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If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>enArtsCopyright George Cummeratahttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e96dc3faad12c17a3966981caf6bb621.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/download-high-quality-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-memoirs--6575210Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:21:19 +0000George CummerataGeorge Cummeratafeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/362/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Discover the world of audiobooks with over 500,000+ captivating titles, ranging from Action & Adventure, Science...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/362/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Discover the world of audiobooks with over 500,000+ captivating titles, ranging from Action & Adventure, Science Fiction, to Mystery and Romance. You'll get 3 free audiobooks to start your journey. Whether you use an iPhone, iPad, Android, or any other device, you can conveniently enjoy audiobooks. Let captivating stories accompany you every moment! 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/hortobiography-by-carol-klein--65184678https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hortobiography Author: Carol Klein Narrator: Carol Klein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Carol Klein is one of Britain's best loved horticulturists, and for decades gardening has been at the heart of her extraordinary life. From her childhood adventures in Manchester to her first experiments in plantswomanship at Glebe Cottage, and from training as an artist and a teacher, and then finding an entirely unexpected career as one of Britain’s most beloved television presenters, in this long-awaited memoir Carol tells the story of the people, places and plants that have shaped her life. Exploring why our relationship with the natural world is so important, and how it brings joy, creativity and good health to our lives, Carol also offers irresistible insights on her favourite flowers and plants, and how to help them flourish. A story of a life lived happily amongst the greenery, this book is the perfect companion for anyone who has sought solace in the natural world. © Carol Klein 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613642Thu, 05 Sep 2024 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hortobiography Author: Carol Klein Narrator: Carol Klein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 5, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hortobiography Author: Carol Klein Narrator: Carol Klein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Carol Klein is one of Britain's best loved horticulturists, and for decades gardening has been at the heart of her extraordinary life. From her childhood adventures in Manchester to her first experiments in plantswomanship at Glebe Cottage, and from training as an artist and a teacher, and then finding an entirely unexpected career as one of Britain’s most beloved television presenters, in this long-awaited memoir Carol tells the story of the people, places and plants that have shaped her life. Exploring why our relationship with the natural world is so important, and how it brings joy, creativity and good health to our lives, Carol also offers irresistible insights on her favourite flowers and plants, and how to help them flourish. A story of a life lived happily amongst the greenery, this book is the perfect companion for anyone who has sought solace in the natural world. © Carol Klein 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/learning-to-think-a-memoir-about-hardship-education-hellfire-family-finding-a-way-to-break-free-by-tracy-king--65184704https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616555 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Learning to Think.: A memoir about hardship, education, hellfire, family, finding a way to break free Author: Tracy King Narrator: Tracy King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 7, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. When you have nothing, you cling to whatever gives you hope. Put yourself in Tracy King's shoes. Growing up in an ordinary council estate outside Birmingham; a house filled with creativity, curiosity and love, but marked by her father's alcoholism and her mother's agoraphobia. By the time she turns twelve her father has been killed, her sister taken into care and her mother ensnared by the promises of born-again Christianity. This isn't the stuff of cult documentaries; this is the story of an ordinary family trapped in a broken system. It's a story that could happen to anyone without the tools to transform their circumstances. And it's the story of how Tracy found her way out. A shocking, inspiring and ultimately hopeful memoir that holds up a mirror to the everyday realities of living in poverty, it is also a testament to the power of books and to learning to question our world. 'Tracy King's memoir is heartbreaking and hopeful...An incredible true story of survival and forgiveness.' TIM MINCHIN 'Raw and unflinching.' CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ 'A brilliant writer.' ADAM KAY 'What would you do if you began to suspect the events of your childhood didn't happen as you remembered them? In this evocative memoir, Tracy King confronts the stories we all tell ourselves in order to live.' HELEN LEWIS ©2024 Tracy King (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616555Thu, 07 Mar 2024 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616555 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Learning to Think.: A memoir about hardship, education, hellfire, family, finding a way to break free Author: Tracy King Narrator: Tracy King Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616555 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Learning to Think.: A memoir about hardship, education, hellfire, family, finding a way to break free Author: Tracy King Narrator: Tracy King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 7, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. When you have nothing, you cling to whatever gives you hope. Put yourself in Tracy King's shoes. Growing up in an ordinary council estate outside Birmingham; a house filled with creativity, curiosity and love, but marked by her father's alcoholism and her mother's agoraphobia. By the time she turns twelve her father has been killed, her sister taken into care and her mother ensnared by the promises of born-again Christianity. This isn't the stuff of cult documentaries; this is the story of an ordinary family trapped in a broken system. It's a story that could happen to anyone without the tools to transform their circumstances. And it's the story of how Tracy found her way out. A shocking, inspiring and ultimately hopeful memoir that holds up a mirror to the everyday realities of living in poverty, it is also a testament to the power of books and to learning to question our world. 'Tracy King's memoir is heartbreaking and hopeful...An incredible true story of survival and forgiveness.' TIM MINCHIN 'Raw and unflinching.' CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ 'A brilliant writer.' ADAM KAY 'What would you do if you began to suspect the events of your childhood didn't happen as you remembered them? In this evocative memoir, Tracy King confronts the stories we all tell ourselves in order to live.' HELEN LEWIS ©2024 Tracy King (P)2024 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/birding-to-change-the-world-a-memoir-by-trish-o-kane--65184686https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619055 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Birding to Change the World: A Memoir Author: Trish O'kane Narrator: Cheryl Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 54 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment. Trish O’Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative journalist, she'd never paid attention to nature. But then Hurricane Katrina destroyed her New Orleans home, sending her into an emotional tailspin. Enter a scrappy cast of feathered characters—first a cardinal, urban parrots, and sparrows, then a catbird, owls, a bittern, and a woodcock—that cheered her up and showed her a new path. Inspired, O'Kane moved to Madison, Wisconsin, to pursue an environmental studies PhD. There she became a full-on bird obsessive—logging hours in a stunningly biodiverse urban park, filling field notebooks with bird doings and dramas, and teaching ornithology to college students and middle-school kids. When Warner Park—her daily birdwatching haven—was threatened with development, O’Kane and her neighbors mustered a mighty murmuration of nature lovers, young and old, to save the birds' homes. Through their efforts, she learned that once you get outside and look around, you're likely to fall in love with a furred or feathered creature—and find a flock of your own. In Birding to Change the World, O'Kane details the astonishing science of bird life, from migration and parenting to the territorial defense strategies that influenced her own activism. A warm and compelling weave of science and social engagement, this is the story of an improbably band of bird lovers who saved their park. And it is a blueprint for muscular citizenship, powered by joy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619055Tue, 27 Feb 2024 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619055 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Birding to Change the World: A Memoir Author: Trish O'kane Narrator: Cheryl Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 54 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619055 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Birding to Change the World: A Memoir Author: Trish O'kane Narrator: Cheryl Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 54 minutes Release date: February 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment. Trish O’Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative journalist, she'd never paid attention to nature. But then Hurricane Katrina destroyed her New Orleans home, sending her into an emotional tailspin. Enter a scrappy cast of feathered characters—first a cardinal, urban parrots, and sparrows, then a catbird, owls, a bittern, and a woodcock—that cheered her up and showed her a new path. Inspired, O'Kane moved to Madison, Wisconsin, to pursue an environmental studies PhD. There she became a full-on bird obsessive—logging hours in a stunningly biodiverse urban park, filling field notebooks with bird doings and dramas, and teaching ornithology to college students and middle-school kids. When Warner Park—her daily birdwatching haven—was threatened with development, O’Kane and her neighbors mustered a mighty murmuration of nature lovers, young and old, to save the birds' homes. Through their efforts, she learned that once you get outside and look around, you're likely to fall in love with a furred or feathered creature—and find a flock of your own. In Birding to Change the World, O'Kane details the astonishing science of bird life, from migration and parenting to the territorial defense strategies that influenced her own activism. A warm and compelling weave of science and social engagement, this is the story of an improbably band of bird lovers who saved their park. And it is a blueprint for muscular citizenship, powered by joy.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/left-for-dead-by-ebony-canion--65184556https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Left for Dead Author: Ebony Canion Narrator: Adah King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 19, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Imagine having your innocence stolen at an early age by someone you trust, or struggling financially before even knowing the meaning of the word “struggling.” Ebony Canion has had her share of tumultuous events, yet even she was stunned when a speeding car hit her intentionally, dragging her through the streets with her body folded underneath the vehicle. In a coma for nearly two months, Ebony had no idea her tongue and face had to be sewn back on, or the list of thirty other life-threatening injuries she had sustained. Ebony didn’t know she’d been Left for Dead. In this horrifying first-hand account of a survivor, Ms. Canion delivers a riveting story about overcoming tragedy throughout her childhood, and developing the will to live after numerous attacks on her life. Her unimaginable determination to walk, talk, and eat again will leave you spellbound and inspired. Her scars tell a story that must be heard and will have you never wanting to complain again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627563Tue, 19 Dec 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Left for Dead Author: Ebony Canion Narrator: Adah King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 19, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Left for Dead Author: Ebony Canion Narrator: Adah King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 19, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Imagine having your innocence stolen at an early age by someone you trust, or struggling financially before even knowing the meaning of the word “struggling.” Ebony Canion has had her share of tumultuous events, yet even she was stunned when a speeding car hit her intentionally, dragging her through the streets with her body folded underneath the vehicle. In a coma for nearly two months, Ebony had no idea her tongue and face had to be sewn back on, or the list of thirty other life-threatening injuries she had sustained. Ebony didn’t know she’d been Left for Dead. In this horrifying first-hand account of a survivor, Ms. Canion delivers a riveting story about overcoming tragedy throughout her childhood, and developing the will to live after numerous attacks on her life. Her unimaginable determination to walk, talk, and eat again will leave you spellbound and inspired. Her scars tell a story that must be heard and will have you never wanting to complain again.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-boy-who-reached-for-the-stars-the-el-nino-que-alcanzo-las-estrellas-spa-una-by-elio-morillo--65184682https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614591 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Boy Who Reached for the Stars, The El nino que alcanzó las estrellas (SPA) Una Author: Elio Morillo Narrator: Cesar Ramones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 54 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: El joven ingeniero conocido como “el mecánico del espacio” (@THESPACEMECHANIC) comparte su apasionante historia, desde su infancia en Ecuador hasta su trabajo en la misión Marte 2020 de la NASA. Elio Morillo tenía cuatro años cuando una serie de dificultades económicas y familiares obligaron a su madre a abandonar Ecuador con él. En Nueva York, y más tarde en Puerto Rico, gracias a los sacrificios y el apoyo incondicional de su mamá, Elio descubrió el poder transformador de la educación y el esfuerzo, así como de la amistad y la ayuda desinteresada de los desconocidos. Su determinación lo llevó a trabajar en el Laboratorio de Propulsión a Chorro de la NASA para la Misión Marte 2020, donde fue ingeniero de pruebas y operaciones de sistema para el rover Perseverance e Ingenuity, el helicóptero de Marte. El niño que alcanzó las estrellas es una muestra de que, si te lo propones, tú también puedes realizar tus sueños, así sean tan grandes como alcanzar las estrellas. The young engineer known as ''the space mechanic'' (@THESPACEMECHANIC) shares his gripping story, from his childhood in Ecuador to his work on NASA's Mars 2020 mission. Elio Morillo was four years old when a series of economic and family difficulties forced his mother to leave Ecuador with him. In New York, and later in Puerto Rico, thanks to the sacrifices and unconditional support of his mother, Elio discovered the transformative power of education and effort, as well as friendship and the selfless help of strangers. His determination led him to work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Mars 2020 Mission, where he was a system tested and operations engineer for the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter. The boy who reached for the stars is a proof that, if you set your mind to it, you too can make your dreams come true, even if they are as big as reaching for the stars.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614591Tue, 05 Dec 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614591 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Boy Who Reached for the Stars, The El nino que alcanzó las estrellas (SPA) Una Author: Elio Morillo Narrator: Cesar Ramones Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614591 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Boy Who Reached for the Stars, The El nino que alcanzó las estrellas (SPA) Una Author: Elio Morillo Narrator: Cesar Ramones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 54 minutes Release date: December 5, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: El joven ingeniero conocido como “el mecánico del espacio” (@THESPACEMECHANIC) comparte su apasionante historia, desde su infancia en Ecuador hasta su trabajo en la misión Marte 2020 de la NASA. Elio Morillo tenía cuatro años cuando una serie de dificultades económicas y familiares obligaron a su madre a abandonar Ecuador con él. En Nueva York, y más tarde en Puerto Rico, gracias a los sacrificios y el apoyo incondicional de su mamá, Elio descubrió el poder transformador de la educación y el esfuerzo, así como de la amistad y la ayuda desinteresada de los desconocidos. Su determinación lo llevó a trabajar en el Laboratorio de Propulsión a Chorro de la NASA para la Misión Marte 2020, donde fue ingeniero de pruebas y operaciones de sistema para el rover Perseverance e Ingenuity, el helicóptero de Marte. El niño que alcanzó las estrellas es una muestra de que, si te lo propones, tú también puedes realizar tus sueños, así sean tan grandes como alcanzar las estrellas. The young engineer known as ''the space mechanic'' (@THESPACEMECHANIC) shares his gripping story, from his childhood in Ecuador to his work on NASA's Mars 2020 mission. Elio Morillo was four years old when a series of economic and family difficulties forced his mother to leave Ecuador with him. In New York, and later in Puerto Rico, thanks to the sacrifices and unconditional support of his mother, Elio discovered the transformative power of education and effort, as well as friendship and the selfless help of strangers. His determination led him to work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Mars 2020 Mission, where he was a system tested and operations engineer for the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter. The boy who reached for the stars is a proof that, if you set your mind to it, you too can make your dreams come true, even if they are as big as reaching for the stars.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/big-mouth-by-matt-preston--65184620https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615177 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Mouth Author: Matt Preston Narrator: Matt Preston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For a man who has been firmly in the public eye for the past decade or more, Matt Preston has been very, very quiet about his past and private life. There are reasons for this. Now, in Big Mouth, Matt opens up about his early years for the first time - the good and the bad, the tragic and the ecstatic. Like the man himself, it's a story that's joyous, funny and larger than life. It's also, perhaps unexpectedly, filled with pathos and emotional depth, set to a pulsating 1980s soundtrack. From his fractured childhood and the tragic death of his younger brother, to adoption, heroin, his disastrous time in the British Army and relocating to the other side of the world - where he would eventually find love and success - Matt writes frankly about it all. Naturally, food weaves its way through his story at every turn. His most memorable food experiences, from the exquisite and the excellent to the dreary and the dreadful, form the backdrop of a life well (and not so well) lived. This is a fresh, exciting, gloriously eccentric memoir from one of the food world's most beloved bon vivants.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615177Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615177 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Mouth Author: Matt Preston Narrator: Matt Preston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615177 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Mouth Author: Matt Preston Narrator: Matt Preston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For a man who has been firmly in the public eye for the past decade or more, Matt Preston has been very, very quiet about his past and private life. There are reasons for this. Now, in Big Mouth, Matt opens up about his early years for the first time - the good and the bad, the tragic and the ecstatic. Like the man himself, it's a story that's joyous, funny and larger than life. It's also, perhaps unexpectedly, filled with pathos and emotional depth, set to a pulsating 1980s soundtrack. From his fractured childhood and the tragic death of his younger brother, to adoption, heroin, his disastrous time in the British Army and relocating to the other side of the world - where he would eventually find love and success - Matt writes frankly about it all. Naturally, food weaves its way through his story at every turn. His most memorable food experiences, from the exquisite and the excellent to the dreary and the dreadful, form the backdrop of a life well (and not so well) lived. This is a fresh, exciting, gloriously eccentric memoir from one of the food world's most beloved bon vivants.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dreamseller-an-addiction-memoir-by-brandon-novak--65184557https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624473 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dreamseller: An Addiction Memoir Author: Brandon Novak Narrator: TBD Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Skateboarder and Jackass star Brandon Novak comes clean about his crazy rise to fame, tailspin into addiction, and other death-defying stunts on the road to recovery … At seven, Brandon was a skateboard prodigy. By the time he was fourteen, he was living the dream. Discovered by skate legends Bucky Lasek and Tony Hawk. Touring the US with the elite Powell-Peralta team. Signing autographs and appearing in films and magazines. Brandon had it all. Then he got hooked on heroin. Soon the up-and-coming star was living a down-and-out life in a garage, begging for change, and hustling to score his next fix. He stole from his family and friends. He pushed the fantasy that everything was okay, that he was going to rehab, getting help, and getting better. But it was all a lie. This is the story of an addict—a dreamseller who stopped believing the lies he was selling and started believing in himself. With the help of his celebrity buddy Bam Margera of Jackass fame, Brandon joined the cast of MTV’s Viva La Bam and made an honest reach for sobriety. The road was hard, and he had some falls. But like any great skateboarder, Brandon Novak was always determined to get up again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624473Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624473 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dreamseller: An Addiction Memoir Author: Brandon Novak Narrator: TBD Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 7,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624473 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dreamseller: An Addiction Memoir Author: Brandon Novak Narrator: TBD Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Skateboarder and Jackass star Brandon Novak comes clean about his crazy rise to fame, tailspin into addiction, and other death-defying stunts on the road to recovery … At seven, Brandon was a skateboard prodigy. By the time he was fourteen, he was living the dream. Discovered by skate legends Bucky Lasek and Tony Hawk. Touring the US with the elite Powell-Peralta team. Signing autographs and appearing in films and magazines. Brandon had it all. Then he got hooked on heroin. Soon the up-and-coming star was living a down-and-out life in a garage, begging for change, and hustling to score his next fix. He stole from his family and friends. He pushed the fantasy that everything was okay, that he was going to rehab, getting help, and getting better. But it was all a lie. This is the story of an addict—a dreamseller who stopped believing the lies he was selling and started believing in himself. With the help of his celebrity buddy Bam Margera of Jackass fame, Brandon joined the cast of MTV’s Viva La Bam and made an honest reach for sobriety. The road was hard, and he had some falls. But like any great skateboarder, Brandon Novak was always determined to get up again.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-grimoire-girl-a-memoir-of-magic-and-mischief-by-hilarie-burton-morgan--65184709https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief Author: Hilarie Burton Morgan Narrator: Hilarie Burton Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller  The long-awaited next book from actress and New York Times bestselling author of The Rural Diaries, Hilarie Burton Morgan. Through memoir essays and magical practices, Grimoire Girl connects us to the enchantment that exists inside us all. Since childhood, Hilarie Burton Morgan has felt the call to record, keep, and catalogue life in all its strange wonder. It was a whimsical habit, with no clear goal. And then, when she became a mother, the importance of all that collecting snapped into focus.  In an effort to patchwork together an anthology of traditions, curiosity, and magical thinking that she could pass down, Burton Morgan realized she was crafting a grimoire.  In her most intimate book yet, Burton Morgan shares how she’s creating an inheritance of mischief and magic that will outlive her. What’s more, she shows readers how they too can look at the elements of their lives and collect the pieces into a tangible collection of a lifetime of learning. Because in its purest form, a grimoire was a guide to keep you alive. Like the grimoires of old, full of life-saving wisdom, these pages record the people, places, ideas and habits that have kept Burton Morgan alive, in her signature voice that is at once honest, witty, and charming. Accompanied by whimsical two-color illustrations by Olivia Faust, the book also includes Simple Spells, which are ways to bring magic into your daily life: create an altar that delights and inspires, practice candle magic and poetry spells, make an oracle deck, or channel your inner kitchen witch with recipes and potions. So begin creating your own inheritance, take a long look inward and decide... What wisdom will be written on the pages of your Grimoire? Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614320Tue, 03 Oct 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief Author: Hilarie Burton Morgan Narrator: Hilarie Burton Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Grimoire Girl: A Memoir of Magic and Mischief Author: Hilarie Burton Morgan Narrator: Hilarie Burton Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller  The long-awaited next book from actress and New York Times bestselling author of The Rural Diaries, Hilarie Burton Morgan. Through memoir essays and magical practices, Grimoire Girl connects us to the enchantment that exists inside us all. Since childhood, Hilarie Burton Morgan has felt the call to record, keep, and catalogue life in all its strange wonder. It was a whimsical habit, with no clear goal. And then, when she became a mother, the importance of all that collecting snapped into focus.  In an effort to patchwork together an anthology of traditions, curiosity, and magical thinking that she could pass down, Burton Morgan realized she was crafting a grimoire.  In her most intimate book yet, Burton Morgan shares how she’s creating an inheritance of mischief and magic that will outlive her. What’s more, she shows readers how they too can look at the elements of their lives and collect the pieces into a tangible collection of a lifetime of learning. Because in its purest form, a grimoire was a guide to keep you alive. Like the grimoires of old, full of life-saving wisdom, these pages record the people, places, ideas and habits that have kept Burton Morgan alive, in her signature voice that is at once honest, witty, and charming. Accompanied by whimsical two-color illustrations by Olivia Faust, the book also includes Simple Spells, which are ways to bring magic into your daily life: create an altar that delights and inspires, practice candle magic and poetry spells, make an oracle deck, or channel your inner kitchen witch with recipes and potions. So begin creating your own inheritance, take a long look inward and decide... What wisdom will be written on the pages of your Grimoire? Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-closet-a-coming-of-age-story-of-love-awakenings-and-the-clothes-that-made-and-saved-me-by-teo-van-den-broeke--65184630https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Closet: A coming-of-age story of love, awakenings and the clothes that made (and saved) me Author: Teo Van Den Broeke Narrator: Teo Van De Broeke, Andrew Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Throughout his life, clothes have provided an outlet through which journalist Teo van den Broeke understands both himself and the world around him. Includes an exclusive interview with Andrew Scott. From the blue princess dress he coveted as a child, that first led him to question whether he was ‘normal’, through to the Nike cap and Gucci loafers he wore to impress the men he first desired, fabric has long enveloped and shaped his formative moments. Using the wardrobe of his past as a lens through which to explore the myriad trials and tribulations of adolescence, The Closet charts Teo’s growth from uncertainty to self-acceptance. Courageously recounting his sexual awakening, the all too familiar hesitancy around his adult future – and his many, often tumultuous, relationships with family and friends – Teo learns that it is only in celebrating our differences that we can learn to fully embrace the brilliance within ourselves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614949Thu, 28 Sep 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Closet: A coming-of-age story of love, awakenings and the clothes that made (and saved) me Author: Teo Van Den Broeke Narrator: Teo Van De Broeke,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Closet: A coming-of-age story of love, awakenings and the clothes that made (and saved) me Author: Teo Van Den Broeke Narrator: Teo Van De Broeke, Andrew Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Throughout his life, clothes have provided an outlet through which journalist Teo van den Broeke understands both himself and the world around him. Includes an exclusive interview with Andrew Scott. From the blue princess dress he coveted as a child, that first led him to question whether he was ‘normal’, through to the Nike cap and Gucci loafers he wore to impress the men he first desired, fabric has long enveloped and shaped his formative moments. Using the wardrobe of his past as a lens through which to explore the myriad trials and tribulations of adolescence, The Closet charts Teo’s growth from uncertainty to self-acceptance. Courageously recounting his sexual awakening, the all too familiar hesitancy around his adult future – and his many, often tumultuous, relationships with family and friends – Teo learns that it is only in celebrating our differences that we can learn to fully embrace the brilliance within ourselves.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/crisis-by-nicky-perfect--65184606https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crisis Author: Nicky Perfect Narrator: To Be Announced Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 31, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out of one of the busiest train stations in the country. He refused to talk to us, threatening to jump if we came too close. To him, we were the enemy. My job was to preserve his life. The most dangerous time in any negotiation is when you think you’re winning. From kidnappings to terrorist incidents, violent armed stand-offs to talking someone back from the ledge: all these make up the day-to-day life of Nicky Perfect’s job as a crisis and hostage negotiator. One of the first on the scene in situations that most would run from, Nicky is deployed to defuse the most volatile and fraught situations imaginable. After a decade on the frontlines, confronting the extremes of human behaviour, these are the stories and cases that have shaped a career spent on high alert, where life often hangs in the balance. It’s about finding yourself and following your passion, and of a life lived to help others.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620508Thu, 31 Aug 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crisis Author: Nicky Perfect Narrator: To Be Announced Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 31, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crisis Author: Nicky Perfect Narrator: To Be Announced Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 31, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out of one of the busiest train stations in the country. He refused to talk to us, threatening to jump if we came too close. To him, we were the enemy. My job was to preserve his life. The most dangerous time in any negotiation is when you think you’re winning. From kidnappings to terrorist incidents, violent armed stand-offs to talking someone back from the ledge: all these make up the day-to-day life of Nicky Perfect’s job as a crisis and hostage negotiator. One of the first on the scene in situations that most would run from, Nicky is deployed to defuse the most volatile and fraught situations imaginable. After a decade on the frontlines, confronting the extremes of human behaviour, these are the stories and cases that have shaped a career spent on high alert, where life often hangs in the balance. It’s about finding yourself and following your passion, and of a life lived to help others.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-chita-spanish-edition-by-chita-rivera--65184706https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Chita (Spanish edition) Author: Chita Rivera Narrator: Natalia Guadarrama Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Las memorias tan esperadas y tremendamente entretenidas de la leyenda del escenario Chita Rivera, tres veces ganadora del premio Tony, homenajeada en los Centros Kennedy y ganadora de la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad. Era conocida como Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, hasta que Broadway le cambió el nombre. Pero Dolores, el lado irreverente de Chita Rivera, que es sensual, oscura y feroz, nunca se alejó de la acción, y ella informó y dio forma a algunos de los papeles más aclamados del ícono de Broadway, incluidos Anita en WEST SIDE STORY, Rosie en BYE BYE BIRDIE, Velma en CHICAGO y Aurora en EL BESO DE LA MUJER ARAÑA. Con el deseo de llegar a los viejos fanáticos y transmitir su extraordinaria amplitud de experiencia a las nuevas generaciones, Chita lleva al lector a las habitaciones donde sucedió: la fermentación creativa, los choques de egos, los descubrimientos milagrosos, la euforia cuando todo salió bien. , la decepción cuando todo salió mal. Estamos con ella mientras trabaja con Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Hal Prince, Liza Minnelli, Sammy Davis Jr, Gwen Verdon y muchos otros. También aprendemos detalles profundamente conmovedores y reveladores sobre su educación y cómo eso ha sido un factor indeleble en su trabajo y carrera. Publicando el año en que Chita cumple 90 espectaculares años de juventud, CHITA es la inolvidable y apasionante historia personal de una artista que abrió su propio camino e inspiró a innumerables artistas a hacer lo mismo.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614324Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Chita (Spanish edition) Author: Chita Rivera Narrator: Natalia Guadarrama Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 25 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614324 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Chita (Spanish edition) Author: Chita Rivera Narrator: Natalia Guadarrama Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Las memorias tan esperadas y tremendamente entretenidas de la leyenda del escenario Chita Rivera, tres veces ganadora del premio Tony, homenajeada en los Centros Kennedy y ganadora de la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad. Era conocida como Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, hasta que Broadway le cambió el nombre. Pero Dolores, el lado irreverente de Chita Rivera, que es sensual, oscura y feroz, nunca se alejó de la acción, y ella informó y dio forma a algunos de los papeles más aclamados del ícono de Broadway, incluidos Anita en WEST SIDE STORY, Rosie en BYE BYE BIRDIE, Velma en CHICAGO y Aurora en EL BESO DE LA MUJER ARAÑA. Con el deseo de llegar a los viejos fanáticos y transmitir su extraordinaria amplitud de experiencia a las nuevas generaciones, Chita lleva al lector a las habitaciones donde sucedió: la fermentación creativa, los choques de egos, los descubrimientos milagrosos, la euforia cuando todo salió bien. , la decepción cuando todo salió mal. Estamos con ella mientras trabaja con Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Hal Prince, Liza Minnelli, Sammy Davis Jr, Gwen Verdon y muchos otros. También aprendemos detalles profundamente conmovedores y reveladores sobre su educación y cómo eso ha sido un factor indeleble en su trabajo y carrera. Publicando el año en que Chita cumple 90 espectaculares años de juventud, CHITA es la inolvidable y apasionante historia personal de una artista que abrió su propio camino e inspiró a innumerables artistas a hacer lo mismo.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/losing-young-how-to-grieve-when-your-life-is-just-beginning-by-rachel-wilson--65184597https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning Author: Rachel Wilson Narrator: Ashley Tucker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 17, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘An incredibly useful take on facing grief as a young person’ CARIAD LLOYD 'Brilliantly, brilliantly written … Packed with clarity, curiosity and courage' FELIX WHITE ‘It turned on so many lights for me … What a profoundly helpful book’ KATHRYN MANNIX Grief does something particular when it hits you young. This book is a moving exploration of that transformative pain, from the founder of The Grief Network. Rachel Wilson’s mother died when Rachel was in her twenties. It felt like the definitive end of childhood, a loss that rewired her perspective on life, death, relationships and who she was as a person. In this book, Rachel brings together other stories of bereavement with her own, encountering people who have lost parents, siblings, partners and friends at a young age. Losing Young draws on psychological research, interviews with titans like Julia Samuel and explorations of grief in history: what happens in a time of war or pandemic, when the many grieve – or struggle to – together? How do different cultures process the end of a life differently? How can the grief of losing a parent return in strange form when one thinks about having children? What do TV and fiction get disastrously, unhelpfully wrong? This is a personal and profound book about what happens when youth is reshaped by tragedy, trauma and loss. It’s for anyone who mourns a lost future, who is struggling to find themselves after grief, or hopes to feel less alone.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620502Thu, 17 Aug 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning Author: Rachel Wilson Narrator: Ashley Tucker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning Author: Rachel Wilson Narrator: Ashley Tucker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: August 17, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘An incredibly useful take on facing grief as a young person’ CARIAD LLOYD 'Brilliantly, brilliantly written … Packed with clarity, curiosity and courage' FELIX WHITE ‘It turned on so many lights for me … What a profoundly helpful book’ KATHRYN MANNIX Grief does something particular when it hits you young. This book is a moving exploration of that transformative pain, from the founder of The Grief Network. Rachel Wilson’s mother died when Rachel was in her twenties. It felt like the definitive end of childhood, a loss that rewired her perspective on life, death, relationships and who she was as a person. In this book, Rachel brings together other stories of bereavement with her own, encountering people who have lost parents, siblings, partners and friends at a young age. Losing Young draws on psychological research, interviews with titans like Julia Samuel and explorations of grief in history: what happens in a time of war or pandemic, when the many grieve – or struggle to – together? How do different cultures process the end of a life differently? How can the grief of losing a parent return in strange form when one thinks about having children? What do TV and fiction get disastrously, unhelpfully wrong? This is a personal and profound book about what happens when youth is reshaped by tragedy, trauma and loss. It’s for anyone who mourns a lost future, who is struggling to find themselves after grief, or hopes to feel less alone.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-fan-for-all-seasons-a-journey-through-life-and-sport-by-jon-harvey--65184576https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621924 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Fan for All Seasons: A Journey Through Life and Sport Author: Jon Harvey Narrator: Jon Harvey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A funny, heartfelt, nostalgia-infused story of grief, sport and the journey of a lifetime. What do you do when your world changes in an instant? For Jon Harvey, after the sudden death of his brother, it meant turning to the thing that had given him support, joy and a lifetime of memories: sport, in all its myriad sublime and ridiculous forms. A kaleidoscopic twelve months took him from London Olympia to ancient Olympia, from rugby balls to Rubik's Cubes, Wimbledon tennis to Wimbledon greyhounds, Twickenham to Frimley Green, Roger Federer to Martin 'Wolfie' Adams, and much, much more. It's a celebration, of a life shaped by sport, and the ultimate season ticket. ©2023 Jon Harvey (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621924Thu, 03 Aug 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621924 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Fan for All Seasons: A Journey Through Life and Sport Author: Jon Harvey Narrator: Jon Harvey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621924 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Fan for All Seasons: A Journey Through Life and Sport Author: Jon Harvey Narrator: Jon Harvey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 3, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A funny, heartfelt, nostalgia-infused story of grief, sport and the journey of a lifetime. What do you do when your world changes in an instant? For Jon Harvey, after the sudden death of his brother, it meant turning to the thing that had given him support, joy and a lifetime of memories: sport, in all its myriad sublime and ridiculous forms. A kaleidoscopic twelve months took him from London Olympia to ancient Olympia, from rugby balls to Rubik's Cubes, Wimbledon tennis to Wimbledon greyhounds, Twickenham to Frimley Green, Roger Federer to Martin 'Wolfie' Adams, and much, much more. It's a celebration, of a life shaped by sport, and the ultimate season ticket. ©2023 Jon Harvey (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sipping-dom-perignon-through-a-straw-reimagining-success-as-a-disabled-achiever-by-eddie-ndopu--65184602https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622438 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever Author: Eddie Ndopu Narrator: Eddie Ndopu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful   Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told that he wouldn’t live beyond age five and yet, Ndopu thrived. He grew up loving pop music, lip syncing the latest hits, and watching The Bold and the Beautiful for the haute couture, and was the only wheelchair user at his school, where he flourished academically. By his late teens, he had become a sought after speaker, travelling the world to address audiences about disability justice.  Ndopu was ecstatic when he was later accepted on a full scholarship into one of the world's most prestigious schools, Oxford University. But he soon learns that it's not just the medical community he must thwart— it's the educational one too.  In Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw, we follow Ndopu, sporting his oversized, bejewelled sunglasses, as he scales the mountain of success, only to find exclusion, discrimination, and neglect waiting for him on the other side. Like every other student, Ndopu tries to keep up appearances—dashing to and from his public policy lectures before meeting for cocktails with his squad, all while campaigning to become student body president. Privately, however, Ndopu faces obstacles that are all too familiar to people with disabilities, yet remain unnoticed by most people. With the revolving door of care aides, hefty bills, and a lack of support from the university, Ndopu feels alienated by his environment. As he soars professionally, sipping champagne with world leaders, he continues to feel the loneliness and pressure of being the only one in the room. Determined to carve out his place in the world, he must challenge bias at the highest echelons of power and prestige. But as the pressure mounts, Ndopu must find his stride or collapse under the crushing weight of ableism. Written with his one good finger, this evocative, searing, and vulnerable prose will leave you spellbound by Ndopu’s remarkable journey to reach beyond ableism, reminding us of our own capacity for resilience.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622438Tue, 01 Aug 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622438 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever Author: Eddie Ndopu Narrator: Eddie Ndopu Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622438 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever Author: Eddie Ndopu Narrator: Eddie Ndopu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful   Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told that he wouldn’t live beyond age five and yet, Ndopu thrived. He grew up loving pop music, lip syncing the latest hits, and watching The Bold and the Beautiful for the haute couture, and was the only wheelchair user at his school, where he flourished academically. By his late teens, he had become a sought after speaker, travelling the world to address audiences about disability justice.  Ndopu was ecstatic when he was later accepted on a full scholarship into one of the world's most prestigious schools, Oxford University. But he soon learns that it's not just the medical community he must thwart— it's the educational one too.  In Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw, we follow Ndopu, sporting his oversized, bejewelled sunglasses, as he scales the mountain of success, only to find exclusion, discrimination, and neglect waiting for him on the other side. Like every other student, Ndopu tries to keep up appearances—dashing to and from his public policy lectures before meeting for cocktails with his squad, all while campaigning to become student body president. Privately, however, Ndopu faces obstacles that are all too familiar to people with disabilities, yet remain unnoticed by most people. With the revolving door of care aides, hefty bills, and a lack of support from the university, Ndopu feels alienated by his environment. As he soars professionally, sipping champagne with world leaders, he continues to feel the loneliness and pressure of being the only one in the room. Determined to carve out his place in the world, he must challenge bias at the highest echelons of power and prestige. But as the pressure mounts, Ndopu must find his stride or collapse under the crushing weight of ableism. Written with his one good finger, this evocative, searing, and vulnerable prose will leave you spellbound by Ndopu’s remarkable journey to reach beyond ableism, reminding us of our own capacity for resilience.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/scatter-brain-how-i-finally-got-off-the-adhd-rollercoaster-and-became-the-owner-of-a-very-tidy-sock-drawer-by-shaparak-khorsandi--65184649https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scatter Brain: How I finally got off the ADHD rollercoaster and became the owner of a very tidy sock drawer Author: Shaparak Khorsandi Narrator: Shaparak Khorsandi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Some brains, through no fault of their own, pack a bag, turn the lights off and run away to the seaside the moment they are meant to be doing homework, paying bills or not putting the cat in the fridge. These are ADHD brains. I have one and believe they are as common as being left-handed, flat footed or genuinely enjoying anchovies on a pizza. Undiagnosed Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder made my life a frustrating, maddening rollercoaster. I had very little focus except when I was hyper-focusing (and then it would always be on the wrong things), I made the same mistakes over and over again, regularly burning myself out until I was sobbing. When I finally was diagnosed in my 40s it felt like the lights had been turned on after a lifetime in the dark. Join much-loved comedian Shappi Khorsandi as she looks back on her life through the lens of ADHD and finally makes sense of the chaos. From discovering the joys of shoplifting through to finally understanding her attraction to toxic men, Scatter Brain will have you laughing (and crying) as you find out what it's really like to live a life out of control. Whether you suspect you might have ADHD or you're here to enjoy the ride, let Shappi take you on her hilarious journey of self-discovery where you just might learn something useful about yourself too! ©2023 Shaparak Khorsandi (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622639Thu, 13 Jul 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scatter Brain: How I finally got off the ADHD rollercoaster and became the owner of a very tidy sock drawer Author: Shaparak Khorsandi Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scatter Brain: How I finally got off the ADHD rollercoaster and became the owner of a very tidy sock drawer Author: Shaparak Khorsandi Narrator: Shaparak Khorsandi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Some brains, through no fault of their own, pack a bag, turn the lights off and run away to the seaside the moment they are meant to be doing homework, paying bills or not putting the cat in the fridge. These are ADHD brains. I have one and believe they are as common as being left-handed, flat footed or genuinely enjoying anchovies on a pizza. Undiagnosed Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder made my life a frustrating, maddening rollercoaster. I had very little focus except when I was hyper-focusing (and then it would always be on the wrong things), I made the same mistakes over and over again, regularly burning myself out until I was sobbing. When I finally was diagnosed in my 40s it felt like the lights had been turned on after a lifetime in the dark. Join much-loved comedian Shappi Khorsandi as she looks back on her life through the lens of ADHD and finally makes sense of the chaos. From discovering the joys of shoplifting through to finally understanding her attraction to toxic men, Scatter Brain will have you laughing (and crying) as you find out what it's really like to live a life out of control. Whether you suspect you might have ADHD or you're here to enjoy the ride, let Shappi take you on her hilarious journey of self-discovery where you just might learn something useful about yourself too! ©2023 Shaparak Khorsandi (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/where-in-the-om-am-i-one-woman-s-journey-from-the-corporate-world-to-the-yoga-mat-by-sara-divello--65184581https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where in the Om Am I?: One Woman's Journey from the Corporate World to the Yoga Mat Author: Sara Divello Narrator: Eileen Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Now a cult classic, Where in the Om Am I? is an irreverent, honest, and hilarious memoir of a woman’s journey from the corporate world to the perilous world of yoga. Sara has invested years dutifully climbing the corporate ladder to become head of public relations at a major financial-services company, but she can’t shake the feeling that she’s not where she belongs. When her latest boss, a wine-guzzling, drama-loving diva, finally drives her to the brink, Sara seeks sanctuary in yoga-teacher training—only to encounter an entirely different assortment of craziness and calamity. Where in the OM Am I? chronicles one woman’s journey from the fast-paced, cutthroat corporate world to the slow-paced, surprisingly catty, and sometimes perilous world of yoga. Along the way, Sara confronts the harsh reality of working in a male-dominated industry, the challenges of being a corporate interloper in the yoga community, and the complexity of interactions between women in both realms. As epic mishaps beget personal revelations, Sara digs deep for the courage to forge a new life for herself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624469Tue, 27 Jun 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where in the Om Am I?: One Woman's Journey from the Corporate World to the Yoga Mat Author: Sara Divello Narrator: Eileen Stevens Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624469 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where in the Om Am I?: One Woman's Journey from the Corporate World to the Yoga Mat Author: Sara Divello Narrator: Eileen Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Now a cult classic, Where in the Om Am I? is an irreverent, honest, and hilarious memoir of a woman’s journey from the corporate world to the perilous world of yoga. Sara has invested years dutifully climbing the corporate ladder to become head of public relations at a major financial-services company, but she can’t shake the feeling that she’s not where she belongs. When her latest boss, a wine-guzzling, drama-loving diva, finally drives her to the brink, Sara seeks sanctuary in yoga-teacher training—only to encounter an entirely different assortment of craziness and calamity. Where in the OM Am I? chronicles one woman’s journey from the fast-paced, cutthroat corporate world to the slow-paced, surprisingly catty, and sometimes perilous world of yoga. Along the way, Sara confronts the harsh reality of working in a male-dominated industry, the challenges of being a corporate interloper in the yoga community, and the complexity of interactions between women in both realms. As epic mishaps beget personal revelations, Sara digs deep for the courage to forge a new life for herself.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/adult-drama-and-other-essays-by-natalie-beach--65184596https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adult Drama: And Other Essays Author: Natalie Beach Narrator: Natalie Beach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the writer whose New York Magazine piece "I Was Caroline Calloway" broke the internet comes a fresh, incisive, laugh-out-loud funny memoir-in-essays about the frenzied journey to adulthood. Natalie Beach became an internet sensation when her essay on her toxic friendship with Instagram influencer Caroline Calloway went viral. Now, for the first time, and in her own indelible voice, Beach offers a revelatory glimpse into her own life alongside a broader cultural criticism of the world today. Through stories of heartbreak, odd jobs, political activism, existential crises and low-rise jeans, Natalie Beach explores the high stakes and absurdist comedy of coming of age in a world gone mad. Effervescent, hilarious and unflinchingly self-aware, Adult Drama marks the arrival of an electrifying new literary voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622026Tue, 20 Jun 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adult Drama: And Other Essays Author: Natalie Beach Narrator: Natalie Beach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 51 minutes Release date: June...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adult Drama: And Other Essays Author: Natalie Beach Narrator: Natalie Beach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the writer whose New York Magazine piece "I Was Caroline Calloway" broke the internet comes a fresh, incisive, laugh-out-loud funny memoir-in-essays about the frenzied journey to adulthood. Natalie Beach became an internet sensation when her essay on her toxic friendship with Instagram influencer Caroline Calloway went viral. Now, for the first time, and in her own indelible voice, Beach offers a revelatory glimpse into her own life alongside a broader cultural criticism of the world today. Through stories of heartbreak, odd jobs, political activism, existential crises and low-rise jeans, Natalie Beach explores the high stakes and absurdist comedy of coming of age in a world gone mad. Effervescent, hilarious and unflinchingly self-aware, Adult Drama marks the arrival of an electrifying new literary voice.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wannabe-reckonings-with-the-pop-culture-that-shapes-me-by-aisha-harris--65184684https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture that Shapes Me Author: Aisha Harris Narrator: Aisha Harris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: BEST READS OF 2023: New York Times Book Review • USA Today • The Skimm • Bookpage • St Louis Post-Dispatch / BEST HOLIDAY GIFTS 2023: Publishers Weekly / MOST ANTICIPATED READS OF 2023: ELLE • The Millions • Essence “Aisha Harris is one of our smartest, most entertaining modern cultural critics (…) which might as well be parlance for, “Read me immediately.”—ELLE Aisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn to for a razor-sharp take on whatever show or movie everyone is talking about. Now, she turns her talents inward, mining the benchmarks of her nineties childhood and beyond to analyze the tropes that are shaping all of us, and our ability to shape them right back. In the opening essay, an interaction with Chance the Rapper prompts an investigation into the origin myth of her name. Elsewhere, Aisha traces the evolution of the “Black Friend” trope from its Twainian origins through to the heyday of the Spice Girls, teen comedies like Clueless, and sitcoms of the New Girl variety. And she examines the overlap of taste and identity in this era, rejecting the patriarchal ethos that you are what you like. Whatever the subject, sitting down with her book feels like hanging out with your smart, hilarious, pop culture–obsessed friend—and it’s a delight.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616339Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture that Shapes Me Author: Aisha Harris Narrator: Aisha Harris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616339 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture that Shapes Me Author: Aisha Harris Narrator: Aisha Harris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: BEST READS OF 2023: New York Times Book Review • USA Today • The Skimm • Bookpage • St Louis Post-Dispatch / BEST HOLIDAY GIFTS 2023: Publishers Weekly / MOST ANTICIPATED READS OF 2023: ELLE • The Millions • Essence “Aisha Harris is one of our smartest, most entertaining modern cultural critics (…) which might as well be parlance for, “Read me immediately.”—ELLE Aisha Harris has made a name for herself as someone you can turn to for a razor-sharp take on whatever show or movie everyone is talking about. Now, she turns her talents inward, mining the benchmarks of her nineties childhood and beyond to analyze the tropes that are shaping all of us, and our ability to shape them right back. In the opening essay, an interaction with Chance the Rapper prompts an investigation into the origin myth of her name. Elsewhere, Aisha traces the evolution of the “Black Friend” trope from its Twainian origins through to the heyday of the Spice Girls, teen comedies like Clueless, and sitcoms of the New Girl variety. And she examines the overlap of taste and identity in this era, rejecting the patriarchal ethos that you are what you like. Whatever the subject, sitting down with her book feels like hanging out with your smart, hilarious, pop culture–obsessed friend—and it’s a delight.]]>305cleanfullhttps://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--65184590https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622640 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 27 minutes Release date: June 8, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. THE LONG-AWAITED, MOVING MEMOIR OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR HANNAH PICK-GOSLAR, WHO SHARES AN INTIMATE LOOK INTO HER LIFE AND FRIENDSHIP WITH ANNE FRANK. 'As a girl I witnessed the world I loved crumble and vanish, destroyed by senseless hatred, and with it, my best friend Anne' Two best friends' lives were about to change for ever, neither would ever be forgotten... When Hannah's family flee from the Nazis to Amsterdam, she soon strikes up a friendship with a girl just like her freshly arrived from Germany. Precocious and outspoken, the girl's name is Anne Frank and for seven blissful years the inseparable pair navigate school, boys and coming of age. Then one day in 1942, as the Nazi occupation intensifies, they are separated without warning. Hannah calls on Anne and can't find a trace of her, breakfast dishes still in the sink, beds unmade. Anne and her family have seemingly vanished. They are told the Franks have fled to Switzerland. As Hannah is tormented by the fate of her friend, hoping she is alive and well elsewhere, her own family's fate unfolds. After attempts to flee themselves, the SS finally come for them and they are taken to the transit camp Westerbork. Eventually Hannah, her father and younger sister Gabi are transported to Bergen-Belsen. Amid horrific conditions with death all around, it is during Hannah's darkest point at the concentration camp that she hears astonishing of news of Anne. Desperate to save her friend who is weak and struggling to survive, Hannah risks her life to help her. In an incredible memoir of hope, strength and defiance, Hannah shares the intimate, loving portrait of her friendship with the young diarist who would go on to capture the hearts of millions around the world. ©2023 Hannah Pick-Goslar (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622640Thu, 08 Jun 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622640 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/622640 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 27 minutes Release date: June 8, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. THE LONG-AWAITED, MOVING MEMOIR OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR HANNAH PICK-GOSLAR, WHO SHARES AN INTIMATE LOOK INTO HER LIFE AND FRIENDSHIP WITH ANNE FRANK. 'As a girl I witnessed the world I loved crumble and vanish, destroyed by senseless hatred, and with it, my best friend Anne' Two best friends' lives were about to change for ever, neither would ever be forgotten... When Hannah's family flee from the Nazis to Amsterdam, she soon strikes up a friendship with a girl just like her freshly arrived from Germany. Precocious and outspoken, the girl's name is Anne Frank and for seven blissful years the inseparable pair navigate school, boys and coming of age. Then one day in 1942, as the Nazi occupation intensifies, they are separated without warning. Hannah calls on Anne and can't find a trace of her, breakfast dishes still in the sink, beds unmade. Anne and her family have seemingly vanished. They are told the Franks have fled to Switzerland. As Hannah is tormented by the fate of her friend, hoping she is alive and well elsewhere, her own family's fate unfolds. After attempts to flee themselves, the SS finally come for them and they are taken to the transit camp Westerbork. Eventually Hannah, her father and younger sister Gabi are transported to Bergen-Belsen. Amid horrific conditions with death all around, it is during Hannah's darkest point at the concentration camp that she hears astonishing of news of Anne. Desperate to save her friend who is weak and struggling to survive, Hannah risks her life to help her. In an incredible memoir of hope, strength and defiance, Hannah shares the intimate, loving portrait of her friendship with the young diarist who would go on to capture the hearts of millions around the world. ©2023 Hannah Pick-Goslar (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rural-the-lives-of-the-working-class-countryside-by-rebecca-smith--65184510https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside Author: Rebecca Smith Narrator: Rebecca Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: June 8, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024 ‘Eye-opening and persuasive’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Brilliant … I loved it’ KIT DE WAAL ‘Thoughtful, moving, honest’ CAL FLYN *Winner of The Lakeland Book of the Year 2024* Work in the countryside ties you, soul and salary, to the land. But often those who labour in nature have the least control over what happens there. Why have our rural industries been replaced by tourism? Why can't people stay living in the places they grew up? In this beautifully observed book, Rebecca Smith traces the stories of foresters and millworkers, miners, builders, farmers and pub owners, to paint a picture of the working class lives that often go overlooked. This is a book for anyone who loves and longs for the countryside.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626422Thu, 08 Jun 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside Author: Rebecca Smith Narrator: Rebecca Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside Author: Rebecca Smith Narrator: Rebecca Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: June 8, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024 ‘Eye-opening and persuasive’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Brilliant … I loved it’ KIT DE WAAL ‘Thoughtful, moving, honest’ CAL FLYN *Winner of The Lakeland Book of the Year 2024* Work in the countryside ties you, soul and salary, to the land. But often those who labour in nature have the least control over what happens there. Why have our rural industries been replaced by tourism? Why can't people stay living in the places they grew up? In this beautifully observed book, Rebecca Smith traces the stories of foresters and millworkers, miners, builders, farmers and pub owners, to paint a picture of the working class lives that often go overlooked. This is a book for anyone who loves and longs for the countryside.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-hijacking-a-personal-history-of-forgetting-and-remembering-by-martha-hodes--65184509https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering Author: Martha Hodes Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970. On September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha Hodes and her thirteen-year-old sister were flying unaccompanied back to New York City from Israel when their plane was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and forced to land in the Jordan desert. Too young to understand the sheer gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Martha coped by suppressing her fear and anxiety. Nearly a half-century later, her memories of those six days and nights as a hostage are hazy and scattered. Was it the passage of so much time, or that her family couldn’t endure the full story, or had trauma made her repress such an intense life-and-death experience? A professional historian, Martha wanted to find out. Drawing on deep archival research, childhood memories, and conversations with relatives, friends, and fellow hostages, Martha Hodes sets out to re-create what happened to her, and what it was like for those at home desperately hoping for her return. Thrown together inside a stifling jetliner, the hostages forged friendships, provoked conflicts, and dreamed up distractions. Learning about the lives and causes of their captors—some of them kind, some frightening—the sisters pondered a deadly divide that continues today.  A thrilling tale of fear, denial, and empathy, My Hijacking sheds light on the hostage crisis that shocked the world, as the author comes to a deeper understanding of both what happened in the Jordan desert in 1970 and her own fractured family and childhood sorrows.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624940Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering Author: Martha Hodes Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering Author: Martha Hodes Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970. On September 6, 1970, twelve-year-old Martha Hodes and her thirteen-year-old sister were flying unaccompanied back to New York City from Israel when their plane was hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and forced to land in the Jordan desert. Too young to understand the sheer gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Martha coped by suppressing her fear and anxiety. Nearly a half-century later, her memories of those six days and nights as a hostage are hazy and scattered. Was it the passage of so much time, or that her family couldn’t endure the full story, or had trauma made her repress such an intense life-and-death experience? A professional historian, Martha wanted to find out. Drawing on deep archival research, childhood memories, and conversations with relatives, friends, and fellow hostages, Martha Hodes sets out to re-create what happened to her, and what it was like for those at home desperately hoping for her return. Thrown together inside a stifling jetliner, the hostages forged friendships, provoked conflicts, and dreamed up distractions. Learning about the lives and causes of their captors—some of them kind, some frightening—the sisters pondered a deadly divide that continues today.  A thrilling tale of fear, denial, and empathy, My Hijacking sheds light on the hostage crisis that shocked the world, as the author comes to a deeper understanding of both what happened in the Jordan desert in 1970 and her own fractured family and childhood sorrows.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/everything-all-at-once-a-memoir-by-stephanie-catudal--65184600https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything All At Once: A Memoir Author: Stephanie Catudal Narrator: Stephanie Catudal, Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller  An intimate and evocative memoir one woman’s experience with the universality of grief and the redemptive power of love as she endures her husband’s 84-day battle with lung cancer. When Steph Catudal met her husband Rivs, she thought that the love, stability, and warmth she shared with her husband had finally dispelled her pent-up anger and grief over the loss of her father and her faith. But when Rivs became ill and was put into coma at the height of the pandemic, the painful memories of her childhood—watching her father die of cancer—came flooding back. Written with lush lyricism, Steph’s account of how this crisis forced her to confront her past is raw, illuminating, and heartbreaking: her father’s death that wrecked her faith in God and jumpstarted a decade of rebellion, including running away from home and living out of a van at age 16, struggling with alcoholism, and delving into drugs to ease her pain. Sitting by Rivs's bedside, she grappled with the memories of the past and the uncertainties of the future while reckoning with the unknowns of her husband’s illness. Rivs would endure a grueling 84 days in a medically induced coma, eventually undergoing chemo for a similar illness that stole her father. Like Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, and Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart, Everything All At Once is a heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting reflection on resilience and a powerful reminder that we can find healing no matter how broken we are.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622329Tue, 30 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything All At Once: A Memoir Author: Stephanie Catudal Narrator: Stephanie Catudal, Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything All At Once: A Memoir Author: Stephanie Catudal Narrator: Stephanie Catudal, Allyson Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller  An intimate and evocative memoir one woman’s experience with the universality of grief and the redemptive power of love as she endures her husband’s 84-day battle with lung cancer. When Steph Catudal met her husband Rivs, she thought that the love, stability, and warmth she shared with her husband had finally dispelled her pent-up anger and grief over the loss of her father and her faith. But when Rivs became ill and was put into coma at the height of the pandemic, the painful memories of her childhood—watching her father die of cancer—came flooding back. Written with lush lyricism, Steph’s account of how this crisis forced her to confront her past is raw, illuminating, and heartbreaking: her father’s death that wrecked her faith in God and jumpstarted a decade of rebellion, including running away from home and living out of a van at age 16, struggling with alcoholism, and delving into drugs to ease her pain. Sitting by Rivs's bedside, she grappled with the memories of the past and the uncertainties of the future while reckoning with the unknowns of her husband’s illness. Rivs would endure a grueling 84 days in a medically induced coma, eventually undergoing chemo for a similar illness that stole her father. Like Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, and Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart, Everything All At Once is a heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting reflection on resilience and a powerful reminder that we can find healing no matter how broken we are.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/is-this-ok-one-woman-s-search-for-connection-online-by-harriet-gibsone--65184594https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Is This OK?: One Woman's Search For Connection Online Author: Harriet Gibsone Narrator: Harriet Gibsone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 25, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Persistently funny, ill-advisedly honest and deadly accurate' – Caitlin Moran 'This book is a delight - very real and very entertaining' – Bob Mortimer Music journalist, self-professed creep and former winner of the coveted ‘Fittest Girl in Year 11’ award, Harriet Gibsone lives in fear of her internet searches being leaked. Harriet spent much of her young life feeding neuroses and insecurities with obsessive internet searching (including compulsive googling of exes, prospective partners, and their exes), and indulging in whirlwind ‘parasocial relationships’ (translation: one-sided affairs with celebrities she has never met). Suddenly, with a diagnosis of early menopause in her late twenties, her relationship with the internet takes a darker turn, as her online addictions are thrown into sharp relief by the corporeal realities of illness and motherhood. An outrageously funny, raw and painfully honest account of trying to find connection in the age of the internet, Is This Ok? is the launch of an exciting new comic voice. The audiobook is narrated by Harriet Gibsone and includes an exclusive audio Q&A with Harriet. 