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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 Mandy Wisokyhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/0ac8cbd617e28f6925b2c2a17457908d.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/explore-the-latest-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-memoirs--6575220Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:41:39 +0000Mandy WisokyMandy Wisokyfeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/363/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. With a library of over 500,000+ audiobooks, we bring you classics, Romantic Novels, and Mystical Fiction stories....https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/363/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. With a library of over 500,000+ audiobooks, we bring you classics, Romantic Novels, and Mystical Fiction stories. Get 3 free audiobooks to start. Easily listen on iPhone, iPad, Android, and enjoy audiobooks whenever you want. Let the sounds of these wonderful stories accompany you! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/killing-the-image-a-champion-s-journey-of-faith-fighting-and-forgiveness-by-andre-ward--65185345https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610726 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Killing the Image: A Champion’s Journey of Faith, Fighting, and Forgiveness Author: Andre Ward Narrator: Andre Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Read by the author. In this inspiring memoir, undefeated five-time world champion boxer Andre Ward--aka 'Son of God'--shares the gripping narrative of his unforgettable career, his rock-solid faith, and why boxing was never the biggest fight of his life. Andre Ward was the undefeated light heavyweight boxing champion of the world when he walked away from the ring and did not look back. Now that he has taken off his gloves for the final time, the Olympic gold medalist is ready to share the heartbreaking and uplifting stories of his formative years and unprecedented boxing career. Motivational, faith-building, and utterly compelling, this memoir offers - an inspiring story of overcoming a broken childhood - behind-the-scenes drama from Andre's epic championship bouts, complicated relationships with managers and promoters, and shocking decision to retire at the top of his game - insight into breaking destructive generational bonds, forgiving those who have hurt us, and moving toward hope - a challenge to live out our faith without compromise   Rich with colorful characters, fascinating detail, and biblical truths, this is the story of a man known for his integrity outside the ring, his warrior's instinct inside it, and his unrelenting bond with the God who called him to the greatest victory of all.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610726Tue, 14 Nov 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610726 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Killing the Image: A Champion’s Journey of Faith, Fighting, and Forgiveness Author: Andre Ward Narrator: Andre Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610726 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Killing the Image: A Champion’s Journey of Faith, Fighting, and Forgiveness Author: Andre Ward Narrator: Andre Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Read by the author. In this inspiring memoir, undefeated five-time world champion boxer Andre Ward--aka 'Son of God'--shares the gripping narrative of his unforgettable career, his rock-solid faith, and why boxing was never the biggest fight of his life. Andre Ward was the undefeated light heavyweight boxing champion of the world when he walked away from the ring and did not look back. Now that he has taken off his gloves for the final time, the Olympic gold medalist is ready to share the heartbreaking and uplifting stories of his formative years and unprecedented boxing career. Motivational, faith-building, and utterly compelling, this memoir offers - an inspiring story of overcoming a broken childhood - behind-the-scenes drama from Andre's epic championship bouts, complicated relationships with managers and promoters, and shocking decision to retire at the top of his game - insight into breaking destructive generational bonds, forgiving those who have hurt us, and moving toward hope - a challenge to live out our faith without compromise   Rich with colorful characters, fascinating detail, and biblical truths, this is the story of a man known for his integrity outside the ring, his warrior's instinct inside it, and his unrelenting bond with the God who called him to the greatest victory of all.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/data-baby-my-life-in-a-psychological-experiment-by-susannah-breslin--65185578https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment Author: Susannah Breslin Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Lab Girl meets Brain on Fire in this provocative and poignant memoir delving into a woman's formative experiences as a veritable "lab rat" in a lifelong psychological study, and her pursuit to reclaim autonomy and her identity as a adult. What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you’re a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are?   When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of personality development that predicts who she and her cohort will grow up to be. Decades later, trapped in what she feels is an abusive marriage and battling breast cancer, she starts to wonder how growing up under a microscope shaped her identity and life choices. Already a successful journalist, she makes her own curious history the subject of her next investigation. From experiment rooms with one-way mirrors, to children’s puzzles with no solutions, to condemned basement laboratories, her life-changing journey uncovers the long-buried secrets hidden behind the renowned study. The question at the gnarled heart of her quest: Did the study know her better than she knew herself?   At once bravely honest and sharply witty, Data Baby is a compelling and provocative account of a woman’s quest to find her true self, and an unblinking exploration of why we turn out as we do. Few people in all of history have been studied from such a young age and for as long as Susannah Breslin, but the message of her book is universal. In an era when so many of us are looking to technology to tell us who to be, it’s up to us to discover who we actually are.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599864Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment Author: Susannah Breslin Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment Author: Susannah Breslin Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Lab Girl meets Brain on Fire in this provocative and poignant memoir delving into a woman's formative experiences as a veritable "lab rat" in a lifelong psychological study, and her pursuit to reclaim autonomy and her identity as a adult. What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you’re a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are?   When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of personality development that predicts who she and her cohort will grow up to be. Decades later, trapped in what she feels is an abusive marriage and battling breast cancer, she starts to wonder how growing up under a microscope shaped her identity and life choices. Already a successful journalist, she makes her own curious history the subject of her next investigation. From experiment rooms with one-way mirrors, to children’s puzzles with no solutions, to condemned basement laboratories, her life-changing journey uncovers the long-buried secrets hidden behind the renowned study. The question at the gnarled heart of her quest: Did the study know her better than she knew herself?   At once bravely honest and sharply witty, Data Baby is a compelling and provocative account of a woman’s quest to find her true self, and an unblinking exploration of why we turn out as we do. Few people in all of history have been studied from such a young age and for as long as Susannah Breslin, but the message of her book is universal. In an era when so many of us are looking to technology to tell us who to be, it’s up to us to discover who we actually are.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/quiet-street-on-american-privilege-by-nick-mcdonell--65185322https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611686 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quiet Street: On American Privilege Author: Nick McDonell Narrator: Nick Mcdonell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A bold and deeply personal exploration of wealth, power, and the American elite, exposing how the ruling class—intentionally or not—perpetuates cycles of injustice '[A] story about American inequity, and how it mindlessly, immorally, reproduces itself. Unlike most such stories, however, this one left me believing in the possibility...of drastic change.' —Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom Nick McDonell grew up on New York City’s Upper East Side, a neighborhood defined by its wealth and influence. As a child, McDonell enjoyed everything that rarefied world entailed—sailing lessons in the Hamptons, school galas at the Met, and holiday trips on private jets. But as an adult, he left it behind to become a foreign correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Quiet Street, McDonell returns to the sidewalks of his youth, exhuming with bracing honesty his upbringing and those of his affluent peers. From Galápagos Island cruises and Tanzanian safaris to steely handshakes and schoolyard microaggressions to fox-hunting rituals and the courtship rites of sexually precocious tweens, McDonell examines the rearing of the ruling class in scalpel-sharp detail, documenting how wealth and power are hoarded, encoded, and passed down from one generation to the next. What’s more, he demonstrates how outsiders—the poor, the nonwhite, the suburban—are kept out. Searing and precise yet ultimately full of compassion, Quiet Street examines the problem of America’s one percent, whose vision of a more just world never materializes. Who are these people? How do they cling to power? What would it take for them to share it? Quiet Street looks for answers in a universal experience: coming to terms with the culture that made you.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611686Tue, 22 Aug 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611686 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quiet Street: On American Privilege Author: Nick McDonell Narrator: Nick Mcdonell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 50 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611686 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quiet Street: On American Privilege Author: Nick McDonell Narrator: Nick Mcdonell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 22, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A bold and deeply personal exploration of wealth, power, and the American elite, exposing how the ruling class—intentionally or not—perpetuates cycles of injustice '[A] story about American inequity, and how it mindlessly, immorally, reproduces itself. Unlike most such stories, however, this one left me believing in the possibility...of drastic change.' —Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom Nick McDonell grew up on New York City’s Upper East Side, a neighborhood defined by its wealth and influence. As a child, McDonell enjoyed everything that rarefied world entailed—sailing lessons in the Hamptons, school galas at the Met, and holiday trips on private jets. But as an adult, he left it behind to become a foreign correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Quiet Street, McDonell returns to the sidewalks of his youth, exhuming with bracing honesty his upbringing and those of his affluent peers. From Galápagos Island cruises and Tanzanian safaris to steely handshakes and schoolyard microaggressions to fox-hunting rituals and the courtship rites of sexually precocious tweens, McDonell examines the rearing of the ruling class in scalpel-sharp detail, documenting how wealth and power are hoarded, encoded, and passed down from one generation to the next. What’s more, he demonstrates how outsiders—the poor, the nonwhite, the suburban—are kept out. Searing and precise yet ultimately full of compassion, Quiet Street examines the problem of America’s one percent, whose vision of a more just world never materializes. Who are these people? How do they cling to power? What would it take for them to share it? Quiet Street looks for answers in a universal experience: coming to terms with the culture that made you.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/that-peckham-boy-growing-up-getting-out-and-giving-back-by-kenny-imafidon--65185369https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610789 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Peckham Boy: Growing up, Getting Out and Giving Back Author: Kenny Imafidon Narrator: Chuku Modu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 13, 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. For fans of Poverty Safari and Skint Estate, That Peckham Boy is a real-life manifesto calling for positive change for those on the fringes of society. 'When you're writing the story of your life, make sure you're holding the pen. In this life you can be whoever you want to be.' Two days after his eighteenth birthday, Kenny Imafidon was charged with the murder of a seventeen-year-old boy in south-east London. The middle child of a single mother with ambitions for her children, Kenny grew up near an estate in Peckham where deprivation and hopelessness were rife, and gang culture flourished in his community. Kenny faced a minimum of thirty years behind bars - longer than the life he had lived. When the case against Kenny collapsed, he quickly realised that his name was still inextricably linked with a horrific crime he hadn't committed. He decided to rewrite his story. It began with The Kenny Report, which he delivered to the House of Commons and which detailed the experiences of marginalised young people who drift into gangs, and has led to extensive work with charities, communities and policy-makers that is helping to change the narratives of other young people just like Kenny. A candid and unfiltered take on some of the most challenging topics that define our times, That Peckham Boy is a personal manifesto exploring what it means to be young, Black and poor in the city. It is shaped by Kenny's difficult childhood, his transformative time in prison, and the people and conversations that took him from being on trial for murder into the company of some of the most successful people in the world. © Kenny Imafidon 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610789Thu, 13 Jul 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610789 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Peckham Boy: Growing up, Getting Out and Giving Back Author: Kenny Imafidon Narrator: Chuku Modu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610789 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That Peckham Boy: Growing up, Getting Out and Giving Back Author: Kenny Imafidon Narrator: Chuku Modu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 13, 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. For fans of Poverty Safari and Skint Estate, That Peckham Boy is a real-life manifesto calling for positive change for those on the fringes of society. 'When you're writing the story of your life, make sure you're holding the pen. In this life you can be whoever you want to be.' Two days after his eighteenth birthday, Kenny Imafidon was charged with the murder of a seventeen-year-old boy in south-east London. The middle child of a single mother with ambitions for her children, Kenny grew up near an estate in Peckham where deprivation and hopelessness were rife, and gang culture flourished in his community. Kenny faced a minimum of thirty years behind bars - longer than the life he had lived. When the case against Kenny collapsed, he quickly realised that his name was still inextricably linked with a horrific crime he hadn't committed. He decided to rewrite his story. It began with The Kenny Report, which he delivered to the House of Commons and which detailed the experiences of marginalised young people who drift into gangs, and has led to extensive work with charities, communities and policy-makers that is helping to change the narratives of other young people just like Kenny. A candid and unfiltered take on some of the most challenging topics that define our times, That Peckham Boy is a personal manifesto exploring what it means to be young, Black and poor in the city. It is shaped by Kenny's difficult childhood, his transformative time in prison, and the people and conversations that took him from being on trial for murder into the company of some of the most successful people in the world. © Kenny Imafidon 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thunderclap-a-memoir-of-art-and-life-sudden-death-by-laura-cumming--65185324https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612282 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death Author: Laura Cumming Narrator: Laura Cumming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'We see with everything that we are' On the morning of 12 October 1654, in the Dutch city of Delft, a sudden explosion was followed by a thunderclap that could be heard more than seventy miles away. Carel Fabritius - now known across the world for his exquisite painting, The Goldfinch - had been at work in his studio. He, along with many others, would not survive the day. In Thunderclap, Laura Cumming reveals her passion for the art of the Dutch Golden Age and her determination to lift up the reputation of Fabritius. She reveals the Netherlands, where - wandering the narrow streets of Amsterdam, driving across the flatlands, or pausing at a quiet waterfront - she encounters the rich reality behind the shining beauty of Vermeer and Rembrandt, Hals and de Hooch. She shares too her relationship with her father, the Scottish artist James Cumming, who had his own deep connection to Dutch painting, and who taught her about colour, light and the rewards of looking deeply. This is a book about what a picture may come to mean: how it can enter your life and change your thinking in a thunderclap, a sudden clarity of sight. This is also a book about the precariousness of human life - the way it may be snatched from us in an instant. What can art do to sustain us? The work that survives tells its own compelling story in these pages. From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, shortlisted for the Costa Prize for Biography. Praise for On Chapel Sands: 'Cumming skilfully withholds key twists in the tale, revealing them at just the right moment' The Times 'Outstanding . . . A peerless detective story that keeps you guessing to the end' Sunday Times Praise for The Vanishing Man, winner of the James Tait Black Prize: 'Superb and original' Sunday Times 'Sumptuous . . . A gleaming work of someone at the peak of her craft' New York Times ©2023 Laura Cumming (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612282Thu, 06 Jul 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612282 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death Author: Laura Cumming Narrator: Laura Cumming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612282 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death Author: Laura Cumming Narrator: Laura Cumming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'We see with everything that we are' On the morning of 12 October 1654, in the Dutch city of Delft, a sudden explosion was followed by a thunderclap that could be heard more than seventy miles away. Carel Fabritius - now known across the world for his exquisite painting, The Goldfinch - had been at work in his studio. He, along with many others, would not survive the day. In Thunderclap, Laura Cumming reveals her passion for the art of the Dutch Golden Age and her determination to lift up the reputation of Fabritius. She reveals the Netherlands, where - wandering the narrow streets of Amsterdam, driving across the flatlands, or pausing at a quiet waterfront - she encounters the rich reality behind the shining beauty of Vermeer and Rembrandt, Hals and de Hooch. She shares too her relationship with her father, the Scottish artist James Cumming, who had his own deep connection to Dutch painting, and who taught her about colour, light and the rewards of looking deeply. This is a book about what a picture may come to mean: how it can enter your life and change your thinking in a thunderclap, a sudden clarity of sight. This is also a book about the precariousness of human life - the way it may be snatched from us in an instant. What can art do to sustain us? The work that survives tells its own compelling story in these pages. From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, shortlisted for the Costa Prize for Biography. Praise for On Chapel Sands: 'Cumming skilfully withholds key twists in the tale, revealing them at just the right moment' The Times 'Outstanding . . . A peerless detective story that keeps you guessing to the end' Sunday Times Praise for The Vanishing Man, winner of the James Tait Black Prize: 'Superb and original' Sunday Times 'Sumptuous . . . A gleaming work of someone at the peak of her craft' New York Times ©2023 Laura Cumming (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hitler-stalin-mum-and-dad-a-family-memoir-of-miraculous-survival-by-daniel-finkelstein--65185482https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602875 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival Author: Daniel Finkelstein Narrator: Daniel Finkelstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: June 8, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Epic, moving and important’ ROBERT HARRIS 'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it's also a 'memoir of miraculous survival'. I can't recommend it enough' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'A modern classic’ OBSERVER ‘An unforgettable epic of a book’ DAILY MAIL From longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father’s devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War. Daniel’s mother Mirjam Wiener was the youngest of three daughters born in Germany to Alfred and Margarete Wiener. Alfred, a decorated hero from the Great War, is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began, in 1933, to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes. After moving his family to Amsterdam, he relocated his library to London and was preparing to bring over his wife and children when Germany invaded the Netherlands. Before long, the family was rounded up, robbed and sent to starve in Bergen-Belsen. Daniel’s father Ludwik was born in Lwów, the only child of a prosperous Jewish family. In 1939, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland, Ludwik’s father was arrested and sentenced to hard labour in the Gulag. Meanwhile, deported to Siberia and working as a slave labourer on a collective farm, Ludwik survived the freezing winters in a tiny house he built from cow dung. Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad is a deeply moving, personal and at times horrifying memoir about Finkelstein’s parents’ experiences at the hands of the two genocidal dictators of the twentieth century. It is a story of persecution; survival; and the consequences of totalitarianism told with the almost unimaginable bravery of two ordinary families shining through. ‘Danny Finkelstein has written an elegant, moving account of the history of one family, and in doing so shines light on the history of the 20th century. If you want to understand Hitler and Stalin, read this book about people whose lives were upended by both of them’ ANNE APPLEBAUM, author of Gulag: A History, winner of the Pulitzer Prize]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602875Thu, 08 Jun 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602875 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival Author: Daniel Finkelstein Narrator: Daniel Finkelstein Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602875 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival Author: Daniel Finkelstein Narrator: Daniel Finkelstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: June 8, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Epic, moving and important’ ROBERT HARRIS 'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it's also a 'memoir of miraculous survival'. I can't recommend it enough' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'A modern classic’ OBSERVER ‘An unforgettable epic of a book’ DAILY MAIL From longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his father’s devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War. Daniel’s mother Mirjam Wiener was the youngest of three daughters born in Germany to Alfred and Margarete Wiener. Alfred, a decorated hero from the Great War, is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began, in 1933, to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes. After moving his family to Amsterdam, he relocated his library to London and was preparing to bring over his wife and children when Germany invaded the Netherlands. Before long, the family was rounded up, robbed and sent to starve in Bergen-Belsen. Daniel’s father Ludwik was born in Lwów, the only child of a prosperous Jewish family. In 1939, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland, Ludwik’s father was arrested and sentenced to hard labour in the Gulag. Meanwhile, deported to Siberia and working as a slave labourer on a collective farm, Ludwik survived the freezing winters in a tiny house he built from cow dung. Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad is a deeply moving, personal and at times horrifying memoir about Finkelstein’s parents’ experiences at the hands of the two genocidal dictators of the twentieth century. It is a story of persecution; survival; and the consequences of totalitarianism told with the almost unimaginable bravery of two ordinary families shining through. ‘Danny Finkelstein has written an elegant, moving account of the history of one family, and in doing so shines light on the history of the 20th century. If you want to understand Hitler and Stalin, read this book about people whose lives were upended by both of them’ ANNE APPLEBAUM, author of Gulag: A History, winner of the Pulitzer Prize]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pageboy-a-memoir-by-elliot-page--65185501https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pageboy: A Memoir Author: Elliot Page Narrator: Elliot Page Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 14 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The emergence of our true selves is all of our life's work. Pageboy helps chart the course.' Jamie Lee Curtis 'Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant... This isn't simply a book on what it means to be trans, it's about what it means to be human.' Alok Vaid-Menon Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative and lyrical debut, Elliot Page captures the universal human experience of searching for ourselves and our place in this complicated world. 'Can I kiss you?' It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. The unthinkable. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans person. Getting closer to his desires, his dreams, himself, without the repression he'd carried for so long. But for Elliot, two steps forward had always come with one step back. With Juno's massive success, Elliot became one of the world's most beloved actors. His dreams were coming true, but the pressure to perform suffocated him. He was forced to play the part of the glossy young starlet, a role that made his skin crawl, on and off set. The career that had been an escape out of his reality and into a world of imagination was suddenly a nightmare. As he navigated criticism and abuse from some of the most powerful people in Hollywood, a past that snapped at his heels and a society dead set on forcing him into a binary, Elliot often stayed silent, unsure of what to do. Until enough was enough. The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his story in a groundbreaking and inspiring memoir about love, family, fame - and stepping into who we truly are with strength, joy and connection. © Elliot Page 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602642Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pageboy: A Memoir Author: Elliot Page Narrator: Elliot Page Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602642 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pageboy: A Memoir Author: Elliot Page Narrator: Elliot Page Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 14 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The emergence of our true selves is all of our life's work. Pageboy helps chart the course.' Jamie Lee Curtis 'Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant... This isn't simply a book on what it means to be trans, it's about what it means to be human.' Alok Vaid-Menon Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative and lyrical debut, Elliot Page captures the universal human experience of searching for ourselves and our place in this complicated world. 'Can I kiss you?' It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. The unthinkable. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans person. Getting closer to his desires, his dreams, himself, without the repression he'd carried for so long. But for Elliot, two steps forward had always come with one step back. With Juno's massive success, Elliot became one of the world's most beloved actors. His dreams were coming true, but the pressure to perform suffocated him. He was forced to play the part of the glossy young starlet, a role that made his skin crawl, on and off set. The career that had been an escape out of his reality and into a world of imagination was suddenly a nightmare. As he navigated criticism and abuse from some of the most powerful people in Hollywood, a past that snapped at his heels and a society dead set on forcing him into a binary, Elliot often stayed silent, unsure of what to do. Until enough was enough. The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his story in a groundbreaking and inspiring memoir about love, family, fame - and stepping into who we truly are with strength, joy and connection. © Elliot Page 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-boy-who-reached-for-the-stars-a-memoir-by-elio-morillo--65185407https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Who Reached for the Stars: A Memoir Author: Elio Morillo Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Inspiring and joyous.”—People ''Heartwarming . . . infectious . . . Morillo's The Boy Who Reached for the Stars is every bit the inspiration he means it to be.''—Kirkus Reviews The engineer known as the “space mechanic” speaks to both our future and past in this breathless memoir of his journey from Ecuador to NASA and beyond. Elio Morillo’s life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee Ecuador for the United States in search of a better future for her son. His itinerant childhood sets into motion a migration that will ultimately carry Elio to the farthest expanse of human endeavor: space. Overcoming a history of systemic adversity and inequality in public education, Elio forged ahead on a journey as indebted to his galactic dreams as to a loving mother whose sacrifices safeguarded the ground beneath his feet. Today, Elio is helping drive human expansion into the solar system and promote the future of human innovation—from AI and robotics to space infrastructure and equitable access. The Boy Who Reached the Stars is both a cosmic and intimate memoir spun from a constellation of memories, reflections, and intrepid curiosity, as thoroughly luminous as the stars above.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604518Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Who Reached for the Stars: A Memoir Author: Elio Morillo Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Boy Who Reached for the Stars: A Memoir Author: Elio Morillo Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 32 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Inspiring and joyous.”—People ''Heartwarming . . . infectious . . . Morillo's The Boy Who Reached for the Stars is every bit the inspiration he means it to be.''—Kirkus Reviews The engineer known as the “space mechanic” speaks to both our future and past in this breathless memoir of his journey from Ecuador to NASA and beyond. Elio Morillo’s life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee Ecuador for the United States in search of a better future for her son. His itinerant childhood sets into motion a migration that will ultimately carry Elio to the farthest expanse of human endeavor: space. Overcoming a history of systemic adversity and inequality in public education, Elio forged ahead on a journey as indebted to his galactic dreams as to a loving mother whose sacrifices safeguarded the ground beneath his feet. Today, Elio is helping drive human expansion into the solar system and promote the future of human innovation—from AI and robotics to space infrastructure and equitable access. The Boy Who Reached the Stars is both a cosmic and intimate memoir spun from a constellation of memories, reflections, and intrepid curiosity, as thoroughly luminous as the stars above.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-s-wrong-with-me-101-things-midlife-women-need-to-know-by-lorraine-candy--65185420https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: ‘What’s Wrong With Me?’: 101 Things Midlife Women Need to Know Author: Lorraine Candy Narrator: Lorraine Candy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 25, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘This comforting memoir will help us all feel less alone as we navigate the emotional turmoil of midlife’ Davina McCall, author of Menopausing From the bestselling author of ‘Mum, What’s Wrong With You?’ comes a witty, compelling, honest and reassuring guide to living a magnificent midlife. If I was removed from the hurly burly of these overwhelming days, I would be able to patiently and logically think it all through. To untangle this conundrum. I would be able to find the thing I had lost. Probably the most important thing I owned. My identity. Tackling everything from empty nest, career reinvention, sex, marriage, brain fog, burnout, perimenopause and menopause this laugh out loud memoir is a pathfinder for women whose messy midlife rage caught them by surprise. With advice from experts, celebrities and personal stories, the book will help women feel less alone as they embrace this liberating and transformational new stage of life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603623Thu, 25 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: ‘What’s Wrong With Me?’: 101 Things Midlife Women Need to Know Author: Lorraine Candy Narrator: Lorraine Candy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: ‘What’s Wrong With Me?’: 101 Things Midlife Women Need to Know Author: Lorraine Candy Narrator: Lorraine Candy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 25, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘This comforting memoir will help us all feel less alone as we navigate the emotional turmoil of midlife’ Davina McCall, author of Menopausing From the bestselling author of ‘Mum, What’s Wrong With You?’ comes a witty, compelling, honest and reassuring guide to living a magnificent midlife. If I was removed from the hurly burly of these overwhelming days, I would be able to patiently and logically think it all through. To untangle this conundrum. I would be able to find the thing I had lost. Probably the most important thing I owned. My identity. Tackling everything from empty nest, career reinvention, sex, marriage, brain fog, burnout, perimenopause and menopause this laugh out loud memoir is a pathfinder for women whose messy midlife rage caught them by surprise. With advice from experts, celebrities and personal stories, the book will help women feel less alone as they embrace this liberating and transformational new stage of life.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-fathers-cry-at-night-a-memoir-in-love-poems-recipes-letters-and-remembrances-by-kwame-alexander--65185528https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances Author: Kwame Alexander Narrator: Kwame Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poetry, letters, recipes, and other personal artifacts that provide an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with. In a powerfully intimate and non-traditional (or "new-fashioned") memoir, Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man learning how to love. He takes us through stories of his parents: from being awkward newlyweds in the sticky Chicago summer of 1967, to the sometimes-confusing ways they showed their love to each other, and for him. He explores his own relationships—his difficulties as a newly wedded, 22-year-old father, and the precariousness of his early marriage working in a jazz club with his second wife. Alexander attempts to deal with the unravelling of his marriage and the grief of his mother's recent passing while sharing the solace he found in learning how to perfect her famous fried chicken dish. With an open heart, Alexander weaves together memories of his past to try and understand his greatest love: his daughters. Full of heartfelt reminisces, family recipes, love poems, and personal letters, Why Fathers Cry at Night inspires bravery and vulnerability in every reader who has experienced the reckless passion, heartbreak, failure, and joy that define the whirlwind woes and wonders of love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599873Tue, 23 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances Author: Kwame Alexander Narrator: Kwame Alexander Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances Author: Kwame Alexander Narrator: Kwame Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poetry, letters, recipes, and other personal artifacts that provide an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with. In a powerfully intimate and non-traditional (or "new-fashioned") memoir, Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man learning how to love. He takes us through stories of his parents: from being awkward newlyweds in the sticky Chicago summer of 1967, to the sometimes-confusing ways they showed their love to each other, and for him. He explores his own relationships—his difficulties as a newly wedded, 22-year-old father, and the precariousness of his early marriage working in a jazz club with his second wife. Alexander attempts to deal with the unravelling of his marriage and the grief of his mother's recent passing while sharing the solace he found in learning how to perfect her famous fried chicken dish. With an open heart, Alexander weaves together memories of his past to try and understand his greatest love: his daughters. Full of heartfelt reminisces, family recipes, love poems, and personal letters, Why Fathers Cry at Night inspires bravery and vulnerability in every reader who has experienced the reckless passion, heartbreak, failure, and joy that define the whirlwind woes and wonders of love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-own-magic-a-reappearing-act-by-anna-kloots--65185309https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act Author: Anna Kloots Narrator: Anna Kloots Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Read by the author. For every woman searching for her voice, Anna Kloots shares her story of starting over by trusting the magic that was always within... Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetrotting adventures, behind the scenes, Anna felt invisible in her own life. Consumed by a marriage that left no space for her own desires and creativity, she chose to reframe the failure of her marriage as an opportunity to begin again. It was Anna's innate sense of adventure and love for the unknown that led her to move abroad; travel around the world, visiting 80 countries; start her own business; and marry a magician—all before her mid-twenties. From the outside, her jet-setting lifestyle alongside her husband looked perfect. But though she appeared to have all the freedom in the world, in reality she was trapped in a slow-motion disappearing act. When her marriage collapsed, she decided to use her unhappy ending as a chance for a new beginning—a reappearance into her own life and sense of exploration and discovery, letting each destination challenge, change, and shape her. Following Anna's extensive travels from the bustling streets of Jaipur to the canals of Venice to the desert of Dubai, My Own Magic is a powerful memoir—a true, coming-of-age story about a woman rediscovering the magic that she always had. Anna's memoir is proof that travel can transform you, inspire you, and even save you. Perfect for fans of Eat Pray Love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613371Tue, 16 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act Author: Anna Kloots Narrator: Anna Kloots Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 16,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act Author: Anna Kloots Narrator: Anna Kloots Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: May 16, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Read by the author. For every woman searching for her voice, Anna Kloots shares her story of starting over by trusting the magic that was always within... Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetrotting adventures, behind the scenes, Anna felt invisible in her own life. Consumed by a marriage that left no space for her own desires and creativity, she chose to reframe the failure of her marriage as an opportunity to begin again. It was Anna's innate sense of adventure and love for the unknown that led her to move abroad; travel around the world, visiting 80 countries; start her own business; and marry a magician—all before her mid-twenties. From the outside, her jet-setting lifestyle alongside her husband looked perfect. But though she appeared to have all the freedom in the world, in reality she was trapped in a slow-motion disappearing act. When her marriage collapsed, she decided to use her unhappy ending as a chance for a new beginning—a reappearance into her own life and sense of exploration and discovery, letting each destination challenge, change, and shape her. Following Anna's extensive travels from the bustling streets of Jaipur to the canals of Venice to the desert of Dubai, My Own Magic is a powerful memoir—a true, coming-of-age story about a woman rediscovering the magic that she always had. Anna's memoir is proof that travel can transform you, inspire you, and even save you. Perfect for fans of Eat Pray Love.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/look-for-me-there-grieving-my-father-finding-myself-by-luke-russert--65185313https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself Author: Luke Russert Narrator: Luke Russert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Look for Me There, Luke Russert traverses terrain both physical and deeply personal. On his journey to some of the world’s most stunning destinations, he visits the internal places of grief, family, faith, ambition, and purpose—with intense self-reflection, honesty, and courage.'