhebammen-Geschichten. Alle Schilderungen beruhen auf den wahren Erlebnissen der Autorin. Und auch viele Jahre später empfand sie für viele Kinder noch eine besondere Fürsorge und nahm Anteil an deren weiterem Schicksal. Dieses Buch versammelt interessante und rührende Geschichten aus dem Alltag einer beherzten Frau, die im Laufe ihres langen Berufslebens über 1.600 Kindern auf die Welt geholfen hat.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695047Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Erlebnisse einer Landhebamme Author: Rosalie Linner Narrator: Rosalie Linner Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 39 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Erlebnisse einer Landhebamme Author: Rosalie Linner Narrator: Rosalie Linner Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 12, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Was auf dem Land rund um die Geburt von Kindern so alles geschieht, wie sich eine beherzte Hebamme manchmal zum Wohle von Mutter und Kind in das Eheleben einmischen muss, welche Familie an weiteren Kindern besonders schwer trägt und wo trotz aller Mühsal doch Frieden und Harmonie herrschen, dies erzählt Rosalie Linner in einem neuen Band ihrer überaus beliebten Landhebammen-Geschichten. Alle Schilderungen beruhen auf den wahren Erlebnissen der Autorin. Und auch viele Jahre später empfand sie für viele Kinder noch eine besondere Fürsorge und nahm Anteil an deren weiterem Schicksal. Dieses Buch versammelt interessante und rührende Geschichten aus dem Alltag einer beherzten Frau, die im Laufe ihres langen Berufslebens über 1.600 Kindern auf die Welt geholfen hat.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-mein-leben-als-landhebamme-by-rosalie-linner--65151077https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695050 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mein Leben als Landhebamme Author: Rosalie Linner Narrator: Rosalie Linner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Rosalie Linner hat mit ihren beiden Büchern 'Tagebuch einer Landhebamme' und 'Als Landhebamme unterwegs' viele begeisterte Leserinnen und Leser gefunden. Ihr drittes autobiographisches Werk enthält neue, bisher unveröffentlichte Texte über ihre Arbeit als Landhebamme. Die Autorin schildert darin nicht nur die Freuden und Leiden, sondern auch die Tücken, die ihr oft gar nicht einfacher Beruf mit sich brachte. Wir erfahren auch eine Menge über die Menschen, mit denen sie zu tun hatte; über die einfachen Lebensverhältnisse, über Ängste und Hoffnungen, über problematische und glückliche Ehen und natürlich über die Kinder, denen Rosalie Linner zum Leben verhalf. Ein Buch, das unterhaltsame Lektüre und zeitgeschichtliches Dokument zugleich ist.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695050Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695050 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mein Leben als Landhebamme Author: Rosalie Linner Narrator: Rosalie Linner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 11 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695050 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mein Leben als Landhebamme Author: Rosalie Linner Narrator: Rosalie Linner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Rosalie Linner hat mit ihren beiden Büchern 'Tagebuch einer Landhebamme' und 'Als Landhebamme unterwegs' viele begeisterte Leserinnen und Leser gefunden. Ihr drittes autobiographisches Werk enthält neue, bisher unveröffentlichte Texte über ihre Arbeit als Landhebamme. Die Autorin schildert darin nicht nur die Freuden und Leiden, sondern auch die Tücken, die ihr oft gar nicht einfacher Beruf mit sich brachte. Wir erfahren auch eine Menge über die Menschen, mit denen sie zu tun hatte; über die einfachen Lebensverhältnisse, über Ängste und Hoffnungen, über problematische und glückliche Ehen und natürlich über die Kinder, denen Rosalie Linner zum Leben verhalf. Ein Buch, das unterhaltsame Lektüre und zeitgeschichtliches Dokument zugleich ist.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dishing-the-dirt-the-hidden-lives-of-house-cleaners-by-nick-duerden--65151235https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dishing the Dirt: The Hidden Lives of House Cleaners Author: Nick Duerden Narrator: Melanie Crawley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 19, 2020 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'A jaw-dropping investigation' – THE BOOKSELLER 'Succeeds brilliantly in dismantling casual assumptions about the drudgery of cleaning' – THE GUARDIAN 'A great book, well researched, funny and poignant. I loved it.' – KIT DE WAAL Dishing the Dirt tells the jaw-dropping stories of London's house cleaners for the first time. Journalist Nick Duerden spoke to a vast array of domestic helps for this insightful, surprising and gripping non-fiction book. We hear from immigrants who clean suburban family homes to butlers who manage the homes of the super wealthy, and from joyful cleaners and entrepreneurs to escaped victims of human trafficking. Then there are women who dust nude and male cleaners who have to fight off wandering hands. And the crime scene cleaners. With the revelation of Maid by Stephanie Land and the cleaning tips of Mrs Hinch's Hinch Yourself Happy, Dishing the Dirt will turn all of your assumptions about cleaners upside down. About the Author Nick Duerden is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, the i paper, and GQ. His books include Exit Stage Left, Get Well Soon: Adventures in Alternative Healthcare, A Life Less Lonely, and The Smallest Things. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters. Extract Prologue. Clocking On It was as if she were invisible, like she wasn't even there. Or, perhaps more accurately, like she didn't really count, not in any tangible sense, this mostly silent domestic cleaner with the broken English whose back was perpetually stooped over the vacuum cleaner, the dustpan and brush, the damp mop; someone who likely knew her way around the utility room better than the homeowners themselves. Today, the wife was away on business, as she frequently was, but the husband wasn't here alone. The marital bed was not empty. 'A different woman,' she says. 'Younger.' And he didn't hide this from you, wasn't embarrassed, ashamed of parading his affair so brazenly under your nose? She shakes her head, and smiles tightly. 'No,' she says. 'No.' She was seemingly in his confidence, then, but not through any prior agreement, a finger to the side of the nose, and nor was he paying her for her silence, her implicit complicity. 'I don't think he even considered me,' she says. 'Or my reaction.' She was merely part of the furniture, a once-weekly presence in the house who mutely got on with her work as she always did, over three floors, three bedrooms and two bathrooms: the vacuuming, the polishing, the dusting... ... In the 1980s, both husbands and wives were now required to go out to work, to pursue careers. This left little time for domestic upkeep... There was no shortage of willing char ladies. In the 21st Century, we are willing to delegate more, specifically to pay others to do the work we'd rather not do ourselves, even if we cannot really afford it. A wave of cheap immigrant labour entered the UK between 2000 and 2020, especially from the new EU member states in eastern Europe. Better to pay a Magda from Poland, say, £30 a week to run the Hoover around the house for a few hours than to save the money for a rainy day. ... Those that clean for Londoners are a silent army. They bring order to our lives, they put out the bins, and relieve us of at least some of the myriad pressures of modern life. They are privy to our indiscretions, our peculiarities, our curious habits. They put up with us, which isn't always easy because some of us are complicated souls. But who are the members of these well-drilled regiments? What are their stories? Buy the book and start listening]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641212Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dishing the Dirt: The Hidden Lives of House Cleaners Author: Nick Duerden Narrator: Melanie Crawley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dishing the Dirt: The Hidden Lives of House Cleaners Author: Nick Duerden Narrator: Melanie Crawley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 19, 2020 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: 'A jaw-dropping investigation' – THE BOOKSELLER 'Succeeds brilliantly in dismantling casual assumptions about the drudgery of cleaning' – THE GUARDIAN 'A great book, well researched, funny and poignant. I loved it.' – KIT DE WAAL Dishing the Dirt tells the jaw-dropping stories of London's house cleaners for the first time. Journalist Nick Duerden spoke to a vast array of domestic helps for this insightful, surprising and gripping non-fiction book. We hear from immigrants who clean suburban family homes to butlers who manage the homes of the super wealthy, and from joyful cleaners and entrepreneurs to escaped victims of human trafficking. Then there are women who dust nude and male cleaners who have to fight off wandering hands. And the crime scene cleaners. With the revelation of Maid by Stephanie Land and the cleaning tips of Mrs Hinch's Hinch Yourself Happy, Dishing the Dirt will turn all of your assumptions about cleaners upside down. About the Author Nick Duerden is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, the i paper, and GQ. His books include Exit Stage Left, Get Well Soon: Adventures in Alternative Healthcare, A Life Less Lonely, and The Smallest Things. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters. Extract Prologue. Clocking On It was as if she were invisible, like she wasn't even there. Or, perhaps more accurately, like she didn't really count, not in any tangible sense, this mostly silent domestic cleaner with the broken English whose back was perpetually stooped over the vacuum cleaner, the dustpan and brush, the damp mop; someone who likely knew her way around the utility room better than the homeowners themselves. Today, the wife was away on business, as she frequently was, but the husband wasn't here alone. The marital bed was not empty. 'A different woman,' she says. 'Younger.' And he didn't hide this from you, wasn't embarrassed, ashamed of parading his affair so brazenly under your nose? She shakes her head, and smiles tightly. 'No,' she says. 'No.' She was seemingly in his confidence, then, but not through any prior agreement, a finger to the side of the nose, and nor was he paying her for her silence, her implicit complicity. 'I don't think he even considered me,' she says. 'Or my reaction.' She was merely part of the furniture, a once-weekly presence in the house who mutely got on with her work as she always did, over three floors, three bedrooms and two bathrooms: the vacuuming, the polishing, the dusting... ... In the 1980s, both husbands and wives were now required to go out to work, to pursue careers. This left little time for domestic upkeep... There was no shortage of willing char ladies. In the 21st Century, we are willing to delegate more, specifically to pay others to do the work we'd rather not do ourselves, even if we cannot really afford it. A wave of cheap immigrant labour entered the UK between 2000 and 2020, especially from the new EU member states in eastern Europe. Better to pay a Magda from Poland, say, £30 a week to run the Hoover around the house for a few hours than to save the money for a rainy day. ... Those that clean for Londoners are a silent army. They bring order to our lives, they put out the bins, and relieve us of at least some of the myriad pressures of modern life. They are privy to our indiscretions, our peculiarities, our curious habits. They put up with us, which isn't always easy because some of us are complicated souls. But who are the members of these well-drilled...]