'Very funny and deeply moving' – Sara Pascoe 'Hilarious and brutal! I could not put it down' – Lou Sanders]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622345Thu, 25 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Is This OK?: One Woman's Search For Connection Online Author: Harriet Gibsone Narrator: Harriet Gibsone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Is This OK?: One Woman's Search For Connection Online Author: Harriet Gibsone Narrator: Harriet Gibsone Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 25, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Persistently funny, ill-advisedly honest and deadly accurate' – Caitlin Moran 'This book is a delight - very real and very entertaining' – Bob Mortimer Music journalist, self-professed creep and former winner of the coveted ‘Fittest Girl in Year 11’ award, Harriet Gibsone lives in fear of her internet searches being leaked. Harriet spent much of her young life feeding neuroses and insecurities with obsessive internet searching (including compulsive googling of exes, prospective partners, and their exes), and indulging in whirlwind ‘parasocial relationships’ (translation: one-sided affairs with celebrities she has never met). Suddenly, with a diagnosis of early menopause in her late twenties, her relationship with the internet takes a darker turn, as her online addictions are thrown into sharp relief by the corporeal realities of illness and motherhood. An outrageously funny, raw and painfully honest account of trying to find connection in the age of the internet, Is This Ok? is the launch of an exciting new comic voice. The audiobook is narrated by Harriet Gibsone and includes an exclusive audio Q&A with Harriet. 'Very funny and deeply moving' – Sara Pascoe 'Hilarious and brutal! I could not put it down' – Lou Sanders]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-extra-mile-by-kevin-sinfield--65184591https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Extra Mile Author: Kevin Sinfield Narrator: Kevin Sinfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The extraordinary memoir of the sporting icon, devoted friend and fundraising hero who has inspired the nation in his fight against MND. 'An inspirational and life-affirming read. What Kevin Sinfield has achieved on and off the field is truly remarkable. His inspiring leadership and relentless focus on fundraising for MND shows how we should all strive to care more for each other' Gareth Southgate The Extra Mile is no ordinary sports memoir. But Kevin Sinfield is no ordinary sportsman. A one-club legend of Leeds Rhinos, who has now crossed codes as a defence coach for Leicester Tigers, Kevin Sinfield is a rugby icon. But in recent years has shown heroism of a very different kind through his selfless and extraordinary fundraising for Motor neurone disease (MND), the terminal illness that has affected his best mate and former teammate Rob Burrow. Sinfield's epic challenges have included running 7 marathons in 7 days, and running over 101 miles in 24 hours. In the process, Sinfield has captured the hearts of the nation and raised nearly £5 million for MND. He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday honours for his efforts. Told with Sinfield's characteristic warmth, dry wit and inspirational leadership, The Extra mile is the story of an astonishing life, of an enduring friendship, of perseverance against the most difficult of challenges, and of a remarkable, humble human being who has defied the odds. The book equips readers with the tools and the mindset to embrace togetherness and to overcome their own challenges. It leaves the reader with the urgent question: Who would you go the extra mile for to help in life? © Kevin Sinfield 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622365Thu, 25 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Extra Mile Author: Kevin Sinfield Narrator: Kevin Sinfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 25, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Extra Mile Author: Kevin Sinfield Narrator: Kevin Sinfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The extraordinary memoir of the sporting icon, devoted friend and fundraising hero who has inspired the nation in his fight against MND. 'An inspirational and life-affirming read. What Kevin Sinfield has achieved on and off the field is truly remarkable. His inspiring leadership and relentless focus on fundraising for MND shows how we should all strive to care more for each other' Gareth Southgate The Extra Mile is no ordinary sports memoir. But Kevin Sinfield is no ordinary sportsman. A one-club legend of Leeds Rhinos, who has now crossed codes as a defence coach for Leicester Tigers, Kevin Sinfield is a rugby icon. But in recent years has shown heroism of a very different kind through his selfless and extraordinary fundraising for Motor neurone disease (MND), the terminal illness that has affected his best mate and former teammate Rob Burrow. Sinfield's epic challenges have included running 7 marathons in 7 days, and running over 101 miles in 24 hours. In the process, Sinfield has captured the hearts of the nation and raised nearly £5 million for MND. He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday honours for his efforts. Told with Sinfield's characteristic warmth, dry wit and inspirational leadership, The Extra mile is the story of an astonishing life, of an enduring friendship, of perseverance against the most difficult of challenges, and of a remarkable, humble human being who has defied the odds. The book equips readers with the tools and the mindset to embrace togetherness and to overcome their own challenges. It leaves the reader with the urgent question: Who would you go the extra mile for to help in life? © Kevin Sinfield 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-the-world-didn-t-end-a-memoir-by-guinevere-turner--65184604https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When the World Didn't End: A Memoir Author: Guinevere Turner Narrator: Guinevere Turner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family cult—and the complicated and unexpected pain of leaving the only home she’d ever known A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR On January 5, 1975, the world was supposed to end. Under strict instructions, six-year-old Guinevere Turner put on her best dress, grabbed her favorite toy, and waited with the rest of her community for salvation—a spaceship that would take them to live on Venus. But the spaceship never came. Guinevere did not understand that her family was a cult. She spent most of her days on a compound in Kansas, living apart from her mother with dozens of other children who worked in the sorghum fields and roved freely through the surrounding pastures, eating mulberries and tending to farm animals. But there was a dark side to this bucolic existence. Guinevere was part of the Lyman Family, a secluded cult spearheaded by Mel Lyman, a self-proclaimed savior, committed to isolation from a World he declared had lost its way. When Guinevere caught the attention of Jessie, the woman everyone in the Family called the Queen, her status was elevated—suddenly she was traveling with the inner circle among communities in Los Angeles, Boston, and Martha’s Vineyard. But before long, the life Guinevere had known ended. Her mother, from whom she had been separated since age three, left the Family with another disgraced member, and Guinevere and her four-year-old sister were forced to leave with them. Traveling outside the bounds of her cloistered existence, Guinevere was thrust into public school for the first time, a stranger in a strange land wearing homemade clothes, and clueless about social codes. Now out in the World she’d been raised to believe was evil, she faced challenges and horrors she couldn’t have imagined. Drawing from the diaries that she kept throughout her youth, Guinevere Turner’s memoir is an intimate and heart-wrenching chronicle of a childhood touched with extraordinary beauty and unfathomable ugliness, the ache of yearning to return to a lost home—and the slow realization of how harmful that place really was.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620380Tue, 23 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When the World Didn't End: A Memoir Author: Guinevere Turner Narrator: Guinevere Turner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When the World Didn't End: A Memoir Author: Guinevere Turner Narrator: Guinevere Turner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family cult—and the complicated and unexpected pain of leaving the only home she’d ever known A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR On January 5, 1975, the world was supposed to end. Under strict instructions, six-year-old Guinevere Turner put on her best dress, grabbed her favorite toy, and waited with the rest of her community for salvation—a spaceship that would take them to live on Venus. But the spaceship never came. Guinevere did not understand that her family was a cult. She spent most of her days on a compound in Kansas, living apart from her mother with dozens of other children who worked in the sorghum fields and roved freely through the surrounding pastures, eating mulberries and tending to farm animals. But there was a dark side to this bucolic existence. Guinevere was part of the Lyman Family, a secluded cult spearheaded by Mel Lyman, a self-proclaimed savior, committed to isolation from a World he declared had lost its way. When Guinevere caught the attention of Jessie, the woman everyone in the Family called the Queen, her status was elevated—suddenly she was traveling with the inner circle among communities in Los Angeles, Boston, and Martha’s Vineyard. But before long, the life Guinevere had known ended. Her mother, from whom she had been separated since age three, left the Family with another disgraced member, and Guinevere and her four-year-old sister were forced to leave with them. Traveling outside the bounds of her cloistered existence, Guinevere was thrust into public school for the first time, a stranger in a strange land wearing homemade clothes, and clueless about social codes. Now out in the World she’d been raised to believe was evil, she faced challenges and horrors she couldn’t have imagined. Drawing from the diaries that she kept throughout her youth, Guinevere Turner’s memoir is an intimate and heart-wrenching chronicle of a childhood touched with extraordinary beauty and unfathomable ugliness, the ache of yearning to return to a lost home—and the slow realization of how harmful that place really was.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hermit-a-memoir-of-finding-freedom-in-a-wild-place-by-jade-angeles-fitton--65184542https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626927 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hermit: A memoir of finding freedom in a wild place Author: Jade Angeles Fitton Narrator: Jade Angeles Fitton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. When Jade's partner leaves the barn that they moved into just weeks before, he leaves a dent in the wall and her life unravelled. Numbed from years in the destructive relationship, she faces an uncertain future and complete solitude. Slowly, with the help of Devon's salted cliffs and damp forested footpaths, Jade comes back to life and discovers the power of being alone. Through conversations with other hermits across the world, Fitton sheds light on an extraordinary and misunderstood way of living which has survived into the 21st century - from monks, to hikikomori, and the often ignored female hermit. Lyrically written, this is an inspirational story of recovery, of finding home and of celebration of solitude in the natural world. ©2023 Jade Angeles Fitton (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626927Thu, 18 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626927 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hermit: A memoir of finding freedom in a wild place Author: Jade Angeles Fitton Narrator: Jade Angeles Fitton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626927 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hermit: A memoir of finding freedom in a wild place Author: Jade Angeles Fitton Narrator: Jade Angeles Fitton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. When Jade's partner leaves the barn that they moved into just weeks before, he leaves a dent in the wall and her life unravelled. Numbed from years in the destructive relationship, she faces an uncertain future and complete solitude. Slowly, with the help of Devon's salted cliffs and damp forested footpaths, Jade comes back to life and discovers the power of being alone. Through conversations with other hermits across the world, Fitton sheds light on an extraordinary and misunderstood way of living which has survived into the 21st century - from monks, to hikikomori, and the often ignored female hermit. Lyrically written, this is an inspirational story of recovery, of finding home and of celebration of solitude in the natural world. ©2023 Jade Angeles Fitton (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-it-takes-to-save-a-life-a-veterinarian-s-quest-for-healing-and-hope-by-kwane-stewart--65184697https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616346 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What It Takes to Save a Life: A Veterinarian’s Quest for Healing and Hope Author: Kwane Stewart Narrator: Ron Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Mountains Beyond Mountains meets Tattoos On the Heart in this unforgettable, powerful, and stunningly-told memoir of a struggling veterinarian saving animals and humans on the streets of California - and how he discovered what bonds all living creatures. Dr. Kwane Stewart was questioning his career as a veterinarian when he saw a homeless man with a flea-infested dog outside of a convenience store. In a moment of spontaneous generosity, he offered to examine the dog and treat him for free. It was the first step in a now nine-year journey that has taken Dr. Kwane from Skid Row to San Francisco and beyond to care for pets and their humans who are living on the streets. In What It Takes to Save a Life, Dr. Kwane shows how our four-legged, feathered, scaled, and swimming family members—these dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, and other animals that live side by side with us—provide more than companionship. They offer essential love, hope, and a sense of security. Written with striking honesty and rich detail, Dr. Kwane looks back on his childhood, how he discovered his appreciation for animals and his calling, and offers a frank assessment of the state of veterinary medicine today, where compassion fatigue, burnout, and suicide are facts of life. Full of warm and inspiring stories of human-animal relationships, this powerful and eye-opening book is a reminder that we are all members of a wider family. It is also a clarion call for each of us to help those in need—especially our most vulnerable brothers and sisters—and the animals who are their families. Wise and warm, Dr. Stewart's story is a reminder that one life can make an immeasurable difference.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616346Tue, 16 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616346 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What It Takes to Save a Life: A Veterinarian’s Quest for Healing and Hope Author: Kwane Stewart Narrator: Ron Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616346 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What It Takes to Save a Life: A Veterinarian’s Quest for Healing and Hope Author: Kwane Stewart Narrator: Ron Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Mountains Beyond Mountains meets Tattoos On the Heart in this unforgettable, powerful, and stunningly-told memoir of a struggling veterinarian saving animals and humans on the streets of California - and how he discovered what bonds all living creatures. Dr. Kwane Stewart was questioning his career as a veterinarian when he saw a homeless man with a flea-infested dog outside of a convenience store. In a moment of spontaneous generosity, he offered to examine the dog and treat him for free. It was the first step in a now nine-year journey that has taken Dr. Kwane from Skid Row to San Francisco and beyond to care for pets and their humans who are living on the streets. In What It Takes to Save a Life, Dr. Kwane shows how our four-legged, feathered, scaled, and swimming family members—these dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, and other animals that live side by side with us—provide more than companionship. They offer essential love, hope, and a sense of security. Written with striking honesty and rich detail, Dr. Kwane looks back on his childhood, how he discovered his appreciation for animals and his calling, and offers a frank assessment of the state of veterinary medicine today, where compassion fatigue, burnout, and suicide are facts of life. Full of warm and inspiring stories of human-animal relationships, this powerful and eye-opening book is a reminder that we are all members of a wider family. It is also a clarion call for each of us to help those in need—especially our most vulnerable brothers and sisters—and the animals who are their families. Wise and warm, Dr. Stewart's story is a reminder that one life can make an immeasurable difference.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/take-your-own-advice-learn-to-trust-your-inner-voice-and-start-helping-yourself-by-jeffrey-marsh--65184675https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Take Your Own Advice: Learn to Trust Your Inner Voice and Start Helping Yourself Author: Jeffrey Marsh Narrator: Jeffrey Marsh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For those who are givers, carers, and empaths, a guide to focusing that energy on yourself—even if that feels frightening, from popular LGBTQ+ activist and advocate Jeffrey Marsh.     Like many of us, Jeffrey Marsh was conditioned to have an outward focus—to give to others, to be a good listener, and to be the one who gave the best advice. In Marsh’s case, it was a method of survival. Growing up genderfluid in an unaccepting family, Marsh did everything they could to meet the needs of others and not have needs of their own. And ultimately, this meant Marsh put themself in the backseat of their own life.     In this heartfelt and sincere book, Marsh shares their story and the lessons they learned on the path back to themselves. Whether you’re a survivor of abuse and trauma like Marsh or you’ve passively accepted that your worth ought to be defined by your usefulness to others, Take Your Own Advice will give you the confidence to lead your life on your terms, and to prioritize what’s important: you.     It’s time that you learn to put yourself first, to take care of yourself, and to ask others to listen to you for a change. You do give the best advice, after all!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620376Tue, 16 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Take Your Own Advice: Learn to Trust Your Inner Voice and Start Helping Yourself Author: Jeffrey Marsh Narrator: Jeffrey Marsh Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Take Your Own Advice: Learn to Trust Your Inner Voice and Start Helping Yourself Author: Jeffrey Marsh Narrator: Jeffrey Marsh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For those who are givers, carers, and empaths, a guide to focusing that energy on yourself—even if that feels frightening, from popular LGBTQ+ activist and advocate Jeffrey Marsh.     Like many of us, Jeffrey Marsh was conditioned to have an outward focus—to give to others, to be a good listener, and to be the one who gave the best advice. In Marsh’s case, it was a method of survival. Growing up genderfluid in an unaccepting family, Marsh did everything they could to meet the needs of others and not have needs of their own. And ultimately, this meant Marsh put themself in the backseat of their own life.     In this heartfelt and sincere book, Marsh shares their story and the lessons they learned on the path back to themselves. Whether you’re a survivor of abuse and trauma like Marsh or you’ve passively accepted that your worth ought to be defined by your usefulness to others, Take Your Own Advice will give you the confidence to lead your life on your terms, and to prioritize what’s important: you.     It’s time that you learn to put yourself first, to take care of yourself, and to ask others to listen to you for a change. You do give the best advice, after all!]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/glimmer-a-story-of-survival-hope-and-healing-by-kimberly-shannon-murphy--65184672https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing Author: Kimberly Shannon Murphy Narrator: Kaitlin Olson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2024 Andy Award for Memoir and Narrative Nonfiction A Zibby's Top 10 Book of 2023 A USA Today Best Book of 2023 A USA Today Book Club Pick Foreword by Cameron Diaz “Reading Kimberly Shannon Murphy’s searing and vividly told memoir is like watching a gripping work of cinema verité: each scene demands our attention as the plot moves towards its dramatic conclusion. A powerful and inspiring story of suffering and shame, resilience and redemption.” —Gabor Maté M.D., New York Times bestselling author of The Myth of Normal A raw and heartening memoir of one woman’s journey from surviving childhood sexual abuse to becoming one of the most successful stuntwomen in Hollywood. “Piece by piece, the on-site medic tweezes the shards of candy glass from my face. I don’t mind the stinging. I don’t flinch.” As an award-winning stuntwoman, Kimberly Shannon Murphy was intimate with pain. For years, she propelled her body through dangerous spaces—medicating the trauma of her childhood sexual abuse with the adrenaline rush that came from pushing herself to the absolute limit. But as Kimberly learned, no matter how much you suppress your past, it always catches up with you. In Glimmer, Kimberly details her remarkable journey to the top of her field as a Hollywood stuntwoman for many A-list celebrities, including Cameron Diaz, Charlize Theron, Angelina Jolie, Taylor Swift, and Sandra Bullock, while carrying the pain of her childhood of sexual abuse in a family that refused to acknowledge its reality. In her beautifully written, unflinchingly honest memoir, Kimberly reflects on her past and present, chronicling her path to recovery and calculating the long shadow of trauma. Glimmer is the story of one woman’s quest to reclaim her life and to shine a spotlight on the dark topic of intergenerational familial abuse. As Kimberly reveals, being strong isn’t about getting your black belt, leaping out of four-story buildings, or putting 200-pound stuntmen in chokeholds—it’s about waking up every single morning and choosing to love yourself, no matter your history. A heroic and hopeful story of stolen innocence, pain, courage, and survival, Glimmer is an emotional roadmap for others who have suffered abuse and childhood trauma, offering them hope, healing, and inspiration.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618168Tue, 16 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing Author: Kimberly Shannon Murphy Narrator: Kaitlin Olson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing Author: Kimberly Shannon Murphy Narrator: Kaitlin Olson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2024 Andy Award for Memoir and Narrative Nonfiction A Zibby's Top 10 Book of 2023 A USA Today Best Book of 2023 A USA Today Book Club Pick Foreword by Cameron Diaz “Reading Kimberly Shannon Murphy’s searing and vividly told memoir is like watching a gripping work of cinema verité: each scene demands our attention as the plot moves towards its dramatic conclusion. A powerful and inspiring story of suffering and shame, resilience and redemption.” —Gabor Maté M.D., New York Times bestselling author of The Myth of Normal A raw and heartening memoir of one woman’s journey from surviving childhood sexual abuse to becoming one of the most successful stuntwomen in Hollywood. “Piece by piece, the on-site medic tweezes the shards of candy glass from my face. I don’t mind the stinging. I don’t flinch.” As an award-winning stuntwoman, Kimberly Shannon Murphy was intimate with pain. For years, she propelled her body through dangerous spaces—medicating the trauma of her childhood sexual abuse with the adrenaline rush that came from pushing herself to the absolute limit. But as Kimberly learned, no matter how much you suppress your past, it always catches up with you. In Glimmer, Kimberly details her remarkable journey to the top of her field as a Hollywood stuntwoman for many A-list celebrities, including Cameron Diaz, Charlize Theron, Angelina Jolie, Taylor Swift, and Sandra Bullock, while carrying the pain of her childhood of sexual abuse in a family that refused to acknowledge its reality. In her beautifully written, unflinchingly honest memoir, Kimberly reflects on her past and present, chronicling her path to recovery and calculating the long shadow of trauma. Glimmer is the story of one woman’s quest to reclaim her life and to shine a spotlight on the dark topic of intergenerational familial abuse. As Kimberly reveals, being strong isn’t about getting your black belt, leaping out of four-story buildings, or putting 200-pound stuntmen in chokeholds—it’s about waking up every single morning and choosing to love yourself, no matter your history. A heroic and hopeful story of stolen innocence, pain, courage, and survival, Glimmer is an emotional roadmap for others who have suffered abuse and childhood trauma, offering them hope, healing, and inspiration.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/quietly-hostile-essays-by-samantha-irby--65184660https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quietly Hostile: Essays Author: Samantha Irby Narrator: Samantha Irby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 8 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GLAMOUR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A hilarious new essay collection from Samantha Irby 'engages readers with her characteristic combination of laugh-out-loud moments, heartfelt passages and plenty of awkward experiences.... Quietly Hostile will delight established fans and newcomers alike (Parade).   “Brilliant and one of the funniest people I’ve ever read.” —Roxane Gay • 'The king of sparkling misanthropy and tender, loving dread.' —Jia Tolentino 'Absolutely hilarious.... If you are feeling down, or you feel like you haven't read anything you've loved in a long time, all you need is Samantha Irby.... She will make you laugh on every page.' —Emma Straub, bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow, on The Today Show Samantha Irby’s career has taken her to new heights. She dodges calls from Hollywood and flop sweats on the red carpet at premieres (well, one premiere). But nothing is ever as it seems online, where she can crop out all the ugly parts. Irby got a lot of weird emails about Carrie Bradshaw, and not only is there diarrhea to avoid, but now—anaphylactic shock. She is turned away from restaurants for being inappropriately dressed and looks for the best ways to cope, i.e., reveling in the offerings of QVC and adopting a deranged pandemic dog. Quietly Hostile makes light as Irby takes us on another outrageously funny tour of all the gory details that make up the true portrait of a life behind the screenshotted depression memes. Relatable, poignant, and uproarious, once again, Irby is the tonic we all need to get by.    A BEST BOOK from Vogue, Esquire, PopSugar, Glamour, The Skimm, and more]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620410Tue, 16 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quietly Hostile: Essays Author: Samantha Irby Narrator: Samantha Irby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 16,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quietly Hostile: Essays Author: Samantha Irby Narrator: Samantha Irby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 8 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GLAMOUR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A hilarious new essay collection from Samantha Irby 'engages readers with her characteristic combination of laugh-out-loud moments, heartfelt passages and plenty of awkward experiences.... Quietly Hostile will delight established fans and newcomers alike (Parade).   “Brilliant and one of the funniest people I’ve ever read.” —Roxane Gay • 'The king of sparkling misanthropy and tender, loving dread.' —Jia Tolentino 'Absolutely hilarious.... If you are feeling down, or you feel like you haven't read anything you've loved in a long time, all you need is Samantha Irby.... She will make you laugh on every page.' —Emma Straub, bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow, on The Today Show Samantha Irby’s career has taken her to new heights. She dodges calls from Hollywood and flop sweats on the red carpet at premieres (well, one premiere). But nothing is ever as it seems online, where she can crop out all the ugly parts. Irby got a lot of weird emails about Carrie Bradshaw, and not only is there diarrhea to avoid, but now—anaphylactic shock. She is turned away from restaurants for being inappropriately dressed and looks for the best ways to cope, i.e., reveling in the offerings of QVC and adopting a deranged pandemic dog. Quietly Hostile makes light as Irby takes us on another outrageously funny tour of all the gory details that make up the true portrait of a life behind the screenshotted depression memes. Relatable, poignant, and uproarious, once again, Irby is the tonic we all need to get by.    A BEST BOOK from Vogue, Esquire, PopSugar, Glamour, The Skimm, and more]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-life-of-one-s-own-nine-women-writers-begin-again-by-joanna-biggs--65184653https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616790 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again Author: Joanna Biggs Narrator: Hannah Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times, The Week, Vulture, Elle, and The Millions A piercing blend of memoir, criticism, and biography examining how women writers across the centuries carved out intellectual freedom for themselves—and how others might do the same I took off my wedding ring for the last time—a gold band with half a line of “Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath etched inside—and for weeks afterwards, my thumb would involuntarily reach across my palm for the warm bright circle that had gone. I didn’t fling the ring into the long grass, like women do in the movies, but a feeling began bubbling up nevertheless, from my stomach to my throat: it could fling my arms out. I was free. . . . A few years into her marriage and feeling societal pressure to surrender to domesticity, Joanna Biggs found herself longing for a different kind of existence. Was this all there was? She divorced without knowing what would come next. Newly untethered, Joanna returned to the free-spirited writers of her youth and was soon reading in a fever—desperately searching for evidence of lives that looked more like her own, for the messiness and freedom, for a possible blueprint for intellectual fulfillment. In A Life of One’s Own, Mary Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, and Elena Ferrante are all taken down from their pedestals, their work and lives seen in a new light. Joanna wanted to learn more about the conditions these women needed to write their best work, and how they addressed the questions she herself was struggling with: Is domesticity a trap? Is life worth living if you have lost faith in the traditional goals of a woman? Why is it so important for women to read one another? This is a radical and intimate examination of the unconventional paths these women took—their pursuits and achievements but also their disappointments and hardships. And in exploring the things that gave their lives the most meaning, we find fuel for our own singular intellectual paths.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616790Tue, 16 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616790 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again Author: Joanna Biggs Narrator: Hannah Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616790 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again Author: Joanna Biggs Narrator: Hannah Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times, The Week, Vulture, Elle, and The Millions A piercing blend of memoir, criticism, and biography examining how women writers across the centuries carved out intellectual freedom for themselves—and how others might do the same I took off my wedding ring for the last time—a gold band with half a line of “Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath etched inside—and for weeks afterwards, my thumb would involuntarily reach across my palm for the warm bright circle that had gone. I didn’t fling the ring into the long grass, like women do in the movies, but a feeling began bubbling up nevertheless, from my stomach to my throat: it could fling my arms out. I was free. . . . A few years into her marriage and feeling societal pressure to surrender to domesticity, Joanna Biggs found herself longing for a different kind of existence. Was this all there was? She divorced without knowing what would come next. Newly untethered, Joanna returned to the free-spirited writers of her youth and was soon reading in a fever—desperately searching for evidence of lives that looked more like her own, for the messiness and freedom, for a possible blueprint for intellectual fulfillment. In A Life of One’s Own, Mary Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, and Elena Ferrante are all taken down from their pedestals, their work and lives seen in a new light. Joanna wanted to learn more about the conditions these women needed to write their best work, and how they addressed the questions she herself was struggling with: Is domesticity a trap? Is life worth living if you have lost faith in the traditional goals of a woman? Why is it so important for women to read one another? This is a radical and intimate examination of the unconventional paths these women took—their pursuits and achievements but also their disappointments and hardships. And in exploring the things that gave their lives the most meaning, we find fuel for our own singular intellectual paths.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/these-vital-signs-a-doctor-s-notes-on-life-and-loss-in-tweets-by-sayed-tabatabai--65184624https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618161 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Vital Signs: A Doctor's Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets Author: Sayed Tabatabai Narrator: Christopher Salazar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A doctor reflects on his profession and his experience with patients in this brilliant essay collection that expands on his wildly popular Twitter poems. In medicine, every patient presents with a story. “Once upon a time I was well, and then . . . ” These patient narratives are the beating heart of medicine; through stories we strive to communicate, to understand, to empathize, and perhaps find healing. These Vital Signs is a poignant series of essays—deeply personal stories—inspired by nephrologist Sayed Tabatabai’s medical experience and based on a series of poems he posted on Twitter that began going viral at the height of the Covid pandemic. Each short work is a poignant glimpse into the ever-changing field of medicine and the special relationship between patients and their doctor. In each, Tabatabai beautifully evokes the emotional tension between life and death, wellness and disease, uncertainty and hope, in a unique and unforgettable way. Exploring themes of illness, dying, grief, and joy, universal in its reach, These Vital Signs tells stories both remarkable and utterly ordinary of a doctor and the patients who have shaped him.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618161Tue, 16 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618161 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Vital Signs: A Doctor's Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets Author: Sayed Tabatabai Narrator: Christopher Salazar Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618161 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Vital Signs: A Doctor's Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets Author: Sayed Tabatabai Narrator: Christopher Salazar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 19 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A doctor reflects on his profession and his experience with patients in this brilliant essay collection that expands on his wildly popular Twitter poems. In medicine, every patient presents with a story. “Once upon a time I was well, and then . . . ” These patient narratives are the beating heart of medicine; through stories we strive to communicate, to understand, to empathize, and perhaps find healing. These Vital Signs is a poignant series of essays—deeply personal stories—inspired by nephrologist Sayed Tabatabai’s medical experience and based on a series of poems he posted on Twitter that began going viral at the height of the Covid pandemic. Each short work is a poignant glimpse into the ever-changing field of medicine and the special relationship between patients and their doctor. In each, Tabatabai beautifully evokes the emotional tension between life and death, wellness and disease, uncertainty and hope, in a unique and unforgettable way. Exploring themes of illness, dying, grief, and joy, universal in its reach, These Vital Signs tells stories both remarkable and utterly ordinary of a doctor and the patients who have shaped him.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wreck-a-daughter-s-memoir-of-becoming-a-mother-by-cassandra-jackson--65184618https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wreck: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother Author: Cassandra Jackson Narrator: Karen Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NPR's Books We Love 2023 Equal parts investigative and deeply introspective, The Wreck is a profound memoir about recognizing the echoes of history within ourselves, and the alchemy of turning inherited grief into renewal. There is a secret that young Cassandra Jackson doesn’t know, and it’s evident in the way her father cries her name out in his sleep. Through awkward encounters with family, she comes to realize that she is named after her father's niece, and looks eerily like the child’s mother, both of whom were killed in a car wreck along with her father's beloved mother, and—as she soon discovers—his first wife. Cassandra learns to keep silent about the wreck, but soon learns there is no way to outpace the claw-like grip of her family’s past trauma. In this luminous memoir, Jackson attempts to unearth her lost family, while also creating a new one--only to discover little progress separates the past from the present. As she moves back and forth between her girlhood and her journey to motherhood, Jackson reveals the chilling parallels between the harrowing inhumanity of Jim Crow medical care and the toxic discrimination that undergirds healthcare in the United States today. But as she traces the cascading effects of loss punctuated by racism, she also discovers a powerful legacy of fearless love and furious perseverance that she hopes to extend to a new generation. Lyrical, urgent, and wise, this is an unforgettable story of reclaiming the past to reclaim ourselves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620372Tue, 16 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wreck: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother Author: Cassandra Jackson Narrator: Karen Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wreck: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother Author: Cassandra Jackson Narrator: Karen Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NPR's Books We Love 2023 Equal parts investigative and deeply introspective, The Wreck is a profound memoir about recognizing the echoes of history within ourselves, and the alchemy of turning inherited grief into renewal. There is a secret that young Cassandra Jackson doesn’t know, and it’s evident in the way her father cries her name out in his sleep. Through awkward encounters with family, she comes to realize that she is named after her father's niece, and looks eerily like the child’s mother, both of whom were killed in a car wreck along with her father's beloved mother, and—as she soon discovers—his first wife. Cassandra learns to keep silent about the wreck, but soon learns there is no way to outpace the claw-like grip of her family’s past trauma. In this luminous memoir, Jackson attempts to unearth her lost family, while also creating a new one--only to discover little progress separates the past from the present. As she moves back and forth between her girlhood and her journey to motherhood, Jackson reveals the chilling parallels between the harrowing inhumanity of Jim Crow medical care and the toxic discrimination that undergirds healthcare in the United States today. But as she traces the cascading effects of loss punctuated by racism, she also discovers a powerful legacy of fearless love and furious perseverance that she hopes to extend to a new generation. Lyrical, urgent, and wise, this is an unforgettable story of reclaiming the past to reclaim ourselves.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-m-not-as-well-as-i-thought-i-was-by-ruby-wax--65184673https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617978 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was Author: Ruby Wax Narrator: Ruby Wax Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Checking into a psychiatric institution wasn't exactly on Ruby Wax's agenda for 2022 - writing about it wasn't either, but here we are. These days, trying to stay sane in a completely chaotic world makes life incredibly difficult, especially if you're struggling with your mental health. While searching for inner peace and equanimity amidst global chaos, Ruby realises that, ultimately, the most challenging gauntlet we all must face is ourselves. I'm Not as Well as I Thought I Was is Ruby's most honest and raw book to date - an insight into the depths of her psyche, and a stark exploration of what trauma can do to someone. Reflecting on years of personal and professional experience, she opens up to readers about her struggles with mental health and different treatments over the years, hoping to provide reassurance and guidance to anyone confronting their own anticipated, or unanticipated, struggles with mental health. ©2023 Ruby Wax (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617978Thu, 11 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617978 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was Author: Ruby Wax Narrator: Ruby Wax Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 11,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617978 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was Author: Ruby Wax Narrator: Ruby Wax Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Checking into a psychiatric institution wasn't exactly on Ruby Wax's agenda for 2022 - writing about it wasn't either, but here we are. These days, trying to stay sane in a completely chaotic world makes life incredibly difficult, especially if you're struggling with your mental health. While searching for inner peace and equanimity amidst global chaos, Ruby realises that, ultimately, the most challenging gauntlet we all must face is ourselves. I'm Not as Well as I Thought I Was is Ruby's most honest and raw book to date - an insight into the depths of her psyche, and a stark exploration of what trauma can do to someone. Reflecting on years of personal and professional experience, she opens up to readers about her struggles with mental health and different treatments over the years, hoping to provide reassurance and guidance to anyone confronting their own anticipated, or unanticipated, struggles with mental health. ©2023 Ruby Wax (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wildflower-a-memoir-by-aurora-james--65184643https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wildflower: A Memoir Author: Aurora James Narrator: Aurora James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This extraordinary memoir of struggle and perseverance offers new ways of envisioning economic equality for everyone—from a leading activist and fashion pioneer. Aurora James’s story is not a “success story.” Or at least, it shouldn’t be told that way. Having dropped out of high school, struggled with body image, and dabbled in street racing, her eventual arrest might have been her rock bottom. But as a visionary and optimist, that experience became one of many that reshaped her way of thinking about the world. After a brief modeling stint, James discovered the real power in creating for the runway and started her own business in a flea market, a sustainable fashion line showcasing traditional African design that would become an award-winning international brand. Then she founded one of the fastest-growing social justice nonprofits, the Fifteen Percent Pledge. But none of this came from a desire to “succeed.” It came from a desire to forge a new creative path—and to lift others up alongside her. Already a rising star in fashion and the first Black American female designer to win a CFDA Award, James was inspired by the activism that swept the nation in the summer of 2020 to think bigger about how to empower Black business owners. With an idea and an Instagram post, she founded the Fifteen Percent Pledge, which challenges retailers to commit 15% of their shelf space and spending power to Black businesses. To date, more than two dozen of the world’s most recognized retailers have taken the pledge, redirecting $10 billion in revenue to Black brands. Empowering and full of heart, Wildflower is the story of how Aurora James got to where she is now and a rallying cry for those eager to make change.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620425Tue, 09 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wildflower: A Memoir Author: Aurora James Narrator: Aurora James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wildflower: A Memoir Author: Aurora James Narrator: Aurora James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This extraordinary memoir of struggle and perseverance offers new ways of envisioning economic equality for everyone—from a leading activist and fashion pioneer. Aurora James’s story is not a “success story.” Or at least, it shouldn’t be told that way. Having dropped out of high school, struggled with body image, and dabbled in street racing, her eventual arrest might have been her rock bottom. But as a visionary and optimist, that experience became one of many that reshaped her way of thinking about the world. After a brief modeling stint, James discovered the real power in creating for the runway and started her own business in a flea market, a sustainable fashion line showcasing traditional African design that would become an award-winning international brand. Then she founded one of the fastest-growing social justice nonprofits, the Fifteen Percent Pledge. But none of this came from a desire to “succeed.” It came from a desire to forge a new creative path—and to lift others up alongside her. Already a rising star in fashion and the first Black American female designer to win a CFDA Award, James was inspired by the activism that swept the nation in the summer of 2020 to think bigger about how to empower Black business owners. With an idea and an Instagram post, she founded the Fifteen Percent Pledge, which challenges retailers to commit 15% of their shelf space and spending power to Black businesses. To date, more than two dozen of the world’s most recognized retailers have taken the pledge, redirecting $10 billion in revenue to Black brands. Empowering and full of heart, Wildflower is the story of how Aurora James got to where she is now and a rallying cry for those eager to make change.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/walking-with-sam-a-father-a-son-and-five-hundred-miles-across-spain-by-andrew-mccarthy--65184562https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain Author: Andrew McCarthy Narrator: Andrew McCarthy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An intimate, funny, and poignant New York Times bestseling travel memoir following award-winning author and actor Andrew McCarthy as he walks the Camino de Santiago with his son Sam.    When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more meaningful connection with Sam before he fled the nest, as well as recreate his own life-altering journey decades before, McCarthy decided the two of them should set out on a trek like few others: 500 miles across Spain's Camino de Santiago.   Over the course of the journey, the pair traversed an unforgiving landscape, having more honest conversations in five weeks than they'd had in the preceding two decades.  Discussions of divorce, the trauma of school, McCarthy's difficult relationship with his own father, fame, and Flaming Hot Cheetos threatened to either derail their relationship or cement it.  Walking With Sam captures this intimate, candid and hopeful expedition as the father son duo travel across the country and towards one another.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623550Tue, 09 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain Author: Andrew McCarthy Narrator: Andrew McCarthy Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain Author: Andrew McCarthy Narrator: Andrew McCarthy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.86 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An intimate, funny, and poignant New York Times bestseling travel memoir following award-winning author and actor Andrew McCarthy as he walks the Camino de Santiago with his son Sam.    When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more meaningful connection with Sam before he fled the nest, as well as recreate his own life-altering journey decades before, McCarthy decided the two of them should set out on a trek like few others: 500 miles across Spain's Camino de Santiago.   Over the course of the journey, the pair traversed an unforgiving landscape, having more honest conversations in five weeks than they'd had in the preceding two decades.  Discussions of divorce, the trauma of school, McCarthy's difficult relationship with his own father, fame, and Flaming Hot Cheetos threatened to either derail their relationship or cement it.  Walking With Sam captures this intimate, candid and hopeful expedition as the father son duo travel across the country and towards one another.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/live-learn-love-well-lessons-from-a-life-of-progress-not-perfection-by-emma-lovewell--65184711https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Live Learn Love Well: Lessons from a Life of Progress not Perfection Author: Emma Lovewell Narrator: Emma Lovewell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir chronicling Emma Lovewell’s incredible path to physical―and mental―fitness that traces her journey to becoming a beloved Peloton instructor and inspires readers to live, learn, and love well “Emma’s spirit and spark are contagious . . . a great reminder that feeling whole, healthy, and balanced takes work but is always worth the effort.”—Joanna Gaines, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Magnolia Table Emma Lovewell is a star instructor at Peloton, a global fitness brand and media content company, but her journey to success began with a simple realization: Change is inevitable, but growth is optional. She chose to grow. In Live Learn Love Well, she shares the moments in her life that shaped her into the woman she is today―from growing up in a modest home amidst the affluence of Martha’s Vineyard, to struggling with her biracial identity and fitting in, both in the white community and the Asian American community, to health setbacks and relationship challenges, to moving to New York and striving for a career in dance and fitness. Just as Lovewell is more than a fitness instructor, she’s learned that wellness is more than merely a physical condition. She shares the moments where mental fortitude shaped her outlook on the world and how the idea of “progress, not perfection” became a guiding principle. Filled with surprising insights, charming anecdotes, and never-before-shared moments, Live Learn Love Well is for anyone who feels stuck or overwhelmed, who worries there’s too much to change to even get started, or who simply needs a little inspiration to make tomorrow better than today. Lovewell’s stories, along with her easy-to-initiate tips, will give readers the confidence to know that even the smallest modifications can have truly outsized impacts on their lives and wellness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614642Tue, 02 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Live Learn Love Well: Lessons from a Life of Progress not Perfection Author: Emma Lovewell Narrator: Emma Lovewell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Live Learn Love Well: Lessons from a Life of Progress not Perfection Author: Emma Lovewell Narrator: Emma Lovewell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir chronicling Emma Lovewell’s incredible path to physical―and mental―fitness that traces her journey to becoming a beloved Peloton instructor and inspires readers to live, learn, and love well “Emma’s spirit and spark are contagious . . . a great reminder that feeling whole, healthy, and balanced takes work but is always worth the effort.”—Joanna Gaines, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Magnolia Table Emma Lovewell is a star instructor at Peloton, a global fitness brand and media content company, but her journey to success began with a simple realization: Change is inevitable, but growth is optional. She chose to grow. In Live Learn Love Well, she shares the moments in her life that shaped her into the woman she is today―from growing up in a modest home amidst the affluence of Martha’s Vineyard, to struggling with her biracial identity and fitting in, both in the white community and the Asian American community, to health setbacks and relationship challenges, to moving to New York and striving for a career in dance and fitness. Just as Lovewell is more than a fitness instructor, she’s learned that wellness is more than merely a physical condition. She shares the moments where mental fortitude shaped her outlook on the world and how the idea of “progress, not perfection” became a guiding principle. Filled with surprising insights, charming anecdotes, and never-before-shared moments, Live Learn Love Well is for anyone who feels stuck or overwhelmed, who worries there’s too much to change to even get started, or who simply needs a little inspiration to make tomorrow better than today. Lovewell’s stories, along with her easy-to-initiate tips, will give readers the confidence to know that even the smallest modifications can have truly outsized impacts on their lives and wellness.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fatherland-a-memoir-of-war-conscience-and-family-secrets-by-burkhard-bilger--65184683https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets Author: Burkhard Bilger Narrator: Burkhard Bilger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in “a finely etched memoir with the powerful sweep of history” (David Grann, #1 bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon) “Fatherland maintains the momentum of the best mysteries and a commendable balance.”—The New York Times “Unflinching and illuminating . . . Bilger’s haunting memoir reminds us, the past is prologue to who we are, as well as who we choose to be.”—The Wall Street Journal A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews One spring day in northeastern France, Burkhard Bilger’s mother went to the town of Bartenheim, where her father was posted during the Second World War. As a historian, she had spent years studying the German occupation of France, yet she had never dared to investigate her own family’s role in it. She knew only that her father was a schoolteacher who was sent to Bartenheim in 1940 and ordered to reeducate its children—to turn them into proper Germans, as Hitler demanded. Two years later, he became the town’s Nazi Party chief. There was little left from her father’s era by the time she visited. But on her way back to her car, she noticed an old man walking nearby. He looked about the same age her father would have been if he was still alive. She hurried over to introduce herself and told him her father’s name, Karl Gönner. “Do you happen to remember him?” she said. The man stared at her, dumbstruck. “Well, of course!” he said. “I saved his life, didn’t I?” Fatherland is the story behind that story—the riveting account of Bilger’s nearly ten-year quest to uncover the truth about his grandfather. Was he guilty or innocent, a war criminal or a man who risked his life to shield the villagers? Long admired for his profiles in The New Yorker, Bilger brings the same open-hearted curiosity to his family history and the questions it raises: What do we owe the past? How can we make peace with it without perpetuating its wrongs?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617674Tue, 02 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets Author: Burkhard Bilger Narrator: Burkhard Bilger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets Author: Burkhard Bilger Narrator: Burkhard Bilger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in “a finely etched memoir with the powerful sweep of history” (David Grann, #1 bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon) “Fatherland maintains the momentum of the best mysteries and a commendable balance.”—The New York Times “Unflinching and illuminating . . . Bilger’s haunting memoir reminds us, the past is prologue to who we are, as well as who we choose to be.”—The Wall Street Journal A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews One spring day in northeastern France, Burkhard Bilger’s mother went to the town of Bartenheim, where her father was posted during the Second World War. As a historian, she had spent years studying the German occupation of France, yet she had never dared to investigate her own family’s role in it. She knew only that her father was a schoolteacher who was sent to Bartenheim in 1940 and ordered to reeducate its children—to turn them into proper Germans, as Hitler demanded. Two years later, he became the town’s Nazi Party chief. There was little left from her father’s era by the time she visited. But on her way back to her car, she noticed an old man walking nearby. He looked about the same age her father would have been if he was still alive. She hurried over to introduce herself and told him her father’s name, Karl Gönner. “Do you happen to remember him?” she said. The man stared at her, dumbstruck. “Well, of course!” he said. “I saved his life, didn’t I?” Fatherland is the story behind that story—the riveting account of Bilger’s nearly ten-year quest to uncover the truth about his grandfather. Was he guilty or innocent, a war criminal or a man who risked his life to shield the villagers? Long admired for his profiles in The New Yorker, Bilger brings the same open-hearted curiosity to his family history and the questions it raises: What do we owe the past? How can we make peace with it without perpetuating its wrongs?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/don-t-call-me-home-a-memoir-by-alexandra-auder--65184648https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617648 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir Author: Alexandra Auder Narrator: Alexandra Auder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Don’t Call Me Home is about madness and love. Alexandra tells the best stories about her extraordinary childhood as she travels the world with her mother Viva.  Wit and wisdom wrapped and bound with love.” --Debbie Harry “Alexandra Auder’s Don’t Call Me Home is thrumming with life, in all its absurdity, vividness, and gunk. I literally laughed and cried, and cheered hard throughout for our intrepid narrator, who has gifted us an incomparable tale.”--Maggie Nelson author of The Argonauts and On Freedom A moving and wickedly funny memoir about one woman’s life as the daughter of a Warhol superstar and the intimate bonds of mother-daughter relationships Alexandra Auder’s life began at the Chelsea Hotel—New York City’s infamous bohemian hangout—when her mother, Viva, a longtime resident of the hotel and one of Andy Warhol’s superstars, went into labor in the lobby. These first moments of Alexandra’s life, documented by her filmmaker father, Michel Auder, portended the whirlwind childhood and teen years that she would go on to have. At the center of it all is Viva: a glamorous, larger-than-life woman with mercurial moods, who brings Alexandra with her on the road from gig to gig, splitting time between a home in Connecticut and Alexandra’s father’s loft in 1980s Tribeca, then moving back again to the Chelsea Hotel and spending summers with Viva’s upper-middle-class, conservative, hyperpatriarchal family of origin. In Don’t Call Me Home, Alexandra meditates on the seedy glory of being raised by two counterculture icons, from walking a pet goat around Chelsea and joining the Squat Theatre company to coparenting her younger sister, Gaby, with her mother and partying in East Village nightclubs. Flitting between this world and her present-day life as a yoga instructor, actress, mother, wife, and much-loved Instagram provocateur, Alexandra weaves a stunning, moving, and hilarious portrait of a family and what it means to move away from being your mother’s daughter into being a person of your own.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617648Tue, 02 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617648 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir Author: Alexandra Auder Narrator: Alexandra Auder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: May...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617648 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir Author: Alexandra Auder Narrator: Alexandra Auder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Don’t Call Me Home is about madness and love. Alexandra tells the best stories about her extraordinary childhood as she travels the world with her mother Viva.  Wit and wisdom wrapped and bound with love.” --Debbie Harry “Alexandra Auder’s Don’t Call Me Home is thrumming with life, in all its absurdity, vividness, and gunk. I literally laughed and cried, and cheered hard throughout for our intrepid narrator, who has gifted us an incomparable tale.”--Maggie Nelson author of The Argonauts and On Freedom A moving and wickedly funny memoir about one woman’s life as the daughter of a Warhol superstar and the intimate bonds of mother-daughter relationships Alexandra Auder’s life began at the Chelsea Hotel—New York City’s infamous bohemian hangout—when her mother, Viva, a longtime resident of the hotel and one of Andy Warhol’s superstars, went into labor in the lobby. These first moments of Alexandra’s life, documented by her filmmaker father, Michel Auder, portended the whirlwind childhood and teen years that she would go on to have. At the center of it all is Viva: a glamorous, larger-than-life woman with mercurial moods, who brings Alexandra with her on the road from gig to gig, splitting time between a home in Connecticut and Alexandra’s father’s loft in 1980s Tribeca, then moving back again to the Chelsea Hotel and spending summers with Viva’s upper-middle-class, conservative, hyperpatriarchal family of origin. In Don’t Call Me Home, Alexandra meditates on the seedy glory of being raised by two counterculture icons, from walking a pet goat around Chelsea and joining the Squat Theatre company to coparenting her younger sister, Gaby, with her mother and partying in East Village nightclubs. Flitting between this world and her present-day life as a yoga instructor, actress, mother, wife, and much-loved Instagram provocateur, Alexandra weaves a stunning, moving, and hilarious portrait of a family and what it means to move away from being your mother’s daughter into being a person of your own.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hot-and-bothered-what-no-one-tells-you-about-menopause-and-how-to-feel-like-yourself-again-by-jancee-dunn--65184612https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause and How to Feel Like Yourself Again Author: Jancee Dunn Narrator: Jancee Dunn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Hot and Bothered removes the shame, disdain, and mystery that’s surrounded menopause….An informative, entertaining and desperately needed book.” —Jen Sincero, author of You Are a Badass When Jancee Dunn hit her mid-forties, she was bombarded by seemingly random symptoms: rampant insomnia, spring-loaded nerves, weirdly dry mouth, and Rio Grande-level periods. After going to multiple doctors who ran test after fruitless test, she was surprised to finally discover the culprit—perimenopause. For more than two decades, Jancee had been reporting on mental and physical health. So if she was unprepared for this, what about all the women who don’t write about health for a living? Hot and Bothered is the book she wishes existed as she was scrambling for information: an empowering, research-based guide on how women can tackle this new stage of life. Menopause isn’t a disease, but a natural, normal life transition. Why, then, are we still speaking in whispers about something that affects half the earth’s population? Through in-depth interviews with renowned menopause experts and trusted authorities, Dunn peels back the layers on this still-mystifying topic with her trademark humor and unpacks the science on both hormonal and nonhormonal treatments. She provides actionable ways to improve sleep, sex, moods, mental clarity, and skin; details the latest treatments for hot flashes; and explores the best practices to stop “peezing” (that would be peeing when you sneeze, thanks to your new urinary issues). Dunn’s clear, easy-to-follow advice will help you reclaim yourself—and fully embrace life’s next chapter. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of resources from the book.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620424Tue, 02 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause and How to Feel Like Yourself Again Author: Jancee Dunn Narrator: Jancee Dunn Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause and How to Feel Like Yourself Again Author: Jancee Dunn Narrator: Jancee Dunn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Hot and Bothered removes the shame, disdain, and mystery that’s surrounded menopause….An informative, entertaining and desperately needed book.” —Jen Sincero, author of You Are a Badass When Jancee Dunn hit her mid-forties, she was bombarded by seemingly random symptoms: rampant insomnia, spring-loaded nerves, weirdly dry mouth, and Rio Grande-level periods. After going to multiple doctors who ran test after fruitless test, she was surprised to finally discover the culprit—perimenopause. For more than two decades, Jancee had been reporting on mental and physical health. So if she was unprepared for this, what about all the women who don’t write about health for a living? Hot and Bothered is the book she wishes existed as she was scrambling for information: an empowering, research-based guide on how women can tackle this new stage of life. Menopause isn’t a disease, but a natural, normal life transition. Why, then, are we still speaking in whispers about something that affects half the earth’s population? Through in-depth interviews with renowned menopause experts and trusted authorities, Dunn peels back the layers on this still-mystifying topic with her trademark humor and unpacks the science on both hormonal and nonhormonal treatments. She provides actionable ways to improve sleep, sex, moods, mental clarity, and skin; details the latest treatments for hot flashes; and explores the best practices to stop “peezing” (that would be peeing when you sneeze, thanks to your new urinary issues). Dunn’s clear, easy-to-follow advice will help you reclaim yourself—and fully embrace life’s next chapter. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of resources from the book.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-the-houses-i-ve-ever-lived-in-finding-home-in-a-system-that-fails-us-by-kieran-yates--65184573https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626746 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us Author: Kieran Yates Narrator: Kieran Yates Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘I tore through the pages. A book I’ll read over and over again’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of Queenie We've all had our share of dodgy landlords, mould and awkward house shares. But journalist Kieran Yates has had more than most: by the age of twenty-five she'd lived in twenty different houses across the country, from council estates in London to car showrooms in rural Wales.   In prose that sparkles with humour and warmth, Yates charts the heartbreaks and joys of a life spent navigating the chaos of the housing system. Drawing on interviews with marginalised tenants across the country and the stories behind our interiors, she explores the unexpected ways we can fight back – finding beauty in the wreckage of a broken system, friendships in cramped housing conditions, and home even in the most fragile circumstances. All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In is at once a rallying cry for change, a gorgeous coming-of-age story and a love letter to home in all its forms. ‘Illuminating, thoughtfully written, damning’ OBSERVER ‘I read this in two sittings . . . so incisive it's hard to put down’ PANDORA SYKES ‘A beautiful exposition of home and what it means. Stunning’ BOLU BABALOLA, author of Honey & Spice ‘So relatable . . . injects a glorious dose of love and joy and hope' BIG ISSUE  ‘Yates manages the unthinkable: she makes the housing crisis funny’ i]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626746Thu, 27 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626746 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us Author: Kieran Yates Narrator: Kieran Yates Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626746 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All The Houses I've Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us Author: Kieran Yates Narrator: Kieran Yates Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘I tore through the pages. A book I’ll read over and over again’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of Queenie We've all had our share of dodgy landlords, mould and awkward house shares. But journalist Kieran Yates has had more than most: by the age of twenty-five she'd lived in twenty different houses across the country, from council estates in London to car showrooms in rural Wales.   In prose that sparkles with humour and warmth, Yates charts the heartbreaks and joys of a life spent navigating the chaos of the housing system. Drawing on interviews with marginalised tenants across the country and the stories behind our interiors, she explores the unexpected ways we can fight back – finding beauty in the wreckage of a broken system, friendships in cramped housing conditions, and home even in the most fragile circumstances. All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In is at once a rallying cry for change, a gorgeous coming-of-age story and a love letter to home in all its forms. ‘Illuminating, thoughtfully written, damning’ OBSERVER ‘I read this in two sittings . . . so incisive it's hard to put down’ PANDORA SYKES ‘A beautiful exposition of home and what it means. Stunning’ BOLU BABALOLA, author of Honey & Spice ‘So relatable . . . injects a glorious dose of love and joy and hope' BIG ISSUE  ‘Yates manages the unthinkable: she makes the housing crisis funny’ i]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/little-earthquakes-a-memoir-by-sarah-mandel--65184680https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Earthquakes: A Memoir Author: Sarah Mandel Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Sarah Mandel has done something remarkable here. I found myself weeping, laughing with delight and moved with love—all in the span of the day it took me to devour this book. Filled with deliciously specific images and metaphors, clear dialogue, and rich explorations of self and others, Mandel has written—among other things—a tender witness statement of and for her body.”—Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses A psychologist, wife, and mother chronicles her extraordinary journey with cancer while pregnant with her second baby, and the insights into life, death, trauma, and healing that she gleaned—an utterly inspiring debut memoir reminiscent of the intimacy and emotional power of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Kate Bowler’s No Cure for Being Human. When clinical psychologist Sarah Mandel was pregnant with her second child, she began preparing for her maternity leave, juggling the demands of her soon-to-be-new baby with the needs of her patients. Noticing a lump in her breast, she assumed it was most likely a clogged milk duct. But a biopsy revealed it was not. When she went into labor, she learned that she had Stage Four cancer—devastating news that forced her to confront terminal illness as she was bringing new life into the world. But Sarah's illness took a highly improbable turn when, after three months of treatment, her second PET scan showed no evidence of disease. Sarah, however, was unable to celebrate the good news; she was frozen in a dissociated state caused by the emotional whiplash of going from oncology patient to new mother, from a terminal sentence to a shocking reprieve. As a therapist who specialized in trauma work, Sarah had utilized “narrative therapy” to help her patients. Now she wondered: Could the treatment that eased her patients’ pain successfully help her navigate her own trauma? Little Earthquakes is a beautiful and thought-provoking debut from a brave and unwavering new voice that captures the mind, sears the soul, and leaves its indelible mark on the heart.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614340Tue, 25 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Earthquakes: A Memoir Author: Sarah Mandel Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Earthquakes: A Memoir Author: Sarah Mandel Narrator: Jean Ann Douglass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Sarah Mandel has done something remarkable here. I found myself weeping, laughing with delight and moved with love—all in the span of the day it took me to devour this book. Filled with deliciously specific images and metaphors, clear dialogue, and rich explorations of self and others, Mandel has written—among other things—a tender witness statement of and for her body.”—Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses A psychologist, wife, and mother chronicles her extraordinary journey with cancer while pregnant with her second baby, and the insights into life, death, trauma, and healing that she gleaned—an utterly inspiring debut memoir reminiscent of the intimacy and emotional power of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Kate Bowler’s No Cure for Being Human. When clinical psychologist Sarah Mandel was pregnant with her second child, she began preparing for her maternity leave, juggling the demands of her soon-to-be-new baby with the needs of her patients. Noticing a lump in her breast, she assumed it was most likely a clogged milk duct. But a biopsy revealed it was not. When she went into labor, she learned that she had Stage Four cancer—devastating news that forced her to confront terminal illness as she was bringing new life into the world. But Sarah's illness took a highly improbable turn when, after three months of treatment, her second PET scan showed no evidence of disease. Sarah, however, was unable to celebrate the good news; she was frozen in a dissociated state caused by the emotional whiplash of going from oncology patient to new mother, from a terminal sentence to a shocking reprieve. As a therapist who specialized in trauma work, Sarah had utilized “narrative therapy” to help her patients. Now she wondered: Could the treatment that eased her patients’ pain successfully help her navigate her own trauma? Little Earthquakes is a beautiful and thought-provoking debut from a brave and unwavering new voice that captures the mind, sears the soul, and leaves its indelible mark on the heart.