—Savannah Guthrie, coanchor of Today Read by the author. “Look for me there,” news legend Tim Russert would tell his son, Luke, when confirming a pickup spot at an airport, sporting event, or rock concert. After Tim died unexpectedly, Luke kept looking for his father, following in Tim’s footsteps and carving out a highly successful career at NBC News. After eight years covering politics on television, Luke realized he had no good answer as to why he was chasing his father’s legacy. As the son of two accomplished parents—his mother is journalist Maureen Orth of Vanity Fair—Luke felt the pressure of high expectations but suddenly decided to leave the familiar path behind. Instead, Luke set out on his own to find answers. What began as several open-ended months of travel to decompress and reassess morphed into a three-plus-year odyssey across six continents to discover the world and, ultimately, to find himself. Chronicling the important lessons and historical understandings Luke discovered from his travels, Look for Me There is both the vivid narrative of that journey and the emotional story of a young man taking charge of his life, reexamining his relationship with his parents, and finally grieving his larger-than-life father, who died too young.  For anyone uncertain about the direction of their life or unsure of how to move forward after a loss, Look for Me There is a poignant reflection that offers encouragement to examine our choices, take risks, and discover our truest selves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613387Tue, 02 May 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself Author: Luke Russert Narrator: Luke Russert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself Author: Luke Russert Narrator: Luke Russert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Look for Me There, Luke Russert traverses terrain both physical and deeply personal. On his journey to some of the world’s most stunning destinations, he visits the internal places of grief, family, faith, ambition, and purpose—with intense self-reflection, honesty, and courage.'—Savannah Guthrie, coanchor of Today Read by the author. “Look for me there,” news legend Tim Russert would tell his son, Luke, when confirming a pickup spot at an airport, sporting event, or rock concert. After Tim died unexpectedly, Luke kept looking for his father, following in Tim’s footsteps and carving out a highly successful career at NBC News. After eight years covering politics on television, Luke realized he had no good answer as to why he was chasing his father’s legacy. As the son of two accomplished parents—his mother is journalist Maureen Orth of Vanity Fair—Luke felt the pressure of high expectations but suddenly decided to leave the familiar path behind. Instead, Luke set out on his own to find answers. What began as several open-ended months of travel to decompress and reassess morphed into a three-plus-year odyssey across six continents to discover the world and, ultimately, to find himself. Chronicling the important lessons and historical understandings Luke discovered from his travels, Look for Me There is both the vivid narrative of that journey and the emotional story of a young man taking charge of his life, reexamining his relationship with his parents, and finally grieving his larger-than-life father, who died too young.  For anyone uncertain about the direction of their life or unsure of how to move forward after a loss, Look for Me There is a poignant reflection that offers encouragement to examine our choices, take risks, and discover our truest selves.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-bringing-down-goliath-how-good-law-can-topple-the-powerful-by-jolyon-maugham--65185330https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610794 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful Author: Jolyon Maugham Narrator: Jolyon Maugham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. *Picked as a 2023 highlight by the Guardian* A revealing, empowering vision of how the law can work better for all of us, from Jolyon Maugham KC, founder of Good Law Project. Our legal system often feels like it only works for the rich and powerful - for those who have the means to use the courts to enforce their will and defend their interests. But we can fight back. Jolyon Maugham KC founded Good Law Project in 2017 with the belief that the law can also put power in the hands of ordinary people. It has brought a series of landmark cases against a dishonest and increasingly autocratic government and won widespread acclaim in successfully reversing Boris Johnson's unlawful suspension of Parliament. Already the largest legal campaign group in the UK, Good Law Project is shining light into corners the establishment would rather keep dark - from the failures of Brexit to the still-developing PPE scandal, to the tax arrangements of business giants like Uber. In Bringing Down Goliath, Jolyon Maugham shares his inspiration and his purpose, and he reveals the story behind these landmark cases and the hidden fault lines of our judiciary system. He offers an empowering, bold new vision for how the law can work better for all of us in the fight against injustice. ©2023 Jolyon Maugham (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610794Thu, 27 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610794 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful Author: Jolyon Maugham Narrator: Jolyon Maugham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610794 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful Author: Jolyon Maugham Narrator: Jolyon Maugham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. *Picked as a 2023 highlight by the Guardian* A revealing, empowering vision of how the law can work better for all of us, from Jolyon Maugham KC, founder of Good Law Project. Our legal system often feels like it only works for the rich and powerful - for those who have the means to use the courts to enforce their will and defend their interests. But we can fight back. Jolyon Maugham KC founded Good Law Project in 2017 with the belief that the law can also put power in the hands of ordinary people. It has brought a series of landmark cases against a dishonest and increasingly autocratic government and won widespread acclaim in successfully reversing Boris Johnson's unlawful suspension of Parliament. Already the largest legal campaign group in the UK, Good Law Project is shining light into corners the establishment would rather keep dark - from the failures of Brexit to the still-developing PPE scandal, to the tax arrangements of business giants like Uber. In Bringing Down Goliath, Jolyon Maugham shares his inspiration and his purpose, and he reveals the story behind these landmark cases and the hidden fault lines of our judiciary system. He offers an empowering, bold new vision for how the law can work better for all of us in the fight against injustice. ©2023 Jolyon Maugham (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/don-t-tell-anybody-the-secrets-i-told-you-a-memoir-by-lucinda-williams--65185320https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611945 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir Author: Lucinda Williams Narrator: Lucinda Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her enduring songs in this “bracingly candid chronicle” (The Wall Street Journal).   “[Williams’s] memoir transmutes the wisdom, pain, and hard-won joy of her life into stories that stick with you.”—Vogue A WASHINGTON POST AND ROLLING STONE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Lucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father—a poet, a textbook salesman, a professor, a lover of parties—got a new job, totaling twelve different places by the time she was eighteen. Her mother suffered from severe mental illness and was in and out of hospitals. And when Williams was about a year old, she had to have an emergency tracheotomy—an inauspicious start for a singing career. But she was also born a fighter, and she would develop a voice that has captivated millions. In Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, Williams takes readers through the events that shaped her music—from performing for family friends in her living room to singing at local high schools and colleges in Mexico City, to recording her first album with Folkway Records and headlining a sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall. She reveals the inspirations for her unforgettable lyrics, including the doomed love affairs with “poets on motorcycles” and the gothic southern landscapes of the many different towns of her youth, including Macon, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. Williams spent years working at health food stores and record stores during the day so she could play her music at night, and faced record companies who told her that her music was not “finished,” that it was “too country for rock and too rock for country.”  But her fighting spirit persevered, leading to a hard-won success that spans seventeen Grammy nominations and a legacy as one of the greatest and most influential songwriters of our time. Raw, intimate, and honest, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You is an evocative reflection on an extraordinary woman’s life journey.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611945Tue, 25 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611945 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir Author: Lucinda Williams Narrator: Lucinda Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611945 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir Author: Lucinda Williams Narrator: Lucinda Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her enduring songs in this “bracingly candid chronicle” (The Wall Street Journal).   “[Williams’s] memoir transmutes the wisdom, pain, and hard-won joy of her life into stories that stick with you.”—Vogue A WASHINGTON POST AND ROLLING STONE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Lucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father—a poet, a textbook salesman, a professor, a lover of parties—got a new job, totaling twelve different places by the time she was eighteen. Her mother suffered from severe mental illness and was in and out of hospitals. And when Williams was about a year old, she had to have an emergency tracheotomy—an inauspicious start for a singing career. But she was also born a fighter, and she would develop a voice that has captivated millions. In Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, Williams takes readers through the events that shaped her music—from performing for family friends in her living room to singing at local high schools and colleges in Mexico City, to recording her first album with Folkway Records and headlining a sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall. She reveals the inspirations for her unforgettable lyrics, including the doomed love affairs with “poets on motorcycles” and the gothic southern landscapes of the many different towns of her youth, including Macon, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. Williams spent years working at health food stores and record stores during the day so she could play her music at night, and faced record companies who told her that her music was not “finished,” that it was “too country for rock and too rock for country.”  But her fighting spirit persevered, leading to a hard-won success that spans seventeen Grammy nominations and a legacy as one of the greatest and most influential songwriters of our time. Raw, intimate, and honest, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You is an evocative reflection on an extraordinary woman’s life journey.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-cousin-maria-schneider-a-memoir-by-vanessa-schneider--65185429https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Cousin Maria Schneider: A Memoir Author: Vanessa Schneider Narrator: Molly Ringwald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A beautiful eulogy and a much-needed corrective” (The New York Times)—a love letter to Maria Schneider, the 1970s movie starlet who catapulted to fame in the controversial film Last Tango in Paris—only to live the rest of her life plagued by scandal, as told from the perspective of her adoring younger cousin. The late French actress Maria Schneider is perhaps best known for playing Jeanne in the provocative film Last Tango in Paris, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and released to international shock and acclaim in 1972. It was Maria’s first major role, alongside film legend Marlon Brando, when she was barely eighteen years old. The experience would haunt her for the rest of her life, traumatizing her and sparking a tabloid firestorm that only ceased when she began to retreat from the public eye nearly two decades later. To Maria’s much younger cousin, Vanessa Schneider, Maria was a towering figure of another kind—a beautiful and fearsome fixture in Vanessa’s childhood, a rising star turned pariah whose career and struggles with addiction won the family shame and pride in equal measure. Here, Vanessa recounts the challenges of their overlapping youths and fraught adulthood and reveals both the tragedy and inevitability of Maria’s path in a family plagued by mental illness and in a society rife with misogyny. Unsentimental and moving, My Cousin Maria Schneider is a love letter to a talented artist and the cousin who admired her, and a powerful story of exploitation and how its lingering effects can reverberate through a lifetime.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601090Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Cousin Maria Schneider: A Memoir Author: Vanessa Schneider Narrator: Molly Ringwald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 37 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601090 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Cousin Maria Schneider: A Memoir Author: Vanessa Schneider Narrator: Molly Ringwald Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A beautiful eulogy and a much-needed corrective” (The New York Times)—a love letter to Maria Schneider, the 1970s movie starlet who catapulted to fame in the controversial film Last Tango in Paris—only to live the rest of her life plagued by scandal, as told from the perspective of her adoring younger cousin. The late French actress Maria Schneider is perhaps best known for playing Jeanne in the provocative film Last Tango in Paris, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and released to international shock and acclaim in 1972. It was Maria’s first major role, alongside film legend Marlon Brando, when she was barely eighteen years old. The experience would haunt her for the rest of her life, traumatizing her and sparking a tabloid firestorm that only ceased when she began to retreat from the public eye nearly two decades later. To Maria’s much younger cousin, Vanessa Schneider, Maria was a towering figure of another kind—a beautiful and fearsome fixture in Vanessa’s childhood, a rising star turned pariah whose career and struggles with addiction won the family shame and pride in equal measure. Here, Vanessa recounts the challenges of their overlapping youths and fraught adulthood and reveals both the tragedy and inevitability of Maria’s path in a family plagued by mental illness and in a society rife with misogyny. Unsentimental and moving, My Cousin Maria Schneider is a love letter to a talented artist and the cousin who admired her, and a powerful story of exploitation and how its lingering effects can reverberate through a lifetime.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wavewalker-breaking-free-by-suzanne-heywood--65185577https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wavewalker: Breaking Free Author: Suzanne Heywood Narrator: Suzanne Heywood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 ‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES ‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER 'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy’ TELEGRAPH ‘This is a story of an epic childhood journey, so exciting and so shocking it is hard to know whether you’re reading about a dream or a nightmare… Wavewalker is thrilling, horrifying, beautifully written – I couldn’t put it down’ ED BALLS Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time and no state showed any interest in what was happening to the children. Suzanne fought her parents, longing to return to England and to education and stability. This memoir covers her astonishing upbringing, a survival story of a child deprived of safety, friendships, schooling and occasionally drinking water… At seventeen Suzanne earned an interview at Oxford University and returned to the UK. From the bestselling author of What Does Jeremy Think?, Wavewalker is the incredible true story of how the adventure of a lifetime became one child’s worst nightmare – and how her determination to educate herself enabled her to escape ‘A classic memoir of childhood. This is a book that every parent should read to consider the consequences of their midlife crises, and every child should read to learn how to deal with impossible mums and dads, as well as boils and barnacles’ Mail on Sunday 5* ‘An electrifying story about an extraordinary childhood, and Heywood tells it with remarkable clarity and assurance . . . an engrossing book that pitches the reader into the highs and lows of a young life spent in the “Wavewalker School of the Sea”’TLS]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593059Thu, 13 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wavewalker: Breaking Free Author: Suzanne Heywood Narrator: Suzanne Heywood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 15 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wavewalker: Breaking Free Author: Suzanne Heywood Narrator: Suzanne Heywood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 ‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES ‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER 'An astonishing almost day-by-day account of [a] hazardous journey and its legacy’ TELEGRAPH ‘This is a story of an epic childhood journey, so exciting and so shocking it is hard to know whether you’re reading about a dream or a nightmare… Wavewalker is thrilling, horrifying, beautifully written – I couldn’t put it down’ ED BALLS Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time and no state showed any interest in what was happening to the children. Suzanne fought her parents, longing to return to England and to education and stability. This memoir covers her astonishing upbringing, a survival story of a child deprived of safety, friendships, schooling and occasionally drinking water… At seventeen Suzanne earned an interview at Oxford University and returned to the UK. From the bestselling author of What Does Jeremy Think?, Wavewalker is the incredible true story of how the adventure of a lifetime became one child’s worst nightmare – and how her determination to educate herself enabled her to escape ‘A classic memoir of childhood. This is a book that every parent should read to consider the consequences of their midlife crises, and every child should read to learn how to deal with impossible mums and dads, as well as boils and barnacles’ Mail on Sunday 5* ‘An electrifying story about an extraordinary childhood, and Heywood tells it with remarkable clarity and assurance . . . an engrossing book that pitches the reader into the highs and lows of a young life spent in the “Wavewalker School of the Sea”’TLS]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-want-my-daddy-by-casey-watson--65185561https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Want My Daddy Author: Casey Watson Narrator: Kate Lock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose. Estranged from her parents, Ethan’s mum had been abused by her ex-partner, and began taking drugs to cope. Ethan is obviously lost and bewildered, and regularly wakes up screaming for his mum in the night. He begins to lash out at other kids at school and his behaviour becomes more volatile. When arrangements are made for Ethan to see his dad in prison, Casey recognises the name and face… It turns out she’s far more familiar with this case than first imagined.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593066Thu, 13 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Want My Daddy Author: Casey Watson Narrator: Kate Lock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Want My Daddy Author: Casey Watson Narrator: Kate Lock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A 5-year-old boy, Ethan, is brought to Casey in the middle of the night after the sudden death of his young mother after a drug overdose. Estranged from her parents, Ethan’s mum had been abused by her ex-partner, and began taking drugs to cope. Ethan is obviously lost and bewildered, and regularly wakes up screaming for his mum in the night. He begins to lash out at other kids at school and his behaviour becomes more volatile. When arrangements are made for Ethan to see his dad in prison, Casey recognises the name and face… It turns out she’s far more familiar with this case than first imagined.