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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 Murray Shieldshttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/50a350c6bcd9d0f29678015a7af0283c.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/discover-the-best-audio-stories-in-biography-memoir-memoirs--6575110Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:36:46 +0000Murray ShieldsMurray Shieldsfeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/356/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. With over 500,000+ audiobooks, we bring you diverse categories such as Biography & Memoir, Spirituality & Religion,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/356/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. With over 500,000+ audiobooks, we bring you diverse categories such as Biography & Memoir, Spirituality & Religion, and Business & Career Development. Get 3 free audiobooks to experience. You can listen to books on many devices like iPhone, iPad, Android, helping you save time and enhance knowledge. Don't miss this great opportunity! 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/damn-glad-to-meet-you-my-seven-decades-in-the-hollywood-trenches-by-tim-matheson--65182979https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Damn Glad to Meet You: My Seven Decades in the Hollywood Trenches Author: Tim Matheson Narrator: Tim Matheson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “I found myself underlining and highlighting things to remember for my own career. It’s also entertaining—a great combination. Tim’s words encourage you to keep dreaming.”--Reba McEntire “Tim was a cast, crew, and audience favorite on The West Wing. He’s been at the center of some of America’s most iconic film and television. Damn Glad to Meet You is a fascinating, hilarious, and often very moving inside look at his extraordinary career.”--Aaron Sorkin A “damn good” fun and revealing memoir from the acclaimed Hollywood actor, Tim Matheson   For the past seven decades, Tim Matheson has been an on-screen favorite in Hollywood. In his debut memoir, Tim takes fans behind-the-scenes of his illustrious career, and reveals what it was like to learn from and work alongside the greats, including Lucille Ball, Dick Van Dyke, Steven Spielberg, and Aaron Sorkin. Tim also talks about how he transitioned from acting to directing, the role in The West Wing that nabbed him two Emmy nominations–and so much more. Filled to the brim with both riveting stories of the ever-changing entertainment industry and illuminating insight via “film school boot camp” sidebars, readers everywhere are going to be “damn glad” they read this fascinating memoir.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765386Tue, 12 Nov 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Damn Glad to Meet You: My Seven Decades in the Hollywood Trenches Author: Tim Matheson Narrator: Tim Matheson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Damn Glad to Meet You: My Seven Decades in the Hollywood Trenches Author: Tim Matheson Narrator: Tim Matheson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “I found myself underlining and highlighting things to remember for my own career. It’s also entertaining—a great combination. Tim’s words encourage you to keep dreaming.”--Reba McEntire “Tim was a cast, crew, and audience favorite on The West Wing. He’s been at the center of some of America’s most iconic film and television. Damn Glad to Meet You is a fascinating, hilarious, and often very moving inside look at his extraordinary career.”--Aaron Sorkin A “damn good” fun and revealing memoir from the acclaimed Hollywood actor, Tim Matheson   For the past seven decades, Tim Matheson has been an on-screen favorite in Hollywood. In his debut memoir, Tim takes fans behind-the-scenes of his illustrious career, and reveals what it was like to learn from and work alongside the greats, including Lucille Ball, Dick Van Dyke, Steven Spielberg, and Aaron Sorkin. Tim also talks about how he transitioned from acting to directing, the role in The West Wing that nabbed him two Emmy nominations–and so much more. Filled to the brim with both riveting stories of the ever-changing entertainment industry and illuminating insight via “film school boot camp” sidebars, readers everywhere are going to be “damn glad” they read this fascinating memoir.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/american-heroes-by-james-patterson--65183029https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757171 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Heroes Author: James Patterson Narrator: Joe Mantegna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 7, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Life has no meaning unless it’s lived for the benefit of future generations’ Crafted from original interviews, American Heroes tells the vivid, authentic stories of the veterans who give themselves – and even their lives – serving in overseas conflict from World War Two to Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Outnumbered, under pressure and under fire, these men and women exhibited extraordinary selflessness, camaraderie and patriotism. For their service and sacrifice, they earned the US military’s highest awards for valour. In this powerful collection of never-before-told stories, James Patterson and First Sergeant U.S. Army (Ret.) Matt Eversmann salute America’s most courageous military heroes. PRAISE FOR JAMES PATTERSON 'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades.' LEE CHILD 'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' IAN RANKIN 'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON 'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' PATRICIA CORNWELL 'Patterson is in a class by himself' GUARDIAN © James Patterson 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757171Thu, 07 Nov 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757171 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Heroes Author: James Patterson Narrator: Joe Mantegna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 7, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757171 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Heroes Author: James Patterson Narrator: Joe Mantegna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 7, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Life has no meaning unless it’s lived for the benefit of future generations’ Crafted from original interviews, American Heroes tells the vivid, authentic stories of the veterans who give themselves – and even their lives – serving in overseas conflict from World War Two to Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Outnumbered, under pressure and under fire, these men and women exhibited extraordinary selflessness, camaraderie and patriotism. For their service and sacrifice, they earned the US military’s highest awards for valour. In this powerful collection of never-before-told stories, James Patterson and First Sergeant U.S. Army (Ret.) Matt Eversmann salute America’s most courageous military heroes. PRAISE FOR JAMES PATTERSON 'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades.' LEE CHILD 'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' IAN RANKIN 'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON 'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' PATRICIA CORNWELL 'Patterson is in a class by himself' GUARDIAN © James Patterson 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-boy-from-the-valleys-my-unexpected-journey-by-luke-evans--65182967https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Boy From the Valleys: My unexpected journey Author: Luke Evans Narrator: Luke Evans Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 7, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From his humble beginnings in a quaint Welsh mining village to the dazzling lights of Hollywood, much-loved star, Luke Evans takes us on a poignant and inspiring journey that spans from the heart of Wales to behind the scenes of the global stage. Growing up in a small village in the Rhymney Valley, south Wales, Luke Evans’ early life was shaped by his Jehovah's Witness upbringing. While most children of his age spent their Saturday mornings watching Going Live on television, young Luke would dress in a suit and tie and join his parents to knock on doors to spread the word of his religion. From an early age, he felt different. This feeling of displacement was not limited to his faith, as he came to terms with his own sexuality, he also faced a difficult and uncertain path. In his poignant, tender and often humorous account, Luke shares his bold decision to leave home – and the religion – at seventeen to move to London where vibrant Soho scene captured his heart, invigorated his creative journey as an actor and opened a whole new world of opportunity. In finding himself, Luke also discovered his passions of singing, acting and performing. Starring first on the West End stages in iconic productions like Miss Saigon, Avenue Q and Rent, he quickly captivated the hearts of audiences and caught the eye of Hollywood's elite, going on to secure roles in blockbuster films such as The Hobbit, Beauty and the Beast, Fast and Furious and Dracula Untold. In this intimate memoir, Luke takes us behind the scenes of his career on the stage and screen. He writes beautifully of the relationship he now has with his family and the respect they all have for one another on their different paths. Luke's story is a powerful tale of resilience, courage, and the pursuit of finding a sense of belonging and identity, but mostly (and hopefully) a story of inspiration. © Luke Evans 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763192Thu, 07 Nov 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Boy From the Valleys: My unexpected journey Author: Luke Evans Narrator: Luke Evans Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Boy From the Valleys: My unexpected journey Author: Luke Evans Narrator: Luke Evans Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 7, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From his humble beginnings in a quaint Welsh mining village to the dazzling lights of Hollywood, much-loved star, Luke Evans takes us on a poignant and inspiring journey that spans from the heart of Wales to behind the scenes of the global stage. Growing up in a small village in the Rhymney Valley, south Wales, Luke Evans’ early life was shaped by his Jehovah's Witness upbringing. While most children of his age spent their Saturday mornings watching Going Live on television, young Luke would dress in a suit and tie and join his parents to knock on doors to spread the word of his religion. From an early age, he felt different. This feeling of displacement was not limited to his faith, as he came to terms with his own sexuality, he also faced a difficult and uncertain path. In his poignant, tender and often humorous account, Luke shares his bold decision to leave home – and the religion – at seventeen to move to London where vibrant Soho scene captured his heart, invigorated his creative journey as an actor and opened a whole new world of opportunity. In finding himself, Luke also discovered his passions of singing, acting and performing. Starring first on the West End stages in iconic productions like Miss Saigon, Avenue Q and Rent, he quickly captivated the hearts of audiences and caught the eye of Hollywood's elite, going on to secure roles in blockbuster films such as The Hobbit, Beauty and the Beast, Fast and Furious and Dracula Untold. In this intimate memoir, Luke takes us behind the scenes of his career on the stage and screen. He writes beautifully of the relationship he now has with his family and the respect they all have for one another on their different paths. Luke's story is a powerful tale of resilience, courage, and the pursuit of finding a sense of belonging and identity, but mostly (and hopefully) a story of inspiration. © Luke Evans 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stronger-together-by-andy-reti-ibolya-grossman--65182887https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stronger Together Author: Andy Reti, Ibolya Grossman Narrator: Helen Kas, Andy Reti, Naomi Azrieli, Marlene Kadar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Don’t cry darling. We need this baby. You will see.” With these words from her husband, Zoltán, Ibolya Rechnitzer’s fear of being pregnant during the uncertainty of wartime is somewhat eased. But in November 1942, four months after their baby, Andy, is born, Zoltán is drafted into the forced labour service of the Hungarian army and Ibolya must cope, alone, as a single mother and a Jew facing persecution in Budapest. Her son gives her a reason to fight, and Ibolya protects him fiercely during the war and after, when she must make a crucial decision that will forever alter their lives. As Andy grows up in the shadow of the Holocaust and his mother’s memories, he finds the remarkable courage to tell his own story and carry on his mother’s legacy. Two memoirs in one, Stronger Together gives voice to both mother and son as they each reflect on their past, their losses and, above all, their optimism.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777410Tue, 05 Nov 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stronger Together Author: Andy Reti, Ibolya Grossman Narrator: Helen Kas, Andy Reti, Naomi Azrieli, Marlene Kadar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stronger Together Author: Andy Reti, Ibolya Grossman Narrator: Helen Kas, Andy Reti, Naomi Azrieli, Marlene Kadar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: November 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Don’t cry darling. We need this baby. You will see.” With these words from her husband, Zoltán, Ibolya Rechnitzer’s fear of being pregnant during the uncertainty of wartime is somewhat eased. But in November 1942, four months after their baby, Andy, is born, Zoltán is drafted into the forced labour service of the Hungarian army and Ibolya must cope, alone, as a single mother and a Jew facing persecution in Budapest. Her son gives her a reason to fight, and Ibolya protects him fiercely during the war and after, when she must make a crucial decision that will forever alter their lives. As Andy grows up in the shadow of the Holocaust and his mother’s memories, he finds the remarkable courage to tell his own story and carry on his mother’s legacy. Two memoirs in one, Stronger Together gives voice to both mother and son as they each reflect on their past, their losses and, above all, their optimism.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shattered-by-hanif-kureishi--65183043https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shattered Author: Hanif Kureishi Narrator: Art Malik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 31, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed ‘A few days ago, a bomb went off in my life, but this bomb has also shattered the lives of those around me. My partner, my children, my friends.’ On Boxing Day 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, in a pool of blood, he was horrified to realise he had lost the use of his limbs. He could no longer walk, write or wash himself. He could do nothing without the help of others, and required constant care in a hospital. So began an odyssey of a year through the medical systems of Rome and Italy, with the hope of somehow being able to return home, to his house in London. While confined to a series of hospital wards, he felt compelled to write, but being unable to type or to hold a pen, he began to dictate to family members the words which formed in his head. The result was an extraordinary series of dispatches from his hospital bed – a diary of a life in pieces, recorded with rare honesty, clarity and courage. As Hanif wrote, early on: ‘A few days ago, a bomb went off in my life, but this bomb has also shattered the lives of those around me. My partner, my children, my friends.’ This book takes these hospital dispatches – edited, expanded and meticulously interwoven with new writing – and charts both a shattering and a reassembling: a new life born of pain and loss, but animated by new feelings – of gratitude, humility and love. © Hanif Kureishi 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753506Thu, 31 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shattered Author: Hanif Kureishi Narrator: Art Malik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 31, 2024 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shattered Author: Hanif Kureishi Narrator: Art Malik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 31, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed ‘A few days ago, a bomb went off in my life, but this bomb has also shattered the lives of those around me. My partner, my children, my friends.’ On Boxing Day 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, in a pool of blood, he was horrified to realise he had lost the use of his limbs. He could no longer walk, write or wash himself. He could do nothing without the help of others, and required constant care in a hospital. So began an odyssey of a year through the medical systems of Rome and Italy, with the hope of somehow being able to return home, to his house in London. While confined to a series of hospital wards, he felt compelled to write, but being unable to type or to hold a pen, he began to dictate to family members the words which formed in his head. The result was an extraordinary series of dispatches from his hospital bed – a diary of a life in pieces, recorded with rare honesty, clarity and courage. As Hanif wrote, early on: ‘A few days ago, a bomb went off in my life, but this bomb has also shattered the lives of those around me. My partner, my children, my friends.’ This book takes these hospital dispatches – edited, expanded and meticulously interwoven with new writing – and charts both a shattering and a reassembling: a new life born of pain and loss, but animated by new feelings – of gratitude, humility and love. © Hanif Kureishi 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/brothers-by-alex-van-halen--65183063https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brothers Author: Alex Van Halen Narrator: Alex Van Halen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 24, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *Features an exclusive unheard track, the last written together by the Van Halen brothers* In this intimate and open account – nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read – Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate. ‘A remarkable memoir’ Classic Rock ‘A highly emotional read’ Guardian In his rough yet sweet voice, Alex recounts the brothers’ childhood, first in the Netherlands and then in working class Pasadena, California, with an itinerant musician father and a very proper Indonesian-born mother – the kind of mum who admonished her boys to “always wear a suit” no matter how famous they became – a woman who was both proud and practical, nonchalant about taking a doggie bag from a star-studded dinner. He also shares tales of musical politics, infighting, and plenty of bad-boy behaviour. But mostly his is a story of brotherhood, music, and enduring love. 'I was with him from day one,” Alex writes. “We shared the experience of coming to America and figuring out how to fit in. We shared a record player, an 800 square foot house, a mom and dad, and a work ethic. Later, we shared the back of a tour bus, alcoholism, the experience of becoming famous, of becoming fathers and uncles, and of spending more hours in the studio than I’ve spent doing anything else in this life. We shared a depth of understanding that most people can only hope to achieve in a lifetime.' There has never been an accurate account of them or the band, and Alex wants to set the record straight on Edward’s life and death.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758898Thu, 24 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brothers Author: Alex Van Halen Narrator: Alex Van Halen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 24, 2024 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brothers Author: Alex Van Halen Narrator: Alex Van Halen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 24, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *Features an exclusive unheard track, the last written together by the Van Halen brothers* In this intimate and open account – nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read – Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate. ‘A remarkable memoir’ Classic Rock ‘A highly emotional read’ Guardian In his rough yet sweet voice, Alex recounts the brothers’ childhood, first in the Netherlands and then in working class Pasadena, California, with an itinerant musician father and a very proper Indonesian-born mother – the kind of mum who admonished her boys to “always wear a suit” no matter how famous they became – a woman who was both proud and practical, nonchalant about taking a doggie bag from a star-studded dinner. He also shares tales of musical politics, infighting, and plenty of bad-boy behaviour. But mostly his is a story of brotherhood, music, and enduring love. 'I was with him from day one,” Alex writes. “We shared the experience of coming to America and figuring out how to fit in. We shared a record player, an 800 square foot house, a mom and dad, and a work ethic. Later, we shared the back of a tour bus, alcoholism, the experience of becoming famous, of becoming fathers and uncles, and of spending more hours in the studio than I’ve spent doing anything else in this life. We shared a depth of understanding that most people can only hope to achieve in a lifetime.' There has never been an accurate account of them or the band, and Alex wants to set the record straight on Edward’s life and death.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-all-shine-on-john-yoko-and-me-by-elliot-mintz--65183011https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me Author: Elliot Mintz Narrator: Elliot Mintz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 24, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A personal and revealing look at the last 10 years of John Lennon’s life and his partnership with Yoko Ono, written by the friend who knew them best, publicist and music industry insider Elliot Mintz. From the moment he interviewed Yoko Ono on his late night radio show in September 1971, Elliot Mintz’s life would never the same again. That phone call would lead him to an intense and revealing friendship with Yoko and her husband, John Lennon, until John’s untimely death in 1980, and beyond, to the present day. In 1971, then the talk host on American airwaves, Elliot Mintz was talking to all of the major figures in the burgeoning West Coast music scene when he was asked whether he would interview Yoko about her new album. Their talk quickly lead to other private calls and then to John Lennon, with whom he quickly formed a firm bond.Those conversations became hours-long epics, to the extent that Elliot had another phone line put in, for which only two people had the number - John and Yoko. The aftermath of The Beatles’ breakup ushered in a tumultuous decade. Elliot witnessed it, or heard all about it, at close hand including the unbearable cost of such fame when John and Yoko separated for what became known as his ‘lost weekend’. There was joy when their son Sean was born and the creative rebirth that was the multi-platinum selling triumph, Double Fantasy. But then there was unimaginable tragedy too when John was brutally murdered in December 1980. We All Shine On is the personal, intimate and, at times, heart-breaking memoir of an extraordinary friendship, which gives a first hand view of what it was like to be close to one of the most famous couples of all time. © Elliot Mintz 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758854Thu, 24 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me Author: Elliot Mintz Narrator: Elliot Mintz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me Author: Elliot Mintz Narrator: Elliot Mintz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 24, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A personal and revealing look at the last 10 years of John Lennon’s life and his partnership with Yoko Ono, written by the friend who knew them best, publicist and music industry insider Elliot Mintz. From the moment he interviewed Yoko Ono on his late night radio show in September 1971, Elliot Mintz’s life would never the same again. That phone call would lead him to an intense and revealing friendship with Yoko and her husband, John Lennon, until John’s untimely death in 1980, and beyond, to the present day. In 1971, then the talk host on American airwaves, Elliot Mintz was talking to all of the major figures in the burgeoning West Coast music scene when he was asked whether he would interview Yoko about her new album. Their talk quickly lead to other private calls and then to John Lennon, with whom he quickly formed a firm bond.Those conversations became hours-long epics, to the extent that Elliot had another phone line put in, for which only two people had the number - John and Yoko. The aftermath of The Beatles’ breakup ushered in a tumultuous decade. Elliot witnessed it, or heard all about it, at close hand including the unbearable cost of such fame when John and Yoko separated for what became known as his ‘lost weekend’. There was joy when their son Sean was born and the creative rebirth that was the multi-platinum selling triumph, Double Fantasy. But then there was unimaginable tragedy too when John was brutally murdered in December 1980. We All Shine On is the personal, intimate and, at times, heart-breaking memoir of an extraordinary friendship, which gives a first hand view of what it was like to be close to one of the most famous couples of all time. © Elliot Mintz 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/last-boy-of-66-my-story-of-england-s-world-cup-winning-team-by-geoff-hurst--65182992https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Boy of ’66: My story of England’s World Cup winning team Author: Geoff Hurst Narrator: Rupert Farley, Geoff Hurst Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 24, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. FOUR FOR ENGLAND. THREE FOR HURST. 'Images of us celebrating have taken their place in the nation’s photo album. Trophy aloft, smiling into our future. Banksy, George, Jack, Mooro, Ray, Nobby, Bally, Bobby, Martin, Roger. My ten teammates. My old friends. They’ve now all gone. Heroes from an era that is slipping into sepia.' But it isn't all over. Not yet. One of them is still here, and before he goes, Geoff wanted to get down his final thoughts about 1966. He talks about Alf Ramsay - his vision, his drive, his loyalty. Also his shyness, even awkwardness. About his teammates, about Jimmy Greaves - hard workers, cool heads, dedicated pros. Geoff tells their collective story, digging below the surface, reflecting on their victory, its impact on their lives. It was a bittersweet onward journey for the Boys of '66. Their legacy was squandered and their team uncelebrated. But the eleven of them shared something that no other Englishman has ever experienced. Here Geoff brings them all together, one last time, to see them make history. © Sir Geoff Hurst 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759632Thu, 24 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Boy of ’66: My story of England’s World Cup winning team Author: Geoff Hurst Narrator: Rupert Farley, Geoff Hurst Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Boy of ’66: My story of England’s World Cup winning team Author: Geoff Hurst Narrator: Rupert Farley, Geoff Hurst Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 24, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. FOUR FOR ENGLAND. THREE FOR HURST. 'Images of us celebrating have taken their place in the nation’s photo album. Trophy aloft, smiling into our future. Banksy, George, Jack, Mooro, Ray, Nobby, Bally, Bobby, Martin, Roger. My ten teammates. My old friends. They’ve now all gone. Heroes from an era that is slipping into sepia.' But it isn't all over. Not yet. One of them is still here, and before he goes, Geoff wanted to get down his final thoughts about 1966. He talks about Alf Ramsay - his vision, his drive, his loyalty. Also his shyness, even awkwardness. About his teammates, about Jimmy Greaves - hard workers, cool heads, dedicated pros. Geoff tells their collective story, digging below the surface, reflecting on their victory, its impact on their lives. It was a bittersweet onward journey for the Boys of '66. Their legacy was squandered and their team uncelebrated. But the eleven of them shared something that no other Englishman has ever experienced. Here Geoff brings them all together, one last time, to see them make history. © Sir Geoff Hurst 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lifeform-by-jenny-slate--65183081https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lifeform Author: Jenny Slate Narrator: Vanessa Bayer, Jenny Slate, George Saunders, Will Forte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Comedian and New York Times bestseller Jenny Slate’s wild, hilarious, genre-bending essays read in her singular voice depict life and motherhood as you’ve never seen it before. Featuring narration from friends Vanessa Bayer and Will Forte (“Schumacher 2”), and George Saunders (“The Therapist”).   What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and in that period there was a deep dark loneliness that she had to face and befriend, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, and in that period she was like chimes, or a flock of clean breaths, and her spine lying flat was the many-colored planks on the xylophone, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love, because of past injury. And then what happened was that she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina during a global plague and then she was expected to carry on like everything was normal—but was this normal, and had she or anything ever been normal? Herein lies an account of this journey, told in five phases—Single, True Love, Pregnancy, Baby, and Ongoing—through luminous, laugh-out-loud funny, unclassifiable essays that take the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between racoons, excerpts from an imaginary olden timey play, obituaries, theories about post-partum hair loss, graduation speeches, and more. No one writes like Jenny Slate.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757422Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lifeform Author: Jenny Slate Narrator: Vanessa Bayer, Jenny Slate, George Saunders, Will Forte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lifeform Author: Jenny Slate Narrator: Vanessa Bayer, Jenny Slate, George Saunders, Will Forte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Comedian and New York Times bestseller Jenny Slate’s wild, hilarious, genre-bending essays read in her singular voice depict life and motherhood as you’ve never seen it before. Featuring narration from friends Vanessa Bayer and Will Forte (“Schumacher 2”), and George Saunders (“The Therapist”).   What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and in that period there was a deep dark loneliness that she had to face and befriend, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, and in that period she was like chimes, or a flock of clean breaths, and her spine lying flat was the many-colored planks on the xylophone, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love, because of past injury. And then what happened was that she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina during a global plague and then she was expected to carry on like everything was normal—but was this normal, and had she or anything ever been normal? Herein lies an account of this journey, told in five phases—Single, True Love, Pregnancy, Baby, and Ongoing—through luminous, laugh-out-loud funny, unclassifiable essays that take the form of letters to a doctor, dreams of a stork, fantasy therapy sessions, gossip between racoons, excerpts from an imaginary olden timey play, obituaries, theories about post-partum hair loss, graduation speeches, and more. No one writes like Jenny Slate.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-one-gets-to-fall-apart-a-memoir-by-sarah-labrie--65183060https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir Author: Sarah Labrie Narrator: Sarah Labrie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Lit Hub's ''Most Anticipated'' * An Oprah Daily ''Best Book of Fall'' * An Esquire ''Best Memoir of the Year'' * A San Francisco Chronicle ''New Book for a Season of Change'' * A Zibby Owens ''Most Anticipated'' In this poignant memoir, as candid and indelible as The Glass Castle and Memorial Drive, a writer takes on the conflict between the love that binds us to home and the desire to escape it for good. On a highway in Houston, Texas, Sarah LaBrie’s mother was found screaming at passing cars, terrified she would be murdered by invisible assailants. The diagnosis of schizophrenia that followed compelled Sarah to rethink her childhood, marked at turns by violence and all-consuming closeness. Digging into the events that led to her mother’s break, Sarah traces her family history of mental illness, from the dysphoria that plagued her great-grandmother, a granddaughter of slaves, to her own experience with depression as a scholarship student at Brown. At the same time, she navigates a decades-long fixation on a novel she can’t finish but can't abandon, her complicated feelings about her white partner, and a fraught friendship colored by betrayal. Spanning the globe from Houston’s Third Ward to Paris to Tallinn and New York to Los Angeles, No One Gets to Fall Apart is an unflinching chronicle of one woman's attempt to forge a new future through a better understanding of the past.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746338Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir Author: Sarah Labrie Narrator: Sarah Labrie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/746338 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir Author: Sarah Labrie Narrator: Sarah Labrie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Lit Hub's ''Most Anticipated'' * An Oprah Daily ''Best Book of Fall'' * An Esquire ''Best Memoir of the Year'' * A San Francisco Chronicle ''New Book for a Season of Change'' * A Zibby Owens ''Most Anticipated'' In this poignant memoir, as candid and indelible as The Glass Castle and Memorial Drive, a writer takes on the conflict between the love that binds us to home and the desire to escape it for good. On a highway in Houston, Texas, Sarah LaBrie’s mother was found screaming at passing cars, terrified she would be murdered by invisible assailants. The diagnosis of schizophrenia that followed compelled Sarah to rethink her childhood, marked at turns by violence and all-consuming closeness. Digging into the events that led to her mother’s break, Sarah traces her family history of mental illness, from the dysphoria that plagued her great-grandmother, a granddaughter of slaves, to her own experience with depression as a scholarship student at Brown. At the same time, she navigates a decades-long fixation on a novel she can’t finish but can't abandon, her complicated feelings about her white partner, and a fraught friendship colored by betrayal. Spanning the globe from Houston’s Third Ward to Paris to Tallinn and New York to Los Angeles, No One Gets to Fall Apart is an unflinching chronicle of one woman's attempt to forge a new future through a better understanding of the past.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-all-shine-on-john-yoko-and-me-by-elliot-mintz--65183054https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752253 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me Author: Elliot Mintz Narrator: Elliot Mintz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A personal and revealing look at the last ten years of John Lennon’s life and his partnership with Yoko Ono, written by the friend who knew them best In 1972, Elliot Mintz installed a red light in his bedroom in Laurel Canyon. When it started flashing, it meant that either John Lennon or Yoko Ono—or sometimes both—were calling him. Which they did almost every day for nearly ten years, engaging Mintz in hours-long late-night phone conversations that all but consumed him for the better part of a decade. In We All Shine On, Mintz—a former radio and television host in Los Angeles—recounts the story of how their unlikely friendship began and where it led him over the years, revealing the ups and downs of a wild, touching, heartbreaking, and sometimes shocking relationship. Mintz takes readers inside John and Yoko’s inner sanctums, including their expansive seventh-floor apartment in New York’s fabled Dakota building, where Mintz was something of a semipermanent fixture, ultimately becoming the Lennons' closest and most trusted confidant. Mintz was with John and Yoko through creative highs, relationship and private challenges, fascinating interactions with the other former Beatles, and the happiest moment of their lives together, the birth of their son, Sean. He was also by Yoko’s side during the aftermath of John’s assassination on the doorstep of the Dakota—not merely a witness to it all, but a key figure in the drama of John and Yoko’s extraordinary lives.   We All Shine On is a must-read for Beatles and Lennon fans, offering an up close and intimate view of one of the most celebrated artists of the twentieth century, as well as one of the most fascinating marriages. But it’s also a relationship story that just about everyone can relate to, a tale about partnership, loyalty, and trust, and most of all, the lasting legacy of a true and deep friendship.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752253Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752253 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me Author: Elliot Mintz Narrator: Elliot Mintz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752253 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me Author: Elliot Mintz Narrator: Elliot Mintz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A personal and revealing look at the last ten years of John Lennon’s life and his partnership with Yoko Ono, written by the friend who knew them best In 1972, Elliot Mintz installed a red light in his bedroom in Laurel Canyon. When it started flashing, it meant that either John Lennon or Yoko Ono—or sometimes both—were calling him. Which they did almost every day for nearly ten years, engaging Mintz in hours-long late-night phone conversations that all but consumed him for the better part of a decade. In We All Shine On, Mintz—a former radio and television host in Los Angeles—recounts the story of how their unlikely friendship began and where it led him over the years, revealing the ups and downs of a wild, touching, heartbreaking, and sometimes shocking relationship. Mintz takes readers inside John and Yoko’s inner sanctums, including their expansive seventh-floor apartment in New York’s fabled Dakota building, where Mintz was something of a semipermanent fixture, ultimately becoming the Lennons' closest and most trusted confidant. Mintz was with John and Yoko through creative highs, relationship and private challenges, fascinating interactions with the other former Beatles, and the happiest moment of their lives together, the birth of their son, Sean. He was also by Yoko’s side during the aftermath of John’s assassination on the doorstep of the Dakota—not merely a witness to it all, but a key figure in the drama of John and Yoko’s extraordinary lives.   We All Shine On is a must-read for Beatles and Lennon fans, offering an up close and intimate view of one of the most celebrated artists of the twentieth century, as well as one of the most fascinating marriages. But it’s also a relationship story that just about everyone can relate to, a tale about partnership, loyalty, and trust, and most of all, the lasting legacy of a true and deep friendship.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/laugh-more-stories-from-an-unexpected-life-by-debbie-travis--65182977https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Laugh More: Stories from an Unexpected Life Author: Debbie Travis Narrator: Debbie Travis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Lifestyle pioneer and bestselling author Debbie Travis is back with a book of ridiculously funny, touching and true stories drawn from her own life and dedicated to everyone in desperate need of a good laugh. A decade ago, Debbie Travis gave up her hectic life as the producer and star of several hit TV shows to move to a 13th-century crumbling farmhouse and vast olive orchard in Tuscany, which she and her husband then turned into the boutique hotel and wellness retreat. That was a big change in direction—and Debbie’s shared the best of what she learned on that journey in two bestselling books full of humane, heartfelt and sensible advice on pursuing your true passion (Design Your Next Chapter) and making room for happiness, health and connection (Joy: Life Lessons from a Tuscan Villa). Now, in Laugh More, Debbie digs down to what really keeps her going, especially when the going gets tough: her talent for telling a good story and sharing a good laugh. Organizing them around the passing of the seasons at the Villa Reniella, Debbie gathers up a brilliant mix of stories from her daily life and from her past—growing up headstrong in a struggling family in northern England (her mum perfected dog-food shepherd’s pie), travelling the world as a model (not so glamorous), becoming one of the first home renovation TV stars (by the seat of her overalls) and encountering the famous and the delightful (especially her wicked and wonderful grandmother, Joyce). Snortingly funny, poignant, inspirational and full of the human foibles Debbie loves so much, Laugh More is a warm and cozy book to curl up with, and even better to read aloud. And since memories are so often ignited by great eating, Debbie has added a bonus: fifteen of her favourite, seasonal recipes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765421Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Laugh More: Stories from an Unexpected Life Author: Debbie Travis Narrator: Debbie Travis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Laugh More: Stories from an Unexpected Life Author: Debbie Travis Narrator: Debbie Travis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Lifestyle pioneer and bestselling author Debbie Travis is back with a book of ridiculously funny, touching and true stories drawn from her own life and dedicated to everyone in desperate need of a good laugh. A decade ago, Debbie Travis gave up her hectic life as the producer and star of several hit TV shows to move to a 13th-century crumbling farmhouse and vast olive orchard in Tuscany, which she and her husband then turned into the boutique hotel and wellness retreat. That was a big change in direction—and Debbie’s shared the best of what she learned on that journey in two bestselling books full of humane, heartfelt and sensible advice on pursuing your true passion (Design Your Next Chapter) and making room for happiness, health and connection (Joy: Life Lessons from a Tuscan Villa). Now, in Laugh More, Debbie digs down to what really keeps her going, especially when the going gets tough: her talent for telling a good story and sharing a good laugh. Organizing them around the passing of the seasons at the Villa Reniella, Debbie gathers up a brilliant mix of stories from her daily life and from her past—growing up headstrong in a struggling family in northern England (her mum perfected dog-food shepherd’s pie), travelling the world as a model (not so glamorous), becoming one of the first home renovation TV stars (by the seat of her overalls) and encountering the famous and the delightful (especially her wicked and wonderful grandmother, Joyce). Snortingly funny, poignant, inspirational and full of the human foibles Debbie loves so much, Laugh More is a warm and cozy book to curl up with, and even better to read aloud. And since memories are so often ignited by great eating, Debbie has added a bonus: fifteen of her favourite, seasonal recipes.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/home-and-away-by-mats-sundin--65182970https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home and Away Author: Mats Sundin Narrator: Alan Carlson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In one of the last great remaining untold stories in all of sports, the Hall of Fame Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin shares for the first time an unfiltered look at playing hockey in Sweden and across North America as part of the sport’s most fabled franchises. Growing up in Sollentuna, Sweden, on the outskirts of Stockholm, Mats Sundin skated on the lake downhill from his house, a house his father had built with his own hands, on land his mother insisted on buying for their future. In the darkness of the Scandinavian winter Sundin would chase after his older brother on that lake for countless hours. Summers spent in nature with his grandparents instilled a lifelong love for the outdoors. Playing hockey in their driveway, the three Sundin brothers imagined scenes of suiting up for Sweden’s national team and scoring a game winning goal against their favoured rival, the Soviet Union. It wasn’t until his late teens that he caught the eyes of scouts and coaches from the other side of the Atlantic. At the 1989 NHL draft, eighteen-year-old Sundin was as surprised as anyone when he was selected first overall by the Quebec Nordiques. After a few years as a Nordique, Sundin was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for the highly popular Leaf captain, Wendel Clark. In his early years in Toronto, he felt both at home and from away, working extra hard to gain acceptance in the world’s toughest hockey market. Even once he was named captain, Sundin didn’t deviate from his quiet nature but instead lead by example, never asking anyone to work harder than he did. Over thirteen seasons with the team, he would learn just how fiery the cauldron of Leafs Nation could be. In Home and Away, Mats Sundin writes openly for the first time about what it was like for him to uproot his life in Sweden to embark on a long hockey career an ocean away. Home and Away is an elegiac, heartfelt, and honest story of a man who followed his passions, cherished his family, faced heavy scrutiny, and ultimately earned his way into both the hearts of fans and the hockey record books. His journey transcends the rink and shows what it means to be a quiet and unpretentious Swedish kid who went on to become one of the most accomplished players in the history of the game.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773670Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home and Away Author: Mats Sundin Narrator: Alan Carlson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home and Away Author: Mats Sundin Narrator: Alan Carlson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In one of the last great remaining untold stories in all of sports, the Hall of Fame Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin shares for the first time an unfiltered look at playing hockey in Sweden and across North America as part of the sport’s most fabled franchises. Growing up in Sollentuna, Sweden, on the outskirts of Stockholm, Mats Sundin skated on the lake downhill from his house, a house his father had built with his own hands, on land his mother insisted on buying for their future. In the darkness of the Scandinavian winter Sundin would chase after his older brother on that lake for countless hours. Summers spent in nature with his grandparents instilled a lifelong love for the outdoors. Playing hockey in their driveway, the three Sundin brothers imagined scenes of suiting up for Sweden’s national team and scoring a game winning goal against their favoured rival, the Soviet Union. It wasn’t until his late teens that he caught the eyes of scouts and coaches from the other side of the Atlantic. At the 1989 NHL draft, eighteen-year-old Sundin was as surprised as anyone when he was selected first overall by the Quebec Nordiques. After a few years as a Nordique, Sundin was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for the highly popular Leaf captain, Wendel Clark. In his early years in Toronto, he felt both at home and from away, working extra hard to gain acceptance in the world’s toughest hockey market. Even once he was named captain, Sundin didn’t deviate from his quiet nature but instead lead by example, never asking anyone to work harder than he did. Over thirteen seasons with the team, he would learn just how fiery the cauldron of Leafs Nation could be. In Home and Away, Mats Sundin writes openly for the first time about what it was like for him to uproot his life in Sweden to embark on a long hockey career an ocean away. Home and Away is an elegiac, heartfelt, and honest story of a man who followed his passions, cherished his family, faced heavy scrutiny, and ultimately earned his way into both the hearts of fans and the hockey record books. His journey transcends the rink and shows what it means to be a quiet and unpretentious Swedish kid who went on to become one of the most accomplished players in the history of the game.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wall-of-life-pictures-and-stories-from-this-marvelous-lifetime-by-shirley-maclaine--65182946https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from This Marvelous Lifetime Author: Shirley MacLaine Narrator: Shirley MacLaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 19 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Academy Award-winning actress and New York Times bestselling author Shirley MacLaine shares a dazzling memoir in photographs, chronicling her extraordinary life with 150+ images from her personal archive With more than seventy years on the silver screen, Shirley MacLaine has, as she says, seen it all, done it all, been everywhere, and met everyone. Since making her Hollywood debut in 1955, her popularity has only grown as she’s amassed a stunning collection of awards and written multiple bestselling memoirs. Now, at ninety years old, MacLaine has more stories to tell and the pictures to bring them to life. By introducing readers to her extensive photo collection—which she calls her “wall of life”—MacLaine reveals both intimate family memories and images with some of the most significant figures from entertainment and politics. With wit and charm, she reflects on each photo, exploring ambition, love, friendship, motherhood, art, political activism, curiosity, and more. Charting the course of her remarkable life and career, MacLaine shares both early memories (her childhood with her brother, Warren Beatty; her decision to leave for New York City at age sixteen; her early work dancing on Broadway) as well as remembrances of her days in the public eye (campaigning for George McGovern, traveling to meet political luminaries, starring in legendary film roles, and developing an interest in spirituality). Along the way, readers gain greater insight into figures such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bob Fosse, Jack Nicholson, the Dalai Lama, Fidel Castro, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and many more. Whether she's sharing what advice Elvis Presley asked her for, how she consoled close friend Elizabeth Taylor after the death of her husband, or which head of state she discussed UFOs with, MacLaine offers her most visual and delightful book yet, giving readers an unprecedented glance into a life like no other. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of photos from the book.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768353Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from This Marvelous Lifetime Author: Shirley MacLaine Narrator: Shirley MacLaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from This Marvelous Lifetime Author: Shirley MacLaine Narrator: Shirley MacLaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 19 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Academy Award-winning actress and New York Times bestselling author Shirley MacLaine shares a dazzling memoir in photographs, chronicling her extraordinary life with 150+ images from her personal archive With more than seventy years on the silver screen, Shirley MacLaine has, as she says, seen it all, done it all, been everywhere, and met everyone. Since making her Hollywood debut in 1955, her popularity has only grown as she’s amassed a stunning collection of awards and written multiple bestselling memoirs. Now, at ninety years old, MacLaine has more stories to tell and the pictures to bring them to life. By introducing readers to her extensive photo collection—which she calls her “wall of life”—MacLaine reveals both intimate family memories and images with some of the most significant figures from entertainment and politics. With wit and charm, she reflects on each photo, exploring ambition, love, friendship, motherhood, art, political activism, curiosity, and more. Charting the course of her remarkable life and career, MacLaine shares both early memories (her childhood with her brother, Warren Beatty; her decision to leave for New York City at age sixteen; her early work dancing on Broadway) as well as remembrances of her days in the public eye (campaigning for George McGovern, traveling to meet political luminaries, starring in legendary film roles, and developing an interest in spirituality). Along the way, readers gain greater insight into figures such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bob Fosse, Jack Nicholson, the Dalai Lama, Fidel Castro, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and many more. Whether she's sharing what advice Elvis Presley asked her for, how she consoled close friend Elizabeth Taylor after the death of her husband, or which head of state she discussed UFOs with, MacLaine offers her most visual and delightful book yet, giving readers an unprecedented glance into a life like no other. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of photos from the book.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/patriot-a-memoir-by-alexei-navalny--65182923https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patriot: A Memoir Author: Alexei Navalny Narrator: Matthew Goode Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. 'Patriot is by turns funny, fiery, reflective and tragic, laced with Navalny’s trademark wry humor and idealism....a gutting personal account from a husband and father facing the reality that he will never be with his family again.'—The New York Times 'Honest'—The Washington Post • 'Shocking'—The Atlantic • 'Uplifting.' —Vanity Fair 'A testament to resilience' —Associated Press • 'Will be seen as a historic text.'—The Economist Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his total conviction that change cannot be resisted—and will come.    In vivid, page-turning detail, including never-before-seen correspondence from prison, Navalny recounts, among other things, his political career, the many attempts on his life, and the lives of the people closest to him, and the relentless campaign he and his team waged against an increasingly dictatorial regime.    Written with the passion, wit, candor, and bravery for which he was justly acclaimed, Patriot is Navalny’s final letter to the world: a moving account of his last years spent in the most brutal prison on earth; a reminder of why the principles of individual freedom matter so deeply; and a rousing call to continue the work for which he sacrificed his life. “This book is a testament not only to Alexei’s life, but to his unwavering commitment to the fight against dictatorship—a fight he gave everything for, including his life. Through its pages, readers will come to know the man I loved deeply—a man of profound integrity and unyielding courage. Sharing his story will not only honor his memory but also inspire others to stand up for what is right and to never lose sight of the values that truly matter.' —Yulia Navalnaya]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771514Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patriot: A Memoir Author: Alexei Navalny Narrator: Matthew Goode Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 22,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patriot: A Memoir Author: Alexei Navalny Narrator: Matthew Goode Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. 'Patriot is by turns funny, fiery, reflective and tragic, laced with Navalny’s trademark wry humor and idealism....a gutting personal account from a husband and father facing the reality that he will never be with his family again.'—The New York Times 'Honest'—The Washington Post • 'Shocking'—The Atlantic • 'Uplifting.' —Vanity Fair 'A testament to resilience' —Associated Press • 'Will be seen as a historic text.'—The Economist Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family, his commitment to challenging a world super-power determined to silence him, and his total conviction that change cannot be resisted—and will come.    In vivid, page-turning detail, including never-before-seen correspondence from prison, Navalny recounts, among other things, his political career, the many attempts on his life, and the lives of the people closest to him, and the relentless campaign he and his team waged against an increasingly dictatorial regime.    Written with the passion, wit, candor, and bravery for which he was justly acclaimed, Patriot is Navalny’s final letter to the world: a moving account of his last years spent in the most brutal prison on earth; a reminder of why the principles of individual freedom matter so deeply; and a rousing call to continue the work for which he sacrificed his life. “This book is a testament not only to Alexei’s life, but to his unwavering commitment to the fight against dictatorship—a fight he gave everything for, including his life. Through its pages, readers will come to know the man I loved deeply—a man of profound integrity and unyielding courage. Sharing his story will not only honor his memory but also inspire others to stand up for what is right and to never lose sight of the values that truly matter.' —Yulia Navalnaya]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/patriot-by-alexei-navalny--65182916https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: PATRIOT Author: Alexei Navalny Narrator: Matthew Goode Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Patriot is the exhilarating life story of one of the most fearless and inspiring figures of our time, who became a beacon to millions and the sole political threat to Vladimir Putin. This is Alexei Navalny’s life in his own words: his Soviet childhood, political awakening, his marriage and beloved family, his total commitment to taking on a corrupt regime and his enduring love of Russia and its people. His 2020 poisoning by the Russian security services was a global news event. In 2024 he died in a brutal Siberian prison. He began writing Patriot whilst recovering from his poisoning; it ends with his prison diaries, seen here for the first time. We witness the growth of his nationwide support. We see his many arrests and harassment and, in stunning detail, the attempt on his life. We understand why he felt he had to return to Russia. In prison, he shows a spirit and a sense of humour that cannot be crushed. Patriot is as dramatic as its author’s life –passionate that good and freedom will prevail.It is Alexei Navalny’s final letter to the world, a rousing call to continue his work, an unforgettably positive account of a life that will inspire every reader. © Alexei Navalny 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773184Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: PATRIOT Author: Alexei Navalny Narrator: Matthew Goode Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: PATRIOT Author: Alexei Navalny Narrator: Matthew Goode Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Patriot is the exhilarating life story of one of the most fearless and inspiring figures of our time, who became a beacon to millions and the sole political threat to Vladimir Putin. This is Alexei Navalny’s life in his own words: his Soviet childhood, political awakening, his marriage and beloved family, his total commitment to taking on a corrupt regime and his enduring love of Russia and its people. His 2020 poisoning by the Russian security services was a global news event. In 2024 he died in a brutal Siberian prison. He began writing Patriot whilst recovering from his poisoning; it ends with his prison diaries, seen here for the first time. We witness the growth of his nationwide support. We see his many arrests and harassment and, in stunning detail, the attempt on his life. We understand why he felt he had to return to Russia. In prison, he shows a spirit and a sense of humour that cannot be crushed. Patriot is as dramatic as its author’s life –passionate that good and freedom will prevail.It is Alexei Navalny’s final letter to the world, a rousing call to continue his work, an unforgettably positive account of a life that will inspire every reader. © Alexei Navalny 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-place-of-tides-by-james-rebanks--65182914https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Place of Tides Author: James Rebanks Narrator: Bryan Dick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 17, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. We are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old trade that had once made men and women rich, but had long been in decline. Still, somehow, she seemed to be hanging on. Back at home, Rebanks couldn’t stop thinking about the woman on the rocks. She was fierce and otherworldly – and yet strangely familiar. Years passed. Then, one day, he wrote her a letter, asking if he could return. Bring work clothes, she replied, and good boots, and come quickly: her health was failing. And so he travelled to the edge of the Arctic to witness her last season on the island. This is the story of that season. It is the story of a unique and ancient landscape, and of the woman who brought it back to life. It traces the pattern of her work from the rough, isolated toil of bitter winter, building little wooden huts that will protect the ducks come spring; to the elation of the endless summer light, when the birds leave behind their precious down for the woman to gather, like feathered gold. Slowly, Rebanks begins to understand that this woman and her world are not at all what he had previously thought. As the weeks pass, what began as a journey of escape becomes an extraordinary lesson in self-knowledge and forgiveness. © James Rebanks 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775962Thu, 17 Oct 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Place of Tides Author: James Rebanks Narrator: Bryan Dick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 17, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Place of Tides Author: James Rebanks Narrator: Bryan Dick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: October 17, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. We are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old trade that had once made men and women rich, but had long been in decline. Still, somehow, she seemed to be hanging on. Back at home, Rebanks couldn’t stop thinking about the woman on the rocks. She was fierce and otherworldly – and yet strangely familiar. Years passed. Then, one day, he wrote her a letter, asking if he could return. Bring work clothes, she replied, and good boots, and come quickly: her health was failing. And so he travelled to the edge of the Arctic to witness her last season on the island. This is the story of that season. It is the story of a unique and ancient landscape, and of the woman who brought it back to life. It traces the pattern of her work from the rough, isolated toil of bitter winter, building little wooden huts that will protect the ducks come spring; to the elation of the endless summer light, when the birds leave behind their precious down for the woman to gather, like feathered gold. Slowly, Rebanks begins to understand that this woman and her world are not at all what he had previously thought. As the weeks pass, what began as a journey of escape becomes an extraordinary lesson in self-knowledge and forgiveness. © James Rebanks 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mad-wife-a-memoir-by-kate-hamilton--65183104https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mad Wife: A Memoir Author: Kate Hamilton Narrator: Amy Landon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Submitting to unwanted sex destroyed Kate’s love for her husband But she considered killing herself before she could imagine leaving In this electrifying literary memoir, Kate Hamilton deftly traces her complicated journey from loving wife to gaslit victim to furious feminist with an urgent goal: to expose how women are pressured to uphold the institutions of marriage and family, no matter the cost. In the tradition of Know My Name and The Argonauts, Hamilton braids her own story with cultural criticism to argue that we must face the misogyny lurking in the shadows of marriage in the 21st century. She examines the beliefs and conditioning that held her in an increasingly destructive marriage and unflinchingly documents what she did to keep her family together—therapy, unwanted sex with her husband, swinging, affairs, an abortion—without always knowing what she freely chose. And she considers the damage that was done, to herself and others, until she could acknowledge that to save herself and her sons, she had to destroy her marriage. Emotionally intense and timely, Mad Wife interrogates how marriage and the institutions that support it provide the perfect ecosystem for abuse of women and children, endangering their lives and denying them autonomy—all in the service of men’s desires.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743424Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mad Wife: A Memoir Author: Kate Hamilton Narrator: Amy Landon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mad Wife: A Memoir Author: Kate Hamilton Narrator: Amy Landon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Submitting to unwanted sex destroyed Kate’s love for her husband But she considered killing herself before she could imagine leaving In this electrifying literary memoir, Kate Hamilton deftly traces her complicated journey from loving wife to gaslit victim to furious feminist with an urgent goal: to expose how women are pressured to uphold the institutions of marriage and family, no matter the cost. In the tradition of Know My Name and The Argonauts, Hamilton braids her own story with cultural criticism to argue that we must face the misogyny lurking in the shadows of marriage in the 21st century. She examines the beliefs and conditioning that held her in an increasingly destructive marriage and unflinchingly documents what she did to keep her family together—therapy, unwanted sex with her husband, swinging, affairs, an abortion—without always knowing what she freely chose. And she considers the damage that was done, to herself and others, until she could acknowledge that to save herself and her sons, she had to destroy her marriage. Emotionally intense and timely, Mad Wife interrogates how marriage and the institutions that support it provide the perfect ecosystem for abuse of women and children, endangering their lives and denying them autonomy—all in the service of men’s desires.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/still-life-with-remorse-by-maira-kalman--65183098https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still Life with Remorse Author: Maira Kalman Narrator: Maira Kalman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty, My Favorite Things, and Women Holding Things comes a moving meditation on remorse, joy, ancestry, and memory. Maira Kalman’s most autobiographical and intimate work to date, Still Life with Remorse is a beautiful collection of deeply personal stories in the vein of her and Alex Kalman’s acclaimed Women Holding Things. Tracing her family’s story from her grandfather’s birth in Belarus and emigration to Tel Aviv—where she was born—Maira considers her unique family history, illuminating the complex relationship between recollection, regret, happiness, and heritage. In addition to vignettes exploring her Israeli and Jewish roots, Kalman includes short stories about other great artists, writers, and composers, including Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Gustav Mahler, and Robert Schumann. Through these narratives, Kalman uses her signature wit and tenderness to reveal how family history plays an influential role in all of our work, lives, and perspectives. A feat of storytelling and vulnerability, Still Life with Remorse explores the profound hidden in the quotidian, and illuminates the powerful universal truths in our most personal family stories.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743477Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still Life with Remorse Author: Maira Kalman Narrator: Maira Kalman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 15,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still Life with Remorse Author: Maira Kalman Narrator: Maira Kalman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty, My Favorite Things, and Women Holding Things comes a moving meditation on remorse, joy, ancestry, and memory. Maira Kalman’s most autobiographical and intimate work to date, Still Life with Remorse is a beautiful collection of deeply personal stories in the vein of her and Alex Kalman’s acclaimed Women Holding Things. Tracing her family’s story from her grandfather’s birth in Belarus and emigration to Tel Aviv—where she was born—Maira considers her unique family history, illuminating the complex relationship between recollection, regret, happiness, and heritage. In addition to vignettes exploring her Israeli and Jewish roots, Kalman includes short stories about other great artists, writers, and composers, including Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Gustav Mahler, and Robert Schumann. Through these narratives, Kalman uses her signature wit and tenderness to reveal how family history plays an influential role in all of our work, lives, and perspectives. A feat of storytelling and vulnerability, Still Life with Remorse explores the profound hidden in the quotidian, and illuminates the powerful universal truths in our most personal family stories.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/it-gets-better-except-when-it-gets-worse-and-other-unsolicited-truths-i-wish-someone-had-told-me-by-nicole-maines--65183097https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752236 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Gets Better . . . Except When It Gets Worse: And Other Unsolicited Truths I Wish Someone Had Told Me Author: Nicole Maines Narrator: Nicole Maines Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The irreverent and candid coming-of-age memoir of Nicole Maines, trailblazing trans actress, activist—and sometimes someone who’s just existing, which is actually pretty hard! Nicole Maines knows a little something about “happily ever after”—not just because she’s a self-professed expert in the Disney princess canon, but because she’s lived it. After coming out at an early age, her family had not only to educate themselves, but also those around them as they fought and won a landmark court case in the state of Maine before she graduated high school. She made it into college, got the guy, and finally had The Surgery™. She achieved her lifelong goal of becoming an actress when she landed a major role in the CW’s Supergirl, playing television’s very first live-action transgender superhero. Cue sappy music and sunsets, because we’ve got ourselves a happy ending, right? Ha! As if. For the first time, in her own words, Nicole tells the story of her journey from childhood in rural Maine to the spotlights of Hollywood, sharing the lessons she’s learned along the way. With clever wit and unflinching honesty, she tackles some of the most insidious messaging absorbed by queer kids and all young women, from the idea that any one thing can (or should) ever really “fix” you, to wondering what’s wrong with you when things don’t always feel better, and reminding us that, sometimes, a happy ending is only the beginning of the story.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752236Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752236 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Gets Better . . . Except When It Gets Worse: And Other Unsolicited Truths I Wish Someone Had Told Me Author: Nicole Maines Narrator: Nicole Maines...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752236 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It Gets Better . . . Except When It Gets Worse: And Other Unsolicited Truths I Wish Someone Had Told Me Author: Nicole Maines Narrator: Nicole Maines Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The irreverent and candid coming-of-age memoir of Nicole Maines, trailblazing trans actress, activist—and sometimes someone who’s just existing, which is actually pretty hard! Nicole Maines knows a little something about “happily ever after”—not just because she’s a self-professed expert in the Disney princess canon, but because she’s lived it. After coming out at an early age, her family had not only to educate themselves, but also those around them as they fought and won a landmark court case in the state of Maine before she graduated high school. She made it into college, got the guy, and finally had The Surgery™. She achieved her lifelong goal of becoming an actress when she landed a major role in the CW’s Supergirl, playing television’s very first live-action transgender superhero. Cue sappy music and sunsets, because we’ve got ourselves a happy ending, right? Ha! As if. For the first time, in her own words, Nicole tells the story of her journey from childhood in rural Maine to the spotlights of Hollywood, sharing the lessons she’s learned along the way. With clever wit and unflinching honesty, she tackles some of the most insidious messaging absorbed by queer kids and all young women, from the idea that any one thing can (or should) ever really “fix” you, to wondering what’s wrong with you when things don’t always feel better, and reminding us that, sometimes, a happy ending is only the beginning of the story.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/even-after-everything-the-spiritual-practice-of-knowing-the-risks-and-loving-anyway-by-stephanie-duncan-smith--65183048https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway Author: Stephanie Duncan Smith Narrator: Stephanie Duncan Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A “special work” (J. S. Park) that honors life’s deep griefs, great joys, and unsettled in-betweens through every sacred season, assuring us that we are never alone “Oh, I love this book. . . . Honest and hopeful, masterfully written, both a balm and a bolstering.”—Shauna Niequist, New York Times bestselling author Exquisitely told and urgently resonant, Even After Everything is a love letter to anyone who has opened their heart only to be hurt. Stephanie Duncan Smith proposes that it’s not through grit or forced resilience that you will find a way forward, but through receiving the full spectrum of our lives, just as we receive the empathy of God-with-us in every moment. Duncan Smith’s disorientation began when she lost her first pregnancy on the winter solstice, just as the world readied to celebrate its most historic birth on Christmas. Then a new yet uncertain pregnancy unfolded parallel to the pandemic, until nearly one year to the day of her loss, she gave birth to her daughter at the peak of mortality in their city. These contradictions compelled Duncan Smith into a desperate search for steadiness, which she found in the liturgical year as a grounding force and the promise that we are seen by God in every season. In Even After Everything, Duncan Smith traverses the church’s circle of time and reorients herself and us in the sacred story told through Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, and Ordinary Time. She reveals the sacred year—through its endless interplay of love, loss, risk, and resurrection—as a mirror to the human experience, an anchor for turbulent times, and a womb strong enough to encompass every human care. At its heart lives the promise of God-with-us, inviting us into the spiritual practice of taking courage in the trust that we are accompanied in everything, and love will always have the last word.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752208Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway Author: Stephanie Duncan Smith Narrator: Stephanie Duncan Smith...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway Author: Stephanie Duncan Smith Narrator: Stephanie Duncan Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A “special work” (J. S. Park) that honors life’s deep griefs, great joys, and unsettled in-betweens through every sacred season, assuring us that we are never alone “Oh, I love this book. . . . Honest and hopeful, masterfully written, both a balm and a bolstering.”—Shauna Niequist, New York Times bestselling author Exquisitely told and urgently resonant, Even After Everything is a love letter to anyone who has opened their heart only to be hurt. Stephanie Duncan Smith proposes that it’s not through grit or forced resilience that you will find a way forward, but through receiving the full spectrum of our lives, just as we receive the empathy of God-with-us in every moment. Duncan Smith’s disorientation began when she lost her first pregnancy on the winter solstice, just as the world readied to celebrate its most historic birth on Christmas. Then a new yet uncertain pregnancy unfolded parallel to the pandemic, until nearly one year to the day of her loss, she gave birth to her daughter at the peak of mortality in their city. These contradictions compelled Duncan Smith into a desperate search for steadiness, which she found in the liturgical year as a grounding force and the promise that we are seen by God in every season. In Even After Everything, Duncan Smith traverses the church’s circle of time and reorients herself and us in the sacred story told through Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, and Ordinary Time. She reveals the sacred year—through its endless interplay of love, loss, risk, and resurrection—as a mirror to the human experience, an anchor for turbulent times, and a womb strong enough to encompass every human care. At its heart lives the promise of God-with-us, inviting us into the spiritual practice of taking courage in the trust that we are accompanied in everything, and love will always have the last word.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sonny-boy-a-memoir-by-al-pacino--65183035https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761100 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sonny Boy: A Memoir Author: Al Pacino Narrator: Al Pacino Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies—The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon—that were not just successes but landmarks in the history of film. Those performances became legendary and changed his life forever. Not since Marlon Brando and James Dean in the late 1950s had an actor landed in the culture with such force. But Pacino was in his midthirties by then, and had already lived several lives. A fixture of avant-garde theater in New York, he had led a bohemian existence, working odd jobs to support his craft. He was raised by a fiercely loving but mentally unwell mother and her parents after his father left them when he was young, but in a real sense he was raised by the streets of the South Bronx, and by the troop of buccaneering young friends he ran with, whose spirits never left him. After a teacher recognized his acting promise and pushed him toward New York’s fabled High School of Performing Arts, the die was cast. In good times and bad, in poverty and in wealth and in poverty again, through pain and joy, acting was his lifeline, its community his tribe. Sonny Boy is the memoir of a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide. All the great roles, the essential collaborations, and the important relationships are given their full due, as is the vexed marriage between creativity and commerce at the highest levels. The book’s golden thread, however, is the spirit of love and purpose. Love can fail you, and you can be defeated in your ambitions—the same lights that shine bright can also dim. But Al Pacino was lucky enough to fall deeply in love with a craft before he had the foggiest idea of any of its earthly rewards, and he never fell out of love. That has made all the difference. ‘A 5 ft 7in Hollywood giant … Al Pacino’s eccentric memoir really preserves his Bronx-reared turn of phrase’ The Times 'Surprising, introspective … His youth was grim, his money troubles serious, his fame unlikely. Al Pacino’s friends all died in poverty. How did he survive?’ Telegraph ‘This book is a beautiful trip … (from) one of the world’s greatest, most influential actors for more than 50 years. He’s audacious. He’s outrageous. He’s Al Pacino’ The New York Times © Al Pacino 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761100Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761100 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sonny Boy: A Memoir Author: Al Pacino Narrator: Al Pacino Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761100 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sonny Boy: A Memoir Author: Al Pacino Narrator: Al Pacino Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies—The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon—that were not just successes but landmarks in the history of film. Those performances became legendary and changed his life forever. Not since Marlon Brando and James Dean in the late 1950s had an actor landed in the culture with such force. But Pacino was in his midthirties by then, and had already lived several lives. A fixture of avant-garde theater in New York, he had led a bohemian existence, working odd jobs to support his craft. He was raised by a fiercely loving but mentally unwell mother and her parents after his father left them when he was young, but in a real sense he was raised by the streets of the South Bronx, and by the troop of buccaneering young friends he ran with, whose spirits never left him. After a teacher recognized his acting promise and pushed him toward New York’s fabled High School of Performing Arts, the die was cast. In good times and bad, in poverty and in wealth and in poverty again, through pain and joy, acting was his lifeline, its community his tribe. Sonny Boy is the memoir of a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide. All the great roles, the essential collaborations, and the important relationships are given their full due, as is the vexed marriage between creativity and commerce at the highest levels. The book’s golden thread, however, is the spirit of love and purpose. Love can fail you, and you can be defeated in your ambitions—the same lights that shine bright can also dim. But Al Pacino was lucky enough to fall deeply in love with a craft before he had the foggiest idea of any of its earthly rewards, and he never fell out of love. That has made all the difference. ‘A 5 ft 7in Hollywood giant … Al Pacino’s eccentric memoir really preserves his Bronx-reared turn of phrase’ The Times 'Surprising, introspective … His youth was grim, his money troubles serious, his fame unlikely. Al Pacino’s friends all died in poverty. How did he survive?’ Telegraph ‘This book is a beautiful trip … (from) one of the world’s greatest, most influential actors for more than 50 years. He’s audacious. He’s outrageous. He’s Al Pacino’ The New York Times © Al Pacino 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-i-ate-in-one-year-and-related-thoughts-by-stanley-tucci--65183023https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754924 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What I Ate in One Year: (and related thoughts) Author: Stanley Tucci Narrator: Stanley Tucci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Stanley Tucci, award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author, a deliciously unique memoir chronicling a year’s worth of meals. “Sharing food is one of the purest human acts.” Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci’s life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between scene rehearsals and costume fittings, to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime. Now, in What I Ate in One Year Tucci records twelve months of eating—in restaurants, kitchens, film sets, press junkets, at home and abroad, with friends, with family, with strangers, and occasionally just by himself. Ranging from the mouth-wateringly memorable to the comfortingly domestic and to the infuriatingly inedible, the meals memorialised in this diary are a prism for him to reflect on the ways his life, and his family, are constantly evolving. Through food he marks—and mourns—the passing of time, the loss of loved ones, and steels himself for what is to come. Whether it’s duck a l’orange eaten with fellow actors and cooked by singing Carmelite nuns, steaks barbequed at a gathering with friends, or meatballs made by his mother and son and shared at the table with three generations of his family, these meals give shape and add emotional richness to his days. What I Ate in One Year is a funny, poignant, heartfelt, and deeply satisfying serving of memories and meals and an irresistible celebration of the profound role that food plays in all our lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754924Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754924 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What I Ate in One Year: (and related thoughts) Author: Stanley Tucci Narrator: Stanley Tucci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754924 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What I Ate in One Year: (and related thoughts) Author: Stanley Tucci Narrator: Stanley Tucci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Stanley Tucci, award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author, a deliciously unique memoir chronicling a year’s worth of meals. “Sharing food is one of the purest human acts.” Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci’s life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between scene rehearsals and costume fittings, to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime. Now, in What I Ate in One Year Tucci records twelve months of eating—in restaurants, kitchens, film sets, press junkets, at home and abroad, with friends, with family, with strangers, and occasionally just by himself. Ranging from the mouth-wateringly memorable to the comfortingly domestic and to the infuriatingly inedible, the meals memorialised in this diary are a prism for him to reflect on the ways his life, and his family, are constantly evolving. Through food he marks—and mourns—the passing of time, the loss of loved ones, and steels himself for what is to come. Whether it’s duck a l’orange eaten with fellow actors and cooked by singing Carmelite nuns, steaks barbequed at a gathering with friends, or meatballs made by his mother and son and shared at the table with three generations of his family, these meals give shape and add emotional richness to his days. What I Ate in One Year is a funny, poignant, heartfelt, and deeply satisfying serving of memories and meals and an irresistible celebration of the profound role that food plays in all our lives.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mama-a-queer-black-woman-s-story-of-a-family-lost-and-found-by-nikkya-hargrove--65183016https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mama: A Queer Black Woman's Story of a Family Lost and Found Author: Nikkya Hargrove Narrator: Grace Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this searing and uplifting memoir, a young Black queer woman fresh out of college adopts her baby brother after their incarcerated mother dies, determined to create the kind of family she never had. Growing up, Nikkya Hargrove’s mother was in and out of prison. Hargrove, one of the 5 million children dealing with the effects of an incarcerated parent, spent a good portion of her childhood in prison visiting rooms. After her baby brother was born, Hargrove decided to fight for custody–even though she had only just graduated college. We see how she is subjected to preconceived notions that she, a Black, queer, young woman, cannot handle the responsibility. She shares about the shame she feels accepting food stamps, her family’s reaction to her coming out, and the joy she experiences when she meets the woman who will become her wife. Whether she’s clashing with her brother's biological father or battling for Jonathan’s education rights after he’s diagnosed with ADHD and autism, this is a woman who won’t give up.     Hargrove’s memoir picks up where Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy left off, exploring generational trauma and pulling back the curtain on family court and poverty in America. Moving and inspiring, Mama is an ode to motherhood and identity, to never giving up, and to finding strength in family and community.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755092Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mama: A Queer Black Woman's Story of a Family Lost and Found Author: Nikkya Hargrove Narrator: Grace Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755092 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mama: A Queer Black Woman's Story of a Family Lost and Found Author: Nikkya Hargrove Narrator: Grace Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this searing and uplifting memoir, a young Black queer woman fresh out of college adopts her baby brother after their incarcerated mother dies, determined to create the kind of family she never had. Growing up, Nikkya Hargrove’s mother was in and out of prison. Hargrove, one of the 5 million children dealing with the effects of an incarcerated parent, spent a good portion of her childhood in prison visiting rooms. After her baby brother was born, Hargrove decided to fight for custody–even though she had only just graduated college. We see how she is subjected to preconceived notions that she, a Black, queer, young woman, cannot handle the responsibility. She shares about the shame she feels accepting food stamps, her family’s reaction to her coming out, and the joy she experiences when she meets the woman who will become her wife. Whether she’s clashing with her brother's biological father or battling for Jonathan’s education rights after he’s diagnosed with ADHD and autism, this is a woman who won’t give up.     Hargrove’s memoir picks up where Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy left off, exploring generational trauma and pulling back the curtain on family court and poverty in America. Moving and inspiring, Mama is an ode to motherhood and identity, to never giving up, and to finding strength in family and community.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sonny-boy-a-memoir-by-al-pacino--65182986https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sonny Boy: A Memoir Author: Al Pacino Narrator: Al Pacino Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Instant New York Times Bestseller “The book is a beautiful trip.” (New York Times Magazine) • “Soulful . . .  Feels like hanging out within a history of American movies over the last 50 years.” (Los Angeles Times) • “Startlingly cinematic ... A fine memoir.” (The Guardian) From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies—The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon—that were not just successes but landmarks in the history of film. Those performances became legendary and changed his life forever. Not since Marlon Brando and James Dean in the late 1950s had an actor landed in the culture with such force. But Pacino was in his midthirties by then, and had already lived several lives. A fixture of avant-garde theater in New York, he had led a bohemian existence, working odd jobs to support his craft. He was raised by a fiercely loving but mentally unwell mother and her parents after his father left them when he was young, but in a real sense he was raised by the streets of the South Bronx, and by the troop of buccaneering young friends he ran with, whose spirits never left him. After a teacher recognized his acting promise and pushed him toward New York’s fabled High School of Performing Arts, the die was cast. In good times and bad, in poverty and in wealth and in poverty again, through pain and joy, acting was his lifeline, its community his tribe.  Sonny Boy is the memoir of a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide. All the great roles, the essential collaborations, and the important relationships are given their full due, as is the vexed marriage between creativity and commerce at the highest levels. The book’s golden thread, however, is the spirit of love and purpose. Love can fail you, and you can be defeated in your ambitions—the same lights that shine bright can also dim. But Al Pacino was lucky enough to fall deeply in love with a craft before he had the foggiest idea of any of its earthly rewards, and he never fell out of love. That has made all the difference.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761098Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sonny Boy: A Memoir Author: Al Pacino Narrator: Al Pacino Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sonny Boy: A Memoir Author: Al Pacino Narrator: Al Pacino Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Instant New York Times Bestseller “The book is a beautiful trip.” (New York Times Magazine) • “Soulful . . .  Feels like hanging out within a history of American movies over the last 50 years.” (Los Angeles Times) • “Startlingly cinematic ... A fine memoir.” (The Guardian) From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies—The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon—that were not just successes but landmarks in the history of film. Those performances became legendary and changed his life forever. Not since Marlon Brando and James Dean in the late 1950s had an actor landed in the culture with such force. But Pacino was in his midthirties by then, and had already lived several lives. A fixture of avant-garde theater in New York, he had led a bohemian existence, working odd jobs to support his craft. He was raised by a fiercely loving but mentally unwell mother and her parents after his father left them when he was young, but in a real sense he was raised by the streets of the South Bronx, and by the troop of buccaneering young friends he ran with, whose spirits never left him. After a teacher recognized his acting promise and pushed him toward New York’s fabled High School of Performing Arts, the die was cast. In good times and bad, in poverty and in wealth and in poverty again, through pain and joy, acting was his lifeline, its community his tribe.  Sonny Boy is the memoir of a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide. All the great roles, the essential collaborations, and the important relationships are given their full due, as is the vexed marriage between creativity and commerce at the highest levels. The book’s golden thread, however, is the spirit of love and purpose. Love can fail you, and you can be defeated in your ambitions—the same lights that shine bright can also dim. But Al Pacino was lucky enough to fall deeply in love with a craft before he had the foggiest idea of any of its earthly rewards, and he never fell out of love. That has made all the difference.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dreamer-my-life-on-the-edge-by-nazem-kadri--65182936https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dreamer: My Life On the Edge Author: Nazem Kadri Narrator: Nazem Kadri Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An outspoken, inspirational memoir from a charismatic athlete in the spotlight, Dreamer is the moving story of the first Muslim hockey player to win the Stanley Cup, and the impossible dreams he made a reality. No one who knows the game is unfamiliar with the story of the NHL’s  first Muslim Stanley Cup winner, Nazem Kadri, nor does anyone doubt his warmth and openness in front of a microphone, or his eagerness to challenge the next generation of Muslim athletes. He is a league All-Star, a highlight-reel player, and someone who has been called upon to be the face of his community from the moment he put on skates. Nazem Kadri was a top-ten draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs, chosen not only for his elite skills but because he would reflect Toronto’s immense diversity and huge Muslim population. And he was soon a fan favourite, not only with a new generation of diverse fans, but with traditionalists too, who admired his willingness to play the game with old-school toughness.  In the end, he was traded to Colorado as management sought to shake up the team. But it was the Avalanche, not the Leafs, who benefitted most, and Toronto fans missed him. When Colorado won the Stanley Cup in 2022, Kadri (by then a fan favourite in Denver) was a clutch player in high-pressure games. Today he is a veteran leader with the Calgary Flames, and still making the highlight reels.  But the core of Kadri's story is what happened off the ice—both shocking and heartwarming. Kadri faced brutal anti-Muslim harassment during Colorado's Cup run from Blues fans and received incredible support from Denver fans. When a controversy arose about an uncalled penalty on the championship-winning goal, this founding member of the league’s Hockey Diversity Alliance used the opportunity to make humorous t-shirts, which raised over $250,000 for the Kadri Foundation. And when he had his traditional day with the Stanley Cup, he took it to the mosque in his hometown of London, Ontario, along with the message that the highest success, not just in hockey but in life, is a destiny any of us can choose.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775542Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dreamer: My Life On the Edge Author: Nazem Kadri Narrator: Nazem Kadri Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dreamer: My Life On the Edge Author: Nazem Kadri Narrator: Nazem Kadri Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: October 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An outspoken, inspirational memoir from a charismatic athlete in the spotlight, Dreamer is the moving story of the first Muslim hockey player to win the Stanley Cup, and the impossible dreams he made a reality. No one who knows the game is unfamiliar with the story of the NHL’s  first Muslim Stanley Cup winner, Nazem Kadri, nor does anyone doubt his warmth and openness in front of a microphone, or his eagerness to challenge the next generation of Muslim athletes. He is a league All-Star, a highlight-reel player, and someone who has been called upon to be the face of his community from the moment he put on skates. Nazem Kadri was a top-ten draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs, chosen not only for his elite skills but because he would reflect Toronto’s immense diversity and huge Muslim population. And he was soon a fan favourite, not only with a new generation of diverse fans, but with traditionalists too, who admired his willingness to play the game with old-school toughness.  In the end, he was traded to Colorado as management sought to shake up the team. But it was the Avalanche, not the Leafs, who benefitted most, and Toronto fans missed him. When Colorado won the Stanley Cup in 2022, Kadri (by then a fan favourite in Denver) was a clutch player in high-pressure games. Today he is a veteran leader with the Calgary Flames, and still making the highlight reels.  But the core of Kadri's story is what happened off the ice—both shocking and heartwarming. Kadri faced brutal anti-Muslim harassment during Colorado's Cup run from Blues fans and received incredible support from Denver fans. When a controversy arose about an uncalled penalty on the championship-winning goal, this founding member of the league’s Hockey Diversity Alliance used the opportunity to make humorous t-shirts, which raised over $250,000 for the Kadri Foundation. And when he had his traditional day with the Stanley Cup, he took it to the mosque in his hometown of London, Ontario, along with the message that the highest success, not just in hockey but in life, is a destiny any of us can choose.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-i-ate-in-one-year-and-related-thoughts-by-stanley-tucci--65183076https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755927 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What I Ate in One Year: (And related thoughts) Author: Stanley Tucci Narrator: Stanley Tucci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Sharing food is one of the purest human acts' Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci’s life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between rehearsals and costume fittings, to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime. Now, in What I Ate in One Year Tucci records twelve months of eating, in restaurants, kitchens, film sets, press junkets, at home and abroad, with friends, with family, with strangers, and occasionally just by himself. Ranging from the mouth-wateringly memorable, to the comfortingly domestic, to the infuriatingly inedible, the meals memorialized in this diary are a prism through which he reflects on the ways his life, and his family, are constantly evolving. Through food he marks – and mourns – the passing of time, the loss of loved ones, and prepares himself for what is to come. Whether it’s duck à l’orange eaten with fellow actors and cooked by singing Carmelite nuns, steaks barbecued at a gathering with friends, or meatballs made by his mother and son and shared at the table with three generations of his family, these meals give shape and richness to his days. 'A hugely entertaining glimpse into a well-lived life full of fun, food, family, travel, work, passions and love. I adored every page' Dolly Alderton 'This is a man who knows both how to eat and how to live' Guardian ‘Everyone wants to spend a day and share a meal with Stanley Tucci and this is the perfect way to do it … A true joy’ Ina Garten ‘An absolute delight. Tucci's wit is dry as a martini; his observations as sharp as lemon tart, but really what I most adore about his writing is his ability to reach across the table and guide the reader not just through mealtimes, but through life itself’ Elizabeth Day © Stanley Tucci 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755927Thu, 10 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755927 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What I Ate in One Year: (And related thoughts) Author: Stanley Tucci Narrator: Stanley Tucci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755927 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What I Ate in One Year: (And related thoughts) Author: Stanley Tucci Narrator: Stanley Tucci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Sharing food is one of the purest human acts' Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci’s life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between rehearsals and costume fittings, to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime. Now, in What I Ate in One Year Tucci records twelve months of eating, in restaurants, kitchens, film sets, press junkets, at home and abroad, with friends, with family, with strangers, and occasionally just by himself. Ranging from the mouth-wateringly memorable, to the comfortingly domestic, to the infuriatingly inedible, the meals memorialized in this diary are a prism through which he reflects on the ways his life, and his family, are constantly evolving. Through food he marks – and mourns – the passing of time, the loss of loved ones, and prepares himself for what is to come. Whether it’s duck à l’orange eaten with fellow actors and cooked by singing Carmelite nuns, steaks barbecued at a gathering with friends, or meatballs made by his mother and son and shared at the table with three generations of his family, these meals give shape and richness to his days. 'A hugely entertaining glimpse into a well-lived life full of fun, food, family, travel, work, passions and love. I adored every page' Dolly Alderton 'This is a man who knows both how to eat and how to live' Guardian ‘Everyone wants to spend a day and share a meal with Stanley Tucci and this is the perfect way to do it … A true joy’ Ina Garten ‘An absolute delight. Tucci's wit is dry as a martini; his observations as sharp as lemon tart, but really what I most adore about his writing is his ability to reach across the table and guide the reader not just through mealtimes, but through life itself’ Elizabeth Day © Stanley Tucci 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/never-the-autobiography-by-rick-astley--65183034https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never: The Autobiography Author: Rick Astley Narrator: Rick Astley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Read by the author, Rick Astley 'I hadn’t been very comfortable with fame, but I didn’t know what to do with myself after I was famous. On the surface, I was just hugely relieved to be shot of the whole thing. I felt like I’d been let off the hook . . . But underneath that, I was pretty miserable.' When 'Never Gonna Give You Up’ propelled Rick Astley into the pop stratosphere, it changed his life forever. Nothing could have prepared the young, unassuming lad from Lancashire for what was in store for him. This is Rick's story – in his own words. At just nineteen, Rick agreed to sign with legendary music producer Pete Waterman – under the wings of music powerhouse Stock Aitken Waterman. Unpredictable, outlandish adventures followed, giving him a peek into the mechanics of the music industry – all of which would eventually take Rick from the shadows of local bands to international stardom. From platinum-selling albums to worldwide tours, the world was at Rick’s feet. And then, suddenly, at what seemed like the height of fame, it wasn’t. At twenty-seven, Rick retired himself from the industry that had brought him much success and financial stability. Behind the hits and the glitz and glamour was a young man coming to terms with his new-found fame, the realities of life in the pop-music machine and the pressures of life on the road, not to mention reconciling with his childhood spent between his divorced parents in a volatile family dynamic. Time out of the industry offered Rick room for much-needed reflection and therapy – and unknowingly helped to set the stage for his triumphant return to music. Balancing nostalgia, fresh perspectives and introspection, with a good dose of northern humour, Never is an intimate look at the man behind the hits – and is a portrait of truth, artistic evolution and the astounding power of contentment.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756084Thu, 10 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never: The Autobiography Author: Rick Astley Narrator: Rick Astley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 10,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756084 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never: The Autobiography Author: Rick Astley Narrator: Rick Astley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Read by the author, Rick Astley 'I hadn’t been very comfortable with fame, but I didn’t know what to do with myself after I was famous. On the surface, I was just hugely relieved to be shot of the whole thing. I felt like I’d been let off the hook . . . But underneath that, I was pretty miserable.' When 'Never Gonna Give You Up’ propelled Rick Astley into the pop stratosphere, it changed his life forever. Nothing could have prepared the young, unassuming lad from Lancashire for what was in store for him. This is Rick's story – in his own words. At just nineteen, Rick agreed to sign with legendary music producer Pete Waterman – under the wings of music powerhouse Stock Aitken Waterman. Unpredictable, outlandish adventures followed, giving him a peek into the mechanics of the music industry – all of which would eventually take Rick from the shadows of local bands to international stardom. From platinum-selling albums to worldwide tours, the world was at Rick’s feet. And then, suddenly, at what seemed like the height of fame, it wasn’t. At twenty-seven, Rick retired himself from the industry that had brought him much success and financial stability. Behind the hits and the glitz and glamour was a young man coming to terms with his new-found fame, the realities of life in the pop-music machine and the pressures of life on the road, not to mention reconciling with his childhood spent between his divorced parents in a volatile family dynamic. Time out of the industry offered Rick room for much-needed reflection and therapy – and unknowingly helped to set the stage for his triumphant return to music. Balancing nostalgia, fresh perspectives and introspection, with a good dose of northern humour, Never is an intimate look at the man behind the hits – and is a portrait of truth, artistic evolution and the astounding power of contentment.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sophie-from-romania-a-year-of-love-and-hope-with-a-rescue-dog-by-rory-cellan-jones--65182978https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763190 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sophie From Romania: A Year of Love and Hope with a Rescue Dog Author: Rory Cellan-Jones Narrator: Rory Cellan-Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. How do you welcome someone new into your home and heart? A week before Christmas, newly retired BBC journalist and award-winning Movers and Shakers podcaster Rory Cellan-Jones receives a special delivery that will change the course of his life. This is the story of #SophieFromRomania, told in full for the first time. In January 2022, the Cellan-Jones-Coyle family said goodbye to their beloved elderly Collie cross, Cabbage. She and Rory had become inseparable during daily pandemic walks, which alleviated his Parkinson’s symptoms. After a grief-stricken year, Rory and his wife Diane come across a listing for ‘a kind girl who loves everybody and is just looking for her forever home’. Bright-eyed, big-eared and trembling, Sophie arrives in London on 17 December 2022. Rory holds the Romanian rescue in his arms, excited for their first walk together – but the road ahead will be a long one . . . This book follows the real journey of Sophie’s adoption – from her battles with anxiety, to the joys of play and her first time outside – as Rory and Diane work with expert dog trainer Si to win Sophie’s trust, and navigate Rory’s Parkinson’s disease. This is a moving story of love, kindness and a lot of patience, paying tribute to rescue dogs and their tender community. 'A DAILY DOSE OF HOPE' Jojo Moyes 'FILLS MY HEART WITH SO MUCH JOY' Niall Harbison © Rory Cellan-Jones 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763190Thu, 10 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763190 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sophie From Romania: A Year of Love and Hope with a Rescue Dog Author: Rory Cellan-Jones Narrator: Rory Cellan-Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763190 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sophie From Romania: A Year of Love and Hope with a Rescue Dog Author: Rory Cellan-Jones Narrator: Rory Cellan-Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. How do you welcome someone new into your home and heart? A week before Christmas, newly retired BBC journalist and award-winning Movers and Shakers podcaster Rory Cellan-Jones receives a special delivery that will change the course of his life. This is the story of #SophieFromRomania, told in full for the first time. In January 2022, the Cellan-Jones-Coyle family said goodbye to their beloved elderly Collie cross, Cabbage. She and Rory had become inseparable during daily pandemic walks, which alleviated his Parkinson’s symptoms. After a grief-stricken year, Rory and his wife Diane come across a listing for ‘a kind girl who loves everybody and is just looking for her forever home’. Bright-eyed, big-eared and trembling, Sophie arrives in London on 17 December 2022. Rory holds the Romanian rescue in his arms, excited for their first walk together – but the road ahead will be a long one . . . This book follows the real journey of Sophie’s adoption – from her battles with anxiety, to the joys of play and her first time outside – as Rory and Diane work with expert dog trainer Si to win Sophie’s trust, and navigate Rory’s Parkinson’s disease. This is a moving story of love, kindness and a lot of patience, paying tribute to rescue dogs and their tender community. 'A DAILY DOSE OF HOPE' Jojo Moyes 'FILLS MY HEART WITH SO MUCH JOY' Niall Harbison © Rory Cellan-Jones 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-time-next-year-a-life-of-positive-thinking-by-david-jason--65182935https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774149 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Time Next Year: A Life Of Positive Thinking Author: David Jason Narrator: David Jason Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Told with characteristic warmth and humour, David Jason reveals the hard-won wisdom of a life doggedly led getting through one day, looking to the next, and always chasing what's new on the horizon. Throughout his remarkable career, David's north star for navigating life's challenges has been his positive outlook and his resilience. Sometimes, art has seemed to imitate life. 'This time next year, we'll be millionaires' was what his iconic Only Fools character Derek Trotter once said. Such a dream was almost unimaginable for David growing up in a working class family in North Finchley in the rubble of the Blitz. But David’s never-say-never spirit could not be dimmed. From a trainee electrician to national treasure, David’s bumpy journey to success has overcome obstacle after obstacle. Candidly revealing the ups, the downs, and the roundabout turns, David’s book will uplift, entertain and inspire readers, offering an essential, unvarnished primer to leading a good life. © David Jason 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774149Thu, 10 Oct 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774149 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Time Next Year: A Life Of Positive Thinking Author: David Jason Narrator: David Jason Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774149 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Time Next Year: A Life Of Positive Thinking Author: David Jason Narrator: David Jason Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Told with characteristic warmth and humour, David Jason reveals the hard-won wisdom of a life doggedly led getting through one day, looking to the next, and always chasing what's new on the horizon. Throughout his remarkable career, David's north star for navigating life's challenges has been his positive outlook and his resilience. Sometimes, art has seemed to imitate life. 'This time next year, we'll be millionaires' was what his iconic Only Fools character Derek Trotter once said. Such a dream was almost unimaginable for David growing up in a working class family in North Finchley in the rubble of the Blitz. But David’s never-say-never spirit could not be dimmed. From a trainee electrician to national treasure, David’s bumpy journey to success has overcome obstacle after obstacle. Candidly revealing the ups, the downs, and the roundabout turns, David’s book will uplift, entertain and inspire readers, offering an essential, unvarnished primer to leading a good life. © David Jason 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/macca-my-story-so-far-by-mackenzie-arnold--65183036https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: MACCA: My story so far Author: Mackenzie Arnold Narrator: Tessa De Josselin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Matildas fever swept across the country during the 2023 World Cup campaign, filling stadiums beyond capacity, uniting communities and inspiring the next generation of world-class athletes. In one of the iconic 'where-were-you-when' moments in Australian sports history, the Matildas faced down the French in an epic penalty shootout that would propel them through to the semifinals for the first time ever. Standing on the collective brilliance of her teammates, it was Macca's courage, leadership, steel-eyed focus and heroics in front of goal that won the hearts of a nation. We'll never forget the outstretched arms, the roar of victory, green and gold flooding the pitch. But heroes don't just fall from the sky. Storybook endings often belie a lifetime's work, and the making of Mackenzie Arnold began well before that electric night in August. Macca's story is one of dizzying heights and hard-won lessons. Whether it's facing down her doubts and fears to find the courage to be her truest self on and off the pitch; using her temporary setbacks to inspire others; or shouldering the hopes of a nation to deliver moments that transcend sport, Mackenzie Arnold has packed a lot into her life so far. Honest, funny, brave and inspired, Macca shares her story here for the first time: the family and first-believers who supported and challenged her from the beginning; the coaches and mentors who pushed her beyond her comfort zone and provided the blueprint of a champion; the rivals and teammates who transformed the Matildas into a global force to be reckoned with. And for her next act? Heroics and storybook endings are best left unscripted, but if Mackenzie Arnold has taught us one thing it's this: Don't blink.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767054Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: MACCA: My story so far Author: Mackenzie Arnold Narrator: Tessa De Josselin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767054 to listen full audiobooks. Title: MACCA: My story so far Author: Mackenzie Arnold Narrator: Tessa De Josselin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Matildas fever swept across the country during the 2023 World Cup campaign, filling stadiums beyond capacity, uniting communities and inspiring the next generation of world-class athletes. In one of the iconic 'where-were-you-when' moments in Australian sports history, the Matildas faced down the French in an epic penalty shootout that would propel them through to the semifinals for the first time ever. Standing on the collective brilliance of her teammates, it was Macca's courage, leadership, steel-eyed focus and heroics in front of goal that won the hearts of a nation. We'll never forget the outstretched arms, the roar of victory, green and gold flooding the pitch. But heroes don't just fall from the sky. Storybook endings often belie a lifetime's work, and the making of Mackenzie Arnold began well before that electric night in August. Macca's story is one of dizzying heights and hard-won lessons. Whether it's facing down her doubts and fears to find the courage to be her truest self on and off the pitch; using her temporary setbacks to inspire others; or shouldering the hopes of a nation to deliver moments that transcend sport, Mackenzie Arnold has packed a lot into her life so far. Honest, funny, brave and inspired, Macca shares her story here for the first time: the family and first-believers who supported and challenged her from the beginning; the coaches and mentors who pushed her beyond her comfort zone and provided the blueprint of a champion; the rivals and teammates who transformed the Matildas into a global force to be reckoned with. And for her next act? Heroics and storybook endings are best left unscripted, but if Mackenzie Arnold has taught us one thing it's this: Don't blink.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-thousand-threads-a-memoir-by-neneh-cherry--65183013https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Threads: A Memoir Author: Neneh Cherry Narrator: Neneh Cherry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *Named a Most Anticipated Book by New York magazine, The Associated Press, Town and Country, The Guardian, The BBC, and more* A vibrant memoir from Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry who shares an inside look at her fascinating career and globe-traversing journeys in a life of love and music. Born in Sweden in 1964, Neneh Cherry’s father Ahmadu was a musician from Sierra Leone. Her mother, Moki, was a twenty-one-year-old Swedish textile artist. Her parents split up just after Neneh was born, and not long afterwards Moki met and fell in love with acclaimed jazz musician Don Cherry. Eventually, the strong pull New York City in the 1970s drew him them there, but they made a home wherever they traveled. Neneh and her brother Eagle-Eye experienced a life of creativity, freedom, and, of course, music. In A Thousand Threads, Neneh takes readers from the charming old schoolhouse in the woods of Sweden where she grew up, to the village in Sierra Leone that was birthplace of her biological father, to the early punk scene in London and New York, to finding her identity with her stepfather’s family in Watts, California. Neneh has lived an extraordinary life of connectivity and creativity and she recounts in intimate detail how she burst onto the scene as a teenager in the punk band The Slits, and went on to release her first album in 1989 with a worldwide hit single “Buffalo Stance.” Neneh’s inspiring and deeply compelling memoir both celebrates female empowerment and shines a light on the global music scene—and is perfect for anyone interested in the artistic life in all its forms.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768872Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Threads: A Memoir Author: Neneh Cherry Narrator: Neneh Cherry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Threads: A Memoir Author: Neneh Cherry Narrator: Neneh Cherry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *Named a Most Anticipated Book by New York magazine, The Associated Press, Town and Country, The Guardian, The BBC, and more* A vibrant memoir from Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry who shares an inside look at her fascinating career and globe-traversing journeys in a life of love and music. Born in Sweden in 1964, Neneh Cherry’s father Ahmadu was a musician from Sierra Leone. Her mother, Moki, was a twenty-one-year-old Swedish textile artist. Her parents split up just after Neneh was born, and not long afterwards Moki met and fell in love with acclaimed jazz musician Don Cherry. Eventually, the strong pull New York City in the 1970s drew him them there, but they made a home wherever they traveled. Neneh and her brother Eagle-Eye experienced a life of creativity, freedom, and, of course, music. In A Thousand Threads, Neneh takes readers from the charming old schoolhouse in the woods of Sweden where she grew up, to the village in Sierra Leone that was birthplace of her biological father, to the early punk scene in London and New York, to finding her identity with her stepfather’s family in Watts, California. Neneh has lived an extraordinary life of connectivity and creativity and she recounts in intimate detail how she burst onto the scene as a teenager in the punk band The Slits, and went on to release her first album in 1989 with a worldwide hit single “Buffalo Stance.” Neneh’s inspiring and deeply compelling memoir both celebrates female empowerment and shines a light on the global music scene—and is perfect for anyone interested in the artistic life in all its forms.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/da-baddest-by-trina--65182928https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/770576 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Da Baddest Author: Trina Narrator: Trina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The award-winning, platinum selling rapper, songwriter, and television personality shares her unforgettable story of coming of age in Miami, her inevitable rise to stardom, and her enduring legacy as a Hip-Hop Icon. Growing up in the Liberty City area of Miami, Florida, Katrina “Trina” Taylor spent her childhood feeling relatively sheltered by her mother and stepfather. Trina and her mother had an unbreakable bond and Liberty City felt like a playground made just for her. And even at a young age, Trina knew what she wanted: to be a powerful, successful, and magnetic woman, a woman who was entirely self-reliant and independent. She dreamed of becoming a dancer, sexy and sparkling in the background of rap music videos she saw being filmed around Liberty City. Little did she know, she’d eventually be the star of the videos, and a founding Queen of rap. In Da Baddest, Trina’s voice is, as always, powerful, insightful, witty, and provocative, while also showcasing her vulnerability and deep love for her family, home, and music. This evocative look into Trina’s upbringing and life as a rap icon proves why she is the blueprint, how she helped pave the way for the future of female rappers and hip-hop artists, and why no one but her can hold the title of “The Baddest B*tch.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/770576Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/770576 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Da Baddest Author: Trina Narrator: Trina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Memoirs...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/770576 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Da Baddest Author: Trina Narrator: Trina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The award-winning, platinum selling rapper, songwriter, and television personality shares her unforgettable story of coming of age in Miami, her inevitable rise to stardom, and her enduring legacy as a Hip-Hop Icon. Growing up in the Liberty City area of Miami, Florida, Katrina “Trina” Taylor spent her childhood feeling relatively sheltered by her mother and stepfather. Trina and her mother had an unbreakable bond and Liberty City felt like a playground made just for her. And even at a young age, Trina knew what she wanted: to be a powerful, successful, and magnetic woman, a woman who was entirely self-reliant and independent. She dreamed of becoming a dancer, sexy and sparkling in the background of rap music videos she saw being filmed around Liberty City. Little did she know, she’d eventually be the star of the videos, and a founding Queen of rap. In Da Baddest, Trina’s voice is, as always, powerful, insightful, witty, and provocative, while also showcasing her vulnerability and deep love for her family, home, and music. This evocative look into Trina’s upbringing and life as a rap icon proves why she is the blueprint, how she helped pave the way for the future of female rappers and hip-hop artists, and why no one but her can hold the title of “The Baddest B*tch.”]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/heart-on-my-sleeve-stories-from-a-life-well-worn-by-jeanne-beker--65182894https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heart on My Sleeve: Stories from a Life Well Worn Author: Jeanne Beker Narrator: Jeanne Beker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Fashion and style icon Jeanne Beker delivers an uplifting and inspiring memoir that walks us through a wardrobe of memory, one article of clothing at a time. Jeanne Beker’s name is synonymous with style and grace in fashion. Recognized by many as the beloved host of Fashion Television and The New Music, Jeanne has spent an entire career interviewing celebrities and uncovering their most private selves. Now, in Heart on My Sleeve, Jeanne reveals who she is in an all-new way. This is not just a memoir but a wardrobe of memory. Jeanne walks us through her recollections of specific pieces of clothing and jewelry, precious items that have made an indelible impact on her. She invites readers to think more deeply about how what we wear—whether it’s a thrift-store find or high-end couture—acts as a touchstone to our most treasured recollections, reminding us of who we once were or of loved ones we hold dear. With Jeanne as our style guide, we get up-close and personal with a star-studded cast, including Paul McCartney, Madonna, Karl Lagerfeld, Kate Moss, Oscar de la Renta, Beyoncé, and Keith Richards. But equally important, Jeanne introduces us to the family members and loved ones who form her closest entourage—including her wise Yiddish mother and her industrious father, both Holocaust survivors; her childhood neighbor Mrs. Jaskolka, a style maven ahead of her time; her two trailblazing daughters; and her many warm and exuberant friends who have seen her through the best and worst of times. Jeanne proves that a life lived with style and substance is always in fashion. Bold, colorful, and authentic, this is Jeanne Beker at her very best and brightest.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776353Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heart on My Sleeve: Stories from a Life Well Worn Author: Jeanne Beker Narrator: Jeanne Beker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 56 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heart on My Sleeve: Stories from a Life Well Worn Author: Jeanne Beker Narrator: Jeanne Beker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Fashion and style icon Jeanne Beker delivers an uplifting and inspiring memoir that walks us through a wardrobe of memory, one article of clothing at a time. Jeanne Beker’s name is synonymous with style and grace in fashion. Recognized by many as the beloved host of Fashion Television and The New Music, Jeanne has spent an entire career interviewing celebrities and uncovering their most private selves. Now, in Heart on My Sleeve, Jeanne reveals who she is in an all-new way. This is not just a memoir but a wardrobe of memory. Jeanne walks us through her recollections of specific pieces of clothing and jewelry, precious items that have made an indelible impact on her. She invites readers to think more deeply about how what we wear—whether it’s a thrift-store find or high-end couture—acts as a touchstone to our most treasured recollections, reminding us of who we once were or of loved ones we hold dear. With Jeanne as our style guide, we get up-close and personal with a star-studded cast, including Paul McCartney, Madonna, Karl Lagerfeld, Kate Moss, Oscar de la Renta, Beyoncé, and Keith Richards. But equally important, Jeanne introduces us to the family members and loved ones who form her closest entourage—including her wise Yiddish mother and her industrious father, both Holocaust survivors; her childhood neighbor Mrs. Jaskolka, a style maven ahead of her time; her two trailblazing daughters; and her many warm and exuberant friends who have seen her through the best and worst of times. Jeanne proves that a life lived with style and substance is always in fashion. Bold, colorful, and authentic, this is Jeanne Beker at her very best and brightest.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-thousand-threads-by-neneh-cherry--65183064https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Threads Author: Neneh Cherry Narrator: Neneh Cherry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 3, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A deeply personal and powerful memoir from beloved music icon Neneh Cherry. *A GUARDIAN MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024* *A BBC CULTURE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024* Top of the Pops, December 1988. The world sat up as a young woman made her debut: gold bra, gold bomber jacket, and proudly, gloriously, seven months pregnant. This was no ordinary artist. This was Neneh Cherry. But navigating fame and family wasn't always simple. In this beautiful and deeply personal memoir, Cherry remembers the collaborations, the highs and lows, the friendships and loves, and the addictions and traumas that have shaped her as a woman and an artist. At the heart of it, always, is family: the extraordinary three generations of artists and musicians that are her inheritance and her legacy. Musician. Songwriter. Collaborator. Activist. Mother. Daughter. Lover. Friend. Icon. This is her story. 'Neneh is cool, Neneh is wise, Neneh is a legend. Her memoir is a treasure. I loved it.' ZADIE SMITH ©2024 Neneh Cherry (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763066Thu, 03 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Threads Author: Neneh Cherry Narrator: Neneh Cherry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 3, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Threads Author: Neneh Cherry Narrator: Neneh Cherry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 3, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A deeply personal and powerful memoir from beloved music icon Neneh Cherry. *A GUARDIAN MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024* *A BBC CULTURE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024* Top of the Pops, December 1988. The world sat up as a young woman made her debut: gold bra, gold bomber jacket, and proudly, gloriously, seven months pregnant. This was no ordinary artist. This was Neneh Cherry. But navigating fame and family wasn't always simple. In this beautiful and deeply personal memoir, Cherry remembers the collaborations, the highs and lows, the friendships and loves, and the addictions and traumas that have shaped her as a woman and an artist. At the heart of it, always, is family: the extraordinary three generations of artists and musicians that are her inheritance and her legacy. Musician. Songwriter. Collaborator. Activist. Mother. Daughter. Lover. Friend. Icon. This is her story. 'Neneh is cool, Neneh is wise, Neneh is a legend. Her memoir is a treasure. I loved it.' ZADIE SMITH ©2024 Neneh Cherry (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dropping-the-mask-by-noni-hazlehurst--65182988https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/770424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dropping the Mask Author: Noni Hazlehurst Narrator: Noni Hazlehurst Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An icon. A household name. One of our best-loved actors. Noni Hazlehurst is finally telling a story of her own. A fourth-generation performer, Noni Hazlehurst has storytelling in her blood. She has graced our screens, stages and airwaves for fifty years - and won our hearts and respect in the process. She's had a remarkably diverse career. From presenting Play School for more than two decades, acting in films such as June Again, Ladies in Black, Candy, Little Fish and Monkey Grip, and ten years hosting and writing for Better Homes and Gardens to playing lead roles in series like A Place to Call Home, Nancy Wake and The Shiralee, recently presenting the SBS documentary series Every Family Has a Secret, and of course her numerous theatre roles, including her award-winning one-woman play Mother, Noni continues to display her incredible versatility, range and incisive ability to get to the core of a character and script. Noni is more than an actor, though. She is also a director, writer, teacher and public speaker, and her time on Play School has led to decades of committed advocacy for children. Offscreen, she has served on several film and television industry boards and acted as a patron and ambassador for numerous children's welfare organisations. Brave, open and unafraid to be vulnerable, Noni is in many ways an ordinary woman - a single mother of two boys, and a freelance worker, she knows about the challenges of constant juggling and being stretched to the limit. Yet she is also an extraordinary woman and a trailblazer - she was only the second woman to be inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame in thirty-two years. And despite opportunities to live and work overseas, she ultimately chose to pursue her career in Australia. This is no ordinary memoir. Noni Hazlehurst is funny, fierce, thoughtful and clear-eyed about the world. Her story is full, rich, lively, opinionated - and a testament to her grit, willpower and talent. She has always been committed to telling Australian stories - and this memoir is an impressive addition to her remarkable opus.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/770424Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/770424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dropping the Mask Author: Noni Hazlehurst Narrator: Noni Hazlehurst Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 2,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/770424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dropping the Mask Author: Noni Hazlehurst Narrator: Noni Hazlehurst Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An icon. A household name. One of our best-loved actors. Noni Hazlehurst is finally telling a story of her own. A fourth-generation performer, Noni Hazlehurst has storytelling in her blood. She has graced our screens, stages and airwaves for fifty years - and won our hearts and respect in the process. She's had a remarkably diverse career. From presenting Play School for more than two decades, acting in films such as June Again, Ladies in Black, Candy, Little Fish and Monkey Grip, and ten years hosting and writing for Better Homes and Gardens to playing lead roles in series like A Place to Call Home, Nancy Wake and The Shiralee, recently presenting the SBS documentary series Every Family Has a Secret, and of course her numerous theatre roles, including her award-winning one-woman play Mother, Noni continues to display her incredible versatility, range and incisive ability to get to the core of a character and script. Noni is more than an actor, though. She is also a director, writer, teacher and public speaker, and her time on Play School has led to decades of committed advocacy for children. Offscreen, she has served on several film and television industry boards and acted as a patron and ambassador for numerous children's welfare organisations. Brave, open and unafraid to be vulnerable, Noni is in many ways an ordinary woman - a single mother of two boys, and a freelance worker, she knows about the challenges of constant juggling and being stretched to the limit. Yet she is also an extraordinary woman and a trailblazer - she was only the second woman to be inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame in thirty-two years. And despite opportunities to live and work overseas, she ultimately chose to pursue her career in Australia. This is no ordinary memoir. Noni Hazlehurst is funny, fierce, thoughtful and clear-eyed about the world. Her story is full, rich, lively, opinionated - and a testament to her grit, willpower and talent. She has always been committed to telling Australian stories - and this memoir is an impressive addition to her remarkable opus.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bloody-minded-war-womanhood-and-finding-my-voice-by-susie-ferguson--65182939https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/770420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bloody Minded: War, womanhood and finding my voice Author: Susie Ferguson Narrator: Susie Ferguson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A story of grit and determination from a woman who writes the way she lives - fiercely, with passion and in full colour.' - Michele A'Court 'There are times, admittedly rare, when a book comes along that needs only one word to evaluate it. In the case of Bloody Minded, that word is ''WOW''... Unquestionably it must be a hot contender to top its category in the next book of the year awards.' - Jill Nicholas, NZME 'A gripping, page-turning memoir, both due to Ferguson's incredible career, but also due to her grasp of what makes a compelling story: drama, a touch of humour, and a theme to tie it all together. In this case, it's how the bodies of women are as much a battlefield as an actual war zone...' - Claire Williamson, Kete Early in her radio career Susie Ferguson became a war correspondent. The only woman among hundreds of soldiers, in a helmet and flak jacket she was one of the boys. None of them knew she was taking fifteen painkillers a day and relying on opioids to stem the burning and stabbing pain in her uterus. Even bloody-minded grit couldn't have prepared Susie for womanhood. More than your body's betrayal, it's the vicious bullying only girls can do. It's waiting years for surgery because your pain doesn't matter. It's the threat of violence in countries where a woman is either property or the spoils of war. It's going overnight from a high-powered career to a stay-at-home mum. It's the doctor who says you're wasting his time. But it is also friendship, love and having the strength to carry on - and to do it smiling. 'If you've ever wanted to eyeball a doctor and demand the treatment you need and deserve, this is the book for you.' - Lotta Dann.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/770420Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/770420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bloody Minded: War, womanhood and finding my voice Author: Susie Ferguson Narrator: Susie Ferguson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/770420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bloody Minded: War, womanhood and finding my voice Author: Susie Ferguson Narrator: Susie Ferguson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A story of grit and determination from a woman who writes the way she lives - fiercely, with passion and in full colour.' - Michele A'Court 'There are times, admittedly rare, when a book comes along that needs only one word to evaluate it. In the case of Bloody Minded, that word is ''WOW''... Unquestionably it must be a hot contender to top its category in the next book of the year awards.' - Jill Nicholas, NZME 'A gripping, page-turning memoir, both due to Ferguson's incredible career, but also due to her grasp of what makes a compelling story: drama, a touch of humour, and a theme to tie it all together. In this case, it's how the bodies of women are as much a battlefield as an actual war zone...' - Claire Williamson, Kete Early in her radio career Susie Ferguson became a war correspondent. The only woman among hundreds of soldiers, in a helmet and flak jacket she was one of the boys. None of them knew she was taking fifteen painkillers a day and relying on opioids to stem the burning and stabbing pain in her uterus. Even bloody-minded grit couldn't have prepared Susie for womanhood. More than your body's betrayal, it's the vicious bullying only girls can do. It's waiting years for surgery because your pain doesn't matter. It's the threat of violence in countries where a woman is either property or the spoils of war. It's going overnight from a high-powered career to a stay-at-home mum. It's the doctor who says you're wasting his time. But it is also friendship, love and having the strength to carry on - and to do it smiling. 'If you've ever wanted to eyeball a doctor and demand the treatment you need and deserve, this is the book for you.' - Lotta Dann.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unlike-the-rest-a-doctor-s-story-by-chika-stacy-oriuwa--65183103https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743479 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unlike the Rest: A Doctor's Story Author: Chika Stacy Oriuwa Narrator: Heni Zoutomou Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this personal story of becoming, belonging and being seen, a psychiatry resident pulls back the curtain on the journey to becoming a doctor. From childhood, Chika Oriuwa dreamed of being a doctor. She knew that she was destined to wear the white coat one day, no matter what it took. The high of being accepted to the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine in 2016 came crashing down when Oriuwa discovered she was the only Black student in her incoming class of 259 students. Oriuwa soon learned that medical school and a medical career are not immune to the systemic discrimination that permeates the fabric of our world. Interwoven with descriptions of on-the-ground medical training, personal moments of doubt and success, and reflections on mental health and family expectations, Unlike the Rest is the moving and inspiring story of a young doctor’s journey through medical school and residency, where she found her calling in the science and in the patients, but also felt alone and lonely, and compelled to advocate for change, not only for those in training but for those in care. And while the risks in speaking up seemed great, to simply endure was unacceptable. If you’ve ever doubted that you belong or struggled to find your voice, Unlike the Rest will inspire you to stay true to yourself and fight for what you believe in.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743479Tue, 01 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743479 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unlike the Rest: A Doctor's Story Author: Chika Stacy Oriuwa Narrator: Heni Zoutomou Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/743479 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unlike the Rest: A Doctor's Story Author: Chika Stacy Oriuwa Narrator: Heni Zoutomou Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this personal story of becoming, belonging and being seen, a psychiatry resident pulls back the curtain on the journey to becoming a doctor. From childhood, Chika Oriuwa dreamed of being a doctor. She knew that she was destined to wear the white coat one day, no matter what it took. The high of being accepted to the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine in 2016 came crashing down when Oriuwa discovered she was the only Black student in her incoming class of 259 students. Oriuwa soon learned that medical school and a medical career are not immune to the systemic discrimination that permeates the fabric of our world. Interwoven with descriptions of on-the-ground medical training, personal moments of doubt and success, and reflections on mental health and family expectations, Unlike the Rest is the moving and inspiring story of a young doctor’s journey through medical school and residency, where she found her calling in the science and in the patients, but also felt alone and lonely, and compelled to advocate for change, not only for those in training but for those in care. And while the risks in speaking up seemed great, to simply endure was unacceptable. If you’ve ever doubted that you belong or struggled to find your voice, Unlike the Rest will inspire you to stay true to yourself and fight for what you believe in.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/be-ready-when-the-luck-happens-a-memoir-by-ina-garten--65182980https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir Author: Ina Garten Narrator: Ina Garten Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon—shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table.   Here, for the first time, Ina Garten presents an intimate, entertaining, and inspiring account of her remarkable journey. Ina’s gift is to make everything look easy, yet all her accomplishments have been the result of hard work, audacious choices, and exquisite attention to detail. In her unmistakable voice (no one tells a story like Ina), she brings her past and her process to life in a high-spirited and no-holds-barred memoir that chronicles decades of personal challenges, adventures (and misadventures) and unexpected career twists, all delivered with her signature combination of playfulness and purpose.   From a difficult childhood to meeting the love of her life, Jeffrey, and marrying him while still in college, from a boring bureaucratic job in Washington, D.C., to answering an ad for a specialty food store in the Hamptons, from the owner of one Barefoot Contessa shop to author of bestselling cookbooks and celebrated television host, Ina has blazed her own trail and, in the meantime, taught millions of people how to cook and entertain. Now, she invites them to come closer to experience her story in vivid detail and to share the important life lessons she learned along the way: do what you love because if you love it you’ll be really good at it, swing for the fences, and always Be Ready When the Luck Happens. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of recipes and images from the book.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759864Tue, 01 Oct 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir Author: Ina Garten Narrator: Ina Garten Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir Author: Ina Garten Narrator: Ina Garten Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon—shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table.   Here, for the first time, Ina Garten presents an intimate, entertaining, and inspiring account of her remarkable journey. Ina’s gift is to make everything look easy, yet all her accomplishments have been the result of hard work, audacious choices, and exquisite attention to detail. In her unmistakable voice (no one tells a story like Ina), she brings her past and her process to life in a high-spirited and no-holds-barred memoir that chronicles decades of personal challenges, adventures (and misadventures) and unexpected career twists, all delivered with her signature combination of playfulness and purpose.   From a difficult childhood to meeting the love of her life, Jeffrey, and marrying him while still in college, from a boring bureaucratic job in Washington, D.C., to answering an ad for a specialty food store in the Hamptons, from the owner of one Barefoot Contessa shop to author of bestselling cookbooks and celebrated television host, Ina has blazed her own trail and, in the meantime, taught millions of people how to cook and entertain. Now, she invites them to come closer to experience her story in vivid detail and to share the important life lessons she learned along the way: do what you love because if you love it you’ll be really good at it, swing for the fences, and always Be Ready When the Luck Happens. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of recipes and images from the book.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/who-we-are-four-questions-for-a-life-and-a-nation-by-murray-sinclair--65183037https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who We Are: Four Questions For a Life and a Nation Author: Murray Sinclair Narrator: Murray Sinclair, Niigaan Sinclair, Shelagh Rogers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Named a Book to Read This Fall by CBC Books and the Toronto Star • One of Indigo’s Most Anticipated Books and Top 100 Books of the 2024 Judge, senator, and activist. Father, grandfather, and friend. This is Murray Sinclair’s story—and the story of a nation—in his own words, an oral history that forgoes the trappings of the traditionally written memoir to center Indigenous ways of knowledge and storytelling. As Canada moves forward into the future of Reconciliation, one of its greatest leaders guides us to ask the most important and difficult question we can ask of ourselves: Who are we? For decades, Senator Sinclair has fearlessly educated Canadians about the painful truths of our history. He was the first Indigenous judge in Manitoba, and only the second Indigenous judge in Canadian history. He was the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and remains one of the foremost voices on Reconciliation. And now, for the first time, he shares his full story—and his full vision for our nation—with readers across Canada and beyond. Drawing on Senator Sinclair’s perspectives regarding Indigenous identity, human rights, and justice, Who We Are examines the roles of history, resistance, and resilience in the pursuit of finding a path forward, one that heals the damaged relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. In doing so, it reveals Senator Sinclair’s life in a new and direct way, exploring how all of these unique experiences have shaped him as an Anishinaabe man, father, and grandfather. Structured around the four questions that have long shaped Senator Sinclair’s thinking and worldview—Where do I come from? Where am I going? Why am I here? Who am I?—Who We Are takes readers into the story of his remarkable life as never before, while challenging them to embrace an inclusive vision for our shared future. The book includes the What We Have Learned report, created by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768913Tue, 01 Oct 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who We Are: Four Questions For a Life and a Nation Author: Murray Sinclair Narrator: Murray Sinclair, Niigaan Sinclair, Shelagh Rogers Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who We Are: Four Questions For a Life and a Nation Author: Murray Sinclair Narrator: Murray Sinclair, Niigaan Sinclair, Shelagh Rogers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Named a Book to Read This Fall by CBC Books and the Toronto Star • One of Indigo’s Most Anticipated Books and Top 100 Books of the 2024 Judge, senator, and activist. Father, grandfather, and friend. This is Murray Sinclair’s story—and the story of a nation—in his own words, an oral history that forgoes the trappings of the traditionally written memoir to center Indigenous ways of knowledge and storytelling. As Canada moves forward into the future of Reconciliation, one of its greatest leaders guides us to ask the most important and difficult question we can ask of ourselves: Who are we? For decades, Senator Sinclair has fearlessly educated Canadians about the painful truths of our history. He was the first Indigenous judge in Manitoba, and only the second Indigenous judge in Canadian history. He was the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and remains one of the foremost voices on Reconciliation. And now, for the first time, he shares his full story—and his full vision for our nation—with readers across Canada and beyond. Drawing on Senator Sinclair’s perspectives regarding Indigenous identity, human rights, and justice, Who We Are examines the roles of history, resistance, and resilience in the pursuit of finding a path forward, one that heals the damaged relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. In doing so, it reveals Senator Sinclair’s life in a new and direct way, exploring how all of these unique experiences have shaped him as an Anishinaabe man, father, and grandfather. Structured around the four questions that have long shaped Senator Sinclair’s thinking and worldview—Where do I come from? Where am I going? Why am I here? Who am I?—Who We Are takes readers into the story of his remarkable life as never before, while challenging them to embrace an inclusive vision for our shared future. The book includes the What We Have Learned report, created by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC).]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-black-widow-a-memoir-by-dana-benbow-jeanette-lee--65182989https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763284 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Black Widow: A Memoir Author: Dana Benbow, Jeanette Lee Narrator: Greta Jung Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A CANDID AND MOVING AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY “THE BLACK WIDOW” OF BILLIARDS.Jeanette Lee was 18 years old when she walked into a New York City pool hall and became enamored by the elegant geometry of the game. Before long, she was an unmistakable figure on the international competition circuit, dressed head-to-toe in black, stalking the billiards table, and gazing down her cue as if tracking her prey.In this new memoir, the woman nicknamed “The Black Widow” opens up about her legendary career and the rich, unpredictable life she’s woven around it. Lee details her upbringing in a Korean American household in Brooklyn, her single-minded drive to reach the pinnacle of her sport, and her unlikely entry into the realm of mainstream celebrity in an era where female athletes rarely got their share of the limelight.Lee also reflects on her lifelong struggle with scoliosis, which necessitated over 20 operations during her playing career; her public battle with Stage 4 ovarian cancer; and the communities that gave her strength throughout. Written with warmth and candor, this is the definitive story of a true icon.“For as long as I’ve known my friend Jeanette Lee, she has been just a tower of inspiration and power to all that she meets. From her amazing skill on the billiard table to the kindness of her soul, I am so grateful for what she’s done. Not only in billiards, but for women all over the world.”—Nancy Lieberman, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer and Women’s Basketball Hall of Famer]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763284Thu, 26 Sep 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763284 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Black Widow: A Memoir Author: Dana Benbow, Jeanette Lee Narrator: Greta Jung Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763284 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Black Widow: A Memoir Author: Dana Benbow, Jeanette Lee Narrator: Greta Jung Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A CANDID AND MOVING AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY “THE BLACK WIDOW” OF BILLIARDS.Jeanette Lee was 18 years old when she walked into a New York City pool hall and became enamored by the elegant geometry of the game. Before long, she was an unmistakable figure on the international competition circuit, dressed head-to-toe in black, stalking the billiards table, and gazing down her cue as if tracking her prey.In this new memoir, the woman nicknamed “The Black Widow” opens up about her legendary career and the rich, unpredictable life she’s woven around it. Lee details her upbringing in a Korean American household in Brooklyn, her single-minded drive to reach the pinnacle of her sport, and her unlikely entry into the realm of mainstream celebrity in an era where female athletes rarely got their share of the limelight.Lee also reflects on her lifelong struggle with scoliosis, which necessitated over 20 operations during her playing career; her public battle with Stage 4 ovarian cancer; and the communities that gave her strength throughout. Written with warmth and candor, this is the definitive story of a true icon.“For as long as I’ve known my friend Jeanette Lee, she has been just a tower of inspiration and power to all that she meets. From her amazing skill on the billiard table to the kindness of her soul, I am so grateful for what she’s done. Not only in billiards, but for women all over the world.”