https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/listen-to-new-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-memoirs--6575207https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/361/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Explore the world of knowledge with over 500,000+ audiobooks in diverse categories like Ancient Mythology, Asia History, and Animals & Nature. We offer you 3 free audiobooks to start your exploration journey. Audiobooks can be listened to on many devices like iPhone, iPad, Android, helping you access knowledge anytime, anywhere. Let audiobooks open new horizons for you! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>enArtsCopyright Addie Labadiehttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/05efa1edcbafdfddbb3c99c314505562.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/listen-to-new-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-memoirs--6575207Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:26:52 +0000Addie LabadieAddie Labadiefeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/361/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Explore the world of knowledge with over 500,000+ audiobooks in diverse categories like Ancient Mythology, Asia...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/361/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Explore the world of knowledge with over 500,000+ audiobooks in diverse categories like Ancient Mythology, Asia History, and Animals & Nature. We offer you 3 free audiobooks to start your exploration journey. Audiobooks can be listened to on many devices like iPhone, iPad, Android, helping you access knowledge anytime, anywhere. Let audiobooks open new horizons for you! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ootlin-by-jenni-fagan--65184246https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ootlin Author: Jenni Fagan Narrator: Isis Hainsworth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The government told a story about me before I was born. Jenni Fagan was property of the state before birth. She drew her first breath in care and by the age of seven, she had lived in fourteen different homes and had her name changed multiple times. Twenty years after her first attempt to write this powerful memoir, Jenni is finally ready to share her account. Ootlin is a journey through the broken UK care system – it is one of displacement and exclusion, but also of the power of storytelling. It is about the very human act of making meaning from adversity. 'Beautiful, deep, transfixing . . . it will burn a home in your heart' LEMN SISSAY 'Essential reading, life-changing' SAMANTHA MORTON 'An astonishing piece of work' NIALL GRIFFITHS © Jenni Fagan 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647862Thu, 22 Aug 2024 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ootlin Author: Jenni Fagan Narrator: Isis Hainsworth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 22, 2024 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ootlin Author: Jenni Fagan Narrator: Isis Hainsworth Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 22, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The government told a story about me before I was born. Jenni Fagan was property of the state before birth. She drew her first breath in care and by the age of seven, she had lived in fourteen different homes and had her name changed multiple times. Twenty years after her first attempt to write this powerful memoir, Jenni is finally ready to share her account. Ootlin is a journey through the broken UK care system – it is one of displacement and exclusion, but also of the power of storytelling. It is about the very human act of making meaning from adversity. 'Beautiful, deep, transfixing . . . it will burn a home in your heart' LEMN SISSAY 'Essential reading, life-changing' SAMANTHA MORTON 'An astonishing piece of work' NIALL GRIFFITHS © Jenni Fagan 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-better-tomorrow-life-lessons-in-hope-and-strength-by-mina-smallman--65184290https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Better Tomorrow: Life Lessons in Hope and Strength Author: Mina Smallman Narrator: Sara Powell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 25, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Mina Smallman has lived through the unimaginable. On Saturday 6 June 2020, her daughters, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, were killed in a park by a male stranger as they celebrated Bibaa's birthday. Mina has been fighting for justice ever since - for her daughters, and for the rest of us, by challenging the toxic culture in the Metropolitan Police and calling out the wider institutional misogyny, racism and classism in Britain. Now, she tells her story for the first time. Framed by Mina's experience of losing her two daughters, Bibaa and Nicole, A Better Tomorrow reflects on the lessons in strength, forgiveness and hope that life has taught her - from her difficult childhood, to her embrace of motherhood, her time as a schoolteacher, and then as the first woman of colour to be an Archdeacon in the Church of England. Told through grief and with compassion, humour and love, this deeply personal memoir is Mina's beacon of hope. 'I'd walk across hot coals to speak alongside Mina Smallman... An amazing woman' - Jess Phillips, MP 'Mina Smallman is as tough as she is warm' - Guardian © Mina Smallman 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647582Thu, 25 Jul 2024 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Better Tomorrow: Life Lessons in Hope and Strength Author: Mina Smallman Narrator: Sara Powell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Better Tomorrow: Life Lessons in Hope and Strength Author: Mina Smallman Narrator: Sara Powell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 25, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Mina Smallman has lived through the unimaginable. On Saturday 6 June 2020, her daughters, Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, were killed in a park by a male stranger as they celebrated Bibaa's birthday. Mina has been fighting for justice ever since - for her daughters, and for the rest of us, by challenging the toxic culture in the Metropolitan Police and calling out the wider institutional misogyny, racism and classism in Britain. Now, she tells her story for the first time. Framed by Mina's experience of losing her two daughters, Bibaa and Nicole, A Better Tomorrow reflects on the lessons in strength, forgiveness and hope that life has taught her - from her difficult childhood, to her embrace of motherhood, her time as a schoolteacher, and then as the first woman of colour to be an Archdeacon in the Church of England. Told through grief and with compassion, humour and love, this deeply personal memoir is Mina's beacon of hope. 'I'd walk across hot coals to speak alongside Mina Smallman... An amazing woman' - Jess Phillips, MP 'Mina Smallman is as tough as she is warm' - Guardian © Mina Smallman 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/you-don-t-have-to-be-mad-to-work-here-a-psychiatrist-s-life-by-benji-waterhouse--65184331https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life Author: Benji Waterhouse Narrator: Benji Waterhouse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A woman with bipolar flies from America in a wedding dress to marry Harry Styles. A lorry driver with schizophrenia believes he’s got a cure for coronavirus. A depressed psychiatrist hides his profession from his GP due to stigma. Most of the characters in this book are his patients. Some of them are his family. One of them is him. Unlocking the doors to the psych ward, NHS psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse provides a fly-on-the-padded-wall account of medicine’s most mysterious and controversial speciality. Why would anyone in their right mind choose to be a psychiatrist? Are the solutions to people’s messy lives really within medical school textbooks? And how can vulnerable patients receive the care they need when psychiatry lacks staff, hospital beds and any actual cures? Humane, hilarious and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and darkly comic medical memoir - from both sides of the doctor’s desk. This is the perfect read for fans of This Is Going to Hurt, Unnatural Causes and The Prison Doctor. A humane, hilarious and heart-breaking window into the world of psychiatry from ‘the Adam Kay of mental healthcare’ (THE TIMES) 'Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent' HENRY MARSH 'This is honestly my dream book. Both fascinating and bleakly funny' FERN BRADY ‘Honest, funny, saddening and uplifting all rolled into one’ JO BRAND ©2024 Benji Waterhouse (P) 2024 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630748Thu, 16 May 2024 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life Author: Benji Waterhouse Narrator: Benji Waterhouse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630748 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life Author: Benji Waterhouse Narrator: Benji Waterhouse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 16, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A woman with bipolar flies from America in a wedding dress to marry Harry Styles. A lorry driver with schizophrenia believes he’s got a cure for coronavirus. A depressed psychiatrist hides his profession from his GP due to stigma. Most of the characters in this book are his patients. Some of them are his family. One of them is him. Unlocking the doors to the psych ward, NHS psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse provides a fly-on-the-padded-wall account of medicine’s most mysterious and controversial speciality. Why would anyone in their right mind choose to be a psychiatrist? Are the solutions to people’s messy lives really within medical school textbooks? And how can vulnerable patients receive the care they need when psychiatry lacks staff, hospital beds and any actual cures? Humane, hilarious and heart-breaking, You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here is an enlightening and darkly comic medical memoir - from both sides of the doctor’s desk. This is the perfect read for fans of This Is Going to Hurt, Unnatural Causes and The Prison Doctor. A humane, hilarious and heart-breaking window into the world of psychiatry from ‘the Adam Kay of mental healthcare’ (THE TIMES) 'Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent' HENRY MARSH 'This is honestly my dream book. Both fascinating and bleakly funny' FERN BRADY ‘Honest, funny, saddening and uplifting all rolled into one’ JO BRAND ©2024 Benji Waterhouse (P) 2024 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/breakthrough-how-to-think-like-a-scientist-learn-how-to-fail-and-embrace-the-unknown-by-camilla-pang--65184259https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breakthrough: How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown Author: Camilla Pang Narrator: Dr Camilla Pang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Science helps us to understand ourselves in a world where we often feel like strangers - but what we know about the world around us, what has already been explored and discovered is only half of science's story. Unexplained will explore the frontier between what we do and don't know about the world: where knowledge meets mystery, complexity overwhelms certainty, and the vastness of our universe unspools the logic of science's established laws. Dr Camilla Pang will teach you to embrace the beauty in the unexplained and fall in love with the search for unknown answers. Camilla will look at some of the biggest mysteries facing science today, and more importantly, how some of the best scientists in the world are exploring them. Their approaches to scientific observation, hypothesis, exploration, troubleshooting and discovery can teach us valuable lessons about the mysteries of our own lives. There's a scientist hidden inside all of us, an explorer who wants to harness what motivates us, explore the grey areas in our lives and understand how our world - beset by new technology and ubiquitous information - is constantly changing. We can all learn something from the spirit of exploration and discovery that science demands. Its greatest gift to us is not formulae, not techniques and laws, but enabling the urge to discover that makes us truly human. ©2024 Camilla Pang (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649509Thu, 25 Apr 2024 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breakthrough: How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown Author: Camilla Pang Narrator: Dr Camilla Pang Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breakthrough: How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown Author: Camilla Pang Narrator: Dr Camilla Pang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 25, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Science helps us to understand ourselves in a world where we often feel like strangers - but what we know about the world around us, what has already been explored and discovered is only half of science's story. Unexplained will explore the frontier between what we do and don't know about the world: where knowledge meets mystery, complexity overwhelms certainty, and the vastness of our universe unspools the logic of science's established laws. Dr Camilla Pang will teach you to embrace the beauty in the unexplained and fall in love with the search for unknown answers. Camilla will look at some of the biggest mysteries facing science today, and more importantly, how some of the best scientists in the world are exploring them. Their approaches to scientific observation, hypothesis, exploration, troubleshooting and discovery can teach us valuable lessons about the mysteries of our own lives. There's a scientist hidden inside all of us, an explorer who wants to harness what motivates us, explore the grey areas in our lives and understand how our world - beset by new technology and ubiquitous information - is constantly changing. We can all learn something from the spirit of exploration and discovery that science demands. Its greatest gift to us is not formulae, not techniques and laws, but enabling the urge to discover that makes us truly human. ©2024 Camilla Pang (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-complications-on-going-insane-in-america-by-emmett-rensin--65184396https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629220 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Complications: On Going Insane in America Author: Emmett Rensin Narrator: James Gloucester Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An unflinching, rare account of living with severe mental illness that is also a bold commentary on how we misunderstand this often debilitating disease. The Complications is an intimate portrait of what it’s like to live with schizoaffective disorder of the bipolar type as well as a biting, revelatory critique of America’s mental health culture. Emmett Rensin has written and edited articles for major national media outlets, and taught writing and literature at prestigious schools. But he has also lost jobs and friends, been hospitalized and institutionalized, and cycled through a daunting combination of medications. With scorching honesty, he reflects on his messy, fragile attempt to live his life, his periods of grace, and his near misses with disaster and death. Going beyond the usual peans against “stigma” and for “understanding”, Rensin confronts the dysfunction in current mental health narratives, contrasting what he calls mental illness “high culture”—in which we affirm the prevalence of anxiety and encourage regular therapy, insisting that the “mentally ill” aren’t dangerous or even weird—with even progressive society’s inability to contend with people with more severe forms of mental illness: those people we pass on the street talking to themselves, those caught in a loop between hospitals and prisons, or even those who we cannot tolerate in our own schools, offices, and lives, including himself.  With raw honesty, Rensin invites us into every aspect of his life, from what it’s like see four different psychiatrists in one year and the nature of psychotic breaks to a harrowing diary that logs exactly what happens when he stops taking his medication and the unexpected kinship he discovers with an incarcerated spree killer with schizophrenia. Going beyond pure memoir, he reflects on the uncertain “science” of diagnosis, the nature of art about and by the insane, political activism, and the history of madness, from the asylum to the academy.  A compelling, often devastating, blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and history, The Complications elevates the conversation around mental illness and challenges us to reexamine what we think we know about what is to go insane.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629220Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629220 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Complications: On Going Insane in America Author: Emmett Rensin Narrator: James Gloucester Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629220 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Complications: On Going Insane in America Author: Emmett Rensin Narrator: James Gloucester Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: April 23, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An unflinching, rare account of living with severe mental illness that is also a bold commentary on how we misunderstand this often debilitating disease. The Complications is an intimate portrait of what it’s like to live with schizoaffective disorder of the bipolar type as well as a biting, revelatory critique of America’s mental health culture. Emmett Rensin has written and edited articles for major national media outlets, and taught writing and literature at prestigious schools. But he has also lost jobs and friends, been hospitalized and institutionalized, and cycled through a daunting combination of medications. With scorching honesty, he reflects on his messy, fragile attempt to live his life, his periods of grace, and his near misses with disaster and death. Going beyond the usual peans against “stigma” and for “understanding”, Rensin confronts the dysfunction in current mental health narratives, contrasting what he calls mental illness “high culture”—in which we affirm the prevalence of anxiety and encourage regular therapy, insisting that the “mentally ill” aren’t dangerous or even weird—with even progressive society’s inability to contend with people with more severe forms of mental illness: those people we pass on the street talking to themselves, those caught in a loop between hospitals and prisons, or even those who we cannot tolerate in our own schools, offices, and lives, including himself.  With raw honesty, Rensin invites us into every aspect of his life, from what it’s like see four different psychiatrists in one year and the nature of psychotic breaks to a harrowing diary that logs exactly what happens when he stops taking his medication and the unexpected kinship he discovers with an incarcerated spree killer with schizophrenia. Going beyond pure memoir, he reflects on the uncertain “science” of diagnosis, the nature of art about and by the insane, political activism, and the history of madness, from the asylum to the academy.  A compelling, often devastating, blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and history, The Complications elevates the conversation around mental illness and challenges us to reexamine what we think we know about what is to go insane.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/briefly-perfectly-human-making-an-authentic-life-by-getting-real-about-the-end-by-alua-arthur--65184287https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649843 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End Author: Alua Arthur Narrator: Alua Arthur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America’s most visible death doula. ''A truly unique, inspiring perspective on the time we have, what we do with it, and how we let go of this world.... There is no one I'd trust more to guide me through an understanding of death, and how it informs life.'' — Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Mad Honey and The Book of Two Ways ''Briefly Perfectly Human is a beautiful, raw, light-bringing experience. Alua's voice is shimmering, singular, and pulses with humor, vulnerability, insight, and refreshing candor.... Be prepared for it to grab you, hold you tight, and raise the roof on the power of human connection.'' — Tembi Locke, author of From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country’s leading death doula, she’s spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death—whether imminent or not—will breathe wild, new potential into your life. Warm, generous, and funny AF, Alua supports and helps manage end-of-life care on many levels. The business matters, medical directives, memorial planning; but also honoring the quiet moments, when monitors are beeping and loved ones have stepped out to get some air—or maybe not shown up at all—and her clients become deeply contemplative and want to talk. Aching, unfinished business often emerges. Alua has been present for thousands of these sacred moments—when regrets, fears, secret joys, hidden affairs, and dim realities are finally said aloud. When this happens, Alua focuses her attention at the pulsing center of her clients’ anguish and creates space for them, and sometimes their loved ones, to find peace. This has had a profound effect on Alua, who was already no stranger to death’s periphery. Her family fled a murderous coup d’état in Ghana in the 1980s. She has suffered major, debilitating depressions. And her dear friend and brother-in-law died of lymphoma. Advocating for him in his final months is what led Alua to her life’s calling. She knows firsthand the power of bearing witness and telling the truth about life’s painful complexities, because they do not disappear when you look the other way. They wait for you. Briefly Perfectly Human is a life-changing, soul-gathering debut, by a writer whose empathy, tenderness, and wisdom shimmers on the page. Alua Arthur combines intimate storytelling with a passionate appeal for loving, courageous end-of-life care—what she calls “death embrace.” Hers is a powerful testament to getting in touch with something deeper in our lives, by embracing the fact of our own mortality. “Hold that truth in your mind,” Alua says, “and wondrous things will begin to grow around it.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649843Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649843 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End Author: Alua Arthur Narrator: Alua Arthur Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649843 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End Author: Alua Arthur Narrator: Alua Arthur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America’s most visible death doula. ''A truly unique, inspiring perspective on the time we have, what we do with it, and how we let go of this world.... There is no one I'd trust more to guide me through an understanding of death, and how it informs life.'' — Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Mad Honey and The Book of Two Ways ''Briefly Perfectly Human is a beautiful, raw, light-bringing experience. Alua's voice is shimmering, singular, and pulses with humor, vulnerability, insight, and refreshing candor.... Be prepared for it to grab you, hold you tight, and raise the roof on the power of human connection.'' — Tembi Locke, author of From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country’s leading death doula, she’s spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death—whether imminent or not—will breathe wild, new potential into your life. Warm, generous, and funny AF, Alua supports and helps manage end-of-life care on many levels. The business matters, medical directives, memorial planning; but also honoring the quiet moments, when monitors are beeping and loved ones have stepped out to get some air—or maybe not shown up at all—and her clients become deeply contemplative and want to talk. Aching, unfinished business often emerges. Alua has been present for thousands of these sacred moments—when regrets, fears, secret joys, hidden affairs, and dim realities are finally said aloud. When this happens, Alua focuses her attention at the pulsing center of her clients’ anguish and creates space for them, and sometimes their loved ones, to find peace. This has had a profound effect on Alua, who was already no stranger to death’s periphery. Her family fled a murderous coup d’état in Ghana in the 1980s. She has suffered major, debilitating depressions. And her dear friend and brother-in-law died of lymphoma. Advocating for him in his final months is what led Alua to her life’s calling. She knows firsthand the power of bearing witness and telling the truth about life’s painful complexities, because they do not disappear when you look the other way. They wait for you. Briefly Perfectly Human is a life-changing, soul-gathering debut, by a writer whose empathy, tenderness, and wisdom shimmers on the page. Alua Arthur combines intimate storytelling with a passionate appeal for loving, courageous end-of-life care—what she calls “death embrace.” Hers is a powerful testament to getting in touch with something deeper in our lives, by embracing the fact of our own mortality. “Hold that truth in your mind,” Alua says, “and wondrous things will begin to grow around it.”]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-el-amor-del-reves-by-luisge-martin--65184307https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645439 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El amor del revés Author: Luisgé Martín Narrator: Jordi Llovet Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: December 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: El amor del revés es la autobiografía sentimental de un muchacho que, al llegar a la adolescencia, descubre que su corazón está podrido por una enfermedad maligna: la homosexualidad. «En 1977, a los quince años de edad, cuando tuve la certeza definitiva de que era homosexual, me juré a mí mismo, aterrado, que nadie lo sabría nunca. Como la de Scarlett O'Hara en Lo que el viento sellevó, fue una promesa solemne. En 2006, sin embargo, me casé con un hombre en una ceremonia civil ante ciento cincuenta invitados, entre los que estaban mis amigos de la infancia, mis compañeros de estudios, mis colegas de trabajo y toda mi familia. En esos veintinueve años que habían transcurrido entre una fecha y otra, yo había sufrido una metamorfosis inversa a la de Gregorio Samsa: había dejado de ser una cucaracha y me había ido convirtiendo poco a poco en un ser humano.» El amor del revés es la historia de un camino de perfección que trata de poner al descubierto, sin clichés y sin moralismos, la intimidad desnuda de alguien que de repente se siente apartado de las normas sociales y trata de sobrevivir entre ellas. El autor cuenta su propia vida con una sinceridad a veces hiriente: el descubrimiento de su condición sexual, los primeros amores juveniles, los problemas psicológicos derivados de su inadaptación, la terapia conductual que realizó para cambiar sus inclinaciones enfermas, la exploración del sexo, las primeras relaciones afectivas, los contactos con el mundo gay y el descubrimiento progresivo y tardío de la felicidad, «el valor exacto de la ternura». Es también el retrato de una sociedad infectada por la intolerancia y por el prejuicio, que busca enfermedades imaginarias para marcar su propio territorio moral. Hasta ahora Luisgé Martín había ido filtrando detalles de su biografía en sus novelas. En este libro convierte en objeto de la narración su propia vida, ejemplar en el sentido clásico del término: sirve para vislumbrar a través de ella las debilidades y las grandezas de la naturaleza humana; sus miserias, sus ambiciones y sus logros. El resultado de su empeño es una obra de una franqueza arrolladora y una calidad literaria excepcional que rememora décadas de máscaras, tanteos y exploraciones, en un trayecto primero doloroso y después liberador hacia el conocimiento de uno mismo. Un retrato íntimo y sin velos, una portentosa contribución a la literatura autobiográfica. «De una densidad humana admirable... Un libro como el de Luisgé Martín sería superfluo en un mundo más afectuoso que el nuestro, donde hubiera respeto y donde se dejara a la gente vivir, amar y desarrollarse en paz» (Fernando Aramburu). «Memorable. La historia que cuenta Luisgé Martín hace que el amor, el deseo sexual y la moral aparezcan a una luz nueva que a todos nos concierne. El mejor libro que he leído en mucho tiempo» (Anna Caballé, El País).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645439Wed, 13 Dec 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645439 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El amor del revés Author: Luisgé Martín Narrator: Jordi Llovet Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645439 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El amor del revés Author: Luisgé Martín Narrator: Jordi Llovet Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: December 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: El amor del revés es la autobiografía sentimental de un muchacho que, al llegar a la adolescencia, descubre que su corazón está podrido por una enfermedad maligna: la homosexualidad. «En 1977, a los quince años de edad, cuando tuve la certeza definitiva de que era homosexual, me juré a mí mismo, aterrado, que nadie lo sabría nunca. Como la de Scarlett O'Hara en Lo que el viento sellevó, fue una promesa solemne. En 2006, sin embargo, me casé con un hombre en una ceremonia civil ante ciento cincuenta invitados, entre los que estaban mis amigos de la infancia, mis compañeros de estudios, mis colegas de trabajo y toda mi familia. En esos veintinueve años que habían transcurrido entre una fecha y otra, yo había sufrido una metamorfosis inversa a la de Gregorio Samsa: había dejado de ser una cucaracha y me había ido convirtiendo poco a poco en un ser humano.» El amor del revés es la historia de un camino de perfección que trata de poner al descubierto, sin clichés y sin moralismos, la intimidad desnuda de alguien que de repente se siente apartado de las normas sociales y trata de sobrevivir entre ellas. El autor cuenta su propia vida con una sinceridad a veces hiriente: el descubrimiento de su condición sexual, los primeros amores juveniles, los problemas psicológicos derivados de su inadaptación, la terapia conductual que realizó para cambiar sus inclinaciones enfermas, la exploración del sexo, las primeras relaciones afectivas, los contactos con el mundo gay y el descubrimiento progresivo y tardío de la felicidad, «el valor exacto de la ternura». Es también el retrato de una sociedad infectada por la intolerancia y por el prejuicio, que busca enfermedades imaginarias para marcar su propio territorio moral. Hasta ahora Luisgé Martín había ido filtrando detalles de su biografía en sus novelas. En este libro convierte en objeto de la narración su propia vida, ejemplar en el sentido clásico del término: sirve para vislumbrar a través de ella las debilidades y las grandezas de la naturaleza humana; sus miserias, sus ambiciones y sus logros. El resultado de su empeño es una obra de una franqueza arrolladora y una calidad literaria excepcional que rememora décadas de máscaras, tanteos y exploraciones, en un trayecto primero doloroso y después liberador hacia el conocimiento de uno mismo. Un retrato íntimo y sin velos, una portentosa contribución a la literatura autobiográfica. «De una densidad humana admirable... Un libro como el de Luisgé Martín sería superfluo en un mundo más afectuoso que el nuestro, donde hubiera respeto y donde se dejara a la gente vivir, amar y desarrollarse en paz» (Fernando Aramburu). «Memorable. La historia que cuenta Luisgé Martín hace que el amor, el deseo sexual y la moral aparezcan a una luz nueva que a todos nos concierne. El mejor libro que he leído en mucho tiempo» (Anna Caballé, El País).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/living-the-beatles-legend-the-untold-story-of-mal-evans-by-kenneth-womack--65184416https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628952 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans Author: Kenneth Womack Narrator: Gary T. Evans, Kenneth Womack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved friend, confidant, and roadie.  Malcolm Evans, the Beatles’ long-time roadie, personal assistant, and devoted friend, was an invaluable member of the band’s inner circle. A towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Evans loomed large in the Beatles’ story, contributing at times as a performer and sometime lyricist, while struggling mightily to protect his beloved “boys.” He was there for the whole of the group’s remarkable, unparalleled story: from the Shea Stadium triumph through the creation of the timeless cover art for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the famous Let It Be rooftop concert. Leaving a stable job as telecommunications engineer to serve as road manager for this fledgling band, Mal was the odd man out from the start—older, married with children, and without any music business experience. And yet he threw himself headlong into their world, traveling across the globe and making himself indispensable. In the years after the Beatles’ disbandment, Big Mal continued in their employ as each embarked upon solo careers. By 1974, he was determined to make his name as a songwriter and record producer, setting off for a new life in Los Angeles, where he penned his memoirs. But in January 1976, on the verge of sharing his book with the world, Evans’s story came to a tragic end during a domestic standoff with the LAPD. For Beatles devotes, Mal’s life and untimely death have always been shrouded in mystery. For decades, his diaries, manuscripts, and vast collection of memorabilia was missing, seemingly lost forever…until now. Working with full access to Mal’s unpublished archives and having conducted hundreds of new interviews, Beatles’ scholar and author Kenneth Womack affords readers with a full telling of Mal’s unknown story at the heart of the Beatles’ legend. Living the Beatles’ Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans is the missing puzzle piece in the Fab Four’s incredible story.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628952Tue, 14 Nov 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628952 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans Author: Kenneth Womack Narrator: Gary T. Evans, Kenneth Womack Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628952 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans Author: Kenneth Womack Narrator: Gary T. Evans, Kenneth Womack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles’ beloved friend, confidant, and roadie.  Malcolm Evans, the Beatles’ long-time roadie, personal assistant, and devoted friend, was an invaluable member of the band’s inner circle. A towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Evans loomed large in the Beatles’ story, contributing at times as a performer and sometime lyricist, while struggling mightily to protect his beloved “boys.” He was there for the whole of the group’s remarkable, unparalleled story: from the Shea Stadium triumph through the creation of the timeless cover art for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the famous Let It Be rooftop concert. Leaving a stable job as telecommunications engineer to serve as road manager for this fledgling band, Mal was the odd man out from the start—older, married with children, and without any music business experience. And yet he threw himself headlong into their world, traveling across the globe and making himself indispensable. In the years after the Beatles’ disbandment, Big Mal continued in their employ as each embarked upon solo careers. By 1974, he was determined to make his name as a songwriter and record producer, setting off for a new life in Los Angeles, where he penned his memoirs. But in January 1976, on the verge of sharing his book with the world, Evans’s story came to a tragic end during a domestic standoff with the LAPD. For Beatles devotes, Mal’s life and untimely death have always been shrouded in mystery. For decades, his diaries, manuscripts, and vast collection of memorabilia was missing, seemingly lost forever…until now. Working with full access to Mal’s unpublished archives and having conducted hundreds of new interviews, Beatles’ scholar and author Kenneth Womack affords readers with a full telling of Mal’s unknown story at the heart of the Beatles’ legend. Living the Beatles’ Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans is the missing puzzle piece in the Fab Four’s incredible story.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-effin-life-by-geddy-lee--65184339https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Effin' Life Author: Geddy Lee Narrator: Cliff Burnstein, Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.82 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 18 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The long-awaited memoir from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and bestselling author of Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass. Includes two new songs by Geddy Lee, available exclusively in the My Effin’ Life audiobook. Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll's most respected bassists. For nearly five decades, his playing and work as co-writer, vocalist and keyboardist has been an essential part of the success story of Canadian progressive rock trio Rush. Here for the first time is his account of life inside and outside the band. Long before Rush accumulated more consecutive gold and platinum records than any rock band after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, before the seven Grammy nominations or the countless electrifying live performances across the globe, Geddy Lee was Gershon Eliezer Weinrib, after his grandfather murdered in the Holocaust. As he recounts the transformation, Lee looks back on his family, in particular his loving parents and their horrific experiences as teenagers during World War II. He talks candidly about his childhood and the pursuit of music that led him to drop out of high school. He tracks the history of Rush which, after early struggles, exploded into one of the most beloved bands of all time. He shares intimate stories of his lifelong friendships with bandmates Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart—deeply mourning Peart’s recent passing—and reveals his obsessions in music and beyond. This rich brew of honesty, humor, and loss makes for a uniquely poignant memoir.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638854Tue, 14 Nov 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Effin' Life Author: Geddy Lee Narrator: Cliff Burnstein, Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 20 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638854 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Effin' Life Author: Geddy Lee Narrator: Cliff Burnstein, Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.82 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 18 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The long-awaited memoir from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and bestselling author of Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass. Includes two new songs by Geddy Lee, available exclusively in the My Effin’ Life audiobook. Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll's most respected bassists. For nearly five decades, his playing and work as co-writer, vocalist and keyboardist has been an essential part of the success story of Canadian progressive rock trio Rush. Here for the first time is his account of life inside and outside the band. Long before Rush accumulated more consecutive gold and platinum records than any rock band after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, before the seven Grammy nominations or the countless electrifying live performances across the globe, Geddy Lee was Gershon Eliezer Weinrib, after his grandfather murdered in the Holocaust. As he recounts the transformation, Lee looks back on his family, in particular his loving parents and their horrific experiences as teenagers during World War II. He talks candidly about his childhood and the pursuit of music that led him to drop out of high school. He tracks the history of Rush which, after early struggles, exploded into one of the most beloved bands of all time. He shares intimate stories of his lifelong friendships with bandmates Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart—deeply mourning Peart’s recent passing—and reveals his obsessions in music and beyond. This rich brew of honesty, humor, and loss makes for a uniquely poignant memoir.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-the-taliban-told-me-by-ian-fritz--65184324https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What the Taliban Told Me Author: Ian Fritz Narrator: Ian Fritz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An “essential” (Kevin Maurer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming of age in a war that is lost. When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn’t been accepted into colleges thanks to an indifferent high school career. He’d too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills for his trailer-dwelling family in Lake City, Florida. But the Air Force recognizes his potential and sends him to the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn Dari and Pashto, the main languages of Afghanistan. By 2011, Fritz was an airborne cryptologic linguist and one of only a tiny number of people in the world trained to do this job on low-flying gunships. He monitors communications on the ground and determines in real time which Afghans are Taliban and which are innocent civilians. This eavesdropping is critical to supporting Special Forces units on the ground, but there is no training to counter the emotional complexity that develops as you listen to people’s most intimate conversations over the course of two tours, Fritz listens to the Taliban for hundreds of hours, all over the country night and day, in moments of peace and in the middle of battle. What he hears teaches him about the people of Afghanistan—Taliban and otherwise—the war, and himself. Fritz’s fluency is his greatest asset to the military, yet it becomes the greatest liability to his own commitment to the cause. Both proud of his service and in despair that he is instrumental in destroying the voices that he hears, What the Taliban Told Me is a “fraught, moving” (Kirkus Reviews) coming-of-age memoir and a reckoning with our twenty years of war in Afghanistan.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637379Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What the Taliban Told Me Author: Ian Fritz Narrator: Ian Fritz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637379 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What the Taliban Told Me Author: Ian Fritz Narrator: Ian Fritz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An “essential” (Kevin Maurer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming of age in a war that is lost. When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn’t been accepted into colleges thanks to an indifferent high school career. He’d too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills for his trailer-dwelling family in Lake City, Florida. But the Air Force recognizes his potential and sends him to the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn Dari and Pashto, the main languages of Afghanistan. By 2011, Fritz was an airborne cryptologic linguist and one of only a tiny number of people in the world trained to do this job on low-flying gunships. He monitors communications on the ground and determines in real time which Afghans are Taliban and which are innocent civilians. This eavesdropping is critical to supporting Special Forces units on the ground, but there is no training to counter the emotional complexity that develops as you listen to people’s most intimate conversations over the course of two tours, Fritz listens to the Taliban for hundreds of hours, all over the country night and day, in moments of peace and in the middle of battle. What he hears teaches him about the people of Afghanistan—Taliban and otherwise—the war, and himself. Fritz’s fluency is his greatest asset to the military, yet it becomes the greatest liability to his own commitment to the cause. Both proud of his service and in despair that he is instrumental in destroying the voices that he hears, What the Taliban Told Me is a “fraught, moving” (Kirkus Reviews) coming-of-age memoir and a reckoning with our twenty years of war in Afghanistan.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/whistles-from-the-graveyard-my-time-behind-the-camera-on-war-rage-and-restless-youth-in-afghanistan-by-miles-lagoze--65184317https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633591 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan Author: Miles Lagoze Narrator: Miles Lagoze Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “The most bracingly honest, refreshing account of the Afghan war” (Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author) from a Marine Corps Combat Cameraman and director of the acclaimed documentary Combat Obscura. At just eighteen years old, Miles Lagoze joined the Marine Corps a decade after the war began and found himself surrounded by people not unlike those he’d left behind at home—aimless youth searching for stability, community, and economic security. Deployed to Afghanistan as a Combat Cameraman—an active-duty videographer and photographer—Lagoze produced slick images of glory and heroism for public consumption. But his government-approved footage concealed a grim reality. Here, Lagoze pulls back the curtain and illustrates the grisly truth of the longest war in American history. As these young men and women were deployed to an unfamiliar country half a world away—history’s “graveyard of empires”—they carried the scars of the fractured homeland that sent them. Lagoze shows us Marines straddling the edge of chaos. We see forces desensitized to gore and suffering by the darkest reaches of the internet, unsure of their places in an unraveling world and set further adrift by the uncertain mission to which they had been assigned abroad. Whistles from the Graveyard shows the parts of the Afghanistan War we were never meant to see—Afghan locals and American infantry drawn together by their fears of the ghostly, ever-present terror of the Taliban; moments of dark resignation as the devastating toll of years in war’s crossfire reveals itself between bouts of adrenaline-laced violence; and nights of reckless, drug-fueled abandon to dull the pain. In full, vivid color, Miles Lagoze shows us an oft-overlooked generation of young Americans we cast out into the desert, steeped in nihilism, and shipped back home with firsthand training in extremism, misanthropy, and insurrection.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633591Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633591 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan Author: Miles Lagoze Narrator: Miles Lagoze...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633591 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan Author: Miles Lagoze Narrator: Miles Lagoze Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “The most bracingly honest, refreshing account of the Afghan war” (Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author) from a Marine Corps Combat Cameraman and director of the acclaimed documentary Combat Obscura. At just eighteen years old, Miles Lagoze joined the Marine Corps a decade after the war began and found himself surrounded by people not unlike those he’d left behind at home—aimless youth searching for stability, community, and economic security. Deployed to Afghanistan as a Combat Cameraman—an active-duty videographer and photographer—Lagoze produced slick images of glory and heroism for public consumption. But his government-approved footage concealed a grim reality. Here, Lagoze pulls back the curtain and illustrates the grisly truth of the longest war in American history. As these young men and women were deployed to an unfamiliar country half a world away—history’s “graveyard of empires”—they carried the scars of the fractured homeland that sent them. Lagoze shows us Marines straddling the edge of chaos. We see forces desensitized to gore and suffering by the darkest reaches of the internet, unsure of their places in an unraveling world and set further adrift by the uncertain mission to which they had been assigned abroad. Whistles from the Graveyard shows the parts of the Afghanistan War we were never meant to see—Afghan locals and American infantry drawn together by their fears of the ghostly, ever-present terror of the Taliban; moments of dark resignation as the devastating toll of years in war’s crossfire reveals itself between bouts of adrenaline-laced violence; and nights of reckless, drug-fueled abandon to dull the pain. In full, vivid color, Miles Lagoze shows us an oft-overlooked generation of young Americans we cast out into the desert, steeped in nihilism, and shipped back home with firsthand training in extremism, misanthropy, and insurrection.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/among-the-bros-a-fraternity-crime-story-by-max-marshall--65184275https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story Author: Max Marshall Narrator: Stephen Graybill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Among the Bros is a harrowing and disturbing book. I have read about fraternity life but nothing like this. This book will blow your mind, each page digging deeper into the unimaginable. Except every word is true.”—Buzz Bissinger, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito Bowl and Friday Night Lights A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, leading to an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity life. When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a homicide, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South. He also opened up an elite world hidden to outsiders. Behind the pop culture cliches of “Greek life” lies one of the major breeding grounds of American power: 80 percent of Fortune 500 executives, 85 percent of Supreme Court justices, and all but four presidents since 1825 have been fraternity members. With unprecedented immersion, this book takes readers inside that bubble. Under the live oaks and Spanish moss of Travel + Leisure’s “Most Beautiful Campus in America,” Marshall traces several “C of C” boys’ journeys from fraternity pledges to interstate drug traffickers. The result is a true-life story of hubris, status, money, drugs, and murder—one that lifts a curtain on an ecstatic and disturbing way of life. With expert pacing and a cool eye, he follows a never-ending party that continues after funerals and mass arrests. An addictive and haunting portrait of tomorrow’s American establishment, Among the Bros is nonfiction storytelling at its finest.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650870Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story Author: Max Marshall Narrator: Stephen Graybill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story Author: Max Marshall Narrator: Stephen Graybill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Among the Bros is a harrowing and disturbing book. I have read about fraternity life but nothing like this. This book will blow your mind, each page digging deeper into the unimaginable. Except every word is true.”—Buzz Bissinger, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito Bowl and Friday Night Lights A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, leading to an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity life. When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a homicide, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South. He also opened up an elite world hidden to outsiders. Behind the pop culture cliches of “Greek life” lies one of the major breeding grounds of American power: 80 percent of Fortune 500 executives, 85 percent of Supreme Court justices, and all but four presidents since 1825 have been fraternity members. With unprecedented immersion, this book takes readers inside that bubble. Under the live oaks and Spanish moss of Travel + Leisure’s “Most Beautiful Campus in America,” Marshall traces several “C of C” boys’ journeys from fraternity pledges to interstate drug traffickers. The result is a true-life story of hubris, status, money, drugs, and murder—one that lifts a curtain on an ecstatic and disturbing way of life. With expert pacing and a cool eye, he follows a never-ending party that continues after funerals and mass arrests. An addictive and haunting portrait of tomorrow’s American establishment, Among the Bros is nonfiction storytelling at its finest.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/went-to-london-took-the-dog-the-diary-of-a-60-year-old-runaway-by-nina-stibbe--65184288https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651844 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Went to London, Took the Dog: The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway Author: Nina Stibbe Narrator: Nina Stibbe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This brilliant audiobook is wittily and hilariously read by the author, Nina Stibbe. 'Painfully funny, but also deeply moving' - Meg Mason 'Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise' - Bonnie Garmus 'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' - David Nicholls Twenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (Debby) Moggach in Camden for 'a year-long sabbatical'. It’s a break from married life back in Cornwall, or even perhaps a fresh start altogether. Debby does not have many demands – only to water the garden, watch for toads, and defrost the odd pie – so Nina is free to explore the city she once called home. Between scrutinising her son’s online dating developments, navigating the politics of the local pool, and taking detergent advice at the laundrette, this diary of a sixty-year-old runaway reunites us with the inimitable voice of Love, Nina, as the writer becomes, as she puts it, 'a proper adult' at last. As heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour 'An utter, UTTER treat! It was like spending time with my most clever, insightful, funny, FUNNY friend' - Marian Keyes 'No one writes heartbreak more hilariously, or hilarity more heartbreakingly' - Katherine Heiny 'So sharp and funny, blissfully gossipy, enviably well-observed . . . I loved it' - India Knight]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651844Thu, 02 Nov 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651844 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Went to London, Took the Dog: The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway Author: Nina Stibbe Narrator: Nina Stibbe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651844 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Went to London, Took the Dog: The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway Author: Nina Stibbe Narrator: Nina Stibbe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This brilliant audiobook is wittily and hilariously read by the author, Nina Stibbe. 'Painfully funny, but also deeply moving' - Meg Mason 'Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise' - Bonnie Garmus 'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' - David Nicholls Twenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (Debby) Moggach in Camden for 'a year-long sabbatical'. It’s a break from married life back in Cornwall, or even perhaps a fresh start altogether. Debby does not have many demands – only to water the garden, watch for toads, and defrost the odd pie – so Nina is free to explore the city she once called home. Between scrutinising her son’s online dating developments, navigating the politics of the local pool, and taking detergent advice at the laundrette, this diary of a sixty-year-old runaway reunites us with the inimitable voice of Love, Nina, as the writer becomes, as she puts it, 'a proper adult' at last. As heard on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour 'An utter, UTTER treat! It was like spending time with my most clever, insightful, funny, FUNNY friend' - Marian Keyes 'No one writes heartbreak more hilariously, or hilarity more heartbreakingly' - Katherine Heiny 'So sharp and funny, blissfully gossipy, enviably well-observed . . . I loved it' - India Knight]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-woman-in-me-by-britney-spears--65184304https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman in Me Author: Britney Spears Narrator: Michelle Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 620 Ratings of Narrator: 4.79 of Total 268 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, NPR, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and more! “In Britney Spears’s memoir, she’s stronger than ever.” —The New York Times Over 2 million copies sold of the “moving” (Time), “powerful” (Los Angeles Times), “radiant” (The New York Times), “poignant” (Vogue) #1 New York Times bestseller. The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640590Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman in Me Author: Britney Spears Narrator: Michelle Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 24,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman in Me Author: Britney Spears Narrator: Michelle Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 620 Ratings of Narrator: 4.79 of Total 268 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, NPR, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and more! “In Britney Spears’s memoir, she’s stronger than ever.” —The New York Times Over 2 million copies sold of the “moving” (Time), “powerful” (Los Angeles Times), “radiant” (The New York Times), “poignant” (Vogue) #1 New York Times bestseller. The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-next-chapter-making-peace-with-hard-memories-finding-hope-all-around-me-and-clearing-space-for-good-things-to-come-by-jana-kramer--65184255https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Next Chapter: Making Peace with Hard Memories, Finding Hope All Around Me, and Clearing Space for Good Things to Come Author: Jana Kramer Narrator: Jana Kramer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and country music superstar Jana Kramer reveals how she said goodbye, started again, moved on, and trusted God after her marriage came to a sudden end. The Next Chapter is Jana Kramer’s intimate and moving account about setting her life back on the right path after her sudden divorce. Chronicling the year that follows, Jana relives personal stories of early traumas and past relationships, and with raw honesty she shares topics dear to her heart and music, including hearing God, loving oneself, navigating setbacks, female friendships, grief, and motherhood.   As she grapples with questions such as: Am I doing this right? Is this the truest truth? Is there more to life than this? she finds and tells a story of freedom and redemption. Relatable to anyone who has walked a road of change, heartbreak, or grief, readers will be encouraged by the wisdom Jana finds in that distinct and critical transition from chaos to clarity, as she plants seeds for her future to begin the next chapter of her life. Personal and profound, The Next Chapter is about being truly alone for the first time, and the road traveled from heartbreak, pain, and anger to forgiveness, confidence, and peace.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650880Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Next Chapter: Making Peace with Hard Memories, Finding Hope All Around Me, and Clearing Space for Good Things to Come Author: Jana Kramer Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650880 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Next Chapter: Making Peace with Hard Memories, Finding Hope All Around Me, and Clearing Space for Good Things to Come Author: Jana Kramer Narrator: Jana Kramer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and country music superstar Jana Kramer reveals how she said goodbye, started again, moved on, and trusted God after her marriage came to a sudden end. The Next Chapter is Jana Kramer’s intimate and moving account about setting her life back on the right path after her sudden divorce. Chronicling the year that follows, Jana relives personal stories of early traumas and past relationships, and with raw honesty she shares topics dear to her heart and music, including hearing God, loving oneself, navigating setbacks, female friendships, grief, and motherhood.   As she grapples with questions such as: Am I doing this right? Is this the truest truth? Is there more to life than this? she finds and tells a story of freedom and redemption. Relatable to anyone who has walked a road of change, heartbreak, or grief, readers will be encouraged by the wisdom Jana finds in that distinct and critical transition from chaos to clarity, as she plants seeds for her future to begin the next chapter of her life. Personal and profound, The Next Chapter is about being truly alone for the first time, and the road traveled from heartbreak, pain, and anger to forgiveness, confidence, and peace.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/abroad-in-japan-by-chris-broad--65184272https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650625 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abroad in Japan Author: Chris Broad Narrator: Chris Broad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 5, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that comes with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world's most mysterious and impenetrable cultures. Spanning 10 years and 47 prefectures, Chris takes us from the chilling summit of Mount Fuji to the chaotic neon-lit streets of Tokyo. With blockbuster moments such as a terrifying North Korean missile incident, a Japanese national TV experience gone horribly wrong and a week spent with Japan's biggest movie star, Ken Watanabe, Abroad in Japan is an extraordinary and informative journey through the Land of the Rising Sun. ©2023 Chris Broad (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650625Thu, 05 Oct 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650625 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abroad in Japan Author: Chris Broad Narrator: Chris Broad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 5, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650625 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Abroad in Japan Author: Chris Broad Narrator: Chris Broad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 5, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that comes with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world's most mysterious and impenetrable cultures. Spanning 10 years and 47 prefectures, Chris takes us from the chilling summit of Mount Fuji to the chaotic neon-lit streets of Tokyo. With blockbuster moments such as a terrifying North Korean missile incident, a Japanese national TV experience gone horribly wrong and a week spent with Japan's biggest movie star, Ken Watanabe, Abroad in Japan is an extraordinary and informative journey through the Land of the Rising Sun. ©2023 Chris Broad (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-say-babylon-a-jamaican-memoir-by-safiya-sinclair--65184411https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir Author: Safiya Sinclair Narrator: Safiya Sinclair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunning book’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO ‘Dazzling’ TARA WESTOVER ‘A story about hope, imagination and resilience’ GUARDIAN An award-winning, inspiring memoir of family, education and resilience. Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where luxury hotels line pristine white sand beaches, Safiya Sinclair grew up guarding herself against an ever-present threat. Her father, a volatile reggae musician and strict believer in a militant sect of Rastafari, railed against Babylon, the corrupting influence of the immoral Western world just beyond their gate. To protect the purity of the women in their family he forbade almost everything. Her mother did what she could to bring joy to her children with books and poetry. But as Safiya’s imagination reached beyond its restrictive borders, her burgeoning independence brought with it ever greater clashes with her father. Soon she realised that if she was to live at all, she had to find some way to leave home. But how? How to Say Babylon is an unforgettable story of a young woman’s determination to live life on her own terms. A Guardian and Observer summer read. ‘I adored this book … Unforgettable’ ELIF SHAFAK ‘Electrifying’ OBSERVER ‘To read it is to believe that words can save’ MARLON JAMES ‘Breathless, scorching’ NEW YORK TIMES]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629241Tue, 03 Oct 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir Author: Safiya Sinclair Narrator: Safiya Sinclair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 48 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir Author: Safiya Sinclair Narrator: Safiya Sinclair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunning book’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO ‘Dazzling’ TARA WESTOVER ‘A story about hope, imagination and resilience’ GUARDIAN An award-winning, inspiring memoir of family, education and resilience. Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where luxury hotels line pristine white sand beaches, Safiya Sinclair grew up guarding herself against an ever-present threat. Her father, a volatile reggae musician and strict believer in a militant sect of Rastafari, railed against Babylon, the corrupting influence of the immoral Western world just beyond their gate. To protect the purity of the women in their family he forbade almost everything. Her mother did what she could to bring joy to her children with books and poetry. But as Safiya’s imagination reached beyond its restrictive borders, her burgeoning independence brought with it ever greater clashes with her father. Soon she realised that if she was to live at all, she had to find some way to leave home. But how? How to Say Babylon is an unforgettable story of a young woman’s determination to live life on her own terms. A Guardian and Observer summer read. ‘I adored this book … Unforgettable’ ELIF SHAFAK ‘Electrifying’ OBSERVER ‘To read it is to believe that words can save’ MARLON JAMES ‘Breathless, scorching’ NEW YORK TIMES]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-say-babylon-a-memoir-by-safiya-sinclair--65184332https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Say Babylon: A Memoir Author: Safiya Sinclair Narrator: Safiya Sinclair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 9 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner A New York Times Notable Book Best Book of the Year for The Washington Post* The New Yorker * Time * The Atlantic * Los Angeles Times * NPR * Harper’s Bazaar * Vulture * Town & Country * San Francisco Chronicle * Christian Science Monitor * Mother Jones * Barack Obama A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick “Impossible to put down...Each lyrical line sings and soars, freeing the reader as it did the writer.” —People With echoes of Educated and The Glass Castle, How to Say Babylon is a “lushly observed and keenly reflective chronicle” (The Washington Post), brilliantly recounting the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid religious upbringing and navigate the world on her own terms. Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and a militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, was obsessed with the ever-present threat of the corrupting evils of the Western world outside their home, and worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure. For him, a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience. Safiya’s extraordinary mother, though loyal to her father, gave her the one gift she knew would take Safiya beyond the stretch of beach and mountains in Jamaica their family called home: a world of books, knowledge, and education she conjured almost out of thin air. When she introduced Safiya to poetry, Safiya’s voice awakened. As she watched her mother struggle voicelessly for years under relentless domesticity, Safiya’s rebellion against her father’s rules set her on an inevitable collision course with him. Her education became the sharp tool to hone her own poetic voice and carve her path to liberation. Rich in emotion and page-turning drama, How to Say Babylon is “a melodious wave of memories” of a woman finding her own power (NPR).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631077Tue, 03 Oct 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Say Babylon: A Memoir Author: Safiya Sinclair Narrator: Safiya Sinclair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Say Babylon: A Memoir Author: Safiya Sinclair Narrator: Safiya Sinclair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 9 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner A New York Times Notable Book Best Book of the Year for The Washington Post* The New Yorker * Time * The Atlantic * Los Angeles Times * NPR * Harper’s Bazaar * Vulture * Town & Country * San Francisco Chronicle * Christian Science Monitor * Mother Jones * Barack Obama A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick “Impossible to put down...Each lyrical line sings and soars, freeing the reader as it did the writer.” —People With echoes of Educated and The Glass Castle, How to Say Babylon is a “lushly observed and keenly reflective chronicle” (The Washington Post), brilliantly recounting the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid religious upbringing and navigate the world on her own terms. Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and a militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, was obsessed with the ever-present threat of the corrupting evils of the Western world outside their home, and worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure. For him, a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience. Safiya’s extraordinary mother, though loyal to her father, gave her the one gift she knew would take Safiya beyond the stretch of beach and mountains in Jamaica their family called home: a world of books, knowledge, and education she conjured almost out of thin air. When she introduced Safiya to poetry, Safiya’s voice awakened. As she watched her mother struggle voicelessly for years under relentless domesticity, Safiya’s rebellion against her father’s rules set her on an inevitable collision course with him. Her education became the sharp tool to hone her own poetic voice and carve her path to liberation. Rich in emotion and page-turning drama, How to Say Babylon is “a melodious wave of memories” of a woman finding her own power (NPR).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-it-s-your-turn-to-serve-experiencing-god-s-grace-in-his-calling-for-your-life-by-karen-pence--65184240https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When It's Your Turn to Serve: Experiencing God’s Grace in His Calling for Your Life Author: Karen Pence Narrator: Karen Pence Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Life is full of unexpected obstacles, but there’s no challenge too big for God to handle. Washington D.C. is crammed with people eager to bend your ear about statistics, polls, and policies. Karen Pence is more likely to talk about beekeeping—if she’s not busy teaching an art class, painting watercolors, or riding her bike. An elementary schoolteacher who never expected to leave Indiana, Karen found during her extraordinary journey to becoming Second Lady that—despite the turbulence inherent to political campaigning, and through eighteen moves and countless surprises—God’s grace was sufficient. When It’s Your Turn to Serve is full of heartwarming and relatable stories of being a leader, a teacher, a mom, and a Christian throughout an unpredictable life. From turning up to “Pet Night” on Capitol Hill toting a lizard, two cats, and a dog—only to find it was an event for lobbyists—to getting the unexpected news that her husband had become Donald Trump’s nominee for vice president, Karen has learned to take surprises in stride. In this warm and deeply personal book, the former second lady shares the lessons she’s learned about God, faith, and family. Brimming with stories that mattered but didn’t make the headlines, the book challenges you to be open when opportunities arise, recognize your purpose in God’s plan, and step up to make a difference when it’s your turn.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650882Tue, 26 Sep 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When It's Your Turn to Serve: Experiencing God’s Grace in His Calling for Your Life Author: Karen Pence Narrator: Karen Pence Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When It's Your Turn to Serve: Experiencing God’s Grace in His Calling for Your Life Author: Karen Pence Narrator: Karen Pence Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Life is full of unexpected obstacles, but there’s no challenge too big for God to handle. Washington D.C. is crammed with people eager to bend your ear about statistics, polls, and policies. Karen Pence is more likely to talk about beekeeping—if she’s not busy teaching an art class, painting watercolors, or riding her bike. An elementary schoolteacher who never expected to leave Indiana, Karen found during her extraordinary journey to becoming Second Lady that—despite the turbulence inherent to political campaigning, and through eighteen moves and countless surprises—God’s grace was sufficient. When It’s Your Turn to Serve is full of heartwarming and relatable stories of being a leader, a teacher, a mom, and a Christian throughout an unpredictable life. From turning up to “Pet Night” on Capitol Hill toting a lizard, two cats, and a dog—only to find it was an event for lobbyists—to getting the unexpected news that her husband had become Donald Trump’s nominee for vice president, Karen has learned to take surprises in stride. In this warm and deeply personal book, the former second lady shares the lessons she’s learned about God, faith, and family. Brimming with stories that mattered but didn’t make the headlines, the book challenges you to be open when opportunities arise, recognize your purpose in God’s plan, and step up to make a difference when it’s your turn.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fight-for-your-life-by-amir-khan--65184357https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fight For Your Life Author: Amir Khan Narrator: Shane Zaza, Amir Khan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Following Khan's retirement from the sport in May 2022, in Fight For Your Life: The Autobiography Khan looks back on his exhilarating boxing career that spanned 27 years from his first fight to his last. A role model for his Pakistani heritage, his Bolton upbringing and the best of British sport, Khan also reveals for the first time the full story of his life outside of the ring. Told with his trademark warmth, humour and honesty, Khan relives his highs and lows. He shares never-before-told stories about his greatest fights and rivalries. He reflects on his Muslim faith and how his family forged him. He reveals dramatic details of a shocking armed robbery attempt when he was held up at gunpoint with his wife Faryal, along with the ups and downs of their marriage. He describes his charity efforts to help Pakistan's devastating floods, and he gleefully recounts the hilarious and heart-warming antics of his everyday life as a husband and father of three children, made popular in the acclaimed BBC Three TV series 'Meet the Khans: Big in Bolton'. The book, which is written in 12 chapters and 12 rounds, shares Khan's relatable and hard-won life advice so that listeners can learn from his triumphs and mistakes. ©2023 Amir Khan (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632513Thu, 14 Sep 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fight For Your Life Author: Amir Khan Narrator: Shane Zaza, Amir Khan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fight For Your Life Author: Amir Khan Narrator: Shane Zaza, Amir Khan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Following Khan's retirement from the sport in May 2022, in Fight For Your Life: The Autobiography Khan looks back on his exhilarating boxing career that spanned 27 years from his first fight to his last. A role model for his Pakistani heritage, his Bolton upbringing and the best of British sport, Khan also reveals for the first time the full story of his life outside of the ring. Told with his trademark warmth, humour and honesty, Khan relives his highs and lows. He shares never-before-told stories about his greatest fights and rivalries. He reflects on his Muslim faith and how his family forged him. He reveals dramatic details of a shocking armed robbery attempt when he was held up at gunpoint with his wife Faryal, along with the ups and downs of their marriage. He describes his charity efforts to help Pakistan's devastating floods, and he gleefully recounts the hilarious and heart-warming antics of his everyday life as a husband and father of three children, made popular in the acclaimed BBC Three TV series 'Meet the Khans: Big in Bolton'. The book, which is written in 12 chapters and 12 rounds, shares Khan's relatable and hard-won life advice so that listeners can learn from his triumphs and mistakes. ©2023 Amir Khan (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-strength-of-love-embracing-an-uncertain-future-with-resilience-and-optimism-by-kate-garraway--65184251https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strength of Love: Embracing an Uncertain Future with Resilience and Optimism Author: Kate Garraway Narrator: Kate Garraway Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: AS SEEN ON ITV'S DOCUMENTARY KATE GARRAWAY: DEREK'S STORY *** The Sunday Times Bestseller *** 'Intimate, tender and brutally honest ... a remarkable book.' Decca Aitkenhead, The Sunday Times 'These are probably the toughest times we have faced in many decades, and we all have to find within us the strength and resilience to get through and to find happiness and love in our futures, whatever life throws at us.' Kate Garraway has had to learn how to adapt ever since her husband Derek began his fight against the devastating impact of Covid, a condition that has left him needing 24-hour care at home and long spells in hospital, before he sadly passed away in January, surrounded by his loving family. In The Strength of Love, Kate explores issues that resonate with so many of us. She looks at the impact of trauma as well as the importance of resilience, adaptability, curiosity and positivity when recovering from it. She talks about identity, purpose, how to embrace uncertainty and take back control of our lives. Through her and Derek's story, she provides comfort and wisdom that will help anyone who has ever felt desperate, lonely or experienced profound loss, or who is fearful about what the future holds. Despite all that she and her family have had to endure, Kate shows us that love truly is the most powerful and resilient emotion of all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651066Thu, 14 Sep 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strength of Love: Embracing an Uncertain Future with Resilience and Optimism Author: Kate Garraway Narrator: Kate Garraway Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strength of Love: Embracing an Uncertain Future with Resilience and Optimism Author: Kate Garraway Narrator: Kate Garraway Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: AS SEEN ON ITV'S DOCUMENTARY KATE GARRAWAY: DEREK'S STORY *** The Sunday Times Bestseller *** 'Intimate, tender and brutally honest ... a remarkable book.' Decca Aitkenhead, The Sunday Times 'These are probably the toughest times we have faced in many decades, and we all have to find within us the strength and resilience to get through and to find happiness and love in our futures, whatever life throws at us.' Kate Garraway has had to learn how to adapt ever since her husband Derek began his fight against the devastating impact of Covid, a condition that has left him needing 24-hour care at home and long spells in hospital, before he sadly passed away in January, surrounded by his loving family. In The Strength of Love, Kate explores issues that resonate with so many of us. She looks at the impact of trauma as well as the importance of resilience, adaptability, curiosity and positivity when recovering from it. She talks about identity, purpose, how to embrace uncertainty and take back control of our lives. Through her and Derek's story, she provides comfort and wisdom that will help anyone who has ever felt desperate, lonely or experienced profound loss, or who is fearful about what the future holds. Despite all that she and her family have had to endure, Kate shows us that love truly is the most powerful and resilient emotion of all.