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wild-air-in-search-of-birdsong-by-james-macdonald-lockhart--65185550https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong Author: James Macdonald Lockhart Narrator: James Macdonald Lockhart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize ‘Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening’ Sunday Times A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor. In Wild Air, James Macdonald Lockhart sets out to write about a series of birds as though he has his granny’s role of listening to birds’ songs and calls and relaying what she heard to her aged and by then quite deaf father – the famous naturalist Seton Gordon. From a nightjar’s strange churring song on a heath in the south of England, to a lapwing displaying over the machair in the Outer Hebrides, he writes about eight different birds who he has spent most time with, returned to most often and relays what he hears. The eight species are all representative of a different habitat. Nightjars on a lowland heath; shearwaters on a mountain overlooking the sea; dippers on a river; skylarks in farmland; ravens in woodland; divers on a loch; lapwings on the coast; and nightingales in dense scrub. Not all of the birds are songbirds in the traditional sense, though each possesses its own distinctive music. That music can vary from the strange, as in the weird gurgling sound a shearwater makes inside its burrow, to the joyous exuberance of the skylark’s song. Sometimes, he hears a lot, and sees little (shearwaters in the pitch dark); sometimes he sees a lot, but hears little (black-throated divers on their loch). But in every case the sounds the birds make become an introduction to their lives – an audible introduction to the birds and the places they are found.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593056Thu, 13 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong Author: James Macdonald Lockhart Narrator: James Macdonald Lockhart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong Author: James Macdonald Lockhart Narrator: James Macdonald Lockhart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize ‘Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening’ Sunday Times A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the critically acclaimed author of Raptor. In Wild Air, James Macdonald Lockhart sets out to write about a series of birds as though he has his granny’s role of listening to birds’ songs and calls and relaying what she heard to her aged and by then quite deaf father – the famous naturalist Seton Gordon. From a nightjar’s strange churring song on a heath in the south of England, to a lapwing displaying over the machair in the Outer Hebrides, he writes about eight different birds who he has spent most time with, returned to most often and relays what he hears. The eight species are all representative of a different habitat. Nightjars on a lowland heath; shearwaters on a mountain overlooking the sea; dippers on a river; skylarks in farmland; ravens in woodland; divers on a loch; lapwings on the coast; and nightingales in dense scrub. Not all of the birds are songbirds in the traditional sense, though each possesses its own distinctive music. That music can vary from the strange, as in the weird gurgling sound a shearwater makes inside its burrow, to the joyous exuberance of the skylark’s song. Sometimes, he hears a lot, and sees little (shearwaters in the pitch dark); sometimes he sees a lot, but hears little (black-throated divers on their loch). But in every case the sounds the birds make become an introduction to their lives – an audible introduction to the birds and the places they are found.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/delight-by-j-b-priestley--65185484https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597908 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Delight Author: J. B. Priestley Narrator: Sean Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.’ Dolly Alderton ‘J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius.’ Dame Judi Dench ‘My apology, my little bit of penitence, for having grumbled so much, for having darkened the breakfast table, almost ruined the lunch, nearly silence the dinner party, for all the fretting and chafing, grousing and croaking, for the old glum look and the thrust-out lower lip. So my long-suffering kinsfolk, my patient friends, may a glimmer of that delight which has so often possessed me, but perhaps too frequently in secret, now reach you from these pages.’ There are times when there doesn’t seem much to smile about. And for those times, there is this book. J. B Priestley’s 1949 classic teaches us that joy may be found in even the simplest things, and that we all have the capacity to appreciate them. Delight comprises a series of short essays, all focussing on a single simple pleasure, from reading detective stories in bed to smoking a pipe in the bath; from ‘Cosy planning’ to the earliest summer mornings; and from mineral water in the bedrooms of foreign hotels to the smell of bacon in the morning. Combining poignant memories of his childhood with glimpses of his interior world, panoramas of life abroad with thoughts about writing, music, theatre – some strictly personal, some universal –this highly readable book bursts with humour and literary flare on every page.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597908Thu, 13 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597908 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Delight Author: J. B. Priestley Narrator: Sean Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597908 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Delight Author: J. B. Priestley Narrator: Sean Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 52 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.’ Dolly Alderton ‘J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius.’ Dame Judi Dench ‘My apology, my little bit of penitence, for having grumbled so much, for having darkened the breakfast table, almost ruined the lunch, nearly silence the dinner party, for all the fretting and chafing, grousing and croaking, for the old glum look and the thrust-out lower lip. So my long-suffering kinsfolk, my patient friends, may a glimmer of that delight which has so often possessed me, but perhaps too frequently in secret, now reach you from these pages.’ There are times when there doesn’t seem much to smile about. And for those times, there is this book. J. B Priestley’s 1949 classic teaches us that joy may be found in even the simplest things, and that we all have the capacity to appreciate them. Delight comprises a series of short essays, all focussing on a single simple pleasure, from reading detective stories in bed to smoking a pipe in the bath; from ‘Cosy planning’ to the earliest summer mornings; and from mineral water in the bedrooms of foreign hotels to the smell of bacon in the morning. Combining poignant memories of his childhood with glimpses of his interior world, panoramas of life abroad with thoughts about writing, music, theatre – some strictly personal, some universal –this highly readable book bursts with humour and literary flare on every page.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-chief-shepherdess-lessons-in-life-love-and-farming-by-zoe-colville--65185325https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Chief Shepherdess: Lessons in Life, Love and Farming Author: Zoe Colville Narrator: Zoe Colville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'I grab the motionless lamb, which is frighteningly slippery, and scramble on my feet, swinging its little body around to help it breathe. I see its chest move, then it sneezes and starts breathing. It's stunned by its delivery experience. As am I. I'm high on adrenaline. Tears are streaming down my face. I pop the lamb down on the ground and start frantically rubbing its tiny body... Looking back, I can see that this was one of the first moments of questioning whether I'm truly cut out for farming and realising that the answer might be... yes' Zoë Colville spent years in a fancy hair salon with a long list of clients, living on cigarettes, croissants, and a shoestring. It was everything she'd ever wanted. But when an unexpected and overwhelming loss caused her life to shift unexpectedly, she found herself on a different path. One where the only use for a hairdryer is warming new-born lambs; where the cycle of life on a farm gives new meaning on purpose, and where nature is both a strict teacher and a balm to soothe the pressures of everyday life. Alongside her long-term boyfriend, Zoë is now a full-time farmer, business owner and activist. In this memoir, she speaks vivaciously, humourously, and candidly about the lessons learned along the way, from mental health, social media and identity to surviving as an entrepreneur in a shifting economy. And through those lessons - in love, loss, and lambing - discovering something even more important: that it's always the right time to take a bold step and try something new. PRAISE FOR THE CHIEF SHEPHERDESS 'A new breed of shepherdess blazing a trail across social media, challenging outdated ideas about the job and capturing the public's imagination along the way' - Daily Mail 'The shepherdess whose flock you definitely need to follow' - Hello! ©2023 Zoe Colville (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612281Thu, 13 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Chief Shepherdess: Lessons in Life, Love and Farming Author: Zoe Colville Narrator: Zoe Colville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Chief Shepherdess: Lessons in Life, Love and Farming Author: Zoe Colville Narrator: Zoe Colville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'I grab the motionless lamb, which is frighteningly slippery, and scramble on my feet, swinging its little body around to help it breathe. I see its chest move, then it sneezes and starts breathing. It's stunned by its delivery experience. As am I. I'm high on adrenaline. Tears are streaming down my face. I pop the lamb down on the ground and start frantically rubbing its tiny body... Looking back, I can see that this was one of the first moments of questioning whether I'm truly cut out for farming and realising that the answer might be... yes' Zoë Colville spent years in a fancy hair salon with a long list of clients, living on cigarettes, croissants, and a shoestring. It was everything she'd ever wanted. But when an unexpected and overwhelming loss caused her life to shift unexpectedly, she found herself on a different path. One where the only use for a hairdryer is warming new-born lambs; where the cycle of life on a farm gives new meaning on purpose, and where nature is both a strict teacher and a balm to soothe the pressures of everyday life. Alongside her long-term boyfriend, Zoë is now a full-time farmer, business owner and activist. In this memoir, she speaks vivaciously, humourously, and candidly about the lessons learned along the way, from mental health, social media and identity to surviving as an entrepreneur in a shifting economy. And through those lessons - in love, loss, and lambing - discovering something even more important: that it's always the right time to take a bold step and try something new. PRAISE FOR THE CHIEF SHEPHERDESS 'A new breed of shepherdess blazing a trail across social media, challenging outdated ideas about the job and capturing the public's imagination along the way' - Daily Mail 'The shepherdess whose flock you definitely need to follow' - Hello! ©2023 Zoe Colville (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/you-could-make-this-place-beautiful-a-memoir-by-maggie-smith--65185552https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601070 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir Author: Maggie Smith Narrator: Maggie Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 37 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NPR Best Book of the Year • Time Best Book of the Year • Oprah Daily Best Memoir of the Year “A bittersweet study in both grief and joy.” ­—Time “A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes” (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author) that explores coming of age in your middle age—from the bestselling poet and author of Keep Moving. “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself. The book begins with one woman’s personal heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy she’s known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself. The power of these pieces is cumulative: page after page, they build into a larger interrogation of family, work, and patriarchy. You Could Make This Place Beautiful, like the work of Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk, and Gina Frangello, is an unflinching look at what it means to live and write our own lives. It is a story about a mother’s fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman’s love and regard for herself. Above all, this memoir is “extraordinary” (Ann Patchett) in the way that it reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something new and beautiful.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601070Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601070 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir Author: Maggie Smith Narrator: Maggie Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601070 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir Author: Maggie Smith Narrator: Maggie Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 37 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NPR Best Book of the Year • Time Best Book of the Year • Oprah Daily Best Memoir of the Year “A bittersweet study in both grief and joy.” ­—Time “A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes” (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author) that explores coming of age in your middle age—from the bestselling poet and author of Keep Moving. “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself. The book begins with one woman’s personal heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy she’s known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself. The power of these pieces is cumulative: page after page, they build into a larger interrogation of family, work, and patriarchy. You Could Make This Place Beautiful, like the work of Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk, and Gina Frangello, is an unflinching look at what it means to live and write our own lives. It is a story about a mother’s fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman’s love and regard for herself. Above all, this memoir is “extraordinary” (Ann Patchett) in the way that it reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something new and beautiful.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-isn-t-going-to-end-well-the-true-story-of-a-man-i-thought-i-knew-by-daniel-wallace--65185437https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603128 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew Author: Daniel Wallace Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this powerful memoir, the bestselling author of Big Fish tries to come to terms with the life and death of his multi-talented longtime friend and brother-in-law, who had been his biggest hero and inspiration, in a poignant, lyrical, and moving memoir. If we’re lucky, we all encounter at least one person whose life elevates and inspires our own. For acclaimed novelist Daniel Wallace, he had one hero and inspiration for so much of what followed: his longtime friend and brother-in-law William Nealy. Seemingly perfect, impossibly cool, William was James Dean, Clint Eastwood, and MacGyver all rolled into one, an acclaimed outdoorsman, a famous cartoonist, an accomplished author, a master of all he undertook, William was the ideal that Daniel sought to emulate.    But when William took his own life at age 48, Daniel was left first grieving, and then furious with the man who broke his and his sister’s hearts. That anger led him to commit a grievous act of his own, a betrayal that took him down a dark path into the tortured recesses of William’s past. Eventually, a new picture of William emerged, of a man with too many secrets and too much shame to bear.    This Isn’t Going to End Well is Daniel Wallace’s first foray into nonfiction. Part love story, part true crime, part a desperate search for the self and how little we really can know another, This Isn’t Going to End Well tells an intimate and moving story of what happens when we realize our heroes are human.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603128Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603128 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew Author: Daniel Wallace Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603128 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew Author: Daniel Wallace Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this powerful memoir, the bestselling author of Big Fish tries to come to terms with the life and death of his multi-talented longtime friend and brother-in-law, who had been his biggest hero and inspiration, in a poignant, lyrical, and moving memoir. If we’re lucky, we all encounter at least one person whose life elevates and inspires our own. For acclaimed novelist Daniel Wallace, he had one hero and inspiration for so much of what followed: his longtime friend and brother-in-law William Nealy. Seemingly perfect, impossibly cool, William was James Dean, Clint Eastwood, and MacGyver all rolled into one, an acclaimed outdoorsman, a famous cartoonist, an accomplished author, a master of all he undertook, William was the ideal that Daniel sought to emulate.    But when William took his own life at age 48, Daniel was left first grieving, and then furious with the man who broke his and his sister’s hearts. That anger led him to commit a grievous act of his own, a betrayal that took him down a dark path into the tortured recesses of William’s past. Eventually, a new picture of William emerged, of a man with too many secrets and too much shame to bear.    This Isn’t Going to End Well is Daniel Wallace’s first foray into nonfiction. Part love story, part true crime, part a desperate search for the self and how little we really can know another, This Isn’t Going to End Well tells an intimate and moving story of what happens when we realize our heroes are human.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/irma-the-education-of-a-mother-s-son-by-terry-mcdonell--65185341https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Irma: The Education of a Mother's Son Author: Terry Mcdonell Narrator: Joe Knezevich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A son’s lessons from his single mother—a twenty five year old widow who took control of her life, defied expectations and raised him into a manhood of his own—from the author of the acclaimed The Accidental Life. As a child, Terry McDonell imagined epic stories about his father, a fighter pilot who died in World War II. But, as he discovers in this dazzling memoir, the real hero in his life was his mother, Irma, who moved with him to California hoping for a new life and raised him through difficult times. Like most headstrong boys growing up in mid-century America, McDonell took his mother for granted, never giving her life much thought. He was bright, cocky, and determined to make his own way, separate from her and from his complicated roots. But as he matured, built a career, married, divorced, remarried, and raised his own sons, McDonell came to see that Irma had lived her life in a way that allowed him to discover what he wanted his own life to be. The person he was would be forever tied to Irma’s courage and wisdom and love. From his recollections—a series of colorful, deeply personal, sometimes funny, stunningly composed vignettes—an intriguing and poignant portrait emerges. Irma is the story of a formidable woman who built the life she wanted as she raised her son to be the kind of man and father he had longed for but never knew.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612323Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Irma: The Education of a Mother's Son Author: Terry Mcdonell Narrator: Joe Knezevich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612323 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Irma: The Education of a Mother's Son Author: Terry Mcdonell Narrator: Joe Knezevich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 31 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A son’s lessons from his single mother—a twenty five year old widow who took control of her life, defied expectations and raised him into a manhood of his own—from the author of the acclaimed The Accidental Life. As a child, Terry McDonell imagined epic stories about his father, a fighter pilot who died in World War II. But, as he discovers in this dazzling memoir, the real hero in his life was his mother, Irma, who moved with him to California hoping for a new life and raised him through difficult times. Like most headstrong boys growing up in mid-century America, McDonell took his mother for granted, never giving her life much thought. He was bright, cocky, and determined to make his own way, separate from her and from his complicated roots. But as he matured, built a career, married, divorced, remarried, and raised his own sons, McDonell came to see that Irma had lived her life in a way that allowed him to discover what he wanted his own life to be. The person he was would be forever tied to Irma’s courage and wisdom and love. From his recollections—a series of colorful, deeply personal, sometimes funny, stunningly composed vignettes—an intriguing and poignant portrait emerges. Irma is the story of a formidable woman who built the life she wanted as she raised her son to be the kind of man and father he had longed for but never knew.