—Nancy Lieberman, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer and Women’s Basketball Hall of Famer]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-third-gilmore-girl-by-kelly-bishop--65182912https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774442 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Third Gilmore Girl Author: Kelly Bishop Narrator: Kelly Bishop Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Beloved award-winning actress Kelly Bishop, famous for playing the iconic Emily Gilmore in Gilmore Girls, finally tells the whole story of her six decades in show business. Kelly Bishop’s storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, from winning a Tony Award for her turn in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line to her memorable performance as Jennifer Grey’s mother in Dirty Dancing, but it is probably her role as matriarch Emily in the modern classic Gilmore Girls that cemented her legacy. Now, Bishop reflects on her remarkable life and looks towards the future, sharing some of her greatest stories and the life lessons she’s learned on her journey. From her early transition from dance to drama, to marrying young to a compulsive gambler, to the losses and achievements she experienced—among them marching for women’s rights and losing her second husband to cancer—Bishop offers a rich, genuine celebration of her life. Full of witty insights, The Third Gilmore Girl is a warm, unapologetic, and powerful memoir from a woman who has left indelible impressions on her audiences for decades. © Kelly Bishop 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774442Thu, 19 Sep 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774442 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Third Gilmore Girl Author: Kelly Bishop Narrator: Kelly Bishop Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 19,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774442 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Third Gilmore Girl Author: Kelly Bishop Narrator: Kelly Bishop Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 19, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Beloved award-winning actress Kelly Bishop, famous for playing the iconic Emily Gilmore in Gilmore Girls, finally tells the whole story of her six decades in show business. Kelly Bishop’s storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, from winning a Tony Award for her turn in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line to her memorable performance as Jennifer Grey’s mother in Dirty Dancing, but it is probably her role as matriarch Emily in the modern classic Gilmore Girls that cemented her legacy. Now, Bishop reflects on her remarkable life and looks towards the future, sharing some of her greatest stories and the life lessons she’s learned on her journey. From her early transition from dance to drama, to marrying young to a compulsive gambler, to the losses and achievements she experienced—among them marching for women’s rights and losing her second husband to cancer—Bishop offers a rich, genuine celebration of her life. Full of witty insights, The Third Gilmore Girl is a warm, unapologetic, and powerful memoir from a woman who has left indelible impressions on her audiences for decades. © Kelly Bishop 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/runaway-train-or-the-story-of-my-life-so-far-by-eric-roberts--65183092https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Runaway Train: or, The Story of My Life So Far Author: Eric Roberts Narrator: Eric Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This program is read by the author, Golden Globe–winning actor Eric Roberts. In this brutally candid memoir, Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts pulls no punches about the ups and downs of his career and his sometimes stormy relationship with his famous sister, Julia. Eric Roberts grew up in Georgia, spending most of his teens away from his mother and sisters, Lisa and Julia. Instead, he stayed with his controlling father, a grifter jealous of his early success. At age 17, Eric moved to New York to pursue acting, where he worked and partied with future legends like Christopher Walken, Mickey Rourke, John Malkovich, Bruce Willis, and Robin Williams. His big break came when he was cast in King of the Gypsies. Eric became one of the hottest stars of his era, starting an affair with actress Sandy Dennis, working with Bob Fosse on the critically acclaimed Star 80, and earning an Oscar nomination for Runaway Train. But for Eric, Hollywood came with a dark side—an ocean of cocaine that nearly swept him away, culminating in a car accident that almost cost him his life. Eric is open about the seriousness of his addictions and their devastating effect on his career. He reveals the reasons behind his complicated relationship with his sister, Julia, and his daughter, Emma, a successful actress in her own right. Now, happily married to actress and casting director Eliza Roberts, who helped him confront his demons, he is revered among his peers as the ultimate actor’s actor. Written with New York Times bestselling author, for years a Vanity Fair contributing editor, and current Air Mail writer-at-large Sam Kashner, this is a powerful memoir of a Hollywood legend. Music for this program is courtesy of Keaton Simons. Track list in program order; 1 - Other Side 2 - Read My Mind 3 - Father Song 4 - Masterpiece 5 - It’s Ok 6 - Tribal Blues 7 - Green Monster 8 - Lemonaid 9 - Just This Side Of Insane 10 - Beautiful Pain 11 - The Medicine 12 - Currently 13 - Therapy 14 - Hero & Hell 15 - Still Holding On 16 - To Me 17 - Yet A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747156Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Runaway Train: or, The Story of My Life So Far Author: Eric Roberts Narrator: Eric Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Runaway Train: or, The Story of My Life So Far Author: Eric Roberts Narrator: Eric Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This program is read by the author, Golden Globe–winning actor Eric Roberts. In this brutally candid memoir, Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts pulls no punches about the ups and downs of his career and his sometimes stormy relationship with his famous sister, Julia. Eric Roberts grew up in Georgia, spending most of his teens away from his mother and sisters, Lisa and Julia. Instead, he stayed with his controlling father, a grifter jealous of his early success. At age 17, Eric moved to New York to pursue acting, where he worked and partied with future legends like Christopher Walken, Mickey Rourke, John Malkovich, Bruce Willis, and Robin Williams. His big break came when he was cast in King of the Gypsies. Eric became one of the hottest stars of his era, starting an affair with actress Sandy Dennis, working with Bob Fosse on the critically acclaimed Star 80, and earning an Oscar nomination for Runaway Train. But for Eric, Hollywood came with a dark side—an ocean of cocaine that nearly swept him away, culminating in a car accident that almost cost him his life. Eric is open about the seriousness of his addictions and their devastating effect on his career. He reveals the reasons behind his complicated relationship with his sister, Julia, and his daughter, Emma, a successful actress in her own right. Now, happily married to actress and casting director Eliza Roberts, who helped him confront his demons, he is revered among his peers as the ultimate actor’s actor. Written with New York Times bestselling author, for years a Vanity Fair contributing editor, and current Air Mail writer-at-large Sam Kashner, this is a powerful memoir of a Hollywood legend. Music for this program is courtesy of Keaton Simons. Track list in program order; 1 - Other Side 2 - Read My Mind 3 - Father Song 4 - Masterpiece 5 - It’s Ok 6 - Tribal Blues 7 - Green Monster 8 - Lemonaid 9 - Just This Side Of Insane 10 - Beautiful Pain 11 - The Medicine 12 - Currently 13 - Therapy 14 - Hero & Hell 15 - Still Holding On 16 - To Me 17 - Yet A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-natural-history-of-empty-lots-field-notes-from-urban-edgelands-back-alleys-and-other-wild-places-by-christopher-brown--65183078https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and other Wild Places Author: Christopher Brown Narrator: Christopher Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society. A Natural History of Empty Lots is a genre-defying work of nature writing, literary nonfiction, and memoir that explores what happens when nature and the city intersect.  During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot in an industrial section of Austin, Texas. The property—abandoned and full of litter and debris—was an unlikely site for a home. Brown had become fascinated with these empty lots around Austin, so-called “ruined” spaces once used for agriculture and industry awaiting their redevelopment. He discovered them to be teeming with natural activity, and embarked on a twenty-year project to live in and document such spaces. There, in our most damaged landscapes, he witnessed the remarkable resilience of wild nature, and how we can heal ourselves by healing the Earth.  Beautifully written and philosophically hard-hitting, A Natural History of Empty Lots offers a new lens on human disruption and nature, offering a sense of hope among the edgelands.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755098Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and other Wild Places Author: Christopher Brown Narrator: Christopher...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and other Wild Places Author: Christopher Brown Narrator: Christopher Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society. A Natural History of Empty Lots is a genre-defying work of nature writing, literary nonfiction, and memoir that explores what happens when nature and the city intersect.  During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot in an industrial section of Austin, Texas. The property—abandoned and full of litter and debris—was an unlikely site for a home. Brown had become fascinated with these empty lots around Austin, so-called “ruined” spaces once used for agriculture and industry awaiting their redevelopment. He discovered them to be teeming with natural activity, and embarked on a twenty-year project to live in and document such spaces. There, in our most damaged landscapes, he witnessed the remarkable resilience of wild nature, and how we can heal ourselves by healing the Earth.  Beautifully written and philosophically hard-hitting, A Natural History of Empty Lots offers a new lens on human disruption and nature, offering a sense of hope among the edgelands.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/one-day-i-ll-grow-up-and-be-a-beautiful-woman-a-mother-s-story-by-abi-maxwell--65183053https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story Author: Abi Maxwell Narrator: Abi Maxwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A fiery, heartbreaking, riveting memoir that follows one New Hampshire family over the course of three years, unspooling a story of gender identity, class, trans youth, and a child caught in the riptide of America’s culture wars         Abi Maxwell grew up in rural New Hampshire, one of eight kids in a poor town abutting a wealthier lakeside village. As a young couple, Maxwell and her husband planned not to have kids, but when Maxwell became pregnant, she knew she wanted to raise her child near the mountains and lake of her youth. When her six-year-old, who was known to the world as a boy, asks to wear pink sneakers, asks to be a witch for Halloween, asks to wear a girl’s dance costume, Abi worries about how their small community will react. But when that child changes her name, grows her hair long, and announces that she is a girl, a firestorm engulfs the family.         Weaving together the story of her own youth, marked by long afternoons skiing the mountains, a cottage on the lake, and a proud gay brother, but also by neglect and bullying that pushed her brother to the brink, Abi Maxwell contends with the rural America where she was raised and, years later, where she is now raising her daughter, as lawmakers nationwide push to erase the very existence of trans youth. Intimate and stirring, this book is essential reading for this moment in our history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752192Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story Author: Abi Maxwell Narrator: Abi Maxwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story Author: Abi Maxwell Narrator: Abi Maxwell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A fiery, heartbreaking, riveting memoir that follows one New Hampshire family over the course of three years, unspooling a story of gender identity, class, trans youth, and a child caught in the riptide of America’s culture wars         Abi Maxwell grew up in rural New Hampshire, one of eight kids in a poor town abutting a wealthier lakeside village. As a young couple, Maxwell and her husband planned not to have kids, but when Maxwell became pregnant, she knew she wanted to raise her child near the mountains and lake of her youth. When her six-year-old, who was known to the world as a boy, asks to wear pink sneakers, asks to be a witch for Halloween, asks to wear a girl’s dance costume, Abi worries about how their small community will react. But when that child changes her name, grows her hair long, and announces that she is a girl, a firestorm engulfs the family.         Weaving together the story of her own youth, marked by long afternoons skiing the mountains, a cottage on the lake, and a proud gay brother, but also by neglect and bullying that pushed her brother to the brink, Abi Maxwell contends with the rural America where she was raised and, years later, where she is now raising her daughter, as lawmakers nationwide push to erase the very existence of trans youth. Intimate and stirring, this book is essential reading for this moment in our history.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-third-gilmore-girl-a-memoir-by-kelly-bishop--65183004https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir Author: Kelly Bishop Narrator: Kelly Bishop Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.82 of Total 11 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a lifelong career in and out of Hollywood” (The A.V. Club) in this candid and captivating memoir from award-winning and beloved actress Kelly Bishop, spanning her six decades in show business from A Chorus Line, Dirty Dancing, Gilmore Girls, and much more. Kelly Bishop’s long, storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, from winning a Tony Award for her turn in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line to her memorable performance as Jennifer Grey’s mother in Dirty Dancing. But it is probably her iconic role as matriarch Emily in the modern classic Gilmore Girls that cemented her legacy. Now, Bishop reflects on her remarkable life and looks towards the future with The Third Gilmore Girl. She shares some of her greatest stories and the life lessons she’s learned on her journey. From her early transition from dance to drama, to marrying young to a compulsive gambler, to the losses and achievements she experienced—among them marching for women’s rights and losing her second husband to cancer—Bishop offers a rich, genuine celebration of her life. Full of witty insights and featuring a special collection of personal and professional photographs, The Third Gilmore Girl is a warm, unapologetic, and spirited memoir from a woman who has left indelible impressions on her audiences for decades and has no plans on slowing down.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758399Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir Author: Kelly Bishop Narrator: Kelly Bishop Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir Author: Kelly Bishop Narrator: Kelly Bishop Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.82 of Total 11 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a lifelong career in and out of Hollywood” (The A.V. Club) in this candid and captivating memoir from award-winning and beloved actress Kelly Bishop, spanning her six decades in show business from A Chorus Line, Dirty Dancing, Gilmore Girls, and much more. Kelly Bishop’s long, storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, from winning a Tony Award for her turn in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line to her memorable performance as Jennifer Grey’s mother in Dirty Dancing. But it is probably her iconic role as matriarch Emily in the modern classic Gilmore Girls that cemented her legacy. Now, Bishop reflects on her remarkable life and looks towards the future with The Third Gilmore Girl. She shares some of her greatest stories and the life lessons she’s learned on her journey. From her early transition from dance to drama, to marrying young to a compulsive gambler, to the losses and achievements she experienced—among them marching for women’s rights and losing her second husband to cancer—Bishop offers a rich, genuine celebration of her life. Full of witty insights and featuring a special collection of personal and professional photographs, The Third Gilmore Girl is a warm, unapologetic, and spirited memoir from a woman who has left indelible impressions on her audiences for decades and has no plans on slowing down.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/something-lost-something-gained-reflections-on-life-love-and-liberty-by-hillary-rodham-clinton--65182917https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771565 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton Narrator: Hillary Rodham Clinton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.69 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Includes a new epilogue narrated by the author exclusively for the audiobook edition. What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach. She describes the strength she draws from her deepest friendships, her Methodist faith, and the nearly fifty years she’s been married to President Bill Clinton—all with the wisdom that comes from looking back on a full life with fresh eyes. She takes us along as she returns to the classroom as a college professor, enjoys the bonds inside the exclusive club of former First Ladies, moves past her dream of being president, and dives into new activism for women and democracy. From canoeing with an ex-Nazi trying to deprogram white supremacists to sweltering with salt farmers in the desert trying to adapt to the climate crisis in India, Hillary brings us to the front lines of our biggest challenges. For the first time, Hillary shares the story of her operation to evacuate Afghan women to safety in the harrowing final days of America’s longest war. But we also meet the brave women dissidents defying dictators around the world, gain new personal insights about her old adversary Vladimir Putin, and learn the best ways that worried parents can protect kids from toxic technology. We also hear her fervent and persuasive warning to all American voters. In the end, Something Lost, Something Gained is a testament to the idea that the personal is political, and the political is personal, providing a blueprint for what each of us can do to make our lives better. Hillary has “looked at life from both sides now.” In these pages, she shares the latest chapter of her inspiring life and shows us how to age with grace and keep moving forward, with grit, joy, purpose, and a sense of humor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771565Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771565 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton Narrator: Hillary Rodham Clinton Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771565 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton Narrator: Hillary Rodham Clinton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.69 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Includes a new epilogue narrated by the author exclusively for the audiobook edition. What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach. She describes the strength she draws from her deepest friendships, her Methodist faith, and the nearly fifty years she’s been married to President Bill Clinton—all with the wisdom that comes from looking back on a full life with fresh eyes. She takes us along as she returns to the classroom as a college professor, enjoys the bonds inside the exclusive club of former First Ladies, moves past her dream of being president, and dives into new activism for women and democracy. From canoeing with an ex-Nazi trying to deprogram white supremacists to sweltering with salt farmers in the desert trying to adapt to the climate crisis in India, Hillary brings us to the front lines of our biggest challenges. For the first time, Hillary shares the story of her operation to evacuate Afghan women to safety in the harrowing final days of America’s longest war. But we also meet the brave women dissidents defying dictators around the world, gain new personal insights about her old adversary Vladimir Putin, and learn the best ways that worried parents can protect kids from toxic technology. We also hear her fervent and persuasive warning to all American voters. In the end, Something Lost, Something Gained is a testament to the idea that the personal is political, and the political is personal, providing a blueprint for what each of us can do to make our lives better. Hillary has “looked at life from both sides now.” In these pages, she shares the latest chapter of her inspiring life and shows us how to age with grace and keep moving forward, with grit, joy, purpose, and a sense of humor.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/getting-away-with-murder-my-unexpected-life-on-page-stage-and-screen-by-lynda-la-plante--65183057https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting Away With Murder: My unexpected life on page, stage and screen Author: Lynda La Plante Narrator: GIll Titchmarsh, Carol Cleveland, Ann Mitchell, Helen Mirren, Lynda La Plante, Dawn French, Simon Callow, Victoria Smurfit Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 12, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The hilarious and moving tell-all memoir from the UK's queen of crime drama. This edition includes content exclusive to the audiobook: alongside Lynda, you will hear from close friends, family and stars she's worked with during her long career, including Dame Helen Mirren, Simon Callow, Victoria Smurfit, Ann Mitchell, Dawn French, Carol Cleveland and Gill Titchmarsh. Lynda La Plante has lived an illustrious life and has the stories to prove it. From her early days in Liverpool to her unexpected acceptance into RADA, joining peers Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt and Ian McShane; from beginning her scriptwriting career with Widows and Prime Suspect and becoming a BAFTA award-winning writer and producer, Lynda's tales of stage and screen will have you gasping in shock as well as laughing in the aisles. Lynda has an important story to tell, one of breaking down stereotypes and blazing a trail for others along the way. Starting her writing career in the eighties, an era of entrenched gender inequality both in front of and behind the camera, Lynda faced innumerable obstacles to her vision. Getting Away with Murder shows how she overcame them to create generation-defining television and become a multi-million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author. Still at the very top of her game, Lynda shares her story on her own terms, in a way that's guaranteed to make you laugh, cry and be inspired to live a life without limits. 'Screamingly funny and deliciously candid, full of wisdom and joie de vivre, this is memoir with the grip of a thriller' ERIN KELLY]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764497Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting Away With Murder: My unexpected life on page, stage and screen Author: Lynda La Plante Narrator: GIll Titchmarsh, Carol Cleveland, Ann...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting Away With Murder: My unexpected life on page, stage and screen Author: Lynda La Plante Narrator: GIll Titchmarsh, Carol Cleveland, Ann Mitchell, Helen Mirren, Lynda La Plante, Dawn French, Simon Callow, Victoria Smurfit Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 54 minutes Release date: September 12, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The hilarious and moving tell-all memoir from the UK's queen of crime drama. This edition includes content exclusive to the audiobook: alongside Lynda, you will hear from close friends, family and stars she's worked with during her long career, including Dame Helen Mirren, Simon Callow, Victoria Smurfit, Ann Mitchell, Dawn French, Carol Cleveland and Gill Titchmarsh. Lynda La Plante has lived an illustrious life and has the stories to prove it. From her early days in Liverpool to her unexpected acceptance into RADA, joining peers Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt and Ian McShane; from beginning her scriptwriting career with Widows and Prime Suspect and becoming a BAFTA award-winning writer and producer, Lynda's tales of stage and screen will have you gasping in shock as well as laughing in the aisles. Lynda has an important story to tell, one of breaking down stereotypes and blazing a trail for others along the way. Starting her writing career in the eighties, an era of entrenched gender inequality both in front of and behind the camera, Lynda faced innumerable obstacles to her vision. Getting Away with Murder shows how she overcame them to create generation-defining television and become a multi-million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author. Still at the very top of her game, Lynda shares her story on her own terms, in a way that's guaranteed to make you laugh, cry and be inspired to live a life without limits. 'Screamingly funny and deliciously candid, full of wisdom and joie de vivre, this is memoir with the grip of a thriller' ERIN KELLY]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/you-can-t-have-it-all-the-basic-b-tch-guide-to-taking-the-pressure-off-by-stassi-schroeder--65183088https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Can't Have It All: The Basic B*tch Guide to Taking the Pressure Off Author: Stassi Schroeder Narrator: Stassi Schroeder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The two-time New York Times bestselling author, OG Vanderpump Rules star, and host of the successful chart-topping podcast Stassi is back and better than ever with a candid guide to rethinking the girlboss life, taking the pressure off, and lessons she’s learned since becoming a mom of two. Before she wrote Off with My Head, a book about hitting what felt like rock bottom, Stassi Schroeder was writing an entirely different story: a basic bitch’s guide on how to be—wait for it—a “girlboss.” But then 2020 came along and after a global pandemic, losing her job, becoming pregnant and having her first child, and getting married, suddenly being a girlboss wasn’t the vibe. Instead of giving up, Stassi grew up and learned from her mistakes (you know, just standard evolution). After two and a half years in limbo, Stassi was ready to launch her career again. She’d come a long way from that temperamental Season One Stassi. She’d gained a new perspective on what she wants out of business, her career, and life: to carve a path for herself, on her terms. The thing is, all of this pressure to “have it all” while girlbossing it up…it’s exhausting, and Stassi isn’t sure it’s the ticket to happiness that we all thought it was. That’s truly what this book is about: the desire for joy. It’s about accepting the fact that you may not be the “perfect” parent/partner/friend/human at all times, and that’s okay. Instead of letting mom guilt or work guilt get her down, Stassi is trying to learn and to encourage us all to take the pressure off, give ourselves grace, and lean into the things that bring happiness. And if you need a little sauvignon blanc or Aperol spritz to get you through the tough days…so be it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754915Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Can't Have It All: The Basic B*tch Guide to Taking the Pressure Off Author: Stassi Schroeder Narrator: Stassi Schroeder Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Can't Have It All: The Basic B*tch Guide to Taking the Pressure Off Author: Stassi Schroeder Narrator: Stassi Schroeder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The two-time New York Times bestselling author, OG Vanderpump Rules star, and host of the successful chart-topping podcast Stassi is back and better than ever with a candid guide to rethinking the girlboss life, taking the pressure off, and lessons she’s learned since becoming a mom of two. Before she wrote Off with My Head, a book about hitting what felt like rock bottom, Stassi Schroeder was writing an entirely different story: a basic bitch’s guide on how to be—wait for it—a “girlboss.” But then 2020 came along and after a global pandemic, losing her job, becoming pregnant and having her first child, and getting married, suddenly being a girlboss wasn’t the vibe. Instead of giving up, Stassi grew up and learned from her mistakes (you know, just standard evolution). After two and a half years in limbo, Stassi was ready to launch her career again. She’d come a long way from that temperamental Season One Stassi. She’d gained a new perspective on what she wants out of business, her career, and life: to carve a path for herself, on her terms. The thing is, all of this pressure to “have it all” while girlbossing it up…it’s exhausting, and Stassi isn’t sure it’s the ticket to happiness that we all thought it was. That’s truly what this book is about: the desire for joy. It’s about accepting the fact that you may not be the “perfect” parent/partner/friend/human at all times, and that’s okay. Instead of letting mom guilt or work guilt get her down, Stassi is trying to learn and to encourage us all to take the pressure off, give ourselves grace, and lean into the things that bring happiness. And if you need a little sauvignon blanc or Aperol spritz to get you through the tough days…so be it.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/above-the-noise-my-story-of-chasing-calm-by-demar-derozan--65183074https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759102 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm Author: Demar Derozan Narrator: Aaron Goodson, John Patrick Walsh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From one of the most outspoken and respected NBA athletes comes a groundbreaking and remarkable memoir chronicling a very public struggle with depression, in the hopes that other people will not suffer alone. “DeMar DeRozan’s story is one of adaptability, courage, and love. The persistent effort on his part to rise above is compelling and important.”—Coach Gregg Popovich, from the foreword   “As men, and especially Black men, we don’t talk about our mental health enough. We struggle to admit when things aren’t okay, even when it’s obvious to everybody around us. I’ve seen how toxic that can become. I’ve experienced it myself, keeping everything under wraps until your head and heart are full of fire and rage.” DeMar DeRozan, six-time NBA All-Star, has been called a “basketball savant” (ESPN) and “the best closer in the NBA” (GQ)—but when he went public with his depression, it sparked a conversation that reached far beyond the court. By breaking the stigma of speaking out, he added a new, seldom-heard voice to the mental health dialogue: a successful Black male athlete, openly naming his pain and advocating for others to do the same. Now it’s time to tell the full story. Born and raised in Compton, DeRozan was no stranger to hardship—living in poverty, losing friends to gang violence. In worn-out school gyms and community centers, fueled by hunger and a desire to prove himself, he started to rise, but doubts followed. In Above the Noise, DeRozan opens up about his proudest triumphs and the times he felt so weighed down he couldn't get out of bed. He reflects on what it took to make a name for himself in a new country after getting drafted by the Toronto Raptors, the pressure of playing with veteran athletes as a twenty-year-old rookie, and the pain of losing role models. From a scared, angry kid to a confident father of five, DeRozan traces his journey to basketball stardom and the forces that honed him into the player—and the slowly healing person—he is today. It will encourage anyone who has ever felt alone in their struggles and inspire people to rise above the noise and speak their truth.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759102Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759102 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm Author: Demar Derozan Narrator: Aaron Goodson, John Patrick Walsh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759102 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm Author: Demar Derozan Narrator: Aaron Goodson, John Patrick Walsh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From one of the most outspoken and respected NBA athletes comes a groundbreaking and remarkable memoir chronicling a very public struggle with depression, in the hopes that other people will not suffer alone. “DeMar DeRozan’s story is one of adaptability, courage, and love. The persistent effort on his part to rise above is compelling and important.”—Coach Gregg Popovich, from the foreword   “As men, and especially Black men, we don’t talk about our mental health enough. We struggle to admit when things aren’t okay, even when it’s obvious to everybody around us. I’ve seen how toxic that can become. I’ve experienced it myself, keeping everything under wraps until your head and heart are full of fire and rage.” DeMar DeRozan, six-time NBA All-Star, has been called a “basketball savant” (ESPN) and “the best closer in the NBA” (GQ)—but when he went public with his depression, it sparked a conversation that reached far beyond the court. By breaking the stigma of speaking out, he added a new, seldom-heard voice to the mental health dialogue: a successful Black male athlete, openly naming his pain and advocating for others to do the same. Now it’s time to tell the full story. Born and raised in Compton, DeRozan was no stranger to hardship—living in poverty, losing friends to gang violence. In worn-out school gyms and community centers, fueled by hunger and a desire to prove himself, he started to rise, but doubts followed. In Above the Noise, DeRozan opens up about his proudest triumphs and the times he felt so weighed down he couldn't get out of bed. He reflects on what it took to make a name for himself in a new country after getting drafted by the Toronto Raptors, the pressure of playing with veteran athletes as a twenty-year-old rookie, and the pain of losing role models. From a scared, angry kid to a confident father of five, DeRozan traces his journey to basketball stardom and the forces that honed him into the player—and the slowly healing person—he is today. It will encourage anyone who has ever felt alone in their struggles and inspire people to rise above the noise and speak their truth.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bone-of-the-bone-essays-on-america-by-a-daughter-of-the-working-class-by-sarah-smarsh--65183022https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class Author: Sarah Smarsh Narrator: Sarah Smarsh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Now collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on socioeconomic class in America—featuring a previously unpublished essay and a new introduction. In Bone of the Bone, Sarah Smarsh brings her graceful storytelling and incisive critique to the challenges that define our times—class division, political fissures, gender inequality, environmental crisis, media bias, the rural-urban gulf. Smarsh, a journalist who grew up on a wheat farm in Kansas and was the first in her family to graduate from college, has long focused on cultural dissonance that many in her industry neglected until recently. Now, this thought-provoking collection of more than thirty of her highly relevant, previously published essays from the past decade (2013–2024)—ranging from personal narratives to news commentary—demonstrates a life and a career steeped in the issues that affect our collective future. Compiling Smarsh’s reportage and more poetic reflections, Bone of the Bone is a singular work covering one of the most tumultuous decades in civic life. Timely, filled with perspective-shifting observations, and a pleasure to read, Sarah Smarsh’s essays—on topics as varied as the socioeconomic significance of dentistry, laws criminalizing poverty, fallacies of the “red vs. blue” political framework, working as a Hooters Girl, and much more—are an important addition to any discussion on contemporary America.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754916Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class Author: Sarah Smarsh Narrator: Sarah Smarsh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class Author: Sarah Smarsh Narrator: Sarah Smarsh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Now collected for the first time in one volume, the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on socioeconomic class in America—featuring a previously unpublished essay and a new introduction. In Bone of the Bone, Sarah Smarsh brings her graceful storytelling and incisive critique to the challenges that define our times—class division, political fissures, gender inequality, environmental crisis, media bias, the rural-urban gulf. Smarsh, a journalist who grew up on a wheat farm in Kansas and was the first in her family to graduate from college, has long focused on cultural dissonance that many in her industry neglected until recently. Now, this thought-provoking collection of more than thirty of her highly relevant, previously published essays from the past decade (2013–2024)—ranging from personal narratives to news commentary—demonstrates a life and a career steeped in the issues that affect our collective future. Compiling Smarsh’s reportage and more poetic reflections, Bone of the Bone is a singular work covering one of the most tumultuous decades in civic life. Timely, filled with perspective-shifting observations, and a pleasure to read, Sarah Smarsh’s essays—on topics as varied as the socioeconomic significance of dentistry, laws criminalizing poverty, fallacies of the “red vs. blue” political framework, working as a Hooters Girl, and much more—are an important addition to any discussion on contemporary America.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-deaf-girl-a-memoir-of-hearing-loss-hope-and-fighting-against-the-odds-by-abigail-heringer--65182934https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deaf Girl: A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds Author: Abigail Heringer Narrator: Abigail Heringer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An inspiring story of hearing loss and hope from The Bachelor’s first deaf contestantAbigail Heringer made her television debut as an instant fan-favorite on season 25 of The Bachelor. Stepping out of the limousine, she approached her bachelor with a playful declaration: she would be staring at his lips all night for two compelling reasons—her profound deafness since birth, and because he had some nice lips!But Abigail’s journey wasn’t always marked by such confidence. Growing up deaf and introverted, she dreaded being the center of attention, fearing her disability would burden those around her. Among her hearing peers, she felt like an outsider, simply labeled as “the deaf girl.” And after receiving a cochlear implant at the age of two, she subsequently struggled to find her place in the Deaf community too. Caught in between two worlds and grappling to define her identity as a deaf woman, Abigail felt like she belonged in neither.Supported by her family, particularly her deaf older sister Rachel, Abigail has come to understand that while being deaf is part of her identity, it doesn’t define her. Throughout her journey, marked by challenges and adversity, Abigail has grown into her own strongest advocate, discovering a new voice that is confident, fearless, and empowered—a voice that enables her to proudly reclaim the title of “the deaf girl” she once resisted and rewrite it as a testament to her resilience and strength.Hopeful, vulnerable, and uplifting, The Deaf Girl shares Abigail’s journey of navigating life with a profound hearing loss and her transformation from merely accepting her disability to embracing it wholeheartedly. This memoir serves as an inspiring reminder for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider or struggled to embrace their differences, showcasing that every voice is worthy of being heard. “The Deaf Girl is an incredibly moving and uplifting memoir. Abigail’s heartfelt and sincere reflections on growing up as an outsider and her journey to embrace her identity reveal a remarkable tale of resilience and courage … An inspiring book filled with hope.”—Cat Mathes, President & CEO of John Tracy Center]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766263Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deaf Girl: A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds Author: Abigail Heringer Narrator: Abigail Heringer Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deaf Girl: A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds Author: Abigail Heringer Narrator: Abigail Heringer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An inspiring story of hearing loss and hope from The Bachelor’s first deaf contestantAbigail Heringer made her television debut as an instant fan-favorite on season 25 of The Bachelor. Stepping out of the limousine, she approached her bachelor with a playful declaration: she would be staring at his lips all night for two compelling reasons—her profound deafness since birth, and because he had some nice lips!But Abigail’s journey wasn’t always marked by such confidence. Growing up deaf and introverted, she dreaded being the center of attention, fearing her disability would burden those around her. Among her hearing peers, she felt like an outsider, simply labeled as “the deaf girl.” And after receiving a cochlear implant at the age of two, she subsequently struggled to find her place in the Deaf community too. Caught in between two worlds and grappling to define her identity as a deaf woman, Abigail felt like she belonged in neither.Supported by her family, particularly her deaf older sister Rachel, Abigail has come to understand that while being deaf is part of her identity, it doesn’t define her. Throughout her journey, marked by challenges and adversity, Abigail has grown into her own strongest advocate, discovering a new voice that is confident, fearless, and empowered—a voice that enables her to proudly reclaim the title of “the deaf girl” she once resisted and rewrite it as a testament to her resilience and strength.Hopeful, vulnerable, and uplifting, The Deaf Girl shares Abigail’s journey of navigating life with a profound hearing loss and her transformation from merely accepting her disability to embracing it wholeheartedly. This memoir serves as an inspiring reminder for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider or struggled to embrace their differences, showcasing that every voice is worthy of being heard. “The Deaf Girl is an incredibly moving and uplifting memoir. Abigail’s heartfelt and sincere reflections on growing up as an outsider and her journey to embrace her identity reveal a remarkable tale of resilience and courage … An inspiring book filled with hope.”—Cat Mathes, President & CEO of John Tracy Center]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/never-far-apart-by-kitty-salsberg-ellen-foster--65182899https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Far Apart Author: Kitty Salsberg, Ellen Foster Narrator: Kitty Salsberg, Elva Mai Hoover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrive in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which has taken both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto is fresh in their minds, as are their fragile hopes to be adopted. But their lives in Toronto are far from what they expected, and full of broken promises. As the sisters navigate their new surroundings, they each grow fiercely strong and independent, while holding onto the comfort that they will be Never Far Apart. Introduction by Adara Goldberg]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777411Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Far Apart Author: Kitty Salsberg, Ellen Foster Narrator: Kitty Salsberg, Elva Mai Hoover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Far Apart Author: Kitty Salsberg, Ellen Foster Narrator: Kitty Salsberg, Elva Mai Hoover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrive in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which has taken both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto is fresh in their minds, as are their fragile hopes to be adopted. But their lives in Toronto are far from what they expected, and full of broken promises. As the sisters navigate their new surroundings, they each grow fiercely strong and independent, while holding onto the comfort that they will be Never Far Apart. Introduction by Adara Goldberg]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-criminal-mind-by-duncan-harding--65183045https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Criminal Mind Author: Duncan Harding Narrator: Duncan Harding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. An edge-of-your-seat journey into the darkest depths of the human mind from forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding - A likeable young girl who’s burnt her family home to the ground - A man with no memory of the night he killed his wife - A teenager whose visions and voices have had murderous effect One question binds these and others from the casebook of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrist: Why? What drives a person to commit seemingly inexplicable crimes? Dr Duncan Harding is the person the police and the courts turn to for answers. An expert witness, he must try to establish a defendant’s mental state and motivation. And their fitness to stand trial. Growing up in a broken, violent home, Harding became a doctor because he wanted to be good and kind. It led him on a journey that has brought him face to face with psychopaths, taken him to the limits of his compassion and to the darkest corners of his own troubled past. But he’s never turned away nor given up hope. Mesmerising, insightful and redemptive, The Criminal Mind is his unforgettable story. 'Engrossing' DR RICHARD SHEPHERD, author of Unnatural Causes ‘A riveting memoir … interweaves Harding’s often very moving life story with his memories of working as a forensic psychiatrist … the book left me with a powerful respect for the people in the health and justice systems who put their lives on the line to keep patients, and the rest of us, safe’ - MAIL ON SUNDAY ©2024 Duncan Harding (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753279Thu, 05 Sep 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Criminal Mind Author: Duncan Harding Narrator: Duncan Harding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Criminal Mind Author: Duncan Harding Narrator: Duncan Harding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. An edge-of-your-seat journey into the darkest depths of the human mind from forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding - A likeable young girl who’s burnt her family home to the ground - A man with no memory of the night he killed his wife - A teenager whose visions and voices have had murderous effect One question binds these and others from the casebook of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrist: Why? What drives a person to commit seemingly inexplicable crimes? Dr Duncan Harding is the person the police and the courts turn to for answers. An expert witness, he must try to establish a defendant’s mental state and motivation. And their fitness to stand trial. Growing up in a broken, violent home, Harding became a doctor because he wanted to be good and kind. It led him on a journey that has brought him face to face with psychopaths, taken him to the limits of his compassion and to the darkest corners of his own troubled past. But he’s never turned away nor given up hope. Mesmerising, insightful and redemptive, The Criminal Mind is his unforgettable story. 'Engrossing' DR RICHARD SHEPHERD, author of Unnatural Causes ‘A riveting memoir … interweaves Harding’s often very moving life story with his memories of working as a forensic psychiatrist … the book left me with a powerful respect for the people in the health and justice systems who put their lives on the line to keep patients, and the rest of us, safe’ - MAIL ON SUNDAY ©2024 Duncan Harding (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lovely-one-a-memoir-by-ketanji-brown-jackson--65183094https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovely One: A Memoir Author: Ketanji Brown Jackson Narrator: Ketanji Brown Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her “vulnerable, tender, and infinitely inspirational” (Oprah Daily) memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story. “A billowingly triumphant American tale.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family’s ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America’s highest court within the span of one generation.   Named “Ketanji Onyika,” meaning “Lovely One,” based on a suggestion from her aunt, a Peace Corps worker stationed in West Africa, Justice Jackson learned from her educator parents to take pride in her heritage since birth. She describes her resolve as a young girl to honor this legacy and realize her dreams: from hearing stories of her grandparents and parents breaking barriers in the segregated South, to honing her voice in high school as an oratory champion and student body president, to graduating magna cum laude from Harvard, where she performed in musical theater and improv and participated in pivotal student organizations.   Here, Justice Jackson pulls back the curtain, marrying the public record of her life with what is less known. She reveals what it takes to advance in the legal profession when most people in power don’t look like you, and to reconcile a demanding career with the joys and sacrifices of marriage and motherhood.   Through trials and triumphs, Justice Jackson’s journey will resonate with dreamers everywhere, especially those who nourish outsized ambitions and refuse to be turned aside. This moving, openhearted tale will spread hope for a more just world, for generations to come.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752243Tue, 03 Sep 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovely One: A Memoir Author: Ketanji Brown Jackson Narrator: Ketanji Brown Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 26 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lovely One: A Memoir Author: Ketanji Brown Jackson Narrator: Ketanji Brown Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her “vulnerable, tender, and infinitely inspirational” (Oprah Daily) memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story. “A billowingly triumphant American tale.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world, tracing her family’s ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America’s highest court within the span of one generation.   Named “Ketanji Onyika,” meaning “Lovely One,” based on a suggestion from her aunt, a Peace Corps worker stationed in West Africa, Justice Jackson learned from her educator parents to take pride in her heritage since birth. She describes her resolve as a young girl to honor this legacy and realize her dreams: from hearing stories of her grandparents and parents breaking barriers in the segregated South, to honing her voice in high school as an oratory champion and student body president, to graduating magna cum laude from Harvard, where she performed in musical theater and improv and participated in pivotal student organizations.   Here, Justice Jackson pulls back the curtain, marrying the public record of her life with what is less known. She reveals what it takes to advance in the legal profession when most people in power don’t look like you, and to reconcile a demanding career with the joys and sacrifices of marriage and motherhood.   Through trials and triumphs, Justice Jackson’s journey will resonate with dreamers everywhere, especially those who nourish outsized ambitions and refuse to be turned aside. This moving, openhearted tale will spread hope for a more just world, for generations to come.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wish-i-was-here-by-m-john-harrison--65182987https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759723 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wish I Was Here Author: M. John Harrison Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, THE OBSERVER (LONDON), GRANTA, AND TLS One of our greatest and most original living writers sets out the perils of the writing life with joyful provocation in this “anti-memoir.” M. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest bodies of fiction of any living British author, encompassing space opera, speculative fiction, fantasy, and magical and literary realism. But is there even an M. John Harrison and if so, where do we find him? This is the question the author asks in this memoir-as-mystery, turning for clues to forty years of notetaking: “A note or it never happened. A note or you never looked.” Are these notebooks records of failed presence? How do they shine a light on a childhood in the industrial Midlands, a portrait of a young artist in counterculture London, on an adulthood of restless escape into hill and moorland landscapes? And do they tell us anything about the writing of books, each one so different from the last that it might have been written by another version of the author? With aphoristic daring and laconic wit, this anti-memoir will fascinate and delight. It confirms M. John Harrison still further in his status as the most original British writer of his generation. “Wish I Was Here is a beautifully strange masterwork. It is as if M. John Harrison’s prose devises its own autobiography, while the figure of its author stands to one side tinkering at a eulogy for a dead cat, a manifesto against ruin porn, and a manual of operating procedures for creativity as funky as a Brian Eno card deck. How can this also produce a sublime fugue on memory and aging? Read it and see.” —Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759723Tue, 03 Sep 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759723 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wish I Was Here Author: M. John Harrison Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 37 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759723 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wish I Was Here Author: M. John Harrison Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, THE OBSERVER (LONDON), GRANTA, AND TLS One of our greatest and most original living writers sets out the perils of the writing life with joyful provocation in this “anti-memoir.” M. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest bodies of fiction of any living British author, encompassing space opera, speculative fiction, fantasy, and magical and literary realism. But is there even an M. John Harrison and if so, where do we find him? This is the question the author asks in this memoir-as-mystery, turning for clues to forty years of notetaking: “A note or it never happened. A note or you never looked.” Are these notebooks records of failed presence? How do they shine a light on a childhood in the industrial Midlands, a portrait of a young artist in counterculture London, on an adulthood of restless escape into hill and moorland landscapes? And do they tell us anything about the writing of books, each one so different from the last that it might have been written by another version of the author? With aphoristic daring and laconic wit, this anti-memoir will fascinate and delight. It confirms M. John Harrison still further in his status as the most original British writer of his generation. “Wish I Was Here is a beautifully strange masterwork. It is as if M. John Harrison’s prose devises its own autobiography, while the figure of its author stands to one side tinkering at a eulogy for a dead cat, a manifesto against ruin porn, and a manual of operating procedures for creativity as funky as a Brian Eno card deck. How can this also produce a sublime fugue on memory and aging? Read it and see.” —Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rule-number-two-lessons-i-learned-in-a-combat-hospital-by-heidi-squier-kraft--65183003https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital Author: Heidi Squier Kraft Narrator: Heidi Squier Kraft Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to Iraq. A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds of war that a surgeon would never see. She put away thoughts of her children back home, acclimated to the sound of incoming rockets, and learned how to listen to the most traumatic stories a war zone has to offer. One of the toughest lessons of her deployment was perfectly articulated by the TV show M*A*S*H: 'There are two rules of war. Rule number one is that young men die. Rule number two is that doctors can't change rule number one.' Some Marines, Kraft realized, and even some of their doctors, would be damaged by war in ways she could not repair. And sometimes, people were repaired in ways she never expected. Rule Number Two is a powerful firsthand account of providing comfort admidst the chaos of war, and of what it takes to endure.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765389Tue, 03 Sep 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital Author: Heidi Squier Kraft Narrator: Heidi Squier Kraft Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital Author: Heidi Squier Kraft Narrator: Heidi Squier Kraft Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to Iraq. A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds of war that a surgeon would never see. She put away thoughts of her children back home, acclimated to the sound of incoming rockets, and learned how to listen to the most traumatic stories a war zone has to offer. One of the toughest lessons of her deployment was perfectly articulated by the TV show M*A*S*H: 'There are two rules of war. Rule number one is that young men die. Rule number two is that doctors can't change rule number one.' Some Marines, Kraft realized, and even some of their doctors, would be damaged by war in ways she could not repair. And sometimes, people were repaired in ways she never expected. Rule Number Two is a powerful firsthand account of providing comfort admidst the chaos of war, and of what it takes to endure.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/helpless-are-riley-and-his-two-little-siblings-in-danger-by-cathy-glass--65183095https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Helpless: Are Riley and his two little siblings in danger? Author: Cathy Glass Narrator: Denica Fairman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The 32nd fostering memoir from international bestseller Cathy Glass Struggling to cope with three young children, Janie turns to experienced foster carer Cathy Glass. Helping the family each morning, Cathy soon uncovers how dangerous their situation has truly become. Riley and his two little siblings, Jayden and Lola, are not safe at home. With all three children in her care, will Cathy be able to rebuild their lives – and Janie’s?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747133Thu, 29 Aug 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Helpless: Are Riley and his two little siblings in danger? Author: Cathy Glass Narrator: Denica Fairman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Helpless: Are Riley and his two little siblings in danger? Author: Cathy Glass Narrator: Denica Fairman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The 32nd fostering memoir from international bestseller Cathy Glass Struggling to cope with three young children, Janie turns to experienced foster carer Cathy Glass. Helping the family each morning, Cathy soon uncovers how dangerous their situation has truly become. Riley and his two little siblings, Jayden and Lola, are not safe at home. With all three children in her care, will Cathy be able to rebuild their lives – and Janie’s?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/on-the-brink-stories-of-harm-and-healing-from-a-lifetime-in-psychiatry-by-penelope-campling--65182918https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773678 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the Brink: Stories of harm and healing from a lifetime in psychiatry Author: Penelope Campling Narrator: Penelope Campling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: We have lost our way when it comes to treating serious mental illness: this is a powerful call to arms from highly respected doctor and therapist, Penelope Campling.   'Deeply thoughtful and compassionate' Susie Orbach, author of In Therapy   'As a GP I wish I could send patients to Penelope Campling; as someone worried about failing mental health services, I wish she were in charge.' Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being   NHS psychiatrist and psychotherapist Dr Penelope Campling has spent a lifetime on the frontline of mental health care, working with patients in crisis. Now she has an urgent message for us all: with our health service at breaking point, we are failing people in serious mental distress. We can and must do better.   Dr Campling invites us into her therapy room. At the forefront of a radically new approach to working with mental illness, she shows how therapeutic communities have helped her patients to break generational cycles of trauma, change crippling internal narratives of shame and despair, overcome abuse and rebuild their lives to find meaning and hope.   Moving and insightful, On the Brink combines patients’ stories with candid self-reflections on the difficult business of helping others.   'A book with the power to move and inform . . . [Campling] is an expert in "intelligent kindness".' Gwen Adshead, author of The Devil You Know   '[An] insightful, important book . . . an exhibition of what could be possible and an invitation to act to deliver that vision.' Kathryn Mannix, author of Listen   'This book oozes compassion and kindness and made me want to be a more understanding doctor.' Kate Milton, British Journal of GP Practice   Previously published in hardback under the title Don’t Turn Away: Stories of Troubled Minds in Fractured Times]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773678Thu, 29 Aug 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773678 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the Brink: Stories of harm and healing from a lifetime in psychiatry Author: Penelope Campling Narrator: Penelope Campling Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773678 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the Brink: Stories of harm and healing from a lifetime in psychiatry Author: Penelope Campling Narrator: Penelope Campling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: We have lost our way when it comes to treating serious mental illness: this is a powerful call to arms from highly respected doctor and therapist, Penelope Campling.   'Deeply thoughtful and compassionate' Susie Orbach, author of In Therapy   'As a GP I wish I could send patients to Penelope Campling; as someone worried about failing mental health services, I wish she were in charge.' Gavin Francis, author of Adventures in Human Being   NHS psychiatrist and psychotherapist Dr Penelope Campling has spent a lifetime on the frontline of mental health care, working with patients in crisis. Now she has an urgent message for us all: with our health service at breaking point, we are failing people in serious mental distress. We can and must do better.   Dr Campling invites us into her therapy room. At the forefront of a radically new approach to working with mental illness, she shows how therapeutic communities have helped her patients to break generational cycles of trauma, change crippling internal narratives of shame and despair, overcome abuse and rebuild their lives to find meaning and hope.   Moving and insightful, On the Brink combines patients’ stories with candid self-reflections on the difficult business of helping others.   'A book with the power to move and inform . . . [Campling] is an expert in "intelligent kindness".' Gwen Adshead, author of The Devil You Know   '[An] insightful, important book . . . an exhibition of what could be possible and an invitation to act to deliver that vision.' Kathryn Mannix, author of Listen   'This book oozes compassion and kindness and made me want to be a more understanding doctor.' Kate Milton, British Journal of GP Practice   Previously published in hardback under the title Don’t Turn Away: Stories of Troubled Minds in Fractured Times]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-not-to-be-a-supermodel-a-noughties-memoir-by-ruth-crilly--65182890https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Not to be a Supermodel: A noughties memoir Author: Ruth Crilly Narrator: Ruth Crilly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! *THE MUST-READ NOUGHTIES NOSTALGIA MEMOIR* 'Hilarious' CAITLIN MORAN 'Witty, gossipy, self-effacing and deeply nostalgic, this is a joy for all of us who survived the noughties but have forgotten quite how. Much more than the memoir of a fashion model, this is the rarely-told insider story of the most glamorous, grotty and downright insane industries' SALI HUGHES Join Ruth Crilly in this comic memoir as she teeters through the noughties and lifts the lid on her days as an international fashion model. Told with unparalleled wit and remarkable detail, this is a book for anyone who dreams big and aims high but never quite reaches their goal. At twenty years old, five feet eight and with boobs that were 'inconveniently fulsome', Ruth was not quite young enough, tall enough or waif-like enough to ever hope for a meteoric rise to supermodel status. And yet her sheer optimism and questionable grasp on reality led her to abandon her law degree and begin a career with one of the biggest agencies in the world. Follow Ruth through a rip-roaring, hilarious decade of not-quite-making-it as a supermodel. Fuelled by little more than cigarettes and the stress of her spiralling debt she criss-crosses the world in pursuit of fame and fortune. But how far is she willing to go for this wildly unrealistic dream? Bridget Jones meets the Devil Wears Prada, How Not to be a Supermodel is a time capsule of a book that dives into one of the world's most fascinating industries. Offering a glimpse into both the high glamour and juddering reality of a by-gone era, this comic memoir tackles the darkest of subjects with the very lightest touch and injects humour and a heart-warming honesty into a story that could have so easily ended a different way.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776931Thu, 29 Aug 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Not to be a Supermodel: A noughties memoir Author: Ruth Crilly Narrator: Ruth Crilly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776931 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Not to be a Supermodel: A noughties memoir Author: Ruth Crilly Narrator: Ruth Crilly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! *THE MUST-READ NOUGHTIES NOSTALGIA MEMOIR* 'Hilarious' CAITLIN MORAN 'Witty, gossipy, self-effacing and deeply nostalgic, this is a joy for all of us who survived the noughties but have forgotten quite how. Much more than the memoir of a fashion model, this is the rarely-told insider story of the most glamorous, grotty and downright insane industries' SALI HUGHES Join Ruth Crilly in this comic memoir as she teeters through the noughties and lifts the lid on her days as an international fashion model. Told with unparalleled wit and remarkable detail, this is a book for anyone who dreams big and aims high but never quite reaches their goal. At twenty years old, five feet eight and with boobs that were 'inconveniently fulsome', Ruth was not quite young enough, tall enough or waif-like enough to ever hope for a meteoric rise to supermodel status. And yet her sheer optimism and questionable grasp on reality led her to abandon her law degree and begin a career with one of the biggest agencies in the world. Follow Ruth through a rip-roaring, hilarious decade of not-quite-making-it as a supermodel. Fuelled by little more than cigarettes and the stress of her spiralling debt she criss-crosses the world in pursuit of fame and fortune. But how far is she willing to go for this wildly unrealistic dream? Bridget Jones meets the Devil Wears Prada, How Not to be a Supermodel is a time capsule of a book that dives into one of the world's most fascinating industries. Offering a glimpse into both the high glamour and juddering reality of a by-gone era, this comic memoir tackles the darkest of subjects with the very lightest touch and injects humour and a heart-warming honesty into a story that could have so easily ended a different way.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/everything-and-nothing-at-all-essays-by-jenny-heijun-wills--65183002https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything and Nothing At All: Essays Author: Jenny Heijun Wills Narrator: Jenny Heijun Wills Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Here is my disconnect: the private and public self. My mind and body. The real person and curated spectacle. . . . Are there actual roots with which to fasten this performance to anything real?' As a transnational and transracial adoptee, Jenny Heijun Wills has spent her life navigating the fraught spaces of ethnicity and belonging. As a pan-polyam individual, she lives between types of family—adopted, biological, chosen—and 'community'; heternormativity and queerness; commitment and a constellation of love. And as a parent with a lifelong eating disorder, who self-harms to cope with mental illness, her love language is to feed, but daily she wishes her body would disappear. These facets of Wills' being have served as the anchors she once clung to and the harsh parameters of what others now imagine she can be. Everything and Nothing At All weaves together a lifetime of literary criticism, cultural study, and a personal history into a staggering tapestry of knowledge. And though the experiences of accumulating this knowledge have often been shot through with pain, Wills spins these threads into priceless gold—a radical, fearless vision of kinship and family. Devastating, illuminating, and beautifully crafted, these essays breathe life into the ambiguities and excesses of Wills' self, transforming them into something more—something that could be everything.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765420Tue, 27 Aug 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything and Nothing At All: Essays Author: Jenny Heijun Wills Narrator: Jenny Heijun Wills Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything and Nothing At All: Essays Author: Jenny Heijun Wills Narrator: Jenny Heijun Wills Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Here is my disconnect: the private and public self. My mind and body. The real person and curated spectacle. . . . Are there actual roots with which to fasten this performance to anything real?' As a transnational and transracial adoptee, Jenny Heijun Wills has spent her life navigating the fraught spaces of ethnicity and belonging. As a pan-polyam individual, she lives between types of family—adopted, biological, chosen—and 'community'; heternormativity and queerness; commitment and a constellation of love. And as a parent with a lifelong eating disorder, who self-harms to cope with mental illness, her love language is to feed, but daily she wishes her body would disappear. These facets of Wills' being have served as the anchors she once clung to and the harsh parameters of what others now imagine she can be. Everything and Nothing At All weaves together a lifetime of literary criticism, cultural study, and a personal history into a staggering tapestry of knowledge. And though the experiences of accumulating this knowledge have often been shot through with pain, Wills spins these threads into priceless gold—a radical, fearless vision of kinship and family. Devastating, illuminating, and beautifully crafted, these essays breathe life into the ambiguities and excesses of Wills' self, transforming them into something more—something that could be everything.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rotten-evidence-reading-and-writing-in-an-egyptian-prison-by-ahmed-naji--65182883https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison Author: Ahmed Naji Narrator: Michael Rahhal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In February 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison for “violating public decency,” after an excerpt of his novel Using Life reportedly caused a reader to experience heart palpitations. Naji ultimately served ten months of that sentence, in a group cellblock in Cairo’s Tora Prison.Rotten Evidence is a chronicle of those months. Through Naji’s writing, the world of Egyptian prison comes into vivid focus, with its cigarette-based economy, homemade chess sets, and well-groomed fixers. Naji’s storytelling is lively and uncompromising, filled with rare insights into both the mundane and the grand questions he confronts.How does one secure a steady supply of fresh vegetables without refrigeration? Write and revise a novel in a single notebook? Make a wall hook out of a razor? Fight boredom? And, most crucially, how does one make sense of a senseless oppression: finding oneself in prison for the act of writing fiction. Genuine and defiant, this book stands as a testament to the power of the creative mind in the face of authoritarian censorship.“Ahmed Naji confronts what happens when one’s fundamentally unserious, oversexed youth dovetails with an authoritarian, utterly self-serious regime.”—Zadie Smith, author of The Fraud]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778278Tue, 27 Aug 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison Author: Ahmed Naji Narrator: Michael Rahhal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/778278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison Author: Ahmed Naji Narrator: Michael Rahhal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In February 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison for “violating public decency,” after an excerpt of his novel Using Life reportedly caused a reader to experience heart palpitations. Naji ultimately served ten months of that sentence, in a group cellblock in Cairo’s Tora Prison.Rotten Evidence is a chronicle of those months. Through Naji’s writing, the world of Egyptian prison comes into vivid focus, with its cigarette-based economy, homemade chess sets, and well-groomed fixers. Naji’s storytelling is lively and uncompromising, filled with rare insights into both the mundane and the grand questions he confronts.How does one secure a steady supply of fresh vegetables without refrigeration? Write and revise a novel in a single notebook? Make a wall hook out of a razor? Fight boredom? And, most crucially, how does one make sense of a senseless oppression: finding oneself in prison for the act of writing fiction. Genuine and defiant, this book stands as a testament to the power of the creative mind in the face of authoritarian censorship.“Ahmed Naji confronts what happens when one’s fundamentally unserious, oversexed youth dovetails with an authoritarian, utterly self-serious regime.”—Zadie Smith, author of The Fraud]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ingrained-the-making-of-a-craftsman-by-callum-robinson--65183041https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ingrained: The making of a craftsman Author: Callum Robinson Narrator: Callum Robinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Ingrained is a love letter to trees, timber and craftsmanship – and to finding your own voice. The eldest son of a Master Woodworker, Callum Robinson spent his childhood surrounded by wood and trees, absorbing craft lessons in his father’s workshop, playing amongst the sycamore, oak and Scots pine that bordered his home. In time he became his father’s apprentice, helping to create exquisite bespoke objects. But eventually the need to find his own path led him to establish his own workshop; to chase ever bigger and more commercial projects, to business meetings, bright lights and bureaucracy, to lose touch with his roots. Until the devastating loss of one major job threatened to bring it all crashing down. Faced with the end of his business, his team and everything he had worked so hard to build, he was forced to question what mattered most. In beautifully wrought prose, Callum tells the story of returning to the workshop, and to the wood; to handcrafting furniture for people who will love it, and then pass it on to the next generation – antidotes to a culture where everything seems so easily disposable. As he does so, he brings us closer to nature, and to the physical act of creation. Close enough to smell the sawdust, to see the wood’s grain and character and to feel the magic of furniture coming to life. At the same time, we begin to understand how he has been shaped, as both a craftsman and a son. Blending memoir and nature writing at its finest, Ingrained is an uplifting meditation on the challenges of working with your hands in our modern age, on community, consumerism, and the beauty of the natural world – one that asks us to see our local trees, and our own wooden objects, in a new and revelatory light. ''Original. Rare. As beautiful as trees... A masterpiece.'' JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL, author of Meadowland, The Running Hare and The Wood 'This magnificent debut isn't just an ode to the craft of carpentry, but the art of writing. Robinson's chiselled, elegant prose is the sound of a bright new voice in non-fiction. His memoir brings to life the heartwood in trees, families, and a young man making his way in the world with an inspiring integrity. This is essential reading for any artist who might be losing their way.' SOPHY ROBERTS, author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia © Callum Robinson 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761106Thu, 22 Aug 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ingrained: The making of a craftsman Author: Callum Robinson Narrator: Callum Robinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ingrained: The making of a craftsman Author: Callum Robinson Narrator: Callum Robinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Ingrained is a love letter to trees, timber and craftsmanship – and to finding your own voice. The eldest son of a Master Woodworker, Callum Robinson spent his childhood surrounded by wood and trees, absorbing craft lessons in his father’s workshop, playing amongst the sycamore, oak and Scots pine that bordered his home. In time he became his father’s apprentice, helping to create exquisite bespoke objects. But eventually the need to find his own path led him to establish his own workshop; to chase ever bigger and more commercial projects, to business meetings, bright lights and bureaucracy, to lose touch with his roots. Until the devastating loss of one major job threatened to bring it all crashing down. Faced with the end of his business, his team and everything he had worked so hard to build, he was forced to question what mattered most. In beautifully wrought prose, Callum tells the story of returning to the workshop, and to the wood; to handcrafting furniture for people who will love it, and then pass it on to the next generation – antidotes to a culture where everything seems so easily disposable. As he does so, he brings us closer to nature, and to the physical act of creation. Close enough to smell the sawdust, to see the wood’s grain and character and to feel the magic of furniture coming to life. At the same time, we begin to understand how he has been shaped, as both a craftsman and a son. Blending memoir and nature writing at its finest, Ingrained is an uplifting meditation on the challenges of working with your hands in our modern age, on community, consumerism, and the beauty of the natural world – one that asks us to see our local trees, and our own wooden objects, in a new and revelatory light. ''Original. Rare. As beautiful as trees... A masterpiece.'' JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL, author of Meadowland, The Running Hare and The Wood 'This magnificent debut isn't just an ode to the craft of carpentry, but the art of writing. Robinson's chiselled, elegant prose is the sound of a bright new voice in non-fiction. His memoir brings to life the heartwood in trees, families, and a young man making his way in the world with an inspiring integrity. This is essential reading for any artist who might be losing their way.' SOPHY ROBERTS, author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia © Callum Robinson 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pilgrim-at-tinker-creek-by-annie-dillard--65182964https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767144 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Author: Annie Dillard Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel.” — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of ''beauty tangled in a rapture with violence.'' Dillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot; she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays King of the Meadow with a field of grasshoppers. The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767144Tue, 20 Aug 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767144 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Author: Annie Dillard Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 20,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767144 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Author: Annie Dillard Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel.” — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of ''beauty tangled in a rapture with violence.'' Dillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot; she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays King of the Meadow with a field of grasshoppers. The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-life-of-dai-by-jaquie-brown-dai-henwood--65183073https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758984 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life of Dai Author: Jaquie Brown, Dai Henwood Narrator: Jaquie Brown, Dai Henwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A deeply moving and profoundly uplifting story about living with joy, even in the face of adversity. 