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-hunger-die-geschichte-meines-korpers-by-roxane-gay--65151144https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/658370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - HUNGER: Die Geschichte meines Körpers Author: Roxane Gay Narrator: Sabrina Gander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 22, 2019 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Sie schreibt die Geschichte ihres Hungers. Sie schreibt die Geschichte ihres Körpers. Es ist keine Geschichte des Triumphs. Es ist die eines Lebens, das in zwei Hälften geteilt ist. Es gibt das Vorher und das Nachher. Bevor sie zunahm und danach. Bevor sie vergewaltigt wurde und danach. Roxane Gay, eine der brillantesten, klügsten und aufregendsten weiblichen Stimmen der USA, erzählt eine Geschichte, die so noch nie geschrieben wurde: schonungslos offen, verstörend ehrlich und entwaffnend zart spricht sie über ihren »wilden und undisziplinierten« Körper, über Schmerz und Angst, über zwanghaftes Verlangen, zerstörende Verleugnung und Scham - „Ich war zerbrochen, und um den Schmerz dieser Zerbrochenheit zu betäuben, aß ich und aß und aß.“]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/658370Mon, 22 Apr 2019 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/658370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - HUNGER: Die Geschichte meines Körpers Author: Roxane Gay Narrator: Sabrina Gander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/658370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - HUNGER: Die Geschichte meines Körpers Author: Roxane Gay Narrator: Sabrina Gander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 22, 2019 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Sie schreibt die Geschichte ihres Hungers. Sie schreibt die Geschichte ihres Körpers. Es ist keine Geschichte des Triumphs. Es ist die eines Lebens, das in zwei Hälften geteilt ist. Es gibt das Vorher und das Nachher. Bevor sie zunahm und danach. Bevor sie vergewaltigt wurde und danach. Roxane Gay, eine der brillantesten, klügsten und aufregendsten weiblichen Stimmen der USA, erzählt eine Geschichte, die so noch nie geschrieben wurde: schonungslos offen, verstörend ehrlich und entwaffnend zart spricht sie über ihren »wilden und undisziplinierten« Körper, über Schmerz und Angst, über zwanghaftes Verlangen, zerstörende Verleugnung und Scham - „Ich war zerbrochen, und um den Schmerz dieser Zerbrochenheit zu betäuben, aß ich und aß und aß.“]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mighty-be-our-powers-how-sisterhood-prayer-and-sex-changed-a-nation-at-war-a-memoir-by-leymah-gbowee--65151228https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War; A Memoir Author: Leymah Gbowee Narrator: Kimberly Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 13, 2011 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Leymah Gbowee was one of three women to receive the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize As a young woman growing up in Africa, seventeen-year-old Leymah Gbowee was crushed by a savage war when violence reached her native Monrovia, depriving her of the education she yearned for and claiming the lives of relatives and friends. As war continued to ravage Liberia, Gbowee’s bitterness turned to rage-fueled action as she realized that women bear the greatest burden in prolonged conflicts. Passionate and charismatic, Gbowee was instrumental in galvanizing hundreds, if not thousands of women in Liberia in 2002 to force a peace in the region after twelve years of war. She began organizing Christian and Muslim women to demonstrate together, founding Liberian Mass Action for Peace, launching protests and even a sex strike. Gbowee’s memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers, chronicles the unthinkable violence she’s faced throughout her life and the peace she has helped broker by empowering hundreds of her countrywomen and others around the world to take action and takes listeners along on her continuing journey as she harnesses the power of women to bring her country peace, saves herself, and changes history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628600Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War; A Memoir Author: Leymah Gbowee Narrator: Kimberly Scott Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War; A Memoir Author: Leymah Gbowee Narrator: Kimberly Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 13, 2011 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Leymah Gbowee was one of three women to receive the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize As a young woman growing up in Africa, seventeen-year-old Leymah Gbowee was crushed by a savage war when violence reached her native Monrovia, depriving her of the education she yearned for and claiming the lives of relatives and friends. As war continued to ravage Liberia, Gbowee’s bitterness turned to rage-fueled action as she realized that women bear the greatest burden in prolonged conflicts. Passionate and charismatic, Gbowee was instrumental in galvanizing hundreds, if not thousands of women in Liberia in 2002 to force a peace in the region after twelve years of war. She began organizing Christian and Muslim women to demonstrate together, founding Liberian Mass Action for Peace, launching protests and even a sex strike. Gbowee’s memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers, chronicles the unthinkable violence she’s faced throughout her life and the peace she has helped broker by empowering hundreds of her countrywomen and others around the world to take action and takes listeners along on her continuing journey as she harnesses the power of women to bring her country peace, saves herself, and changes history.