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-escape-to-cabo-by-s-a-lapoint--65185308https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Escape to Cabo Author: S. A. Lapoint Narrator: S. A. Lapoint Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Featuring multiple voices, sound effects, and music, The Escape to Cabo is a based-on-a-true-story emotion sparker. Scott Frieze has a comfortable life, no real complaints … a great job, home in the Tucson foothills, a Lincoln and a Road King in the garage. Deciding that it is now or never to fulfill a childhood fantasy that has haunted him for over forty years, his life does a complete one-eighty. Tag along with Scotty as he finds himself on the Legal System’s doorstep. Experience the courtroom drama, join him behind the walls of a Maximum-Security Prison … the young thugs jungle. Upon release and believing that the tab has been paid in full, he soon discovers that his sentence has only just begun; someone has slated vengeance and he must continue to pay. His only chance to taste freedom again… Flight. Superbly concealed innuendos, double entendre, and dry-ass humor. Don’t be surprised should you have a strong desire to go back to Chapter 1 …]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613629Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Escape to Cabo Author: S. A. Lapoint Narrator: S. A. Lapoint Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613629 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Escape to Cabo Author: S. A. Lapoint Narrator: S. A. Lapoint Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Featuring multiple voices, sound effects, and music, The Escape to Cabo is a based-on-a-true-story emotion sparker. Scott Frieze has a comfortable life, no real complaints … a great job, home in the Tucson foothills, a Lincoln and a Road King in the garage. Deciding that it is now or never to fulfill a childhood fantasy that has haunted him for over forty years, his life does a complete one-eighty. Tag along with Scotty as he finds himself on the Legal System’s doorstep. Experience the courtroom drama, join him behind the walls of a Maximum-Security Prison … the young thugs jungle. Upon release and believing that the tab has been paid in full, he soon discovers that his sentence has only just begun; someone has slated vengeance and he must continue to pay. His only chance to taste freedom again… Flight. Superbly concealed innuendos, double entendre, and dry-ass humor. Don’t be surprised should you have a strong desire to go back to Chapter 1 …]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/chicken-boy-my-life-with-hens-by-arthur-parkinson--65185327https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610793 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chicken Boy: My Life With Hens Author: Arthur Parkinson Narrator: Arthur Parkinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A charming portrait of life in the company of hens, by the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Flower Yard Growing up in an ex-mining town in Nottinghamshire, Arthur Parkinson never wanted a dog, or a cat, or a pony - just hens. As a kid, he was known as 'chicken boy', a taunt Arthur now proudly reclaims with his crested coterie that includes countless hens, from Sheila the white Silkie to Clarissa the champagne-coloured Buff Cochin. A personal and humorous memoir of Arthur's life amongst his hens, Chicken Boy is illustrated throughout with his own characterful watercolours and candid photography of his 'ladies'. This is an invitation to discover the joy that is only possible in the company of these intriguing creatures: Pekins are friendly, Lavender Leghorns aloof, while Burford Browns have a bad habit of feather-pecking... Having already earned renown as 'king of the small-space garden', Arthur's appreciation for the natural world is inspiring and relatable. The quiet fulfilment of hen-keeping rituals has rescued his mental health from pervasive depression. His sanctuary is the backyard: nurturing chicks who grow into happy hens and planting hardy, chicken scratch-resistant foliage. Chicken Boy is a joyful ramble through the hen house - sleeves rolled-up - and a testament to the mutual rewards and delights of keeping hens. ©2023 Arthur Parkinson (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610793Thu, 06 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610793 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chicken Boy: My Life With Hens Author: Arthur Parkinson Narrator: Arthur Parkinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610793 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chicken Boy: My Life With Hens Author: Arthur Parkinson Narrator: Arthur Parkinson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A charming portrait of life in the company of hens, by the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Flower Yard Growing up in an ex-mining town in Nottinghamshire, Arthur Parkinson never wanted a dog, or a cat, or a pony - just hens. As a kid, he was known as 'chicken boy', a taunt Arthur now proudly reclaims with his crested coterie that includes countless hens, from Sheila the white Silkie to Clarissa the champagne-coloured Buff Cochin. A personal and humorous memoir of Arthur's life amongst his hens, Chicken Boy is illustrated throughout with his own characterful watercolours and candid photography of his 'ladies'. This is an invitation to discover the joy that is only possible in the company of these intriguing creatures: Pekins are friendly, Lavender Leghorns aloof, while Burford Browns have a bad habit of feather-pecking... Having already earned renown as 'king of the small-space garden', Arthur's appreciation for the natural world is inspiring and relatable. The quiet fulfilment of hen-keeping rituals has rescued his mental health from pervasive depression. His sanctuary is the backyard: nurturing chicks who grow into happy hens and planting hardy, chicken scratch-resistant foliage. Chicken Boy is a joyful ramble through the hen house - sleeves rolled-up - and a testament to the mutual rewards and delights of keeping hens. ©2023 Arthur Parkinson (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/american-ramble-a-walk-of-memory-and-renewal-by-neil-king--65185512https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal Author: Neil King Narrator: Will Tulin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City—an unforgettable pilgrimage to the heart of America across some of our oldest common ground.  Neil King Jr.’s desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. By the spring of 2021, events had intervened that gave his desire greater urgency. His neighborhood still reeled from the January 6th insurrection. Covid lockdowns and a rancorous election had deepened America’s divides. Neil himself bore the imprints of a long battle with cancer. Determined to rediscover what matters in life and to see our national story with new eyes, Neil turned north with a small satchel on his back and one mission in mind: To pay close attention to the land he crossed and the people he met. What followed is an extraordinary 26-day journey through historic battlefields and cemeteries, over the Mason-Dixon line, past Quaker and Amish farms, along Valley Forge stream beds, atop a New Jersey trash mound, across New York Harbor, and finally, to his ultimate destination: the Ramble, where a tangle of pathways converges in Central Park. The journey travels deep into America’s past and present, uncovering forgotten pockets and overlooked people. At a time of mounting disunity, the trip reveals the profound power of our shared ground. By turns amusing, inspiring, and sublime, American Ramble offers an exquisite account of personal and national renewal—an indelible study of our country as we’ve never seen it before.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601136Tue, 04 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal Author: Neil King Narrator: Will Tulin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal Author: Neil King Narrator: Will Tulin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City—an unforgettable pilgrimage to the heart of America across some of our oldest common ground.  Neil King Jr.’s desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. By the spring of 2021, events had intervened that gave his desire greater urgency. His neighborhood still reeled from the January 6th insurrection. Covid lockdowns and a rancorous election had deepened America’s divides. Neil himself bore the imprints of a long battle with cancer. Determined to rediscover what matters in life and to see our national story with new eyes, Neil turned north with a small satchel on his back and one mission in mind: To pay close attention to the land he crossed and the people he met. What followed is an extraordinary 26-day journey through historic battlefields and cemeteries, over the Mason-Dixon line, past Quaker and Amish farms, along Valley Forge stream beds, atop a New Jersey trash mound, across New York Harbor, and finally, to his ultimate destination: the Ramble, where a tangle of pathways converges in Central Park. The journey travels deep into America’s past and present, uncovering forgotten pockets and overlooked people. At a time of mounting disunity, the trip reveals the profound power of our shared ground. By turns amusing, inspiring, and sublime, American Ramble offers an exquisite account of personal and national renewal—an indelible study of our country as we’ve never seen it before.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/brown-boy-a-memoir-by-omer-aziz--65185483https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brown Boy: A Memoir Author: Omer Aziz Narrator: Omer Aziz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An uncompromising portrait of identity, family, religion, race, and class that “cuts to the bone” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) told through Omer Aziz’s incisive and luminous prose. In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy white downtown, Omer Aziz struggles to find his place as a first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy. He fears the violence and despair of the world around him, and sees a dangerous path ahead, succumbing to aimlessness, apathy, and rage. In his senior year of high school, Omer quickly begins to realize that education can open up the wider world. But as he falls in love with books, and makes his way to Queen’s University in Ontario, Sciences Po in Paris, Cambridge University in England, and finally Yale Law School, he continually confronts his own feelings of doubt and insecurity at being an outsider, a brown-skinned boy in an elite white world. He is searching for community and identity, asking questions of himself and those he encounters, and soon finds himself in difficult situations—whether in the suburbs of Paris or at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Yet the more books Omer reads and the more he moves through elite worlds, his feelings of shame and powerlessness only grow stronger, and clear answers recede further away. Weaving together his powerful personal narrative with the books and friendships that move him, Aziz wrestles with the contradiction of feeling like an Other and his desire to belong to a Western world that never quite accepts him. He poses the questions he couldn’t have asked in his youth: Was assimilation ever really an option? Could one transcend the perils of race and class? And could we—the collective West—ever honestly confront the darker secrets that, as Aziz discovers, still linger from the past? In Brown Boy, Omer Aziz has written an eye-opening book that eloquently describes the complex process of creating an identity that fuses where he’s from, what people see in him, and who he knows himself to be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601098Tue, 04 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brown Boy: A Memoir Author: Omer Aziz Narrator: Omer Aziz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brown Boy: A Memoir Author: Omer Aziz Narrator: Omer Aziz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An uncompromising portrait of identity, family, religion, race, and class that “cuts to the bone” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) told through Omer Aziz’s incisive and luminous prose. In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy white downtown, Omer Aziz struggles to find his place as a first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy. He fears the violence and despair of the world around him, and sees a dangerous path ahead, succumbing to aimlessness, apathy, and rage. In his senior year of high school, Omer quickly begins to realize that education can open up the wider world. But as he falls in love with books, and makes his way to Queen’s University in Ontario, Sciences Po in Paris, Cambridge University in England, and finally Yale Law School, he continually confronts his own feelings of doubt and insecurity at being an outsider, a brown-skinned boy in an elite white world. He is searching for community and identity, asking questions of himself and those he encounters, and soon finds himself in difficult situations—whether in the suburbs of Paris or at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Yet the more books Omer reads and the more he moves through elite worlds, his feelings of shame and powerlessness only grow stronger, and clear answers recede further away. Weaving together his powerful personal narrative with the books and friendships that move him, Aziz wrestles with the contradiction of feeling like an Other and his desire to belong to a Western world that never quite accepts him. He poses the questions he couldn’t have asked in his youth: Was assimilation ever really an option? Could one transcend the perils of race and class? And could we—the collective West—ever honestly confront the darker secrets that, as Aziz discovers, still linger from the past? In Brown Boy, Omer Aziz has written an eye-opening book that eloquently describes the complex process of creating an identity that fuses where he’s from, what people see in him, and who he knows himself to be.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/share-my-life-a-journey-of-love-faith-and-redemption-by-kem--65185428https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Share My Life: A Journey of Love, Faith and Redemption Author: Kem Narrator: Kem, Keith David Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Grammy Award–nominated artist Kem shares his life in this “breathtaking” (Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times bestselling author) and revealing memoir tracing his transformative journey from homelessness to gold-selling artist. Known for his smooth, affecting crooning and dapper style, Kem’s journey to the stage is nothing short of inspiring. In Share My Life, Kem goes back to the very beginning before his time to introduce his grandmother, who worked as a sharecropper in the South and had thirteen children. As Kem’s family rises from the sharecropping and ultimately lands in Detroit, there is an unspoken mantra of “hard things are better left unsaid,” which has devastating consequences down the line. And so, Kem grows up in the midst of an impenetrable silence. His mother is never without a beer in her hand, and his relationship with his father is oddly tense. Emotionally starved, Kem internalizes harmful feelings, eventually spiraling to drug use in his search for relief. At nineteen, Kem is homeless, roaming the cold Detroit streets. In the overly bright AA halls, Kem comes across men like himself verbalizing their feelings. The meetings helped him discover his own voice, using music as an outlet that has since touched millions. In Share My Life, Kem chronicles his “revelatory, moving, and inspirational” (Lisa Cortés, Academy Award–nominated and Emmy Award–winning producer and director) journey of self-discovery. The young boy who struggled with feelings of worthlessness becomes a man willing to put everything on the line for his dream.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603527Tue, 04 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Share My Life: A Journey of Love, Faith and Redemption Author: Kem Narrator: Kem, Keith David Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Share My Life: A Journey of Love, Faith and Redemption Author: Kem Narrator: Kem, Keith David Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Grammy Award–nominated artist Kem shares his life in this “breathtaking” (Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times bestselling author) and revealing memoir tracing his transformative journey from homelessness to gold-selling artist. Known for his smooth, affecting crooning and dapper style, Kem’s journey to the stage is nothing short of inspiring. In Share My Life, Kem goes back to the very beginning before his time to introduce his grandmother, who worked as a sharecropper in the South and had thirteen children. As Kem’s family rises from the sharecropping and ultimately lands in Detroit, there is an unspoken mantra of “hard things are better left unsaid,” which has devastating consequences down the line. And so, Kem grows up in the midst of an impenetrable silence. His mother is never without a beer in her hand, and his relationship with his father is oddly tense. Emotionally starved, Kem internalizes harmful feelings, eventually spiraling to drug use in his search for relief. At nineteen, Kem is homeless, roaming the cold Detroit streets. In the overly bright AA halls, Kem comes across men like himself verbalizing their feelings. The meetings helped him discover his own voice, using music as an outlet that has since touched millions. In Share My Life, Kem chronicles his “revelatory, moving, and inspirational” (Lisa Cortés, Academy Award–nominated and Emmy Award–winning producer and director) journey of self-discovery. The young boy who struggled with feelings of worthlessness becomes a man willing to put everything on the line for his dream.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/grounded-a-journey-into-the-landscapes-of-our-ancestors-by-james-canton--65185364https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors Author: James Canton Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the author of The Oak Papers comes a beautiful meditation on how to foster a profound and healing spiritual communion with the natural world, exploring how the sacred can be accessed by looking to the past, to our ancestors and how they tread through their worlds. “Canton's writing has an exquisite, somewhat dreamlike quality.”—Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees When James Canton walked into Suffolk’s Lindsey Chapel, it was the beginning of what would become a new journey in his life—hours away from the bustling city of London and distant from the years in his early twenties when he traveled from Egypt to Argentina. Standing inside the quaint chapel, Canton realized that his past cosmopolitan desires had been replaced by an intense yearning to understand the history of the place he called home, a burning curiosity about the past and the spiritual ways and beliefs of the people who came before us. In Grounded, Canton retraces his steps into the places where our ancestors have experienced profound emotion, otherwise known as numinous experiences, to help us better understand who we are. Through lyrical meditation, reflection, and a thoughtful consideration of the ways and beliefs of the people who came before us, Canton seeks to know what our ancestors considered to be human, and what lessons we can learn from them to find security in our contemporary selves. Steeped in literary and folklore references, Grounded is a powerful exploration of the power of nature to soothe, nourish, and inspire the human soul.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604514Tue, 04 Apr 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors Author: James Canton Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors Author: James Canton Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the author of The Oak Papers comes a beautiful meditation on how to foster a profound and healing spiritual communion with the natural world, exploring how the sacred can be accessed by looking to the past, to our ancestors and how they tread through their worlds. “Canton's writing has an exquisite, somewhat dreamlike quality.”—Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees When James Canton walked into Suffolk’s Lindsey Chapel, it was the beginning of what would become a new journey in his life—hours away from the bustling city of London and distant from the years in his early twenties when he traveled from Egypt to Argentina. Standing inside the quaint chapel, Canton realized that his past cosmopolitan desires had been replaced by an intense yearning to understand the history of the place he called home, a burning curiosity about the past and the spiritual ways and beliefs of the people who came before us. In Grounded, Canton retraces his steps into the places where our ancestors have experienced profound emotion, otherwise known as numinous experiences, to help us better understand who we are. Through lyrical meditation, reflection, and a thoughtful consideration of the ways and beliefs of the people who came before us, Canton seeks to know what our ancestors considered to be human, and what lessons we can learn from them to find security in our contemporary selves. Steeped in literary and folklore references, Grounded is a powerful exploration of the power of nature to soothe, nourish, and inspire the human soul.