'Part memoir and part masterclass in finding hope and joy in the face of unthinkable challenges. This isn't a book about cancer, it's a book about living' – Jaquie Brown Dai Henwood wanted to be a comedian even before he knew what a comedian was. He always knew there was something special in being able to make people laugh. Over a 25-year career, the much-loved Kiwi entertainer and TV host has won every major comedy award in New Zealand. But in January 2023, Dai shared publicly that three years earlier he had been diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer. Perhaps the ultimate teacher for what really matters, Dai's incurable cancer has shown him a new way of living that embraces small moments of perfection and cherishes things we often overlook. As well as showing us how laughter can be a wonderful medicine – and there are many laughs in his book – Dai teaches us that often the gifts we've been searching for are right in front of us, if only we could see them.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758984Sun, 18 Aug 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758984 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life of Dai Author: Jaquie Brown, Dai Henwood Narrator: Jaquie Brown, Dai Henwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758984 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life of Dai Author: Jaquie Brown, Dai Henwood Narrator: Jaquie Brown, Dai Henwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A deeply moving and profoundly uplifting story about living with joy, even in the face of adversity. 'Part memoir and part masterclass in finding hope and joy in the face of unthinkable challenges. This isn't a book about cancer, it's a book about living' – Jaquie Brown Dai Henwood wanted to be a comedian even before he knew what a comedian was. He always knew there was something special in being able to make people laugh. Over a 25-year career, the much-loved Kiwi entertainer and TV host has won every major comedy award in New Zealand. But in January 2023, Dai shared publicly that three years earlier he had been diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer. Perhaps the ultimate teacher for what really matters, Dai's incurable cancer has shown him a new way of living that embraces small moments of perfection and cherishes things we often overlook. As well as showing us how laughter can be a wonderful medicine – and there are many laughs in his book – Dai teaches us that often the gifts we've been searching for are right in front of us, if only we could see them.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/out-of-faith-a-mother-a-sect-and-a-journey-to-freedom-by-maria-compton--65182886https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of Faith: A Mother, A Sect, And a Journey to Freedom Author: Maria Compton Narrator: Deryn Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: AS SEEN IN THE TIMES Maria Compton was born and raised in the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. Encouraged to keep her distance from outsiders, she grew up in a world of Church meetings, banishments and with the fear that the end of the world - known as the Rapture - was nigh. When she was still in her late teens, she married a man she barely knew. To those around her she lived the perfect life; dutiful wife, loving mother, devout Brethren woman. But underneath the surface, this life was far from perfect. Plagued by spiritual doubts, stuck in an abusive marriage and with her mental health in severe decline, Maria came to realise that she simply could not go on. And so, although knowing everything it would cost, she did the unthinkable: she left her church. Despite her attempts to stay in touch, Maria is no longer seen by her family, her friends or even her own children. But whilst she continues to grieve for everything she has lost, she holds fast to what she has gained: her liberty and her hope for the future. Out of Faith is testament to the strength of the human spirit even in the darkest of times, and an incredible story exposing the tangled ties between family, faith and freedom.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777444Thu, 15 Aug 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of Faith: A Mother, A Sect, And a Journey to Freedom Author: Maria Compton Narrator: Deryn Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Out of Faith: A Mother, A Sect, And a Journey to Freedom Author: Maria Compton Narrator: Deryn Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: AS SEEN IN THE TIMES Maria Compton was born and raised in the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. Encouraged to keep her distance from outsiders, she grew up in a world of Church meetings, banishments and with the fear that the end of the world - known as the Rapture - was nigh. When she was still in her late teens, she married a man she barely knew. To those around her she lived the perfect life; dutiful wife, loving mother, devout Brethren woman. But underneath the surface, this life was far from perfect. Plagued by spiritual doubts, stuck in an abusive marriage and with her mental health in severe decline, Maria came to realise that she simply could not go on. And so, although knowing everything it would cost, she did the unthinkable: she left her church. Despite her attempts to stay in touch, Maria is no longer seen by her family, her friends or even her own children. But whilst she continues to grieve for everything she has lost, she holds fast to what she has gained: her liberty and her hope for the future. Out of Faith is testament to the strength of the human spirit even in the darkest of times, and an incredible story exposing the tangled ties between family, faith and freedom.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/an-honest-woman-a-memoir-of-love-and-sex-work-by-charlotte-shane--65183021https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work Author: Charlotte Shane Narrator: Caitlin Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a “rigorous and compulsively readable memoir” (New York magazine) exploring what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society. “A memoir of sex work that is also a poignant love story” —The Washington Post In her early twenties, Charlotte Shane quit her women’s studies graduate program to devote herself to sex work because it was a way to devote herself to men. Her lifelong curiosity about male lust, love, selfishness, and social capital dovetailed with her own insatiable desire for intimacy to sustain a long career in escorting, with unexpectedly poignant results. Shane uses her “unsparing honestly” (The New York Times Book Review) and her personal and professional history to examine how men and women struggle in their attempts at a romantic and sexual bonding, no matter how true their intentions. As she takes stock of her relationships—with clients, with her father, with friends, with married men, and later, with her own husband—she tells a candid and haunting tale of love, marriage, and (in)fidelity, as seen through the eyes of the perpetual “other woman.” Braiding the personal and the universal, An Honest Woman is a merciless and moving love letter to men and an indictment of habitual dishonesty, a condemnation of every social constraint acting on heterosexual unions, and a hopeful affirmation of the possibility for true connection between men and women.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758397Tue, 13 Aug 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work Author: Charlotte Shane Narrator: Caitlin Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work Author: Charlotte Shane Narrator: Caitlin Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a “rigorous and compulsively readable memoir” (New York magazine) exploring what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society. “A memoir of sex work that is also a poignant love story” —The Washington Post In her early twenties, Charlotte Shane quit her women’s studies graduate program to devote herself to sex work because it was a way to devote herself to men. Her lifelong curiosity about male lust, love, selfishness, and social capital dovetailed with her own insatiable desire for intimacy to sustain a long career in escorting, with unexpectedly poignant results. Shane uses her “unsparing honestly” (The New York Times Book Review) and her personal and professional history to examine how men and women struggle in their attempts at a romantic and sexual bonding, no matter how true their intentions. As she takes stock of her relationships—with clients, with her father, with friends, with married men, and later, with her own husband—she tells a candid and haunting tale of love, marriage, and (in)fidelity, as seen through the eyes of the perpetual “other woman.” Braiding the personal and the universal, An Honest Woman is a merciless and moving love letter to men and an indictment of habitual dishonesty, a condemnation of every social constraint acting on heterosexual unions, and a hopeful affirmation of the possibility for true connection between men and women.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/men-have-called-her-crazy-the-new-york-times-bestselling-memoir-by-anna-marie-tendler--65182904https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Men Have Called Her Crazy: The New York Times bestselling memoir Author: Anna Marie Tendler Narrator: Anna Marie Tendler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A stunning self-portrait of a woman trying to make sense of the misogyny and sexism she has faced throughout her life.' - TIME Magazine In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression and self-harm. Over two weeks, she underwent myriad psychological tests, participated in numerous therapy sessions, connected with fellow patients and experienced profound breakthroughs, such as when a doctor noted, 'There is a you inside that feels invisible to those looking at you from the outside.' In Men Have Called Her Crazy, Tendler recounts her hospital experience as well as pivotal moments in her life that preceded and followed. This is a memoir that speaks to every woman who has been made to question her own sanity, doubt herself and her worth. Anna Marie Tendler's powerful writing, insight and clarity enabled her to find a way out of the narratives that had been foisted on her since girlhood and create her own, new story. This beautiful and heartfelt book invites us to do the same. This stunning literary self-portrait examines the unreasonable expectations and pressures women face in the 21st century. Yet overwhelming and despairing as that can feel, Tendler ultimately offers a message of hope. Early in her stay in the hospital, she says, 'My wish for myself is that one day I'll reach a place where I can face hardship without trying to destroy myself.' By the end of the book, she fulfils that wish.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775355Tue, 13 Aug 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Men Have Called Her Crazy: The New York Times bestselling memoir Author: Anna Marie Tendler Narrator: Anna Marie Tendler Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775355 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Men Have Called Her Crazy: The New York Times bestselling memoir Author: Anna Marie Tendler Narrator: Anna Marie Tendler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A stunning self-portrait of a woman trying to make sense of the misogyny and sexism she has faced throughout her life.' - TIME Magazine In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression and self-harm. Over two weeks, she underwent myriad psychological tests, participated in numerous therapy sessions, connected with fellow patients and experienced profound breakthroughs, such as when a doctor noted, 'There is a you inside that feels invisible to those looking at you from the outside.' In Men Have Called Her Crazy, Tendler recounts her hospital experience as well as pivotal moments in her life that preceded and followed. This is a memoir that speaks to every woman who has been made to question her own sanity, doubt herself and her worth. Anna Marie Tendler's powerful writing, insight and clarity enabled her to find a way out of the narratives that had been foisted on her since girlhood and create her own, new story. This beautiful and heartfelt book invites us to do the same. This stunning literary self-portrait examines the unreasonable expectations and pressures women face in the 21st century. Yet overwhelming and despairing as that can feel, Tendler ultimately offers a message of hope. Early in her stay in the hospital, she says, 'My wish for myself is that one day I'll reach a place where I can face hardship without trying to destroy myself.' By the end of the book, she fulfils that wish.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-consultant-by-jay-malkoun--65182921https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Consultant Author: Jay Malkoun Narrator: Hazem Shammas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Jay Malkoun isn't the type of man who lets a little thing like being blown up slow him down. In March 2019, a car bomb outside a gym in Athens detonated the Mercedes Jay's his children had been riding in less than an hour earlier. It was an explosion heard around the world, as global media, law enforcement agencies, and underworld cartels speculated on who had moved to assassinate the former gangster and retired leader of one of the world's most feared and powerful underworld organisations. There were a hundred possible suspects. Jay has some ideas about it too. Now, in this gripping true crime autobiography, for the first time, Jay tells his story - that of one of the most fascinating and complex figures that Australia has ever given the world. Jay is streetfighter from Melbourne's roughest suburb who rubs shoulders with movie stars and opera singers. Convicted drug trafficker and champion horse breeder. Survivor of the Melbourne underworld wars, and ten years in Australia's most brutal prison. Nightclub enforcer and peacemaker. Strip-club mogul and incurable romantic. A family man of deep religious faith who is capable of extreme violence when pushed. A loving father and a loyal son. A negotiator of multi-million-dollar deals in both the boardroom and the backroom. The one-time leader of one of the most influential and powerful outlaw motorcycle clubs the world has ever seen - whose power extends across the globe. Now, the author of this stunning autobiography. Confronting, confounding, hard to the core, and laugh-out loud funny, this is Jay Malkoun in his own words - a compelling narrative of violence, contradiction, and redemption. It is both an unprecedented tour of the underworld, and a compelling exploration of a man who has lived a hundred lifetimes in one and is now ready to tell his story.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771554Tue, 06 Aug 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Consultant Author: Jay Malkoun Narrator: Hazem Shammas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Consultant Author: Jay Malkoun Narrator: Hazem Shammas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: August 6, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Jay Malkoun isn't the type of man who lets a little thing like being blown up slow him down. In March 2019, a car bomb outside a gym in Athens detonated the Mercedes Jay's his children had been riding in less than an hour earlier. It was an explosion heard around the world, as global media, law enforcement agencies, and underworld cartels speculated on who had moved to assassinate the former gangster and retired leader of one of the world's most feared and powerful underworld organisations. There were a hundred possible suspects. Jay has some ideas about it too. Now, in this gripping true crime autobiography, for the first time, Jay tells his story - that of one of the most fascinating and complex figures that Australia has ever given the world. Jay is streetfighter from Melbourne's roughest suburb who rubs shoulders with movie stars and opera singers. Convicted drug trafficker and champion horse breeder. Survivor of the Melbourne underworld wars, and ten years in Australia's most brutal prison. Nightclub enforcer and peacemaker. Strip-club mogul and incurable romantic. A family man of deep religious faith who is capable of extreme violence when pushed. A loving father and a loyal son. A negotiator of multi-million-dollar deals in both the boardroom and the backroom. The one-time leader of one of the most influential and powerful outlaw motorcycle clubs the world has ever seen - whose power extends across the globe. Now, the author of this stunning autobiography. Confronting, confounding, hard to the core, and laugh-out loud funny, this is Jay Malkoun in his own words - a compelling narrative of violence, contradiction, and redemption. It is both an unprecedented tour of the underworld, and a compelling exploration of a man who has lived a hundred lifetimes in one and is now ready to tell his story.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/war-peace-war-twenty-years-in-afghanistan-by-andrew-north--65183096https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752912 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War & Peace & War: Twenty years in Afghanistan Author: Andrew North Narrator: Andrew North Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In early 2022 ,veteran journalist Andrew North was kidnapped by the Taliban. By the time he found himself imprisoned in a jail cell, he had been reporting from Afghanistan for two decades, coming to know hundreds of Afghans along the way. This book brings together both his and their stories. Farzana was banned from attending school as a child, but education would take her further than she could have imagined. Bilal's dream of becoming a journalist came true, but at a cost. While Abdul's ambition to become a doctor was thwarted, Jahan's prospects transformed radically for the better. And in a quiet province, the life of a boy called Naqibullah was shattered. Witness to both the country's transformation and the mistakes that eventually led to its collapse, in War & Peace & War North vividly evokes a country where foreign powers and internal forces have been on a collision course for over two centuries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752912Thu, 01 Aug 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752912 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War & Peace & War: Twenty years in Afghanistan Author: Andrew North Narrator: Andrew North Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752912 to listen full audiobooks. Title: War & Peace & War: Twenty years in Afghanistan Author: Andrew North Narrator: Andrew North Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In early 2022 ,veteran journalist Andrew North was kidnapped by the Taliban. By the time he found himself imprisoned in a jail cell, he had been reporting from Afghanistan for two decades, coming to know hundreds of Afghans along the way. This book brings together both his and their stories. Farzana was banned from attending school as a child, but education would take her further than she could have imagined. Bilal's dream of becoming a journalist came true, but at a cost. While Abdul's ambition to become a doctor was thwarted, Jahan's prospects transformed radically for the better. And in a quiet province, the life of a boy called Naqibullah was shattered. Witness to both the country's transformation and the mistakes that eventually led to its collapse, in War & Peace & War North vividly evokes a country where foreign powers and internal forces have been on a collision course for over two centuries.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-name-in-the-street-by-james-baldwin--65183070https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760993 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Name in the Street Author: James Baldwin Narrator: Kevin Kenerly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a writer and activist: from his childhood in Harlem to the deaths of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Exploring the visceral reality of life in the American South as well as Baldwin’s impressions of London, Paris and Hamburg, No Name in the Street grapples with the failed promises of global liberation movements in fearless, candid prose. Timeless, tender and profound, Baldwin’s searing narrative contains the multiplicities of what it means to be Black in America and, indeed, around the world. ©1972 James Baldwin (P) 2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760993Thu, 01 Aug 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760993 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Name in the Street Author: James Baldwin Narrator: Kevin Kenerly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760993 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Name in the Street Author: James Baldwin Narrator: Kevin Kenerly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a writer and activist: from his childhood in Harlem to the deaths of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Exploring the visceral reality of life in the American South as well as Baldwin’s impressions of London, Paris and Hamburg, No Name in the Street grapples with the failed promises of global liberation movements in fearless, candid prose. Timeless, tender and profound, Baldwin’s searing narrative contains the multiplicities of what it means to be Black in America and, indeed, around the world. ©1972 James Baldwin (P) 2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lucky-girl-family-falling-and-finding-my-way-by-lottie-tomlinson--65183065https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lucky Girl: Family, falling and finding my way Author: Lottie Tomlinson Narrator: Lottie Tomlinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'You can look at my life in two ways. Some people see a nightmare, some see a fairytale. I've just always thought I was lucky...People often ask me how I did it, this book is my answer. This is my story, everything I've learned along the way, I hope it can help you find your own luck. ' Lottie Tomlinson has gone through a huge amount in her 23 years on this planet. Touring with her brother Louis as a make-up artist with One Direction at the age of 16, you'd think her life was a fairytale. But this only masked the tragedy happening at home, when her mother became ill with leukaemia and died when Lottie was just 18. Leaving behind five smaller siblings, Lottie came home and tried to find a way to hold the family together. But sadly, tragedy struck again when the family lost Lottie's little sister Félicité, at just 18. Despite all this, incredibly Lottie has built a successful business empire, has a loving stable partner and now is the mother to a beautiful baby boy, called Lucky. Lucky Girl is Lottie's story of resilience and the lessons she's learned along the way. Going behind the beauty and the fame, Lottie's beautiful memoir explores the rollercoaster of her life, from the darkest days and loneliest nights to the success she found despite it all, and how all the challenges and setbacks have led her to where she is today. Heartbreaking yet inspirational, Lottie hopes that in telling her story and how she has navigated the pain and grief in her life that she will provide hope for others going through their darkest times.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757022Thu, 01 Aug 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lucky Girl: Family, falling and finding my way Author: Lottie Tomlinson Narrator: Lottie Tomlinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lucky Girl: Family, falling and finding my way Author: Lottie Tomlinson Narrator: Lottie Tomlinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'You can look at my life in two ways. Some people see a nightmare, some see a fairytale. I've just always thought I was lucky...People often ask me how I did it, this book is my answer. This is my story, everything I've learned along the way, I hope it can help you find your own luck. ' Lottie Tomlinson has gone through a huge amount in her 23 years on this planet. Touring with her brother Louis as a make-up artist with One Direction at the age of 16, you'd think her life was a fairytale. But this only masked the tragedy happening at home, when her mother became ill with leukaemia and died when Lottie was just 18. Leaving behind five smaller siblings, Lottie came home and tried to find a way to hold the family together. But sadly, tragedy struck again when the family lost Lottie's little sister Félicité, at just 18. Despite all this, incredibly Lottie has built a successful business empire, has a loving stable partner and now is the mother to a beautiful baby boy, called Lucky. Lucky Girl is Lottie's story of resilience and the lessons she's learned along the way. Going behind the beauty and the fame, Lottie's beautiful memoir explores the rollercoaster of her life, from the darkest days and loneliest nights to the success she found despite it all, and how all the challenges and setbacks have led her to where she is today. Heartbreaking yet inspirational, Lottie hopes that in telling her story and how she has navigated the pain and grief in her life that she will provide hope for others going through their darkest times.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/serviceman-j-the-untold-story-of-an-nzsas-soldier-by-jamie-pennell--65183032https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Serviceman J: The Untold Story of an NZSAS Soldier Author: Jamie Pennell Narrator: Michael Whalley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: July 31, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A gripping memoir by a former NZSAS commander on serving in Afghanistan over four deployments and operating at the edge of his limits 'Frighteningly, devastatingly real.' - The Post In 2011, following the Taliban siege on Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel, an SAS soldier identified only as Serviceman J was awarded New Zealand's second highest military honour by showing outstanding gallantry in the face of danger. After eighteen years in the New Zealand SAS, ex-commander Jamie Pennell is now ready to tell his story. Having survived the famously tough SAS selection course and excelled during its brutal training, Jamie was sent on four deployments to Afghanistan and played a critical role in New Zealand's operations. From patrols across desert territories run by warlords to hostile fire and near-death combat, Serviceman J is a heart-stopping account of life inside one of the world's most elite military forces.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763913Wed, 31 Jul 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Serviceman J: The Untold Story of an NZSAS Soldier Author: Jamie Pennell Narrator: Michael Whalley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Serviceman J: The Untold Story of an NZSAS Soldier Author: Jamie Pennell Narrator: Michael Whalley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 50 minutes Release date: July 31, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A gripping memoir by a former NZSAS commander on serving in Afghanistan over four deployments and operating at the edge of his limits 'Frighteningly, devastatingly real.' - The Post In 2011, following the Taliban siege on Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel, an SAS soldier identified only as Serviceman J was awarded New Zealand's second highest military honour by showing outstanding gallantry in the face of danger. After eighteen years in the New Zealand SAS, ex-commander Jamie Pennell is now ready to tell his story. Having survived the famously tough SAS selection course and excelled during its brutal training, Jamie was sent on four deployments to Afghanistan and played a critical role in New Zealand's operations. From patrols across desert territories run by warlords to hostile fire and near-death combat, Serviceman J is a heart-stopping account of life inside one of the world's most elite military forces.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-in-the-family-the-trumps-and-how-we-got-this-way-by-fred-c-trump--65183017https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769153 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way Author: Fred C. Trump Narrator: Fred C. Trump Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.91 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this honest memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name. For the record…Fred Trump never asked for any of this. The divisive politics. The endless headlines. A hijacked last name. The heat-seeking uncle, rising from real estate scion to gossip column fixture to The Apprentice host to President of the United States. Fred just wanted a happy life and a satisfying career. But a fight for his son’s health and safety forced him onto a center stage that he had never wanted. And now, at a crucial point for our nation, he is stepping forward again. In All in the Family, Fred delves into his journey to become a “different kind of Trump,” detailing his passionate battle to protect his wife and children from forces inside and outside the family. From the Trump house to the White House, Fred comes to terms with his own complex legacy and faces some demons head-on. It’s a story of power, love, money, cruelty, and the unshakable bonds of family, played out underneath a glaring media spotlight. All in the Family is the inside story, as it’s never been told before.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769153Tue, 30 Jul 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769153 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way Author: Fred C. Trump Narrator: Fred C. Trump Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769153 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way Author: Fred C. Trump Narrator: Fred C. Trump Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.91 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this honest memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name. For the record…Fred Trump never asked for any of this. The divisive politics. The endless headlines. A hijacked last name. The heat-seeking uncle, rising from real estate scion to gossip column fixture to The Apprentice host to President of the United States. Fred just wanted a happy life and a satisfying career. But a fight for his son’s health and safety forced him onto a center stage that he had never wanted. And now, at a crucial point for our nation, he is stepping forward again. In All in the Family, Fred delves into his journey to become a “different kind of Trump,” detailing his passionate battle to protect his wife and children from forces inside and outside the family. From the Trump house to the White House, Fred comes to terms with his own complex legacy and faces some demons head-on. It’s a story of power, love, money, cruelty, and the unshakable bonds of family, played out underneath a glaring media spotlight. All in the Family is the inside story, as it’s never been told before.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wine-witch-on-fire-rising-from-the-ashes-of-divorce-defamation-and-drinking-too-much-by-natalie-maclean--65182909https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775453 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much Author: Natalie Maclean Narrator: Natalie Maclean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerful memoir about one woman who resurrects her life and career in the glamorous but sexist wine industry. Natalie MacLean, a bestselling wine writer, is shocked when her husband of twenty years, a high-powered CEO, demands a divorce. Then an online mob of rivals comes for her career. Wavering between despair and determination, she must fight for her son, rebuild her career, and salvage her self-worth using her superpowers: heart, humor, and an uncanny ability to pair wine and food. Natalie questions her insider role in the slick marketing that encourages women to drink too much while she battles the wine world's veiled misogyny. Facing the worst vintage of her life, she reconnects with the vineyards that once brought her joy, the friends who sustain her, and her own belief in second chances. This true coming-of-middle-age story is about transforming your life and finding love along the way.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775453Tue, 30 Jul 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775453 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much Author: Natalie Maclean Narrator: Natalie Maclean Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775453 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much Author: Natalie Maclean Narrator: Natalie Maclean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerful memoir about one woman who resurrects her life and career in the glamorous but sexist wine industry. Natalie MacLean, a bestselling wine writer, is shocked when her husband of twenty years, a high-powered CEO, demands a divorce. Then an online mob of rivals comes for her career. Wavering between despair and determination, she must fight for her son, rebuild her career, and salvage her self-worth using her superpowers: heart, humor, and an uncanny ability to pair wine and food. Natalie questions her insider role in the slick marketing that encourages women to drink too much while she battles the wine world's veiled misogyny. Facing the worst vintage of her life, she reconnects with the vineyards that once brought her joy, the friends who sustain her, and her own belief in second chances. This true coming-of-middle-age story is about transforming your life and finding love along the way.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-is-my-story-this-is-my-song-by-dr-willie-h-clemons--65183026https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is My Story; This Is My Song Author: Dr. Willie H. Clemons Narrator: Mirron Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dr. Willie H. Clemons's inspiring book, This Is My Story: This Is My Song: One Man's Journey To Turning Oppositions Into Opportunities And Fulfilling His Unique Gifts, shares his personal experiences and insights on growing up in Alabama. Along the way, the author weaves a beautiful and inspiring story of his journey to fulfilling his childhood dreams of a life of service. Dedicated to being a change agent and bridge builder for his African American community, he was unwavering on what he felt was his God-given purpose. He shares the challenges he faced during the Jim Crow era in Alabama and how he turned those challenges into opportunities. As we journey with him from 1940s Mobile, Alabama, to Chicago and on to the bustling and progressive city of Atlanta, we not only get a sweeping overview of history, a vicarious travelogue experience and the grit and conviction of the man; we cannot help but be inspired by the impact and legacy of a man who dedicated his life to service and his community. At the end of every chapter, Dr. Clemons offers practical advice in his teachable moments section on how to turn your dreams into reality.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764011Tue, 23 Jul 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is My Story; This Is My Song Author: Dr. Willie H. Clemons Narrator: Mirron Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is My Story; This Is My Song Author: Dr. Willie H. Clemons Narrator: Mirron Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dr. Willie H. Clemons's inspiring book, This Is My Story: This Is My Song: One Man's Journey To Turning Oppositions Into Opportunities And Fulfilling His Unique Gifts, shares his personal experiences and insights on growing up in Alabama. Along the way, the author weaves a beautiful and inspiring story of his journey to fulfilling his childhood dreams of a life of service. Dedicated to being a change agent and bridge builder for his African American community, he was unwavering on what he felt was his God-given purpose. He shares the challenges he faced during the Jim Crow era in Alabama and how he turned those challenges into opportunities. As we journey with him from 1940s Mobile, Alabama, to Chicago and on to the bustling and progressive city of Atlanta, we not only get a sweeping overview of history, a vicarious travelogue experience and the grit and conviction of the man; we cannot help but be inspired by the impact and legacy of a man who dedicated his life to service and his community. At the end of every chapter, Dr. Clemons offers practical advice in his teachable moments section on how to turn your dreams into reality.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/viewfinder-a-memoir-of-seeing-and-being-seen-by-jon-m-chu-jeremy-mccarter--65183005https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764694 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen Author: Jon M. Chu, Jeremy McCarter Narrator: Jon M. Chu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From visionary director Jon M. Chu comes a powerful, inspiring memoir of belonging, creativity, and learning to see who you really are. “A must-read for aspiring artists and dreamers of all kinds.”—Ava DuVernay Long before he directed Wicked, In The Heights, or the groundbreaking film Crazy Rich Asians, Jon M. Chu was a movie-obsessed first-generation Chinese American, helping at his parents’ Chinese restaurant in Silicon Valley and forever facing the cultural identity crisis endemic to children of immigrants. Growing up on the cutting edge of twenty-first-century technology gave Chu the tools he needed to make his mark at USC film school, and to be discovered by Steven Spielberg, but he soon found himself struggling to understand who he was. In this book, for the first time, Chu turns the lens on his own life and work, telling the universal story of questioning what it means when your dreams collide with your circumstances, and showing how it’s possible to succeed even when the world changes beyond all recognition.  With striking candor and unrivaled insights, Chu offers a firsthand account of the collision of Silicon Valley and Hollywood—what it’s been like to watch his old world shatter and reshape his new one. Ultimately, Viewfinder is about reckoning with your own story, becoming your most creative self, and finding a path all your own.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764694Tue, 23 Jul 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764694 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen Author: Jon M. Chu, Jeremy McCarter Narrator: Jon M. Chu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764694 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen Author: Jon M. Chu, Jeremy McCarter Narrator: Jon M. Chu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From visionary director Jon M. Chu comes a powerful, inspiring memoir of belonging, creativity, and learning to see who you really are. “A must-read for aspiring artists and dreamers of all kinds.”—Ava DuVernay Long before he directed Wicked, In The Heights, or the groundbreaking film Crazy Rich Asians, Jon M. Chu was a movie-obsessed first-generation Chinese American, helping at his parents’ Chinese restaurant in Silicon Valley and forever facing the cultural identity crisis endemic to children of immigrants. Growing up on the cutting edge of twenty-first-century technology gave Chu the tools he needed to make his mark at USC film school, and to be discovered by Steven Spielberg, but he soon found himself struggling to understand who he was. In this book, for the first time, Chu turns the lens on his own life and work, telling the universal story of questioning what it means when your dreams collide with your circumstances, and showing how it’s possible to succeed even when the world changes beyond all recognition.  With striking candor and unrivaled insights, Chu offers a firsthand account of the collision of Silicon Valley and Hollywood—what it’s been like to watch his old world shatter and reshape his new one. Ultimately, Viewfinder is about reckoning with your own story, becoming your most creative self, and finding a path all your own.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/norman-maclean-a-life-of-letters-and-rivers-by-rebecca-mccarthy--65182920https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Norman Maclean: A Life of Letters and Rivers Author: Rebecca Mccarthy Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after the success of the Hollywood film based on the title story. Yet fewer know of Maclean's lifelong struggles to reconcile very different parts of himself: the revered teacher and writer in the intellectual hub of Chicago and the Montana man compelled by the wildness and traumas of his home state and family, including the tragic Mann Gulch fire and the murder of his brother. Rebecca McCarthy's intimate portrait of Maclean draws on her long friendship with the author from the time she became a student at the University of Chicago through the rest of his life. Irrepressible as a teacher, Maclean shared guidance, advice, campus and city rambles, and loyal friendship with generations of students. Behind the scenes, he honed an art as meditative and patient as his approach to fly fishing. McCarthy's experiences intertwine with stories from friends, family, colleagues, and others to detail an incredibly rich life that seemed destined to remain divided—until the creation of his classic American story. A vivid evocation of an iconic figure, Norman Maclean reveals the forces and events that shaped the author-educator and formed the bedrock of his beloved stories.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773590Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Norman Maclean: A Life of Letters and Rivers Author: Rebecca Mccarthy Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Norman Maclean: A Life of Letters and Rivers Author: Rebecca Mccarthy Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after the success of the Hollywood film based on the title story. Yet fewer know of Maclean's lifelong struggles to reconcile very different parts of himself: the revered teacher and writer in the intellectual hub of Chicago and the Montana man compelled by the wildness and traumas of his home state and family, including the tragic Mann Gulch fire and the murder of his brother. Rebecca McCarthy's intimate portrait of Maclean draws on her long friendship with the author from the time she became a student at the University of Chicago through the rest of his life. Irrepressible as a teacher, Maclean shared guidance, advice, campus and city rambles, and loyal friendship with generations of students. Behind the scenes, he honed an art as meditative and patient as his approach to fly fishing. McCarthy's experiences intertwine with stories from friends, family, colleagues, and others to detail an incredibly rich life that seemed destined to remain divided—until the creation of his classic American story. A vivid evocation of an iconic figure, Norman Maclean reveals the forces and events that shaped the author-educator and formed the bedrock of his beloved stories.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/where-courage-lives-by-muguette-myers--65182902https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777412 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where Courage Lives Author: Muguette Myers Narrator: Louise Philippe, Muguette Myers, Naomi Azrieli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the bustling city of Paris to the quaint, countryside village of Champlost, France, Where Courage Lives follows ten-year-old Muguette Szpajzer and her family as they seek refuge from the war. Written in vignettes with child-like charm and innocence, Muguette’s memoir provides rich insight into rural life during wartime upheaval, honouring both her indomitable mother and the courage of the people of Champlost. Introduction by Susan Zuccotti]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777412Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777412 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where Courage Lives Author: Muguette Myers Narrator: Louise Philippe, Muguette Myers, Naomi Azrieli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777412 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where Courage Lives Author: Muguette Myers Narrator: Louise Philippe, Muguette Myers, Naomi Azrieli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the bustling city of Paris to the quaint, countryside village of Champlost, France, Where Courage Lives follows ten-year-old Muguette Szpajzer and her family as they seek refuge from the war. Written in vignettes with child-like charm and innocence, Muguette’s memoir provides rich insight into rural life during wartime upheaval, honouring both her indomitable mother and the courage of the people of Champlost. Introduction by Susan Zuccotti]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-i-saw-in-heaven-the-incredible-true-story-of-the-day-i-died-met-jesus-and-returned-to-life-a-new-person-by-heidi-barr--65182896https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What I Saw in Heaven: The Incredible True Story of the Day I Died, Met Jesus, and Returned to Life a New Person Author: Heidi Barr Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Heidi Barr didn't believe in Jesus. No one in her Jewish family did, nor did they want to—especially not her father, who told her that Jesus Christ was the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on humankind. So when Heidi was in a terrible horseback riding accident and died at age sixteen, Jesus was the last person she expected to see. Yet she did. And then she returned to life. This is the incredible true story of Heidi's difficult family life, her sudden death, her unexpectedly loving encounter with Jesus, and her return to life on earth as a person completely and irrevocably changed. This is also the story of Heidi loving her father and mother despite their disbelief of and disagreement with her faith. And this is the gripping, beautiful story of her parents' eventual reconciliation both with Heidi and with God, through the redeeming grace and all-encompassing love of Jesus Christ.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775504Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What I Saw in Heaven: The Incredible True Story of the Day I Died, Met Jesus, and Returned to Life a New Person Author: Heidi Barr Narrator: Nan...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What I Saw in Heaven: The Incredible True Story of the Day I Died, Met Jesus, and Returned to Life a New Person Author: Heidi Barr Narrator: Nan Mcnamara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Heidi Barr didn't believe in Jesus. No one in her Jewish family did, nor did they want to—especially not her father, who told her that Jesus Christ was the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on humankind. So when Heidi was in a terrible horseback riding accident and died at age sixteen, Jesus was the last person she expected to see. Yet she did. And then she returned to life. This is the incredible true story of Heidi's difficult family life, her sudden death, her unexpectedly loving encounter with Jesus, and her return to life on earth as a person completely and irrevocably changed. This is also the story of Heidi loving her father and mother despite their disbelief of and disagreement with her faith. And this is the gripping, beautiful story of her parents' eventual reconciliation both with Heidi and with God, through the redeeming grace and all-encompassing love of Jesus Christ.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-les-lieux-du-courage-by-muguette-myers--65182885https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777408 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Les Lieux du Courage Author: Muguette Myers Narrator: Louise Philippe, Muguette Myers, Naomi Azrieli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Muguette Szpajzer, fillette de 10 ans, a quitté Paris avec sa famille pour aller se réfugier non loin de la capitale, dans le village de Champlost. Les mémoires de Muguette, présentés en une série de petits tableaux, ont l’innocence et le charme de l’enfance. Ils offrent un aperçu unique de la vie rurale en France durant la tourmente de la guerre, et rendent hommage à la fois à la force de caractère de sa mère et au courage des habitants de Champlost. Préface de Susan Zuccotti]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777408Tue, 16 Jul 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777408 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Les Lieux du Courage Author: Muguette Myers Narrator: Louise Philippe, Muguette Myers, Naomi Azrieli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777408 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Les Lieux du Courage Author: Muguette Myers Narrator: Louise Philippe, Muguette Myers, Naomi Azrieli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Muguette Szpajzer, fillette de 10 ans, a quitté Paris avec sa famille pour aller se réfugier non loin de la capitale, dans le village de Champlost. Les mémoires de Muguette, présentés en une série de petits tableaux, ont l’innocence et le charme de l’enfance. Ils offrent un aperçu unique de la vie rurale en France durant la tourmente de la guerre, et rendent hommage à la fois à la force de caractère de sa mère et au courage des habitants de Champlost. Préface de Susan Zuccotti]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/to-the-gorge-running-grief-resilience-460-miles-on-the-pacific-crest-trail-by-emily-halnon--65182907https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777218 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To the Gorge: Running, Grief, Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail Author: Emily Halnon Narrator: Emily Halnon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Emily Halnon lost her beloved mother to a rare uterine cancer at just sixty-six years old, she wanted to do something monumental to honor the person her mother had been. Emily's mom had taken up running in her late forties; she ran her first marathon at fifty. She even went skydiving to celebrate her sixtieth birthday. Emily, already an accomplished ultrarunner, decided to try to break the record for the Fastest Known Time by a woman on the Pacific Crest Trail's 460 miles across Oregon. To the Gorge takes the listener through her seven days, nineteen hours, and twenty-three minutes on the trail, covering nearly sixty miles a day on foot over rugged terrain, and battling all the issues that could arise during such a monstrous undertaking. All the while, she simultaneously struggles with how to get through the profound grief of losing her mom. Interwoven with Halnon's eight-day effort are her remembrances from her mother's life and death, exploring the complicated experience of grief—and what shines through it. Filled with adventure and heart, To the Gorge invites listeners to consider what our greatest losses can teach us about how to live the one life we get.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777218Tue, 09 Jul 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777218 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To the Gorge: Running, Grief, Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail Author: Emily Halnon Narrator: Emily Halnon Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777218 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To the Gorge: Running, Grief, Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail Author: Emily Halnon Narrator: Emily Halnon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Emily Halnon lost her beloved mother to a rare uterine cancer at just sixty-six years old, she wanted to do something monumental to honor the person her mother had been. Emily's mom had taken up running in her late forties; she ran her first marathon at fifty. She even went skydiving to celebrate her sixtieth birthday. Emily, already an accomplished ultrarunner, decided to try to break the record for the Fastest Known Time by a woman on the Pacific Crest Trail's 460 miles across Oregon. To the Gorge takes the listener through her seven days, nineteen hours, and twenty-three minutes on the trail, covering nearly sixty miles a day on foot over rugged terrain, and battling all the issues that could arise during such a monstrous undertaking. All the while, she simultaneously struggles with how to get through the profound grief of losing her mom. Interwoven with Halnon's eight-day effort are her remembrances from her mother's life and death, exploring the complicated experience of grief—and what shines through it. Filled with adventure and heart, To the Gorge invites listeners to consider what our greatest losses can teach us about how to live the one life we get.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-can-give-you-anything-but-love-by-gary-indiana--65182900https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775455 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Can Give You Anything But Love Author: Gary Indiana Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature. Described by the London Review of Books as one of 'the most brilliant critics writing in America today,' Gary Indiana is a true radical whose caustic voice has by turns haunted and influenced the literary and artistic establishments. With I Can Give You Anything but Love, Gary Indiana has composed a literary, unabashedly wicked, and revealing montage of excursions into his life and work—from his early days growing up gay in rural New Hampshire to his escape to Haight-Ashbury in the post-summer-of-love era, the sweltering 1970s in Los Angeles, and ultimately his existence in New York in the 1980s as a bona fide downtown personality. Interspersed throughout his vivid recollections are present-day chapters set against the louche culture and raw sexuality of Cuba, where he has lived and worked occasionally for the past fifteen years. Connoisseurs will recognize in this—his most personal book yet—the same mixture of humor and realism, philosophy and immediacy, that have long confused the definitions of genre applied to his writing. Vivid, atmospheric, revealing, and entertaining, this is an engrossing book and a serious contribution to the genres of gay and literary memoir.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775455Tue, 09 Jul 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775455 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Can Give You Anything But Love Author: Gary Indiana Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775455 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Can Give You Anything But Love Author: Gary Indiana Narrator: Daniel Henning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: July 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature. Described by the London Review of Books as one of 'the most brilliant critics writing in America today,' Gary Indiana is a true radical whose caustic voice has by turns haunted and influenced the literary and artistic establishments. With I Can Give You Anything but Love, Gary Indiana has composed a literary, unabashedly wicked, and revealing montage of excursions into his life and work—from his early days growing up gay in rural New Hampshire to his escape to Haight-Ashbury in the post-summer-of-love era, the sweltering 1970s in Los Angeles, and ultimately his existence in New York in the 1980s as a bona fide downtown personality. Interspersed throughout his vivid recollections are present-day chapters set against the louche culture and raw sexuality of Cuba, where he has lived and worked occasionally for the past fifteen years. Connoisseurs will recognize in this—his most personal book yet—the same mixture of humor and realism, philosophy and immediacy, that have long confused the definitions of genre applied to his writing. Vivid, atmospheric, revealing, and entertaining, this is an engrossing book and a serious contribution to the genres of gay and literary memoir.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-family-the-memoir-by-david-baddiel--65182972https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768700 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Family: The Memoir Author: David Baddiel Narrator: David Baddiel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'One of the funniest books I have ever read' HADLEY FREEMAN ‘A masterpiece’ SATHNAM SANGHERA 'The read of the summer' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant … funny and moving' ADAM KAY A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idiosyncratic sex life, and his father’s dementia, to the same affectionate scrutiny. On the surface, David Baddiel’s childhood was fairly standard: a lower-middle-class Jewish family living in an ordinary house in Dollis Hill, north-west London. But David came to realise that his mother was in fact not ordinary at all. Having escaped extermination by fleeing Nazi Germany as a child, she was desperate to make her life count, which took the form of a passionate, decades-long affair with a golfing memorabilia salesman. David’s detailing of the affair – including a hilarious focus on how his mother turned their household over to golf memorabilia, and an eye-popping cache of her erotic writings – leads to the inescapable conclusion that Sarah Baddiel was a cross between Jack Niklaus and Erica Jong. Meanwhile, as Baddiel investigates his family’s past, his father’s memories are fading; dementia is making him moodier and more disinhibited, with an even greater penchant for obscenity. As with his mother’s affair, there is both comedy and poignancy to be found: laughter is a constant presence, capable of transforming the darkest of experiences into something redemptive. My Family: The Memoir is David Baddiel’s candid examination of his childhood, family and memory offering a twisted love letter to his parents. 'An extraordinary, hilarious book' OBSERVER ‘I lost count of how many times I gasped’ CAITLIN MORAN 'Outrageously funny…profoundly thoughtful' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Explosively funny, brilliantly written' DAVID WALLIAMS 'Infernally funny' HOWARD JACOBSON ‘A triumph’ NINA STIBBE 'Baddiel has done his parents proud’ GUARDIAN 'Had me howling' PANDORA SYKES]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768700Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768700 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Family: The Memoir Author: David Baddiel Narrator: David Baddiel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768700 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Family: The Memoir Author: David Baddiel Narrator: David Baddiel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: July 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'One of the funniest books I have ever read' HADLEY FREEMAN ‘A masterpiece’ SATHNAM SANGHERA 'The read of the summer' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant … funny and moving' ADAM KAY A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David Baddiel exposes his mother’s idiosyncratic sex life, and his father’s dementia, to the same affectionate scrutiny. On the surface, David Baddiel’s childhood was fairly standard: a lower-middle-class Jewish family living in an ordinary house in Dollis Hill, north-west London. But David came to realise that his mother was in fact not ordinary at all. Having escaped extermination by fleeing Nazi Germany as a child, she was desperate to make her life count, which took the form of a passionate, decades-long affair with a golfing memorabilia salesman. David’s detailing of the affair – including a hilarious focus on how his mother turned their household over to golf memorabilia, and an eye-popping cache of her erotic writings – leads to the inescapable conclusion that Sarah Baddiel was a cross between Jack Niklaus and Erica Jong. Meanwhile, as Baddiel investigates his family’s past, his father’s memories are fading; dementia is making him moodier and more disinhibited, with an even greater penchant for obscenity. As with his mother’s affair, there is both comedy and poignancy to be found: laughter is a constant presence, capable of transforming the darkest of experiences into something redemptive. My Family: The Memoir is David Baddiel’s candid examination of his childhood, family and memory offering a twisted love letter to his parents. 'An extraordinary, hilarious book' OBSERVER ‘I lost count of how many times I gasped’ CAITLIN MORAN 'Outrageously funny…profoundly thoughtful' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Explosively funny, brilliantly written' DAVID WALLIAMS 'Infernally funny' HOWARD JACOBSON ‘A triumph’ NINA STIBBE 'Baddiel has done his parents proud’ GUARDIAN 'Had me howling' PANDORA SYKES]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-afterlife-confessional-by-william-edgar--65182919https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771553 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Afterlife Confessional Author: William Edgar Narrator: William Edgar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A private investigator with a haunting past, Bill Edgar's life was never destined to be ordinary. Rising to international fame as the 'Coffin Confessor' - the man who crashes funerals on behalf of the deceased, giving voice to their last wishes - Bill dismantled many of the assumptions we hold about truth, dignity and the business of dying. Swindlers, cheaters, vultures, liars and con-artists - there isn't a musty corner of the human soul Bill hasn't confronted. Loved and loathed in equal measure, his only concern is being the caretaker of the secrets and desires his clients have entrusted to him. Shame and outrage, healing and comfort are left up to those left behind. But it's a request from one woman to hand-deliver a bottle of wine to her husband on the anniversary of her death that raises deeper questions: What do we make out of the handful of days we're given? If hate and injustice are so hard to bury, why does love have a knack for triumphing? Are the most profound acts in life sometimes the most quiet ones? The Afterlife Confessional follows Bill's journey for answers as he looks through the dizzying kaleidoscope of his clients' lives - the widower who escaped an aged-care trap to take her husband's ashes on the road trip of a lifetime; the man who spent his life paying it forward to try to make up for one shameful act; the closet dominatrix who quietly confronts her husband's infidelity by comforting those truly in need; the devoted couple who insist on going hand-in-hand into the afterlife.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771553Tue, 02 Jul 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771553 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Afterlife Confessional Author: William Edgar Narrator: William Edgar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 2,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771553 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Afterlife Confessional Author: William Edgar Narrator: William Edgar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A private investigator with a haunting past, Bill Edgar's life was never destined to be ordinary. Rising to international fame as the 'Coffin Confessor' - the man who crashes funerals on behalf of the deceased, giving voice to their last wishes - Bill dismantled many of the assumptions we hold about truth, dignity and the business of dying. Swindlers, cheaters, vultures, liars and con-artists - there isn't a musty corner of the human soul Bill hasn't confronted. Loved and loathed in equal measure, his only concern is being the caretaker of the secrets and desires his clients have entrusted to him. Shame and outrage, healing and comfort are left up to those left behind. But it's a request from one woman to hand-deliver a bottle of wine to her husband on the anniversary of her death that raises deeper questions: What do we make out of the handful of days we're given? If hate and injustice are so hard to bury, why does love have a knack for triumphing? Are the most profound acts in life sometimes the most quiet ones? The Afterlife Confessional follows Bill's journey for answers as he looks through the dizzying kaleidoscope of his clients' lives - the widower who escaped an aged-care trap to take her husband's ashes on the road trip of a lifetime; the man who spent his life paying it forward to try to make up for one shameful act; the closet dominatrix who quietly confronts her husband's infidelity by comforting those truly in need; the devoted couple who insist on going hand-in-hand into the afterlife.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/us-after-a-memoir-of-love-and-suicide-by-rachel-zimmerman--65183027https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide Author: Rachel Zimmerman Narrator: Rachel Zimmerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When a state trooper appeared at Rachel Zimmerman’s door to report that her husband had jumped to his death off a nearby bridge, she fell to her knees, unable to fully absorb the news. How could the man she’d married, a devoted father and robotics professor at MIT, have committed such a violent act? How would she explain this to her young daughters? And could she have stopped him?A longtime journalist, she probed obsessively, believing answers would help her survive. She interviewed doctors, suicide researchers, and a man who jumped off the same bridge and lived.Us, After examines domestic devastation and resurgence, digging into the struggle between public and private selves, life’s shifting perspectives, the work of motherhood, and the secrets we keep. In this memoir, Zimmerman confronts the unimaginable and discovers the good in what remains.“This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resilience that I’ve read.”—Tara Parker-Pope, The Washington Post]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760629Sun, 30 Jun 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide Author: Rachel Zimmerman Narrator: Rachel Zimmerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide Author: Rachel Zimmerman Narrator: Rachel Zimmerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When a state trooper appeared at Rachel Zimmerman’s door to report that her husband had jumped to his death off a nearby bridge, she fell to her knees, unable to fully absorb the news. How could the man she’d married, a devoted father and robotics professor at MIT, have committed such a violent act? How would she explain this to her young daughters? And could she have stopped him?A longtime journalist, she probed obsessively, believing answers would help her survive. She interviewed doctors, suicide researchers, and a man who jumped off the same bridge and lived.Us, After examines domestic devastation and resurgence, digging into the struggle between public and private selves, life’s shifting perspectives, the work of motherhood, and the secrets we keep. In this memoir, Zimmerman confronts the unimaginable and discovers the good in what remains.“This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resilience that I’ve read.”—Tara Parker-Pope, The Washington Post]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/straight-up-by-ruby-tui--65183024https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760834 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Straight Up Author: Ruby Tui Narrator: Ruby Tui Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable childhood, searching for a better option in life, to Olympic champion and the world's best rugby sevens player. After a childhood filled with neglect Ruby yearned for another path. Determined not to let her upbringing limit her, she survived abuse, drugs and tragedy to become one of the most successful women's rugby players in the world. The explosion of women's rugby on the global stage has matched the rise of Ruby's stellar career, as she has grown with the game from amateur to professional. In Straight Up Ruby looks herself in the eye, understanding that she can turn pain into purpose. It's time to be straight up.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760834Thu, 27 Jun 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760834 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Straight Up Author: Ruby Tui Narrator: Ruby Tui Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760834 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Straight Up Author: Ruby Tui Narrator: Ruby Tui Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable childhood, searching for a better option in life, to Olympic champion and the world's best rugby sevens player. After a childhood filled with neglect Ruby yearned for another path. Determined not to let her upbringing limit her, she survived abuse, drugs and tragedy to become one of the most successful women's rugby players in the world. The explosion of women's rugby on the global stage has matched the rise of Ruby's stellar career, as she has grown with the game from amateur to professional. In Straight Up Ruby looks herself in the eye, understanding that she can turn pain into purpose. It's time to be straight up.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/waiting-for-the-thaw-the-journey-the-unspeakable-loss-and-the-transformation-by-patricia-ann--65182961https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768831 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting for the Thaw: The Journey, The Unspeakable Loss, and The Transformation Author: Patricia Ann Narrator: Ashley Clark Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Waiting for the Thaw is an inspirational story of one woman’s journey through the darkest depths of loss and her eventual ascension back to a life rich with fulfillment. Patricia Ann’s wonderfully descriptive retelling of her life’s story is absolutely captivating. Pulling the listener in immediately, she describes meeting her future husband, Don, in the most humorous and unexpected way. Their subsequent rollercoaster of life’s challenges includes the joy of becoming parents to two beautiful daughters and eventually becoming grandparents of three grandchildren. With a thriving business and a loving family, they were enjoying life to the fullest. Then, suddenly, the lights of a young life go dark. Don’s unexpected death is a crushing blow to Patricia and her family. Dreams unfulfilled, unbearable grief, and now, for the first time in her life, Patricia is fighting for the strength to go on. That is where this amazing, inspirational story delivers on all levels. The author beautifully articulates the struggle to get back into life and run a business on her own. It gives hope to all who have suffered or will suffer the devastating loss of a loved one. Patricia’s story is not only about everlasting love but also about survival and what it takes to make life worth living again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768831Tue, 25 Jun 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768831 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting for the Thaw: The Journey, The Unspeakable Loss, and The Transformation Author: Patricia Ann Narrator: Ashley Clark Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768831 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting for the Thaw: The Journey, The Unspeakable Loss, and The Transformation Author: Patricia Ann Narrator: Ashley Clark Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Waiting for the Thaw is an inspirational story of one woman’s journey through the darkest depths of loss and her eventual ascension back to a life rich with fulfillment. Patricia Ann’s wonderfully descriptive retelling of her life’s story is absolutely captivating. Pulling the listener in immediately, she describes meeting her future husband, Don, in the most humorous and unexpected way. Their subsequent rollercoaster of life’s challenges includes the joy of becoming parents to two beautiful daughters and eventually becoming grandparents of three grandchildren. With a thriving business and a loving family, they were enjoying life to the fullest. Then, suddenly, the lights of a young life go dark. Don’s unexpected death is a crushing blow to Patricia and her family. Dreams unfulfilled, unbearable grief, and now, for the first time in her life, Patricia is fighting for the strength to go on. That is where this amazing, inspirational story delivers on all levels. The author beautifully articulates the struggle to get back into life and run a business on her own. It gives hope to all who have suffered or will suffer the devastating loss of a loved one. Patricia’s story is not only about everlasting love but also about survival and what it takes to make life worth living again.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/vegas-or-bust-a-family-man-takes-on-the-poker-pros-by-johnny-kampis--65182947https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vegas or Bust: A Family Man Takes On the Poker Pros Author: Johnny Kampis Narrator: Chris Abernathy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: June 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Can a former semi-pro win against the best poker players in the world? In 2006, Johnny's pie-in-the-sky dreams of becoming world champion were dashed when his kings ran into aces in the World Series of Poker Main Event. But lady luck was with him when he met Amy, the woman of his dreams, who soon became his wife. Like many players, he drifted away from the game after Congress passed a law later that year that cut off funds to online poker and harkened the decline of the game. But even as Johnny returned to the working world, the itch remained. A decade later, now with two small kids in tow, Johnny convinces Amy to take a six-week family trip from their home in rural Alabama to Las Vegas, where he will risk his $10,000 bankroll in hopes of playing in the Main Event again and winning millions. Along the way, he examines how the game has changed since 2006. Although the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was the beginning of the end of the poker boom, the game still thrives, and WSOP is Exhibit A. Johnny also muses on the outlandishness of the adult fairyland that is Vegas.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773550Tue, 25 Jun 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vegas or Bust: A Family Man Takes On the Poker Pros Author: Johnny Kampis Narrator: Chris Abernathy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vegas or Bust: A Family Man Takes On the Poker Pros Author: Johnny Kampis Narrator: Chris Abernathy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: June 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Can a former semi-pro win against the best poker players in the world? In 2006, Johnny's pie-in-the-sky dreams of becoming world champion were dashed when his kings ran into aces in the World Series of Poker Main Event. But lady luck was with him when he met Amy, the woman of his dreams, who soon became his wife. Like many players, he drifted away from the game after Congress passed a law later that year that cut off funds to online poker and harkened the decline of the game. But even as Johnny returned to the working world, the itch remained. A decade later, now with two small kids in tow, Johnny convinces Amy to take a six-week family trip from their home in rural Alabama to Las Vegas, where he will risk his $10,000 bankroll in hopes of playing in the Main Event again and winning millions. Along the way, he examines how the game has changed since 2006. Although the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was the beginning of the end of the poker boom, the game still thrives, and WSOP is Exhibit A. Johnny also muses on the outlandishness of the adult fairyland that is Vegas.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tony-benn-at-the-bbc-the-benn-tapes-free-at-last-and-more-by-tony-benn--65183052https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tony Benn at the BBC: The Benn Tapes, Free at Last! and more Author: Tony Benn Narrator: Tony Benn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 20, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A collection of Tony Benn’s private audio diaries, documentaries and archive interviews Tony Benn was the patriarch of the Labour left, a radical statesman, orator and anti-war campaigner who spent over 50 years as an MP, serving in the Cabinet under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. A prolific diarist, his political memoirs have been compared to Pepys in their detail, scope and accuracy. Three volumes are included here, read by Benn himself, together with four fascinating programmes focussing on the man behind the diaries. Part I: Tony Benn’s Diaries The Benn Tapes 1 – For over 25 years, Tony Benn sat late into the night dictating his personal account of the daily happenings at the heart of government. In this unique series, he shares his remarkable recordings from history’s front line, recalling events such as Harold Wilson’s surprise 1976 resignation; the miners’ strike of 1984-1985 and the 1992 general election. The Benn Tapes 2 – This second series of behind-the-scenes revelations sees Benn recounting why he believes nuclear power is unsafe, disclosing what went on during Cabinet reshuffles and tracing the split in the party following its 1979 defeat, the emergence of the Social Democratic Party, and his challenge to deputy leader Denis Healy. Free at Last!: The Diaries 1991-2001 – Spanning Tony Benn’s final decade as an MP, this third volume covers the Gulf War, the rise of New Labour, the death of Diana Princess of Wales and peace in Northern Ireland. Mixing political observations with a moving account of family life, it is full of humour, insight, joy and sadness. Part 2: Tony Benn’s Life In the Psychiatrist’s Chair: Tony Benn – Dr Anthony Clare talks to the legendary parliamentarian about his life, his career and how his guiding principles were influenced by his parents’ social and political convictions. Sentimental Journey: Tony Benn – Arthur Smith accompanies Tony Benn on a trip back to the place where he was born, grew up, and spent most of his political life – the City of Westminster. With Great Pleasure: Tony Benn – The veteran politician presents a selection of the prose and poetry that has shaped his personal philosophy, including the words of Mahatma Gandhi, Dwight D Eisenhower, Oscar Wilde and John Bunyan. Night Waves: Tony Benn – In an event from the 2008 Free Thinking festival, Tony Benn talks about the value of experience and discusses his own life experience with presenter Susan Hitch and the audience. Cast and credits The Benn Tapes Read by Tony Benn Produced by Keith Jones First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 21 Jul-8 Sep 1993 (Series 1), 17 Oct- 5 Dec 1994 (Series 2) Free at Last!: The Diaries 1991-2001 Read by Tony Benn Produced by Jane Ray First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 13-17 Oct 2003 In the Psychiatrist’s Chair: Tony Benn Presented by Dr Anthony Clare A Michael Ember production First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 13 Aug 1995 Sentimental Journey: Tony Benn With Arthur Smith and Tony Benn Produced by Dilly Barlow First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 29 Jul 2006 With Great Pleasure: Tony Benn Presented by Tony Benn Readers: Saffron Burrows, Jim Findley and Carl Prekopp Produced by Christine Hall First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 26 Jul 2007 Night Waves: Tony Benn Presented by Susan Hitch With Tony Benn Produced by Allegra McIlroy First broadcast BBC Radio 3, 11 Dec 2008 © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760329Thu, 20 Jun 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tony Benn at the BBC: The Benn Tapes, Free at Last! and more Author: Tony Benn Narrator: Tony Benn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 25...