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-half-of-it-a-memoir-by-madison-beer--65184668https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Half of It: A Memoir Author: Madison Beer Narrator: Madison Beer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.21 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.9 of Total 10 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir from singer-songwriter Madison Beer, chronicling the past decade of her life spent in the spotlight—the ups, the downs, and the in-betweens that you won’t see on social media. Discovered at twelve years old, Madison Beer was one of the first artists to have her entire life documented online. Over the past decade, she has navigated the spotlight as a child, through her teenage years, and now as a young woman in her twenties. In The Half of It, Madison pulls back the curtain to show the behind-the-scenes of her journey, from reckoning with mass hate online and the time her private pictures were leaked, to battling suicidal thoughts while making her highly acclaimed debut album, Life Support, and her recovery since then. This memoir is an honest and unflinching account of self-love, mental health, and advocacy from one of the fastest-rising musical voices and most influential social media presences of her generation. It hammers home the point, more striking and urgent than ever, that no matter how close the internet may make us feel to people, we truly don’t know the half of it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614334Tue, 25 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Half of It: A Memoir Author: Madison Beer Narrator: Madison Beer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 25,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Half of It: A Memoir Author: Madison Beer Narrator: Madison Beer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.21 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.9 of Total 10 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A memoir from singer-songwriter Madison Beer, chronicling the past decade of her life spent in the spotlight—the ups, the downs, and the in-betweens that you won’t see on social media. Discovered at twelve years old, Madison Beer was one of the first artists to have her entire life documented online. Over the past decade, she has navigated the spotlight as a child, through her teenage years, and now as a young woman in her twenties. In The Half of It, Madison pulls back the curtain to show the behind-the-scenes of her journey, from reckoning with mass hate online and the time her private pictures were leaked, to battling suicidal thoughts while making her highly acclaimed debut album, Life Support, and her recovery since then. This memoir is an honest and unflinching account of self-love, mental health, and advocacy from one of the fastest-rising musical voices and most influential social media presences of her generation. It hammers home the point, more striking and urgent than ever, that no matter how close the internet may make us feel to people, we truly don’t know the half of it.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mott-street-a-chinese-american-family-s-story-of-exclusion-and-homecoming-by-ava-chin--65184659https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming Author: Ava Chin Narrator: Ava Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere * TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 * San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Nonfiction * Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023 * Winner of the Chinese American Librarians Association Best Non-Fiction Book Prize * Library Journal Best Memoir and Biography of 2023 * One of Elle's Best Memoirs of 2023 (So Far) * An ALA Notable Book * “The Angela’s Ashes for Chinese Americans.” —Miwa Messer, Poured Over podcast As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family’s origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents’ stories didn’t match the history she read at school. Mott Street traces Chin’s quest to understand her Chinese American family’s story. Over decades of painstaking research, she finds not only her father but also the building that provided a refuge for them all. Breaking the silence surrounding her family’s past meant confronting the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882—the first federal law to restrict immigration by race and nationality, barring Chinese immigrants from citizenship for six decades. Chin traces the story of the pioneering family members who emigrated from the Pearl River Delta, crossing an ocean to make their way in the American West of the mid-nineteenth century. She tells of their backbreaking work on the transcontinental railroad and of the brutal racism of frontier towns, then follows their paths to New York City. In New York’s Chinatown she discovers a single building on Mott Street where so many of her ancestors would live, begin families, and craft new identities. She follows the men and women who became merchants, “paper son” refugees, activists, and heads of the Chinese tong, piecing together how they bore and resisted the weight of the Exclusion laws. She soon realizes that exclusion is not simply a political condition but also a personal one. Gorgeously written, deeply researched, and tremendously resonant, Mott Street uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience, past and present.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617649Tue, 25 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming Author: Ava Chin Narrator: Ava Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming Author: Ava Chin Narrator: Ava Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere * TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 * San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Nonfiction * Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023 * Winner of the Chinese American Librarians Association Best Non-Fiction Book Prize * Library Journal Best Memoir and Biography of 2023 * One of Elle's Best Memoirs of 2023 (So Far) * An ALA Notable Book * “The Angela’s Ashes for Chinese Americans.” —Miwa Messer, Poured Over podcast As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family’s origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents’ stories didn’t match the history she read at school. Mott Street traces Chin’s quest to understand her Chinese American family’s story. Over decades of painstaking research, she finds not only her father but also the building that provided a refuge for them all. Breaking the silence surrounding her family’s past meant confronting the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882—the first federal law to restrict immigration by race and nationality, barring Chinese immigrants from citizenship for six decades. Chin traces the story of the pioneering family members who emigrated from the Pearl River Delta, crossing an ocean to make their way in the American West of the mid-nineteenth century. She tells of their backbreaking work on the transcontinental railroad and of the brutal racism of frontier towns, then follows their paths to New York City. In New York’s Chinatown she discovers a single building on Mott Street where so many of her ancestors would live, begin families, and craft new identities. She follows the men and women who became merchants, “paper son” refugees, activists, and heads of the Chinese tong, piecing together how they bore and resisted the weight of the Exclusion laws. She soon realizes that exclusion is not simply a political condition but also a personal one. Gorgeously written, deeply researched, and tremendously resonant, Mott Street uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience, past and present.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-archaeology-of-loss-life-love-and-the-art-of-dying-by-sarah-tarlow--65184628https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614938 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Archaeology of Loss: Life, love and the art of dying Author: Sarah Tarlow Narrator: Sarah Tarlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 20, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: My whole adult life, I have made a study of death. A stunning blend of the personal and professional, The Archaeology of Loss is Sarah Tarlow’s first memoir. An accomplished archaeologist, much of Sarah’s work is concerned with the ritual and belief behind the practice of grief. In 2012, she was awarded the Chair in Archaeology at the University of Leicester. But in the years that followed this appointment, Sarah’s husband, Mark, would begin to suffer from a progressive but undiagnosed illness, finally resulting in his inability to drive, to walk, to taste or to care for himself. Though Sarah had devoted her professional life to the study of emotion, of how we anticipate and experience grief, nothing could have prepared her for the realities of care-giving, of losing someone you love and the helplessness attached to both. A fiercely honest and unique memoir, The Archaeology of Loss describes a collective experience with an unflinching and singular gaze and will undoubtedly speak to listeners of The Salt Path and H is for Hawk. Told with humour, intelligence and urgency, this is an unforgettable experience.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614938Thu, 20 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614938 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Archaeology of Loss: Life, love and the art of dying Author: Sarah Tarlow Narrator: Sarah Tarlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614938 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Archaeology of Loss: Life, love and the art of dying Author: Sarah Tarlow Narrator: Sarah Tarlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 20, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: My whole adult life, I have made a study of death. A stunning blend of the personal and professional, The Archaeology of Loss is Sarah Tarlow’s first memoir. An accomplished archaeologist, much of Sarah’s work is concerned with the ritual and belief behind the practice of grief. In 2012, she was awarded the Chair in Archaeology at the University of Leicester. But in the years that followed this appointment, Sarah’s husband, Mark, would begin to suffer from a progressive but undiagnosed illness, finally resulting in his inability to drive, to walk, to taste or to care for himself. Though Sarah had devoted her professional life to the study of emotion, of how we anticipate and experience grief, nothing could have prepared her for the realities of care-giving, of losing someone you love and the helplessness attached to both. A fiercely honest and unique memoir, The Archaeology of Loss describes a collective experience with an unflinching and singular gaze and will undoubtedly speak to listeners of The Salt Path and H is for Hawk. Told with humour, intelligence and urgency, this is an unforgettable experience.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-her-nature-how-women-break-boundaries-in-the-great-outdoors-by-rachel-hewitt--65184553https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors Author: Rachel Hewitt Narrator: Rachel Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 1 minute Release date: April 20, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Heartfelt, passionate, infuriating and often devastating, this book will inspire you to fight for your right to tread your own path' CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ, author of Invisible Women When Rachel loses five family members in five months, grief magnifies other absences. Running across moors and mountains used to help her feel at home in her body and the world, but now she becomes painfully aware of her inability to run without being cat-called or followed by strange men, or to walk alone at night without fear. Her eyes are opened to injustices facing women in sport, from men who push her off paths during races, to male bias in competition regulations, kit and media coverage. The outdoors becomes a place of danger, sharpening her sense of the grief women experience - every day, everywhere - for lack of freedom. Rachel goes in search of a new family: the foremothers who blazed a trail at the dawn of outdoor sport. She discovers Lizzie Le Blond, a courageous Anglo-Irishwoman who scaled the Alps in woollen skirts, photographed fearless women climbing, skating and tobogganing at breakneck speeds, and founded the Ladies' Alpine Club, defying men who wanted the mountains to themselves. Yet after such groundbreaking progress in the late 1800s, a backlash drove women out of sports and public space. Are we now living through a similar reversal in women's rights or an era of unprecedented liberty? Telling Lizzie's story alongside her own, Rachel runs her way from bereavement to belonging, in a world that feels hostile to women. On the way she's inspired by the tenacious women, past and present, who insist that breaking boundaries outdoors is, and always has been, in her nature. ©2023 Rachel Hewitt (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626925Thu, 20 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors Author: Rachel Hewitt Narrator: Rachel Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors Author: Rachel Hewitt Narrator: Rachel Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 1 minute Release date: April 20, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Heartfelt, passionate, infuriating and often devastating, this book will inspire you to fight for your right to tread your own path' CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ, author of Invisible Women When Rachel loses five family members in five months, grief magnifies other absences. Running across moors and mountains used to help her feel at home in her body and the world, but now she becomes painfully aware of her inability to run without being cat-called or followed by strange men, or to walk alone at night without fear. Her eyes are opened to injustices facing women in sport, from men who push her off paths during races, to male bias in competition regulations, kit and media coverage. The outdoors becomes a place of danger, sharpening her sense of the grief women experience - every day, everywhere - for lack of freedom. Rachel goes in search of a new family: the foremothers who blazed a trail at the dawn of outdoor sport. She discovers Lizzie Le Blond, a courageous Anglo-Irishwoman who scaled the Alps in woollen skirts, photographed fearless women climbing, skating and tobogganing at breakneck speeds, and founded the Ladies' Alpine Club, defying men who wanted the mountains to themselves. Yet after such groundbreaking progress in the late 1800s, a backlash drove women out of sports and public space. Are we now living through a similar reversal in women's rights or an era of unprecedented liberty? Telling Lizzie's story alongside her own, Rachel runs her way from bereavement to belonging, in a world that feels hostile to women. On the way she's inspired by the tenacious women, past and present, who insist that breaking boundaries outdoors is, and always has been, in her nature. ©2023 Rachel Hewitt (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/remedies-for-sorrow-an-extraordinary-child-a-secret-kept-from-pregnant-women-and-a-mother-s-pursuit-of-the-truth-by-megan-nix--65184710https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of the Truth Author: Megan Nix Narrator: Megan Nix Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This 'compulsively readable memoir...brings to light an issue that has been too long ignored...An immensely important book' (Emily Oster, New York Times bestselling author of Expecting Better and Cribsheet). A story of a mother’s fierce love for her exceptional child and her courageous journey to break the silence about a hidden risk to pregnant women: 'both a beautiful family story and an urgent call to action… [A] moving, potentially life-altering book' (Robert Kolker, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Hidden Valley Road). After a seemingly uneventful pregnancy, Megan Nix’s second daughter, Anna, was born very small and profoundly deaf. Megan and her husband, Luke, learned that Anna could have lifelong delays due to an infection from a virus they had never heard of: cytomegalovirus, or CMV, which Megan had unwittingly contracted from her toddler during pregnancy. Megan was electrified by this knowledge. She had been warned, while pregnant, about the risks of saunas, sushi, and unpasteurized cheese, a lack of folic acid, and an excess of kitty litter. She knew to fear a slew of genetic syndromes she could do little to prevent. But she had not been told that CMV is contagious in the saliva of one out of three toddlers, spread through a kiss, a shared cup, a bite of unfinished toast. She had not been told that the stakes were high, that congenital CMV causes more birth defects and childhood disabilities—including blindness, deafness, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and autism—than any infectious disease. Or that some of these disabilities are evident at birth, but others appear suddenly at age two or three and are never traced back to congenital CMV. Remedies for Sorrow unfolds across the dramatic landscape of Sitka, Alaska, where Luke makes his living as a salmon fisherman. There, Megan struggles to meet Anna’s needs and dives deeper into the mystery of why no one—not her OBGYN, not her toddler’s pediatrician—had mentioned CMV, despite the staggering cost of this silence to families and children like Anna. From this rugged and beautiful place comes a memoir about the boundless capacity of mothers, the extraordinary child that is Anna, and the lifesaving power of truth.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614353Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of the Truth Author: Megan Nix Narrator: Megan...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother's Pursuit of the Truth Author: Megan Nix Narrator: Megan Nix Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This 'compulsively readable memoir...brings to light an issue that has been too long ignored...An immensely important book' (Emily Oster, New York Times bestselling author of Expecting Better and Cribsheet). A story of a mother’s fierce love for her exceptional child and her courageous journey to break the silence about a hidden risk to pregnant women: 'both a beautiful family story and an urgent call to action… [A] moving, potentially life-altering book' (Robert Kolker, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Hidden Valley Road). After a seemingly uneventful pregnancy, Megan Nix’s second daughter, Anna, was born very small and profoundly deaf. Megan and her husband, Luke, learned that Anna could have lifelong delays due to an infection from a virus they had never heard of: cytomegalovirus, or CMV, which Megan had unwittingly contracted from her toddler during pregnancy. Megan was electrified by this knowledge. She had been warned, while pregnant, about the risks of saunas, sushi, and unpasteurized cheese, a lack of folic acid, and an excess of kitty litter. She knew to fear a slew of genetic syndromes she could do little to prevent. But she had not been told that CMV is contagious in the saliva of one out of three toddlers, spread through a kiss, a shared cup, a bite of unfinished toast. She had not been told that the stakes were high, that congenital CMV causes more birth defects and childhood disabilities—including blindness, deafness, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and autism—than any infectious disease. Or that some of these disabilities are evident at birth, but others appear suddenly at age two or three and are never traced back to congenital CMV. Remedies for Sorrow unfolds across the dramatic landscape of Sitka, Alaska, where Luke makes his living as a salmon fisherman. There, Megan struggles to meet Anna’s needs and dives deeper into the mystery of why no one—not her OBGYN, not her toddler’s pediatrician—had mentioned CMV, despite the staggering cost of this silence to families and children like Anna. From this rugged and beautiful place comes a memoir about the boundless capacity of mothers, the extraordinary child that is Anna, and the lifesaving power of truth.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-best-minds-a-story-of-friendship-madness-and-the-tragedy-of-good-intentions-by-jonathan-rosen--65184676https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617645 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions Author: Jonathan Rosen Narrator: Jonathan Rosen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST •  Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, and People One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 “Brave and nuanced . . . an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” —The New York Times “Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” —The Wall Street Journal Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand—and fail to understand—mental illness. When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, the boys were best friends and keen competitors, and, when they both got into Yale University, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite.   Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. But all wasn’t as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital.   Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Michael was still battling delu­sions when he traded his halfway house for Yale Law School. Featured in The New York Times as a role model genius, he sold a memoir, with film rights to Ron Howard. But then Michael, in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, stabbed his girlfriend Carrie to death and became a front-page story of an entirely different sort.   Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen’s magnificent and heartbreaking account of good intentions and tragic outcomes whose significance will echo widely.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617645Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617645 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions Author: Jonathan Rosen Narrator: Jonathan Rosen Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617645 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions Author: Jonathan Rosen Narrator: Jonathan Rosen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST •  Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, and People One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 “Brave and nuanced . . . an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” —The New York Times “Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” —The Wall Street Journal Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand—and fail to understand—mental illness. When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors, the boys were best friends and keen competitors, and, when they both got into Yale University, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite.   Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. But all wasn’t as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital.   Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Michael was still battling delu­sions when he traded his halfway house for Yale Law School. Featured in The New York Times as a role model genius, he sold a memoir, with film rights to Ron Howard. But then Michael, in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, stabbed his girlfriend Carrie to death and became a front-page story of an entirely different sort.   Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen’s magnificent and heartbreaking account of good intentions and tragic outcomes whose significance will echo widely.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/time-come-selected-prose-by-linton-kwesi-johnson--65184598https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time Come: Selected Prose Author: Linton Kwesi Johnson Narrator: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ben Onwukwe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2023 'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times 'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie Smith Recognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of non-fiction. In Time Come, he selects some of his most powerful prose – book and record reviews published in newspapers and magazines, lectures, obituaries and speeches – for the first time. Written over many decades, it is a body of work that draws creatively and critically on Johnson’s own Jamaican roots and on Caribbean history to explore the politics of race that continue to inform the Black British experience. Ranging from reflections on the place of music in Caribbean and Black British culture as a creative, defiant response to oppression, to his penetrating appraisals of music and literature, and including warm tributes paid to the activists and artists who inspired him to find his own voice as a poet and compelled him to contribute to the struggle for racial equality and social justice, Time Come is a panorama of an exceptional life. A collection that ventures into memoir, it underscores Johnson’s enduring importance in Britain’s cultural history and reminds us of his brilliant, unparalleled legacy. With an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack 'A mosaic of wise, urgent and moving pieces' - Kit de Waal 'As necessary as ever' - The Observer 'A book to be savoured and re-read' - Derek Owusu 'An outstanding collection' - Caryl Phillips 'A necessary book from a writer who continues to inspire' - Yomi Sode 'Incisive, engaging, fearless' - Gary Younge]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622340Thu, 13 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time Come: Selected Prose Author: Linton Kwesi Johnson Narrator: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ben Onwukwe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time Come: Selected Prose Author: Linton Kwesi Johnson Narrator: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ben Onwukwe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2023 'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times 'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie Smith Recognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of non-fiction. In Time Come, he selects some of his most powerful prose – book and record reviews published in newspapers and magazines, lectures, obituaries and speeches – for the first time. Written over many decades, it is a body of work that draws creatively and critically on Johnson’s own Jamaican roots and on Caribbean history to explore the politics of race that continue to inform the Black British experience. Ranging from reflections on the place of music in Caribbean and Black British culture as a creative, defiant response to oppression, to his penetrating appraisals of music and literature, and including warm tributes paid to the activists and artists who inspired him to find his own voice as a poet and compelled him to contribute to the struggle for racial equality and social justice, Time Come is a panorama of an exceptional life. A collection that ventures into memoir, it underscores Johnson’s enduring importance in Britain’s cultural history and reminds us of his brilliant, unparalleled legacy. With an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack 'A mosaic of wise, urgent and moving pieces' - Kit de Waal 'As necessary as ever' - The Observer 'A book to be savoured and re-read' - Derek Owusu 'An outstanding collection' - Caryl Phillips 'A necessary book from a writer who continues to inspire' - Yomi Sode 'Incisive, engaging, fearless' - Gary Younge]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-our-shoes-on-being-a-young-black-woman-in-not-so-post-racial-america-by-brianna-holt--65184651https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So 'Post-Racial' America Author: Brianna Holt Narrator: Brianna Holt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Part memoir, part cultural critique, In Our Shoes uses pop culture and author Brianna Holt’s own lived experience to dissect the stereotypes and preconceived notions that young Black women must overcome in America today. In this fresh exploration of cultural appropriation, wokeness, tone policing, and more, Holt carefully dismantles myths about Black womanhood, allowing readers to assess their biases while examining the roles Black millennial women are forced to take on simply to survive.   Through nine thoughtful chapters—such as “Leave the Box Braids for the Black Girls” and “Why Are You So Dark?”—laced with searing commentary, personal anecdotes from Brianna’s own life, and interviews conducted with “everyday” Black women and experts across different fields, In Our Shoes reveals the complexities of existence for Black women and creates a thought-provoking book that helps readers to learn, empathize, reflect, and, most importantly, act.   A history, a work of criticism, a piece of reporting, and a call to action, In Our Shoes is a timely exploration of race and womanhood that will entertain, inspire, and inform in equal measures.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617631Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So 'Post-Racial' America Author: Brianna Holt Narrator: Brianna Holt Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So 'Post-Racial' America Author: Brianna Holt Narrator: Brianna Holt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Part memoir, part cultural critique, In Our Shoes uses pop culture and author Brianna Holt’s own lived experience to dissect the stereotypes and preconceived notions that young Black women must overcome in America today. In this fresh exploration of cultural appropriation, wokeness, tone policing, and more, Holt carefully dismantles myths about Black womanhood, allowing readers to assess their biases while examining the roles Black millennial women are forced to take on simply to survive.   Through nine thoughtful chapters—such as “Leave the Box Braids for the Black Girls” and “Why Are You So Dark?”—laced with searing commentary, personal anecdotes from Brianna’s own life, and interviews conducted with “everyday” Black women and experts across different fields, In Our Shoes reveals the complexities of existence for Black women and creates a thought-provoking book that helps readers to learn, empathize, reflect, and, most importantly, act.   A history, a work of criticism, a piece of reporting, and a call to action, In Our Shoes is a timely exploration of race and womanhood that will entertain, inspire, and inform in equal measures.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/where-the-waves-turn-back-a-forty-day-pilgrimage-along-the-california-coast-by-tyson-motsenbocker--65184635https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the Waves Turn Back: A Forty-Day Pilgrimage Along the California Coast Author: Tyson Motsenbocker Narrator: Tyson Motsenbocker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this powerful memoir, following the death of his mother, Tyson Motsenbocker retraces the journey an 18th century priest took in this harrowing story of one man’s pilgrimage of healing and finding beauty and hope in tragedy.  After years on the road performing at sold-out venues, Tyson Motsenbocker returned home to the impending death of his 57-year-old hero and mother. He begged God to heal her, but she died anyway. When they buried her body, Tyson also buried the childhood version of his faith.   Shortly before her death, however, Tyson became intrigued by the complicated legacy of Father Junipero Serra, the 18th-century Franciscan monk and canonized saint who dedicated his life to the idea that tragedy and suffering are portals to renewal. Father Serra built Missions up and down the California coast, spreading Christianity, as well as enabling and aiding in the oppression and colonization of the native Californians. Tyson discovered Serra’s “El Camino Real,” a 600-mile pilgrimage route up the California coast that had been largely forgotten for more than 200 years. Two days after they buried his mother, Tyson set out on a pilgrimage of sorts, intending to walk from San Diego to San Francisco along the El Camino, following in the footsteps of the saint.  Tyson’s journey takes him down smog-choked highways, across fog-laden beaches, past multi-million-dollar coastal estates, and along the towering cliffs of Big Sur. And as he walks, Tyson also wrestles with his faith, questioning the pat answers and easy prayers he once readily accepted, trying to understand how hope and tragedy can all be wrapped up in the same God. The people he meets along the way challenge his understanding of the meaning of security, of what it means to live a meaningful life, and of the legacies we all leave behind.   Where the Waves Turn Back is both part journal and part spiritual memoir, and ultimately, a thrilling and deeply satisfying read that asks questions that will resonate with readers seeking meaning in an utterly disorienting age.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617444Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the Waves Turn Back: A Forty-Day Pilgrimage Along the California Coast Author: Tyson Motsenbocker Narrator: Tyson Motsenbocker Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Where the Waves Turn Back: A Forty-Day Pilgrimage Along the California Coast Author: Tyson Motsenbocker Narrator: Tyson Motsenbocker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this powerful memoir, following the death of his mother, Tyson Motsenbocker retraces the journey an 18th century priest took in this harrowing story of one man’s pilgrimage of healing and finding beauty and hope in tragedy.  After years on the road performing at sold-out venues, Tyson Motsenbocker returned home to the impending death of his 57-year-old hero and mother. He begged God to heal her, but she died anyway. When they buried her body, Tyson also buried the childhood version of his faith.   Shortly before her death, however, Tyson became intrigued by the complicated legacy of Father Junipero Serra, the 18th-century Franciscan monk and canonized saint who dedicated his life to the idea that tragedy and suffering are portals to renewal. Father Serra built Missions up and down the California coast, spreading Christianity, as well as enabling and aiding in the oppression and colonization of the native Californians. Tyson discovered Serra’s “El Camino Real,” a 600-mile pilgrimage route up the California coast that had been largely forgotten for more than 200 years. Two days after they buried his mother, Tyson set out on a pilgrimage of sorts, intending to walk from San Diego to San Francisco along the El Camino, following in the footsteps of the saint.  Tyson’s journey takes him down smog-choked highways, across fog-laden beaches, past multi-million-dollar coastal estates, and along the towering cliffs of Big Sur. And as he walks, Tyson also wrestles with his faith, questioning the pat answers and easy prayers he once readily accepted, trying to understand how hope and tragedy can all be wrapped up in the same God. The people he meets along the way challenge his understanding of the meaning of security, of what it means to live a meaningful life, and of the legacies we all leave behind.   Where the Waves Turn Back is both part journal and part spiritual memoir, and ultimately, a thrilling and deeply satisfying read that asks questions that will resonate with readers seeking meaning in an utterly disorienting age.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/return-a-journey-back-to-living-wild-by-lynx-vilden--65184626https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return: A Journey Back to Living Wild Author: Lynx Vilden Narrator: Lynx Vilden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this stunning memoir, beloved internationally acclaimed earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for how we all can nurture the wild around and inside ourselves. In 1991, twenty-four-year-old Lynx Vilden crawled out of a sweat lodge covered in mud, her face streaked with tears, and whispered a promise to the earth: “I will love you and cherish you, I will learn how to live and share what you teach me.” That promise became Vilden’s life purpose: to return to the ways of our oldest ancestors, to a simpler life, and to listen deeply to Earth and what she has to say. Over the next thirty years, Vilden’s mission would lead her far from the city streets and punk bands of London and Amsterdam where she was raised, on a long and winding journey spanning continents and seasons, and filled with indigenous wisdom, Stone Age hunting skills, and important lessons from nature. In this illuminating memoir, Vilden shares the joys that await all of us when we reconnect with the earth, when we recognize what has been lost, and understand what we gain by meaningfully returning to our roots and become rewilded. Return is a glimpse into her extraordinary world—from stories about mentoring Silicon Valley millennials at her Stone Age immersion in rural Washington State to adventures traveling among Sami reindeer herders in Arctic Sweden to detailing the intricacies of just how to pursue and survive a wild lifestyle inspired by Stone Age humans. This extraordinary debut ultimately invigorates our hunger to renew our bonds with the earth and awaken our wildest, most primal selves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615112Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return: A Journey Back to Living Wild Author: Lynx Vilden Narrator: Lynx Vilden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Return: A Journey Back to Living Wild Author: Lynx Vilden Narrator: Lynx Vilden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this stunning memoir, beloved internationally acclaimed earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for how we all can nurture the wild around and inside ourselves. In 1991, twenty-four-year-old Lynx Vilden crawled out of a sweat lodge covered in mud, her face streaked with tears, and whispered a promise to the earth: “I will love you and cherish you, I will learn how to live and share what you teach me.” That promise became Vilden’s life purpose: to return to the ways of our oldest ancestors, to a simpler life, and to listen deeply to Earth and what she has to say. Over the next thirty years, Vilden’s mission would lead her far from the city streets and punk bands of London and Amsterdam where she was raised, on a long and winding journey spanning continents and seasons, and filled with indigenous wisdom, Stone Age hunting skills, and important lessons from nature. In this illuminating memoir, Vilden shares the joys that await all of us when we reconnect with the earth, when we recognize what has been lost, and understand what we gain by meaningfully returning to our roots and become rewilded. Return is a glimpse into her extraordinary world—from stories about mentoring Silicon Valley millennials at her Stone Age immersion in rural Washington State to adventures traveling among Sami reindeer herders in Arctic Sweden to detailing the intricacies of just how to pursue and survive a wild lifestyle inspired by Stone Age humans. This extraordinary debut ultimately invigorates our hunger to renew our bonds with the earth and awaken our wildest, most primal selves.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arrangements-in-blue-notes-on-love-and-making-a-life-by-amy-key--65184695https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617707 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life Author: Amy Key Narrator: Amy Key Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and the conventional markers of success that come when you share a life with another person. But that didn't happen for her. Now in her forties, she sets out to explore the realities of a life lived in the absence of romantic love. Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - an album that shaped Key's expectations of love - as her guide, she examines the unexpected life she has created for herself. Building a home, travelling alone, choosing whether to be a mother, recognising her own milestones, learning the limits of self-care and the expansive potential of self-friendship, Key uncovers the many forms of connection and care that often go unnoticed. With profound candour and intimacy, Arrangements in Blue explores the painful feelings we are usually too ashamed to discuss: loneliness, envy, grief and failure. The result is a singular work - a beautifully-written and essential book about building a life on your own terms, which inspires us to live and love more honestly. ©2023 Amy Key (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617707Thu, 06 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617707 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life Author: Amy Key Narrator: Amy Key Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617707 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life Author: Amy Key Narrator: Amy Key Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and the conventional markers of success that come when you share a life with another person. But that didn't happen for her. Now in her forties, she sets out to explore the realities of a life lived in the absence of romantic love. Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - an album that shaped Key's expectations of love - as her guide, she examines the unexpected life she has created for herself. Building a home, travelling alone, choosing whether to be a mother, recognising her own milestones, learning the limits of self-care and the expansive potential of self-friendship, Key uncovers the many forms of connection and care that often go unnoticed. With profound candour and intimacy, Arrangements in Blue explores the painful feelings we are usually too ashamed to discuss: loneliness, envy, grief and failure. The result is a singular work - a beautifully-written and essential book about building a life on your own terms, which inspires us to live and love more honestly. ©2023 Amy Key (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/welcome-to-the-circus-of-baseball-a-story-of-the-perfect-summer-at-the-perfect-ballpark-at-the-perfect-time-by-ryan-mcgee--65184703https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time Author: Ryan Mcgee Narrator: Ryan Mcgee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a fresh-out-of-college intern for a minor league baseball team. Madness and charm ensue as Ryan McGee spends the season steeped in sweat, fertilizer, nacho cheese sauce, and pure, unadulterated joy in North Carolina with the Asheville Tourists. 'A sweet and funny book that reminds us it’s not just the game itself that draws us. It’s also the people.' —Tom Verducci, MLB Network, Fox & Sports Illustrated, and New York Times bestselling author of The Yankee Years In the spring of 1994, Ryan McGee (new college graduate) bombed his coveted interview with ESPN--the only place he ever wanted to work. But he did receive one job offer: to work for $100 a week for the Asheville Tourists, a proud minor league baseball team in the heart of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. McCormick Field, home to the Tourists, had once been graced by Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, and Jackie Robinson. What could go wrong? Welcome to the Circus of Baseball is McGee’s hilarious, charming memoir of his first summer working in the sporting world. He has since risen the ESPN ranks to national TV, radio, and Internet host, but his time in Asheville still looms large. Among the many jewels of his experience. . . McGee recounts one of the most entertaining on-field brawls you’ll ever witness (between the fourteen league mascots who had assembled for the all-star game--an eight-foot-tall foam-costumed crustacean, a pudgy red fox, a giant skunk . . . and they were really fighting), as well as the nervous moment he oversaw the game-day entertainer known as 'Captain Dynamite and His Exploding Coffin of Death.' Most important, McGee details a magical summer of baseball, of learning the ropes, of the ins-and-outs of running a minor league team, and of coming to understand how the pulse of a community can beat gloriously through a minor league ball club. Welcome to the Circus of Baseball is a baseball classic in the making.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617662Tue, 04 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time Author: Ryan Mcgee Narrator: Ryan Mcgee...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time Author: Ryan Mcgee Narrator: Ryan Mcgee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a fresh-out-of-college intern for a minor league baseball team. Madness and charm ensue as Ryan McGee spends the season steeped in sweat, fertilizer, nacho cheese sauce, and pure, unadulterated joy in North Carolina with the Asheville Tourists. 'A sweet and funny book that reminds us it’s not just the game itself that draws us. It’s also the people.' —Tom Verducci, MLB Network, Fox & Sports Illustrated, and New York Times bestselling author of The Yankee Years In the spring of 1994, Ryan McGee (new college graduate) bombed his coveted interview with ESPN--the only place he ever wanted to work. But he did receive one job offer: to work for $100 a week for the Asheville Tourists, a proud minor league baseball team in the heart of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. McCormick Field, home to the Tourists, had once been graced by Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, and Jackie Robinson. What could go wrong? Welcome to the Circus of Baseball is McGee’s hilarious, charming memoir of his first summer working in the sporting world. He has since risen the ESPN ranks to national TV, radio, and Internet host, but his time in Asheville still looms large. Among the many jewels of his experience. . . McGee recounts one of the most entertaining on-field brawls you’ll ever witness (between the fourteen league mascots who had assembled for the all-star game--an eight-foot-tall foam-costumed crustacean, a pudgy red fox, a giant skunk . . . and they were really fighting), as well as the nervous moment he oversaw the game-day entertainer known as 'Captain Dynamite and His Exploding Coffin of Death.' Most important, McGee details a magical summer of baseball, of learning the ropes, of the ins-and-outs of running a minor league team, and of coming to understand how the pulse of a community can beat gloriously through a minor league ball club. Welcome to the Circus of Baseball is a baseball classic in the making.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-can-t-save-you-a-memoir-by-anthony-chin-quee--65184685https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Can't Save You: A Memoir Author: Anthony Chin-Quee Narrator: Anthony Chin-Quee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The raw and gripping memoir of a Black physician who confronts his past mistakes and relationships as he learns to find his own path forward At first glance, Anthony Chin-Quee looks like a traditional success story: a smart, ambitious kid who grew up to become a board-certified otolaryngologist—an ear, nose, and throat surgeon. Yet the truth is more complicated.   As a self-described “not white, mostly Black, and questionably Asian man,” Chin-Quee knows that he doesn’t fit easily into any category. Growing up in a family with a background of depression, he struggled with relationships, feelings of inadequacy, and a fear of failure that made it difficult for him to forge lasting bonds with others.   To repair that, he began his own unflinching examination of what it means to be both a physician and a Black man today. What saved him and his sanity was not medicine but storytelling: by sharing stories from his life and career, Chin-Quee learned how powerful the truth can be in helping to forgive yourself and others as you chart a new way forward. By turns harrowing and hilarious, honest and human, I Can’t Save You is the fascinating true story of how looking within can change you and your life for the better. Contents Prologue 1 ONE: Chin-Quee, M.D. 3 TWO: A-Side—Success* 42 THREE: B-Side—The Fall 80 FOUR: You 160 FIVE: Fear of Flying 176 SIX: Rainbow Connection 212 SEVEN: Y'ain't (k)no(w) 222 EIGHT: Fatherhood 285 NINE: Eulogy 334 Acknowledgments  353]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617628Tue, 04 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Can't Save You: A Memoir Author: Anthony Chin-Quee Narrator: Anthony Chin-Quee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 8 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Can't Save You: A Memoir Author: Anthony Chin-Quee Narrator: Anthony Chin-Quee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The raw and gripping memoir of a Black physician who confronts his past mistakes and relationships as he learns to find his own path forward At first glance, Anthony Chin-Quee looks like a traditional success story: a smart, ambitious kid who grew up to become a board-certified otolaryngologist—an ear, nose, and throat surgeon. Yet the truth is more complicated.   As a self-described “not white, mostly Black, and questionably Asian man,” Chin-Quee knows that he doesn’t fit easily into any category. Growing up in a family with a background of depression, he struggled with relationships, feelings of inadequacy, and a fear of failure that made it difficult for him to forge lasting bonds with others.   To repair that, he began his own unflinching examination of what it means to be both a physician and a Black man today. What saved him and his sanity was not medicine but storytelling: by sharing stories from his life and career, Chin-Quee learned how powerful the truth can be in helping to forgive yourself and others as you chart a new way forward. By turns harrowing and hilarious, honest and human, I Can’t Save You is the fascinating true story of how looking within can change you and your life for the better. Contents Prologue 1 ONE: Chin-Quee, M.D. 3 TWO: A-Side—Success* 42 THREE: B-Side—The Fall 80 FOUR: You 160 FIVE: Fear of Flying 176 SIX: Rainbow Connection 212 SEVEN: Y'ain't (k)no(w) 222 EIGHT: Fatherhood 285 NINE: Eulogy 334 Acknowledgments  353]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/go-back-and-get-it-a-memoir-of-race-inheritance-and-intergenerational-healing-by-dionne-ford--65184681https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing Author: Dionne Ford Narrator: Dionne Ford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An unexpected family photograph leads Dionne Ford to uncover the stories of her enslaved female ancestors, reclaim their power, and begin to heal  Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose great grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker and the enslaved woman he received as a wedding gift.  What shapes does this kind of intergenerational trauma take? In these pages, which move between her inner life and deep research, Ford tells us. It manifests as alcoholism and post-traumatic stress; it finds echoes in her own experience of sexual abuse at the hands of a relative, and in the ways in which she builds her own interracial family.  To heal, Ford tries a wide range of therapies, lifestyle changes, and recovery meetings. “Anything,” she writes, “to keep from going back there.” But what she learns is that she needs to go back there, to return to her female ancestors, and unearth what she can about them to start to feel whole.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617441Tue, 04 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing Author: Dionne Ford Narrator: Dionne Ford Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing Author: Dionne Ford Narrator: Dionne Ford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An unexpected family photograph leads Dionne Ford to uncover the stories of her enslaved female ancestors, reclaim their power, and begin to heal  Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose great grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker and the enslaved woman he received as a wedding gift.  What shapes does this kind of intergenerational trauma take? In these pages, which move between her inner life and deep research, Ford tells us. It manifests as alcoholism and post-traumatic stress; it finds echoes in her own experience of sexual abuse at the hands of a relative, and in the ways in which she builds her own interracial family.  To heal, Ford tries a wide range of therapies, lifestyle changes, and recovery meetings. “Anything,” she writes, “to keep from going back there.” But what she learns is that she needs to go back there, to return to her female ancestors, and unearth what she can about them to start to feel whole.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-living-remedy-a-memoir-by-nicole-chung--65184639https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617859 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Living Remedy: A Memoir Author: Nicole Chung Narrator: Jennifer Kim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Winner, Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper’s Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * Today From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she’s lost. In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you’d hoped. You will learn to live with the specific, hollow guilt of those who leave hardship behind, yet are unable to bring anyone else with them. Nicole Chung couldn’t hightail it out of her overwhelmingly white Oregon hometown fast enough. As a scholarship student at a private university on the East Coast, no longer the only Korean she knew, she found community and a path to the life she'd long wanted. But the middle class world she begins to raise a family in – where there are big homes, college funds, nice vacations – looks very different from the middle class world she thought she grew up in, where paychecks have to stretch to the end of the week, health insurance is often lacking, and there are no safety nets. When her father dies at only sixty-seven, killed by diabetes and kidney disease, Nicole feels deep grief as well as rage, knowing that years of precarity and lack of access to healthcare contributed to his early death. And then the unthinkable happens – less than a year later, her beloved mother is diagnosed with cancer, and the physical distance between them becomes insurmountable as COVID-19 descends upon the world. Exploring the enduring strength of family bonds in the face of hardship and tragedy, A Living Remedy examines what it takes to reconcile the distance between one life, one home, and another – and sheds needed light on some of the most persistent and grievous inequalities in American society.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617859Tue, 04 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617859 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Living Remedy: A Memoir Author: Nicole Chung Narrator: Jennifer Kim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 4,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617859 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Living Remedy: A Memoir Author: Nicole Chung Narrator: Jennifer Kim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Winner, Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper’s Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * Today From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she’s lost. In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you’d hoped. You will learn to live with the specific, hollow guilt of those who leave hardship behind, yet are unable to bring anyone else with them. Nicole Chung couldn’t hightail it out of her overwhelmingly white Oregon hometown fast enough. As a scholarship student at a private university on the East Coast, no longer the only Korean she knew, she found community and a path to the life she'd long wanted. But the middle class world she begins to raise a family in – where there are big homes, college funds, nice vacations – looks very different from the middle class world she thought she grew up in, where paychecks have to stretch to the end of the week, health insurance is often lacking, and there are no safety nets. When her father dies at only sixty-seven, killed by diabetes and kidney disease, Nicole feels deep grief as well as rage, knowing that years of precarity and lack of access to healthcare contributed to his early death. And then the unthinkable happens – less than a year later, her beloved mother is diagnosed with cancer, and the physical distance between them becomes insurmountable as COVID-19 descends upon the world. Exploring the enduring strength of family bonds in the face of hardship and tragedy, A Living Remedy examines what it takes to reconcile the distance between one life, one home, and another – and sheds needed light on some of the most persistent and grievous inequalities in American society.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-should-not-be-friends-the-story-of-an-unlikely-friendship-by-will-schwalbe--65184640https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of An Unlikely Friendship Author: Will Schwalbe Narrator: Will Schwalbe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From the best-selling author of The End of Your Life Book Club-a warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing friendship over the course of forty years. In his last year of university, Will thought he knew everyone he cared to know. Openly gay and volunteering at an AIDS helpline at the start of the crisis, he had found community at a frightening time amongst the theatre students, writers, and visual artists. He also knew who he wanted to avoid: the jocks. Until one day Will was invited into a secret Yale society that brought opposites together. On his first day, he was faced with Chris Maxey - a physically imposing, loud, star wrestler who seemed to be uncomfortable around Will and embody everything he reviled and feared. But through months of mandated dinners, and many beers, the two swapped life-stories and forged an unexpected bond that became a ballast in each other's lives for forty years. From New Haven to New York City, from Hong Kong and London to a remote Bahamian island-through marriages and divorce, triumphs and devastating losses-We Should Not Be Friends tracks an extraordinary friendship through decades of challenge and change. It is a testament to the miracle of human connection, if only we can see past our differences. ©2022 Will Schwalbe (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622281Thu, 30 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of An Unlikely Friendship Author: Will Schwalbe Narrator: Will Schwalbe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of An Unlikely Friendship Author: Will Schwalbe Narrator: Will Schwalbe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From the best-selling author of The End of Your Life Book Club-a warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing friendship over the course of forty years. In his last year of university, Will thought he knew everyone he cared to know. Openly gay and volunteering at an AIDS helpline at the start of the crisis, he had found community at a frightening time amongst the theatre students, writers, and visual artists. He also knew who he wanted to avoid: the jocks. Until one day Will was invited into a secret Yale society that brought opposites together. On his first day, he was faced with Chris Maxey - a physically imposing, loud, star wrestler who seemed to be uncomfortable around Will and embody everything he reviled and feared. But through months of mandated dinners, and many beers, the two swapped life-stories and forged an unexpected bond that became a ballast in each other's lives for forty years. From New Haven to New York City, from Hong Kong and London to a remote Bahamian island-through marriages and divorce, triumphs and devastating losses-We Should Not Be Friends tracks an extraordinary friendship through decades of challenge and change. It is a testament to the miracle of human connection, if only we can see past our differences. ©2022 Will Schwalbe (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-survivor-how-i-survived-six-concentration-camps-and-became-a-nazi-hunter-by-michael-calvin-josef-lewkowicz--65184535https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626721 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter Author: Michael Calvin, Josef Lewkowicz Narrator: Laurence Dobiesz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit, unshakeable faith, and extraordinary courage in the face of evil. At only sixteen years old, Josef Lewkowicz became a number, prisoner 85314. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland, he and his father were separated from their family and herded to the Kraków-Plaszów concentration camp. Forced to carry out hard labour in brutal conditions, and to live under the constant threat of extreme violence and sudden death, before the war was over Josef would witness the unique horrors of six of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee. From salt mines to forced marches, summary executions to Amstetten, where prisoners were used as human shields in Allied bombing, Josef lived under the spectre of death for many years. When he was liberated from Ebensee at the end of the war, conditions were amongst the worst witnessed by allied forces. With his freedom, Josef returned home to find that he was the only one left alive in an extended family of 150. Compelled by the need to do something to avenge that loss, he joined the Jewish police while still in a displaced persons' camp, and was recruited as an intelligence officer for the US Army who gave him a team to search for Nazis in hiding. Whilst rounding up SS leaders, he played a critical role in identifying and bringing to justice his greatest tormentor, the Butcher of Plaszow, Amon Göth, played by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List. He then committed his life to helping the orphaned children of the Holocaust rebuild their lives. The Survivor is Josef's extraordinary testimony. ©2023 Josef Lewkowicz & Michael Calvin (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626721Thu, 30 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626721 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter Author: Michael Calvin, Josef Lewkowicz Narrator: Laurence Dobiesz...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626721 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter Author: Michael Calvin, Josef Lewkowicz Narrator: Laurence Dobiesz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit, unshakeable faith, and extraordinary courage in the face of evil. At only sixteen years old, Josef Lewkowicz became a number, prisoner 85314. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland, he and his father were separated from their family and herded to the Kraków-Plaszów concentration camp. Forced to carry out hard labour in brutal conditions, and to live under the constant threat of extreme violence and sudden death, before the war was over Josef would witness the unique horrors of six of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee. From salt mines to forced marches, summary executions to Amstetten, where prisoners were used as human shields in Allied bombing, Josef lived under the spectre of death for many years. When he was liberated from Ebensee at the end of the war, conditions were amongst the worst witnessed by allied forces. With his freedom, Josef returned home to find that he was the only one left alive in an extended family of 150. Compelled by the need to do something to avenge that loss, he joined the Jewish police while still in a displaced persons' camp, and was recruited as an intelligence officer for the US Army who gave him a team to search for Nazis in hiding. Whilst rounding up SS leaders, he played a critical role in identifying and bringing to justice his greatest tormentor, the Butcher of Plaszow, Amon Göth, played by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List. He then committed his life to helping the orphaned children of the Holocaust rebuild their lives. The Survivor is Josef's extraordinary testimony. ©2023 Josef Lewkowicz & Michael Calvin (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/seen-loved-and-heard-a-guided-journal-for-feeding-the-soul-by-tabitha-brown--65184661https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seen, Loved and Heard: A Guided Journal for Feeding the Soul Series: Part of A Feeding the Soul Book Author: Tabitha Brown Narrator: Tabitha Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business), Tabitha Brown made readers feel seen, loved and heard, sharing the knowledge she gained from her own journey in life. Now, in this gorgeous journal, Tabitha invites readers to think more deeply about their own life paths, and how to bring more love and happiness into them. Readers will be drawn to contemplate their lives with each uplifting page, with: Dozens of thought-provoking prompts in Tabitha’s encouraging voice Plenty of inspirational quotes and charming Tabisms Encouragement for listeners to talk about their own stories, hopes, and dreams and make the journal their own! This soul-healing book encourages readers to take a few minutes and reflect on their own sources of joy and hope, spirituality, self-image, and peace, and to look back on when they want to appreciate how far they’ve come and what insights they’ve gained in their own journeys.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616329Tue, 28 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seen, Loved and Heard: A Guided Journal for Feeding the Soul Series: Part of A Feeding the Soul Book Author: Tabitha Brown Narrator: Tabitha Brown...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seen, Loved and Heard: A Guided Journal for Feeding the Soul Series: Part of A Feeding the Soul Book Author: Tabitha Brown Narrator: Tabitha Brown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business), Tabitha Brown made readers feel seen, loved and heard, sharing the knowledge she gained from her own journey in life. Now, in this gorgeous journal, Tabitha invites readers to think more deeply about their own life paths, and how to bring more love and happiness into them. Readers will be drawn to contemplate their lives with each uplifting page, with: Dozens of thought-provoking prompts in Tabitha’s encouraging voice Plenty of inspirational quotes and charming Tabisms Encouragement for listeners to talk about their own stories, hopes, and dreams and make the journal their own! This soul-healing book encourages readers to take a few minutes and reflect on their own sources of joy and hope, spirituality, self-image, and peace, and to look back on when they want to appreciate how far they’ve come and what insights they’ve gained in their own journeys.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-looks-like-bravery-an-epic-journey-through-loss-to-love-by-laurel-braitman--65184621https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love Author: Laurel Braitman Narrator: Laurel Braitman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A true story about the ways loss can transform us into the people we want to become. “What Looks Like Bravery is a gorgeous, tender, and beautiful book. I'm in tears with the happy-sad truth and beauty of it. Laurel is a magnificent writer.” —Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of Wild Laurel Braitman spent her childhood learning from her dad how to out-fish grown men, keep bees, and fix carburetors. Diagnosed young with terminal cancer, he raced against the clock to leave her the skills she’d need to survive without him. This was one legacy. Another was relentless perfectionism and the belief that bravery meant never acknowledging your own fear. By her mid-thirties Laurel is a ship about to splinter on the rocks, having learned the hard way that no achievement can protect her from pain or remove the guilt and regret her dad’s death leaves her with. So, she determines to explore her troubled internal wilderness by way of some big exterior ones—Northern New Mexico, Western Alaska, her Tinder App. She finds help from a wise birder in the Bering Sea, a few dozen grieving kids, and a succession of smart teachers who convince her that you cannot be brave if you’re not scared. Along the way, she faces a wildfire that threatens everyone and everything she cares about and is forced by life to say another wrenching goodbye long before she wants to. This time she may not be ready, but she’s prepared. Joy in the wake of loss, she learns, isn’t possible despite the hardest things that happen to us, but because of the meaning we forge from them.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618320Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love Author: Laurel Braitman Narrator: Laurel Braitman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love Author: Laurel Braitman Narrator: Laurel Braitman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A true story about the ways loss can transform us into the people we want to become. “What Looks Like Bravery is a gorgeous, tender, and beautiful book. I'm in tears with the happy-sad truth and beauty of it. Laurel is a magnificent writer.” —Cheryl Strayed, New York Times bestselling author of Wild Laurel Braitman spent her childhood learning from her dad how to out-fish grown men, keep bees, and fix carburetors. Diagnosed young with terminal cancer, he raced against the clock to leave her the skills she’d need to survive without him. This was one legacy. Another was relentless perfectionism and the belief that bravery meant never acknowledging your own fear. By her mid-thirties Laurel is a ship about to splinter on the rocks, having learned the hard way that no achievement can protect her from pain or remove the guilt and regret her dad’s death leaves her with. So, she determines to explore her troubled internal wilderness by way of some big exterior ones—Northern New Mexico, Western Alaska, her Tinder App. She finds help from a wise birder in the Bering Sea, a few dozen grieving kids, and a succession of smart teachers who convince her that you cannot be brave if you’re not scared. Along the way, she faces a wildfire that threatens everyone and everything she cares about and is forced by life to say another wrenching goodbye long before she wants to. This time she may not be ready, but she’s prepared. Joy in the wake of loss, she learns, isn’t possible despite the hardest things that happen to us, but because of the meaning we forge from them.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/saved-a-war-reporter-s-mission-to-make-it-home-by-benjamin-hall--65184605https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620448 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home Author: Benjamin Hall Narrator: Benjamin Hall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ''An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death.'' —Kirkus Reviews When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within hours, Russian bombs would nearly end his life. As a journalist for Fox News, Hall had worked in dangerous war zones like Syria and Afghanistan, but with three young daughters at home, life on the edge was supposed to be a thing of the past. Yet when Russia viciously attacked Ukraine in February 2022, Hall quickly volunteered to go. A few weeks later, while on assignment, Hall and his crew were blown up in a Russian strike. With Hall himself gravely injured and stuck in Kyiv, it was unclear if he would make it out alive. This is the story of how he survived—a story that continues to this day. For the first time, Hall shares his experience in full—from his ground-level view of the war to his dramatic rescue to his arduous, and ongoing, recovery. Going inside the events that have permanently transformed him, Hall recalls his time at the front lines of our world’s conflicts, exploring how his struggle to step away from war reporting led him back one perilous last time. Featuring nail-biting accounts from the many people across multiple countries who banded together to get him to safety, Hall offers a stunning look at complex teamwork and heartfelt perseverance that turned his life into a mission. Through it all, Hall’s spirit has remained undaunted, buoyed by that remarkable corps of people from around the world whose collective determination ensured his survival. Evocative, harrowing, and deeply moving, Saved is a powerful memoir of family and friends, of life and healing, and of how to respond when you are tested in ways you never thought possible.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620448Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620448 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home Author: Benjamin Hall Narrator: Benjamin Hall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620448 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home Author: Benjamin Hall Narrator: Benjamin Hall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.39 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ''An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death.'' —Kirkus Reviews When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within hours, Russian bombs would nearly end his life. As a journalist for Fox News, Hall had worked in dangerous war zones like Syria and Afghanistan, but with three young daughters at home, life on the edge was supposed to be a thing of the past. Yet when Russia viciously attacked Ukraine in February 2022, Hall quickly volunteered to go. A few weeks later, while on assignment, Hall and his crew were blown up in a Russian strike. With Hall himself gravely injured and stuck in Kyiv, it was unclear if he would make it out alive. This is the story of how he survived—a story that continues to this day. For the first time, Hall shares his experience in full—from his ground-level view of the war to his dramatic rescue to his arduous, and ongoing, recovery. Going inside the events that have permanently transformed him, Hall recalls his time at the front lines of our world’s conflicts, exploring how his struggle to step away from war reporting led him back one perilous last time. Featuring nail-biting accounts from the many people across multiple countries who banded together to get him to safety, Hall offers a stunning look at complex teamwork and heartfelt perseverance that turned his life into a mission. Through it all, Hall’s spirit has remained undaunted, buoyed by that remarkable corps of people from around the world whose collective determination ensured his survival. Evocative, harrowing, and deeply moving, Saved is a powerful memoir of family and friends, of life and healing, and of how to respond when you are tested in ways you never thought possible.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-streets-of-baltimore-the-shocking-addiction-memoir-of-brandon-novak-by-joe-frantz--65184588https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Streets of Baltimore: The Shocking Addiction Memoir of Brandon Novak Author: Joe Frantz Narrator: Brandon Novak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brandon Novak, an actor known for the films Jackass and Viva La Bam, among others, was a teenage skateboarder, but his lust for heroin led to a junkie’s destiny on the streets of Baltimore. Arrests, rehabs, and drug-tortured love triangles consumed Novak’s life, until his childhood friend and Jackass alumnus Bam Margera guided him to MTV fame. But Novak’s stardom led him down a self-destructive path that forced him to sculpt his future. This suspenseful memoir is interspersed with action, humor, and inspiration.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623816Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Streets of Baltimore: The Shocking Addiction Memoir of Brandon Novak Author: Joe Frantz Narrator: Brandon Novak Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Streets of Baltimore: The Shocking Addiction Memoir of Brandon Novak Author: Joe Frantz Narrator: Brandon Novak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brandon Novak, an actor known for the films Jackass and Viva La Bam, among others, was a teenage skateboarder, but his lust for heroin led to a junkie’s destiny on the streets of Baltimore. Arrests, rehabs, and drug-tortured love triangles consumed Novak’s life, until his childhood friend and Jackass alumnus Bam Margera guided him to MTV fame. But Novak’s stardom led him down a self-destructive path that forced him to sculpt his future. This suspenseful memoir is interspersed with action, humor, and inspiration.