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-not-to-kill-yourself-a-portrait-of-the-suicidal-mind-by-clancy-martin--65185431https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind Author: Clancy Martin Narrator: Clancy Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 33 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while demonstrating that there’s always another solution—from the acclaimed writer and professor of philosophy, based on his viral essay, “I’m Still Here.” “If you’re going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because everybody who is being honest with themselves knows at least a little bit about the subject. If you lie or if you fudge, the reader will know.” The last time Clancy Martin tried to kill himself was in his basement with a dog leash. It was one of over ten attempts throughout the course of his life. But he didn’t die, and like many who consider taking their own lives, he hid the attempt from his wife, family, coworkers, and students, slipping back into his daily life with a hoarse voice, a raw neck, and series of vague explanations. In How Not to Kill Yourself, Martin chronicles his multiple suicide attempts in an intimate depiction of the mindset of someone obsessed with self-destruction. He argues that, for the vast majority of suicides, an attempt does not just come out of the blue, nor is it merely a violent reaction to a particular crisis or failure, but is the culmination of a host of long-standing issues. He also looks at the thinking of a number of great writers who have attempted suicide and detailed their experiences (such as David Foster Wallace, Yiyun Li, Akutagawa, Nelly Arcan, and others), at what the history of philosophy has to say both for and against suicide, and at the experiences of those who have reached out to him across the years to share their own struggles. The result combines memoir with critical inquiry to powerfully give voice to what for many has long been incomprehensible, while showing those presently grappling with suicidal thoughts that they are not alone, and that the desire to kill oneself—like other self-destructive desires—is almost always temporary and avoidable. *Includes a downloadable PDF of resources and tools for crisis from the book]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604344Tue, 28 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind Author: Clancy Martin Narrator: Clancy Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604344 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind Author: Clancy Martin Narrator: Clancy Martin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 33 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while demonstrating that there’s always another solution—from the acclaimed writer and professor of philosophy, based on his viral essay, “I’m Still Here.” “If you’re going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because everybody who is being honest with themselves knows at least a little bit about the subject. If you lie or if you fudge, the reader will know.” The last time Clancy Martin tried to kill himself was in his basement with a dog leash. It was one of over ten attempts throughout the course of his life. But he didn’t die, and like many who consider taking their own lives, he hid the attempt from his wife, family, coworkers, and students, slipping back into his daily life with a hoarse voice, a raw neck, and series of vague explanations. In How Not to Kill Yourself, Martin chronicles his multiple suicide attempts in an intimate depiction of the mindset of someone obsessed with self-destruction. He argues that, for the vast majority of suicides, an attempt does not just come out of the blue, nor is it merely a violent reaction to a particular crisis or failure, but is the culmination of a host of long-standing issues. He also looks at the thinking of a number of great writers who have attempted suicide and detailed their experiences (such as David Foster Wallace, Yiyun Li, Akutagawa, Nelly Arcan, and others), at what the history of philosophy has to say both for and against suicide, and at the experiences of those who have reached out to him across the years to share their own struggles. The result combines memoir with critical inquiry to powerfully give voice to what for many has long been incomprehensible, while showing those presently grappling with suicidal thoughts that they are not alone, and that the desire to kill oneself—like other self-destructive desires—is almost always temporary and avoidable. *Includes a downloadable PDF of resources and tools for crisis from the book]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dragged-up-proppa-growing-up-in-britain-s-forgotten-north-by-pip-fallow--65185538https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dragged Up Proppa: Growing up in Britain’s forgotten North Author: Pip Fallow Narrator: Pip Fallow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dragged Up Proppa, read by the author, is the story of growing up working class in a forgotten England. 'Very compelling, beautifully written memoir of a time and England that no longer exists but remains just as important today as ever' - Sebastian Payne, author of Broken Heartlands Pip Fallow was born in the coal-miner’s cottage where his family of eight lived, in a village near Durham. Pip was destined to join his father down the pit, but the closure of his village’s mine in the 1980s saw him at the back of the dole queue like the rest. This is Pip’s story of being ‘dragged up proppa’, living by his wits, working and travelling the world before finally settling a few miles from where he grew up. A lot has been written about the red wall in recent years but Pip Fallow has lived it. This is his account of some of the most important issues affecting Britain today; from levelling-up and the north-south divide, to social mobility and class, and the devastating social upheaval caused by decades of deindustrialization and government neglect. Showing how broken promises of the past impact his village and the politics of today. This is the memoir of a man who left school illiterate, but has now written a book. The story of a lost generation who were prepared for a life that had disappeared by the time they were ready for it, of communities with once strong social ties that have now disintegrated, and a way of living that simply no longer exists in Britain today. 'Fallow's memoir is not just a classic piece of working-class writing, but a truly gripping narrative' - Brian Groom, author of Northerners: A History]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597786Thu, 23 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dragged Up Proppa: Growing up in Britain’s forgotten North Author: Pip Fallow Narrator: Pip Fallow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597786 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dragged Up Proppa: Growing up in Britain’s forgotten North Author: Pip Fallow Narrator: Pip Fallow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dragged Up Proppa, read by the author, is the story of growing up working class in a forgotten England. 'Very compelling, beautifully written memoir of a time and England that no longer exists but remains just as important today as ever' - Sebastian Payne, author of Broken Heartlands Pip Fallow was born in the coal-miner’s cottage where his family of eight lived, in a village near Durham. Pip was destined to join his father down the pit, but the closure of his village’s mine in the 1980s saw him at the back of the dole queue like the rest. This is Pip’s story of being ‘dragged up proppa’, living by his wits, working and travelling the world before finally settling a few miles from where he grew up. A lot has been written about the red wall in recent years but Pip Fallow has lived it. This is his account of some of the most important issues affecting Britain today; from levelling-up and the north-south divide, to social mobility and class, and the devastating social upheaval caused by decades of deindustrialization and government neglect. Showing how broken promises of the past impact his village and the politics of today. This is the memoir of a man who left school illiterate, but has now written a book. The story of a lost generation who were prepared for a life that had disappeared by the time they were ready for it, of communities with once strong social ties that have now disintegrated, and a way of living that simply no longer exists in Britain today. 'Fallow's memoir is not just a classic piece of working-class writing, but a truly gripping narrative' - Brian Groom, author of Northerners: A History]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/touching-cloth-confessions-and-communions-of-a-young-priest-by-fergus-butler-gallie--65185385https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603765 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Touching Cloth: Confessions and communions of a young priest Author: Fergus Butler-Gallie Narrator: Fergus Butler-Gallie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A laugh-out-loud memoir of becoming a 21st-century priest, Touching Cloth is also a love letter to the Prayer Book, Liverpool, lager, funerals, homemade lemon curd, and, above all, to what the Church of England can be at its best. The very word 'reverend' inspires solemnity. To be a priest is to dedicate one's life to quiet prayer and spiritual contemplation. Isn't it? Fergus Butler-Gallie reveals what it's like to become a priest in the twenty-first century. Find out why black really is slimming, how to keep a straight face when someone is inadvertently hot-boxing a funeral, and which royal-themed biscuit tin can best contain a very loud personal alarm that no one knows how to switch off. Spot a sweet old lady trying to pay for a taxi with coinage from fascist Spain? Congratulations, shepherd, she's your problem now. Behind the daily scrapes is an all-too-human love letter to the Church of England, and the amazing variety of people who manage to keep it going, providing a listening ear, company and community at a time when so many people desperately need it, as well as a reflection on what it means to follow a spiritual path amid the chaos of the modern world. ©2023 Fergus Butler-Gallie (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603765Thu, 23 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603765 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Touching Cloth: Confessions and communions of a young priest Author: Fergus Butler-Gallie Narrator: Fergus Butler-Gallie Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603765 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Touching Cloth: Confessions and communions of a young priest Author: Fergus Butler-Gallie Narrator: Fergus Butler-Gallie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A laugh-out-loud memoir of becoming a 21st-century priest, Touching Cloth is also a love letter to the Prayer Book, Liverpool, lager, funerals, homemade lemon curd, and, above all, to what the Church of England can be at its best. The very word 'reverend' inspires solemnity. To be a priest is to dedicate one's life to quiet prayer and spiritual contemplation. Isn't it? Fergus Butler-Gallie reveals what it's like to become a priest in the twenty-first century. Find out why black really is slimming, how to keep a straight face when someone is inadvertently hot-boxing a funeral, and which royal-themed biscuit tin can best contain a very loud personal alarm that no one knows how to switch off. Spot a sweet old lady trying to pay for a taxi with coinage from fascist Spain? Congratulations, shepherd, she's your problem now. Behind the daily scrapes is an all-too-human love letter to the Church of England, and the amazing variety of people who manage to keep it going, providing a listening ear, company and community at a time when so many people desperately need it, as well as a reflection on what it means to follow a spiritual path amid the chaos of the modern world. ©2023 Fergus Butler-Gallie (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/into-the-soul-of-the-world-my-journey-to-healing-by-brad-wetzler--65185340https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing Author: Brad Wetzler Narrator: Andrew Eiden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This powerful memoir shares an adventure journalist’s story of a decade-long, round-the-world quest to overcome his drug addiction and to understand and heal from past traumas. Suffering from PTSD and severe depression from past trauma, battling an addiction to overprescribed psychiatric medication, and at the rock bottom of his career, journalist Brad Wetzler had nowhere to go. So he set out on a journey to wander and hopefully find himself—and the world—again.     Into the Soul of the World is Wetzler’s thrilling, impactful, and heartrending memoir of healing—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. An adventure journalist at heart, Wetzler mixes travelogue with empowering insights about his inner journey to better care for his own mental health. Journey with him as he travels across Israel and the West Bank, before moving on to India, a candle-lit cave on a mountaintop in the Himalayan foothills, and a life-changing encounter with a 100-year-old yogi.    Wetzler's writing is full of the poignant, amusing, and occasionally heart‑breaking situations that unfold when we finally decide to confront depression (or any mental health struggle) and declare ourselves ready to heal: How do we heal our past and thrive again? What does it mean to live a good life? How can we transform our suffering and serve others?  His answer: live to tell the story and find the humility and courage to be the best human you can be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605368Tue, 21 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing Author: Brad Wetzler Narrator: Andrew Eiden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 5 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing Author: Brad Wetzler Narrator: Andrew Eiden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This powerful memoir shares an adventure journalist’s story of a decade-long, round-the-world quest to overcome his drug addiction and to understand and heal from past traumas. Suffering from PTSD and severe depression from past trauma, battling an addiction to overprescribed psychiatric medication, and at the rock bottom of his career, journalist Brad Wetzler had nowhere to go. So he set out on a journey to wander and hopefully find himself—and the world—again.     Into the Soul of the World is Wetzler’s thrilling, impactful, and heartrending memoir of healing—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. An adventure journalist at heart, Wetzler mixes travelogue with empowering insights about his inner journey to better care for his own mental health. Journey with him as he travels across Israel and the West Bank, before moving on to India, a candle-lit cave on a mountaintop in the Himalayan foothills, and a life-changing encounter with a 100-year-old yogi.    Wetzler's writing is full of the poignant, amusing, and occasionally heart‑breaking situations that unfold when we finally decide to confront depression (or any mental health struggle) and declare ourselves ready to heal: How do we heal our past and thrive again? What does it mean to live a good life? How can we transform our suffering and serve others?  His answer: live to tell the story and find the humility and courage to be the best human you can be.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-the-beauty-in-the-world-a-museum-guard-s-adventures-in-life-loss-and-art-by-patrick-bringley--65185534https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard’s Adventures in Life, Loss and Art Author: Patrick Bringley Narrator: Patrick Bringley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase into New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They're the guards in dark blue suits, keeping careful watch over this vast treasure house. Caught up in the early days of a glamorous journalism career, Patrick Bringley never thought he'd be one of them. Then his brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he needed to escape the mundane clamour of daily life. So he quit, and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew. To his surprise, this temporary refuge becomes his home away from home for a decade. We follow him as he guards delicate treasures from Egypt to Rome, strolls the labyrinths beneath the galleries, and discovers how restorative art can be. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost, silent and almost invisible, but soon finds his voice and place amongst the lively subculture of museum guards. As his bonds with colleagues and the artwork grow, he learns how fortunate he is to be walled off in this little world and how much it resembles the best aspects of the larger world to which he gradually, gratefully returns. All the Beauty in the World is a moving, revelatory portrait of one of the world's great museums and its treasures by someone whose value is often overlooked: the museum guard. ©2023 Patrick Bringley (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602056Thu, 16 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard’s Adventures in Life, Loss and Art Author: Patrick Bringley Narrator: Patrick Bringley Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard’s Adventures in Life, Loss and Art Author: Patrick Bringley Narrator: Patrick Bringley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase into New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They're the guards in dark blue suits, keeping careful watch over this vast treasure house. Caught up in the early days of a glamorous journalism career, Patrick Bringley never thought he'd be one of them. Then his brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he needed to escape the mundane clamour of daily life. So he quit, and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew. To his surprise, this temporary refuge becomes his home away from home for a decade. We follow him as he guards delicate treasures from Egypt to Rome, strolls the labyrinths beneath the galleries, and discovers how restorative art can be. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost, silent and almost invisible, but soon finds his voice and place amongst the lively subculture of museum guards. As his bonds with colleagues and the artwork grow, he learns how fortunate he is to be walled off in this little world and how much it resembles the best aspects of the larger world to which he gradually, gratefully returns. All the Beauty in the World is a moving, revelatory portrait of one of the world's great museums and its treasures by someone whose value is often overlooked: the museum guard. ©2023 Patrick Bringley (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/belonging-a-daughter-s-search-for-identity-through-loss-and-love-by-michelle-miller--65185541https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601128 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Belonging: A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Loss and Love Author: Michelle Miller Narrator: Michelle Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ''[An] outstanding debut.''—Publishers Weekly (starred review) The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother’s abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades. Though Michelle Miller was an award-winning broadcast journalist for CBS News, few people in her life knew the painful secret she carried: her mother had abandoned her at birth. Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated, and her mother—a Chicana hospital administrator who presented as white, had kept her affair with Michelle’s father, Dr. Ross Miller, a married trauma surgeon and Compton’s first Black city councilman—hidden, along with the unplanned pregnancy. Raised largely by her father and her paternal grandmother, Michelle had no knowledge of the woman whose genes she shared. Then, fate intervened when Michelle was twenty-two. As her father lay stricken with cancer, he told her, “Go and find your mother.” Belonging is the chronicle of Michelle’s decades-long quest to connect with the woman who gave her life, to confront her past, and ultimately, to find her voice as a journalist, a wife, and a mother. Michelle traces the years spent trying to make sense of her mixed-race heritage and her place in white-dominated world. From the wealthy white schools where she was bussed to integrate, to the newsrooms filled with white, largely male faces, she revisits the emotional turmoil of her formative years and how the enigma of her mother and her rejection shaped Michelle’s understanding of herself and her own Blackness. As she charts her personal journey, Michelle looks back on her decades on the ground reporting painful events, from the beating of Rodney King to the death of George Floyd, revealing how her struggle to understand her racial identity coincides with the nation’s own ongoing and imperfect racial reckoning. What emerges is an intimate family story about secrets—secrets we keep, secrets we share, and the secrets that make us who we are.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601128Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601128 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Belonging: A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Loss and Love Author: Michelle Miller Narrator: Michelle Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601128 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Belonging: A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Loss and Love Author: Michelle Miller Narrator: Michelle Miller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 26 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ''[An] outstanding debut.''