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tony Benn at the BBC: The Benn Tapes, Free at Last! and more Author: Tony Benn Narrator: Tony Benn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 20, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A collection of Tony Benn’s private audio diaries, documentaries and archive interviews Tony Benn was the patriarch of the Labour left, a radical statesman, orator and anti-war campaigner who spent over 50 years as an MP, serving in the Cabinet under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. A prolific diarist, his political memoirs have been compared to Pepys in their detail, scope and accuracy. Three volumes are included here, read by Benn himself, together with four fascinating programmes focussing on the man behind the diaries. Part I: Tony Benn’s Diaries The Benn Tapes 1 – For over 25 years, Tony Benn sat late into the night dictating his personal account of the daily happenings at the heart of government. In this unique series, he shares his remarkable recordings from history’s front line, recalling events such as Harold Wilson’s surprise 1976 resignation; the miners’ strike of 1984-1985 and the 1992 general election. The Benn Tapes 2 – This second series of behind-the-scenes revelations sees Benn recounting why he believes nuclear power is unsafe, disclosing what went on during Cabinet reshuffles and tracing the split in the party following its 1979 defeat, the emergence of the Social Democratic Party, and his challenge to deputy leader Denis Healy. Free at Last!: The Diaries 1991-2001 – Spanning Tony Benn’s final decade as an MP, this third volume covers the Gulf War, the rise of New Labour, the death of Diana Princess of Wales and peace in Northern Ireland. Mixing political observations with a moving account of family life, it is full of humour, insight, joy and sadness. Part 2: Tony Benn’s Life In the Psychiatrist’s Chair: Tony Benn – Dr Anthony Clare talks to the legendary parliamentarian about his life, his career and how his guiding principles were influenced by his parents’ social and political convictions. Sentimental Journey: Tony Benn – Arthur Smith accompanies Tony Benn on a trip back to the place where he was born, grew up, and spent most of his political life – the City of Westminster. With Great Pleasure: Tony Benn – The veteran politician presents a selection of the prose and poetry that has shaped his personal philosophy, including the words of Mahatma Gandhi, Dwight D Eisenhower, Oscar Wilde and John Bunyan. Night Waves: Tony Benn – In an event from the 2008 Free Thinking festival, Tony Benn talks about the value of experience and discusses his own life experience with presenter Susan Hitch and the audience. Cast and credits The Benn Tapes Read by Tony Benn Produced by Keith Jones First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 21 Jul-8 Sep 1993 (Series 1), 17 Oct- 5 Dec 1994 (Series 2) Free at Last!: The Diaries 1991-2001 Read by Tony Benn Produced by Jane Ray First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 13-17 Oct 2003 In the Psychiatrist’s Chair: Tony Benn Presented by Dr Anthony Clare A Michael Ember production First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 13 Aug 1995 Sentimental Journey: Tony Benn With Arthur Smith and Tony Benn Produced by Dilly Barlow First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 29 Jul 2006 With Great Pleasure: Tony Benn Presented by Tony Benn Readers: Saffron Burrows, Jim Findley and Carl Prekopp Produced by Christine Hall First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 26 Jul 2007 Night Waves: Tony Benn Presented by Susan Hitch With Tony Benn Produced by Allegra McIlroy First broadcast BBC Radio 3, 11 Dec 2008 © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/animals-i-want-to-see-a-memoir-of-growing-up-in-the-projects-and-defying-the-odds-by-tom-seeman--65183087https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Animals I Want To See: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects and Defying the Odds Author: Tom Seeman Narrator: Brian Hutchison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A lyrical coming-of-age story set in the projects of Toledo, Ohio, Animals I Want To See explores themes of identity, ambition, religion, and friendship—often across racial and social lines—as it spotlights a family of fourteen and tracks a boy’s journey from a child janitor with big dreams to a teenage petty criminal to a student at Yale and Harvard.On Bronson Street, in the projects of Toledo, Ohio, in a crowded house occupied by a family of fourteen, Tom Seeman starts a very important list. Just as the trashstrewn field in his backyard is home to a treasure-trove of wild animals, Tom’s list, “Animals I Want To See One Day,” is home to dreams of adventure in places far away from the downtrodden neighborhood where he lives. But for all its hardship and crime, Bronson Street is also something of a mythical street, populated by unforgettable people who share food, protect each other, and give surprising gifts of beauty and merriment, proving that the bonds of community and friendship (often across racial and social lines) can bridge any divide and transcend what many of us are taught to believe about each other.A luminous coming-of-age memoir that shimmers with countless marvels, Animals I Want To See tracks Tom Seeman’s journey from a child janitor with big ambitions to a teenage petty criminal to a student at Yale and Harvard. At once a meditation on finding wonder in unlikely places, an ode to a heroic mother who makes the seemingly impossible possible, and an exploration of what it means to create ourown identities, this is a heartwarming, thought-provoking, ultimately uplifting book for all readers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757709Tue, 18 Jun 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Animals I Want To See: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects and Defying the Odds Author: Tom Seeman Narrator: Brian Hutchison Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Animals I Want To See: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects and Defying the Odds Author: Tom Seeman Narrator: Brian Hutchison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A lyrical coming-of-age story set in the projects of Toledo, Ohio, Animals I Want To See explores themes of identity, ambition, religion, and friendship—often across racial and social lines—as it spotlights a family of fourteen and tracks a boy’s journey from a child janitor with big dreams to a teenage petty criminal to a student at Yale and Harvard.On Bronson Street, in the projects of Toledo, Ohio, in a crowded house occupied by a family of fourteen, Tom Seeman starts a very important list. Just as the trashstrewn field in his backyard is home to a treasure-trove of wild animals, Tom’s list, “Animals I Want To See One Day,” is home to dreams of adventure in places far away from the downtrodden neighborhood where he lives. But for all its hardship and crime, Bronson Street is also something of a mythical street, populated by unforgettable people who share food, protect each other, and give surprising gifts of beauty and merriment, proving that the bonds of community and friendship (often across racial and social lines) can bridge any divide and transcend what many of us are taught to believe about each other.A luminous coming-of-age memoir that shimmers with countless marvels, Animals I Want To See tracks Tom Seeman’s journey from a child janitor with big ambitions to a teenage petty criminal to a student at Yale and Harvard. At once a meditation on finding wonder in unlikely places, an ode to a heroic mother who makes the seemingly impossible possible, and an exploration of what it means to create ourown identities, this is a heartwarming, thought-provoking, ultimately uplifting book for all readers.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fifty-seven-fridays-losing-our-daughter-finding-our-way-by-myra-sack--65183014https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fifty-Seven Fridays: Losing Our Daughter, Finding Our Way Author: Myra Sack Narrator: Myra Sack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A wondrous, hopeful, heartbreaking witness to one of the darkest journeys imaginable . . . This will be one of those rare books that people reread, think about, and encourage others to read.” —Bruce D. Perry, MD, Ph.D, author, with Oprah Winfrey, of What Happened to You 'I love this book. I absolutely could not put it down. It is beautifully written and cuts to the very heart of life and love: The story of Havi's short, beautiful life and early death from Tay-Sachs is harrowing, heartbreaking, uplifting, profound, and sometimes funny. Havi will charm the socks off you.' —Anne Lamott Life is unfolding as planned for Myra Sack and her husband Matt until their beautiful year-old daughter Havi is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, and given only a year to live. Myra and Matt decide to celebrate Havi's short life and vow to show her as much of the world as they can, surrounded by friends and family who relocate to be in Havi's orbit. Tapping their Judaism, they transform Friday night Shabbats into birthday parties—'Shabbirthdays'—to replace the birthdays Havi will never have.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764041Tue, 18 Jun 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fifty-Seven Fridays: Losing Our Daughter, Finding Our Way Author: Myra Sack Narrator: Myra Sack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fifty-Seven Fridays: Losing Our Daughter, Finding Our Way Author: Myra Sack Narrator: Myra Sack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A wondrous, hopeful, heartbreaking witness to one of the darkest journeys imaginable . . . This will be one of those rare books that people reread, think about, and encourage others to read.” —Bruce D. Perry, MD, Ph.D, author, with Oprah Winfrey, of What Happened to You 'I love this book. I absolutely could not put it down. It is beautifully written and cuts to the very heart of life and love: The story of Havi's short, beautiful life and early death from Tay-Sachs is harrowing, heartbreaking, uplifting, profound, and sometimes funny. Havi will charm the socks off you.' —Anne Lamott Life is unfolding as planned for Myra Sack and her husband Matt until their beautiful year-old daughter Havi is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, and given only a year to live. Myra and Matt decide to celebrate Havi's short life and vow to show her as much of the world as they can, surrounded by friends and family who relocate to be in Havi's orbit. Tapping their Judaism, they transform Friday night Shabbats into birthday parties—'Shabbirthdays'—to replace the birthdays Havi will never have.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/three-years-on-the-great-mountain-a-memoir-of-zen-and-fearlessness-by-cristina-moon--65183020https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Years on the Great Mountain: A Memoir of Zen and Fearlessness Author: Cristina Moon Narrator: Cristina Moon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At twenty-five, activist Cristina Moon faced an impossible task: preparing for the possibility of arrest and torture inside military-ruled Myanmar. Her response? Learning Buddhist meditation. So began what would become a decades-long spiritual path—eventually leading her to a Zen temple and martial arts dojo in Hawai'i with a timeless method of warrior Zen training. Offering a bracing account of three years of mind-body-spirit training at Daihonzan Chozen-ji, a Rinzai Zen temple and martial arts dojo, Moon powerfully captures the rigors and realizations that finally shaped her into a Zen priest whose highest directive is to give fearlessness. Told with immersive detail and an unique Asian American female perspective, Three Years on the Great Mountain chronicles Moon's straight-up-the-mountain training regimen at Chozen-ji, conducted every day and often through the nights. Through the spiritual forging of daily Zen meditation, manual labor, swordsmanship, and Japanese tea ceremony, she discovers a newfound conviction that self mastery and spiritual growth can take fierce form. Embraced by local Hawai'i and Japanese culture, and a community of discipline, respect, and discovery, she discovers a profound sense of home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769125Tue, 18 Jun 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Years on the Great Mountain: A Memoir of Zen and Fearlessness Author: Cristina Moon Narrator: Cristina Moon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Years on the Great Mountain: A Memoir of Zen and Fearlessness Author: Cristina Moon Narrator: Cristina Moon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At twenty-five, activist Cristina Moon faced an impossible task: preparing for the possibility of arrest and torture inside military-ruled Myanmar. Her response? Learning Buddhist meditation. So began what would become a decades-long spiritual path—eventually leading her to a Zen temple and martial arts dojo in Hawai'i with a timeless method of warrior Zen training. Offering a bracing account of three years of mind-body-spirit training at Daihonzan Chozen-ji, a Rinzai Zen temple and martial arts dojo, Moon powerfully captures the rigors and realizations that finally shaped her into a Zen priest whose highest directive is to give fearlessness. Told with immersive detail and an unique Asian American female perspective, Three Years on the Great Mountain chronicles Moon's straight-up-the-mountain training regimen at Chozen-ji, conducted every day and often through the nights. Through the spiritual forging of daily Zen meditation, manual labor, swordsmanship, and Japanese tea ceremony, she discovers a newfound conviction that self mastery and spiritual growth can take fierce form. Embraced by local Hawai'i and Japanese culture, and a community of discipline, respect, and discovery, she discovers a profound sense of home.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rottenkid-a-succulent-story-of-survival-by-brigit-binns--65182984https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rottenkid: A Succulent Story of Survival Author: Brigit Binns Narrator: Brigit Binns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir sauteed in Hollywood stories, world travel, and always, the need to belong Prolific cookbook author Brigit Binns's coming-of-age memoir—costarring her alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic mother—reveals how simultaneous privilege and profound neglect lead Brigit to seek comfort in the kitchen, eventually allowing her to find some sense of self-worth. In the old Hollywood of her childhood, Brigit seems to live in an elite world. But when her parents eventually divorce—her father flees and her mother sends her off to boarding school so she can more easily conduct her decades-long romance with a married California governor—Brigit racks up seven schools and a host of bad decisions before the age of sixteen. Marriage to an Englishman takes her across the pond and to professional cooking school. But when that life comes crashing down, she returns heartbroken and alone to Los Angeles eighteen years after vowing never to return. Here she thrives, cold pitching herself to top chefs as coauthor for their cookbooks. Peppered with humor and seasoned with optimism, Brigit's story is an entertaining tribute to female resilience.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771444Tue, 18 Jun 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rottenkid: A Succulent Story of Survival Author: Brigit Binns Narrator: Brigit Binns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rottenkid: A Succulent Story of Survival Author: Brigit Binns Narrator: Brigit Binns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir sauteed in Hollywood stories, world travel, and always, the need to belong Prolific cookbook author Brigit Binns's coming-of-age memoir—costarring her alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic mother—reveals how simultaneous privilege and profound neglect lead Brigit to seek comfort in the kitchen, eventually allowing her to find some sense of self-worth. In the old Hollywood of her childhood, Brigit seems to live in an elite world. But when her parents eventually divorce—her father flees and her mother sends her off to boarding school so she can more easily conduct her decades-long romance with a married California governor—Brigit racks up seven schools and a host of bad decisions before the age of sixteen. Marriage to an Englishman takes her across the pond and to professional cooking school. But when that life comes crashing down, she returns heartbroken and alone to Los Angeles eighteen years after vowing never to return. Here she thrives, cold pitching herself to top chefs as coauthor for their cookbooks. Peppered with humor and seasoned with optimism, Brigit's story is an entertaining tribute to female resilience.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-only-way-through-is-out-by-suzette-mullen--65182963https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Only Way Through Is Out Author: Suzette Mullen Narrator: Shawna Wolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “With candor and deep vulnerability, Mullen offers a compelling, honest, and hopeful memoir that examines the hidden truths involved in accepting our deepest wants and desires. The Only Way Through Is Out is a lesson to all of us on what great things can happen when we act with authenticity.”—Jessi Hempel, author of The Family Outing “I could not put this book down. Mullen shows us the search for one’s authentic self has no expiration date and is worth whatever it takes. This book is a glorious tale of tenacious courage that anyone searching for their own path in life will love.”—Jennifer Louden, national bestselling author of Why Bother? Discover the Desire for What’s Next Suzette Mullen had been raised to play it safe—and she hated causing others pain. With college and law degrees, a kind and successful husband, two thriving adult sons, and an ocean-view vacation home, she lived a life many people would envy. But beneath the happy facade was a woman who watched her friends walk boldly through their lives and wondered what was holding her back from doing the same. Digging into her past, Suzette uncovered a deeply buried truth: she’d been in love with her best friend—a woman—for nearly two decades—and still was. Leaning into these “unspeakable” feelings would put Suzette’s identity, relationships, and life of privilege at risk—but she knew taking this leap might also provide her only chance to feel fully alive. Introspective, bittersweet, and empowering, The Only Way Through Is Out is both a coming-out and coming-of-age story, as well as a call to action for every human who is longing to live authentically but is afraid of the cost.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769733Tue, 18 Jun 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Only Way Through Is Out Author: Suzette Mullen Narrator: Shawna Wolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 18,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Only Way Through Is Out Author: Suzette Mullen Narrator: Shawna Wolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “With candor and deep vulnerability, Mullen offers a compelling, honest, and hopeful memoir that examines the hidden truths involved in accepting our deepest wants and desires. The Only Way Through Is Out is a lesson to all of us on what great things can happen when we act with authenticity.”—Jessi Hempel, author of The Family Outing “I could not put this book down. Mullen shows us the search for one’s authentic self has no expiration date and is worth whatever it takes. This book is a glorious tale of tenacious courage that anyone searching for their own path in life will love.”—Jennifer Louden, national bestselling author of Why Bother? Discover the Desire for What’s Next Suzette Mullen had been raised to play it safe—and she hated causing others pain. With college and law degrees, a kind and successful husband, two thriving adult sons, and an ocean-view vacation home, she lived a life many people would envy. But beneath the happy facade was a woman who watched her friends walk boldly through their lives and wondered what was holding her back from doing the same. Digging into her past, Suzette uncovered a deeply buried truth: she’d been in love with her best friend—a woman—for nearly two decades—and still was. Leaning into these “unspeakable” feelings would put Suzette’s identity, relationships, and life of privilege at risk—but she knew taking this leap might also provide her only chance to feel fully alive. Introspective, bittersweet, and empowering, The Only Way Through Is Out is both a coming-out and coming-of-age story, as well as a call to action for every human who is longing to live authentically but is afraid of the cost.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hypochondria-what-s-behind-the-hidden-costs-of-healthcare-in-america-by-hal-rosenbluth-marnie-hall--65182944https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hypochondria: What's Behind the Hidden Costs of Healthcare in America Author: Hal Rosenbluth, Marnie Hall Narrator: Stephen Graybill, Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A brutally honest but humorous account of the journey through the labyrinth of health care, including an eye-opening exploration of the skyrocketing costs—both personal and systemic—inflicted by hypochondria and the cost to the nation’s health-care system, and how consumers eventually pay for this precipitous rise in costs Hal Rosenbluth, the maverick executive behind Take Care Health Systems, former president of Walgreens Health and Wellness and now chairman and CEO of New Ocean Health Solutions, offers an unfiltered exposé of his 227 medical claims in just two years—exposing the underbelly that illness anxiety may be costing the average sufferer and the health system as a whole. Hypochondria: What’s Behind the Hidden Costs Healthcare Costs in America is a bold exploration and a call to action to address the broader impact that each stakeholder—health plans, providers, health systems and big pharma—have on the nation’s overstressed health-care system. The book also offers a well-rounded guide to the traditional and not so typical solutions that can help people manage illness anxiety. While the book is serious in nature, Rosenbluth and Marnie Hall spin you through an amusement ride of anecdotes. From the evolution of Rosenbluth’s global management firm to his onset of Type 2 diabetes, a tale woven with sleeping meds, nocturnal PB&J sandwiches, and anti-anxiety drugs; to founding a company with the youngest Johnson & Johnson president, and his most recent entry to digital health care, Hypchondria is an unfiltered, no-holds-barred saga that enlightens and entertains and opens a new dialogue about how the United States can get better at managing health and arresting costs of care. Hypochondria is not just a memoir but a call for greater discussion among patients, families, providers, employers, and health-care executives. It’s a beacon for change by unraveling the commercialization of health care, dissecting big pharma’s role in America’s pill-popping culture, and proposing alternative, disruptive solutions.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769008Tue, 18 Jun 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hypochondria: What's Behind the Hidden Costs of Healthcare in America Author: Hal Rosenbluth, Marnie Hall Narrator: Stephen Graybill, Erin Bennett...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hypochondria: What's Behind the Hidden Costs of Healthcare in America Author: Hal Rosenbluth, Marnie Hall Narrator: Stephen Graybill, Erin Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A brutally honest but humorous account of the journey through the labyrinth of health care, including an eye-opening exploration of the skyrocketing costs—both personal and systemic—inflicted by hypochondria and the cost to the nation’s health-care system, and how consumers eventually pay for this precipitous rise in costs Hal Rosenbluth, the maverick executive behind Take Care Health Systems, former president of Walgreens Health and Wellness and now chairman and CEO of New Ocean Health Solutions, offers an unfiltered exposé of his 227 medical claims in just two years—exposing the underbelly that illness anxiety may be costing the average sufferer and the health system as a whole. Hypochondria: What’s Behind the Hidden Costs Healthcare Costs in America is a bold exploration and a call to action to address the broader impact that each stakeholder—health plans, providers, health systems and big pharma—have on the nation’s overstressed health-care system. The book also offers a well-rounded guide to the traditional and not so typical solutions that can help people manage illness anxiety. While the book is serious in nature, Rosenbluth and Marnie Hall spin you through an amusement ride of anecdotes. From the evolution of Rosenbluth’s global management firm to his onset of Type 2 diabetes, a tale woven with sleeping meds, nocturnal PB&J sandwiches, and anti-anxiety drugs; to founding a company with the youngest Johnson & Johnson president, and his most recent entry to digital health care, Hypchondria is an unfiltered, no-holds-barred saga that enlightens and entertains and opens a new dialogue about how the United States can get better at managing health and arresting costs of care. Hypochondria is not just a memoir but a call for greater discussion among patients, families, providers, employers, and health-care executives. It’s a beacon for change by unraveling the commercialization of health care, dissecting big pharma’s role in America’s pill-popping culture, and proposing alternative, disruptive solutions.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-vietnam-your-vietnam-a-father-flees-a-daughter-returns-a-duel-memoir-by-christina-vo-nghia-m-vo--65182990https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Vietnam, Your Vietnam: A Father Flees. A Daughter Returns. A Duel Memoir. Author: Christina Vo, Nghia M. Vo Narrator: Quyen Ngo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A chronicle of the divergent journeys of a father, who fled post-war Vietnam on a small boat to find refuge in the United States, and his American-born daughter, who ventures to Vietnam as an adult, capturing the stark contrast between their perspectives on their shared homeland, as they search for common ground and a path toward mutual healing.“Combines the fraught tension of Ava Chin’s Mott Street and the tenderness of Elliot Tiber’s Taking Woodstock.'—Kirkus Reviews]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766266Tue, 11 Jun 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Vietnam, Your Vietnam: A Father Flees. A Daughter Returns. A Duel Memoir. Author: Christina Vo, Nghia M. Vo Narrator: Quyen Ngo Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Vietnam, Your Vietnam: A Father Flees. A Daughter Returns. A Duel Memoir. Author: Christina Vo, Nghia M. Vo Narrator: Quyen Ngo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A chronicle of the divergent journeys of a father, who fled post-war Vietnam on a small boat to find refuge in the United States, and his American-born daughter, who ventures to Vietnam as an adult, capturing the stark contrast between their perspectives on their shared homeland, as they search for common ground and a path toward mutual healing.“Combines the fraught tension of Ava Chin’s Mott Street and the tenderness of Elliot Tiber’s Taking Woodstock.'—Kirkus Reviews]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-kind-of-bird-can-t-fly-a-memoir-of-resilience-and-resurrection-by-dorsey-nunn--65182931https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Kind of Bird Can't Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection Author: Dorsey Nunn Narrator: Jeremy (midnite) Michael Durm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights. When Dorsey Nunn shuffled, shackled like a slave, into the California State carceral system at age nineteen, he could barely read. While caged he received an education he never could have anticipated. His first lesson: Prison had a color scheme, and it didn't match the larger society. On the inside, guards stoked racial warfare among prisoners while on the outside the machinery of the criminal legal system increasingly targeted poor Black and Brown communities with offenses, real or contrived. Nunn emerged from San Quentin after ten years behind bars, radicalized by his experience and emboldened by the militant wisdom of the men he met there. He poured his heart and mind into liberating all those he left behind, building a nationwide movement to restore justice to millions of system-impacted Americans. In this poignant, wry, and powerful memoir, Nunn links the politics of Black Power to the movements for Black lives and dignified reentry today. His story underscores the power of coalition building, persistence in the face of backlash, and the importance of centering the voices of experience in the fight for freedom—and proves, once and for all, that jailbirds can fly.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767026Tue, 11 Jun 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Kind of Bird Can't Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection Author: Dorsey Nunn Narrator: Jeremy (midnite) Michael Durm Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Kind of Bird Can't Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection Author: Dorsey Nunn Narrator: Jeremy (midnite) Michael Durm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A decade behind bars spurs fifty powerful years of political and legal battles for freedom and human rights. When Dorsey Nunn shuffled, shackled like a slave, into the California State carceral system at age nineteen, he could barely read. While caged he received an education he never could have anticipated. His first lesson: Prison had a color scheme, and it didn't match the larger society. On the inside, guards stoked racial warfare among prisoners while on the outside the machinery of the criminal legal system increasingly targeted poor Black and Brown communities with offenses, real or contrived. Nunn emerged from San Quentin after ten years behind bars, radicalized by his experience and emboldened by the militant wisdom of the men he met there. He poured his heart and mind into liberating all those he left behind, building a nationwide movement to restore justice to millions of system-impacted Americans. In this poignant, wry, and powerful memoir, Nunn links the politics of Black Power to the movements for Black lives and dignified reentry today. His story underscores the power of coalition building, persistence in the face of backlash, and the importance of centering the voices of experience in the fight for freedom—and proves, once and for all, that jailbirds can fly.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/soulmate-dog-by-michelle-b-slater-phd--65183000https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soulmate Dog Author: Michelle B. Slater, Phd Narrator: Alison Larkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Soulmate Dog tells the brave, moving story of Michelle Slater’s extraordinary relationship with her German Shepherd, Brady. Narrated by Alison Larkin in an easy-to-listen-to, conversational style, it “charts the nature of love and the inevitability of loss that accompanies it,” while showcasing the telepathic language that can exist between dogs and humans. In this brave, beautiful book, the author also sheds light on the important field of integrative veterinary medicine. A portion of the profits from the sale of this audiobook will go to The Brady Scholarship, supporting training and wider availability for holistic veterinary care.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757493Mon, 10 Jun 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soulmate Dog Author: Michelle B. Slater, Phd Narrator: Alison Larkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 10,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757493 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Soulmate Dog Author: Michelle B. Slater, Phd Narrator: Alison Larkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Soulmate Dog tells the brave, moving story of Michelle Slater’s extraordinary relationship with her German Shepherd, Brady. Narrated by Alison Larkin in an easy-to-listen-to, conversational style, it “charts the nature of love and the inevitability of loss that accompanies it,” while showcasing the telepathic language that can exist between dogs and humans. In this brave, beautiful book, the author also sheds light on the important field of integrative veterinary medicine. A portion of the profits from the sale of this audiobook will go to The Brady Scholarship, supporting training and wider availability for holistic veterinary care.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/notes-from-an-island-by-tove-jansson--65183019https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Notes from an Island Author: Tove Jansson Narrator: Sandi Toksvig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 25 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Set against the rugged backdrop of Klovharun, a barren skerry in the Gulf of Finland, ´Notes from an Island´ invites you into the intimate world of Tove Jansson and her partner, graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä, known affectionately as 'Tooti.' Aided by Brunstroem, an unconventional fisherman, Jansson races against time and the elements to build a cabin that would serve as their sanctuary for thirty summers. A declaration of the beauty of solitude, ´Notes from an Island´ is a touching homage to a mature love nurtured by the raw beauty of shifting seascapes. © 2024 Tove Jansson, Moomin Characters™ Published in the English language by arrangement with Rights & Brands Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is globally cherished for creating the Moomin universe. Born in Helsinki, her tales of the Moomins captivated readers worldwide. Beyond Moominvalley, she penned profound adult novels, most notably 'The Summer Book'.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768377Thu, 06 Jun 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Notes from an Island Author: Tove Jansson Narrator: Sandi Toksvig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 25 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Notes from an Island Author: Tove Jansson Narrator: Sandi Toksvig Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 25 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Set against the rugged backdrop of Klovharun, a barren skerry in the Gulf of Finland, ´Notes from an Island´ invites you into the intimate world of Tove Jansson and her partner, graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä, known affectionately as 'Tooti.' Aided by Brunstroem, an unconventional fisherman, Jansson races against time and the elements to build a cabin that would serve as their sanctuary for thirty summers. A declaration of the beauty of solitude, ´Notes from an Island´ is a touching homage to a mature love nurtured by the raw beauty of shifting seascapes. © 2024 Tove Jansson, Moomin Characters™ Published in the English language by arrangement with Rights & Brands Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is globally cherished for creating the Moomin universe. Born in Helsinki, her tales of the Moomins captivated readers worldwide. Beyond Moominvalley, she penned profound adult novels, most notably 'The Summer Book'.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-thirty-minute-bar-mitzvah-by-denis-hirson--65182926https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah Author: Denis Hirson Narrator: Denis Hirson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A bestselling South African writer known for tackling history and memory finally makes his American debut Witty and deeply poignant, My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah is a breathtaking account of one man being confronted by his past and, ultimately, how his daughter proved to be the key in understanding his own father. Recreating 1960s Johannesburg through his adolescent eyes, bestselling South African author Denis Hirson gradually reveals the details of his extraordinary thirteenth birthday as he explores the familial and political divisions in Apartheid South Africa that weighed on him and his developing consciousness of his Jewish heritage. My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah is a gem of a book about becoming a man. It's also a valuable account of a forgotten time of white, Jewish activists, their families, their community, and most importantly, their children, who had to stumble through life in the aftermath of their commitment to racial justice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767031Thu, 06 Jun 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah Author: Denis Hirson Narrator: Denis Hirson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 6,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah Author: Denis Hirson Narrator: Denis Hirson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A bestselling South African writer known for tackling history and memory finally makes his American debut Witty and deeply poignant, My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah is a breathtaking account of one man being confronted by his past and, ultimately, how his daughter proved to be the key in understanding his own father. Recreating 1960s Johannesburg through his adolescent eyes, bestselling South African author Denis Hirson gradually reveals the details of his extraordinary thirteenth birthday as he explores the familial and political divisions in Apartheid South Africa that weighed on him and his developing consciousness of his Jewish heritage. My Thirty-Minute Bar Mitzvah is a gem of a book about becoming a man. It's also a valuable account of a forgotten time of white, Jewish activists, their families, their community, and most importantly, their children, who had to stumble through life in the aftermath of their commitment to racial justice.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/strange-little-girl-by-jessica-knight--65182997https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strange Little Girl Author: Jessica Knight Narrator: Rebekah Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Maybe you don't need heaven, maybe you just need to find yourself. My father tells it because he made it up. A little bedtime story of my origin. They are not really my parents, the people who I call Mum and Dad. Those are not my siblings, the kids who I know as my brother and sisters. I am not really human. I am an alien from another planet in a far distant constellation. Jessica Knight grew up on a dairy farm in rural Victoria, her crib next door to where all the cows were milked. It's a loving Mormon household, a god-fearing home. While they don't have very much, it's their values and good humour that allows them to laugh at what scares them. All young Jessica wants is to be good and make her parents and her Heavenly Father happy. She cleans the house and helps out with her siblings; all the while being subjected to intensive medical tests and major surgeries. Doctors consider her a puzzle and a medical mystery. But what if you decide you want to be open about your fears? This is the story of how one young woman learned to move on from the life she was expected to have, embraced what she was scared of, and looked to her future with an open heart and mind.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769431Wed, 05 Jun 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strange Little Girl Author: Jessica Knight Narrator: Rebekah Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 5, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strange Little Girl Author: Jessica Knight Narrator: Rebekah Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Maybe you don't need heaven, maybe you just need to find yourself. My father tells it because he made it up. A little bedtime story of my origin. They are not really my parents, the people who I call Mum and Dad. Those are not my siblings, the kids who I know as my brother and sisters. I am not really human. I am an alien from another planet in a far distant constellation. Jessica Knight grew up on a dairy farm in rural Victoria, her crib next door to where all the cows were milked. It's a loving Mormon household, a god-fearing home. While they don't have very much, it's their values and good humour that allows them to laugh at what scares them. All young Jessica wants is to be good and make her parents and her Heavenly Father happy. She cleans the house and helps out with her siblings; all the while being subjected to intensive medical tests and major surgeries. Doctors consider her a puzzle and a medical mystery. But what if you decide you want to be open about your fears? This is the story of how one young woman learned to move on from the life she was expected to have, embraced what she was scared of, and looked to her future with an open heart and mind.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-most-human-reconciling-with-my-father-leonard-nimoy-by-adam-nimoy--65183079https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy Author: Adam Nimoy Narrator: Adam Nimoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Living with Dad was like living with a stranger—as a kid I often had trouble connecting and relating to him. But I was always proud of him. Even before Star Trek, I’d see him popping up in bit roles on some of my favorite TV shows like Get Smart, Sea Hunt, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. And then one night he brought home Polaroids of himself in makeup and wardrobe for a pilot he was working on. It was December 1964 and nobody had heard of Star Trek. Still, the eight-year-old me had watched enough Outer Limits and My Favorite Martian to understand exactly what I was looking at. Spock’s popularity happened quickly, and soon the fan magazines were writing about dad’s personal life, characterizing us as a “close family.” But the awkwardness that defined our early relationship blossomed into conflict, sometimes smoldering, sometimes open and intense. There were occasional flashes of warmth between the arguments and hurt feelings—even something akin to love—especially when we were celebrating my father’s many successes. The rest of the time, things between us were often strained. My resentment towards my father kept building through the years until we were estranged. I wanted things to be different for my children. I wanted to be the father I never had, so I did all the things dads are supposed to do. And then I got Dad's letter. That marked a turning point in our lives, a moment that cleared the way for a new relationship between us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757223Tue, 04 Jun 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy Author: Adam Nimoy Narrator: Adam Nimoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy Author: Adam Nimoy Narrator: Adam Nimoy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Living with Dad was like living with a stranger—as a kid I often had trouble connecting and relating to him. But I was always proud of him. Even before Star Trek, I’d see him popping up in bit roles on some of my favorite TV shows like Get Smart, Sea Hunt, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. And then one night he brought home Polaroids of himself in makeup and wardrobe for a pilot he was working on. It was December 1964 and nobody had heard of Star Trek. Still, the eight-year-old me had watched enough Outer Limits and My Favorite Martian to understand exactly what I was looking at. Spock’s popularity happened quickly, and soon the fan magazines were writing about dad’s personal life, characterizing us as a “close family.” But the awkwardness that defined our early relationship blossomed into conflict, sometimes smoldering, sometimes open and intense. There were occasional flashes of warmth between the arguments and hurt feelings—even something akin to love—especially when we were celebrating my father’s many successes. The rest of the time, things between us were often strained. My resentment towards my father kept building through the years until we were estranged. I wanted things to be different for my children. I wanted to be the father I never had, so I did all the things dads are supposed to do. And then I got Dad's letter. That marked a turning point in our lives, a moment that cleared the way for a new relationship between us.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/to-be-loved-a-story-of-truth-trauma-and-transformation-by-frank-g-anderson-md--65182982https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Be Loved: A Story of Truth, Trauma, and Transformation Author: Frank G. Anderson MD Narrator: Frank G. Anderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Rarely does a trauma therapist disclose their own trauma history . . . yet it's the untold, brutally honest, incredibly heartbreaking story of Dr. Frank Anderson that made him the world-renowned trauma expert he is today. Known for his magnetic and radiant personality, Frank spends his time training thousands of clinicians around the world on how to help clients with complex trauma make sense of their suffering. But underneath this charismatic exterior are his dark family secrets, including the marks of child abuse from his father and the invisible scars of shame. In To Be Loved, Frank shares his confusing experience of growing up an outsider in a typical Midwestern Italian American home that was at one turn fiercely loving but at the same time unaccepting, abusive, and rife with secrets. After enduring six years of therapy as a child in the 1970s, he was programmed to be something that he wasn't for decades, and became driven to create the perfect life—until it all fell apart. It was only then that he realized resilience, forgiveness, and facing his trauma were the keys to living an authentic life—and finally knowing what it feels like to be loved.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765279Tue, 04 Jun 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Be Loved: A Story of Truth, Trauma, and Transformation Author: Frank G. Anderson MD Narrator: Frank G. Anderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Be Loved: A Story of Truth, Trauma, and Transformation Author: Frank G. Anderson MD Narrator: Frank G. Anderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Rarely does a trauma therapist disclose their own trauma history . . . yet it's the untold, brutally honest, incredibly heartbreaking story of Dr. Frank Anderson that made him the world-renowned trauma expert he is today. Known for his magnetic and radiant personality, Frank spends his time training thousands of clinicians around the world on how to help clients with complex trauma make sense of their suffering. But underneath this charismatic exterior are his dark family secrets, including the marks of child abuse from his father and the invisible scars of shame. In To Be Loved, Frank shares his confusing experience of growing up an outsider in a typical Midwestern Italian American home that was at one turn fiercely loving but at the same time unaccepting, abusive, and rife with secrets. After enduring six years of therapy as a child in the 1970s, he was programmed to be something that he wasn't for decades, and became driven to create the perfect life—until it all fell apart. It was only then that he realized resilience, forgiveness, and facing his trauma were the keys to living an authentic life—and finally knowing what it feels like to be loved.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/late-admissions-confessions-of-a-black-conservative-by-glenn-loury--65182959https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative Author: Glenn Loury Narrator: Glenn Loury Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race, and belief. Economist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time: he's often radically opposed to the political mainstream, and delights in upending what's expected of a Black public figure. But more so than the arguments themselves—on affirmative action, institutional racism, Trumpism—his public life has been characterized by fearlessness and a willingness to recalibrate strongly held and forcefully argued beliefs. Loury grew up on the south side of Chicago, earned a PhD in MIT's economics program, and became the first Black tenured professor of economics at Harvard at the age of thirty-three. He has been, at turns, a young father, a drug addict, an adulterer, a psychiatric patient, a born-again Christian, a lapsed born-again Christian, a Black Reaganite who has swung from the right to the left and back again. In Late Admissions, Loury examines what it means to chart a sense of self over the course of a tempestuous, but well-considered, life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769035Tue, 04 Jun 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative Author: Glenn Loury Narrator: Glenn Loury Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 27 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative Author: Glenn Loury Narrator: Glenn Loury Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race, and belief. Economist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time: he's often radically opposed to the political mainstream, and delights in upending what's expected of a Black public figure. But more so than the arguments themselves—on affirmative action, institutional racism, Trumpism—his public life has been characterized by fearlessness and a willingness to recalibrate strongly held and forcefully argued beliefs. Loury grew up on the south side of Chicago, earned a PhD in MIT's economics program, and became the first Black tenured professor of economics at Harvard at the age of thirty-three. He has been, at turns, a young father, a drug addict, an adulterer, a psychiatric patient, a born-again Christian, a lapsed born-again Christian, a Black Reaganite who has swung from the right to the left and back again. In Late Admissions, Loury examines what it means to chart a sense of self over the course of a tempestuous, but well-considered, life.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/zev-s-los-angeles-a-political-memoir-from-boyle-heights-to-the-halls-of-power-by-zev-yaroslavsky--65183099https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zev's Los Angeles: A Political Memoir: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power Author: Zev Yaroslavsky Narrator: Graham Rowat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is the story of Zev Yaroslavsky, the son of Ukrainian Jews who immigrated to the United States in the early 1920s. His memoir charts the journey of a young social activist who battled to free Soviet Jews before becoming one of the most consequential elected officials in Southern California. Fiercely independent, he combined an activist's passion with a seasoned politician's skill to challenge the region's power brokers. He fought the Los Angeles Police Department's excessive force and political spying policies, led the effort to ban local taxes from funding the 1984 Olympics, teamed with President Clinton to avert a catastrophic county bankruptcy, helped develop LA's modern transit system, won a bruising battle with real estate interests to save the Santa Monica Mountains from rapacious development, and was pivotal in the development of Walt Disney Concert Hall and the modernization of the iconic Hollywood Bowl. 'I may be part of the establishment,' he said on the day he was first sworn into office, 'but the establishment is not part of me.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745334Tue, 28 May 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zev's Los Angeles: A Political Memoir: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power Author: Zev Yaroslavsky Narrator: Graham Rowat Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zev's Los Angeles: A Political Memoir: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power Author: Zev Yaroslavsky Narrator: Graham Rowat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is the story of Zev Yaroslavsky, the son of Ukrainian Jews who immigrated to the United States in the early 1920s. His memoir charts the journey of a young social activist who battled to free Soviet Jews before becoming one of the most consequential elected officials in Southern California. Fiercely independent, he combined an activist's passion with a seasoned politician's skill to challenge the region's power brokers. He fought the Los Angeles Police Department's excessive force and political spying policies, led the effort to ban local taxes from funding the 1984 Olympics, teamed with President Clinton to avert a catastrophic county bankruptcy, helped develop LA's modern transit system, won a bruising battle with real estate interests to save the Santa Monica Mountains from rapacious development, and was pivotal in the development of Walt Disney Concert Hall and the modernization of the iconic Hollywood Bowl. 'I may be part of the establishment,' he said on the day he was first sworn into office, 'but the establishment is not part of me.']]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/looking-for-andy-griffith-a-father-s-journey-by-evan-dalton-smith--65183049https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753896 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Looking for Andy Griffith: A Father's Journey Author: Evan Dalton Smith Narrator: Evan Dalton Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Andy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolina's most beloved exports, capturing America's heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalton Smith was born in the North Carolina Piedmont over four decades after Andy, just an hour south of Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy. Both were small-town boys who grew up in similar places, where the counties were dry and the churches plentiful. But for both, there was darkness, crushed hopes, and tragedy, hidden just below the surface. For Smith and many generations in North Carolina, Andy Griffith was like the air—everywhere, all the time, a part of daily life. Even after he left the state, Smith always felt the pull of home and the lingering ghost of Andy alongside it. This is an exploration on celebrity and the self, on home and what that means when you leave it, and why we love and admire the people we do—even if we've never met them—all told through the entwined lives of iconic actor Andy Griffith and writer Evan Dalton Smith. It is through Smith's telling of Griffith's life that he finds his own story, one that is both informed by and freed from the legacy of one of North Carolina's most famous sons.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753896Tue, 28 May 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753896 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Looking for Andy Griffith: A Father's Journey Author: Evan Dalton Smith Narrator: Evan Dalton Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753896 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Looking for Andy Griffith: A Father's Journey Author: Evan Dalton Smith Narrator: Evan Dalton Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Andy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolina's most beloved exports, capturing America's heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalton Smith was born in the North Carolina Piedmont over four decades after Andy, just an hour south of Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy. Both were small-town boys who grew up in similar places, where the counties were dry and the churches plentiful. But for both, there was darkness, crushed hopes, and tragedy, hidden just below the surface. For Smith and many generations in North Carolina, Andy Griffith was like the air—everywhere, all the time, a part of daily life. Even after he left the state, Smith always felt the pull of home and the lingering ghost of Andy alongside it. This is an exploration on celebrity and the self, on home and what that means when you leave it, and why we love and admire the people we do—even if we've never met them—all told through the entwined lives of iconic actor Andy Griffith and writer Evan Dalton Smith. It is through Smith's telling of Griffith's life that he finds his own story, one that is both informed by and freed from the legacy of one of North Carolina's most famous sons.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hidden-fires-a-cairngorms-journey-with-nan-shepherd-by-merryn-glover--65183050https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767003 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Fires: A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd Author: Merryn Glover Narrator: Merryn Glover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature Elemental, fierce, and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous surrender. In The Hidden Fires, Merryn Glover undertakes that challenge with Nan Shepherd as companion and guiding light. Following in the footsteps and contours of The Living Mountain, she explores the same landscapes and themes as Shepherd's seminal work. This is a journey separated by time but unified by space and purpose, a conversation between two women across nearly a century that explores how entering the life of a mountain can illuminate our own. An Australian who grew up in the Himalayas, her early experiences of the Scottish hills and weather left her cold. But gradually acclimatizing and with an approach like Shepherd's, that is more mountain wandering than mountaineering, she discovers the spark that sets the hills and herself on fire. Through Glover's deepening encounter, the wild majesty and iridescence of the Cairngorms is revealed in this beautiful evocation of landscape, place, and identity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767003Tue, 28 May 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767003 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Fires: A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd Author: Merryn Glover Narrator: Merryn Glover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/767003 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Fires: A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd Author: Merryn Glover Narrator: Merryn Glover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature Elemental, fierce, and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous surrender. In The Hidden Fires, Merryn Glover undertakes that challenge with Nan Shepherd as companion and guiding light. Following in the footsteps and contours of The Living Mountain, she explores the same landscapes and themes as Shepherd's seminal work. This is a journey separated by time but unified by space and purpose, a conversation between two women across nearly a century that explores how entering the life of a mountain can illuminate our own. An Australian who grew up in the Himalayas, her early experiences of the Scottish hills and weather left her cold. But gradually acclimatizing and with an approach like Shepherd's, that is more mountain wandering than mountaineering, she discovers the spark that sets the hills and herself on fire. Through Glover's deepening encounter, the wild majesty and iridescence of the Cairngorms is revealed in this beautiful evocation of landscape, place, and identity.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/surf-like-a-woman-by-pauline-menczer-luke-benedictus--65183007https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surf Like a Woman Author: Pauline Menczer, Luke Benedictus Narrator: Eva Seymour Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the 80s and 90s, surf culture was toxic, especially towards women. But Pauline Menczer - a dirt-poor, chronically ill, freckle-faced teen from Bondi - defied insults and intimidation to ride the waves. The reason: she simply loved to surf. But when Pauline's determination propelled her onto the pro circuit, her battle for acceptance and equality didn't end there. The endemic sexism of the industry meant prize money for women was a pittance, while sponsors ignored her because she was a lesbian and didn't have the beach babe look. Despite these challenges, Pauline became the 1993 World Champion and played a key role in bringing greater equality to the sport. This is the inspirational story of a true underdog battler, whose fearlessness and grit broke down the door of surfing's boys' club for the next generation of women.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769428Tue, 28 May 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surf Like a Woman Author: Pauline Menczer, Luke Benedictus Narrator: Eva Seymour Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surf Like a Woman Author: Pauline Menczer, Luke Benedictus Narrator: Eva Seymour Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the 80s and 90s, surf culture was toxic, especially towards women. But Pauline Menczer - a dirt-poor, chronically ill, freckle-faced teen from Bondi - defied insults and intimidation to ride the waves. The reason: she simply loved to surf. But when Pauline's determination propelled her onto the pro circuit, her battle for acceptance and equality didn't end there. The endemic sexism of the industry meant prize money for women was a pittance, while sponsors ignored her because she was a lesbian and didn't have the beach babe look. Despite these challenges, Pauline became the 1993 World Champion and played a key role in bringing greater equality to the sport. This is the inspirational story of a true underdog battler, whose fearlessness and grit broke down the door of surfing's boys' club for the next generation of women.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/never-better-two-kids-their-dad-and-his-wife-s-ghost-by-gonzalo-riedel--65182922https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Better: Two Kids, Their Dad, and His Wife's Ghost Author: Gonzalo Riedel Narrator: Kyle Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: His wife died before their second son turned one. How can he keep her memory alive when there's so much he wants to forget? There was a time before his wife got sick when Gonzalo could think about other things. Where humor was more than a coping mechanism. Life wasn't all about treatments and recovery, or the emptiness he felt when she died. They had kids together. Young kids. Less than a year after their youngest was born and suddenly he was strapping them both into their car seats to drive to their mother's funeral. He used to think he was the glue holding the household together. It didn't take long for him to realize how wrong he'd been. A grieving husband is in no condition to raise kids alone. There were times when he wanted to toss himself into a raging river that would suck him under and bash his skull on the rocks. That's always an option for another day. For now, he'll just squash those feelings and drive the kids to daycare. Does it get easier? Of course. But not right away. They say that hope only comes at the end of a long dark journey, but that isn't entirely true because the journey never really ends. But that means there's good news: hope is everywhere you look.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771452Tue, 28 May 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Better: Two Kids, Their Dad, and His Wife's Ghost Author: Gonzalo Riedel Narrator: Kyle Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 52...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771452 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Better: Two Kids, Their Dad, and His Wife's Ghost Author: Gonzalo Riedel Narrator: Kyle Snyder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: His wife died before their second son turned one. How can he keep her memory alive when there's so much he wants to forget? There was a time before his wife got sick when Gonzalo could think about other things. Where humor was more than a coping mechanism. Life wasn't all about treatments and recovery, or the emptiness he felt when she died. They had kids together. Young kids. Less than a year after their youngest was born and suddenly he was strapping them both into their car seats to drive to their mother's funeral. He used to think he was the glue holding the household together. It didn't take long for him to realize how wrong he'd been. A grieving husband is in no condition to raise kids alone. There were times when he wanted to toss himself into a raging river that would suck him under and bash his skull on the rocks. That's always an option for another day. For now, he'll just squash those feelings and drive the kids to daycare. Does it get easier? Of course. But not right away. They say that hope only comes at the end of a long dark journey, but that isn't entirely true because the journey never really ends. But that means there's good news: hope is everywhere you look.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hine-toa-by-ngahuia-te-awekotuku--65183072https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758985 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hine Toa Author: Ngahuia Te Awekotuku Narrator: Ngahuia Te Awekotuku Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Māori liberation movements 'Remarkable. At once heartbreaking and triumphant' Patricia Grace In the 1950s, a young Ngāhuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community. Although close to her kuia, she craves more: she wants higher education and refined living. But whānau dismiss her dreams. To them, she is just a show-off, always getting into trouble, talking back and running away. In this fiery memoir about identity and belonging, Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku describes what was possible for a restless working-class girl from the pā. After moving to Auckland for university, Ngāhuia advocates resistance as a founding member of Ngā Tamatoa and the Women's and Gay Liberation movements, becoming a critical voice in protests from Waitangi to the streets of Wellington. 'Extraordinary, vivid, riveting. I learned, I laughed and I wept over this book' Fiona Kidman 'Beautifully written and fiercely honest' Deborah Challinor 'Brilliant. This timely coming-of-age memoir by an iconic activist will rouse the rebel in us all. I loved it' Tina Makereti]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758985Mon, 27 May 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758985 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hine Toa Author: Ngahuia Te Awekotuku Narrator: Ngahuia Te Awekotuku Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 27,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758985 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hine Toa Author: Ngahuia Te Awekotuku Narrator: Ngahuia Te Awekotuku Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An incredible memoir by a trailblazing voice in women's, queer and Māori liberation movements 'Remarkable. At once heartbreaking and triumphant' Patricia Grace In the 1950s, a young Ngāhuia is fostered by a family who believe in hard work and community. Although close to her kuia, she craves more: she wants higher education and refined living. But whānau dismiss her dreams. To them, she is just a show-off, always getting into trouble, talking back and running away. In this fiery memoir about identity and belonging, Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku describes what was possible for a restless working-class girl from the pā. After moving to Auckland for university, Ngāhuia advocates resistance as a founding member of Ngā Tamatoa and the Women's and Gay Liberation movements, becoming a critical voice in protests from Waitangi to the streets of Wellington. 'Extraordinary, vivid, riveting. I learned, I laughed and I wept over this book' Fiona Kidman 'Beautifully written and fiercely honest' Deborah Challinor 'Brilliant. This timely coming-of-age memoir by an iconic activist will rouse the rebel in us all. I loved it' Tina Makereti]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/access-your-drive-and-enjoy-the-ride-a-guide-to-achieving-your-dreams-from-a-person-with-a-disability-by-lauren-spencer--65183101https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Access Your Drive and Enjoy the Ride: A Guide to Achieving Your Dreams from a Person with a Disability Author: Lauren Spencer Narrator: Sanya Simmons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer provides a candid look into the life of being a person with a disability. This disability advocate embarks on the importance of visibility for the disabled community because representation matters! Words from someone doing the work. Lolo Spencer gained popularity as a YouTube personality. On her platform, Sitting Pretty, she encourages viewers to achieve their dreams through making strong choices. Lolo shares how she navigates daily life with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). You are more than your limits. Choosing to see herself as more than a person with a disability and wheelchair user, Lolo chooses to live a bold and courageous life now because representation matters. She created this intersectional guide to provide tools for people with disabilities to thrive in personal growth, independence, and community building. Add this guide to your list of inclusion books! Inside, you'll find: ● An intersectional guide on how to grow personally and professionally ● Tools for people with disabilities to live a full life despite limitations and expectations ● Words from the inspiring Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer, your favorite disability advocate]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753864Tue, 21 May 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Access Your Drive and Enjoy the Ride: A Guide to Achieving Your Dreams from a Person with a Disability Author: Lauren Spencer Narrator: Sanya Simmons...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Access Your Drive and Enjoy the Ride: A Guide to Achieving Your Dreams from a Person with a Disability Author: Lauren Spencer Narrator: Sanya Simmons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer provides a candid look into the life of being a person with a disability. This disability advocate embarks on the importance of visibility for the disabled community because representation matters! Words from someone doing the work. Lolo Spencer gained popularity as a YouTube personality. On her platform, Sitting Pretty, she encourages viewers to achieve their dreams through making strong choices. Lolo shares how she navigates daily life with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). You are more than your limits. Choosing to see herself as more than a person with a disability and wheelchair user, Lolo chooses to live a bold and courageous life now because representation matters. She created this intersectional guide to provide tools for people with disabilities to thrive in personal growth, independence, and community building. Add this guide to your list of inclusion books! Inside, you'll find: ● An intersectional guide on how to grow personally and professionally ● Tools for people with disabilities to live a full life despite limitations and expectations ● Words from the inspiring Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer, your favorite disability advocate]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/just-go-a-globe-trotting-guide-to-travel-like-an-expert-connect-like-a-local-and-live-the-adventure-of-a-lifetime-by-drew-binsky--65183077https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757701 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Go: A Globe-Trotting Guide to Travel Like an Expert, Connect Like a Local, and Live the Adventure of a Lifetime Author: Drew Binsky Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Travel YouTuber Drew Binsky, who has visited every country in the world, shares everything you need to know to go anywhere you want. In 2021, Drew Binsky completed his 10-year journey to travel to every country in the world—all 197 of them. Now, for the first time, Drew reveals his wildest stories and best moments, even from places the United Nations deems the most “dangerous.” As you’ll discover with him as your guide, the world is more accessible than you think, and no matter where you’re from, people have more in common than they do differences. Just Go offers readers the adventure of a lifetime, presenting not only the tricks Drew himself has used in his trips, but also the best-kept secrets from every corner of the world. Just Go is equally a practical handbook for globe-trotters and aspiring travelers as it is an intimate and heartwarming celebration of people and cultures across the globe.In this fun and friendly guide, Drew will show you how to:• Obtain visas for obscure destinations• Make fast friends with trustworthy locals• Navigate language barriers• Share your journey and get started as a content creator• Have the greatest adventure of your lifeAs one of the few people who traveled internationally in 2020, Drew witnessed and recorded the pandemic response in countries everywhere—and realized how crucial it is for the world to reconnect. Filled with stories and tips Drew has never before shared, this book will give you the tools and inspiration to get out there and just go wherever you want.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757701Tue, 21 May 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757701 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Go: A Globe-Trotting Guide to Travel Like an Expert, Connect Like a Local, and Live the Adventure of a Lifetime Author: Drew Binsky Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757701 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Go: A Globe-Trotting Guide to Travel Like an Expert, Connect Like a Local, and Live the Adventure of a Lifetime Author: Drew Binsky Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Travel YouTuber Drew Binsky, who has visited every country in the world, shares everything you need to know to go anywhere you want. In 2021, Drew Binsky completed his 10-year journey to travel to every country in the world—all 197 of them. Now, for the first time, Drew reveals his wildest stories and best moments, even from places the United Nations deems the most “dangerous.” As you’ll discover with him as your guide, the world is more accessible than you think, and no matter where you’re from, people have more in common than they do differences. Just Go offers readers the adventure of a lifetime, presenting not only the tricks Drew himself has used in his trips, but also the best-kept secrets from every corner of the world. Just Go is equally a practical handbook for globe-trotters and aspiring travelers as it is an intimate and heartwarming celebration of people and cultures across the globe.In this fun and friendly guide, Drew will show you how to:• Obtain visas for obscure destinations• Make fast friends with trustworthy locals• Navigate language barriers• Share your journey and get started as a content creator• Have the greatest adventure of your lifeAs one of the few people who traveled internationally in 2020, Drew witnessed and recorded the pandemic response in countries everywhere—and realized how crucial it is for the world to reconnect. Filled with stories and tips Drew has never before shared, this book will give you the tools and inspiration to get out there and just go wherever you want.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/little-avalanches-a-memoir-by-becky-ellis--65183033https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Avalanches: A Memoir Author: Becky Ellis Narrator: Sara Van Beckum, Steve Menasche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As a young girl, Becky is forced to hide from phantom Nazis, subjected to dental procedures without pain medication, and torn from her mother again and again. Growing up in the shadow of her father's PTSD, she wants to know what is wrong but knows not to ask. Her father won't talk about being a Timberwolf, a unit of specially trained night fighters that went into combat first and experienced a 300 percent casualty rate. He returns home with thirteen medals and becomes a doctor, but is haunted by his past. Seeing only his explosive and often dangerous personality, Becky distances herself from the man she wants to love. Yet on the eve of his ninetieth birthday, when Becky looks at the vulnerable man he's become, something shifts, and she asks about the war. He breaks seventy years of silence, offering an unfiltered account of war without glory and revealing the extent of the trauma he's endured. She spends the next several years interviewing, researching, and ultimately understanding the demons she inherited. Because his story is incomplete without hers, and hers is inconceivable without his, Ellis offers both, as well as their year-long aching conversation marked by moments of redeeming grace. With compassionate, unflinching writing, Little Avalanches reminds us that we are profoundly shaped by the secrets we keep and forever changed by the stories we share.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769126Tue, 21 May 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Avalanches: A Memoir Author: Becky Ellis Narrator: Sara Van Beckum, Steve Menasche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Avalanches: A Memoir Author: Becky Ellis Narrator: Sara Van Beckum, Steve Menasche Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As a young girl, Becky is forced to hide from phantom Nazis, subjected to dental procedures without pain medication, and torn from her mother again and again. Growing up in the shadow of her father's PTSD, she wants to know what is wrong but knows not to ask. Her father won't talk about being a Timberwolf, a unit of specially trained night fighters that went into combat first and experienced a 300 percent casualty rate. He returns home with thirteen medals and becomes a doctor, but is haunted by his past. Seeing only his explosive and often dangerous personality, Becky distances herself from the man she wants to love. Yet on the eve of his ninetieth birthday, when Becky looks at the vulnerable man he's become, something shifts, and she asks about the war. He breaks seventy years of silence, offering an unfiltered account of war without glory and revealing the extent of the trauma he's endured. She spends the next several years interviewing, researching, and ultimately understanding the demons she inherited. Because his story is incomplete without hers, and hers is inconceivable without his, Ellis offers both, as well as their year-long aching conversation marked by moments of redeeming grace. With compassionate, unflinching writing, Little Avalanches reminds us that we are profoundly shaped by the secrets we keep and forever changed by the stories we share.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/daughter-of-a-thousand-stars-a-memoir-by-hajah-kandeh--65182996https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter of a Thousand Stars: A Memoir Author: Hajah Kandeh Narrator: Hajah Kandeh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At twenty-three, Hajah Kandeh flees Sierra Leone carrying the trauma of abandonment, the shame of a dark family secret, and a deep desire to reconnect with her mother. Her journey takes her from the lush plains of Africa to the “promised land” of San Francisco, where she tries to make sense of the disparity between the two cultures and faces personal challenges that go beyond what she left behind. Daughter of a Thousand Stars is the true account of one woman’s unyielding will to survive—a story that shows us the strength of the human spirit even when stretched to the breaking point. Hajah dares us to believe in our capacity to overcome adversity and be a force for good in this world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759189Tue, 14 May 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter of a Thousand Stars: A Memoir Author: Hajah Kandeh Narrator: Hajah Kandeh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter of a Thousand Stars: A Memoir Author: Hajah Kandeh Narrator: Hajah Kandeh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At twenty-three, Hajah Kandeh flees Sierra Leone carrying the trauma of abandonment, the shame of a dark family secret, and a deep desire to reconnect with her mother. Her journey takes her from the lush plains of Africa to the “promised land” of San Francisco, where she tries to make sense of the disparity between the two cultures and faces personal challenges that go beyond what she left behind. Daughter of a Thousand Stars is the true account of one woman’s unyielding will to survive—a story that shows us the strength of the human spirit even when stretched to the breaking point. Hajah dares us to believe in our capacity to overcome adversity and be a force for good in this world.