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/one-sunny-afternoon-a-memoir-of-trauma-and-healing-by-rowan-jette-knox--65184254https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647480 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Sunny Afternoon: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing Author: Rowan Jette Knox Narrator: Rowan Jette Knox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Love Lives Here, a deeply personal memoir about facing life-long trauma head-on, and bravely healing the scars that endure. For writer and human rights advocate Rowan Jetté Knox, the inspiring story of his family’s journey of love and acceptance, when both his child and partner came out as transgender one after the other, was the hopeful beginning to their new lives. Their tale, shared in Rowan’s memoir Love Lives Here and embraced by readers everywhere, quickly found its way to the top of bestseller lists. Yet in the spring of 2020, Rowan began to experience targeted attacks on social media, and he soon became the subject of a small but very vocal group that criticized his book’s success and his advocacy work. The intensity of the backlash grew and drove Rowan to contemplate suicide. But instead of taking his life, on one sunny afternoon, he went to the hospital to seek help. One Sunny Afternoon is a searing testament to Rowan Jetté Knox’s extraordinary reckoning of  his past and present to find hope in his future. Triggered by the online harassment, he wades through his personal history and details the incidents of violence, addiction and sexual assault that have haunted him. When Rowan eventually receives a complex trauma disorder diagnosis and dedicates himself to recovery, he emerges with newfound strength, resiliency and confidence. One Sunny Afternoon is a profoundly moving and candid account of how trauma can shape us rather than define us, and reveals how even in our darkest moments—and on our most hopeless days—light can find its way in.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647480Tue, 12 Sep 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647480 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Sunny Afternoon: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing Author: Rowan Jette Knox Narrator: Rowan Jette Knox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647480 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Sunny Afternoon: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing Author: Rowan Jette Knox Narrator: Rowan Jette Knox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Love Lives Here, a deeply personal memoir about facing life-long trauma head-on, and bravely healing the scars that endure. For writer and human rights advocate Rowan Jetté Knox, the inspiring story of his family’s journey of love and acceptance, when both his child and partner came out as transgender one after the other, was the hopeful beginning to their new lives. Their tale, shared in Rowan’s memoir Love Lives Here and embraced by readers everywhere, quickly found its way to the top of bestseller lists. Yet in the spring of 2020, Rowan began to experience targeted attacks on social media, and he soon became the subject of a small but very vocal group that criticized his book’s success and his advocacy work. The intensity of the backlash grew and drove Rowan to contemplate suicide. But instead of taking his life, on one sunny afternoon, he went to the hospital to seek help. One Sunny Afternoon is a searing testament to Rowan Jetté Knox’s extraordinary reckoning of  his past and present to find hope in his future. Triggered by the online harassment, he wades through his personal history and details the incidents of violence, addiction and sexual assault that have haunted him. When Rowan eventually receives a complex trauma disorder diagnosis and dedicates himself to recovery, he emerges with newfound strength, resiliency and confidence. One Sunny Afternoon is a profoundly moving and candid account of how trauma can shape us rather than define us, and reveals how even in our darkest moments—and on our most hopeless days—light can find its way in.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lifescapes-a-biographer-s-search-for-the-soul-by-ann-wroe--65184263https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649507 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul Author: Ann Wroe Narrator: Ann Wroe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 57 minutes Release date: August 31, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The Economist reflects on a career spent pursuing life and capturing it on the page. It is soul that I go looking for. Or, to put it another way, real life. 'What is life?' asked the poet Shelley, and could not come up with an answer. Scientists, too, for all their understanding of how life manifests, thrives and evolves, have still not plumbed that fundamental question. Yet biographers and obituarists continue to corral lives in a few columns, or a few hundred pages, aware all the time how fleeting and elusive their subject is. In this dazzlingly original blend of memoir, biography, observation and poetry, Ann Wroe reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page. Through her experiences and those of others, through people she has known, studied or merely glimpsed in windows, she movingly explores what makes a life and how that life lingers after. Animated by Wroe's rare imagination, eye for the telling detail, and the wit, beauty and clarity of her writing, Lifescapes is a luminous, deeply personal answer to Shelley's question. 'She's a genius, I believe' HILARY MANTEL 'A masterful celebration' JOHN BANVILLE 'A rare and beautiful book' KAPKA KASSABOVA © Ann Wroe 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649507Thu, 31 Aug 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649507 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul Author: Ann Wroe Narrator: Ann Wroe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 57 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649507 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul Author: Ann Wroe Narrator: Ann Wroe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 57 minutes Release date: August 31, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The Economist reflects on a career spent pursuing life and capturing it on the page. It is soul that I go looking for. Or, to put it another way, real life. 'What is life?' asked the poet Shelley, and could not come up with an answer. Scientists, too, for all their understanding of how life manifests, thrives and evolves, have still not plumbed that fundamental question. Yet biographers and obituarists continue to corral lives in a few columns, or a few hundred pages, aware all the time how fleeting and elusive their subject is. In this dazzlingly original blend of memoir, biography, observation and poetry, Ann Wroe reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page. Through her experiences and those of others, through people she has known, studied or merely glimpsed in windows, she movingly explores what makes a life and how that life lingers after. Animated by Wroe's rare imagination, eye for the telling detail, and the wit, beauty and clarity of her writing, Lifescapes is a luminous, deeply personal answer to Shelley's question. 'She's a genius, I believe' HILARY MANTEL 'A masterful celebration' JOHN BANVILLE 'A rare and beautiful book' KAPKA KASSABOVA © Ann Wroe 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mother-tongue-the-surprising-history-of-women-s-words-by-jenni-nuttall--65184253https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words Author: Jenni Nuttall Narrator: Beth Hicks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A fascinating look at how we talk about women. . . . Dense with information and anecdotes, Mother Tongue touches on the hilarious and the devastating, with ample dashes of an ingredient so painfully absent from most discussions of sex and gender: humor.” ―Lisa Selin Davis, The Washington Post “[Nuttall] examines the origins of words used over many centuries to describe women’s bodies, desires, pregnancies, work lives, sexual victimhood, and stages of life. . . . Her research is comprehensive enough that even longtime word enthusiasts will find plenty of new trivia.” ―The New Yorker An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language—and what we can learn from the vivid vocabulary that English once had for women’s bodies, experiences, and sexuality So many of the words that we use to chronicle women’s lives feel awkward or alien. Medical terms are scrupulously accurate but antiseptic. Slang and obscenities have shock value, yet they perpetuate taboos. Where are the plain, honest words for women’s daily lives? Mother Tongue is a historical investigation of feminist language and thought, from the dawn of Old English to the present day. Dr. Jenni Nuttall guides readers through the evolution of words that we have used to describe female bodies, menstruation, women’s sexuality, the consequences of male violence, childbirth, women’s paid and unpaid work, and gender. Along the way, she challenges our modern language’s ability to insightfully articulate women’s shared experiences by examining the long-forgotten words once used in English for female sexual and reproductive organs. Nuttall also tells the story of words like womb and breast, whose meanings have changed over time, as well as how anatomical words such as hysteria and hysterical came to have such loaded legacies. Inspired by today’s heated debates about words like womxn and menstruators—and by more personal conversations with her teenage daughter—Nuttall describes the profound transformations of the English language. In the process, she unearths some surprisingly progressive thinking that challenges our assumptions about the past—and, in some cases, puts our twenty-first-century society to shame. Mother Tongue is a rich, provocative book for anyone who loves language—and for feminists who want to look to the past in order to move forward.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649340Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words Author: Jenni Nuttall Narrator: Beth Hicks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words Author: Jenni Nuttall Narrator: Beth Hicks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A fascinating look at how we talk about women. . . . Dense with information and anecdotes, Mother Tongue touches on the hilarious and the devastating, with ample dashes of an ingredient so painfully absent from most discussions of sex and gender: humor.” ―Lisa Selin Davis, The Washington Post “[Nuttall] examines the origins of words used over many centuries to describe women’s bodies, desires, pregnancies, work lives, sexual victimhood, and stages of life. . . . Her research is comprehensive enough that even longtime word enthusiasts will find plenty of new trivia.” ―The New Yorker An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language—and what we can learn from the vivid vocabulary that English once had for women’s bodies, experiences, and sexuality So many of the words that we use to chronicle women’s lives feel awkward or alien. Medical terms are scrupulously accurate but antiseptic. Slang and obscenities have shock value, yet they perpetuate taboos. Where are the plain, honest words for women’s daily lives? Mother Tongue is a historical investigation of feminist language and thought, from the dawn of Old English to the present day. Dr. Jenni Nuttall guides readers through the evolution of words that we have used to describe female bodies, menstruation, women’s sexuality, the consequences of male violence, childbirth, women’s paid and unpaid work, and gender. Along the way, she challenges our modern language’s ability to insightfully articulate women’s shared experiences by examining the long-forgotten words once used in English for female sexual and reproductive organs. Nuttall also tells the story of words like womb and breast, whose meanings have changed over time, as well as how anatomical words such as hysteria and hysterical came to have such loaded legacies. Inspired by today’s heated debates about words like womxn and menstruators—and by more personal conversations with her teenage daughter—Nuttall describes the profound transformations of the English language. In the process, she unearths some surprisingly progressive thinking that challenges our assumptions about the past—and, in some cases, puts our twenty-first-century society to shame. Mother Tongue is a rich, provocative book for anyone who loves language—and for feminists who want to look to the past in order to move forward.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/seventeen-the-shocking-true-story-of-a-teacher-s-affair-with-her-student-by-joe-gibson--65184245https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seventeen: The shocking true story of a teacher's affair with her student Author: Joe Gibson Narrator: Luke Thompson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It’s 1992. Like every other seventeen-year-old boy, Joe has one eye on his studies, the other on his social life – smoking, Britpop, girls. He’s looking ahead to a gap year full of travel and adventure before university when his teacher – attractive, mid-thirties – takes an interest in him. It seems like a fantasy come true.   For his final two years at school, he is bound to her, a woman twice his age, in an increasingly tangled web of coercion, sex and lies. Their affair, a product of complex grooming and a shocking abuse of authority, is played out in the corridors of one of Britain’s major private schools, under the noses of people who suspected, even knew, but said nothing.  Thirty years on, this is Joe’s gripping record of the illicit relationship that dominated his adolescence and dictated the course of his life for seventeen years. With a heady dose of nineties nostalgia and the perfectly captured mood of those final months at school, Joe charts the enduring legacy of deceit and the indelibility of decisions made at seventeen.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647928Thu, 24 Aug 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seventeen: The shocking true story of a teacher's affair with her student Author: Joe Gibson Narrator: Luke Thompson Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seventeen: The shocking true story of a teacher's affair with her student Author: Joe Gibson Narrator: Luke Thompson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: August 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It’s 1992. Like every other seventeen-year-old boy, Joe has one eye on his studies, the other on his social life – smoking, Britpop, girls. He’s looking ahead to a gap year full of travel and adventure before university when his teacher – attractive, mid-thirties – takes an interest in him. It seems like a fantasy come true.   For his final two years at school, he is bound to her, a woman twice his age, in an increasingly tangled web of coercion, sex and lies. Their affair, a product of complex grooming and a shocking abuse of authority, is played out in the corridors of one of Britain’s major private schools, under the noses of people who suspected, even knew, but said nothing.  Thirty years on, this is Joe’s gripping record of the illicit relationship that dominated his adolescence and dictated the course of his life for seventeen years. With a heady dose of nineties nostalgia and the perfectly captured mood of those final months at school, Joe charts the enduring legacy of deceit and the indelibility of decisions made at seventeen.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nervous-essays-on-heritage-and-healing-by-jen-soriano--65184282https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647253 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing Author: Jen Soriano Narrator: Jensen Olaya Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Nervous takes the focus from the abstract and does what doctors (and historians) failed to do: makes her story, her pain, and her life as real as any history that proceeded. Nervous gives face and weight to those forgotten women whose suffering has become little more than anecdotal collections of stories, not real people. It’s seamless and powerful. Nervous is a masterful personal narrative, beautifully written and captivating. It should– and will– be placed alongside some of the best well-crafted and compelling contemporary memoirs of this era.”—Bassey Ikpi, New York Times bestselling author of I’m Telling the Truth but I’m Lying Activist Jen Soriano brings to light the lingering impacts of transgenerational trauma and uses science, history, and family stories to flow toward transformation in this powerful collection that brings together the lyric storytelling, cultural exploration, and thoughtful analysis of The Argonauts, The Woman Warrior, What My Bones Know, and Minor Feelings. The power of quiet can haunt us over generations, crystallizing in pain that Jen Soriano views as a form of embodied history. In this searing memoir in essays, Soriano, the daughter of a neurosurgeon, journeys to understand the origins of her chronic pain and mental health struggles. By the end, she finds both the source and the delta of what bodies impacted by trauma might need to thrive. In fourteen essays connected by theme and experience, Soriano traverses centuries and continents, weaving together memory and history, sociology and personal stories, neuroscience and public health, into a vivid tapestry of what it takes to transform trauma not just body by body, but through the body politic and ecosystems at large. Beginning with a shocking timeline juxtaposing Soriano’s medical history with the history of hysteria and witch hunts, Nervous navigates the human body—centering neurodiverse, disabled, and genderqueer bodies of color—within larger systems that have harmed and silenced Filipinos for generations. Soriano’s wide-ranging essays contemplate the Spanish-American War that ushered in United States colonization in the Philippines; the healing power of an inherited legacy of music; a chosen family of activists from the Bay Area to the Philippines; and how the fluidity of our nervous systems can teach us how to shape a trauma-wise future. With Nervous, Soriano boldly invites us along on a watershed journey toward healing, understanding, and communion.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647253Tue, 22 Aug 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647253 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing Author: Jen Soriano Narrator: Jensen Olaya Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647253 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing Author: Jen Soriano Narrator: Jensen Olaya Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Nervous takes the focus from the abstract and does what doctors (and historians) failed to do: makes her story, her pain, and her life as real as any history that proceeded. Nervous gives face and weight to those forgotten women whose suffering has become little more than anecdotal collections of stories, not real people. It’s seamless and powerful. Nervous is a masterful personal narrative, beautifully written and captivating. It should– and will– be placed alongside some of the best well-crafted and compelling contemporary memoirs of this era.”—Bassey Ikpi, New York Times bestselling author of I’m Telling the Truth but I’m Lying Activist Jen Soriano brings to light the lingering impacts of transgenerational trauma and uses science, history, and family stories to flow toward transformation in this powerful collection that brings together the lyric storytelling, cultural exploration, and thoughtful analysis of The Argonauts, The Woman Warrior, What My Bones Know, and Minor Feelings. The power of quiet can haunt us over generations, crystallizing in pain that Jen Soriano views as a form of embodied history. In this searing memoir in essays, Soriano, the daughter of a neurosurgeon, journeys to understand the origins of her chronic pain and mental health struggles. By the end, she finds both the source and the delta of what bodies impacted by trauma might need to thrive. In fourteen essays connected by theme and experience, Soriano traverses centuries and continents, weaving together memory and history, sociology and personal stories, neuroscience and public health, into a vivid tapestry of what it takes to transform trauma not just body by body, but through the body politic and ecosystems at large. Beginning with a shocking timeline juxtaposing Soriano’s medical history with the history of hysteria and witch hunts, Nervous navigates the human body—centering neurodiverse, disabled, and genderqueer bodies of color—within larger systems that have harmed and silenced Filipinos for generations. Soriano’s wide-ranging essays contemplate the Spanish-American War that ushered in United States colonization in the Philippines; the healing power of an inherited legacy of music; a chosen family of activists from the Bay Area to the Philippines; and how the fluidity of our nervous systems can teach us how to shape a trauma-wise future. With Nervous, Soriano boldly invites us along on a watershed journey toward healing, understanding, and communion.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-place-we-make-breaking-the-legacy-of-legalized-hate-by-sarah-l-sanderson--65184303https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate Author: Sarah L. Sanderson Narrator: Chanté Griffin, Sarah L. Sanderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A thoughtful investigation into the incredible true story of a Black man convicted and exiled under the Oregon Exclusion Law in 1851—and a contemporary White woman wrestling with racism and faith after learning she’s a descendant of two men who assisted in the exile. “A beautiful rendering of an ugly history. A worthy read.”—Chanté Griffin, advocate, journalist, and author A SOJOURNERS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Moving back to the outskirts of Portland, called the “Whitest city in America,” prompted Sarah’s curiosity about the colonization of the West, her ancestors, and the legal exile of a Black man. She examined four city leaders involved in Jacob Vanderpool’s case—Oregon City’s founder, the case judge, Jacob’s accuser, and a local pastor—and the cultural and theological fallout of their decisions. Along the way, Sarah took a hard look at her tendencies, unconscious and deliberate, to ignore the possibility of prejudice in her heart.  Vanderpool’s case proved a fascinating lens on a far bigger story than one trial, illuminating truths to help us all come to honest terms with our past, learn to repent, and contribute to the good of the people and places around us. Journey through this sensitive expedition into the events that remain a thorn under America’s skin and discover afresh the vast potential of the flawed but endlessly redeemable—human heart.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649111Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate Author: Sarah L. Sanderson Narrator: Chanté Griffin, Sarah L. Sanderson Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Place We Make: Breaking the Legacy of Legalized Hate Author: Sarah L. Sanderson Narrator: Chanté Griffin, Sarah L. Sanderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A thoughtful investigation into the incredible true story of a Black man convicted and exiled under the Oregon Exclusion Law in 1851—and a contemporary White woman wrestling with racism and faith after learning she’s a descendant of two men who assisted in the exile. “A beautiful rendering of an ugly history. A worthy read.”—Chanté Griffin, advocate, journalist, and author A SOJOURNERS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Moving back to the outskirts of Portland, called the “Whitest city in America,” prompted Sarah’s curiosity about the colonization of the West, her ancestors, and the legal exile of a Black man. She examined four city leaders involved in Jacob Vanderpool’s case—Oregon City’s founder, the case judge, Jacob’s accuser, and a local pastor—and the cultural and theological fallout of their decisions. Along the way, Sarah took a hard look at her tendencies, unconscious and deliberate, to ignore the possibility of prejudice in her heart.  Vanderpool’s case proved a fascinating lens on a far bigger story than one trial, illuminating truths to help us all come to honest terms with our past, learn to repent, and contribute to the good of the people and places around us. Journey through this sensitive expedition into the events that remain a thorn under America’s skin and discover afresh the vast potential of the flawed but endlessly redeemable—human heart.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rye-bread-marriage-how-i-found-happiness-with-a-partner-i-ll-never-understand-by-michaele-weissman--65184265https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rye Bread Marriage: How I Found Happiness with a Partner I'll Never Understand Author: Michaele Weissman Narrator: Barrie Kreinik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Experience a beautiful, humorous, universal love story with this memoir about learning to live with another human being and how every relationship is a mystery—and a miracle.    When they first meet, John, a dashing European, a Latvian refugee, a physics PhD, is hoping to settle down. Michaele, a fast-talking American college student, is hungry for an independent life as a writer and historian. When they meet again some years later, Michaele is ready. Or so she thinks. And opposites attract, right? The life Michaele and John build together intermingles sweetness—their love of good food, entertaining, and family—with complications, including their ethnic and religious differences (Michaele is Jewish; John is not), the trauma John endured as a child during WWII, Michaele’s thwarted ambitions, and even John’s preoccupation with Latvian rye. When he opens a successful company marketing rye bread, Michaele embarks on a European journey in search of her husband’s origins, excavating poignant stories of war, privation, and resilience. She realizes at last that rye bread represents everything about John’s homeland that he loved and lost. Eventually Michaele comes to love rye bread, too. An enticing memoir for readers of Dani Shapiro’s Hourglass, Bess Kalb’s Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, and Heather Havrilesky’s Foreverland, The Rye Bread Marriage asks, how do the stories we live and the stories we inherit play out in our relationships? After forty years of marriage, Michaele Weissman has a few answers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650348Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rye Bread Marriage: How I Found Happiness with a Partner I'll Never Understand Author: Michaele Weissman Narrator: Barrie Kreinik Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rye Bread Marriage: How I Found Happiness with a Partner I'll Never Understand Author: Michaele Weissman Narrator: Barrie Kreinik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 15, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Experience a beautiful, humorous, universal love story with this memoir about learning to live with another human being and how every relationship is a mystery—and a miracle.    When they first meet, John, a dashing European, a Latvian refugee, a physics PhD, is hoping to settle down. Michaele, a fast-talking American college student, is hungry for an independent life as a writer and historian. When they meet again some years later, Michaele is ready. Or so she thinks. And opposites attract, right? The life Michaele and John build together intermingles sweetness—their love of good food, entertaining, and family—with complications, including their ethnic and religious differences (Michaele is Jewish; John is not), the trauma John endured as a child during WWII, Michaele’s thwarted ambitions, and even John’s preoccupation with Latvian rye. When he opens a successful company marketing rye bread, Michaele embarks on a European journey in search of her husband’s origins, excavating poignant stories of war, privation, and resilience. She realizes at last that rye bread represents everything about John’s homeland that he loved and lost. Eventually Michaele comes to love rye bread, too. An enticing memoir for readers of Dani Shapiro’s Hourglass, Bess Kalb’s Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, and Heather Havrilesky’s Foreverland, The Rye Bread Marriage asks, how do the stories we live and the stories we inherit play out in our relationships? After forty years of marriage, Michaele Weissman has a few answers.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-bleeding-tree-a-pathway-through-grief-guided-by-forests-folk-tales-and-the-ritual-year-by-hollie-starling--65184335https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640946 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bleeding Tree: A Pathway Through Grief Guided by Forests, Folk Tales and the Ritual Year Author: Hollie Starling Narrator: Adele Marie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 10, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. It was the last of the ebbing days, the brink of the new season. It was the murky hours, the clove between sunset and sunrise. It was a tall tree with deep roots and it had been bleeding for a long while. As summer falls into autumn, Hollie Starling is hit by the heart-stopping news that her father has died by suicide. Thrust into a state of 'grief on hard mode', Hollie feels underserved by current attitudes toward grief and so seeks another way through the dark. Following her first year without her father, Hollie embraces her lifelong interest in folklore and turns to the healing power of nature, the changing seasons and the rituals of ancient communities. The Bleeding Tree is an unflinching year-zero guidebook to grief that shows us that by looking back to past traditions of bereavement we can all find our own way forward. ©2023 Hollie Starling (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640946Thu, 10 Aug 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640946 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bleeding Tree: A Pathway Through Grief Guided by Forests, Folk Tales and the Ritual Year Author: Hollie Starling Narrator: Adele Marie Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640946 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bleeding Tree: A Pathway Through Grief Guided by Forests, Folk Tales and the Ritual Year Author: Hollie Starling Narrator: Adele Marie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 10, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. It was the last of the ebbing days, the brink of the new season. It was the murky hours, the clove between sunset and sunrise. It was a tall tree with deep roots and it had been bleeding for a long while. As summer falls into autumn, Hollie Starling is hit by the heart-stopping news that her father has died by suicide. Thrust into a state of 'grief on hard mode', Hollie feels underserved by current attitudes toward grief and so seeks another way through the dark. Following her first year without her father, Hollie embraces her lifelong interest in folklore and turns to the healing power of nature, the changing seasons and the rituals of ancient communities. The Bleeding Tree is an unflinching year-zero guidebook to grief that shows us that by looking back to past traditions of bereavement we can all find our own way forward. ©2023 Hollie Starling (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/waiting-to-be-arrested-at-night-a-uyghur-poet-s-memoir-of-china-s-genocide-by-tahir-hamut-izgil--65184336https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641318 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting to be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide Author: Tahir Hamut Izgil Narrator: Greg Watanabe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century, amplified by China's establishment of an all-seeing high-tech surveillance state. Over a million people have vanished into China's internment camps for Muslim minorities. Tahir, a prominent poet and intellectual, had been no stranger to persecution. After he attempted to travel abroad in 1996, police tortured him until he confessed to fabricated charges and sent him to a re-education through labour camp. But even having endured three years in the camp, he could never have predicted the Chinese government's radical solution to the Uyghur question two decades later. When he noticed that the park near his home was nearly empty because so many neighbours had been arrested, he knew the police would be coming for him any day. It soon became clear to Tahir and his wife that fleeing the country was the family's only hope. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is the story of the political, social, and cultural destruction of Tahir Hamut Izgil's homeland. Among leading Uyghur intellectuals and writers, he is the only one known to have escaped China since the mass internments began. His book is a call for the world to awaken to the unfolding catastrophe, and a tribute to his friends and fellow Uyghurs whose voices have been silenced. ©2023 Tahir Hamut Izgil (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641318Thu, 03 Aug 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641318 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting to be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide Author: Tahir Hamut Izgil Narrator: Greg Watanabe Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641318 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting to be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide Author: Tahir Hamut Izgil Narrator: Greg Watanabe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century, amplified by China's establishment of an all-seeing high-tech surveillance state. Over a million people have vanished into China's internment camps for Muslim minorities. Tahir, a prominent poet and intellectual, had been no stranger to persecution. After he attempted to travel abroad in 1996, police tortured him until he confessed to fabricated charges and sent him to a re-education through labour camp. But even having endured three years in the camp, he could never have predicted the Chinese government's radical solution to the Uyghur question two decades later. When he noticed that the park near his home was nearly empty because so many neighbours had been arrested, he knew the police would be coming for him any day. It soon became clear to Tahir and his wife that fleeing the country was the family's only hope. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is the story of the political, social, and cultural destruction of Tahir Hamut Izgil's homeland. Among leading Uyghur intellectuals and writers, he is the only one known to have escaped China since the mass internments began. His book is a call for the world to awaken to the unfolding catastrophe, and a tribute to his friends and fellow Uyghurs whose voices have been silenced. ©2023 Tahir Hamut Izgil (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pulling-the-chariot-of-the-sun-a-memoir-of-a-kidnapping-by-shane-mccrae--65184311https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/642878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping Author: Shane Mccrae Narrator: Shane Mccrae Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Vulture’s #1 Memoir of 2023 An unforgettable, “lyrical and poignant” (The Washington Post) memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed, they manipulated and controlled him, refusing to acknowledge his heritage—all the while believing they were doing what was best for him. For their own safety and to ensure the kidnapping remained a success, Shane’s grandparents had to make sure that he never knew the full story, so he was raised to participate in his own disappearance. But despite elaborate fabrications and unreliable memories, Shane begins to reconstruct his own story and to forge his own identity. Gradually, the truth unveils itself, and with the truth, comes a path to reuniting with his father and finding his own place in the world. A revelatory account of an American childhood that hauntingly echoes the larger story of race in our country, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun is written with the virtuosity and heart of one of the finest poets writing today. A powerful reflection on what is broken in America—this is “an essential story for our times” (Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of White Girls).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/642878Tue, 01 Aug 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/642878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping Author: Shane Mccrae Narrator: Shane Mccrae Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/642878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping Author: Shane Mccrae Narrator: Shane Mccrae Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Vulture’s #1 Memoir of 2023 An unforgettable, “lyrical and poignant” (The Washington Post) memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed, they manipulated and controlled him, refusing to acknowledge his heritage—all the while believing they were doing what was best for him. For their own safety and to ensure the kidnapping remained a success, Shane’s grandparents had to make sure that he never knew the full story, so he was raised to participate in his own disappearance. But despite elaborate fabrications and unreliable memories, Shane begins to reconstruct his own story and to forge his own identity. Gradually, the truth unveils itself, and with the truth, comes a path to reuniting with his father and finding his own place in the world. A revelatory account of an American childhood that hauntingly echoes the larger story of race in our country, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun is written with the virtuosity and heart of one of the finest poets writing today. A powerful reflection on what is broken in America—this is “an essential story for our times” (Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of White Girls).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/waiting-to-be-arrested-at-night-a-uyghur-poet-s-memoir-of-china-s-genocide-by-tahir-hamut-izgil--65184286https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649327 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide Author: Tahir Hamut Izgil Narrator: Greg Watanabe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, awarded to the best first book of the year Named one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ECONOMIST • TIME A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century, amplified by China's establishment of an all-seeing high-tech surveillance state. Over a million people have vanished into China’s internment camps for Muslim minorities. Tahir, a prominent poet and intellectual, had been no stranger to persecution. After he attempted to travel abroad in 1996, police tortured him until he confessed to fabricated charges and sent him to a re-education through labor camp. But even having endured three years in the camp, he could never have predicted the Chinese government’s radical solution to the Uyghur question two decades later. Was the first sign when Tahir was interrogated for hours after a phone call with a fellow poet in the Netherlands? Or when his old friend was sentenced to life in prison simply for calling for Uyghurs' legal rights to be enforced? Perhaps it was when the police seized Uyghurs’ radios and installed jamming equipment to cut them off from the outside world. Once Tahir noticed that the park near his home was nearly empty because so many neighbors had been arrested, he knew the police would be coming for him any day. One night, after Tahir’s daughters were asleep, he placed by his door a sturdy pair of shoes, a sweater, and a coat so that he could stay warm if the police came for him in the middle of the night. It was clear to Tahir and his wife that fleeing the country was the family's only hope.  Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is the story of the political, social, and cultural destruction of Tahir Hamut Izgil's homeland. Among leading Uyghur intellectuals and writers, he is the only one known to have escaped China since the mass internments began. His book is a call for the world to awaken to the unfolding catastrophe, and a tribute to his friends and fellow Uyghurs whose voices have been silenced.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649327Tue, 01 Aug 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649327 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide Author: Tahir Hamut Izgil Narrator: Greg Watanabe Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649327 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide Author: Tahir Hamut Izgil Narrator: Greg Watanabe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, awarded to the best first book of the year Named one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ECONOMIST • TIME A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century, amplified by China's establishment of an all-seeing high-tech surveillance state. Over a million people have vanished into China’s internment camps for Muslim minorities. Tahir, a prominent poet and intellectual, had been no stranger to persecution. After he attempted to travel abroad in 1996, police tortured him until he confessed to fabricated charges and sent him to a re-education through labor camp. But even having endured three years in the camp, he could never have predicted the Chinese government’s radical solution to the Uyghur question two decades later. Was the first sign when Tahir was interrogated for hours after a phone call with a fellow poet in the Netherlands? Or when his old friend was sentenced to life in prison simply for calling for Uyghurs' legal rights to be enforced? Perhaps it was when the police seized Uyghurs’ radios and installed jamming equipment to cut them off from the outside world. Once Tahir noticed that the park near his home was nearly empty because so many neighbors had been arrested, he knew the police would be coming for him any day. One night, after Tahir’s daughters were asleep, he placed by his door a sturdy pair of shoes, a sweater, and a coat so that he could stay warm if the police came for him in the middle of the night. It was clear to Tahir and his wife that fleeing the country was the family's only hope.  Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is the story of the political, social, and cultural destruction of Tahir Hamut Izgil's homeland. Among leading Uyghur intellectuals and writers, he is the only one known to have escaped China since the mass internments began. His book is a call for the world to awaken to the unfolding catastrophe, and a tribute to his friends and fellow Uyghurs whose voices have been silenced.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/paper-trails-from-the-backwoods-to-the-front-page-a-life-in-stories-by-roy-macgregor--65184256https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paper Trails: From the Backwoods to the Front Page, a Life in Stories Author: Roy Macgregor Narrator: Miles Meili Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 23 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One of Canada's greatest journalists shares a half century of the stories behind the stories. From his vantage point harnessed to a tree overlooking the town of Huntsville (he tended to wander), a very young Roy MacGregor got in the habit of watching people—what they did, who they talked to, where they went. He has been getting to know his fellow Canadians and telling us all about them ever since.     From his early days in the pages of Maclean's, to stints at the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, National Post and most famously from his perch on page two of the Globe and Mail, MacGregor was one of the country's must-read journalists. While news media were leaning increasingly right or left, he always leaned north, his curiosity trained by the deep woods and cold lakes of Algonquin Park to share stories from Canada's farthest reaches, even as he worked in the newsrooms of its southern capitols. From Parliament to the backyard rink, subarctic shores to prairie expanses, MacGregor shaped the way Canadians saw and thought about themselves—never entirely untethered from the land and its history.     When MacGregor was still a young editor at Maclean's, the 21-year-old chief of the Waskaganish (aka Rupert's House) Crees, Billy Diamond, found in Roy a willing listener as the chief was appealing desperately to newsrooms across Ottawa, trying to bring attention to the tainted-water emergency in his community. Where other journalists had shrugged off Diamond's appeals, MacGregor got on a tiny plane into northern Quebec. From there began a long friendship that would one day lead MacGregor to a Winnipeg secret location with Elijah Harper and his advisors, a host of the most influential Indigenous leaders in Canada, as the Manitoba MPP contemplated the Charlottetown Accord and a vote that could shatter what seemed at the time the country's last chance to save Confederation.      This was the sort of exclusive access to vital Canadian stories that Roy MacGregor always seemed to secure. And as his ardent fans will discover, the observant small-town boy turned pre-eminent journalist put his rare vantage point to exceptional use. Filled with reminiscences of an age when Canadian newsrooms were populated by outsized characters, outright rogues and passionate practitioners, the unputdownable Paper Trails is a must-read account of a life lived in stories.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646650Tue, 01 Aug 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paper Trails: From the Backwoods to the Front Page, a Life in Stories Author: Roy Macgregor Narrator: Miles Meili Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paper Trails: From the Backwoods to the Front Page, a Life in Stories Author: Roy Macgregor Narrator: Miles Meili Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 23 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One of Canada's greatest journalists shares a half century of the stories behind the stories. From his vantage point harnessed to a tree overlooking the town of Huntsville (he tended to wander), a very young Roy MacGregor got in the habit of watching people—what they did, who they talked to, where they went. He has been getting to know his fellow Canadians and telling us all about them ever since.     From his early days in the pages of Maclean's, to stints at the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, National Post and most famously from his perch on page two of the Globe and Mail, MacGregor was one of the country's must-read journalists. While news media were leaning increasingly right or left, he always leaned north, his curiosity trained by the deep woods and cold lakes of Algonquin Park to share stories from Canada's farthest reaches, even as he worked in the newsrooms of its southern capitols. From Parliament to the backyard rink, subarctic shores to prairie expanses, MacGregor shaped the way Canadians saw and thought about themselves—never entirely untethered from the land and its history.     When MacGregor was still a young editor at Maclean's, the 21-year-old chief of the Waskaganish (aka Rupert's House) Crees, Billy Diamond, found in Roy a willing listener as the chief was appealing desperately to newsrooms across Ottawa, trying to bring attention to the tainted-water emergency in his community. Where other journalists had shrugged off Diamond's appeals, MacGregor got on a tiny plane into northern Quebec. From there began a long friendship that would one day lead MacGregor to a Winnipeg secret location with Elijah Harper and his advisors, a host of the most influential Indigenous leaders in Canada, as the Manitoba MPP contemplated the Charlottetown Accord and a vote that could shatter what seemed at the time the country's last chance to save Confederation.      This was the sort of exclusive access to vital Canadian stories that Roy MacGregor always seemed to secure. And as his ardent fans will discover, the observant small-town boy turned pre-eminent journalist put his rare vantage point to exceptional use. Filled with reminiscences of an age when Canadian newsrooms were populated by outsized characters, outright rogues and passionate practitioners, the unputdownable Paper Trails is a must-read account of a life lived in stories.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-is-mostly-edges-a-memoir-by-calvin-miller--65184277https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Is Mostly Edges: A Memoir Author: Calvin Miller Narrator: Wayne Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date: July 25, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One man’s backward glance at unexpected lessons, the beauty of relationship, and God’s mysterious guiding hand. Bestselling author and poet Calvin Miller turns his hand to the most moving story of all – his own. The reader is taken through a myriad of experiences of a young man coming of age in mid-20th century America. Following his life into college, seminary, a small local church and eventually to a new life as an author and professor, the memoir touches on those points that make all of us uniquely human and intensely vulnerable.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646949Tue, 25 Jul 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Is Mostly Edges: A Memoir Author: Calvin Miller Narrator: Wayne Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Is Mostly Edges: A Memoir Author: Calvin Miller Narrator: Wayne Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date: July 25, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One man’s backward glance at unexpected lessons, the beauty of relationship, and God’s mysterious guiding hand. Bestselling author and poet Calvin Miller turns his hand to the most moving story of all – his own. The reader is taken through a myriad of experiences of a young man coming of age in mid-20th century America. Following his life into college, seminary, a small local church and eventually to a new life as an author and professor, the memoir touches on those points that make all of us uniquely human and intensely vulnerable.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-king-of-late-night-by-greg-gutfeld--65184247https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The King of Late Night Author: Greg Gutfeld Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Greg Gutfeld, five-time New York Times bestselling author and host of the #1 rated late night show GUTFELD!, returns with a witty and tongue-in-cheek essay collection that is part memoir and part political manifesto. Greg Gutfeld is back with a hilarious essay collection about how he destroyed the mainstream late night landscape of heavyweights and became host of the #1 late night show in all of television. With his signature wit and whip-smart humor, Greg reveals never-before-told stories of his upbringing and early career, what it’s like going head-to-head with the liberal media, and what it took to flip the script on the comedy landscape. How did the former health magazine editor take a show in a throwaway time slot in the middle of the night and turn it into a cult classic? And how did that show, Redeye, catapult Greg to The Five, the most watched show on TV, and GUTFELD!, his own late-night spot, with millions of viewers each night? Buckle up, because this story is one hell of a ride, especially if Greg is driving.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651519Tue, 25 Jul 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The King of Late Night Author: Greg Gutfeld Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 25,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The King of Late Night Author: Greg Gutfeld Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Greg Gutfeld, five-time New York Times bestselling author and host of the #1 rated late night show GUTFELD!, returns with a witty and tongue-in-cheek essay collection that is part memoir and part political manifesto. Greg Gutfeld is back with a hilarious essay collection about how he destroyed the mainstream late night landscape of heavyweights and became host of the #1 late night show in all of television. With his signature wit and whip-smart humor, Greg reveals never-before-told stories of his upbringing and early career, what it’s like going head-to-head with the liberal media, and what it took to flip the script on the comedy landscape. How did the former health magazine editor take a show in a throwaway time slot in the middle of the night and turn it into a cult classic? And how did that show, Redeye, catapult Greg to The Five, the most watched show on TV, and GUTFELD!, his own late-night spot, with millions of viewers each night? Buckle up, because this story is one hell of a ride, especially if Greg is driving.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-country-of-the-blind-a-memoir-at-the-end-of-sight-by-andrew-leland--65184300https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight Author: Andrew Leland Narrator: Andrew Leland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE  Named one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORKER • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ATLANTIC • NPR • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LITHUB 'Fascinating...The great strength of this memoir is its voracious, humble curiosity.' - The Atlantic, The 10 Best Books of the Year A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own. We meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he’s midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but starting in his teenage years, his sight began to degrade from the outside in. Soon— but without knowing exactly when—he will likely have no vision left. Full of apprehension but also dogged curiosity, Leland embarks on a sweeping exploration of the state of being that awaits him: not only the physical experience of blindness but also its language, politics, and customs. He negotiates his changing relationships with his wife and son, and with his own sense of self, as he moves from his mainstream, “typical” life to one with a disability. Part memoir, part historical and cultural investigation, The Country of the Blind represents Leland’s determination not to merely survive this transition but to grow from it—to seek out and revel in that which makes blindness enlightening. Brimming with warmth and humor, it is an exhilarating tour of a new way of being.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640554Tue, 18 Jul 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight Author: Andrew Leland Narrator: Andrew Leland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight Author: Andrew Leland Narrator: Andrew Leland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE  Named one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORKER • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ATLANTIC • NPR • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LITHUB 'Fascinating...The great strength of this memoir is its voracious, humble curiosity.' - The Atlantic, The 10 Best Books of the Year A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own. We meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he’s midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but starting in his teenage years, his sight began to degrade from the outside in. Soon— but without knowing exactly when—he will likely have no vision left. Full of apprehension but also dogged curiosity, Leland embarks on a sweeping exploration of the state of being that awaits him: not only the physical experience of blindness but also its language, politics, and customs. He negotiates his changing relationships with his wife and son, and with his own sense of self, as he moves from his mainstream, “typical” life to one with a disability. Part memoir, part historical and cultural investigation, The Country of the Blind represents Leland’s determination not to merely survive this transition but to grow from it—to seek out and revel in that which makes blindness enlightening. Brimming with warmth and humor, it is an exhilarating tour of a new way of being.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-on-other-planets-a-memoir-of-finding-my-place-in-the-universe-by-aomawa-shields--65184371https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630979 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe Author: Aomawa Shields Narrator: Aomawa Shields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother, and Black woman in STEM, searching for life in the universe while building a meaningful life here on Earth As a kid, Aomawa Shields was always bumping into things, her neck craned up at the sky, dreaming of becoming an astronaut. A year into an astrophysics PhD program, plagued by self-doubt and discouraged by a white male professor who suggested that she—a young Black woman who also loved fashion, makeup, and the arts—didn’t belong, she left astronomy and pursued acting professionally for a decade, before a day job working for NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope drew her back to the stars. She was the oldest and the only Black student in her PhD cohort. This time, no professor, and no voice in her own head, would stop her. Now an astronomer and astrobiologist at the top of her field, Dr. Shields studies the universe outside our Solar System, researching and uncovering the planets circling distant stars with just the right conditions that could support life—while also using her theater education to communicate the wonder and magic of the universe with those of us here on Earth. But it’s been a journey as winding and complex as the physics she has mastered. Life on Other Planets is a journey of discovery on this world and on others, a story of creating a life that makes space for joy, love, and wonder while being driven by one of our biggest questions: Is anybody else out there? It is about the possibility of living between multiple worlds and not choosing—but instead charting a new path entirely.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630979Tue, 11 Jul 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630979 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe Author: Aomawa Shields Narrator: Aomawa Shields Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630979 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life on Other Planets: A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe Author: Aomawa Shields Narrator: Aomawa Shields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically-trained actor, mother, and Black woman in STEM, searching for life in the universe while building a meaningful life here on Earth As a kid, Aomawa Shields was always bumping into things, her neck craned up at the sky, dreaming of becoming an astronaut. A year into an astrophysics PhD program, plagued by self-doubt and discouraged by a white male professor who suggested that she—a young Black woman who also loved fashion, makeup, and the arts—didn’t belong, she left astronomy and pursued acting professionally for a decade, before a day job working for NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope drew her back to the stars. She was the oldest and the only Black student in her PhD cohort. This time, no professor, and no voice in her own head, would stop her. Now an astronomer and astrobiologist at the top of her field, Dr. Shields studies the universe outside our Solar System, researching and uncovering the planets circling distant stars with just the right conditions that could support life—while also using her theater education to communicate the wonder and magic of the universe with those of us here on Earth. But it’s been a journey as winding and complex as the physics she has mastered. Life on Other Planets is a journey of discovery on this world and on others, a story of creating a life that makes space for joy, love, and wonder while being driven by one of our biggest questions: Is anybody else out there? It is about the possibility of living between multiple worlds and not choosing—but instead charting a new path entirely.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-ordinary-assignment-a-memoir-by-jane-ferguson--65184368https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631140 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Ordinary Assignment: A Memoir Author: Jane Ferguson Narrator: Jane Ferguson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ''A haunting memoir of disarming honesty. . . a remarkable testament to the anguish and the beauty of foreign correspondence.”—Roger Cohen, New York Times Paris bureau chief and author of An Affirming Flame  From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war—from The Troubles to the fall of Kabul. Jane Ferguson has covered nearly every war front and humanitarian crisis of our time. She reported from Yemen as protests grew into the Arab Spring; she secured rare access to rebel-held Syria, where foreign journalists were banned, to cover its civil war. When the Taliban claimed Kabul in 2021, she was one of the last Western journalists to remain at the airport as thousands of Afghans, including some of her colleagues, struggled to evacuate. Living with sectarian violence was nothing new to Ferguson. As a child in Northern Ireland in the 1980s and ‘90s, The Troubles meant bomb threats and military checkpoints on the way to school were commonplace. Books by Dervla Murphy and Martha Gellhorn offered solace from her turbulent family, and an opportunity to study Arabic in Yemen came as a relief—and a ticket to the life in journalism she imagined. Without family wealth or connections, she began as a scrappy one-woman reporting team, a borrowed camera often her only equipment. Networks told her she had the wrong accent, the wrong appearance, not enough “bang-bang shoot-‘em-up.” Still, Ferguson threw herself into harm’s way time and again, determined to give voice to civilian experiences of war. In the face of grave violence and suffering, this seemed a small act of justice, no matter the risks. Ferguson’s bold debut chronicles her unlikely journey from bright, inquisitive child to intrepid war correspondent. With an open-hearted humanity we rarely see in conflict stories, No Ordinary Assignment shows what it means to build an authentic career against the odds.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631140Tue, 11 Jul 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631140 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Ordinary Assignment: A Memoir Author: Jane Ferguson Narrator: Jane Ferguson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631140 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Ordinary Assignment: A Memoir Author: Jane Ferguson Narrator: Jane Ferguson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ''A haunting memoir of disarming honesty. . . a remarkable testament to the anguish and the beauty of foreign correspondence.”—Roger Cohen, New York Times Paris bureau chief and author of An Affirming Flame  From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war—from The Troubles to the fall of Kabul. Jane Ferguson has covered nearly every war front and humanitarian crisis of our time. She reported from Yemen as protests grew into the Arab Spring; she secured rare access to rebel-held Syria, where foreign journalists were banned, to cover its civil war. When the Taliban claimed Kabul in 2021, she was one of the last Western journalists to remain at the airport as thousands of Afghans, including some of her colleagues, struggled to evacuate. Living with sectarian violence was nothing new to Ferguson. As a child in Northern Ireland in the 1980s and ‘90s, The Troubles meant bomb threats and military checkpoints on the way to school were commonplace. Books by Dervla Murphy and Martha Gellhorn offered solace from her turbulent family, and an opportunity to study Arabic in Yemen came as a relief—and a ticket to the life in journalism she imagined. Without family wealth or connections, she began as a scrappy one-woman reporting team, a borrowed camera often her only equipment. Networks told her she had the wrong accent, the wrong appearance, not enough “bang-bang shoot-‘em-up.” Still, Ferguson threw herself into harm’s way time and again, determined to give voice to civilian experiences of war. In the face of grave violence and suffering, this seemed a small act of justice, no matter the risks. Ferguson’s bold debut chronicles her unlikely journey from bright, inquisitive child to intrepid war correspondent. With an open-hearted humanity we rarely see in conflict stories, No Ordinary Assignment shows what it means to build an authentic career against the odds.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/go-the-way-your-blood-beats-by-emmett-de-monterey--65184420https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go the Way Your Blood Beats Author: Emmett De Monterey Narrator: Mateo Oxley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDON When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twenty-five-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby. Growing up in south-east London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his mainstream school, teachers refuse to schedule his classes on the ground floor, and he loses a stone from the effort of getting up the stairs. At his sixth form college for disabled students, he's told he will be expelled if the rumours are true, if he's gay. And then Emmett is chosen for a first-of-its-kind surgery in America which he hopes will 'cure' him, enable him to walk unaided. He hopes for a miracle: to walk, to dance, to be able to leave the house when it rains. To have a body that's everyday beautiful, to hold hands in the street. To not be gay, which feels like another word for loneliness. But the 'miracle' doesn't occur, and Emmett must reckon with a world which views disabled people as invisible, unworthy of desire. He must fight to be seen. A frank and intimate memoir written with an incredible clear-eyed intensity - Claire Fuller ©2023 Emmett de Monterey (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640962Thu, 06 Jul 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go the Way Your Blood Beats Author: Emmett De Monterey Narrator: Mateo Oxley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640962 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go the Way Your Blood Beats Author: Emmett De Monterey Narrator: Mateo Oxley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDON When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twenty-five-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby. Growing up in south-east London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his mainstream school, teachers refuse to schedule his classes on the ground floor, and he loses a stone from the effort of getting up the stairs. At his sixth form college for disabled students, he's told he will be expelled if the rumours are true, if he's gay. And then Emmett is chosen for a first-of-its-kind surgery in America which he hopes will 'cure' him, enable him to walk unaided. He hopes for a miracle: to walk, to dance, to be able to leave the house when it rains. To have a body that's everyday beautiful, to hold hands in the street. To not be gay, which feels like another word for loneliness. But the 'miracle' doesn't occur, and Emmett must reckon with a world which views disabled people as invisible, unworthy of desire. He must fight to be seen. A frank and intimate memoir written with an incredible clear-eyed intensity - Claire Fuller ©2023 Emmett de Monterey (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/owner-of-a-lonely-heart-a-memoir-by-beth-nguyen--65184351https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir Author: Beth Nguyen Narrator: Beth Nguyen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Named a Best Memoir of 2023 by Oprah Daily • Selected by Time, NPR, and BookPage as a Best Book of 2023 “This book…is what memoir writing in the hands of a caring, curious wunderkind can be.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fractured by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her family fled Saigon for America. Only Beth’s mother stayed—or was left—behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than twenty-four hours together. Owner of a Lonely Heart is “a portrait of things left unsaid” (The New York Times), a memoir about parenthood, absence, and the condition of being a refugee: the story of Beth’s relationship with her mother. Framed by a handful of visits over the course of many years—sometimes brief, sometimes interrupted, some alone with her mother and others with the company of her sister—Beth tells an “unforgettable” (People) coming-of-age story that spans her childhood in the Midwest, her first meeting with her mother, and her own experience of parenthood.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633596Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir Author: Beth Nguyen Narrator: Beth Nguyen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir Author: Beth Nguyen Narrator: Beth Nguyen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Named a Best Memoir of 2023 by Oprah Daily • Selected by Time, NPR, and BookPage as a Best Book of 2023 “This book…is what memoir writing in the hands of a caring, curious wunderkind can be.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fractured by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her family fled Saigon for America. Only Beth’s mother stayed—or was left—behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than twenty-four hours together. Owner of a Lonely Heart is “a portrait of things left unsaid” (The New York Times), a memoir about parenthood, absence, and the condition of being a refugee: the story of Beth’s relationship with her mother. Framed by a handful of visits over the course of many years—sometimes brief, sometimes interrupted, some alone with her mother and others with the company of her sister—Beth tells an “unforgettable” (People) coming-of-age story that spans her childhood in the Midwest, her first meeting with her mother, and her own experience of parenthood.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-light-room-by-kate-zambreno--65184267https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640534 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light Room Author: Kate Zambreno Narrator: Kate Zambreno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup.“  —Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature  From “one of our most formally ambitious writers” (Esquire), a moving account of caretaking in a time of uncertainty and loss In The Light Room, Zambreno offers her most profound and affecting work yet: a candid chronicle of life as a mother of two young daughters in a moment of profound uncertainty about public health, climate change, and the future we can expect for our children. Moving through the seasons, returning often to parks and green spaces, Zambreno captures the isolation and exhaustion of being home with a baby and a small child, but also small and transcendent moments of beauty and joy. Inspired by writers and artists ranging from Natalia Ginzburg to Joseph Cornell, Yūko Tsushima to Bernadette Mayer, Etel Adnan to David Wojnarowicz, The Light Room represents an impassioned appreciation of community and the commons, and an ecstatic engagement with the living world. How will our memories, and our children’s, be affected by this time of profound disconnection? What does it mean to bring new life, and new work, into this moment of precarity and crisis? In The Light Room, Kate Zambreno offers a vision of how to live in ways that move away from disenchantment, and toward light and possibility.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640534Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640534 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light Room Author: Kate Zambreno Narrator: Kate Zambreno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640534 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light Room Author: Kate Zambreno Narrator: Kate Zambreno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup.“  —Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature  From “one of our most formally ambitious writers” (Esquire), a moving account of caretaking in a time of uncertainty and loss In The Light Room, Zambreno offers her most profound and affecting work yet: a candid chronicle of life as a mother of two young daughters in a moment of profound uncertainty about public health, climate change, and the future we can expect for our children. Moving through the seasons, returning often to parks and green spaces, Zambreno captures the isolation and exhaustion of being home with a baby and a small child, but also small and transcendent moments of beauty and joy. Inspired by writers and artists ranging from Natalia Ginzburg to Joseph Cornell, Yūko Tsushima to Bernadette Mayer, Etel Adnan to David Wojnarowicz, The Light Room represents an impassioned appreciation of community and the commons, and an ecstatic engagement with the living world. How will our memories, and our children’s, be affected by this time of profound disconnection? What does it mean to bring new life, and new work, into this moment of precarity and crisis? In The Light Room, Kate Zambreno offers a vision of how to live in ways that move away from disenchantment, and toward light and possibility.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-t-in-lgbt-everything-you-need-to-know-about-being-trans-by-jamie-raines--65184306https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The T in LGBT: Everything you need to know about being trans Author: Jamie Raines Narrator: Shaaba Lotun, Jamie Raines Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 29, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Hey, I'm Jamie, a 29-year-old trans guy from the UK. I've been transitioning for 12 years now after realising I was trans (by accident!) at sixteen years old. I knew I was a boy since the age of four, but realised whilst growing up that I was different. It was only in my teens that I found the words to express who I was and what I needed to do. Since then, I've been on testosterone for more than a decade - I know, I can't believe it either - I've also had top and bottom surgery and legally changed my sex, so I know a few things about the transitioning process and being trans! I want to welcome you to The T in LGBT where you can explore and learn about so many topics surrounding gender identity: realising you're trans, starting hormones, considering surgery, and everything in between. Whether you're questioning your own identity and are looking for advice on certain stages of transition, or whether you're wanting to learn about the trans experience to support someone or understand allyship, I hope this book can be your one-stop guide to everything trans related. And don't just take my word for it either - this book is packed full of advice, tips, and the personal stories of a range of trans voices, because no one journey is the same. ©2023 Jamie Raines (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645516Thu, 29 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The T in LGBT: Everything you need to know about being trans Author: Jamie Raines Narrator: Shaaba Lotun, Jamie Raines Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The T in LGBT: Everything you need to know about being trans Author: Jamie Raines Narrator: Shaaba Lotun, Jamie Raines Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 29, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Hey, I'm Jamie, a 29-year-old trans guy from the UK. I've been transitioning for 12 years now after realising I was trans (by accident!) at sixteen years old. I knew I was a boy since the age of four, but realised whilst growing up that I was different. It was only in my teens that I found the words to express who I was and what I needed to do. Since then, I've been on testosterone for more than a decade - I know, I can't believe it either - I've also had top and bottom surgery and legally changed my sex, so I know a few things about the transitioning process and being trans! I want to welcome you to The T in LGBT where you can explore and learn about so many topics surrounding gender identity: realising you're trans, starting hormones, considering surgery, and everything in between. Whether you're questioning your own identity and are looking for advice on certain stages of transition, or whether you're wanting to learn about the trans experience to support someone or understand allyship, I hope this book can be your one-stop guide to everything trans related. And don't just take my word for it either - this book is packed full of advice, tips, and the personal stories of a range of trans voices, because no one journey is the same. ©2023 Jamie Raines (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/letting-magic-in-a-memoir-of-becoming-by-maia-toll--65184390https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letting Magic In: A Memoir of Becoming Author: Maia Toll Narrator: Maria Liatis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Maia Toll, the best-selling author of the Wild Wisdom series and The Night School, comes the enchanted story of her own magical awakening, a journey from Brooklyn to Ireland that will inspire readers to uncover their own inner magic. What is the word for craving a relationship with the earth, plants, rocks, and stars? What do you call someone who finds their spirit sparked by these relationships; whose concept of the sacred is altered by the scent of jasmine in bloom or the deep indigo of a sky awaiting nightfall? We’re taught that doctors know our bodies and priests know our souls. But what if you’re a person seeking to understand both for yourself without an intermediary? What is the word for these feelings and the person we become when we honor them? For writer Maia Toll, that word is magic. Magic points to something intrinsic to, and necessary for, the wholeness of the human spirit. It’s a marker for the gnawing craving for a connection which includes, but also stretches beyond, the human realm. The exploration of this word was part of her search for both personal empowerment and a sense of cosmic connectedness, the yin and yang of our lives. In Letting Magic In Maia shares the story of her own magical becoming—from the untimely death of a friend that leads her to abandon Brooklyn in favor of the small town of Beacon, NY, to taking a yearlong sabbatical of exploration, and finally to Ireland, where she studied under an herbalist and learned the true magic of listening to the earth itself. This book is the story of one woman's becoming—the story of pushing past the boundaries of what once seemed possible to discover the extraordinary all around us. In it Maia shares how she learned to let magic in so she could live the life she longed for—one filled with curiosity, connection, and the deepest kind of inner knowing. In this soulfully written recollection—peppered throughout with magical learnings and rituals gathered along the way—Maia uncovers the things that change you in unexpected ways and guide you to become the person you never knew you wanted to be, but perhaps, always were. This she could call magic. And through Letting Magic In you will gain the courage and the wisdom to find your own.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629632Tue, 27 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letting Magic In: A Memoir of Becoming Author: Maia Toll Narrator: Maria Liatis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letting Magic In: A Memoir of Becoming Author: Maia Toll Narrator: Maria Liatis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Maia Toll, the best-selling author of the Wild Wisdom series and The Night School, comes the enchanted story of her own magical awakening, a journey from Brooklyn to Ireland that will inspire readers to uncover their own inner magic. What is the word for craving a relationship with the earth, plants, rocks, and stars? What do you call someone who finds their spirit sparked by these relationships; whose concept of the sacred is altered by the scent of jasmine in bloom or the deep indigo of a sky awaiting nightfall? We’re taught that doctors know our bodies and priests know our souls. But what if you’re a person seeking to understand both for yourself without an intermediary? What is the word for these feelings and the person we become when we honor them? For writer Maia Toll, that word is magic. Magic points to something intrinsic to, and necessary for, the wholeness of the human spirit. It’s a marker for the gnawing craving for a connection which includes, but also stretches beyond, the human realm. The exploration of this word was part of her search for both personal empowerment and a sense of cosmic connectedness, the yin and yang of our lives. In Letting Magic In Maia shares the story of her own magical becoming—from the untimely death of a friend that leads her to abandon Brooklyn in favor of the small town of Beacon, NY, to taking a yearlong sabbatical of exploration, and finally to Ireland, where she studied under an herbalist and learned the true magic of listening to the earth itself. This book is the story of one woman's becoming—the story of pushing past the boundaries of what once seemed possible to discover the extraordinary all around us. In it Maia shares how she learned to let magic in so she could live the life she longed for—one filled with curiosity, connection, and the deepest kind of inner knowing. In this soulfully written recollection—peppered throughout with magical learnings and rituals gathered along the way—Maia uncovers the things that change you in unexpected ways and guide you to become the person you never knew you wanted to be, but perhaps, always were. This she could call magic. And through Letting Magic In you will gain the courage and the wisdom to find your own.