—Publishers Weekly (starred review) The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother’s abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades. Though Michelle Miller was an award-winning broadcast journalist for CBS News, few people in her life knew the painful secret she carried: her mother had abandoned her at birth. Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated, and her mother—a Chicana hospital administrator who presented as white, had kept her affair with Michelle’s father, Dr. Ross Miller, a married trauma surgeon and Compton’s first Black city councilman—hidden, along with the unplanned pregnancy. Raised largely by her father and her paternal grandmother, Michelle had no knowledge of the woman whose genes she shared. Then, fate intervened when Michelle was twenty-two. As her father lay stricken with cancer, he told her, “Go and find your mother.” Belonging is the chronicle of Michelle’s decades-long quest to connect with the woman who gave her life, to confront her past, and ultimately, to find her voice as a journalist, a wife, and a mother. Michelle traces the years spent trying to make sense of her mixed-race heritage and her place in white-dominated world. From the wealthy white schools where she was bussed to integrate, to the newsrooms filled with white, largely male faces, she revisits the emotional turmoil of her formative years and how the enigma of her mother and her rejection shaped Michelle’s understanding of herself and her own Blackness. As she charts her personal journey, Michelle looks back on her decades on the ground reporting painful events, from the beating of Rodney King to the death of George Floyd, revealing how her struggle to understand her racial identity coincides with the nation’s own ongoing and imperfect racial reckoning. What emerges is an intimate family story about secrets—secrets we keep, secrets we share, and the secrets that make us who we are.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-body-liberation-project-how-understanding-racism-and-diet-culture-helps-cultivate-joy-and-build-collective-freedom-by-chrissy-king--65185520https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603496 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom Author: Chrissy King Narrator: Chrissy King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From author and wellness personality Chrissy King, an exciting, genre-redefining narrative mix of memoir, inspiration, and activities and prompts, with timely messages about social and racial justice and how the world needs to move beyond body positivity to something even more exciting and revolutionary: body liberation. When Chrissy King first joined a gym, she had one goal in mind: to “get skinny.” In pursuit of this goal, she fell into the all-too-common cycle of “not enough-ness”; no matter what she achieved, there was always something she felt she needed to change about her body, her appearance, herself. This made her realize the most liberating truth of all: She was not the problem. Diet and fitness industries rooted in white supremacy were the problem; Eurocentric and carefully manufactured beauty standards were the problem; discourses telling her that her happiness was directly tied to her physical appearance were the problem. So she created an actionable method to redefine the relationship we have with our bodies, thereby achieving a sense of self-worth that is completely separate from how we look. The Body Liberation Project is about finding actual freedom in our bodies by discovering strength and aspects of fitness, movement, and eating that work for YOU. It’s about realizing that the goal is not to look at our bodies and love everything we see; it’s to understand that at our essence we are so much more than our bodies. But it’s also about recognizing the harsh realities that prohibit people in marginalized bodies from being able to do so. Society constantly bombards those who fall outside Eurocentric standards of beauty (think Black, fat, trans, etc.) with the message that they are less attractive, and part of the journey toward body liberation is examining your own privilege, acknowledging the harm you may be causing others, and mourning your old ideas about what a body “should” look like. Recognizing that none of us are free until all of us are, Chrissy King shares the wisdom, the tools, and the inspiration to motivate readers to find body liberation and, even more important, to pass it on.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603496Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603496 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom Author: Chrissy King Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603496 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom Author: Chrissy King Narrator: Chrissy King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From author and wellness personality Chrissy King, an exciting, genre-redefining narrative mix of memoir, inspiration, and activities and prompts, with timely messages about social and racial justice and how the world needs to move beyond body positivity to something even more exciting and revolutionary: body liberation. When Chrissy King first joined a gym, she had one goal in mind: to “get skinny.” In pursuit of this goal, she fell into the all-too-common cycle of “not enough-ness”; no matter what she achieved, there was always something she felt she needed to change about her body, her appearance, herself. This made her realize the most liberating truth of all: She was not the problem. Diet and fitness industries rooted in white supremacy were the problem; Eurocentric and carefully manufactured beauty standards were the problem; discourses telling her that her happiness was directly tied to her physical appearance were the problem. So she created an actionable method to redefine the relationship we have with our bodies, thereby achieving a sense of self-worth that is completely separate from how we look. The Body Liberation Project is about finding actual freedom in our bodies by discovering strength and aspects of fitness, movement, and eating that work for YOU. It’s about realizing that the goal is not to look at our bodies and love everything we see; it’s to understand that at our essence we are so much more than our bodies. But it’s also about recognizing the harsh realities that prohibit people in marginalized bodies from being able to do so. Society constantly bombards those who fall outside Eurocentric standards of beauty (think Black, fat, trans, etc.) with the message that they are less attractive, and part of the journey toward body liberation is examining your own privilege, acknowledging the harm you may be causing others, and mourning your old ideas about what a body “should” look like. Recognizing that none of us are free until all of us are, Chrissy King shares the wisdom, the tools, and the inspiration to motivate readers to find body liberation and, even more important, to pass it on.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/song-of-the-sparrow-a-memoir-by-tara-maclean--65185425https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601138 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Song of the Sparrow: A Memoir Author: Tara Maclean Narrator: Tara Maclean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An astonishing memoir about how song saved a life Singer/songwriter Tara MacLean has had an extraordinary musical career. From being discovered singing on a BC ferry to touring with Dido, Tom Cochrane and Lilith Fair, her solo albums and those with the band Shaye have touched legions of fans. But she hasn’t, until now, disclosed the details of how the power of song saved her from a childhood filled with danger. From her earliest days in the backwoods of Prince Edward Island, Tara was surrounded by nature, the songs of her musician father and the love of her actor mother. But love was not enough to feed their growing family, nor were the Wiccan, then evangelical Christian teachings her parents followed. Poverty and uncertainty were constant companions, as were the dangers that began to enter her world. Predators can come in many forms from even the most trusted circles, and Tara soon learned that a young girl is never safe. It was only through Tara’s inner strength and the sanctuary she found in singing that she created a refuge and a future for herself.   Song of the Sparrow is a daring, heartbreaking and provocative memoir of a life filled with music, told with the same raw, open and elegant poetry that Tara’s fans have come to expect. From Tara’s childhood in PEI through her teenage years in BC to her meteoric rise in music, Song of the Sparrow reveals her remarkable strength and shows that a song and a wide-open heart are the best weapons for fighting monsters. Don’t miss Tara’s new album, Sparrow, which is being released concurrently with this memoir.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601138Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601138 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Song of the Sparrow: A Memoir Author: Tara Maclean Narrator: Tara Maclean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601138 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Song of the Sparrow: A Memoir Author: Tara Maclean Narrator: Tara Maclean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An astonishing memoir about how song saved a life Singer/songwriter Tara MacLean has had an extraordinary musical career. From being discovered singing on a BC ferry to touring with Dido, Tom Cochrane and Lilith Fair, her solo albums and those with the band Shaye have touched legions of fans. But she hasn’t, until now, disclosed the details of how the power of song saved her from a childhood filled with danger. From her earliest days in the backwoods of Prince Edward Island, Tara was surrounded by nature, the songs of her musician father and the love of her actor mother. But love was not enough to feed their growing family, nor were the Wiccan, then evangelical Christian teachings her parents followed. Poverty and uncertainty were constant companions, as were the dangers that began to enter her world. Predators can come in many forms from even the most trusted circles, and Tara soon learned that a young girl is never safe. It was only through Tara’s inner strength and the sanctuary she found in singing that she created a refuge and a future for herself.   Song of the Sparrow is a daring, heartbreaking and provocative memoir of a life filled with music, told with the same raw, open and elegant poetry that Tara’s fans have come to expect. From Tara’s childhood in PEI through her teenage years in BC to her meteoric rise in music, Song of the Sparrow reveals her remarkable strength and shows that a song and a wide-open heart are the best weapons for fighting monsters. Don’t miss Tara’s new album, Sparrow, which is being released concurrently with this memoir.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/who-gets-believed-when-the-truth-isn-t-enough-by-dina-nayeri--65185440https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600747 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough Author: Dina Nayeri Narrator: Ayesha Antoine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: March 9, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'I knew this from the beginning, when I was inside the lorry, thinking about truth. If you are a good storyteller you will be trusted, get a life, and escape from hell. But what do you need to do to be trusted, if telling the truth is not enough?' - Aso, a refugee working with Freedom from Torture Aso is one of many powerful voices in Dina Nayeri's wide-ranging, groundbreaking new book, which combines deep reportage with her own life experience to examine what constitutes believability. Intent on exploring ideas of persuasion and performance, Nayeri takes us behind the scenes in emergency rooms, corporate boardrooms, asylum interviews and into her own family, to ask - where lies the difference between being believed and being dismissed? What does this mean for our culture? As personal as it is profound in its reflections on language, history, morality and compassion, Who Gets Believed? investigates the unspoken social codes that determine how we relate to one another. 'I was hugely moved by this book. Who Gets Believed? is essential reading, an extraordinary labour of love and hope that is destined to become indispensable in the continuing struggle for justice' - John Burnside ©2023 Dina Nayeri (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600747Thu, 09 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600747 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough Author: Dina Nayeri Narrator: Ayesha Antoine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600747 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough Author: Dina Nayeri Narrator: Ayesha Antoine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: March 9, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'I knew this from the beginning, when I was inside the lorry, thinking about truth. If you are a good storyteller you will be trusted, get a life, and escape from hell. But what do you need to do to be trusted, if telling the truth is not enough?' - Aso, a refugee working with Freedom from Torture Aso is one of many powerful voices in Dina Nayeri's wide-ranging, groundbreaking new book, which combines deep reportage with her own life experience to examine what constitutes believability. Intent on exploring ideas of persuasion and performance, Nayeri takes us behind the scenes in emergency rooms, corporate boardrooms, asylum interviews and into her own family, to ask - where lies the difference between being believed and being dismissed? What does this mean for our culture? As personal as it is profound in its reflections on language, history, morality and compassion, Who Gets Believed? investigates the unspoken social codes that determine how we relate to one another. 'I was hugely moved by this book. Who Gets Believed? is essential reading, an extraordinary labour of love and hope that is destined to become indispensable in the continuing struggle for justice' - John Burnside ©2023 Dina Nayeri (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/forager-field-notes-for-surviving-a-family-cult-a-memoir-by-michelle-dowd--65185457https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603118 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: A Memoir Author: Michelle Dowd Narrator: Michelle Dowd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A moving, heartbreaking, and lyrical true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—and the survival skills that led to her freedom.   My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields.   As a child, Michelle Dowd grew up on a mountain in the Angeles National Forest. She was born into an ultra-religious cult—or the Field as they called it—started in the 1930s by her grandfather, a mercurial, domineering, and charismatic man who convinced generations of young male followers that he would live 500 years and ascend to the heavens when doomsday came. Comfort and care are sins, Michelle is told. As a result, she was forced to learn the skills necessary to battle hunger, thirst, and cold; she learned to trust animals more than humans; and most importantly, she learned how to survive in the natural world.   At the Field, a young Michelle lives a life of abuse, poverty, and isolation, as she obeys her family’s rigorous religious and patriarchal rules—which are so extreme that Michelle is convinced her mother would sacrifice her, like Abraham and Isaac, if instructed by God. She often wears the same clothes for months at a time; she is often ill and always hungry for both love and food. She is taught not to trust Outsiders, and especially not Quitters, nor her own body and its warnings.   But as Michelle gets older, she realizes she has the strength to break free. Focus on what will sustain, not satiate you, she tells herself. Use everything. Waste nothing. Get to know the intricacies of the land, like the intricacies of your body. And so she does.   Using stories of individual edible plants and their uses to anchor each chapter, Forager is both a searing coming-of-age story and a meditation on the ways in which understanding nature can lead to freedom, even joy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603118Tue, 07 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603118 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: A Memoir Author: Michelle Dowd Narrator: Michelle Dowd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603118 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: A Memoir Author: Michelle Dowd Narrator: Michelle Dowd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A moving, heartbreaking, and lyrical true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—and the survival skills that led to her freedom.   My family prepared me for the end of the world, but I know how to survive on what the earth yields.   As a child, Michelle Dowd grew up on a mountain in the Angeles National Forest. She was born into an ultra-religious cult—or the Field as they called it—started in the 1930s by her grandfather, a mercurial, domineering, and charismatic man who convinced generations of young male followers that he would live 500 years and ascend to the heavens when doomsday came. Comfort and care are sins, Michelle is told. As a result, she was forced to learn the skills necessary to battle hunger, thirst, and cold; she learned to trust animals more than humans; and most importantly, she learned how to survive in the natural world.   At the Field, a young Michelle lives a life of abuse, poverty, and isolation, as she obeys her family’s rigorous religious and patriarchal rules—which are so extreme that Michelle is convinced her mother would sacrifice her, like Abraham and Isaac, if instructed by God. She often wears the same clothes for months at a time; she is often ill and always hungry for both love and food. She is taught not to trust Outsiders, and especially not Quitters, nor her own body and its warnings.   But as Michelle gets older, she realizes she has the strength to break free. Focus on what will sustain, not satiate you, she tells herself. Use everything. Waste nothing. Get to know the intricacies of the land, like the intricacies of your body. And so she does.   Using stories of individual edible plants and their uses to anchor each chapter, Forager is both a searing coming-of-age story and a meditation on the ways in which understanding nature can lead to freedom, even joy.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stash-my-life-in-hiding-by-laura-cathcart-robbins--65185402https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602131 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stash: My Life in Hiding Author: Laura Cathcart Robbins Narrator: Laura Cathcart Robbins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “An emotionally absorbing and swiftly paced multisensory experience.” —The New York Times Book Review Named a Best Memoir of 2023 by Elle In the vein of Somebody’s Daughter, this wild, vivid addiction memoir from the host of the podcast The Only One in the Room “will inspire, awe, entertain, educate, and help so many readers” (Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author) with a journey to sobriety and self-love amidst privilege and racism. After years of hiding her addiction from everyone—stockpiling pills in her Louboutins and elaborately scheduling her withdrawals between PTA meetings, baby showers, and tennis matches—Laura Cathcart Robbins is running out of places to hide. She has learned the hard way that even her high-profile marriage and Hollywood lifestyle can’t protect her from the pain she’s keeping bottled up inside. Facing divorce, the possibility of a grueling custody battle, and the insistent voice of internalized racism that nags at her as a Black woman in a startlingly white world, Laura wonders just how much more she can take. Now, with courageous and candid openness, she reveals how she started the long journey towards sobriety, unexpectedly found new love, and dismantled the wall she had built around herself, brick by brick. With its raw, finely crafted, and engaging prose, Stash is “emotionally riveting…usher[ing] in a new way for us to talk and read about the paradoxes of addiction, race, family, class, and gender.” (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602131Tue, 07 Mar 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602131 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stash: My Life in Hiding Author: Laura Cathcart Robbins Narrator: Laura Cathcart Robbins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602131 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stash: My Life in Hiding Author: Laura Cathcart Robbins Narrator: Laura Cathcart Robbins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “An emotionally absorbing and swiftly paced multisensory experience.” —The New York Times Book Review Named a Best Memoir of 2023 by Elle In the vein of Somebody’s Daughter, this wild, vivid addiction memoir from the host of the podcast The Only One in the Room “will inspire, awe, entertain, educate, and help so many readers” (Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author) with a journey to sobriety and self-love amidst privilege and racism. After years of hiding her addiction from everyone—stockpiling pills in her Louboutins and elaborately scheduling her withdrawals between PTA meetings, baby showers, and tennis matches—Laura Cathcart Robbins is running out of places to hide. She has learned the hard way that even her high-profile marriage and Hollywood lifestyle can’t protect her from the pain she’s keeping bottled up inside. Facing divorce, the possibility of a grueling custody battle, and the insistent voice of internalized racism that nags at her as a Black woman in a startlingly white world, Laura wonders just how much more she can take. Now, with courageous and candid openness, she reveals how she started the long journey towards sobriety, unexpectedly found new love, and dismantled the wall she had built around herself, brick by brick. With its raw, finely crafted, and engaging prose, Stash is “emotionally riveting…usher[ing] in a new way for us to talk and read about the paradoxes of addiction, race, family, class, and gender.” (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-absent-moon-a-memoir-of-a-short-childhood-and-a-long-depression-by-luiz-schwarcz--65185527https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression Author: Luiz Schwarcz Narrator: Theodore Copeland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 48 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A profoundly emotional book, and a brave one.” —The New Yorker A literary sensation in Brazil, Luiz Schwarcz’s brave and tender memoir interrogates his ordeal of bipolar disorder in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silence—the long echo of the Holocaust across generations As a child, Luiz Schwarcz knew little about his grandfather and namesake, Lajos. Only later did he learn that Lajos, a devout Hungarian Jew, had been put on a train to a Nazi death camp with his son André, whom he ordered to leap to freedom at a rail crossing while he himself was carried on to death. What young Luiz did know was that his father, André, who had emigrated to Brazil, was an unhappy and silent man. Luiz blossomed into the family prodigy, becoming a groundbreaking literary publisher. He found a home in the family silence—a home that he filled with reading. But then, at a high point of outward success, Luiz was brought low by a mental breakdown. The Absent Moon is the story of his journey both to that point and back from it, as Luiz learned to forge a more honest relationship with his own mind, with his family, and with their shared past. The culmination is this extraordinary book—the product of a lifetime’s reflection, by a master storyteller.