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/like-pulling-teeth-fact-and-fiction-from-a-peripatetic-dentist-by-dr-william-j-hartel--65182951https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Like Pulling Teeth: Fact and Fiction from a Peripatetic Dentist  Author: Dr. William J. Hartel Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Travelogues, professional adventures, offbeat stories, and other musings by a lifelong lover of science and exploration.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763270Tue, 14 May 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Like Pulling Teeth: Fact and Fiction from a Peripatetic Dentist  Author: Dr. William J. Hartel Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Like Pulling Teeth: Fact and Fiction from a Peripatetic Dentist  Author: Dr. William J. Hartel Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Travelogues, professional adventures, offbeat stories, and other musings by a lifelong lover of science and exploration.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/but-you-look-so-normal-lost-and-found-in-a-hearing-world-by-claudia-marseille--65182956https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World Author: Claudia Marseille Narrator: Becky Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: By age four, Claudia Marseille had hardly uttered a word. When her parents finally had her hearing tested and learned she had a severe hearing loss, they chose to mainstream her, hoping this would offer her the most “normal” childhood possible. With the help of a primitive hearing aid, Claudia worked hard to learn to hear, lipread, and speak even as she tried to hide her disability in order to fit in. As a result, she was often misunderstood, lonely, and isolated—fitting into neither the hearing world nor the Deaf culture. This memoir explores Claudia’s relationships with her German refugee parents—a disturbed, psychoanalyst father obsessed over various harebrained projects and moneymaking schemes and a Jewish mother who had survived the Holocaust in Munich—and with her own identity. Claudia shares how she emerged from loneliness and social isolation, explored her Jewish identity, struggled to find a career compatible with hearing loss, and eventually opened herself to a life of creativity and love. But You Look So Normal is the inspiring story of a life affected but not defined by an invisible disability. It is a journey through family, loss, shame, identity, love, and healing as Claudia finally, joyfully, finds her place in the world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768295Tue, 14 May 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World Author: Claudia Marseille Narrator: Becky Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World Author: Claudia Marseille Narrator: Becky Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: By age four, Claudia Marseille had hardly uttered a word. When her parents finally had her hearing tested and learned she had a severe hearing loss, they chose to mainstream her, hoping this would offer her the most “normal” childhood possible. With the help of a primitive hearing aid, Claudia worked hard to learn to hear, lipread, and speak even as she tried to hide her disability in order to fit in. As a result, she was often misunderstood, lonely, and isolated—fitting into neither the hearing world nor the Deaf culture. This memoir explores Claudia’s relationships with her German refugee parents—a disturbed, psychoanalyst father obsessed over various harebrained projects and moneymaking schemes and a Jewish mother who had survived the Holocaust in Munich—and with her own identity. Claudia shares how she emerged from loneliness and social isolation, explored her Jewish identity, struggled to find a career compatible with hearing loss, and eventually opened herself to a life of creativity and love. But You Look So Normal is the inspiring story of a life affected but not defined by an invisible disability. It is a journey through family, loss, shame, identity, love, and healing as Claudia finally, joyfully, finds her place in the world.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/guest-privileges-queer-lives-and-finding-home-in-the-middle-east-by-gaar-adams--65183059https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759619 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East Author: Gaar Adams Narrator: Gaar Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. An intimate and illuminating account of queer lives and migration, homemaking and community in the Gulf, from a brilliant new voice in narrative non-fiction Upon moving to the Gulf States – where penalties for queer acts include deportation, imprisonment, torture and death – Gaar Adams wants to understand why LGBTQ+ migrants might choose to live amid such peril. From the UAE to Bahrain and Oman to Saudi Arabia – a region where four out of five residents are noncitizens – he begins riskily gathering interviews outside the tightly controlled state media, leading with what he thinks is a simple question: Isn't it harder for you to make a life here? But as unforgettable residents share a kaleidoscope of stories – from uproarious Filipino salon workers throwing secret drag parties to a courageous Pakistani farmhand helping his compatriots smuggle themselves across borders – cracks emerge in the framing of his enquiry, revealing disquieting assumptions about the motivations, places and identities of others. As Gaar begins his own clandestine queer relationship, fault lines and deeper questions begin to emerge: about what we perpetuate and refuse to examine, and how we balance opportunity, risk, subversion and assimilation. Weaving revealing memoir with unprecedented reportage, Guest Privileges is a decade-long journey of dislocation not just through the Gulf States – one of the most maligned and misunderstood regions in the world – but into the very nature of home, belonging and how we form a life and community. ©2024 Gaar Adams (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759619Thu, 09 May 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759619 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East Author: Gaar Adams Narrator: Gaar Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759619 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Guest Privileges: Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East Author: Gaar Adams Narrator: Gaar Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. An intimate and illuminating account of queer lives and migration, homemaking and community in the Gulf, from a brilliant new voice in narrative non-fiction Upon moving to the Gulf States – where penalties for queer acts include deportation, imprisonment, torture and death – Gaar Adams wants to understand why LGBTQ+ migrants might choose to live amid such peril. From the UAE to Bahrain and Oman to Saudi Arabia – a region where four out of five residents are noncitizens – he begins riskily gathering interviews outside the tightly controlled state media, leading with what he thinks is a simple question: Isn't it harder for you to make a life here? But as unforgettable residents share a kaleidoscope of stories – from uproarious Filipino salon workers throwing secret drag parties to a courageous Pakistani farmhand helping his compatriots smuggle themselves across borders – cracks emerge in the framing of his enquiry, revealing disquieting assumptions about the motivations, places and identities of others. As Gaar begins his own clandestine queer relationship, fault lines and deeper questions begin to emerge: about what we perpetuate and refuse to examine, and how we balance opportunity, risk, subversion and assimilation. Weaving revealing memoir with unprecedented reportage, Guest Privileges is a decade-long journey of dislocation not just through the Gulf States – one of the most maligned and misunderstood regions in the world – but into the very nature of home, belonging and how we form a life and community. ©2024 Gaar Adams (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/coming-home-by-brittney-griner-michelle-burford--65183091https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming Home Author: Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford Narrator: Andia Winslow, Brittney Griner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. “Compelling . . . An intimate, honest recollection of Griner’s time held captive in Russia. Coming Home reads as a deeply personal, publicly powerful documentation of what happened—what is still happening—to her body and mind.” —Slate On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women’s basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittney’s world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publicly—until now. In Coming Home, Brittney finally shares the harrowing details of her sudden arrest days before Russia invaded Ukraine; her bewilderment and isolation while navigating a foreign legal system amid her trial and sentencing; her emotional and physical anguish as the first American woman ever to endure a Russian penal colony while the #WeAreBG movement rallied for her release; the chilling prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout; and her remarkable rise from hostage to global spokesperson on behalf of America’s forgotten. In haunting and vivid detail, Brittney takes readers inside the horrors of a geopolitical nightmare spanning ten months.   And yet Coming Home is more than Brittney’s journey from captivity to freedom. In an account as gripping as it is poignant, she shares how her deep love for Cherelle, her college sweetheart and wife of six years, anchored her during their greatest storm; how her family’s support pulled her back from the brink; and how hundreds of letters from friends and neighbors lent her resolve to keep fighting. Coming Home is both a story of survival and a testament to love—the bonds that brought Brittney home to her family, and at last, to herself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753503Tue, 07 May 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming Home Author: Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford Narrator: Andia Winslow, Brittney Griner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753503 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coming Home Author: Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford Narrator: Andia Winslow, Brittney Griner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. “Compelling . . . An intimate, honest recollection of Griner’s time held captive in Russia. Coming Home reads as a deeply personal, publicly powerful documentation of what happened—what is still happening—to her body and mind.” —Slate On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women’s basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittney’s world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publicly—until now. In Coming Home, Brittney finally shares the harrowing details of her sudden arrest days before Russia invaded Ukraine; her bewilderment and isolation while navigating a foreign legal system amid her trial and sentencing; her emotional and physical anguish as the first American woman ever to endure a Russian penal colony while the #WeAreBG movement rallied for her release; the chilling prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout; and her remarkable rise from hostage to global spokesperson on behalf of America’s forgotten. In haunting and vivid detail, Brittney takes readers inside the horrors of a geopolitical nightmare spanning ten months.   And yet Coming Home is more than Brittney’s journey from captivity to freedom. In an account as gripping as it is poignant, she shares how her deep love for Cherelle, her college sweetheart and wife of six years, anchored her during their greatest storm; how her family’s support pulled her back from the brink; and how hundreds of letters from friends and neighbors lent her resolve to keep fighting. Coming Home is both a story of survival and a testament to love—the bonds that brought Brittney home to her family, and at last, to herself.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/duty-calls-lessons-learned-from-an-unexpected-life-of-service-by-dr-antonia-novello-md--65183083https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duty Calls: Lessons Learned from an Unexpected Life of Service Author: Dr. Antonia Novello Md Narrator: Cynthia Farrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dr. Antonia Novello is a vanguard in the United States and Puerto Rico, whose enduring commitment to service has left an indelible mark on the world of public health. With a distinguished career including serving as the US Surgeon General and the New York State Commissioner of Health during 9/11, her story highlights an unwavering dedication to improving the well-being of individuals and communities. Dr. Novello's story is one of challenges faced and overcome and of shattering glass ceilings and opening doors for future generations of leaders. She shares her early battles with childhood illness and her desire to overcome stereotypes, while also chronicling her meteoric rise through various roles in the field of health care, leading to her service as the nation's top medical officer. In Duty Calls, listeners will learn about: ● Dr. Novello's early life and her struggles with congenital megacolon ● How she became the first female/first Hispanic Surgeon General of the United States ● Her efforts to vaccinate and provide health care resources to her home in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ● Wisdom and insights Dr. Novello gained through her life experiences]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756262Tue, 07 May 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duty Calls: Lessons Learned from an Unexpected Life of Service Author: Dr. Antonia Novello Md Narrator: Cynthia Farrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Duty Calls: Lessons Learned from an Unexpected Life of Service Author: Dr. Antonia Novello Md Narrator: Cynthia Farrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dr. Antonia Novello is a vanguard in the United States and Puerto Rico, whose enduring commitment to service has left an indelible mark on the world of public health. With a distinguished career including serving as the US Surgeon General and the New York State Commissioner of Health during 9/11, her story highlights an unwavering dedication to improving the well-being of individuals and communities. Dr. Novello's story is one of challenges faced and overcome and of shattering glass ceilings and opening doors for future generations of leaders. She shares her early battles with childhood illness and her desire to overcome stereotypes, while also chronicling her meteoric rise through various roles in the field of health care, leading to her service as the nation's top medical officer. In Duty Calls, listeners will learn about: ● Dr. Novello's early life and her struggles with congenital megacolon ● How she became the first female/first Hispanic Surgeon General of the United States ● Her efforts to vaccinate and provide health care resources to her home in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ● Wisdom and insights Dr. Novello gained through her life experiences]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/by-the-time-you-read-this-the-space-between-cheslie-s-smile-and-mental-illness-her-story-in-her-own-words-by-cheslie-kryst-april-simpkins--65182969https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words Author: Cheslie Kryst, April Simpkins Narrator: Emana Rachelle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before her tragic suicide. Her mother, April, wraps up the narrative by exploring the mental illness and depression that took her daughter’s life. The text read, “By the time you get this …” This is the story of Cheslie Kryst, a former Miss USA, in her own words. When the world awoke on the morning of January 30, 2022, many were shocked to learn of the tragic death of former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst. For most people, the news was unfathomable. How could a young woman in the prime of her life—a pageant queen, accomplished attorney, Extra correspondent, and tireless advocate for charity organizations—have been lost to the world so suddenly? By the Time You Read This shares the manuscript Cheslie wrote before her passing, her story in her own words—from the highest highs of passing two bar exams, winning Miss USA, and beginning an exciting career as an entertainment journalist to the lowest lows of heartbreak, betrayal, and persistent depression. When Cheslie’s mother, April Simpkins, picks up the narrative, she shares for the first time what she experienced in the aftermath of Cheslie’s suicide. When faced with such a devastating loss, how does a mother find a way to carry on? Whether you are someone who struggles to maintain your mental health, or you love someone who does, this book will share insight into a reality that impacts thousands of families every year—as well as provide hope for those who are left behind. Net proceeds from the book will be used to support the Cheslie C. Kryst Foundation, which is being founded in Cheslie’s honor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763273Tue, 07 May 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words Author: Cheslie Kryst, April Simpkins...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words Author: Cheslie Kryst, April Simpkins Narrator: Emana Rachelle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before her tragic suicide. Her mother, April, wraps up the narrative by exploring the mental illness and depression that took her daughter’s life. The text read, “By the time you get this …” This is the story of Cheslie Kryst, a former Miss USA, in her own words. When the world awoke on the morning of January 30, 2022, many were shocked to learn of the tragic death of former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst. For most people, the news was unfathomable. How could a young woman in the prime of her life—a pageant queen, accomplished attorney, Extra correspondent, and tireless advocate for charity organizations—have been lost to the world so suddenly? By the Time You Read This shares the manuscript Cheslie wrote before her passing, her story in her own words—from the highest highs of passing two bar exams, winning Miss USA, and beginning an exciting career as an entertainment journalist to the lowest lows of heartbreak, betrayal, and persistent depression. When Cheslie’s mother, April Simpkins, picks up the narrative, she shares for the first time what she experienced in the aftermath of Cheslie’s suicide. When faced with such a devastating loss, how does a mother find a way to carry on? Whether you are someone who struggles to maintain your mental health, or you love someone who does, this book will share insight into a reality that impacts thousands of families every year—as well as provide hope for those who are left behind. Net proceeds from the book will be used to support the Cheslie C. Kryst Foundation, which is being founded in Cheslie’s honor.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/zero-risk-by-tony-loughran--65182958https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773720 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zero Risk Author: Tony Loughran Narrator: Tony Loughran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: We live in a dangerous world. And the stories of war and terrorism that fill our screens are brought to us by brave journalists who put their lives on the line. They will always face peril, but now they can work in much greater safety, thanks to the determination and dedication of one remarkable man. Tony Loughran's life has been all about risk - taking it, preventing it. He survived a tough childhood in working-class Liverpool, then joined the navy, where he excelled. Next came a career as an elite commando medic, a demanding role that required doctor-level training. He dealt with serious physical injury and a stint in Belfast left him with psychological scars. His life changed when he took responsibility for safety and security at the BBC. In his years with the world-famous broadcaster, Mr Death and Destruction, as he became known, revolutionised the protective gear and strategies used by foreign correspondents and introduced ground-breaking training that has saved many lives. Among much else, he provided the security for the notorious Martin Bashir interview with Princess Diana and protected Panorama journalists in Northern Ireland. Then came a new life in Australia and the establishment of his own security consultancy company, ZeroRisk International. The work is always challenging: investigating the deaths of well-known journalist John Schofield and cameraman Nazeh Darwazeh, escaping when he came close to being captured in Kabul, advising media during the Lindt Café siege and getting people out of Afghanistan when the Taliban returned. This page-turning, hard-to-put-down account of an extraordinary career is full of nail-biting excitement, engaging humour, compassion and brutal honesty. Once you read Zero Risk, the world will never seem quite the same again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773720Tue, 07 May 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773720 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zero Risk Author: Tony Loughran Narrator: Tony Loughran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773720 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zero Risk Author: Tony Loughran Narrator: Tony Loughran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: We live in a dangerous world. And the stories of war and terrorism that fill our screens are brought to us by brave journalists who put their lives on the line. They will always face peril, but now they can work in much greater safety, thanks to the determination and dedication of one remarkable man. Tony Loughran's life has been all about risk - taking it, preventing it. He survived a tough childhood in working-class Liverpool, then joined the navy, where he excelled. Next came a career as an elite commando medic, a demanding role that required doctor-level training. He dealt with serious physical injury and a stint in Belfast left him with psychological scars. His life changed when he took responsibility for safety and security at the BBC. In his years with the world-famous broadcaster, Mr Death and Destruction, as he became known, revolutionised the protective gear and strategies used by foreign correspondents and introduced ground-breaking training that has saved many lives. Among much else, he provided the security for the notorious Martin Bashir interview with Princess Diana and protected Panorama journalists in Northern Ireland. Then came a new life in Australia and the establishment of his own security consultancy company, ZeroRisk International. The work is always challenging: investigating the deaths of well-known journalist John Schofield and cameraman Nazeh Darwazeh, escaping when he came close to being captured in Kabul, advising media during the Lindt Café siege and getting people out of Afghanistan when the Taliban returned. This page-turning, hard-to-put-down account of an extraordinary career is full of nail-biting excitement, engaging humour, compassion and brutal honesty. Once you read Zero Risk, the world will never seem quite the same again.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/abandoned-at-birth-searching-for-the-arms-that-once-held-me-by-janet-sherlund--65182897https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me Author: Janet Sherlund Narrator: Janet Sherlund Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Abandoned at Birth, Janet Sherlund explores the inherent need adopted children have for a sense of belonging and the pain and courage that is required to discover their true identity. Adoption is often painted as a happy, inspirational act—a baby finds a family and lives happily ever after. But the truth is that adopted children experience displacement and rupture from their mother and that trauma can impact an individual for a lifetime. Adoption can lead to feelings of loss and grief not just for the adoptee, but for the biological and adoptive parents as well. This startling fact comes vividly to life in Janet Sherlund’s heartbreaking memoir, Abandoned at Birth. In her literary debut, Janet Sherlund explores the complex issues so many adoptees and their parents grapple with, including the complicated emotions of rejection, loss, grief, denial, and shame. Sherlund, who was given up for adoption within days of her birth, shares her journey to fulfill her lifetime longing for connection with her family of origin, her instinctive ache for connection with her birth mother, and what it was like to have a “borrowed identity.” In poignant detail, Sherlund describes her quest to find out who she is, where she came from, and why she was given away. And she reveals the pain and courage required to discover one’s true identity. With five million adoptees in the U.S., many of whom are discovering their biological roots on DNA websites, Abandoned at Birth is the book for our time. The insight Sherlund derived from her journey will encourage and console others on the same path, while examining the inherent need of all of us to belong, and understand our origins, our culture, and our genetic roots.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776263Tue, 07 May 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me Author: Janet Sherlund Narrator: Janet Sherlund Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/776263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abandoned at Birth: Searching for the Arms that Once Held Me Author: Janet Sherlund Narrator: Janet Sherlund Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Abandoned at Birth, Janet Sherlund explores the inherent need adopted children have for a sense of belonging and the pain and courage that is required to discover their true identity. Adoption is often painted as a happy, inspirational act—a baby finds a family and lives happily ever after. But the truth is that adopted children experience displacement and rupture from their mother and that trauma can impact an individual for a lifetime. Adoption can lead to feelings of loss and grief not just for the adoptee, but for the biological and adoptive parents as well. This startling fact comes vividly to life in Janet Sherlund’s heartbreaking memoir, Abandoned at Birth. In her literary debut, Janet Sherlund explores the complex issues so many adoptees and their parents grapple with, including the complicated emotions of rejection, loss, grief, denial, and shame. Sherlund, who was given up for adoption within days of her birth, shares her journey to fulfill her lifetime longing for connection with her family of origin, her instinctive ache for connection with her birth mother, and what it was like to have a “borrowed identity.” In poignant detail, Sherlund describes her quest to find out who she is, where she came from, and why she was given away. And she reveals the pain and courage required to discover one’s true identity. With five million adoptees in the U.S., many of whom are discovering their biological roots on DNA websites, Abandoned at Birth is the book for our time. The insight Sherlund derived from her journey will encourage and console others on the same path, while examining the inherent need of all of us to belong, and understand our origins, our culture, and our genetic roots.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-secret-agent-by-pippa-latour-doyle-jude-dobson--65182974https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Secret Agent Author: Pippa Latour Doyle, Jude Dobson Narrator: Jilly Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The extraordinary true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazioccupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations Executive, Pippa was lauded for her fluency with languages and her coding ability — both attributes she put to remarkable use as she posed as a teenage soap seller, often selling soap to the German soldiers, and sending back information via code to the UK. Incredibly brave — Pippa knew she would be instantly shot if her cover was blown — she concealed her codes in pieces of silk that she threaded through a flat shoelace and wore as a hair tie. She bicycled around the region, often sleeping rough and foraging for food. During her time in Normandy, Pippa sent 135 secret messages conveying crucial information on German troop positions in the lead-up to D-Day. Pippa continued her mission until France's liberation in August 1944. For decades, Pippa told no one — not even her family — of her incredible feats during WWII. Now, for the first time, her story can be told in full.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769422Wed, 01 May 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Secret Agent Author: Pippa Latour Doyle, Jude Dobson Narrator: Jilly Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Secret Agent Author: Pippa Latour Doyle, Jude Dobson Narrator: Jilly Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The extraordinary true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazioccupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations Executive, Pippa was lauded for her fluency with languages and her coding ability — both attributes she put to remarkable use as she posed as a teenage soap seller, often selling soap to the German soldiers, and sending back information via code to the UK. Incredibly brave — Pippa knew she would be instantly shot if her cover was blown — she concealed her codes in pieces of silk that she threaded through a flat shoelace and wore as a hair tie. She bicycled around the region, often sleeping rough and foraging for food. During her time in Normandy, Pippa sent 135 secret messages conveying crucial information on German troop positions in the lead-up to D-Day. Pippa continued her mission until France's liberation in August 1944. For decades, Pippa told no one — not even her family — of her incredible feats during WWII. Now, for the first time, her story can be told in full.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-espiritu-animal-el-viaje-del-alma-by-magali-tajes--65182941https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Espíritu animal: El viaje del alma Author: Magalí Tajes Narrator: Magalí Tajes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Luego del éxito rotundo de sus libros Caos y Arde la vida, Magalí Tajes vuelve con un libro transformador. La vida es un viaje que tiene muchos viajes adentro. Todos esconden un destino. ¿Querés viajar hacia adentro? La vida es un viaje que tiene muchos viajes adentro. Algunos nos conectan con nuestro corazón, otros nos cambian el rumbo. También están los que nos parten al medio. No hay viajes equivocados. Todos esconden un destino. En Espíritu Animal, volamos hacia adentro. ¡Preparate para la aventura! Las turbulencias en este camino son inevitables, pero no pierdas la calma. El universo nos cuida, y las estrellas están de nuestro lado. Dejate guiar por lo invisible. Permití que el tiempo se detenga. Quizás, habitando lo desconocido, puedas al fin conocerte. ¡Despegamos!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774435Wed, 01 May 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Espíritu animal: El viaje del alma Author: Magalí Tajes Narrator: Magalí Tajes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 46 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Espíritu animal: El viaje del alma Author: Magalí Tajes Narrator: Magalí Tajes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Luego del éxito rotundo de sus libros Caos y Arde la vida, Magalí Tajes vuelve con un libro transformador. La vida es un viaje que tiene muchos viajes adentro. Todos esconden un destino. ¿Querés viajar hacia adentro? La vida es un viaje que tiene muchos viajes adentro. Algunos nos conectan con nuestro corazón, otros nos cambian el rumbo. También están los que nos parten al medio. No hay viajes equivocados. Todos esconden un destino. En Espíritu Animal, volamos hacia adentro. ¡Preparate para la aventura! Las turbulencias en este camino son inevitables, pero no pierdas la calma. El universo nos cuida, y las estrellas están de nuestro lado. Dejate guiar por lo invisible. Permití que el tiempo se detenga. Quizás, habitando lo desconocido, puedas al fin conocerte. ¡Despegamos!]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mother-daughter-relationship-makeover-4-steps-to-bring-back-the-love-by-lindsey-glass-leslie-glass--65183067https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761216 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mother-Daughter Relationship Makeover: 4 Steps to Bring Back the Love Author: Lindsey Glass, Leslie Glass Narrator: Lindsey Glass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Leslie Glass and her daughter, award-winning documentarian Lindsey Glass, offer a brand-new kind of interactive self-help book that combines actionable information, compelling storytelling, and writing prompts that are guaranteed to bring awareness, understanding, and compassion to mothers and daughters everywhere. It is a book that promises to heal your relationship—no matter how far apart you feel you are—and keep it strong. Leslie and Lindsey have lived through their own traumas and devastating ups and downs in their relationship. They've turned their experiences into a successful platform for helping others and share them here in this book. They use their own tumultuous story, told from their respective points of view, to help mothers and daughters understand that even if you go off track, you can still find your way back to friendship, understanding, and love. For the first time, Leslie and Lindsey share their secret sauce for healing, broken down into four steps: ● Revealing Your Back Story ● Exploring Your Emotional and Personality Styles ● Understanding Your Conflicts and Triggers ● Learning the Tools to Restore the Love]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761216Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761216 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mother-Daughter Relationship Makeover: 4 Steps to Bring Back the Love Author: Lindsey Glass, Leslie Glass Narrator: Lindsey Glass Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761216 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mother-Daughter Relationship Makeover: 4 Steps to Bring Back the Love Author: Lindsey Glass, Leslie Glass Narrator: Lindsey Glass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Leslie Glass and her daughter, award-winning documentarian Lindsey Glass, offer a brand-new kind of interactive self-help book that combines actionable information, compelling storytelling, and writing prompts that are guaranteed to bring awareness, understanding, and compassion to mothers and daughters everywhere. It is a book that promises to heal your relationship—no matter how far apart you feel you are—and keep it strong. Leslie and Lindsey have lived through their own traumas and devastating ups and downs in their relationship. They've turned their experiences into a successful platform for helping others and share them here in this book. They use their own tumultuous story, told from their respective points of view, to help mothers and daughters understand that even if you go off track, you can still find your way back to friendship, understanding, and love. For the first time, Leslie and Lindsey share their secret sauce for healing, broken down into four steps: ● Revealing Your Back Story ● Exploring Your Emotional and Personality Styles ● Understanding Your Conflicts and Triggers ● Learning the Tools to Restore the Love]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hidden-package-by-claire-baum--65183066https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Package Author: Claire Baum Narrator: Claire Baum, Naomi Azrieli, Carolyne Van Der Meer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Almost forty years after the end of the war, Claire Baum opens a package from a stranger in Rotterdam, unleashing a flood of repressed memories from her childhood. As Claire delves into her past, she uncovers the personal sacrifice and bravery of her parents, the Dutch resistance and the families that selflessly gave shelter to her and her sister, Ollie. The Hidden Package portrays Claire’s years spent in hiding and pays tribute to all those who played a part in saving her life and ensuring a future for the next generations of her family. Introduction by Carolyne Van Der Meer]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763051Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Package Author: Claire Baum Narrator: Claire Baum, Naomi Azrieli, Carolyne Van Der Meer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 20...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hidden Package Author: Claire Baum Narrator: Claire Baum, Naomi Azrieli, Carolyne Van Der Meer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Almost forty years after the end of the war, Claire Baum opens a package from a stranger in Rotterdam, unleashing a flood of repressed memories from her childhood. As Claire delves into her past, she uncovers the personal sacrifice and bravery of her parents, the Dutch resistance and the families that selflessly gave shelter to her and her sister, Ollie. The Hidden Package portrays Claire’s years spent in hiding and pays tribute to all those who played a part in saving her life and ensuring a future for the next generations of her family. Introduction by Carolyne Van Der Meer]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/heidi-across-america-one-woman-s-journey-on-a-bicycle-through-the-heartland-by-heidi-beierle--65183061https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745470 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heidi Across America: One Woman's Journey on a Bicycle through the Heartland Author: Heidi Beierle Narrator: Morgan Hallett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir of homecoming—Heidi Across America is a gritty story of how opening our hearts to others enables us to open our hearts to ourselves and love what we find there.In the summer of 2010, Heidi Beierle had just finished her first year of graduate studies in community and regional planning and decided to pedal her bicycle solo from her home on the west coast across rural America to the Preserving the Historic Road conference in Washington, D.C. What started as a research trip turned into an intimately physical and psychological encounter with self and nationhood.Heidi was 35 at the time and didn’t love much about herself except her ability to endure grueling physical undertakings. She viewed her journey as an opportunity to fix her failures and insufficiencies. There were also some research questions she wanted to explore: Why do people live in small towns and what do they like about it? Did a bicyclist like herself bring economic benefit to the small towns she visited? What could communities do to support or invite cyclists to stay in their towns? What could cyclists do to support the communities?Along the way, she was surprised by the kindness of strangers and the emotional pinch of traveling through Wyoming where she grew up. Her journey led her through the Plains and into the Ozarks where the heat climbed to agonizing temperatures and every pedal stroke in the heat felt one closer to death. By the time she completed the trip, Heidi discovered a newfound compassion for herself and a growing love for her country. Strangers opened their hearts to her and in turn, she opened her heart to herself.And her questions began to change and mirror things many Americans are asking themselves today: How can I be okay in my own skin? What does it mean to be enough? How do I satisfy my desire to travel without harming the planet? What does it mean to love America?For many young people, it is a rite of passage to light out on an adventure to see the world and expose themselves to new experiences, but we don’t often talk about how Americans seeing America can open us to the diversity, awe, and wonder available right here in our nation. Heidi Across America offers a journey to self-love, empathy, consideration for others, and respect for the spirit of place as pathways to find connection and home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745470Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745470 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heidi Across America: One Woman's Journey on a Bicycle through the Heartland Author: Heidi Beierle Narrator: Morgan Hallett Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745470 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heidi Across America: One Woman's Journey on a Bicycle through the Heartland Author: Heidi Beierle Narrator: Morgan Hallett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir of homecoming—Heidi Across America is a gritty story of how opening our hearts to others enables us to open our hearts to ourselves and love what we find there.In the summer of 2010, Heidi Beierle had just finished her first year of graduate studies in community and regional planning and decided to pedal her bicycle solo from her home on the west coast across rural America to the Preserving the Historic Road conference in Washington, D.C. What started as a research trip turned into an intimately physical and psychological encounter with self and nationhood.Heidi was 35 at the time and didn’t love much about herself except her ability to endure grueling physical undertakings. She viewed her journey as an opportunity to fix her failures and insufficiencies. There were also some research questions she wanted to explore: Why do people live in small towns and what do they like about it? Did a bicyclist like herself bring economic benefit to the small towns she visited? What could communities do to support or invite cyclists to stay in their towns? What could cyclists do to support the communities?Along the way, she was surprised by the kindness of strangers and the emotional pinch of traveling through Wyoming where she grew up. Her journey led her through the Plains and into the Ozarks where the heat climbed to agonizing temperatures and every pedal stroke in the heat felt one closer to death. By the time she completed the trip, Heidi discovered a newfound compassion for herself and a growing love for her country. Strangers opened their hearts to her and in turn, she opened her heart to herself.And her questions began to change and mirror things many Americans are asking themselves today: How can I be okay in my own skin? What does it mean to be enough? How do I satisfy my desire to travel without harming the planet? What does it mean to love America?For many young people, it is a rite of passage to light out on an adventure to see the world and expose themselves to new experiences, but we don’t often talk about how Americans seeing America can open us to the diversity, awe, and wonder available right here in our nation. Heidi Across America offers a journey to self-love, empathy, consideration for others, and respect for the spirit of place as pathways to find connection and home.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-supper-club-a-waiter-s-requiem-by-matthew-batt--65182943https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Supper Club: A Waiter's Requiem Author: Matthew Batt Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: During a year on sabbatical from his university position, Matthew Batt realized he needed money—fast—and it just so happened that one of the biggest breweries in the Midwest was launching a restaurant and looking to hire. So it was that the forty-something tenured professor found himself waiting tables at a high-end restaurant situated in a Minneapolis brewery. And loving it. Telling the story of Batt's early work in restaurants, The Last Supper Club then details his experiences at the fine dining restaurant, a job that continued well past his sabbatical. The Last Supper Club reveals the ups and downs of a waiter's workday and offers an insightful perspective on what makes a job good, bad, or great. For Batt, this job turns out to be considerably more fun, and possibly more rewarding, than his academic career, and his insider's view of waiting tables extols the significance of our food and the places where we gather to enjoy it—or serve it. Told with sharp humor, humility, and a keen sense of what matters, The Last Supper Club is an ode to life in a high-pressure restaurant, the relationships that get you to the night's close, and finding yourself through the chaos of it all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764043Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Supper Club: A Waiter's Requiem Author: Matthew Batt Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764043 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Supper Club: A Waiter's Requiem Author: Matthew Batt Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: During a year on sabbatical from his university position, Matthew Batt realized he needed money—fast—and it just so happened that one of the biggest breweries in the Midwest was launching a restaurant and looking to hire. So it was that the forty-something tenured professor found himself waiting tables at a high-end restaurant situated in a Minneapolis brewery. And loving it. Telling the story of Batt's early work in restaurants, The Last Supper Club then details his experiences at the fine dining restaurant, a job that continued well past his sabbatical. The Last Supper Club reveals the ups and downs of a waiter's workday and offers an insightful perspective on what makes a job good, bad, or great. For Batt, this job turns out to be considerably more fun, and possibly more rewarding, than his academic career, and his insider's view of waiting tables extols the significance of our food and the places where we gather to enjoy it—or serve it. Told with sharp humor, humility, and a keen sense of what matters, The Last Supper Club is an ode to life in a high-pressure restaurant, the relationships that get you to the night's close, and finding yourself through the chaos of it all.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mothership-a-memoir-of-wonder-and-crisis-by-greg-wrenn--65182938https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis Author: Greg Wrenn Narrator: Greg Wrenn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Professor Greg Wrenn likes to tell his nature-writing students, 'The ecological is personal, and the personal is ecological.' What he's never told them is how he's lived out those correspondences to heal from childhood abuse at the hands of his mother. Weaving together memoir and cutting-edge science, Mothership is not just a queer coming-of-age story. It's a deeply researched account of how coral reefs and a psychedelic tea called ayahuasca helped Greg heal from complex PTSD—a disorder of trust, which makes the very act of bonding with someone else panic-inducing. From the tide pools in Florida where he grew up, to Indonesia's Raja Ampat archipelago and the Amazon rainforest, this is his search for wholeness when talk therapy and pharmaceuticals did little to help. Along the way, as his ecological conscience wakes up, he takes listeners underwater to the last pristine reefs on earth, and into the psyche. Written with prophetic urgency, Mothership ultimately asks if doses of nature will be enough to save us before it's too late.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764048Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis Author: Greg Wrenn Narrator: Greg Wrenn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764048 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis Author: Greg Wrenn Narrator: Greg Wrenn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Professor Greg Wrenn likes to tell his nature-writing students, 'The ecological is personal, and the personal is ecological.' What he's never told them is how he's lived out those correspondences to heal from childhood abuse at the hands of his mother. Weaving together memoir and cutting-edge science, Mothership is not just a queer coming-of-age story. It's a deeply researched account of how coral reefs and a psychedelic tea called ayahuasca helped Greg heal from complex PTSD—a disorder of trust, which makes the very act of bonding with someone else panic-inducing. From the tide pools in Florida where he grew up, to Indonesia's Raja Ampat archipelago and the Amazon rainforest, this is his search for wholeness when talk therapy and pharmaceuticals did little to help. Along the way, as his ecological conscience wakes up, he takes listeners underwater to the last pristine reefs on earth, and into the psyche. Written with prophetic urgency, Mothership ultimately asks if doses of nature will be enough to save us before it's too late.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/suddenly-single-at-sixty-by-jo-peck--65182998https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Suddenly Single at Sixty Author: Jo Peck Narrator: Anna Hruby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dumped by her husband of twenty-five years, Jo Peck—smart, successful and sixty—is totally floored. There's the complete bombshell of the news, the cliché of a younger woman—a much younger woman—there's the disappointment of cancelled retirement travel plans, and there's the foundation-rocking loss of her sense of identity—if she's no longer Rex's wife, who the hell is she? She's lost and angry and hurt and confused. But not for long! There's the comfort and support of excellent friends and newly forged connections with extended family, there's therapy. And there's internet dating. This inspiring, witty and at times hilarious memoir tells the story of the road from shock and despair to an unexpected new life, of friendship, romance and racy sex—proof that being suddenly single at sixty is not the end, it's an opportunity for a fabulous new beginning.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765963Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Suddenly Single at Sixty Author: Jo Peck Narrator: Anna Hruby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Suddenly Single at Sixty Author: Jo Peck Narrator: Anna Hruby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dumped by her husband of twenty-five years, Jo Peck—smart, successful and sixty—is totally floored. There's the complete bombshell of the news, the cliché of a younger woman—a much younger woman—there's the disappointment of cancelled retirement travel plans, and there's the foundation-rocking loss of her sense of identity—if she's no longer Rex's wife, who the hell is she? She's lost and angry and hurt and confused. But not for long! There's the comfort and support of excellent friends and newly forged connections with extended family, there's therapy. And there's internet dating. This inspiring, witty and at times hilarious memoir tells the story of the road from shock and despair to an unexpected new life, of friendship, romance and racy sex—proof that being suddenly single at sixty is not the end, it's an opportunity for a fabulous new beginning.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tap-dancing-on-everest-a-young-doctor-s-unlikely-adventure-by-mimi-zieman-md--65182971https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure Author: Mimi Zieman Md Narrator: Mimi Zieman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The plan was outrageous: A small expedition of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face of Mt. Everest, considered the most remote and dangerous side of the mountain, summitted only once before. They would climb without using supplemental oxygen, porter support, or chance for rescue. Mimi Zieman would accompany the climbers as the doctor—and only woman—although she was still in her third year of medical school. Full of self-doubt, Zieman grappled with whether to go but couldn't resist the call of the wilderness and mountains. On Everest, when three climbers disappeared during their summit attempt, she reached the knife edge of her limits and dug deeply to fight for the climbers' lives and to find her voice. Sparkling with suspense and vulnerability, Tap Dancing on Everest is a true survival story about the risks we take to become our most authentic selves. In this inspiring coming-of-age travel memoir that includes solo hiking through Nepal, Zieman weaves her childhood as the daughter of Jewish immigrants raised in 1970's New York City, her father a Holocaust survivor, with adventure, medicine, and empowerment. She captures the curiosity and awe of a young woman as she faces down messages to stay small and safe and ventures into the unknown.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765264Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure Author: Mimi Zieman Md Narrator: Mimi Zieman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure Author: Mimi Zieman Md Narrator: Mimi Zieman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The plan was outrageous: A small expedition of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face of Mt. Everest, considered the most remote and dangerous side of the mountain, summitted only once before. They would climb without using supplemental oxygen, porter support, or chance for rescue. Mimi Zieman would accompany the climbers as the doctor—and only woman—although she was still in her third year of medical school. Full of self-doubt, Zieman grappled with whether to go but couldn't resist the call of the wilderness and mountains. On Everest, when three climbers disappeared during their summit attempt, she reached the knife edge of her limits and dug deeply to fight for the climbers' lives and to find her voice. Sparkling with suspense and vulnerability, Tap Dancing on Everest is a true survival story about the risks we take to become our most authentic selves. In this inspiring coming-of-age travel memoir that includes solo hiking through Nepal, Zieman weaves her childhood as the daughter of Jewish immigrants raised in 1970's New York City, her father a Holocaust survivor, with adventure, medicine, and empowerment. She captures the curiosity and awe of a young woman as she faces down messages to stay small and safe and ventures into the unknown.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/learning-to-think-a-memoir-of-faith-superstition-and-the-courage-to-ask-questions-by-tracy-king--65182937https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Learning to Think: A Memoir of Faith, Superstition, and the Courage to Ask Questions Author: Tracy King Narrator: Tracy King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions—her family was happy and creative, yet shadowed by debt, phobias, her father's alcoholism, and the illusory promises of a born-again Christian church. The uneasy balance of the King household was irrevocably upended on a rainy spring night in 1988, when her father was killed by teenagers just blocks from their public housing estate. The account of her father's death remained hazy, made worse by the fact that four of the accused teenagers—neighborhood boys she could not avoid—were never charged. What could have triggered such an act of aggression? Over the years, in a bid to balm her grief and gaps in formal education, King journeyed through multiple belief systems: she distanced herself from fundamentalism, searching for clarity instead in the occult, paranormal beliefs, and conspiracy theories. Amid the chaos of her coming of age, she stumbled upon a copy of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World on the shelves of a Birmingham bookshop—a discovery that proved transformative. Learning to Think is a resounding battle cry for the value of education and the freedom to think critically, imaginatively, and for oneself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771451Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Learning to Think: A Memoir of Faith, Superstition, and the Courage to Ask Questions Author: Tracy King Narrator: Tracy King Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771451 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Learning to Think: A Memoir of Faith, Superstition, and the Courage to Ask Questions Author: Tracy King Narrator: Tracy King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Tracy King was raised in a house of contradictions—her family was happy and creative, yet shadowed by debt, phobias, her father's alcoholism, and the illusory promises of a born-again Christian church. The uneasy balance of the King household was irrevocably upended on a rainy spring night in 1988, when her father was killed by teenagers just blocks from their public housing estate. The account of her father's death remained hazy, made worse by the fact that four of the accused teenagers—neighborhood boys she could not avoid—were never charged. What could have triggered such an act of aggression? Over the years, in a bid to balm her grief and gaps in formal education, King journeyed through multiple belief systems: she distanced herself from fundamentalism, searching for clarity instead in the occult, paranormal beliefs, and conspiracy theories. Amid the chaos of her coming of age, she stumbled upon a copy of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World on the shelves of a Birmingham bookshop—a discovery that proved transformative. Learning to Think is a resounding battle cry for the value of education and the freedom to think critically, imaginatively, and for oneself.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-brulee-vive-by-souad--65182910https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Brûlée vive Author: Souad Narrator: Lola Creton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Souad a dix-sept ans, elle est amoureuse. Dans son village comme dans beaucoup d'autres, l'amour avant le mariage est synonyme de mort. « Déshonorée », sa famille désigne son beau-frère pour exécuter la sentence. Aux yeux de tous, cet homme est un héros. C'est ce que l'on appelle un « crime d'honneur ». Ce n'est en fait qu'un lâche assassinat. L'exécutant ne risque rien, il n'est presque jamais poursuivi, encore plus rarement condamné. Plus de cinq mille cas sont répertoriés chaque année dans le monde, bien d'autres ne sont jamais connus. Atrocement brûlée, Souad a été sauvée par miracle. Elle a décidé de parler pour toutes celles qui aujourd'hui risquent leur vie. Pour dire au monde la barbarie de cette pratique. Elle le fait au péril de sa vie car l'atteinte à « l'honneur » de sa famille est imprescriptible. Brûlée vive est un témoignage bouleversant, mais aussi un appel, afin de briser le tabou du silence insupportable qui recouvre la mort de ces femmes. Victimes de la loi des hommes. ©2003 Oh Éditions / XO Éditions]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775258Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Brûlée vive Author: Souad Narrator: Lola Creton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 29, 2024 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Brûlée vive Author: Souad Narrator: Lola Creton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Souad a dix-sept ans, elle est amoureuse. Dans son village comme dans beaucoup d'autres, l'amour avant le mariage est synonyme de mort. « Déshonorée », sa famille désigne son beau-frère pour exécuter la sentence. Aux yeux de tous, cet homme est un héros. C'est ce que l'on appelle un « crime d'honneur ». Ce n'est en fait qu'un lâche assassinat. L'exécutant ne risque rien, il n'est presque jamais poursuivi, encore plus rarement condamné. Plus de cinq mille cas sont répertoriés chaque année dans le monde, bien d'autres ne sont jamais connus. Atrocement brûlée, Souad a été sauvée par miracle. Elle a décidé de parler pour toutes celles qui aujourd'hui risquent leur vie. Pour dire au monde la barbarie de cette pratique. Elle le fait au péril de sa vie car l'atteinte à « l'honneur » de sa famille est imprescriptible. Brûlée vive est un témoignage bouleversant, mais aussi un appel, afin de briser le tabou du silence insupportable qui recouvre la mort de ces femmes. Victimes de la loi des hommes. ©2003 Oh Éditions / XO Éditions]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-mein-weg-erinnerungen-by-josef-ackermann--65182954https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mein Weg: Erinnerungen Author: Josef Ackermann Narrator: Klaus B. Wolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Josef Ackermann ist einer der international bekanntesten Topmanager. Berühmt und umstritten. Bankenboss, Krisenmanager, Reizfigur. Nach Studium und Militärzeit legte er eine rasante Karriere bei der SKA hin und wurde als erster Ausländer zum CEO der Deutschen Bank und an die Spitze des Weltbankenverbandes IIF berufen. Mit dem Ziel einer 25%igen Eigenkapitalrendite erregte Ackermann den Zorn von Politikern, Journalisten und Kirchenfürsten. Sein Victory-Zeichen während des Mannesmann-Prozesses sorgte für nationale Empörung. Ackermann ist aber weit mehr als das „kalte Gesicht des Kapitalismus“. Er war Zeitzeuge der Terroranschläge 9/11, enger Berater von Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, in- und ausländischer Finanzminister und Politikern in den hochdramatischen Wochen der globalen Finanzkrise und trug entscheidend dazu bei, einen Kollaps des globalen Finanzsystems zu verhindern. Erstmals berichtet Ackermann, was hinter den Kulissen geschah und gewährt Einblicke in sein Privatleben, von den Kindheitstagen bis in die Welt der Hochfinanz.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769192Thu, 25 Apr 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mein Weg: Erinnerungen Author: Josef Ackermann Narrator: Klaus B. Wolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Mein Weg: Erinnerungen Author: Josef Ackermann Narrator: Klaus B. Wolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Josef Ackermann ist einer der international bekanntesten Topmanager. Berühmt und umstritten. Bankenboss, Krisenmanager, Reizfigur. Nach Studium und Militärzeit legte er eine rasante Karriere bei der SKA hin und wurde als erster Ausländer zum CEO der Deutschen Bank und an die Spitze des Weltbankenverbandes IIF berufen. Mit dem Ziel einer 25%igen Eigenkapitalrendite erregte Ackermann den Zorn von Politikern, Journalisten und Kirchenfürsten. Sein Victory-Zeichen während des Mannesmann-Prozesses sorgte für nationale Empörung. Ackermann ist aber weit mehr als das „kalte Gesicht des Kapitalismus“. Er war Zeitzeuge der Terroranschläge 9/11, enger Berater von Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, in- und ausländischer Finanzminister und Politikern in den hochdramatischen Wochen der globalen Finanzkrise und trug entscheidend dazu bei, einen Kollaps des globalen Finanzsystems zu verhindern. Erstmals berichtet Ackermann, was hinter den Kulissen geschah und gewährt Einblicke in sein Privatleben, von den Kindheitstagen bis in die Welt der Hochfinanz.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-journeys-in-economic-theory-by-edmund-phelps--65182985https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Journeys in Economic Theory Author: Edmund Phelps Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Edmund Phelps is among the most important economists of his generation. He developed a new understanding of unemployment and inflation and went on to rethink the roots of innovation. In this book, Phelps tells the story of his role in reshaping economic theory, offering a powerful personal account of a creative and rewarding career. My Journeys in Economic Theory charts two major phases of Phelps's work, illuminating the breadth of his contributions to the field. First, introducing the expectations of wage setters and cofounding the 'equilibrium' rate of unemployment, he built the microeconomic foundations for the employment theory pioneered by Keynes and Hicks. More recently, he conceived a theory of 'mass flourishing' in which individuals' creativity and society's dynamism fuel grassroots innovation and generate job satisfaction in the process. Phelps recounts his vivid experiences in the world of economics as well as his relationships with luminaries such as John Rawls, Thomas Nagel, Paul Samuelson, and Paul Volcker. At its core, this book shares the joy of intellectual achievement: the excitement of coming up with a new idea that radically departs from prevailing views and the satisfaction of exercising one's own ingenuity instead of applying or developing others' models.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761320Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Journeys in Economic Theory Author: Edmund Phelps Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Journeys in Economic Theory Author: Edmund Phelps Narrator: David Colacci Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Edmund Phelps is among the most important economists of his generation. He developed a new understanding of unemployment and inflation and went on to rethink the roots of innovation. In this book, Phelps tells the story of his role in reshaping economic theory, offering a powerful personal account of a creative and rewarding career. My Journeys in Economic Theory charts two major phases of Phelps's work, illuminating the breadth of his contributions to the field. First, introducing the expectations of wage setters and cofounding the 'equilibrium' rate of unemployment, he built the microeconomic foundations for the employment theory pioneered by Keynes and Hicks. More recently, he conceived a theory of 'mass flourishing' in which individuals' creativity and society's dynamism fuel grassroots innovation and generate job satisfaction in the process. Phelps recounts his vivid experiences in the world of economics as well as his relationships with luminaries such as John Rawls, Thomas Nagel, Paul Samuelson, and Paul Volcker. At its core, this book shares the joy of intellectual achievement: the excitement of coming up with a new idea that radically departs from prevailing views and the satisfaction of exercising one's own ingenuity instead of applying or developing others' models.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-search-of-mr-darcy-lessons-learnt-in-the-pursuit-of-happily-ever-after-by-christina-ford--65182999https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763233 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt in the Pursuit of Happily Ever After Author: Christina Ford Narrator: Christina Ford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: PRINCE CHARMING? HAPPILY EVER AFTER? CHILDHOOD FAIRY TALES ARE FULL OF PROMISES, BUT THE REALITY - LIFE - IS A VERY DIFFERENT STORY. AND THAT STORY HAS A HELL OF A LOT TO TEACH US. Writing with searing honesty, wry humour and endless warmth, Christina Ford takes us on a real-life Sex and the City-like journey as she looks back on four decades of dates, loves, marriages, friends, frenemies, affairs, divorces, parenting disasters and step-parenting nightmares. Bravely and candidly, she shares heartrending details of the betrayal and hurt caused by the end of her marriage, shows how she overcame her fears about starting again and lets us in on the secret of the perfectly timed fling that was more effective than years of therapy. Together, these intimate insights show exactly how such experiences and their lessons came to define the woman she is today. In Search of Mr Darcy is for anyone who has ever wondered if there is life after divorce, if there is sex after 40, or if they will ever find love again. Hearts get broken, and even life's best-planned journeys can drop you somewhere unexpected, leading you to ask yourself, 'How did I get here? And, more importantly, who can I blame?' But Christina Ford is here to tell you that is exactly where the real adventure begins. This book will help you redefine love, womanhood, and what it means to come of age ... middle age. “A 21st-century Nora Ephron.” - Stephen May “A triumph. Hope-filled and life-affirming.” - Sunday Post]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763233Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763233 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt in the Pursuit of Happily Ever After Author: Christina Ford Narrator: Christina Ford Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763233 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt in the Pursuit of Happily Ever After Author: Christina Ford Narrator: Christina Ford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 13 minutes Release date: April 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: PRINCE CHARMING? HAPPILY EVER AFTER? CHILDHOOD FAIRY TALES ARE FULL OF PROMISES, BUT THE REALITY - LIFE - IS A VERY DIFFERENT STORY. AND THAT STORY HAS A HELL OF A LOT TO TEACH US. Writing with searing honesty, wry humour and endless warmth, Christina Ford takes us on a real-life Sex and the City-like journey as she looks back on four decades of dates, loves, marriages, friends, frenemies, affairs, divorces, parenting disasters and step-parenting nightmares. Bravely and candidly, she shares heartrending details of the betrayal and hurt caused by the end of her marriage, shows how she overcame her fears about starting again and lets us in on the secret of the perfectly timed fling that was more effective than years of therapy. Together, these intimate insights show exactly how such experiences and their lessons came to define the woman she is today. In Search of Mr Darcy is for anyone who has ever wondered if there is life after divorce, if there is sex after 40, or if they will ever find love again. Hearts get broken, and even life's best-planned journeys can drop you somewhere unexpected, leading you to ask yourself, 'How did I get here? And, more importantly, who can I blame?' But Christina Ford is here to tell you that is exactly where the real adventure begins. This book will help you redefine love, womanhood, and what it means to come of age ... middle age. “A 21st-century Nora Ephron.” - Stephen May “A triumph. Hope-filled and life-affirming.” - Sunday Post]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-cuchillo-by-salman-rushdie--65182950https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773246 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cuchillo Author: Salman Rushdie Narrator: Juan Ricardo León Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: En estas desgarradoras nuevas memorias, Salman Rushdie -escritor internacionalmente admirado, defensor de la libertad de expresión y ganador del Premio Booker de los Bookers y del Premio de La Paz de los Libreros alemanes, entre otros muchos- narra cómo sobrevivió al atentado contra suvida treinta años después de la fatwa que ordenó el ayatolá Jomeiní contra él. Por primera vez, y con una franqueza conmovedora, Rushdie habla sobre los traumáticos acontecimientos vividos el 12 de agosto de 2022, respondiendo con la fuerza del arte a la violencia ejercida contra él, y recordándonos el poder que tienen las palabras para otorgar sentido a lo impensable. Cuchillo es una meditación poderosa, profundamente personal y, en última instancia, reafirmante sobre la vida, la pérdida, el amor, el arte... y sobre cómo reunir la fuerza necesaria para ponerse de nuevo en pie. «Sentí la necesidad de escribir este libro: una forma de procesar lo sucedido y de responder a la violencia con arte». Salman Rushdie La crítica ha dicho: «Un libro que procura convertir la palabra en una herramienta punzante que atraviese el mundo como el filo de un metal muy afilado, que desgarre y penetre, que perfore la conciencia de quienes lo leen». Karina Sainz Borgo, ABC «Cuchillo es el triunfo de los principios frente a la barbarie, del lenguaje y el pensamiento articulados frente al odio inmotivado y sus cuchilladas ágrafas. Un libro en el que la compasión y el dolor, el agravio y la ira, se dan la mano […] Lean todo Rushdie, el más gran fabulador anglosajón de los últimos cincuenta años, a la altura de su maestro García Márquez». Enrique Murillo, La Vanguardia – Culturas «Rushdie hace uso de su don imaginativo para crear cuatro sesiones de un encuentro imaginario con su agresor. En ellas, muestra lo que ha estado haciendo en toda su obra: reivindicar el diálogo, arrinconar la ortodoxia y la literalidad, rebatir la mente cautiva del radicalizado, desnudar el victimismo, señalar a los autoritarios, celebrar la libertad». Marta Rebón, El Mundo «Cuchillo es un título que anticipa inequívocamente lo que podemos encontrar en sus páginas: dolor físico y psíquico, violencia ciega, horror moral. Sin embargo, también hay humor, esperanza y gratitud. Al igual que el Nobel egipcio Naguib Mahfuz, apuñalado por islamistas radicales, Salman Rushdie ha vuelto a escribir, venciendo al fanatismo que pretendía silenciarlo. La palabra ha triunfado sobre el terror». Rafael Narbona, El Cultural «La cura, al final llegaría por una vía que había descartado de antemano: la literatura. Y, también por una visita, justo un año después, al lugar donde sufrió este ataque. El resto es historia. O no. El resto es este libro: Cuchillo». Javier Ors, La Razón «Rushdie más que defenderse, ataca y pasa a de ser acuchillado a ser acuchillador». Rodrigo Fresán, ABC Cultural]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773246Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773246 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cuchillo Author: Salman Rushdie Narrator: Juan Ricardo León Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 18,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773246 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cuchillo Author: Salman Rushdie Narrator: Juan Ricardo León Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 18, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: En estas desgarradoras nuevas memorias, Salman Rushdie -escritor internacionalmente admirado, defensor de la libertad de expresión y ganador del Premio Booker de los Bookers y del Premio de La Paz de los Libreros alemanes, entre otros muchos- narra cómo sobrevivió al atentado contra suvida treinta años después de la fatwa que ordenó el ayatolá Jomeiní contra él. Por primera vez, y con una franqueza conmovedora, Rushdie habla sobre los traumáticos acontecimientos vividos el 12 de agosto de 2022, respondiendo con la fuerza del arte a la violencia ejercida contra él, y recordándonos el poder que tienen las palabras para otorgar sentido a lo impensable. Cuchillo es una meditación poderosa, profundamente personal y, en última instancia, reafirmante sobre la vida, la pérdida, el amor, el arte... y sobre cómo reunir la fuerza necesaria para ponerse de nuevo en pie. «Sentí la necesidad de escribir este libro: una forma de procesar lo sucedido y de responder a la violencia con arte». Salman Rushdie La crítica ha dicho: «Un libro que procura convertir la palabra en una herramienta punzante que atraviese el mundo como el filo de un metal muy afilado, que desgarre y penetre, que perfore la conciencia de quienes lo leen». Karina Sainz Borgo, ABC «Cuchillo es el triunfo de los principios frente a la barbarie, del lenguaje y el pensamiento articulados frente al odio inmotivado y sus cuchilladas ágrafas. Un libro en el que la compasión y el dolor, el agravio y la ira, se dan la mano […] Lean todo Rushdie, el más gran fabulador anglosajón de los últimos cincuenta años, a la altura de su maestro García Márquez». Enrique Murillo, La Vanguardia – Culturas «Rushdie hace uso de su don imaginativo para crear cuatro sesiones de un encuentro imaginario con su agresor. En ellas, muestra lo que ha estado haciendo en toda su obra: reivindicar el diálogo, arrinconar la ortodoxia y la literalidad, rebatir la mente cautiva del radicalizado, desnudar el victimismo, señalar a los autoritarios, celebrar la libertad». Marta Rebón, El Mundo «Cuchillo es un título que anticipa inequívocamente lo que podemos encontrar en sus páginas: dolor físico y psíquico, violencia ciega, horror moral. Sin embargo, también hay humor, esperanza y gratitud. Al igual que el Nobel egipcio Naguib Mahfuz, apuñalado por islamistas radicales, Salman Rushdie ha vuelto a escribir, venciendo al fanatismo que pretendía silenciarlo. La palabra ha triunfado sobre el terror». Rafael Narbona, El Cultural «La cura, al final llegaría por una vía que había descartado de antemano: la literatura. Y, también por una visita, justo un año después, al lugar donde sufrió este ataque. El resto es historia. O no. El resto es este libro: Cuchillo». Javier Ors, La Razón «Rushdie más que defenderse, ataca y pasa a de ser acuchillado a ser acuchillador». Rodrigo Fresán, ABC Cultural]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/loose-of-earth-a-memoir-by-kathleen-dorothy-blackburn--65182975https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loose of Earth: A Memoir Author: Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn was the oldest of five children, a twelve-year-old from Lubbock, Texas, whose evangelical family eschewed public education for homeschooling, and wove improbable scientific theories into literal interpretations of the Bible. Then her father, a former air force pilot, was diagnosed with cancer at the age of thirty-eight, and, 'it was like throwing gasoline on the Holy Spirit.' Stirred by her mother, the family committed to an extreme diet and sought deliverance from equally extreme sources: a traveling tent preacher, a Malaysian holy man, a local faith-healer who led services called 'Miracles on 34th Street.' What they didn't know was that their lives were entangled with a larger, less visible environmental catastrophe. Firefighting foams containing carcinogenic compounds had contaminated the drinking water of every military site where her father worked. Commonly referred to as 'forever chemicals,' the presence of PFAS in West Texas besieged a landscape already burdened with vanishing water, taking up residence in wells and in the bloodstreams of people who lived there. An arresting portrait of the pernicious creep of decline, and a powerful cry for environmental justice, Loose of Earth captures the desperate futility and unbending religious faith that devastated a family, leaving them waiting for a miracle that would never come.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760515Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loose of Earth: A Memoir Author: Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loose of Earth: A Memoir Author: Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn was the oldest of five children, a twelve-year-old from Lubbock, Texas, whose evangelical family eschewed public education for homeschooling, and wove improbable scientific theories into literal interpretations of the Bible. Then her father, a former air force pilot, was diagnosed with cancer at the age of thirty-eight, and, 'it was like throwing gasoline on the Holy Spirit.' Stirred by her mother, the family committed to an extreme diet and sought deliverance from equally extreme sources: a traveling tent preacher, a Malaysian holy man, a local faith-healer who led services called 'Miracles on 34th Street.' What they didn't know was that their lives were entangled with a larger, less visible environmental catastrophe. Firefighting foams containing carcinogenic compounds had contaminated the drinking water of every military site where her father worked. Commonly referred to as 'forever chemicals,' the presence of PFAS in West Texas besieged a landscape already burdened with vanishing water, taking up residence in wells and in the bloodstreams of people who lived there. An arresting portrait of the pernicious creep of decline, and a powerful cry for environmental justice, Loose of Earth captures the desperate futility and unbending religious faith that devastated a family, leaving them waiting for a miracle that would never come.