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/motherland-what-i-ve-learnt-about-parenthood-race-and-identity-by-priya-joi--65184615https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Motherland: What I’ve Learnt about Parenthood, Race and Identity Author: Priya Joi Narrator: Priya Joi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 9, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A thought-provoking and nuanced memoir on motherhood, race and identity M(other)land will be a powerful response to the absence of an inclusive and accessible blueprint for navigating life as a multi-faceted mother. Joi will interrogate this silence, providing a voice of understanding for all those who fall outside mainstream presentations of 'parenthood' who have never seen themselves or their experiences represented. The typical 'mother' painted in our culture has to combat the strains of motherhood, but not motherhood and identity, so this book will be a deep dive into the often-fraught conversation (both internal and external) of what it means to be a parent in a space where you are the minority. Joi will consider how her personal and cultural identity intersect with motherhood and inform her identity as a parent, interrogating how multi-cultural parenting and our past continues to affect and challenge our futures. The book will be a crucial resource for anyone trying to navigate the complexities of race and motherhood; who has ever felt other in some way; who has struggled to reconcile their past with how they raise the next generation. ©2023 Priya Joi (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616433Thu, 09 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Motherland: What I’ve Learnt about Parenthood, Race and Identity Author: Priya Joi Narrator: Priya Joi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Motherland: What I’ve Learnt about Parenthood, Race and Identity Author: Priya Joi Narrator: Priya Joi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 9, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A thought-provoking and nuanced memoir on motherhood, race and identity M(other)land will be a powerful response to the absence of an inclusive and accessible blueprint for navigating life as a multi-faceted mother. Joi will interrogate this silence, providing a voice of understanding for all those who fall outside mainstream presentations of 'parenthood' who have never seen themselves or their experiences represented. The typical 'mother' painted in our culture has to combat the strains of motherhood, but not motherhood and identity, so this book will be a deep dive into the often-fraught conversation (both internal and external) of what it means to be a parent in a space where you are the minority. Joi will consider how her personal and cultural identity intersect with motherhood and inform her identity as a parent, interrogating how multi-cultural parenting and our past continues to affect and challenge our futures. The book will be a crucial resource for anyone trying to navigate the complexities of race and motherhood; who has ever felt other in some way; who has struggled to reconcile their past with how they raise the next generation. ©2023 Priya Joi (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/as-we-exist-a-postcolonial-autobiography-by-kaoutar-harchi--65184559https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: As We Exist: A Postcolonial Autobiography Author: Kaoutar Harchi Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this thoughtful coming-of-age memoir, a young sociologist reflects on her Moroccan immigrant parents, their journey to France, and how growing up an outsider shaped her identity. Imbued with tenderness for her family and a critical view of the challenges facing French North African immigrants, Kaoutar Harchi’s probing account illustrates the deeply personal effects of political issues. Mixed with happy memories of her childhood home in eastern France are ever-present reminders of the dangers from which her parents sought to shield her. When they transfer her to a private, Catholic middle school—out of fear of Arab boys from their working-class neighborhood—Kaoutar grows increasingly conscious of her differences, and her conflicted sense of self. Notable events in her teens—the passing of a law in 2004 banning religious symbols from public schools; the 2005 deaths of Bouna Traoré and Zyed Benna, which sparked riots against police brutality—underscore the injustice of a society that sees Muslims not as equals but as a problem to solve. With elegant, affecting prose, As We Exist charts Kaoutar’s political and intellectual awakening, which would become the heart and soul of her work as a sociologist and writer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626373Tue, 07 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: As We Exist: A Postcolonial Autobiography Author: Kaoutar Harchi Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 15...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626373 to listen full audiobooks. Title: As We Exist: A Postcolonial Autobiography Author: Kaoutar Harchi Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this thoughtful coming-of-age memoir, a young sociologist reflects on her Moroccan immigrant parents, their journey to France, and how growing up an outsider shaped her identity. Imbued with tenderness for her family and a critical view of the challenges facing French North African immigrants, Kaoutar Harchi’s probing account illustrates the deeply personal effects of political issues. Mixed with happy memories of her childhood home in eastern France are ever-present reminders of the dangers from which her parents sought to shield her. When they transfer her to a private, Catholic middle school—out of fear of Arab boys from their working-class neighborhood—Kaoutar grows increasingly conscious of her differences, and her conflicted sense of self. Notable events in her teens—the passing of a law in 2004 banning religious symbols from public schools; the 2005 deaths of Bouna Traoré and Zyed Benna, which sparked riots against police brutality—underscore the injustice of a society that sees Muslims not as equals but as a problem to solve. With elegant, affecting prose, As We Exist charts Kaoutar’s political and intellectual awakening, which would become the heart and soul of her work as a sociologist and writer.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/glow-in-the-f-cking-dark-simple-practices-to-heal-your-soul-from-someone-who-learned-the-hard-way-by-tara-schuster--65184688https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Glow in the F*cking Dark: Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way Author: Tara Schuster Narrator: Tara Schuster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 18 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The author of the runaway hit Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies shares honest and practical lessons for healing your past and owning your future so you can radiate strength, bravery, and joy when life gets dark. “A revealing and powerful book that lit me up from the inside out.”—GLENNON DOYLE, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed Tara Schuster thought she was on stable ground. For years, she’d worked like hell to repair the emotional wounds inflicted during what she refers to as her “mess-wreck disaster” of a childhood. She’d brought radical healing rituals and self-love into her life. On most days, she was a happy, stable adult. She even wrote a book about it!   But then she lost her job, the one on which she had staked her entire identity. Cue a panic-attack-doom-spiral that brought her harshest childhood traumas to the surface. Isolated at home during a global pandemic, she felt piercing loneliness and a lack of purpose like she had never known. Finally, after experiencing a terrifying dissociative episode while driving down the highway, she realized that enough was enough; she needed to slow down and pull over—literally. It was time for Tara to stop the hustling and to reclaim her essential, free, and loving self. Glow in the F*cking Dark is a guide to healing your deepest wounds, getting off your “good enough” plateau, and creating the spectacular life that you most desire. Tara clawed her way out of the darkness and recovered her shine, and in this book, she shows how to • recognize trauma reactions and choose new ways to respond • find what’s really under your anxiety • repair your relationship with your body • find solace and purpose in something bigger than yourself Full of practical, achievable baby steps that we can take today, this book is for anyone ready to liberate themselves from their emotional suffering, discover their purpose, and finally sit in the driver’s seat of their life. It’s for anyone who is tired, hurting, and feeling like their essential brightness has dimmed. It’s for people who are ready to glow, even when sh*t gets grim.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613957Tue, 28 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Glow in the F*cking Dark: Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way Author: Tara Schuster Narrator: Tara Schuster...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Glow in the F*cking Dark: Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way Author: Tara Schuster Narrator: Tara Schuster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 18 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The author of the runaway hit Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies shares honest and practical lessons for healing your past and owning your future so you can radiate strength, bravery, and joy when life gets dark. “A revealing and powerful book that lit me up from the inside out.”—GLENNON DOYLE, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed Tara Schuster thought she was on stable ground. For years, she’d worked like hell to repair the emotional wounds inflicted during what she refers to as her “mess-wreck disaster” of a childhood. She’d brought radical healing rituals and self-love into her life. On most days, she was a happy, stable adult. She even wrote a book about it!   But then she lost her job, the one on which she had staked her entire identity. Cue a panic-attack-doom-spiral that brought her harshest childhood traumas to the surface. Isolated at home during a global pandemic, she felt piercing loneliness and a lack of purpose like she had never known. Finally, after experiencing a terrifying dissociative episode while driving down the highway, she realized that enough was enough; she needed to slow down and pull over—literally. It was time for Tara to stop the hustling and to reclaim her essential, free, and loving self. Glow in the F*cking Dark is a guide to healing your deepest wounds, getting off your “good enough” plateau, and creating the spectacular life that you most desire. Tara clawed her way out of the darkness and recovered her shine, and in this book, she shows how to • recognize trauma reactions and choose new ways to respond • find what’s really under your anxiety • repair your relationship with your body • find solace and purpose in something bigger than yourself Full of practical, achievable baby steps that we can take today, this book is for anyone ready to liberate themselves from their emotional suffering, discover their purpose, and finally sit in the driver’s seat of their life. It’s for anyone who is tired, hurting, and feeling like their essential brightness has dimmed. It’s for people who are ready to glow, even when sh*t gets grim.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-in-her-hands-the-inspiring-story-of-a-pioneering-female-surgeon-by-averil-mansfield--65184654https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life in Her Hands: The Inspiring Story of a Pioneering Female Surgeon Author: Averil Mansfield Narrator: Averil Mansfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: February 23, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'A great read. I am honoured to have worked with such a legend' David Nott 'A role model for women' Independent 'A wonderful read' Julian Fellowes 'Remarkable' Lauren Laverne 'Charming' Guardian We were occasionally expected to travel by ambulance to a serious case and would always have a kit of tools and drugs ready for emergency calls. On one occasion, we were responding to a man who had fallen into the hold of a grain ship and broken his leg. I was expected to go down a pole into the ship to administer analgaesia before he could be rescued. The 'audience' of shipworkers delighted in telling me that there were rats the size of dogs down in the grain. The other problem was that this was the era of the mini skirt, and you can imagine what that meant. Following the incident, I instituted the purchase of some 'Casualty Officers Emergency Dungarees' as an addition to the kit. Averil Mansfield established herself as a pioneer in every sense of the word when she qualified as a surgeon in the early 1970s. At the time just two per cent of her colleagues were female, and she was often met with surprise, bordering on disbelief and amusement, when telling people what she did. But time and again, Averil proved herself more than capable of the role which had been her greatest dream since the age of eight. After a formidable operating career in Liverpool and London, during which she made many enduring friendships, she went on to became the UK's first ever female professor of surgery. Life in Her Hands is the remarkable story of a truly trailblazing woman. Averil's account shines light on a medical and societal world that has changed beyond measure, but which - as she shows through her experiences - still has a long way to go for the women finding their place within it. ©2023 Averil Mansfield (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617702Thu, 23 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life in Her Hands: The Inspiring Story of a Pioneering Female Surgeon Author: Averil Mansfield Narrator: Averil Mansfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life in Her Hands: The Inspiring Story of a Pioneering Female Surgeon Author: Averil Mansfield Narrator: Averil Mansfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: February 23, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'A great read. I am honoured to have worked with such a legend' David Nott 'A role model for women' Independent 'A wonderful read' Julian Fellowes 'Remarkable' Lauren Laverne 'Charming' Guardian We were occasionally expected to travel by ambulance to a serious case and would always have a kit of tools and drugs ready for emergency calls. On one occasion, we were responding to a man who had fallen into the hold of a grain ship and broken his leg. I was expected to go down a pole into the ship to administer analgaesia before he could be rescued. The 'audience' of shipworkers delighted in telling me that there were rats the size of dogs down in the grain. The other problem was that this was the era of the mini skirt, and you can imagine what that meant. Following the incident, I instituted the purchase of some 'Casualty Officers Emergency Dungarees' as an addition to the kit. Averil Mansfield established herself as a pioneer in every sense of the word when she qualified as a surgeon in the early 1970s. At the time just two per cent of her colleagues were female, and she was often met with surprise, bordering on disbelief and amusement, when telling people what she did. But time and again, Averil proved herself more than capable of the role which had been her greatest dream since the age of eight. After a formidable operating career in Liverpool and London, during which she made many enduring friendships, she went on to became the UK's first ever female professor of surgery. Life in Her Hands is the remarkable story of a truly trailblazing woman. Averil's account shines light on a medical and societal world that has changed beyond measure, but which - as she shows through her experiences - still has a long way to go for the women finding their place within it. ©2023 Averil Mansfield (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pat-in-the-city-my-life-of-fashion-style-and-breaking-all-the-rules-by-patricia-field--65184707https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614308 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style and Breaking All the Rules Author: Patricia Field Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the iconic stylist and fashion provocateur whose designs transformed culture – bringing the glitz of Studio 54 and the sophistication of Sex and the City to the mainstream – comes a playful yet intimate memoir of a life spent challenging conventions. Carrie Bradshaw’s pairing of a tutu with a tank top is one of the most iconic outfits ever seen on television – and a look that turned avant-garde New York designer and stylist Patricia Field into a household name. But before she was crowned the fairy godmother of haute couture, Field was the owner of the longtime East Village emporium Pat Field, a haven for drag queens, club kids, starving artists, NYU freshmen, and creative visionaries alike. Presiding over downtown with her distinctive vermillion hair and a constantly lit cigarette, Patricia was a rock ’n’ roll den mother to everyone from Amanda Lepore to Lady Bunny to Patti Smith, with her store providing the city’s eccentrics with a place to discover a sense of family, home, and a rhinestone bedazzled bustier or two. In Pat in the City, Patricia describes her journey from scrappy Queens kid peddling men’s pants to the fashion world’s most notorious renegade. As the daughter of immigrant parents, Field learned the principles of glamour from her entrepreneurial mother, and applied her NYU lessons on democracy to inform a fashion ethos that would reach millions. From her Studio 54 disco-glam styling to her award-winning work in The Devil Wears Prada and Sex and the City to today’s buzzy costuming in Emily in Paris, Field’s inimitable styling has pushed the envelope and created trends that have become the culture standard. Now in her seventies, Patricia Field is ready to tell her story – not to take a final bow, but to spread her credo of challenging convention and filling the world with joy and dancing.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614308Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614308 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style and Breaking All the Rules Author: Patricia Field Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614308 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style and Breaking All the Rules Author: Patricia Field Narrator: Eliza Foss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the iconic stylist and fashion provocateur whose designs transformed culture – bringing the glitz of Studio 54 and the sophistication of Sex and the City to the mainstream – comes a playful yet intimate memoir of a life spent challenging conventions. Carrie Bradshaw’s pairing of a tutu with a tank top is one of the most iconic outfits ever seen on television – and a look that turned avant-garde New York designer and stylist Patricia Field into a household name. But before she was crowned the fairy godmother of haute couture, Field was the owner of the longtime East Village emporium Pat Field, a haven for drag queens, club kids, starving artists, NYU freshmen, and creative visionaries alike. Presiding over downtown with her distinctive vermillion hair and a constantly lit cigarette, Patricia was a rock ’n’ roll den mother to everyone from Amanda Lepore to Lady Bunny to Patti Smith, with her store providing the city’s eccentrics with a place to discover a sense of family, home, and a rhinestone bedazzled bustier or two. In Pat in the City, Patricia describes her journey from scrappy Queens kid peddling men’s pants to the fashion world’s most notorious renegade. As the daughter of immigrant parents, Field learned the principles of glamour from her entrepreneurial mother, and applied her NYU lessons on democracy to inform a fashion ethos that would reach millions. From her Studio 54 disco-glam styling to her award-winning work in The Devil Wears Prada and Sex and the City to today’s buzzy costuming in Emily in Paris, Field’s inimitable styling has pushed the envelope and created trends that have become the culture standard. Now in her seventies, Patricia Field is ready to tell her story – not to take a final bow, but to spread her credo of challenging convention and filling the world with joy and dancing.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/still-i-cannot-save-you-a-memoir-of-sisterhood-love-and-letting-go-by-kelly-s-thompson--65184655https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go Author: Kelly S. Thompson Narrator: Kelly S. Thompson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Shortlisted for the 2024 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award Nominated for the Inaugural Reader's Choice Award With honesty, love, and humour, in this moving memoir, Kelly S. Thompson explores her relationship with her older sister, Meghan. Tested by addiction, abuse, and illness, the sisters’ relationship crumbles, only to be rebuilt into an everlasting bond. Kelly Thompson and her older sister, Meghan, are proof that sisterhood doesn’t always equate to friendship.     Growing up within a military family, the girls were close despite being temperamental opposites—Kelly, anxious and studious, looked to her big sister for comfort, and Meghan, who battled kidney cancer as a toddler, was gregarious and protective. But as she approached adulthood, Meghan spi­ralled into a cocaine and opioid addiction, and Kelly’s relationship with her sister was torn apart.     Their paths diverge as they live their own lives, and it is only when Meghan becomes a mother that she and Kelly tentatively face past hurts and reexamine what sisterhood really means. But their reunion is threatened when Meghan receives a shocking new diagnosis on a day that should be one for celebration. Now, as the family reels at the prospect of the biggest loss imaginable, Kelly and Meghan must share all that they can in the time that they have, using their mutual sense of humour to chart a course through the darkest of days.     At once funny and heartbreaking, Still, I Cannot Save You is a story about addiction, abuse, and tragedy, but above all, it is a powerful portrait of an enduring love between sisters.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616428Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go Author: Kelly S. Thompson Narrator: Kelly S. Thompson Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616428 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Still, I Cannot Save You: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Love, and Letting Go Author: Kelly S. Thompson Narrator: Kelly S. Thompson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Shortlisted for the 2024 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award Nominated for the Inaugural Reader's Choice Award With honesty, love, and humour, in this moving memoir, Kelly S. Thompson explores her relationship with her older sister, Meghan. Tested by addiction, abuse, and illness, the sisters’ relationship crumbles, only to be rebuilt into an everlasting bond. Kelly Thompson and her older sister, Meghan, are proof that sisterhood doesn’t always equate to friendship.     Growing up within a military family, the girls were close despite being temperamental opposites—Kelly, anxious and studious, looked to her big sister for comfort, and Meghan, who battled kidney cancer as a toddler, was gregarious and protective. But as she approached adulthood, Meghan spi­ralled into a cocaine and opioid addiction, and Kelly’s relationship with her sister was torn apart.     Their paths diverge as they live their own lives, and it is only when Meghan becomes a mother that she and Kelly tentatively face past hurts and reexamine what sisterhood really means. But their reunion is threatened when Meghan receives a shocking new diagnosis on a day that should be one for celebration. Now, as the family reels at the prospect of the biggest loss imaginable, Kelly and Meghan must share all that they can in the time that they have, using their mutual sense of humour to chart a course through the darkest of days.     At once funny and heartbreaking, Still, I Cannot Save You is a story about addiction, abuse, and tragedy, but above all, it is a powerful portrait of an enduring love between sisters.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-pamela-a-memoir-of-prose-poetry-and-truth-by-pamela-anderson--65184667https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth Author: Pamela Anderson Narrator: Pamela Anderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 82 Ratings of Narrator: 4.58 of Total 19 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this honest, layered and unforgettable book that alternates between storytelling and her own poetry, Pamela Anderson breaks the mold of the celebrity memoir while taking back the tale that has been crafted about her. Her blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands of a football game, she was immediately rocket launched into fame, becoming Playboy’s favorite cover girl and an emblem of Hollywood glamour and sexuality. But what happens when you lose grip on your own life—and the image the notoriety machine creates for you is not who you really are? Growing up on Vancouver Island, the daughter of young, wild, and unprepared parents, Pamela Anderson’s childhood was not easy, but it allowed her to create her own world—surrounded by nature and imaginary friends. When she overcame her deep shyness and grew into herself, she fell into a life on the cover of magazines, the beaches of Malibu, the sets of movies and talk shows, the arms of rockstars, the coveted scene at the Playboy Mansion. And as her star rose, she found herself tabloid fodder, at the height of an era when paparazzi tactics were bent on capturing a celebrity’s most intimate, and sometimes weakest moments. This is when Pamela Anderson lost control of her own narrative, hurt by the media and fearful of the public’s perception of who she was…and who she wasn’t. Fighting back with a sense of grace, fueled by a love of art and literature, and driven by a devotion to her children and the causes she cares about most, Pamela Anderson has now gone back to the island where she grew up, after a memorable run starring as Roxie in Chicago on Broadway, reclaiming her free spirit but also standing firm as a strong, creative, confident woman.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614331Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth Author: Pamela Anderson Narrator: Pamela Anderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 28...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth Author: Pamela Anderson Narrator: Pamela Anderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 82 Ratings of Narrator: 4.58 of Total 19 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this honest, layered and unforgettable book that alternates between storytelling and her own poetry, Pamela Anderson breaks the mold of the celebrity memoir while taking back the tale that has been crafted about her. Her blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands of a football game, she was immediately rocket launched into fame, becoming Playboy’s favorite cover girl and an emblem of Hollywood glamour and sexuality. But what happens when you lose grip on your own life—and the image the notoriety machine creates for you is not who you really are? Growing up on Vancouver Island, the daughter of young, wild, and unprepared parents, Pamela Anderson’s childhood was not easy, but it allowed her to create her own world—surrounded by nature and imaginary friends. When she overcame her deep shyness and grew into herself, she fell into a life on the cover of magazines, the beaches of Malibu, the sets of movies and talk shows, the arms of rockstars, the coveted scene at the Playboy Mansion. And as her star rose, she found herself tabloid fodder, at the height of an era when paparazzi tactics were bent on capturing a celebrity’s most intimate, and sometimes weakest moments. This is when Pamela Anderson lost control of her own narrative, hurt by the media and fearful of the public’s perception of who she was…and who she wasn’t. Fighting back with a sense of grace, fueled by a love of art and literature, and driven by a devotion to her children and the causes she cares about most, Pamela Anderson has now gone back to the island where she grew up, after a memorable run starring as Roxie in Chicago on Broadway, reclaiming her free spirit but also standing firm as a strong, creative, confident woman.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/becoming-free-indeed-my-story-of-disentangling-faith-from-fear-by-jinger-vuolo--65184622https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Author: Jinger Vuolo Narrator: Jinger Vuolo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.16 of Total 79 Ratings of Narrator: 4.65 of Total 31 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller  Read by the author. Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, recounts how she began to question the unhealthy ideology of her youth and learned to embrace true freedom in Christ. When Jinger Duggar Vuolo was growing up, she was convinced that obeying the rules was the key to success and God's favor. She zealously promoted the Basic Life Principles of Bill Gothard, - fastidiously obeying the modesty guidelines (no shorts or jeans, only dresses), - eagerly submitting to the umbrella of authority (any disobedience of parents would place her outside God's protection), -  promoting the relationship standard of courtship, and - avoiding any music with a worldly beat, among others.   Jinger, along with three of her sisters, wrote a New York Times bestseller about their religious convictions. She believed this level of commitment would guarantee God's blessing, even though in private she felt constant fear that she wasn't measuring up to the high standards demanded of her. In Becoming Free Indeed, Jinger shares how in her early twenties, a new family member—a brother-in-law who didn't grow up in the same tight-knit conservative circle as Jinger—caused her to examine her beliefs. He was committed to the Bible, but he didn't believe many of the things Jinger had always assumed were true. His influence, along with the help of a pastor named Jeremy Vuolo, caused Jinger to see that her life was built on rules, not God's Word. Jinger committed to studying the Bible—truly understanding it—for the first time. What resulted was an earth-shaking realization: much of what she'd always believed about God, obedience to His Word, and personal holiness wasn't in-line with what the Bible teaches. Now with a renewed faith of personal conviction, Becoming Free Indeed shares what it was like living under the tenants of Bill Gothard, the Biblical truth that changed her perspective, and how she disentangled her faith with her belief in Jesus intact.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617736Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Author: Jinger Vuolo Narrator: Jinger Vuolo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Author: Jinger Vuolo Narrator: Jinger Vuolo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.16 of Total 79 Ratings of Narrator: 4.65 of Total 31 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller  Read by the author. Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, recounts how she began to question the unhealthy ideology of her youth and learned to embrace true freedom in Christ. When Jinger Duggar Vuolo was growing up, she was convinced that obeying the rules was the key to success and God's favor. She zealously promoted the Basic Life Principles of Bill Gothard, - fastidiously obeying the modesty guidelines (no shorts or jeans, only dresses), - eagerly submitting to the umbrella of authority (any disobedience of parents would place her outside God's protection), -  promoting the relationship standard of courtship, and - avoiding any music with a worldly beat, among others.   Jinger, along with three of her sisters, wrote a New York Times bestseller about their religious convictions. She believed this level of commitment would guarantee God's blessing, even though in private she felt constant fear that she wasn't measuring up to the high standards demanded of her. In Becoming Free Indeed, Jinger shares how in her early twenties, a new family member—a brother-in-law who didn't grow up in the same tight-knit conservative circle as Jinger—caused her to examine her beliefs. He was committed to the Bible, but he didn't believe many of the things Jinger had always assumed were true. His influence, along with the help of a pastor named Jeremy Vuolo, caused Jinger to see that her life was built on rules, not God's Word. Jinger committed to studying the Bible—truly understanding it—for the first time. What resulted was an earth-shaking realization: much of what she'd always believed about God, obedience to His Word, and personal holiness wasn't in-line with what the Bible teaches. Now with a renewed faith of personal conviction, Becoming Free Indeed shares what it was like living under the tenants of Bill Gothard, the Biblical truth that changed her perspective, and how she disentangled her faith with her belief in Jesus intact.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/windfall-the-prairie-woman-who-lost-her-way-and-the-great-granddaughter-who-found-her-by-erika-bolstad--65184691https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616724 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her Author: Erika Bolstad Narrator: Marni Penning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one thing about her great-grandmother, Anna: she was a homesteader on the North Dakota prairies in the early 1900s before her husband committed her to an asylum under mysterious circumstances. As Erika's mother was dying, she revealed more: their family still owned the mineral rights to Anna's land?and oil companies were interested in the black gold beneath the prairies. Their family, Erika learned, could get rich thanks to the legacy of a woman nearly lost to history. Anna left no letters or journals, and very few photographs of her had survived. But Erika was drawn to the young woman who never walked free of the asylum that imprisoned her. As a journalist well versed in the effects of fossil fuels on climate change, Erika felt the dissonance of what she knew and the barely-acknowledged whisper that had followed her family across the Great Plains for generations: we could be rich. Desperate to learn more about her great-grandmother and the oil industry that changed the face of the American West forever, Erika set out for North Dakota to unearth what she could of the past. What she discovers is a land of boom-and-bust cycles and families trying their best to eke out a living in an unforgiving landscape, bringing to life the ever-present American question: What does it mean to be rich?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616724Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616724 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her Author: Erika Bolstad Narrator: Marni Penning Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616724 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her Author: Erika Bolstad Narrator: Marni Penning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one thing about her great-grandmother, Anna: she was a homesteader on the North Dakota prairies in the early 1900s before her husband committed her to an asylum under mysterious circumstances. As Erika's mother was dying, she revealed more: their family still owned the mineral rights to Anna's land?and oil companies were interested in the black gold beneath the prairies. Their family, Erika learned, could get rich thanks to the legacy of a woman nearly lost to history. Anna left no letters or journals, and very few photographs of her had survived. But Erika was drawn to the young woman who never walked free of the asylum that imprisoned her. As a journalist well versed in the effects of fossil fuels on climate change, Erika felt the dissonance of what she knew and the barely-acknowledged whisper that had followed her family across the Great Plains for generations: we could be rich. Desperate to learn more about her great-grandmother and the oil industry that changed the face of the American West forever, Erika set out for North Dakota to unearth what she could of the past. What she discovers is a land of boom-and-bust cycles and families trying their best to eke out a living in an unforgiving landscape, bringing to life the ever-present American question: What does it mean to be rich?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-no-estoy-roto-memorias-by-jesse-leon--65184669https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - No estoy roto: Memorias Author: Jesse Leon Narrator: Jesse León Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: En este inspirador e inquebrantable libro de memorias, Jesse Leon cuenta su historia extraordinaria de resiliencia y supervivencia. Nos acerca a su niñez, devastada por el tráfico sexual, experiencias de calle y el abuso de sustancias. La niñez de Jesse fue destrozada de forma violenta. Nació en San Diego, en los años setenta, hijo de inmigrantes mexicanos e indígenas de la clase obrera. Cuando tenía once años, un encuentro en una tienda de regalos lo dejó con un secreto aterrador entre manos. Herido, con el apoyo de nadie y temiendo por su vida, Jesse se perdió en el mundo híper masculino de las calles de San Diego, donde silenció su dolor con lo que fuera que encontrara: alcohol, drogas y prostitución. Ignorado hasta por los sistemas de apoyo que ayudan a víctimas de abuso, y abandonado, como muchos otros latinos de clase baja, Jesse pasó años entre pensamientos suicidas y el abuso de sustancias. No estoy roto es la asombrosa y desgarradora historia del viaje que emprendió entonces para recuperar su vida, un viaje que lo llevó hasta la Universidad de Harvard. Jesse pasó de ser un joven de color que frecuentaba reuniones de Narcóticos Anónimos a aceptar su identidad sexual. Se convirtió en un apasionado mentor para jóvenes encarcelados y encontró la voluntad para vivir con apoyo de su familia, amigos y mentores. En este libro, a la par que recuerda las extraordinarias circunstancias de su vida, Jesse brinda una poderosa y cruda evidencia de que la autotransformación y autoaceptación son posibles. No estoy roto es el nspirador retrato de la fuerza indomable y el espíritu luchador de un joven que sobrevivió, contra todos los pronósticos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesse Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and survival. He shines a light on his childhood, one devastated by sex trafficking, street life, and substance abuse. Born to indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants in San Diego in the 1970s, Jesse Leon’s childhood was violently ruptured. A dangerous and harrowing encounter at a local gift shop when he was eleven years old left Jesse with a deadly secret. Hurt, alone, and scared for his life, Jesse numbed his pain by losing himself in the hyper-masculine culture of the streets and wherever else he could find it —in alcohol, drugs, and prostitution. Overlooked by state-sanctioned institutions and systems intended to help victims of abuse, neglected like many other low-income Latinos, Jesse spiraled into cycles of suicide and substance abuse. I’m Not Broken is the heartbreaking and remarkable story of the journey Jesse takes to win back his life, leading him to the steps of Harvard University. From being the lone young person of color in Narcotics Anonymous meetings to coming to terms with his own sexual identity, to becoming an engaged mentor for incarcerated youth, Jesse finds the will to live with the love and support of his family, friends, and mentors. Recounting the extraordinary circumstances of his life, Jesse offers a powerful, raw testament to the possibilities of self-transformation and self-acceptance. Unforgettable, I’m Not Broken is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620637Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - No estoy roto: Memorias Author: Jesse Leon Narrator: Jesse León Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - No estoy roto: Memorias Author: Jesse Leon Narrator: Jesse León Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: En este inspirador e inquebrantable libro de memorias, Jesse Leon cuenta su historia extraordinaria de resiliencia y supervivencia. Nos acerca a su niñez, devastada por el tráfico sexual, experiencias de calle y el abuso de sustancias. La niñez de Jesse fue destrozada de forma violenta. Nació en San Diego, en los años setenta, hijo de inmigrantes mexicanos e indígenas de la clase obrera. Cuando tenía once años, un encuentro en una tienda de regalos lo dejó con un secreto aterrador entre manos. Herido, con el apoyo de nadie y temiendo por su vida, Jesse se perdió en el mundo híper masculino de las calles de San Diego, donde silenció su dolor con lo que fuera que encontrara: alcohol, drogas y prostitución. Ignorado hasta por los sistemas de apoyo que ayudan a víctimas de abuso, y abandonado, como muchos otros latinos de clase baja, Jesse pasó años entre pensamientos suicidas y el abuso de sustancias. No estoy roto es la asombrosa y desgarradora historia del viaje que emprendió entonces para recuperar su vida, un viaje que lo llevó hasta la Universidad de Harvard. Jesse pasó de ser un joven de color que frecuentaba reuniones de Narcóticos Anónimos a aceptar su identidad sexual. Se convirtió en un apasionado mentor para jóvenes encarcelados y encontró la voluntad para vivir con apoyo de su familia, amigos y mentores. En este libro, a la par que recuerda las extraordinarias circunstancias de su vida, Jesse brinda una poderosa y cruda evidencia de que la autotransformación y autoaceptación son posibles. No estoy roto es el nspirador retrato de la fuerza indomable y el espíritu luchador de un joven que sobrevivió, contra todos los pronósticos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this unflinching and inspiring memoir, Jesse Leon tells an extraordinary story of resilience and survival. He shines a light on his childhood, one devastated by sex trafficking, street life, and substance abuse. Born to indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants in San Diego in the 1970s, Jesse Leon’s childhood was violently ruptured. A dangerous and harrowing encounter at a local gift shop when he was eleven years old left Jesse with a deadly secret. Hurt, alone, and scared for his life, Jesse numbed his pain by losing himself in the hyper-masculine culture of the streets and wherever else he could find it —in alcohol, drugs, and prostitution. Overlooked by state-sanctioned institutions and systems intended to help victims of abuse, neglected like many other low-income Latinos, Jesse spiraled into cycles of suicide and substance abuse. I’m Not Broken is the heartbreaking and remarkable story of the journey Jesse takes to win back his life, leading him to the steps of Harvard University. From being the lone young person of color in Narcotics Anonymous meetings to coming to terms with his own sexual identity, to becoming an engaged mentor for incarcerated youth, Jesse finds the will to live with the love and support of his family, friends, and mentors. Recounting the extraordinary circumstances of his life, Jesse offers a powerful, raw testament to the possibilities of self-transformation and self-acceptance. Unforgettable, I’m Not Broken is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fieldwork-a-forager-s-memoir-by-iliana-regan--65184617https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir Author: Iliana Regan Narrator: Iliana Regan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Not long after Iliana Regan’s celebrated debut, Burn the Place, became the first food-related title in four decades to become a National Book Award nominee in 2019, her career as a Michelin star–winning chef took a sharp turn north. Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn, located in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula, where much of the food served to their guests would be foraged by Regan herself in the surrounding forest and nearby river. Part fresh challenge, part escape, Regan’s move to the forest was also a return to her rural roots, in an effort to deepen the intimate connection to nature and the land that she had long expressed as a chef but experienced most intensely growing up. On her family’s farm in rural Indiana, Regan was the beloved youngest in a family with three much older sisters. From a very early age, her relationship with her mother and father was shaped by her childhood identification as a boy. Her father treated her like the son he never had, and together they foraged for mushrooms, berries, herbs, and other wild food in the surrounding countryside—especially her grandfather’s nearby farm, where they also fished in its pond and young Iliana explored the accumulated family treasures stored in its dusty barn. Her father would share stories of his own grandmother, Busia, who had helped run a family inn while growing up in eastern Europe, from which she imported her own wild legends of her native forests, before settling in Gary, Indiana, and opening Jennie’s Café, a restaurant that fed generations of local steelworkers. He also shared with Iliana a steady supply of sharp knives and—as she got older—guns. Iliana’s mother had family stories as well—not only of her own years marrying young, raising headstrong girls, and cooking at Jennie’s, but also of her father, Wayne, who spent much of his boyhood hunting with the men of his family in the frozen reaches of rural Canada. The stories from this side of Regan’s family are darker, riven with alcoholism and domestic strife too often expressed in the harm, physical and otherwise, perpetrated by men—harm men do to women and families and harm men do to the entire landscapes they occupy. As Regan explores the ancient landscape of Michigan’s boreal forest, her stories of the land, its creatures, and its dazzling profusion of plant and vegetable life are interspersed with her and Anna’s efforts to make a home and a business of an inn that’s suddenly, as of their first full season there in 2020, empty of guests due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She discovers where the wild blueberry bushes bear tiny fruit, where to gather wood sorrel, and where and when the land’s different mushroom species appear—even as surrounding parcels of land are suddenly and violently decimated by logging crews that obliterate plant life and drive away the area’s birds. Along the way she struggles not only with the threat of COVID but also with her personal and familial legacies of addiction, violence, fear, and obsession—all while she tries to conceive a child that she and her immune-compromised wife hope to raise in their new home. With Burn the Place, Regan announced herself as a writer whose extravagant, unconventional talents matched her abilities as a lauded chef. In Fieldwork, she digs even deeper to express the meaning and beauty we seek in the landscapes and stories that reveal the forces which inform, shape, and nurture our lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618508Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir Author: Iliana Regan Narrator: Iliana Regan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618508 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir Author: Iliana Regan Narrator: Iliana Regan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Not long after Iliana Regan’s celebrated debut, Burn the Place, became the first food-related title in four decades to become a National Book Award nominee in 2019, her career as a Michelin star–winning chef took a sharp turn north. Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn, located in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula, where much of the food served to their guests would be foraged by Regan herself in the surrounding forest and nearby river. Part fresh challenge, part escape, Regan’s move to the forest was also a return to her rural roots, in an effort to deepen the intimate connection to nature and the land that she had long expressed as a chef but experienced most intensely growing up. On her family’s farm in rural Indiana, Regan was the beloved youngest in a family with three much older sisters. From a very early age, her relationship with her mother and father was shaped by her childhood identification as a boy. Her father treated her like the son he never had, and together they foraged for mushrooms, berries, herbs, and other wild food in the surrounding countryside—especially her grandfather’s nearby farm, where they also fished in its pond and young Iliana explored the accumulated family treasures stored in its dusty barn. Her father would share stories of his own grandmother, Busia, who had helped run a family inn while growing up in eastern Europe, from which she imported her own wild legends of her native forests, before settling in Gary, Indiana, and opening Jennie’s Café, a restaurant that fed generations of local steelworkers. He also shared with Iliana a steady supply of sharp knives and—as she got older—guns. Iliana’s mother had family stories as well—not only of her own years marrying young, raising headstrong girls, and cooking at Jennie’s, but also of her father, Wayne, who spent much of his boyhood hunting with the men of his family in the frozen reaches of rural Canada. The stories from this side of Regan’s family are darker, riven with alcoholism and domestic strife too often expressed in the harm, physical and otherwise, perpetrated by men—harm men do to women and families and harm men do to the entire landscapes they occupy. As Regan explores the ancient landscape of Michigan’s boreal forest, her stories of the land, its creatures, and its dazzling profusion of plant and vegetable life are interspersed with her and Anna’s efforts to make a home and a business of an inn that’s suddenly, as of their first full season there in 2020, empty of guests due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She discovers where the wild blueberry bushes bear tiny fruit, where to gather wood sorrel, and where and when the land’s different mushroom species appear—even as surrounding parcels of land are suddenly and violently decimated by logging crews that obliterate plant life and drive away the area’s birds. Along the way she struggles not only with the threat of COVID but also with her personal and familial legacies of addiction, violence, fear, and obsession—all while she tries to conceive a child that she and her immune-compromised wife hope to raise in their new home. With Burn the Place, Regan announced herself as a writer whose extravagant, unconventional talents matched her abilities as a lauded chef. In Fieldwork, she digs even deeper to express the meaning and beauty we seek in the landscapes and stories that reveal the forces which inform, shape, and nurture our lives.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-cry-in-unison-sistering-for-survival-by-judy-cohen--65184561https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cry in Unison: Sistering for Survival Author: Judy Cohen Narrator: Karin Doerr, Naomi Azrieli, Judy Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Judy Weissenberg is the mischievous and lively youngest child growing up in a large family in Debrecen, Hungary. But as the Nazis rise to power in Europe and anti-Jewish laws tear her family and community apart, Judy’s joyful youth becomes marred by fear and the hushed whispers of the adults around her. Then, in 1944, Germany occupies Hungary and Judy’s world is shattered. One terrifying event follows another, and soon Judy is faced with the incomprehensible — Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the shadow of the gas chambers, she clings to her sisters and “camp sisters,” who are her only hope of enduring the miseries that are to come. In A Cry in Unison, Holocaust survivor, educator and human rights activist Judy Weissenberg Cohen weaves her riveting story of survival with descriptions of the political and social forces that upended her life. Her voice is a powerful call to honour the unique experiences of women in the Holocaust and to refuse to be silent in the face of injustice. Introduction by Karin Doerr.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627498Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cry in Unison: Sistering for Survival Author: Judy Cohen Narrator: Karin Doerr, Naomi Azrieli, Judy Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cry in Unison: Sistering for Survival Author: Judy Cohen Narrator: Karin Doerr, Naomi Azrieli, Judy Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Judy Weissenberg is the mischievous and lively youngest child growing up in a large family in Debrecen, Hungary. But as the Nazis rise to power in Europe and anti-Jewish laws tear her family and community apart, Judy’s joyful youth becomes marred by fear and the hushed whispers of the adults around her. Then, in 1944, Germany occupies Hungary and Judy’s world is shattered. One terrifying event follows another, and soon Judy is faced with the incomprehensible — Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the shadow of the gas chambers, she clings to her sisters and “camp sisters,” who are her only hope of enduring the miseries that are to come. In A Cry in Unison, Holocaust survivor, educator and human rights activist Judy Weissenberg Cohen weaves her riveting story of survival with descriptions of the political and social forces that upended her life. Her voice is a powerful call to honour the unique experiences of women in the Holocaust and to refuse to be silent in the face of injustice. Introduction by Karin Doerr.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/flights-of-spirit-by-elly-gotz--65184529https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flights of Spirit Author: Elly Gotz Narrator: Rami Neudorfer, Naomi Azrieli, Elly Gotz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sixteen-year-old Elly Gotz hides with his family in an underground bunker in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania, prepared to die rather than be found by the Nazis. After surviving nearly three years in the ghetto, where thousands from the Jewish community have been murdered, Elly and his family refuse to be the Nazis’ next victims. But there is no escape from the liquidation of the ghetto in the summer of 1944, and Elly and his father are taken to Kaufering, a brutal subcamp of the notorious Dachau concentration camp. After the war, as his family tries desperately to flee from Germany and their past, Elly is determined to regain his lost youth and education. Throughout his journey, Elly’s motivation and enterprising spirit drive him to succeed and, ultimately, to find strength in flight. Introduction by Rami Neudorfer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627497Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flights of Spirit Author: Elly Gotz Narrator: Rami Neudorfer, Naomi Azrieli, Elly Gotz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627497 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flights of Spirit Author: Elly Gotz Narrator: Rami Neudorfer, Naomi Azrieli, Elly Gotz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sixteen-year-old Elly Gotz hides with his family in an underground bunker in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania, prepared to die rather than be found by the Nazis. After surviving nearly three years in the ghetto, where thousands from the Jewish community have been murdered, Elly and his family refuse to be the Nazis’ next victims. But there is no escape from the liquidation of the ghetto in the summer of 1944, and Elly and his father are taken to Kaufering, a brutal subcamp of the notorious Dachau concentration camp. After the war, as his family tries desperately to flee from Germany and their past, Elly is determined to regain his lost youth and education. Throughout his journey, Elly’s motivation and enterprising spirit drive him to succeed and, ultimately, to find strength in flight. Introduction by Rami Neudorfer.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/escape-from-the-edge-by-morris-schnitzer--65184528https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627500 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape from the Edge Author: Morris Schnitzer Narrator: Bob Moore, Naomi Azrieli, Jake Epstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 8 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Narrow escapes and bold decisions define the life of teenager Morris Schnitzer. Fleeing from Nazi Germany before the onset of World War II, Morris ends up in the Netherlands only to watch the country be invaded by the Nazis. With his father’s warning to never set foot in a concentration camp echoing in his mind, Morris resolves to fight — and survive. As he assumes false identities and crosses endless borders in search of safety, Morris never acquiesces to the Nazi occupiers in Western Europe. In his epic journey to Escape from the Edge, Morris endures imprisonment and gruelling work as a farmhand, joins the resistance in Belgium and ultimately enlists in the American army, vowing to take revenge for all that he has lost. Introduction by Bob Moore.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627500Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627500 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape from the Edge Author: Morris Schnitzer Narrator: Bob Moore, Naomi Azrieli, Jake Epstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 8 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627500 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape from the Edge Author: Morris Schnitzer Narrator: Bob Moore, Naomi Azrieli, Jake Epstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 8 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Narrow escapes and bold decisions define the life of teenager Morris Schnitzer. Fleeing from Nazi Germany before the onset of World War II, Morris ends up in the Netherlands only to watch the country be invaded by the Nazis. With his father’s warning to never set foot in a concentration camp echoing in his mind, Morris resolves to fight — and survive. As he assumes false identities and crosses endless borders in search of safety, Morris never acquiesces to the Nazi occupiers in Western Europe. In his epic journey to Escape from the Edge, Morris endures imprisonment and gruelling work as a farmhand, joins the resistance in Belgium and ultimately enlists in the American army, vowing to take revenge for all that he has lost. Introduction by Bob Moore.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/memories-in-focus-by-pinchas-gutter--65184494https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Memories in Focus Author: Pinchas Gutter Narrator: Naomi Azrieli, Pinchas Gutter, Stephen Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ten-year-old Pinchas is separated from his parents and twin sister when they are deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the killing site of Majdanek. As Pinchas is sent on to a series of concentration camps, he shuts himself off to the terrors surrounding him and tries his best not to be noticed, to become almost invisible. But after liberation, his photographic memory won’t let his past fade away, and Pinchas struggles to deal with nightmares and flashbacks while raising a family and trying to heal his emotional scars. As he journeys from England to France, Israel, Brazil and South Africa, Pinchas searches for belonging before finally finding his true home in Canada. A poignant reflection on suffering, injustice and trauma, Memories in Focus also offers hope and faith in the future. Introduction by Stephen Smith.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627421Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Memories in Focus Author: Pinchas Gutter Narrator: Naomi Azrieli, Pinchas Gutter, Stephen Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Memories in Focus Author: Pinchas Gutter Narrator: Naomi Azrieli, Pinchas Gutter, Stephen Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ten-year-old Pinchas is separated from his parents and twin sister when they are deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the killing site of Majdanek. As Pinchas is sent on to a series of concentration camps, he shuts himself off to the terrors surrounding him and tries his best not to be noticed, to become almost invisible. But after liberation, his photographic memory won’t let his past fade away, and Pinchas struggles to deal with nightmares and flashbacks while raising a family and trying to heal his emotional scars. As he journeys from England to France, Israel, Brazil and South Africa, Pinchas searches for belonging before finally finding his true home in Canada. A poignant reflection on suffering, injustice and trauma, Memories in Focus also offers hope and faith in the future. Introduction by Stephen Smith.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unwanted-the-care-system-failed-lara-will-she-fail-her-own-child-by-cathy-glass--65184595https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623723 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child? Author: Cathy Glass Narrator: Denica Fairman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son. Lara and her one-year-old son, Arthur, are brought to experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, by their social worker. Lara has fled an abusive relationship and Arthur has suspected non-accidental injuries. Cathy must monitor Lara whenever she is with her son, day and night. She cannot let them out of her sight for a minute. Lara loves her son, but she puts her own needs first. Cathy must teach Lara how to care for Arthur, but will it be enough to allow her to keep him?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623723Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623723 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child? Author: Cathy Glass Narrator: Denica Fairman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623723 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child? Author: Cathy Glass Narrator: Denica Fairman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son. Lara and her one-year-old son, Arthur, are brought to experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, by their social worker. Lara has fled an abusive relationship and Arthur has suspected non-accidental injuries. Cathy must monitor Lara whenever she is with her son, day and night. She cannot let them out of her sight for a minute. Lara loves her son, but she puts her own needs first. Cathy must teach Lara how to care for Arthur, but will it be enough to allow her to keep him?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/twelve-moons-a-year-under-a-shared-sky-by-caro-giles--65184593https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twelve Moons: A year under a shared sky Author: Caro Giles Narrator: Caro Giles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 19, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Northumberland skies. Caro Giles lives on the far edge of the country, with her tribe of daughters: The Mermaid, The Whirlwind, The Caulbearer and The Littlest One. She is at once alone and yet surrounded. Bound by circumstance, financial constraints, illness and the challenges of single motherhood, she has nowhere to go but the fierce landscape that surrounds her. Over the course of the year, the moon becomes her fellow traveller through dark times, and companion through joyful ones – and even when the sky is wreathed in cloud, the moon is still felt in the pull of the tides. TWELVE MOONS follows the lunar calendar, each chapter sharing a month and a moon, and shows the simmering power that lies in our often hidden daily lives. A dazzlingly honest memoir that while never turning away from the awkward truths of life, also shows how love will flourish if we can only find a space for ourselves. Set against windswept beaches and ancient hills, this is a story steeped in nature and landscape. Since our earliest days, mankind has looked up at the moon and seen a story reflected back. Twelve Moons is one of those stories – a book about finding yourself, your voice and a sense that even in the dark of the night, we are never truly alone.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620506Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twelve Moons: A year under a shared sky Author: Caro Giles Narrator: Caro Giles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twelve Moons: A year under a shared sky Author: Caro Giles Narrator: Caro Giles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 19, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Northumberland skies. Caro Giles lives on the far edge of the country, with her tribe of daughters: The Mermaid, The Whirlwind, The Caulbearer and The Littlest One. She is at once alone and yet surrounded. Bound by circumstance, financial constraints, illness and the challenges of single motherhood, she has nowhere to go but the fierce landscape that surrounds her. Over the course of the year, the moon becomes her fellow traveller through dark times, and companion through joyful ones – and even when the sky is wreathed in cloud, the moon is still felt in the pull of the tides. TWELVE MOONS follows the lunar calendar, each chapter sharing a month and a moon, and shows the simmering power that lies in our often hidden daily lives. A dazzlingly honest memoir that while never turning away from the awkward truths of life, also shows how love will flourish if we can only find a space for ourselves. Set against windswept beaches and ancient hills, this is a story steeped in nature and landscape. Since our earliest days, mankind has looked up at the moon and seen a story reflected back. Twelve Moons is one of those stories – a book about finding yourself, your voice and a sense that even in the dark of the night, we are never truly alone.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/like-a-drop-of-ink-in-a-downpour-memories-of-soviet-russia-by-yelena-lembersky-galina-lembersky--65184531https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour: Memories of Soviet Russia Author: Yelena Lembersky, Galina Lembersky Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour is a heartfelt mother-and-daughter memoir about three generations of women and their fight to leave Soviet Russia. A mother is a dissident, a refusenik, and a prisoner in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) in the 1970s and '80s. Her daughter, eleven years old, is left without a family. A grandmother is in the USA, waiting for her daughter and granddaughter and not knowing if she'll ever see them again. 'I am fine,' the three of them write to each other in their letters. How can you be 'fine' when you have to fight to survive? When you must be silent? When the place that you love turns against you? Told from the dual points of view, this memoir shows the reality of life in the Soviet Union, giving an insider's perspective on the roots of Putin's Russia. It is also a coming-of-age story, heartfelt and funny, a testament to the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters, and the healing power of art.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626616Tue, 17 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour: Memories of Soviet Russia Author: Yelena Lembersky, Galina Lembersky Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour: Memories of Soviet Russia Author: Yelena Lembersky, Galina Lembersky Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour is a heartfelt mother-and-daughter memoir about three generations of women and their fight to leave Soviet Russia. A mother is a dissident, a refusenik, and a prisoner in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) in the 1970s and '80s. Her daughter, eleven years old, is left without a family. A grandmother is in the USA, waiting for her daughter and granddaughter and not knowing if she'll ever see them again. 'I am fine,' the three of them write to each other in their letters. How can you be 'fine' when you have to fight to survive? When you must be silent? When the place that you love turns against you? Told from the dual points of view, this memoir shows the reality of life in the Soviet Union, giving an insider's perspective on the roots of Putin's Russia. It is also a coming-of-age story, heartfelt and funny, a testament to the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters, and the healing power of art.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/approach-without-caution-the-5-step-plan-to-take-control-of-your-life-by-james-haskell--65184541https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Approach Without Caution: The 5-Step Plan to Take Control of Your Life Author: James Haskell Narrator: James Haskell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 12, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Is there always someone else to blame for your failures? Afraid of putting the real work in to achieve your goals? Are you sick of just being average and do you want to start winning? It’s time to drown out self-doubt and the distracting noise of everyday life, to conquer your fears and approach challenges without caution. One of rugby’s most ferocious flankers and successful players, James Haskell has always strived to be at the very top of his game. To achieve a global rugby career, he knew he had to keep his body strong. To go on to found an award-winning production company and become a successful DJ and bestselling author, he knew he had to keep his mind even stronger. Revolutionary and revealing, Approach With(out) Caution presents James Haskell as you’ve never known him. James takes the lessons he’s learned, both on and off the pitch, and turns them into a five-pillar plan to help you take control of your life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626424Thu, 12 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Approach Without Caution: The 5-Step Plan to Take Control of Your Life Author: James Haskell Narrator: James Haskell Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626424 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Approach Without Caution: The 5-Step Plan to Take Control of Your Life Author: James Haskell Narrator: James Haskell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: January 12, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Is there always someone else to blame for your failures? Afraid of putting the real work in to achieve your goals? Are you sick of just being average and do you want to start winning? It’s time to drown out self-doubt and the distracting noise of everyday life, to conquer your fears and approach challenges without caution. One of rugby’s most ferocious flankers and successful players, James Haskell has always strived to be at the very top of his game. To achieve a global rugby career, he knew he had to keep his body strong. To go on to found an award-winning production company and become a successful DJ and bestselling author, he knew he had to keep his mind even stronger. Revolutionary and revealing, Approach With(out) Caution presents James Haskell as you’ve never known him. James takes the lessons he’s learned, both on and off the pitch, and turns them into a five-pillar plan to help you take control of your life.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thirty-thousand-steps-a-memoir-of-sprinting-toward-life-after-loss-by-jess-keefe--65184554https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thirty-Thousand Steps: A Memoir of Sprinting toward Life after Loss Author: Jess Keefe Narrator: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: December 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: After Jess Keefe ended things with her long-term boyfriend, she moved in with her brother Matt in hopes that family could help her not only heal from the break-up but also evolve into a healthy adult. But that fantasy ended when Matt’s heroin addiction came roaring back after lying dormant for years, leading to a fatal overdose on a warm October night. Thirty-Thousand Steps is a powerful and transformative memoir that interweaves the author’s obsessive training to becoming a distance runner, along with her singular, focused research into the science of addiction in the shadow of grief after the death of her brother. In the year that followed Matt’s death, Jess lived alone for the first time in her life while struggling with a loose, bereaved mind. She became obsessed with what happened to her brother and how things could have been different. She dove into research about addiction and drugs. She excavated their shared childhood and young adulthood for clues. During this time, she was also learning how to become a distance runner. Jess pushed her body to its limits to quiet the chaos in her mind. After losing Matt, she knew she’d never be the same. With a propulsive narrative, a unique voice, empathy, and even humor, Jess weaves her grieving experience together with explorations of the social, political, and scientific drivers that influenced what happened to her brother. Thirty-Thousand Steps explores the psychosocial risk factors that lead to addiction, the cudgel of Catholicism, the joy and shame in the early-aughts queer experience, and the extent to which one can push mind and body to regenerate after a major loss.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624491Thu, 15 Dec 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thirty-Thousand Steps: A Memoir of Sprinting toward Life after Loss Author: Jess Keefe Narrator: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thirty-Thousand Steps: A Memoir of Sprinting toward Life after Loss Author: Jess Keefe Narrator: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: December 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: After Jess Keefe ended things with her long-term boyfriend, she moved in with her brother Matt in hopes that family could help her not only heal from the break-up but also evolve into a healthy adult. But that fantasy ended when Matt’s heroin addiction came roaring back after lying dormant for years, leading to a fatal overdose on a warm October night. Thirty-Thousand Steps is a powerful and transformative memoir that interweaves the author’s obsessive training to becoming a distance runner, along with her singular, focused research into the science of addiction in the shadow of grief after the death of her brother. In the year that followed Matt’s death, Jess lived alone for the first time in her life while struggling with a loose, bereaved mind. She became obsessed with what happened to her brother and how things could have been different. She dove into research about addiction and drugs. She excavated their shared childhood and young adulthood for clues. During this time, she was also learning how to become a distance runner. Jess pushed her body to its limits to quiet the chaos in her mind. After losing Matt, she knew she’d never be the same. With a propulsive narrative, a unique voice, empathy, and even humor, Jess weaves her grieving experience together with explorations of the social, political, and scientific drivers that influenced what happened to her brother. Thirty-Thousand Steps explores the psychosocial risk factors that lead to addiction, the cudgel of Catholicism, the joy and shame in the early-aughts queer experience, and the extent to which one can push mind and body to regenerate after a major loss.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/looking-back-at-changing-times-by-john-rayburn--65184616https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Looking Back at Changing Times Author: John Rayburn Narrator: John Rayburn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is a kind of history, or at least remembrances. It’s primarily personal but overall takes a look at the way things were many, many decades ago. Details may get a little out of whack from a chronological order now and then, but the gist of the way things in some desperate personal and national times will be fairly well put in place. It begins a trifle before the outset of the 1929 stock market crash that led to the Great Depression. Then, it points to the difficulties, financial and otherwise, that confronted individuals and the beleaguered nation overall. You or your preceding family will remember some, from either experiencing it personally or hearing about it from those who came before. What was it like growing up back then? Listen and find out. Author/narrator John Rayburn looks back from an informal standpoint that can help bring memories to life or disclose information of a period before your time … pleasant listening in either case.