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-the-dead-know-learning-about-life-as-a-new-york-city-death-investigator-by-barbara-butcher--65184373https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator Author: Barbara Butcher Narrator: Barbara Butcher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Butcher chronicles her career path and her journey to sobriety in unflinching detail, while her voice remains deliberate and measured, occasionally slipping into what sounds like a half-smirk when cracking a joke….She has a way with words, telling stories that are at turns hilarious, thought-provoking and, as might be expected, disturbing….This is a story of trauma, yes, but it’s also a glimpse into the dark side of a city that most never see up close.” —The New York Times Book Review Now featured in the five-part docuseries on Netflix, Homicide: New York A “remarkably candid and sensitive” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher. Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected lifeline: a job at the Medical Examiner’s Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. The work was gritty, demanding, morbid, and sometimes dangerous—and she loved it. Butcher (yes, that’s her real name, and she has heard all the jokes) spent day in and day out investigating double homicides, gruesome suicides, and most heartbreaking of all, underage rape victims who had also been murdered. In What the Dead Know, she writes with the kind of New York attitude and bravado you might expect from decades in the field, investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, 680 of which were homicides. In the opening chapter, she describes how just from sheer luck of having her arm in a cast, she avoided a boobytrapped suicide. Later in her career, she describes working the nation’s largest mass murder, the attack on 9/11, where she and her colleagues initially relied on family members’ descriptions to help distinguish among the 21,900 body parts of the victims. This is the “breathtakingly honest, compassionate, and raw” (Patricia Cornwell), “completely unputdownable” (Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone) real-life story of a woman who, in dealing with death every day, learned surprising lessons about life—and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself. Fans of Kathy Reichs, Patricia Cornwell, and true crime won’t be able to put this down.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631066Tue, 20 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator Author: Barbara Butcher Narrator: Barbara Butcher Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator Author: Barbara Butcher Narrator: Barbara Butcher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Butcher chronicles her career path and her journey to sobriety in unflinching detail, while her voice remains deliberate and measured, occasionally slipping into what sounds like a half-smirk when cracking a joke….She has a way with words, telling stories that are at turns hilarious, thought-provoking and, as might be expected, disturbing….This is a story of trauma, yes, but it’s also a glimpse into the dark side of a city that most never see up close.” —The New York Times Book Review Now featured in the five-part docuseries on Netflix, Homicide: New York A “remarkably candid and sensitive” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher. Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected lifeline: a job at the Medical Examiner’s Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. The work was gritty, demanding, morbid, and sometimes dangerous—and she loved it. Butcher (yes, that’s her real name, and she has heard all the jokes) spent day in and day out investigating double homicides, gruesome suicides, and most heartbreaking of all, underage rape victims who had also been murdered. In What the Dead Know, she writes with the kind of New York attitude and bravado you might expect from decades in the field, investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, 680 of which were homicides. In the opening chapter, she describes how just from sheer luck of having her arm in a cast, she avoided a boobytrapped suicide. Later in her career, she describes working the nation’s largest mass murder, the attack on 9/11, where she and her colleagues initially relied on family members’ descriptions to help distinguish among the 21,900 body parts of the victims. This is the “breathtakingly honest, compassionate, and raw” (Patricia Cornwell), “completely unputdownable” (Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone) real-life story of a woman who, in dealing with death every day, learned surprising lessons about life—and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself. Fans of Kathy Reichs, Patricia Cornwell, and true crime won’t be able to put this down.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/joy-hunter-messy-faceplants-radical-love-and-the-journey-that-changed-everything-by-alexis-jones--65184401https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joy Hunter: Messy Faceplants, Radical Love, and the Journey That Changed Everything Author: Alexis Jones Narrator: Alexis Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A timely, colorful, and cinematic memoir chronicling one woman’s journey to rediscover her own power, resilience, and happiness “Joy Hunter gives us all permission to be human and invites us to radically love ourselves for exactly who we are.”—KRISTEN BELL I took a bone-deep breath as we drove away from my state, my city, my street, and my house, escaping my life and leaving behind all my broken parts. With a successful speaking career putting her on the road 250 days a year, a slew of prestigious awards for her activism, the hugely successful book I Am That Girl, and a happy marriage, Alexis Jones was living a seemingly charmed life. But the principles of self-care, setting boundaries, and eschewing perfectionism that she espoused in her talks didn’t seem to translate into her own life; she still never seemed to feel “enough” inside. Then, in a matter of months, things started to fall apart on the outside, too: She discovered that the man she’d always called dad was not her biological father, she had a devastating miscarriage, and the pandemic sidelined her travel schedule—and paycheck. A self-described “productivity junkie,” she was forced to slow down for the first time in her life. Hoping that time away would be a good distraction from all the chaos and heartbreak, Alexis rented an RV and set out for the open road to explore the rugged American west with her husband and their best friend. For her, the trip was both healing and disruptive. In the presence of nature’s majesty, she re-learned the art of sitting still and surrendering to the unknowable; along treacherous hiking trails she wrestled with her self-doubt and fear of failure; and through profound conversations with friends old and new, she reconnected to the power of sisterhood and began to rebelliously reconsider her priorities and ambitions—for herself and whatever shape her family might take going forward.   A soulful memoir of seeking and finding, Joy Hunter traces Alexis’s quest to reclaim her voice and find wholeness within. Along the way she discovers that there is always purpose to our pain and that happiness is not something that can simply be checked off a list. Joy, it turns out, is not a destination; it’s a way of life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631000Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joy Hunter: Messy Faceplants, Radical Love, and the Journey That Changed Everything Author: Alexis Jones Narrator: Alexis Jones Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Joy Hunter: Messy Faceplants, Radical Love, and the Journey That Changed Everything Author: Alexis Jones Narrator: Alexis Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A timely, colorful, and cinematic memoir chronicling one woman’s journey to rediscover her own power, resilience, and happiness “Joy Hunter gives us all permission to be human and invites us to radically love ourselves for exactly who we are.”—KRISTEN BELL I took a bone-deep breath as we drove away from my state, my city, my street, and my house, escaping my life and leaving behind all my broken parts. With a successful speaking career putting her on the road 250 days a year, a slew of prestigious awards for her activism, the hugely successful book I Am That Girl, and a happy marriage, Alexis Jones was living a seemingly charmed life. But the principles of self-care, setting boundaries, and eschewing perfectionism that she espoused in her talks didn’t seem to translate into her own life; she still never seemed to feel “enough” inside. Then, in a matter of months, things started to fall apart on the outside, too: She discovered that the man she’d always called dad was not her biological father, she had a devastating miscarriage, and the pandemic sidelined her travel schedule—and paycheck. A self-described “productivity junkie,” she was forced to slow down for the first time in her life. Hoping that time away would be a good distraction from all the chaos and heartbreak, Alexis rented an RV and set out for the open road to explore the rugged American west with her husband and their best friend. For her, the trip was both healing and disruptive. In the presence of nature’s majesty, she re-learned the art of sitting still and surrendering to the unknowable; along treacherous hiking trails she wrestled with her self-doubt and fear of failure; and through profound conversations with friends old and new, she reconnected to the power of sisterhood and began to rebelliously reconsider her priorities and ambitions—for herself and whatever shape her family might take going forward.   A soulful memoir of seeking and finding, Joy Hunter traces Alexis’s quest to reclaim her voice and find wholeness within. Along the way she discovers that there is always purpose to our pain and that happiness is not something that can simply be checked off a list. Joy, it turns out, is not a destination; it’s a way of life.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-way-of-letting-go-one-woman-s-walk-toward-forgiveness-by-wilma-derksen--65184398https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Way of Letting Go: One Woman's Walk toward Forgiveness Author: Wilma Derksen Narrator: Nan Kelley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Maybe it was the sting of remarks from a relative or friend. Maybe a miscarriage ended your hopes for a family. For all of your heartbreaks, maybe you wished there was someone to help you through. For Wilma Derksen, letting go of the 15 misconceptions about grief led her back to hope. In this book she tells how you can do the same. Wilma’s world collapsed when her teenage daughter, Candace, was taken hostage and murdered. Wilma now shares her choices to “let go” of heartbreak, which gave her the courage to navigate through the dark waters of sorrow. Like Wilma, maybe your heartbreak forced you to retreat from happy expectations, of believing that life is fair, of finding closure for every circumstance. She encourages patiently: let go of the happy ending, let go of perfect justice, let go of fear, and let go of closure. Wilma's wisdom will help you overcome your broken heart, and her advice will enable you to break free of pain to live a life of true joy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647060Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Way of Letting Go: One Woman's Walk toward Forgiveness Author: Wilma Derksen Narrator: Nan Kelley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Way of Letting Go: One Woman's Walk toward Forgiveness Author: Wilma Derksen Narrator: Nan Kelley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Maybe it was the sting of remarks from a relative or friend. Maybe a miscarriage ended your hopes for a family. For all of your heartbreaks, maybe you wished there was someone to help you through. For Wilma Derksen, letting go of the 15 misconceptions about grief led her back to hope. In this book she tells how you can do the same. Wilma’s world collapsed when her teenage daughter, Candace, was taken hostage and murdered. Wilma now shares her choices to “let go” of heartbreak, which gave her the courage to navigate through the dark waters of sorrow. Like Wilma, maybe your heartbreak forced you to retreat from happy expectations, of believing that life is fair, of finding closure for every circumstance. She encourages patiently: let go of the happy ending, let go of perfect justice, let go of fear, and let go of closure. Wilma's wisdom will help you overcome your broken heart, and her advice will enable you to break free of pain to live a life of true joy.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/never-give-up-a-prairie-family-s-story-by-tom-brokaw--65184387https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631006 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story Author: Tom Brokaw Narrator: Lincoln Hoppe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this moving story, the New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Generation chronicles the values and lessons he absorbed from his parents and other people who worked hard to build lives on the prairie during the first half of the twentieth century. “A spare, elegant masterpiece.”—Ken Burns Tom’s father, Red, left school in the second grade to work in the family hotel—the Brokaw House, established in Bristol, South Dakota, by R. P. Brokaw in 1883. Eventually, through work on construction jobs, Red developed an exceptional talent for machines. Tom’s mother, Jean, was the daughter of a farmer who lost everything during the Great Depression. They met after a high school play, when Jean played the lead and Red fell in love with her from the audience. Although they didn’t have much money early in their marriage, especially once they had three boys at home, Red’s philosophy of “Never give up” served them well. His big break came after World War II, when he went to work for the Army Corps of Engineers building great dams across the Missouri River, magnificent structures like the Fort Randall and the Gavins Point dams. Late in life, Red surprised his family by recording his memories of the hard times of his early life, reflections that inspired this book. Tom Brokaw is known as one of the most successful people in broadcast journalism. Throughout his legendary career, Brokaw has always asked what we can learn from world events and from our history. Within Never Give Up is one answer, a portrait of the resilience and respect for others at the heart of one American family’s story.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631006Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631006 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story Author: Tom Brokaw Narrator: Lincoln Hoppe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 21 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631006 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story Author: Tom Brokaw Narrator: Lincoln Hoppe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this moving story, the New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Generation chronicles the values and lessons he absorbed from his parents and other people who worked hard to build lives on the prairie during the first half of the twentieth century. “A spare, elegant masterpiece.”—Ken Burns Tom’s father, Red, left school in the second grade to work in the family hotel—the Brokaw House, established in Bristol, South Dakota, by R. P. Brokaw in 1883. Eventually, through work on construction jobs, Red developed an exceptional talent for machines. Tom’s mother, Jean, was the daughter of a farmer who lost everything during the Great Depression. They met after a high school play, when Jean played the lead and Red fell in love with her from the audience. Although they didn’t have much money early in their marriage, especially once they had three boys at home, Red’s philosophy of “Never give up” served them well. His big break came after World War II, when he went to work for the Army Corps of Engineers building great dams across the Missouri River, magnificent structures like the Fort Randall and the Gavins Point dams. Late in life, Red surprised his family by recording his memories of the hard times of his early life, reflections that inspired this book. Tom Brokaw is known as one of the most successful people in broadcast journalism. Throughout his legendary career, Brokaw has always asked what we can learn from world events and from our history. Within Never Give Up is one answer, a portrait of the resilience and respect for others at the heart of one American family’s story.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-in-between-unforgettable-encounters-during-life-s-final-moments-by-hadley-vlahos--65184378https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631009 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments Author: Hadley Vlahos Narrator: Hadley Vlahos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 87 Ratings of Narrator: 4.97 of Total 36 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients’ final moments in this “brilliant” (Zibby Owens, Good Morning America) memoir.   “This extraordinary book helps dispel fear around death and dying—revealing it to be a natural part of our soul’s evolution.”—Laura Lynne Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Signs and The Light Between Us Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in polite company, and even in the medical field. Our ideas about dying are confusing at best: Will our memories flash before our eyes? Regrets consume our thoughts? Does a bright light appear at the end of a tunnel? For most people, it will be a slower process, one eased with preparedness, good humor, and a bit of faith. At the forefront of changing attitudes around palliative care is hospice nurse Hadley Vlahos, who shows that end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die.   Vlahos was raised in a strict religious household, but began questioning her beliefs in high school after the sudden death of a friend. When she got pregnant at nineteen, she was shunned by her community and enrolled herself in nursing school to be able to support herself and her baby. But nursing soon became more than a job: when she focused on palliative care and hospice work, it became a calling.    In The In-Between, Vlahos recounts the most impactful experiences she’s had with the people she’s worked with—from the woman who never once questioned her faith until she was close to death, to the older man seeing visions of his late daughter, to the young patient who laments that she spent too much of her short life worrying about what others thought of her—while also sharing her own fascinating journey.   Written with profound insight, humility, and respect, The In-Between is a heartrending memoir that shows how caring for others can transform a life while also offering wisdom and comfort for those dealing with loss and providing inspiration for how to live now.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631009Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631009 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments Author: Hadley Vlahos Narrator: Hadley Vlahos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631009 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments Author: Hadley Vlahos Narrator: Hadley Vlahos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 87 Ratings of Narrator: 4.97 of Total 36 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients’ final moments in this “brilliant” (Zibby Owens, Good Morning America) memoir.   “This extraordinary book helps dispel fear around death and dying—revealing it to be a natural part of our soul’s evolution.”—Laura Lynne Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Signs and The Light Between Us Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in polite company, and even in the medical field. Our ideas about dying are confusing at best: Will our memories flash before our eyes? Regrets consume our thoughts? Does a bright light appear at the end of a tunnel? For most people, it will be a slower process, one eased with preparedness, good humor, and a bit of faith. At the forefront of changing attitudes around palliative care is hospice nurse Hadley Vlahos, who shows that end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die.   Vlahos was raised in a strict religious household, but began questioning her beliefs in high school after the sudden death of a friend. When she got pregnant at nineteen, she was shunned by her community and enrolled herself in nursing school to be able to support herself and her baby. But nursing soon became more than a job: when she focused on palliative care and hospice work, it became a calling.    In The In-Between, Vlahos recounts the most impactful experiences she’s had with the people she’s worked with—from the woman who never once questioned her faith until she was close to death, to the older man seeing visions of his late daughter, to the young patient who laments that she spent too much of her short life worrying about what others thought of her—while also sharing her own fascinating journey.   Written with profound insight, humility, and respect, The In-Between is a heartrending memoir that shows how caring for others can transform a life while also offering wisdom and comfort for those dealing with loss and providing inspiration for how to live now.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tough-titties-on-living-your-best-life-when-you-re-the-f-ing-worst-by-laura-belgray--65184370https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629624 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst Author: Laura Belgray Narrator: Laura Belgray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 1.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Discover a brutally honest, hilarious, and relatable account of being a late bloomer on the dating scene, trying to master adulthood, and embracing your inner dork: "a hilarious, must-read permission slip to be 100% you" (Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times bestselling author). What does it take to grow up cool and popular, master adulthood, fast track your success, and always be your best? Laura Belgray wouldn’t know. Her wildly relatable coming-of-age stories include hate-following her 6th grade bully on social media decades later; moving home post-college to measure her self-worth in hookups with Upper West Side bartenders; dating a sociopathic man-baby; proving herself in the early ‘90s at New York’s coolest magazine (as the world’s worst intern); falling for get-rich-quick schemes on the Internet; and, most of all, saying “tough titties” to the supposed-to’s in life: driving a car, being on time, handing in your paperwork, learning to roast a chicken, and having kids.  Peppered with cutting insights on our confusing, self-helpy culture that calls hair removal “self care” and tells us to give our 110% but also to give zero f*cks, Tough Titties will leave you feeling better about, well, everything. Let’s face it: we’re all tired of shame-spiraling after being told what to do when we know we’re not going to do any of it. Tough Titties is one big permission slip to be a dork, a sometimes-unspiritual slacker, a late bloomer and, ultimately, 100% yourself. It’ll also have you snort-laughing in public and tapping whoever’s nearby to say, “Lemme read you one more part!” Which is annoying, but tough titties. “Nobody makes me laugh like Laura Belgray. She’s got a one-of-a kind knack for taking the shame out of life’s most humiliating moments. Tough Titties is a hilarious, must-read permission slip to be 100% you.” — Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything is Figureoutable]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629624Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629624 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst Author: Laura Belgray Narrator: Laura Belgray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629624 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst Author: Laura Belgray Narrator: Laura Belgray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 1.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Discover a brutally honest, hilarious, and relatable account of being a late bloomer on the dating scene, trying to master adulthood, and embracing your inner dork: "a hilarious, must-read permission slip to be 100% you" (Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times bestselling author). What does it take to grow up cool and popular, master adulthood, fast track your success, and always be your best? Laura Belgray wouldn’t know. Her wildly relatable coming-of-age stories include hate-following her 6th grade bully on social media decades later; moving home post-college to measure her self-worth in hookups with Upper West Side bartenders; dating a sociopathic man-baby; proving herself in the early ‘90s at New York’s coolest magazine (as the world’s worst intern); falling for get-rich-quick schemes on the Internet; and, most of all, saying “tough titties” to the supposed-to’s in life: driving a car, being on time, handing in your paperwork, learning to roast a chicken, and having kids.  Peppered with cutting insights on our confusing, self-helpy culture that calls hair removal “self care” and tells us to give our 110% but also to give zero f*cks, Tough Titties will leave you feeling better about, well, everything. Let’s face it: we’re all tired of shame-spiraling after being told what to do when we know we’re not going to do any of it. Tough Titties is one big permission slip to be a dork, a sometimes-unspiritual slacker, a late bloomer and, ultimately, 100% yourself. It’ll also have you snort-laughing in public and tapping whoever’s nearby to say, “Lemme read you one more part!” Which is annoying, but tough titties. “Nobody makes me laugh like Laura Belgray. She’s got a one-of-a kind knack for taking the shame out of life’s most humiliating moments. Tough Titties is a hilarious, must-read permission slip to be 100% you.” — Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything is Figureoutable]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beyond-this-harbor-adventurous-tales-of-the-heart-by-rose-styron--65184366https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart Author: Rose Styron Narrator: Rose Styron, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir of an extraordinary life—poet, international human rights activist, founding member of Amnesty International USA, journalist, hostess, famous beauty, foreign policy advisor; friend to politicians, movie stars, the legendary; discoverer of Philip Roth, longtime wife of Bill Styron and together, America’s literary golden couple at home and abroad “[Rose Styron] has lived a life in interesting times, among legendary characters, a life well worth telling—and reading about.” —The Washington Post An intimate portrait of a celebrated magic life and the famous and infamous who dropped in, summered, traveled with, played with, and the decades of friendship with everyone from Truman Capote and Robert Penn Warren to the Kennedys, the Bernsteins, Alexander Calder, John Hersey, and Lillian Hellman. Here as well are the years of dedication and risk, traveling the world, from Pinochet’s Chile to El Salvador, Belfast, and Sarajevo, as Rose Styron, in search of those hiding from dictators and autocrats, bore witness to atrocities and human rights violations . . .  Styron writes of her childhood, born into a German Jewish, assimilated Baltimore family; a rebel from the start, studying poetry at Wellesley, Harvard, Johns Hopkins; traveling to Rome and her (second) meeting with Bill (the first time, “I can’t remember even shaking hands. I wasn’t thinking about him at all.”); their eventual marriage, and their more than fifty years together—in bucolic Roxbury, Connecticut, and on Martha's Vineyard.  She writes of Bill's writing and of retyping his manuscripts, discussing his writing progress, having babies, with visits from neighbors Arthur Miller; Mike Nichols and various wives; Dustin Hoffman buying the house over the hill; James Baldwin moving in to Styron’s writing studio and writing The Fire Next Time, with Baldwin encouraging Styron to write Nat Turner in first person; Frank Sinatra, sailing into Vineyard Haven Harbor and soon dropping by for dinners chez Styrons; the Kennedys having rowdy sleepovers . . .  And she writes in detail about Bill Styron's full-on breakdowns, his recovery from the first depression; writing Darkness Visible. And fifteen years later, the second much worse crash; Bill Styron’s death; her year of grief, teaching at Harvard; living full time on the Vineyard and making a new full life there . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631012Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart Author: Rose Styron Narrator: Rose Styron, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart Author: Rose Styron Narrator: Rose Styron, Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir of an extraordinary life—poet, international human rights activist, founding member of Amnesty International USA, journalist, hostess, famous beauty, foreign policy advisor; friend to politicians, movie stars, the legendary; discoverer of Philip Roth, longtime wife of Bill Styron and together, America’s literary golden couple at home and abroad “[Rose Styron] has lived a life in interesting times, among legendary characters, a life well worth telling—and reading about.” —The Washington Post An intimate portrait of a celebrated magic life and the famous and infamous who dropped in, summered, traveled with, played with, and the decades of friendship with everyone from Truman Capote and Robert Penn Warren to the Kennedys, the Bernsteins, Alexander Calder, John Hersey, and Lillian Hellman. Here as well are the years of dedication and risk, traveling the world, from Pinochet’s Chile to El Salvador, Belfast, and Sarajevo, as Rose Styron, in search of those hiding from dictators and autocrats, bore witness to atrocities and human rights violations . . .  Styron writes of her childhood, born into a German Jewish, assimilated Baltimore family; a rebel from the start, studying poetry at Wellesley, Harvard, Johns Hopkins; traveling to Rome and her (second) meeting with Bill (the first time, “I can’t remember even shaking hands. I wasn’t thinking about him at all.”); their eventual marriage, and their more than fifty years together—in bucolic Roxbury, Connecticut, and on Martha's Vineyard.  She writes of Bill's writing and of retyping his manuscripts, discussing his writing progress, having babies, with visits from neighbors Arthur Miller; Mike Nichols and various wives; Dustin Hoffman buying the house over the hill; James Baldwin moving in to Styron’s writing studio and writing The Fire Next Time, with Baldwin encouraging Styron to write Nat Turner in first person; Frank Sinatra, sailing into Vineyard Haven Harbor and soon dropping by for dinners chez Styrons; the Kennedys having rowdy sleepovers . . .  And she writes in detail about Bill Styron's full-on breakdowns, his recovery from the first depression; writing Darkness Visible. And fifteen years later, the second much worse crash; Bill Styron’s death; her year of grief, teaching at Harvard; living full time on the Vineyard and making a new full life there . . .]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/to-name-the-bigger-lie-a-memoir-in-two-stories-by-sarah-viren--65184337https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories Author: Sarah Viren Narrator: Natalie Naudus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Has the page-turning quality of a thriller.” —NPR “Strange and wonderful…A book for our times.” —The New York Times Book Review “Propulsive…mesmerizing…breathtaking.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) This unforgettable memoir traces the ramifications of a series of lies that threaten to derail the author’s life—exploring the line between fact and fiction, reality and conspiracy. In To Name the Bigger Lie, Sarah Viren “has pulled off a magic trick of fantastic proportion” (The Washington Post), telling the story of an all-too-real investigation into her personal and professional life that she expands into a profound exploration of the nature of truth. The memoir begins as Viren is researching what she believes will be a book about her high school philosophy teacher, a charismatic instructor who taught her and her classmates to question everything—eventually, even the reality of historical atrocities. As she digs into the effects of his teachings, her life takes a turn into the fantastical when her wife, Marta, is notified that she’s being investigated for sexual misconduct at the university where they both teach. To Name the Bigger Lie follows the investigation as it challenges everything Sarah thought she knew about truth, testimony, and the difference between the two. She knows the claims made against Marta must be lies, and as she attempts to uncover the identity of the person behind them and prove her wife’s innocence, she’s drawn back into the questions that her teacher inspired all those years ago: about the nature of truth, the value of skepticism, and the stakes we all have in getting the story right. An incisive journey into honesty and betrayal, this memoir explores the powerful pull of dangerous conspiracy theories and the pliability of personal narratives in a world dominated by hoaxes and fakes. An “ouroboros of a book” (The New York Times) and a “bold new approach to the genre of memoir” (The Millions), To Name the Bigger Lie also reads like the best of psychological thrillers—made all the more riveting because it’s true.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631090Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories Author: Sarah Viren Narrator: Natalie Naudus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories Author: Sarah Viren Narrator: Natalie Naudus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Has the page-turning quality of a thriller.” —NPR “Strange and wonderful…A book for our times.” —The New York Times Book Review “Propulsive…mesmerizing…breathtaking.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) This unforgettable memoir traces the ramifications of a series of lies that threaten to derail the author’s life—exploring the line between fact and fiction, reality and conspiracy. In To Name the Bigger Lie, Sarah Viren “has pulled off a magic trick of fantastic proportion” (The Washington Post), telling the story of an all-too-real investigation into her personal and professional life that she expands into a profound exploration of the nature of truth. The memoir begins as Viren is researching what she believes will be a book about her high school philosophy teacher, a charismatic instructor who taught her and her classmates to question everything—eventually, even the reality of historical atrocities. As she digs into the effects of his teachings, her life takes a turn into the fantastical when her wife, Marta, is notified that she’s being investigated for sexual misconduct at the university where they both teach. To Name the Bigger Lie follows the investigation as it challenges everything Sarah thought she knew about truth, testimony, and the difference between the two. She knows the claims made against Marta must be lies, and as she attempts to uncover the identity of the person behind them and prove her wife’s innocence, she’s drawn back into the questions that her teacher inspired all those years ago: about the nature of truth, the value of skepticism, and the stakes we all have in getting the story right. An incisive journey into honesty and betrayal, this memoir explores the powerful pull of dangerous conspiracy theories and the pliability of personal narratives in a world dominated by hoaxes and fakes. An “ouroboros of a book” (The New York Times) and a “bold new approach to the genre of memoir” (The Millions), To Name the Bigger Lie also reads like the best of psychological thrillers—made all the more riveting because it’s true.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/better-living-through-birding-notes-from-a-black-man-in-the-natural-world-by-christian-cooper--65184333https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World Author: Christian Cooper Narrator: Christian Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up. 'Wondrous . . . captivating.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of An Immense World Christian Cooper is a self-described “Blerd” (Black nerd), an avid comics fan and expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. While in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the birdwatching ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten years old when what might have been a routine encounter with a dog walker exploded age-oldracial tensions. Cooper’s viral video of the incident would send shock waves through the nation. In Better Living Through Birding, Cooper tells the story of his extraordinary life leading up to the now-infamous incident in Central Park and shows how a life spent looking up at the birds prepared him, in the most uncanny of ways, to be a gay, Black man in America today. From sharpened senses that work just as well at a protest as in a park to what a bird like the Common Grackle can teach us about self-acceptance, Better Living Through Birding exults in the pleasures of a life lived in pursuit of the natural world and invites you to discover them yourself. Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and primer on the art of birding, this is Cooper’s story of learning to claim and defend space for himself and others like him, from his days at Marvel Comics introducing the first gay storylines to vivid and life-changing birding expeditions through Africa, Australia, the Americas, and the Himalayas. Better Living Through Birding recounts Cooper’s journey through the wonderful world of birds and what they can teach us about life, if only we would look and listen. Bird audio provided by Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Cover images: Christian Cooper by Brittainy Newman / The New York Times / Redux, bird and sky / Getty Images]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639051Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World Author: Christian Cooper Narrator: Christian Cooper Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World Author: Christian Cooper Narrator: Christian Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up. 'Wondrous . . . captivating.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of An Immense World Christian Cooper is a self-described “Blerd” (Black nerd), an avid comics fan and expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park, just a subway ride away from where he lives in New York City. While in the park one morning in May 2020, Cooper was engaged in the birdwatching ritual that had been a part of his life since he was ten years old when what might have been a routine encounter with a dog walker exploded age-oldracial tensions. Cooper’s viral video of the incident would send shock waves through the nation. In Better Living Through Birding, Cooper tells the story of his extraordinary life leading up to the now-infamous incident in Central Park and shows how a life spent looking up at the birds prepared him, in the most uncanny of ways, to be a gay, Black man in America today. From sharpened senses that work just as well at a protest as in a park to what a bird like the Common Grackle can teach us about self-acceptance, Better Living Through Birding exults in the pleasures of a life lived in pursuit of the natural world and invites you to discover them yourself. Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and primer on the art of birding, this is Cooper’s story of learning to claim and defend space for himself and others like him, from his days at Marvel Comics introducing the first gay storylines to vivid and life-changing birding expeditions through Africa, Australia, the Americas, and the Himalayas. Better Living Through Birding recounts Cooper’s journey through the wonderful world of birds and what they can teach us about life, if only we would look and listen. Bird audio provided by Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Cover images: Christian Cooper by Brittainy Newman / The New York Times / Redux, bird and sky / Getty Images]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bryson-city-seasons-more-tales-of-a-doctor-s-practice-in-the-smoky-mountains-by-walt-larimore-m-d--65184312https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bryson City Seasons: More Tales of a Doctor’s Practice in the Smoky Mountains Author: Walt Larimore, M.D. Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Welcome to Bryson City, a small town tucked away in a fold of North Carolina's Smoky Mountains. The scenery is breathtaking, the home cooking can't be beat, the Maroon Devils football team is the pride of the town, and you won't find better steelhead fishing anywhere. But the best part is the people you're about to meet in the pages of Bryson City Seasons. In this joyous sequel to his bestselling Bryson City Tales, Dr. Walt Larimore whisks you along on a journey through the seasons of a Bryson City year. On the way, you'll encounter crusty mountain men, warmhearted townspeople, peppery medical personalities, and the hallmarks of a simpler, more wholesome way of life. Culled from the author's experiences as a young doctor settling into rural medical practice, these captivating stories are a celebration of this richly textured miracle called life. A map is included in the audiobook companion PDF download. 'The whole book is delightful. My only criticism: there wasn't enough of it!' Margaret Brand, MD, co-laborer with Dr. Paul Brand in leprosy work in India]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647058Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bryson City Seasons: More Tales of a Doctor’s Practice in the Smoky Mountains Author: Walt Larimore, M.D. Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bryson City Seasons: More Tales of a Doctor’s Practice in the Smoky Mountains Author: Walt Larimore, M.D. Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Welcome to Bryson City, a small town tucked away in a fold of North Carolina's Smoky Mountains. The scenery is breathtaking, the home cooking can't be beat, the Maroon Devils football team is the pride of the town, and you won't find better steelhead fishing anywhere. But the best part is the people you're about to meet in the pages of Bryson City Seasons. In this joyous sequel to his bestselling Bryson City Tales, Dr. Walt Larimore whisks you along on a journey through the seasons of a Bryson City year. On the way, you'll encounter crusty mountain men, warmhearted townspeople, peppery medical personalities, and the hallmarks of a simpler, more wholesome way of life. Culled from the author's experiences as a young doctor settling into rural medical practice, these captivating stories are a celebration of this richly textured miracle called life. A map is included in the audiobook companion PDF download. 'The whole book is delightful. My only criticism: there wasn't enough of it!' Margaret Brand, MD, co-laborer with Dr. Paul Brand in leprosy work in India]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-stay-married-by-harrison-scott-key--65184289https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Stay Married Author: Harrison Scott Key Narrator: Harrison Scott Key, Lauren Key Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, tells the shocking, “shot through with sharp humor” (The Washington Post), spiritually profound story of his journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage. One gorgeous autumn day, Harrison discovers that his wife—the sweet, funny, loving mother of their three daughters, a woman “who’s spent just about every Sunday of her life in a church”—is having an affair with a family friend. This revelation propels the hysterical, heartbreaking events in How to Stay Married, casting our narrator onto “the factory floor of hell,” where his wife was now in love with a man who “wears cargo shorts, on purpose.” What will he do? Kick her out? Set fire to all her panties in the yard? Beat this man to death with a gardening implement? Ask God for help in winning her back? Armed only with a sense of humor and a hunger for the truth, Harrison embarks on a hellish journey into his past, seeking answers to the riddles of faith and forgiveness. Through an absurd series of escalating confessions and betrayals, Harrison reckons with his failure to love his wife in the ways she needed most, resolves to fight for his family, and in a climax almost too ridiculous to be believed, finally learns that love is no joke. “A fiercely memorable account of marital devotion against all odds” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), How to Stay Married is a comic romp unlike any in contemporary literature, a wild ride through the hellscape of marriage and the mysteries of mercy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646659Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Stay Married Author: Harrison Scott Key Narrator: Harrison Scott Key, Lauren Key Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Stay Married Author: Harrison Scott Key Narrator: Harrison Scott Key, Lauren Key Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, tells the shocking, “shot through with sharp humor” (The Washington Post), spiritually profound story of his journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage. One gorgeous autumn day, Harrison discovers that his wife—the sweet, funny, loving mother of their three daughters, a woman “who’s spent just about every Sunday of her life in a church”—is having an affair with a family friend. This revelation propels the hysterical, heartbreaking events in How to Stay Married, casting our narrator onto “the factory floor of hell,” where his wife was now in love with a man who “wears cargo shorts, on purpose.” What will he do? Kick her out? Set fire to all her panties in the yard? Beat this man to death with a gardening implement? Ask God for help in winning her back? Armed only with a sense of humor and a hunger for the truth, Harrison embarks on a hellish journey into his past, seeking answers to the riddles of faith and forgiveness. Through an absurd series of escalating confessions and betrayals, Harrison reckons with his failure to love his wife in the ways she needed most, resolves to fight for his family, and in a climax almost too ridiculous to be believed, finally learns that love is no joke. “A fiercely memorable account of marital devotion against all odds” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), How to Stay Married is a comic romp unlike any in contemporary literature, a wild ride through the hellscape of marriage and the mysteries of mercy.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/defiant-dreams-the-journey-of-an-afghan-girl-who-risked-everything-for-education-by-sola-mahfouz-malaina-kapoor--65184391https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630987 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education Author: Sola Mahfouz, Malaina Kapoor Narrator: Ariana Delawari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life.   “Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about the world reinforces my optimism about the future.”―BILL GATES Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996, the year the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, presided over brutal public executions, and turned the clock backward on women’s rights, practically imprisoning women within their own homes and forcing them to wear all-concealing burqas. At age eleven, Sola was forced to stop attending school after a group of men threatened to throw acid in her face if she continued. After that she was confined to her home, required to cook and clean and prepare for an arranged marriage. She saw the outside world only a handful of times each year. As time passed, Sola began to understand that she was condemned to the same existence as millions of women in Afghanistan. Her future was empty. The rest of her life would be controlled entirely by men: fathers and husbands and sons who would never allow her to study, to earn money, or even to dream. Driven by this devastating realization, Sola began a years-long fight to change the trajectory of her life, deciding that education would be her way out. At age sixteen, without even the basic ability to add or subtract, she began to teach herself math and English in secret. She progressed rapidly., Within just two years she was already studying subjects such as philosophy and physics. Faced with obstacles at every turn, Sola still managed to sneak into Pakistan to take the SAT. In 2016, she escaped to the United States, where she is now a quantum-computing researcher at Tufts University. An engrossing, dramatic memoir, co-written with young Indian American human rights activist Malaina Kapoor, Defiant Dreams is the story of one girl, but it’s also the untold story of a generation of women brimming with potential and longing for freedom.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630987Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630987 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education Author: Sola Mahfouz, Malaina Kapoor Narrator: Ariana Delawari...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630987 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education Author: Sola Mahfouz, Malaina Kapoor Narrator: Ariana Delawari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life.   “Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about the world reinforces my optimism about the future.”―BILL GATES Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996, the year the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, presided over brutal public executions, and turned the clock backward on women’s rights, practically imprisoning women within their own homes and forcing them to wear all-concealing burqas. At age eleven, Sola was forced to stop attending school after a group of men threatened to throw acid in her face if she continued. After that she was confined to her home, required to cook and clean and prepare for an arranged marriage. She saw the outside world only a handful of times each year. As time passed, Sola began to understand that she was condemned to the same existence as millions of women in Afghanistan. Her future was empty. The rest of her life would be controlled entirely by men: fathers and husbands and sons who would never allow her to study, to earn money, or even to dream. Driven by this devastating realization, Sola began a years-long fight to change the trajectory of her life, deciding that education would be her way out. At age sixteen, without even the basic ability to add or subtract, she began to teach herself math and English in secret. She progressed rapidly., Within just two years she was already studying subjects such as philosophy and physics. Faced with obstacles at every turn, Sola still managed to sneak into Pakistan to take the SAT. In 2016, she escaped to the United States, where she is now a quantum-computing researcher at Tufts University. An engrossing, dramatic memoir, co-written with young Indian American human rights activist Malaina Kapoor, Defiant Dreams is the story of one girl, but it’s also the untold story of a generation of women brimming with potential and longing for freedom.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-friend-anne-frank-the-inspiring-and-heartbreaking-true-story-of-best-friends-torn-apart-and-reunited-against-all-odds-by-hannah-pick-gos--65184385https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds Author: Hannah Pick-Goslar Narrator: Alix Dunmore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice), the long-awaited memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank. In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942, Hannah and Anne's lives abruptly changed forever. As the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam progressed, Anne and the Frank family seemingly vanished, leaving behind unmade beds and dishes in the sink—but no trace of Anne's precious diary. Torn from her dear friend without warning, Hannah spent the next two years tormented by questions about Anne's fate, wondering if she had, by some miracle, managed to escape danger.   In this long‑awaited memoir, Hannah shares the story of her childhood during the Holocaust, from the introduction of anti-Jewish laws in Amsterdam to the gradual disappearance of classmates and, eventually, the Frank family, to Hannah and her family's imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As Hannah chronicles the experiences of her own life during and after the war, she provides a searing look at what countless children endured at the hands of the Nazi regime, as well as an intimate, never‑before‑seen portrait of the most recognizable victim of the Holocaust. Culminating in an astonishing fateful reunion, My Friend Anne Frank is the profoundly moving story of childhood and friendship during one of the darkest periods in the world's history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629612Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds Author: Hannah Pick-Goslar...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629612 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds Author: Hannah Pick-Goslar Narrator: Alix Dunmore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice), the long-awaited memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank. In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942, Hannah and Anne's lives abruptly changed forever. As the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam progressed, Anne and the Frank family seemingly vanished, leaving behind unmade beds and dishes in the sink—but no trace of Anne's precious diary. Torn from her dear friend without warning, Hannah spent the next two years tormented by questions about Anne's fate, wondering if she had, by some miracle, managed to escape danger.   In this long‑awaited memoir, Hannah shares the story of her childhood during the Holocaust, from the introduction of anti-Jewish laws in Amsterdam to the gradual disappearance of classmates and, eventually, the Frank family, to Hannah and her family's imprisonment in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. As Hannah chronicles the experiences of her own life during and after the war, she provides a searing look at what countless children endured at the hands of the Nazi regime, as well as an intimate, never‑before‑seen portrait of the most recognizable victim of the Holocaust. Culminating in an astonishing fateful reunion, My Friend Anne Frank is the profoundly moving story of childhood and friendship during one of the darkest periods in the world's history.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/starstruck-a-memoir-of-astrophysics-and-finding-light-in-the-dark-by-sarafina-el-badry-nance--65184360https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark Author: Sarafina El-Badry Nance Narrator: Sarafina El-Badry Nance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In a beautifully written, science-packed, and inspirational memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance shares how she boldly carved out a place in the field of astrophysics, grounding herself in a lifelong love of the stars to face life’s inevitable challenges and embrace the unknown. As a child, Sarafina El-Badry Nance spent nearly every evening with her father gazing up at the flickering stars and pondering what secrets the night sky held. The daughter of an American father and Egyptian mother who both pushed her toward academic excellence, Sarafina dreamed of becoming an astronomer and untangling the mysteries of the stars overhead. But it wasn’t long before she was told, both explicitly and implicitly, that girls just weren’t cut out for math and science. In Starstruck, Sarafina invites us to consider the cosmos through fascinating science lessons to open each chapter. But she also traces more earthbound obstacles—of misogyny and racism, abuse and intergenerational trauma, anxiety and self-doubt, cancer diagnoses and recovery—she faced along the way. As her career and passion for space brought her from UT Austin to UC Berkeley, and even to a Mars astronaut simulation in Hawai’i, Sarafina learned how to survive—and ultimately thrive—in a space that was seldom welcoming to women, and especially not to women of color.   Honest and empowering, Starstruck sits at the intersection of the study of our cosmos—itself constantly changing—and the transformative experience of embracing resilience to pursue one’s passion.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632388Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark Author: Sarafina El-Badry Nance Narrator: Sarafina El-Badry Nance Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark Author: Sarafina El-Badry Nance Narrator: Sarafina El-Badry Nance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In a beautifully written, science-packed, and inspirational memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance shares how she boldly carved out a place in the field of astrophysics, grounding herself in a lifelong love of the stars to face life’s inevitable challenges and embrace the unknown. As a child, Sarafina El-Badry Nance spent nearly every evening with her father gazing up at the flickering stars and pondering what secrets the night sky held. The daughter of an American father and Egyptian mother who both pushed her toward academic excellence, Sarafina dreamed of becoming an astronomer and untangling the mysteries of the stars overhead. But it wasn’t long before she was told, both explicitly and implicitly, that girls just weren’t cut out for math and science. In Starstruck, Sarafina invites us to consider the cosmos through fascinating science lessons to open each chapter. But she also traces more earthbound obstacles—of misogyny and racism, abuse and intergenerational trauma, anxiety and self-doubt, cancer diagnoses and recovery—she faced along the way. As her career and passion for space brought her from UT Austin to UC Berkeley, and even to a Mars astronaut simulation in Hawai’i, Sarafina learned how to survive—and ultimately thrive—in a space that was seldom welcoming to women, and especially not to women of color.   Honest and empowering, Starstruck sits at the intersection of the study of our cosmos—itself constantly changing—and the transformative experience of embracing resilience to pursue one’s passion.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/making-it-home-life-lessons-from-a-season-of-little-league-by-teresa-strasser--65184348https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making It Home: Life Lessons from a Season of Little League Author: Teresa Strasser Narrator: Teresa Strasser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'This is a story about a team that becomes a family and a family that becomes a team. . . a wonderful book .' -- Cal Ripken, Jr. 'A MUST READ!'--USA TODAY (ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023) An achingly heartfelt and surprisingly funny memoir about family, grief, and moving forward.   When her brother dies from cancer, and then her mother just four months later, Teresa Strasser has no one to mourn with but her irresponsible, cantankerous, trailerpark-dwelling father. He claims not to remember her chaotic childhood, but he’s a devoted grandpa, so as her son embarks on his first season pitching in Little League, Teresa and Nelson form a grief group of two in beach chairs lined up behind the first base line.   There are no therapeutically trained facilitators and no rules other than those dictated by the Little League of America, and the human heart. For Teresa and her father, the stages of grief are the draft, the regular season, and the playoffs. One season of baseball becomes the framework for a memoir about family, loss, and the fundamentals of baseball and life. They cheer, talk smack about other teams, scream at each other in the parking lot, and care way too much about Little League.   Making It Home is a bracingly honest journey through grief, self-doubt, and anxiety armed with humor and optimism. After all, America’s pastime may be just a game, but it always leaves room for redemption, even at the bottom of the lineup.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630943Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making It Home: Life Lessons from a Season of Little League Author: Teresa Strasser Narrator: Teresa Strasser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630943 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making It Home: Life Lessons from a Season of Little League Author: Teresa Strasser Narrator: Teresa Strasser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'This is a story about a team that becomes a family and a family that becomes a team. . . a wonderful book .' -- Cal Ripken, Jr. 'A MUST READ!'--USA TODAY (ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023) An achingly heartfelt and surprisingly funny memoir about family, grief, and moving forward.   When her brother dies from cancer, and then her mother just four months later, Teresa Strasser has no one to mourn with but her irresponsible, cantankerous, trailerpark-dwelling father. He claims not to remember her chaotic childhood, but he’s a devoted grandpa, so as her son embarks on his first season pitching in Little League, Teresa and Nelson form a grief group of two in beach chairs lined up behind the first base line.   There are no therapeutically trained facilitators and no rules other than those dictated by the Little League of America, and the human heart. For Teresa and her father, the stages of grief are the draft, the regular season, and the playoffs. One season of baseball becomes the framework for a memoir about family, loss, and the fundamentals of baseball and life. They cheer, talk smack about other teams, scream at each other in the parking lot, and care way too much about Little League.   Making It Home is a bracingly honest journey through grief, self-doubt, and anxiety armed with humor and optimism. After all, America’s pastime may be just a game, but it always leaves room for redemption, even at the bottom of the lineup.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/george-a-magpie-memoir-by-frieda-hughes--65184320https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640598 to listen full audiobooks. Title: George: A Magpie Memoir Author: Frieda Hughes Narrator: Frieda Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Poignant and funny…a passionate book about unconditional love and commitment.” —The Washington Post * “Captivating.” —Associated Press * “Rich with imagery…It’s impossible not to be smitten.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) From poet and painter Frieda Hughes, an intimate, charming, and humorous memoir recounting her experience rescuing and raising an abandoned baby magpie in the Welsh countryside. When Frieda Hughes moved to a ramshackle estate in the wilds of Wales, she was expecting to take on a few projects: planting a garden, painting, writing her poetry column for The Times (London), and possibly even breathing new life into her ailing marriage. But instead, she found herself rescuing a baby magpie, the sole survivor of a nest destroyed in a storm—and embarking on an obsession that would change the course of her life. As the magpie, George, grows from a shrieking scrap of feathers and bones into an intelligent, unruly companion, Frieda finds herself captivated—and apprehensive of what will happen when the time comes to finally set him free. With irresistible humor and heart, Frieda invites us along on her unlikely journey toward joy and connection in the wake of sadness and loss; a journey that began with saving a tiny wild creature and ended with her being saved in return.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640598Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640598 to listen full audiobooks. Title: George: A Magpie Memoir Author: Frieda Hughes Narrator: Frieda Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: June 6,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640598 to listen full audiobooks. Title: George: A Magpie Memoir Author: Frieda Hughes Narrator: Frieda Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Poignant and funny…a passionate book about unconditional love and commitment.” —The Washington Post * “Captivating.” —Associated Press * “Rich with imagery…It’s impossible not to be smitten.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) From poet and painter Frieda Hughes, an intimate, charming, and humorous memoir recounting her experience rescuing and raising an abandoned baby magpie in the Welsh countryside. When Frieda Hughes moved to a ramshackle estate in the wilds of Wales, she was expecting to take on a few projects: planting a garden, painting, writing her poetry column for The Times (London), and possibly even breathing new life into her ailing marriage. But instead, she found herself rescuing a baby magpie, the sole survivor of a nest destroyed in a storm—and embarking on an obsession that would change the course of her life. As the magpie, George, grows from a shrieking scrap of feathers and bones into an intelligent, unruly companion, Frieda finds herself captivated—and apprehensive of what will happen when the time comes to finally set him free. With irresistible humor and heart, Frieda invites us along on her unlikely journey toward joy and connection in the wake of sadness and loss; a journey that began with saving a tiny wild creature and ended with her being saved in return.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/almost-brown-a-memoir-by-charlotte-gill--65184316https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630988 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Almost Brown: A Memoir Author: Charlotte Gill Narrator: Seema Doad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. “Almost Brown is that rarest of things: a memoir that is both deeply intimate and intellectually ambitious.”—Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book Charlotte Gill’s father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960s London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a lot of immigration paperwork, and three children, all in varying shades of tan. Together they set off on a journey from the United Kingdom to Canada to the United States in an elusive pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness—a dream that eventually tears them apart. Almost Brown is an exploration of diasporic intermingling involving two eccentric parents from worlds apart and their half-brown children as they experience the paradoxes and conundrums of life as it’s lived between race checkboxes. Their intercultural experiment features turbans and tube socks, chana masala and Cherry Coke. Over time, Gill’s parents drift apart because they just aren’t compatible. But as she too finds herself distancing from her father—Why is she embarrassed to walk down the street with him and not her mom?—she doesn’t know if it’s because of his personality or his race. Is this her own unconscious bias favoring one parent over the other in the racial tug-of-war that plagues our society? Almost Brown looks for answers to questions shared by many mixed-race people: What am I? What does it mean to be a person of color when the concept is a societal invention and really only applies halfway if you are half white? Eventually, after years of silence, Gill and her father reclaim a space for forgiveness and love. In a funny, turbulent, and ultimately heartwarming story, Gill examines the brilliant messiness of ancestry, “diversity,” and the idea of “race,” a historical concept that still informs our beliefs about ethnicity today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630988Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630988 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Almost Brown: A Memoir Author: Charlotte Gill Narrator: Seema Doad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630988 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Almost Brown: A Memoir Author: Charlotte Gill Narrator: Seema Doad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. “Almost Brown is that rarest of things: a memoir that is both deeply intimate and intellectually ambitious.”—Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book Charlotte Gill’s father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960s London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a lot of immigration paperwork, and three children, all in varying shades of tan. Together they set off on a journey from the United Kingdom to Canada to the United States in an elusive pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness—a dream that eventually tears them apart. Almost Brown is an exploration of diasporic intermingling involving two eccentric parents from worlds apart and their half-brown children as they experience the paradoxes and conundrums of life as it’s lived between race checkboxes. Their intercultural experiment features turbans and tube socks, chana masala and Cherry Coke. Over time, Gill’s parents drift apart because they just aren’t compatible. But as she too finds herself distancing from her father—Why is she embarrassed to walk down the street with him and not her mom?—she doesn’t know if it’s because of his personality or his race. Is this her own unconscious bias favoring one parent over the other in the racial tug-of-war that plagues our society? Almost Brown looks for answers to questions shared by many mixed-race people: What am I? What does it mean to be a person of color when the concept is a societal invention and really only applies halfway if you are half white? Eventually, after years of silence, Gill and her father reclaim a space for forgiveness and love. In a funny, turbulent, and ultimately heartwarming story, Gill examines the brilliant messiness of ancestry, “diversity,” and the idea of “race,” a historical concept that still informs our beliefs about ethnicity today.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/almost-brown-a-memoir-by-charlotte-gill--65184243https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Almost Brown: A Memoir Author: Charlotte Gill Narrator: Seema Doad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A Canadian masterpiece.'—Toronto Star An award-winning writer retraces her unconventional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill’s father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960s London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a lot of immigration paperwork, and three children, all in varying shades of tan. Together they set off on a journey to Canada and the United States in an elusive pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness—a dream that eventually tears them apart. Almost Brown is an exploration of diasporic intermingling involving two deeply eccentric parents from worlds apart and their half-brown children as they experience the paradoxes and conundrums of life as it’s lived between race checkboxes. Their intercultural experiment features turbans and tube socks, chana masala and Cherry Coke, feminist uprisings, racial alliances and divides, a divorce, multiple grudges, and plenty of bad fashion. The family implodes, but after twenty years of silence, father and daughter reclaim a space for forgiveness and love. Almost Brown is a funny, turbulent, and ultimately heartwarming book about the brilliant messiness of a mixed-race family and a search for answers to the question, What are you? Tender and incisive, it is both a deeply personal memoir and an excavation into ethnicity, ancestry, and race—a historical concept that still informs our beliefs about identity today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648936Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Almost Brown: A Memoir Author: Charlotte Gill Narrator: Seema Doad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Almost Brown: A Memoir Author: Charlotte Gill Narrator: Seema Doad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A Canadian masterpiece.'—Toronto Star An award-winning writer retraces her unconventional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill’s father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960s London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a lot of immigration paperwork, and three children, all in varying shades of tan. Together they set off on a journey to Canada and the United States in an elusive pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness—a dream that eventually tears them apart. Almost Brown is an exploration of diasporic intermingling involving two deeply eccentric parents from worlds apart and their half-brown children as they experience the paradoxes and conundrums of life as it’s lived between race checkboxes. Their intercultural experiment features turbans and tube socks, chana masala and Cherry Coke, feminist uprisings, racial alliances and divides, a divorce, multiple grudges, and plenty of bad fashion. The family implodes, but after twenty years of silence, father and daughter reclaim a space for forgiveness and love. Almost Brown is a funny, turbulent, and ultimately heartwarming book about the brilliant messiness of a mixed-race family and a search for answers to the question, What are you? Tender and incisive, it is both a deeply personal memoir and an excavation into ethnicity, ancestry, and race—a historical concept that still informs our beliefs about identity today.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/see-me-rolling-on-disability-equality-and-ten-point-turns-by-lottie-jackson--65184266https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: See Me Rolling: On Disability, Equality and Ten-Point Turns Author: Lottie Jackson Narrator: Tamaryn Payne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'The world was sadly not my lobster, it was a skimpy crayfish from a petrol station sandwich and it was on the turn.' In this heartfelt, thought-provoking and often hilarious book, Lottie Jackson reflects on her experiences of living with disability: from the pitfalls of going shopping on a mobility scooter, and the headache of defining oneself on a tick-box form, to a slapstick scuffle with the so-called 'easy-pull' tights aid, and the intense pleasure of finally swapping a hospital gown for a slinky dress. Lottie captivatingly expresses the raw vulnerabilities, injustices and untold joys of disability, as well as the bizarre everyday occurrences that able-bodied people usually don't experience. See Me Rolling is a playful, illuminating memoir, but it is also a clarion call for greater diversity and inclusion. In a world that idolises bodily perfection, too often people with disabilities are kept on the periphery and treated as a sum of their differences. In this dazzling debut, Lottie reveals why we must strive for change and redefine what it means to be disabled in every facet of life; from productivity, education and wellness, to social media, beauty and love. She has a voice that needs to be heard. ©2023 Lottie Jackson (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645515Thu, 01 Jun 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: See Me Rolling: On Disability, Equality and Ten-Point Turns Author: Lottie Jackson Narrator: Tamaryn Payne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: See Me Rolling: On Disability, Equality and Ten-Point Turns Author: Lottie Jackson Narrator: Tamaryn Payne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'The world was sadly not my lobster, it was a skimpy crayfish from a petrol station sandwich and it was on the turn.' In this heartfelt, thought-provoking and often hilarious book, Lottie Jackson reflects on her experiences of living with disability: from the pitfalls of going shopping on a mobility scooter, and the headache of defining oneself on a tick-box form, to a slapstick scuffle with the so-called 'easy-pull' tights aid, and the intense pleasure of finally swapping a hospital gown for a slinky dress. Lottie captivatingly expresses the raw vulnerabilities, injustices and untold joys of disability, as well as the bizarre everyday occurrences that able-bodied people usually don't experience. See Me Rolling is a playful, illuminating memoir, but it is also a clarion call for greater diversity and inclusion. In a world that idolises bodily perfection, too often people with disabilities are kept on the periphery and treated as a sum of their differences. In this dazzling debut, Lottie reveals why we must strive for change and redefine what it means to be disabled in every facet of life; from productivity, education and wellness, to social media, beauty and love. She has a voice that needs to be heard. ©2023 Lottie Jackson (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/diary-of-a-tuscan-bookshop-a-memoir-by-alba-donati--65184258https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir Author: Alba Donati Narrator: Jane Mcdowell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 57 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: National Bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun meets Diary of a Bookseller in this charming memoir by an Italian poet recounting her experience opening a bookshop in a village in Tuscany. Alba Donati was used to her hectic life working as a book publicist in Italy—a life that made her happy and allowed her to meet prominent international authors—but she was ready to make a change. One day she decided to return to Lucignana, the small village in the Tuscan hills where she was born. There she opened a tiny but enchanting bookshop in a lovely little cottage on a hill, surrounded by gardens filled with roses and peonies. With fewer than 200 year-round residents, Alba’s shop seemed unlikely to succeed, but it soon sparked the enthusiasm of book lovers both nearby and across Italy. After surviving a fire and pandemic restrictions, the “Bookshop on the Hill” soon became a refuge and destination for an ever-growing community. The locals took pride in the bookshop—from Alba’s centenarian mother to her childhood friends and the many volunteers who help in the day-to-day running of the shop. And in short time it has become a literary destination, with many devoted readers coming from afar to browse, enjoy a cup of tea, and find comfort in the knowledge that Alba will find the perfect read for them. Alba’s lifelong love of literature shines on every page of this unique and uplifting book. Formatted as diary entries with delightful lists of the books sold at the shop each day, this inspirational story celebrates reading as well as book lovers and booksellers, the unsung heroes of the literary world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637385Tue, 30 May 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir Author: Alba Donati Narrator: Jane Mcdowell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 57 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir Author: Alba Donati Narrator: Jane Mcdowell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 57 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: National Bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun meets Diary of a Bookseller in this charming memoir by an Italian poet recounting her experience opening a bookshop in a village in Tuscany. Alba Donati was used to her hectic life working as a book publicist in Italy—a life that made her happy and allowed her to meet prominent international authors—but she was ready to make a change. One day she decided to return to Lucignana, the small village in the Tuscan hills where she was born. There she opened a tiny but enchanting bookshop in a lovely little cottage on a hill, surrounded by gardens filled with roses and peonies. With fewer than 200 year-round residents, Alba’s shop seemed unlikely to succeed, but it soon sparked the enthusiasm of book lovers both nearby and across Italy. After surviving a fire and pandemic restrictions, the “Bookshop on the Hill” soon became a refuge and destination for an ever-growing community. The locals took pride in the bookshop—from Alba’s centenarian mother to her childhood friends and the many volunteers who help in the day-to-day running of the shop. And in short time it has become a literary destination, with many devoted readers coming from afar to browse, enjoy a cup of tea, and find comfort in the knowledge that Alba will find the perfect read for them. Alba’s lifelong love of literature shines on every page of this unique and uplifting book. Formatted as diary entries with delightful lists of the books sold at the shop each day, this inspirational story celebrates reading as well as book lovers and booksellers, the unsung heroes of the literary world.