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-devil-to-pay-a-mobster-s-road-to-perdition-by-sean-scott-hicks--65182945https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Devil to Pay: A Mobster’s Road to Perdition Author: Sean Scott Hicks Narrator: Keith Szarabajka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Goodfellas meets the Irish mob in The Devil to Pay, the incredible true story of one man’s unconventional upbringing in the criminal gangs of Boston and his eventual road to redemption. Growing up in South Boston, Sean Scott Hicks was running jobs for the Irish mob before his voice changed. Mistreated by his drug-addled mother, Hicks found sanctuary with his adoptive family of felonious uncles—known to law enforcement officials as the Winter Hill Gang. These crooks knew where all the bodies were buried—because they’d done the burying—but they also looked out for young Sean. Even the notorious gangster known worldwide as Whitey Bulger was simply “Uncle Jim” to him. After such an upbringing, a life of crime was a given. In this unprecedented memoir, Hicks talks about everything from his experience running illegal goods up and down the coast of Massachusetts to his theory about what really happened the night three hundred million dollars’ worth of art went missing from Boston’s Isabella Gardner Museum. Terms like money laundering and assault insufficiently describe his daily tasks, a brash existence that alternated with stints behind bars. This knuckles-close look at mobster life chronicles the greed and avarice, tenderness and brutality, and the reckoning all gangsters must eventually face. Hicks tells a story of blood and vengeance but also—surprisingly—of hope. The Devil to Pay: A Mobster’s Road to Perdition is an extraordinary memoir that illuminates the reality of what it’s really like in the dark, dangerous, and insidious places of the world, and what it takes to bring a person there and back again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769481Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Devil to Pay: A Mobster’s Road to Perdition Author: Sean Scott Hicks Narrator: Keith Szarabajka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Devil to Pay: A Mobster’s Road to Perdition Author: Sean Scott Hicks Narrator: Keith Szarabajka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Goodfellas meets the Irish mob in The Devil to Pay, the incredible true story of one man’s unconventional upbringing in the criminal gangs of Boston and his eventual road to redemption. Growing up in South Boston, Sean Scott Hicks was running jobs for the Irish mob before his voice changed. Mistreated by his drug-addled mother, Hicks found sanctuary with his adoptive family of felonious uncles—known to law enforcement officials as the Winter Hill Gang. These crooks knew where all the bodies were buried—because they’d done the burying—but they also looked out for young Sean. Even the notorious gangster known worldwide as Whitey Bulger was simply “Uncle Jim” to him. After such an upbringing, a life of crime was a given. In this unprecedented memoir, Hicks talks about everything from his experience running illegal goods up and down the coast of Massachusetts to his theory about what really happened the night three hundred million dollars’ worth of art went missing from Boston’s Isabella Gardner Museum. Terms like money laundering and assault insufficiently describe his daily tasks, a brash existence that alternated with stints behind bars. This knuckles-close look at mobster life chronicles the greed and avarice, tenderness and brutality, and the reckoning all gangsters must eventually face. Hicks tells a story of blood and vengeance but also—surprisingly—of hope. The Devil to Pay: A Mobster’s Road to Perdition is an extraordinary memoir that illuminates the reality of what it’s really like in the dark, dangerous, and insidious places of the world, and what it takes to bring a person there and back again.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-100-selbstversorgung-unser-weg-in-die-unabhangigkeit-by-julian-haertl--65182888https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774343 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - 100% Selbstversorgung!?: Unser Weg in die Unabhängigkeit Author: Julian Haertl Narrator: Paul Schulz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Macht Selbstversorgung unabhängig? Wie und warum wird man eigentlich zum Selbstversorger? Wie renoviert man mit wenig Geld einen Resthof? Warum hat man plötzlich Ziegen, Hühner, Schweine und Enten, wenn man doch eigentlich nur seine Pferde hinter dem Haus haben wollte? Julian und Nadine Haertl schildern in diesem Erfahrungsbericht ihren Weg vom Auszug aus dem chaotischen Mietshaus über die Entdeckung des grünen Daumens und die Erfahrungen mit verschiedenen Tieren im ersten Eigenheim bis hin zum Kauf ihres zweiten Resthofes. Dabei beleuchten sie nicht nur Freuden und Erfolgserlebnisse, sondern werfen auch einen kritischen Blick auf Misserfolge und die weitere Entwicklung.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774343Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774343 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - 100% Selbstversorgung!?: Unser Weg in die Unabhängigkeit Author: Julian Haertl Narrator: Paul Schulz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774343 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - 100% Selbstversorgung!?: Unser Weg in die Unabhängigkeit Author: Julian Haertl Narrator: Paul Schulz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Macht Selbstversorgung unabhängig? Wie und warum wird man eigentlich zum Selbstversorger? Wie renoviert man mit wenig Geld einen Resthof? Warum hat man plötzlich Ziegen, Hühner, Schweine und Enten, wenn man doch eigentlich nur seine Pferde hinter dem Haus haben wollte? Julian und Nadine Haertl schildern in diesem Erfahrungsbericht ihren Weg vom Auszug aus dem chaotischen Mietshaus über die Entdeckung des grünen Daumens und die Erfahrungen mit verschiedenen Tieren im ersten Eigenheim bis hin zum Kauf ihres zweiten Resthofes. Dabei beleuchten sie nicht nur Freuden und Erfolgserlebnisse, sondern werfen auch einen kritischen Blick auf Misserfolge und die weitere Entwicklung.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lost-in-china-a-memoir-of-world-war-ii-by-jennifer-f-dobbs--65182952https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lost in China: A Memoir of World War II Author: Jennifer F. Dobbs Narrator: Alexandra Potocka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It’s November 1941. Siblings Jennifer and John, ages seven and five, huddle in a cement culvert near Kunming, China, while Japanese Zeros fly overhead. Jennifer pretends to ignore the screech of gunfire. Where are Daddy and Mummy? she thinks. Lost in China is the true story of two Anglo-American children separated from their parents in China during World War II, and their unforgettable journey to America a year later. When their mother and father fly to Hong Kong on a short trip and get caught up in the Japanese attack, the Dobbs children are left parentless, with no idea when their parents will return—or if they are even still alive. For a year, the children remain in Western China. Finally, after spending a month traveling three-quarters of the way around the world via the US military’s World War II air ferry routes, they reunite with their mother in a rain-swept, deserted airfield in Washington, DC—and face a shocking discovery about their father. Lost in China is both a riveting firsthand account of a family broken apart in World War II China and a daughter’s tribute to her beloved father.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768297Fri, 12 Apr 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lost in China: A Memoir of World War II Author: Jennifer F. Dobbs Narrator: Alexandra Potocka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lost in China: A Memoir of World War II Author: Jennifer F. Dobbs Narrator: Alexandra Potocka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It’s November 1941. Siblings Jennifer and John, ages seven and five, huddle in a cement culvert near Kunming, China, while Japanese Zeros fly overhead. Jennifer pretends to ignore the screech of gunfire. Where are Daddy and Mummy? she thinks. Lost in China is the true story of two Anglo-American children separated from their parents in China during World War II, and their unforgettable journey to America a year later. When their mother and father fly to Hong Kong on a short trip and get caught up in the Japanese attack, the Dobbs children are left parentless, with no idea when their parents will return—or if they are even still alive. For a year, the children remain in Western China. Finally, after spending a month traveling three-quarters of the way around the world via the US military’s World War II air ferry routes, they reunite with their mother in a rain-swept, deserted airfield in Washington, DC—and face a shocking discovery about their father. Lost in China is both a riveting firsthand account of a family broken apart in World War II China and a daughter’s tribute to her beloved father.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dear-mom-and-dad-a-letter-about-family-memory-and-the-america-we-once-knew-by-patti-davis--65183031https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757742 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew Author: Patti Davis Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Written with dignity and grace in the form of a letter to her parents, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Dear Mom and Dad is that surprisingly poignant work that succeeds not only as a memoir but as a moving account that will inspire listeners to recall their own childhoods in a totally new light. Eager to retell the narrative of her own family and her coming-of-age, Patti Davis casts aside misperceptions that defined her in the past. Far from being the enfant terrible, Dear Mom and Dad reveals young Patti as a sensitive child, who was not able to be the public person her family demanded. Davis casts an empathetic yet honest eye on her parents—on her father, the eternal lifeguard, who saved seventy-seven people, yet failed to create a coherent AIDS policy, and her mother, who never escaped her own tortured youth. What comes across are Davis's burnished skills as a writer. Even as she unravels her mother's highly edited persona, and her father's loving but distant personality, Davis remains steadfast in her artistic expression, as she melds irony, comedy, and tragedy with dreamlike memories of an ever-present past. Dear Mom and Dad, with its account of her father's Alzheimer's and her mother's end-of-life struggles, becomes an account of forgiveness, reaching levels of redemption rarely found in contemporary memoirs.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757742Tue, 09 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757742 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew Author: Patti Davis Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757742 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew Author: Patti Davis Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Written with dignity and grace in the form of a letter to her parents, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Dear Mom and Dad is that surprisingly poignant work that succeeds not only as a memoir but as a moving account that will inspire listeners to recall their own childhoods in a totally new light. Eager to retell the narrative of her own family and her coming-of-age, Patti Davis casts aside misperceptions that defined her in the past. Far from being the enfant terrible, Dear Mom and Dad reveals young Patti as a sensitive child, who was not able to be the public person her family demanded. Davis casts an empathetic yet honest eye on her parents—on her father, the eternal lifeguard, who saved seventy-seven people, yet failed to create a coherent AIDS policy, and her mother, who never escaped her own tortured youth. What comes across are Davis's burnished skills as a writer. Even as she unravels her mother's highly edited persona, and her father's loving but distant personality, Davis remains steadfast in her artistic expression, as she melds irony, comedy, and tragedy with dreamlike memories of an ever-present past. Dear Mom and Dad, with its account of her father's Alzheimer's and her mother's end-of-life struggles, becomes an account of forgiveness, reaching levels of redemption rarely found in contemporary memoirs.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/from-punk-to-monk-a-memoir-by-foreword-by-moby-ray-raghunath-cappo--65183015https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Punk to Monk: A Memoir Author: Foreword By Moby, Ray Raghunath Cappo Narrator: Ray Raghunath Cappo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The heartfelt memoir of Ray Raghunath Cappo, a legendary hardcore punk musician-turned-monk—and pioneer of the straight-edge movement—told with warmth, candor, and humor. Narrated by the author himself. Ray Cappo was a hardcore punk singer and pioneer of the straight-edge movement living on the Lower East Side of New York City in the ’80s, where his band Youth of Today played to packed clubs and touched thousands of people across the globe. But despite the accolades from fans, the popularity of his records, and the positivity he’d brought to the punk music scene, none of this success gave Ray joy. He felt stagnant, and he yearned for something more. This, along with his father’s untimely death, led him to abruptly quit the band and buy a one-way ticket to India in pursuit of the answers to life’s great mysteries. Living as a monk in the sacred city of Vrindavan and traveling across the country on a series of train trips, Ray embraced the rich, spiritual culture he discovered there. As his unusual adventure unfolded, he encountered extraordinary characters, witnessed deep acts of devotion, and experienced profound moments of divine connection, leading to a radical transformation that was ego-crushing and blissful all at once. Inspired to write music again, Ray returned to the US, where he and other monks founded Shelter, a band dedicated to spreading a message of faith, hope, and love. Told with warmth, candor, and humor, this heartfelt memoir chronicles Ray’s emotional and spiritual journey from punk to monk and beyond. HISTORICAL: Offers a unique glimpse into the punk and hardcore scene of the Lower East Side during the 80s and the birth of the straight-edge movement. SPIRITUAL: Asks (and answers) deep questions about our relationship to the world around us and the living beings that populate it. PERSONAL: Chronicles Ray’s spiritual journey in his own words, with warmth, candor, and humor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755157Tue, 09 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Punk to Monk: A Memoir Author: Foreword By Moby, Ray Raghunath Cappo Narrator: Ray Raghunath Cappo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Punk to Monk: A Memoir Author: Foreword By Moby, Ray Raghunath Cappo Narrator: Ray Raghunath Cappo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The heartfelt memoir of Ray Raghunath Cappo, a legendary hardcore punk musician-turned-monk—and pioneer of the straight-edge movement—told with warmth, candor, and humor. Narrated by the author himself. Ray Cappo was a hardcore punk singer and pioneer of the straight-edge movement living on the Lower East Side of New York City in the ’80s, where his band Youth of Today played to packed clubs and touched thousands of people across the globe. But despite the accolades from fans, the popularity of his records, and the positivity he’d brought to the punk music scene, none of this success gave Ray joy. He felt stagnant, and he yearned for something more. This, along with his father’s untimely death, led him to abruptly quit the band and buy a one-way ticket to India in pursuit of the answers to life’s great mysteries. Living as a monk in the sacred city of Vrindavan and traveling across the country on a series of train trips, Ray embraced the rich, spiritual culture he discovered there. As his unusual adventure unfolded, he encountered extraordinary characters, witnessed deep acts of devotion, and experienced profound moments of divine connection, leading to a radical transformation that was ego-crushing and blissful all at once. Inspired to write music again, Ray returned to the US, where he and other monks founded Shelter, a band dedicated to spreading a message of faith, hope, and love. Told with warmth, candor, and humor, this heartfelt memoir chronicles Ray’s emotional and spiritual journey from punk to monk and beyond. HISTORICAL: Offers a unique glimpse into the punk and hardcore scene of the Lower East Side during the 80s and the birth of the straight-edge movement. SPIRITUAL: Asks (and answers) deep questions about our relationship to the world around us and the living beings that populate it. PERSONAL: Chronicles Ray’s spiritual journey in his own words, with warmth, candor, and humor.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/man-s-search-for-meaning-by-viktor-e-frankl--65182993https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Man's Search for Meaning Author: Viktor E. Frankl Narrator: Theo Solomon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As relevant today as it was when it was first published, Man’s Search for Meaning is a book for finding strength and purpose in times of great despair. “This is a book I reread a lot … it gives me hope … it gives me a sense of strength.”—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNN Viktor E. Frankl was a medical doctor at a psychiatric hospital in 1942 when he became a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps in World War II. In 1946, he published this book about his camp experiences and a method of psychotherapy he developed. Forty-five years later, it was still named one of the most influential books in the United States. Part One describes his three years in four Nazi concentration camps, which took the lives of his wife, father, mother, and brother. He closely observed inmates’ reactions to their situation, as well as how survivors came to terms with their liberation. Part Two, introducing logotherapy, is an academic discussion of the psychological reactions experienced by all inmates to one degree or another. It solidified Frankl’s early theory that humanity’s primary motivational force is finding meaning in one’s life. In Germany, titled Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager, or A Psychologist Experiences the Concentration Camp, its title in the first English translation was From Death-Camp to Existentialism. As of 2022, this book has sold 16 million copies and been published in 52 languages.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763267Tue, 09 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Man's Search for Meaning Author: Viktor E. Frankl Narrator: Theo Solomon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: April...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Man's Search for Meaning Author: Viktor E. Frankl Narrator: Theo Solomon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 9, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As relevant today as it was when it was first published, Man’s Search for Meaning is a book for finding strength and purpose in times of great despair. “This is a book I reread a lot … it gives me hope … it gives me a sense of strength.”—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNN Viktor E. Frankl was a medical doctor at a psychiatric hospital in 1942 when he became a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps in World War II. In 1946, he published this book about his camp experiences and a method of psychotherapy he developed. Forty-five years later, it was still named one of the most influential books in the United States. Part One describes his three years in four Nazi concentration camps, which took the lives of his wife, father, mother, and brother. He closely observed inmates’ reactions to their situation, as well as how survivors came to terms with their liberation. Part Two, introducing logotherapy, is an academic discussion of the psychological reactions experienced by all inmates to one degree or another. It solidified Frankl’s early theory that humanity’s primary motivational force is finding meaning in one’s life. In Germany, titled Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager, or A Psychologist Experiences the Concentration Camp, its title in the first English translation was From Death-Camp to Existentialism. As of 2022, this book has sold 16 million copies and been published in 52 languages.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/strap-yourself-in-by-amy-gerard--65183001https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strap Yourself In Author: Amy Gerard Narrator: Amy Gerard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 3, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir of motherhood, dancefloors and all the mayhem in between. In a world of highly curated Instagram pages and unrealistic expectations of motherhood, Amy Gerard is a gust of fresh air. She does not sugarcoat the fact that her life with her husband and three small children (read: tiny bosses) is a chaotic rollercoaster - seatbelts absolutely required. But she's learned that life very rarely matches up to our expectations, and it's more helpful (and fun) to embrace the warts-and-all beauty, pain and hilarity of it all. From birth and parenting to marriage and friendship; sex and holidays to family and careers, Amy confesses the wildly hopeful expectations she once held - and candidly reveals how the reality of her life has utterly unravelled them. A must-read for new mums or anyone who has ever compared their own life to an Instagram post, this uplifting and hilarious memoir will make you stop to smell the roses and appreciate what you've got.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756986Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strap Yourself In Author: Amy Gerard Narrator: Amy Gerard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 3, 2024 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strap Yourself In Author: Amy Gerard Narrator: Amy Gerard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 3, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir of motherhood, dancefloors and all the mayhem in between. In a world of highly curated Instagram pages and unrealistic expectations of motherhood, Amy Gerard is a gust of fresh air. She does not sugarcoat the fact that her life with her husband and three small children (read: tiny bosses) is a chaotic rollercoaster - seatbelts absolutely required. But she's learned that life very rarely matches up to our expectations, and it's more helpful (and fun) to embrace the warts-and-all beauty, pain and hilarity of it all. From birth and parenting to marriage and friendship; sex and holidays to family and careers, Amy confesses the wildly hopeful expectations she once held - and candidly reveals how the reality of her life has utterly unravelled them. A must-read for new mums or anyone who has ever compared their own life to an Instagram post, this uplifting and hilarious memoir will make you stop to smell the roses and appreciate what you've got.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/becoming-story-a-journey-among-seasons-places-trees-and-ancestors-by-greg-sarris--65183105https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745328 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors Author: Greg Sarris Narrator: Lyle Blaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland. For the first time in more than twenty-five years, Greg Sarris—whose novels are esteemed alongside those of Louise Erdrich and Stephen Graham Jones—presents a book about his own life. In Becoming Story he asks: What does it mean to be truly connected to the place you call home—to walk where innumerable generations of your ancestors have walked? And what does it mean when you dedicate your life to making that connection even deeper? Moving between his childhood and the present day, Sarris creates a kaleidoscopic narrative about the forces that shaped his early years and his eventual work as a tribal leader. He considers the deep past, historical traumas, and possible futures of his homeland. His acclaimed storytelling skills are in top form here, and he charts his journey in prose that is humorous, searching, and profound. Described as 'jewellike' by the San Francisco Chronicle, Becoming Story is also a gently powerful guide in the art of belonging to the place where you live.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745328Tue, 02 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745328 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors Author: Greg Sarris Narrator: Lyle Blaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745328 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors Author: Greg Sarris Narrator: Lyle Blaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland. For the first time in more than twenty-five years, Greg Sarris—whose novels are esteemed alongside those of Louise Erdrich and Stephen Graham Jones—presents a book about his own life. In Becoming Story he asks: What does it mean to be truly connected to the place you call home—to walk where innumerable generations of your ancestors have walked? And what does it mean when you dedicate your life to making that connection even deeper? Moving between his childhood and the present day, Sarris creates a kaleidoscopic narrative about the forces that shaped his early years and his eventual work as a tribal leader. He considers the deep past, historical traumas, and possible futures of his homeland. His acclaimed storytelling skills are in top form here, and he charts his journey in prose that is humorous, searching, and profound. Described as 'jewellike' by the San Francisco Chronicle, Becoming Story is also a gently powerful guide in the art of belonging to the place where you live.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/where-to-nest-by-kristen-van-nest--65183030https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where to Nest Author: Kristen Van Nest Narrator: Kristen Van Nest Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: After college getting her dream job in New York City, Kristen Van Nest thought she had everything a modern millennial was supposed to want: a sexy zip code, a boyfriend, and a corporate job. But instead of feeling content, she soon realized she had no idea who she was and what made her happy. Naturally, she did what any sane person would do: hopped on a plane and spent the rest of her twenties living abroad and traveling the world in search of love, adventure, and new and exciting places to eat bread. By stripping away the cultural norms and expectations she grew up with in the US, Kristen rebuilt from scratch a new identity, sense of self, and life purpose that ultimately led her to move to Los Angeles to pursue comedy. Through living in Luxembourg on a Fulbright Scholarship and then in China for three years working for a wine importer, she takes us across the globe on her adventures—including nearly being murdered by a lover while skiing in Switzerland, navigating Greece during a banking crisis, and visiting Thailand during a government coup—all while struggling to find belonging. Where to Nest is a story for anyone who needs a good laugh, travel ideas, and inspiration for ways to add more joy into their lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757670Tue, 02 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where to Nest Author: Kristen Van Nest Narrator: Kristen Van Nest Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757670 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where to Nest Author: Kristen Van Nest Narrator: Kristen Van Nest Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: After college getting her dream job in New York City, Kristen Van Nest thought she had everything a modern millennial was supposed to want: a sexy zip code, a boyfriend, and a corporate job. But instead of feeling content, she soon realized she had no idea who she was and what made her happy. Naturally, she did what any sane person would do: hopped on a plane and spent the rest of her twenties living abroad and traveling the world in search of love, adventure, and new and exciting places to eat bread. By stripping away the cultural norms and expectations she grew up with in the US, Kristen rebuilt from scratch a new identity, sense of self, and life purpose that ultimately led her to move to Los Angeles to pursue comedy. Through living in Luxembourg on a Fulbright Scholarship and then in China for three years working for a wine importer, she takes us across the globe on her adventures—including nearly being murdered by a lover while skiing in Switzerland, navigating Greece during a banking crisis, and visiting Thailand during a government coup—all while struggling to find belonging. Where to Nest is a story for anyone who needs a good laugh, travel ideas, and inspiration for ways to add more joy into their lives.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/an-autobiography-of-trauma-a-healing-journey-by-peter-a-levine--65182965https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763246 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey Author: Peter A. Levine Narrator: Christopher Salazar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: • Shares the author’s personal journey to heal his severe childhood trauma as well as his breakthroughs on the path to create Somatic Experiencing • Explores how he came to view Einstein as his personal spirit guide and mentor, only to discover a profound real-life connection to him through his mother • Explains how the SE method is derived from the author’s studies of animals in their natural environments, neurobiology, and 50 years of clinical observations In this intimate memoir, renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing, Peter A. Levine—the man who changed the way psychologists, doctors, and healers understand and treat the wounds of trauma and abuse—shares his personal journey to heal his own severe childhood trauma and offers profound insights into the evolution of his innovative healing method. Casting himself as a modern-day Chiron, the wounded healer of Greek mythology, Levine describes, in graphic detail, the violence of his childhood juxtaposed with specific happy memories and how being guided through Somatic Experiencing (SE) allowed him to illuminate and untangle his traumatic wounds. He also shares the mysterious and unexpected dreams and visions that have guided him through his life’s work, including his dreamlike visitations from Albert Einstein, whom he views as his personal spirit guide and mentor. Explaining how he helped thousands of others before resolving his own trauma, he details how the SE method is derived from his studies of wild animals in their natural environments, neurobiology, and more than 50 years of clinical observations. Levine teaches us that anyone suffering from trauma has a valuable story to tell, and that by telling our stories, we can catalyze the return of hope, dignity, and wholeness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763246Tue, 02 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763246 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey Author: Peter A. Levine Narrator: Christopher Salazar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/763246 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey Author: Peter A. Levine Narrator: Christopher Salazar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: • Shares the author’s personal journey to heal his severe childhood trauma as well as his breakthroughs on the path to create Somatic Experiencing • Explores how he came to view Einstein as his personal spirit guide and mentor, only to discover a profound real-life connection to him through his mother • Explains how the SE method is derived from the author’s studies of animals in their natural environments, neurobiology, and 50 years of clinical observations In this intimate memoir, renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing, Peter A. Levine—the man who changed the way psychologists, doctors, and healers understand and treat the wounds of trauma and abuse—shares his personal journey to heal his own severe childhood trauma and offers profound insights into the evolution of his innovative healing method. Casting himself as a modern-day Chiron, the wounded healer of Greek mythology, Levine describes, in graphic detail, the violence of his childhood juxtaposed with specific happy memories and how being guided through Somatic Experiencing (SE) allowed him to illuminate and untangle his traumatic wounds. He also shares the mysterious and unexpected dreams and visions that have guided him through his life’s work, including his dreamlike visitations from Albert Einstein, whom he views as his personal spirit guide and mentor. Explaining how he helped thousands of others before resolving his own trauma, he details how the SE method is derived from his studies of wild animals in their natural environments, neurobiology, and more than 50 years of clinical observations. Levine teaches us that anyone suffering from trauma has a valuable story to tell, and that by telling our stories, we can catalyze the return of hope, dignity, and wholeness.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wild-life-finding-my-purpose-in-an-untamed-world-by-rae-wynn-grant--65183042https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World Author: Rae Wynn-Grant Narrator: Rae Wynn-Grant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this vulnerable and urgent memoir, Rae Wynn-Grant explores the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals, and the earth through her personal journey to becoming a wildlife ecologist. Growing up in the diverse and bustling California Bay Area, renowned wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant always felt worlds away from the white male adventurers she watched explore the wilderness on TV. She dreamed of a future where she could spend sleepless nights under the crowded canopies of the Amazon and the starry skies of the savanna. But as Rae set off on her own expeditions in the wild, she saw nature’s delicate balance in a new light. Wild Life follows Rae on her adventures and explorations in some of the world’s most remote locales. Hers is a story about a nearly twenty-year career in the wild?carving a niche as one of very few Black female scientists?and the challenges she had to overcome, expectations she had to leave behind, and the many lessons she learned along the way. An incredible journey spanning the Great Plains of North America to the rainforests of Madagascar, Wild Life sheds light on our pivotal relationship and responsibility to the natural world and the relatives?both human and otherwise?that we share it with.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764518Tue, 02 Apr 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World Author: Rae Wynn-Grant Narrator: Rae Wynn-Grant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World Author: Rae Wynn-Grant Narrator: Rae Wynn-Grant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this vulnerable and urgent memoir, Rae Wynn-Grant explores the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals, and the earth through her personal journey to becoming a wildlife ecologist. Growing up in the diverse and bustling California Bay Area, renowned wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant always felt worlds away from the white male adventurers she watched explore the wilderness on TV. She dreamed of a future where she could spend sleepless nights under the crowded canopies of the Amazon and the starry skies of the savanna. But as Rae set off on her own expeditions in the wild, she saw nature’s delicate balance in a new light. Wild Life follows Rae on her adventures and explorations in some of the world’s most remote locales. Hers is a story about a nearly twenty-year career in the wild?carving a niche as one of very few Black female scientists?and the challenges she had to overcome, expectations she had to leave behind, and the many lessons she learned along the way. An incredible journey spanning the Great Plains of North America to the rainforests of Madagascar, Wild Life sheds light on our pivotal relationship and responsibility to the natural world and the relatives?both human and otherwise?that we share it with.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fisherman-rancher-horseman-spy-true-stories-of-a-life-well-lived-by-bayard-kane-fox--65182924https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/772114 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fisherman, Rancher, Horseman, Spy: True Stories of a Life Well-Lived Author: Bayard Kane Fox Narrator: Bayard Kane Fox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 33 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The generation of young men who grew up in the shadow of World War II but were too young to fight came of age idealizing patriotism and adventure. They burned to live life to the fullest and do their part in the Cold War. In 1951, when BAYARD FOX graduated from Yale, the CIA promised a unique opportunity to do both by serving as a double agent. Assigned to Europe, the Congo, and Iran, Fox—who spoke several languages and was always game to learn new ones— grew disillusioned and resigned after 12 years. Soon after, a horse he was riding cartwheeled on him, shattering his hip. After organizing local fishermen in the Solomon Islands while swimming and diving for two years of rehabilitation, he was able to walk and ride again. Fox bought a ranch in the mountains of Wyoming, 17 miles from the nearest paved road and telephone, and set out with his family on his life’s true work: a sustainable, benevolent, ethical relationship with nature and the animals and people who thrive in it. This eloquent and brave autobiography of a solitary pioneer evokes those of other men on horseback, such as T.E. Lawrence and Teddy Roosevelt. Their dazzling physical exploits and success in battle made them legendary in their lifetimes, apart from the historical roles for which we remember them. Fox, at 92, reveals a similarly rich life of impossible adventures—and of hardships mastered by grit and mysterious good fortune—in his own spare and unsparing voice. You’ll be riveted and grateful to discover it before he and his generation’s other remaining survivors ride ahead over the last ridge.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/772114Tue, 02 Apr 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/772114 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fisherman, Rancher, Horseman, Spy: True Stories of a Life Well-Lived Author: Bayard Kane Fox Narrator: Bayard Kane Fox Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/772114 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fisherman, Rancher, Horseman, Spy: True Stories of a Life Well-Lived Author: Bayard Kane Fox Narrator: Bayard Kane Fox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 33 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The generation of young men who grew up in the shadow of World War II but were too young to fight came of age idealizing patriotism and adventure. They burned to live life to the fullest and do their part in the Cold War. In 1951, when BAYARD FOX graduated from Yale, the CIA promised a unique opportunity to do both by serving as a double agent. Assigned to Europe, the Congo, and Iran, Fox—who spoke several languages and was always game to learn new ones— grew disillusioned and resigned after 12 years. Soon after, a horse he was riding cartwheeled on him, shattering his hip. After organizing local fishermen in the Solomon Islands while swimming and diving for two years of rehabilitation, he was able to walk and ride again. Fox bought a ranch in the mountains of Wyoming, 17 miles from the nearest paved road and telephone, and set out with his family on his life’s true work: a sustainable, benevolent, ethical relationship with nature and the animals and people who thrive in it. This eloquent and brave autobiography of a solitary pioneer evokes those of other men on horseback, such as T.E. Lawrence and Teddy Roosevelt. Their dazzling physical exploits and success in battle made them legendary in their lifetimes, apart from the historical roles for which we remember them. Fox, at 92, reveals a similarly rich life of impossible adventures—and of hardships mastered by grit and mysterious good fortune—in his own spare and unsparing voice. You’ll be riveted and grateful to discover it before he and his generation’s other remaining survivors ride ahead over the last ridge.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wild-chorus-finding-harmony-with-whales-wolves-and-other-animals-by-brenda-peterson--65183010https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals Author: Brenda Peterson Narrator: Kate Coventry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 1, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Wild Chorus, award-winning author Brenda Peterson draws on her lifelong relationship with animals to explore the wisdom we humans can glean from them. Looking beyond the companionship we enjoy with domesticated animals, Peterson explores how wild animals can become our guides and fellow travelers, helping us navigate the stresses of daily life and a rapidly changing planet. From beluga whales to wolves, raccoons to bears, elk to herons, the stories in this collection offer insights into the intricacies of animals' intuitive communication, compassionate attention, and peaceful adaptation. Featuring vivid, visionary stories, Wild Chorus reveals a world filled with inspiring lessons of kinship, connection, and living in the present. Join Peterson on an incredible journey as she speaks for animals as both an artist and an activist to discover the power of learning from the natural world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756270Mon, 01 Apr 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals Author: Brenda Peterson Narrator: Kate Coventry Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals Author: Brenda Peterson Narrator: Kate Coventry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 1, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Wild Chorus, award-winning author Brenda Peterson draws on her lifelong relationship with animals to explore the wisdom we humans can glean from them. Looking beyond the companionship we enjoy with domesticated animals, Peterson explores how wild animals can become our guides and fellow travelers, helping us navigate the stresses of daily life and a rapidly changing planet. From beluga whales to wolves, raccoons to bears, elk to herons, the stories in this collection offer insights into the intricacies of animals' intuitive communication, compassionate attention, and peaceful adaptation. Featuring vivid, visionary stories, Wild Chorus reveals a world filled with inspiring lessons of kinship, connection, and living in the present. Join Peterson on an incredible journey as she speaks for animals as both an artist and an activist to discover the power of learning from the natural world.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/return-to-eden-the-wilderness-years-by-elegy--65182940https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return to Eden: The Wilderness Years Author: Elegy Narrator: Tom Fria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 28, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: England in the time of his boyhood was a cold and colourless country. They had seen to that, the Autumn Men. They who had been lifted high, the old men of his country and other countries, who in the autumn of their years, reflecting on the unfulfilled promise of their youth, and their failures as yet unredeemed, feeling as any old man adrift alone on a small boat, sails broken, oars lost, swept hopelessly onward towards the deafening roar of the approaching weir, might feel, decided that too few had sweetly and honourably been called. So call out the young men, wide-eyed and brave of heart, to don uniform, bid sweethearts farewell and forfeit their future. And murder in the name of God. Until they too are harvested 'neath the Autumn Men's sickle. And the lark song is stilled as passing bells are heard anew. No longer could the innocent look to the heavens for salvation, only look on in horror as the devil poured the contents of hell over them. And so it was and so it remained until Satan, who had found refuge in the hearts of too many, was cast out and the women had cried..'enough!!' And on countless memorials in towns and villages across the cold and colourless country, new names were added to the old and memorials once again were baptised with tears of the innocent for the innocent. And in the great city as the weak winter sunshine filters through the mists of an early November morning, the Autumn Men in their black coats and polished shoes still stand, shameless, in solemn line to bow their heads and lay poppy-lit wreaths, mankind's apology to its youth. This then was the wasteland of his boyhood. One from which he would spend the rest of his life trying to escape.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769770Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return to Eden: The Wilderness Years Author: Elegy Narrator: Tom Fria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 28,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return to Eden: The Wilderness Years Author: Elegy Narrator: Tom Fria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 28, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: England in the time of his boyhood was a cold and colourless country. They had seen to that, the Autumn Men. They who had been lifted high, the old men of his country and other countries, who in the autumn of their years, reflecting on the unfulfilled promise of their youth, and their failures as yet unredeemed, feeling as any old man adrift alone on a small boat, sails broken, oars lost, swept hopelessly onward towards the deafening roar of the approaching weir, might feel, decided that too few had sweetly and honourably been called. So call out the young men, wide-eyed and brave of heart, to don uniform, bid sweethearts farewell and forfeit their future. And murder in the name of God. Until they too are harvested 'neath the Autumn Men's sickle. And the lark song is stilled as passing bells are heard anew. No longer could the innocent look to the heavens for salvation, only look on in horror as the devil poured the contents of hell over them. And so it was and so it remained until Satan, who had found refuge in the hearts of too many, was cast out and the women had cried..'enough!!' And on countless memorials in towns and villages across the cold and colourless country, new names were added to the old and memorials once again were baptised with tears of the innocent for the innocent. And in the great city as the weak winter sunshine filters through the mists of an early November morning, the Autumn Men in their black coats and polished shoes still stand, shameless, in solemn line to bow their heads and lay poppy-lit wreaths, mankind's apology to its youth. This then was the wasteland of his boyhood. One from which he would spend the rest of his life trying to escape.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/burnt-a-memoir-of-fighting-fire-by-clare-frank--65183100https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire Author: Clare Frank Narrator: Clare Frank Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Burnt is a book about finding your calling, even if it's an unexpected one. It's about finding your home, even if you aren't immediately welcomed. And it's about reaching the top and making a difference, even if you don't look like you fit in. When Clare Frank was seventeen years old, she became a firefighter in Northern California. Clare was five-foot-two and officially too young to join the service—she left her birthdate blank on her paperwork, hoping no one would notice. And she didn't look like her peers, who sported an Adam's apple and a mustache. But her brother was a firefighter and loved it, so she thought she'd try it out, too. Very soon, she knew she had found her calling. Burnt is Frank's inspiring, richly detailed, and open-hearted account of an extraordinary life in fire. It chronicles the transformation of a young adult determined to prove her mettle into a scarred and sensitive veteran, grappling with the weight of her duties as chief of fire protection—one of the highest-ranking women in Cal Fire history—while record-setting fires engulf her home state. She masterfully mixes irreverence and awe, taking listeners inside firehouses, on daily calls, and along to gigantic wildfires where antics and dark humor balance terrifying risk, trauma, and a sense of almost holy responsibility. Burnt is an unforgettable memoir.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745340Tue, 26 Mar 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire Author: Clare Frank Narrator: Clare Frank Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire Author: Clare Frank Narrator: Clare Frank Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Burnt is a book about finding your calling, even if it's an unexpected one. It's about finding your home, even if you aren't immediately welcomed. And it's about reaching the top and making a difference, even if you don't look like you fit in. When Clare Frank was seventeen years old, she became a firefighter in Northern California. Clare was five-foot-two and officially too young to join the service—she left her birthdate blank on her paperwork, hoping no one would notice. And she didn't look like her peers, who sported an Adam's apple and a mustache. But her brother was a firefighter and loved it, so she thought she'd try it out, too. Very soon, she knew she had found her calling. Burnt is Frank's inspiring, richly detailed, and open-hearted account of an extraordinary life in fire. It chronicles the transformation of a young adult determined to prove her mettle into a scarred and sensitive veteran, grappling with the weight of her duties as chief of fire protection—one of the highest-ranking women in Cal Fire history—while record-setting fires engulf her home state. She masterfully mixes irreverence and awe, taking listeners inside firehouses, on daily calls, and along to gigantic wildfires where antics and dark humor balance terrifying risk, trauma, and a sense of almost holy responsibility. Burnt is an unforgettable memoir.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ghost-dogs-on-killers-and-kin-by-andre-dubus-iii--65182995https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759611 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin Author: Andre Dubus III Narrator: Andre Dubus III Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the literary master and best-selling author of Townie, reflections on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments During bright summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III’s grandfather taught him that men’s work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Dubus worked—at being a better worker and a better human being. In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget. Drawing upon kindred literary spirits from Rilke to Rumi to Tim O’Brien, Ghost Dogs renders moments of personal revelation with emotional generosity and stylistic grace, ultimately standing as essential witness to the work of living a good life and testimony to the art of the essay. “Andre Dubus III’s idea of an essay is tantalizingly simple: tell something important that happened to him—suddenly having big money and not knowing quite how to cope with that, loving his long-divorced parents, growing up poor and outlasting it, not loving his dog as much as he worries he should. Here is human life often cloaked in transporting mystery. Dubus possesses a rare and empathetic brilliance.”—Richard Ford]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759611Tue, 26 Mar 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759611 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin Author: Andre Dubus III Narrator: Andre Dubus III Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759611 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin Author: Andre Dubus III Narrator: Andre Dubus III Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the literary master and best-selling author of Townie, reflections on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments During bright summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III’s grandfather taught him that men’s work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Dubus worked—at being a better worker and a better human being. In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of settled domesticity and fatherhood, about the omnipresent expectations and contradictions of masculinity, about the things writers remember and those they forget. Drawing upon kindred literary spirits from Rilke to Rumi to Tim O’Brien, Ghost Dogs renders moments of personal revelation with emotional generosity and stylistic grace, ultimately standing as essential witness to the work of living a good life and testimony to the art of the essay. “Andre Dubus III’s idea of an essay is tantalizingly simple: tell something important that happened to him—suddenly having big money and not knowing quite how to cope with that, loving his long-divorced parents, growing up poor and outlasting it, not loving his dog as much as he worries he should. Here is human life often cloaked in transporting mystery. Dubus possesses a rare and empathetic brilliance.”—Richard Ford]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mothering-heights-by-rachael-mogan-mcintosh--65183056https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mothering Heights Author: Rachael Mogan Mcintosh Narrator: Rachael Mogan McIntosh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 1 minute Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A year of joy and survival in the trenches of early parenthood Following the year Rachael Mogan-McIntosh gave birth to her third child and shapeshifted from wild to mild, Mothering Heights is an hilarious, moving celebration of early parenthood - written by a survivor. As Rachael navigates her way through the confusing rules of modern-day motherhood and grapples with the crazy-making Sisyphean beast that is housework, her three children under five grow like weeds, eat like footballers and deliver non-stop comedic shenanigans. Rachael adapts to the realisation that her old identity no longer quite fits, and neither do her trousers. The year is beyond tough but the hard-won wisdom of motherhood cracks her heart wide open. A comedy, tragedy and farcical romp all rolled into one, Mothering Heights is a love story about becoming a mother.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764986Tue, 26 Mar 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mothering Heights Author: Rachael Mogan Mcintosh Narrator: Rachael Mogan McIntosh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 1 minute Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/764986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mothering Heights Author: Rachael Mogan Mcintosh Narrator: Rachael Mogan McIntosh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 1 minute Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A year of joy and survival in the trenches of early parenthood Following the year Rachael Mogan-McIntosh gave birth to her third child and shapeshifted from wild to mild, Mothering Heights is an hilarious, moving celebration of early parenthood - written by a survivor. As Rachael navigates her way through the confusing rules of modern-day motherhood and grapples with the crazy-making Sisyphean beast that is housework, her three children under five grow like weeds, eat like footballers and deliver non-stop comedic shenanigans. Rachael adapts to the realisation that her old identity no longer quite fits, and neither do her trousers. The year is beyond tough but the hard-won wisdom of motherhood cracks her heart wide open. A comedy, tragedy and farcical romp all rolled into one, Mothering Heights is a love story about becoming a mother.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/english-thailand-by-owen-jones--65183046https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [English] - Thailand Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Kim Somers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 41 minutes Release date: March 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nestled in the heart of Southeast Asia, Thailand is a country that effortlessly weaves together a tapestry of tradition, modernity, and natural beauty. Having explored its vibrant streets, tasted its delectable cuisine, and absorbed the warmth of its people, I invite you to embark on a journey through the enchanting Kingdom of Thailand. In 'Thailand: Unlocking the Secrets of The Land of Smiles”, I'll guide you through the hidden gems and well-trodden paths, offering insights that only an intimate knowledge of this land can provide. Every page is an invitation to experience the country as if you were strolling its vibrant streets.Nestled in the heart of Southeast Asia, Thailand is a country that effortlessly weaves together a tapestry of tradition, modernity, and natural beauty. Having explored its vibrant streets, tasted its delectable cuisine, and absorbed the warmth of its people, I invite you to embark on a journey through the enchanting Kingdom of Thailand. In 'Thailand: Unlocking the Secrets of The Land of Smiles”, I'll guide you through the hidden gems and well-trodden paths, offering insights that only an intimate knowledge of this land can provide. Every page is an invitation to experience the country as if you were strolling its vibrant streets. As a seasoned traveller with roots in Thailand, I'll share the stories, traditions, and quirks that make this nation truly unique. We'll delve into the rich tapestry of Thai culture, uncovering the customs that shape everyday life. Through these pages, you'll come to understand the profound influence of Buddhism, witness the exuberance of festivals, and savour the flavours of Thai cuisine - a tantalizing fusion of sweet, sour, salty, and spicy. So, whether you're planning your first visit or seeking a deeper understanding of a country that holds a special place in your heart, ”Thailand - Unlocking the Secrets of The Land of Smiles” promises to be your trusted companion. Let's embark on this journey together, as we uncover the magic that defines the Land of Smiles. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768040Mon, 25 Mar 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [English] - Thailand Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Kim Somers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 41 minutes Release date: March 25, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [English] - Thailand Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Kim Somers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 41 minutes Release date: March 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nestled in the heart of Southeast Asia, Thailand is a country that effortlessly weaves together a tapestry of tradition, modernity, and natural beauty. Having explored its vibrant streets, tasted its delectable cuisine, and absorbed the warmth of its people, I invite you to embark on a journey through the enchanting Kingdom of Thailand. In 'Thailand: Unlocking the Secrets of The Land of Smiles”, I'll guide you through the hidden gems and well-trodden paths, offering insights that only an intimate knowledge of this land can provide. Every page is an invitation to experience the country as if you were strolling its vibrant streets.Nestled in the heart of Southeast Asia, Thailand is a country that effortlessly weaves together a tapestry of tradition, modernity, and natural beauty. Having explored its vibrant streets, tasted its delectable cuisine, and absorbed the warmth of its people, I invite you to embark on a journey through the enchanting Kingdom of Thailand. In 'Thailand: Unlocking the Secrets of The Land of Smiles”, I'll guide you through the hidden gems and well-trodden paths, offering insights that only an intimate knowledge of this land can provide. Every page is an invitation to experience the country as if you were strolling its vibrant streets. As a seasoned traveller with roots in Thailand, I'll share the stories, traditions, and quirks that make this nation truly unique. We'll delve into the rich tapestry of Thai culture, uncovering the customs that shape everyday life. Through these pages, you'll come to understand the profound influence of Buddhism, witness the exuberance of festivals, and savour the flavours of Thai cuisine - a tantalizing fusion of sweet, sour, salty, and spicy. So, whether you're planning your first visit or seeking a deeper understanding of a country that holds a special place in your heart, ”Thailand - Unlocking the Secrets of The Land of Smiles” promises to be your trusted companion. Let's embark on this journey together, as we uncover the magic that defines the Land of Smiles. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/loving-my-lying-dying-cheating-husband-by-kerstin-pilz--65183038https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747456 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loving my lying, dying, cheating husband Author: Kerstin Pilz Narrator: Jo Van Es Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: March 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir of a whirlwind romance gone wrong. Kerstin is childless by choice and married to her job when Gianni, a charming Italian, turns her life into a champagne-coloured fairy tale. Soon after their runaway wedding, Gianni is diagnosed with cancer and Kerstin becomes his dedicated carer. But when she discovers that he has been cheating on her all through their relationship, she is faced with a difficult choice: walk away, or continue to care for the man who betrayed her. She turns first to wine and then to therapy, eventually ending up in a Buddhist monastery. There she realises that finding a new way of loving her lying, dying husband might offer a chance to grow from her pain rather than be crushed by it - and to avoid liver damage. Written with wisdom, humour, and unfailing kindness, this is a life-affirming tale of one woman's search for better ways to love, grieve and forgive.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747456Fri, 22 Mar 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747456 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loving my lying, dying, cheating husband Author: Kerstin Pilz Narrator: Jo Van Es Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747456 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loving my lying, dying, cheating husband Author: Kerstin Pilz Narrator: Jo Van Es Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: March 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir of a whirlwind romance gone wrong. Kerstin is childless by choice and married to her job when Gianni, a charming Italian, turns her life into a champagne-coloured fairy tale. Soon after their runaway wedding, Gianni is diagnosed with cancer and Kerstin becomes his dedicated carer. But when she discovers that he has been cheating on her all through their relationship, she is faced with a difficult choice: walk away, or continue to care for the man who betrayed her. She turns first to wine and then to therapy, eventually ending up in a Buddhist monastery. There she realises that finding a new way of loving her lying, dying husband might offer a chance to grow from her pain rather than be crushed by it - and to avoid liver damage. Written with wisdom, humour, and unfailing kindness, this is a life-affirming tale of one woman's search for better ways to love, grieve and forgive.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-no-siempre-es-un-valle-de-lagrimas-los-recuerdos-de-una-vida-bien-vivida-by-pascuala-herrera--65182983https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - No siempre es un valle de lágrimas: Los recuerdos de una vida bien vivida Author: Pascuala Herrera Narrator: Yopa Ponce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *2021 winner of Soon ToBe Famous Illinois Author Project for the Spanish Category De la Página a la Fama. *2022 Indie Author of the Year. Pascuala Herrera, a Mexican immigrant woman with a physical disability resulting from childhood polio, had the odds against her, yet she conquered simply by working hard, having unfailing faith, and finding her own life purpose. Although her mother always told her that 'life was a valley of tears,' Pascuala learned that although there were many difficult moments in her life, there were also beautiful miracles that happened every day. Pascuala Herrera tells her life's narrative with honest painful stories, simple yet joyous triumphs, and humor that will lead all readers to embrace their own struggles and realize that life is 'Not Always a Valley of Tears.' From being a child crawling in the streets of her pueblo in Mexico to becoming a successful educator in the United States, she proved that everything is possible. This autobiography covers many facets of the human experience – race, health, disability, religion, poverty, immigration, access to medical care, education, disability rights, miscarriage, adoption and much more.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768653Fri, 22 Mar 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - No siempre es un valle de lágrimas: Los recuerdos de una vida bien vivida Author: Pascuala Herrera Narrator: Yopa Ponce Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - No siempre es un valle de lágrimas: Los recuerdos de una vida bien vivida Author: Pascuala Herrera Narrator: Yopa Ponce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *2021 winner of Soon ToBe Famous Illinois Author Project for the Spanish Category De la Página a la Fama. *2022 Indie Author of the Year. Pascuala Herrera, a Mexican immigrant woman with a physical disability resulting from childhood polio, had the odds against her, yet she conquered simply by working hard, having unfailing faith, and finding her own life purpose. Although her mother always told her that 'life was a valley of tears,' Pascuala learned that although there were many difficult moments in her life, there were also beautiful miracles that happened every day. Pascuala Herrera tells her life's narrative with honest painful stories, simple yet joyous triumphs, and humor that will lead all readers to embrace their own struggles and realize that life is 'Not Always a Valley of Tears.' From being a child crawling in the streets of her pueblo in Mexico to becoming a successful educator in the United States, she proved that everything is possible. This autobiography covers many facets of the human experience – race, health, disability, religion, poverty, immigration, access to medical care, education, disability rights, miscarriage, adoption and much more.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/english-not-always-a-valley-of-tears-a-memoir-of-a-life-well-lived-by-pascuala-herrera--65182976https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [English] - Not Always a Valley of Tears: A Memoir of a Life Well Lived Author: Pascuala Herrera Narrator: Ana Clements Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *2021 winner of Soon ToBe Famous Illinois Author Project for the Spanish Category De la Página a la Fama. *2022 Indie Author of the Year. Pascuala Herrera, a Mexican immigrant woman with a physical disability resulting from childhood polio, had the odds against her, yet she conquered simply by working hard, having unfailing faith, and finding her own life purpose. Although her mother always told her that 'life was a valley of tears,' Pascuala learned that although there were many difficult moments in her life, there were also beautiful miracles that happened every day. Pascuala Herrera tells her life's narrative with honest painful stories, simple yet joyous triumphs, and humor that will lead all readers to embrace their own struggles and realize that life is 'Not Always a Valley of Tears.' From being a child crawling in the streets of her pueblo in Mexico to becoming a successful educator in the United States, she proved that everything is possible. This autobiography covers many facets of the human experience – race, health, disability, religion, poverty, immigration, access to medical care, education, disability rights, miscarriage, adoption and much more.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768654Fri, 22 Mar 2024 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [English] - Not Always a Valley of Tears: A Memoir of a Life Well Lived Author: Pascuala Herrera Narrator: Ana Clements Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/768654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [English] - Not Always a Valley of Tears: A Memoir of a Life Well Lived Author: Pascuala Herrera Narrator: Ana Clements Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *2021 winner of Soon ToBe Famous Illinois Author Project for the Spanish Category De la Página a la Fama. *2022 Indie Author of the Year. Pascuala Herrera, a Mexican immigrant woman with a physical disability resulting from childhood polio, had the odds against her, yet she conquered simply by working hard, having unfailing faith, and finding her own life purpose. Although her mother always told her that 'life was a valley of tears,' Pascuala learned that although there were many difficult moments in her life, there were also beautiful miracles that happened every day. Pascuala Herrera tells her life's narrative with honest painful stories, simple yet joyous triumphs, and humor that will lead all readers to embrace their own struggles and realize that life is 'Not Always a Valley of Tears.' From being a child crawling in the streets of her pueblo in Mexico to becoming a successful educator in the United States, she proved that everything is possible. This autobiography covers many facets of the human experience – race, health, disability, religion, poverty, immigration, access to medical care, education, disability rights, miscarriage, adoption and much more.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/more-a-memoir-of-open-marriage-by-molly-roden-winter--65183040https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More: A Memoir of Open Marriage Author: Molly Roden Winter Narrator: Molly Roden Winter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 14, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The instant New York Times bestselling memoir that everyone is talking about Molly Roden Winter was a mother of small children with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids’ bedtime—again—she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At a bar, she met Matt, a flirtatious younger man. When Molly told her husband that Matt had asked her out, she was surprised that Stewart encouraged her to accept. So began Molly’s unexpected open marriage and, with it, a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Molly signs up for dating sites, enters into passionate flings, and has sex in hotels and public places around New York City. For Molly it’s a mystery why she wants what she wants. In therapy sessions, fuelled by the discovery that her parents had an open marriage, too, she grapples with her past and what it means to be a mother and a whole person. Molly and Stewart, who also begins to see other people, set ground rules: Don’t date an ex. Don’t date someone in the neighbourhood. Don’t go to anyone’s home. And above all, don’t fall in love. In the years that follow, they break most of their rules, even the most important one. They grapple with jealousy, insecurity, and doubts, all the while wondering: Can they love others and stay true to their love for each other? Can they make the impossible work? More is an electric debut that offers both steamy fun and poignant reflections on motherhood, daughterhood, marriage, and self-fulfilment. With warmth, humour, and style, Molly Roden Winter delivers an unputdownable journey of a woman becoming her most authentic self. 'This book about open marriage is going to blow up your group chat' The Washington Post ©2024 Molly Roden Winter (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753709Thu, 14 Mar 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More: A Memoir of Open Marriage Author: Molly Roden Winter Narrator: Molly Roden Winter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More: A Memoir of Open Marriage Author: Molly Roden Winter Narrator: Molly Roden Winter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 14, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The instant New York Times bestselling memoir that everyone is talking about Molly Roden Winter was a mother of small children with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids’ bedtime—again—she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At a bar, she met Matt, a flirtatious younger man. When Molly told her husband that Matt had asked her out, she was surprised that Stewart encouraged her to accept. So began Molly’s unexpected open marriage and, with it, a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Molly signs up for dating sites, enters into passionate flings, and has sex in hotels and public places around New York City. For Molly it’s a mystery why she wants what she wants. In therapy sessions, fuelled by the discovery that her parents had an open marriage, too, she grapples with her past and what it means to be a mother and a whole person. Molly and Stewart, who also begins to see other people, set ground rules: Don’t date an ex. Don’t date someone in the neighbourhood. Don’t go to anyone’s home. And above all, don’t fall in love. In the years that follow, they break most of their rules, even the most important one. They grapple with jealousy, insecurity, and doubts, all the while wondering: Can they love others and stay true to their love for each other? Can they make the impossible work? More is an electric debut that offers both steamy fun and poignant reflections on motherhood, daughterhood, marriage, and self-fulfilment. With warmth, humour, and style, Molly Roden Winter delivers an unputdownable journey of a woman becoming her most authentic self. 'This book about open marriage is going to blow up your group chat' The Washington Post ©2024 Molly Roden Winter (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-der-larm-des-lebens-ungekurzte-lesung-by-jorg-hartmann--65183082https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Lärm des Lebens (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Jörg Hartmann Narrator: Jörg Hartmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Der Lärm des Lebens erzählt Jörg Hartmann auf hinreißende Weise seine Geschichte und die seiner Eltern und Großeltern. Es ist eine Liebeserklärung an die Kraft der Familie - und an den Ruhrpott. Ob es um die Situation seiner gehörlosen Großeltern im Nationalsozialismus geht, das Leben seiner Mutter als Pommesbudenbesitzerin, die Demenzerkrankung seines Vaters, der Dreher und leidenschaftlicher Handballer war, die vielen skurrilen Erlebnisse in der Großfamilie oder um Schlüsselbegegnungen, die er als Schauspieler hatte - immer hält Hartmann die Balance zwischen Tragik und Komik. Er hat dabei einen kraftvollen Erzählton - persönlich, berührend, humorvoll. Und fragt: Warum kehren wir immer wieder zu unseren Wurzeln zurück? Es geht Hartmann darum, den Kreislauf des Lebens zu fassen: Eltern und Kinder, Anfang und Ende, Aufbruch und Ankunft, Werden und Vergehen - eben alles, was zum geliebten Lärm des Lebens gehört. Ein weises, geschichtenpralles Hörbuch über Herkunft und Heimat - und den Wunsch, sich davon zu lösen und in die Welt zu ziehen. Eine Éducation sentimentale und, wie nebenbei, eine Mentalitätsgeschichte der Bundesrepublik.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755986Tue, 12 Mar 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Lärm des Lebens (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Jörg Hartmann Narrator: Jörg Hartmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Lärm des Lebens (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Jörg Hartmann Narrator: Jörg Hartmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Der Lärm des Lebens erzählt Jörg Hartmann auf hinreißende Weise seine Geschichte und die seiner Eltern und Großeltern. Es ist eine Liebeserklärung an die Kraft der Familie - und an den Ruhrpott. Ob es um die Situation seiner gehörlosen Großeltern im Nationalsozialismus geht, das Leben seiner Mutter als Pommesbudenbesitzerin, die Demenzerkrankung seines Vaters, der Dreher und leidenschaftlicher Handballer war, die vielen skurrilen Erlebnisse in der Großfamilie oder um Schlüsselbegegnungen, die er als Schauspieler hatte - immer hält Hartmann die Balance zwischen Tragik und Komik. Er hat dabei einen kraftvollen Erzählton - persönlich, berührend, humorvoll. Und fragt: Warum kehren wir immer wieder zu unseren Wurzeln zurück? Es geht Hartmann darum, den Kreislauf des Lebens zu fassen: Eltern und Kinder, Anfang und Ende, Aufbruch und Ankunft, Werden und Vergehen - eben alles, was zum geliebten Lärm des Lebens gehört. Ein weises, geschichtenpralles Hörbuch über Herkunft und Heimat - und den Wunsch, sich davon zu lösen und in die Welt zu ziehen. Eine Éducation sentimentale und, wie nebenbei, eine Mentalitätsgeschichte der Bundesrepublik.]]>185rztecleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-maskenball-i-did-it-my-way-by-riyas-hoge--65183062https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Maskenball: I did it my way Author: Riyas Hoge Narrator: Riyas Hoge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Wenn ich heute in den Spiegel schaue, sehe ich einen gutaussehenden (Mal mehr, mal weniger) jungen Mann. Nicht perfekt. Narben überall am Körper, ein kleines Bäuchlein, Lovehandles, nicht sehr groß oder gar muskulös. Aber ein Anblick der mir gefällt. Das war nicht immer so und der Weg dahin war gepflastert mit Ängsten, Schmerzen, Abscheu, Komplikationen, Depressionen und Hoffnung. Mein Name ist Riyas Hoge und in I did it my way - Maskenball nehme ich euch mit auf meinen Weg in ein freies Leben.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761061Mon, 04 Mar 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Maskenball: I did it my way Author: Riyas Hoge Narrator: Riyas Hoge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 34 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761061 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Maskenball: I did it my way Author: Riyas Hoge Narrator: Riyas Hoge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 4, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Wenn ich heute in den Spiegel schaue, sehe ich einen gutaussehenden (Mal mehr, mal weniger) jungen Mann. Nicht perfekt. Narben überall am Körper, ein kleines Bäuchlein, Lovehandles, nicht sehr groß oder gar muskulös. Aber ein Anblick der mir gefällt. Das war nicht immer so und der Weg dahin war gepflastert mit Ängsten, Schmerzen, Abscheu, Komplikationen, Depressionen und Hoffnung. Mein Name ist Riyas Hoge und in I did it my way - Maskenball nehme ich euch mit auf meinen Weg in ein freies Leben.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-gegen-den-wind-mein-traum-von-den-weltmeeren-ungekurzte-lesung-by-sanni-beucke--65183075https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Gegen den Wind - Mein Traum von den Weltmeeren (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Sanni Beucke Narrator: Julia Dernbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Faszination Hochsee-Segeln: Sanni Beucke nimmt uns in ihrer Biografie mit auf die Weltmeere In ihrer abenteuerlichen Autobiografie erzählt Susann 'Sanni' Beucke, wie sie seit ihrer Kindheit ihren großen Traum verfolgt: als Seglerin an den Olympischen Spielen teilzunehmen. Dabei helfen ihr vor allem ihr Durchhaltevermögen, die Beharrlichkeit und ihr Glaube an sich selbst. Als Profisportlerin war die Teilnahme an den Olympischen Spielen ihr Lebensinhalt, aber der Weg dorthin war alles andere als einfach. 