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625068Tue, 13 Dec 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Looking Back at Changing Times Author: John Rayburn Narrator: John Rayburn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Looking Back at Changing Times Author: John Rayburn Narrator: John Rayburn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is a kind of history, or at least remembrances. It’s primarily personal but overall takes a look at the way things were many, many decades ago. Details may get a little out of whack from a chronological order now and then, but the gist of the way things in some desperate personal and national times will be fairly well put in place. It begins a trifle before the outset of the 1929 stock market crash that led to the Great Depression. Then, it points to the difficulties, financial and otherwise, that confronted individuals and the beleaguered nation overall. You or your preceding family will remember some, from either experiencing it personally or hearing about it from those who came before. What was it like growing up back then? Listen and find out. Author/narrator John Rayburn looks back from an informal standpoint that can help bring memories to life or disclose information of a period before your time … pleasant listening in either case.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-senior-my-amazing-year-as-a-59-year-old-college-football-linebacker-by-mike-flynt--65184567https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Senior: My Amazing Year as a 59-Year-Old College Football Linebacker Author: Mike Flynt Narrator: Guy Branche, James Donaldson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It's Never Too Late to Tackle Your Dreams! Mike Flynt was swapping stories with some old football buddies when he brought up the biggest regret of his life: getting kicked off the college team before his senior year. So, one of his pals said, 'Why not do something about it?' Most 59-year-olds would have laughed. Flynt's only concern was his eligibility. He not only returned to college football, but actually made the team at his alma mater - Sul Ross State, an NCAA division III school. His remarkable story begins with a tough upbringing by a violent father who trained him to fight at every opportunity. His fighting habit took him in and out of jail several times, until a faith conversion turned his life around on the very day he was contemplating suicide. Mike Flynt has much to offer others, not only through his story, but through his belief that it’s never too late for God to heal your heart and fulfill your dreams. Foreword by NBA Superstar LeBron James.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625374Tue, 13 Dec 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Senior: My Amazing Year as a 59-Year-Old College Football Linebacker Author: Mike Flynt Narrator: Guy Branche, James Donaldson Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Senior: My Amazing Year as a 59-Year-Old College Football Linebacker Author: Mike Flynt Narrator: Guy Branche, James Donaldson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It's Never Too Late to Tackle Your Dreams! Mike Flynt was swapping stories with some old football buddies when he brought up the biggest regret of his life: getting kicked off the college team before his senior year. So, one of his pals said, 'Why not do something about it?' Most 59-year-olds would have laughed. Flynt's only concern was his eligibility. He not only returned to college football, but actually made the team at his alma mater - Sul Ross State, an NCAA division III school. His remarkable story begins with a tough upbringing by a violent father who trained him to fight at every opportunity. His fighting habit took him in and out of jail several times, until a faith conversion turned his life around on the very day he was contemplating suicide. Mike Flynt has much to offer others, not only through his story, but through his belief that it’s never too late for God to heal your heart and fulfill your dreams. Foreword by NBA Superstar LeBron James.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/raised-by-wolves-by-jess-ho--65184580https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626085 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raised By Wolves Author: Jess Ho Narrator: Monica Sayers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: December 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunctional family who only made peace over food, and it was clear that a normal life was never on the menu. Jess emerged from childhood with a major psychological complex and a kick-arse palate, traits that would help them fit right in to the messy world of Melbourne's food scene. In hospitality, Jess found a new family of outsiders who shared their lust for life and appetite for destruction. As the Australian food scene exploded, fuelled by the kinds of ‘exotic' foods Jess had grown up on, they became one of the most influential voices in Australia's bar and restaurant scene. But the industry Jess loved had its own dysfunctions: greed, ego, sexual harassment, exploitation and a never-ending fetishisation of Asian food culture. And Jess wasn't one to hold their tongue. Raised by Wolves is a fierce, funny and razor-sharp coming of age story from a savage new voice. ‘Jess Ho's Raised by Wolves is a cutting memoir full of joy and tragedy. This is a life in the Melbourne hospitality industry that deserves a place on your shelf'. JASON STEGER, The Booklist]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626085Thu, 01 Dec 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626085 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raised By Wolves Author: Jess Ho Narrator: Monica Sayers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: December 1, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626085 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raised By Wolves Author: Jess Ho Narrator: Monica Sayers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: December 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunctional family who only made peace over food, and it was clear that a normal life was never on the menu. Jess emerged from childhood with a major psychological complex and a kick-arse palate, traits that would help them fit right in to the messy world of Melbourne's food scene. In hospitality, Jess found a new family of outsiders who shared their lust for life and appetite for destruction. As the Australian food scene exploded, fuelled by the kinds of ‘exotic' foods Jess had grown up on, they became one of the most influential voices in Australia's bar and restaurant scene. But the industry Jess loved had its own dysfunctions: greed, ego, sexual harassment, exploitation and a never-ending fetishisation of Asian food culture. And Jess wasn't one to hold their tongue. Raised by Wolves is a fierce, funny and razor-sharp coming of age story from a savage new voice. ‘Jess Ho's Raised by Wolves is a cutting memoir full of joy and tragedy. This is a life in the Melbourne hospitality industry that deserves a place on your shelf'. JASON STEGER, The Booklist]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ghost-of-the-hardy-boys-the-writer-behind-the-world-s-most-famous-boy-detectives-by-leslie-mcfarlane--65184692https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghost of the Hardy Boys: The Writer Behind the World's Most Famous Boy Detectives Author: Leslie Mcfarlane Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1926, twenty-three-year-old cub newspaper reporter Leslie McFarlane responded to an ad: 'Experienced Fiction Writer Wanted.' The ad was signed by Edward Stratemeyer, whose syndicate effectively invented mass-market children's book publishing in America. McFarlane, who had a few published adventure stories to his name, was hired and his first job was to write Dave Fearless Under the Ocean as Roy Rockwood—for a flat fee of $100, no royalties. His pay increased to $125 when Stratemeyer proposed a new series of detective stories for kids involving two high school aged brothers who would solve mysteries. The title of the series was The Hardy Boys. McFarlane's pseudonym would be Franklin W. Dixon. McFarlane went on to write twenty-one Hardy Boys adventures. McFarlane kept his ghostwriting gig secret until late in life when his son urged him to share the story of being the real Franklin W. Dixon. By the time McFarlane died in 1977, unofficial sales estimates of The Hardy Boys series already topped fifty million copies. Ghost of the Hardy Boys is a fascinating, funny, and always charming look back at a vanished era of journalism, writing, and book publishing. It is for anyone who's curious about solving the mystery of the fascinating man behind one of the most widely read and enduring children's book series in history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619205Tue, 29 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghost of the Hardy Boys: The Writer Behind the World's Most Famous Boy Detectives Author: Leslie Mcfarlane Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghost of the Hardy Boys: The Writer Behind the World's Most Famous Boy Detectives Author: Leslie Mcfarlane Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1926, twenty-three-year-old cub newspaper reporter Leslie McFarlane responded to an ad: 'Experienced Fiction Writer Wanted.' The ad was signed by Edward Stratemeyer, whose syndicate effectively invented mass-market children's book publishing in America. McFarlane, who had a few published adventure stories to his name, was hired and his first job was to write Dave Fearless Under the Ocean as Roy Rockwood—for a flat fee of $100, no royalties. His pay increased to $125 when Stratemeyer proposed a new series of detective stories for kids involving two high school aged brothers who would solve mysteries. The title of the series was The Hardy Boys. McFarlane's pseudonym would be Franklin W. Dixon. McFarlane went on to write twenty-one Hardy Boys adventures. McFarlane kept his ghostwriting gig secret until late in life when his son urged him to share the story of being the real Franklin W. Dixon. By the time McFarlane died in 1977, unofficial sales estimates of The Hardy Boys series already topped fifty million copies. Ghost of the Hardy Boys is a fascinating, funny, and always charming look back at a vanished era of journalism, writing, and book publishing. It is for anyone who's curious about solving the mystery of the fascinating man behind one of the most widely read and enduring children's book series in history.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/you-won-t-feel-a-thing-the-drama-tragedy-comedy-of-nursing-by-sonja-mitrevska-dnp-crna--65184674https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Won’t Feel a Thing!: The Drama, Tragedy, & Comedy of Nursing Author: Sonja Mitrevska DNP CRNA Narrator: Sonja Mitrevska Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 48 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Oh Sh*t, I Almost Killed You! A Little Book of Big Things Nursing School Forgot to Teach You comes the ultimate hard-hitting follow up to what nurses endure in the world of modern healthcare. With greater depth and much needed candor, You Won't Feel a Thing! The Drama, Tragedy, & Comedy of Nursing will provide valuable insights whether you are already nurse or simply want to understand the complexities of the role. Let's face it: the healthcare system has lots of work to do . . . and you probably do, too. It's time to bring the real, raw professional issues of nursing to the forefront. We have taken the hits. We have rolled with the punches. We have bobbed and weaved and bent. Let's work to ensure that bent never becomes broken.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615786Tue, 22 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Won’t Feel a Thing!: The Drama, Tragedy, & Comedy of Nursing Author: Sonja Mitrevska DNP CRNA Narrator: Sonja Mitrevska Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Won’t Feel a Thing!: The Drama, Tragedy, & Comedy of Nursing Author: Sonja Mitrevska DNP CRNA Narrator: Sonja Mitrevska Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 48 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Oh Sh*t, I Almost Killed You! A Little Book of Big Things Nursing School Forgot to Teach You comes the ultimate hard-hitting follow up to what nurses endure in the world of modern healthcare. With greater depth and much needed candor, You Won't Feel a Thing! The Drama, Tragedy, & Comedy of Nursing will provide valuable insights whether you are already nurse or simply want to understand the complexities of the role. Let's face it: the healthcare system has lots of work to do . . . and you probably do, too. It's time to bring the real, raw professional issues of nursing to the forefront. We have taken the hits. We have rolled with the punches. We have bobbed and weaved and bent. Let's work to ensure that bent never becomes broken.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/billy-s-story-thrown-away-children-book-6-by-louise-allen--65184549https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Billy's Story: Thrown Away Children Book 6 Series: #6 of Thrown Away Children Author: Louise Allen Narrator: Melanie Crawley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 17, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of life in foster care. Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blackthorn comes to stay. He is one of more than 20 children taken into care from a single family, and erupts into the Allen household with a volatility that is frightening and disturbing in equal measure. It is only as Louise begins to uncover the secrets of Billy's dark past that she begins to understand what made his family 'untouchable'.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626106Thu, 17 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Billy's Story: Thrown Away Children Book 6 Series: #6 of Thrown Away Children Author: Louise Allen Narrator: Melanie Crawley Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Billy's Story: Thrown Away Children Book 6 Series: #6 of Thrown Away Children Author: Louise Allen Narrator: Melanie Crawley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 17, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of life in foster care. Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blackthorn comes to stay. He is one of more than 20 children taken into care from a single family, and erupts into the Allen household with a volatility that is frightening and disturbing in equal measure. It is only as Louise begins to uncover the secrets of Billy's dark past that she begins to understand what made his family 'untouchable'.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hereafter-the-telling-life-of-ellen-o-hara-by-vona-groarke--65184632https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619283 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara Author: Vona Groarke Narrator: Siobhan Waring Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America. In July 1882, Ellen O'Hara stepped off a ship from the West of Ireland to begin a new life in New York. What she encountered was a world of casual racial prejudice that characterized her as ignorant, dirty, and feckless, the butt of many jokes. From the slim range of jobs available to her she, like, many of her kind, found a position as a domestic servant, working long hours and living in to save on rent and keep. After an unfortunate marriage, Ellen determined to win financial security on her own, and eventually opened a boarding house where her two children were able to rejoin her. Vona Groarke builds this story from historical fact, drawing from various archives for evidence of Ellen. However, she also considers why lives such as Ellen's seem to leave such a light trace in such records and fills in the gaps with memory and empathetic projection. Ellen—scrappy, skeptical, and straight-talking—is the heroine of Hereafter, whose resilience animates the story and whose voice shines through with vivid clarity. Hereafter is both a compelling account of an incredible figure and a reflection on how one woman's story can speak for more than one life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619283Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619283 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara Author: Vona Groarke Narrator: Siobhan Waring Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 54 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619283 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara Author: Vona Groarke Narrator: Siobhan Waring Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America. In July 1882, Ellen O'Hara stepped off a ship from the West of Ireland to begin a new life in New York. What she encountered was a world of casual racial prejudice that characterized her as ignorant, dirty, and feckless, the butt of many jokes. From the slim range of jobs available to her she, like, many of her kind, found a position as a domestic servant, working long hours and living in to save on rent and keep. After an unfortunate marriage, Ellen determined to win financial security on her own, and eventually opened a boarding house where her two children were able to rejoin her. Vona Groarke builds this story from historical fact, drawing from various archives for evidence of Ellen. However, she also considers why lives such as Ellen's seem to leave such a light trace in such records and fills in the gaps with memory and empathetic projection. Ellen—scrappy, skeptical, and straight-talking—is the heroine of Hereafter, whose resilience animates the story and whose voice shines through with vivid clarity. Hereafter is both a compelling account of an incredible figure and a reflection on how one woman's story can speak for more than one life.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/walking-with-spring-by-earl-v-shaffer--65184508https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking with Spring Author: Earl V. Shaffer Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1948, the Appalachian Trail had been a continuous, 2,000-mile footpath for eleven years, but no one had walked its length alone in a continuous journey—until Earl Shaffer, a quiet Pennsylvanian, became a hiking legend and the first of what is now more than 5,500 A.T. 'thru-hikers,' walking from Georgia to Maine as spring arrived to each area. In 1998, he hiked again as a 50th-anniversary celebration, to far greater publicity. This is the lyrical account of his fabled 1948 walk. Written soon after the first of his three thru-hikes, Walking with Spring chronicles Shaffer's adventures along a path that at the time was showing neglect of the war years and has since been rerouted significantly to its permanent location. His simply stated story has served as an inspiration for more than 9,000 men and women who have since followed in his footsteps . . . and many more who have tried.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625199Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking with Spring Author: Earl V. Shaffer Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 15,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walking with Spring Author: Earl V. Shaffer Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1948, the Appalachian Trail had been a continuous, 2,000-mile footpath for eleven years, but no one had walked its length alone in a continuous journey—until Earl Shaffer, a quiet Pennsylvanian, became a hiking legend and the first of what is now more than 5,500 A.T. 'thru-hikers,' walking from Georgia to Maine as spring arrived to each area. In 1998, he hiked again as a 50th-anniversary celebration, to far greater publicity. This is the lyrical account of his fabled 1948 walk. Written soon after the first of his three thru-hikes, Walking with Spring chronicles Shaffer's adventures along a path that at the time was showing neglect of the war years and has since been rerouted significantly to its permanent location. His simply stated story has served as an inspiration for more than 9,000 men and women who have since followed in his footsteps . . . and many more who have tried.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-hackingmydepression-by-maarten-hemmen--65184623https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - #hackingmydepression Author: Maarten Hemmen Narrator: Maarten Hemmen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: November 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: '350 Millionen psychisch erkrankte Menschen, unnötig, wenn ihr mich fragt, wir können es so viel besser machen, für so viele Menschen. Ich sehe täglich das Leiden, und es bringt mich um, ich muss nicht unbedingt auf die große Bühne, aber irgendwie habe ich keine Wahl. Ich muss sprechen, ich muss schreien, toben, ich muss gehört werden.' Auf den ersten Blick ist Maarten der geborene Siegertyp. Groß, blond, sportlich, topfit und Holländer! Jahrgangsbester als Drummer am Konservatorium in Rotterdam, Taekwando-Kämpfer in Auswahlteams und erfolgreicher Musikproduzent. Von außen betrachtet ein Mensch auf der Sonnenseite des Lebens. Aber das ist nur die halbe Wahrheit. Denn Maarten ist manisch depressiv. Was von außen paradox erscheint, bestimmt sein Leben zwischen massiven Ups und Downs. In seinem Buch #hackingmydepression teilt er seine tiefsten Gedanken und seine manchmal unkontrollierbaren Stimmungen. Aber es gibt auch viel Hoffnung wie er sich seiner Krankheit stellt und versucht durch Sport, Meditation und neuen Denkansätzen den Geistern in seinem Kopf habhaft zu werden. In seinem autobiographischen Buch #hackingmydepression widmet sich Maarten Hemmen offen und selbstreflektiert der größten Herausforderung seines Lebens. Dem Umgang mit seiner Depression. Ein Suizidversuch bildet eine elementare Zäsur in seinem Leben und er beginnt seine Depressionen zu akzeptieren und Strategien für die Bewältigung zu entwickeln. Ein Buch, das dabei hilft Depressionen zu verstehen, aber auch mit Ihnen umzugehen.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620986Mon, 14 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - #hackingmydepression Author: Maarten Hemmen Narrator: Maarten Hemmen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620986 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - #hackingmydepression Author: Maarten Hemmen Narrator: Maarten Hemmen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: November 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: '350 Millionen psychisch erkrankte Menschen, unnötig, wenn ihr mich fragt, wir können es so viel besser machen, für so viele Menschen. Ich sehe täglich das Leiden, und es bringt mich um, ich muss nicht unbedingt auf die große Bühne, aber irgendwie habe ich keine Wahl. Ich muss sprechen, ich muss schreien, toben, ich muss gehört werden.' Auf den ersten Blick ist Maarten der geborene Siegertyp. Groß, blond, sportlich, topfit und Holländer! Jahrgangsbester als Drummer am Konservatorium in Rotterdam, Taekwando-Kämpfer in Auswahlteams und erfolgreicher Musikproduzent. Von außen betrachtet ein Mensch auf der Sonnenseite des Lebens. Aber das ist nur die halbe Wahrheit. Denn Maarten ist manisch depressiv. Was von außen paradox erscheint, bestimmt sein Leben zwischen massiven Ups und Downs. In seinem Buch #hackingmydepression teilt er seine tiefsten Gedanken und seine manchmal unkontrollierbaren Stimmungen. Aber es gibt auch viel Hoffnung wie er sich seiner Krankheit stellt und versucht durch Sport, Meditation und neuen Denkansätzen den Geistern in seinem Kopf habhaft zu werden. In seinem autobiographischen Buch #hackingmydepression widmet sich Maarten Hemmen offen und selbstreflektiert der größten Herausforderung seines Lebens. Dem Umgang mit seiner Depression. Ein Suizidversuch bildet eine elementare Zäsur in seinem Leben und er beginnt seine Depressionen zu akzeptieren und Strategien für die Bewältigung zu entwickeln. Ein Buch, das dabei hilft Depressionen zu verstehen, aber auch mit Ihnen umzugehen.]]>185hackingmydepressioncleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-bull-by-linda-bull-vika-bull--65184577https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Bull Author: Linda Bull, Vika Bull Narrator: Vika Bull, Linda Bull Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘Two young brown chicks walking around Doncaster Shoppingtown dressed like they were about to go and tend to goats in the Swiss Alps must have been quite the sight …' While most music careers stalled during the pandemic, Vika and Linda Bull soared with two chart-topping albums as they became beacons of warmth in uncertain times. For three decades they were best known as backing singers and collaborators to some of Australia's biggest artists, but it was when the world turned upside down that everyone realised just how much they loved the exquisite harmonies of these hard-working, easy-talking, all-singing sisters. With charming honesty and infectious humour, Vika and Linda recount the highs and lows, twists and turns they've navigated on the long road to centre stage, from growing up as dark-skinned girls in 1970s Doncaster to confronting their personal demons and stepping into the spotlight as their unabashed selves. No Bull is a riot of a show and a tonic for our times. ‘You can't beat siblings singing together … They make the air beat in sync.' PAUL KELLY]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626086Thu, 10 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Bull Author: Linda Bull, Vika Bull Narrator: Vika Bull, Linda Bull Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: November...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Bull Author: Linda Bull, Vika Bull Narrator: Vika Bull, Linda Bull Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘Two young brown chicks walking around Doncaster Shoppingtown dressed like they were about to go and tend to goats in the Swiss Alps must have been quite the sight …' While most music careers stalled during the pandemic, Vika and Linda Bull soared with two chart-topping albums as they became beacons of warmth in uncertain times. For three decades they were best known as backing singers and collaborators to some of Australia's biggest artists, but it was when the world turned upside down that everyone realised just how much they loved the exquisite harmonies of these hard-working, easy-talking, all-singing sisters. With charming honesty and infectious humour, Vika and Linda recount the highs and lows, twists and turns they've navigated on the long road to centre stage, from growing up as dark-skinned girls in 1970s Doncaster to confronting their personal demons and stepping into the spotlight as their unabashed selves. No Bull is a riot of a show and a tonic for our times. ‘You can't beat siblings singing together … They make the air beat in sync.' PAUL KELLY]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/boy-with-the-bullhorn-a-memoir-and-history-of-act-up-new-york-by-ron-goldberg--65184689https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York Author: Ron Goldberg Narrator: Ron Goldberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 14 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the moment Ron Goldberg stumbled into his first ACT UP meeting in June 1987, the AIDS activist organization became his life. For the next eight years, he chaired committees, planned protests, led teach-ins, and facilitated their Monday night meetings. He cruised and celebrated at ACT UP parties, attended far too many AIDS memorials, and participated in over a hundred zaps and demonstrations, becoming the group's unofficial 'Chant Queen,' writing and leading chants for many of their major actions. Boy with the Bullhorn is both a memoir and an immersive history of the original New York chapter of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, from 1987 to 1995, told with great humor, heart, and insight. Diligently sourced and researched, Boy with the Bullhorn provides both an intimate look into how activist strategies are developed and deployed, as well as a snapshot of life in New York City during the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic. He relies on his extensive archive of original ACT UP documents, news articles, and other published material, as well as activist videos and oral histories, to help flesh out actions, events, and the background stories of key activists. Writing with great candor, Goldberg examines the group's triumphs and failures, as well as the pressures and bad behaviors that eventually tore ACT UP apart.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619206Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York Author: Ron Goldberg Narrator: Ron Goldberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York Author: Ron Goldberg Narrator: Ron Goldberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 14 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the moment Ron Goldberg stumbled into his first ACT UP meeting in June 1987, the AIDS activist organization became his life. For the next eight years, he chaired committees, planned protests, led teach-ins, and facilitated their Monday night meetings. He cruised and celebrated at ACT UP parties, attended far too many AIDS memorials, and participated in over a hundred zaps and demonstrations, becoming the group's unofficial 'Chant Queen,' writing and leading chants for many of their major actions. Boy with the Bullhorn is both a memoir and an immersive history of the original New York chapter of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, from 1987 to 1995, told with great humor, heart, and insight. Diligently sourced and researched, Boy with the Bullhorn provides both an intimate look into how activist strategies are developed and deployed, as well as a snapshot of life in New York City during the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic. He relies on his extensive archive of original ACT UP documents, news articles, and other published material, as well as activist videos and oral histories, to help flesh out actions, events, and the background stories of key activists. Writing with great candor, Goldberg examines the group's triumphs and failures, as well as the pressures and bad behaviors that eventually tore ACT UP apart.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bryce-courtenay-storyteller-by-christine-courtenay--65184677https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bryce Courtenay: Storyteller Author: Christine Courtenay Narrator: Christine Courtenay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Christine Courtenay began penning her own life story in lockdown last year, she found herself increasingly drawn into the story of her late husband and bestselling author Bryce Courtenay. The manuscript that evolved is the memoir his readers have longed for, and is the first biographical work of one of Australia's most beloved authors. Bryce Courtenay was a figure larger than life, and his extraordinary, adventurous, rags-to-riches life story reads like one of his epic fictions - and indeed characters, places, episodes and themes have made their way into his novels. He was born in South Africa, an illegitimate son to Maud Jessamine Greer, who gave him the name 'Courtenay', and spent his challenging childhood in a number of small African towns. He was later schooled at an exclusive boarding school in Johannesburg, and worked the dangerous mines of Rhodesia in the fifties to pay his way to journalism school in London, where he met his first wife Benita Solomon. Bryce followed Benita home to Sydney, where they married and raised three sons. He embarked on a career in advertising, first as a copywriter, that spanned 34 years, and was Creative Director at McCann Erikson, J.Walter Thompson and George Patterson before following his childhood dream to become a novelist. The Power of One was published in 1989, and quickly became an international bestseller. Bryce went on to write another twenty bestsellers, and can only be described as an Australian publishing phenomenon. Bryce and Benita parted ways in 1999. Bryce engaged Christine Gee as his publicist in 1997. She became his partner in 2005, and they married in 2011. Bryce passed away on 22 November 2012, ten days after the publication of his last book, Jack of Diamonds. Bryce Courtenay: Storyteller is a personal memoir and tribute, featuring untold stories, original insights, extracts from his personal letters and previously unpublished photographs - from the woman who knew and loved him dearly.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615184Tue, 01 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bryce Courtenay: Storyteller Author: Christine Courtenay Narrator: Christine Courtenay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 28 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bryce Courtenay: Storyteller Author: Christine Courtenay Narrator: Christine Courtenay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Christine Courtenay began penning her own life story in lockdown last year, she found herself increasingly drawn into the story of her late husband and bestselling author Bryce Courtenay. The manuscript that evolved is the memoir his readers have longed for, and is the first biographical work of one of Australia's most beloved authors. Bryce Courtenay was a figure larger than life, and his extraordinary, adventurous, rags-to-riches life story reads like one of his epic fictions - and indeed characters, places, episodes and themes have made their way into his novels. He was born in South Africa, an illegitimate son to Maud Jessamine Greer, who gave him the name 'Courtenay', and spent his challenging childhood in a number of small African towns. He was later schooled at an exclusive boarding school in Johannesburg, and worked the dangerous mines of Rhodesia in the fifties to pay his way to journalism school in London, where he met his first wife Benita Solomon. Bryce followed Benita home to Sydney, where they married and raised three sons. He embarked on a career in advertising, first as a copywriter, that spanned 34 years, and was Creative Director at McCann Erikson, J.Walter Thompson and George Patterson before following his childhood dream to become a novelist. The Power of One was published in 1989, and quickly became an international bestseller. Bryce went on to write another twenty bestsellers, and can only be described as an Australian publishing phenomenon. Bryce and Benita parted ways in 1999. Bryce engaged Christine Gee as his publicist in 1997. She became his partner in 2005, and they married in 2011. Bryce passed away on 22 November 2012, ten days after the publication of his last book, Jack of Diamonds. Bryce Courtenay: Storyteller is a personal memoir and tribute, featuring untold stories, original insights, extracts from his personal letters and previously unpublished photographs - from the woman who knew and loved him dearly.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/inexplicably-me-a-story-of-labels-worthiness-and-refusing-to-be-boxed-in-by-chelsea-austin-montgomery-duban-wachter--65184625https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619154 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inexplicably Me: A Story of Labels, Worthiness, and Refusing to Be Boxed In Author: Chelsea Austin Montgomery-Duban Wächter Narrator: Chelsea Austin Montgomery-Duban Wächter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As the daughter of two gay fathers in the '90s, Chelsea has always had a different outlook than some people. And yet, her message is one of universal importance—love is the most important force in the world. Through her moving and at times hilarious memoir, Chelsea reflects on how we are all much more similar than we are different. Living 'two doors down from normal,' Chelsea quickly learned that society loves to put people in boxes, but these boxes do not always reflect how we feel about ourselves. Through Inexplicably Me, Chelsea works to bring people together in love and acceptance and to illustrate that, while her story may seem worlds away from others, we all strive for happiness and love. From sharing the stage with President Obama when she was only eighteen years old, to her father spending her senior year of college in federal prison camp, to her biological mother dying of cancer when she was only fifty-six, Chelsea explores her painful and joyful experiences with the hope that listeners will find inspiration to face their own challenges and embrace their own joys.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619154Tue, 01 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619154 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inexplicably Me: A Story of Labels, Worthiness, and Refusing to Be Boxed In Author: Chelsea Austin Montgomery-Duban Wächter Narrator: Chelsea Austin...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619154 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inexplicably Me: A Story of Labels, Worthiness, and Refusing to Be Boxed In Author: Chelsea Austin Montgomery-Duban Wächter Narrator: Chelsea Austin Montgomery-Duban Wächter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: As the daughter of two gay fathers in the '90s, Chelsea has always had a different outlook than some people. And yet, her message is one of universal importance—love is the most important force in the world. Through her moving and at times hilarious memoir, Chelsea reflects on how we are all much more similar than we are different. Living 'two doors down from normal,' Chelsea quickly learned that society loves to put people in boxes, but these boxes do not always reflect how we feel about ourselves. Through Inexplicably Me, Chelsea works to bring people together in love and acceptance and to illustrate that, while her story may seem worlds away from others, we all strive for happiness and love. From sharing the stage with President Obama when she was only eighteen years old, to her father spending her senior year of college in federal prison camp, to her biological mother dying of cancer when she was only fifty-six, Chelsea explores her painful and joyful experiences with the hope that listeners will find inspiration to face their own challenges and embrace their own joys.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nothing-bad-ever-happens-here-by-heather-rose--65184544https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here Author: Heather Rose Narrator: Heather Rose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from the award-winning author of Bruny and The Museum of Modern Love. It occurred to me that nothing bad ever happens here. Every human life is perfect in its own way. We cannot understand that, because it seems like there is so much suffering. But maybe every life is perfect for we need to know and learn and see and understand. Even when we don't understand, even when the suffering seems unfathomable, does some part of us understand? Could that really be true, I wondered? After a shocking family tragedy transforms Heather Rose's Tasmanian childhood, she becomes a seeker of life and all its mysteries. Heather has spent a lifetime testing boundaries and exploring the connections between love and death, the natural world and the body. Her questing spirit and her strong affinity with nature have inspired and driven her throughout her life-and deeply sustained her in times of darkness. Her words will bring wonder, light and comfort to all who read this astonishing book. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here is a luminous, compelling and utterly surprising memoir by the bestselling author of Stella Prize-winner The Museum of Modern Love and Bruny. 'A glorious novel, meditative and special in a way that defies easy articulation.' HANNAH KENT, author of Burial Rites]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626079Tue, 01 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here Author: Heather Rose Narrator: Heather Rose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here Author: Heather Rose Narrator: Heather Rose Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from the award-winning author of Bruny and The Museum of Modern Love. It occurred to me that nothing bad ever happens here. Every human life is perfect in its own way. We cannot understand that, because it seems like there is so much suffering. But maybe every life is perfect for we need to know and learn and see and understand. Even when we don't understand, even when the suffering seems unfathomable, does some part of us understand? Could that really be true, I wondered? After a shocking family tragedy transforms Heather Rose's Tasmanian childhood, she becomes a seeker of life and all its mysteries. Heather has spent a lifetime testing boundaries and exploring the connections between love and death, the natural world and the body. Her questing spirit and her strong affinity with nature have inspired and driven her throughout her life-and deeply sustained her in times of darkness. Her words will bring wonder, light and comfort to all who read this astonishing book. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here is a luminous, compelling and utterly surprising memoir by the bestselling author of Stella Prize-winner The Museum of Modern Love and Bruny. 'A glorious novel, meditative and special in a way that defies easy articulation.' HANNAH KENT, author of Burial Rites]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jordan-henderson-the-autobiography-the-must-read-autobiography-from-liverpool-s-beloved-captain-by-jordan-henderson--65184658https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jordan Henderson: The Autobiography: The must-read autobiography from Liverpool’s beloved captain Author: Jordan Henderson Narrator: Jordan Henderson, Mark Stobbart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. This audio edition features an exclusive Q&A with Jordan. Captain, father, leader, a fearless ambassador for the causes he believes in and a world-class midfielder, Jordan Henderson is all of these things - and it is why he is one of the most widely respected players of his generation. His story will go down in legend but his story also carries an inspirational message for anyone, showing hurdles and barriers won't stop you reaching your goals. In this, his first autobiography, Jordan reveals how an early love for the game as a kid became an all-consuming passion growing up in Sunderland and the moments and role models that encouraged him to follow his dream to play for his home club. Transferred to Liverpool in June 2011, Jordan's early years at the club saw him struggle to settle under Sir Kenny Dalglish then Brendan Rodgers before eventually establishing himself at Anfield as a force of nature in midfield. In June 2015, Jordan took the reins from Steven Gerrard. Under his captaincy, Liverpool have won six trophies headed by the Champions League and the Premier League, bringing the club its first league title in 30 years. In this book, Jordan charts his decade-long journey with the Reds - he is one of only five men to play ten season for the club in the modern era - as well as his incredible experiences within the England squad. He is the only player in history to have been named England Player of the Year at both under-21 and senior level. Full of heartache, excitement and triumph, this is a candid insight into the life of a top-flight footballer as you've never heard before. © Jordan Henderson 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616360Thu, 27 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jordan Henderson: The Autobiography: The must-read autobiography from Liverpool’s beloved captain Author: Jordan Henderson Narrator: Jordan Henderson,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jordan Henderson: The Autobiography: The must-read autobiography from Liverpool’s beloved captain Author: Jordan Henderson Narrator: Jordan Henderson, Mark Stobbart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. This audio edition features an exclusive Q&A with Jordan. Captain, father, leader, a fearless ambassador for the causes he believes in and a world-class midfielder, Jordan Henderson is all of these things - and it is why he is one of the most widely respected players of his generation. His story will go down in legend but his story also carries an inspirational message for anyone, showing hurdles and barriers won't stop you reaching your goals. In this, his first autobiography, Jordan reveals how an early love for the game as a kid became an all-consuming passion growing up in Sunderland and the moments and role models that encouraged him to follow his dream to play for his home club. Transferred to Liverpool in June 2011, Jordan's early years at the club saw him struggle to settle under Sir Kenny Dalglish then Brendan Rodgers before eventually establishing himself at Anfield as a force of nature in midfield. In June 2015, Jordan took the reins from Steven Gerrard. Under his captaincy, Liverpool have won six trophies headed by the Champions League and the Premier League, bringing the club its first league title in 30 years. In this book, Jordan charts his decade-long journey with the Reds - he is one of only five men to play ten season for the club in the modern era - as well as his incredible experiences within the England squad. He is the only player in history to have been named England Player of the Year at both under-21 and senior level. Full of heartache, excitement and triumph, this is a candid insight into the life of a top-flight footballer as you've never heard before. © Jordan Henderson 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/surgeon-at-war-a-frontline-surgeon-s-compelling-account-of-the-second-world-war-by-stanley-aylett--65184570https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surgeon at War: A Frontline Surgeon's Compelling Account of the Second World War Author: Stanley Aylett Narrator: Robin Laing Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Stanley Aylett's remarkable account of six years' service as a front-line surgeon with the British Army is that rare thing: a complete narrative from the first week of the Second World War until months after the final capitulation of Nazi Germany. That war was the last Western conflict in which military surgeons performed operations immediately behind the front line, often in makeshift theatres set up in tents or abandoned, battle-scarred buildings. Surgeon at War records the resilience and resourcefulness of the medical teams, drawing on the author's extensive diaries to describe the first advance into France at the start the war 1939; the chaos of the retreat to Dunkirk and subsequent evacuation of British and French forces; the sea voyage round the Cape to join the Eighth Army in Egypt; leading a Field Service Medical Unit in the Western Desert; the Allied invasion of France following the D-Day landings; crossing the Rhine into Germany; and VE Day, which Lieutenant-Colonel Aylett spent amid the horror of the Sandbostel concentration camp in northern Germany. Stanley Aylett signed up in the week war was declared, and survived to tell his story, edited here by his daughter with extensive use of his own photographs and letters home. It is a narrative of courage, duty and endurance amid the fog of war, but above all a tribute to the skill and humanity of those whose daily lives revealed mankind at both its best, and its worst.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626333Thu, 27 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surgeon at War: A Frontline Surgeon's Compelling Account of the Second World War Author: Stanley Aylett Narrator: Robin Laing Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surgeon at War: A Frontline Surgeon's Compelling Account of the Second World War Author: Stanley Aylett Narrator: Robin Laing Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Stanley Aylett's remarkable account of six years' service as a front-line surgeon with the British Army is that rare thing: a complete narrative from the first week of the Second World War until months after the final capitulation of Nazi Germany. That war was the last Western conflict in which military surgeons performed operations immediately behind the front line, often in makeshift theatres set up in tents or abandoned, battle-scarred buildings. Surgeon at War records the resilience and resourcefulness of the medical teams, drawing on the author's extensive diaries to describe the first advance into France at the start the war 1939; the chaos of the retreat to Dunkirk and subsequent evacuation of British and French forces; the sea voyage round the Cape to join the Eighth Army in Egypt; leading a Field Service Medical Unit in the Western Desert; the Allied invasion of France following the D-Day landings; crossing the Rhine into Germany; and VE Day, which Lieutenant-Colonel Aylett spent amid the horror of the Sandbostel concentration camp in northern Germany. Stanley Aylett signed up in the week war was declared, and survived to tell his story, edited here by his daughter with extensive use of his own photographs and letters home. It is a narrative of courage, duty and endurance amid the fog of war, but above all a tribute to the skill and humanity of those whose daily lives revealed mankind at both its best, and its worst.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-unveiling-a-mother-s-reflection-on-murder-grief-and-trial-life-by-ruth-markel--65184705https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unveiling: A Mother's Reflection on Murder, Grief, and Trial Life Author: Ruth Markel Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ruth Markel is the mother of the late Dan Markel, a noted law professor who was murdered in Tallahassee, Florida, in 2014. In The Unveiling, she describes her experiences since the day of Dan's death from several distinct perspectives: ● As a devastated mother with the unique human perspective of becoming a homicide survivor and victim. ● As a woman whose attempts to achieve normalcy and live a healthy life are continually interrupted by painful reminders, a rollercoaster of hearings, frequently changing trial dates, verdicts, and appeals. ● As an engaged citizen using what she has learned to help other victims of homicide and violent crimes recover from trauma and begin an optimistic outlook on life. ● As an insider who shows how our collective network of family, friends, and experts have helped her family remain involved, motivated, and hopeful. ● As a grandmother who had not been allowed to see her grandchildren in many years, she used advocacy to inspire the Florida State Legislature to pass a grandparent visitation bill. ● And as an experienced author of nine books using the written word to effectively address the shift from grief to promise.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616939Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unveiling: A Mother's Reflection on Murder, Grief, and Trial Life Author: Ruth Markel Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616939 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unveiling: A Mother's Reflection on Murder, Grief, and Trial Life Author: Ruth Markel Narrator: Ann Marie Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ruth Markel is the mother of the late Dan Markel, a noted law professor who was murdered in Tallahassee, Florida, in 2014. In The Unveiling, she describes her experiences since the day of Dan's death from several distinct perspectives: ● As a devastated mother with the unique human perspective of becoming a homicide survivor and victim. ● As a woman whose attempts to achieve normalcy and live a healthy life are continually interrupted by painful reminders, a rollercoaster of hearings, frequently changing trial dates, verdicts, and appeals. ● As an engaged citizen using what she has learned to help other victims of homicide and violent crimes recover from trauma and begin an optimistic outlook on life. ● As an insider who shows how our collective network of family, friends, and experts have helped her family remain involved, motivated, and hopeful. ● As a grandmother who had not been allowed to see her grandchildren in many years, she used advocacy to inspire the Florida State Legislature to pass a grandparent visitation bill. ● And as an experienced author of nine books using the written word to effectively address the shift from grief to promise.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/never-say-invisible-a-memoir-of-living-and-being-seen-with-als-by-jeremy-schreiber--65184687https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613937 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Say Invisible: A Memoir of Living and Being Seen with ALS Author: Jeremy Schreiber Narrator: Ramiz Monsef Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Jeremy Schreiber was on top of the world—athletic, newly married, successful. And then something went terribly wrong. In this moving memoir, he shares his journey after he received a terrifying diagnosis: ALS. As the devastating disease robbed him of movement and speech, he was abandoned by his wife and betrayed by a society that shuns people with disabilities. But it’s not all doom and gloom. He found love, support, and a powerful purpose. While fighting for his independence and then for his life, Jeremy gave his all to the ALS and disability communities. Never Say Invisible is his legacy gift. Smart, clever, and humorous, his story is a testament to what can be learned and achieved despite a terminal illness. Jeremy died on October 29, 2021, before he could finish this memoir. Sandra Jonas Publishing is proud to collaborate with his parents, Fred and Ronnye Schreiber, to carry on his work.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613937Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613937 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Say Invisible: A Memoir of Living and Being Seen with ALS Author: Jeremy Schreiber Narrator: Ramiz Monsef Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613937 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Say Invisible: A Memoir of Living and Being Seen with ALS Author: Jeremy Schreiber Narrator: Ramiz Monsef Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Jeremy Schreiber was on top of the world—athletic, newly married, successful. And then something went terribly wrong. In this moving memoir, he shares his journey after he received a terrifying diagnosis: ALS. As the devastating disease robbed him of movement and speech, he was abandoned by his wife and betrayed by a society that shuns people with disabilities. But it’s not all doom and gloom. He found love, support, and a powerful purpose. While fighting for his independence and then for his life, Jeremy gave his all to the ALS and disability communities. Never Say Invisible is his legacy gift. Smart, clever, and humorous, his story is a testament to what can be learned and achieved despite a terminal illness. Jeremy died on October 29, 2021, before he could finish this memoir. Sandra Jonas Publishing is proud to collaborate with his parents, Fred and Ronnye Schreiber, to carry on his work.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-traces-an-essay-by-mairead-small-staid--65184637https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Traces: An Essay Author: Mairead Small Staid Narrator: Carlotta Brentan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life. Mairead Small Staid’s debut, The Traces, is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. Traveling from Florence to Rome to Capri, The Traces draws on the fields of physics, history, architecture, and cartography, spurred by thinkers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Cesare Pavese and Anne Carson.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622889Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Traces: An Essay Author: Mairead Small Staid Narrator: Carlotta Brentan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Traces: An Essay Author: Mairead Small Staid Narrator: Carlotta Brentan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life. Mairead Small Staid’s debut, The Traces, is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. Traveling from Florence to Rome to Capri, The Traces draws on the fields of physics, history, architecture, and cartography, spurred by thinkers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Cesare Pavese and Anne Carson.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-tiger-and-the-cage-a-memoir-of-a-body-in-crisis-by-emma-bolden--65184636https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis Author: Emma Bolden Narrator: Emma Bolden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: With The Tiger and the Cage, Bolden uses her own experience as the starting point for a journey through the institutional misogyny of Western medicine—from a history of labeling women “hysterical” and parading them as curiosities to a lack of information on causes or cures for endometriosis, despite more than a century of documented cases. Recounting botched surgeries and dire side effects from pharmaceuticals affecting her and countless others, Bolden speaks to the ways people are often failed by the official narratives of institutions meant to protect them. Bolden also interrogates a narrative commonly imposed on menstruating bodies: the expected story arc of marriage and children. She interrogates her body as a painful site she must mentally escape and a countdown she hopes to beat by having a child before a hysterectomy. Only later does she find language and acceptance for her asexality and the life she needs to lead. Through all its gripping, devastating, and beautiful threads, The Tiger and the Cage says what Bolden and so many like her have needed to hear: I see you, and I believe you.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613936Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis Author: Emma Bolden Narrator: Emma Bolden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613936 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis Author: Emma Bolden Narrator: Emma Bolden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: With The Tiger and the Cage, Bolden uses her own experience as the starting point for a journey through the institutional misogyny of Western medicine—from a history of labeling women “hysterical” and parading them as curiosities to a lack of information on causes or cures for endometriosis, despite more than a century of documented cases. Recounting botched surgeries and dire side effects from pharmaceuticals affecting her and countless others, Bolden speaks to the ways people are often failed by the official narratives of institutions meant to protect them. Bolden also interrogates a narrative commonly imposed on menstruating bodies: the expected story arc of marriage and children. She interrogates her body as a painful site she must mentally escape and a countdown she hopes to beat by having a child before a hysterectomy. Only later does she find language and acceptance for her asexality and the life she needs to lead. Through all its gripping, devastating, and beautiful threads, The Tiger and the Cage says what Bolden and so many like her have needed to hear: I see you, and I believe you.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bibi-my-story-by-benjamin-netanyahu--65184613https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bibi: My Story Author: Benjamin Netanyahu Narrator: David Marantz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s “compelling” (The Economist) and “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestselling autobiography, the prime minister of Israel tells the story of his family, his path to leadership, and his unceasing commitment to defending his country and securing its future. From their earliest days, Bibi and his close-knit brothers, Yoni and Iddo, were instilled with purpose. Born in the wake of the Holocaust at the dawn of Israel’s independence and raised in a family with a prominent Zionist history, they understood that the Jewish state was a hard-won and still precarious gift. All three studied in American high schools—where they learned to appreciate the United States—before returning to their cherished homeland. The brothers joined an elite special forces outfit of the Israeli Defense Forces known as “the Unit.” At twenty-two, Bibi was wounded while leading his team in the rescue of hostages from a hijacked plane. Four years later, in 1976, Yoni was killed in Entebbe, Uganda, while leading his men in one of the most daring hostage-rescue missions in modern times. Yoni became a legend; Bibi felt he would never recover from his grief. Yet, inspired by Yoni’s legacy and guided by the wisdom of his visionary historian father, Bibi thrust himself into the international struggle against terrorism, ultimately becoming the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history—an honor he further cemented by winning reelection in 2022. In this memoir Bibi weaves together his gripping personal story with the dramatic history of Israel and the Jewish people. Through a host of vivid anecdotes, he narrates his own evolution from soldier to statesman, while providing a unique perspective on leadership, the fraught geopolitics of the Middle East, and his successful efforts to liberate Israel’s economy, which helped turn it into a global powerhouse of technological innovation. Netanyahu gives colorful, detailed, and revealing accounts of his often turbulent relationships and negotiations with Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Trump. With eye-opening candor, he delves into the back channels of high diplomacy—including his struggle against the radical forces that threaten Israel and the world at large, and the decisive events that led to Israel’s groundbreaking 2020 peace agreements with four Arab states. Offering an unflinching account of a life, a family, and a nation, Netanyahu writes from the heart and embraces controversy head-on. Steely and funny, high-tempo and full of verve, this autobiography will stand as a defining testament to the value of political conviction and personal courage.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618322Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bibi: My Story Author: Benjamin Netanyahu Narrator: David Marantz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 18,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bibi: My Story Author: Benjamin Netanyahu Narrator: David Marantz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s “compelling” (The Economist) and “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestselling autobiography, the prime minister of Israel tells the story of his family, his path to leadership, and his unceasing commitment to defending his country and securing its future. From their earliest days, Bibi and his close-knit brothers, Yoni and Iddo, were instilled with purpose. Born in the wake of the Holocaust at the dawn of Israel’s independence and raised in a family with a prominent Zionist history, they understood that the Jewish state was a hard-won and still precarious gift. All three studied in American high schools—where they learned to appreciate the United States—before returning to their cherished homeland. The brothers joined an elite special forces outfit of the Israeli Defense Forces known as “the Unit.” At twenty-two, Bibi was wounded while leading his team in the rescue of hostages from a hijacked plane. Four years later, in 1976, Yoni was killed in Entebbe, Uganda, while leading his men in one of the most daring hostage-rescue missions in modern times. Yoni became a legend; Bibi felt he would never recover from his grief. Yet, inspired by Yoni’s legacy and guided by the wisdom of his visionary historian father, Bibi thrust himself into the international struggle against terrorism, ultimately becoming the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history—an honor he further cemented by winning reelection in 2022. In this memoir Bibi weaves together his gripping personal story with the dramatic history of Israel and the Jewish people. Through a host of vivid anecdotes, he narrates his own evolution from soldier to statesman, while providing a unique perspective on leadership, the fraught geopolitics of the Middle East, and his successful efforts to liberate Israel’s economy, which helped turn it into a global powerhouse of technological innovation. Netanyahu gives colorful, detailed, and revealing accounts of his often turbulent relationships and negotiations with Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Trump. With eye-opening candor, he delves into the back channels of high diplomacy—including his struggle against the radical forces that threaten Israel and the world at large, and the decisive events that led to Israel’s groundbreaking 2020 peace agreements with four Arab states. Offering an unflinching account of a life, a family, and a nation, Netanyahu writes from the heart and embraces controversy head-on. Steely and funny, high-tempo and full of verve, this autobiography will stand as a defining testament to the value of political conviction and personal courage.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blue-portugal-and-other-essays-by-theresa-kishkan--65184664https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614930 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blue Portugal and Other Essays Author: Theresa Kishkan Narrator: Nina Richmond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: October 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Using the richness of braided essays, Theresa Kishkan thinks deeply about the natural world, mourns and celebrates the aging body, gently contests recorded history, and considers art and visual phenomena. Gathering personal genealogies, medical histories, and early land surveys together with insights from music, colour theory, horticulture, and textile production, Kishkan weaves a pattern of richly textured threads, welcoming readers to share her intellectual and emotional preoccupations. With an intimate awareness of place and time, a deep sensitivity to family, and a poetic delight in travel, local food and wine, and dogs, Blue Portugal and Other Essays offers up a sense of wonder at the interconnectedness of all things.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614930Thu, 13 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614930 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blue Portugal and Other Essays Author: Theresa Kishkan Narrator: Nina Richmond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614930 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blue Portugal and Other Essays Author: Theresa Kishkan Narrator: Nina Richmond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: October 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Using the richness of braided essays, Theresa Kishkan thinks deeply about the natural world, mourns and celebrates the aging body, gently contests recorded history, and considers art and visual phenomena. Gathering personal genealogies, medical histories, and early land surveys together with insights from music, colour theory, horticulture, and textile production, Kishkan weaves a pattern of richly textured threads, welcoming readers to share her intellectual and emotional preoccupations. With an intimate awareness of place and time, a deep sensitivity to family, and a poetic delight in travel, local food and wine, and dogs, Blue Portugal and Other Essays offers up a sense of wonder at the interconnectedness of all things.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-love-a-memoir-of-love-and-loss-by-amy-bloom--65184610https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss Author: Amy Bloom Narrator: Amy Bloom Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the power and value of human relationships. In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his hand. Brian was terminally ill and for the last year of his life Amy had struggled to find a way to support his wish to take control of his death, to not submerge 'into the darkness of an expiring existence'. Written with piercing insight and wit, In Love is Bloom's intimate, authentic and startling account of losing Brian, first slowly to the disease of Alzheimer's, and then on becoming a widow. It charts the anxiety and pain of the process that led them to Dignitas, while never avoiding the complex ethical problems that are raised by assisted death. 'Poignant, kind, funny and ultimately redemptive' - Alain de Botton, author of The Course of Love]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621501Thu, 13 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss Author: Amy Bloom Narrator: Amy Bloom Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 48 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss Author: Amy Bloom Narrator: Amy Bloom Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the power and value of human relationships. In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his hand. Brian was terminally ill and for the last year of his life Amy had struggled to find a way to support his wish to take control of his death, to not submerge 'into the darkness of an expiring existence'. Written with piercing insight and wit, In Love is Bloom's intimate, authentic and startling account of losing Brian, first slowly to the disease of Alzheimer's, and then on becoming a widow. It charts the anxiety and pain of the process that led them to Dignitas, while never avoiding the complex ethical problems that are raised by assisted death. 'Poignant, kind, funny and ultimately redemptive' - Alain de Botton, author of The Course of Love]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-ice-by-lorene-cary--65184694https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Ice Author: Lorene Cary Narrator: Lorene Cary Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a 'boot camp' for future American leaders. Like any good student, she was determined to succeed. But Cary was also determined to succeed without selling out. This wonderfully frank and perceptive memoir describes the perils and ambiguities of that double role, in which failing calculus and winning a student election could both be interpreted as betrayals of one's skin. Black Ice is also a universally recognizable document of a woman's adolescence; it is, as Houston Baker says, 'a journey into selfhood that resonates with sober reflection, intelligent passion, and joyous love.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613814Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Ice Author: Lorene Cary Narrator: Lorene Cary Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Ice Author: Lorene Cary Narrator: Lorene Cary Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a 'boot camp' for future American leaders. Like any good student, she was determined to succeed. But Cary was also determined to succeed without selling out. This wonderfully frank and perceptive memoir describes the perils and ambiguities of that double role, in which failing calculus and winning a student election could both be interpreted as betrayals of one's skin. Black Ice is also a universally recognizable document of a woman's adolescence; it is, as Houston Baker says, 'a journey into selfhood that resonates with sober reflection, intelligent passion, and joyous love.']]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/it-s-a-shame-about-ray-by-jonathan-seidler--65184545https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It's a Shame About Ray Author: Jonathan Seidler Narrator: David Seidler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It's a Shame About Ray is an extraordinary and powerful memoir about family, love and the power of music. A young man coming to terms with bipolar disorder suddenly loses his father to suicide. This seismic event prompts an exploration of his family's suppressed history of ill mental health, primarily among men, from the rubble of post-war Europe to present-day Australia. Gliding between the narrator's boyhood, adulthood and impending fatherhood, It's a Shame About Ray lasers in on the family left behind and their response to this ongoing challenge in light of their culture, religion and community. In the vein of Patricia Lockwood, Dave Eggers, Chuck Klosterman and David Sedaris, It's a Shame About Ray is an extraordinary memoir from writer Jonathan Seidler (yes, those Seidlers). It's an unflinching memoir about men, masculinity and mental health. Filtered through Y2K popular culture, it's a blackly funny and often devastating look at the lasting impact of suicide on families and the complex relationships between sons and fathers suffering from the same illness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626021Wed, 05 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It's a Shame About Ray Author: Jonathan Seidler Narrator: David Seidler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626021 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It's a Shame About Ray Author: Jonathan Seidler Narrator: David Seidler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It's a Shame About Ray is an extraordinary and powerful memoir about family, love and the power of music. A young man coming to terms with bipolar disorder suddenly loses his father to suicide. This seismic event prompts an exploration of his family's suppressed history of ill mental health, primarily among men, from the rubble of post-war Europe to present-day Australia. Gliding between the narrator's boyhood, adulthood and impending fatherhood, It's a Shame About Ray lasers in on the family left behind and their response to this ongoing challenge in light of their culture, religion and community. In the vein of Patricia Lockwood, Dave Eggers, Chuck Klosterman and David Sedaris, It's a Shame About Ray is an extraordinary memoir from writer Jonathan Seidler (yes, those Seidlers). It's an unflinching memoir about men, masculinity and mental health. Filtered through Y2K popular culture, it's a blackly funny and often devastating look at the lasting impact of suicide on families and the complex relationships between sons and fathers suffering from the same illness.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-kind-of-magic-by-anna-spargo-ryan--65184504https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Kind of Magic Author: Anna Spargo-Ryan Narrator: Anna Spargo-Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Where do mental illness stories begin? Anna's always had too many feelings. Or not enough feelings – she's never been quite sure. Debilitating panic. Extraordinary melancholy. Paranoia. Ambivalence. Fear. Despair. From anxious child to terrified parent, mental illness has been a constant. A harsh critic in the big moments – teenage pregnancy, divorce, a dream career, falling in love – and a companion in the small ones – getting to the supermarket, feeding all her cats, remembering which child is which. But between therapists' rooms and emergency departments, there's been a feeling even harder to explain … optimism. In this sharp-eyed and illuminating memoir, award-winning writer Anna Spargo-Ryan pieces together the relationships between time, mental illness, and our brain as the keeper of our stories. Against the backdrop of her own experience, she interrogates reality, how it can be fractured, and why it's so hard to put it back together. Powerfully honest, tender and often funny, A Kind of Magic blends meticulous research with vivid snapshots of the stuff that breaks us, and the magic of finding ourselves again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626076Wed, 05 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Kind of Magic Author: Anna Spargo-Ryan Narrator: Anna Spargo-Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Kind of Magic Author: Anna Spargo-Ryan Narrator: Anna Spargo-Ryan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Where do mental illness stories begin? Anna's always had too many feelings. Or not enough feelings – she's never been quite sure. Debilitating panic. Extraordinary melancholy. Paranoia. Ambivalence. Fear. Despair. From anxious child to terrified parent, mental illness has been a constant. A harsh critic in the big moments – teenage pregnancy, divorce, a dream career, falling in love – and a companion in the small ones – getting to the supermarket, feeding all her cats, remembering which child is which. But between therapists' rooms and emergency departments, there's been a feeling even harder to explain … optimism. In this sharp-eyed and illuminating memoir, award-winning writer Anna Spargo-Ryan pieces together the relationships between time, mental illness, and our brain as the keeper of our stories. Against the backdrop of her own experience, she interrogates reality, how it can be fractured, and why it's so hard to put it back together. Powerfully honest, tender and often funny, A Kind of Magic blends meticulous research with vivid snapshots of the stuff that breaks us, and the magic of finding ourselves again.