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-shift-change-your-perspective-not-yourself-by-tinx--65184347https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shift: Change Your Perspective, Not Yourself Author: Tinx Narrator: Tinx Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The lifestyle creator, advice expert, and host of the It’s Me, Tinx podcast shares her hilarious and (sometimes brutally) honest wisdom on how to shift your approach to life, step into your confidence, and enjoy the journey. It’s time to get laser-focused on what makes us feel happy and fulfilled. Tinx wants to take your hand and guide you to a new way of thinking about life, love, happiness, and friendships—where dating evolves into an era of self-discovery and not just a means to an end, sharing wisdom becomes a collective power, and chaos turns into a source of creativity. Making small but mighty shifts in thinking can be a tool for personal growth that fuels you instead of fatigues you. The point is to know yourself, discover what fulfills you, and have fun along the way. In The Shift, Tinx collects all her revolutionary theories and hilarious personal anecdotes in one place, presenting you with a guide to simple mindset shifts that will completely change the way you approach decision-making and relationships. Through her own stories, from the good to the bad, Tinx helps you better understand how to step into your power and own self-worth. Some say you cannot love another before you learn to love yourself: Tinx teaches you how to do both at the same time. And she does it while making you laugh out loud. With her signature wit and candor, Tinx shows you: -How to change your scarcity mindset -How to understand and employ her famous Box Theory dating concept -How to feed the things that fulfill you -How living well is the best revenge -How therapy can reframe struggles into strengths -How to break up with dignity -How knowing your worth makes you a better friend and partner]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631091Tue, 23 May 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shift: Change Your Perspective, Not Yourself Author: Tinx Narrator: Tinx Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: May...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shift: Change Your Perspective, Not Yourself Author: Tinx Narrator: Tinx Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The lifestyle creator, advice expert, and host of the It’s Me, Tinx podcast shares her hilarious and (sometimes brutally) honest wisdom on how to shift your approach to life, step into your confidence, and enjoy the journey. It’s time to get laser-focused on what makes us feel happy and fulfilled. Tinx wants to take your hand and guide you to a new way of thinking about life, love, happiness, and friendships—where dating evolves into an era of self-discovery and not just a means to an end, sharing wisdom becomes a collective power, and chaos turns into a source of creativity. Making small but mighty shifts in thinking can be a tool for personal growth that fuels you instead of fatigues you. The point is to know yourself, discover what fulfills you, and have fun along the way. In The Shift, Tinx collects all her revolutionary theories and hilarious personal anecdotes in one place, presenting you with a guide to simple mindset shifts that will completely change the way you approach decision-making and relationships. Through her own stories, from the good to the bad, Tinx helps you better understand how to step into your power and own self-worth. Some say you cannot love another before you learn to love yourself: Tinx teaches you how to do both at the same time. And she does it while making you laugh out loud. With her signature wit and candor, Tinx shows you: -How to change your scarcity mindset -How to understand and employ her famous Box Theory dating concept -How to feed the things that fulfill you -How living well is the best revenge -How therapy can reframe struggles into strengths -How to break up with dignity -How knowing your worth makes you a better friend and partner]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/oh-my-mother-a-memoir-in-nine-adventures-by-connie-wang--65184394https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures Author: Connie Wang Narrator: Connie Wang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Humorous, endearing, and intimate.” —TIME “Mother and daughter relationships are always tricky but this peripatetic pair has outdone all of us with this most excellent adventure written by my namesake, author Connie Wang.” —Connie Chung A dazzling mother-daughter adventure around the world in pursuit of self-discovery, a family reckoning, and Asian American defiance In Chinese, the closest expression to oh my god is wo de ma ya. It’s an interjection, a polite expletive, something to say when you’re out of words. Translated literally, it means oh my mother—the instinctual first person you think of when you’re on the cusp of losing it, or putting it all together. In each essay of this hilarious, heartfelt, and pitch-perfectly honest memoir, journalist Connie Wang explores her complicated relationship to her stubborn and charismatic mother, Qing Li, through the “oh my god” moments in their travels together. From attending a Magic Mike strip show in Vegas to experimenting with edibles in Amsterdam to flip-flopping through Versailles, this iconic mother-daughter duo venture into the world to find their place in it, and sometimes rail against it—as well as against each other. There are hijinks, capers, and adventures. There is also tenderness, growth, and discovery. In telling these stories about the places they’ve gone and the things they’ve done, Wang reveals another story: the true story of two women who finally learned that once we are comfortable with the feeling of not belonging—once we can reject the need to belong to any place, community, census, designation, or nation—we can experience something almost like freedom.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630932Tue, 09 May 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures Author: Connie Wang Narrator: Connie Wang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures Author: Connie Wang Narrator: Connie Wang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Humorous, endearing, and intimate.” —TIME “Mother and daughter relationships are always tricky but this peripatetic pair has outdone all of us with this most excellent adventure written by my namesake, author Connie Wang.” —Connie Chung A dazzling mother-daughter adventure around the world in pursuit of self-discovery, a family reckoning, and Asian American defiance In Chinese, the closest expression to oh my god is wo de ma ya. It’s an interjection, a polite expletive, something to say when you’re out of words. Translated literally, it means oh my mother—the instinctual first person you think of when you’re on the cusp of losing it, or putting it all together. In each essay of this hilarious, heartfelt, and pitch-perfectly honest memoir, journalist Connie Wang explores her complicated relationship to her stubborn and charismatic mother, Qing Li, through the “oh my god” moments in their travels together. From attending a Magic Mike strip show in Vegas to experimenting with edibles in Amsterdam to flip-flopping through Versailles, this iconic mother-daughter duo venture into the world to find their place in it, and sometimes rail against it—as well as against each other. There are hijinks, capers, and adventures. There is also tenderness, growth, and discovery. In telling these stories about the places they’ve gone and the things they’ve done, Wang reveals another story: the true story of two women who finally learned that once we are comfortable with the feeling of not belonging—once we can reject the need to belong to any place, community, census, designation, or nation—we can experience something almost like freedom.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/an-unspeakable-hope-brutality-forgiveness-and-building-a-better-future-for-my-son-by-leon-ford--65184318https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Unspeakable Hope: Brutality, Forgiveness, and Building a Better Future for My Son Author: Leon Ford Narrator: Leon Ford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A “powerful and insightful” (Cyntoia Brown-Long, author of Free Cyntoia) memoir in the vein of Just Mercy and The Sum of Us that upends our understanding about the future of policing in the United States and explores how we can begin healing from systemic injustice. In 2012, nineteen-year-old Leon Ford was shot five times by a Pittsburgh police officer during a racially charged traffic stop stemming from a case of mistaken identity. When he woke up in the hospital, he was faced with two life-changing realities: he was a new father, and he was paralyzed from the waist down. Leon found the only way to move forward was to let go of his bitterness and learn to practice forgiveness. Now, in this memoir and manifesto, Leon illustrates how this harrowing experience has inspired a deep reckoning with the issues his community is facing, not only with police brutality, but also an epidemic of street violence, toxic masculinity and its impact on Black fatherhood, and the lack of disability rights and mental health access in disenfranchised communities. In the wake of countless similar shootings across the country, Leon details how he turned towards social activism, dedicating himself to bridging the gap between the police and the communities they are supposed to serve. With a voice filled with “healing, triumph, and resilience” (Shaka Senghor, bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs), Ford offers fresh, counterintuitive ways we can effect social change. Leon shows us how, together, we can move away from retribution and towards transformative justice in order to end police brutality and heal as a country. As he once said, “Lead with love. Start compassionate conversations even with individuals and systems that have caused you pain. I know from experience that you can make your pain purposeful.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640595Tue, 09 May 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Unspeakable Hope: Brutality, Forgiveness, and Building a Better Future for My Son Author: Leon Ford Narrator: Leon Ford Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Unspeakable Hope: Brutality, Forgiveness, and Building a Better Future for My Son Author: Leon Ford Narrator: Leon Ford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A “powerful and insightful” (Cyntoia Brown-Long, author of Free Cyntoia) memoir in the vein of Just Mercy and The Sum of Us that upends our understanding about the future of policing in the United States and explores how we can begin healing from systemic injustice. In 2012, nineteen-year-old Leon Ford was shot five times by a Pittsburgh police officer during a racially charged traffic stop stemming from a case of mistaken identity. When he woke up in the hospital, he was faced with two life-changing realities: he was a new father, and he was paralyzed from the waist down. Leon found the only way to move forward was to let go of his bitterness and learn to practice forgiveness. Now, in this memoir and manifesto, Leon illustrates how this harrowing experience has inspired a deep reckoning with the issues his community is facing, not only with police brutality, but also an epidemic of street violence, toxic masculinity and its impact on Black fatherhood, and the lack of disability rights and mental health access in disenfranchised communities. In the wake of countless similar shootings across the country, Leon details how he turned towards social activism, dedicating himself to bridging the gap between the police and the communities they are supposed to serve. With a voice filled with “healing, triumph, and resilience” (Shaka Senghor, bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs), Ford offers fresh, counterintuitive ways we can effect social change. Leon shows us how, together, we can move away from retribution and towards transformative justice in order to end police brutality and heal as a country. As he once said, “Lead with love. Start compassionate conversations even with individuals and systems that have caused you pain. I know from experience that you can make your pain purposeful.”]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gentleman-of-jazz-a-life-in-music-by-ramsey-lewis-aaron-cohen--65184239https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651972 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music Author: Ramsey Lewis, Aaron Cohen Narrator: Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This immersive new autobiography provides insight into the early life and illustrious career of the late great Ramsey Lewis, one of the most popular jazz pianists of all time. Beginning with his childhood growing up in Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood, Ramsey Lewis recounts his memories of the music in his parents’ church and his early piano lessons. As he learned classical technique, Lewis also absorbed countless jazz records and heard gospel music weekly, finally becoming a performer himself in his teenage years. With his coauthor and collaborator, Aaron Cohen, Lewis describes his early steps in jazz from joining the Clefs in the ’50s, to eventually establishing the Ramsey Lewis Trio. This memoir provides an evocative tour of Lewis’s life from the club circuit of the early 1960s and recording with Chess Records to working with producer Maurice White and musicians such as Stevie Wonder. In this deep dive into an exceptional life and expansive career, Lewis takes us through his artistic challenges, offers insight and perspective on his own musical growth and the creative process, and describes his eventual foray into symphonic composition and performance. Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music is an inspiration to young musicians eager to follow in his footsteps and a tribute to the legacy of Ramsey Lewis and is sure to appeal to longtime fans as well as those new to the jazz scene.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651972Tue, 09 May 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651972 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music Author: Ramsey Lewis, Aaron Cohen Narrator: Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 49 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651972 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music Author: Ramsey Lewis, Aaron Cohen Narrator: Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This immersive new autobiography provides insight into the early life and illustrious career of the late great Ramsey Lewis, one of the most popular jazz pianists of all time. Beginning with his childhood growing up in Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood, Ramsey Lewis recounts his memories of the music in his parents’ church and his early piano lessons. As he learned classical technique, Lewis also absorbed countless jazz records and heard gospel music weekly, finally becoming a performer himself in his teenage years. With his coauthor and collaborator, Aaron Cohen, Lewis describes his early steps in jazz from joining the Clefs in the ’50s, to eventually establishing the Ramsey Lewis Trio. This memoir provides an evocative tour of Lewis’s life from the club circuit of the early 1960s and recording with Chess Records to working with producer Maurice White and musicians such as Stevie Wonder. In this deep dive into an exceptional life and expansive career, Lewis takes us through his artistic challenges, offers insight and perspective on his own musical growth and the creative process, and describes his eventual foray into symphonic composition and performance. Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music is an inspiration to young musicians eager to follow in his footsteps and a tribute to the legacy of Ramsey Lewis and is sure to appeal to longtime fans as well as those new to the jazz scene.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tremendous-the-life-of-a-comedy-savage-by-joey-coco-diaz--65184344https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tremendous: The Life of a Comedy Savage Author: Joey 'coco' Diaz Narrator: Joey 'coco' Diaz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 74 Ratings of Narrator: 4.85 of Total 34 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Outsider. Misfit. Criminal. Convict. Movie star. Family man. Comedy legend.Joey Diaz has been called every name in the book (and then some). Now, for the first time, he shares the story of his unlikely rise to fame in his own words—with no punches pulled.Today, he stars in hit films, headlines sold-out tours, hosts the popular Uncle Joey’s Joint podcast, and is a devoted father—but his life wasn’t always so pictureperfect. Tremendous is the story of Diaz’s life, from grueling childhood and misspent youth to finding his true calling in comedy. Immigrants, fans of celebrity tales, and comedy enthusiasts alike will be enthralled by this incredibly true, foul-mouthed, and funny memoir.It’s not a story for the faint of heart, or for prudes who’ve never spent a week sleeping on a piece of playground equipment. Diaz shares it all with brutal honesty and humor, in the same inimitable voice he’d use talking to you from the stage or in a bar. An inspiration for misfits everywhere, Tremendous is storytelling at its finest—and a reminder that the direst of circumstances can change in unimaginable, unpredictable ways.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634371Tue, 02 May 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tremendous: The Life of a Comedy Savage Author: Joey 'coco' Diaz Narrator: Joey 'coco' Diaz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tremendous: The Life of a Comedy Savage Author: Joey 'coco' Diaz Narrator: Joey 'coco' Diaz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 74 Ratings of Narrator: 4.85 of Total 34 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Outsider. Misfit. Criminal. Convict. Movie star. Family man. Comedy legend.Joey Diaz has been called every name in the book (and then some). Now, for the first time, he shares the story of his unlikely rise to fame in his own words—with no punches pulled.Today, he stars in hit films, headlines sold-out tours, hosts the popular Uncle Joey’s Joint podcast, and is a devoted father—but his life wasn’t always so pictureperfect. Tremendous is the story of Diaz’s life, from grueling childhood and misspent youth to finding his true calling in comedy. Immigrants, fans of celebrity tales, and comedy enthusiasts alike will be enthralled by this incredibly true, foul-mouthed, and funny memoir.It’s not a story for the faint of heart, or for prudes who’ve never spent a week sleeping on a piece of playground equipment. Diaz shares it all with brutal honesty and humor, in the same inimitable voice he’d use talking to you from the stage or in a bar. An inspiration for misfits everywhere, Tremendous is storytelling at its finest—and a reminder that the direst of circumstances can change in unimaginable, unpredictable ways.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-good-mom-s-guide-to-making-bad-choices-by-erica-dickerson-jamilah-mapp--65184285https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Good Mom's Guide to Making Bad Choices Author: Erica Dickerson, Jamilah Mapp Narrator: Erica Dickerson, Jamilah Mapp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The creators of the beloved podcast Good Moms Bad Choices challenge outdated notions of what being a “good” mother truly means—inviting moms of all kinds to embark on a healing journey that unlearns old scripts about motherhood and shows that you can be a little bad, and still do a lot of good for your kids and yourself. They are everywhere on social media. Images of perfect, pleasant women with perfect, pretty children in perfect, tidy homes—the epitome of “good” moms. But this model of motherhood is an illusion that far too many women either measure themselves against or simply cannot relate to in the first place. Enter Jamilah Mapp and Erica Dickerson: if you are sex-positive, cannabis-friendly, and love sharing NSFW stories with your fellow mom friends, you’re not doing anything wrong and you are definitely not a bad mother. And Jamilah and Erica are your tribe. These two best friends, single mothers, and creators of the Good Moms Bad Choices podcast are here to remind every woman that you can be a good mom despite not fitting the “perfect mom” standard. In this much-needed book, part memoir, part guide, and part manifesto, they bring the refreshing honesty and down-to-earth humor of their podcast to the stories of their own journeys as mothers, offering women insight and tools they can use to recognize their own past traumas, find a way to healing, and break free from unrealistic expectations of what it means to be a good parent. Jamilah and Erica take us through their own journeys as single mothers raising children, being in (and falling out of) relationships, making mom friends, and, ultimately, finding themselves as they learned to redefine motherhood on their own terms. Uncensored, unapologetic, empathetic, and no-holds-barred, A Good Mom’s Guide to Making Bad Choices takes an unconventional and much-needed approach to motherhood that recognizes that moms are vibrant, sexual, creative beings with needs and desires that deserve to be acknowledged and respected. It’s a breath of fresh air for all moms today.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634653Tue, 02 May 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Good Mom's Guide to Making Bad Choices Author: Erica Dickerson, Jamilah Mapp Narrator: Erica Dickerson, Jamilah Mapp Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634653 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Good Mom's Guide to Making Bad Choices Author: Erica Dickerson, Jamilah Mapp Narrator: Erica Dickerson, Jamilah Mapp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The creators of the beloved podcast Good Moms Bad Choices challenge outdated notions of what being a “good” mother truly means—inviting moms of all kinds to embark on a healing journey that unlearns old scripts about motherhood and shows that you can be a little bad, and still do a lot of good for your kids and yourself. They are everywhere on social media. Images of perfect, pleasant women with perfect, pretty children in perfect, tidy homes—the epitome of “good” moms. But this model of motherhood is an illusion that far too many women either measure themselves against or simply cannot relate to in the first place. Enter Jamilah Mapp and Erica Dickerson: if you are sex-positive, cannabis-friendly, and love sharing NSFW stories with your fellow mom friends, you’re not doing anything wrong and you are definitely not a bad mother. And Jamilah and Erica are your tribe. These two best friends, single mothers, and creators of the Good Moms Bad Choices podcast are here to remind every woman that you can be a good mom despite not fitting the “perfect mom” standard. In this much-needed book, part memoir, part guide, and part manifesto, they bring the refreshing honesty and down-to-earth humor of their podcast to the stories of their own journeys as mothers, offering women insight and tools they can use to recognize their own past traumas, find a way to healing, and break free from unrealistic expectations of what it means to be a good parent. Jamilah and Erica take us through their own journeys as single mothers raising children, being in (and falling out of) relationships, making mom friends, and, ultimately, finding themselves as they learned to redefine motherhood on their own terms. Uncensored, unapologetic, empathetic, and no-holds-barred, A Good Mom’s Guide to Making Bad Choices takes an unconventional and much-needed approach to motherhood that recognizes that moms are vibrant, sexual, creative beings with needs and desires that deserve to be acknowledged and respected. It’s a breath of fresh air for all moms today.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-are-too-many-a-memoir-kind-of-by-hannah-pittard--65184250https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651468 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of] Author: Hannah Pittard Narrator: Hannah Pittard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: We Are Too Many is an unexpectedly funny, unflinchingly honest, and genre-bending memoir about a marriage-ending affair between award-winning author Hannah Pittard's husband and her captivating best friend. In this wryly humorous and innovative look at a marriage gone wrong, Hannah Pittard recalls a decade’s worth of unforgettable conversations, beginning with the one in which she discovers her husband has been having sex with her charismatic best friend, Trish. These time-jumping exchanges are fast-paced, intimate, and often jaw-dropping in their willingness to reveal the vulnerabilities inherent in any friendship or marriage. Blending fact and fiction, sometimes re-creating exchanges with extreme accuracy and sometimes diving headlong into pure speculation, Pittard takes stock not only of her own past and future but also of the larger, more universal experiences they connect with—from the depths of female rage to the heartbreaking ways we inevitably outgrow certain people. Clever and bold and radically honest to an unthinkable degree, We Are Too Many examines the ugly, unfiltered parts of the female experience, as well as the many (happier) possibilities in starting any life over after a major personal catastrophe.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651468Tue, 02 May 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651468 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of] Author: Hannah Pittard Narrator: Hannah Pittard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 39 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651468 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of] Author: Hannah Pittard Narrator: Hannah Pittard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: We Are Too Many is an unexpectedly funny, unflinchingly honest, and genre-bending memoir about a marriage-ending affair between award-winning author Hannah Pittard's husband and her captivating best friend. In this wryly humorous and innovative look at a marriage gone wrong, Hannah Pittard recalls a decade’s worth of unforgettable conversations, beginning with the one in which she discovers her husband has been having sex with her charismatic best friend, Trish. These time-jumping exchanges are fast-paced, intimate, and often jaw-dropping in their willingness to reveal the vulnerabilities inherent in any friendship or marriage. Blending fact and fiction, sometimes re-creating exchanges with extreme accuracy and sometimes diving headlong into pure speculation, Pittard takes stock not only of her own past and future but also of the larger, more universal experiences they connect with—from the depths of female rage to the heartbreaking ways we inevitably outgrow certain people. Clever and bold and radically honest to an unthinkable degree, We Are Too Many examines the ugly, unfiltered parts of the female experience, as well as the many (happier) possibilities in starting any life over after a major personal catastrophe.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unmoored-coming-of-age-in-troubled-waters-by-j-r-roessl--65184252https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645354 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unmoored: Coming of Age in Troubled Waters Author: J. R. Roessl Narrator: J. R. Roessl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It’s the sixties. Everything’s groovy. Teenagers bask in the freedom of a country transformed. Counterculture is on the rise, and the times, they-are-a-changing. Everything, that is, except the author’s young life. She doesn’t swoon for the Beatles or scream for the Stones. She doesn’t protest the Vietnam War or fight for women’s rights. Instead, from age seven to sixteen, she accompanies her father to a dilapidated barn on the edge of a dusty little town located on the outskirts of San Francisco, where she works after school, on weekends, and summers building a ship that is supposed to set her free. It is her father’s promise of one day sailing the ocean on a three-year, around-the-world adventure that keeps her going. With the sixties and teenage torment as a backdrop, Unmoored is the parallel story of growth and redemption through the travails of a forty-four-foot schooner and the girl who helped guide it through storms, fire, near destitution and, ultimately, disaster, notwithstanding coping with a cold and moody father. But in the end, she learns that “Heritage’s worth, like ours, is not measured in terms of where she landed nor by what others thought of her, but in the attempt to get somewhere better than where she’d started. In that, she succeeded, and by default, so did we.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645354Mon, 01 May 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645354 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unmoored: Coming of Age in Troubled Waters Author: J. R. Roessl Narrator: J. R. Roessl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645354 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unmoored: Coming of Age in Troubled Waters Author: J. R. Roessl Narrator: J. R. Roessl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It’s the sixties. Everything’s groovy. Teenagers bask in the freedom of a country transformed. Counterculture is on the rise, and the times, they-are-a-changing. Everything, that is, except the author’s young life. She doesn’t swoon for the Beatles or scream for the Stones. She doesn’t protest the Vietnam War or fight for women’s rights. Instead, from age seven to sixteen, she accompanies her father to a dilapidated barn on the edge of a dusty little town located on the outskirts of San Francisco, where she works after school, on weekends, and summers building a ship that is supposed to set her free. It is her father’s promise of one day sailing the ocean on a three-year, around-the-world adventure that keeps her going. With the sixties and teenage torment as a backdrop, Unmoored is the parallel story of growth and redemption through the travails of a forty-four-foot schooner and the girl who helped guide it through storms, fire, near destitution and, ultimately, disaster, notwithstanding coping with a cold and moody father. But in the end, she learns that “Heritage’s worth, like ours, is not measured in terms of where she landed nor by what others thought of her, but in the attempt to get somewhere better than where she’d started. In that, she succeeded, and by default, so did we.”]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/country-life-a-story-of-peaks-and-troughs-by-giles-wood-mary-killen--65184352https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637363 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Country Life: A story of peaks and troughs Author: Giles Wood, Mary Killen Narrator: Mary Killen, Giles Wood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The Nutty Idyll Former townies Giles and Mary swapped city life for rural Wiltshire over thirty years ago, and they've each embraced it in their own very different ways. Mary has happily traded sophisticated London salons for monthly lectures at the Farmers' Club, competitive school quizzes, church interactions and local Auction House sales. While Giles has immersed himself in the catastrophic consequences of conventional farming, his organic no-dig veg-patch, the increasingly disproportionate response by local landlords to harmless trespassers and the strange death of the village house martins. For recent city escapees and indigenous country folk alike, Giles and Mary sift through the unhelpful dreamy myths and offer a practical reality, with robust back and forth on every aspect of life in rural outposts, including but not limited to planning wars, class wars, dog thefts, tree-felling fights, misunderstandings between incomers and natives and the role of the Heron Appreciation Society. The much-loved Wiltshire couple share their combined, hard-earned lessons, so we can learn the secret skills of grumbling and bumbling our way towards a new contented country life. ©2023 Giles Wood & Mary Killen (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637363Thu, 27 Apr 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637363 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Country Life: A story of peaks and troughs Author: Giles Wood, Mary Killen Narrator: Mary Killen, Giles Wood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637363 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Country Life: A story of peaks and troughs Author: Giles Wood, Mary Killen Narrator: Mary Killen, Giles Wood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The Nutty Idyll Former townies Giles and Mary swapped city life for rural Wiltshire over thirty years ago, and they've each embraced it in their own very different ways. Mary has happily traded sophisticated London salons for monthly lectures at the Farmers' Club, competitive school quizzes, church interactions and local Auction House sales. While Giles has immersed himself in the catastrophic consequences of conventional farming, his organic no-dig veg-patch, the increasingly disproportionate response by local landlords to harmless trespassers and the strange death of the village house martins. For recent city escapees and indigenous country folk alike, Giles and Mary sift through the unhelpful dreamy myths and offer a practical reality, with robust back and forth on every aspect of life in rural outposts, including but not limited to planning wars, class wars, dog thefts, tree-felling fights, misunderstandings between incomers and natives and the role of the Heron Appreciation Society. The much-loved Wiltshire couple share their combined, hard-earned lessons, so we can learn the secret skills of grumbling and bumbling our way towards a new contented country life. ©2023 Giles Wood & Mary Killen (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-flat-place-by-noreen-masud--65184276https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647236 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Flat Place Author: Noreen Masud Narrator: Shazia Nicholls Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION Raw and radical, strange and beguiling - a love letter to Britain's breathtaking flatlands, from Orford Ness to Orkney, and a reckoning with the painful, hidden histories they contain For readers of W. G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn, Amy Liptrot's The Outrun and Richard Mabey's Nature Cure Noreen Masud has always loved flatlands. Her earliest memory is of a wide, flat field glimpsed from the back seat of her father's car in Lahore. As an adult in Britain she has discovered many more flat landscapes to love: Orford Ness, the Cambridgeshire Fens, Morecambe Bay, Orkney. These bare, haunted expanses remind her of the flat place inside herself: the place created by trauma. Noreen suffers from complex post traumatic stress disorder: the product of a profoundly disrupted and unstable childhood. It flattens her emotions, blanks out parts of her memory, and colours her world with anxiety. Undertaking a pilgrimage around Britain's flatlands, seeking solace and belonging, she weaves her impressions of the natural world with poetry, folklore and history, and with recollections of her own early life. Noreen's British Pakistani heritage makes her a partial outsider in these landscapes: both coloniser and colonised, inheritor and dispossessed. Here violence lies beneath the fantasy of pastoral innocence, and histories of harm are interwoven with nature's power to heal. Here, as in her own family history, are many stories that resist the telling. She pursues these paradoxes fearlessly across the flat, haunted spaces she loves, offering a startlingly strange, vivid and intimate account of the land beneath her feet. ©2023 Noreen Masud (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647236Thu, 27 Apr 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647236 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Flat Place Author: Noreen Masud Narrator: Shazia Nicholls Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647236 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Flat Place Author: Noreen Masud Narrator: Shazia Nicholls Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION Raw and radical, strange and beguiling - a love letter to Britain's breathtaking flatlands, from Orford Ness to Orkney, and a reckoning with the painful, hidden histories they contain For readers of W. G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn, Amy Liptrot's The Outrun and Richard Mabey's Nature Cure Noreen Masud has always loved flatlands. Her earliest memory is of a wide, flat field glimpsed from the back seat of her father's car in Lahore. As an adult in Britain she has discovered many more flat landscapes to love: Orford Ness, the Cambridgeshire Fens, Morecambe Bay, Orkney. These bare, haunted expanses remind her of the flat place inside herself: the place created by trauma. Noreen suffers from complex post traumatic stress disorder: the product of a profoundly disrupted and unstable childhood. It flattens her emotions, blanks out parts of her memory, and colours her world with anxiety. Undertaking a pilgrimage around Britain's flatlands, seeking solace and belonging, she weaves her impressions of the natural world with poetry, folklore and history, and with recollections of her own early life. Noreen's British Pakistani heritage makes her a partial outsider in these landscapes: both coloniser and colonised, inheritor and dispossessed. Here violence lies beneath the fantasy of pastoral innocence, and histories of harm are interwoven with nature's power to heal. Here, as in her own family history, are many stories that resist the telling. She pursues these paradoxes fearlessly across the flat, haunted spaces she loves, offering a startlingly strange, vivid and intimate account of the land beneath her feet. ©2023 Noreen Masud (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kitty-s-salon-sex-spying-and-surveillance-in-the-third-reich-by-nigel-jones--65184270https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich Author: Nigel Jones Narrator: Thomas Judd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sex, surveillance and the most sinister Nazi of them all in wartime Berlin There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic - the city of Cabaret. But after the Nazis took power, it became something more dangerous: a spying centre with every room wired for sound, staffed by women agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients. Masterminded by Reinhard Heydrich, the spymaster whom Hitler himself called 'the man with the iron heart', the exclusive establishment turned listening post was patronised by the Nazi leaders themselves, not knowing that hidden ears were listening. One of the last untold stories of the Second World War, Salon Kitty's sensational true history is now revealed by historians Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Dr Julia Schrammel. After years of painstaking research and investigation, the story they tell sheds new light on Nazi methods of control and coercion, and the way that they used and abused sex for their own perverse purposes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647868Thu, 27 Apr 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich Author: Nigel Jones Narrator: Thomas Judd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich Author: Nigel Jones Narrator: Thomas Judd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sex, surveillance and the most sinister Nazi of them all in wartime Berlin There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic - the city of Cabaret. But after the Nazis took power, it became something more dangerous: a spying centre with every room wired for sound, staffed by women agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients. Masterminded by Reinhard Heydrich, the spymaster whom Hitler himself called 'the man with the iron heart', the exclusive establishment turned listening post was patronised by the Nazi leaders themselves, not knowing that hidden ears were listening. One of the last untold stories of the Second World War, Salon Kitty's sensational true history is now revealed by historians Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Dr Julia Schrammel. After years of painstaking research and investigation, the story they tell sheds new light on Nazi methods of control and coercion, and the way that they used and abused sex for their own perverse purposes.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/surviving-to-drive-a-year-inside-formula-1-by-guenther-steiner--65184260https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surviving to Drive: A Year Inside Formula 1 Author: Guenther Steiner Narrator: Guenther Steiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 20, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is watching one of your drivers hit a barrier at 190mph and exploding before your eyes...' Guenther Steiner is one of motor racing's biggest and most celebrated characters, known to millions for his show-stealing appearances on Netflix's hugely popular fly on the wall series, Drive to Survive. In Surviving to Drive, the Haas team principal takes readers inside his Formula 1 team for the entirety of the 2022 season, giving an unobstructed view of what really takes place behind the scenes. Through this unique lens, Guenther takes us on the thrilling rollercoaster of life at the heart of high stakes motor racing. Packed full of twists and turns, from hiring and firing drivers, balancing books, pre-season preparations, the design, launch and testing of a car - and of course, the race calendar itself - this is the first time that an F1 team has allowed an acting team principal to tell the full story of a whole season. Uncompromising and searingly honest, told in Steiner's inimitable style, this is a fascinating and hugely entertaining account of the realities of running a Formula 1 team. ©2023 Guenther Steiner (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649094Thu, 20 Apr 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surviving to Drive: A Year Inside Formula 1 Author: Guenther Steiner Narrator: Guenther Steiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surviving to Drive: A Year Inside Formula 1 Author: Guenther Steiner Narrator: Guenther Steiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: April 20, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is watching one of your drivers hit a barrier at 190mph and exploding before your eyes...' Guenther Steiner is one of motor racing's biggest and most celebrated characters, known to millions for his show-stealing appearances on Netflix's hugely popular fly on the wall series, Drive to Survive. In Surviving to Drive, the Haas team principal takes readers inside his Formula 1 team for the entirety of the 2022 season, giving an unobstructed view of what really takes place behind the scenes. Through this unique lens, Guenther takes us on the thrilling rollercoaster of life at the heart of high stakes motor racing. Packed full of twists and turns, from hiring and firing drivers, balancing books, pre-season preparations, the design, launch and testing of a car - and of course, the race calendar itself - this is the first time that an F1 team has allowed an acting team principal to tell the full story of a whole season. Uncompromising and searingly honest, told in Steiner's inimitable style, this is a fascinating and hugely entertaining account of the realities of running a Formula 1 team. ©2023 Guenther Steiner (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/good-girls-a-study-and-story-of-anorexia-by-hadley-freeman--65184399https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Girls: A Study and Story of Anorexia Author: Hadley Freeman Narrator: Hadley Freeman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a “riveting” (The New York Times) memoir about her experience as an anorexic and her journey to recovery. In 1995, Hadley Freeman wrote in her diary: “I just spent three years of my life in mental hospitals. So why am I crazier than I was before????” From the ages of fourteen to seventeen, Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after developing anorexia nervosa. Her doctors informed her that her body was cannibalizing her muscles and heart for nutrition, but they could tell her little else: why she had it, what it felt like, what recovery looked like. For the next twenty years, Freeman lived as a “functioning anorexic,” grappling with new forms of self-destructive behavior as the anorexia mutated and persisted. Anorexia is one of the most widely discussed but least understood mental illnesses. Through “sharp storytelling, solid research and gentle humor” (The Wall Street Journal), Freeman delivers an incisive and bracing work that details her experiences with anorexia—the shame, fear, loneliness, and rage—and how she overcame it. She interviews doctors to learn how treatment for the illness has changed since she was hospitalized and what new discoveries have been made about the illness, including its connection to autism, OCD, and metabolic rate. She learns why the illness always begins during adolescence and how this reveals the difficulties for girls to come of age. Freeman tracks down the women with whom she was hospitalized and reports on how their recovery has progressed over decades. Good Girls is an honest and hopeful story of resilience that offers a message to the nearly 30 million Americans who suffer from eating disorders: Life can be enjoyed, rather than merely endured.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629212Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Girls: A Study and Story of Anorexia Author: Hadley Freeman Narrator: Hadley Freeman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Girls: A Study and Story of Anorexia Author: Hadley Freeman Narrator: Hadley Freeman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a “riveting” (The New York Times) memoir about her experience as an anorexic and her journey to recovery. In 1995, Hadley Freeman wrote in her diary: “I just spent three years of my life in mental hospitals. So why am I crazier than I was before????” From the ages of fourteen to seventeen, Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after developing anorexia nervosa. Her doctors informed her that her body was cannibalizing her muscles and heart for nutrition, but they could tell her little else: why she had it, what it felt like, what recovery looked like. For the next twenty years, Freeman lived as a “functioning anorexic,” grappling with new forms of self-destructive behavior as the anorexia mutated and persisted. Anorexia is one of the most widely discussed but least understood mental illnesses. Through “sharp storytelling, solid research and gentle humor” (The Wall Street Journal), Freeman delivers an incisive and bracing work that details her experiences with anorexia—the shame, fear, loneliness, and rage—and how she overcame it. She interviews doctors to learn how treatment for the illness has changed since she was hospitalized and what new discoveries have been made about the illness, including its connection to autism, OCD, and metabolic rate. She learns why the illness always begins during adolescence and how this reveals the difficulties for girls to come of age. Freeman tracks down the women with whom she was hospitalized and reports on how their recovery has progressed over decades. Good Girls is an honest and hopeful story of resilience that offers a message to the nearly 30 million Americans who suffer from eating disorders: Life can be enjoyed, rather than merely endured.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-in-five-senses-how-exploring-the-senses-got-me-out-of-my-head-and-into-the-world-by-gretchen-rubin--65184355https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World Author: Gretchen Rubin Narrator: Gretchen Rubin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. “An inspiring and practical guide to living in the moment.”—Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet and Quiet For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she’d been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She’d spent so much time stuck in her head that she’d allowed the vital sensations of life to slip away, unnoticed. This epiphany lifted her from a state of foggy preoccupation into a world rediscovered by seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching. In this journey of self-experimentation, Rubin explores the mysteries and joys of the five senses as a path to a happier, more mindful life. Drawing on cutting-edge science, philosophy, literature, and her own efforts to practice what she learns, she investigates the profound power of tuning in to the physical world. From the simple pleasures of appreciating the magic of ketchup and adding favorite songs to a playlist, to more adventurous efforts like creating a daily ritual of visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art and attending Flavor University, Rubin show us how to experience each day with depth, delight, and connection. In the rush of daily life, she finds, our five senses offer us an immediate, sustainable way to cheer up, calm down, and engage the world around us—as well as a way to glimpse the soul and touch the transcendent. Life in Five Senses is an absorbing, layered story of discovery filled with profound insights and practical suggestions about how to heighten our senses and use our powers of perception to live fuller, richer lives—and, ultimately, how to move through the world with more vitality and love. *Includes a downloadable PDF of additional resources from the book]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639040Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World Author: Gretchen Rubin Narrator: Gretchen Rubin Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World Author: Gretchen Rubin Narrator: Gretchen Rubin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. “An inspiring and practical guide to living in the moment.”—Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet and Quiet For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she’d been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She’d spent so much time stuck in her head that she’d allowed the vital sensations of life to slip away, unnoticed. This epiphany lifted her from a state of foggy preoccupation into a world rediscovered by seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching. In this journey of self-experimentation, Rubin explores the mysteries and joys of the five senses as a path to a happier, more mindful life. Drawing on cutting-edge science, philosophy, literature, and her own efforts to practice what she learns, she investigates the profound power of tuning in to the physical world. From the simple pleasures of appreciating the magic of ketchup and adding favorite songs to a playlist, to more adventurous efforts like creating a daily ritual of visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art and attending Flavor University, Rubin show us how to experience each day with depth, delight, and connection. In the rush of daily life, she finds, our five senses offer us an immediate, sustainable way to cheer up, calm down, and engage the world around us—as well as a way to glimpse the soul and touch the transcendent. Life in Five Senses is an absorbing, layered story of discovery filled with profound insights and practical suggestions about how to heighten our senses and use our powers of perception to live fuller, richer lives—and, ultimately, how to move through the world with more vitality and love. *Includes a downloadable PDF of additional resources from the book]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rising-from-a-mud-hut-to-the-boardroom-and-back-again-by-graci-harkema--65184264https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651120 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rising: From a Mud Hut to the Boardroom — and Back Again Author: Graci Harkema Narrator: Graci Harkema Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An identity that spans the globe. In this astonishing memoir, Graci Harkema revisits her experience growing up as an adoptee from the Congo in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She traces her path to claiming and living her own story, becoming a successful consultant on diversity, equity and inclusion, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, and women in business. Born amid civil unrest in a mud hut in the Congo and weighing a mere three pounds, Harkema was left at an orphanage, where she was not expected to live another day. But that afternoon, a visiting American missionary saw her sleeping in a doll’s bed and heard a voice inside her say, “This is your daughter.” Her childhood was spent wishing to be lighter and blonder, like her siblings and classmates. Out of fear of standing out even more from her peers, Harkema kept her sexuality a secret, only coming out of the closet years later—during a job interview! Eventually, she learned to see her identity as her superpower, instead of her shame. Today, Harkema helps embrace diversity and drive inclusion to ensure open and safe work environments. She is committed to empowering employees to perform to their potential as their authentic selves—setting an example as she continues to live her own story, journeying to meet her birth mother, to discover one more piece of herself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651120Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651120 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rising: From a Mud Hut to the Boardroom — and Back Again Author: Graci Harkema Narrator: Graci Harkema Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 52...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651120 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rising: From a Mud Hut to the Boardroom — and Back Again Author: Graci Harkema Narrator: Graci Harkema Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An identity that spans the globe. In this astonishing memoir, Graci Harkema revisits her experience growing up as an adoptee from the Congo in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She traces her path to claiming and living her own story, becoming a successful consultant on diversity, equity and inclusion, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, and women in business. Born amid civil unrest in a mud hut in the Congo and weighing a mere three pounds, Harkema was left at an orphanage, where she was not expected to live another day. But that afternoon, a visiting American missionary saw her sleeping in a doll’s bed and heard a voice inside her say, “This is your daughter.” Her childhood was spent wishing to be lighter and blonder, like her siblings and classmates. Out of fear of standing out even more from her peers, Harkema kept her sexuality a secret, only coming out of the closet years later—during a job interview! Eventually, she learned to see her identity as her superpower, instead of her shame. Today, Harkema helps embrace diversity and drive inclusion to ensure open and safe work environments. She is committed to empowering employees to perform to their potential as their authentic selves—setting an example as she continues to live her own story, journeying to meet her birth mother, to discover one more piece of herself.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-father-from-the-no-1-bestselling-author-a-new-true-story-of-abuse-and-survival-for-fans-of-cathy-glass-by-toni-maguire--65184292https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why, Father?: From the No.1 bestselling author, a new true story of abuse and survival for fans of Cathy Glass Author: Toni Maguire Narrator: Katy Sobey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Evil walked in... From No.1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and survival - written in aid of NSPCC, with a portion of the royalties being donated to the charity. Gerry was only a young girl when she was first abused by her father. After her mother found out, and believing there was nothing she could do to help her child, nor deal with the stigma attached to it in their small Northern Irish town in the 1960s, she committed suicide. Gerry and her siblings were split up and placed in different foster homes, all knowing they were unlikely to see each other ever again. Told that her mother had committed a grave sin, Gerry was completely alone and abandoned as she confronted even more horrors from her past. After years of shame and isolation, she finally met a man who would help her heal the wounds she had been left with. With his love and support, Gerry decided it was time for her story to be told. Why, Father? is her true and moving story of survival.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645791Thu, 13 Apr 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why, Father?: From the No.1 bestselling author, a new true story of abuse and survival for fans of Cathy Glass Author: Toni Maguire Narrator: Katy...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why, Father?: From the No.1 bestselling author, a new true story of abuse and survival for fans of Cathy Glass Author: Toni Maguire Narrator: Katy Sobey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Evil walked in... From No.1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and survival - written in aid of NSPCC, with a portion of the royalties being donated to the charity. Gerry was only a young girl when she was first abused by her father. After her mother found out, and believing there was nothing she could do to help her child, nor deal with the stigma attached to it in their small Northern Irish town in the 1960s, she committed suicide. Gerry and her siblings were split up and placed in different foster homes, all knowing they were unlikely to see each other ever again. Told that her mother had committed a grave sin, Gerry was completely alone and abandoned as she confronted even more horrors from her past. After years of shame and isolation, she finally met a man who would help her heal the wounds she had been left with. With his love and support, Gerry decided it was time for her story to be told. Why, Father? is her true and moving story of survival.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/just-once-no-more-on-fathers-sons-and-who-we-are-until-we-are-no-longer-by-charles-foran--65184364https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Once, No More: On Fathers, Sons, and Who We Are Until We Are No Longer Author: Charles Foran Narrator: Charles Foran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 4 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In his poignant memoir, Charles Foran presents a portrait of his gruff-but-fond father wrestling with the end of life as Charlie acts as witness, solace, and would-be guide while facing his own mortality. 'Luminous. . . . Wise and moving.' —Yann Martel Dave Foran was a formidable man of few words, from a different era than his sensitive, literary son, Charlie. As a younger person, Dave had lived alone for months in the bush, overcome snow blindness, hauled a dead body across a frozen lake on a dogsled, dodged bullets in a bar, and gone toe-to-toe with a bear. Some aspects of his life were rollicking while others were more restrained: A decent father and a devoted husband, Dave was also emotionally distant, prone to laconic cynicism and a changeable mood. As Charlie writes: “He struggled most days of his life with wounds he could not readily identify, let alone heal.' The year Charlie turned 55, his 83-year-old father began a slow, final decline, and Charlie surprised himself by wanting to write about their relationship. On the surface, his motiavation was to reassure his father that he was loved. But there was also a deeper desire at work. “Late into the middle of my own lifespan,” Charlie writes, “sadness took hold of my being . . . I wanted to say so frankly, never mind how uncomfortable it made me.” In spare, haunting prose, Just Once, No More pulls on these delicate threads—unravelling a fascinating personal story and revealing its poignant universality.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638826Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Once, No More: On Fathers, Sons, and Who We Are Until We Are No Longer Author: Charles Foran Narrator: Charles Foran Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Once, No More: On Fathers, Sons, and Who We Are Until We Are No Longer Author: Charles Foran Narrator: Charles Foran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 4 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In his poignant memoir, Charles Foran presents a portrait of his gruff-but-fond father wrestling with the end of life as Charlie acts as witness, solace, and would-be guide while facing his own mortality. 'Luminous. . . . Wise and moving.' —Yann Martel Dave Foran was a formidable man of few words, from a different era than his sensitive, literary son, Charlie. As a younger person, Dave had lived alone for months in the bush, overcome snow blindness, hauled a dead body across a frozen lake on a dogsled, dodged bullets in a bar, and gone toe-to-toe with a bear. Some aspects of his life were rollicking while others were more restrained: A decent father and a devoted husband, Dave was also emotionally distant, prone to laconic cynicism and a changeable mood. As Charlie writes: “He struggled most days of his life with wounds he could not readily identify, let alone heal.' The year Charlie turned 55, his 83-year-old father began a slow, final decline, and Charlie surprised himself by wanting to write about their relationship. On the surface, his motiavation was to reassure his father that he was loved. But there was also a deeper desire at work. “Late into the middle of my own lifespan,” Charlie writes, “sadness took hold of my being . . . I wanted to say so frankly, never mind how uncomfortable it made me.” In spare, haunting prose, Just Once, No More pulls on these delicate threads—unravelling a fascinating personal story and revealing its poignant universality.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/losing-music-a-memoir-by-john-cotter--65184353https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Losing Music: A Memoir Author: John Cotter Narrator: John Cotter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “I was in the car the first time music seemed strange: the instruments less distinct, the vocals less crisp.” John Cotter was thirty years old when he first began to notice a ringing in his ears. Soon the ringing became a roar inside his head. Next came partial deafness, then dizziness and vertigo that rendered him unable to walk, work, sleep, or even communicate. At a stage of life when he expected to be emerging fully into adulthood, teaching, and writing books, he found himself “crippled and dependent” and in search of care. When he is first told that his debilitating condition is likely Ménière’s Disease but that there is “no reliable test, no reliable treatment, and no consensus on its cause,” Cotter quits teaching, stops writing, and commences upon a series of visits to doctors and treatment centers. What begins as an expedition across the country navigating and battling the limits of the American health-care system quickly becomes something else entirely: a journey through hopelessness and adaptation to disability. Along the way, hearing aids become inseparable from his sense of self, as does a growing understanding that the possibilities in his life are narrowing rather than expanding. And with this understanding of his own travails comes reflection on age-old questions around fate, coincidence, and making meaning of inexplicable misfortune. A devastating memoir that sheds urgent, bracingly honest light on both the taboos surrounding disability and the limits of medical science, Losing Music is refreshingly vulnerable and singularly illuminating―a story that will make listeners see their own lives anew.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634587Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Losing Music: A Memoir Author: John Cotter Narrator: John Cotter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Losing Music: A Memoir Author: John Cotter Narrator: John Cotter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “I was in the car the first time music seemed strange: the instruments less distinct, the vocals less crisp.” John Cotter was thirty years old when he first began to notice a ringing in his ears. Soon the ringing became a roar inside his head. Next came partial deafness, then dizziness and vertigo that rendered him unable to walk, work, sleep, or even communicate. At a stage of life when he expected to be emerging fully into adulthood, teaching, and writing books, he found himself “crippled and dependent” and in search of care. When he is first told that his debilitating condition is likely Ménière’s Disease but that there is “no reliable test, no reliable treatment, and no consensus on its cause,” Cotter quits teaching, stops writing, and commences upon a series of visits to doctors and treatment centers. What begins as an expedition across the country navigating and battling the limits of the American health-care system quickly becomes something else entirely: a journey through hopelessness and adaptation to disability. Along the way, hearing aids become inseparable from his sense of self, as does a growing understanding that the possibilities in his life are narrowing rather than expanding. And with this understanding of his own travails comes reflection on age-old questions around fate, coincidence, and making meaning of inexplicable misfortune. A devastating memoir that sheds urgent, bracingly honest light on both the taboos surrounding disability and the limits of medical science, Losing Music is refreshingly vulnerable and singularly illuminating―a story that will make listeners see their own lives anew.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sea-bean-by-sally-huband--65184397https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630057 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sea Bean Author: Sally Huband Narrator: Sally Huband Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful journey of sea and self, trial and hope on the islands of Shetland When a seed falls from a vine in the tropics and is carried by ocean currents across the Atlantic to the shores of Western Europe - it is known as a sea bean. It is still considered lucky to find a sea bean on the shore, they have been used as magical charms for more than a thousand years. Sally's search for a sea bean begins not long after she moves to the windswept archipelago of Shetland. When pregnancy triggers a chronic illness and forces her to slow down, Sally takes to the beaches. There she discovers treasure freighted with story and curiosities that connect her to the world. The wild shores of Shetland offer glimpses of orcas swimming through the ocean at dusk, the chance to release a tiny storm petrel into the dark of the night and a path of hope. This beachcombing path takes her from the Faroese archipelago to the Orkney islands, and the Dutch island of Texel. It opens a world of ancient myths, fragile ecology, and deep human history. It brings her to herself again. Sea Bean is a message in a bottle. An interconnection of our oceans, communities and ourselves, and an invitation to feel belonging when we are adrift. 'Modern, revealing and restorative, a coastal treasure' Amy Liptrot 'Like its talismanic title, Huband's voice is distinct and singular. A gorgeous reckoning with the sea, islands and mythology' Sinéad Gleeson 'A wild melding of body and landscape. A deep, immersive, storm-tossed read' Helen Jukes ©2023 Sally Huband (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630057Thu, 06 Apr 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630057 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sea Bean Author: Sally Huband Narrator: Sally Huband Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630057 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sea Bean Author: Sally Huband Narrator: Sally Huband Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful journey of sea and self, trial and hope on the islands of Shetland When a seed falls from a vine in the tropics and is carried by ocean currents across the Atlantic to the shores of Western Europe - it is known as a sea bean. It is still considered lucky to find a sea bean on the shore, they have been used as magical charms for more than a thousand years. Sally's search for a sea bean begins not long after she moves to the windswept archipelago of Shetland. When pregnancy triggers a chronic illness and forces her to slow down, Sally takes to the beaches. There she discovers treasure freighted with story and curiosities that connect her to the world. The wild shores of Shetland offer glimpses of orcas swimming through the ocean at dusk, the chance to release a tiny storm petrel into the dark of the night and a path of hope. This beachcombing path takes her from the Faroese archipelago to the Orkney islands, and the Dutch island of Texel. It opens a world of ancient myths, fragile ecology, and deep human history. It brings her to herself again. Sea Bean is a message in a bottle. An interconnection of our oceans, communities and ourselves, and an invitation to feel belonging when we are adrift. 'Modern, revealing and restorative, a coastal treasure' Amy Liptrot 'Like its talismanic title, Huband's voice is distinct and singular. A gorgeous reckoning with the sea, islands and mythology' Sinéad Gleeson 'A wild melding of body and landscape. A deep, immersive, storm-tossed read' Helen Jukes ©2023 Sally Huband (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/burning-butch-by-r-b-mertz--65184383https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burning Butch Author: R/b Mertz Narrator: R/b Mertz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When divorce moves young R/B Mertz away from rural Pennsylvania and their abusive father, Mertz's life is torn in two. Mertz's mom and new stepdad dive headfirst into conservative Catholic homeschooling, entrenching themselves in a world dominated by saints, prayers, and having as many babies as possible, just as Mertz is starting to realize they might be queer. Trying to stave off the inevitable, Mertz later enrolls in a conservative Catholic college in Ohio. Coming of age in the early aughts, they grapple with flirtations, sexual encounters, and confusing relationships with students and faculty, as they try to figure out how to live a life in a world hell-bent on making them choose between their community and their identity. At turns rebellious, charming, and self-effacing, Mertz struggles to navigate this oppressive environment, questioning whether or not there is a place for them inside or outside of the Catholic Church; whether they can be themselves on the left or the right; whether they can be 'conservative' or 'liberal;' or whether they can be at all. Ultimately, Burning Butch is the courageous story of a trans/non-binary butch on a quest to survive with their authenticity intact.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646203Tue, 28 Mar 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burning Butch Author: R/b Mertz Narrator: R/b Mertz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burning Butch Author: R/b Mertz Narrator: R/b Mertz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When divorce moves young R/B Mertz away from rural Pennsylvania and their abusive father, Mertz's life is torn in two. Mertz's mom and new stepdad dive headfirst into conservative Catholic homeschooling, entrenching themselves in a world dominated by saints, prayers, and having as many babies as possible, just as Mertz is starting to realize they might be queer. Trying to stave off the inevitable, Mertz later enrolls in a conservative Catholic college in Ohio. Coming of age in the early aughts, they grapple with flirtations, sexual encounters, and confusing relationships with students and faculty, as they try to figure out how to live a life in a world hell-bent on making them choose between their community and their identity. At turns rebellious, charming, and self-effacing, Mertz struggles to navigate this oppressive environment, questioning whether or not there is a place for them inside or outside of the Catholic Church; whether they can be themselves on the left or the right; whether they can be 'conservative' or 'liberal;' or whether they can be at all. Ultimately, Burning Butch is the courageous story of a trans/non-binary butch on a quest to survive with their authenticity intact.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/writers-on-walks-a-bbc-radio-3-collection-30-reflections-from-exploring-on-foot-by-kirsty-gunn-ian-samson-sophie-coulombeau-michele-rob--65184305https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection: 30 Reflections from Exploring on Foot Author: Kirsty Gunn, Ian Samson, Sophie Coulombeau, Michèle Roberts, Nat Segnit, Michael Donkor, Christopher Hope, Ross Raisin, Erica Wagner, Kamila Shamsie, Owen Sheers, Jenn Ashworth, Deborah Levy, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Nicola Barker, Robert MacFarlane, Nicholas Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observations In these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3's The Essay, an array of novelists, poets, journalists and biographers chart the varied and inspiring walks they have taken around Britain and elsewhere. Here are treks taken at daybreak and after dark; in winter and in spring; in the footsteps of the past; and - in the case of Robert Macfarlane - along the ridges of the South Downs. Dawnwalks and Night Walks find Nicholas Shakespeare, Nicola Barker, Kamila Shamsie, Ian Sansom, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Owen Sheers, Janice Galloway and John Walsh taking early morning and late-night strolls around locations ranging from their back garden and local cemetery to Manhattan, Paris, Tasmania and the Antarctic. Springwalks and Winterwalks feature Michele Roberts, Ross Raisin, John Walsh, Kirsty Gunn, Philip Hoare, Deborah Levy, Christopher Hope, Scarlett Thomas, Erica Wagner and Owen Sheers, as they sample the transforming qualities of spring and the wonders of winter. From Poland and the Languedoc to Hampstead Heath and the Yorkshire Wolds, they delight in the details of the landscape and reflect on what it means to them. Strange Strolls sees Jenn Ashworth, Michael Donkor, Stephanie Victoire, Nat Segnit and Sophie Coulombeau embarking on walks of entertaining eccentricity, revisiting favourite places including Wandsworth Bridge, the Blue Ridge mountains of Appalachia and Ibiza. And in A Five-Day Journey, Robert Macfarlane walks the length of the South Downs in monsoon rain and in sunshine, discovering its chalk trails and its ghosts. He ponders the relationship between paths and stories; explores the poet Edward Thomas' love affair with tracks; considers the concept of the Aboriginal Australian songline; re-imagines the life of artist Eric Ravilious; and contemplates the sometimes eerie relationship between walking, collecting and creation. Intimate, evocative and immersive, these 30 uplifting programmes transport us to a wealth of wonderful places, and offer fascinating personal insight into the inner worlds of our walker-writers. Production credits Produced by Duncan Minshull, Ciaran Bermingham and Tim Dee First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on the following dates: Dawnwalks Nicholas Shakespeare 28 March 2016 Nicola Barker 29 March 2016 Kamila Shamsie 30 March 2016 Ian Sansom 31 March 2016 Lucy Hughes-Hallett 1 April 2016 Night Walks Nicholas Shakespeare 27 October 2008 Owen Sheers 28 October 2008 Janice Galloway 29 October 2008 Kamila Shamsie 30 October 2008 John Walsh 31 October 2008 Springwalks Michele Roberts in Poznan 31 March 2014 Ross Raisin in the Yorkshire Wolds 1 April 2014 John Walsh 2 April 2014 Kirsty Gunn in Sutherland 3 April 2014 Philip Hoare in Sholing 4 April 2014 Winterwalks Deborah Levy on Hampstead Heath 18 February 2013 Christopher Hope in Languedoc 19 February 2013 Scarlett Thomas 20 February 2013 Erica Wagner 21 February 2013 Owen Sheers in Poland 22 February 2013 Strange Strolls Jenn Ashworth - The Abiding Mental Riches of Preston 10 February 2020 Michael Donkor - On Westminster Bridge 11 February 2020 Stephanie Victoire - Dark Hollow Falls 12 February 2020 Nat Segnit - The Other Ibiza 13 February 2020 Sophie Coulombeau - Walking Matilda 14 February 2020 A Five-Day Journey Marking 2 November 2009 Haunting 3 November 2009 Singing 4 November 2009 Flying 5 November 2009 Collecting 6 November 2009 © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640530Thu, 23 Mar 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection: 30 Reflections from Exploring on Foot Author: Kirsty Gunn, Ian Samson, Sophie Coulombeau, Michèle Roberts,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640530 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection: 30 Reflections from Exploring on Foot Author: Kirsty Gunn, Ian Samson, Sophie Coulombeau, Michèle Roberts, Nat Segnit, Michael Donkor, Christopher Hope, Ross Raisin, Erica Wagner, Kamila Shamsie, Owen Sheers, Jenn Ashworth, Deborah Levy, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Nicola Barker, Robert MacFarlane, Nicholas Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observations In these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3's The Essay, an array of novelists, poets, journalists and biographers chart the varied and inspiring walks they have taken around Britain and elsewhere. Here are treks taken at daybreak and after dark; in winter and in spring; in the footsteps of the past; and - in the case of Robert Macfarlane - along the ridges of the South Downs. Dawnwalks and Night Walks find Nicholas Shakespeare, Nicola Barker, Kamila Shamsie, Ian Sansom, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Owen Sheers, Janice Galloway and John Walsh taking early morning and late-night strolls around locations ranging from their back garden and local cemetery to Manhattan, Paris, Tasmania and the Antarctic. Springwalks and Winterwalks feature Michele Roberts, Ross Raisin, John Walsh, Kirsty Gunn, Philip Hoare, Deborah Levy, Christopher Hope, Scarlett Thomas, Erica Wagner and Owen Sheers, as they sample the transforming qualities of spring and the wonders of winter. From Poland and the Languedoc to Hampstead Heath and the Yorkshire Wolds, they delight in the details of the landscape and reflect on what it means to them. Strange Strolls sees Jenn Ashworth, Michael Donkor, Stephanie Victoire, Nat Segnit and Sophie Coulombeau embarking on walks of entertaining eccentricity, revisiting favourite places including Wandsworth Bridge, the Blue Ridge mountains of Appalachia and Ibiza. And in A Five-Day Journey, Robert Macfarlane walks the length of the South Downs in monsoon rain and in sunshine, discovering its chalk trails and its ghosts. He ponders the relationship between paths and stories; explores the poet Edward Thomas' love affair with tracks; considers the concept of the Aboriginal Australian songline; re-imagines the life of artist Eric Ravilious; and contemplates the sometimes eerie relationship between walking, collecting and creation. Intimate, evocative and immersive, these 30 uplifting programmes transport us to a wealth of wonderful places, and offer fascinating personal insight into the inner worlds of our walker-writers. Production credits Produced by Duncan Minshull, Ciaran Bermingham and Tim Dee First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on the following dates: Dawnwalks Nicholas Shakespeare 28 March 2016 Nicola Barker 29 March 2016 Kamila Shamsie 30 March 2016 Ian Sansom 31 March 2016 Lucy Hughes-Hallett 1 April 2016 Night Walks Nicholas Shakespeare 27 October 2008 Owen Sheers 28 October 2008 Janice Galloway 29 October 2008 Kamila Shamsie 30 October 2008 John Walsh 31 October 2008 Springwalks Michele Roberts in Poznan 31 March 2014 Ross Raisin in the Yorkshire Wolds 1 April 2014 John Walsh 2 April 2014 Kirsty Gunn in Sutherland 3 April 2014 Philip Hoare in Sholing 4 April 2014 Winterwalks Deborah Levy on Hampstead Heath 18 February 2013 Christopher Hope in Languedoc 19 February 2013 Scarlett Thomas 20 February 2013 Erica Wagner 21 February 2013 Owen Sheers in Poland 22 February 2013 Strange Strolls Jenn Ashworth - The Abiding Mental Riches of Preston 10 February 2020 Michael Donkor - On Westminster Bridge 11 February 2020 Stephanie Victoire - Dark Hollow Falls 12 February 2020 Nat Segnit - The Other Ibiza 13 February 2020 Sophie Coulombeau -...]