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/doris-lessing-a-biography-by-carole-klein--65151201https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Doris Lessing: A Biography Author: Carole Klein Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 11, 2008 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Both in her personal life and in her literature, Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Persia and raised in Rhodesia by a hypercritical mother and a father who was shell-shocked during the First World War, she was forever in search of her essential identity. Twice married and divorced before the age of thirty, she moved to Britain with one of her children and little more than an unpublished manuscript in her suitcase. Ardently embracing communism, then feminism, she would discard them both long before their attractions faded for others. As a writer, she consistently charted new territory, most famously with the series of science fiction novels she submitted under a pseudonym. Based on numerous interviews and sources, this is a fascinating portrait of a celebrated literary rebel who continually reinvented herself and the world in her prodigious work.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628235Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Doris Lessing: A Biography Author: Carole Klein Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Doris Lessing: A Biography Author: Carole Klein Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 11, 2008 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Both in her personal life and in her literature, Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Persia and raised in Rhodesia by a hypercritical mother and a father who was shell-shocked during the First World War, she was forever in search of her essential identity. Twice married and divorced before the age of thirty, she moved to Britain with one of her children and little more than an unpublished manuscript in her suitcase. Ardently embracing communism, then feminism, she would discard them both long before their attractions faded for others. As a writer, she consistently charted new territory, most famously with the series of science fiction novels she submitted under a pseudonym. Based on numerous interviews and sources, this is a fascinating portrait of a celebrated literary rebel who continually reinvented herself and the world in her prodigious work.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/epilogue-a-memoir-by-anne-roiphe--65151181https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Epilogue: A Memoir Author: Anne Roiphe Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 26, 2008 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Anne Roiphe offers a poignant memoir of a journey that no one is prepared for: widowhood. Weaving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing needs of her new day-to-day routine, Roiphe constructs an elegant literary pastiche, not of grief but of renewal. She begins her memoir just as the shock of her husband’s death has begun to wear off and writes her way into the then unknown world of life after love. In beautifully wrought vignettes, Roiphe captures the infinite number of “firsts” that lie ahead, from hailing a cab to locking and unlocking the door, to answering responses to a singles ad placed by her daughter.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627552Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Epilogue: A Memoir Author: Anne Roiphe Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 26, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Epilogue: A Memoir Author: Anne Roiphe Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 26, 2008 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Anne Roiphe offers a poignant memoir of a journey that no one is prepared for: widowhood. Weaving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing needs of her new day-to-day routine, Roiphe constructs an elegant literary pastiche, not of grief but of renewal. She begins her memoir just as the shock of her husband’s death has begun to wear off and writes her way into the then unknown world of life after love. In beautifully wrought vignettes, Roiphe captures the infinite number of “firsts” that lie ahead, from hailing a cab to locking and unlocking the door, to answering responses to a singles ad placed by her daughter.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/chosen-by-a-horse-a-memoir-by-susan-richards--65151217https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628478 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chosen by a Horse: A Memoir Author: Susan Richards Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: December 1, 2007 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn’t be corralled into her waiting trailer. Instead Lay Me Down, a former racehorse with a foal close on her heels, walked right up that ramp and into Susan’s life. This gentle creature—malnourished, plagued by pneumonia and an eye infection—had endured a rough road, but somehow her heart was still open and generous. It seemed fated that she would come into Susan’s paddock and teach her how to embrace the joys of life despite the dangers of living. An elegant and often heartbreaking tale filled with animal characters as complicated and lively as their human counterparts, this is an inspiring story of courage and hope and the ways in which all love—even an animal’s—has the power to heal.