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/finding-my-voice-by-emerald-garner--65184665https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616260 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding My Voice Author: Emerald Garner Narrator: Monet Dunham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this unforgettable memoir, Emerald Garner recounts her father’s cruel and unjust murder, the immense pain that followed, the pressures of an exploitative media, and her difficult yet determined journey as an activist against police violence. She begins with the morning of July 17, 2014—a rare day off from work, one she had hoped to enjoy with rest and family, that quickly turned her world inside out. What follows is a personal account of the suffering Emerald and her family endured: unsympathetic camera lenses, the stares and whispers of strangers, and the inability to mourn in private. In addition to these vulnerable, personal essays, Finding My Voice includes conversations in which Emerald found inspiration, empathy, and community: politicians, athletes, and activists like Brian Benjamin and Etan Thomas; others who had survived similarly unfathomable grief like Lora Dene King, Angelique Kearse, and Pamela Brooks; and Emerald’s own family, Mrs. Esaw Garner and Eric Garner Jr. The audiobook ends with a powerful call-to-action by author and daughter of Malcolm X, Ilyasah Shabazz. With growing calls for radical transformation and accountability, Emerald Garner’s memoir is a story of family and community, and the strength it takes to survive, to stand, to speak.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616260Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616260 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding My Voice Author: Emerald Garner Narrator: Monet Dunham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616260 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding My Voice Author: Emerald Garner Narrator: Monet Dunham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this unforgettable memoir, Emerald Garner recounts her father’s cruel and unjust murder, the immense pain that followed, the pressures of an exploitative media, and her difficult yet determined journey as an activist against police violence. She begins with the morning of July 17, 2014—a rare day off from work, one she had hoped to enjoy with rest and family, that quickly turned her world inside out. What follows is a personal account of the suffering Emerald and her family endured: unsympathetic camera lenses, the stares and whispers of strangers, and the inability to mourn in private. In addition to these vulnerable, personal essays, Finding My Voice includes conversations in which Emerald found inspiration, empathy, and community: politicians, athletes, and activists like Brian Benjamin and Etan Thomas; others who had survived similarly unfathomable grief like Lora Dene King, Angelique Kearse, and Pamela Brooks; and Emerald’s own family, Mrs. Esaw Garner and Eric Garner Jr. The audiobook ends with a powerful call-to-action by author and daughter of Malcolm X, Ilyasah Shabazz. With growing calls for radical transformation and accountability, Emerald Garner’s memoir is a story of family and community, and the strength it takes to survive, to stand, to speak.”]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-wagner-putins-geheime-armee-ein-insiderbericht-russlands-brutale-schattenarmee-und-seine-soldner-by-marat-gabidullin--65184589https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - WAGNER – Putins geheime Armee: Ein Insiderbericht | Russlands brutale Schattenarmee und seine Söldner Author: Marat Gabidullin Narrator: Torben Liebrecht Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: »Unser Geschäft ist der Tod und das Geschäft läuft gut.« PMC (Private Military Company) WAGNER ist ein privates russisches Sicherheits- und Militärunternehmen, dessen Einheiten verdeckt operieren und als besonders brutal gelten. WAGNER war während der russischen Machtübernahme auf der Krim sowie in Syrien, im Sudan, in Mali aktiv und ist es aktuell auch in der Ukraine. Der private Charakter von Putins Schattenarmee WAGNER hat den Vorteil, dass offizielle Aufträge abgestritten und jegliche Konventionen oder Völkerrecht ignoriert werden können und auch Verluste dieser Einheiten keine Rolle spielen. Finanzielle und politische Interessen vermischen sich. Die Verbindungen der WAGNER-Gründer zu Putin sind offensichtlich. Obwohl WAGNER-Soldaten kein Teil der russischen Streitkräfte sind, werden verdiente Kräfte mit Orden dekoriert. Der WAGNER-Söldner Marat Gabidullin gibt erstmals einen Einblick in das Innenleben der WAGNER-Truppe. Die Schilderungen von Marat Gabidullin werden durch ein Vorwort der französischen Journalistinnen Ksenia Bolchakova und Alexandra Jousset eingebunden, die auch einen Dokumentarfilm über ihn und die Gruppe WAGNER gedreht haben.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622741Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - WAGNER – Putins geheime Armee: Ein Insiderbericht | Russlands brutale Schattenarmee und seine Söldner Author: Marat Gabidullin Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - WAGNER – Putins geheime Armee: Ein Insiderbericht | Russlands brutale Schattenarmee und seine Söldner Author: Marat Gabidullin Narrator: Torben Liebrecht Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: »Unser Geschäft ist der Tod und das Geschäft läuft gut.« PMC (Private Military Company) WAGNER ist ein privates russisches Sicherheits- und Militärunternehmen, dessen Einheiten verdeckt operieren und als besonders brutal gelten. WAGNER war während der russischen Machtübernahme auf der Krim sowie in Syrien, im Sudan, in Mali aktiv und ist es aktuell auch in der Ukraine. Der private Charakter von Putins Schattenarmee WAGNER hat den Vorteil, dass offizielle Aufträge abgestritten und jegliche Konventionen oder Völkerrecht ignoriert werden können und auch Verluste dieser Einheiten keine Rolle spielen. Finanzielle und politische Interessen vermischen sich. Die Verbindungen der WAGNER-Gründer zu Putin sind offensichtlich. Obwohl WAGNER-Soldaten kein Teil der russischen Streitkräfte sind, werden verdiente Kräfte mit Orden dekoriert. Der WAGNER-Söldner Marat Gabidullin gibt erstmals einen Einblick in das Innenleben der WAGNER-Truppe. Die Schilderungen von Marat Gabidullin werden durch ein Vorwort der französischen Journalistinnen Ksenia Bolchakova und Alexandra Jousset eingebunden, die auch einen Dokumentarfilm über ihn und die Gruppe WAGNER gedreht haben.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-and-death-decisions-by-lachlan-mciver--65184565https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life and Death Decisions Author: Lachlan Mciver Narrator: Daniel Fletcher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The impossible job of a doctor in some of the world's wildest places. ‘I found Dad dead on the side of a dirt road. I was sixteen; he was forty-nine.' After Lachlan McIver's father suffers a sudden, fatal heart attack it sends him into a spiral of grief and outrage. This tragedy inspires him to become a doctor and he eventually finds his calling – providing care for communities in some of the most remote and neglected parts of the world. In this no-holds-barred memoir, Lachlan recounts his experiences treating patients and tackling health problems across dozens of countries, from rural communities around Australia and the islands of the South Pacific, through natural disasters and civil war zones, to the headquarters of the World Health Organization and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in Switzerland. Lachlan is forced to confront not only the frustrations of trying to provide medical care in extremely under-resourced environments, but broader crises such as health inequities, climate change and drug-resistant infections. He also faces his own personal battles, including with depression, alcohol abuse and bankruptcy. This is a deeply human look at the personal cost of our broken global health system, and how we must work together to change it for the better. It's what we need right now. 'Just brilliant... The book of the Decade.' TIM FLANNERY]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626072Sat, 01 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life and Death Decisions Author: Lachlan Mciver Narrator: Daniel Fletcher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life and Death Decisions Author: Lachlan Mciver Narrator: Daniel Fletcher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The impossible job of a doctor in some of the world's wildest places. ‘I found Dad dead on the side of a dirt road. I was sixteen; he was forty-nine.' After Lachlan McIver's father suffers a sudden, fatal heart attack it sends him into a spiral of grief and outrage. This tragedy inspires him to become a doctor and he eventually finds his calling – providing care for communities in some of the most remote and neglected parts of the world. In this no-holds-barred memoir, Lachlan recounts his experiences treating patients and tackling health problems across dozens of countries, from rural communities around Australia and the islands of the South Pacific, through natural disasters and civil war zones, to the headquarters of the World Health Organization and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in Switzerland. Lachlan is forced to confront not only the frustrations of trying to provide medical care in extremely under-resourced environments, but broader crises such as health inequities, climate change and drug-resistant infections. He also faces his own personal battles, including with depression, alcohol abuse and bankruptcy. This is a deeply human look at the personal cost of our broken global health system, and how we must work together to change it for the better. It's what we need right now. 'Just brilliant... The book of the Decade.' TIM FLANNERY]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/putting-on-a-show-by-rob-mills-paul-connolly--65184532https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Putting on a Show Author: Rob Mills, Paul Connolly Narrator: Rob Mills Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What's going on behind the bravado of the ‘average Aussie bloke'? Rob Mills knows all about putting on a show. Since rising to fame on Australian Idol in 2003, Rob Mills has built a prolific career across television, film, stage and musicals, performing celebrated roles in shows such as Wicked, Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease, Neighbours and Dancing with the Stars. But he also knows that there's often much more going on behind the scenes than what meets the eye. Following the untimely deaths of two friends, Rob Mills began questioning who he is as a person and a man. Soon his self-reflection shifted outwards, and he got to wondering how he fits into the category of ‘Aussie bloke'. Who is the average Aussie bloke, anyway, and does he even exist? What does he see as his purpose in the world? What is the state of his mental health? What does he think about gender roles, about family, sex and mateship, about violence and vulnerability? Charged by his naturally inquisitive nature, and with enough smarts to know he doesn't have all the answers, Rob called on the help of experts and friends. This book is the result of all these questions: a fascinating, chatty, insightful and often hilarious deep dive into both Rob's own life and that of the man on the street.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626077Sat, 01 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Putting on a Show Author: Rob Mills, Paul Connolly Narrator: Rob Mills Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Putting on a Show Author: Rob Mills, Paul Connolly Narrator: Rob Mills Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What's going on behind the bravado of the ‘average Aussie bloke'? Rob Mills knows all about putting on a show. Since rising to fame on Australian Idol in 2003, Rob Mills has built a prolific career across television, film, stage and musicals, performing celebrated roles in shows such as Wicked, Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease, Neighbours and Dancing with the Stars. But he also knows that there's often much more going on behind the scenes than what meets the eye. Following the untimely deaths of two friends, Rob Mills began questioning who he is as a person and a man. Soon his self-reflection shifted outwards, and he got to wondering how he fits into the category of ‘Aussie bloke'. Who is the average Aussie bloke, anyway, and does he even exist? What does he see as his purpose in the world? What is the state of his mental health? What does he think about gender roles, about family, sex and mateship, about violence and vulnerability? Charged by his naturally inquisitive nature, and with enough smarts to know he doesn't have all the answers, Rob called on the help of experts and friends. This book is the result of all these questions: a fascinating, chatty, insightful and often hilarious deep dive into both Rob's own life and that of the man on the street.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-queria-volar-cuando-comer-era-un-infierno-by-espido-freire--65184701https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Quería volar: Cuando comer era un infierno Author: Espido Freire Narrator: Sara Gómez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Los trastornos de alimentación siguen siendo un problema oculto en una sociedad que los observa con condescendencia y los alienta con comportamientos erróneos. Unos trastornos tradicionalmente asociados a las adolescentes, y que ahora padecen también muchos hombres y mujeres adultas, que no se reducen a la anorexia y a la bulimia, sino que incluyen ortorexia, vigorexia, conductas compulsivas y muchos otros. En este audiolibro, Espido Freire toma la palabra para exponer su propio testimonio y el de un puñado de mujeres y de hombres. Pero 'Quería volar' no persigue la compasión o el morbo del lector, sino que ofrece un retrato útil de la enfermedad, que sirve como prevención y como manual para salir y restablecer una existencia saludable. Una obra escrita con sinceridad, voluntad de denuncia y una gran dosis de esperanza, porque entre todos se puede lograr el cambio; y a esto dedica una buena parte del audiolibro, que incluye consejos y análisis de las dietas más conocidas.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615047Thu, 29 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Quería volar: Cuando comer era un infierno Author: Espido Freire Narrator: Sara Gómez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 49...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Quería volar: Cuando comer era un infierno Author: Espido Freire Narrator: Sara Gómez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Los trastornos de alimentación siguen siendo un problema oculto en una sociedad que los observa con condescendencia y los alienta con comportamientos erróneos. Unos trastornos tradicionalmente asociados a las adolescentes, y que ahora padecen también muchos hombres y mujeres adultas, que no se reducen a la anorexia y a la bulimia, sino que incluyen ortorexia, vigorexia, conductas compulsivas y muchos otros. En este audiolibro, Espido Freire toma la palabra para exponer su propio testimonio y el de un puñado de mujeres y de hombres. Pero 'Quería volar' no persigue la compasión o el morbo del lector, sino que ofrece un retrato útil de la enfermedad, que sirve como prevención y como manual para salir y restablecer una existencia saludable. Una obra escrita con sinceridad, voluntad de denuncia y una gran dosis de esperanza, porque entre todos se puede lograr el cambio; y a esto dedica una buena parte del audiolibro, que incluye consejos y análisis de las dietas más conocidas.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-lo-que-yo-vi-by-laura-esquivel--65184564https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Lo que yo vi Author: Laura Esquivel Narrator: Laura Esquivel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Memorias de la reconocida autora mexicana, salpicadas de nostalgia por el tiempo ido y de reflexiones sobre la consciencia del tiempo presente. Desde la casa donde nació, los juegos de calle durante su niñez, la música que ha servido como banda sonora de su vida hasta losmovimientos sociales y el ataque terrorista contra las Torres Gemelas — que le tocó presenciar —, Laura Esquivel, la autora mexicana más leída en el mundo, nos enseña a través de un colorido mosaico de escritos lo que sus ojos vieron, las cosas de las que ha sido testigo en sus 72 años de vida. Son trece entregas que resultan por partes iguales un vínculo a nuestra historia, celebración de nuestras tradiciones, un comentario social y la narración de emocionales recuentos de las memorias de Laura y toda una generación. En un constante vaivén que oscila entre si todo pasado es mejor o si vivir el presente es aquello que nos sublima como seres humanos, la autora de Como agua para chocolate nos confirma lo que sí ha comprobado: siempre es más bello contemplar con el alma que con los ojos.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626776Thu, 29 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Lo que yo vi Author: Laura Esquivel Narrator: Laura Esquivel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 17 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Lo que yo vi Author: Laura Esquivel Narrator: Laura Esquivel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Memorias de la reconocida autora mexicana, salpicadas de nostalgia por el tiempo ido y de reflexiones sobre la consciencia del tiempo presente. Desde la casa donde nació, los juegos de calle durante su niñez, la música que ha servido como banda sonora de su vida hasta losmovimientos sociales y el ataque terrorista contra las Torres Gemelas — que le tocó presenciar —, Laura Esquivel, la autora mexicana más leída en el mundo, nos enseña a través de un colorido mosaico de escritos lo que sus ojos vieron, las cosas de las que ha sido testigo en sus 72 años de vida. Son trece entregas que resultan por partes iguales un vínculo a nuestra historia, celebración de nuestras tradiciones, un comentario social y la narración de emocionales recuentos de las memorias de Laura y toda una generación. En un constante vaivén que oscila entre si todo pasado es mejor o si vivir el presente es aquello que nos sublima como seres humanos, la autora de Como agua para chocolate nos confirma lo que sí ha comprobado: siempre es más bello contemplar con el alma que con los ojos.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bury-my-heart-at-chuck-e-cheese-s-by-tiffany-midge--65184693https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's Author: Tiffany Midge Narrator: Charlotte Flyte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Humor categories in publishing are packed with books by funny women and humorous sociocultural-political commentary—but no Native women. There are presumably more important concerns in Indian Country. More important than humor? Among the Diné/Navajo, a ceremony is held in honor of a baby's first laugh. While the context is different, it nonetheless reminds us that laughter is precious, even sacred. Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge's musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short, stand-alone musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice. She explains why she does not like pussy hats, mercilessly dismantles pretendians, and confesses her own struggles with white-bread privilege. Midge goes on to ponder Standing Rock, feminism, and a tweeting president, all while exploring her own complex identity and the loss of her mother. Employing humor as an act of resistance, these slices of life and matchless takes on urban-Indigenous identity disrupt the colonial narrative and provide commentary on popular culture, media, feminism, and the complications of identity, race, and politics.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615776Tue, 27 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's Author: Tiffany Midge Narrator: Charlotte Flyte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615776 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's Author: Tiffany Midge Narrator: Charlotte Flyte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Humor categories in publishing are packed with books by funny women and humorous sociocultural-political commentary—but no Native women. There are presumably more important concerns in Indian Country. More important than humor? Among the Diné/Navajo, a ceremony is held in honor of a baby's first laugh. While the context is different, it nonetheless reminds us that laughter is precious, even sacred. Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge's musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short, stand-alone musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice. She explains why she does not like pussy hats, mercilessly dismantles pretendians, and confesses her own struggles with white-bread privilege. Midge goes on to ponder Standing Rock, feminism, and a tweeting president, all while exploring her own complex identity and the loss of her mother. Employing humor as an act of resistance, these slices of life and matchless takes on urban-Indigenous identity disrupt the colonial narrative and provide commentary on popular culture, media, feminism, and the complications of identity, race, and politics.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/broken-how-our-social-systems-are-failing-us-and-how-we-can-fix-them-by-paul-leblanc--65184652https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Broken: How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them Author: Paul Leblanc Narrator: Adam Barr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Many of the systems built to serve people instead do more harm than good. In Broken, Dr. Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University, draws on his experience working in one such system—education—to reconnect us to the human facets of serving people. In doing so, he charts a course for rebuilding and reinhabiting better systems across education, healthcare, criminal justice, government, and more. The United States spends enormous sums on helping people—$3.8 trillion on healthcare, $182 billion on prisons, and $604 billion on higher education—and yet these systems routinely fail us. When we seek to improve how they function, our efforts focus on policy debates, technical solutions, funding, and data. But if these systems are to truly improve, we have to start with the human values that fuel decision making. Broken explores the deeply human dimensions we must consider—aspiring, discovering, mattering—if we want to rebuild the policies, technologies, processes, and, most importantly, the heart we use to serve people.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617109Tue, 27 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Broken: How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them Author: Paul Leblanc Narrator: Adam Barr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Broken: How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them Author: Paul Leblanc Narrator: Adam Barr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Many of the systems built to serve people instead do more harm than good. In Broken, Dr. Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University, draws on his experience working in one such system—education—to reconnect us to the human facets of serving people. In doing so, he charts a course for rebuilding and reinhabiting better systems across education, healthcare, criminal justice, government, and more. The United States spends enormous sums on helping people—$3.8 trillion on healthcare, $182 billion on prisons, and $604 billion on higher education—and yet these systems routinely fail us. When we seek to improve how they function, our efforts focus on policy debates, technical solutions, funding, and data. But if these systems are to truly improve, we have to start with the human values that fuel decision making. Broken explores the deeply human dimensions we must consider—aspiring, discovering, mattering—if we want to rebuild the policies, technologies, processes, and, most importantly, the heart we use to serve people.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/that-bird-has-my-wings-the-autobiography-of-an-innocent-man-on-death-row-by-jarvis-jay-masters--65184641https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624520 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row Author: Jarvis Jay Masters Narrator: Korey Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club Pick 2022 That Bird Has My Wings is a moving memoir of a Death Row inmate who discovers Buddhism and becomes an inspirational role model for fellow inmates, guards, and a growing public. ''When I think about the fact that society, a nation, has sentenced me to death, all I can do is turn inside myself, to the place in my heart that wants so desperately to feel human, still connected to this world, as if I have a purpose.'' In 1990, while serving a sentence in San Quentin for armed robbery, Jarvis Jay Masters was implicated as an accessory in the murder of a prison guard. A 23-year-old Black man, Jarvis was sentenced to death in the gas chamber. While in the maximum security section of Death Row, using the only instrument available to him—a ball-point pen filler—Masters's astounding memoir is a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit and the talent of a fine writer. Offering us scenes from his life that are at times poignant, revelatory, frightening, soul-stirring, painful, funny and uplifting, That Bird Has My Wings tells the story of the author’s childhood with parents addicted to heroin, an abusive foster family, a life of crime and imprisonment, and the eventual embracing of Buddhism. Masters’s story drew the attention of luminaries in the world of American Buddhism, including Pema Chodron, who wrote a story about him for O Magazine and offers a foreword to the book. Thirty-two years after his conviction, Masters is still on Death Row. A growing movement of people believe Masters is innocent, and are actively working within the legal system to free him.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624520Tue, 27 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624520 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row Author: Jarvis Jay Masters Narrator: Korey Jackson Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624520 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row Author: Jarvis Jay Masters Narrator: Korey Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club Pick 2022 That Bird Has My Wings is a moving memoir of a Death Row inmate who discovers Buddhism and becomes an inspirational role model for fellow inmates, guards, and a growing public. ''When I think about the fact that society, a nation, has sentenced me to death, all I can do is turn inside myself, to the place in my heart that wants so desperately to feel human, still connected to this world, as if I have a purpose.'' In 1990, while serving a sentence in San Quentin for armed robbery, Jarvis Jay Masters was implicated as an accessory in the murder of a prison guard. A 23-year-old Black man, Jarvis was sentenced to death in the gas chamber. While in the maximum security section of Death Row, using the only instrument available to him—a ball-point pen filler—Masters's astounding memoir is a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit and the talent of a fine writer. Offering us scenes from his life that are at times poignant, revelatory, frightening, soul-stirring, painful, funny and uplifting, That Bird Has My Wings tells the story of the author’s childhood with parents addicted to heroin, an abusive foster family, a life of crime and imprisonment, and the eventual embracing of Buddhism. Masters’s story drew the attention of luminaries in the world of American Buddhism, including Pema Chodron, who wrote a story about him for O Magazine and offers a foreword to the book. Thirty-two years after his conviction, Masters is still on Death Row. A growing movement of people believe Masters is innocent, and are actively working within the legal system to free him.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-operacion-el-dorado-canyon-operation-golden-canyon-by-jaime-rocha--65184548https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Operación el Dorado Canyon (Operation Golden Canyon) Author: Jaime Rocha Narrator: Martin Untrojb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Basada en la historia real escrita por el protagonista que finalmente ha podido contar los hechos al cumplirse 30 años de los mismos. ''Imprescindile'' - Carlos Herrera ''Una novela en la que todo es verdad.'' - Gerardo Granada La Razon ''Vibrante. Rocha bebe de sus experiencias reales, y las expone a los ojos del lector con un alto índice de verosimilitud.'' - Juan Bolea - El Periódico ''Una historia muchísimo más grande de lo que el propio autor cree.'' - Ángel Expósito - COPE El 15 de abril de 1986, tras una oleada de atentados contra intereses occidentales respaldados por, Muammar al-Gadafi, Ronald Reagan la ejecución de la “Operación el Dorado Canyon” destinada a acabar con el dictador libio. Ningún país de la OTAN apoyó militarmente esta operación. Ante la precariedad de medios, la CIA solicitó ayuda a España. Dentro del más absoluto secreto, el CESID traslada a un agente español a Libia para localizar a Gadafi que terminaría convirtiéndose en la única fuente de información sobre el terreno. Esta es su historia.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623584Tue, 27 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Operación el Dorado Canyon (Operation Golden Canyon) Author: Jaime Rocha Narrator: Martin Untrojb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623584 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Operación el Dorado Canyon (Operation Golden Canyon) Author: Jaime Rocha Narrator: Martin Untrojb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Basada en la historia real escrita por el protagonista que finalmente ha podido contar los hechos al cumplirse 30 años de los mismos. ''Imprescindile'' - Carlos Herrera ''Una novela en la que todo es verdad.'' - Gerardo Granada La Razon ''Vibrante. Rocha bebe de sus experiencias reales, y las expone a los ojos del lector con un alto índice de verosimilitud.'' - Juan Bolea - El Periódico ''Una historia muchísimo más grande de lo que el propio autor cree.'' - Ángel Expósito - COPE El 15 de abril de 1986, tras una oleada de atentados contra intereses occidentales respaldados por, Muammar al-Gadafi, Ronald Reagan la ejecución de la “Operación el Dorado Canyon” destinada a acabar con el dictador libio. Ningún país de la OTAN apoyó militarmente esta operación. Ante la precariedad de medios, la CIA solicitó ayuda a España. Dentro del más absoluto secreto, el CESID traslada a un agente español a Libia para localizar a Gadafi que terminaría convirtiéndose en la única fuente de información sobre el terreno. Esta es su historia.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/saved-by-hope-by-jenny-lowe--65184563https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saved by Hope Author: Jenny Lowe Narrator: Jenny Lowe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Saved By Hope by Jenny Lowe is a gripping memoir about one woman's painful path to motherhood. Born and raised in Utah, Jenny Lowe got married at the age of nineteen. The marriage ended in divorce, and at thirty years old, she married again. Emotionally and financially ready to start a family and with her biological clock ticking, the couple decides to have a child. After months of trying without success, they seek the help of fertility specialists. What follows is a series of unsuccessful attempts to conceive and the discovery that she has ovarian cancer. This book lets the reader accompany her on her emotional journey. Beginning with Chapter 4, QR codes are provided that will direct readers to photos and videos of the topics discussed to tell a story of hope and courage that will surely touch your heart. Jenny Lowe's Saved By Hope is a must-read for couples struggling to get pregnant. The author laments the fact that there is a stigma surrounding infertility, so much so that it's not a topic discussed openly. This book does a great job of creating a compassionate guide to overcoming the humiliation of infertility. With profound honesty, she relates the fear, pain, grief, and hope that springs to life, only to be taken away a few days later. The writing style is casual and informative, with visuals to make the experience more intense. The book opens with Emily Dickinson's 'hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,' setting the tone for this well-written and perceptive memoir that should provide comfort to those who need it the most. Highly recommended!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627495Mon, 26 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saved by Hope Author: Jenny Lowe Narrator: Jenny Lowe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 26, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627495 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saved by Hope Author: Jenny Lowe Narrator: Jenny Lowe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Saved By Hope by Jenny Lowe is a gripping memoir about one woman's painful path to motherhood. Born and raised in Utah, Jenny Lowe got married at the age of nineteen. The marriage ended in divorce, and at thirty years old, she married again. Emotionally and financially ready to start a family and with her biological clock ticking, the couple decides to have a child. After months of trying without success, they seek the help of fertility specialists. What follows is a series of unsuccessful attempts to conceive and the discovery that she has ovarian cancer. This book lets the reader accompany her on her emotional journey. Beginning with Chapter 4, QR codes are provided that will direct readers to photos and videos of the topics discussed to tell a story of hope and courage that will surely touch your heart. Jenny Lowe's Saved By Hope is a must-read for couples struggling to get pregnant. The author laments the fact that there is a stigma surrounding infertility, so much so that it's not a topic discussed openly. This book does a great job of creating a compassionate guide to overcoming the humiliation of infertility. With profound honesty, she relates the fear, pain, grief, and hope that springs to life, only to be taken away a few days later. The writing style is casual and informative, with visuals to make the experience more intense. The book opens with Emily Dickinson's 'hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,' setting the tone for this well-written and perceptive memoir that should provide comfort to those who need it the most. Highly recommended!]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-side-of-alcohol-random-thoughts-and-candid-words-of-pain-hope-humor-love-and-all-that-is-possible-in-sobriety-by-peggi-cooney--65184558https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Side of Alcohol: Random thoughts and candid words of pain, hope, humor, love - and all that is possible in sobriety Author: Peggi Cooney Narrator: Peggi Cooney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 22, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Peggi, you are done, and you will be okay." These are the words I heard in my heart as I fell to my knees in my bedroom on July 12, 2019, committed to declaring for the last time "This is the first day of my alcohol-free life." One day prior, a drinking incident following a family reunion was the final straw for my husband and daughter. My husband walked away from the mess that was our marriage due to my drinking. This was followed in rapid sequence by my daughter warning me that I wouldn't be able to have the kind of relationship I wanted with her family - and especially with my grandchildren - if I didn't do something about my drinking. This Side of Alcohol is borne out of the cathartic journaling I did during the first two years following my break-up with alcohol. It tells the story of what I did to get and stay sober, allowing me to transform my shame, guilt, and anger into self-compassion, self-discovery, and forgiveness - of myself and others. From self-loathing isolation to a joyous community of support and rediscovered intimacy with my family. From living my life engulfed in cognitive dissonance (teaching about the connection between trauma and addiction while I was drinking every evening) to the pride I feel today in being present and authentic in every aspect of my work and life. This Side of Alcohol is my story of living my sobriety out loud, telling the truth, and being at peace.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626805Thu, 22 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Side of Alcohol: Random thoughts and candid words of pain, hope, humor, love - and all that is possible in sobriety Author: Peggi Cooney Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626805 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Side of Alcohol: Random thoughts and candid words of pain, hope, humor, love - and all that is possible in sobriety Author: Peggi Cooney Narrator: Peggi Cooney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 22, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "Peggi, you are done, and you will be okay." These are the words I heard in my heart as I fell to my knees in my bedroom on July 12, 2019, committed to declaring for the last time "This is the first day of my alcohol-free life." One day prior, a drinking incident following a family reunion was the final straw for my husband and daughter. My husband walked away from the mess that was our marriage due to my drinking. This was followed in rapid sequence by my daughter warning me that I wouldn't be able to have the kind of relationship I wanted with her family - and especially with my grandchildren - if I didn't do something about my drinking. This Side of Alcohol is borne out of the cathartic journaling I did during the first two years following my break-up with alcohol. It tells the story of what I did to get and stay sober, allowing me to transform my shame, guilt, and anger into self-compassion, self-discovery, and forgiveness - of myself and others. From self-loathing isolation to a joyous community of support and rediscovered intimacy with my family. From living my life engulfed in cognitive dissonance (teaching about the connection between trauma and addiction while I was drinking every evening) to the pride I feel today in being present and authentic in every aspect of my work and life. This Side of Alcohol is my story of living my sobriety out loud, telling the truth, and being at peace.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/confessions-of-a-sex-addict-by-geoffrey-giuliano--65184496https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Confessions Of a Sex Addict Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Love it to death.' A Sign In The Notorious Red Light District Of Bangkok Already in midlife noted actor author Geoffrey Giuliano abandoned his rambling 12-acre estate in rural New York and retired from his long, lucrative career as an internationally best-selling biographer to live, love, and be brokenhearted at the hands of the tempestuous young Thai women who would bring him to his knees. This is the intense story of the dramatic, almost unbelievable, and near-fatal romantic adventures of a man searching for love in the throbbing heart of Asia's red-hot Golden Triangle in the post-Covid era of helplessness, hopelessness, and extreme trauma. A red hot cautionary tale of breath-taking self-inflicted encounters with a man's sexual mortality. Rated XXX]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627279Tue, 20 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Confessions Of a Sex Addict Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Confessions Of a Sex Addict Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Love it to death.' A Sign In The Notorious Red Light District Of Bangkok Already in midlife noted actor author Geoffrey Giuliano abandoned his rambling 12-acre estate in rural New York and retired from his long, lucrative career as an internationally best-selling biographer to live, love, and be brokenhearted at the hands of the tempestuous young Thai women who would bring him to his knees. This is the intense story of the dramatic, almost unbelievable, and near-fatal romantic adventures of a man searching for love in the throbbing heart of Asia's red-hot Golden Triangle in the post-Covid era of helplessness, hopelessness, and extreme trauma. A red hot cautionary tale of breath-taking self-inflicted encounters with a man's sexual mortality. Rated XXX]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/from-bluegrass-to-blue-water-lessons-in-farm-philosophy-and-navy-leadership-by-john-palmer--65184656https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617252 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Bluegrass to Blue Water: Lessons in Farm Philosophy and Navy Leadership Author: John Palmer Narrator: Chris Monteiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The philosophy found in this work is the product of a childhood on a tobacco and cattle farm in central Kentucky, education at various schools, and a three-decade career in the US Navy while simultaneously contributing as a husband, father, and grandfather. The remainder of this book will be separated into phases reflective of the major changes in my life: the farm, schooling, and a navy career continuum from junior officer through flag officer. The lessons learned in earlier phases were often exported and applied later. The ever-increasing levels of responsibility served to teach new lessons.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617252Wed, 14 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617252 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Bluegrass to Blue Water: Lessons in Farm Philosophy and Navy Leadership Author: John Palmer Narrator: Chris Monteiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617252 to listen full audiobooks. Title: From Bluegrass to Blue Water: Lessons in Farm Philosophy and Navy Leadership Author: John Palmer Narrator: Chris Monteiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The philosophy found in this work is the product of a childhood on a tobacco and cattle farm in central Kentucky, education at various schools, and a three-decade career in the US Navy while simultaneously contributing as a husband, father, and grandfather. The remainder of this book will be separated into phases reflective of the major changes in my life: the farm, schooling, and a navy career continuum from junior officer through flag officer. The lessons learned in earlier phases were often exported and applied later. The ever-increasing levels of responsibility served to teach new lessons.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/another-appalachia-coming-up-queer-and-indian-in-a-mountain-place-by-neema-avashia--65184700https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616926 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place Author: Neema Avashia Narrator: Jeed Saddy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Neema Avashia tells people where she's from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving 'There are Indian people in West Virginia?' A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class, gender and sexuality continue to inform the way she moves through the world today: how she loves, how she teaches, how she advocates, how she struggles. Another Appalachia examines both the roots and the resonance of Avashia's identity as a queer desi Appalachian woman, while encouraging readers to envision more complex versions of both Appalachia and the nation as a whole. With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, gun culture, and more, Another Appalachia mixes nostalgia and humor, sadness and sweetness, personal reflection and universal questions.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616926Tue, 13 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616926 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place Author: Neema Avashia Narrator: Jeed Saddy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616926 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place Author: Neema Avashia Narrator: Jeed Saddy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Neema Avashia tells people where she's from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving 'There are Indian people in West Virginia?' A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class, gender and sexuality continue to inform the way she moves through the world today: how she loves, how she teaches, how she advocates, how she struggles. Another Appalachia examines both the roots and the resonance of Avashia's identity as a queer desi Appalachian woman, while encouraging readers to envision more complex versions of both Appalachia and the nation as a whole. With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, gun culture, and more, Another Appalachia mixes nostalgia and humor, sadness and sweetness, personal reflection and universal questions.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dialysis-by-lisa-frieden--65184543https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dialysis Author: Lisa Frieden Narrator: Lisa Frieden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A compelling story about coping with a serious illness, offering lessons in the value of slowing down and appreciating life in the moment.' -- KIRKUS REVIEWS DIALYSIS: A MEMOIR portrays how a young woman’s life is changed forever when her kidneys fail. From hospitalization through hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis and finally to transplant, the memoir explores how her experience of illness is at odds with the world around her: the buoyant and youthful atmosphere of the San Francisco Bay Area during the dotcom bubble of the 1990's. The memoir describes how she learns to make sense of what happened and how she ultimately overcomes the physical and emotional challenges of kidney failure to thrive in her new life. DIALYSIS: A MEMOIR, SECOND EDITION, includes a new Introduction and an updated Afterword, twenty years later.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623632Sun, 11 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dialysis Author: Lisa Frieden Narrator: Lisa Frieden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 11, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dialysis Author: Lisa Frieden Narrator: Lisa Frieden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A compelling story about coping with a serious illness, offering lessons in the value of slowing down and appreciating life in the moment.' -- KIRKUS REVIEWS DIALYSIS: A MEMOIR portrays how a young woman’s life is changed forever when her kidneys fail. From hospitalization through hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis and finally to transplant, the memoir explores how her experience of illness is at odds with the world around her: the buoyant and youthful atmosphere of the San Francisco Bay Area during the dotcom bubble of the 1990's. The memoir describes how she learns to make sense of what happened and how she ultimately overcomes the physical and emotional challenges of kidney failure to thrive in her new life. DIALYSIS: A MEMOIR, SECOND EDITION, includes a new Introduction and an updated Afterword, twenty years later.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unafraid-by-keith-wood-eddie-penney--65184530https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unafraid Author: Keith Wood, Eddie Penney Narrator: Eddie Penney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hot Wash | noun: The review held after military training and real-world operations facilitating growth and improvement; an honest evaluation of strengths and weaknesses As a special operator in the US Navy’s most elite unit and actively engaged in the Global War on Terrorism, Eddie Penney had achieved his childhood dream. He was the tip of the nation’s spear, prepared for anything—except for becoming a single parent of three young children. Eddie learned powerful lessons from the roles of warrior and father. In Unafraid, he shares his story, insight gained, and the truths exposed when you reflect, regroup, and commit to personal growth. You’ll read about life as a Navy SEAL and the adolescent aspirations that led Eddie toward a military life, as well as the painful challenges that left him a single father with sole custody. You’ll learn that old wounds—both seen and unseen—can heal, and redemption is always possible. Whether these struggles feel familiar or you’re searching for inspiration, Unafraid is a must-read memoir revealing that each of us has a warrior within.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623657Thu, 08 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unafraid Author: Keith Wood, Eddie Penney Narrator: Eddie Penney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 8,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unafraid Author: Keith Wood, Eddie Penney Narrator: Eddie Penney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hot Wash | noun: The review held after military training and real-world operations facilitating growth and improvement; an honest evaluation of strengths and weaknesses As a special operator in the US Navy’s most elite unit and actively engaged in the Global War on Terrorism, Eddie Penney had achieved his childhood dream. He was the tip of the nation’s spear, prepared for anything—except for becoming a single parent of three young children. Eddie learned powerful lessons from the roles of warrior and father. In Unafraid, he shares his story, insight gained, and the truths exposed when you reflect, regroup, and commit to personal growth. You’ll read about life as a Navy SEAL and the adolescent aspirations that led Eddie toward a military life, as well as the painful challenges that left him a single father with sole custody. You’ll learn that old wounds—both seen and unseen—can heal, and redemption is always possible. Whether these struggles feel familiar or you’re searching for inspiration, Unafraid is a must-read memoir revealing that each of us has a warrior within.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-strength-of-hope-from-auschwitz-to-a-zest-for-life-an-incredible-australian-story-by-abram-goldberg-fiona-harris--65184657https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strength of Hope: from Auschwitz to a zest for life, an incredible Australian story Author: Abram Goldberg, Fiona Harris Narrator: Saul Reichlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The day Abram and his mother arrived at Auschwitz death camp they both knew it would be her last. In their final moment together, Abram's mum urged her nineteen-year-old son to 'Do everything humanly possible to survive, and tell people what happened here.' Then she was taken to a gas chamber and murdered. Abram had already endured and survived so much until that moment but with his strength of hope, sometimes reduced to a flicker, he survived. After liberation, Abram travelled back and forth across Europe, doing secret underground work and getting into dangerous scrapes. He met the love of his life, fellow Auschwitz survivor, Cesia, and the young couple made their way to Australia. Without bitterness and always with perspective, Abram has never forgotten his mother's last words to him. Abram and Cesia have remained dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust and to living their lives to the fullest in tribute to its victims. Full of wisdom, insight and daring, with a love story at its heart: for Cesia, for Australia and for life itself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621509Thu, 01 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strength of Hope: from Auschwitz to a zest for life, an incredible Australian story Author: Abram Goldberg, Fiona Harris Narrator: Saul Reichlin...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strength of Hope: from Auschwitz to a zest for life, an incredible Australian story Author: Abram Goldberg, Fiona Harris Narrator: Saul Reichlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The day Abram and his mother arrived at Auschwitz death camp they both knew it would be her last. In their final moment together, Abram's mum urged her nineteen-year-old son to 'Do everything humanly possible to survive, and tell people what happened here.' Then she was taken to a gas chamber and murdered. Abram had already endured and survived so much until that moment but with his strength of hope, sometimes reduced to a flicker, he survived. After liberation, Abram travelled back and forth across Europe, doing secret underground work and getting into dangerous scrapes. He met the love of his life, fellow Auschwitz survivor, Cesia, and the young couple made their way to Australia. Without bitterness and always with perspective, Abram has never forgotten his mother's last words to him. Abram and Cesia have remained dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust and to living their lives to the fullest in tribute to its victims. Full of wisdom, insight and daring, with a love story at its heart: for Cesia, for Australia and for life itself.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-mi-nombre-es-broni-el-relato-estremecedor-de-un-nino-judio-que-sobrevivio-al-holocausto-en-el-gueto-de-lodz-by-bronislaw-zajber--65184607https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi nombre es Broni: El relato estremecedor de un niño judío que sobrevivió al holocausto en el gueto de Lodz Author: Bronislaw Zajbert Narrator: Victor Manuel Espinoza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: «Aun cuando Broni escribe durante su adultez, su esfuerzo por reportar lo que el niño Broni presenciaba hace que en muchos aspectos su texto evoque al de Ana Frank, su famoso Diario.» -LEO ZAIBERT, profesor de filosofía en Union College Con seis años de edad, la vida de Bronislaw Zajbert como la de toda la población judía de Lodz sufrió un cambio profundoy violento cuando el ejército nazi invadió la ciudad polaca en septiembre de 1939. Las medidas drásticas de los nazis por extirpar a los judíos llegaron al extremo de aislarlos físicamente. El gueto de Lodz, donde se estima que más de 200 mil judíos habrían sido encerrados, y de los cuales sólo sobrevivieron alrededor de 877, se convirtió en el segundo más grande de Polonia y uno de los más herméticos. Este libro es el recuento en carneviva de Broni, un hombre de ahora casi 90 años como uno de los sobrevivientes a esa miseria, y su recorrido junto a su familia por distintas partes del mundo hasta asentarse en México. A lo largo de estas páginas avanzamos por los recuerdos que atañen a escenas de la vida cotidiana dentrodel gueto, como hambrunas, epidemias, crueldad, trabajo esclavo y horrores incomprensibles , pero también la luminosidad, el cariño y la esperanza de los padres de Broni que hicieron todo tipo de sacrificios para que sus hijos se mantuvieran con vida. Mi nombre es Broni es una historia memorable que evoca profundas reflexiones sobreel desplazamiento forzado y el desarraigo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y nos ofrece un lente único para asomarnos al escalofriante mundo del Holocausto.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619388Thu, 01 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi nombre es Broni: El relato estremecedor de un niño judío que sobrevivió al holocausto en el gueto de Lodz Author: Bronislaw Zajbert...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi nombre es Broni: El relato estremecedor de un niño judío que sobrevivió al holocausto en el gueto de Lodz Author: Bronislaw Zajbert Narrator: Victor Manuel Espinoza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: «Aun cuando Broni escribe durante su adultez, su esfuerzo por reportar lo que el niño Broni presenciaba hace que en muchos aspectos su texto evoque al de Ana Frank, su famoso Diario.» -LEO ZAIBERT, profesor de filosofía en Union College Con seis años de edad, la vida de Bronislaw Zajbert como la de toda la población judía de Lodz sufrió un cambio profundoy violento cuando el ejército nazi invadió la ciudad polaca en septiembre de 1939. Las medidas drásticas de los nazis por extirpar a los judíos llegaron al extremo de aislarlos físicamente. El gueto de Lodz, donde se estima que más de 200 mil judíos habrían sido encerrados, y de los cuales sólo sobrevivieron alrededor de 877, se convirtió en el segundo más grande de Polonia y uno de los más herméticos. Este libro es el recuento en carneviva de Broni, un hombre de ahora casi 90 años como uno de los sobrevivientes a esa miseria, y su recorrido junto a su familia por distintas partes del mundo hasta asentarse en México. A lo largo de estas páginas avanzamos por los recuerdos que atañen a escenas de la vida cotidiana dentrodel gueto, como hambrunas, epidemias, crueldad, trabajo esclavo y horrores incomprensibles , pero también la luminosidad, el cariño y la esperanza de los padres de Broni que hicieron todo tipo de sacrificios para que sus hijos se mantuvieran con vida. Mi nombre es Broni es una historia memorable que evoca profundas reflexiones sobreel desplazamiento forzado y el desarraigo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y nos ofrece un lente único para asomarnos al escalofriante mundo del Holocausto.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/concussion-by-michael-lipman-frankie-lipman--65184599https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621510 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Concussion Author: Michael Lipman, Frankie Lipman Narrator: Frankie Lipman, Simon Harvey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The revealing, confronting and shocking story of how sports-related concussion and the damage it causes can change a family's life. This is the concussion book everyone has to read. Only in the past decade have the consequences of repeated head knocks become better known, and the science is still rapidly catching up. With the discovery of CTE, or Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, in the brains of deceased football players, it is now known that the onset of a form of dementia, caused by repeated concussions, can strike people as young as those in their thirties and forties. This is what has happened to Michael Lipman, a former rugby international who came out in public in 2018 as having had a diagnosis of early-onset dementia and probable CTE. With incredible courage and candour, Michael and his wife Frankie Lipman tell their story. For Michael, the damage was already done before he met Frankie. He was a retired footballer in his late thirties, prone to some moments of bizarre behaviour and memory loss when they fell in love. Concussion is both an emotional personal journey and a deep insight into our understanding of CTE - its causes and effects. It's a must-read for anyone involved in contact sports, whether they're players or parents of players. Michael and Frankie's message is urgent, moving and important.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621510Thu, 01 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621510 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Concussion Author: Michael Lipman, Frankie Lipman Narrator: Frankie Lipman, Simon Harvey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621510 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Concussion Author: Michael Lipman, Frankie Lipman Narrator: Frankie Lipman, Simon Harvey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The revealing, confronting and shocking story of how sports-related concussion and the damage it causes can change a family's life. This is the concussion book everyone has to read. Only in the past decade have the consequences of repeated head knocks become better known, and the science is still rapidly catching up. With the discovery of CTE, or Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, in the brains of deceased football players, it is now known that the onset of a form of dementia, caused by repeated concussions, can strike people as young as those in their thirties and forties. This is what has happened to Michael Lipman, a former rugby international who came out in public in 2018 as having had a diagnosis of early-onset dementia and probable CTE. With incredible courage and candour, Michael and his wife Frankie Lipman tell their story. For Michael, the damage was already done before he met Frankie. He was a retired footballer in his late thirties, prone to some moments of bizarre behaviour and memory loss when they fell in love. Concussion is both an emotional personal journey and a deep insight into our understanding of CTE - its causes and effects. It's a must-read for anyone involved in contact sports, whether they're players or parents of players. Michael and Frankie's message is urgent, moving and important.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/just-a-larger-family-letters-of-marie-williamson-from-the-canadian-home-front-1940-1944-by-tom-sharp-mary-f-williamson--65184611https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just a Larger Family: Letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian Home Front,1940–1944 Author: Tom Sharp, Mary F. Williamson Narrator: Meaghan Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Letters from Canada to the mother of child war guests from Britain are "an extraordinary slice of wartime Canadian life." — J.L. Granatstein The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in their small house in north Toronto for the duration of the conflict. Marie wrote over 150 letters to the boys’ mother, Margaret Sharp, imagining that she could make Margaret feel she was still with her children. She shepherded the boys through education decisions and illnesses, eased them into a strange new life, and rejoiced when they embraced unfamiliar winter sports. The letters brim with detail about family holidays, the financial implications of an extended family, their involvement in their church, and the games and activities that kept them occupied. Marie’s letters reflect the lives and concerns of a particular family in Toronto, but they also reveal a portrait of what was then Canada’s second-largest city during wartime. The introduction is by Mary F. Williamson, Marie’s daughter, and Tom Sharp, Margaret’s youngest son. The book features a foreword by Jonathan Vance that puts the letters in historical context.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620630Wed, 24 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just a Larger Family: Letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian Home Front,1940–1944 Author: Tom Sharp, Mary F. Williamson Narrator: Meaghan Smith...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just a Larger Family: Letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian Home Front,1940–1944 Author: Tom Sharp, Mary F. Williamson Narrator: Meaghan Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 19 minutes Release date: August 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Letters from Canada to the mother of child war guests from Britain are "an extraordinary slice of wartime Canadian life." — J.L. Granatstein The Second World War had been under way for a year when Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them and their two children in their small house in north Toronto for the duration of the conflict. Marie wrote over 150 letters to the boys’ mother, Margaret Sharp, imagining that she could make Margaret feel she was still with her children. She shepherded the boys through education decisions and illnesses, eased them into a strange new life, and rejoiced when they embraced unfamiliar winter sports. The letters brim with detail about family holidays, the financial implications of an extended family, their involvement in their church, and the games and activities that kept them occupied. Marie’s letters reflect the lives and concerns of a particular family in Toronto, but they also reveal a portrait of what was then Canada’s second-largest city during wartime. The introduction is by Mary F. Williamson, Marie’s daughter, and Tom Sharp, Margaret’s youngest son. The book features a foreword by Jonathan Vance that puts the letters in historical context.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/relentless-by-natasha-miller--65184619https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621190 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Relentless Author: Natasha Miller Narrator: Natasha Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: August 23, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Relentless chronicles one woman’s triumphant arc from living in a homeless shelter to making the Inc. 5,000 list of fastest-growing companies in America. Natasha Miller takes you along on her journey as she breaks free from a troubled, abusive childhood; overcomes the trappings of transiency; and harnesses her sheer grit to build a multi-million dollar entertainment production company while raising her daughter as a single parent. But that isn’t where her story ends. Bogged down by the daily grind of working in her business instead of on it, Miller sought an alternative. She shares the transformational inner work she did to grow her confidence and independence as well as the strategic, practical steps that enabled her to activate profits, optimize her systems, and become a leader with intention. Rich with personal anecdotes and nuggets of wisdom, Relentless is a book to come back to when you need honest advice from an old friend, a jolt of energy to kickstart your life, or simply a reminder that you can do it, whatever “it” may be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621190Tue, 23 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621190 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Relentless Author: Natasha Miller Narrator: Natasha Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: August 23, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621190 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Relentless Author: Natasha Miller Narrator: Natasha Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 1 minute Release date: August 23, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Relentless chronicles one woman’s triumphant arc from living in a homeless shelter to making the Inc. 5,000 list of fastest-growing companies in America. Natasha Miller takes you along on her journey as she breaks free from a troubled, abusive childhood; overcomes the trappings of transiency; and harnesses her sheer grit to build a multi-million dollar entertainment production company while raising her daughter as a single parent. But that isn’t where her story ends. Bogged down by the daily grind of working in her business instead of on it, Miller sought an alternative. She shares the transformational inner work she did to grow her confidence and independence as well as the strategic, practical steps that enabled her to activate profits, optimize her systems, and become a leader with intention. Rich with personal anecdotes and nuggets of wisdom, Relentless is a book to come back to when you need honest advice from an old friend, a jolt of energy to kickstart your life, or simply a reminder that you can do it, whatever “it” may be.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-memorias-by-helena-paz--65184696https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616837 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Memorias Author: Helena Paz Narrator: Berenice Ruiz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Helena Paz Garro, escritora e hija de dos destacadas figuras de la literatura mexicana, Elena Garro y Octavio Paz, comparte aquí el relato detallado de su vida familiar y cultural, marcada por episodios tan definitivos como polémicos. Publicado originalmente en 2003, el libro autobiográfico Memorias, de Helena Paz Garro, dividió opiniones entre los lectores y colocó en la agenda cultural del momento el pasado íntimo de la familia Paz Garro, así como su relación -social o secreta- con personajes como Adolfo Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Aristóteles Onassis, María Callas, Pablo Picasso, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, María Zambrano y Juan de la Cabada, entre otros. Escritas con la pericia de una narradora oficiosa, con entraña y corazón, estas memorias de orden imprevisible nos contagian la dicha y el dolor de una mujer que sobrellevó la continua sensación de soledad.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616837Thu, 18 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616837 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Memorias Author: Helena Paz Narrator: Berenice Ruiz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 18, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616837 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Memorias Author: Helena Paz Narrator: Berenice Ruiz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Helena Paz Garro, escritora e hija de dos destacadas figuras de la literatura mexicana, Elena Garro y Octavio Paz, comparte aquí el relato detallado de su vida familiar y cultural, marcada por episodios tan definitivos como polémicos. Publicado originalmente en 2003, el libro autobiográfico Memorias, de Helena Paz Garro, dividió opiniones entre los lectores y colocó en la agenda cultural del momento el pasado íntimo de la familia Paz Garro, así como su relación -social o secreta- con personajes como Adolfo Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo, Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Aristóteles Onassis, María Callas, Pablo Picasso, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, María Zambrano y Juan de la Cabada, entre otros. Escritas con la pericia de una narradora oficiosa, con entraña y corazón, estas memorias de orden imprevisible nos contagian la dicha y el dolor de una mujer que sobrellevó la continua sensación de soledad.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/win-all-your-battles-by-subha-pande-vishwas-nangre-patil--65184629https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Win All Your Battles Author: Subha Pande, Vishwas Nangre Patil Narrator: Darrpan Mehta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What does it take to become an IPS officer? Hours of rigorous physical training, mental toughening and systemic conditioning at the national police academy, along with a never-give-up attitude, unwavering courage, grit and determination. Win All Your Battles, first published in Marathi as Kar Har Maidan Fateh, is the fascinating story of how Vishwas Nangre Patil rose from his humble village origins to become a steadfast, upright police officer and youth icon. In this book, Patil, recipient of the President's Police Medal for Gallantry for his role in countering the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, talks about his experiences at the police academy and the lessons he has learnt in a career spanning over two decades-from tackling mob violence to managing law and order during large public gatherings, solving serious crimes and implementing the latest technology for better law enforcement. This book is a must-read-not just for those who want to fulfil their khaki dreams, but for anyone in need of some inspiration.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617718Wed, 17 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Win All Your Battles Author: Subha Pande, Vishwas Nangre Patil Narrator: Darrpan Mehta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 56 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Win All Your Battles Author: Subha Pande, Vishwas Nangre Patil Narrator: Darrpan Mehta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What does it take to become an IPS officer? Hours of rigorous physical training, mental toughening and systemic conditioning at the national police academy, along with a never-give-up attitude, unwavering courage, grit and determination. Win All Your Battles, first published in Marathi as Kar Har Maidan Fateh, is the fascinating story of how Vishwas Nangre Patil rose from his humble village origins to become a steadfast, upright police officer and youth icon. In this book, Patil, recipient of the President's Police Medal for Gallantry for his role in countering the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, talks about his experiences at the police academy and the lessons he has learnt in a career spanning over two decades-from tackling mob violence to managing law and order during large public gatherings, solving serious crimes and implementing the latest technology for better law enforcement. This book is a must-read-not just for those who want to fulfil their khaki dreams, but for anyone in need of some inspiration.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/from-darkness-to-light-by-marty-bardine--65184638https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT Author: Marty Bardine Narrator: Lee Jagow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is a true story about a life without God for 25 years. Living on the dark side. From the beginning all the way to the preasant day. The destruction of satan and my own rebellious flesh in my life for 25 years until God met me in my living room in 1985. Instantly saved, given a new heart. The beginning of my deliverance of my dark past. Supernatural interventions of God through the years, and many lessons learned. This book will help you understand why you go through some of things in life you suffer and enjoy. You have an enemy, satan and his demons against you the day you are born. You have a God who loves you before you were born. You are born seperated from God spiritually. This means you dont have the same heart He has. He will give you a new one. How to reconnect with God His way, How God is a relationship not a religion. Why religion doesnt work. Gods love for sinners. Delivering a transvestite, ministering to the homosexuals an pedofile. Bringing an alchoholic bartender from a motorcycle crash out of a coma. Why mentally acknowledging God doesnt save you. Heavenly visitations. How to hear Gods voice About Marty Bardine Saved in 1985 Called by God not by man. Given a prophetic dream, I saw Jesus hand pick me into ministry. Had an audible visitation from God calling me an ordained minister. Angel appearing in my room to heal me. Super natural visitations. Was an elder in two different ministries. Preaching. Praise team base player. Joined a three week tent crusade for the city on the praise team. Conducted a maximum manhood series. Many supernatural interventions from God to steer my life into what it is today and the satanic resistance that fought me and Jesus got the victory over. Prophetic dreams about Americas need to repent and the future judgment of Babylon. [The Great, 'America'.