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/on-the-world-around-us-25-explorations-of-britain-past-and-present-by-andrew-martin--65184280https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the World Around Us: 25 Explorations of Britain, Past and Present Author: Andrew Martin Narrator: Andrew Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Andrew Martin reflects on Britain's customs, attitudes and social and supernatural phenomena in these six BBC Radio series Drawn from Radio 3's The Essay strand and presented by journalist and award-winning author Andrew Martin, this beguiling collection brings together his witty, Alan Bennett-esque observations on England's disappearing pastimes, rituals and beliefs. Yorkshire sees him musing on the county of his birth and upbringing, as he considers his 'Tyke' identity and the ancient rivalry between Yorkshire and Lancashire; chews over questions of class in 'God's Own County'; ponders its past and future; and recalls the coastal jaunts of his youth. In Hanging On, Martin celebrates five aspects of British life that are still with us - just, as he raises a toast to the boating pond; the ventriloquist's doll; the telephone; the milkman and sex shops. The Lost Hours memorialises the staging posts of the day that are gradually fading away, such as elevenses and the cocktail hour; while England Ejects explores the inclinations and habits that no longer seem so vital nowadays, including modesty, gentility and Sunday church-going. The Further Realm sees Martin contemplating whether he believes in ghosts; reflecting on mediaeval and modern sightings and telling tales of the undead from resonant times of the year. Finally, in The Sound and the Fury, he discusses the noises that annoy us, from piped music to public transport announcements, asking 'how do we cope with jarring sounds in our world today, and could we live without the daily cacophony?' Quirky and engaging, these delightfully entertaining essays will give you a whole new perspective on the modern world - and the world beyond. Production credits Produced by Duncan Minshull (Yorkshire, Hanging On, England Ejects, The Further Realm, The Sound and the Fury) and Karen Holden (The Lost Hours) First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on the following dates: 23-27 January 2012 (The Sound and the Fury), 27-31 January 2014 (England Ejects), 26-30 October 2015 (The Further Realm), 17-21 April 2017 (Hanging On), 21-25 January 2019 (Yorkshire), 25-29 October 2021 (The Lost Hours) © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644025Thu, 23 Mar 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the World Around Us: 25 Explorations of Britain, Past and Present Author: Andrew Martin Narrator: Andrew Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644025 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the World Around Us: 25 Explorations of Britain, Past and Present Author: Andrew Martin Narrator: Andrew Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Andrew Martin reflects on Britain's customs, attitudes and social and supernatural phenomena in these six BBC Radio series Drawn from Radio 3's The Essay strand and presented by journalist and award-winning author Andrew Martin, this beguiling collection brings together his witty, Alan Bennett-esque observations on England's disappearing pastimes, rituals and beliefs. Yorkshire sees him musing on the county of his birth and upbringing, as he considers his 'Tyke' identity and the ancient rivalry between Yorkshire and Lancashire; chews over questions of class in 'God's Own County'; ponders its past and future; and recalls the coastal jaunts of his youth. In Hanging On, Martin celebrates five aspects of British life that are still with us - just, as he raises a toast to the boating pond; the ventriloquist's doll; the telephone; the milkman and sex shops. The Lost Hours memorialises the staging posts of the day that are gradually fading away, such as elevenses and the cocktail hour; while England Ejects explores the inclinations and habits that no longer seem so vital nowadays, including modesty, gentility and Sunday church-going. The Further Realm sees Martin contemplating whether he believes in ghosts; reflecting on mediaeval and modern sightings and telling tales of the undead from resonant times of the year. Finally, in The Sound and the Fury, he discusses the noises that annoy us, from piped music to public transport announcements, asking 'how do we cope with jarring sounds in our world today, and could we live without the daily cacophony?' Quirky and engaging, these delightfully entertaining essays will give you a whole new perspective on the modern world - and the world beyond. Production credits Produced by Duncan Minshull (Yorkshire, Hanging On, England Ejects, The Further Realm, The Sound and the Fury) and Karen Holden (The Lost Hours) First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on the following dates: 23-27 January 2012 (The Sound and the Fury), 27-31 January 2014 (England Ejects), 26-30 October 2015 (The Further Realm), 17-21 April 2017 (Hanging On), 21-25 January 2019 (Yorkshire), 25-29 October 2021 (The Lost Hours) © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/did-i-ever-tell-you-this-by-sam-neill--65184242https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650768 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Did I Ever Tell You This? Author: Sam Neill Narrator: Sam Neill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Campion. By his own account, his career has been a series of unpredictable turns of fortune. Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, he emigrated to New Zealand at the age of seven. His family settled in Dunedin on the South Island, but young Sam was sent away to boarding school in Christchurch, where he was hopeless at sports and discovered he enjoyed acting. But how did you become an actor in New Zealand in the 1960 and 1970s where there was no film industry? After university he made documentary films while also appearing in occasional amateur productions of Shakespeare. In 1977 he took the lead in Sleeping Dogs, the first feature made in New Zealand in more than a decade, a project that led to a major role in Gillian Armstrong's celebrated My Brilliant Career. And after that Sam Neill found his way, sometimes by accident, into his own brilliant career. He has worked around the world, an actor who has moved effortlessly from blockbuster to art house to TV, from Dr Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park movies to The Piano and Peaky Blinders. Did I Ever Tell You This? is a joy to read, a marvellous and often very funny book, the work of a natural storyteller who is a superb observer of other people, and who writes with love and warmth about his family. It is also his account of his life outside film, especially in Central Otago where he established Two Paddocks, his vineyard famous for its pinot noir. ©2023 Sam Neill (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650768Thu, 23 Mar 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650768 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Did I Ever Tell You This? Author: Sam Neill Narrator: Sam Neill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650768 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Did I Ever Tell You This? Author: Sam Neill Narrator: Sam Neill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Campion. By his own account, his career has been a series of unpredictable turns of fortune. Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, he emigrated to New Zealand at the age of seven. His family settled in Dunedin on the South Island, but young Sam was sent away to boarding school in Christchurch, where he was hopeless at sports and discovered he enjoyed acting. But how did you become an actor in New Zealand in the 1960 and 1970s where there was no film industry? After university he made documentary films while also appearing in occasional amateur productions of Shakespeare. In 1977 he took the lead in Sleeping Dogs, the first feature made in New Zealand in more than a decade, a project that led to a major role in Gillian Armstrong's celebrated My Brilliant Career. And after that Sam Neill found his way, sometimes by accident, into his own brilliant career. He has worked around the world, an actor who has moved effortlessly from blockbuster to art house to TV, from Dr Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park movies to The Piano and Peaky Blinders. Did I Ever Tell You This? is a joy to read, a marvellous and often very funny book, the work of a natural storyteller who is a superb observer of other people, and who writes with love and warmth about his family. It is also his account of his life outside film, especially in Central Otago where he established Two Paddocks, his vineyard famous for its pinot noir. ©2023 Sam Neill (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dear-white-woman-please-come-home-hand-me-your-bias-and-i-ll-show-you-our-connection-by-kimberlee-yolanda-williams--65184375https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640484 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear White Woman, Please Come Home: Hand Me Your Bias, and I'll Show You Our Connection Author: Kimberlee Yolanda Williams Narrator: Kimberlee Yolanda Williams, Debby Irving Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dear White Woman, Please Come Home is Kimberlee Yolanda Williams's invitation to white women longing for authentic friendship with Black and brown women, the kind of friendship with no place for secrets, the kind of relationship where truth-telling is welcome, even when it hurts. The idea for the book was born after attending a workshop that left her shaken and angry. In it, Kimberlee listened as white woman after white woman didn't understand how this or that comment, custom, behavior, or norm so negatively impacted women of color. Eventually she had an epiphany: How could white women know what we (Black and brown women) go through if we don't tell them? In the resulting book she explores with vulnerability, sorrow, rage, and humor how white women, often despite best intentions, signal to her and other women of color to proceed with caution when in their presence. The letters' story arc, combined with end-of-chapter questions for deep reflection, offer white women insight to the damage done as well as to what it takes to 'come home,' to be trusted. The question throughout the book lingers until the very last letter: Will Kimberlee find her long lost 'sister'? Will she want to 'come home'? Be ready to 'come home'?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640484Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640484 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear White Woman, Please Come Home: Hand Me Your Bias, and I'll Show You Our Connection Author: Kimberlee Yolanda Williams Narrator: Kimberlee Yolanda...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640484 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear White Woman, Please Come Home: Hand Me Your Bias, and I'll Show You Our Connection Author: Kimberlee Yolanda Williams Narrator: Kimberlee Yolanda Williams, Debby Irving Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dear White Woman, Please Come Home is Kimberlee Yolanda Williams's invitation to white women longing for authentic friendship with Black and brown women, the kind of friendship with no place for secrets, the kind of relationship where truth-telling is welcome, even when it hurts. The idea for the book was born after attending a workshop that left her shaken and angry. In it, Kimberlee listened as white woman after white woman didn't understand how this or that comment, custom, behavior, or norm so negatively impacted women of color. Eventually she had an epiphany: How could white women know what we (Black and brown women) go through if we don't tell them? In the resulting book she explores with vulnerability, sorrow, rage, and humor how white women, often despite best intentions, signal to her and other women of color to proceed with caution when in their presence. The letters' story arc, combined with end-of-chapter questions for deep reflection, offer white women insight to the damage done as well as to what it takes to 'come home,' to be trusted. The question throughout the book lingers until the very last letter: Will Kimberlee find her long lost 'sister'? Will she want to 'come home'? Be ready to 'come home'?]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/reaching-ninety-by-martin-duberman--65184321https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634591 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reaching Ninety Author: Martin Duberman Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Martin Duberman, one of the LGBTQ+ community’s maverick thinkers and historians, looks back on ninety years of life, his history in the movement, and what he’s learned. In the early Sixties, Martin Duberman published a path-breaking article defending the Abolitionists against the then-standard view of them as “misguided fanatics.” In 1964, his documentary play, In White America, which reread the history of racist oppression in this country, toured the country—most notably during Freedom Summer—and became an international hit. Duberman then took on the profession of history for failing to admit the inherent subjectivity of all re-creations of the past. He radically democratized his own seminars at Princeton, for which he was excoriated by powerful professors in his own department, leading him to renounce his tenured full professorship and to join the faculty of the CUNY Graduate School. At CUNY, too, he was initially blocked from offering a pioneering set of seminars on the history of gender and sexuality, but after a fifteen-year struggle succeeded in establishing the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies—which became a beacon for emerging scholars in that new field. By the early Seventies, Duberman had broadened his struggle against injustice by becoming active in protesting the war in Vietnam and in playing a central role in forming the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force and Queers for Economic Justice. Down to the present-day he continues through his writing to champion those working for a more equitable society.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634591Tue, 07 Mar 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634591 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reaching Ninety Author: Martin Duberman Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634591 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reaching Ninety Author: Martin Duberman Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Martin Duberman, one of the LGBTQ+ community’s maverick thinkers and historians, looks back on ninety years of life, his history in the movement, and what he’s learned. In the early Sixties, Martin Duberman published a path-breaking article defending the Abolitionists against the then-standard view of them as “misguided fanatics.” In 1964, his documentary play, In White America, which reread the history of racist oppression in this country, toured the country—most notably during Freedom Summer—and became an international hit. Duberman then took on the profession of history for failing to admit the inherent subjectivity of all re-creations of the past. He radically democratized his own seminars at Princeton, for which he was excoriated by powerful professors in his own department, leading him to renounce his tenured full professorship and to join the faculty of the CUNY Graduate School. At CUNY, too, he was initially blocked from offering a pioneering set of seminars on the history of gender and sexuality, but after a fifteen-year struggle succeeded in establishing the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies—which became a beacon for emerging scholars in that new field. By the early Seventies, Duberman had broadened his struggle against injustice by becoming active in protesting the war in Vietnam and in playing a central role in forming the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force and Queers for Economic Justice. Down to the present-day he continues through his writing to champion those working for a more equitable society.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jersey-breaks-becoming-an-american-poet-by-robert-pinsky--65184241https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650995 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet Author: Robert Pinsky Narrator: Robert Pinsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Descended from a bootlegger grandfather, an athletic father, and a rebellious tomboy mother, Pinsky was an unruly but articulate high school C student, whose obsession with the rhythms and melodies of speech inspired him to write. Pinsky traces the roots of his poetry, with its wide and fearless range, back to the voices of his neighborhood, to music and a distinctly American tradition of improvisation, with influences including Mark Twain and Ray Charles, Marianne Moore and Mel Brooks, Emily Dickinson and Sid Caesar, Dante Alighieri and the Orthodox Jewish liturgy. He reflects on how writing poetry helped him make sense of life's challenges, such as his mother's traumatic brain injury, and on his notable public presence, including an unprecedented three terms as United States poet laureate. Candid, engaging, and wry, Jersey Breaks offers an intimate self-portrait and a unique poetic understanding of American culture.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650995Tue, 07 Mar 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650995 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet Author: Robert Pinsky Narrator: Robert Pinsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650995 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet Author: Robert Pinsky Narrator: Robert Pinsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Descended from a bootlegger grandfather, an athletic father, and a rebellious tomboy mother, Pinsky was an unruly but articulate high school C student, whose obsession with the rhythms and melodies of speech inspired him to write. Pinsky traces the roots of his poetry, with its wide and fearless range, back to the voices of his neighborhood, to music and a distinctly American tradition of improvisation, with influences including Mark Twain and Ray Charles, Marianne Moore and Mel Brooks, Emily Dickinson and Sid Caesar, Dante Alighieri and the Orthodox Jewish liturgy. He reflects on how writing poetry helped him make sense of life's challenges, such as his mother's traumatic brain injury, and on his notable public presence, including an unprecedented three terms as United States poet laureate. Candid, engaging, and wry, Jersey Breaks offers an intimate self-portrait and a unique poetic understanding of American culture.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/holding-the-baby-milk-sweat-and-tears-from-the-frontline-of-motherhood-by-nell-frizzell--65184349https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634551 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Holding the Baby: Milk, sweat and tears from the frontline of motherhood Author: Nell Frizzell Narrator: Nell Frizzell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 2, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. It's time to share the motherload. A memoir culminating in a manifesto, Holding the Baby sets out to understand why we still treat early parenthood as an individual slog rather than a shared cultural responsibility. Tracing her own journey to the nadir of sleeplessness via social retreat and murderous rage, Frizzell draws on the latest research to explore: - What effect does parenting have on your career? - How can we make childcare affordable and fit for purpose? - If parenting is so hard, why does anyone ever do it more than once? Funny, reassuring and radically ambitious, Holding the Baby sheds light on the ways in which we fail new parents, and offers a rallying crying that we fight for a better alternative. ©2023 Nell Frizzell (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634551Thu, 02 Mar 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634551 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Holding the Baby: Milk, sweat and tears from the frontline of motherhood Author: Nell Frizzell Narrator: Nell Frizzell Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634551 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Holding the Baby: Milk, sweat and tears from the frontline of motherhood Author: Nell Frizzell Narrator: Nell Frizzell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 2, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. It's time to share the motherload. A memoir culminating in a manifesto, Holding the Baby sets out to understand why we still treat early parenthood as an individual slog rather than a shared cultural responsibility. Tracing her own journey to the nadir of sleeplessness via social retreat and murderous rage, Frizzell draws on the latest research to explore: - What effect does parenting have on your career? - How can we make childcare affordable and fit for purpose? - If parenting is so hard, why does anyone ever do it more than once? Funny, reassuring and radically ambitious, Holding the Baby sheds light on the ways in which we fail new parents, and offers a rallying crying that we fight for a better alternative. ©2023 Nell Frizzell (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-my-knotted-up-life-a-memoir-by-beth-moore--65184421https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638954 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir Author: Beth Moore Narrator: Beth Moore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 160 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 65 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *****Audiobook format of All My Knotted-Up Life - ECPA's 2024 Christian Book of the Year Award WINNER***** An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by few. “It’s a peculiar thing, this having lived long enough to take a good look back. We go from knowing each other better than we know ourselves to barely sure if we know each other at all, to precisely sure that we don’t. All my knotted-up life I’ve longed for the sanity and simplicity of knowing who’s good and who’s bad. I’ve wanted to know this about myself as much as anyone. This was not theological. It was strictly relational. God could do what he wanted with eternity. I was just trying to make it here in the meantime. As benevolent as he has been in a myriad of ways, God has remained aloof on this uncomplicated request.” ―Beth Moore All My Knotted-Up Life is a beautifully crafted portrait of resilience and survival, a poignant reminder of God’s enduring faithfulness, and proof positive that if we ever truly took the time to hear people’s full stories . . . we’d all walk around slack-jawed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638954Tue, 21 Feb 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638954 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir Author: Beth Moore Narrator: Beth Moore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638954 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir Author: Beth Moore Narrator: Beth Moore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 160 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 65 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *****Audiobook format of All My Knotted-Up Life - ECPA's 2024 Christian Book of the Year Award WINNER***** An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by few. “It’s a peculiar thing, this having lived long enough to take a good look back. We go from knowing each other better than we know ourselves to barely sure if we know each other at all, to precisely sure that we don’t. All my knotted-up life I’ve longed for the sanity and simplicity of knowing who’s good and who’s bad. I’ve wanted to know this about myself as much as anyone. This was not theological. It was strictly relational. God could do what he wanted with eternity. I was just trying to make it here in the meantime. As benevolent as he has been in a myriad of ways, God has remained aloof on this uncomplicated request.” ―Beth Moore All My Knotted-Up Life is a beautifully crafted portrait of resilience and survival, a poignant reminder of God’s enduring faithfulness, and proof positive that if we ever truly took the time to hear people’s full stories . . . we’d all walk around slack-jawed.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-gold-the-real-story-behind-brink-s-mat-britain-s-biggest-heist-by-neil-forsyth-thomas-turner--65184269https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gold: The real story behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s biggest heist Author: Neil Forsyth, Thomas Turner Narrator: Homer Todiwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The Gold On Saturday, 26 November 1983, an armed gang stole gold bullion worth almost £26 million from the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport. It was the largest robbery in world history, and only the start of an extraordinary story. For forty years, myths and legends have grown around the Brink's-Mat heist and the events that followed. The heist led to a wave of international money laundering, provided dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom, caused seismic changes in both British crime and policing, and has been linked to a series of deaths that continued until 2015. The Gold is the conclusion of extensive research and includes exclusive testimony from one of the original robbers who gives his version of events for the first time. The result is the astonishing true story of the robbery of the century. ©2023 Neil Forsyth & Thomas Turner (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648933Thu, 16 Feb 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gold: The real story behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s biggest heist Author: Neil Forsyth, Thomas Turner Narrator: Homer Todiwala Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Gold: The real story behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s biggest heist Author: Neil Forsyth, Thomas Turner Narrator: Homer Todiwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 58 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The Gold On Saturday, 26 November 1983, an armed gang stole gold bullion worth almost £26 million from the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport. It was the largest robbery in world history, and only the start of an extraordinary story. For forty years, myths and legends have grown around the Brink's-Mat heist and the events that followed. The heist led to a wave of international money laundering, provided dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom, caused seismic changes in both British crime and policing, and has been linked to a series of deaths that continued until 2015. The Gold is the conclusion of extensive research and includes exclusive testimony from one of the original robbers who gives his version of events for the first time. The result is the astonishing true story of the robbery of the century. ©2023 Neil Forsyth & Thomas Turner (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/paradise-road-a-memoir-by-marilyn-kriete--65184330https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paradise Road: A Memoir Author: Marilyn Kriete Narrator: Marilyn Kriete Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A restless child of the 1960s, Marilyn yearns for love, hippiedom, and escape from her controlling mother. At fourteen, she runs nearly a thousand miles away to Vancouver, British Columbia, eventually landing herself in a Catholic home for troubled girls. At sixteen, she’s emancipated, navigating adulthood without a high school diploma, and craving a soulmate. When she falls in love with Jack, the grad student living next door, life finally seems perfect. The two embark on a cross-continental bicycle trip, headed for South America, but before they reach Mexico, tragedy strikes. Utterly shattered, Marilyn does the hardest thing she can imagine: a solo bicycle trip, part tribute, part life test. She conquers her fears but goes wildly off course, chasing her heart as she falls into a series of tragicomic rebounds. Two itinerant years later, a chain of events in Montana’s Bitterroot Mountains leads to a peace she never expected to find. Marilyn’s journey portrays a life unmoored by grief, brought to shore again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650207Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paradise Road: A Memoir Author: Marilyn Kriete Narrator: Marilyn Kriete Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paradise Road: A Memoir Author: Marilyn Kriete Narrator: Marilyn Kriete Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A restless child of the 1960s, Marilyn yearns for love, hippiedom, and escape from her controlling mother. At fourteen, she runs nearly a thousand miles away to Vancouver, British Columbia, eventually landing herself in a Catholic home for troubled girls. At sixteen, she’s emancipated, navigating adulthood without a high school diploma, and craving a soulmate. When she falls in love with Jack, the grad student living next door, life finally seems perfect. The two embark on a cross-continental bicycle trip, headed for South America, but before they reach Mexico, tragedy strikes. Utterly shattered, Marilyn does the hardest thing she can imagine: a solo bicycle trip, part tribute, part life test. She conquers her fears but goes wildly off course, chasing her heart as she falls into a series of tragicomic rebounds. Two itinerant years later, a chain of events in Montana’s Bitterroot Mountains leads to a peace she never expected to find. Marilyn’s journey portrays a life unmoored by grief, brought to shore again.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-personality-test-the-complete-bbc-radio-4-comedy-quiz-series-by-janet-street-porter-antony-worrall-thompson-jennie-bond-lucy-porter--65184424https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Personality Test: The complete BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz series Author: Janet Street-Porter, Antony Worrall-Thompson, Jennie Bond, Lucy Porter, Adam Hart-Davis, Esther Rantzen, Sue Perkins, Gyles Brandreth, Alan Carr, Roy Hattersley, Edwina Currie, Lorraine Kelly, Robin Ince, Greg Dyke, John Sergeant Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 9, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The comedy panel game where all the questions are about the guest host Welcome to The Personality Test, the panel show in which a brand new host takes the chair for every episode to present a quiz entirely themed around themselves. Each gets to run the show by their own rules, devising topics and queries based on their life, whims, fancies and past glories. Among the showbiz celebrities in the hot seat are Gyles Brandreth, Jennie Bond, Antony Worrall Thompson, Esther Rantzen, Janet Street-Porter and Edwina Currie, while the rounds include Love It Or Hate It, True or False, That Special Day and Life's a Pitch. Is John Sergeant a fan of Julia Roberts? Would Greg Dyke give Radio 4 just a minute, or leave it on a desert island? And does Claire Rayner have a penchant for jelly babies? Having spent a week swotting up on their host, the contestants must tackle these questions and more, as they do their best to amuse, entertain, charm, flatter - and occasionally, flirt outrageously - in a bid to chalk up the points and win the game. Battling it out are regular panellists and comedy heavyweights Alan Carr, Sue Perkins, Robert Ince, Lucy Porter, Will Smith and Carrie Quinlan. Intriguing and challenging, riotous and revealing, this unique panel show shines a fascinating spotlight on the interests and enthusiasms of your favourite personalities - and keeps you laughing along the way. Production credits Written by Richard Turner, Simon Littlefield and Kieron Quirke Devised and produced by Aled Evans Series 1 presented by: John Sergeant, Greg Dyke, Gyles Brandreth and Jennie Bond With Sue Perkins, Alan Carr, Lucy Porter, Will Smith, Robin Ince and Natalie Haynes Series 2 presented by: Roy Hattersley, Rick Wakeman, Adam Hart-Davis, Antony Worrall Thompson, Claire Rayner and Esther Rantzen With Sue Perkins, Lucy Porter, Robin Ince, Mark Dolan and Will Smith Series 3 presented by: Janet Street-Porter, Lorraine Kelly, Andrew Neill, Edwina Currie, Toyah Willcox and Eve Pollard With Sue Perkins, Will Smith, Nick Doody, Lucy Porter, Robin Ince, Carrie Quinlan and Dan Tetsell First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 12 July-2 August 2006 (Series 1), 7 December 2006-11 January 2007 (Series 2), 5 July-9 August 2007 (Series 3) © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628932Thu, 09 Feb 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Personality Test: The complete BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz series Author: Janet Street-Porter, Antony Worrall-Thompson, Jennie Bond, Lucy Porter, Adam...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628932 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Personality Test: The complete BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz series Author: Janet Street-Porter, Antony Worrall-Thompson, Jennie Bond, Lucy Porter, Adam Hart-Davis, Esther Rantzen, Sue Perkins, Gyles Brandreth, Alan Carr, Roy Hattersley, Edwina Currie, Lorraine Kelly, Robin Ince, Greg Dyke, John Sergeant Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: February 9, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The comedy panel game where all the questions are about the guest host Welcome to The Personality Test, the panel show in which a brand new host takes the chair for every episode to present a quiz entirely themed around themselves. Each gets to run the show by their own rules, devising topics and queries based on their life, whims, fancies and past glories. Among the showbiz celebrities in the hot seat are Gyles Brandreth, Jennie Bond, Antony Worrall Thompson, Esther Rantzen, Janet Street-Porter and Edwina Currie, while the rounds include Love It Or Hate It, True or False, That Special Day and Life's a Pitch. Is John Sergeant a fan of Julia Roberts? Would Greg Dyke give Radio 4 just a minute, or leave it on a desert island? And does Claire Rayner have a penchant for jelly babies? Having spent a week swotting up on their host, the contestants must tackle these questions and more, as they do their best to amuse, entertain, charm, flatter - and occasionally, flirt outrageously - in a bid to chalk up the points and win the game. Battling it out are regular panellists and comedy heavyweights Alan Carr, Sue Perkins, Robert Ince, Lucy Porter, Will Smith and Carrie Quinlan. Intriguing and challenging, riotous and revealing, this unique panel show shines a fascinating spotlight on the interests and enthusiasms of your favourite personalities - and keeps you laughing along the way. Production credits Written by Richard Turner, Simon Littlefield and Kieron Quirke Devised and produced by Aled Evans Series 1 presented by: John Sergeant, Greg Dyke, Gyles Brandreth and Jennie Bond With Sue Perkins, Alan Carr, Lucy Porter, Will Smith, Robin Ince and Natalie Haynes Series 2 presented by: Roy Hattersley, Rick Wakeman, Adam Hart-Davis, Antony Worrall Thompson, Claire Rayner and Esther Rantzen With Sue Perkins, Lucy Porter, Robin Ince, Mark Dolan and Will Smith Series 3 presented by: Janet Street-Porter, Lorraine Kelly, Andrew Neill, Edwina Currie, Toyah Willcox and Eve Pollard With Sue Perkins, Will Smith, Nick Doody, Lucy Porter, Robin Ince, Carrie Quinlan and Dan Tetsell First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 12 July-2 August 2006 (Series 1), 7 December 2006-11 January 2007 (Series 2), 5 July-9 August 2007 (Series 3) © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/time-the-untold-story-of-the-love-that-held-us-together-when-incarceration-kept-us-apart-by-rob-richardson-fox-richardson--65184413https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time: The Untold Story of the Love That Held Us Together When Incarceration Kept Us Apart Author: Rob Richardson, Fox Richardson Narrator: Rob Richardson, Fox Richardson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'If it's not facing 297 years in prison, it's not a problem.' —Richardson family motto The twenty-one years that kept Rob separated from his wife, Fox, and their six sons was long enough. As Rob survived two decades at America's bloodiest penitentiary and Fox raised their sons solo, they never stopped fighting for Rob's freedom and for their futures against the statistical odds. All the while, it was love that carried them through. The Academy Award-nominated documentary Time introduced audiences to Fox and Rob, who riveted audiences with their relentless fight for each other and justice, despite America's broken prison system. This book tells the rest of their story. In alternating voices and intimate detail, Fox and Rob reveal what the film does not—how a person can cultivate the radical love needed to see them through any hardship and how miracles can happen on the way. As they peel back the layers of their unforgettable love story, you'll discover the secrets of perseverance and the power of a resilience that is founded on faith in a God who never gives up on us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643407Tue, 07 Feb 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time: The Untold Story of the Love That Held Us Together When Incarceration Kept Us Apart Author: Rob Richardson, Fox Richardson Narrator: Rob...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time: The Untold Story of the Love That Held Us Together When Incarceration Kept Us Apart Author: Rob Richardson, Fox Richardson Narrator: Rob Richardson, Fox Richardson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'If it's not facing 297 years in prison, it's not a problem.' —Richardson family motto The twenty-one years that kept Rob separated from his wife, Fox, and their six sons was long enough. As Rob survived two decades at America's bloodiest penitentiary and Fox raised their sons solo, they never stopped fighting for Rob's freedom and for their futures against the statistical odds. All the while, it was love that carried them through. The Academy Award-nominated documentary Time introduced audiences to Fox and Rob, who riveted audiences with their relentless fight for each other and justice, despite America's broken prison system. This book tells the rest of their story. In alternating voices and intimate detail, Fox and Rob reveal what the film does not—how a person can cultivate the radical love needed to see them through any hardship and how miracles can happen on the way. As they peel back the layers of their unforgettable love story, you'll discover the secrets of perseverance and the power of a resilience that is founded on faith in a God who never gives up on us.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hiding-in-plain-sight-how-a-jewish-girl-survived-europe-s-heart-of-darkness-by-pieter-van-os--65184418https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634434 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hiding in Plain Sight: how a Jewish girl survived Europe's heart of darkness Author: Pieter Van Os Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own daughter. She fell in love with a German engineer who built aeroplanes for the Luftwaffe. What none of these people knew was that Mala Rivka Kizel had been born into a large Orthodox Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland, in 1926. By using her charm, intelligence, blonde hair, and blue eyes to assume different identities, she was the only member of her family to survive World War II. When Dutch journalist Pieter van Os stumbled upon Mala’s story, he set out to revive the world through which she had made her way from war-ravaged middle Europe to the nascent state of Israel, before finally settling in the Netherlands. With her memoir and their interviews as guide, van Os physically retraced Mala's steps, stopping in at local archives and remote villages, searching for anyone who might have known or helped her seventy-five years before. At times sounding like an erudite detective story, this poignant, rich book is an engrossing meditation on what drives us to fear the 'other', and what in turn might allow us to feel compassion for them.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634434Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634434 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hiding in Plain Sight: how a Jewish girl survived Europe's heart of darkness Author: Pieter Van Os Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634434 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hiding in Plain Sight: how a Jewish girl survived Europe's heart of darkness Author: Pieter Van Os Narrator: Suzanne Toren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own daughter. She fell in love with a German engineer who built aeroplanes for the Luftwaffe. What none of these people knew was that Mala Rivka Kizel had been born into a large Orthodox Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland, in 1926. By using her charm, intelligence, blonde hair, and blue eyes to assume different identities, she was the only member of her family to survive World War II. When Dutch journalist Pieter van Os stumbled upon Mala’s story, he set out to revive the world through which she had made her way from war-ravaged middle Europe to the nascent state of Israel, before finally settling in the Netherlands. With her memoir and their interviews as guide, van Os physically retraced Mala's steps, stopping in at local archives and remote villages, searching for anyone who might have known or helped her seventy-five years before. At times sounding like an erudite detective story, this poignant, rich book is an engrossing meditation on what drives us to fear the 'other', and what in turn might allow us to feel compassion for them.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/getting-lost-by-annie-ernaux--65184274https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting Lost Author: Annie Ernaux Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries, it is 1989, and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris, and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there, and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters, saying “his desire for me is the only thing I can be sure of.” She cannot write; she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world; she awaits his next call; she lives only to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death. Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Getting Lost is as strong a book as any she has written, a haunting, desperate view of a strong and successful woman who seduces a man only to lose herself in love and desire.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640631Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting Lost Author: Annie Ernaux Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting Lost Author: Annie Ernaux Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries, it is 1989, and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris, and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there, and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters, saying “his desire for me is the only thing I can be sure of.” She cannot write; she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world; she awaits his next call; she lives only to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death. Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Getting Lost is as strong a book as any she has written, a haunting, desperate view of a strong and successful woman who seduces a man only to lose herself in love and desire.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-una-casa-propia-by-deborah-levy--65184262https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Una casa propia Author: Deborah Levy Narrator: Conchi Ramírez De Haro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 26, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: El cierre de la Autobiografía en construcción de una Deborah Levy que logra su habitación propia. Deborah Levy imagina una casa en una latitud cálida, cerca de un lago o de un mar. Allí hay una chimenea y un mayordomo que atiende sus deseos, hasta el de discutir. Pero Levy en realidad está en Londres, no tiene dinero para construir el hogar que imagina, su apartamento es minúsculo y lo más parecido a un jardín en su casa es un banano al que entrega los cuidados que sus hijas ya no necesitan. La menor ha abandonado el nido, y Levy, a sus cincuenta y nueve años, está lista para afrontar una nueva etapa en su vida. Así, nos lleva desde Nueva York a Bombay, pasando por París y Berlín, mientras teje una estimulante y audaz reflexión sobre el significado del hogar y de los espectros que lo acechan. Entretejiendo el pasado y el presente, lo personal y lo político, y convocando a Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Georgia O’Keeffe o Céline Schiamma, la autora indaga en el significado de la feminidad y de la propiedad. A través de sus recuerdos hace inventario de sus posesiones reales e imaginarias y cuestiona nuestra forma de entender el valor de la vida intelectual y cotidiana de la mujer. Después de Cosas que no quiero saber y El coste de vivir, esta obra es la culminación de una autobiografía escrita en el fragor de una vida que no está solamente protagonizada por Levy, sino por todas las mujeres que la sostienen con una red invisible. Reseñas: «La voz imprevisible, tierna, incisiva, entristecida y entusiasta de la Levy biógrafa ofrece un festín literario.» Gonzalo Torné, El Cultural «Por supuesto, Levy es feminista, su autobiografía desvela no solo una postura como mujer, también esa visión impregna otros temas como la migración, el imperialismo, el racismo o el amor. Estos textos según Levy tenían que narrar dos aspectos que nunca coexisten: el poder de los hombres y la vulnerabilidad que se permite la mujer al escribir.» Ariana Basciani, The Objective Sobre Cosas que no quiero saber: «Una narración vivaz y brillante sobre cómo los detalles más inocentes de la vida personal de una escritora pueden alcanzar el poder en la ficción.» The New York Times Book Review «Un relato vívido y sorprendente de la vida de la escritora, que feminiza y personaliza las contundentes a afirmaciones de Orwell.» The Spectator Sobre El coste de vivir: «Derrocha en el segundo tomo de su autobiografía tanto hallazgos expresivos como verdades acendradas [...] en un tapiz algo descosido que sin embargo se lee con delectación y donde rubrica sobre todo el regreso a los planteamientos de Simone de Beauvoir en El segundo sexo; esto es, vuelve a admitir la dificultad desquiciante de conjugar pareja, maternidad e independencia intelectual.» El Periódico «El coste de vivir es el precio que debe pagar una mujer para desmontar un hogar en el que ya no se siente como en casa. Para Levy, este acto radical da inicio a la búsqueda de una nueva vida que resulta inseparable de la búsqueda de una nueva narrativa.» The Times]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649814Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Una casa propia Author: Deborah Levy Narrator: Conchi Ramírez De Haro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Una casa propia Author: Deborah Levy Narrator: Conchi Ramírez De Haro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 26, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: El cierre de la Autobiografía en construcción de una Deborah Levy que logra su habitación propia. Deborah Levy imagina una casa en una latitud cálida, cerca de un lago o de un mar. Allí hay una chimenea y un mayordomo que atiende sus deseos, hasta el de discutir. Pero Levy en realidad está en Londres, no tiene dinero para construir el hogar que imagina, su apartamento es minúsculo y lo más parecido a un jardín en su casa es un banano al que entrega los cuidados que sus hijas ya no necesitan. La menor ha abandonado el nido, y Levy, a sus cincuenta y nueve años, está lista para afrontar una nueva etapa en su vida. Así, nos lleva desde Nueva York a Bombay, pasando por París y Berlín, mientras teje una estimulante y audaz reflexión sobre el significado del hogar y de los espectros que lo acechan. Entretejiendo el pasado y el presente, lo personal y lo político, y convocando a Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Georgia O’Keeffe o Céline Schiamma, la autora indaga en el significado de la feminidad y de la propiedad. A través de sus recuerdos hace inventario de sus posesiones reales e imaginarias y cuestiona nuestra forma de entender el valor de la vida intelectual y cotidiana de la mujer. Después de Cosas que no quiero saber y El coste de vivir, esta obra es la culminación de una autobiografía escrita en el fragor de una vida que no está solamente protagonizada por Levy, sino por todas las mujeres que la sostienen con una red invisible. Reseñas: «La voz imprevisible, tierna, incisiva, entristecida y entusiasta de la Levy biógrafa ofrece un festín literario.» Gonzalo Torné, El Cultural «Por supuesto, Levy es feminista, su autobiografía desvela no solo una postura como mujer, también esa visión impregna otros temas como la migración, el imperialismo, el racismo o el amor. Estos textos según Levy tenían que narrar dos aspectos que nunca coexisten: el poder de los hombres y la vulnerabilidad que se permite la mujer al escribir.» Ariana Basciani, The Objective Sobre Cosas que no quiero saber: «Una narración vivaz y brillante sobre cómo los detalles más inocentes de la vida personal de una escritora pueden alcanzar el poder en la ficción.» The New York Times Book Review «Un relato vívido y sorprendente de la vida de la escritora, que feminiza y personaliza las contundentes a afirmaciones de Orwell.» The Spectator Sobre El coste de vivir: «Derrocha en el segundo tomo de su autobiografía tanto hallazgos expresivos como verdades acendradas [...] en un tapiz algo descosido que sin embargo se lee con delectación y donde rubrica sobre todo el regreso a los planteamientos de Simone de Beauvoir en El segundo sexo; esto es, vuelve a admitir la dificultad desquiciante de conjugar pareja, maternidad e independencia intelectual.» El Periódico «El coste de vivir es el precio que debe pagar una mujer para desmontar un hogar en el que ya no se siente como en casa. Para Levy, este acto radical da inicio a la búsqueda de una nueva vida que resulta inseparable de la búsqueda de una nueva narrativa.» The Times]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-hiding-english-translation-by-marguerite-elias-quddus--65184408https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628927 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Hiding (English Translation) Author: Marguerite élias Quddus Narrator: Theresa Tova Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Goodbye my children! When you leave, don't look back…” With these last words from their mother, two little girls, Marguerite and her older sister, will begin a long wandering that will last two years. Equipped with a new identity, they must cut themselves off from everything that constitutes their familiar universe. Led from farms to convents, they learn to keep quiet, to pretend, to lie, to adapt and above all to keep hope, against all odds. The story that Marguerite Élias Quddus gives us takes one to the centre of it and lets us glimpse history through the eyes of a very young child. Preface by Elizabeth Lasserre and Naomi Azrieli.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628927Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628927 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Hiding (English Translation) Author: Marguerite élias Quddus Narrator: Theresa Tova Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628927 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Hiding (English Translation) Author: Marguerite élias Quddus Narrator: Theresa Tova Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Goodbye my children! When you leave, don't look back…” With these last words from their mother, two little girls, Marguerite and her older sister, will begin a long wandering that will last two years. Equipped with a new identity, they must cut themselves off from everything that constitutes their familiar universe. Led from farms to convents, they learn to keep quiet, to pretend, to lie, to adapt and above all to keep hope, against all odds. The story that Marguerite Élias Quddus gives us takes one to the centre of it and lets us glimpse history through the eyes of a very young child. Preface by Elizabeth Lasserre and Naomi Azrieli.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/chasing-catastrophe-my-35-years-covering-wars-hurricanes-terror-attacks-and-other-breaking-news-by-rick-leventhal--65184384https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing Catastrophe: My 35 Years Covering Wars, Hurricanes, Terror Attacks, and Other Breaking News Author: Rick Leventhal Narrator: Rick Leventhal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the front lines in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other conflict zones to the base of the burning Twin Towers on 9/11 to the eye of countless hurricanes, Rick Leventhal chronicles some of the most amazing stories he’s covered in his thirtyfive years as a news reporter, anchor, and Senior Correspondent—with some life lessons thrown in along the way.Part memoir and part leadership manifesto, Chasing Catastrophe empowers those who are ready to work hard to overcome adversity and achieve their goals. In this book, Rick Leventhal shares some incredible highlights and some of the most challenging moments of a career spanning thirty-five years.Rick shares what it was like to sleep in the dirt in the Iraqi desert; to stand at the base of the Twin Towers in flames and run from the smoke cloud when they fell; to face a Category 5 hurricane; to be on scene when one of America’s most cheered and respected race car drivers crashed and died; to hurry to the frozen Hudson River from Midtown after Captain Sully landed his plane on its icy surface; to separate fact from fiction on the fly and figure out what could be reported—and what couldn’t; and to be in awe meeting some of the most famous people in America, only to learn they were fans of his work.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646581Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing Catastrophe: My 35 Years Covering Wars, Hurricanes, Terror Attacks, and Other Breaking News Author: Rick Leventhal Narrator: Rick Leventhal...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chasing Catastrophe: My 35 Years Covering Wars, Hurricanes, Terror Attacks, and Other Breaking News Author: Rick Leventhal Narrator: Rick Leventhal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the front lines in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other conflict zones to the base of the burning Twin Towers on 9/11 to the eye of countless hurricanes, Rick Leventhal chronicles some of the most amazing stories he’s covered in his thirtyfive years as a news reporter, anchor, and Senior Correspondent—with some life lessons thrown in along the way.Part memoir and part leadership manifesto, Chasing Catastrophe empowers those who are ready to work hard to overcome adversity and achieve their goals. In this book, Rick Leventhal shares some incredible highlights and some of the most challenging moments of a career spanning thirty-five years.Rick shares what it was like to sleep in the dirt in the Iraqi desert; to stand at the base of the Twin Towers in flames and run from the smoke cloud when they fell; to face a Category 5 hurricane; to be on scene when one of America’s most cheered and respected race car drivers crashed and died; to hurry to the frozen Hudson River from Midtown after Captain Sully landed his plane on its icy surface; to separate fact from fiction on the fly and figure out what could be reported—and what couldn’t; and to be in awe meeting some of the most famous people in America, only to learn they were fans of his work.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-cachee-by-marguerite-elias-quddus--65184369https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Cachée Author: Marguerite élias Quddus Narrator: Naomi Azrieli, Marguerite élias Quddus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: « Au revoir mes enfants ! Quand vous partez, ne vous retournez pas… » Avec ces derniers mots de leur mère, deux petites filles, Marguerite et sa sœur aînée, vont commencer une longue errance qui durera deux ans. Munies d’une nouvelle identité, elles doivent se couper de tout ce qui constitue leur univers familier. Menées de fermes en couvents, elles apprennent à se taire, à faire semblant, à mentir, à s’adapter et surtout à garder espoir, envers et contre tout. Le récit que nous livre Marguerite Élias Quddus nous prend à cœur et nous laisse entrevoir l’Histoire à travers les yeux d’une toute jeune enfant. Préface de Elizabeth Lasserre et Naomi Azrieli.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628928Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Cachée Author: Marguerite élias Quddus Narrator: Naomi Azrieli, Marguerite élias Quddus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Cachée Author: Marguerite élias Quddus Narrator: Naomi Azrieli, Marguerite élias Quddus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: « Au revoir mes enfants ! Quand vous partez, ne vous retournez pas… » Avec ces derniers mots de leur mère, deux petites filles, Marguerite et sa sœur aînée, vont commencer une longue errance qui durera deux ans. Munies d’une nouvelle identité, elles doivent se couper de tout ce qui constitue leur univers familier. Menées de fermes en couvents, elles apprennent à se taire, à faire semblant, à mentir, à s’adapter et surtout à garder espoir, envers et contre tout. Le récit que nous livre Marguerite Élias Quddus nous prend à cœur et nous laisse entrevoir l’Histoire à travers les yeux d’une toute jeune enfant. Préface de Elizabeth Lasserre et Naomi Azrieli.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-founder-the-hidden-power-of-being-an-outsider-by-stacy-spikes--65184301https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider Author: Stacy Spikes Narrator: Stacy Spikes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the award-winning entrepreneur USA Today named one of the twenty-one most influential Blacks in technology comes an empowering, bracingly honest, entertaining blueprint for success in life and work—including the true story of what really happened to MoviePass—straight from the cofounder and former CEO himself. Stacy Spikes knows what's it like to be an outsider. Finding his footing in the tech world was an education in the complexities of being an outsider—but as Stacy came to see, rather than a hindrance, it afforded him a unique position of power. Beginning as a film studio gopher, Spikes quickly rose through the industry ranks, being named one of the Hollywood Reporter's 30 Under 30. Still, he was an outsider looking in. Defying expectations, Spikes effectively disrupted the status quo and reinvented himself from junior executive to CEO Tech Founder. What ensued was an escalating adventure with bigger stages, bigger risks, and a roller-coaster ride of exhilarating ascent—unpredictable collapse—and a story book return. Taking listeners inside the battles of the boardroom and beyond, Black Founder is a business memoir that will inspire every outsider who has a dream.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646186Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider Author: Stacy Spikes Narrator: Stacy Spikes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider Author: Stacy Spikes Narrator: Stacy Spikes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the award-winning entrepreneur USA Today named one of the twenty-one most influential Blacks in technology comes an empowering, bracingly honest, entertaining blueprint for success in life and work—including the true story of what really happened to MoviePass—straight from the cofounder and former CEO himself. Stacy Spikes knows what's it like to be an outsider. Finding his footing in the tech world was an education in the complexities of being an outsider—but as Stacy came to see, rather than a hindrance, it afforded him a unique position of power. Beginning as a film studio gopher, Spikes quickly rose through the industry ranks, being named one of the Hollywood Reporter's 30 Under 30. Still, he was an outsider looking in. Defying expectations, Spikes effectively disrupted the status quo and reinvented himself from junior executive to CEO Tech Founder. What ensued was an escalating adventure with bigger stages, bigger risks, and a roller-coaster ride of exhilarating ascent—unpredictable collapse—and a story book return. Taking listeners inside the battles of the boardroom and beyond, Black Founder is a business memoir that will inspire every outsider who has a dream.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/with-nails-the-film-diaries-of-richard-e-grant-by-richard-e-grant--65184261https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644799 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E Grant Author: Richard E. Grant Narrator: Richard E. Grant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 19, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Richard E. Grant’s life changed almost overnight when he was cast as the lead in Withnail & I in 1986. He kept a diary of the experience, the bestselling With Nails, and now it is published for the first time in audio, read by the author. Funny and revealing, told with trademark candour, join Richard E. Grant on the shoot of a lifetime. ‘In these dashing diaries of his recent years in the movies, Grant shares with candour his wonder at this aberrant universe and its inhabitants’ ― Sunday Times ‘An exceptionally vivid and penetrating insight into Hollywood film-making... What most of us want is gossip about starts, and this is something the book delivers in spades... Qualifies for that exclusive niche reserved for film star memoirs that are worth much more than a casual flick on the bookshop shelf’ ― Observer]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644799Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644799 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E Grant Author: Richard E. Grant Narrator: Richard E. Grant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644799 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E Grant Author: Richard E. Grant Narrator: Richard E. Grant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 19, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Richard E. Grant’s life changed almost overnight when he was cast as the lead in Withnail & I in 1986. He kept a diary of the experience, the bestselling With Nails, and now it is published for the first time in audio, read by the author. Funny and revealing, told with trademark candour, join Richard E. Grant on the shoot of a lifetime. ‘In these dashing diaries of his recent years in the movies, Grant shares with candour his wonder at this aberrant universe and its inhabitants’ ― Sunday Times ‘An exceptionally vivid and penetrating insight into Hollywood film-making... What most of us want is gossip about starts, and this is something the book delivers in spades... Qualifies for that exclusive niche reserved for film star memoirs that are worth much more than a casual flick on the bookshop shelf’ ― Observer]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/first-wilderness-my-quest-in-the-territory-of-alaska-revised-edition-by-sam-keith--65184406https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Wilderness: My Quest in the Territory of Alaska (Revised Edition) Author: Sam Keith Narrator: Michael Kirby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: After serving as a US Marine during World War II and attending college on the GI Bill, Sam Keith decided to seek adventure in Alaska as a laborer on the Adak Navy base. There he befriended Dick Proenneke, whose shared love of the outdoors, hard work, and self-reliance quickly bonded an alliance between the two. Together they explored the wilds of South Central Alaska, while working on the Navy base, hunting and fishing with friends and breathing in the great outdoors. Keith was ready to leave after three years of finding almost everything he sought—not realizing then how his fate was intrinsically tied to his friend's and how it would lead to writing the bestselling book One Man's Wilderness. Sam Keith passed away in 2003. But in 2013, his son-in-law and children's book author/illustrator Brian Lies discovered in an archive box in their garage a book manuscript, originally written in 1974 after the publication of One Man's Wilderness. First Wilderness is the story of Keith's own experiences, at times harrowing, funny, and fascinating. Along with the original manuscript are excerpts from his journals, letters, and notebooks, woven in to create a compelling and poignant memoir of search and discovery. Foreword by Nick Jans, one of Alaska's foremost authors and photographers, and afterword by Keith's daughter Laurel Lies.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634446Tue, 17 Jan 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Wilderness: My Quest in the Territory of Alaska (Revised Edition) Author: Sam Keith Narrator: Michael Kirby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: First Wilderness: My Quest in the Territory of Alaska (Revised Edition) Author: Sam Keith Narrator: Michael Kirby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: After serving as a US Marine during World War II and attending college on the GI Bill, Sam Keith decided to seek adventure in Alaska as a laborer on the Adak Navy base. There he befriended Dick Proenneke, whose shared love of the outdoors, hard work, and self-reliance quickly bonded an alliance between the two. Together they explored the wilds of South Central Alaska, while working on the Navy base, hunting and fishing with friends and breathing in the great outdoors. Keith was ready to leave after three years of finding almost everything he sought—not realizing then how his fate was intrinsically tied to his friend's and how it would lead to writing the bestselling book One Man's Wilderness. Sam Keith passed away in 2003. But in 2013, his son-in-law and children's book author/illustrator Brian Lies discovered in an archive box in their garage a book manuscript, originally written in 1974 after the publication of One Man's Wilderness. First Wilderness is the story of Keith's own experiences, at times harrowing, funny, and fascinating. Along with the original manuscript are excerpts from his journals, letters, and notebooks, woven in to create a compelling and poignant memoir of search and discovery. Foreword by Nick Jans, one of Alaska's foremost authors and photographers, and afterword by Keith's daughter Laurel Lies.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/through-the-valley-my-captivity-in-vietnam-by-william-reeder-jr--65184393https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Through the Valley: My Captivity in Vietnam Author: William Reeder Jr. Narrator: Corey M. Snow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Through the Valley is the captivating memoir of the last US Army soldier taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. In 1971 William Reeder was a senior captain on his second tour in Vietnam. He had flown armed, fixed-wing OV-1 Mohawks on secret missions deep into enemy territory in Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam, on his first tour. He returned as a helicopter pilot eager to experience a whole new perspective as a Cobra gunship pilot. Believing that Nixon's Vietnamization would soon end the war, Reeder was anxious to see combat action. To him, it appeared that the Americans had prevailed, beaten the Viet Cong, and were passing everything over to the South Vietnamese Army so that Americans could leave. Less than a year later, while providing support to forces at the besieged base of Ben Het, Reeder's chopper went down in a flaming corkscrew. Though Reeder survived the crash, he was captured after evading the enemy for three days. He was held for weeks in jungle cages before enduring a grueling forced march on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, costing the lives of seven of his group of twenty-seven POWs. Imprisoned in the notorious prisons of Hanoi, Reeder's tenacity in the face of unimaginable hardship is not only a captivating story, but serves as an inspiration to all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629548Tue, 17 Jan 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Through the Valley: My Captivity in Vietnam Author: William Reeder Jr. Narrator: Corey M. Snow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629548 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Through the Valley: My Captivity in Vietnam Author: William Reeder Jr. Narrator: Corey M. Snow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Through the Valley is the captivating memoir of the last US Army soldier taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. In 1971 William Reeder was a senior captain on his second tour in Vietnam. He had flown armed, fixed-wing OV-1 Mohawks on secret missions deep into enemy territory in Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam, on his first tour. He returned as a helicopter pilot eager to experience a whole new perspective as a Cobra gunship pilot. Believing that Nixon's Vietnamization would soon end the war, Reeder was anxious to see combat action. To him, it appeared that the Americans had prevailed, beaten the Viet Cong, and were passing everything over to the South Vietnamese Army so that Americans could leave. Less than a year later, while providing support to forces at the besieged base of Ben Het, Reeder's chopper went down in a flaming corkscrew. Though Reeder survived the crash, he was captured after evading the enemy for three days. He was held for weeks in jungle cages before enduring a grueling forced march on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, costing the lives of seven of his group of twenty-seven POWs. Imprisoned in the notorious prisons of Hanoi, Reeder's tenacity in the face of unimaginable hardship is not only a captivating story, but serves as an inspiration to all.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sailing-at-the-edge-of-disaster-a-memoir-of-a-young-woman-s-daring-year-by-elizabeth-w-garber--65184302https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650200 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year Author: Elizabeth W. Garber Narrator: Stacey Glemboski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1971, Elizabeth Garber’s domineering father announced he was sending his “problem children”—seventeen-year-old bookish Elizabeth and her fourteen-year-old brother Woodie—to a school on a sailing ship, in order to “shape up and learn to work.” Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year chronicles Garber’s adventures, along with the fifty teen misfits and their teacher chaperones aboard the sailing school housed on a once-magnificent yacht formerly owned by General Post heiress, socialite, and philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post. Sailing at the Edge of Disaster follows the journey of Oceanics School students and faculty as they motor the limping ship out of Miami to begin the grand itinerary their charismatic twenty-five-year-old school director envisioned. Along the way, the ship survives a gale at sea, a hole in the hull at deep water, an act of piracy, a near miss with a nuclear sub, and are held hostage by armed gunboats in Panama. The print version of the book was published by Toad Hall Editions, Northport, ME.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650200Tue, 17 Jan 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650200 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year Author: Elizabeth W. Garber Narrator: Stacey Glemboski Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650200 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year Author: Elizabeth W. Garber Narrator: Stacey Glemboski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1971, Elizabeth Garber’s domineering father announced he was sending his “problem children”—seventeen-year-old bookish Elizabeth and her fourteen-year-old brother Woodie—to a school on a sailing ship, in order to “shape up and learn to work.” Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year chronicles Garber’s adventures, along with the fifty teen misfits and their teacher chaperones aboard the sailing school housed on a once-magnificent yacht formerly owned by General Post heiress, socialite, and philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post. Sailing at the Edge of Disaster follows the journey of Oceanics School students and faculty as they motor the limping ship out of Miami to begin the grand itinerary their charismatic twenty-five-year-old school director envisioned. Along the way, the ship survives a gale at sea, a hole in the hull at deep water, an act of piracy, a near miss with a nuclear sub, and are held hostage by armed gunboats in Panama. The print version of the book was published by Toad Hall Editions, Northport, ME.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spare-by-prince-harry-the-duke-of-sussex--65184350https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spare Author: Prince Harry, The Duke Of Sussex Narrator: Prince Harry, The Duke Of Sussex Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 1401 Ratings of Narrator: 4.73 of Total 629 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Discover the global phenomenon that tells an unforgettable story of love, loss, courage, and healing. “Compellingly artful . . . [a] blockbuster memoir.”—The New Yorker (Best Books of the Year) It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. He struggled at school, struggled with anger, with loneliness—and, because he blamed the press for his mother’s death, he struggled to accept life in the spotlight. At twenty-one, he joined the British Army. The discipline gave him structure, and two combat tours made him a hero at home. But he soon felt more lost than ever, suffering from post-traumatic stress and prone to crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn’t find true love.  Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple’s cinematic romance and rejoiced in their fairy-tale wedding. But from the beginning, Harry and Meghan were preyed upon by the press, subjected to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Watching his wife suffer, their safety and mental health at risk, Harry saw no other way to prevent the tragedy of history repeating itself but to flee his mother country. Over the centuries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. The last to try, in fact, had been his mother. . . . For the first time, Prince Harry tells his own story, chronicling his journey with raw, unflinching honesty. A landmark publication, Spare is full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633600Tue, 10 Jan 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spare Author: Prince Harry, The Duke Of Sussex Narrator: Prince Harry, The Duke Of Sussex Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 39 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spare Author: Prince Harry, The Duke Of Sussex Narrator: Prince Harry, The Duke Of Sussex Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 1401 Ratings of Narrator: 4.73 of Total 629 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Discover the global phenomenon that tells an unforgettable story of love, loss, courage, and healing. “Compellingly artful . . . [a] blockbuster memoir.”—The New Yorker (Best Books of the Year) It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. He struggled at school, struggled with anger, with loneliness—and, because he blamed the press for his mother’s death, he struggled to accept life in the spotlight. At twenty-one, he joined the British Army. The discipline gave him structure, and two combat tours made him a hero at home. But he soon felt more lost than ever, suffering from post-traumatic stress and prone to crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn’t find true love.  Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple’s cinematic romance and rejoiced in their fairy-tale wedding. But from the beginning, Harry and Meghan were preyed upon by the press, subjected to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Watching his wife suffer, their safety and mental health at risk, Harry saw no other way to prevent the tragedy of history repeating itself but to flee his mother country. Over the centuries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. The last to try, in fact, had been his mother. . . . For the first time, Prince Harry tells his own story, chronicling his journey with raw, unflinching honesty. A landmark publication, Spare is full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spare-by-prince-harry-the-duke-of-sussex--65184327https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spare Author: Prince Harry, The Duke Of Sussex Narrator: Prince Harry, The Duke Of Sussex Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 359 Ratings of Narrator: 4.66 of Total 133 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow-and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling-and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. He struggled at school, struggled with anger, with loneliness-and, because he blamed the press for his mother's death, he struggled to accept life in the spotlight. At twenty-one, he joined the British Army. The discipline gave him structure, and two combat tours made him a hero at home. But he soon felt more lost than ever, suffering from post-traumatic stress and prone to crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn't find true love. Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple's cinematic romance and rejoiced in their fairy-tale wedding. But from the beginning, Harry and Meghan were preyed upon by the press, subjected to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Watching his wife suffer, their safety and mental health at risk, Harry saw no other way to prevent the tragedy of history repeating itself but to flee his mother country. Over the centuries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. The last to try, in fact, had been his mother. . . . For the first time, Prince Harry tells his own story, chronicling his journey with raw, unflinching honesty. A landmark publication, Spare is full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636079Tue, 10 Jan 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spare Author: Prince Harry, The Duke Of Sussex Narrator: Prince Harry, The Duke Of Sussex Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 37 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spare Author: Prince Harry, The Duke Of Sussex Narrator: Prince Harry, The Duke Of Sussex Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 37 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 359 Ratings of Narrator: 4.66 of Total 133 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow-and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling-and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. He struggled at school, struggled with anger, with loneliness-and, because he blamed the press for his mother's death, he struggled to accept life in the spotlight. At twenty-one, he joined the British Army. The discipline gave him structure, and two combat tours made him a hero at home. But he soon felt more lost than ever, suffering from post-traumatic stress and prone to crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn't find true love. Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple's cinematic romance and rejoiced in their fairy-tale wedding. But from the beginning, Harry and Meghan were preyed upon by the press, subjected to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Watching his wife suffer, their safety and mental health at risk, Harry saw no other way to prevent the tragedy of history repeating itself but to flee his mother country. Over the centuries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. The last to try, in fact, had been his mother. . . . For the first time, Prince Harry tells his own story, chronicling his journey with raw, unflinching honesty. A landmark publication, Spare is full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-en-la-sombra-by-duque-de-sussex-principe-harry--65184244https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650861 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - En la sombra Author: Duque De Sussex Príncipe Harry Narrator: Aleix Peña Miralles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Fue una de las imágenes más desgarradoras del siglo XX: dos niños, dos príncipes, caminando detrás del féretro de su madre mientras el mundo contemplaba la escena con pesar... y horror. A la vez que se daba sepultura a Diana, princesa de Gales, miles de millones de personas se preguntaron qué debían de pensar y sentir esos príncipes y qué rumbo tomarían sus vidas en adelante. En el caso de Harry, esta es, por fin, esa historia. Con su franqueza directa y sin concesiones, En la sombra es una publicación que marcará un hito, llena de lucidez, revelaciones, introspección y sabiduría, adquirida a un alto coste, sobre el eterno poder del amor. Reseñas: «Un relato inquebrantable, introspectivo y bien escrito». Time «Tan ingenioso como convincente… [unas] memorias superventas». The New Yorker «Un testimonio demoledor sobre la vida en una jaula de oro». The Atlantic]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650861Tue, 10 Jan 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650861 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - En la sombra Author: Duque De Sussex Príncipe Harry Narrator: Aleix Peña Miralles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 6 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650861 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - En la sombra Author: Duque De Sussex Príncipe Harry Narrator: Aleix Peña Miralles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Fue una de las imágenes más desgarradoras del siglo XX: dos niños, dos príncipes, caminando detrás del féretro de su madre mientras el mundo contemplaba la escena con pesar... y horror. A la vez que se daba sepultura a Diana, princesa de Gales, miles de millones de personas se preguntaron qué debían de pensar y sentir esos príncipes y qué rumbo tomarían sus vidas en adelante. En el caso de Harry, esta es, por fin, esa historia. Con su franqueza directa y sin concesiones, En la sombra es una publicación que marcará un hito, llena de lucidez, revelaciones, introspección y sabiduría, adquirida a un alto coste, sobre el eterno poder del amor. Reseñas: «Un relato inquebrantable, introspectivo y bien escrito». Time «Tan ingenioso como convincente… [unas] memorias superventas». The New Yorker «Un testimonio demoledor sobre la vida en una jaula de oro». The Atlantic]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/drunk-on-confidence-unapologetically-me-from-lost-anxious-to-self-assured-by-heidi-anderson--65184249https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651053 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drunk on Confidence: Unapologetically Me … From Lost & Anxious to Self-assured. Author: Heidi Anderson Narrator: Heidi Anderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 31 minutes Release date: January 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Being ‘Drunk on Confidence' is not some throw-away phrase for an inspirational Insta caption, it's a lifestyle, a complete shift in perspective that will help you feel empowered and confident every day.” Radio and TV personality, Heidi Anderson was always the girl who wore a cardigan in summer to cover her arms, and board shorts to the beach on the rare occasion she dared to go. She spent years hating herself; silencing her body demons through sex, booze and boys. Heidi knows what it's like to feel alone, to deal with debilitating anxiety daily and to constantly try to please people; pretending to be okay on the outside, while suffering crushing insecurities on the inside. After breaking down on live radio to 300 thousand listeners and making the nerve-racking confession, “I wish I could sit here and tell you that I love myself because that's what people expect me to say, but I can't. I absolutely hate my body” She experienced a life-changing moment. Her gut-wrenching admission forced her to embrace her vulnerabilities, challenge her old beliefs and learn how to say a big fat ‘'Fuck You” to unrealistic beauty standards, and a big ‘'Up Yours' to all diets and society's expectations. Heidi is unapologetically authentic, her memoir is filled with honesty, humour and home-truths. She will show you how she dealt with her inner mean girls that told her she wasn't skinny enough, good enough or simply that other people mattered more than she did. She will inspire you to STOP worrying what other people think and take your power back! ‘Heidi Anderson is a straight up legend; she just gets it! She works hard, she's an ideas machine and is a content queen. Heidi is the ultimate hype girl, I know this cause she's been mine since 2013.' TANYA HENNESSY, Comedian, TV & Radio Personality]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651053Wed, 04 Jan 2023 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651053 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drunk on Confidence: Unapologetically Me … From Lost & Anxious to Self-assured. Author: Heidi Anderson Narrator: Heidi Anderson Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651053 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drunk on Confidence: Unapologetically Me … From Lost & Anxious to Self-assured. Author: Heidi Anderson Narrator: Heidi Anderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 31 minutes Release date: January 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Being ‘Drunk on Confidence' is not some throw-away phrase for an inspirational Insta caption, it's a lifestyle, a complete shift in perspective that will help you feel empowered and confident every day.” Radio and TV personality, Heidi Anderson was always the girl who wore a cardigan in summer to cover her arms, and board shorts to the beach on the rare occasion she dared to go. She spent years hating herself; silencing her body demons through sex, booze and boys. Heidi knows what it's like to feel alone, to deal with debilitating anxiety daily and to constantly try to please people; pretending to be okay on the outside, while suffering crushing insecurities on the inside. After breaking down on live radio to 300 thousand listeners and making the nerve-racking confession, “I wish I could sit here and tell you that I love myself because that's what people expect me to say, but I can't. I absolutely hate my body” She experienced a life-changing moment. Her gut-wrenching admission forced her to embrace her vulnerabilities, challenge her old beliefs and learn how to say a big fat ‘'Fuck You” to unrealistic beauty standards, and a big ‘'Up Yours' to all diets and society's expectations. Heidi is unapologetically authentic, her memoir is filled with honesty, humour and home-truths. She will show you how she dealt with her inner mean girls that told her she wasn't skinny enough, good enough or simply that other people mattered more than she did. She will inspire you to STOP worrying what other people think and take your power back! ‘Heidi Anderson is a straight up legend; she just gets it! She works hard, she's an ideas machine and is a content queen. Heidi is the ultimate hype girl, I know this cause she's been mine since 2013.' TANYA HENNESSY, Comedian, TV & Radio Personality]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/motherhood-martyrdom-costco-runs-by-whitney-dineen--65184343https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Motherhood Martyrdom & Costco Runs Author: Whitney Dineen Narrator: Lila Winters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 2 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Join USA Today bestselling romantic comedy author, Whitney Dineen, as she discovers the three E's of parenting: ● Exhilarating—when you first discover you're pregnant. ● Exhausting—when you realize you'll most likely never sleep again—like ever. ● Explosive—OMG these kids spew from both ends! And that's just the beginning. Whitney shares the ridiculous highs and excruciating lows of her catapult into motherhood. Enjoy the ride as this new mom vows to give up profanity while falling in love with... you guessed it, Costco. Be careful, because if you're anything like Whitney, you may just pee a little. Motherhood Martyrdom & Costco Runs takes the listener on a roller coaster of emotions as Whitney plummets into postpartum depression, desperately tries to get her kids to stop yodeling in public restrooms, and comes to terms with the fact she'll never quite be queen of her own kingdom. Get ready to laugh, cry, cheer, and pat yourself on the back for the sake of mommies everywhere. And while you're at it, stop by Costco for a case of toilet paper and a Very Berry Sundae. You won't regret it!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636221Tue, 27 Dec 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Motherhood Martyrdom & Costco Runs Author: Whitney Dineen Narrator: Lila Winters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 2 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636221 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Motherhood Martyrdom & Costco Runs Author: Whitney Dineen Narrator: Lila Winters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 2 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Join USA Today bestselling romantic comedy author, Whitney Dineen, as she discovers the three E's of parenting: ● Exhilarating—when you first discover you're pregnant. ● Exhausting—when you realize you'll most likely never sleep again—like ever. ● Explosive—OMG these kids spew from both ends! And that's just the beginning. Whitney shares the ridiculous highs and excruciating lows of her catapult into motherhood. Enjoy the ride as this new mom vows to give up profanity while falling in love with... you guessed it, Costco. Be careful, because if you're anything like Whitney, you may just pee a little. Motherhood Martyrdom & Costco Runs takes the listener on a roller coaster of emotions as Whitney plummets into postpartum depression, desperately tries to get her kids to stop yodeling in public restrooms, and comes to terms with the fact she'll never quite be queen of her own kingdom. Get ready to laugh, cry, cheer, and pat yourself on the back for the sake of mommies everywhere. And while you're at it, stop by Costco for a case of toilet paper and a Very Berry Sundae. You won't regret it!]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/victoria-calihoo-buffalo-hunter-an-amazing-life-by-cora-taylor--65184334https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649173 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Victoria Calihoo, Buffalo Hunter: An Amazing Life Author: Cora Taylor Narrator: Wendy Kotow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 26 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Victoria Callihoo was born before Canada was a nation, and was a grandmother by the time Alberta became a province. She traveled with her family on the buffalo hunt on a Red River cart when the herds were so numerous they resembled a moving brown sea. She embraced her Metis heritage and shared her stories with her children and her friends. Through her stories, she inspires us with the perspective of a strong woman in the early days of our country. She gives us a window onto the world of the Metis and provides us with an image of what it was like to be a woman during the time of the buffalo hunt.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649173Tue, 27 Dec 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649173 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Victoria Calihoo, Buffalo Hunter: An Amazing Life Author: Cora Taylor Narrator: Wendy Kotow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 26 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649173 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Victoria Calihoo, Buffalo Hunter: An Amazing Life Author: Cora Taylor Narrator: Wendy Kotow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 26 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Victoria Callihoo was born before Canada was a nation, and was a grandmother by the time Alberta became a province. She traveled with her family on the buffalo hunt on a Red River cart when the herds were so numerous they resembled a moving brown sea. She embraced her Metis heritage and shared her stories with her children and her friends. Through her stories, she inspires us with the perspective of a strong woman in the early days of our country. She gives us a window onto the world of the Metis and provides us with an image of what it was like to be a woman during the time of the buffalo hunt.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-the-eye-of-the-wild-by-nastassja-martin--65184425https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Eye of the Wild Author: Nastassja Martin Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martin's near fatal run-in with a Kamchatka bear in the mountains of Siberia. Martin's professional interest is animism; she addresses philosophical questions about the relation of humankind to nature, and in her work she seeks to partake as fully as she can in the lives of the indigenous peoples she studies. Her violent encounter with the bear, however, brings her face-to-face with something entirely beyond her ken—the untamed, the nonhuman, the animal, the wild. A change takes place that she must somehow reckon with. Left severely mutilated, dazed with pain, Martin undergoes multiple operations in a provincial Russian hospital, while also being grilled by the secret police. Back in France, she finds herself back on the operating table, a source of new trauma. She realizes that the only thing for her to do is to return to Kamchatka. She must discover what it means to have become, as the Even people call it, medka, a person who is half human, half bear. In the Eye of the Wild is a fascinating, mind-altering book about terror, pain, endurance, and self-transformation, comparable in its intensity of perception and originality of style to J. A. Baker's classic The Peregrine. Here Nastassja Martin takes us to the farthest limits of human being.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629511Tue, 20 Dec 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Eye of the Wild Author: Nastassja Martin Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 4 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629511 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Eye of the Wild Author: Nastassja Martin Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 4 minutes Release date: December 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martin's near fatal run-in with a Kamchatka bear in the mountains of Siberia. Martin's professional interest is animism; she addresses philosophical questions about the relation of humankind to nature, and in her work she seeks to partake as fully as she can in the lives of the indigenous peoples she studies. Her violent encounter with the bear, however, brings her face-to-face with something entirely beyond her ken—the untamed, the nonhuman, the animal, the wild. A change takes place that she must somehow reckon with. Left severely mutilated, dazed with pain, Martin undergoes multiple operations in a provincial Russian hospital, while also being grilled by the secret police. Back in France, she finds herself back on the operating table, a source of new trauma. She realizes that the only thing for her to do is to return to Kamchatka. She must discover what it means to have become, as the Even people call it, medka, a person who is half human, half bear. In the Eye of the Wild is a fascinating, mind-altering book about terror, pain, endurance, and self-transformation, comparable in its intensity of perception and originality of style to J. A. Baker's classic The Peregrine. Here Nastassja Martin takes us to the farthest limits of human being.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-mi-historia-by-emmeline-pankhurst--65184237https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi historia Author: Emmeline Pankhurst Narrator: Adriana Galindo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: December 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Emmeline Pankhurst creció muy consciente de la actitud predominante en su época: que los hombres eran considerados superiores a las mujeres. Cuando tenía solo catorce años asistió a su primera reunión por el sufragio femenino y regresó a casa como sufragista confirmada. A lo largo de su carrera soportó la humillación, la prisión, las huelgas de hambre y la reiterada frustración de sus objetivos por parte de los hombres que ostentaban el poder, pero ascendió hasta convertirse en una luz guía del movimiento sufragista. Escrita al comienzo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, ‘Mi historia’ llama la atención sobre la causa de Pankhurst mientras defiende su decisión de cesar el activismo hasta el final de la guerra. Notable por sus descripciones del sistema penitenciario británico, ‘Mi historia’ es un documento invaluable de una vida dedicada a los demás, de un momento histórico en el que un grupo oprimido se levantó para defender la más simple de las demandas: la igualdad. Pankhurst desarrolló un estilo de protesta de confrontación que haría que ella y sus seguidoras fueran arrestados muchas veces antes de que finalmente todas las mujeres mayores de veintiún años obtuvieran el derecho al voto. En 1927 se postularía para el parlamento. Contada con sus propias palabras, esta es la historia de la organización e indignación, las penurias y las huelgas de hambre de Pankhurst y su obstinada determinación de desmantelar los numerosos obstáculos diseñados para impedir que ella y todas las mujeres reclamasen su libertad. ‘Mi historia’ es un registro de la incansable defensa de una mujer por el bien de muchas otras.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651152Tue, 20 Dec 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi historia Author: Emmeline Pankhurst Narrator: Adriana Galindo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi historia Author: Emmeline Pankhurst Narrator: Adriana Galindo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: December 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Emmeline Pankhurst creció muy consciente de la actitud predominante en su época: que los hombres eran considerados superiores a las mujeres. Cuando tenía solo catorce años asistió a su primera reunión por el sufragio femenino y regresó a casa como sufragista confirmada. A lo largo de su carrera soportó la humillación, la prisión, las huelgas de hambre y la reiterada frustración de sus objetivos por parte de los hombres que ostentaban el poder, pero ascendió hasta convertirse en una luz guía del movimiento sufragista. Escrita al comienzo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, ‘Mi historia’ llama la atención sobre la causa de Pankhurst mientras defiende su decisión de cesar el activismo hasta el final de la guerra. Notable por sus descripciones del sistema penitenciario británico, ‘Mi historia’ es un documento invaluable de una vida dedicada a los demás, de un momento histórico en el que un grupo oprimido se levantó para defender la más simple de las demandas: la igualdad. Pankhurst desarrolló un estilo de protesta de confrontación que haría que ella y sus seguidoras fueran arrestados muchas veces antes de que finalmente todas las mujeres mayores de veintiún años obtuvieran el derecho al voto. En 1927 se postularía para el parlamento. Contada con sus propias palabras, esta es la historia de la organización e indignación, las penurias y las huelgas de hambre de Pankhurst y su obstinada determinación de desmantelar los numerosos obstáculos diseñados para impedir que ella y todas las mujeres reclamasen su libertad. ‘Mi historia’ es un registro de la incansable defensa de una mujer por el bien de muchas otras.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/august-in-kabul-america-s-last-days-in-afghanistan-by-andrew-quilty--65184268https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: August in Kabul: America's last days in Afghanistan Author: Andrew Quilty Narrator: John Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: December 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment. As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United States, its Western allies and a proxy Afghan government, the Islamic militant group once aligned with al Qaeda was about to bury yet another foreign foe in the graveyard of empires. And for the US, the superpower, this was yet another foreign disaster. As cities and towns fell to the Taliban in rapid succession, Western troops and embassy staff scrambled to flee a country of which its government had lost control. August in Kabul is the story of how America's longest mission came to an abrupt and humiliating end, told through the eyes of Afghans whose lives have been turned upside down: a young woman who harbours dreams of a university education; a presidential staffer who works desperately to hold things together as the government collapses around him; a prisoner in the notorious Bagram Prison who suddenly finds himself free when prison guards abandon their post. Andrew Quilty was one of a handful of Western journalists who stayed in Kabul as the city fell. This is his first-hand account of those dramatic final days. ‘A compelling, thought provoking must-read about the days leading up to the fall of Kabul and its aftermath from a photo-journalist who spent almost a decade living in Afghanistan, capturing both its sorrows and its joys.' YALDA HAKIM]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648928Mon, 19 Dec 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: August in Kabul: America's last days in Afghanistan Author: Andrew Quilty Narrator: John Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/648928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: August in Kabul: America's last days in Afghanistan Author: Andrew Quilty Narrator: John Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 21 minutes Release date: December 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment. As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United States, its Western allies and a proxy Afghan government, the Islamic militant group once aligned with al Qaeda was about to bury yet another foreign foe in the graveyard of empires. And for the US, the superpower, this was yet another foreign disaster. As cities and towns fell to the Taliban in rapid succession, Western troops and embassy staff scrambled to flee a country of which its government had lost control. August in Kabul is the story of how America's longest mission came to an abrupt and humiliating end, told through the eyes of Afghans whose lives have been turned upside down: a young woman who harbours dreams of a university education; a presidential staffer who works desperately to hold things together as the government collapses around him; a prisoner in the notorious Bagram Prison who suddenly finds himself free when prison guards abandon their post. Andrew Quilty was one of a handful of Western journalists who stayed in Kabul as the city fell. This is his first-hand account of those dramatic final days. ‘A compelling, thought provoking must-read about the days leading up to the fall of Kabul and its aftermath from a photo-journalist who spent almost a decade living in Afghanistan, capturing both its sorrows and its joys.' YALDA HAKIM]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/our-moon-has-blood-clots-a-memoir-of-a-lost-home-in-kashmir-a-memoir-of-a-lost-home-in-kashmir-by-rahul-pandita--65184238https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651473 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Moon Has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir Author: Rahul Pandita Narrator: Shirshendu Banerjee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family. They were Kashmiri Pandits- the Hindu minority within a Muslim-majority Kashmir that was by 1990 becoming increasingly agitated with the cries of ?Azaadi? from India. Our Moon Has Blood Clots is the story of Kashmir, in which hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits were tortured, killed and forced to leave their homes by Islamist militants and to spend the rest of their lives in exile in their own country. Rahul Pandita has written a deeply personal, powerful and unforgettable story of history, home and loss.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651473Tue, 13 Dec 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651473 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Moon Has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir Author: Rahul Pandita Narrator: Shirshendu Banerjee...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651473 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Moon Has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir Author: Rahul Pandita Narrator: Shirshendu Banerjee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family. They were Kashmiri Pandits- the Hindu minority within a Muslim-majority Kashmir that was by 1990 becoming increasingly agitated with the cries of ?Azaadi? from India. Our Moon Has Blood Clots is the story of Kashmir, in which hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits were tortured, killed and forced to leave their homes by Islamist militants and to spend the rest of their lives in exile in their own country. Rahul Pandita has written a deeply personal, powerful and unforgettable story of history, home and loss.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-blue-jobbie-the-caging-of-a-well-padded-scotswoman-book-1-by-yvonne-vincent--65184298https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646465 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Blue Jobbie: The Caging of a Well-Padded Scotswoman (Book 1) Series: #1 of The Caging of a Well-Padded Scotswoman Author: Yvonne Vincent Narrator: Diane Brooks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: December 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A witty, heart-warming and humorous account of family life during lockdown. In March 2020 the Prime Minister told Mrs V to shield for 12 weeks. Then for a bit longer. And just a little bit longer. No cuddles, no snogging, no tasting other people's cocktails to see if they were nicer than hers; pick a spot and stay put. This was bad news for everyone, except possibly the ice cream industry. Mrs V immediately laid claim to the dining room and created her little slice of self-isolation. From her perch in Covid Corner, she blogged about the daily ups and downs of family life in lockdown, keeping her readers laughing as the world got weirder. This book is a compilation of those posts, along with lots of extra bits and commentary. Like Mrs V, it's slightly unconventional, quirky, full of warmth (both the loving and the menopausal kind) and has a filthy sense of humour.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646465Thu, 08 Dec 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646465 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Blue Jobbie: The Caging of a Well-Padded Scotswoman (Book 1) Series: #1 of The Caging of a Well-Padded Scotswoman Author: Yvonne Vincent...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646465 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Blue Jobbie: The Caging of a Well-Padded Scotswoman (Book 1) Series: #1 of The Caging of a Well-Padded Scotswoman Author: Yvonne Vincent Narrator: Diane Brooks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 22 minutes Release date: December 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A witty, heart-warming and humorous account of family life during lockdown. In March 2020 the Prime Minister told Mrs V to shield for 12 weeks. Then for a bit longer. And just a little bit longer. No cuddles, no snogging, no tasting other people's cocktails to see if they were nicer than hers; pick a spot and stay put. This was bad news for everyone, except possibly the ice cream industry. Mrs V immediately laid claim to the dining room and created her little slice of self-isolation. From her perch in Covid Corner, she blogged about the daily ups and downs of family life in lockdown, keeping her readers laughing as the world got weirder. This book is a compilation of those posts, along with lots of extra bits and commentary. Like Mrs V, it's slightly unconventional, quirky, full of warmth (both the loving and the menopausal kind) and has a filthy sense of humour.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-story-teller-s-story-by-sherwood-anderson--65184388https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630456 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Story Teller's Story Author: Sherwood Anderson Narrator: Keith Szarabajka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “These notes make no pretense of being a record of fact. That isn’t their object. They are merely notes of impressions, a record of vagrant thoughts, hopes, ideas that have floated through the mind of one present-day American…It is my aim to be true to the essence of things. That’s what I’m after.” Told through many notes in four books and an epilogue, Sherwood Anderson’s memoir of Midwestern life and culture journeys through the author’s own imaginative world and through the world of facts. From Anderson’s childhood to his attempt to ingratiate himself with New York’s literary elite, A Story Teller’s Story is a unique look into the psyche of an American icon.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630456Tue, 06 Dec 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630456 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Story Teller's Story Author: Sherwood Anderson Narrator: Keith Szarabajka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630456 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Story Teller's Story Author: Sherwood Anderson Narrator: Keith Szarabajka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “These notes make no pretense of being a record of fact. That isn’t their object. They are merely notes of impressions, a record of vagrant thoughts, hopes, ideas that have floated through the mind of one present-day American…It is my aim to be true to the essence of things. That’s what I’m after.” Told through many notes in four books and an epilogue, Sherwood Anderson’s memoir of Midwestern life and culture journeys through the author’s own imaginative world and through the world of facts. From Anderson’s childhood to his attempt to ingratiate himself with New York’s literary elite, A Story Teller’s Story is a unique look into the psyche of an American icon.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/autofellatio-by-james-maker--65184284https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: AutoFellatio Author: James Maker Narrator: Nick Mercer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Apart from herpes and Lulu – everything is eventually swept away' Just one shimmering pearl of wisdom from pop-star and polymath James Maker, whose worldly observations will (like herpes) once again be on everyone’s lips thanks to his award-winning memoir, remastered with new chapters. If you hadn’t heard of rock bands Raymonde or RPLA – fronted by James in the 80s and 90s – you might be forgiven for mistaking AutoFellatio for fiction. But here fact is more fantastical than any novel. We follow our hero from Bermondsey enfant-terrible to Valencian grande dame, a scenic journey that stops off variously at Morrissey confidant, dominatrix, singer, songwriter. It is literally littered with memorable bons mots and hilarious anecdotes that make you feel like you've hit the wedding-reception jackpot of being unexpectedly seated next to the groom's flamboyant uncle. According to Wikipedia, very few men can perform the act of autofellatio. We never discover whether James is one of them but certainly, as a storyteller, he is one in a million. ‘Glitteringly epigrammatic, it’s a glam-rock Naked Civil Servant in court shoes. But funnier. And tougher.’ MARK SIMPSON ‘Pistol sharp, loaded with witty one-liners and peppered with Maker’s scatter gun observations on life, music and the meaning of good hair.’ PAUL BURSTON - James Maker first trod the boards in 1982 as dancer and backing vocalist with The Smiths, and was erroneously known as 'The Fifth Smith'. He subsequently became lyricist and lead singer with the 1980s Indie group, Raymonde, and 1990s 'gay' Hard Rock group RPLA. In 2004, he supported the New York Dolls.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645595Tue, 06 Dec 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: AutoFellatio Author: James Maker Narrator: Nick Mercer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: AutoFellatio Author: James Maker Narrator: Nick Mercer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Apart from herpes and Lulu – everything is eventually swept away' Just one shimmering pearl of wisdom from pop-star and polymath James Maker, whose worldly observations will (like herpes) once again be on everyone’s lips thanks to his award-winning memoir, remastered with new chapters. If you hadn’t heard of rock bands Raymonde or RPLA – fronted by James in the 80s and 90s – you might be forgiven for mistaking AutoFellatio for fiction. But here fact is more fantastical than any novel. We follow our hero from Bermondsey enfant-terrible to Valencian grande dame, a scenic journey that stops off variously at Morrissey confidant, dominatrix, singer, songwriter. It is literally littered with memorable bons mots and hilarious anecdotes that make you feel like you've hit the wedding-reception jackpot of being unexpectedly seated next to the groom's flamboyant uncle. According to Wikipedia, very few men can perform the act of autofellatio. We never discover whether James is one of them but certainly, as a storyteller, he is one in a million. ‘Glitteringly epigrammatic, it’s a glam-rock Naked Civil Servant in court shoes. But funnier. And tougher.’ MARK SIMPSON ‘Pistol sharp, loaded with witty one-liners and peppered with Maker’s scatter gun observations on life, music and the meaning of good hair.’ PAUL BURSTON - James Maker first trod the boards in 1982 as dancer and backing vocalist with The Smiths, and was erroneously known as 'The Fifth Smith'. He subsequently became lyricist and lead singer with the 1980s Indie group, Raymonde, and 1990s 'gay' Hard Rock group RPLA. In 2004, he supported the New York Dolls.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-pain-and-money-the-making-of-a-billionaire-by-john-caudwell--65184296https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646114 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love, Pain and Money: The Making of a Billionaire Author: John Caudwell Narrator: Mike Rogers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: John Caudwell is one of Britain's wealthiest, most successful – and most colourful – businessmen. John was just six years old when he made a promise to himself that he would make enough money to give huge sums of it away to help his family and others who were struggling with poverty. Born in a terraced house in Stoke-on-Trent, Caudwell went from bullied child to insecure trainee engineer at a local Michelin plant to self-made billionaire, befriending Sir Elton John, Eva Longoria, Hugh Grant and Robbie Williams, who have all taken part in his charity balls to raise money for Caudwell Children. It was at a car auction in 1987, the height of Mrs Thatcher's booming Britain,that he spotted the future. A mobile phone that came in an unwieldy suitcase. Within two decades Caudwell sold his Phones 4u business for £1.46 billion. Love, Pain & Money: The Making of a Billionaire retraces the inspirational journey, from the very shaky beginnings of his phone empire to owning yachts, private planes, a fleet of top flight cars, a Jacobean mansion in the Midlands and London's most expensive home (featured in a Channel 4 documentary). It's a fascinating insight into the drive, ambition, focus and vision required to become a billionaire. It is also a very British story. Caudwell is a man who – despite his vast wealth – still knows the price of a pint of milk, buys his clothes from Marks & Spencer and despite having swapped the Michelin plant for Michelin-starred restaurants and hotels, can often be found in a roadside B&B, eating home-made sandwiches after one of his many cycling expeditions. And it is more than merely a rags to riches story. It is a tale of battling endless career misfortunes and overcoming a series of personal tragedies to rise to the top. Failure, disaster and horrendous private heartbreaks are all part of this tale of a troubled child who never won the approval of his father who died when John was a teenager. Love, Pain & Money – The Making of a Billionaire is a tale of our times, full of humour, grit, lessons in business and an understanding of what it takes to succeed against all odds.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646114Thu, 01 Dec 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646114 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love, Pain and Money: The Making of a Billionaire Author: John Caudwell Narrator: Mike Rogers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 33 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646114 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love, Pain and Money: The Making of a Billionaire Author: John Caudwell Narrator: Mike Rogers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: John Caudwell is one of Britain's wealthiest, most successful – and most colourful – businessmen. John was just six years old when he made a promise to himself that he would make enough money to give huge sums of it away to help his family and others who were struggling with poverty. Born in a terraced house in Stoke-on-Trent, Caudwell went from bullied child to insecure trainee engineer at a local Michelin plant to self-made billionaire, befriending Sir Elton John, Eva Longoria, Hugh Grant and Robbie Williams, who have all taken part in his charity balls to raise money for Caudwell Children. It was at a car auction in 1987, the height of Mrs Thatcher's booming Britain,that he spotted the future. A mobile phone that came in an unwieldy suitcase. Within two decades Caudwell sold his Phones 4u business for £1.46 billion. Love, Pain & Money: The Making of a Billionaire retraces the inspirational journey, from the very shaky beginnings of his phone empire to owning yachts, private planes, a fleet of top flight cars, a Jacobean mansion in the Midlands and London's most expensive home (featured in a Channel 4 documentary). It's a fascinating insight into the drive, ambition, focus and vision required to become a billionaire. It is also a very British story. Caudwell is a man who – despite his vast wealth – still knows the price of a pint of milk, buys his clothes from Marks & Spencer and despite having swapped the Michelin plant for Michelin-starred restaurants and hotels, can often be found in a roadside B&B, eating home-made sandwiches after one of his many cycling expeditions. And it is more than merely a rags to riches story. It is a tale of battling endless career misfortunes and overcoming a series of personal tragedies to rise to the top. Failure, disaster and horrendous private heartbreaks are all part of this tale of a troubled child who never won the approval of his father who died when John was a teenager. Love, Pain & Money – The Making of a Billionaire is a tale of our times, full of humour, grit, lessons in business and an understanding of what it takes to succeed against all odds.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kid-on-the-go-memoir-of-my-childhood-and-youth-by-neill-mckee--65184273https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kid on the Go!: Memoir of My Childhood and Youth Author: Neill Mckee Narrator: Wesley Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: December 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Kid on the Go! is Neill McKee's third work of creative nonfiction. It's a standalone prequel to his award-winning Finding Myself in Borneo. In this new book, McKee takes readers on a journey through his childhood, adolescence, and teenage years from the mid-40s to the mid-60s, in the small, then industrially-polluted town of Elmira, Ontario, Canada-one of the centers of production for Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. McKee's vivid descriptions, dialogue are a study of how a young boy learned to play and work, fish and hunt, avoid dangers, cope with death, deal with bullies, and to build or restore 'escape' vehicles. You may laugh out loud as the author recalls his exploding hormones, attraction to girls, rebellion against authority, and survival of 1960s' 'rock & roll' culture-emerging on the other side as a youth leader. After leaving Elmira, McKee describes his intensely searching university years, trying to decide which career path to follow. Except for a revealing postscript, the story ends when he accepts a volunteer teaching position on the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650636Thu, 01 Dec 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kid on the Go!: Memoir of My Childhood and Youth Author: Neill Mckee Narrator: Wesley Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/650636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kid on the Go!: Memoir of My Childhood and Youth Author: Neill Mckee Narrator: Wesley Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 7 minutes Release date: December 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Kid on the Go! is Neill McKee's third work of creative nonfiction. It's a standalone prequel to his award-winning Finding Myself in Borneo. In this new book, McKee takes readers on a journey through his childhood, adolescence, and teenage years from the mid-40s to the mid-60s, in the small, then industrially-polluted town of Elmira, Ontario, Canada-one of the centers of production for Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. McKee's vivid descriptions, dialogue are a study of how a young boy learned to play and work, fish and hunt, avoid dangers, cope with death, deal with bullies, and to build or restore 'escape' vehicles. You may laugh out loud as the author recalls his exploding hormones, attraction to girls, rebellion against authority, and survival of 1960s' 'rock & roll' culture-emerging on the other side as a youth leader. After leaving Elmira, McKee describes his intensely searching university years, trying to decide which career path to follow. Except for a revealing postscript, the story ends when he accepts a volunteer teaching position on the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-begin-when-your-world-is-ending-a-spiritual-field-guide-to-joy-despite-everything-by-molly-phinney-baskette--65184422https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Begin When Your World Is Ending: A Spiritual Field Guide to Joy Despite Everything Author: Molly Phinney Baskette Narrator: Molly Phinney Baskette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As a progressive parish minister, Molly Baskette has been a companion during the most vulnerable and unsettled periods of many people's lives. She has also had a front row seat to remarkable human transformation, as many of the ruptures her people lived through turned out to be the way that God got in. But when she was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer at age thirty-nine, with two small children, her theology of and relationship to God was tested more profoundly than ever. Instead of becoming despondent, though, she engaged with her faith more deeply—seizing the opportunity to test the seaworthiness of the faith she had been practicing and preaching. In How to Begin When Your World Is Ending, Baskette shares the questions that confronted her along the way like: Is it true that prayer changes things? Does God care whether we live or die—and is there a damn thing God can do about it anyway? How can vulnerability, counterintuitively, be a strength? And the million-dollar question: is there life after death, and just what might it be like? Weaving together her own story and the stories of those she encountered in her life of faith, Baskette mines joy from all the hardest parts of being human. In doing so she reminds us that whatever you are going through, someone has been there before you, and found meaning in the madness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629429Tue, 29 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Begin When Your World Is Ending: A Spiritual Field Guide to Joy Despite Everything Author: Molly Phinney Baskette Narrator: Molly Phinney...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Begin When Your World Is Ending: A Spiritual Field Guide to Joy Despite Everything Author: Molly Phinney Baskette Narrator: Molly Phinney Baskette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As a progressive parish minister, Molly Baskette has been a companion during the most vulnerable and unsettled periods of many people's lives. She has also had a front row seat to remarkable human transformation, as many of the ruptures her people lived through turned out to be the way that God got in. But when she was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer at age thirty-nine, with two small children, her theology of and relationship to God was tested more profoundly than ever. Instead of becoming despondent, though, she engaged with her faith more deeply—seizing the opportunity to test the seaworthiness of the faith she had been practicing and preaching. In How to Begin When Your World Is Ending, Baskette shares the questions that confronted her along the way like: Is it true that prayer changes things? Does God care whether we live or die—and is there a damn thing God can do about it anyway? How can vulnerability, counterintuitively, be a strength? And the million-dollar question: is there life after death, and just what might it be like? Weaving together her own story and the stories of those she encountered in her life of faith, Baskette mines joy from all the hardest parts of being human. In doing so she reminds us that whatever you are going through, someone has been there before you, and found meaning in the madness.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/changed-living-with-stillbirth-by-lisa-jankowski--65184359https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632457 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Changed: Living with Stillbirth Author: Lisa Jankowski Narrator: Emma Spurgin-Hussey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 56 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The loss of a child is the most devastating event a parent can face. Sharing her experience about the loss of a desperately loved daughter, and the effects that go beyond what people could ever imagine, Liza Jankowski explores her deepest thoughts and feelings surrounding stillbirth in this moving memoir. As she discusses the impact on her relationships, her subsequent pregnancy and what she ultimately learned, ‘Changed’ weaves a powerful combination of a mother's personal journey with helpful information to offer comfort, hope and understanding. A true support for bereaved parents and an aid for health professionals alike, this book is for anyone experiencing or supporting those with the feelings and emotions that arise after stillbirth. - Liza Jankowski is a part-time pharmacist and volunteer parent support worker with SIDS and Kids in Adelaide, Australia. The author of the powerful and moving memoir ‘Changed: Living with Stillbirth’, Jankowski is the mother of four children, two boys and two still born girls. She is hopeful that her book will provide comfort and hope to bereaved parents and also help health professionals looking to gain a better understanding of the feelings and emotions that arise after stillbirth.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632457Tue, 29 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632457 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Changed: Living with Stillbirth Author: Lisa Jankowski Narrator: Emma Spurgin-Hussey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 56 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632457 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Changed: Living with Stillbirth Author: Lisa Jankowski Narrator: Emma Spurgin-Hussey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 56 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The loss of a child is the most devastating event a parent can face. Sharing her experience about the loss of a desperately loved daughter, and the effects that go beyond what people could ever imagine, Liza Jankowski explores her deepest thoughts and feelings surrounding stillbirth in this moving memoir. As she discusses the impact on her relationships, her subsequent pregnancy and what she ultimately learned, ‘Changed’ weaves a powerful combination of a mother's personal journey with helpful information to offer comfort, hope and understanding. A true support for bereaved parents and an aid for health professionals alike, this book is for anyone experiencing or supporting those with the feelings and emotions that arise after stillbirth. - Liza Jankowski is a part-time pharmacist and volunteer parent support worker with SIDS and Kids in Adelaide, Australia. The author of the powerful and moving memoir ‘Changed: Living with Stillbirth’, Jankowski is the mother of four children, two boys and two still born girls. She is hopeful that her book will provide comfort and hope to bereaved parents and also help health professionals looking to gain a better understanding of the feelings and emotions that arise after stillbirth.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-wellenreiter-wider-willen-by-ines-langs--65184257https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wellenreiter wider Willen Author: Ines Langs Narrator: Ines Langs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Es ist schließlich immer eine Wellenbewegung. Mal bist du oben und tanzt als Schaum auf der Wellenkrone, mal stürzt du hinab ins Wellental. Um dann von der nächsten Welle wieder hochgehoben zu werden. Und die ganze Zeit hast du den Eindruck, nicht von der Stelle zu kommen. Du bist auf hoher See, und das rettende Ufer ist nicht in Sicht.' Es war sehr hoher Wellengang, der die Autorin Ines Langs und ihren geliebten Mann Detlef Ende 2017 erfasste. Detlef erkrankte an ALS (Amyotrophe Lateralsklerose), einer unheilbaren Krankheit, die meist innerhalb weniger Jahre zum Tod führt. Ines versuchte auf ihre eigene Art, den Kopf über Wasser zu halten. Sie schrieb ab Mitte März 2020 jeden Morgen handschriftlich auf, was ihr gerade durch den Kopf ging. In diesen Morgenseiten spiegeln sich alle Aspekte ihres Alltags mit der Krankheit ALS wider, einschließlich tabubelasteter 'egoistischer' Gedanken und Gefühle. Doch sie enthalten auch Worte, die von Zuversicht zeugen. Und nicht zuletzt von der Liebe, die sie durch diese schwere Zeit trug. Die Liebe zu Detlef ebenso wie die Liebe, die ihr von ihrer Familie und ihren Freunden entgegengebracht wurde. Ines Langs möchte mit diesem Buch anderen Angehörigen von ALS-Erkrankten stellvertretend eine Stimme geben und sie darin bestärken, dass ihre Gedanken und Gefühle völlig normal sind. Dass sie nicht allein sind in ihrem Empfinden. Aber auch, dass es nach dem Tod des geliebten Menschen Hoffnung auf neue Lebensfreude gibt. Und dass letztlich nur eines zählt: Dass die Liebe bleibt!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649372Tue, 29 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wellenreiter wider Willen Author: Ines Langs Narrator: Ines Langs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wellenreiter wider Willen Author: Ines Langs Narrator: Ines Langs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Es ist schließlich immer eine Wellenbewegung. Mal bist du oben und tanzt als Schaum auf der Wellenkrone, mal stürzt du hinab ins Wellental. Um dann von der nächsten Welle wieder hochgehoben zu werden. Und die ganze Zeit hast du den Eindruck, nicht von der Stelle zu kommen. Du bist auf hoher See, und das rettende Ufer ist nicht in Sicht.' Es war sehr hoher Wellengang, der die Autorin Ines Langs und ihren geliebten Mann Detlef Ende 2017 erfasste. Detlef erkrankte an ALS (Amyotrophe Lateralsklerose), einer unheilbaren Krankheit, die meist innerhalb weniger Jahre zum Tod führt. Ines versuchte auf ihre eigene Art, den Kopf über Wasser zu halten. Sie schrieb ab Mitte März 2020 jeden Morgen handschriftlich auf, was ihr gerade durch den Kopf ging. In diesen Morgenseiten spiegeln sich alle Aspekte ihres Alltags mit der Krankheit ALS wider, einschließlich tabubelasteter 'egoistischer' Gedanken und Gefühle. Doch sie enthalten auch Worte, die von Zuversicht zeugen. Und nicht zuletzt von der Liebe, die sie durch diese schwere Zeit trug. Die Liebe zu Detlef ebenso wie die Liebe, die ihr von ihrer Familie und ihren Freunden entgegengebracht wurde. Ines Langs möchte mit diesem Buch anderen Angehörigen von ALS-Erkrankten stellvertretend eine Stimme geben und sie darin bestärken, dass ihre Gedanken und Gefühle völlig normal sind. Dass sie nicht allein sind in ihrem Empfinden. Aber auch, dass es nach dem Tod des geliebten Menschen Hoffnung auf neue Lebensfreude gibt. Und dass letztlich nur eines zählt: Dass die Liebe bleibt!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-in-old-age-by-hunter-davies--65184293https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love In Old Age Author: Hunter Davies Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Isle of Wight: in the summers of the 1800s, Queen Victoria holidayed here. At music festivals in the summer of love, hundreds of thousands of people got stoned here. And, in the summer of 2020, Hunter and Claire escaped locked-down North London for a week's holiday here. They fell in love with its sleepy charm – and ended up buying a Grade 2-listed home in the elegant Victorian seaside resort of Ryde. 'Love in Old Age' tells the story of their first year on the island. It is a journey of discovery in a forgotten corner of England; an exploration of the attraction of meeting new people and new places in old age, and a celebration of flat sandy beaches. Filled with Davies’ insatiable curiosity for people and places and his irrepressible and ironic sense of humour. A wryly humorous memoir, 'Love in Old Age' will delight fans of Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' and Nora Ephron's 'I Remember Nothing'. - Hunter Davies is a prolific author, journalist and broadcaster who has written for Punch, the New Statesman, Guardian and Sunday Times. He is the author of more than 100 books, including the only authorized biography of The Beatles and biographies of Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter and Alfred Wainwright.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645592Thu, 24 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love In Old Age Author: Hunter Davies Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 24, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645592 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love In Old Age Author: Hunter Davies Narrator: Jonathan Keeble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Isle of Wight: in the summers of the 1800s, Queen Victoria holidayed here. At music festivals in the summer of love, hundreds of thousands of people got stoned here. And, in the summer of 2020, Hunter and Claire escaped locked-down North London for a week's holiday here. They fell in love with its sleepy charm – and ended up buying a Grade 2-listed home in the elegant Victorian seaside resort of Ryde. 'Love in Old Age' tells the story of their first year on the island. It is a journey of discovery in a forgotten corner of England; an exploration of the attraction of meeting new people and new places in old age, and a celebration of flat sandy beaches. Filled with Davies’ insatiable curiosity for people and places and his irrepressible and ironic sense of humour. A wryly humorous memoir, 'Love in Old Age' will delight fans of Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' and Nora Ephron's 'I Remember Nothing'. - Hunter Davies is a prolific author, journalist and broadcaster who has written for Punch, the New Statesman, Guardian and Sunday Times. He is the author of more than 100 books, including the only authorized biography of The Beatles and biographies of Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter and Alfred Wainwright.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/calling-wpc-crockford-the-story-of-a-1950s-police-woman-by-ruth-d-alessandro--65184279https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Calling WPC Crockford: The Story of a 1950s Police Woman Author: Ruth D'alessandro Narrator: Rachel Atkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the early 1950s, the Berkshire Constabulary finally opened its ranks to more women. And WPC Crockford was one of those early pioneers... When 21-year-old Gwendoline Crockford signed up to join the Berkshire Constabulary in 1951, she had little idea of what she was getting herself into. Whether carrying a human skeleton out of the woods, finding a missing child, investigating thefts, or chasing an escaped zebra, every day brought fresh adventures. In this nostalgic, tender and honest account of post-war British society, we follow a bright, determined woman navigating a man's world, serving as many people as she can. From performing traffic duties to unravelling a dark secret at the heart of an impoverished family, WPC Crockford's career was full of joy, thrills – and heartbreak. Written by her daughter Ruth, this is the story of a real-life woman police constable as she embarks on her police career.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647852Thu, 24 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Calling WPC Crockford: The Story of a 1950s Police Woman Author: Ruth D'alessandro Narrator: Rachel Atkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Calling WPC Crockford: The Story of a 1950s Police Woman Author: Ruth D'alessandro Narrator: Rachel Atkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the early 1950s, the Berkshire Constabulary finally opened its ranks to more women. And WPC Crockford was one of those early pioneers... When 21-year-old Gwendoline Crockford signed up to join the Berkshire Constabulary in 1951, she had little idea of what she was getting herself into. Whether carrying a human skeleton out of the woods, finding a missing child, investigating thefts, or chasing an escaped zebra, every day brought fresh adventures. In this nostalgic, tender and honest account of post-war British society, we follow a bright, determined woman navigating a man's world, serving as many people as she can. From performing traffic duties to unravelling a dark secret at the heart of an impoverished family, WPC Crockford's career was full of joy, thrills – and heartbreak. Written by her daughter Ruth, this is the story of a real-life woman police constable as she embarks on her police career.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-yo-solo-soy-sofia-testimonios-sobre-la-libertad-y-el-amor-libre-by-sofia-duplan--65184283https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Yo sólo soy Sofía: Testimonios sobre la libertad y el amor libre Author: Sofía Duplán Narrator: Yotzmit Ramírez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Basadas en la vida real y con mágicas dosis de fantasía, estas historias irreverentes y divertidas —de una chica como tú: en busca del amor libre, la celebración de la vida y la felicidad— están escritas con humor e inigualable pasión romántica. Sofía es una joven llena de energía e ilusiones, un ave que vuela sobre los árboles, el mar,las esperanzas y los placeres; su vida es una apuesta por el amor sin barreras en situaciones nada convencionales: en una fiesta de disfraces alucinante en Nueva York, en un retiro erótico en la Patagonia, con la realeza europea más extravagante en Holanda; sin faltar las experiencias tristes y con muchas lágrimas, aunque sus alas de alegría nunca dejan de elevarse ni de adentrarse en los misterios de calles nocturnas fantasmales, bares de excesos inimaginables o amaneceres en las montañas. Descubre en Yo sólo soy Sofía lo que una mujer sin límites hace para lograr sus sueños; entérate de sus romances con un actor de Hollywood famoso; un artista brasileño nacido en las favelas; un chef sudamericano reconocido en el mundo o un príncipe europeo sui generis y ríe con los dramas y festejos delirantes de esta encantadora ave del paraíso que nos convence de que no hay nada más bello que amar con libertad y dejarse amar]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641982Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Yo sólo soy Sofía: Testimonios sobre la libertad y el amor libre Author: Sofía Duplán Narrator: Yotzmit Ramírez Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Yo sólo soy Sofía: Testimonios sobre la libertad y el amor libre Author: Sofía Duplán Narrator: Yotzmit Ramírez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Basadas en la vida real y con mágicas dosis de fantasía, estas historias irreverentes y divertidas —de una chica como tú: en busca del amor libre, la celebración de la vida y la felicidad— están escritas con humor e inigualable pasión romántica. Sofía es una joven llena de energía e ilusiones, un ave que vuela sobre los árboles, el mar,las esperanzas y los placeres; su vida es una apuesta por el amor sin barreras en situaciones nada convencionales: en una fiesta de disfraces alucinante en Nueva York, en un retiro erótico en la Patagonia, con la realeza europea más extravagante en Holanda; sin faltar las experiencias tristes y con muchas lágrimas, aunque sus alas de alegría nunca dejan de elevarse ni de adentrarse en los misterios de calles nocturnas fantasmales, bares de excesos inimaginables o amaneceres en las montañas. Descubre en Yo sólo soy Sofía lo que una mujer sin límites hace para lograr sus sueños; entérate de sus romances con un actor de Hollywood famoso; un artista brasileño nacido en las favelas; un chef sudamericano reconocido en el mundo o un príncipe europeo sui generis y ríe con los dramas y festejos delirantes de esta encantadora ave del paraíso que nos convence de que no hay nada más bello que amar con libertad y dejarse amar]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-preventorium-a-memoir-by-susan-annah-currie--65184299https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647289 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Preventorium: A Memoir Author: Susan Annah Currie Narrator: Vanessa Webb Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Opened on February 17, 1929, the Mississippi State Preventorium operated continuously until 1976. The Mississippi Preventorium, like similar hospitals throughout the country, was an institution for sickly, anemic, and underweight children. It was established on the grounds of the Mississippi State Tuberculosis Sanitorium in the early years of the twentieth century when tuberculosis was a dreaded disease worldwide. The TB Sanitorium hospital housed those with tuberculosis, offering refuge for patients of all ages afflicted with the pernicious and contagious disease. Although located on the same medical campus, the preventorium was a separate medical institution for children; no children with TB were admitted in the sixty-year run of the hospital. The name preventorium meant a place of preventing disease as there was a fear of sickly children contracting TB. The Mississippi Preventorium was one of the last, if not the very last, of these special hospitals for children. Now closed, the preventorium housed over three thousand children, including author Susan Annah Currie. In this intimate memoir, Currie details her fifteen-month stay at the preventorium. From her arrival in May 1959 at six years old, Currie vividly explores the unique and isolating world that she and children across the country experienced. Her exacting routine, dictated by the nurses and doctors who now acted as her parents, erased the distinction between patients and created both a sense of community among the children and a deep sense of loneliness. From walking silently single file through the cold, narrow halls of the hospital to nurses recording every detail of their bathroom habits to extremely limited visitation from family, Currie's time at the preventorium changed her and those around her, leaving an indelible mark even after their return home. While many of the records from the preventorium have been lost, Currie's memoir opens to readers a lost history largely forgotten. Told in evocative prose, The Preventorium explores Currie's personal trials, both in the hospital and in the echoes of her experiences into adulthood.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647289Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647289 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Preventorium: A Memoir Author: Susan Annah Currie Narrator: Vanessa Webb Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647289 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Preventorium: A Memoir Author: Susan Annah Currie Narrator: Vanessa Webb Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Opened on February 17, 1929, the Mississippi State Preventorium operated continuously until 1976. The Mississippi Preventorium, like similar hospitals throughout the country, was an institution for sickly, anemic, and underweight children. It was established on the grounds of the Mississippi State Tuberculosis Sanitorium in the early years of the twentieth century when tuberculosis was a dreaded disease worldwide. The TB Sanitorium hospital housed those with tuberculosis, offering refuge for patients of all ages afflicted with the pernicious and contagious disease. Although located on the same medical campus, the preventorium was a separate medical institution for children; no children with TB were admitted in the sixty-year run of the hospital. The name preventorium meant a place of preventing disease as there was a fear of sickly children contracting TB. The Mississippi Preventorium was one of the last, if not the very last, of these special hospitals for children. Now closed, the preventorium housed over three thousand children, including author Susan Annah Currie. In this intimate memoir, Currie details her fifteen-month stay at the preventorium. From her arrival in May 1959 at six years old, Currie vividly explores the unique and isolating world that she and children across the country experienced. Her exacting routine, dictated by the nurses and doctors who now acted as her parents, erased the distinction between patients and created both a sense of community among the children and a deep sense of loneliness. From walking silently single file through the cold, narrow halls of the hospital to nurses recording every detail of their bathroom habits to extremely limited visitation from family, Currie's time at the preventorium changed her and those around her, leaving an indelible mark even after their return home. While many of the records from the preventorium have been lost, Currie's memoir opens to readers a lost history largely forgotten. Told in evocative prose, The Preventorium explores Currie's personal trials, both in the hospital and in the echoes of her experiences into adulthood.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-der-gesang-in-den-meeren-ungekurzt-by-doreen-cunningham--65184294https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Gesang in den Meeren (Ungekürzt) Author: Doreen Cunningham Narrator: Julia Nachtmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Von den Lagunen in Baja California bis zu den Gletschern des Nordpolarmeers legen Grauwalmütter mit ihren Kälbern jährlich Tausende von Meilen in dem sich aufgrund des Klimawandels erwärmenden Meer zurück. Es ist die längste Wanderung eines Säugetiers auf unserem Planeten. Doreen Cunningham, selbst alleinerziehende Mutter, folgt den Walen auf dieser gefährlichen Reise, zusammen mit ihrem zweijährigen Sohn Max - in Bussen, Zügen und auf Schiffen, allein und auf sich gestellt. Den Plan zu diesem Abenteuer hat sie an einem Tiefpunkt ihres Lebens gefasst: Gestrandet in einem Heim für obdachlose Mütter, erinnert sie sich an ihren Aufenthalt bei den Iñupiat im Norden Alaskas, an die unbändige Natur, die ihr schon einmal im Leben half. Nun will sie es mit Max erneut versuchen, ihm zeigen, wie Mensch und Wal verbunden sind, was Freiheit und Liebe bedeuten. Doreen Cunningham ist eine einzigartige Mischung aus Memoir, Reisebericht und wissenschaftlicher Dokumentation gelungen. SOUNDINGS Copyright (C) 2022 by Doreen Walton Die Originalausgabe erschien 2022 unter dem Titel SOUNDINGS bei Virago Press, London.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646008Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Gesang in den Meeren (Ungekürzt) Author: Doreen Cunningham Narrator: Julia Nachtmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Gesang in den Meeren (Ungekürzt) Author: Doreen Cunningham Narrator: Julia Nachtmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Von den Lagunen in Baja California bis zu den Gletschern des Nordpolarmeers legen Grauwalmütter mit ihren Kälbern jährlich Tausende von Meilen in dem sich aufgrund des Klimawandels erwärmenden Meer zurück. Es ist die längste Wanderung eines Säugetiers auf unserem Planeten. Doreen Cunningham, selbst alleinerziehende Mutter, folgt den Walen auf dieser gefährlichen Reise, zusammen mit ihrem zweijährigen Sohn Max - in Bussen, Zügen und auf Schiffen, allein und auf sich gestellt. Den Plan zu diesem Abenteuer hat sie an einem Tiefpunkt ihres Lebens gefasst: Gestrandet in einem Heim für obdachlose Mütter, erinnert sie sich an ihren Aufenthalt bei den Iñupiat im Norden Alaskas, an die unbändige Natur, die ihr schon einmal im Leben half. Nun will sie es mit Max erneut versuchen, ihm zeigen, wie Mensch und Wal verbunden sind, was Freiheit und Liebe bedeuten. Doreen Cunningham ist eine einzigartige Mischung aus Memoir, Reisebericht und wissenschaftlicher Dokumentation gelungen. SOUNDINGS Copyright (C) 2022 by Doreen Walton Die Originalausgabe erschien 2022 unter dem Titel SOUNDINGS bei Virago Press, London.]]>185rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-mutaciones-autobiografia-intelectual-by-roger-bartra--65184328https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641305 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mutaciones. Autobiografía intelectual Author: Roger Bartra Narrator: Mauricio Pérez Castillo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Estas memorias son el registro del devenir intelectual y personal de Roger Bartra, un atisbo a la conciencia que anima su vida y pensamiento. En esta autobiografía Roger Bartra examina un nudo formado por tres hilos que se extienden a lo largo de su vida intelectual; tres flujos que se mezclan en el pozo profundo de su conciencia. El primero es una obsesión por la verdad que domina su trabajo, a veces de manera estimulante y en ocasiones de forma esclavizadora. El segundo es la permanente sensación de ser extranjero, de ser un extraño enclavado en una sociedad que lo considera ajeno a ella. En tercer lugar, una inclinación por la rebeldía que ha tenido que controlar y domesticar para poder convivir con sus semejantes. Estos flujos, confiesa, le han provocado una permanente sensación de encierro, de estar preso de verdades dogmáticas, de estar en la cárcel de una identidad anómala y de estar poseído por una furia que es necesario mantener atrapada. Pero cuando el nudo se desata, Bartra se siente liberado e impulsado a una búsqueda de verdades frescas y renovadoras, alentado por una rebeldía creativa y estimulante sin estar atado a identidades fija]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641305Thu, 10 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641305 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mutaciones. Autobiografía intelectual Author: Roger Bartra Narrator: Mauricio Pérez Castillo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641305 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mutaciones. Autobiografía intelectual Author: Roger Bartra Narrator: Mauricio Pérez Castillo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Estas memorias son el registro del devenir intelectual y personal de Roger Bartra, un atisbo a la conciencia que anima su vida y pensamiento. En esta autobiografía Roger Bartra examina un nudo formado por tres hilos que se extienden a lo largo de su vida intelectual; tres flujos que se mezclan en el pozo profundo de su conciencia. El primero es una obsesión por la verdad que domina su trabajo, a veces de manera estimulante y en ocasiones de forma esclavizadora. El segundo es la permanente sensación de ser extranjero, de ser un extraño enclavado en una sociedad que lo considera ajeno a ella. En tercer lugar, una inclinación por la rebeldía que ha tenido que controlar y domesticar para poder convivir con sus semejantes. Estos flujos, confiesa, le han provocado una permanente sensación de encierro, de estar preso de verdades dogmáticas, de estar en la cárcel de una identidad anómala y de estar poseído por una furia que es necesario mantener atrapada. Pero cuando el nudo se desata, Bartra se siente liberado e impulsado a una búsqueda de verdades frescas y renovadoras, alentado por una rebeldía creativa y estimulante sin estar atado a identidades fija]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-los-abrazos-lentos-esbozos-reflexiones-y-vida-by-elisabet-benavent--65184315https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los abrazos lentos: Esbozos, reflexiones y vida Author: Elísabet Benavent Narrator: Elísabet Benavent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: MÁS DE 4.500.000 EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS «Las palabras son abrazos y aquí van los míos: Un recopilatorio de lo sentido, imaginado y vivido en los últimos años». ELÍSABET BENAVENT «Las palabras son para mí un salvavidas; una forma de vivir, un puñado de abrazos lentos». Elísabet Benavent lísabet Benavent (Valencia, 1984). La publicación de la Saga Valeria fue su debut y el principio de su trayectoria como novelista. Desde entonces ha escrito más de veintitrés libros y se ha convertido en un fenómeno editorial con más de 4.500.000 ejemplares leídos. Algunas de sus novelas han sido traducidas a varios idiomas y publicadas en diversos países. En 2020 Netflix estrenó la serie Valeria, en 2021 la película Fuimos canciones y en 2023 la miniserie Un cuento perfecto, con la que se ha situado en el número 1 global de la plataforma durante varias semanas. Este éxito se une a la conquista del público anglosajón con la traducción al inglés de su novela homónima y su publicación en Estados Unidos e Inglaterra. Esnob es su último libro.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641303Thu, 10 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los abrazos lentos: Esbozos, reflexiones y vida Author: Elísabet Benavent Narrator: Elísabet Benavent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los abrazos lentos: Esbozos, reflexiones y vida Author: Elísabet Benavent Narrator: Elísabet Benavent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: MÁS DE 4.500.000 EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS «Las palabras son abrazos y aquí van los míos: Un recopilatorio de lo sentido, imaginado y vivido en los últimos años». ELÍSABET BENAVENT «Las palabras son para mí un salvavidas; una forma de vivir, un puñado de abrazos lentos». Elísabet Benavent lísabet Benavent (Valencia, 1984). La publicación de la Saga Valeria fue su debut y el principio de su trayectoria como novelista. Desde entonces ha escrito más de veintitrés libros y se ha convertido en un fenómeno editorial con más de 4.500.000 ejemplares leídos. Algunas de sus novelas han sido traducidas a varios idiomas y publicadas en diversos países. En 2020 Netflix estrenó la serie Valeria, en 2021 la película Fuimos canciones y en 2023 la miniserie Un cuento perfecto, con la que se ha situado en el número 1 global de la plataforma durante varias semanas. Este éxito se une a la conquista del público anglosajón con la traducción al inglés de su novela homónima y su publicación en Estados Unidos e Inglaterra. Esnob es su último libro.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/playing-under-the-piano-from-downton-to-darkest-peru-by-hugh-bonneville--65184412https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629202 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru Author: Hugh Bonneville Narrator: Hugh Bonneville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 14 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one of today’s best-loved British actors, whose credits include Downton Abbey, Notting Hill, and Paddington. From getting his big break as Third Shepherd in the school nativity play, to mistaking a Hollywood star for an estate agent, Hugh Bonneville creates a brilliantly vivid picture of a career on stage and screen. What is it like working with Judi Dench and Julia Roberts, or playing Robert De Niro’s right leg, or not being Gary Oldman, twice? A wickedly funny storyteller, Bonneville also writes with poignancy about his father’s dementia and of his mother, whose life in the secret service emerged only after her death. Whether telling stories of working with divas, Dames, or a bear with a penchant for marmalade, this is a richly entertaining account of his life as an actor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629202Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629202 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru Author: Hugh Bonneville Narrator: Hugh Bonneville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629202 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru Author: Hugh Bonneville Narrator: Hugh Bonneville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 14 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one of today’s best-loved British actors, whose credits include Downton Abbey, Notting Hill, and Paddington. From getting his big break as Third Shepherd in the school nativity play, to mistaking a Hollywood star for an estate agent, Hugh Bonneville creates a brilliantly vivid picture of a career on stage and screen. What is it like working with Judi Dench and Julia Roberts, or playing Robert De Niro’s right leg, or not being Gary Oldman, twice? A wickedly funny storyteller, Bonneville also writes with poignancy about his father’s dementia and of his mother, whose life in the secret service emerged only after her death. Whether telling stories of working with divas, Dames, or a bear with a penchant for marmalade, this is a richly entertaining account of his life as an actor.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kise-chahiye-sabhya-police-by-vibhuti-narain-rai--65184291https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kise Chahiye Sabhya Police Author: Vibhuti Narain Rai Narrator: Vikhyat Gulati Wizdo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Writer as a real-life thanedar. Can one speak of a portrait of an artist as a policeman? The Book's narrative shows how the Indian state operates.... why the wheels of justice move slowly, often in the direction opposite to justice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641716Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kise Chahiye Sabhya Police Author: Vibhuti Narain Rai Narrator: Vikhyat Gulati Wizdo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641716 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kise Chahiye Sabhya Police Author: Vibhuti Narain Rai Narrator: Vikhyat Gulati Wizdo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Writer as a real-life thanedar. Can one speak of a portrait of an artist as a policeman? The Book's narrative shows how the Indian state operates.... why the wheels of justice move slowly, often in the direction opposite to justice.