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628478Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628478 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chosen by a Horse: A Memoir Author: Susan Richards Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: December...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628478 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chosen by a Horse: A Memoir Author: Susan Richards Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: December 1, 2007 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn’t be corralled into her waiting trailer. Instead Lay Me Down, a former racehorse with a foal close on her heels, walked right up that ramp and into Susan’s life. This gentle creature—malnourished, plagued by pneumonia and an eye infection—had endured a rough road, but somehow her heart was still open and generous. It seemed fated that she would come into Susan’s paddock and teach her how to embrace the joys of life despite the dangers of living. An elegant and often heartbreaking tale filled with animal characters as complicated and lively as their human counterparts, this is an inspiring story of courage and hope and the ways in which all love—even an animal’s—has the power to heal.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/being-martha-the-inside-story-of-martha-stewart-and-her-amazing-life-by-lloyd-allen--65151212https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Being Martha: The Inside Story of Martha Stewart and Her Amazing Life Author: Lloyd Allen Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “No matter what they say about my mom, all she ever does is teach the world good things that will help them in life. So what if she shows you the perfect way to do it? Would you want your professor at school to do anything less in any other subject? Her fans know what she’s all about.”—Alexis Stewart, Martha’s daughter When Martha Stewart was on trial for insider trading, the media served up countless gratuitous stories lambasting her character. Lloyd Allen, Martha’s old friend and neighbor, is out to set the record straight. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with Martha’s family, close friends and colleagues, Allen brings to life the real woman behind the public image: beloved as a mentor and benefactor; childlike in her enthusiasm for the simple things in life; and stronger, more grounded, and more determined following her prison term to help people make the most out of life. From her early years as a model to the world’s most successful businesswoman, to her next phase of life with multiple television shows, Allen shows how Martha made it to the top and stayed there through talent, passion, and hard work.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628355Sun, 01 Jan 2006 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Being Martha: The Inside Story of Martha Stewart and Her Amazing Life Author: Lloyd Allen Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Being Martha: The Inside Story of Martha Stewart and Her Amazing Life Author: Lloyd Allen Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: “No matter what they say about my mom, all she ever does is teach the world good things that will help them in life. So what if she shows you the perfect way to do it? Would you want your professor at school to do anything less in any other subject? Her fans know what she’s all about.”—Alexis Stewart, Martha’s daughter When Martha Stewart was on trial for insider trading, the media served up countless gratuitous stories lambasting her character. Lloyd Allen, Martha’s old friend and neighbor, is out to set the record straight. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with Martha’s family, close friends and colleagues, Allen brings to life the real woman behind the public image: beloved as a mentor and benefactor; childlike in her enthusiasm for the simple things in life; and stronger, more grounded, and more determined following her prison term to help people make the most out of life. From her early years as a model to the world’s most successful businesswoman, to her next phase of life with multiple television shows, Allen shows how Martha made it to the top and stayed there through talent, passion, and hard work.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bobbed-hair-and-bathtub-gin-writers-running-wild-in-the-twenties-by-marion-meade--65151185https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties Author: Marion Meade Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 26, 2005 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers—Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber—whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s. Marion Meade re-creates the aura of excitement, romance, and promise of the 1920s, when these literary heroines did what they wanted, said what they thought, and kicked open the door for twentieth-century women, setting a new model for every woman trying to juggle the serious issues of economic independence, political power, and sexual freedom. But Meade also brings to light the anxiety and despair that lurked beneath the nonstop partying and outrageous behavior. She describes the men who influenced them, loved them, and sometimes betrayed them. And while she describes their social and literary triumphs, she also writes movingly of the penances they paid. A vibrant mixture of literary scholarship, social history, and scandal, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin is a rich evocation of an era that will forever intrigue and captivate us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628316Sun, 26 Jun 2005 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties Author: Marion Meade Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties Author: Marion Meade Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 26, 2005 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: This is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers—Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber—whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s. Marion Meade re-creates the aura of excitement, romance, and promise of the 1920s, when these literary heroines did what they wanted, said what they thought, and kicked open the door for twentieth-century women, setting a new model for every woman trying to juggle the serious issues of economic independence, political power, and sexual freedom. But Meade also brings to light the anxiety and despair that lurked beneath the nonstop partying and outrageous behavior. She describes the men who influenced them, loved them, and sometimes betrayed them. And while she describes their social and literary triumphs, she also writes movingly of the penances they paid. A vibrant mixture of literary scholarship, social history, and scandal, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin is a rich evocation of an era that will forever intrigue and captivate us.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-house-on-beartown-road-a-memoir-of-learning-and-forgetting-by-elizabeth-cohen--65151168https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting Author: Elizabeth Cohen Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 25, 2005 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In this beautiful book, Elizabeth Cohen gives us a true and moving portrait of the love and courage of a family. Elizabeth is a member of the 'sandwich generation'—people caught in the middle of simultaneously caring for their children and for their aging parents. She is the mother of Ava and the daughter of Daddy, and she's responsible for both of them. Hers is the story of a woman's struggle to keep her family whole, to raise her child in a house of laughter and love, and to keep her father from hiding the house keys in his slippers. In this story full of everyday triumphs, Elizabeth—a suddenly single mother with a career, a mortgage, and a hamper of laundry—finds her world spiraling out of control yet full of beauty. Faced with mounting disasters, she chooses to confront life head on.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628301Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting Author: Elizabeth Cohen Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting Author: Elizabeth Cohen Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 25, 2005 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: In this beautiful book, Elizabeth Cohen gives us a true and moving portrait of the love and courage of a family. Elizabeth is a member of the 'sandwich generation'—people caught in the middle of simultaneously caring for their children and for their aging parents. She is the mother of Ava and the daughter of Daddy, and she's responsible for both of them. Hers is the story of a woman's struggle to keep her family whole, to raise her child in a house of laughter and love, and to keep her father from hiding the house keys in his slippers. In this story full of everyday triumphs, Elizabeth—a suddenly single mother with a career, a mortgage, and a hamper of laundry—finds her world spiraling out of control yet full of beauty. Faced with mounting disasters, she chooses to confront life head on.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hiding-place-by-corrie-ten-boom--65151203https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hiding Place Author: Corrie Ten Boom Narrator: Nadia May Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 1, 1994 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: At one time, Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that she had a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life, nothing out of the ordinary ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her sister and their elderly father in the tiny Dutch house over their shop. Their uneventful days, as regulated as their own watches, revolved around their abiding love for one another. But with the Nazi invasion and occupation of Holland, everything changed. Corrie ten Boom and her family became leaders in the Dutch underground, hiding Jewish people in their home in a specially built room and aiding their escape from the Nazis. For their pains, all but Corrie found death in a concentration camp. Here is a story aglow with the glory of God and the courage of a quiet Christian spinster whose life was transformed by it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647452Tue, 01 Feb 1994 09:54:18 +0000Devan LubowitzPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hiding Place Author: Corrie Ten Boom Narrator: Nadia May Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 1, 1994...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hiding Place Author: Corrie Ten Boom Narrator: Nadia May Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 1, 1994 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: At one time, Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that she had a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life, nothing out of the ordinary ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her sister and their elderly father in the tiny Dutch house over their shop. Their uneventful days, as regulated as their own watches, revolved around their abiding love for one another. But with the Nazi invasion and occupation of Holland, everything changed. Corrie ten Boom and her family became leaders in the Dutch underground, hiding Jewish people in their home in a specially built room and aiding their escape from the Nazis. For their pains, all but Corrie found death in a concentration camp. Here is a story aglow with the glory of God and the courage of a quiet Christian spinster whose life was transformed by it.]]>185cleanfull