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618663Thu, 11 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT Author: Marty Bardine Narrator: Lee Jagow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 11, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT Author: Marty Bardine Narrator: Lee Jagow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is a true story about a life without God for 25 years. Living on the dark side. From the beginning all the way to the preasant day. The destruction of satan and my own rebellious flesh in my life for 25 years until God met me in my living room in 1985. Instantly saved, given a new heart. The beginning of my deliverance of my dark past. Supernatural interventions of God through the years, and many lessons learned. This book will help you understand why you go through some of things in life you suffer and enjoy. You have an enemy, satan and his demons against you the day you are born. You have a God who loves you before you were born. You are born seperated from God spiritually. This means you dont have the same heart He has. He will give you a new one. How to reconnect with God His way, How God is a relationship not a religion. Why religion doesnt work. Gods love for sinners. Delivering a transvestite, ministering to the homosexuals an pedofile. Bringing an alchoholic bartender from a motorcycle crash out of a coma. Why mentally acknowledging God doesnt save you. Heavenly visitations. How to hear Gods voice About Marty Bardine Saved in 1985 Called by God not by man. Given a prophetic dream, I saw Jesus hand pick me into ministry. Had an audible visitation from God calling me an ordained minister. Angel appearing in my room to heal me. Super natural visitations. Was an elder in two different ministries. Preaching. Praise team base player. Joined a three week tent crusade for the city on the praise team. Conducted a maximum manhood series. Many supernatural interventions from God to steer my life into what it is today and the satanic resistance that fought me and Jesus got the victory over. Prophetic dreams about Americas need to repent and the future judgment of Babylon. [The Great, 'America'.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/focus-by-ingrid-ricks--65184666https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Focus Author: Ingrid Ricks Narrator: Robyn Maryke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the Author of the New York Times bestseller Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story 'A strong addition to any contemporary memoir collection.' - Midwest Book Review At the age of 37, Ingrid Ricks walked into an eye doctor's office expecting to walk outt with a cute pair of red cat-eye frames--only to learn she suffered from Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare, incurable eye disease that was stealing her eyesight and would eventually leave her completely blind. Gripped with the terrifying fear that she wouldn't be able to see her two young daughters grow up, would become a burden to her husband, and would lose the career and independence that defines her, Ingrid embarks on a quest to fix her eyes that ends up fixing her life. Through an eight-year journey marked by a trip to South Africa to write about AIDS orphans, a four-day visit with a doctor who focuses on whole-body health, a relationship-changing confrontation with her husband and a life-changing lesson from her daughters, Ingrid learns to embrace the moment and see what counts in life—something no amount of vision loss can take from her.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620142Mon, 08 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Focus Author: Ingrid Ricks Narrator: Robyn Maryke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 8, 2022 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Focus Author: Ingrid Ricks Narrator: Robyn Maryke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the Author of the New York Times bestseller Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story 'A strong addition to any contemporary memoir collection.' - Midwest Book Review At the age of 37, Ingrid Ricks walked into an eye doctor's office expecting to walk outt with a cute pair of red cat-eye frames--only to learn she suffered from Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare, incurable eye disease that was stealing her eyesight and would eventually leave her completely blind. Gripped with the terrifying fear that she wouldn't be able to see her two young daughters grow up, would become a burden to her husband, and would lose the career and independence that defines her, Ingrid embarks on a quest to fix her eyes that ends up fixing her life. Through an eight-year journey marked by a trip to South Africa to write about AIDS orphans, a four-day visit with a doctor who focuses on whole-body health, a relationship-changing confrontation with her husband and a life-changing lesson from her daughters, Ingrid learns to embrace the moment and see what counts in life—something no amount of vision loss can take from her.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/focus-by-ingrid-ricks--65184552https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Focus Author: Ingrid Ricks Narrator: Robyn Maryke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the Author of the New York Times bestseller Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story What would you do if you learned you were going blind? In her gripping memoir, Ingrid takes readers into her world as she grapples with the devastating news that an incurable blinding eye disease is eating away at her vision. Terrified that she will miss out on her daughters’ lives, become a burden to her husband and lose the career and independence that defines her, Ingrid, a thirty-seven-year-old journalist and mother of two, embarks on a quest to save her sight. Through her journey, she learns to focus on the Now, go after her dreams and see what really counts—something no amount of vision loss can take from her.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625636Mon, 08 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Focus Author: Ingrid Ricks Narrator: Robyn Maryke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Focus Author: Ingrid Ricks Narrator: Robyn Maryke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the Author of the New York Times bestseller Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story What would you do if you learned you were going blind? In her gripping memoir, Ingrid takes readers into her world as she grapples with the devastating news that an incurable blinding eye disease is eating away at her vision. Terrified that she will miss out on her daughters’ lives, become a burden to her husband and lose the career and independence that defines her, Ingrid, a thirty-seven-year-old journalist and mother of two, embarks on a quest to save her sight. Through her journey, she learns to focus on the Now, go after her dreams and see what really counts—something no amount of vision loss can take from her.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-i-wished-upon-a-star-by-brandon-lane-phillips-md-jeremy-miller--65184699https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When I Wished Upon a Star Author: Brandon Lane Phillips, Md, Jeremy Miller Narrator: Max Adler, Kirk Cameron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When I Wished Upon a Star is a true, heart-warming, faith-based story about a chronically-ill boy whose life changes when his wish comes true. Brandon Lane Phillips is a “wish kid” from Louisiana who struggles to understand his health issues and his parents’ bitter divorce. Brandon envies the family-centered life actor Jeremy Miller portrays each week as Ben Seaver on the 1980’s TV hit Growing Pains. When he receives a wish through the Starlight Children’s Foundation, he chooses to visit the set of the TV show and meet Jeremy. Years later, Brandon and Jeremy unexpectedly cross paths again. This time, Brandon is on the verge of having his childhood dream come to fruition, while Jeremy is on the brink of self-destruction. This is the remarkable story of two lives converging time and time again through an unlikely friendship to find grace and second chances. In the introduction, Jeremy’s Growing Pains co-star, Kirk Cameron, writes, “Brandon Lane Phillips and Jeremy Miller bring together many seemingly random circumstances to form a beautiful tapestry of love, friendship, hope, and healing.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615666Thu, 07 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When I Wished Upon a Star Author: Brandon Lane Phillips, Md, Jeremy Miller Narrator: Max Adler, Kirk Cameron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When I Wished Upon a Star Author: Brandon Lane Phillips, Md, Jeremy Miller Narrator: Max Adler, Kirk Cameron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When I Wished Upon a Star is a true, heart-warming, faith-based story about a chronically-ill boy whose life changes when his wish comes true. Brandon Lane Phillips is a “wish kid” from Louisiana who struggles to understand his health issues and his parents’ bitter divorce. Brandon envies the family-centered life actor Jeremy Miller portrays each week as Ben Seaver on the 1980’s TV hit Growing Pains. When he receives a wish through the Starlight Children’s Foundation, he chooses to visit the set of the TV show and meet Jeremy. Years later, Brandon and Jeremy unexpectedly cross paths again. This time, Brandon is on the verge of having his childhood dream come to fruition, while Jeremy is on the brink of self-destruction. This is the remarkable story of two lives converging time and time again through an unlikely friendship to find grace and second chances. In the introduction, Jeremy’s Growing Pains co-star, Kirk Cameron, writes, “Brandon Lane Phillips and Jeremy Miller bring together many seemingly random circumstances to form a beautiful tapestry of love, friendship, hope, and healing.”]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cockroaches-by-scholastique-mukasonga--65184523https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cockroaches Author: Scholastique Mukasonga Narrator: Akrosia Samson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Imagine being born into a world where everything about you—the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth—designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ultimately exterminated. Imagine being thousands of miles away while your family and friends are brutally and methodically slaughtered. Imagine being entrusted by your parents with the mission of leaving everything you know and finding some way to survive, in the name of your family and your people. Scholastique Mukasonga’s Cockroaches is the story of growing up a Tutsi in Hutu-dominated Rwanda—the story of a happy child, a loving family, all wiped out in the genocide of 1994. A vivid, bittersweet depiction of family life and bond in a time of immense hardship, it is also a story of incredible endurance and the duty to remember that loss and those lost while somehow carrying on. Sweet, funny, wrenching, and deeply moving, Cockroaches is a window into an unforgettable world of love, grief, and horror.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627199Tue, 28 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cockroaches Author: Scholastique Mukasonga Narrator: Akrosia Samson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cockroaches Author: Scholastique Mukasonga Narrator: Akrosia Samson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Imagine being born into a world where everything about you—the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth—designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ultimately exterminated. Imagine being thousands of miles away while your family and friends are brutally and methodically slaughtered. Imagine being entrusted by your parents with the mission of leaving everything you know and finding some way to survive, in the name of your family and your people. Scholastique Mukasonga’s Cockroaches is the story of growing up a Tutsi in Hutu-dominated Rwanda—the story of a happy child, a loving family, all wiped out in the genocide of 1994. A vivid, bittersweet depiction of family life and bond in a time of immense hardship, it is also a story of incredible endurance and the duty to remember that loss and those lost while somehow carrying on. Sweet, funny, wrenching, and deeply moving, Cockroaches is a window into an unforgettable world of love, grief, and horror.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rants-from-the-hill-on-packrats-bobcats-wildfires-curmudgeons-a-drunken-mary-kay-lady-and-other-encounters-with-the-wild-in-the-high-d--65184582https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625753 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rants from the Hill: On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, and Other Encounters with the Wild in the High Desert Author: Michael P. Branch Narrator: David Marantz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: June 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Welcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers. The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy) place to settle down, but for self-professed desert rat Michael Branch it’s home. Of course, living in such an unforgiving landscape gives one many things to rant about. Fortunately for us, Branch—humorist, environmentalist, and author of Raising Wild—is a prodigious ranter. From bees hiving in the walls of his house to owls trying to eat his daughters’s cat—not to mention his eccentric neighbors—adventure, humor, and irreverence abound on Branch’s small slice of the world, which he lovingly calls Ranting Hill.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625753Tue, 21 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625753 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rants from the Hill: On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, and Other Encounters with the Wild in the High Desert...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625753 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rants from the Hill: On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, and Other Encounters with the Wild in the High Desert Author: Michael P. Branch Narrator: David Marantz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: June 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Welcome to the land of wildfire, hypothermia, desiccation, and rattlers. The stark and inhospitable high-elevation landscape of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert may not be an obvious (or easy) place to settle down, but for self-professed desert rat Michael Branch it’s home. Of course, living in such an unforgiving landscape gives one many things to rant about. Fortunately for us, Branch—humorist, environmentalist, and author of Raising Wild—is a prodigious ranter. From bees hiving in the walls of his house to owls trying to eat his daughters’s cat—not to mention his eccentric neighbors—adventure, humor, and irreverence abound on Branch’s small slice of the world, which he lovingly calls Ranting Hill.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/blown-away-refinding-life-after-my-son-s-suicide-by-richard-boothby--65184634https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623773 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blown Away: Refinding Life after My Son’s Suicide Author: Richard Boothby Narrator: L.J. Ganser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This powerful memoir follows a father’s journey to make sense of his world after losing his son to addiction and suicide. Fifteen years ago, Richard Boothby received a fateful call from his ex-wife that their twenty-three-year-old son, Oliver, was dead. Although he had been dreading this news, given Oliver’s prolonged struggle with drug dependency, nothing could have prepared him for the devastating shock. He became obsessed with uncovering the truth of why Oliver shot himself—had he been self-medicating an undiagnosed mental illness?—and what they could have done to prevent it. In an attempt to stem the pain, Boothby turned to psychoanalysis. He was no stranger to the concept—as a professor of philosophy, he had focused his career on the intersection between psychoanalytic theory and contemporary philosophy—but this was far from an academic exercise. Through his time in talk therapy, as well as psychedelic experiences in a research study on psilocybin, he would gradually find a sense of acceptance of the unknown, and a renewed appreciation for life. Exploring the epidemics of substance abuse and gun violence from an intimate perspective, Boothby’s poignant account of grief shows how the death of a loved one can in some ways bring us closer to them and ourselves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623773Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623773 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blown Away: Refinding Life after My Son’s Suicide Author: Richard Boothby Narrator: L.J. Ganser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623773 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Blown Away: Refinding Life after My Son’s Suicide Author: Richard Boothby Narrator: L.J. Ganser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This powerful memoir follows a father’s journey to make sense of his world after losing his son to addiction and suicide. Fifteen years ago, Richard Boothby received a fateful call from his ex-wife that their twenty-three-year-old son, Oliver, was dead. Although he had been dreading this news, given Oliver’s prolonged struggle with drug dependency, nothing could have prepared him for the devastating shock. He became obsessed with uncovering the truth of why Oliver shot himself—had he been self-medicating an undiagnosed mental illness?—and what they could have done to prevent it. In an attempt to stem the pain, Boothby turned to psychoanalysis. He was no stranger to the concept—as a professor of philosophy, he had focused his career on the intersection between psychoanalytic theory and contemporary philosophy—but this was far from an academic exercise. Through his time in talk therapy, as well as psychedelic experiences in a research study on psilocybin, he would gradually find a sense of acceptance of the unknown, and a renewed appreciation for life. Exploring the epidemics of substance abuse and gun violence from an intimate perspective, Boothby’s poignant account of grief shows how the death of a loved one can in some ways bring us closer to them and ourselves.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fallible-a-memoir-of-a-young-physician-s-struggle-with-mental-illness-by-kyle-bradford-jones--65184584https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623792 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fallible: A Memoir of a Young Physician's Struggle with Mental Illness Author: Kyle Bradford Jones Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nearly one in every five Americans deals with mental illness in a given year, and the rates are climbing. Among physicians, the rate is even higher as the time spent in medical training significantly increases the risk of poor mental health. None of us is fully immune from the ravages of mental health problems. This book is about the fallibility of us all, including the doctors who are supposed to care for us. It is about the fine line of illness and normal emotion and about how to change the norms of medical practice in light of human weakness. It’s for individuals who suffer from mental illness. It’s for their loved ones. It’s for anyone who interacts with someone with a mental illness. In short, it’s for all of us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623792Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623792 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fallible: A Memoir of a Young Physician's Struggle with Mental Illness Author: Kyle Bradford Jones Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623792 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fallible: A Memoir of a Young Physician's Struggle with Mental Illness Author: Kyle Bradford Jones Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nearly one in every five Americans deals with mental illness in a given year, and the rates are climbing. Among physicians, the rate is even higher as the time spent in medical training significantly increases the risk of poor mental health. None of us is fully immune from the ravages of mental health problems. This book is about the fallibility of us all, including the doctors who are supposed to care for us. It is about the fine line of illness and normal emotion and about how to change the norms of medical practice in light of human weakness. It’s for individuals who suffer from mental illness. It’s for their loved ones. It’s for anyone who interacts with someone with a mental illness. In short, it’s for all of us.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-few-bad-men-the-true-story-of-us-marines-ambushed-in-afghanistan-and-betrayed-in-america-by-fred-galvin--65184585https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Few Bad Men: The True Story of US Marines Ambushed in Afghanistan and Betrayed in America Author: Fred Galvin Narrator: Victor Bevine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Few Bad Men is the incredible true story of an elite team of US Marines set up to take the fall for Afghanistan war crimes they did not commit—and their leader who fought for the redemption of his men. Ambushed in Afghanistan and betrayed by their own leaders, these elite Marines fought for their lives again, back home. A cross between A Few Good Men and American Sniper, this is the true story of an elite Marine special operations unit bombed by an IED and shot at during an Afghanistan ambush. The Marine Commandos were falsely accused of gunning down innocent Afghan civilians following the ambush. The unit’s leader, Major Fred Galvin, was summarily relieved of duty, and his unit was booted from the combat zone. They were condemned by everyone, from the Afghan president to American generals. When Fox Company returned to America, Galvin and his captain were the targets of the first Court of Inquiry in the Marines in fifty years.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622395Tue, 07 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Few Bad Men: The True Story of US Marines Ambushed in Afghanistan and Betrayed in America Author: Fred Galvin Narrator: Victor Bevine Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Few Bad Men: The True Story of US Marines Ambushed in Afghanistan and Betrayed in America Author: Fred Galvin Narrator: Victor Bevine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Few Bad Men is the incredible true story of an elite team of US Marines set up to take the fall for Afghanistan war crimes they did not commit—and their leader who fought for the redemption of his men. Ambushed in Afghanistan and betrayed by their own leaders, these elite Marines fought for their lives again, back home. A cross between A Few Good Men and American Sniper, this is the true story of an elite Marine special operations unit bombed by an IED and shot at during an Afghanistan ambush. The Marine Commandos were falsely accused of gunning down innocent Afghan civilians following the ambush. The unit’s leader, Major Fred Galvin, was summarily relieved of duty, and his unit was booted from the combat zone. They were condemned by everyone, from the Afghan president to American generals. When Fox Company returned to America, Galvin and his captain were the targets of the first Court of Inquiry in the Marines in fifty years.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/raising-wild-dispatches-from-a-home-in-the-wilderness-by-michael-p-branch--65184650https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622055 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness Author: Michael P. Branch Narrator: David Marantz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Combining natural history, humor, and personal narrative, Raising Wild is an intimate exploration of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert, the wild and extreme land of high desert caliche and juniper, of pronghorn antelope and mountain lions, where wildfires and snowstorms threaten in equal measure. Michael Branch “earned his whiskers” in the Great Basin Desert of northwestern Nevada, in the wild and extreme landscape where he lives off the grid with his wife and two curious little girls. Shifting between pastoral passages on the beauty found in the desert and humorous tales of the humility of being a father, Raising Wild offers an intimate portrait of a landscape where mountain lions and ground squirrels can threaten in equal measure. With Branch’s distinct lyricism and wit, this exceedingly barren landscape becomes a place resonant with the rattle of snakes, the plod of pronghorn antelope, and the rustle of juniper trees, a place that is teeming with energy, surprise, and an endless web of connections. Part memoir, part homage to an environment all-to-often brushed aside as inhospitable, Raising Wild offers an intergenerational approach to nature, family, and the forgotten language of wildness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622055Fri, 03 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622055 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness Author: Michael P. Branch Narrator: David Marantz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622055 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness Author: Michael P. Branch Narrator: David Marantz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Combining natural history, humor, and personal narrative, Raising Wild is an intimate exploration of Nevada’s Great Basin Desert, the wild and extreme land of high desert caliche and juniper, of pronghorn antelope and mountain lions, where wildfires and snowstorms threaten in equal measure. Michael Branch “earned his whiskers” in the Great Basin Desert of northwestern Nevada, in the wild and extreme landscape where he lives off the grid with his wife and two curious little girls. Shifting between pastoral passages on the beauty found in the desert and humorous tales of the humility of being a father, Raising Wild offers an intimate portrait of a landscape where mountain lions and ground squirrels can threaten in equal measure. With Branch’s distinct lyricism and wit, this exceedingly barren landscape becomes a place resonant with the rattle of snakes, the plod of pronghorn antelope, and the rustle of juniper trees, a place that is teeming with energy, surprise, and an endless web of connections. Part memoir, part homage to an environment all-to-often brushed aside as inhospitable, Raising Wild offers an intergenerational approach to nature, family, and the forgotten language of wildness.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/people-in-glass-houses-an-insider-s-story-of-a-life-in-and-out-of-hillsong-by-tanya-levin--65184586https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: People in Glass Houses: An Insider’s Story of a Life In and Out of Hillsong Author: Tanya Levin Narrator: Cat Gould Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A true story of growing up in Hillsong—the Pentecostal church which draws nearly 100,000 attendees to its rock concert–like services in eleven countries around the world each week. People in Glass Houses tells how a small church in a suburban Australian school hall became a multimillion-dollar tax-free enterprise and a powerful international force. Providing memorable portraits of charismatic leaders Brian and Bobbie Houston, this is a powerful, personal, and at times very funny exploration of an all-singing, all-swaying mega church. Hillsong is a favorite among young celebrity churchgoers. Justin Bieber has tweeted that he “broke down” after hearing a sermon at Hillsong’s New York City location. Vanessa Hudgens has sung onstage during Hillsong’s worship services, and Selena Gomez, a regular at Hillsong’s location at downtown Los Angeles’s Belasco Theater, shared her Instagram cover of Hillsong’s No. 1 Billboard Christian Songs hit “Oceans”. The church is more than a faith—it’s a brand. And one fraught with scandal.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621444Tue, 31 May 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: People in Glass Houses: An Insider’s Story of a Life In and Out of Hillsong Author: Tanya Levin Narrator: Cat Gould Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: People in Glass Houses: An Insider’s Story of a Life In and Out of Hillsong Author: Tanya Levin Narrator: Cat Gould Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A true story of growing up in Hillsong—the Pentecostal church which draws nearly 100,000 attendees to its rock concert–like services in eleven countries around the world each week. People in Glass Houses tells how a small church in a suburban Australian school hall became a multimillion-dollar tax-free enterprise and a powerful international force. Providing memorable portraits of charismatic leaders Brian and Bobbie Houston, this is a powerful, personal, and at times very funny exploration of an all-singing, all-swaying mega church. Hillsong is a favorite among young celebrity churchgoers. Justin Bieber has tweeted that he “broke down” after hearing a sermon at Hillsong’s New York City location. Vanessa Hudgens has sung onstage during Hillsong’s worship services, and Selena Gomez, a regular at Hillsong’s location at downtown Los Angeles’s Belasco Theater, shared her Instagram cover of Hillsong’s No. 1 Billboard Christian Songs hit “Oceans”. The church is more than a faith—it’s a brand. And one fraught with scandal.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-mother-next-door-by-diane-danvers-simmons--65184670https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Mother Next Door Author: Diane Danvers Simmons Narrator: Diane Danvers Simmons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It’s hardly newsworthy when a man walks out on his family. But it’s rather unusual for a mother to walk out, leaving the father to bring up their sixteen-year-old daughter—and downright scandalous for said Irish Catholic mother to move into the house next door to start a new life with a bunch of hot male students at the age of sixty. No one can accuse Diane Danvers Simmons of telling a familiar story. Instead she offers a wickedly witty, candid, irreverent, British coming-of-age story with a fresh take on maternal abandonment. In My Mother Next Door, she shares the life lessons learned growing up in the revolutionary 1970s while her narcissistic mother charted her own unfathomable course to independence and freedom. After living in America for decades and becoming a mother herself, Diane journeys back through the madness of her early years, coming to terms with a comical, painful family history but also celebrating the strength and humor it has given her to face the absurdity of life In trying to understand what drove her mother to become the woman next door, Diane discovers new respect, love, and even forgiveness: the root of our humanity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620348Tue, 24 May 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Mother Next Door Author: Diane Danvers Simmons Narrator: Diane Danvers Simmons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Mother Next Door Author: Diane Danvers Simmons Narrator: Diane Danvers Simmons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It’s hardly newsworthy when a man walks out on his family. But it’s rather unusual for a mother to walk out, leaving the father to bring up their sixteen-year-old daughter—and downright scandalous for said Irish Catholic mother to move into the house next door to start a new life with a bunch of hot male students at the age of sixty. No one can accuse Diane Danvers Simmons of telling a familiar story. Instead she offers a wickedly witty, candid, irreverent, British coming-of-age story with a fresh take on maternal abandonment. In My Mother Next Door, she shares the life lessons learned growing up in the revolutionary 1970s while her narcissistic mother charted her own unfathomable course to independence and freedom. After living in America for decades and becoming a mother herself, Diane journeys back through the madness of her early years, coming to terms with a comical, painful family history but also celebrating the strength and humor it has given her to face the absurdity of life In trying to understand what drove her mother to become the woman next door, Diane discovers new respect, love, and even forgiveness: the root of our humanity.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/safecracker-a-chronicle-of-the-coolest-job-in-the-world-by-dave-mcomie--65184614https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617268 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Safecracker: A Chronicle of the Coolest Job in the World Author: Dave Mcomie Narrator: Keith Szarabajka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Like a character in a Hitchcock movie, Dave McOmie travels the country breaking into bank vaults, cracking jewelry store safes, and decoding unbreakable codes secured deep in government facilities. He’s never been arrested or charged with a crime, because—it’s his job! Safecracker reveals a shadowy world where tumblers are twirled, skeletons are exposed, and longstanding mysteries are solved. You’ll ride shotgun with Dave for one crazy week, beginning with an impenetrable vault in Vegas with a midnight deadline, and ending with Prince’s ultra-secure music vault in the basement of Paisley Park. In between are factual stories that sound like fiction: drilling the same model ATM from the notorious episode of Breaking Bad, meeting a mystery man from the Department of Defense at a remote location to crack two high-security safes, chronicling the corruption and ineptitude that dogged efforts to develop the first electronic safe lock to guard our national secrets, tackling a hundred-year-old antique bank vault in downtown Salt Lake City, and more. What’s in all these safes and vaults? Gold and silver, drugs and cash, guns and ammo, family heirlooms, and X-rated paraphernalia. And a few secrets that should have remained secret. Shhhhh!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617268Tue, 10 May 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617268 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Safecracker: A Chronicle of the Coolest Job in the World Author: Dave Mcomie Narrator: Keith Szarabajka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617268 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Safecracker: A Chronicle of the Coolest Job in the World Author: Dave Mcomie Narrator: Keith Szarabajka Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Like a character in a Hitchcock movie, Dave McOmie travels the country breaking into bank vaults, cracking jewelry store safes, and decoding unbreakable codes secured deep in government facilities. He’s never been arrested or charged with a crime, because—it’s his job! Safecracker reveals a shadowy world where tumblers are twirled, skeletons are exposed, and longstanding mysteries are solved. You’ll ride shotgun with Dave for one crazy week, beginning with an impenetrable vault in Vegas with a midnight deadline, and ending with Prince’s ultra-secure music vault in the basement of Paisley Park. In between are factual stories that sound like fiction: drilling the same model ATM from the notorious episode of Breaking Bad, meeting a mystery man from the Department of Defense at a remote location to crack two high-security safes, chronicling the corruption and ineptitude that dogged efforts to develop the first electronic safe lock to guard our national secrets, tackling a hundred-year-old antique bank vault in downtown Salt Lake City, and more. What’s in all these safes and vaults? Gold and silver, drugs and cash, guns and ammo, family heirlooms, and X-rated paraphernalia. And a few secrets that should have remained secret. Shhhhh!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-boy-who-loved-batman-a-memoir-by-michael-e-uslan--65184708https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615626 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Who Loved Batman: A Memoir Author: Michael E. Uslan Narrator: Michael E. Uslan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Batman movie producer reveals how his childhood love of comic books became a lifelong passion and dream job in this memoir. Is any superhero cooler than Batman? He’s a crime-fighting vigilante with a tragic past, a lawless attitude, and a seemingly endless supply of high-tech gadgetry. In this memoir, author Michael E. Uslan recalls his journey from early childhood fandom through to the decades he spent on a caped crusade of his own: to bring Batman to the silver screen as the dark, serious character he was at heart. Uslan’s story traces his path from the wilds of New Jersey to the limelight of Hollywood, following his work as Executive Producer on every Batman film from Tim Burton’s 1989 re-envisioning to 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises. Through it all, he helped to create one of the most successful pop culture franchises of all time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615626Tue, 03 May 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615626 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Who Loved Batman: A Memoir Author: Michael E. Uslan Narrator: Michael E. Uslan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615626 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Who Loved Batman: A Memoir Author: Michael E. Uslan Narrator: Michael E. Uslan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Batman movie producer reveals how his childhood love of comic books became a lifelong passion and dream job in this memoir. Is any superhero cooler than Batman? He’s a crime-fighting vigilante with a tragic past, a lawless attitude, and a seemingly endless supply of high-tech gadgetry. In this memoir, author Michael E. Uslan recalls his journey from early childhood fandom through to the decades he spent on a caped crusade of his own: to bring Batman to the silver screen as the dark, serious character he was at heart. Uslan’s story traces his path from the wilds of New Jersey to the limelight of Hollywood, following his work as Executive Producer on every Batman film from Tim Burton’s 1989 re-envisioning to 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises. Through it all, he helped to create one of the most successful pop culture franchises of all time.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-too-am-america-on-loving-and-leading-black-men-boys-by-nick-chiles-shawn-dove--65184698https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Too Am America: On Loving and Leading Black Men & Boys Author: Nick Chiles, Shawn Dove Narrator: Cary Hite Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: There is no cavalry coming! We are the iconic leaders we have been waiting for, curators of the change we’re seeking to see. I Too Am America examines the promise and peril of Black men and boys in America by exploring the lives of two talented young men, Jamare Winston in Detroit and Romero Wesson in Oakland, who at once embody all that we want our boys to be while also illuminating the many uncertainties they face. With the help of teachers and mentors, they have navigated their teen years in environments where nothing is guaranteed. Their stories mirror the trials facing Black men and boys across the nation. Corporation for Black Male Achievement founder Shawn Dove had to navigate similarly treacherous waters decades ago as a Black boy in New York City. He was also a young man of many talents, trying to figure out what the world had to offer and his place in it. Part memoir, part exposé of the ways this country continues to forsake Black men and boys, part uplifting call to action, I Too Am America manages to elicit tears while also kindling hope. I Too Am America: On Loving and Leading Black Men & Boys, written by Shawn Dove and Nick Chiles, delivers timely insights and inspiration that humanizes the stories of Black men and boys while offering strategic recommendations on how together we can move from our current rumblings with a racial reckoning to loving, learning, and leading with and on behalf of Black men and boys.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615632Tue, 03 May 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Too Am America: On Loving and Leading Black Men & Boys Author: Nick Chiles, Shawn Dove Narrator: Cary Hite Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Too Am America: On Loving and Leading Black Men & Boys Author: Nick Chiles, Shawn Dove Narrator: Cary Hite Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: There is no cavalry coming! We are the iconic leaders we have been waiting for, curators of the change we’re seeking to see. I Too Am America examines the promise and peril of Black men and boys in America by exploring the lives of two talented young men, Jamare Winston in Detroit and Romero Wesson in Oakland, who at once embody all that we want our boys to be while also illuminating the many uncertainties they face. With the help of teachers and mentors, they have navigated their teen years in environments where nothing is guaranteed. Their stories mirror the trials facing Black men and boys across the nation. Corporation for Black Male Achievement founder Shawn Dove had to navigate similarly treacherous waters decades ago as a Black boy in New York City. He was also a young man of many talents, trying to figure out what the world had to offer and his place in it. Part memoir, part exposé of the ways this country continues to forsake Black men and boys, part uplifting call to action, I Too Am America manages to elicit tears while also kindling hope. I Too Am America: On Loving and Leading Black Men & Boys, written by Shawn Dove and Nick Chiles, delivers timely insights and inspiration that humanizes the stories of Black men and boys while offering strategic recommendations on how together we can move from our current rumblings with a racial reckoning to loving, learning, and leading with and on behalf of Black men and boys.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/not-even-wrong-a-father-s-journey-into-the-lost-history-of-autism-by-paul-collins--65184633https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614499 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Even Wrong: A Father’s Journey into the Lost History of Autism Author: Paul Collins Narrator: Tim Getman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Paul Collins’s son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head … but not answer to his own name. A casual conversation—or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted—will, for Morgan, always be a cryptogram that must be painstakingly decoded. He lives in a world of his own: an autistic world. In Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins melds a memoir of his son’s autism with a journey into this realm of permanent outsiders. Examining forgotten geniuses and obscure medical archives, Collins’s travels take him from an English churchyard to the Seattle labs of Microsoft, and from a Wisconsin prison cell block to the streets of Vienna. It is a story that reaches from a lonely clearing in the Black Forest into the London palace of King George I, from Defoe and Swift to the discovery of evolution; from the modern dawn of the computer revolution to, in the end, the author’s own household. Not Even Wrong is a haunting journey into the borderlands of neurology—a meditation on what “normal” is, and how human genius comes to us in strange and wondrous forms.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614499Tue, 26 Apr 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614499 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Even Wrong: A Father’s Journey into the Lost History of Autism Author: Paul Collins Narrator: Tim Getman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614499 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Even Wrong: A Father’s Journey into the Lost History of Autism Author: Paul Collins Narrator: Tim Getman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Paul Collins’s son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head … but not answer to his own name. A casual conversation—or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted—will, for Morgan, always be a cryptogram that must be painstakingly decoded. He lives in a world of his own: an autistic world. In Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins melds a memoir of his son’s autism with a journey into this realm of permanent outsiders. Examining forgotten geniuses and obscure medical archives, Collins’s travels take him from an English churchyard to the Seattle labs of Microsoft, and from a Wisconsin prison cell block to the streets of Vienna. It is a story that reaches from a lonely clearing in the Black Forest into the London palace of King George I, from Defoe and Swift to the discovery of evolution; from the modern dawn of the computer revolution to, in the end, the author’s own household. Not Even Wrong is a haunting journey into the borderlands of neurology—a meditation on what “normal” is, and how human genius comes to us in strange and wondrous forms.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-escape-from-prison-by-paul-wood--65184702https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Escape from Prison Author: Paul Wood Narrator: Simon London Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: March 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Remarkable Story of How One Man Defied the Odds At 18, Paul Wood thought he had lost everything. He had committed an act he knew would send him to prison for many years. To a young man like Paul, it might as well have been for the rest of his life. Plunged into a nightmarish world of extreme violence, solitary confinement, gang allegiances, drugs, vindictive wardens and regular stabbings, Paul spent the next 11 years confined in some of New Zealand's toughest jails. Based on an account of his experiences he wrote while still inside, How to Escape from Prison chronicles Paul's road to redemption and a new life as a doctor of psychology, helping others strive to fulfil their potential and develop the resilience to flourish, even in adversity. This is a gripping read about a man who sank to the depths of despair, before scaling the heights of true freedom. 'Paul's transformation is unbelievable. We are sometimes brought up to think a zebra can't change its stripes. Paul Wood's story is proof that anyone can change. It gives you great courage that you can do anything.' - Sir John Kirwan]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616325Wed, 30 Mar 2022 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Escape from Prison Author: Paul Wood Narrator: Simon London Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: March 30,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Escape from Prison Author: Paul Wood Narrator: Simon London Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: March 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Remarkable Story of How One Man Defied the Odds At 18, Paul Wood thought he had lost everything. He had committed an act he knew would send him to prison for many years. To a young man like Paul, it might as well have been for the rest of his life. Plunged into a nightmarish world of extreme violence, solitary confinement, gang allegiances, drugs, vindictive wardens and regular stabbings, Paul spent the next 11 years confined in some of New Zealand's toughest jails. Based on an account of his experiences he wrote while still inside, How to Escape from Prison chronicles Paul's road to redemption and a new life as a doctor of psychology, helping others strive to fulfil their potential and develop the resilience to flourish, even in adversity. This is a gripping read about a man who sank to the depths of despair, before scaling the heights of true freedom. 'Paul's transformation is unbelievable. We are sometimes brought up to think a zebra can't change its stripes. Paul Wood's story is proof that anyone can change. It gives you great courage that you can do anything.' - Sir John Kirwan]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-one-you-want-to-marry-and-other-identities-i-ve-had-a-memoir-by-sophie-santos--65184521https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I've Had): A Memoir Author: Sophie Santos Narrator: Sophie Santos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: October 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A hilarious and heartfelt memoir about finding your true voice by Sophie Santos, the fearless comic and host of The Lesbian Agenda. From the self-proclaimed Queen of the Stunted Late Bloomers and one of the most exciting emerging voices in comedy comes an honestly funny memoir about the awkward, cringeworthy, hilarious, and longest possible journey of coming of age and into her own. The only child of a perpetually transferring Filipino-Spanish US Army officer and a spitfire nurse, Sophie Santos spent her early years starting over again and again—and accumulating her fair share of anxieties. Growing up in 99.6 percent white communities, where girls had to learn to flash Vaseline-capped smiles before they’d be considered real women, Sophie adapted. Determined to fit in, she transformed from a tomboy misfit into a hormone-crazed beauty pageant contestant and a southern sorority girl, among other personalities. She nailed each role she took on, not shockingly, but nothing seemed to fit her true self. In her twenties, floundering and locked in her bedroom with lesbian YouTube clips playing on repeat, Sophie began to understand that her true self might be more tomboy misfit than southern belle. That realization set her off on a journey that led her through an unexpected lesbian puberty and eventually toward a New York comedy career.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627109Fri, 01 Oct 2021 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I've Had): A Memoir Author: Sophie Santos Narrator: Sophie Santos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I've Had): A Memoir Author: Sophie Santos Narrator: Sophie Santos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 37 minutes Release date: October 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A hilarious and heartfelt memoir about finding your true voice by Sophie Santos, the fearless comic and host of The Lesbian Agenda. From the self-proclaimed Queen of the Stunted Late Bloomers and one of the most exciting emerging voices in comedy comes an honestly funny memoir about the awkward, cringeworthy, hilarious, and longest possible journey of coming of age and into her own. The only child of a perpetually transferring Filipino-Spanish US Army officer and a spitfire nurse, Sophie Santos spent her early years starting over again and again—and accumulating her fair share of anxieties. Growing up in 99.6 percent white communities, where girls had to learn to flash Vaseline-capped smiles before they’d be considered real women, Sophie adapted. Determined to fit in, she transformed from a tomboy misfit into a hormone-crazed beauty pageant contestant and a southern sorority girl, among other personalities. She nailed each role she took on, not shockingly, but nothing seemed to fit her true self. In her twenties, floundering and locked in her bedroom with lesbian YouTube clips playing on repeat, Sophie began to understand that her true self might be more tomboy misfit than southern belle. That realization set her off on a journey that led her through an unexpected lesbian puberty and eventually toward a New York comedy career.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/plenty-a-memoir-of-food-and-family-by-hannah-howard--65184671https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619417 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family Author: Hannah Howard Narrator: Hannah Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A moving reflection on motherhood, friendship, and women making their mark on the world of food from the author of Feast. Food writer Hannah Howard is at a pivotal moment in her life when she begins searching out her fellow food people—women who’ve carved a place for themselves in a punishing, male-dominated industry. Women whose journeys have inspired and informed Hannah’s own foodie quests. On trips that take her from Milan to Bordeaux to Oslo and then always back again to her home in New York City, Hannah spends time with these influential women, learning about the intimate paths that led them each toward fulfilling careers. Each chef, entrepreneur, barista, cheesemaker, barge captain, and culinary instructor expands our long-held beliefs about how the worldwide network of food professionals and enthusiasts works. But amid her travels, Hannah finds herself on a heart-wrenching private path. Her plans to embark on motherhood bring her through devastating lows and unimaginable highs. Hannah grapples with personal joy, loss, and a lifelong obsession with food that is laced with insecurity and darker compulsions. Looking to her food heroes for solace, companionship, and inspiration, she discovers new ways to appreciate her body and nourish her life. At its heart, this lovely and candid memoir explores food as a point of passion and connection and as a powerful way to create community, forge friendships, and make a family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619417Wed, 01 Sep 2021 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619417 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family Author: Hannah Howard Narrator: Hannah Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619417 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family Author: Hannah Howard Narrator: Hannah Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A moving reflection on motherhood, friendship, and women making their mark on the world of food from the author of Feast. Food writer Hannah Howard is at a pivotal moment in her life when she begins searching out her fellow food people—women who’ve carved a place for themselves in a punishing, male-dominated industry. Women whose journeys have inspired and informed Hannah’s own foodie quests. On trips that take her from Milan to Bordeaux to Oslo and then always back again to her home in New York City, Hannah spends time with these influential women, learning about the intimate paths that led them each toward fulfilling careers. Each chef, entrepreneur, barista, cheesemaker, barge captain, and culinary instructor expands our long-held beliefs about how the worldwide network of food professionals and enthusiasts works. But amid her travels, Hannah finds herself on a heart-wrenching private path. Her plans to embark on motherhood bring her through devastating lows and unimaginable highs. Hannah grapples with personal joy, loss, and a lifelong obsession with food that is laced with insecurity and darker compulsions. Looking to her food heroes for solace, companionship, and inspiration, she discovers new ways to appreciate her body and nourish her life. At its heart, this lovely and candid memoir explores food as a point of passion and connection and as a powerful way to create community, forge friendships, and make a family.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/there-s-a-hole-in-my-bucket-a-journey-of-two-brothers-by-royd-tolkien--65184631https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: There's a Hole in my Bucket: A Journey of Two Brothers Author: Royd Tolkien Narrator: Drew Cullingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: August 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An inspirational, life-affirming memoir from the great-grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien. Having grown up on their great-grandfather’s stories, Royd Tolkien and his brother, Mike, have always enjoyed adventures. So when Mike is diagnosed with motor neurone disease, also known as ALS, the brothers decide to use the time they have left to tick off as much as possible from Mike’s bucket list, from remote camping in Norway to travelling through Royd’s beloved New Zealand. Yet, when Royd loses Mike, he discovers his brother had been writing another kind of bucket list: fifty things he wanted Royd to do after his death. His first task? Mike wants his mild-mannered brother to trip up on his way to the lectern to deliver his eulogy. What follows is a set of emotionally charged tests that will push Royd firmly out of his comfort zone. This is the story of Royd’s journey to accomplish a challenging, humorous, and often heartbreaking list of unknown tasks that chart the brothers’ lives from childhood to adulthood. But above all, it is a story of the sibling bond, of grief—and of treasuring every moment.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614385Sun, 01 Aug 2021 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: There's a Hole in my Bucket: A Journey of Two Brothers Author: Royd Tolkien Narrator: Drew Cullingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: There's a Hole in my Bucket: A Journey of Two Brothers Author: Royd Tolkien Narrator: Drew Cullingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: August 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An inspirational, life-affirming memoir from the great-grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien. Having grown up on their great-grandfather’s stories, Royd Tolkien and his brother, Mike, have always enjoyed adventures. So when Mike is diagnosed with motor neurone disease, also known as ALS, the brothers decide to use the time they have left to tick off as much as possible from Mike’s bucket list, from remote camping in Norway to travelling through Royd’s beloved New Zealand. Yet, when Royd loses Mike, he discovers his brother had been writing another kind of bucket list: fifty things he wanted Royd to do after his death. His first task? Mike wants his mild-mannered brother to trip up on his way to the lectern to deliver his eulogy. What follows is a set of emotionally charged tests that will push Royd firmly out of his comfort zone. This is the story of Royd’s journey to accomplish a challenging, humorous, and often heartbreaking list of unknown tasks that chart the brothers’ lives from childhood to adulthood. But above all, it is a story of the sibling bond, of grief—and of treasuring every moment.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/turkish-tek-satirlik-entel-by-riva-salhon--65184601https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Tek Satırlık Entel Author: Riva şalhon Narrator: Turan Günay Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 23, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Bir insan türünü tarif edeceğim. Adına da 'tek satırlık entel' diyeceğim. Tarifle başlayalım. Tek satırlık entellerin, sohbet gruplarında açılan her konu hakkında çarpıcı, başlangıç seviyesinde öğretici bilgileri vardır. Bunları istesek de istemesek de aktarırlar. Bilgiler kısıtlıdır, ancak her konuda bir iki şey çıkıverir ağızdan, konuya etraflıca hâkim havası verecek kadar. Bazı bilgiler fazlasıyla bayattır, bazılarının yanlışlığı artık ayyuka çıkmıştır, fakat karşılarındakinin okuma yazması ve bilgi kaynakları yokmuşçasına bilgi aktarırlar. 'Yarım hoca dinden, yarım doktor candan eder' derler. Ruh açısından en sağlıklısı, bu türden mümkün olduğu kadar uzak durmaktır. İnsan bönleşiyor yanlarında dura dura. Ama hadi diyelim ki çok yakınımız ve uzak durmak imkânsız. Araştırdım, tek satırlık entellere karşı savunma mekanizmaları anlatacağım. Öncelikle sakinliğinizi koruyun. Hatta lafın uzaması için safça sorular yöneltip bilgi kaynağını teşvik edin. Sıkça gülümseyin. Çok az tepki verin. Ara ara kafanızı onaylarcasına sallayın. Ara ara da, 'Gerçekten mi?' diye sorun. Ama asla polemiğe girmeyin. Ve oradan kaçış planınızı tasarlayın. Şimdi durup bir düşünelim: Acaba her susan gerçekten de bizim engin tek satırlık bilgilerimize mi aç, yoksa sadece çile mi dolduruyor?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622529Wed, 23 Jun 2021 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Tek Satırlık Entel Author: Riva şalhon Narrator: Turan Günay Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 23,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Tek Satırlık Entel Author: Riva şalhon Narrator: Turan Günay Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 23, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Bir insan türünü tarif edeceğim. Adına da 'tek satırlık entel' diyeceğim. Tarifle başlayalım. Tek satırlık entellerin, sohbet gruplarında açılan her konu hakkında çarpıcı, başlangıç seviyesinde öğretici bilgileri vardır. Bunları istesek de istemesek de aktarırlar. Bilgiler kısıtlıdır, ancak her konuda bir iki şey çıkıverir ağızdan, konuya etraflıca hâkim havası verecek kadar. Bazı bilgiler fazlasıyla bayattır, bazılarının yanlışlığı artık ayyuka çıkmıştır, fakat karşılarındakinin okuma yazması ve bilgi kaynakları yokmuşçasına bilgi aktarırlar. 'Yarım hoca dinden, yarım doktor candan eder' derler. Ruh açısından en sağlıklısı, bu türden mümkün olduğu kadar uzak durmaktır. İnsan bönleşiyor yanlarında dura dura. Ama hadi diyelim ki çok yakınımız ve uzak durmak imkânsız. Araştırdım, tek satırlık entellere karşı savunma mekanizmaları anlatacağım. Öncelikle sakinliğinizi koruyun. Hatta lafın uzaması için safça sorular yöneltip bilgi kaynağını teşvik edin. Sıkça gülümseyin. Çok az tepki verin. Ara ara kafanızı onaylarcasına sallayın. Ara ara da, 'Gerçekten mi?' diye sorun. Ama asla polemiğe girmeyin. Ve oradan kaçış planınızı tasarlayın. Şimdi durup bir düşünelim: Acaba her susan gerçekten de bizim engin tek satırlık bilgilerimize mi aç, yoksa sadece çile mi dolduruyor?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/turkish-nil-in-kelebekleri-by-nil-karaibrahimgil--65184609https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Nil'in Kelebekleri Author: Nil Karaibrahimgil Narrator: Berna Atalay Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 28, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: İçimi açsan nar, ama yerim dar… 'Kadınlar çok seyrek olarak söylediklerini kastederler. Asıl demek istediklerini bulmak için, sakın 'ne demek istiyorsun' diye sormayın. Bu soru sizi, kastedilmeyecek başka bir cümleye yönlendirir ve aslolandan gitgide uzaklaşmanıza sebep olur. Bu sebeple sonuç ilişkisi kurulmaz. Mesela sık kullanılan bir cümleyi ele alalım: 'Yalnız kalmak istiyorum.' Cümlenin öznesi 'ben', burada 'sen' manasında kullanılmış. 'İstiyorum' olumlu gibi dursa da olumsuz, yani asıl kökü 'istemiyorum'. Buraya kadar cümlemiz 'Sen yalnız kalmak istemiyorum.' Böyle bir cümleye pek rastlanmadığından, yuvarlamamız gerekir. Yuvarlarsak aslolan cümleye varırız: 'Sen yalnız kalmamı isteme!' Bu cümleyi canlandırabilecek erkek yok denecek kadar azdır. Kadın yalnız kalmak istemiyor, bu kesin. Fakat bu yeterli değil. Onun yalnız kalmasını istememelisiniz. Ayrıca kadını bu raddeye getirmeyin. Kadınlar yalnız kalmayı asla istemez. Şayet kendilerini yalnız hissederlerse, pıt diye doğuruverirler. Elde var iki olurlar. Bir suyla şaka olmaz, bir de kadınlarla...']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618582Tue, 28 Jul 2020 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Nil'in Kelebekleri Author: Nil Karaibrahimgil Narrator: Berna Atalay Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Nil'in Kelebekleri Author: Nil Karaibrahimgil Narrator: Berna Atalay Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 28, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: İçimi açsan nar, ama yerim dar… 'Kadınlar çok seyrek olarak söylediklerini kastederler. Asıl demek istediklerini bulmak için, sakın 'ne demek istiyorsun' diye sormayın. Bu soru sizi, kastedilmeyecek başka bir cümleye yönlendirir ve aslolandan gitgide uzaklaşmanıza sebep olur. Bu sebeple sonuç ilişkisi kurulmaz. Mesela sık kullanılan bir cümleyi ele alalım: 'Yalnız kalmak istiyorum.' Cümlenin öznesi 'ben', burada 'sen' manasında kullanılmış. 'İstiyorum' olumlu gibi dursa da olumsuz, yani asıl kökü 'istemiyorum'. Buraya kadar cümlemiz 'Sen yalnız kalmak istemiyorum.' Böyle bir cümleye pek rastlanmadığından, yuvarlamamız gerekir. Yuvarlarsak aslolan cümleye varırız: 'Sen yalnız kalmamı isteme!' Bu cümleyi canlandırabilecek erkek yok denecek kadar azdır. Kadın yalnız kalmak istemiyor, bu kesin. Fakat bu yeterli değil. Onun yalnız kalmasını istememelisiniz. Ayrıca kadını bu raddeye getirmeyin. Kadınlar yalnız kalmayı asla istemez. Şayet kendilerini yalnız hissederlerse, pıt diye doğuruverirler. Elde var iki olurlar. Bir suyla şaka olmaz, bir de kadınlarla...']]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/turkish-sadece-seyma-by-seyma-subasi--65184646https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Sadece Şeyma Author: şeyma Subaşı Narrator: özgür Varul Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 46 minutes Release date: July 27, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hatırladığım ilk anı neydi? Annemle babamın bana sıkıca sarıldığı aklıma geliyor. Hepimizin güldüğünü hatırlıyorum sonra. Ve anneannemin masallarını. İlk anılarımı bulutlar üzerindeymişim gibi hatırlıyorum, sonrası fırtına... hepinizin bildiği gibi... ve şimdi yine pembe bulutlar... hepimizin yaşadığı gibi... Ben de bir annenin gözünün nuru, bir babanın altın saçlı kızıyım. Ve küçük bir kız çocuğunun, kucağında uyumayı çok sevdiği annesiyim. Bunları unutmadan okuyun isterim hayatımı...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622685Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Sadece Şeyma Author: şeyma Subaşı Narrator: özgür Varul Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 46 minutes Release date: July 27, 2020...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Sadece Şeyma Author: şeyma Subaşı Narrator: özgür Varul Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 46 minutes Release date: July 27, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hatırladığım ilk anı neydi? Annemle babamın bana sıkıca sarıldığı aklıma geliyor. Hepimizin güldüğünü hatırlıyorum sonra. Ve anneannemin masallarını. İlk anılarımı bulutlar üzerindeymişim gibi hatırlıyorum, sonrası fırtına... hepinizin bildiği gibi... ve şimdi yine pembe bulutlar... hepimizin yaşadığı gibi... Ben de bir annenin gözünün nuru, bir babanın altın saçlı kızıyım. Ve küçük bir kız çocuğunun, kucağında uyumayı çok sevdiği annesiyim. Bunları unutmadan okuyun isterim hayatımı...]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-frozen-woman-by-linda-coverdale-annie-ernaux--65184690https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618102 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Frozen Woman Author: Linda Coverdale, Annie Ernaux Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 24 minutes Release date: December 10, 2019 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This narrative charts Annie Ernaux's teenage awakening and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession—with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, a mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment and raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her happiness, slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a woman is killing her. While each of Ernaux's books contains an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, one of Ernaux's early works, concentrates the spotlight piercingly on Annie herself. Mixing affection, rage, and bitterness, A Frozen Woman shows us Ernaux's developing art when she still relied on traditional narrative, before the shortened form emerged that has since become her trademark.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618102Tue, 10 Dec 2019 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618102 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Frozen Woman Author: Linda Coverdale, Annie Ernaux Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 24 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618102 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Frozen Woman Author: Linda Coverdale, Annie Ernaux Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 24 minutes Release date: December 10, 2019 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This narrative charts Annie Ernaux's teenage awakening and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession—with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, a mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment and raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her happiness, slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a woman is killing her. While each of Ernaux's books contains an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, one of Ernaux's early works, concentrates the spotlight piercingly on Annie herself. Mixing affection, rage, and bitterness, A Frozen Woman shows us Ernaux's developing art when she still relied on traditional narrative, before the shortened form emerged that has since become her trademark.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/turkish-sanma-ki-yalnizsin-by-elif-safak--65184647https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Sanma Ki Yalnızsın Author: Elif şafak Narrator: Seda Türkmen Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: February 22, 2019 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sana kelimelerden kaleler yaptım. Hendekli, balkonlu, eflatun bayraklı, girişi saklı kocaman kaleler. Bir odasında bıraktım yüreğimi. Merasimsiz, habersiz, tantanasız ve beklentisiz usulca düşürüverdim elimden, olur da bulursan belki sevinirsin diye, öylesine. Sana harflerden sarmaşıklar ördüm; geceleri gözlerini kapadığında, uyku ile uyanıklık arası o tekinsiz aralıkta durduğunda, cinlerin meşveret alanında yapayalnız kaldığında koklarsın belki, hatırlarsın diye. Sana alfabeden kaftan diktim; azametle giyesin ve hiç üşümeyesin diye, kalın kadifeden, sırma ipliklerle. İşledim üzerine isminin baş harflerini, sessiz ve derinden, kimse bilmeden, sadece Yaradan'ın duyduğu bir yemin gibi. Sana noktalardan güller, virgüllerden bülbüller, ünlemlerden yaylalar, noktalı virgüllerden dağlar ve ovalar yaptım. Her bir imla işaretini özenle ekledim isminin büyüsüne. Çünkü sevmek, yeni bir dil inşa etmek demek. İki kişilik bir dil. Çünkü aşkın olduğu yerde muhakkak kelam vardır, sessizlik değil.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622583Fri, 22 Feb 2019 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Sanma Ki Yalnızsın Author: Elif şafak Narrator: Seda Türkmen Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Sanma Ki Yalnızsın Author: Elif şafak Narrator: Seda Türkmen Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: February 22, 2019 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sana kelimelerden kaleler yaptım. Hendekli, balkonlu, eflatun bayraklı, girişi saklı kocaman kaleler. Bir odasında bıraktım yüreğimi. Merasimsiz, habersiz, tantanasız ve beklentisiz usulca düşürüverdim elimden, olur da bulursan belki sevinirsin diye, öylesine. Sana harflerden sarmaşıklar ördüm; geceleri gözlerini kapadığında, uyku ile uyanıklık arası o tekinsiz aralıkta durduğunda, cinlerin meşveret alanında yapayalnız kaldığında koklarsın belki, hatırlarsın diye. Sana alfabeden kaftan diktim; azametle giyesin ve hiç üşümeyesin diye, kalın kadifeden, sırma ipliklerle. İşledim üzerine isminin baş harflerini, sessiz ve derinden, kimse bilmeden, sadece Yaradan'ın duyduğu bir yemin gibi. Sana noktalardan güller, virgüllerden bülbüller, ünlemlerden yaylalar, noktalı virgüllerden dağlar ve ovalar yaptım. Her bir imla işaretini özenle ekledim isminin büyüsüne. Çünkü sevmek, yeni bir dil inşa etmek demek. İki kişilik bir dil. Çünkü aşkın olduğu yerde muhakkak kelam vardır, sessizlik değil.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-fourth-river-a-novel-based-on-a-true-story-the-shocking-true-story-of-christine-clayfield-by-christine-clayfield--65184679https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619534 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Fourth River. A novel based on a true story. The shocking true story of Christine Clayfield. Author: Christine Clayfield Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 8, 2018 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Take a heart-wrenching yet inspiring ride through one woman’s incredible journey that is so compelling that you are simultaneously trying to look away and unable to stop yourself from reading on. Electroshock therapy, abuse and modern-day slavery… just another day in Christine’s life. At the age of just five, little Christine is cast aside into a boarding school where she is ridiculed for two embarrassing problems. She grows up in a never-ending circle of traumatic experiences both in her boarding school and at home. A story that asks: How do you find the strength, when you suffer almost unbearable abuse and are broken beyond repair, to pick up the pieces of a shattered life? This journey shows the tenacity of the human spirit and how the will to survive can often be hidden behind self-destructive tendencies. This beautifully written novel is an incredible inspiring true story about loss, abuse, survival and hope.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619534Tue, 08 May 2018 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619534 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Fourth River. A novel based on a true story. The shocking true story of Christine Clayfield. Author: Christine Clayfield Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619534 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Fourth River. A novel based on a true story. The shocking true story of Christine Clayfield. Author: Christine Clayfield Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 8, 2018 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Take a heart-wrenching yet inspiring ride through one woman’s incredible journey that is so compelling that you are simultaneously trying to look away and unable to stop yourself from reading on. Electroshock therapy, abuse and modern-day slavery… just another day in Christine’s life. At the age of just five, little Christine is cast aside into a boarding school where she is ridiculed for two embarrassing problems. She grows up in a never-ending circle of traumatic experiences both in her boarding school and at home. A story that asks: How do you find the strength, when you suffer almost unbearable abuse and are broken beyond repair, to pick up the pieces of a shattered life? This journey shows the tenacity of the human spirit and how the will to survive can often be hidden behind self-destructive tendencies. This beautifully written novel is an incredible inspiring true story about loss, abuse, survival and hope.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/up-from-slavery-by-booker-t-washington--65184627https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up from Slavery Author: Booker T. Washington Narrator: Noah Waterman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 26, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper, and proponent of the “do it yourself” idea. In his autobiography, he describes his early life as a slave on a Virginia plantation, his steady rise during the Civil War, his struggle for education, his schooling at the Hampton Institute, and his years as founder and president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which was devoted to helping minorities learn useful, marketable skills. He gives an account of his travels, speeches, and meetings with various leaders, including Theodore Roosevelt in the White House. Employing a didactic tone, Washington deftly sets forth his belief that the black man’s salvation lies in education, industriousness, and self-reliance. This is the true-life story of a man of real courage and dedication.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624562Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up from Slavery Author: Booker T. Washington Narrator: Noah Waterman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 26,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Up from Slavery Author: Booker T. Washington Narrator: Noah Waterman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 26, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper, and proponent of the “do it yourself” idea. In his autobiography, he describes his early life as a slave on a Virginia plantation, his steady rise during the Civil War, his struggle for education, his schooling at the Hampton Institute, and his years as founder and president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which was devoted to helping minorities learn useful, marketable skills. He gives an account of his travels, speeches, and meetings with various leaders, including Theodore Roosevelt in the White House. Employing a didactic tone, Washington deftly sets forth his belief that the black man’s salvation lies in education, industriousness, and self-reliance. This is the true-life story of a man of real courage and dedication.