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bohemian-negligence-by-bertie-blackman--65184322https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bohemian Negligence Author: Bertie Blackman Narrator: Bertie Blackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The celebrated musician's evocative and intimate memoir of the magic and vulnerability of her bohemian childhood growing up as the daughter of iconic artist Charles Blackman. If you could touch your memories, how would they feel? My first memory of life is blurry. A blurry red dot. A strawberry in a thicket of dark green vines and tall grass. A chalky red pastel. A cadmium paint splash. A cardinal's feather. A lipstick smear . . . a strawberry kiss. All things red in one. I reach out to pluck the fruit but it's made of smoke and it vanishes as I touch it. It felt cool. Dewy. Tingly on the skin as if it were pressed there briefly and then it disappeared... I can hear cicadas chirping and birds swallowing their words and scratching for their breakfast. It's the first time I feel alone. Bertie Blackman grew up too fast. Bohemian Negligence tells that story with the breathtaking innocence of a child's point of view: close and vivid and utterly in the moment. As memories refract and elide with the images, sounds and impressions of Bertie's child's world, we experience both her wonder and confusion with astonishing intimacy. A renowned musician and artist, Bertie is also a formidable and lyrical writer, and brings those gifts to recreate the world she grew up in. As the daughter of iconic artist Charles Blackman, that world celebrated freedom and creativity but also contained darkness and contradictions. Bertie has captured the magic and vulnerability of childhood in words and images both joyful and haunting: 'My childhood world was full of cracks. Full of light and full of dark. But it was full of love.' This book will stay with you forever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640925Thu, 03 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bohemian Negligence Author: Bertie Blackman Narrator: Bertie Blackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 28 minutes Release date: November...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bohemian Negligence Author: Bertie Blackman Narrator: Bertie Blackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The celebrated musician's evocative and intimate memoir of the magic and vulnerability of her bohemian childhood growing up as the daughter of iconic artist Charles Blackman. If you could touch your memories, how would they feel? My first memory of life is blurry. A blurry red dot. A strawberry in a thicket of dark green vines and tall grass. A chalky red pastel. A cadmium paint splash. A cardinal's feather. A lipstick smear . . . a strawberry kiss. All things red in one. I reach out to pluck the fruit but it's made of smoke and it vanishes as I touch it. It felt cool. Dewy. Tingly on the skin as if it were pressed there briefly and then it disappeared... I can hear cicadas chirping and birds swallowing their words and scratching for their breakfast. It's the first time I feel alone. Bertie Blackman grew up too fast. Bohemian Negligence tells that story with the breathtaking innocence of a child's point of view: close and vivid and utterly in the moment. As memories refract and elide with the images, sounds and impressions of Bertie's child's world, we experience both her wonder and confusion with astonishing intimacy. A renowned musician and artist, Bertie is also a formidable and lyrical writer, and brings those gifts to recreate the world she grew up in. As the daughter of iconic artist Charles Blackman, that world celebrated freedom and creativity but also contained darkness and contradictions. Bertie has captured the magic and vulnerability of childhood in words and images both joyful and haunting: 'My childhood world was full of cracks. Full of light and full of dark. But it was full of love.' This book will stay with you forever.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/aadhi-chhutti-ka-itihaas-by-rajkumar-gautam--65184281https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aadhi Chhutti Ka Itihaas Author: Rajkumar Gautam Narrator: Jatin Sharma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The stories of Rajkumar Gautam, a popular Hindi storyteller, portray contemporary life situations with honesty. The urban and urban lower-middle class is featured in their stories, which are neither bookish nor imported, but typical Hindustani. This is the reason that almost every story of Rajkumar Gautam is able to identify different levels of social reality beyond any literary debate. A half-holiday chronicles a dozen stories of Rajkumar Gautam. Going through them, you will feel that each of their story-characters is very close to us or perhaps we are their own counterpart. Not only this, they have also got the life of those inanimate objects, which fulfill our basic needs of daily life, and at this point these stories expose the depleted life of man, torture and his life in a poignant manner. There are so many characters in these stories who want to speak to us, carrying the burden of broken family relationships and obligations, circling the house and office, and shifting day by day to fulfill small wishes, happiness and hopes, So that we can gather and hand over the strength of resistance to the various pressures on your life. In short, these stories will be remembered for a long time in recognition of their social environment, their reality, and the personal fronts of their battles.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639514Thu, 03 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aadhi Chhutti Ka Itihaas Author: Rajkumar Gautam Narrator: Jatin Sharma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 49 minutes Release date: November...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aadhi Chhutti Ka Itihaas Author: Rajkumar Gautam Narrator: Jatin Sharma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The stories of Rajkumar Gautam, a popular Hindi storyteller, portray contemporary life situations with honesty. The urban and urban lower-middle class is featured in their stories, which are neither bookish nor imported, but typical Hindustani. This is the reason that almost every story of Rajkumar Gautam is able to identify different levels of social reality beyond any literary debate. A half-holiday chronicles a dozen stories of Rajkumar Gautam. Going through them, you will feel that each of their story-characters is very close to us or perhaps we are their own counterpart. Not only this, they have also got the life of those inanimate objects, which fulfill our basic needs of daily life, and at this point these stories expose the depleted life of man, torture and his life in a poignant manner. There are so many characters in these stories who want to speak to us, carrying the burden of broken family relationships and obligations, circling the house and office, and shifting day by day to fulfill small wishes, happiness and hopes, So that we can gather and hand over the strength of resistance to the various pressures on your life. In short, these stories will be remembered for a long time in recognition of their social environment, their reality, and the personal fronts of their battles.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-am-not-fine-thanks-by-wil-anderson--65184308https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636227 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I am NOT Fine, Thanks Author: Wil Anderson Narrator: Wil Anderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Good sense, good jokes, and good WIL - a book about enduring turbulent times with humour, community and just a dash of Apple Cider Vinegar. 'How are you?' How am I? How am I? How do you think I am? I know in the Before Times the tradition was to reply, 'I'm fine, thanks.' Then you would ask how they were, and they would reply, 'I'm fine, thanks.' And then we would all get on with our lives. But I can't play my part in that pantomime anymore. I cannot say, 'I am fine, thanks,' because (spoilers) I am not fine, thanks. What do you get when a housebound comedian is left with no option but to make comedy using only a rampant washing machine, a lot of Vaseline (it's for the pipes - no, not that pipe), a roast chook and an unused exercise bike to keep him company? You get I Am NOT Fine, Thanks. From prime ministers who don't hold a hose, to billionaires who think they're astronauts, to people who think lizards are ruling the country and that thermometers are wiping your memory, it's abundantly clear that the world is going to hell. In I Am NOT Fine, Thanks Wil Anderson uses his iconic dry humour to soothe the sting of the last few years - laughter is the best medicine, after all (or is it Apple Cider Vinegar?). Part memoir, part manifesto and all comedy, this is a book that will both make your every frustration feel heard and show you that there is plenty to hope for. ‘This book is a welcome icepack after being repeatedly hit on the head by the world.' SHAUN MICALLEF]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636227Tue, 01 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636227 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I am NOT Fine, Thanks Author: Wil Anderson Narrator: Wil Anderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636227 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I am NOT Fine, Thanks Author: Wil Anderson Narrator: Wil Anderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Good sense, good jokes, and good WIL - a book about enduring turbulent times with humour, community and just a dash of Apple Cider Vinegar. 'How are you?' How am I? How am I? How do you think I am? I know in the Before Times the tradition was to reply, 'I'm fine, thanks.' Then you would ask how they were, and they would reply, 'I'm fine, thanks.' And then we would all get on with our lives. But I can't play my part in that pantomime anymore. I cannot say, 'I am fine, thanks,' because (spoilers) I am not fine, thanks. What do you get when a housebound comedian is left with no option but to make comedy using only a rampant washing machine, a lot of Vaseline (it's for the pipes - no, not that pipe), a roast chook and an unused exercise bike to keep him company? You get I Am NOT Fine, Thanks. From prime ministers who don't hold a hose, to billionaires who think they're astronauts, to people who think lizards are ruling the country and that thermometers are wiping your memory, it's abundantly clear that the world is going to hell. In I Am NOT Fine, Thanks Wil Anderson uses his iconic dry humour to soothe the sting of the last few years - laughter is the best medicine, after all (or is it Apple Cider Vinegar?). Part memoir, part manifesto and all comedy, this is a book that will both make your every frustration feel heard and show you that there is plenty to hope for. ‘This book is a welcome icepack after being repeatedly hit on the head by the world.' SHAUN MICALLEF]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-handful-of-raisins-in-an-otherwise-empty-room-a-journey-from-tragedy-to-joy-by-michele-misino-de-luca--65184248https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Handful of Raisins in an Otherwise Empty Room: A Journey From Tragedy to Joy Author: Michele Misino De Luca Narrator: Michele Misino De Luca Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Handful of Raisins is a heart-stirring memoir about survival, strength and courage. For Michèle Misino de Luca, life began as a series of dark, traumatic episodes and continued as deeply challenging events beset her incessantly throughout her youth. Yet somehow, she rises to value life, viewing it as a miracle. She was five years old when she first felt completely on her own, and although food, clothing and a warm bed were provided, it seemed her survival was not ensured. Every night, when she was handed those raisins, there was a moment of intimacy in her soul. She ate those raisins ever so slowly, savoring not just their sweetness, but the sweetness of a few moments when everything was alright. Imagine being a child seemingly dropped into a dark hole. Nothing around you but strangers. Nothing familiar. Throughout this memoir, readers will gain a true understanding of loneliness and despair, while receiving the gratifying reminder that you do not have to succumb and be formed by your painful experiences. You can become who you say you are, and who you say you are can be based on what you value most. Our author declares herself fully alive and becomes so alive with dignity, wonder and joy. In her groundbreaking and raw story, Michèle Misino de Luca had the tenacity not only to survive, but to thrive. Unwilling to surrender to victimhood, she had to change. She had to find joy. It certainly was not easy, but in a world by herself, she created her own silver lining. This is a memoir about celebrating the fullness of life, written by a truly extraordinary person. This is a story about seeking and accepting the handful of raisins in an otherwise empty room.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643595Tue, 01 Nov 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Handful of Raisins in an Otherwise Empty Room: A Journey From Tragedy to Joy Author: Michele Misino De Luca Narrator: Michele Misino De Luca Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/643595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Handful of Raisins in an Otherwise Empty Room: A Journey From Tragedy to Joy Author: Michele Misino De Luca Narrator: Michele Misino De Luca Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Handful of Raisins is a heart-stirring memoir about survival, strength and courage. For Michèle Misino de Luca, life began as a series of dark, traumatic episodes and continued as deeply challenging events beset her incessantly throughout her youth. Yet somehow, she rises to value life, viewing it as a miracle. She was five years old when she first felt completely on her own, and although food, clothing and a warm bed were provided, it seemed her survival was not ensured. Every night, when she was handed those raisins, there was a moment of intimacy in her soul. She ate those raisins ever so slowly, savoring not just their sweetness, but the sweetness of a few moments when everything was alright. Imagine being a child seemingly dropped into a dark hole. Nothing around you but strangers. Nothing familiar. Throughout this memoir, readers will gain a true understanding of loneliness and despair, while receiving the gratifying reminder that you do not have to succumb and be formed by your painful experiences. You can become who you say you are, and who you say you are can be based on what you value most. Our author declares herself fully alive and becomes so alive with dignity, wonder and joy. In her groundbreaking and raw story, Michèle Misino de Luca had the tenacity not only to survive, but to thrive. Unwilling to surrender to victimhood, she had to change. She had to find joy. It certainly was not easy, but in a world by herself, she created her own silver lining. This is a memoir about celebrating the fullness of life, written by a truly extraordinary person. This is a story about seeking and accepting the handful of raisins in an otherwise empty room.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-keine-halben-sachen-wie-die-notaufnahme-den-blick-aufs-leben-verandert-ungekurzte-autorinnenlesung-by-dr-med-carola-holzner--65184310https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Keine halben Sachen - Wie die Notaufnahme den Blick aufs Leben verändert (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung) Author: Dr. Med. Carola Holzner Narrator: Dr. Med. Carola Holzner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In der Notaufnahme zeigt sich, worauf es wirklich ankommt! Sie verändert den Blick aufs Leben. Keine halben Sachen. Die Notärztin Carola Holzner spricht Klartext. Dabei bleibt sie immer sie selbst mit Blick auf die, für die ihr Herz schlägt: ihre Patientinnen und Patienten und deren Schicksale. Sie berichtet von Menschen, die alle auf ihre Art bewegen: Die alleinerziehende Mutter, die eine lebenswichtige Operation verweigert, aus Angst ihren Job zu verlieren. Der verzweifelte Vater, der selbst dem Tod seiner kleinen Tochter einen Sinn geben will, indem er junge Ärzte aufrüttelt. Und sie berichtet von Wundern, die uns staunen lassen und dann geschehen können, wenn Menschen über sich selbst hinauswachsen. Denn das Leben schreibt immer noch die besten Geschichten. Gerechtigkeit, Verantwortung und Mitgefühl. In der Notaufnahme stellen sich die wichtigen Fragen des Lebens. Doc Caro nimmt uns mit hinter die Kulissen und zeigt, dass jede/r Einzelne für sich selbst und andere etwas tun kann. Das Höbuch wird gelesen von der Autorin.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646784Wed, 26 Oct 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Keine halben Sachen - Wie die Notaufnahme den Blick aufs Leben verändert (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung) Author: Dr. Med. Carola Holzner...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Keine halben Sachen - Wie die Notaufnahme den Blick aufs Leben verändert (Ungekürzte Autorinnenlesung) Author: Dr. Med. Carola Holzner Narrator: Dr. Med. Carola Holzner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In der Notaufnahme zeigt sich, worauf es wirklich ankommt! Sie verändert den Blick aufs Leben. Keine halben Sachen. Die Notärztin Carola Holzner spricht Klartext. Dabei bleibt sie immer sie selbst mit Blick auf die, für die ihr Herz schlägt: ihre Patientinnen und Patienten und deren Schicksale. Sie berichtet von Menschen, die alle auf ihre Art bewegen: Die alleinerziehende Mutter, die eine lebenswichtige Operation verweigert, aus Angst ihren Job zu verlieren. Der verzweifelte Vater, der selbst dem Tod seiner kleinen Tochter einen Sinn geben will, indem er junge Ärzte aufrüttelt. Und sie berichtet von Wundern, die uns staunen lassen und dann geschehen können, wenn Menschen über sich selbst hinauswachsen. Denn das Leben schreibt immer noch die besten Geschichten. Gerechtigkeit, Verantwortung und Mitgefühl. In der Notaufnahme stellen sich die wichtigen Fragen des Lebens. Doc Caro nimmt uns mit hinter die Kulissen und zeigt, dass jede/r Einzelne für sich selbst und andere etwas tun kann. Das Höbuch wird gelesen von der Autorin.]]>185rztecleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/chemical-khichdi-by-aparna-piramal-raje--65184354https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chemical Khichdi Author: Aparna Piramal Raje Narrator: Aparna Piramal Raje Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Some said children were out of the question, but she is a mother of two boys.Some said she couldn’t handle business life, but she has interviewed over a hundred CEOs, and counting.Some said she wouldn’t be able to write a book on mental health, but here it is.Aparna Piramal Raje is happy, thriving and bipolar. And this is her story.Part memoir and part self-help guide, Chemical Khichdi provides a pathway for anyone with a mental health condition and the family, friends, colleagues, and medical professionals that love and care for them.Empathetic, candid and accessible, it outlines ‘seven therapies’ that have enabled Aparna to ‘hack’ her mental health and find equilibrium over the years, and shows how you or someone you know can also do the same.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634559Tue, 25 Oct 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chemical Khichdi Author: Aparna Piramal Raje Narrator: Aparna Piramal Raje Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chemical Khichdi Author: Aparna Piramal Raje Narrator: Aparna Piramal Raje Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Some said children were out of the question, but she is a mother of two boys.Some said she couldn’t handle business life, but she has interviewed over a hundred CEOs, and counting.Some said she wouldn’t be able to write a book on mental health, but here it is.Aparna Piramal Raje is happy, thriving and bipolar. And this is her story.Part memoir and part self-help guide, Chemical Khichdi provides a pathway for anyone with a mental health condition and the family, friends, colleagues, and medical professionals that love and care for them.Empathetic, candid and accessible, it outlines ‘seven therapies’ that have enabled Aparna to ‘hack’ her mental health and find equilibrium over the years, and shows how you or someone you know can also do the same.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/head-held-high-by-vishwas-nangre-patil--65184342https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Head Held High Author: Vishwas Nangre Patil Narrator: Mayur Suvarna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Whenever decorated officer Vishwas Nangre Patil recalls the memories of Diwali from his childhood days, the sounds of firecrackers often transform into the deafening grenade blasts from the night of 26/11. It was his grit, cultivated over the years from the neck-breaking labour of studying for the UPSC exams, that had enabled him to power on and gun down the terrorists inside the Taj Mahal Palace hotel during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Head Held High, translated from the Marathi book Mann Mein Hai Vishwas, is an account of IPS officer Vishwas Nangre Patil's life-from his humble background, through school, college, long hours of studying for the UPSC examinations to the final selection to the IPS cadre and, eventually, his role in the counterterrorism operations during the Mumbai attacks. This moving and authentic account of the most formative and challenging years of his life is sure to strike a chord with those who aspire to join the Indian civil services.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634554Tue, 25 Oct 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Head Held High Author: Vishwas Nangre Patil Narrator: Mayur Suvarna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 25,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Head Held High Author: Vishwas Nangre Patil Narrator: Mayur Suvarna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Whenever decorated officer Vishwas Nangre Patil recalls the memories of Diwali from his childhood days, the sounds of firecrackers often transform into the deafening grenade blasts from the night of 26/11. It was his grit, cultivated over the years from the neck-breaking labour of studying for the UPSC exams, that had enabled him to power on and gun down the terrorists inside the Taj Mahal Palace hotel during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Head Held High, translated from the Marathi book Mann Mein Hai Vishwas, is an account of IPS officer Vishwas Nangre Patil's life-from his humble background, through school, college, long hours of studying for the UPSC examinations to the final selection to the IPS cadre and, eventually, his role in the counterterrorism operations during the Mumbai attacks. This moving and authentic account of the most formative and challenging years of his life is sure to strike a chord with those who aspire to join the Indian civil services.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-m-single-because-i-hate-my-friends-husbands-by-sarah-amy-jennifer-jones--65184278https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641817 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm Single Because I Hate My Friends' Husbands Author: Sarah Amy Jennifer Jones Narrator: Sarah Amy Jennifer Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “To be fair, there are lots of reasons I’m single, but some of my friends’ husbands certainly make me happy with that choice.” In this series of essays, Sarah Amy Jennifer Jones (not her real name), a self-described hot mess masquerading as a normal human being discusses love, relationships, and the often confusing life of a true, modern-day spinster. Join her for the laughs, misery, and insights that only someone with too much time on their hands can deliver.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641817Mon, 24 Oct 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641817 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm Single Because I Hate My Friends' Husbands Author: Sarah Amy Jennifer Jones Narrator: Sarah Amy Jennifer Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641817 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm Single Because I Hate My Friends' Husbands Author: Sarah Amy Jennifer Jones Narrator: Sarah Amy Jennifer Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “To be fair, there are lots of reasons I’m single, but some of my friends’ husbands certainly make me happy with that choice.” In this series of essays, Sarah Amy Jennifer Jones (not her real name), a self-described hot mess masquerading as a normal human being discusses love, relationships, and the often confusing life of a true, modern-day spinster. Join her for the laughs, misery, and insights that only someone with too much time on their hands can deliver.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/broken-girl-fly-by-melissa-kay-olson--65184314https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Broken Girl Fly Author: Melissa Kay Olson Narrator: Melissa Kay Olson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 22, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The devil whispers in my ear, “Your mother can never know about this… it will kill her if she ever finds out.” Fear quakes in my six-year-old body. Shame saturates me like a soggy mist. I draw an X across my heart, cup my hand around his ear and whisper, “Cross my heart and hope to die! I promise I will never tell!” I am VOICELESS. I am fifteen and death lurks on the horizon. And I want it so bad… want to be gone from this jacked-up life! Want to be free of the beast lurking in the corners of my heart! I’m tired of running and lying and hiding! And then Jesus calls my name… Oh my, He’s a breath of fresh air. His Bible stories are amazing. And He’s promising me new life. Can I really have new life? How can I trust God with the evil haunting me? Where was He when I was sexually abused? How can I know He won’t fail me again? Dearest reader, my broken friend… Can you hear me speak? The devil doesn’t win this war! Walk with me as I tell you the story of how God saved my life and gave me the VOICE to tell it all. We are not alone!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641870Sat, 22 Oct 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Broken Girl Fly Author: Melissa Kay Olson Narrator: Melissa Kay Olson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 22,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/641870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Broken Girl Fly Author: Melissa Kay Olson Narrator: Melissa Kay Olson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 22, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The devil whispers in my ear, “Your mother can never know about this… it will kill her if she ever finds out.” Fear quakes in my six-year-old body. Shame saturates me like a soggy mist. I draw an X across my heart, cup my hand around his ear and whisper, “Cross my heart and hope to die! I promise I will never tell!” I am VOICELESS. I am fifteen and death lurks on the horizon. And I want it so bad… want to be gone from this jacked-up life! Want to be free of the beast lurking in the corners of my heart! I’m tired of running and lying and hiding! And then Jesus calls my name… Oh my, He’s a breath of fresh air. His Bible stories are amazing. And He’s promising me new life. Can I really have new life? How can I trust God with the evil haunting me? Where was He when I was sexually abused? How can I know He won’t fail me again? Dearest reader, my broken friend… Can you hear me speak? The devil doesn’t win this war! Walk with me as I tell you the story of how God saved my life and gave me the VOICE to tell it all. We are not alone!]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lion-rampant-the-memoirs-of-an-infantry-officer-from-d-day-to-the-rhineland-by-robert-woollcombe--65184341https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lion Rampant: The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland Author: Robert Woollcombe Narrator: Mark Elstob Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'One of the most vivid personal memoirs of the Second World War. Few writers have bettered his description of the experiences of front line infantrymen under the stress of battle.' - Max Hastings Lion Rampant is Robert Woollcombe's graphic account of his experiences as a front-line infantry officer with the King's Own Scottish Borderers during the desperate battle for Normandy and the Allied advance into Germany. Vividly evoking the confusion, horror and comradeship of war - from the killing fields of Normandy bocage, through house-to-house fighting in shattered Flemish towns, to the final Rhine crossing - Lion Rampant is a powerful, authentic and moving story, telling with extraordinary clarity how the author, his fellow officers and the men of his company lived through one of the most bitter campaigns in history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634633Fri, 21 Oct 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lion Rampant: The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland Author: Robert Woollcombe Narrator: Mark Elstob Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634633 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lion Rampant: The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland Author: Robert Woollcombe Narrator: Mark Elstob Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'One of the most vivid personal memoirs of the Second World War. Few writers have bettered his description of the experiences of front line infantrymen under the stress of battle.' - Max Hastings Lion Rampant is Robert Woollcombe's graphic account of his experiences as a front-line infantry officer with the King's Own Scottish Borderers during the desperate battle for Normandy and the Allied advance into Germany. Vividly evoking the confusion, horror and comradeship of war - from the killing fields of Normandy bocage, through house-to-house fighting in shattered Flemish towns, to the final Rhine crossing - Lion Rampant is a powerful, authentic and moving story, telling with extraordinary clarity how the author, his fellow officers and the men of his company lived through one of the most bitter campaigns in history.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/because-mummy-said-so-by-shari-low--65184323https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632460 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Because Mummy Said So Author: Shari Low Narrator: Helen Mcalpine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The era of the yummy mummy has finally gone and to celebrate, Shari Low has taken a baby wipe to the glossy veneer of the school of perfect parenting with 'Because Mummy Said So'. This collection of hilarious memories tells the truth about motherhood in all of its sleep-deprived, frazzled glory. No judgement, no impossibly high standards, no perfect day – just real life and a whole lot of chaos that every experienced, new or soon-to-be parent will relate to. Embarrassing mistakes, disastrous summer holidays, childhood milestones, tear-jerking nativity plays, eight bouts of chickenpox and that time when a three-year-old superhero locked himself in a toilet... this is one imperfect mum's tales of the ups, downs and unforgettable moments of parenthood. - Shari lives in Glasgow and writes a weekly opinion column and Book Club page for a well known newspaper. She is married to a very laid-back guy and has two athletic teenage sons, who think she's fairly embarrassing, except when they need a lift.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632460Thu, 20 Oct 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632460 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Because Mummy Said So Author: Shari Low Narrator: Helen Mcalpine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 20, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632460 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Because Mummy Said So Author: Shari Low Narrator: Helen Mcalpine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The era of the yummy mummy has finally gone and to celebrate, Shari Low has taken a baby wipe to the glossy veneer of the school of perfect parenting with 'Because Mummy Said So'. This collection of hilarious memories tells the truth about motherhood in all of its sleep-deprived, frazzled glory. No judgement, no impossibly high standards, no perfect day – just real life and a whole lot of chaos that every experienced, new or soon-to-be parent will relate to. Embarrassing mistakes, disastrous summer holidays, childhood milestones, tear-jerking nativity plays, eight bouts of chickenpox and that time when a three-year-old superhero locked himself in a toilet... this is one imperfect mum's tales of the ups, downs and unforgettable moments of parenthood. - Shari lives in Glasgow and writes a weekly opinion column and Book Club page for a well known newspaper. She is married to a very laid-back guy and has two athletic teenage sons, who think she's fairly embarrassing, except when they need a lift.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-retratos-desde-la-memoria-by-julio-maria-sanguinetti--65184392https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630049 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Retratos desde la memoria Author: Julio María Sanguinetti Narrator: Randolfo Barrionuevo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: El Dr. Sanguinetti vuelca en este libro la memoria de los personajes a los que conoció a lo largo de su vida, con la complicidad con la que le contaría a un amigo si le preguntara sobre ellos. ¿Qué hay detrás de un gran personaje? ¿Es lo mismo su imagen pública que su personalidad íntima? ¿De qué hablaba Deng Xiaoping, el hombre que cambió China y el mundo? ¿Onetti era siempre el huraño distante que registran sus fotos? ¿Mitterrand era solo esa máscara solemne con la que se le recuerda? ¿Cómo era el diálogo con Wilson? Pacheco, ¿era el hombre fuerte que ha quedado en el recuerdo? En Seregni ¿predominaba el militar o el político? ¿Qué había detrás del rostro severo de Tarigo? ¿Cúneo era solamente lunas? En sus últimos trabajos el Dr. Sanguinetti ha escrito historia, relatando acontecimientos y hurgando en su contexto. En esta obra, por el contrario, recurre al disco duro de su memoria para evocar un conjunto de personajes desaparecidos, ya leyendas para el mundo o nuestro Uruguay. Es una visión subjetiva, personal, con el atractivo intransferible del mano a mano.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630049Mon, 17 Oct 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630049 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Retratos desde la memoria Author: Julio María Sanguinetti Narrator: Randolfo Barrionuevo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630049 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Retratos desde la memoria Author: Julio María Sanguinetti Narrator: Randolfo Barrionuevo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: El Dr. Sanguinetti vuelca en este libro la memoria de los personajes a los que conoció a lo largo de su vida, con la complicidad con la que le contaría a un amigo si le preguntara sobre ellos. ¿Qué hay detrás de un gran personaje? ¿Es lo mismo su imagen pública que su personalidad íntima? ¿De qué hablaba Deng Xiaoping, el hombre que cambió China y el mundo? ¿Onetti era siempre el huraño distante que registran sus fotos? ¿Mitterrand era solo esa máscara solemne con la que se le recuerda? ¿Cómo era el diálogo con Wilson? Pacheco, ¿era el hombre fuerte que ha quedado en el recuerdo? En Seregni ¿predominaba el militar o el político? ¿Qué había detrás del rostro severo de Tarigo? ¿Cúneo era solamente lunas? En sus últimos trabajos el Dr. Sanguinetti ha escrito historia, relatando acontecimientos y hurgando en su contexto. En esta obra, por el contrario, recurre al disco duro de su memoria para evocar un conjunto de personajes desaparecidos, ya leyendas para el mundo o nuestro Uruguay. Es una visión subjetiva, personal, con el atractivo intransferible del mano a mano.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-als-wir-uns-noch-wehtun-durften-erinnerungen-by-lo-padi--65184404https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Als wir uns noch wehtun durften: Erinnerungen Author: Lo Padi Narrator: Ilona Lindenbauer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Blutige Knie, waghalsige Spiele und unbändige Neugierde. Das alles war prägend für die Kindheit der Generation 60+. Dieses Buch erzählt davon und von weiteren fünf ereignisreichen Jahrzehnten aus dem spannenden und ungewöhnlichen Leben einer freiheitsliebenden Frau. Es sind Geschichten aus einer Zeit, die geprägt war von Fortschritt und Fleiß, aber auch von Ängsten und Zweifeln. Dieses Buch ist ein Stück Zeitgeschichte und ein Dank an jene Generationen, welche den Grundstein für unseren Wohlstand gelegt haben.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629169Thu, 13 Oct 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Als wir uns noch wehtun durften: Erinnerungen Author: Lo Padi Narrator: Ilona Lindenbauer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 23...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629169 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Als wir uns noch wehtun durften: Erinnerungen Author: Lo Padi Narrator: Ilona Lindenbauer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Blutige Knie, waghalsige Spiele und unbändige Neugierde. Das alles war prägend für die Kindheit der Generation 60+. Dieses Buch erzählt davon und von weiteren fünf ereignisreichen Jahrzehnten aus dem spannenden und ungewöhnlichen Leben einer freiheitsliebenden Frau. Es sind Geschichten aus einer Zeit, die geprägt war von Fortschritt und Fleiß, aber auch von Ängsten und Zweifeln. Dieses Buch ist ein Stück Zeitgeschichte und ein Dank an jene Generationen, welche den Grundstein für unseren Wohlstand gelegt haben.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/castaway-kid-one-man-s-search-for-hope-and-home-by-r-b-mitchell--65184407https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Castaway Kid: One Man's Search for Hope and Home Author: R. B. Mitchell Narrator: Paul Rothery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Abandoned by his parents when he was just three years old, Rob Mitchell began his journey as one of the last “lifers” in an American orphanage. He grew up with kids who were not friends but rather “co-survivors.” As Rob’s loneliness and rage grew, his hope shrank. Would he ever find a real family or a place to call home? Find out how Rob was able to overcome his past, forgiving his relatives and forging healthy family relationships of his own. Heartbreaking, heartwarming, and ultimately triumphant, this true story shows how, with faith, every person can leave the past behind and forge healthier, happier relationships. Hear Rob’s story in this compelling audiobook narrated by Paul Rothery. Listeners will be encouraged to find hope in every situation as they follow Rob through his life journey.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629882Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Castaway Kid: One Man's Search for Hope and Home Author: R. B. Mitchell Narrator: Paul Rothery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Castaway Kid: One Man's Search for Hope and Home Author: R. B. Mitchell Narrator: Paul Rothery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Abandoned by his parents when he was just three years old, Rob Mitchell began his journey as one of the last “lifers” in an American orphanage. He grew up with kids who were not friends but rather “co-survivors.” As Rob’s loneliness and rage grew, his hope shrank. Would he ever find a real family or a place to call home? Find out how Rob was able to overcome his past, forgiving his relatives and forging healthy family relationships of his own. Heartbreaking, heartwarming, and ultimately triumphant, this true story shows how, with faith, every person can leave the past behind and forge healthier, happier relationships. Hear Rob’s story in this compelling audiobook narrated by Paul Rothery. Listeners will be encouraged to find hope in every situation as they follow Rob through his life journey.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-great-ormond-street-nurse-my-life-as-a-student-nurse-in-the-1960s-by-vanessa-martin--65184403https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628911 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Ormond Street Nurse: My Life as a Student Nurse in the 1960s Author: Vanessa Martin Narrator: Jennifer Ness Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 6, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the first time Vanessa Martin sets foot inside the world's most renowned children's hospital, she knows that she will never have another dull moment. From her first confrontation with the legendary matron, to consoling hordes of worried parents and caring for the wonderful bundles of joy themselves, Vanessa enters a world full of laughter, heartache and, most importantly, hard work. In this heartwarming memoir of a passionate, determined young woman trying to help as many children as she can, Vanessa pulls back the curtain on the bustling world of 60s London, and tells the remarkable story of finding her place within it. Nostalgic, charming and full of heart, The Great Ormond Street Nurse is the heroic tale of a woman who has dedicated over 40 years to the NHS.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628911Thu, 06 Oct 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628911 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Ormond Street Nurse: My Life as a Student Nurse in the 1960s Author: Vanessa Martin Narrator: Jennifer Ness Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628911 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Ormond Street Nurse: My Life as a Student Nurse in the 1960s Author: Vanessa Martin Narrator: Jennifer Ness Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 6, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the first time Vanessa Martin sets foot inside the world's most renowned children's hospital, she knows that she will never have another dull moment. From her first confrontation with the legendary matron, to consoling hordes of worried parents and caring for the wonderful bundles of joy themselves, Vanessa enters a world full of laughter, heartache and, most importantly, hard work. In this heartwarming memoir of a passionate, determined young woman trying to help as many children as she can, Vanessa pulls back the curtain on the bustling world of 60s London, and tells the remarkable story of finding her place within it. Nostalgic, charming and full of heart, The Great Ormond Street Nurse is the heroic tale of a woman who has dedicated over 40 years to the NHS.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/don-t-be-too-polite-girls-a-memoir-by-wendy-mccarthy--65184326https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637408 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Be Too Polite, Girls: A Memoir Author: Wendy Mccarthy Narrator: Nicolette Mckenzie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For more than 50 years, Wendy McCarthy has been on the leading edge of Australian feminism, and her trailblazing advocacy and leadership have made her a widely respected and revered figure: a woman who shaped her times as much as she was shaped by them. Now, at 80 years of age, she shares her remarkable life and achievements. From sheltered country schoolgirl to relentless campaigner for abortion and contraception, from passionate teacher to lifelong advocate for education, Wendy smashed the glass ceiling again and again. She has championed change in human rights, public health, overseas aid and development, conservation, heritage, media and the Arts. This inspiring and enlightening memoir is filled with cautionary tales and insider stories about being female in Australia; as well as a few helpful survival tips. Above all, it encourages the reader to find their own voice - and listen to it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637408Sat, 01 Oct 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637408 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Be Too Polite, Girls: A Memoir Author: Wendy Mccarthy Narrator: Nicolette Mckenzie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 55 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637408 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Be Too Polite, Girls: A Memoir Author: Wendy Mccarthy Narrator: Nicolette Mckenzie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For more than 50 years, Wendy McCarthy has been on the leading edge of Australian feminism, and her trailblazing advocacy and leadership have made her a widely respected and revered figure: a woman who shaped her times as much as she was shaped by them. Now, at 80 years of age, she shares her remarkable life and achievements. From sheltered country schoolgirl to relentless campaigner for abortion and contraception, from passionate teacher to lifelong advocate for education, Wendy smashed the glass ceiling again and again. She has championed change in human rights, public health, overseas aid and development, conservation, heritage, media and the Arts. This inspiring and enlightening memoir is filled with cautionary tales and insider stories about being female in Australia; as well as a few helpful survival tips. Above all, it encourages the reader to find their own voice - and listen to it.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-chamaleon-ungekurzt-by-annabel-wahba--65184338https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634794 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Chamäleon (Ungekürzt) Author: Annabel Wahba Narrator: Tanja Fornaro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Annabel Wahba sitzt am Bett ihres schwer kranken Bruders André. Von einem Bild schaut der Totengott Anubis auf ihn herab. Sie erinnert sich an die gemeinsame Kindheit in der Kleinstadt, in der ihre deutsch-ägyptische Herkunft etwas Exotisches war. In Andrés letzten Stunden unternimmt die Erzählerin eine Reise in ihre Familiengeschichte. Zu den Vorfahren im München des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Ins New York der Fünfzigerjahre, wo ihre Mutter einst arbeitete. Ins Nildelta, wo ihr Vater aufwuchs und die Eltern noch die Ehepartner für die Kinder aussuchten. Sie kann ihren Bruder nicht festhalten, dafür aber, was sie beide und ihre Eltern vor ihnen erlebt haben als ägyptisch-deutsche Chamäleons.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634794Fri, 30 Sep 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634794 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Chamäleon (Ungekürzt) Author: Annabel Wahba Narrator: Tanja Fornaro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634794 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Chamäleon (Ungekürzt) Author: Annabel Wahba Narrator: Tanja Fornaro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Annabel Wahba sitzt am Bett ihres schwer kranken Bruders André. Von einem Bild schaut der Totengott Anubis auf ihn herab. Sie erinnert sich an die gemeinsame Kindheit in der Kleinstadt, in der ihre deutsch-ägyptische Herkunft etwas Exotisches war. In Andrés letzten Stunden unternimmt die Erzählerin eine Reise in ihre Familiengeschichte. Zu den Vorfahren im München des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Ins New York der Fünfzigerjahre, wo ihre Mutter einst arbeitete. Ins Nildelta, wo ihr Vater aufwuchs und die Eltern noch die Ehepartner für die Kinder aussuchten. Sie kann ihren Bruder nicht festhalten, dafür aber, was sie beide und ihre Eltern vor ihnen erlebt haben als ägyptisch-deutsche Chamäleons.]]>185rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cloak-by-virginia-routh-lynch--65184402https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cloak Author: Virginia Routh Lynch Narrator: Deana Taheri Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Cloak is a gripping tale of inner and outer transformation of a seemingly happily married mother of four who over ten tumultuous years faces extraordinary experiences that change her life. With compelling honesty, Virginia Routh Lynch describes those years. Using journals written forty years ago, she recounts her life-changing journey of self-discovery. Virginia followed in the footsteps of C.G. Jung and, though she introduces many of his concepts, this does not detract from the story itself. Her account is inspiring and thought provoking and will appeal to anyone on the journey of life, even those not interested in psychology. It is a book that once you start reading, you want to read from beginning to end. The Cloak is a portrayal of one woman’s experience that serves as a guidebook for anyone who has reached a stalemate in their lives or has embarked on a personal journey and is looking for an inspiring example.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629732Wed, 28 Sep 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cloak Author: Virginia Routh Lynch Narrator: Deana Taheri Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 28, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cloak Author: Virginia Routh Lynch Narrator: Deana Taheri Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Cloak is a gripping tale of inner and outer transformation of a seemingly happily married mother of four who over ten tumultuous years faces extraordinary experiences that change her life. With compelling honesty, Virginia Routh Lynch describes those years. Using journals written forty years ago, she recounts her life-changing journey of self-discovery. Virginia followed in the footsteps of C.G. Jung and, though she introduces many of his concepts, this does not detract from the story itself. Her account is inspiring and thought provoking and will appeal to anyone on the journey of life, even those not interested in psychology. It is a book that once you start reading, you want to read from beginning to end. The Cloak is a portrayal of one woman’s experience that serves as a guidebook for anyone who has reached a stalemate in their lives or has embarked on a personal journey and is looking for an inspiring example.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-hyperrealist-life-and-legacy-by-carole-a-feuerman--65184400https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Hyperrealist Life and Legacy Author: Carole A. Feuerman Narrator: Carole A. Feuerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This book dives deep into my experiences as a woman artist. It highlights my struggles to survive the odds, through balance, perseverance, and independence, on my journey to fulfill my true calling. The changes and transitions that take place within an artist’s life are worth documenting. Their autobiography is their story. Art Historians write essays about artists and their works, to be published inside a book, but few know about the artist’s life, their personal stories, and why and how they became an artist. I hope my publication leaves a lasting account of my story. Art has always been my saving grace. ©2021 Carole A. Feuerman (P)2021 Carole A. Feuerman]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629729Wed, 28 Sep 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Hyperrealist Life and Legacy Author: Carole A. Feuerman Narrator: Carole A. Feuerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629729 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Hyperrealist Life and Legacy Author: Carole A. Feuerman Narrator: Carole A. Feuerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This book dives deep into my experiences as a woman artist. It highlights my struggles to survive the odds, through balance, perseverance, and independence, on my journey to fulfill my true calling. The changes and transitions that take place within an artist’s life are worth documenting. Their autobiography is their story. Art Historians write essays about artists and their works, to be published inside a book, but few know about the artist’s life, their personal stories, and why and how they became an artist. I hope my publication leaves a lasting account of my story. Art has always been my saving grace. ©2021 Carole A. Feuerman (P)2021 Carole A. Feuerman]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rahul-bajaj-biography-an-extraordinary-life-by-gita-piramal--65184295https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rahul Bajaj Biography: An Extraordinary Life Author: Gita Piramal Narrator: Mala Mangla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Integrity and character matter. Without them, no amount of ability can get you anywhere. In addition, you need courage--courage to make difficult decisions and courage to oppose something if your conscience tells you that you are right'--Rahul BajajRahul Bajaj is a billionaire businessman, the chairman emeritus of the Bajaj Group and a former member of Parliament. This book is not just the story of Rahul Bajaj but the story of India. The author takes us through the country's transformation from the time Rahul Bajaj's mother was imprisoned during the freedom struggle to the prism of his eventful life.Based on unrestricted interviews, the book is full of anecdotes, business learnings and political asides. It is, at its core, a moving human story.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645506Tue, 23 Aug 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rahul Bajaj Biography: An Extraordinary Life Author: Gita Piramal Narrator: Mala Mangla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 20 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/645506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rahul Bajaj Biography: An Extraordinary Life Author: Gita Piramal Narrator: Mala Mangla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 20 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Integrity and character matter. Without them, no amount of ability can get you anywhere. In addition, you need courage--courage to make difficult decisions and courage to oppose something if your conscience tells you that you are right'--Rahul BajajRahul Bajaj is a billionaire businessman, the chairman emeritus of the Bajaj Group and a former member of Parliament. This book is not just the story of Rahul Bajaj but the story of India. The author takes us through the country's transformation from the time Rahul Bajaj's mother was imprisoned during the freedom struggle to the prism of his eventful life.Based on unrestricted interviews, the book is full of anecdotes, business learnings and political asides. It is, at its core, a moving human story.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-ll-take-that-one-an-evacuee-s-childhood-unabridged-by-kitty-baxter--65184361https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'll Take That One - An evacuee's childhood (Unabridged) Author: Kitty Baxter Narrator: Siobhan Dowd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A UNIQUE AND PERSONAL MEMOIR OF A FAMILY THAT WAS CHANGED FOREVER BY THE SECOND WORLD WAR Kitty Baxter was born in London in 1930, the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one of five children. War broke out just as Kitty turned nine and she became one of thousands of children evacuated to the countryside. This would be the first of three times that she was rehoused far from home over the course of the war. Sometimes treated more like a servant than a small child, Kitty endured gruelling years cut off from her parents rather than a safe haven from war. She recalls her experiences living with strangers' families in environments radically different to working-class London and how she navigated joyful moments and times of struggle and loss. One of the last generation of women from this era, Kitty's voice remains as whip-smart as her irrepressible nine-year-old self who triumphed over the adversity of a most unusual childhood.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630332Thu, 30 Jun 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'll Take That One - An evacuee's childhood (Unabridged) Author: Kitty Baxter Narrator: Siobhan Dowd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 23...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630332 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'll Take That One - An evacuee's childhood (Unabridged) Author: Kitty Baxter Narrator: Siobhan Dowd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A UNIQUE AND PERSONAL MEMOIR OF A FAMILY THAT WAS CHANGED FOREVER BY THE SECOND WORLD WAR Kitty Baxter was born in London in 1930, the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one of five children. War broke out just as Kitty turned nine and she became one of thousands of children evacuated to the countryside. This would be the first of three times that she was rehoused far from home over the course of the war. Sometimes treated more like a servant than a small child, Kitty endured gruelling years cut off from her parents rather than a safe haven from war. She recalls her experiences living with strangers' families in environments radically different to working-class London and how she navigated joyful moments and times of struggle and loss. One of the last generation of women from this era, Kitty's voice remains as whip-smart as her irrepressible nine-year-old self who triumphed over the adversity of a most unusual childhood.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/100-quotes-by-charles-baudelaire-by-charles-baudelaire--65184389https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire Author: Charles Baudelaire Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This collection contains 100 of the most celebrated quotes by the French poet, translator and art and literary critic Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), best known for his controversial collection of poems 'Les Fleurs du Mal' ('The Flowers of Evil') and the quote, 'The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.' - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) was a French poet, translator and literary and art critic who is best known for his controversial collection of poems 'Les Fleurs du Mal' (1857; 'The Flowers of Evil'). His poems exhibit a mastery of rhythm and rhyme that were based on the Frenchman’s observations of real life. ‘La Chevelure’ (‘The Head of Hair’), ‘Le Voyage’ (‘The Trip’) and ‘Le Cygne’ (‘The Swan’) are widely acknowledged as poetic masterpieces. Themes of sex, death, lesbianism, metamorphosis, industrialisation, lost innocence and alcohol, caused controversy at the time but also garnered Baudelaire many fans, and his original style has influenced a generation of poets including Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé. Baudelaire is also responsible for many famous quotes such as, ‘The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist’, ‘Be always drunken. Nothing else matters...’ and ‘Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.’]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630784Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire Author: Charles Baudelaire Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 30 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire Author: Charles Baudelaire Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This collection contains 100 of the most celebrated quotes by the French poet, translator and art and literary critic Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), best known for his controversial collection of poems 'Les Fleurs du Mal' ('The Flowers of Evil') and the quote, 'The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.' - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) was a French poet, translator and literary and art critic who is best known for his controversial collection of poems 'Les Fleurs du Mal' (1857; 'The Flowers of Evil'). His poems exhibit a mastery of rhythm and rhyme that were based on the Frenchman’s observations of real life. ‘La Chevelure’ (‘The Head of Hair’), ‘Le Voyage’ (‘The Trip’) and ‘Le Cygne’ (‘The Swan’) are widely acknowledged as poetic masterpieces. Themes of sex, death, lesbianism, metamorphosis, industrialisation, lost innocence and alcohol, caused controversy at the time but also garnered Baudelaire many fans, and his original style has influenced a generation of poets including Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé. Baudelaire is also responsible for many famous quotes such as, ‘The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist’, ‘Be always drunken. Nothing else matters...’ and ‘Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.’]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/100-quotes-by-cicero-by-cicero--65184386https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Cicero Author: Cicero Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotes by Cicero’ is a collection of thoughts and reflections from a man who rose to power and fell to grace. Musing on life, philosophy, and power, Cicero employs his epistemological beliefs to create incisive musings that are as relevant today as they were in Ancient Rome. A fascinating and quotable book for those with an interest in history or philosophy. - Born into a wealthy family, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC – 46BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, Academic Skeptic, philosopher, and writer. After completing his education in both Greece and Rome, he served in the army before establishing himself as a powerful legal orator and representative. A firm believer in the republican values of the time, Cicero was instrumental in quashing the Second Catilinarian Conspiracy, and was subsequently invited by Caesar to join the First Triumvirate. However, Cicero turned on the Emperor and was soon exiled. After being granted a pardon, he made an enemy of Mark Anthony and was eventually executed. His most famous works include the poems ‘On His Consulship,’ and ‘On His Life and Times.’]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630780Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Cicero Author: Cicero Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630780 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Cicero Author: Cicero Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotes by Cicero’ is a collection of thoughts and reflections from a man who rose to power and fell to grace. Musing on life, philosophy, and power, Cicero employs his epistemological beliefs to create incisive musings that are as relevant today as they were in Ancient Rome. A fascinating and quotable book for those with an interest in history or philosophy. - Born into a wealthy family, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC – 46BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, Academic Skeptic, philosopher, and writer. After completing his education in both Greece and Rome, he served in the army before establishing himself as a powerful legal orator and representative. A firm believer in the republican values of the time, Cicero was instrumental in quashing the Second Catilinarian Conspiracy, and was subsequently invited by Caesar to join the First Triumvirate. However, Cicero turned on the Emperor and was soon exiled. After being granted a pardon, he made an enemy of Mark Anthony and was eventually executed. His most famous works include the poems ‘On His Consulship,’ and ‘On His Life and Times.’]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/100-quotes-by-anton-tchekhov-by-anton-chekhov--65184380https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Anton Tchekhov Author: Anton Chekhov Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Peppered with pithy and wry observations, ‘100 Quotes by Anton Chekhov’ offers an insight into one of the greatest literary minds of the 20th Century. Covering a variety of topics, you may find yourself surprised as to how many of his musings have worked their way into everyday life. A superb book for those who want to get to know the man behind works such as ‘The Seagull,’ and ‘Uncle Vanya.’ - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was born in Taganrog, in Southern Russia. The son of a grocer, and the third of six children, he was educated at the local Greek School. After Chekhov’s father became bankrupt, the family lived in poverty, before fleeing to Moscow to avoid debtor’s prison. After writing a series of tales for various publications, Chekhov started to gain critical attention. However, it was a trip to the Ukraine that put the literary wheels in motion. After the publication of his novella, ‘The Steppe,’ he was commissioned to write a play, resulting in ‘Ivanov.’ Over the course of his career, Chekhov wrote more than 200 short stories and 14 plays. Works, such as ‘The Seagull,’ ‘The Cherry Orchard,’ and ‘Uncle Vanya,’ have been performed on stages across the world. Chekhov's works have also been adapted to the screen numerous times. The 2018 adaptation of 'The Seagull' stars Annette Bening, Elisabeth Moss and Saoirse Ronan.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630776Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Anton Tchekhov Author: Anton Chekhov Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Anton Tchekhov Author: Anton Chekhov Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Peppered with pithy and wry observations, ‘100 Quotes by Anton Chekhov’ offers an insight into one of the greatest literary minds of the 20th Century. Covering a variety of topics, you may find yourself surprised as to how many of his musings have worked their way into everyday life. A superb book for those who want to get to know the man behind works such as ‘The Seagull,’ and ‘Uncle Vanya.’ - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was born in Taganrog, in Southern Russia. The son of a grocer, and the third of six children, he was educated at the local Greek School. After Chekhov’s father became bankrupt, the family lived in poverty, before fleeing to Moscow to avoid debtor’s prison. After writing a series of tales for various publications, Chekhov started to gain critical attention. However, it was a trip to the Ukraine that put the literary wheels in motion. After the publication of his novella, ‘The Steppe,’ he was commissioned to write a play, resulting in ‘Ivanov.’ Over the course of his career, Chekhov wrote more than 200 short stories and 14 plays. Works, such as ‘The Seagull,’ ‘The Cherry Orchard,’ and ‘Uncle Vanya,’ have been performed on stages across the world. Chekhov's works have also been adapted to the screen numerous times. The 2018 adaptation of 'The Seagull' stars Annette Bening, Elisabeth Moss and Saoirse Ronan.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/100-quotes-by-leonardo-da-vinci-by-leonardo-da-vinci--65184379https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Léonardo da Vinci Author: Leonardo Da Vinci Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci’ is a collection of quotes from one of the greatest minds that ever lived. Transposed from his extensive collection of notebooks, you’ll find thoughts and reflections on a variety of subjects, including art, philosophy, and economics. Often pithy and always intelligent, this is a superb book for those who want to get to know this celebrated artist that much better. - While most famous as the artist behind the Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile, Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) was also a scientist, draughtsman, engineer, architect, and sculptor. Thought to have been born in the Italian town of Vinci, he was raised by his mother and grandfather. After his family moved to Florence, he trained in artistic disciplines under the eye of Andrea del Verrocchio. By the age of 20, da Vinci had been offered a place in the Guild of St Luke, where he achieved his first professional commission. Many more followed, including work for the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception and mapwork for Cesare Borgia. Among his literary works, da Vinci wrote more than 50 notebooks, encompassing an estimated 28,000 pages. These include notes and essays on philosophy and warfare.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630781Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Léonardo da Vinci Author: Leonardo Da Vinci Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 18 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Léonardo da Vinci Author: Leonardo Da Vinci Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci’ is a collection of quotes from one of the greatest minds that ever lived. Transposed from his extensive collection of notebooks, you’ll find thoughts and reflections on a variety of subjects, including art, philosophy, and economics. Often pithy and always intelligent, this is a superb book for those who want to get to know this celebrated artist that much better. - While most famous as the artist behind the Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile, Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) was also a scientist, draughtsman, engineer, architect, and sculptor. Thought to have been born in the Italian town of Vinci, he was raised by his mother and grandfather. After his family moved to Florence, he trained in artistic disciplines under the eye of Andrea del Verrocchio. By the age of 20, da Vinci had been offered a place in the Guild of St Luke, where he achieved his first professional commission. Many more followed, including work for the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception and mapwork for Cesare Borgia. Among his literary works, da Vinci wrote more than 50 notebooks, encompassing an estimated 28,000 pages. These include notes and essays on philosophy and warfare.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/100-quotes-by-karl-marx-by-karl-marx--65184377https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Karl Marx Author: Karl Marx Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotations by Karl Marx’ is a collection of thoughts and theories by one of the most progressive thinkers of the 19th Century. Often witty, sometimes wry, but always thoughtful, you’ll find quotable lines on everything from politics to philosophy. A superb read for anyone with an interest in the founder of communism or those who want an introduction to one of the most complex minds in history. - A philosopher, political activist, and revolutionary thinker, Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) was born in Germany. He was educated by his father until the age of 12 when he attended Trier High School. From there, he enrolled at the University of Bonn. While he wanted to study philosophy and literature, his father insisted that he study law. After moving to Berlin in 1836, Marx became enamoured of the teachings of George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a renowned German philosopher. After achieving a PhD from the University of Jenna, he moved to Cologne and worked as a journalist for the left-wing ‘Rheinische Zeitung’ newspaper, which allowed him to hone his socialist beliefs. Considered to be one of the founders of communism, and the eponymous progenitor of Marxism, Marx completed a number of important works in his lifetime, including ‘The Poverty of Philosophy,’ and ‘Value, Price, and Profit.’]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630783Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Karl Marx Author: Karl Marx Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Karl Marx Author: Karl Marx Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotations by Karl Marx’ is a collection of thoughts and theories by one of the most progressive thinkers of the 19th Century. Often witty, sometimes wry, but always thoughtful, you’ll find quotable lines on everything from politics to philosophy. A superb read for anyone with an interest in the founder of communism or those who want an introduction to one of the most complex minds in history. - A philosopher, political activist, and revolutionary thinker, Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) was born in Germany. He was educated by his father until the age of 12 when he attended Trier High School. From there, he enrolled at the University of Bonn. While he wanted to study philosophy and literature, his father insisted that he study law. After moving to Berlin in 1836, Marx became enamoured of the teachings of George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a renowned German philosopher. After achieving a PhD from the University of Jenna, he moved to Cologne and worked as a journalist for the left-wing ‘Rheinische Zeitung’ newspaper, which allowed him to hone his socialist beliefs. Considered to be one of the founders of communism, and the eponymous progenitor of Marxism, Marx completed a number of important works in his lifetime, including ‘The Poverty of Philosophy,’ and ‘Value, Price, and Profit.’]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/100-quotes-by-miguel-de-cervantes-by-miguel-de-cervantes--65184376https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes Author: Miguel De Cervantès Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes’ is a collection of thoughts and reflections from Spain’s greatest writer. Musing on a broad variety of topics, such as love, literature, and longing, readers will be surprised as to how many commonplace sayings the author and dramatist is responsible for. A superb and thought-provoking book for Cervantes fans and those who want something to dip in and out of. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616) is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in Spanish literature. Despite being born into poverty, he developed a voracious appetite for reading and flourished at a school in Madrid, where he wrote his first poem. After leaving Spain, Cervantes enlisted in the army and was promoted to the rank of captain, after his brave conduct in a battle against the Turkish, at the Gulf of Lepanto. However, after setting sail for his homeland, Cervantes was captured by pirates and sold into slavery. He was freed after his family paid a substantial ransom. Cervantes’ writing career took off in the early 17th Century. His most famous work, ‘Don Quixote’ has spawned a number of adaptations for film, TV, and stage. Perhaps the most notable is ‘The Man of La Mancha,’ starring Sofia Loren.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630774Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes Author: Miguel De Cervantès Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 17 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes Author: Miguel De Cervantès Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes’ is a collection of thoughts and reflections from Spain’s greatest writer. Musing on a broad variety of topics, such as love, literature, and longing, readers will be surprised as to how many commonplace sayings the author and dramatist is responsible for. A superb and thought-provoking book for Cervantes fans and those who want something to dip in and out of. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616) is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in Spanish literature. Despite being born into poverty, he developed a voracious appetite for reading and flourished at a school in Madrid, where he wrote his first poem. After leaving Spain, Cervantes enlisted in the army and was promoted to the rank of captain, after his brave conduct in a battle against the Turkish, at the Gulf of Lepanto. However, after setting sail for his homeland, Cervantes was captured by pirates and sold into slavery. He was freed after his family paid a substantial ransom. Cervantes’ writing career took off in the early 17th Century. His most famous work, ‘Don Quixote’ has spawned a number of adaptations for film, TV, and stage. Perhaps the most notable is ‘The Man of La Mancha,’ starring Sofia Loren.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/100-quotes-by-leo-tolstoy-by-leo-tolstoy--65184372https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy Author: Leo Tolstoy Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy’ is a collection of thoughts, reflections, and musings from the mind of one of Russia’s greatest writers. Covering a wide range of subjects, such as society, war, love, and life, these quotes vary between the pithy and the witty to the thoughtful and maudlin. An ideal book for those who want to dip in and out of the mind of one of the world’s most famous literary figures. - A colossus of Russian literature, Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910) was born into aristocracy. However, after losing both his parents by the age of four and his grandmother and aunt a year later, Tolstoy and his siblings were sent to Kazan to live with another aunt, where he was home-schooled. After leaving university without a degree, Tolstoy lived a dissolute life of drinking, gambling, and womanising. Despite this, he maintained a love for literature and his first outing, ‘Childhood,’ was published in ‘The Contemporary’ magazine. The works that have defined his career are ‘War and Peace,’ and ‘Anna Karenina,’ both of which have been hailed as the zenith of realist literature. He was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize for Literature but never won. Many of his works have been adapted for the silver screen, including ‘Anna Karenina,’ starring Helen McCrory.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630775Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy Author: Leo Tolstoy Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy Author: Leo Tolstoy Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy’ is a collection of thoughts, reflections, and musings from the mind of one of Russia’s greatest writers. Covering a wide range of subjects, such as society, war, love, and life, these quotes vary between the pithy and the witty to the thoughtful and maudlin. An ideal book for those who want to dip in and out of the mind of one of the world’s most famous literary figures. - A colossus of Russian literature, Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910) was born into aristocracy. However, after losing both his parents by the age of four and his grandmother and aunt a year later, Tolstoy and his siblings were sent to Kazan to live with another aunt, where he was home-schooled. After leaving university without a degree, Tolstoy lived a dissolute life of drinking, gambling, and womanising. Despite this, he maintained a love for literature and his first outing, ‘Childhood,’ was published in ‘The Contemporary’ magazine. The works that have defined his career are ‘War and Peace,’ and ‘Anna Karenina,’ both of which have been hailed as the zenith of realist literature. He was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize for Literature but never won. Many of his works have been adapted for the silver screen, including ‘Anna Karenina,’ starring Helen McCrory.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/100-quotes-by-blaise-pascal-by-blaise-pascal--65184367https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Blaise Pascal Author: Blaise Pascal Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Child prodigy, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher and writer, whose work and wisdom still resonates to this day. This is a collection of 100 of the Frenchman's most celebrated quotes. - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and writer. A child prodigy, he laid the foundation work for today’s modern theory of probabilities and formulated what came to be known as Pascal’s principle of pressure. The Frenchman also corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics. He is also one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator, having started pioneering work on calculating machines called Pascal's calculators or Pascalines.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630785Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Blaise Pascal Author: Blaise Pascal Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Blaise Pascal Author: Blaise Pascal Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Child prodigy, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher and writer, whose work and wisdom still resonates to this day. This is a collection of 100 of the Frenchman's most celebrated quotes. - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and writer. A child prodigy, he laid the foundation work for today’s modern theory of probabilities and formulated what came to be known as Pascal’s principle of pressure. The Frenchman also corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics. He is also one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator, having started pioneering work on calculating machines called Pascal's calculators or Pascalines.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/100-quotes-by-stefan-zweig-by-stefan-zweig--65184365https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Stefan Zweig Author: Stefan Zweig Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotes by Stefan Zweig’ is a collection of reflections by one of the most underrated writers of the 20th Century. Often witty, and always intelligent, this collection sees Zweig reflecting on everything from human nature to love. Eminently quotable, it’s an excellent read for those who want an introduction to a man known for his compassion and pacifism. - Born in Vienna, Stefan Zweig (1881 – 1942) was an acclaimed poet, essayist, dramatist, and writer. After studying philosophy at the University of Vienna, Zweig established a friendship with Theodor Herzl, the editor of the ‘New Free Press’ magazine. Herzl accepted many of Zweig’s early works for publication. Jewish by birth, Zweig left Austria, as the Nazis began their climb to power in the 1930s. First living in London, he then moved to Bath, before fleeing to the States under the shadow of ‘Operation Sea Lion,’ which saw him named as a person to be detained immediately after the UK had been conquered. Eventually, he moved to Brazil with his wife where, in 1942, they took their own lives. His literary legacy is one of humanity, simplicity, and compassion, including works such as ‘Amok,’ and ‘The Royal Game.’]