15 Jahre lang setzt die gebürtige Kielerin alles daran, das Ziel 'Olympia' zu erreichen. Zweimal scheitert sie unter tragischen Umständen in der Qualifikation. Doch sie lässt sich nicht von ihrem Ziel abbringen, und im dritten und letzten Anlauf klappt es schließlich - sie gewinnt eine Silbermedaille in Tokio. Allein auf dem weiten Ozean Sanni Beucke teilt ihre Liebe für das Meer und das unglaubliche Gefühl grenzenloser Freiheit beim Segeln. Nach ihrem Olympia-Triumph sucht sie eine neue Herausforderung: Als Hochseeseglerin will sie den Kampf mit den Elementen auf hoher See aufnehmen und setzt sich das Ziel, beim härtesten Segelrennen der Welt, der Vendeé Globe mitzusegeln. Beim Ocean Race 2023 startet sie als Mitglied im Team Holcim PRB in dieses Abenteuer und kann in Kapstadt sogar einen spektakulären Etappensieg feiern. Ihre Zukunft wird von der Faszination für die unendliche Weite des Ozeans bestimmt. Hier fühlt sie sich frei. This Race is Female Sanni Beuckes Autobiografie zeigt, dass es sich lohnt, seinen Träumen nachzugehen - auch wenn man auf dem Weg dorthin viele Rückschläge wegstecken und strukturelle Missstände überwinden muss. Segeln ist immer noch ein Sport, der vor allem von Männern dominiert wird. Sanni Beucke will das ändern und zeigt, dass Frauen auch aufs Meer gehören. Mit ihrem Hörbuch macht sie Frauen Mut, sich durchzusetzen und empowert sie. Ihr Hörbuch erzählt von Angst und Einsamkeit, aber vor allem von Euphorie und der unendlichen Leidenschaft für das Meer. Eine Hommage an das Abenteuer und die Freiheit und eine Ermutigung, groß zu träumen. Wer gerne Sport-Biografien hört, wird die Autobiografie von Sanni Beucke lieben.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747310Fri, 01 Mar 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Gegen den Wind - Mein Traum von den Weltmeeren (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Sanni Beucke Narrator: Julia Dernbach Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Gegen den Wind - Mein Traum von den Weltmeeren (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Sanni Beucke Narrator: Julia Dernbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 1, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Faszination Hochsee-Segeln: Sanni Beucke nimmt uns in ihrer Biografie mit auf die Weltmeere In ihrer abenteuerlichen Autobiografie erzählt Susann 'Sanni' Beucke, wie sie seit ihrer Kindheit ihren großen Traum verfolgt: als Seglerin an den Olympischen Spielen teilzunehmen. Dabei helfen ihr vor allem ihr Durchhaltevermögen, die Beharrlichkeit und ihr Glaube an sich selbst. Als Profisportlerin war die Teilnahme an den Olympischen Spielen ihr Lebensinhalt, aber der Weg dorthin war alles andere als einfach. 15 Jahre lang setzt die gebürtige Kielerin alles daran, das Ziel 'Olympia' zu erreichen. Zweimal scheitert sie unter tragischen Umständen in der Qualifikation. Doch sie lässt sich nicht von ihrem Ziel abbringen, und im dritten und letzten Anlauf klappt es schließlich - sie gewinnt eine Silbermedaille in Tokio. Allein auf dem weiten Ozean Sanni Beucke teilt ihre Liebe für das Meer und das unglaubliche Gefühl grenzenloser Freiheit beim Segeln. Nach ihrem Olympia-Triumph sucht sie eine neue Herausforderung: Als Hochseeseglerin will sie den Kampf mit den Elementen auf hoher See aufnehmen und setzt sich das Ziel, beim härtesten Segelrennen der Welt, der Vendeé Globe mitzusegeln. Beim Ocean Race 2023 startet sie als Mitglied im Team Holcim PRB in dieses Abenteuer und kann in Kapstadt sogar einen spektakulären Etappensieg feiern. Ihre Zukunft wird von der Faszination für die unendliche Weite des Ozeans bestimmt. Hier fühlt sie sich frei. This Race is Female Sanni Beuckes Autobiografie zeigt, dass es sich lohnt, seinen Träumen nachzugehen - auch wenn man auf dem Weg dorthin viele Rückschläge wegstecken und strukturelle Missstände überwinden muss. Segeln ist immer noch ein Sport, der vor allem von Männern dominiert wird. Sanni Beucke will das ändern und zeigt, dass Frauen auch aufs Meer gehören. Mit ihrem Hörbuch macht sie Frauen Mut, sich durchzusetzen und empowert sie. Ihr Hörbuch erzählt von Angst und Einsamkeit, aber vor allem von Euphorie und der unendlichen Leidenschaft für das Meer. Eine Hommage an das Abenteuer und die Freiheit und eine Ermutigung, groß zu träumen. Wer gerne Sport-Biografien hört, wird die Autobiografie von Sanni Beucke lieben.]]>185rztecleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/everything-nothing-someone-by-alice-carriere--65183102https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/744877 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything Nothing Someone Author: Alice Carrière Narrator: Alice Carrière Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist?Jennifer Bartlett,?and a charismatic father, European actor?Mathieu Carrière. From an early age, Alice is forced to navigate her mother's recovered memories of ritualized sexual abuse, which she turns into art, and her father's confusing attentions. Her days are a mixture of privilege, neglect, loneliness, and danger—a child living in an adult's world, with little-to-no enforcement of boundaries or supervision. When she enters adolescence, Alice begins to lose her grasp on reality, as a dissociative disorder erases her identity and overzealous doctors medicate her further away from herself. She inhabits various roles: as a patient in expensive psychiatric hospitals, a denizen of the downtown New York music scene, the ingenue in destructive encounters with older men—ricocheting from experience to experience until?a medication-induced psychosis brings these personas crashing down. Eventually, she finds purpose in caring for her mother as she descends into dementia, in a love affair with a recovering addict who steadies her, in confronting her father whose words and actions splintered her, and in finding her voice as a writer. Everything/Nothing/Someone?explores what it means for our body and mind to belong to us wholly, irrevocably, and on our own terms. In pulsing, energetic prose that is both precise and probing, Alice manages to untangle the stories told to her by her parents, the American psychiatric complex, and her own broken mind to craft a unique and mesmerizing narrative of emergence and, finally, cure.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/744877Thu, 29 Feb 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/744877 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything Nothing Someone Author: Alice Carrière Narrator: Alice Carrière Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/744877 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything Nothing Someone Author: Alice Carrière Narrator: Alice Carrière Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist?Jennifer Bartlett,?and a charismatic father, European actor?Mathieu Carrière. From an early age, Alice is forced to navigate her mother's recovered memories of ritualized sexual abuse, which she turns into art, and her father's confusing attentions. Her days are a mixture of privilege, neglect, loneliness, and danger—a child living in an adult's world, with little-to-no enforcement of boundaries or supervision. When she enters adolescence, Alice begins to lose her grasp on reality, as a dissociative disorder erases her identity and overzealous doctors medicate her further away from herself. She inhabits various roles: as a patient in expensive psychiatric hospitals, a denizen of the downtown New York music scene, the ingenue in destructive encounters with older men—ricocheting from experience to experience until?a medication-induced psychosis brings these personas crashing down. Eventually, she finds purpose in caring for her mother as she descends into dementia, in a love affair with a recovering addict who steadies her, in confronting her father whose words and actions splintered her, and in finding her voice as a writer. Everything/Nothing/Someone?explores what it means for our body and mind to belong to us wholly, irrevocably, and on our own terms. In pulsing, energetic prose that is both precise and probing, Alice manages to untangle the stories told to her by her parents, the American psychiatric complex, and her own broken mind to craft a unique and mesmerizing narrative of emergence and, finally, cure.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gaslight-days-book-3-the-journey-goes-on-by-edward-forde-hickey--65182981https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gaslight Days: Book 3 - The Journey Goes On Author: Edward Forde Hickey Narrator: Tom Fria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Some children still spent summer hopping in Kent. Our class went camping in Ashdown Forest, a change from the bomb sites. We had the cubs and brownies where we earned proficiency badges in a number of skills. On Sundays, the Lido was a short bus ride away. More of our relations now came from Ireland and our Christmas parties were exciting. Passing the scholarship meant losing friends but gaining new ones. Among my friends in the streets of Paddington, this meant I was an outsider once more - a mixed blessed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761141Thu, 29 Feb 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gaslight Days: Book 3 - The Journey Goes On Author: Edward Forde Hickey Narrator: Tom Fria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/761141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gaslight Days: Book 3 - The Journey Goes On Author: Edward Forde Hickey Narrator: Tom Fria Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Some children still spent summer hopping in Kent. Our class went camping in Ashdown Forest, a change from the bomb sites. We had the cubs and brownies where we earned proficiency badges in a number of skills. On Sundays, the Lido was a short bus ride away. More of our relations now came from Ireland and our Christmas parties were exciting. Passing the scholarship meant losing friends but gaining new ones. Among my friends in the streets of Paddington, this meant I was an outsider once more - a mixed blessed.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dear-zoe-ukhona-a-journey-through-infertility-and-adoption-by-zindzi-mandela-pelle-hvenegaard--65183008https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Zoe Ukhona: a Journey through Infertility and Adoption Author: Zindzi Mandela, Pelle Hvenegaard Narrator: Keith Higinbotham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In English for the first time, with a foreword written by Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, this is a heartbreaking memoir of infertility, adoption, and fatherhood from one of Denmark’s most beloved tv personalities. One summer evening, on a blind date that is almost cancelled, Pelle Hvenegaard meets Caroline. He knows right away that this woman is the love of his life and the mother of his children. Their path to a family is not smooth. But after six years of infertility and the trials of the adoption system, they finally open the doors of their Copenhagen home to little Zoe Ukhona. Pelle’s account, told through letters to his daughter, is brutally honest, heart-wrenchingly tragic, and yet filled with warmth and good humour. It is a story of love, family, and hope. Highly recommended to those moved by Sarah Sentilles’ “Stranger Care” and 'Finding Chika' by Mitch Albom. Pelle Hvenegaard first became world famous at twelve years old when he played the lead role in Bille August's Oscar-winning film 'Pelle the Conqueror'. A career in television and broadcast journalism followed. He has written four books on themes of adoption, love and identity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757018Tue, 27 Feb 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Zoe Ukhona: a Journey through Infertility and Adoption Author: Zindzi Mandela, Pelle Hvenegaard Narrator: Keith Higinbotham Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757018 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Zoe Ukhona: a Journey through Infertility and Adoption Author: Zindzi Mandela, Pelle Hvenegaard Narrator: Keith Higinbotham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In English for the first time, with a foreword written by Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, this is a heartbreaking memoir of infertility, adoption, and fatherhood from one of Denmark’s most beloved tv personalities. One summer evening, on a blind date that is almost cancelled, Pelle Hvenegaard meets Caroline. He knows right away that this woman is the love of his life and the mother of his children. Their path to a family is not smooth. But after six years of infertility and the trials of the adoption system, they finally open the doors of their Copenhagen home to little Zoe Ukhona. Pelle’s account, told through letters to his daughter, is brutally honest, heart-wrenchingly tragic, and yet filled with warmth and good humour. It is a story of love, family, and hope. Highly recommended to those moved by Sarah Sentilles’ “Stranger Care” and 'Finding Chika' by Mitch Albom. Pelle Hvenegaard first became world famous at twelve years old when he played the lead role in Bille August's Oscar-winning film 'Pelle the Conqueror'. A career in television and broadcast journalism followed. He has written four books on themes of adoption, love and identity.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/from-slavery-to-the-stars-by-andreea-kindryd--65182973https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760248 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Slavery to the Stars Author: Andreea Kindryd Narrator: Andreea Kindryd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: February 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This story is a tapestry woven with threads of resilience, love, and adventure.  It's about more than working on the original Star Trek or her slave ancestor's love story; it's a journey through history, loss, and triumph. Andreea has walked alongside giants, and mourned the loss of friends like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. She has navigated the complexities of love and faced the challenges of breaking through the glass ceiling. She has fulfilled her dreams now and makes her home on the other side of the world, living under the stars of the Southern Cross in Australia. Her story is a celebration of human resilience, a testament to the beauty of diversity, and a reminder of our shared journey on this planet. It's a firsthand account of remarkable people who changed the world, seen through her unique and personal lens. A must-read for those who crave a story that both enlightens and entertains.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760248Mon, 26 Feb 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760248 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Slavery to the Stars Author: Andreea Kindryd Narrator: Andreea Kindryd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760248 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Slavery to the Stars Author: Andreea Kindryd Narrator: Andreea Kindryd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: February 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This story is a tapestry woven with threads of resilience, love, and adventure.  It's about more than working on the original Star Trek or her slave ancestor's love story; it's a journey through history, loss, and triumph. Andreea has walked alongside giants, and mourned the loss of friends like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. She has navigated the complexities of love and faced the challenges of breaking through the glass ceiling. She has fulfilled her dreams now and makes her home on the other side of the world, living under the stars of the Southern Cross in Australia. Her story is a celebration of human resilience, a testament to the beauty of diversity, and a reminder of our shared journey on this planet. It's a firsthand account of remarkable people who changed the world, seen through her unique and personal lens. A must-read for those who crave a story that both enlightens and entertains.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-in-between-by-christian-espinosa--65183051https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The In-Between Author: Christian Espinosa Narrator: Kaleo Griffith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 54 minutes Release date: February 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Some regrets don’t hit you all at once. They seep in at the corners of your life, at night or on a long drive, until they become a refrain. Those are the worst regrets of all. I was living in a bubble that burst on May 9, 2022. It was the middle of the afternoon. As my partner Vanessa and I approached a major intersection, a blue car accelerated, ran the red light, and T-boned a black truck directly in front of us. BOOM! The blue car’s hood crumpled like an accordion to absorb the impact. Within seconds, its front end was completely smashed, and its windows were broken. Then, everything went out of focus, except for what I needed to do—assess the scene for safety, check on the drivers of the blue car and black truck, and call 911. Nothing else mattered—I felt a heightened sense of purpose. I had always focused on one macro moment after another—the next mountain to climb or business to start. I hadn’t spent much time appreciating the micro-moments—life in between the macros. I’d been living in a macro-moment bubble. The accident awakened a desire to paint a complete picture of who I wanted to be and how I wanted to approach my life. This is my story of learning how to value the in-between and prioritize consciously living in the micro.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760047Thu, 22 Feb 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The In-Between Author: Christian Espinosa Narrator: Kaleo Griffith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 54 minutes Release date: February 22,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The In-Between Author: Christian Espinosa Narrator: Kaleo Griffith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 54 minutes Release date: February 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Some regrets don’t hit you all at once. They seep in at the corners of your life, at night or on a long drive, until they become a refrain. Those are the worst regrets of all. I was living in a bubble that burst on May 9, 2022. It was the middle of the afternoon. As my partner Vanessa and I approached a major intersection, a blue car accelerated, ran the red light, and T-boned a black truck directly in front of us. BOOM! The blue car’s hood crumpled like an accordion to absorb the impact. Within seconds, its front end was completely smashed, and its windows were broken. Then, everything went out of focus, except for what I needed to do—assess the scene for safety, check on the drivers of the blue car and black truck, and call 911. Nothing else mattered—I felt a heightened sense of purpose. I had always focused on one macro moment after another—the next mountain to climb or business to start. I hadn’t spent much time appreciating the micro-moments—life in between the macros. I’d been living in a macro-moment bubble. The accident awakened a desire to paint a complete picture of who I wanted to be and how I wanted to approach my life. This is my story of learning how to value the in-between and prioritize consciously living in the micro.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/portuguese-na-duvida-escolha-ser-feliz-by-pequena-lo--65183068https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Na dúvida, escolha ser feliz Author: Pequena Lô Narrator: Mari Haruno Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 42 minutes Release date: February 19, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: O que a gente faz quando não sabe o que fazer? Na dúvida, escolha ser feliz. Este livro começa com a minha história e esbarra na sua. Na correria do dia a dia e nos detalhes da rotina, você vai perceber que somos mais parecidos do que imaginamos. O meu desejo é que as minhas vivências e histórias te façam enxergar que é possível encontrar graça onde nada parece fazer sentido. Você está pronto? Eu espero que sim. Mas se não estiver, tudo bem também. Vem comigo, que no caminho eu te explico.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758488Mon, 19 Feb 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Na dúvida, escolha ser feliz Author: Pequena Lô Narrator: Mari Haruno Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 42 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/758488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Portuguese] - Na dúvida, escolha ser feliz Author: Pequena Lô Narrator: Mari Haruno Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 42 minutes Release date: February 19, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: O que a gente faz quando não sabe o que fazer? Na dúvida, escolha ser feliz. Este livro começa com a minha história e esbarra na sua. Na correria do dia a dia e nos detalhes da rotina, você vai perceber que somos mais parecidos do que imaginamos. O meu desejo é que as minhas vivências e histórias te façam enxergar que é possível encontrar graça onde nada parece fazer sentido. Você está pronto? Eu espero que sim. Mas se não estiver, tudo bem também. Vem comigo, que no caminho eu te explico.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-rosario-de-mexico-testimonio-de-una-infamia-by-rosario-robles--65183084https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Rosario de México: Testimonio de una infamia Author: Rosario Robles Narrator: Rosario Robles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: February 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Narrado por la autora Prólogo de Ciro Gómez Leyva «A Rosario la clavaron en la cárcel para convertirla en un objeto de deshonra, en un símbolo de inagotable humillación. No lo consiguieron. Ya en libertad, sin el rencor como combustible, ha sabido resurgir fortalecida para rehacerse e incluso tratar de regresar a la vida pública.» -Ciro Gómez Leyva Estas líneas representan lo vivido en mil 101 días de cautiverio injusto, de lo aberrante que significa el abuso de la prisión preventiva en nuestro país, pues se convierte en una condena anticipada, una estigmatización, violatoria de la inocencia. Hoy tengo la oportunidad de contar mi verdad, que nunca será absoluta, lo que aprendí a un alto precio. De recordar pasajes de una lucha que no fue sencilla por no venir de una familia con pedigrí político, una clasemediera a la que le tocó, junto con otras compañeras de generación con convicciones semejantes, romper el techo de cristal en los ámbitos del poder. Hoy debo volver a batallar para señalar un hecho profundamente injusto: la operación que pretendió destrozar una carrera política de tantos años. En este libro se recogen también revelaciones simbólicas de quienes son privadas de su libertad, de sus tragedias personales; contiene recuerdos de los logros y aportaciones a favor de un país al que amo y que he recorrido de cabo a rabo. Es un testimonio —para cuando yo ya no esté— de la necesidad de dejar claro que sí se puede llegar alto a pesar de todos los intentos por destruir esa trayectoria. Estoy empeñada en que se recuerde que después del viacrucis siempre viene la resurrección. Rosario Robles]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754887Thu, 15 Feb 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Rosario de México: Testimonio de una infamia Author: Rosario Robles Narrator: Rosario Robles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Rosario de México: Testimonio de una infamia Author: Rosario Robles Narrator: Rosario Robles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: February 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Narrado por la autora Prólogo de Ciro Gómez Leyva «A Rosario la clavaron en la cárcel para convertirla en un objeto de deshonra, en un símbolo de inagotable humillación. No lo consiguieron. Ya en libertad, sin el rencor como combustible, ha sabido resurgir fortalecida para rehacerse e incluso tratar de regresar a la vida pública.» -Ciro Gómez Leyva Estas líneas representan lo vivido en mil 101 días de cautiverio injusto, de lo aberrante que significa el abuso de la prisión preventiva en nuestro país, pues se convierte en una condena anticipada, una estigmatización, violatoria de la inocencia. Hoy tengo la oportunidad de contar mi verdad, que nunca será absoluta, lo que aprendí a un alto precio. De recordar pasajes de una lucha que no fue sencilla por no venir de una familia con pedigrí político, una clasemediera a la que le tocó, junto con otras compañeras de generación con convicciones semejantes, romper el techo de cristal en los ámbitos del poder. Hoy debo volver a batallar para señalar un hecho profundamente injusto: la operación que pretendió destrozar una carrera política de tantos años. En este libro se recogen también revelaciones simbólicas de quienes son privadas de su libertad, de sus tragedias personales; contiene recuerdos de los logros y aportaciones a favor de un país al que amo y que he recorrido de cabo a rabo. Es un testimonio —para cuando yo ya no esté— de la necesidad de dejar claro que sí se puede llegar alto a pesar de todos los intentos por destruir esa trayectoria. Estoy empeñada en que se recuerde que después del viacrucis siempre viene la resurrección. Rosario Robles]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/from-me-to-you-by-alison-hitchcock-brian-greenley--65183012https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755369 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Me To You Author: Alison Hitchcock, Brian Greenley Narrator: Alison Hitchcock, Brian Greenley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 2010, Alison Hitchcock made an unusual offer to an acquaintance, Brian Greenley, who had been diagnosed with cancer - she offered to write letters to cheer him up while he was undergoing treatment. She had no idea what possessed her - she barely knew Brian and didn't imagine there was much humour to be had in cancer. But two and a half years later Brian had defied the statistics and was cancer free, Alison had embarked on a writing career inspired by her letters, and they had become best friends. While the letters were only ever meant to amuse Brian, and his journal entries were only ever for himself, together they tell their story of friendship, following a passion, battling to stay alive and, above all, seeing the funny side. From Me To You is their bitter-sweet story told through Alison's letters and Brian's journal entries.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755369Thu, 15 Feb 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755369 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Me To You Author: Alison Hitchcock, Brian Greenley Narrator: Alison Hitchcock, Brian Greenley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755369 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Me To You Author: Alison Hitchcock, Brian Greenley Narrator: Alison Hitchcock, Brian Greenley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 2010, Alison Hitchcock made an unusual offer to an acquaintance, Brian Greenley, who had been diagnosed with cancer - she offered to write letters to cheer him up while he was undergoing treatment. She had no idea what possessed her - she barely knew Brian and didn't imagine there was much humour to be had in cancer. But two and a half years later Brian had defied the statistics and was cancer free, Alison had embarked on a writing career inspired by her letters, and they had become best friends. While the letters were only ever meant to amuse Brian, and his journal entries were only ever for himself, together they tell their story of friendship, following a passion, battling to stay alive and, above all, seeing the funny side. From Me To You is their bitter-sweet story told through Alison's letters and Brian's journal entries.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sculptor-s-daughter-by-tove-jansson--65183044https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sculptor's Daughter Author: Tove Jansson Narrator: Sara Kestelman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 57 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dive into Tove Jansson's spellbinding memoir and be transported to early 20th-century Helsinki where you'll experience the magic and fears of a childhood infused with the freedom and natural beauty of Finland. Hailed by Ali Smith for its evocative prose, Jansson's memoir unveils the enchantments of a world where winter ice is a playground of mysteries, balalaika parties radiate warmth, and Christmas takes on epic proportions when viewed from a child's eyes. A universal tale that speaks to the child in all of us, 'Sculptor's Daughter' is ideal for fans of Tove Ditlevsen's 'The Copenhagen Trilogy'. © 2024 Tove Jansson, Moomin Characters™ Published in the English language by arrangement with Rights & Brands Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is globally cherished for creating the Moomin universe. Born in Helsinki, her tales of the Moomins captivated readers worldwide. Beyond Moominvalley, she penned profound adult novels, most notably 'The Summer Book'.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756079Tue, 13 Feb 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sculptor's Daughter Author: Tove Jansson Narrator: Sara Kestelman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 57 minutes Release date: February 13,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sculptor's Daughter Author: Tove Jansson Narrator: Sara Kestelman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 57 minutes Release date: February 13, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dive into Tove Jansson's spellbinding memoir and be transported to early 20th-century Helsinki where you'll experience the magic and fears of a childhood infused with the freedom and natural beauty of Finland. Hailed by Ali Smith for its evocative prose, Jansson's memoir unveils the enchantments of a world where winter ice is a playground of mysteries, balalaika parties radiate warmth, and Christmas takes on epic proportions when viewed from a child's eyes. A universal tale that speaks to the child in all of us, 'Sculptor's Daughter' is ideal for fans of Tove Ditlevsen's 'The Copenhagen Trilogy'. © 2024 Tove Jansson, Moomin Characters™ Published in the English language by arrangement with Rights & Brands Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson (1914-2001) is globally cherished for creating the Moomin universe. Born in Helsinki, her tales of the Moomins captivated readers worldwide. Beyond Moominvalley, she penned profound adult novels, most notably 'The Summer Book'.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-inside-out-erinnerungen-eines-internatsschulers-by-andreas-blinn--65183080https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Inside Out: Erinnerungen eines Internatsschülers Author: Andreas Blinn Narrator: Andreas Blinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: February 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Begleiten Sie einen Zeitzeugen hinter die Mauern einer mächtigen, altehrwürdigen Institution, die auch der ehemalige Ministerpräsident des Saarlandes Oskar Lafontaine besuchte. Nehmen Sie teil an einer sozial- und gesellschaftskritischen Aufarbeitung und lassen Sie Meinungs- und Entscheidungsprozesse auf sich wirken. Die mit einer satirischen Note gespickten Erfahrungen und Eindrücke der Neunziger schildert der Autor in einer Art und Weise, die jeden Hörer in seinen Bann ziehen wird.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757005Sat, 10 Feb 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Inside Out: Erinnerungen eines Internatsschülers Author: Andreas Blinn Narrator: Andreas Blinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/757005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Inside Out: Erinnerungen eines Internatsschülers Author: Andreas Blinn Narrator: Andreas Blinn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: February 10, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Begleiten Sie einen Zeitzeugen hinter die Mauern einer mächtigen, altehrwürdigen Institution, die auch der ehemalige Ministerpräsident des Saarlandes Oskar Lafontaine besuchte. Nehmen Sie teil an einer sozial- und gesellschaftskritischen Aufarbeitung und lassen Sie Meinungs- und Entscheidungsprozesse auf sich wirken. Die mit einer satirischen Note gespickten Erfahrungen und Eindrücke der Neunziger schildert der Autor in einer Art und Weise, die jeden Hörer in seinen Bann ziehen wird.]]>185lerscleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-wieder-dreizehn-sein-alltagsgeschichten-aus-mannersicht-by-sebastian-lenzen--65183085https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756123 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wieder dreizehn sein: Alltagsgeschichten aus Männersicht Author: Sebastian Lenzen Narrator: Sebastian Lenzen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 10 minutes Release date: February 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Eine Kurzgeschichte über das 13 werden am Geburtstag der eigenen Tochter. Die Eltern geschieden, die Situation um den Geburtstag als Patchwork-Familie und Gedanken an die eigene Jugend mit all den Unsicherheiten in diesem Alter ...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756123Fri, 09 Feb 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756123 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wieder dreizehn sein: Alltagsgeschichten aus Männersicht Author: Sebastian Lenzen Narrator: Sebastian Lenzen Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756123 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wieder dreizehn sein: Alltagsgeschichten aus Männersicht Author: Sebastian Lenzen Narrator: Sebastian Lenzen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 10 minutes Release date: February 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Eine Kurzgeschichte über das 13 werden am Geburtstag der eigenen Tochter. Die Eltern geschieden, die Situation um den Geburtstag als Patchwork-Familie und Gedanken an die eigene Jugend mit all den Unsicherheiten in diesem Alter ...]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-paris-alltagsgeschichten-aus-mannersicht-by-sebastian-lenzen--65183025https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Paris: Alltagsgeschichten aus Männersicht Author: Sebastian Lenzen Narrator: Sebastian Lenzen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Die Kurzgeschichte erzählt die eigenen Erlebnisse in dieser besonderen Stadt. Aus Sicht des Jugendlichen, des Heranwachsenden, als Vater und als Tourist. Ein humorvoller Rückblick auf die Besuche und die besonderen Geschichten, die sich dort ereigent haben.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756124Fri, 09 Feb 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Paris: Alltagsgeschichten aus Männersicht Author: Sebastian Lenzen Narrator: Sebastian Lenzen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Paris: Alltagsgeschichten aus Männersicht Author: Sebastian Lenzen Narrator: Sebastian Lenzen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Die Kurzgeschichte erzählt die eigenen Erlebnisse in dieser besonderen Stadt. Aus Sicht des Jugendlichen, des Heranwachsenden, als Vater und als Tourist. Ein humorvoller Rückblick auf die Besuche und die besonderen Geschichten, die sich dort ereigent haben.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-fernbeziehung-part-1-alltagsgeschichten-aus-mannersicht-by-sebastian-lenzen--65183006https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Fernbeziehung Part 1: Alltagsgeschichten aus Männersicht Author: Sebastian Lenzen Narrator: Sebastian Lenzen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Die Kurzgeschichte beschreibt die emotionale Sicht einer Fernbeziehung aus Männersicht. Das Ankommen, gemeinsame Zeit, die Abschiede und besonders die Zeit, die man(n) alleine verbringt. Die Gedanken an das Für und Wider, Fragen und wenig Antworte inklusive.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756127Fri, 09 Feb 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Fernbeziehung Part 1: Alltagsgeschichten aus Männersicht Author: Sebastian Lenzen Narrator: Sebastian Lenzen Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/756127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Fernbeziehung Part 1: Alltagsgeschichten aus Männersicht Author: Sebastian Lenzen Narrator: Sebastian Lenzen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 9, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Die Kurzgeschichte beschreibt die emotionale Sicht einer Fernbeziehung aus Männersicht. Das Ankommen, gemeinsame Zeit, die Abschiede und besonders die Zeit, die man(n) alleine verbringt. Die Gedanken an das Für und Wider, Fragen und wenig Antworte inklusive.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/climbing-the-rough-side-of-the-mountain-the-extraordinary-story-of-love-civil-rights-and-labor-activism-by-velma-murphy-hill-norman-hill--65183090https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753767 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The extraordinary story of love, civil rights, and labor activism Author: Velma Murphy Hill, Norman Hill Narrator: Arnell Powell, Kim Staunton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 6, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The remarkable story of a couple who came together during the Civil Rights Movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers’ rights their purpose for more than sixty years, overcoming adversity—with the strength of their love and commitment—to bring about meaningful change.Norman Hill was the national program director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), staff coordinator for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, staff representative of the Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO, and president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute from 1980 to 2004, the longest tenure in the organization’s history. He remains its president emeritus.Velma Murphy Hill, a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, was a leader of the Chicago Wade-in to integrate Rainbow Beach, East Coast field secretary for CORE, and assistant to the president of the United Federation of Teachers, where she unionized 10,000 paraprofessionals, primarily Black and Hispanic, working in New York public schools. She was vice president of the American Federation of Teachers and International Affairs and civil rights director of the Service Employees International Union.The Hills were the only Black couple to hold leadership positions in the civil rights and labor movements.When Velma Murphy was knocked unconscious by a brick thrown by a man from an angry white mob and was carried away by Norman Hill, it was the beginning ofa six-decade-long love story and the turmoil, excitement, and struggle for civil rights and labor movements. In Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain, the Hills reflect upon their more than half century of fighting to make America realize the best of itself. Through profound conversations between the two, Velma and Norman Hill share their earliest memories of facing racial segregation in the 1960s, working with Martin Luther King, Jr., Bayard Rustin, and A. Philip Randolph, crossing paths with Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael. They also reveal how they kept white supremacists like David Duke from taking office, organized workers into unions, met with Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and continued to work tirelessly, fighting the good fight and successfully challenging power with truth.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753767Tue, 06 Feb 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753767 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The extraordinary story of love, civil rights, and labor activism Author: Velma Murphy Hill, Norman Hill...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753767 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The extraordinary story of love, civil rights, and labor activism Author: Velma Murphy Hill, Norman Hill Narrator: Arnell Powell, Kim Staunton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 6, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The remarkable story of a couple who came together during the Civil Rights Movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers’ rights their purpose for more than sixty years, overcoming adversity—with the strength of their love and commitment—to bring about meaningful change.Norman Hill was the national program director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), staff coordinator for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, staff representative of the Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO, and president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute from 1980 to 2004, the longest tenure in the organization’s history. He remains its president emeritus.Velma Murphy Hill, a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, was a leader of the Chicago Wade-in to integrate Rainbow Beach, East Coast field secretary for CORE, and assistant to the president of the United Federation of Teachers, where she unionized 10,000 paraprofessionals, primarily Black and Hispanic, working in New York public schools. She was vice president of the American Federation of Teachers and International Affairs and civil rights director of the Service Employees International Union.The Hills were the only Black couple to hold leadership positions in the civil rights and labor movements.When Velma Murphy was knocked unconscious by a brick thrown by a man from an angry white mob and was carried away by Norman Hill, it was the beginning ofa six-decade-long love story and the turmoil, excitement, and struggle for civil rights and labor movements. In Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain, the Hills reflect upon their more than half century of fighting to make America realize the best of itself. Through profound conversations between the two, Velma and Norman Hill share their earliest memories of facing racial segregation in the 1960s, working with Martin Luther King, Jr., Bayard Rustin, and A. Philip Randolph, crossing paths with Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael. They also reveal how they kept white supremacists like David Duke from taking office, organized workers into unions, met with Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and continued to work tirelessly, fighting the good fight and successfully challenging power with truth.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-un-mundo-de-historias-by-ruben-diez-lethal-crysis--65183058https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Un mundo de historias Author: Rubén Díez (lethal Crysis) Narrator: Roberto Rodriguez, Fher Rodríguez, Manu Fullola, Isa Puchol, Jordi Nogales, Pol Nubiala, Cristian Villamil, Ariel Abadi, Johan Gamarra, Kyria Montoya, Alfons Vallés, Jordi Salas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ¿Sabías que aún existen cazadores de cabezas humanas? ¿Qué país es el mayor productor de drogas del mundo? ¿Quién es el minero de Vorkutá que vivió en la época del Gulag? Historias peligrosas, historias increíbles, historias apasionantes... El mundo está repleto de historias que ni te imaginarías, y Rubén Díez -creador de Lethal Crysis, el canal de viajes extremos más importante de España- ha recorrido un sinfín de países para que todos podamos conocerlas. En este, su primer libro, viviremos a temperaturas de -40 °C, recorreremos zonas en guerra, iremos desde la tundra hasta la selva pasando por la aridez del desierto y el hielo de la Antártida. Pero, sobre todo, entablaremos diálogo con los verdaderos protagonistas que habitan estos lugares espectaculares: personas extraordinarias que nos cuentan, en primera persona, lo asombrosa que puede ser la vida lejos de todo aquello que conocemos. ¿Te atreves a emprender este viaje?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745194Thu, 25 Jan 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Un mundo de historias Author: Rubén Díez (lethal Crysis) Narrator: Roberto Rodriguez, Fher Rodríguez, Manu Fullola, Isa Puchol, Jordi...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/745194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Un mundo de historias Author: Rubén Díez (lethal Crysis) Narrator: Roberto Rodriguez, Fher Rodríguez, Manu Fullola, Isa Puchol, Jordi Nogales, Pol Nubiala, Cristian Villamil, Ariel Abadi, Johan Gamarra, Kyria Montoya, Alfons Vallés, Jordi Salas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ¿Sabías que aún existen cazadores de cabezas humanas? ¿Qué país es el mayor productor de drogas del mundo? ¿Quién es el minero de Vorkutá que vivió en la época del Gulag? Historias peligrosas, historias increíbles, historias apasionantes... El mundo está repleto de historias que ni te imaginarías, y Rubén Díez -creador de Lethal Crysis, el canal de viajes extremos más importante de España- ha recorrido un sinfín de países para que todos podamos conocerlas. En este, su primer libro, viviremos a temperaturas de -40 °C, recorreremos zonas en guerra, iremos desde la tundra hasta la selva pasando por la aridez del desierto y el hielo de la Antártida. Pero, sobre todo, entablaremos diálogo con los verdaderos protagonistas que habitan estos lugares espectaculares: personas extraordinarias que nos cuentan, en primera persona, lo asombrosa que puede ser la vida lejos de todo aquello que conocemos. ¿Te atreves a emprender este viaje?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/russian-sobytie-by-anni-erno--65183071https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Событие Author: анни эрно Narrator: оксана васякина Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 37 minutes Release date: January 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: В 1963 году двадцатитрехлетняя Анни Эрно ­обнаруживает, что беременна. Во Франции того времени аборты были запрещены. «Событие», написанное сорок лет ­спустя, рассказывает о нескольких месяцах, в ­течение ­которых она скрывала беременность от родителей, ­искала ­помощи у знакомых и врачей и тщетно пыталась ­сделать аборт вязальной спицей. История, рассказанная в ­жестокой ­простоте фактов, показывает нам общество табу и ­классовых предрассудков, где пережитое героиней ­становится инициацией. Опираясь на записи в дневнике и память, скрупулезно выстраивая двойную перспективу, Эрно подбирает новое значение для прожитого опыта.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747527Mon, 15 Jan 2024 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Событие Author: анни эрно Narrator: оксана васякина Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 37 minutes Release date: January 15, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/747527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Событие Author: анни эрно Narrator: оксана васякина Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 37 minutes Release date: January 15, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: В 1963 году двадцатитрехлетняя Анни Эрно ­обнаруживает, что беременна. Во Франции того времени аборты были запрещены. «Событие», написанное сорок лет ­спустя, рассказывает о нескольких месяцах, в ­течение ­которых она скрывала беременность от родителей, ­искала ­помощи у знакомых и врачей и тщетно пыталась ­сделать аборт вязальной спицей. История, рассказанная в ­жестокой ­простоте фактов, показывает нам общество табу и ­классовых предрассудков, где пережитое героиней ­становится инициацией. Опираясь на записи в дневнике и память, скрупулезно выстраивая двойную перспективу, Эрно подбирает новое значение для прожитого опыта.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hungry-heart-a-story-of-food-and-love-the-times-food-book-of-the-year-by-clare-finney--65183039https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hungry Heart: A Story of Food and Love: The Times Food Book of the Year Author: Clare Finney Narrator: Camilla Rockley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 8, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Times Food Book of the Year. A soul-searching memoir for foodies everywhere. Let award-winning food writer Clare Finney take you on a passionate exploration of food and love. From family feasts to comfort food, first dates to office cake; how does what we eat define us, and the relationships we have with others?   Finney investigates the role that food plays in modern society, exploring how eating unites us in varied ways throughout our lives. She discusses her own childhood spent in her grandmother’s hotel kitchen. She talks about the meals and recipes that have shaped the person she is today. Think of the dance of culinary courtship entailed in dating. Or the funeral foods that remind us of the connections between life and death, Finney examines the power of food and drink to attract, bind and define us—and of course, its power to divide and repel.   In this insightful memoir, get access to: - Fourteen easy-to-follow meaningful recipes - A relatable exploration of what food means in life, love and beyond - No-holds-barred look into the world of gastronomy and food writing - Touching memories from Finney’s own childhood and life Packed with transformative stories from the heart, this book may just change your relationship with food, dining and mealtimes. At a time when our relationship towards what, when and where we eat has become increasingly complicated, Hungry Heart is a feast. It’s an honest, heart-warming account of humans breaking bread together and what that really means.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754494Thu, 08 Jun 2023 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hungry Heart: A Story of Food and Love: The Times Food Book of the Year Author: Clare Finney Narrator: Camilla Rockley Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754494 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hungry Heart: A Story of Food and Love: The Times Food Book of the Year Author: Clare Finney Narrator: Camilla Rockley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 8, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Times Food Book of the Year. A soul-searching memoir for foodies everywhere. Let award-winning food writer Clare Finney take you on a passionate exploration of food and love. From family feasts to comfort food, first dates to office cake; how does what we eat define us, and the relationships we have with others?   Finney investigates the role that food plays in modern society, exploring how eating unites us in varied ways throughout our lives. She discusses her own childhood spent in her grandmother’s hotel kitchen. She talks about the meals and recipes that have shaped the person she is today. Think of the dance of culinary courtship entailed in dating. Or the funeral foods that remind us of the connections between life and death, Finney examines the power of food and drink to attract, bind and define us—and of course, its power to divide and repel.   In this insightful memoir, get access to: - Fourteen easy-to-follow meaningful recipes - A relatable exploration of what food means in life, love and beyond - No-holds-barred look into the world of gastronomy and food writing - Touching memories from Finney’s own childhood and life Packed with transformative stories from the heart, this book may just change your relationship with food, dining and mealtimes. At a time when our relationship towards what, when and where we eat has become increasingly complicated, Hungry Heart is a feast. It’s an honest, heart-warming account of humans breaking bread together and what that really means.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tweakerworld-a-memoir-by-jason-yamas--65183047https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tweakerworld: A Memoir Author: Jason Yamas Narrator: Jason Yamas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Meet Jason: a college educated documentary film producer, cat parent of two, and one of San Francisco’s top drug dealers. After Jason’s world falls apart in LA, he moves to Berkeley for a fresh start with his kid brother. Just one problem: his long-closeted Adderall addiction has exploded into an out-of-control crystal meth binge. Within weeks, Jason plunges into the sprawling ParTy n’ ’Play subculture of the Bay Area’s gay community. It is a wildly decadent scene of drugs, group sex, and criminals, and yet it is also filled with surprising characters, people who are continually subverting Jason’s own presumptions of the stereotypical tweaker. Soon Jason becomes a dealer on the pretense of researching this tweaker world for a project that will carry him, like a life raft, back to the shores of a normal life. But his friendly entrepreneurial spirit and trusting disposition disarm clients and rival dealers alike. The money begins to roll in as demand increases to frightening levels. Suddenly, Jason is in control of the entire crystal meth market for San Francisco’s gay community, even as he finds himself nodding off behind the wheel of his car, or walking down the sidewalk. As friends and family work frantically to steer him towards recovery, Jason resists, chasing something else: a sleepless nirvana fueled by sex, drugs, and the Tweakerworld. With painful honesty, Jason Yamas has crafted a landmark narrative that is not just a personal account of addiction, but a portrait of a vulnerable, largely undocumented community of people who, for many reasons, have been marginalized to the point of invisibility.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760133Tue, 07 Mar 2023 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tweakerworld: A Memoir Author: Jason Yamas Narrator: Jason Yamas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/760133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tweakerworld: A Memoir Author: Jason Yamas Narrator: Jason Yamas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Meet Jason: a college educated documentary film producer, cat parent of two, and one of San Francisco’s top drug dealers. After Jason’s world falls apart in LA, he moves to Berkeley for a fresh start with his kid brother. Just one problem: his long-closeted Adderall addiction has exploded into an out-of-control crystal meth binge. Within weeks, Jason plunges into the sprawling ParTy n’ ’Play subculture of the Bay Area’s gay community. It is a wildly decadent scene of drugs, group sex, and criminals, and yet it is also filled with surprising characters, people who are continually subverting Jason’s own presumptions of the stereotypical tweaker. Soon Jason becomes a dealer on the pretense of researching this tweaker world for a project that will carry him, like a life raft, back to the shores of a normal life. But his friendly entrepreneurial spirit and trusting disposition disarm clients and rival dealers alike. The money begins to roll in as demand increases to frightening levels. Suddenly, Jason is in control of the entire crystal meth market for San Francisco’s gay community, even as he finds himself nodding off behind the wheel of his car, or walking down the sidewalk. As friends and family work frantically to steer him towards recovery, Jason resists, chasing something else: a sleepless nirvana fueled by sex, drugs, and the Tweakerworld. With painful honesty, Jason Yamas has crafted a landmark narrative that is not just a personal account of addiction, but a portrait of a vulnerable, largely undocumented community of people who, for many reasons, have been marginalized to the point of invisibility.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/feral-losing-myself-and-finding-my-way-in-america-s-national-parks-by-emily-pennington--65183055https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America’s National Parks Author: Emily Pennington Narrator: Emily Pennington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A bracing memoir about self-discovery, liberating escape, and moving forward across an adventurous and volatile American landscape. One year. One national park at a time. This is it. No more California. I’m sifting into the underbelly of where the nomads go. After a decade as an assistant to high-powered LA executives, Emily Pennington left behind her structured life and surrendered to the pull of the great outdoors. With a tight budget, meticulous routing, and a temperamental minivan she named Gizmo, Emily embarked on a yearlong road trip to sixty-two national parks, hell-bent on a single goal: getting through the adventure in one piece. She was instantly thrust into more chaos than she’d bargained for and found herself on an unpredictable journey rocked by a gutting romantic breakup, a burgeoning pandemic, wildfires, and other seismic challenges that threatened her safety, her sanity, and the trip itself. What began as an intrepid obsession soon evolved into a life-changing experience. Navigating the tangle of life’s unexpected sucker punches, Feral invites readers along on Emily’s grand, blissful, and sometimes perilous journey, where solitude, resilience, self-reliance, and personal transformation run wild.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752051Wed, 01 Feb 2023 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America’s National Parks Author: Emily Pennington Narrator: Emily Pennington Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/752051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way in America’s National Parks Author: Emily Pennington Narrator: Emily Pennington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A bracing memoir about self-discovery, liberating escape, and moving forward across an adventurous and volatile American landscape. One year. One national park at a time. This is it. No more California. I’m sifting into the underbelly of where the nomads go. After a decade as an assistant to high-powered LA executives, Emily Pennington left behind her structured life and surrendered to the pull of the great outdoors. With a tight budget, meticulous routing, and a temperamental minivan she named Gizmo, Emily embarked on a yearlong road trip to sixty-two national parks, hell-bent on a single goal: getting through the adventure in one piece. She was instantly thrust into more chaos than she’d bargained for and found herself on an unpredictable journey rocked by a gutting romantic breakup, a burgeoning pandemic, wildfires, and other seismic challenges that threatened her safety, her sanity, and the trip itself. What began as an intrepid obsession soon evolved into a life-changing experience. Navigating the tangle of life’s unexpected sucker punches, Feral invites readers along on Emily’s grand, blissful, and sometimes perilous journey, where solitude, resilience, self-reliance, and personal transformation run wild.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-draw-of-the-sea-by-wyl-menmuir--65183089https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754496 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Draw of the Sea Author: Wyl Menmuir Narrator: Wyl Menmuir Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Wyl Menmuir’s The Draw of the Sea is a beautifully written and deeply moving portrait of the Cornish Coast and the people who make their livings there, examining the ephemeral but universal pull the sea holds over the human imagination. ‘A beautiful portrait of lives shaped by the swell of ocean and tide - a powerful salt-thread of connection’ -  Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path Since the earliest stages of human development, the sea has fascinated and entranced us. It feeds us, sustaining communities and providing livelihoods, but it also holds immense destructive power which can take all those away in an instant.   It connects us to far away places, offering the promise of new lands and voyages of discovery, but also shapes our borders, carving divisions between landmasses and eroding the very ground beneath our feet. In this beautifully-written meditation on what it is that draws us to the waters' edge, author Wyl Menmuir tells the stories of the people whose lives revolve around the sea in the Cornish community where he lives. In twelve interlinked chapters, Menmuir explores the lives of local fishermen steeped in the rich traditions of a fishing community, the beachcombers who wander the shores in search of the varied objects which wash ashore and the stories they tell, and all number of others who have made their lives on the beautiful Cornwall coast.  In the specifics of these livelihoods and their rich histories and traditions, Wyl Menmuir captures the universal human connection to the sea. Into this seductive tapestry, Wyl weaves the story of how the sea has beckoned, consoled and restored him. This book is a meaningful and moving work into how we interact with the environment around us, and how it comes to shape the course of our lives. As unmissable as it is compelling, as profound as it is personal, this must-read book will delight anyone familiar with the intimate and powerful pull which the sea holds over us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754496Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754496 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Draw of the Sea Author: Wyl Menmuir Narrator: Wyl Menmuir Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754496 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Draw of the Sea Author: Wyl Menmuir Narrator: Wyl Menmuir Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Wyl Menmuir’s The Draw of the Sea is a beautifully written and deeply moving portrait of the Cornish Coast and the people who make their livings there, examining the ephemeral but universal pull the sea holds over the human imagination. ‘A beautiful portrait of lives shaped by the swell of ocean and tide - a powerful salt-thread of connection’ -  Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path Since the earliest stages of human development, the sea has fascinated and entranced us. It feeds us, sustaining communities and providing livelihoods, but it also holds immense destructive power which can take all those away in an instant.   It connects us to far away places, offering the promise of new lands and voyages of discovery, but also shapes our borders, carving divisions between landmasses and eroding the very ground beneath our feet. In this beautifully-written meditation on what it is that draws us to the waters' edge, author Wyl Menmuir tells the stories of the people whose lives revolve around the sea in the Cornish community where he lives. In twelve interlinked chapters, Menmuir explores the lives of local fishermen steeped in the rich traditions of a fishing community, the beachcombers who wander the shores in search of the varied objects which wash ashore and the stories they tell, and all number of others who have made their lives on the beautiful Cornwall coast.  In the specifics of these livelihoods and their rich histories and traditions, Wyl Menmuir captures the universal human connection to the sea. Into this seductive tapestry, Wyl weaves the story of how the sea has beckoned, consoled and restored him. This book is a meaningful and moving work into how we interact with the environment around us, and how it comes to shape the course of our lives. As unmissable as it is compelling, as profound as it is personal, this must-read book will delight anyone familiar with the intimate and powerful pull which the sea holds over us.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wild-year-a-story-of-homelessness-perseverance-and-hope-by-jen-benson--65183069https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/751781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope Author: Jen Benson Narrator: Jen Benson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This book tells the uplifting true story of a family who left their old life behind to spend a year living wild in a tent around Britain. With a baby and a toddler, mounting debt, work demands and stress trampling over their desire to spend time together as a family in nature, Jen and Sim Benson move out of their rented accommodation, sell up their possessions and decide to live in a tent for a year as nomads around rural Britain. This is the story of that year – the highs and the lows – the doubts, epiphanies and the weather. Detailing one family's search for a life in the wild, away from the screens and stresses of modern life, this captivating memoir is a must read for nature lovers or anyone who has dreamed of a life outdoors. It’s nature writ large with the joys and challenges of each season experienced under canvas, a story of ultimate freedom in the beautiful landscapes of Britain.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/751781Tue, 03 May 2022 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/751781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope Author: Jen Benson Narrator: Jen Benson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/751781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope Author: Jen Benson Narrator: Jen Benson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This book tells the uplifting true story of a family who left their old life behind to spend a year living wild in a tent around Britain. With a baby and a toddler, mounting debt, work demands and stress trampling over their desire to spend time together as a family in nature, Jen and Sim Benson move out of their rented accommodation, sell up their possessions and decide to live in a tent for a year as nomads around rural Britain. This is the story of that year – the highs and the lows – the doubts, epiphanies and the weather. Detailing one family's search for a life in the wild, away from the screens and stresses of modern life, this captivating memoir is a must read for nature lovers or anyone who has dreamed of a life outdoors. It’s nature writ large with the joys and challenges of each season experienced under canvas, a story of ultimate freedom in the beautiful landscapes of Britain.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fledgling-by-hannah-bourne-taylor--65183093https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754499 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fledgling Author: Hannah Bourne-Taylor Narrator: Hannah Bourne-Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Read the powerful account of one woman’s fight to reshape her identity through connection with nature when all normality has fallen away. When lifelong bird-lover Hannah Bourne-Taylor moved with her husband to Ghana seven years ago she couldn’t have anticipated how her life would be forever changed by her unexpected encounters with nature and the subsequent bonds she formed. Plucked from the comfort and predictability of her life before, Hannah struggled to establish herself in her new environment, striving to belong in the rural grasslands far away from home. In this challenging situation, she was forced to turn inwards and interrogate her own sense of identity, however in the animal life around her, and in two wild birds in particular, Hannah found a source of solace and a way to reconnect with the world in which she was living. Fledgling is a portrayal of adaptability, resilience and self-discovery in the face of isolation and change, fuelled by the quiet power of nature and the unexpected bonds with animals she encounters. Hannah encourages us to reconsider the conventional boundaries of the relationships people have with animals through her inspiring and very beautiful glimpse ofwhat is possible when we allow ourselves to connect to the natural world.  Full of determination and compassion, Fledgling is apowerful meditation on our instinctive connection to nature. It shows that even the tiniest of birds can teach us what is important in life and how to embrace every day.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754499Tue, 05 Apr 2022 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754499 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fledgling Author: Hannah Bourne-Taylor Narrator: Hannah Bourne-Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754499 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fledgling Author: Hannah Bourne-Taylor Narrator: Hannah Bourne-Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Read the powerful account of one woman’s fight to reshape her identity through connection with nature when all normality has fallen away. When lifelong bird-lover Hannah Bourne-Taylor moved with her husband to Ghana seven years ago she couldn’t have anticipated how her life would be forever changed by her unexpected encounters with nature and the subsequent bonds she formed. Plucked from the comfort and predictability of her life before, Hannah struggled to establish herself in her new environment, striving to belong in the rural grasslands far away from home. In this challenging situation, she was forced to turn inwards and interrogate her own sense of identity, however in the animal life around her, and in two wild birds in particular, Hannah found a source of solace and a way to reconnect with the world in which she was living. Fledgling is a portrayal of adaptability, resilience and self-discovery in the face of isolation and change, fuelled by the quiet power of nature and the unexpected bonds with animals she encounters. Hannah encourages us to reconsider the conventional boundaries of the relationships people have with animals through her inspiring and very beautiful glimpse ofwhat is possible when we allow ourselves to connect to the natural world.  Full of determination and compassion, Fledgling is apowerful meditation on our instinctive connection to nature. It shows that even the tiniest of birds can teach us what is important in life and how to embrace every day.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shape-of-a-boy-family-life-lessons-in-far-flung-places-a-travel-memoir-by-kate-wickers--65183028https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shape of a Boy: Family life lessons in far-flung places (a travel memoir) Author: Kate Wickers Narrator: Stephanie Racine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 51 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Life-affirming and laugh-out-loud funny" - HELEN FIELDING, AUTHOR OF BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY Shape of a Boy is a hilarious and eye-opening travel memoir by the mother of three boys as she documents her travels with her family around the world. ‘Have kids, will travel’ is veteran travel journalist Kate’s mantra. Her intrepid spirit is infectious in this warm, engaging account of her family’s adventures and misadventures. She shares the life lessons learnt on their travels, from overcoming disappointment in Thailand to saying sorry in Japan, discovering perseverance in Borneo and learning about conservation in Malaysia. From the jungles of southeast Asia to the waterfront in Havana and the blazing heat of Egypt, Shape of a Boy captures the essence of being a parent in the thick of it and learning on the hoof. Inspirational for anyone who has dreaded travelling with a baby, toddler, or teen, it is a life-affirming read for every wannabe-traveller.  Kate’s vivid evocation of the highs and lows of family time make you belly-laugh and bring a lump to your throat. “Hilarious and wonderfully fluent, Shape of A Boy makes you see each corner of the world afresh. I read it in one long, lounging read, which took me away from Covid to a vibrant world of orangutans and elephants and a family growing together.” ANDREW CLOVER, best-selling author of Dad Rules This is a must-read for every wannabe-traveller grounded by lockdown and for every parent who has dreaded travelling with a baby.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754504Tue, 25 Jan 2022 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shape of a Boy: Family life lessons in far-flung places (a travel memoir) Author: Kate Wickers Narrator: Stephanie Racine Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/754504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shape of a Boy: Family life lessons in far-flung places (a travel memoir) Author: Kate Wickers Narrator: Stephanie Racine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 51 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Life-affirming and laugh-out-loud funny" - HELEN FIELDING, AUTHOR OF BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY Shape of a Boy is a hilarious and eye-opening travel memoir by the mother of three boys as she documents her travels with her family around the world. ‘Have kids, will travel’ is veteran travel journalist Kate’s mantra. Her intrepid spirit is infectious in this warm, engaging account of her family’s adventures and misadventures. She shares the life lessons learnt on their travels, from overcoming disappointment in Thailand to saying sorry in Japan, discovering perseverance in Borneo and learning about conservation in Malaysia. From the jungles of southeast Asia to the waterfront in Havana and the blazing heat of Egypt, Shape of a Boy captures the essence of being a parent in the thick of it and learning on the hoof. Inspirational for anyone who has dreaded travelling with a baby, toddler, or teen, it is a life-affirming read for every wannabe-traveller.  Kate’s vivid evocation of the highs and lows of family time make you belly-laugh and bring a lump to your throat. “Hilarious and wonderfully fluent, Shape of A Boy makes you see each corner of the world afresh. I read it in one long, lounging read, which took me away from Covid to a vibrant world of orangutans and elephants and a family growing together.” ANDREW CLOVER, best-selling author of Dad Rules This is a must-read for every wannabe-traveller grounded by lockdown and for every parent who has dreaded travelling with a baby.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dutch-flemish-sorry-dat-ik-je-wakker-bel-het-leven-van-een-verloskundige-by-marlies-koers--65182991https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Dutch; Flemish] - Sorry dat ik je wakker bel: Het leven van een verloskundige Author: Marlies Koers Narrator: Miranda Jansen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 16, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Van beschuit met muisjes direct door naar een live interview op nationale televisie: het leven van verloskundige Marlies Koers is er niet rustiger op geworden na het schrijven van haar eerste boek. Naast het werk in haar praktijk in het oosten van het land schreef ze de bestseller Dagboek van een verloskundige, wat haar toch al onregelmatige leven nog iets meer op zijn kop zette. Met veel energie en plezier geeft ze in Sorry dat ik je wakker bel een uniek inkijkje in haar dynamische leven als verloskundige. Wat te doen als de vader in spe corona blijkt te hebben, en het drukker is dan ooit op de praktijk vanwege de corona-babyboom? Een uniek, grappig en puur boek over het bijzondere leven van een verloskundige. Over Dagboek van een verloskundige: 'Na het lezen van dit boek krijg je enorm veel bewondering voor het geweldige, maar ook enorm uitdagende vak van de verloskundige.' – Nina Pierson 'Een heerlijk boek dat zowel ontroert als vermaakt en de lezer op een unieke manier mee laat kijken tijdens de meest intieme momenten in het leven van (toekomstige) ouders.' – Anna van den Breemer]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759854Thu, 16 Sep 2021 06:02:06 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Dutch; Flemish] - Sorry dat ik je wakker bel: Het leven van een verloskundige Author: Marlies Koers Narrator: Miranda Jansen Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Dutch; Flemish] - Sorry dat ik je wakker bel: Het leven van een verloskundige Author: Marlies Koers Narrator: Miranda Jansen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 16, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Van beschuit met muisjes direct door naar een live interview op nationale televisie: het leven van verloskundige Marlies Koers is er niet rustiger op geworden na het schrijven van haar eerste boek. Naast het werk in haar praktijk in het oosten van het land schreef ze de bestseller Dagboek van een verloskundige, wat haar toch al onregelmatige leven nog iets meer op zijn kop zette. Met veel energie en plezier geeft ze in Sorry dat ik je wakker bel een uniek inkijkje in haar dynamische leven als verloskundige. Wat te doen als de vader in spe corona blijkt te hebben, en het drukker is dan ooit op de praktijk vanwege de corona-babyboom? Een uniek, grappig en puur boek over het bijzondere leven van een verloskundige. Over Dagboek van een verloskundige: 'Na het lezen van dit boek krijg je enorm veel bewondering voor het geweldige, maar ook enorm uitdagende vak van de verloskundige.' – Nina Pierson 'Een heerlijk boek dat zowel ontroert als vermaakt en de lezer op een unieke manier mee laat kijken tijdens de meest intieme momenten in het leven van (toekomstige) ouders.' – Anna van den Breemer]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-geisterkinder-funf-geschwister-in-himmlers-sippenschaft-by-valerie-riedesel--65182933https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Geisterkinder: Fünf Geschwister in Himmlers Sippenschaft Author: Valerie Riedesel Narrator: Johanna Klöpper Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 10, 2019 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nach dem missglückten Attentat auf Adolf Hitler 1944 wird der Offizier Cäsar von Hofacker, ein Cousin Stauffenbergs, hingerichtet. Seine Frau und die fünf Kinder ereilt das Schicksal der Sippenhaft in Gefängnissen, Konzentrationslagern und Kinderheimen. Nach der Befreiung schreiben die 13 und 15 Jahre alten Schwestern Christa und Anna-Luise ihre Erlebnisse auf – bewegende Berichte von Kindern, die früh erwachsen wurden. Die Tochter von Anna-Luise erzählt hier die Geschichte ihrer Familie.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774345Fri, 10 May 2019 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Geisterkinder: Fünf Geschwister in Himmlers Sippenschaft Author: Valerie Riedesel Narrator: Johanna Klöpper Format: Abridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/774345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Geisterkinder: Fünf Geschwister in Himmlers Sippenschaft Author: Valerie Riedesel Narrator: Johanna Klöpper Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 10, 2019 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nach dem missglückten Attentat auf Adolf Hitler 1944 wird der Offizier Cäsar von Hofacker, ein Cousin Stauffenbergs, hingerichtet. Seine Frau und die fünf Kinder ereilt das Schicksal der Sippenhaft in Gefängnissen, Konzentrationslagern und Kinderheimen. Nach der Befreiung schreiben die 13 und 15 Jahre alten Schwestern Christa und Anna-Luise ihre Erlebnisse auf – bewegende Berichte von Kindern, die früh erwachsen wurden. Die Tochter von Anna-Luise erzählt hier die Geschichte ihrer Familie.]]>185nfcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-samuel-koch-zwei-leben-by-christoph-fasel-samuel-koch--65182994https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Samuel Koch - Zwei Leben Author: Christoph Fasel, Samuel Koch Narrator: Samuel Koch Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 1, 2014 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Samuel Kochs Schicksal bewegt, obwohl er sich nicht bewegen kann: Er ist vom Hals abwärts gelähmt. Sein Kopf jedoch funktioniert noch sehr gut. Authentisch, nachdenklich und zugleich humorvoll reflektiert der 26-Jährige über seine Erfahrungen vor, während und nach dem Unfall bei 'Wetten, dass..?'. Dabei vertraut er den Lesern einige seiner Gedanken über Risiko, Freiheit und einen Glauben an, der auch Zweifel zulässt. Eine Einladung, die Kostbarkeit des Lebens neu zu schätzen und ein gesundes Bewusstsein für die wesentlichen Dinge zu entwickeln. Gelesen von Samuel Koch.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769267Sat, 01 Feb 2014 06:02:05 +0000Murray ShieldsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Samuel Koch - Zwei Leben Author: Christoph Fasel, Samuel Koch Narrator: Samuel Koch Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 44 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Samuel Koch - Zwei Leben Author: Christoph Fasel, Samuel Koch Narrator: Samuel Koch Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 1, 2014 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Samuel Kochs Schicksal bewegt, obwohl er sich nicht bewegen kann: Er ist vom Hals abwärts gelähmt. Sein Kopf jedoch funktioniert noch sehr gut. Authentisch, nachdenklich und zugleich humorvoll reflektiert der 26-Jährige über seine Erfahrungen vor, während und nach dem Unfall bei 'Wetten, dass..?'. Dabei vertraut er den Lesern einige seiner Gedanken über Risiko, Freiheit und einen Glauben an, der auch Zweifel zulässt. Eine Einladung, die Kostbarkeit des Lebens neu zu schätzen und ein gesundes Bewusstsein für die wesentlichen Dinge zu entwickeln. Gelesen von Samuel Koch.]]>185cleanfull