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mutiny-on-board-hms-bounty-by-william-bligh--65184592https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624327 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty Author: William Bligh Narrator: Bernard Mayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 7, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1787, William Bligh, commander of the Bounty, sailed under Captain Cook on a voyage to Tahiti to collect plants of the breadfruit tree, with a view to acclimatizing the species to the West Indies. During their six-month stay on the island, his men became completely demoralized and mutinied on the return voyage. But a resentful crew, coupled with ravaging storms and ruthless savages, proved to be merely stages leading up to the anxiety-charged ordeal to come. Bligh, along with eighteen men, was cast adrift in an open boat only twenty-three feet long with a small stock of provisions—and without a chart. His narrative, deeply personal yet objective, documents the voyage and Bligh's relationship to his men, thereby exposing the oft debated question of what kind of man he really was.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624327Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624327 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty Author: William Bligh Narrator: Bernard Mayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624327 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty Author: William Bligh Narrator: Bernard Mayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 7, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1787, William Bligh, commander of the Bounty, sailed under Captain Cook on a voyage to Tahiti to collect plants of the breadfruit tree, with a view to acclimatizing the species to the West Indies. During their six-month stay on the island, his men became completely demoralized and mutinied on the return voyage. But a resentful crew, coupled with ravaging storms and ruthless savages, proved to be merely stages leading up to the anxiety-charged ordeal to come. Bligh, along with eighteen men, was cast adrift in an open boat only twenty-three feet long with a small stock of provisions—and without a chart. His narrative, deeply personal yet objective, documents the voyage and Bligh's relationship to his men, thereby exposing the oft debated question of what kind of man he really was.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-really-happened-john-edwards-our-daughter-and-me-by-rielle-hunter--65184571https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622891 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me Author: Rielle Hunter Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 26, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The John Edwards–Rielle Hunter affair made headlines for years. 'One of the biggest political scandals of all time,' 'a fall from grace,' 'a modern-day tragedy'—it's a story that has been reported, distorted, and spun over and over again by the media, by political aides, by the US government, and by supposed friends. There is, however, someone who actually knows the truth, someone who lived it from day one—the woman at the heart of the story itself: Rielle Hunter. In What Really Happened, Hunter offers an extremely personal account of her relationship with John Edwards: the facts of how they actually met, how their accidental love started and escalated, what it was like to fall in love with a married man who decided to run for president, the surprise of becoming pregnant during the campaign, how the affair became public, the extensive cover-up, and finally, what happened in the years after Edwards publicly admitted to being the father of their daughter, Frances Quinn. Meet Edwards' political players and get an intimate look at how they really operated. Learn about the evolution of friends, enablers, and do-gooders, their involvement with the affair and Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign, and where the money from Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon and Fred Baron actually went. This book doesn't spin the truth to achieve a prettier picture or a better story. It isn't about changing anyone's mind. It's simply the facts, the truth of what really happened.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622891Tue, 26 Jun 2012 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622891 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me Author: Rielle Hunter Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622891 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me Author: Rielle Hunter Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 26, 2012 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The John Edwards–Rielle Hunter affair made headlines for years. 'One of the biggest political scandals of all time,' 'a fall from grace,' 'a modern-day tragedy'—it's a story that has been reported, distorted, and spun over and over again by the media, by political aides, by the US government, and by supposed friends. There is, however, someone who actually knows the truth, someone who lived it from day one—the woman at the heart of the story itself: Rielle Hunter. In What Really Happened, Hunter offers an extremely personal account of her relationship with John Edwards: the facts of how they actually met, how their accidental love started and escalated, what it was like to fall in love with a married man who decided to run for president, the surprise of becoming pregnant during the campaign, how the affair became public, the extensive cover-up, and finally, what happened in the years after Edwards publicly admitted to being the father of their daughter, Frances Quinn. Meet Edwards' political players and get an intimate look at how they really operated. Learn about the evolution of friends, enablers, and do-gooders, their involvement with the affair and Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign, and where the money from Rachel 'Bunny' Mellon and Fred Baron actually went. This book doesn't spin the truth to achieve a prettier picture or a better story. It isn't about changing anyone's mind. It's simply the facts, the truth of what really happened.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/combat-the-civil-war-by-don-congdon--65184499https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Combat: The Civil War Series: Part of The Combat Series Author: Don Congdon Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 19, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is the book Civil War enthusiasts have been waiting for. There are many, many studies of the Civil War. Books have been written on its economic effects, its political causes, its relationship to western expansion. But the real fascination of the war is the story of combat, men in battle. Combat: The Civil War tells this story in the words of men who actually marched into battle. We share their experiences, their fears, and their moments of bravery at Vicksburg, on board the Monitor, at Gettysburg, and at the bloody battle of Antietam. These eyewitness accounts are interspersed with brief commentaries by some of our most respected historians—Douglas Southall Freeman and John Pullen, for example—who illuminate the accounts by placing them in their proper context. Those who have been looking for one volume that manages to tell the whole story of the war in a clear way need look no further. Combat: The Civil War is a gritty and readable history. Immediate and at the same time informative, here is that rare work that actually brings the struggles and characters of the past to life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627662Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Combat: The Civil War Series: Part of The Combat Series Author: Don Congdon Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 51...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Combat: The Civil War Series: Part of The Combat Series Author: Don Congdon Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 19, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is the book Civil War enthusiasts have been waiting for. There are many, many studies of the Civil War. Books have been written on its economic effects, its political causes, its relationship to western expansion. But the real fascination of the war is the story of combat, men in battle. Combat: The Civil War tells this story in the words of men who actually marched into battle. We share their experiences, their fears, and their moments of bravery at Vicksburg, on board the Monitor, at Gettysburg, and at the bloody battle of Antietam. These eyewitness accounts are interspersed with brief commentaries by some of our most respected historians—Douglas Southall Freeman and John Pullen, for example—who illuminate the accounts by placing them in their proper context. Those who have been looking for one volume that manages to tell the whole story of the war in a clear way need look no further. Combat: The Civil War is a gritty and readable history. Immediate and at the same time informative, here is that rare work that actually brings the struggles and characters of the past to life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tales-of-two-cities-a-persian-memoir-by-abbas-milani--65184498https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628216 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir Author: Abbas Milani Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 4, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Born in 1949 to a prosperous family in Tehran, Abbas Milani grew up in an Iran of culture and tradition. He was sent to the United States for his studies, and it was there that he made his transition to adulthood, becoming active intellectually, sexually, and politically. Flush with 1960s idealism, he returned home in 1975, only to find his country utterly changed. His intellectual activities soon landed him in prison, and as his country crumbled before his eyes, he reluctantly moved back to the US permanently in 1986. Milani’s impassioned memoir of coming to terms with the fate of his country is a loving account of the traditional Iran of his childhood, a painful portrayal of a generation of Iranians torn apart by their country and its politics, and finally, a message of hope, as he proves in the end that despite his hardships, he has achieved fulfillment in exile.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628216Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628216 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir Author: Abbas Milani Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 8 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628216 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir Author: Abbas Milani Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 8 minutes Release date: April 4, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Born in 1949 to a prosperous family in Tehran, Abbas Milani grew up in an Iran of culture and tradition. He was sent to the United States for his studies, and it was there that he made his transition to adulthood, becoming active intellectually, sexually, and politically. Flush with 1960s idealism, he returned home in 1975, only to find his country utterly changed. His intellectual activities soon landed him in prison, and as his country crumbled before his eyes, he reluctantly moved back to the US permanently in 1986. Milani’s impassioned memoir of coming to terms with the fate of his country is a loving account of the traditional Iran of his childhood, a painful portrayal of a generation of Iranians torn apart by their country and its politics, and finally, a message of hope, as he proves in the end that despite his hardships, he has achieved fulfillment in exile.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-writing-life-by-janet-stevens-annie-dillard--65184642https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Writing Life Author: Janet Stevens, Annie Dillard Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 23, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: With color, irony, and sensitivity, Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard illuminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that is the writer's life. As it probes and exposes, examines and analyzes,The Writing Lifeoffers deeper insight into one of the most mysterious of professions. A gregarious recluse, Dillard has passed many days, weeks, and months in remote locations doing something she claims to hate: writing. The act of writing is quite the undertaking, as the author struggles to decide whether she has found her subject, hit a dead end, or come up with a truly inspired bit of literature. Here, on top of providing a glimpse into her own life and writing experiences, Dillard offers wisdom to aspiring and established writers, urging them to maintain their passion and commitment to the work.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624122Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Writing Life Author: Janet Stevens, Annie Dillard Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 37 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Writing Life Author: Janet Stevens, Annie Dillard Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 23, 2011 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: With color, irony, and sensitivity, Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard illuminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that is the writer's life. As it probes and exposes, examines and analyzes,The Writing Lifeoffers deeper insight into one of the most mysterious of professions. A gregarious recluse, Dillard has passed many days, weeks, and months in remote locations doing something she claims to hate: writing. The act of writing is quite the undertaking, as the author struggles to decide whether she has found her subject, hit a dead end, or come up with a truly inspired bit of literature. Here, on top of providing a glimpse into her own life and writing experiences, Dillard offers wisdom to aspiring and established writers, urging them to maintain their passion and commitment to the work.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/right-from-the-beginning-by-patrick-j-buchanan--65184520https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Right from the Beginning Author: Patrick J. Buchanan Narrator: Michael Wells Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 7, 2010 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Right from the Beginning is the personal memoir of Pat Buchanan, the story of how the most controversial conservative in America got where he is today and how he came to believe as he does. It is the intimate first-person account of how the third son in a devout Catholic family of nine children, an expellee from Georgetown University at age twenty-one, without experience in journalism or politics, became, at twenty-three, the youngest editorial writer in America, and, three years later, confidant to Richard M. Nixon, as the twice-defeated ex–vice president began the political comeback of the century. But Right from the Beginning is more than a personal memoir: it is the sometimes hilarious, sometimes sad, poignant, and moving story of the Buchanan family, a book that brings alive America in the forties and fifties, when “the faith was unquestioned and patriotism unconstrained.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628040Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Right from the Beginning Author: Patrick J. Buchanan Narrator: Michael Wells Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Right from the Beginning Author: Patrick J. Buchanan Narrator: Michael Wells Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 7, 2010 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Right from the Beginning is the personal memoir of Pat Buchanan, the story of how the most controversial conservative in America got where he is today and how he came to believe as he does. It is the intimate first-person account of how the third son in a devout Catholic family of nine children, an expellee from Georgetown University at age twenty-one, without experience in journalism or politics, became, at twenty-three, the youngest editorial writer in America, and, three years later, confidant to Richard M. Nixon, as the twice-defeated ex–vice president began the political comeback of the century. But Right from the Beginning is more than a personal memoir: it is the sometimes hilarious, sometimes sad, poignant, and moving story of the Buchanan family, a book that brings alive America in the forties and fifties, when “the faith was unquestioned and patriotism unconstrained.”]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hearsts-father-and-son-by-william-randolph-hearst--65184502https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628064 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hearsts: Father and Son Author: William Randolph Hearst Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date: July 1, 2010 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The founder of the largest US media empire, William Randolph Hearst, Sr. changed the face of American journalism forever. Hearst, Jr., with coauthor Casserly, tells the family’s story, from the gold-diggings of California to the present Hearst media empire. In a detailed, straight-forward, and earnest manner, the authors examine Hearst Sr.’s notorious brand of journalism, his contentious politics, his devotion to art, his obsession with San Simeon, and his complex love life. They also profile reporters and columnists who became stars of the Hearst newspapers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628064Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628064 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hearsts: Father and Son Author: William Randolph Hearst Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628064 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hearsts: Father and Son Author: William Randolph Hearst Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date: July 1, 2010 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The founder of the largest US media empire, William Randolph Hearst, Sr. changed the face of American journalism forever. Hearst, Jr., with coauthor Casserly, tells the family’s story, from the gold-diggings of California to the present Hearst media empire. In a detailed, straight-forward, and earnest manner, the authors examine Hearst Sr.’s notorious brand of journalism, his contentious politics, his devotion to art, his obsession with San Simeon, and his complex love life. They also profile reporters and columnists who became stars of the Hearst newspapers.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-confessions-of-saint-augustine-by-aurelius-augustinus--65184583https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Confessions of Saint Augustine Author: Aurelius Augustinus Narrator: Bernard Mayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 28, 2009 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This timeless work is applicable to everyone who has experienced the struggle between good and evil in his own soul. St. Augustine, born in Tagaste, Numidia, in North Africa (now Constantine) in 354, was raised by a devout Christian mother. He abandoned the Christianity in which he had been brought up, taking on a mistress who bore him an illegitimate son. After hearing the sermons of Ambrose, he began a great internal struggle which led to his conversion in 387. The Confessions describes his conversion, shedding light on the questions that troubled him on his way to the Cross. The earliest of autobiographies, The Confessions remains unsurpassed as a sincere and intimate record of a great and pious person laying bare his soul before God. Other than Scripture, it is the most famous––and perhaps the most important––of all spiritual books.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624381Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Confessions of Saint Augustine Author: Aurelius Augustinus Narrator: Bernard Mayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Confessions of Saint Augustine Author: Aurelius Augustinus Narrator: Bernard Mayes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 28, 2009 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This timeless work is applicable to everyone who has experienced the struggle between good and evil in his own soul. St. Augustine, born in Tagaste, Numidia, in North Africa (now Constantine) in 354, was raised by a devout Christian mother. He abandoned the Christianity in which he had been brought up, taking on a mistress who bore him an illegitimate son. After hearing the sermons of Ambrose, he began a great internal struggle which led to his conversion in 387. The Confessions describes his conversion, shedding light on the questions that troubled him on his way to the Cross. The earliest of autobiographies, The Confessions remains unsurpassed as a sincere and intimate record of a great and pious person laying bare his soul before God. Other than Scripture, it is the most famous––and perhaps the most important––of all spiritual books.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cross-and-the-switchblade-by-david-wilkerson--65184551https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cross and the Switchblade Author: David Wilkerson Narrator: Raymond Todd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 30, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Gangfighters, drug addicts, teenage runaways, and prostitutes—the toughest and most hopeless kids that New York's ghettos had to offer. That is, until a country preacher from the Pennsylvania hills arrived on their turf and began preaching a streetcorner message of renewal, miracles, and God's love. David Wilkerson, a man on a mission, stepped onto some of the world's most dangerous streets armed only with the simple message of God's love and the promise of the Holy Spirit's power. And that's when the miracles began to happen. Led by incredible faith, Wilkerson left his country pulpit in 1958 for the streets of New York City, where a murder trial of seven teenaged boys churned society's antipathy toward them. Even Wilkerson was bewildered by his sense of compassion, but in spite of doubt, he followed the Spirit's prompting to help the boys. This is the amazing story of his journey, and the ability of God to accomplish the impossible. One of the most inspiring and challenging true stories of all time, it has sold millions of copies throughout the world and has been made into a feature film.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628249Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cross and the Switchblade Author: David Wilkerson Narrator: Raymond Todd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cross and the Switchblade Author: David Wilkerson Narrator: Raymond Todd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: October 30, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Gangfighters, drug addicts, teenage runaways, and prostitutes—the toughest and most hopeless kids that New York's ghettos had to offer. That is, until a country preacher from the Pennsylvania hills arrived on their turf and began preaching a streetcorner message of renewal, miracles, and God's love. David Wilkerson, a man on a mission, stepped onto some of the world's most dangerous streets armed only with the simple message of God's love and the promise of the Holy Spirit's power. And that's when the miracles began to happen. Led by incredible faith, Wilkerson left his country pulpit in 1958 for the streets of New York City, where a murder trial of seven teenaged boys churned society's antipathy toward them. Even Wilkerson was bewildered by his sense of compassion, but in spite of doubt, he followed the Spirit's prompting to help the boys. This is the amazing story of his journey, and the ability of God to accomplish the impossible. One of the most inspiring and challenging true stories of all time, it has sold millions of copies throughout the world and has been made into a feature film.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/epilogue-a-memoir-by-anne-roiphe--65184513https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Epilogue: A Memoir Author: Anne Roiphe Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 26, 2008 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Anne Roiphe offers a poignant memoir of a journey that no one is prepared for: widowhood. Weaving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing needs of her new day-to-day routine, Roiphe constructs an elegant literary pastiche, not of grief but of renewal. She begins her memoir just as the shock of her husband’s death has begun to wear off and writes her way into the then unknown world of life after love. In beautifully wrought vignettes, Roiphe captures the infinite number of “firsts” that lie ahead, from hailing a cab to locking and unlocking the door, to answering responses to a singles ad placed by her daughter.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627552Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Epilogue: A Memoir Author: Anne Roiphe Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 26, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627552 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Epilogue: A Memoir Author: Anne Roiphe Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: August 26, 2008 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Anne Roiphe offers a poignant memoir of a journey that no one is prepared for: widowhood. Weaving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing needs of her new day-to-day routine, Roiphe constructs an elegant literary pastiche, not of grief but of renewal. She begins her memoir just as the shock of her husband’s death has begun to wear off and writes her way into the then unknown world of life after love. In beautifully wrought vignettes, Roiphe captures the infinite number of “firsts” that lie ahead, from hailing a cab to locking and unlocking the door, to answering responses to a singles ad placed by her daughter.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/let-s-face-it-90-years-of-living-loving-and-learning-by-kirk-douglas--65184506https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628468 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let’s Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving, and Learning Author: Kirk Douglas Narrator: Jason Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 1, 2008 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Kirk Douglas has been one of the brightest stars in Hollywood, a hard-charging actor whose intensity on the screen has been mirrored in his personal life. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, Douglas contemplates what life is all about, weighing current events from his present frame of mind while summoning the passions of his younger days. Kirk Douglas is a born storyteller, and throughout Let's Face It he offers wonderful tales, favorite jokes, and hard-won insights. He explores the mixed blessings of growing older and looks back at his childhood, his young adulthood, and his storied, glamorous, and colorful life and career in Hollywood. He tells delightful stories of the making of such films as Spartacus, Lust for Life, Champion, The Bad and the Beautiful, and many others, and he includes anecdotes about such friends as Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Lauren Bacall, Ronald Reagan, Ava Gardner, Henry Kissinger, Fred Astaire, Yul Brynner, John Wayne, and Johnny Cash. He reveals the secrets that have kept him and his wife, Anne, happily married for more than five decades and talks fondly and movingly of times spent with his sons and grandchildren. He also reflects upon his Jewish faith and offers strong opinions on everything from racism to corporate greed to the war in Iraq and the situation in Israel. A must-read for every fan, this engrossing memoir provides an indelible self-portrait of one of America's screen icons—while sharing the wit and wisdom Kirk Douglas has accumulated over a lifetime.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628468Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628468 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let’s Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving, and Learning Author: Kirk Douglas Narrator: Jason Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628468 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let’s Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving, and Learning Author: Kirk Douglas Narrator: Jason Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 1, 2008 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Kirk Douglas has been one of the brightest stars in Hollywood, a hard-charging actor whose intensity on the screen has been mirrored in his personal life. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, Douglas contemplates what life is all about, weighing current events from his present frame of mind while summoning the passions of his younger days. Kirk Douglas is a born storyteller, and throughout Let's Face It he offers wonderful tales, favorite jokes, and hard-won insights. He explores the mixed blessings of growing older and looks back at his childhood, his young adulthood, and his storied, glamorous, and colorful life and career in Hollywood. He tells delightful stories of the making of such films as Spartacus, Lust for Life, Champion, The Bad and the Beautiful, and many others, and he includes anecdotes about such friends as Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Lauren Bacall, Ronald Reagan, Ava Gardner, Henry Kissinger, Fred Astaire, Yul Brynner, John Wayne, and Johnny Cash. He reveals the secrets that have kept him and his wife, Anne, happily married for more than five decades and talks fondly and movingly of times spent with his sons and grandchildren. He also reflects upon his Jewish faith and offers strong opinions on everything from racism to corporate greed to the war in Iraq and the situation in Israel. A must-read for every fan, this engrossing memoir provides an indelible self-portrait of one of America's screen icons—while sharing the wit and wisdom Kirk Douglas has accumulated over a lifetime.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beautiful-boy-a-father-s-journey-through-his-son-s-meth-addiction-by-david-sheff--65184566https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624104 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey through His Son’s Meth Addiction Author: David Sheff Narrator: Anthony Heald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes Release date: February 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times best-selling story of addiction and a father’s love: “A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts.”—Anne Lamott Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son’s drug addiction. David’s story is a first: a teenager’s addiction from the parent’s point of view—a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Before meth, Sheff’s son, Nic, was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole money from his eight-year-old brother, and lived on the streets. With poignant candor, Sheff traces the first warning signs—denial, 3 a.m. phone calls—the attempts at rehabilitation, and, at last, the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict’s fate, the rest of the family must care for one another too, lest they become addicted to addiction. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624104Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624104 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey through His Son’s Meth Addiction Author: David Sheff Narrator: Anthony Heald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624104 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey through His Son’s Meth Addiction Author: David Sheff Narrator: Anthony Heald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 28 minutes Release date: February 1, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times best-selling story of addiction and a father’s love: “A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts.”—Anne Lamott Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son’s drug addiction. David’s story is a first: a teenager’s addiction from the parent’s point of view—a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Before meth, Sheff’s son, Nic, was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole money from his eight-year-old brother, and lived on the streets. With poignant candor, Sheff traces the first warning signs—denial, 3 a.m. phone calls—the attempts at rehabilitation, and, at last, the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict’s fate, the rest of the family must care for one another too, lest they become addicted to addiction. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-middle-place-by-kelly-corrigan--65184491https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Middle Place Author: Kelly Corrigan Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 8, 2008 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For Kelly Corrigan, family is everything. At thirty-six, she had a marriage that worked, two funny, active kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But even as a thriving adult, Kelly still saw herself as the daughter of garrulous Irish-American charmer George Corrigan. She was living deep within what she calls the Middle Place—“that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap”—comfortably wedged between her adult duties and her parents’ care. But Kelly is abruptly shoved into coming-of-age when she finds a lump in her breast—and gets the diagnosis no one wants to hear. When George, too, learns that he has late-stage cancer, it is Kelly’s turn to take care of the man who had always taken care of her—and to show us a woman who finally takes the leap and grows up.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628477Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Middle Place Author: Kelly Corrigan Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 8, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Middle Place Author: Kelly Corrigan Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 8, 2008 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For Kelly Corrigan, family is everything. At thirty-six, she had a marriage that worked, two funny, active kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But even as a thriving adult, Kelly still saw herself as the daughter of garrulous Irish-American charmer George Corrigan. She was living deep within what she calls the Middle Place—“that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap”—comfortably wedged between her adult duties and her parents’ care. But Kelly is abruptly shoved into coming-of-age when she finds a lump in her breast—and gets the diagnosis no one wants to hear. When George, too, learns that he has late-stage cancer, it is Kelly’s turn to take care of the man who had always taken care of her—and to show us a woman who finally takes the leap and grows up.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/chosen-by-a-horse-a-memoir-by-susan-richards--65184522https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628478 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chosen by a Horse: A Memoir Author: Susan Richards Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: December 1, 2007 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn’t be corralled into her waiting trailer. Instead Lay Me Down, a former racehorse with a foal close on her heels, walked right up that ramp and into Susan’s life. This gentle creature—malnourished, plagued by pneumonia and an eye infection—had endured a rough road, but somehow her heart was still open and generous. It seemed fated that she would come into Susan’s paddock and teach her how to embrace the joys of life despite the dangers of living. An elegant and often heartbreaking tale filled with animal characters as complicated and lively as their human counterparts, this is an inspiring story of courage and hope and the ways in which all love—even an animal’s—has the power to heal.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628478Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628478 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chosen by a Horse: A Memoir Author: Susan Richards Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: December...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628478 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chosen by a Horse: A Memoir Author: Susan Richards Narrator: Lorna Raver Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 25 minutes Release date: December 1, 2007 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn’t be corralled into her waiting trailer. Instead Lay Me Down, a former racehorse with a foal close on her heels, walked right up that ramp and into Susan’s life. This gentle creature—malnourished, plagued by pneumonia and an eye infection—had endured a rough road, but somehow her heart was still open and generous. It seemed fated that she would come into Susan’s paddock and teach her how to embrace the joys of life despite the dangers of living. An elegant and often heartbreaking tale filled with animal characters as complicated and lively as their human counterparts, this is an inspiring story of courage and hope and the ways in which all love—even an animal’s—has the power to heal.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/elizabeth-and-her-german-garden-by-elizabeth-von-arnim--65184579https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth and Her German Garden Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 1, 2007 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “May 7th—There were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the decencies.” Indoors are servants, meals, and furniture. There, too, is the Man of Wrath, her upright Teutonic husband, inspiring in Elizabeth a mixture of irritation, affection, and irreverence. But outside she can escape domestic routine, read favorite books, play with her three babies—and garden to her heart’s content. Through Elizabeth’s eyes and unique wit, we watch the seasons come and go, each bringing with it new events, friends, and neighbors.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624068Mon, 01 Jan 2007 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth and Her German Garden Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 46 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Elizabeth and Her German Garden Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 1, 2007 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “May 7th—There were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the decencies.” Indoors are servants, meals, and furniture. There, too, is the Man of Wrath, her upright Teutonic husband, inspiring in Elizabeth a mixture of irritation, affection, and irreverence. But outside she can escape domestic routine, read favorite books, play with her three babies—and garden to her heart’s content. Through Elizabeth’s eyes and unique wit, we watch the seasons come and go, each bringing with it new events, friends, and neighbors.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/passages-from-the-diary-of-samuel-pepys-by-samuel-pepys--65184644https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys Author: Samuel Pepys Narrator: Fred Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'The diary which Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669…is one of our greatest historical records and…a major work of English literature,' writes the renowned historian Paul Johnson. A witness to the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666, Pepys chronicled the events of his day. His diary provides an astonishingly frank and diverting account of political intrigues, naval, church, and cultural affairs, as well as a quotidian journal of daily life in London during the Restoration. Pepys' vivid, unconscious style, originally written in a cryptic shorthand, reveals an ideal witness: honest, unpretentious, and true.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624016Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys Author: Samuel Pepys Narrator: Fred Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys Author: Samuel Pepys Narrator: Fred Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'The diary which Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669…is one of our greatest historical records and…a major work of English literature,' writes the renowned historian Paul Johnson. A witness to the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666, Pepys chronicled the events of his day. His diary provides an astonishingly frank and diverting account of political intrigues, naval, church, and cultural affairs, as well as a quotidian journal of daily life in London during the Restoration. Pepys' vivid, unconscious style, originally written in a cryptic shorthand, reveals an ideal witness: honest, unpretentious, and true.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-autobiography-of-benjamin-franklin-by-benjamin-franklin--65184587https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Author: Benjamin Franklin Narrator: Michael Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Among other things, Benjamin Franklin was a printer, philosopher, inventor, statesman, and not least, a writer. Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry—the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the eighteenth century and whose achievements ranged from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richard's Almanac to signing the Declaration of Independence.His autobiography captures the essence of his spirit, and in it we can see him as a product of the eighteenth-century enlightenment, a type of Yankee statesman who could use the language of Addison, Steele, Swift, and Defoe. In his autobiography, Franklin asks himself, 'Who am I, how did I come to be, and why am I a human being as I am?' and he answers with the honesty, wit, and charm that have made this possibly the most famous of all autobiographies. This isan intimate look at the life of one of American history's most notable figures.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623910Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Author: Benjamin Franklin Narrator: Michael Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Author: Benjamin Franklin Narrator: Michael Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Among other things, Benjamin Franklin was a printer, philosopher, inventor, statesman, and not least, a writer. Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry—the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the eighteenth century and whose achievements ranged from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richard's Almanac to signing the Declaration of Independence.His autobiography captures the essence of his spirit, and in it we can see him as a product of the eighteenth-century enlightenment, a type of Yankee statesman who could use the language of Addison, Steele, Swift, and Defoe. In his autobiography, Franklin asks himself, 'Who am I, how did I come to be, and why am I a human being as I am?' and he answers with the honesty, wit, and charm that have made this possibly the most famous of all autobiographies. This isan intimate look at the life of one of American history's most notable figures.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/titanic-a-survivor-s-story-by-colonel-archibald-gracie--65184575https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623924 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Titanic: A Survivor’s Story Author: Colonel Archibald Gracie Narrator: Frederick Davidson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Archibald Gracie was probably among the last to leave the sinking Titanic on that cold April night in 1912, one of the most traumatic events in maritime history. In this unique account, he describes his personal experiences and remarkable escape from death in the icy waters of the Atlantic, painting a vivid picture of what it was like on board the Titanic in its final hours. Tracking down other survivors for their stories and attending court hearings to obtain the official record, Colonel Gracie filled in the details of his account, struggling to complete it in spite of illness. Largely due to the effects of his ordeal and exposure in the frigid Atlantic, he finally succumbed on December 4, 1912. His book was published in 1913 to universal acclaim and remains one of the most vivid and first-hand accounts of the disaster.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623924Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623924 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Titanic: A Survivor’s Story Author: Colonel Archibald Gracie Narrator: Frederick Davidson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623924 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Titanic: A Survivor’s Story Author: Colonel Archibald Gracie Narrator: Frederick Davidson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Archibald Gracie was probably among the last to leave the sinking Titanic on that cold April night in 1912, one of the most traumatic events in maritime history. In this unique account, he describes his personal experiences and remarkable escape from death in the icy waters of the Atlantic, painting a vivid picture of what it was like on board the Titanic in its final hours. Tracking down other survivors for their stories and attending court hearings to obtain the official record, Colonel Gracie filled in the details of his account, struggling to complete it in spite of illness. Largely due to the effects of his ordeal and exposure in the frigid Atlantic, he finally succumbed on December 4, 1912. His book was published in 1913 to universal acclaim and remains one of the most vivid and first-hand accounts of the disaster.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/house-to-house-an-epic-memoir-of-war-by-david-bellavia--65184572https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: House to House: An Epic Memoir of War Author: David Bellavia Narrator: Ray Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.82 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is the personal side of battle, where emotion, courage, and strength are stretched to the limits. Bringing to searing life the terrifying intimacy of hand-to-hand infantry combat, House to House is far more than just another war story—it is one of the most compelling combat narratives ever written. Populated by an indelibly drawn cast of characters, it develops the intensely close relationships that form between soldiers under fire. Their friendships, tested in brutal combat, would never be quite the same. What happened to them in their bloody embrace with America’s most implacable enemy is a harrowing, unforgettable story of triumph, tragedy, and the resiliency of the human spirit. Staff Sergeant David Bellavia, army infantry platoon leader, gives a teeth-rattling, first-hand account of eleven straight days of heavy house-to-house fighting during the climactic second battle of Fallujah. His actions in the firefight, which included killing five insurgents in hand-to-hand combat, earned Bellavia the Bronze Star, the Silver Star, and New York state’s highest military honor, the Conspicuous Service Cross. He has been nominated for the Medal of Honor and for the army’s second highest combat medal, the Distinguished Service Cross.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623977Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: House to House: An Epic Memoir of War Author: David Bellavia Narrator: Ray Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: House to House: An Epic Memoir of War Author: David Bellavia Narrator: Ray Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.82 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is the personal side of battle, where emotion, courage, and strength are stretched to the limits. Bringing to searing life the terrifying intimacy of hand-to-hand infantry combat, House to House is far more than just another war story—it is one of the most compelling combat narratives ever written. Populated by an indelibly drawn cast of characters, it develops the intensely close relationships that form between soldiers under fire. Their friendships, tested in brutal combat, would never be quite the same. What happened to them in their bloody embrace with America’s most implacable enemy is a harrowing, unforgettable story of triumph, tragedy, and the resiliency of the human spirit. Staff Sergeant David Bellavia, army infantry platoon leader, gives a teeth-rattling, first-hand account of eleven straight days of heavy house-to-house fighting during the climactic second battle of Fallujah. His actions in the firefight, which included killing five insurgents in hand-to-hand combat, earned Bellavia the Bronze Star, the Silver Star, and New York state’s highest military honor, the Conspicuous Service Cross. He has been nominated for the Medal of Honor and for the army’s second highest combat medal, the Distinguished Service Cross.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-dogs-who-found-me-what-i-ve-learned-from-pets-who-were-left-behind-by-ken-foster--65184560https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dogs Who Found Me: What I’ve Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind Author: Ken Foster Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Disaster-prone writer and reluctant dog rescuer Ken Foster never intended to adopt an abandoned dog. But after bringing Brando home, he finds it hard not to notice how many homeless strays there are in the city. Suddenly, he finds them everywhere—from a beagle abandoned in a New York City dog run to a pit bull in a Mississippi truck stop—and finds himself unable to resist taking them home. But what he gains from them in return is far richer than his own expense. Their circumstances offer a grounding counterpoint to his own misfortunes: the shock of New York City after 9/11, the deaths of two close friends, the evacuation of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and the day his heart nearly stopped for good.He writes eloquently about the world of animal shelters, the nature of compassion, and the empowering effect of rescuing—and being rescued.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627513Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dogs Who Found Me: What I’ve Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind Author: Ken Foster Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dogs Who Found Me: What I’ve Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind Author: Ken Foster Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Disaster-prone writer and reluctant dog rescuer Ken Foster never intended to adopt an abandoned dog. But after bringing Brando home, he finds it hard not to notice how many homeless strays there are in the city. Suddenly, he finds them everywhere—from a beagle abandoned in a New York City dog run to a pit bull in a Mississippi truck stop—and finds himself unable to resist taking them home. But what he gains from them in return is far richer than his own expense. Their circumstances offer a grounding counterpoint to his own misfortunes: the shock of New York City after 9/11, the deaths of two close friends, the evacuation of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and the day his heart nearly stopped for good.He writes eloquently about the world of animal shelters, the nature of compassion, and the empowering effect of rescuing—and being rescued.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-dinner-of-herbs-by-efrem-zimbalist--65184550https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Dinner of Herbs Author: Efrem Zimbalist Narrator: Efrem Zimbalist Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.”—Proverbs 15:17 It’s a long way from a large, luxurious, and rambling estate in the Connecticut countryside to Hollywood’s 77 Sunset Strip, but Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., made that journey, traveling many different roads during the life he so engagingly recreates in this memoir. His parents, the violinist Efrem Zimbalist and the operatic soprano Alma Gluck, acclaimed for their artistry throughout the world, provided their son with a childhood of comfort and security and, of course, music. Tracing his life from childhood to the present day, he shares memories of family, his student days at Yale, his military service and travel, and his careers in movies, theater, and television, as well as his share in a Pulitzer Prize. Included in this audio are musical excerpts from his violin virtuoso father and opera diva mother.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625770Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Dinner of Herbs Author: Efrem Zimbalist Narrator: Efrem Zimbalist Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625770 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Dinner of Herbs Author: Efrem Zimbalist Narrator: Efrem Zimbalist Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 36 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.”—Proverbs 15:17 It’s a long way from a large, luxurious, and rambling estate in the Connecticut countryside to Hollywood’s 77 Sunset Strip, but Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., made that journey, traveling many different roads during the life he so engagingly recreates in this memoir. His parents, the violinist Efrem Zimbalist and the operatic soprano Alma Gluck, acclaimed for their artistry throughout the world, provided their son with a childhood of comfort and security and, of course, music. Tracing his life from childhood to the present day, he shares memories of family, his student days at Yale, his military service and travel, and his careers in movies, theater, and television, as well as his share in a Pulitzer Prize. Included in this audio are musical excerpts from his violin virtuoso father and opera diva mother.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-do-you-care-what-other-people-think-further-adventures-of-a-curious-character-by-richard-p-feynman--65184546https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”: Further Adventures of a Curious Character Author: Richard P. Feynman Narrator: Raymond Todd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One of the greatest theoretical physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. “What Do You Care What Other People Think?” is Feynman’s last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton. Among the book’s many tales, we meet Feynman’s first wife, Arlene, who taught him love’s irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating chronicle of the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger’s explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster’s cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628341Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”: Further Adventures of a Curious Character Author: Richard P. Feynman Narrator: Raymond Todd Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”: Further Adventures of a Curious Character Author: Richard P. Feynman Narrator: Raymond Todd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One of the greatest theoretical physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. “What Do You Care What Other People Think?” is Feynman’s last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton. Among the book’s many tales, we meet Feynman’s first wife, Arlene, who taught him love’s irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating chronicle of the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger’s explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster’s cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/goodbye-darkness-a-memoir-of-the-pacific-war-by-william-manchester--65184540https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War Author: William Manchester Narrator: Barrett Whitener Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The nightmares began for William Manchester twenty-three years after World War II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of himself as a battle-weary youth 'angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms.' To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young Marine he fought the Japanese. In this intensely powerful memoir, America's preeminent biographer-historian, who has written so brilliantly about World War II in his acclaimed lives of General Douglas MacArthur (American Caesar) and Winston Churchill (The Last Lion), looks back at his own early life. He offers an unrivaled firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific: of what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628403Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War Author: William Manchester Narrator: Barrett Whitener Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 2...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War Author: William Manchester Narrator: Barrett Whitener Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The nightmares began for William Manchester twenty-three years after World War II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of himself as a battle-weary youth 'angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms.' To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young Marine he fought the Japanese. In this intensely powerful memoir, America's preeminent biographer-historian, who has written so brilliantly about World War II in his acclaimed lives of General Douglas MacArthur (American Caesar) and Winston Churchill (The Last Lion), looks back at his own early life. He offers an unrivaled firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific: of what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pensees-by-blaise-pascal--65184527https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pensées Author: Blaise Pascal Narrator: William Sutherland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 42 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Compiled after his death in 1662, Pascal's'pens├®es' (thoughts) are his ideas for a book in defense of faith in a rational world. These fragments give evidence of a profoundly original thinker who had resolved the conflict between his scientific mind and his heart-felt faith. The book begins with an analysis of the difference between mathematical and intuitive thinking and goes on to consider the value of skepticism, contradictions, feeling, memory, and imagination. It is a powerful look at humanity's weakness and the futility of worldly life. Much of the value ofPens├®eslies in the clarity with which Pascal was able to present his intuitive thoughts. Pascal spent much of his life composing this magnum opus, which offers some of the most powerful aphorisms about human experience and behavior ever written.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624005Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pensées Author: Blaise Pascal Narrator: William Sutherland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 42 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pensées Author: Blaise Pascal Narrator: William Sutherland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 42 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Compiled after his death in 1662, Pascal's'pens├®es' (thoughts) are his ideas for a book in defense of faith in a rational world. These fragments give evidence of a profoundly original thinker who had resolved the conflict between his scientific mind and his heart-felt faith. The book begins with an analysis of the difference between mathematical and intuitive thinking and goes on to consider the value of skepticism, contradictions, feeling, memory, and imagination. It is a powerful look at humanity's weakness and the futility of worldly life. Much of the value ofPens├®eslies in the clarity with which Pascal was able to present his intuitive thoughts. Pascal spent much of his life composing this magnum opus, which offers some of the most powerful aphorisms about human experience and behavior ever written.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-son-of-the-middle-border-by-hamlin-garland--65184526https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Son of the Middle Border Author: Hamlin Garland Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 41 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Son of the Middle Border is an epic story of the quest for new frontiers during the last half of the nineteenth century, and of the gradual, heartbreaking failure of America’s pioneer ideal. Drawing on the history of his own family, Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland chronicles the experiences of a generation. A Son of the Middle Border, Garland’s bittersweet narrative of growing up on Wisconsin, Iowa, and South Dakota farms, captures in vivid, moving detail the stories of the thousands of courageous and optimistic Americans who sought new and prosperous lives on the midwestern frontier and discovered not only the grandeur of the plains but also the immense toll nature demands from those who try to tame the land.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624022Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Son of the Middle Border Author: Hamlin Garland Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 41 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Son of the Middle Border Author: Hamlin Garland Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 41 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Son of the Middle Border is an epic story of the quest for new frontiers during the last half of the nineteenth century, and of the gradual, heartbreaking failure of America’s pioneer ideal. Drawing on the history of his own family, Pulitzer Prize winner Hamlin Garland chronicles the experiences of a generation. A Son of the Middle Border, Garland’s bittersweet narrative of growing up on Wisconsin, Iowa, and South Dakota farms, captures in vivid, moving detail the stories of the thousands of courageous and optimistic Americans who sought new and prosperous lives on the midwestern frontier and discovered not only the grandeur of the plains but also the immense toll nature demands from those who try to tame the land.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/miles-gone-by-a-literary-autobiography-by-william-f-buckley-jr--65184493https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography Author: William F. Buckley, Jr. Narrator: William F. Buckley, Jr. Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 27, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this autobiography, woven from personal pieces composed over the course of a celebrated writing life of more than fifty years, you’ll meet William Buckley the boy, growing up in a family of ten children; Buckley the political enfant terrible, whose debut book, God and Man at Yale, was a New York Times bestseller; Buckley the editor of the National Review, hailed as the founder of the modern conservative movement; Buckley the family man; Buckley the spy and novelist of spies; and Buckley the bon vivant. You’ll also meet Buckley’s friends: Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Clare Boothe Luce, Tom Wolfe, David Niven, and many others. Along the way, listeners will be treated to Buckley’s romance with wine, his love of the right word, his intoxication with music, and his joy in skiing and travel.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628326Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography Author: William F. Buckley, Jr. Narrator: William F. Buckley, Jr. Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography Author: William F. Buckley, Jr. Narrator: William F. Buckley, Jr. Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 36 minutes Release date: June 27, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this autobiography, woven from personal pieces composed over the course of a celebrated writing life of more than fifty years, you’ll meet William Buckley the boy, growing up in a family of ten children; Buckley the political enfant terrible, whose debut book, God and Man at Yale, was a New York Times bestseller; Buckley the editor of the National Review, hailed as the founder of the modern conservative movement; Buckley the family man; Buckley the spy and novelist of spies; and Buckley the bon vivant. You’ll also meet Buckley’s friends: Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Clare Boothe Luce, Tom Wolfe, David Niven, and many others. Along the way, listeners will be treated to Buckley’s romance with wine, his love of the right word, his intoxication with music, and his joy in skiing and travel.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/divorced-from-the-mob-my-journey-from-organized-crime-to-independent-woman-by-andrea-giovino--65184500https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628305 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Divorced from the Mob: My Journey from Organized Crime to Independent Woman Author: Andrea Giovino Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 26, 2005 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Andrea Giovino breaks the Mafia's code of silence and describes the life of a woman born and bred into the Family—and her inspirational escape. Her defiant struggle to break free of her family's criminal legacy is by turns horrifying and heartbreaking. As a child in Brooklyn, Giovino watched her brother become a hit man and helped her mother host card games for local mafiosos. As a sexy, street-smart woman, she earned a seat at nightclub tables next to John Gotti and took an emotional and bloody ride through organized crime that no HBO series could match. At home in her quietly luxurious Staten Island neighborhood of doctors and lawyers, she fought to keep her children safe—keeping the guns out of reach, washing bloodstains out of her drug-runner husband's clothes—and maintain the household's front as a model of American domesticity. Murders, a DEA setup, and FBI wiretaps finally brought Giovino, her husband, and her brother to the brink of prison. Defiantly, she chose to retain her identity, facing down threats against her life and courageously separating herself and her children from the world of organized crime. Now a model working parent, Giovino has pennedDivorced from the Mobas an inspirational tale for all women, a perspective of mob life largely unexplored by film and literature, and a headline-grabbing expos├® of organized crime told in a voice readers will never forget.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628305Sun, 26 Jun 2005 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628305 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Divorced from the Mob: My Journey from Organized Crime to Independent Woman Author: Andrea Giovino Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628305 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Divorced from the Mob: My Journey from Organized Crime to Independent Woman Author: Andrea Giovino Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 26, 2005 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Andrea Giovino breaks the Mafia's code of silence and describes the life of a woman born and bred into the Family—and her inspirational escape. Her defiant struggle to break free of her family's criminal legacy is by turns horrifying and heartbreaking. As a child in Brooklyn, Giovino watched her brother become a hit man and helped her mother host card games for local mafiosos. As a sexy, street-smart woman, she earned a seat at nightclub tables next to John Gotti and took an emotional and bloody ride through organized crime that no HBO series could match. At home in her quietly luxurious Staten Island neighborhood of doctors and lawyers, she fought to keep her children safe—keeping the guns out of reach, washing bloodstains out of her drug-runner husband's clothes—and maintain the household's front as a model of American domesticity. Murders, a DEA setup, and FBI wiretaps finally brought Giovino, her husband, and her brother to the brink of prison. Defiantly, she chose to retain her identity, facing down threats against her life and courageously separating herself and her children from the world of organized crime. Now a model working parent, Giovino has pennedDivorced from the Mobas an inspirational tale for all women, a perspective of mob life largely unexplored by film and literature, and a headline-grabbing expos├® of organized crime told in a voice readers will never forget.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-house-on-beartown-road-a-memoir-of-learning-and-forgetting-by-elizabeth-cohen--65184516https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting Author: Elizabeth Cohen Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 25, 2005 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this beautiful book, Elizabeth Cohen gives us a true and moving portrait of the love and courage of a family. Elizabeth is a member of the 'sandwich generation'—people caught in the middle of simultaneously caring for their children and for their aging parents. She is the mother of Ava and the daughter of Daddy, and she's responsible for both of them. Hers is the story of a woman's struggle to keep her family whole, to raise her child in a house of laughter and love, and to keep her father from hiding the house keys in his slippers. In this story full of everyday triumphs, Elizabeth—a suddenly single mother with a career, a mortgage, and a hamper of laundry—finds her world spiraling out of control yet full of beauty. Faced with mounting disasters, she chooses to confront life head on.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628301Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting Author: Elizabeth Cohen Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628301 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting Author: Elizabeth Cohen Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 25, 2005 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this beautiful book, Elizabeth Cohen gives us a true and moving portrait of the love and courage of a family. Elizabeth is a member of the 'sandwich generation'—people caught in the middle of simultaneously caring for their children and for their aging parents. She is the mother of Ava and the daughter of Daddy, and she's responsible for both of them. Hers is the story of a woman's struggle to keep her family whole, to raise her child in a house of laughter and love, and to keep her father from hiding the house keys in his slippers. In this story full of everyday triumphs, Elizabeth—a suddenly single mother with a career, a mortgage, and a hamper of laundry—finds her world spiraling out of control yet full of beauty. Faced with mounting disasters, she chooses to confront life head on.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-personal-odyssey-by-thomas-sowell--65184495https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Personal Odyssey Author: Thomas Sowell Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 22, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell’s life-long education in the school of hard knocks, as the journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place. The vignettes of the people and places that made an impression on Thomas Sowell at various stages of his life range from the poor and powerless to the mighty and the wealthy, from a home for homeless boys to the White House, as well as ranging across the United States and around the world. It also includes Sowell’s startling discovery of his own origins during his teenage years. More than a story of the life of Sowell himself, this is also about the people who gave him their help, their support, and their loyalty, as well as those who demonized him and knifed him in the back. It is a study not just of one life but also of life in general, with all its exhilaration and pain of constant striving and deserved success.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628244Wed, 22 Jun 2005 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Personal Odyssey Author: Thomas Sowell Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 22, 2005...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Personal Odyssey Author: Thomas Sowell Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 22, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell’s life-long education in the school of hard knocks, as the journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place. The vignettes of the people and places that made an impression on Thomas Sowell at various stages of his life range from the poor and powerless to the mighty and the wealthy, from a home for homeless boys to the White House, as well as ranging across the United States and around the world. It also includes Sowell’s startling discovery of his own origins during his teenage years. More than a story of the life of Sowell himself, this is also about the people who gave him their help, their support, and their loyalty, as well as those who demonized him and knifed him in the back. It is a study not just of one life but also of life in general, with all its exhilaration and pain of constant striving and deserved success.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/one-ranger-a-memoir-by-h-joaquin-jackson-david-marion-wilkinson--65184539https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Ranger: A Memoir Author: H. Joaquin Jackson, David Marion Wilkinson Narrator: Rex Linn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When his picture appeared on the cover ofTexas Monthly, Joaquin Jackson became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers. He was the inspiration for Nick Nolte's character in the movieExtreme Prejudice, and he even had a speaking part of his own inThe Good Old Boyswith Tommy Lee Jones. But the role that Jackson has always played the best is that of the man who wears the silver badge cut from a Mexican cinco peso coin—a working Texas Ranger. Legend says that one Ranger is all it takes to put down lawlessness and restore the peace—one riot, one Ranger. In this adventure-filled memoir, Joaquin Jackson recalls what is was like to be the Ranger who responded when riots threatened, violence erupted, and criminals needed to be brought to justice across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border from 1966 to 1993. Jackson's incredible, dramatic story is part of the larger story of the Texas Rangers becoming a modern law enforcement agency that serves all the people of the state.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624273Sun, 01 May 2005 06:02:09 +0000George CummerataPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Ranger: A Memoir Author: H. Joaquin Jackson, David Marion Wilkinson Narrator: Rex Linn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 16 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Ranger: A Memoir Author: H. Joaquin Jackson, David Marion Wilkinson Narrator: Rex Linn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 1, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When his picture appeared on the cover ofTexas Monthly, Joaquin Jackson became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers. He was the inspiration for Nick Nolte's character in the movieExtreme Prejudice, and he even had a speaking part of his own inThe Good Old Boyswith Tommy Lee Jones. But the role that Jackson has always played the best is that of the man who wears the silver badge cut from a Mexican cinco peso coin—a working Texas Ranger. Legend says that one Ranger is all it takes to put down lawlessness and restore the peace—one riot, one Ranger. In this adventure-filled memoir, Joaquin Jackson recalls what is was like to be the Ranger who responded when riots threatened, violence erupted, and criminals needed to be brought to justice across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border from 1966 to 1993. Jackson's incredible, dramatic story is part of the larger story of the Texas Rangers becoming a modern law enforcement agency that serves all the people of the state.]]>185cleanfull