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630782Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Stefan Zweig Author: Stefan Zweig Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Stefan Zweig Author: Stefan Zweig Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotes by Stefan Zweig’ is a collection of reflections by one of the most underrated writers of the 20th Century. Often witty, and always intelligent, this collection sees Zweig reflecting on everything from human nature to love. Eminently quotable, it’s an excellent read for those who want an introduction to a man known for his compassion and pacifism. - Born in Vienna, Stefan Zweig (1881 – 1942) was an acclaimed poet, essayist, dramatist, and writer. After studying philosophy at the University of Vienna, Zweig established a friendship with Theodor Herzl, the editor of the ‘New Free Press’ magazine. Herzl accepted many of Zweig’s early works for publication. Jewish by birth, Zweig left Austria, as the Nazis began their climb to power in the 1930s. First living in London, he then moved to Bath, before fleeing to the States under the shadow of ‘Operation Sea Lion,’ which saw him named as a person to be detained immediately after the UK had been conquered. Eventually, he moved to Brazil with his wife where, in 1942, they took their own lives. His literary legacy is one of humanity, simplicity, and compassion, including works such as ‘Amok,’ and ‘The Royal Game.’]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/100-quotes-by-andre-gide-by-andre-gide--65184362https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630787 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by André Gide Author: André Gide Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Frenchman André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 – 1951), was an author and winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. He published over fifty books, including 'Les Nourritures terrestres' (1897) ('Fruits of the Earth'), ‘Les Caves du Vatican’ (1914) ('Lafcadio’s Adventures'), ‘La Porte étroite’ (1909) ('Strait is the Gate'), 'La Symphonie pastorale' (1919), and the experimental ‘Les Faux Monnayeurs’ (1926). However, he is best known for ‘Corydon’ (1911), which he believed to be his most important work. This collection contains 100 of André Gide’s most celebrated quotes. - André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869–1951) was a French author and winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Described as 'France's greatest contemporary man of letters,' Gide was known for his fiction and autobiographical works. He published over fifty books, including 'Les Nourritures terrestres' (1897) ('Fruits of the Earth'), ‘Les Caves du Vatican’ (1914) ('Lafcadio’s Adventures'), ‘La Porte étroite’ (1909) ('Strait is the Gate'), 'La Symphonie pastorale' (1919), and the experimental ‘Les Faux Monnayeurs’ (1926) ('The Counterfeiters'). However, the Frenchman claimed ‘Corydon’ (1911), was his most important work. In it, he used evidence from naturalists, historians, poets, and philosophers to back up his belief that homosexuality was not ‘unnatural’, arguing it was more natural than exclusive heterosexuality, which he believed to be a union created by society.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630787Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630787 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by André Gide Author: André Gide Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630787 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by André Gide Author: André Gide Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Frenchman André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 – 1951), was an author and winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. He published over fifty books, including 'Les Nourritures terrestres' (1897) ('Fruits of the Earth'), ‘Les Caves du Vatican’ (1914) ('Lafcadio’s Adventures'), ‘La Porte étroite’ (1909) ('Strait is the Gate'), 'La Symphonie pastorale' (1919), and the experimental ‘Les Faux Monnayeurs’ (1926). However, he is best known for ‘Corydon’ (1911), which he believed to be his most important work. This collection contains 100 of André Gide’s most celebrated quotes. - André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869–1951) was a French author and winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Described as 'France's greatest contemporary man of letters,' Gide was known for his fiction and autobiographical works. He published over fifty books, including 'Les Nourritures terrestres' (1897) ('Fruits of the Earth'), ‘Les Caves du Vatican’ (1914) ('Lafcadio’s Adventures'), ‘La Porte étroite’ (1909) ('Strait is the Gate'), 'La Symphonie pastorale' (1919), and the experimental ‘Les Faux Monnayeurs’ (1926) ('The Counterfeiters'). However, the Frenchman claimed ‘Corydon’ (1911), was his most important work. In it, he used evidence from naturalists, historians, poets, and philosophers to back up his belief that homosexuality was not ‘unnatural’, arguing it was more natural than exclusive heterosexuality, which he believed to be a union created by society.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/100-quotes-by-anatole-france-by-anatole-france--65184358https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630788 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Anatole France Author: Anatole France Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: French novelist, journalist and poet, Anatole France (1844-1924), was elected to the Académie Française and won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature. Best known for the novels ‘Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard’ (1881) and ‘La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque’ (1893), he was a prolific writer responsible for many famous sayings, including 'If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing,' and 'Nine tenths of education is encouragement.' This is collection is a compilation of Anatole France’s most celebrated quotes. - Anatole France, a pseudonym for Jacques Anatole Thibault (1844-1924), was a French novelist, journalist and poet. He was elected to the Académie française and won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his 'brilliant literary achievements.' France achieved his first commercial success with the novel ‘Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard’ (1881) and published his most celebrated work, ‘La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque’ ('At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque') in 1893. His many other works include, 'Le Puits de Sainte Claire’ (1895) ('The Well of Saint Claire') ‘Le Lys rouge’ (1894) ('The Red Lily'), ‘La Révolte des Anges’ (1914) ('The Revolt of the Angels') and a biography of Joan of Arc (1908).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630788Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630788 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Anatole France Author: Anatole France Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: April...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630788 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Anatole France Author: Anatole France Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: French novelist, journalist and poet, Anatole France (1844-1924), was elected to the Académie Française and won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature. Best known for the novels ‘Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard’ (1881) and ‘La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque’ (1893), he was a prolific writer responsible for many famous sayings, including 'If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing,' and 'Nine tenths of education is encouragement.' This is collection is a compilation of Anatole France’s most celebrated quotes. - Anatole France, a pseudonym for Jacques Anatole Thibault (1844-1924), was a French novelist, journalist and poet. He was elected to the Académie française and won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his 'brilliant literary achievements.' France achieved his first commercial success with the novel ‘Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard’ (1881) and published his most celebrated work, ‘La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque’ ('At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque') in 1893. His many other works include, 'Le Puits de Sainte Claire’ (1895) ('The Well of Saint Claire') ‘Le Lys rouge’ (1894) ('The Red Lily'), ‘La Révolte des Anges’ (1914) ('The Revolt of the Angels') and a biography of Joan of Arc (1908).]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/100-quotes-by-antoine-de-st-exupery-by-antoine-de-saint-exupery--65184346https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Antoine de St Exupéry Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) was a French writer, aviator, adventurer, poet and author, whose love of flying influenced many of his works. He is best known for his story ‘Le Petit Prince’ ('The Little Prince') published in 1943, ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’ (1939), ‘Southern Mail’ (1929), ‘Flight to Arras’ (1942), ‘Letter to a Hostage’ (1942), and ‘Night Flight’ (1931). This collection contains 100 of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s most celebrated quotes. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) was a French writer, aviator, adventurer, poet and author, best known for his story ‘Le Petit Prince’ ('The Little Prince') published in 1943, which became a modern classic. His novel ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’ (1939), was also a huge success, winning the Académie Française's Grand Prix du Roman (Grand Prize for Novel Writing) and the United States National Book Award. His other works include a memoir called ‘Southern Mail’ (1929), ‘Flight to Arras’ (1942), ‘Letter to a Hostage’ (1942), and ‘Night Flight’ (1931) which won the prestigious Prix Femina.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630786Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Antoine de St Exupéry Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 18 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Antoine de St Exupéry Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) was a French writer, aviator, adventurer, poet and author, whose love of flying influenced many of his works. He is best known for his story ‘Le Petit Prince’ ('The Little Prince') published in 1943, ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’ (1939), ‘Southern Mail’ (1929), ‘Flight to Arras’ (1942), ‘Letter to a Hostage’ (1942), and ‘Night Flight’ (1931). This collection contains 100 of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s most celebrated quotes. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) was a French writer, aviator, adventurer, poet and author, best known for his story ‘Le Petit Prince’ ('The Little Prince') published in 1943, which became a modern classic. His novel ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’ (1939), was also a huge success, winning the Académie Française's Grand Prix du Roman (Grand Prize for Novel Writing) and the United States National Book Award. His other works include a memoir called ‘Southern Mail’ (1929), ‘Flight to Arras’ (1942), ‘Letter to a Hostage’ (1942), and ‘Night Flight’ (1931) which won the prestigious Prix Femina.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/100-quotes-by-emil-cioran-by-emil-cioran--65184313https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Emil Cioran Author: Emil Cioran Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotes by Emil Cioran’ is a thought-provoking collection of thoughts and sayings from one of the most contentious writers of the 20th Century. Wry, witty, dark, and melancholic, they offer an insight into Cioran’s influences, with more than a few signposts pointing towards the likes of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. Sometimes funny, sometimes dark, and sometimes brooding, this is a unique book from one of the world’s most singular writers. - Considered by many to be one of the most rebellious thinkers of his time, Emil Cioran (1911 – 1995) was born in Hungary. After leaving school, he enrolled at the University of Bucharest, alongside other luminaries-in-waiting, including Eugene Ionesco. Having been schooled in German, Cioran soaked up the thoughts of German philosophers, such as Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. These helped to hone his own philosophical beliefs, resulting in a train of thought that was rooted in the tragedy of life. His most famous works include ‘The New Gods,’ and ‘On the Heights of Despair.’ The majority of his writing is characterised by a deep pessimism, possibly fuelled by his lifelong battle with insomnia. However, Cioran refused to concede this point, preferring to see his work as wry humour and subversive thought.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630777Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Emil Cioran Author: Emil Cioran Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Emil Cioran Author: Emil Cioran Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotes by Emil Cioran’ is a thought-provoking collection of thoughts and sayings from one of the most contentious writers of the 20th Century. Wry, witty, dark, and melancholic, they offer an insight into Cioran’s influences, with more than a few signposts pointing towards the likes of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. Sometimes funny, sometimes dark, and sometimes brooding, this is a unique book from one of the world’s most singular writers. - Considered by many to be one of the most rebellious thinkers of his time, Emil Cioran (1911 – 1995) was born in Hungary. After leaving school, he enrolled at the University of Bucharest, alongside other luminaries-in-waiting, including Eugene Ionesco. Having been schooled in German, Cioran soaked up the thoughts of German philosophers, such as Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. These helped to hone his own philosophical beliefs, resulting in a train of thought that was rooted in the tragedy of life. His most famous works include ‘The New Gods,’ and ‘On the Heights of Despair.’ The majority of his writing is characterised by a deep pessimism, possibly fuelled by his lifelong battle with insomnia. However, Cioran refused to concede this point, preferring to see his work as wry humour and subversive thought.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/100-quotes-by-horacius-by-horacius--65184309https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630779 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Horacius Author: Horacius Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotes by Horacius’ is a collection of thoughts and sayings by one of the most famous poets and satirists of Ancient Rome. Shot through with his timeless, pithy humour, you’ll find everything from short one-liners to lengthy quotes, many of which have found their way into the 21st Century. A superb read for those with an interest in the origins of phrases and ancient, philosophical beliefs. - Born Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Horacius (65BC – 8BC) was a Roman satirist and poet. His father was a freed slave who used his wages to pay for Horacius’ education, which eventually saw him study at the Athens Academy. While he was there, Athens fell under the power of Marcus Junius Brutus. Horacius joined Brutus’ army and rose through the ranks to become a military tribune. However, after Brutus’ defeat, Hoaracius was forced to flee to Italy, before being granted amnesty and became an official treasury, which afforded him the time and money to pursue his literary works. Among his most important are ‘Odes,’ ‘Satire,’ and ‘Song of the Ages.’ Horacius’ writing is characterised by sharp and witty observations, and he has coined many sayings that are still used today, such as ‘seize the day.’]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630779Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630779 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Horacius Author: Horacius Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630779 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 100 Quotes by Horacius Author: Horacius Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘100 Quotes by Horacius’ is a collection of thoughts and sayings by one of the most famous poets and satirists of Ancient Rome. Shot through with his timeless, pithy humour, you’ll find everything from short one-liners to lengthy quotes, many of which have found their way into the 21st Century. A superb read for those with an interest in the origins of phrases and ancient, philosophical beliefs. - Born Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Horacius (65BC – 8BC) was a Roman satirist and poet. His father was a freed slave who used his wages to pay for Horacius’ education, which eventually saw him study at the Athens Academy. While he was there, Athens fell under the power of Marcus Junius Brutus. Horacius joined Brutus’ army and rose through the ranks to become a military tribune. However, after Brutus’ defeat, Hoaracius was forced to flee to Italy, before being granted amnesty and became an official treasury, which afforded him the time and money to pursue his literary works. Among his most important are ‘Odes,’ ‘Satire,’ and ‘Song of the Ages.’ Horacius’ writing is characterised by sharp and witty observations, and he has coined many sayings that are still used today, such as ‘seize the day.’]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/veer-savarkar-by-abhijeet-mukesh--65184325https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/635040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Veer Savarkar Author: Abhijeet Mukesh Narrator: Rahul Patil, Vijayan Menon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Veer Savarkar was one of the many fascinating characters in the Indian freedom movement. Listen to his story in a fictionalised interview format. This is a work of fiction. This feature doesn't support or oppose any political party. Its purpose is only to entertain.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/635040Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/635040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Veer Savarkar Author: Abhijeet Mukesh Narrator: Rahul Patil, Vijayan Menon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 52 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/635040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Veer Savarkar Author: Abhijeet Mukesh Narrator: Rahul Patil, Vijayan Menon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Veer Savarkar was one of the many fascinating characters in the Indian freedom movement. Listen to his story in a fictionalised interview format. This is a work of fiction. This feature doesn't support or oppose any political party. Its purpose is only to entertain.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/flying-on-the-inside-a-memoir-of-trauma-and-recovery-by-rachel-gotto--65184271https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flying on the Inside: A Memoir of Trauma and Recovery Author: Rachel Gotto Narrator: Rachel Gotto Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: December 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The remarkable true story of one woman’s journey back from the brink. Newly widowed and faced with a deadly brain tumour, she was given two years to live. She wanted more… When her six-year-old daughter found her collapsed on the kitchen floor, Rachel had no idea how much her life was about to change. A brain scan revealed a dark shadowy mass, a huge abnormal growth of tissue that, whilst benign, was still growing and would surely kill her. It was too big to operate on. It needed to be ‘managed’, and Rachel had, at best, two years to live. Refusing to accept the bleak prognosis, Rachel was determined to stay alive. She had already lost far too much. She had already watched her brother succumb, at only twenty-eight, to cancer. She had already lost her beloved husband in a terrible scuba diving accident when she was six months pregnant. So she did the only thing she knew how to do. She fought for her life. This gripping and inspiring memoir about overcoming tragedy and trauma charts one tenacious woman’s incredible fight to find light in the darkest of journeys. It is a life-affirming tale of positivity and hope in the face of the most difficult of human experiences.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647156Wed, 01 Dec 2021 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flying on the Inside: A Memoir of Trauma and Recovery Author: Rachel Gotto Narrator: Rachel Gotto Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/647156 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flying on the Inside: A Memoir of Trauma and Recovery Author: Rachel Gotto Narrator: Rachel Gotto Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: December 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The remarkable true story of one woman’s journey back from the brink. Newly widowed and faced with a deadly brain tumour, she was given two years to live. She wanted more… When her six-year-old daughter found her collapsed on the kitchen floor, Rachel had no idea how much her life was about to change. A brain scan revealed a dark shadowy mass, a huge abnormal growth of tissue that, whilst benign, was still growing and would surely kill her. It was too big to operate on. It needed to be ‘managed’, and Rachel had, at best, two years to live. Refusing to accept the bleak prognosis, Rachel was determined to stay alive. She had already lost far too much. She had already watched her brother succumb, at only twenty-eight, to cancer. She had already lost her beloved husband in a terrible scuba diving accident when she was six months pregnant. So she did the only thing she knew how to do. She fought for her life. This gripping and inspiring memoir about overcoming tragedy and trauma charts one tenacious woman’s incredible fight to find light in the darkest of journeys. It is a life-affirming tale of positivity and hope in the face of the most difficult of human experiences.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/scarlet-harlot-by-ashley-chan-gerrie-lim--65184297https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scarlet Harlot Author: Ashley Chan, Gerrie Lim Narrator: Erin Ma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 33 minutes Release date: July 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ashley Chan leads a double life: university student by day, escort by night. The proposition is deceptively simple: people pay Ashley to act out their sexual gratifications. The variations are endless, but the work is not easy. In an eye-opening, intimate memoir, Ashley Chan, 24, reveals the inside world of Singapore's high-end escorts and the inner turmoil that comes with it. One lesson she has learned: bad things happen if you stay in the game for too long. Scarlet Harlot is written with Gerrie Lim, a veteran pop-culture writer known for his books on the sex industry. © 2020 by Ashley Chan and Gerrie Lim. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2021.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644894Mon, 26 Jul 2021 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scarlet Harlot Author: Ashley Chan, Gerrie Lim Narrator: Erin Ma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 33 minutes Release date: July 26, 2021...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644894 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scarlet Harlot Author: Ashley Chan, Gerrie Lim Narrator: Erin Ma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 33 minutes Release date: July 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ashley Chan leads a double life: university student by day, escort by night. The proposition is deceptively simple: people pay Ashley to act out their sexual gratifications. The variations are endless, but the work is not easy. In an eye-opening, intimate memoir, Ashley Chan, 24, reveals the inside world of Singapore's high-end escorts and the inner turmoil that comes with it. One lesson she has learned: bad things happen if you stay in the game for too long. Scarlet Harlot is written with Gerrie Lim, a veteran pop-culture writer known for his books on the sex industry. © 2020 by Ashley Chan and Gerrie Lim. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2021.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/17a-keong-saik-road-by-charmaine-leung--65184319https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 17A Keong Saik Road Author: Charmaine Leung Narrator: Ariel Wee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 16, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Mummy, why do you always have to leave for 17A… 17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung's growing-up years on Keong Saik Road in the 1970s when it was a prominent red-light precinct in Chinatown in Singapore. An interweaving of past and present narratives, 17A Keong Saik Road tells of her mother's journey as a young child put up for sale to becoming the madame of a brothel in Keong Saik. Unfolding her story as the daughter of a brothel operator and witnessing these changes to her family, Charmaine traces the transformation of the Keong Saik area from the 1930s to the present, and through writing, finds reconciliation. A beautiful dedication to the past, to memory, and to the people who have gone before us, 17A Keong Saik Road tells the rich stories of the Ma Je, the Pei Pa Zai, and the Dai Gu Liong—marginalised, forgotten women of the past, who despite their difficulties, persevered in working towards the hope of a better future. © 2017 by Charmaine Leung. Published in paper format in Singapore by Ethos Books, recorded by Storyside 2021.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644887Wed, 16 Jun 2021 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 17A Keong Saik Road Author: Charmaine Leung Narrator: Ariel Wee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 16, 2021...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644887 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 17A Keong Saik Road Author: Charmaine Leung Narrator: Ariel Wee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 16, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Mummy, why do you always have to leave for 17A… 17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung's growing-up years on Keong Saik Road in the 1970s when it was a prominent red-light precinct in Chinatown in Singapore. An interweaving of past and present narratives, 17A Keong Saik Road tells of her mother's journey as a young child put up for sale to becoming the madame of a brothel in Keong Saik. Unfolding her story as the daughter of a brothel operator and witnessing these changes to her family, Charmaine traces the transformation of the Keong Saik area from the 1930s to the present, and through writing, finds reconciliation. A beautiful dedication to the past, to memory, and to the people who have gone before us, 17A Keong Saik Road tells the rich stories of the Ma Je, the Pei Pa Zai, and the Dai Gu Liong—marginalised, forgotten women of the past, who despite their difficulties, persevered in working towards the hope of a better future. © 2017 by Charmaine Leung. Published in paper format in Singapore by Ethos Books, recorded by Storyside 2021.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-sieben-heringe-meine-mutter-das-schweigen-der-kriegskinder-und-das-sprechen-vor-dem-sterben-ungekurzte-autorenlesung-by-jurg--65184340https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Sieben Heringe - Meine Mutter, das Schweigen der Kriegskinder und das Sprechen vor dem Sterben (Ungekürzte Autorenlesung) Author: Jürgen Wiebicke Narrator: Jürgen Wiebicke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 15, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Was wissen wir wirklich über das Leben unserer Eltern, der Kriegskinder? Wann ist der richtige Zeitpunkt, zum Archäologen des eigenen Lebens zu werden und die Eltern zu befragen? Jürgen Wiebicke folgt den Berichten seiner Eltern, die konfrontiert mit dem Tod von einer radikalen Offenheit getrieben sind und ihre Erlebnisse nicht mehr für sich behalten wollen. 'Man hat den Tod eines Menschen mit dem Brand einer Bibliothek verglichen. Bestimmte Geschichten können anschließend nicht mehr erzählt werden. In dieser Hinsicht ist der Tod ein einziger Skandal, ein großer Vernichter.' Als sich für die Mutter von Jürgen Wiebicke das Lebensende abzeichnete, wollte er es besser machen als beim Tod des Vaters. Mit beiden führte er - in dieser Intensität zum ersten Mal - Gespräche über deren Leben und Erfahrungen, damit die Erlebnisse der Generation, die Krieg und Nationalsozialismus als Jugendliche miterlebt hat, nicht mit dem Tod verschwinden. Doch nur bei der Mutter schrieb er mit. Alles aufzuschreiben scheint besonders wichtig, weil die Geschichtsleugner und Hassbereiten wieder aus den Löchern kriechen, während die letzte Generation der Zeitzeugen abtritt. Liegt das auch daran, dass Zyklen von Krieg und Frieden mit verblassender Erinnerung zusammenhängen? Jürgen Wiebicke erzählt exemplarisch von einer Generation, die den Krieg mit voller Wucht abbekam, und zieht die Parallelen zur heutigen Zeit. Und er schreibt über das Sterben und den Tod in der heutigen Gesellschaft, für die der Umgang mit dem Thema Endlichkeit immer problematischer wird.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638658Thu, 15 Apr 2021 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Sieben Heringe - Meine Mutter, das Schweigen der Kriegskinder und das Sprechen vor dem Sterben (Ungekürzte Autorenlesung) Author: Jürgen...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/638658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Sieben Heringe - Meine Mutter, das Schweigen der Kriegskinder und das Sprechen vor dem Sterben (Ungekürzte Autorenlesung) Author: Jürgen Wiebicke Narrator: Jürgen Wiebicke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 15, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Was wissen wir wirklich über das Leben unserer Eltern, der Kriegskinder? Wann ist der richtige Zeitpunkt, zum Archäologen des eigenen Lebens zu werden und die Eltern zu befragen? Jürgen Wiebicke folgt den Berichten seiner Eltern, die konfrontiert mit dem Tod von einer radikalen Offenheit getrieben sind und ihre Erlebnisse nicht mehr für sich behalten wollen. 'Man hat den Tod eines Menschen mit dem Brand einer Bibliothek verglichen. Bestimmte Geschichten können anschließend nicht mehr erzählt werden. In dieser Hinsicht ist der Tod ein einziger Skandal, ein großer Vernichter.' Als sich für die Mutter von Jürgen Wiebicke das Lebensende abzeichnete, wollte er es besser machen als beim Tod des Vaters. Mit beiden führte er - in dieser Intensität zum ersten Mal - Gespräche über deren Leben und Erfahrungen, damit die Erlebnisse der Generation, die Krieg und Nationalsozialismus als Jugendliche miterlebt hat, nicht mit dem Tod verschwinden. Doch nur bei der Mutter schrieb er mit. Alles aufzuschreiben scheint besonders wichtig, weil die Geschichtsleugner und Hassbereiten wieder aus den Löchern kriechen, während die letzte Generation der Zeitzeugen abtritt. Liegt das auch daran, dass Zyklen von Krieg und Frieden mit verblassender Erinnerung zusammenhängen? Jürgen Wiebicke erzählt exemplarisch von einer Generation, die den Krieg mit voller Wucht abbekam, und zieht die Parallelen zur heutigen Zeit. Und er schreibt über das Sterben und den Tod in der heutigen Gesellschaft, für die der Umgang mit dem Thema Endlichkeit immer problematischer wird.]]>185rg,rztecleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-der-glucklichste-mensch-der-welt-ein-hundertjahriger-holocaust-uberlebender-erzahlt-warum-liebe-und-hoffnung-starker-sind-als--65184356https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der glücklichste Mensch der Welt - Ein hundertjähriger Holocaust-Überlebender erzählt, warum Liebe und Hoffnung stärker sind als der Hass (Ungekürzt) Author: Eddie Jaku Narrator: Reinhard Kuhnert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hundert Jahre Glücklichsein: Der über hundertjährige Holocaust-Überlebende Eddie Jaku erzählt, wie er in dunkelsten Stunden zu Freude, Dankbarkeit und Hoffnung fand - ein Jahrhundertleben und eine aufrüttelnd-anrührende Geschichte voller Weisheit. Über all die Jahre hinweg habe ich eines gelernt: Das Leben ist schön, wenn du es schön werden lässt. Ich möchte Dir meine Geschichte erzählen. - Eddie Jaku Eddie Jaku wird 1920 in Leipzig geboren und wächst als Sohn einer jüdischen Mittelschichtsfamilie auf. Nach der nationalsozialistischen Machtübernahme ist er gezwungen, seine Heimat zu verlassen, um in Tuttlingen unter falschem Namen die Schule abzuschließen. Als er am 9. November 1938 heimlich seine Eltern in der Heimat besucht, wird er nach Buchenwald deportiert. Sein Vater schafft es, ihn freizubekommen und gemeinsam mit der gesamten Familie nach Belgien auszuwandern. Mit Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs beginnt ein Leben in Angst, in Verstecken und auf der Flucht. Doch schließlich wird die Familie verraten und nach Auschwitz deportiert, Eddies Eltern werden ermordet. Er selbst überlebt den Horror der KZ-Haft als begabter Ingenieur. In den letzten Kriegstagen entkommt er einem Todesmarsch und wird von US-Truppen gerettet. Nach dem Krieg brechen Verzweiflung und Trauer über ihn herein. Doch zur Geburt seines Sohnes macht er sich selbst ein Versprechen: Er will jeden Tag lächeln, er will das Wunder des Lebens und seines Überlebens dadurch ehren, dass er glücklich ist, dass er sich aktiv für die Hoffnung entscheidet. Dieser Überzeugung bleibt er treu und wandert gemeinsam mit seiner Frau 1950 nach Australien aus, wo er bis heute im Kreise seiner Kinder, Enkel, Urenkel und Ururenkel lebt. Wie einem alten Freund erzählt er nun seine persönliche Geschichte, von seinem Weg zum Glück und wie er die Überzeugungen gewonnen hat, die ihn in seinem langen Leben anleiten: Ein Schritt nach dem anderen. Wenn du heute überstehst, wird ein Morgen kommen. Freundlichkeit kannst du überall finden, auch bei Fremden. Wenn du deine Überzeugungen verlierst, verlierst du dich selbst. Ein guter Freund kann dir die ganze Welt bedeuten. Wo Leben ist, ist Hoffnung.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633749Thu, 01 Apr 2021 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der glücklichste Mensch der Welt - Ein hundertjähriger Holocaust-Überlebender erzählt, warum Liebe und Hoffnung stärker sind als der Hass...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633749 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der glücklichste Mensch der Welt - Ein hundertjähriger Holocaust-Überlebender erzählt, warum Liebe und Hoffnung stärker sind als der Hass (Ungekürzt) Author: Eddie Jaku Narrator: Reinhard Kuhnert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hundert Jahre Glücklichsein: Der über hundertjährige Holocaust-Überlebende Eddie Jaku erzählt, wie er in dunkelsten Stunden zu Freude, Dankbarkeit und Hoffnung fand - ein Jahrhundertleben und eine aufrüttelnd-anrührende Geschichte voller Weisheit. Über all die Jahre hinweg habe ich eines gelernt: Das Leben ist schön, wenn du es schön werden lässt. Ich möchte Dir meine Geschichte erzählen. - Eddie Jaku Eddie Jaku wird 1920 in Leipzig geboren und wächst als Sohn einer jüdischen Mittelschichtsfamilie auf. Nach der nationalsozialistischen Machtübernahme ist er gezwungen, seine Heimat zu verlassen, um in Tuttlingen unter falschem Namen die Schule abzuschließen. Als er am 9. November 1938 heimlich seine Eltern in der Heimat besucht, wird er nach Buchenwald deportiert. Sein Vater schafft es, ihn freizubekommen und gemeinsam mit der gesamten Familie nach Belgien auszuwandern. Mit Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs beginnt ein Leben in Angst, in Verstecken und auf der Flucht. Doch schließlich wird die Familie verraten und nach Auschwitz deportiert, Eddies Eltern werden ermordet. Er selbst überlebt den Horror der KZ-Haft als begabter Ingenieur. In den letzten Kriegstagen entkommt er einem Todesmarsch und wird von US-Truppen gerettet. Nach dem Krieg brechen Verzweiflung und Trauer über ihn herein. Doch zur Geburt seines Sohnes macht er sich selbst ein Versprechen: Er will jeden Tag lächeln, er will das Wunder des Lebens und seines Überlebens dadurch ehren, dass er glücklich ist, dass er sich aktiv für die Hoffnung entscheidet. Dieser Überzeugung bleibt er treu und wandert gemeinsam mit seiner Frau 1950 nach Australien aus, wo er bis heute im Kreise seiner Kinder, Enkel, Urenkel und Ururenkel lebt. Wie einem alten Freund erzählt er nun seine persönliche Geschichte, von seinem Weg zum Glück und wie er die Überzeugungen gewonnen hat, die ihn in seinem langen Leben anleiten: Ein Schritt nach dem anderen. Wenn du heute überstehst, wird ein Morgen kommen. Freundlichkeit kannst du überall finden, auch bei Fremden. Wenn du deine Überzeugungen verlierst, verlierst du dich selbst. Ein guter Freund kann dir die ganze Welt bedeuten. Wo Leben ist, ist Hoffnung.]]>185berlebender,cklichstecleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-samuel-dermer-solo-su-voz-completo-by-memoria-viva--65184395https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639689 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Samuel Dermer {solo su voz} (completo) Author: Memoria Viva Narrator: Stephanie Preller, Santiago Ramírez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: SAMUEL DERMER (1930-2020) Samuel Dermer nació en Czernowitz, Rumania en 1930 y falleció en Santiago de Chile el 2020. Proveniente de una familia observante, fue alumno del cheder donde aprendió Tora y practicó el judaísmo que lo acompañaría hasta el final de sus días. Con la llegada de los nazis la vida familiar cambió rotundamente. Tras una redada, el padre de Samuel no volvió más. Junto a su madre fue deportado al gueto de Transnicia y en 1942 su madre falleció allí de tifus. Trabajó como peluquero y eso lo ayudó a salvarse. Lo liberó el ejército ruso y luego, vivió en un orfelinato en Rumania. Se estableció en Israel y en 1957 emigró a Chile. Aquí trabajó en una mueblería y en la Jevra Kadisha del Cementerio Israelita de Santiago. Se casó en con Ana Grossing Cruchinski en 1958 tuvieron 4 hijos, 4 nietos y 4 bis nietos.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639689Fri, 12 Feb 2021 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639689 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Samuel Dermer {solo su voz} (completo) Author: Memoria Viva Narrator: Stephanie Preller, Santiago Ramírez Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/639689 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Samuel Dermer {solo su voz} (completo) Author: Memoria Viva Narrator: Stephanie Preller, Santiago Ramírez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: February 12, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: SAMUEL DERMER (1930-2020) Samuel Dermer nació en Czernowitz, Rumania en 1930 y falleció en Santiago de Chile el 2020. Proveniente de una familia observante, fue alumno del cheder donde aprendió Tora y practicó el judaísmo que lo acompañaría hasta el final de sus días. Con la llegada de los nazis la vida familiar cambió rotundamente. Tras una redada, el padre de Samuel no volvió más. Junto a su madre fue deportado al gueto de Transnicia y en 1942 su madre falleció allí de tifus. Trabajó como peluquero y eso lo ayudó a salvarse. Lo liberó el ejército ruso y luego, vivió en un orfelinato en Rumania. Se estableció en Israel y en 1957 emigró a Chile. Aquí trabajó en una mueblería y en la Jevra Kadisha del Cementerio Israelita de Santiago. Se casó en con Ana Grossing Cruchinski en 1958 tuvieron 4 hijos, 4 nietos y 4 bis nietos.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/turkish-yalnizlik-kederi-by-fazil-say--65184345https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632521 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Yalnızlık Kederi Author: Fazıl Say Narrator: Mehmet Onur Atbaş Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 28, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dünyanın dört bir yanında yüzlerce konser veren, sayısız ödül kazanan, eğitmenlik yapan Fazıl Say, yaşayan en ünlü piyanistlerden biri. Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Bach, Stravinsky gibi bestecilerin eserlerini yorumladığı sıra dışı performansları bir yana, yaşadığı toprakların müziğinden ve kültüründen esinlendiği oratoryoları ve konçertolarıyla da dünya klasik müzik repertuarında yer edinmiş bir dünya sanatçısı Say. Ancak piyanistliği ve besteciliği kadar düşünceleriyle de gündemde o. İlgilendiği konularsa epey çeşitli: Kimi zaman Darwin sansürü, kimi zaman yerel seçimler, kimi zaman haksızlığa uğrayan ülke aydınları ve sanatçıları, kimi zamansa kalbindeki gizli köşe… Yalnızlık Kederi, 'halkımı klasik müzikle tanıştırmak zorundayım' diyen Fazıl Say'ın yazdıklarını bir araya getiriyor. Müziğe, politikaya, yarınlara, sanatçı olmaya, hayata dair satırlarını…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632521Tue, 28 Jul 2020 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632521 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Yalnızlık Kederi Author: Fazıl Say Narrator: Mehmet Onur Atbaş Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 28,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632521 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Yalnızlık Kederi Author: Fazıl Say Narrator: Mehmet Onur Atbaş Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 28, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dünyanın dört bir yanında yüzlerce konser veren, sayısız ödül kazanan, eğitmenlik yapan Fazıl Say, yaşayan en ünlü piyanistlerden biri. Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Bach, Stravinsky gibi bestecilerin eserlerini yorumladığı sıra dışı performansları bir yana, yaşadığı toprakların müziğinden ve kültüründen esinlendiği oratoryoları ve konçertolarıyla da dünya klasik müzik repertuarında yer edinmiş bir dünya sanatçısı Say. Ancak piyanistliği ve besteciliği kadar düşünceleriyle de gündemde o. İlgilendiği konularsa epey çeşitli: Kimi zaman Darwin sansürü, kimi zaman yerel seçimler, kimi zaman haksızlığa uğrayan ülke aydınları ve sanatçıları, kimi zamansa kalbindeki gizli köşe… Yalnızlık Kederi, 'halkımı klasik müzikle tanıştırmak zorundayım' diyen Fazıl Say'ın yazdıklarını bir araya getiriyor. Müziğe, politikaya, yarınlara, sanatçı olmaya, hayata dair satırlarını…]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/eye-on-the-world-by-tan-kok-seng--65184329https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eye on the World Series: #1 of Singapore Classics Author: Tan Kok Seng Narrator: Benjamin Chow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 29 minutes Release date: December 6, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Eye on the World is the third and concluding volume of Tan Kok Seng's autobiography, where he and his young family go to bustling Hong Kong. He writes with endearing honesty about a place that seems a lot like home, yet is vastly different in many ways, and this affectionate sense of observation is carried through a round-the-world trip he embarks on. Told from the perspective of a Singaporean everyman, Kok Seng's stories and reflections about the world are told in charmingly simple prose, enriched by his penchant for looking at the people and things around him with eyes wide open. © 2016 by Tan Kok Seng. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2019.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637008Fri, 06 Dec 2019 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eye on the World Series: #1 of Singapore Classics Author: Tan Kok Seng Narrator: Benjamin Chow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 29 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eye on the World Series: #1 of Singapore Classics Author: Tan Kok Seng Narrator: Benjamin Chow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 29 minutes Release date: December 6, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Eye on the World is the third and concluding volume of Tan Kok Seng's autobiography, where he and his young family go to bustling Hong Kong. He writes with endearing honesty about a place that seems a lot like home, yet is vastly different in many ways, and this affectionate sense of observation is carried through a round-the-world trip he embarks on. Told from the perspective of a Singaporean everyman, Kok Seng's stories and reflections about the world are told in charmingly simple prose, enriched by his penchant for looking at the people and things around him with eyes wide open. © 2016 by Tan Kok Seng. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2019.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/saving-a-sexier-island-by-neil-humphreys--65184382https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saving a Sexier Island Series: #5 of Complete Notes from Singapore Author: Neil Humphreys Narrator: Neil Humphreys Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 5, 2019 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Singapore has been evolving at a blistering pace. Old Singapore is in danger of being left behind. As a result, active citizenry is taking off like never before with Singaporeans campaigning to save heritage sites such as Bukit Brown, Joo Chiat's HDB flats and Toa Payoh's Dragon Playground, with areas like Jalan Besar, Balestier and Tiong Bahru championed for their history. Nostalgia is spreading through the country. Old Singapore has never been more hip as Singaporeans cling to the last vestiges of what actually makes them Singaporean. The race is on to save an even sexier island. So as the nation celebrates its 50th anniversary, Neil Humphreys heads off on a tour of Old Singapore to find the sights and sounds that are at risk of being overlooked, forgotten or bulldozed. He walks, rides, swims and snorkels across land and sea, taking in distant islands and bluish lagoons. He paddles with otters, ventures into haunted hospitals and suffers an unfortunate slip with a tanned teenager in a sarong. Written with Humphreys' usual acerbic wit and quirky humour, Saving a Sexier Island is one man's journey to find 50 significant places worthy of preservation. It's a funny, insightful and unashamedly sentimental search for what's left of Singapore's soul. © 2015 by Neil Humphreys. Published in paper format in Singapore by Marshall Cavendish International Asia, recorded by Storyside 2019.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637090Tue, 05 Nov 2019 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saving a Sexier Island Series: #5 of Complete Notes from Singapore Author: Neil Humphreys Narrator: Neil Humphreys Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saving a Sexier Island Series: #5 of Complete Notes from Singapore Author: Neil Humphreys Narrator: Neil Humphreys Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 5, 2019 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Singapore has been evolving at a blistering pace. Old Singapore is in danger of being left behind. As a result, active citizenry is taking off like never before with Singaporeans campaigning to save heritage sites such as Bukit Brown, Joo Chiat's HDB flats and Toa Payoh's Dragon Playground, with areas like Jalan Besar, Balestier and Tiong Bahru championed for their history. Nostalgia is spreading through the country. Old Singapore has never been more hip as Singaporeans cling to the last vestiges of what actually makes them Singaporean. The race is on to save an even sexier island. So as the nation celebrates its 50th anniversary, Neil Humphreys heads off on a tour of Old Singapore to find the sights and sounds that are at risk of being overlooked, forgotten or bulldozed. He walks, rides, swims and snorkels across land and sea, taking in distant islands and bluish lagoons. He paddles with otters, ventures into haunted hospitals and suffers an unfortunate slip with a tanned teenager in a sarong. Written with Humphreys' usual acerbic wit and quirky humour, Saving a Sexier Island is one man's journey to find 50 significant places worthy of preservation. It's a funny, insightful and unashamedly sentimental search for what's left of Singapore's soul. © 2015 by Neil Humphreys. Published in paper format in Singapore by Marshall Cavendish International Asia, recorded by Storyside 2019.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-answer-to-the-riddle-is-me-a-memoir-of-amnesia-by-david-stuart-maclean--65184415https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia Author: David Stuart MacLean Narrator: Neil Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: January 14, 2014 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Imagine waking up in a train station in India with no idea who you are or how you got there. This is what happened to David MacLean. In 2002, at age twenty-eight, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No money. No passport. No identity. Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then started to hallucinate so severely he had to be tied down. Soon he could remember song lyrics and scenes from television shows but not his family, his friends, or the woman he loved. All of these symptoms, it turned out, were the result of the commonly prescribed malarial medication he was taking. Upon his return to the States, he struggled to piece together the fragments of his former life in a harrowing, absurd, and unforgettable journey back to himself. A deeply felt, closely researched, and intensely personal book, The Answer to the Riddle Is Me, drawn from MacLean's award-winning This American Life essay, confronts and celebrates the dark, mysterious depths of our psyches and the myriad ways we are all unknowable, especially to ourselves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628878Tue, 14 Jan 2014 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia Author: David Stuart MacLean Narrator: Neil Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia Author: David Stuart MacLean Narrator: Neil Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: January 14, 2014 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Imagine waking up in a train station in India with no idea who you are or how you got there. This is what happened to David MacLean. In 2002, at age twenty-eight, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No money. No passport. No identity. Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then started to hallucinate so severely he had to be tied down. Soon he could remember song lyrics and scenes from television shows but not his family, his friends, or the woman he loved. All of these symptoms, it turned out, were the result of the commonly prescribed malarial medication he was taking. Upon his return to the States, he struggled to piece together the fragments of his former life in a harrowing, absurd, and unforgettable journey back to himself. A deeply felt, closely researched, and intensely personal book, The Answer to the Riddle Is Me, drawn from MacLean's award-winning This American Life essay, confronts and celebrates the dark, mysterious depths of our psyches and the myriad ways we are all unknowable, especially to ourselves.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-hate-to-leave-this-beautiful-place-by-howard-norman--65184374https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628879 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place Author: Howard Norman Narrator: Jim Meskimen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 15, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir of the haunting and redemptive events of the acclaimed writer's life—the betrayal of a con-man father; a murder-suicide in his family's house; the presence of an oystercatcher—each one, as the saying goes, stranger than fiction As with many of us, the life of novelist Howard Norman has had its share of incidents of 'arresting strangeness.' Yet few of us connect these moments, as Norman has done in this spellbinding memoir, to show how life tangles with the psyche to become art. Norman's story begins with a portrait, both harrowing and hilarious, of a Midwest boyhood summer working in a bookmobile, in the shadow of a grifter father and under the erotic tutelage of his brother's girlfriend. His life story continues in places as far-flung as the Arctic, where he spends part of a decade as a translator of Inuit tales—including the story of a soapstone carver turned into a goose whose migration-time lament is, 'I hate to leave this beautiful place'—and in his beloved Point Reyes, California, as a student of birds. In the Arctic, he receives news over the radio that 'John Lennon was murdered tonight in the city of New York in the USA.' And years later, in Washington, DC, another act of deeply felt violence occurs in the form of a murder-suicide when Norman and his wife loan their home to a poet and her young son. Norman's story is also stitched together with moments of uncanny solace. Of life in his Vermont farmhouse Norman writes, 'Everything I love most happens most every day.' In the hands of Howard Norman, author of The Bird Artist and What Is Left the Daughter, life's arresting strangeness is made into a profound, creative, and redemptive memoir.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628879Sun, 15 Sep 2013 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628879 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place Author: Howard Norman Narrator: Jim Meskimen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628879 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place Author: Howard Norman Narrator: Jim Meskimen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 15, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir of the haunting and redemptive events of the acclaimed writer's life—the betrayal of a con-man father; a murder-suicide in his family's house; the presence of an oystercatcher—each one, as the saying goes, stranger than fiction As with many of us, the life of novelist Howard Norman has had its share of incidents of 'arresting strangeness.' Yet few of us connect these moments, as Norman has done in this spellbinding memoir, to show how life tangles with the psyche to become art. Norman's story begins with a portrait, both harrowing and hilarious, of a Midwest boyhood summer working in a bookmobile, in the shadow of a grifter father and under the erotic tutelage of his brother's girlfriend. His life story continues in places as far-flung as the Arctic, where he spends part of a decade as a translator of Inuit tales—including the story of a soapstone carver turned into a goose whose migration-time lament is, 'I hate to leave this beautiful place'—and in his beloved Point Reyes, California, as a student of birds. In the Arctic, he receives news over the radio that 'John Lennon was murdered tonight in the city of New York in the USA.' And years later, in Washington, DC, another act of deeply felt violence occurs in the form of a murder-suicide when Norman and his wife loan their home to a poet and her young son. Norman's story is also stitched together with moments of uncanny solace. Of life in his Vermont farmhouse Norman writes, 'Everything I love most happens most every day.' In the hands of Howard Norman, author of The Bird Artist and What Is Left the Daughter, life's arresting strangeness is made into a profound, creative, and redemptive memoir.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-possibility-dogs-what-a-handful-of-unadoptables-taught-me-about-service-hope-and-healing-by-susannah-charleson--65184381https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of “Unadoptables” Taught Me about Service, Hope, and Healing Author: Susannah Charleson Narrator: Susannah Charleson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the author of the critically acclaimed bestseller, Scent of the Missing, comes a heartwarming and inspiring story that shows how dogs can be rescued and can rescue in return. For her first book, Susannah Charleson was praised for her unique insight into the kinship between humans and dogs, as revealed through canine search and rescue. In The Possibility Dogs Charleson chronicles her journey into the world of psychiatric-service and therapy dogs trained to serve the human mind, a journey that began as a personal one. After a particularly grisly search led to a struggle with PTSD, Charleson credits healing to her partnership with search dog Puzzle. Inspired by that experience and having met dogs formally trained to assist in such crises, Charleson learns to identify abandoned dogs with service potential, often plucking them from shelters at the last minute, and how to train them for work beside hurting partners, to whom these second-chance dogs bring intelligence, comfort, and hope. From black Lab puppy Merlin, once cast away in a garbage bag, who stabilizes his partner's panic attacks to Ollie, the blind and deaf terrier who soothes anxious children, to Jake Piper, the starving pit bull mix who goes from abandoned to irreplaceable, The Possibility Dogs illuminates a whole new world of canine potential.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628814Tue, 04 Jun 2013 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of “Unadoptables” Taught Me about Service, Hope, and Healing Author: Susannah Charleson Narrator: Susannah...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of “Unadoptables” Taught Me about Service, Hope, and Healing Author: Susannah Charleson Narrator: Susannah Charleson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the author of the critically acclaimed bestseller, Scent of the Missing, comes a heartwarming and inspiring story that shows how dogs can be rescued and can rescue in return. For her first book, Susannah Charleson was praised for her unique insight into the kinship between humans and dogs, as revealed through canine search and rescue. In The Possibility Dogs Charleson chronicles her journey into the world of psychiatric-service and therapy dogs trained to serve the human mind, a journey that began as a personal one. After a particularly grisly search led to a struggle with PTSD, Charleson credits healing to her partnership with search dog Puzzle. Inspired by that experience and having met dogs formally trained to assist in such crises, Charleson learns to identify abandoned dogs with service potential, often plucking them from shelters at the last minute, and how to train them for work beside hurting partners, to whom these second-chance dogs bring intelligence, comfort, and hope. From black Lab puppy Merlin, once cast away in a garbage bag, who stabilizes his partner's panic attacks to Ollie, the blind and deaf terrier who soothes anxious children, to Jake Piper, the starving pit bull mix who goes from abandoned to irreplaceable, The Possibility Dogs illuminates a whole new world of canine potential.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-be-a-friend-to-a-friend-who-s-sick-by-letty-cottin-pogrebin--65184419https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628809 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick Author: Letty Cottin Pogrebin Narrator: Pam Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 9, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Everyone knows someone who's sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope. Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends' and family's diverse reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly some of them behaved, how some misspoke or misinterpreted her needs, and how wonderful it was when people read her right. She began talking to her fellow patients and dozens of other veterans of serious illness, seeking to discover what sick people wished their friends knew about how best to comfort, help, and even simply talk to them. Now Pogrebin has distilled their collective stories and opinions into this wide-ranging compendium of pragmatic guidance and usable wisdom. Her advice is always infused with sensitivity, warmth, and humor. It is embedded in candid stories from her own and others' journeys and their sometimes imperfect interactions with well-meaning friends. How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick is an invaluable guidebook for anyone hoping to rise to the challenges of this most important and demanding passage of friendship.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628809Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628809 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick Author: Letty Cottin Pogrebin Narrator: Pam Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628809 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick Author: Letty Cottin Pogrebin Narrator: Pam Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 9, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Everyone knows someone who's sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope. Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends' and family's diverse reactions to her and her illness: how awkwardly some of them behaved, how some misspoke or misinterpreted her needs, and how wonderful it was when people read her right. She began talking to her fellow patients and dozens of other veterans of serious illness, seeking to discover what sick people wished their friends knew about how best to comfort, help, and even simply talk to them. Now Pogrebin has distilled their collective stories and opinions into this wide-ranging compendium of pragmatic guidance and usable wisdom. Her advice is always infused with sensitivity, warmth, and humor. It is embedded in candid stories from her own and others' journeys and their sometimes imperfect interactions with well-meaning friends. How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick is an invaluable guidebook for anyone hoping to rise to the challenges of this most important and demanding passage of friendship.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/crossing-the-borders-of-time-a-true-story-of-war-exile-and-love-reclaimed-by-leslie-maitland--65184414https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628675 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed Author: Leslie Maitland Narrator: Leslie Maitland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 17, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees—the last two under risk of Nazi deportation. In 1942 they made it onto the last boat to escape France before the Germans sealed the harbors. Then, barred from entering the United States, they lived in Cuba for almost two years before immigrating to New York. This sweeping account of one family’s escape from the turmoil of war-torn Europe hangs upon the intimate and deeply personal story of the passionate romance between Maitland’s mother and a Catholic Frenchman. Separated by war and her family’s disapproval, the young lovers—Janine and Roland—lose each other for fifty years. It is a testimony to both Maitland’s investigative skills and her devotion to her mother that she successfully traced the lost Roland and was able to reunite him with Janine. Unlike so many stories of love during wartime, theirs has a happy ending.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628675Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628675 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed Author: Leslie Maitland Narrator: Leslie Maitland Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628675 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed Author: Leslie Maitland Narrator: Leslie Maitland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 17, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees—the last two under risk of Nazi deportation. In 1942 they made it onto the last boat to escape France before the Germans sealed the harbors. Then, barred from entering the United States, they lived in Cuba for almost two years before immigrating to New York. This sweeping account of one family’s escape from the turmoil of war-torn Europe hangs upon the intimate and deeply personal story of the passionate romance between Maitland’s mother and a Catholic Frenchman. Separated by war and her family’s disapproval, the young lovers—Janine and Roland—lose each other for fifty years. It is a testimony to both Maitland’s investigative skills and her devotion to her mother that she successfully traced the lost Roland and was able to reunite him with Janine. Unlike so many stories of love during wartime, theirs has a happy ending.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/revolution-2-0-the-power-of-the-people-is-greater-than-the-people-in-power-a-memoir-by-wael-ghonim--65184410https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power; A Memoir Author: Wael Ghonim Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 53 minutes Release date: January 17, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The revolutions sweeping the Middle East in 2011 were unlike any the world had ever seen. Brutal regimes that had been in power for many decades were suddenly swarmed by unstoppable mobs of freedom seekers. Now, one of the key figures behind the Egyptian uprising tells the riveting inside story of what happened and presents lessons for all of us on how to unleash the power of crowds. Wael Ghonim was a little-known thirty-year-old Google executive in the fall of 2010 when he anonymously launched a Facebook page to protest the death of an Egyptian man at the hands of security forces. The page’s followers expanded quickly and moved from online protests to nonconfrontational public gatherings. Then, on January 14, 2011, they made history when they announced a revolution. Over 350,000 friends clamored to join. On January 25, as the revolution began in earnest, Ghonim was captured and held for twelve days of brutal interrogation—and when he emerged and gave a speech on national television, the protests grew even more intense. Four days later, Mubarak was gone. The lessons Ghonim draws will inspire each of us: Forget the past. Don’t plan ahead. Let the crowd make its own decisions. Welcome to Revolution 2.0.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628669Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power; A Memoir Author: Wael Ghonim Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628669 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power; A Memoir Author: Wael Ghonim Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 53 minutes Release date: January 17, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The revolutions sweeping the Middle East in 2011 were unlike any the world had ever seen. Brutal regimes that had been in power for many decades were suddenly swarmed by unstoppable mobs of freedom seekers. Now, one of the key figures behind the Egyptian uprising tells the riveting inside story of what happened and presents lessons for all of us on how to unleash the power of crowds. Wael Ghonim was a little-known thirty-year-old Google executive in the fall of 2010 when he anonymously launched a Facebook page to protest the death of an Egyptian man at the hands of security forces. The page’s followers expanded quickly and moved from online protests to nonconfrontational public gatherings. Then, on January 14, 2011, they made history when they announced a revolution. Over 350,000 friends clamored to join. On January 25, as the revolution began in earnest, Ghonim was captured and held for twelve days of brutal interrogation—and when he emerged and gave a speech on national television, the protests grew even more intense. Four days later, Mubarak was gone. The lessons Ghonim draws will inspire each of us: Forget the past. Don’t plan ahead. Let the crowd make its own decisions. Welcome to Revolution 2.0.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-dyslexia-by-philip-schultz--65184363https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628652 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Dyslexia Author: Philip Schultz Narrator: William Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 16 minutes Release date: October 26, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An inspiring memoir of a Pulitzer Prize winner’s triumph over disability Despite being a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2008, Philip Schultz could never shake the feeling of being exiled to the “dummy class” in school, where he was largely ignored by his teachers and peers and not expected to succeed. Not until many years later, when his oldest son was diagnosed with dyslexia, did Schultz realize that he suffered from the same condition. In this moving memoir, Schultz traces his difficult childhood and his new understanding of his early years. In doing so, he shows how a boy who did not learn to read until he was eleven went on to become a prizewinning poet by sheer force of determination. His balancing act—life as a member of a family with not one but two dyslexics, countered by his intellectual and creative successes as a writer—reveals an inspiring story of the strengths of the human mind.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628652Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628652 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Dyslexia Author: Philip Schultz Narrator: William Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 16 minutes Release date: October 26, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628652 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Dyslexia Author: Philip Schultz Narrator: William Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 16 minutes Release date: October 26, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An inspiring memoir of a Pulitzer Prize winner’s triumph over disability Despite being a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2008, Philip Schultz could never shake the feeling of being exiled to the “dummy class” in school, where he was largely ignored by his teachers and peers and not expected to succeed. Not until many years later, when his oldest son was diagnosed with dyslexia, did Schultz realize that he suffered from the same condition. In this moving memoir, Schultz traces his difficult childhood and his new understanding of his early years. In doing so, he shows how a boy who did not learn to read until he was eleven went on to become a prizewinning poet by sheer force of determination. His balancing act—life as a member of a family with not one but two dyslexics, countered by his intellectual and creative successes as a writer—reveals an inspiring story of the strengths of the human mind.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mighty-be-our-powers-how-sisterhood-prayer-and-sex-changed-a-nation-at-war-a-memoir-by-leymah-gbowee--65184409https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War; A Memoir Author: Leymah Gbowee Narrator: Kimberly Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 13, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Leymah Gbowee was one of three women to receive the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize As a young woman growing up in Africa, seventeen-year-old Leymah Gbowee was crushed by a savage war when violence reached her native Monrovia, depriving her of the education she yearned for and claiming the lives of relatives and friends. As war continued to ravage Liberia, Gbowee’s bitterness turned to rage-fueled action as she realized that women bear the greatest burden in prolonged conflicts. Passionate and charismatic, Gbowee was instrumental in galvanizing hundreds, if not thousands of women in Liberia in 2002 to force a peace in the region after twelve years of war. She began organizing Christian and Muslim women to demonstrate together, founding Liberian Mass Action for Peace, launching protests and even a sex strike. Gbowee’s memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers, chronicles the unthinkable violence she’s faced throughout her life and the peace she has helped broker by empowering hundreds of her countrywomen and others around the world to take action and takes listeners along on her continuing journey as she harnesses the power of women to bring her country peace, saves herself, and changes history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628600Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War; A Memoir Author: Leymah Gbowee Narrator: Kimberly Scott Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War; A Memoir Author: Leymah Gbowee Narrator: Kimberly Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 13, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Leymah Gbowee was one of three women to receive the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize As a young woman growing up in Africa, seventeen-year-old Leymah Gbowee was crushed by a savage war when violence reached her native Monrovia, depriving her of the education she yearned for and claiming the lives of relatives and friends. As war continued to ravage Liberia, Gbowee’s bitterness turned to rage-fueled action as she realized that women bear the greatest burden in prolonged conflicts. Passionate and charismatic, Gbowee was instrumental in galvanizing hundreds, if not thousands of women in Liberia in 2002 to force a peace in the region after twelve years of war. She began organizing Christian and Muslim women to demonstrate together, founding Liberian Mass Action for Peace, launching protests and even a sex strike. Gbowee’s memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers, chronicles the unthinkable violence she’s faced throughout her life and the peace she has helped broker by empowering hundreds of her countrywomen and others around the world to take action and takes listeners along on her continuing journey as she harnesses the power of women to bring her country peace, saves herself, and changes history.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/battleground-iraq-journal-of-a-company-commander-by-todd-s-brown--65184405https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Battleground Iraq: Journal of a Company Commander Author: Todd S. Brown Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 1, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This gripping journal of a company commander from 2003 to early 2004, written in some of the most dangerous areas of post-Hussein Iraq, discusses tactics, techniques, and procedures as they evolved in the struggle to maintain order and rebuild the country. The journal tells of the dichotomy of combat operations versus nation building. It vividly captures the stresses of combat and corresponding emotions as they accumulate over time in a combat outfit. It reinforces the ideal of camaraderie among soldiers and deals with the emotional impact of losing friends in battle. Understanding these could prove invaluable to those who courageously serve our nation and will continue to endure them in this and future conflicts.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628554Sun, 01 May 2011 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Battleground Iraq: Journal of a Company Commander Author: Todd S. Brown Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Battleground Iraq: Journal of a Company Commander Author: Todd S. Brown Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 1, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This gripping journal of a company commander from 2003 to early 2004, written in some of the most dangerous areas of post-Hussein Iraq, discusses tactics, techniques, and procedures as they evolved in the struggle to maintain order and rebuild the country. The journal tells of the dichotomy of combat operations versus nation building. It vividly captures the stresses of combat and corresponding emotions as they accumulate over time in a combat outfit. It reinforces the ideal of camaraderie among soldiers and deals with the emotional impact of losing friends in battle. Understanding these could prove invaluable to those who courageously serve our nation and will continue to endure them in this and future conflicts.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/townie-a-memoir-by-andre-dubus--65184417https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Townie: A Memoir Author: Andre Dubus Narrator: Andre Dubus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 28, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Andre Dubus III, author of the National Book Award–nominated House of Sand and Fog and The Garden of Last Days, reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him—until he was saved by writing. After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killed—or killing someone else—or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash of worlds couldn’t have been more stark—or more difficult for a son to communicate to a father. Only by becoming a writer himself could Andre begin to bridge the abyss and save himself. His memoir is a riveting, visceral, profound meditation on physical violence and the failures and triumphs of love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628561Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Townie: A Memoir Author: Andre Dubus Narrator: Andre Dubus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 28, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Townie: A Memoir Author: Andre Dubus Narrator: Andre Dubus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 28, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Andre Dubus III, author of the National Book Award–nominated House of Sand and Fog and The Garden of Last Days, reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him—until he was saved by writing. After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killed—or killing someone else—or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash of worlds couldn’t have been more stark—or more difficult for a son to communicate to a father. Only by becoming a writer himself could Andre begin to bridge the abyss and save himself. His memoir is a riveting, visceral, profound meditation on physical violence and the failures and triumphs of love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-writer-s-people-ways-of-looking-and-feeling-by-v-s-naipaul--65184423https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling Author: V. S. Naipaul Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 29, 2008 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Born in Trinidad of Indian descent, a resident of England for his entire adult life, and a prodigious traveler, V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of 'fitting one civilization to another.' Here, he takes us into his sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual assimilation, which has shaped both his writing and his life. In a probing narrative that is part meditation and part remembrance, Naipaul discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early on and his first encounters with literary culture. He looks at what we have retained and what we have forgotten of the classical world, and he illuminates the ways in which Indian writers such as Gandhi and Nehru both reveal and conceal themselves and their nation. Full of humor and privileged insight, this is an eloquent, intimate exploration into the configuration of a writer's mind.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628483Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:02:08 +0000Addie LabadiePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling Author: V. S. Naipaul Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling Author: V. S. Naipaul Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 29, 2008 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Born in Trinidad of Indian descent, a resident of England for his entire adult life, and a prodigious traveler, V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of 'fitting one civilization to another.' Here, he takes us into his sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual assimilation, which has shaped both his writing and his life. In a probing narrative that is part meditation and part remembrance, Naipaul discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early on and his first encounters with literary culture. He looks at what we have retained and what we have forgotten of the classical world, and he illuminates the ways in which Indian writers such as Gandhi and Nehru both reveal and conceal themselves and their nation. Full of humor and privileged insight, this is an eloquent, intimate exploration into the configuration of a writer's mind.]]>185cleanfull