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597901Tue, 28 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression Author: Luiz Schwarcz Narrator: Theodore Copeland Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression Author: Luiz Schwarcz Narrator: Theodore Copeland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 48 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A profoundly emotional book, and a brave one.” —The New Yorker A literary sensation in Brazil, Luiz Schwarcz’s brave and tender memoir interrogates his ordeal of bipolar disorder in the context of a family story of murder, dispossession, and silence—the long echo of the Holocaust across generations As a child, Luiz Schwarcz knew little about his grandfather and namesake, Lajos. Only later did he learn that Lajos, a devout Hungarian Jew, had been put on a train to a Nazi death camp with his son André, whom he ordered to leap to freedom at a rail crossing while he himself was carried on to death. What young Luiz did know was that his father, André, who had emigrated to Brazil, was an unhappy and silent man. Luiz blossomed into the family prodigy, becoming a groundbreaking literary publisher. He found a home in the family silence—a home that he filled with reading. But then, at a high point of outward success, Luiz was brought low by a mental breakdown. The Absent Moon is the story of his journey both to that point and back from it, as Luiz learned to forge a more honest relationship with his own mind, with his family, and with their shared past. The culmination is this extraordinary book—the product of a lifetime’s reflection, by a master storyteller.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/microjoys-finding-hope-especially-when-life-is-not-okay-by-cyndie-spiegel--65185459https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay Author: Cyndie Spiegel Narrator: Cyndie Spiegel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 27 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Bighearted and hopeful. Unflinchingly honest and healing. A profound compendium of intimate, inspiring essays and thoughtful prompts that will keep you afloat in difficult times and sustain you in the everyday.   Microjoys are a practice of uncovering joy and finding hope at any moment. They are accessible to everyone, despite all else. When we hone the ability to look for them, they are always available. Microjoys are the hidden wisdom, long-ago memories, subtle treasures, and ordinary delights that surround us: A polka-dot glass on a thrift store shelf. A dear friend’s kindness at just the right time. The neighborhood spice shop. A beloved family tradition. The simple quietude of being in love. A cherished chai recipe.   Cyndie Spiegel first began taking note of microjoys during the most difficult year of her life—when she experienced back-to-back unprecedented and devastating losses—and she found that these fleeting moments of hope helped her move through each day with a semblance of comfort and a lot more joy.   Through beautifully written narrative essays and prompts, Cyndie shares the microjoys that have kept her going through tough times and shows us how we can learn to see the microjoys in our own lives. Microjoys don’t change the truth of loss or make grief any more convenient, but they allow us to temporarily touch joy, keeping us buoyed and moving forward, one moment at a time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604241Tue, 28 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay Author: Cyndie Spiegel Narrator: Cyndie Spiegel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay Author: Cyndie Spiegel Narrator: Cyndie Spiegel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 27 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Bighearted and hopeful. Unflinchingly honest and healing. A profound compendium of intimate, inspiring essays and thoughtful prompts that will keep you afloat in difficult times and sustain you in the everyday.   Microjoys are a practice of uncovering joy and finding hope at any moment. They are accessible to everyone, despite all else. When we hone the ability to look for them, they are always available. Microjoys are the hidden wisdom, long-ago memories, subtle treasures, and ordinary delights that surround us: A polka-dot glass on a thrift store shelf. A dear friend’s kindness at just the right time. The neighborhood spice shop. A beloved family tradition. The simple quietude of being in love. A cherished chai recipe.   Cyndie Spiegel first began taking note of microjoys during the most difficult year of her life—when she experienced back-to-back unprecedented and devastating losses—and she found that these fleeting moments of hope helped her move through each day with a semblance of comfort and a lot more joy.   Through beautifully written narrative essays and prompts, Cyndie shares the microjoys that have kept her going through tough times and shows us how we can learn to see the microjoys in our own lives. Microjoys don’t change the truth of loss or make grief any more convenient, but they allow us to temporarily touch joy, keeping us buoyed and moving forward, one moment at a time.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dear-body-what-i-lost-what-i-gained-and-what-i-learned-along-the-way-by-brittany-williams--65185443https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600958 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Body: What I Lost, What I Gained, and What I Learned Along the Way Author: Brittany Williams Narrator: Brittany Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The inspiring story of how one woman overcame her struggle with obesity by healing childhood trauma and confronting her innermost demons.  Raised in a turbulent home, Brittany Williams learned to use food as a coping mechanism to manage her feelings at a young age. When she was 14, a family member’s comment “no man will want you with a pudgy figure like that” forever changed the way she viewed her body and opened a door, new and alluring, into the world of self-loathing, self-punishment, and dieting.  Told with Brittany’s unflagging honesty and trademark vulnerability, Dear Body describes the tensions of growing up in a body that often felt more like a traitor than a friend. She details the slow but steady work that went into dismantling hard-wired behaviors as she learned to trust in herself, even as she faced setbacks like heartbreak, pregnancy loss, and marital infidelity. As we share in her deepest moments of joy and heartache, Brittany reveals that the path to healing requires much more than changing what you eat, and explains how she was finally able to take charge of the course of her health and her life. Filled with poignant lessons and hard-won advice, Dear Body is the story of a woman’s relationship with her body, and herself. A story unique to Brittany, but familiar to all of us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600958Tue, 28 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600958 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Body: What I Lost, What I Gained, and What I Learned Along the Way Author: Brittany Williams Narrator: Brittany Williams Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600958 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Body: What I Lost, What I Gained, and What I Learned Along the Way Author: Brittany Williams Narrator: Brittany Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The inspiring story of how one woman overcame her struggle with obesity by healing childhood trauma and confronting her innermost demons.  Raised in a turbulent home, Brittany Williams learned to use food as a coping mechanism to manage her feelings at a young age. When she was 14, a family member’s comment “no man will want you with a pudgy figure like that” forever changed the way she viewed her body and opened a door, new and alluring, into the world of self-loathing, self-punishment, and dieting.  Told with Brittany’s unflagging honesty and trademark vulnerability, Dear Body describes the tensions of growing up in a body that often felt more like a traitor than a friend. She details the slow but steady work that went into dismantling hard-wired behaviors as she learned to trust in herself, even as she faced setbacks like heartbreak, pregnancy loss, and marital infidelity. As we share in her deepest moments of joy and heartache, Brittany reveals that the path to healing requires much more than changing what you eat, and explains how she was finally able to take charge of the course of her health and her life. Filled with poignant lessons and hard-won advice, Dear Body is the story of a woman’s relationship with her body, and herself. A story unique to Brittany, but familiar to all of us.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/enchantment-awakening-wonder-in-an-anxious-age-by-katherine-may--65185344https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age Author: Katherine May Narrator: Rebecca Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER “When I tell you that I dogeared almost every page in this book, I'm telling God's honest truth. I didn't know how much I needed someone else to validate what I was going through. The sense that I had lost my curiosity, my imagination, my ability to make meaning.” – NPR Morning Edition host Rachel Martin 'Such a teacher for every single person who is trying to live closer to who they were born to be and not who the world tamed them to be.” – New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle on We Can Do Hard Things “I love Katherine May’s new book, Enchantment.…It’s a beautiful offering of light, truth and charm in these strange, dark times.” – New York Times bestselling author Anne Lamott   “Katherine May gave so many of us language and vision for the long communal ‘wintering’ of the last years. Welcome this beautiful meditation for the time we've now entered. I cannot imagine a more gracious companion. This book is a gift.” – New York Times bestselling author Krista Tippett “Gentle inspiration for those who feel exhausted or helpless… May shows how paying deliberate attention to what’s around us can surprise us with insights and reveal new connections that deepen our appreciation for the world.” – Washington Post From the New York Times–bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings of awe and wonder available to us all Many of us feel trapped in a grind of constant change: rolling news cycles, the chatter of social media, our families split along partisan lines. We feel fearful and tired, on edge in our bodies, not quite knowing what has us perpetually depleted. For Katherine May, this low hum of fatigue and anxiety made her wonder what she was missing. Could there be a different way to relate to the world, one that would allow her to feel more rested and at ease, even as seismic changes unfold on the planet? Might there be a way for all of us to move through life with curiosity and tenderness, sensitized to the subtle magic all around?   In Enchantment, May invites the reader to come with her on a journey to reawaken our innate sense of wonder and awe. With humor, candor, and warmth, she shares stories of her own struggles with work, family, and the aftereffects of pandemic, particularly feelings of overwhelm as the world rushes to reopen. Craving a different way to live, May begins to explore the restorative properties of the natural world, moving through the elements of earth, water, fire, and air and identifying the quiet traces of magic that can be found only when we look for them. Through deliberate attention and ritual, she unearths the potency and nourishment that come from quiet reconnection with our immediate environment. Blending lyricism and storytelling, sensitivity and empathy, Enchantment invites each of us to open the door to human experience in all its sensual complexity, and to find the beauty waiting for us there.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604255Tue, 28 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age Author: Katherine May Narrator: Rebecca Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 8 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age Author: Katherine May Narrator: Rebecca Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER “When I tell you that I dogeared almost every page in this book, I'm telling God's honest truth. I didn't know how much I needed someone else to validate what I was going through. The sense that I had lost my curiosity, my imagination, my ability to make meaning.” – NPR Morning Edition host Rachel Martin 'Such a teacher for every single person who is trying to live closer to who they were born to be and not who the world tamed them to be.” – New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle on We Can Do Hard Things “I love Katherine May’s new book, Enchantment.…It’s a beautiful offering of light, truth and charm in these strange, dark times.” – New York Times bestselling author Anne Lamott   “Katherine May gave so many of us language and vision for the long communal ‘wintering’ of the last years. Welcome this beautiful meditation for the time we've now entered. I cannot imagine a more gracious companion. This book is a gift.” – New York Times bestselling author Krista Tippett “Gentle inspiration for those who feel exhausted or helpless… May shows how paying deliberate attention to what’s around us can surprise us with insights and reveal new connections that deepen our appreciation for the world.” – Washington Post From the New York Times–bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings of awe and wonder available to us all Many of us feel trapped in a grind of constant change: rolling news cycles, the chatter of social media, our families split along partisan lines. We feel fearful and tired, on edge in our bodies, not quite knowing what has us perpetually depleted. For Katherine May, this low hum of fatigue and anxiety made her wonder what she was missing. Could there be a different way to relate to the world, one that would allow her to feel more rested and at ease, even as seismic changes unfold on the planet? Might there be a way for all of us to move through life with curiosity and tenderness, sensitized to the subtle magic all around?   In Enchantment, May invites the reader to come with her on a journey to reawaken our innate sense of wonder and awe. With humor, candor, and warmth, she shares stories of her own struggles with work, family, and the aftereffects of pandemic, particularly feelings of overwhelm as the world rushes to reopen. Craving a different way to live, May begins to explore the restorative properties of the natural world, moving through the elements of earth, water, fire, and air and identifying the quiet traces of magic that can be found only when we look for them. Through deliberate attention and ritual, she unearths the potency and nourishment that come from quiet reconnection with our immediate environment. Blending lyricism and storytelling, sensitivity and empathy, Enchantment invites each of us to open the door to human experience in all its sensual complexity, and to find the beauty waiting for us there.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hard-parts-a-memoir-of-courage-and-triumph-by-oksana-masters--65185524https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601038 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph Author: Oksana Masters Narrator: Emily Tremaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A 2024 Christopher Award Winner “A gut-wrenching, wildly inspiring story about overcoming the most daunting obstacles through steely tenacity, sheer will, and a great big dose of motherly love.” —Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle An inspirational and powerful memoir from the United States’s most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete, The Hard Parts is Oksana Masters’s gripping account of overcoming extraordinary Chernobyl disaster–caused physical challenges to create a life that challenges everyone to push through what is holding them back. Oksana Masters was born in Ukraine—in the shadow of Chernobyl—seemingly with the odds stacked against her. She came into the world with one kidney, a partial stomach, six toes on each foot, webbed fingers, no right bicep, and no thumbs. Her left leg was six inches shorter than her right, and she was missing both tibias. Relinquished to the orphanage system by birth parents daunted by the staggering cost of what would be their child’s medical care, Oksana encountered numerous abuses, some horrifying. Salvation came at age seven when Gay Masters, an unmarried American professor who saw a photo of the little girl and became haunted by her eyes, waged a two-year war against stubborn adoption authorities to rescue Oksana from her circumstances. In America, Oksana endured years of operations that included a double leg amputation. Still, how could she hope to fit in when there were so many things making her different? As it turned out, she would do much more than fit in. Determined to prove herself and fueled by a drive to succeed that still smoldered from childhood, Oksana triumphed in not just one sport but four—winning against the world’s best in elite rowing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, and road cycling competitions. Now considered one of the world’s top athletes, she is the recipient of seventeen Paralympic medals, the most of any US athlete of the Winter Games, Paralympic or Olympic. Oksana’s astonishing story of journeying through a series of dark tunnels is “as true a tale of grit as I’ve ever heard, with a message filled with triumph and beauty—that what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, if we are loved” (Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author of Grit).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601038Tue, 21 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601038 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph Author: Oksana Masters Narrator: Emily Tremaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601038 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph Author: Oksana Masters Narrator: Emily Tremaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A 2024 Christopher Award Winner “A gut-wrenching, wildly inspiring story about overcoming the most daunting obstacles through steely tenacity, sheer will, and a great big dose of motherly love.” —Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle An inspirational and powerful memoir from the United States’s most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete, The Hard Parts is Oksana Masters’s gripping account of overcoming extraordinary Chernobyl disaster–caused physical challenges to create a life that challenges everyone to push through what is holding them back. Oksana Masters was born in Ukraine—in the shadow of Chernobyl—seemingly with the odds stacked against her. She came into the world with one kidney, a partial stomach, six toes on each foot, webbed fingers, no right bicep, and no thumbs. Her left leg was six inches shorter than her right, and she was missing both tibias. Relinquished to the orphanage system by birth parents daunted by the staggering cost of what would be their child’s medical care, Oksana encountered numerous abuses, some horrifying. Salvation came at age seven when Gay Masters, an unmarried American professor who saw a photo of the little girl and became haunted by her eyes, waged a two-year war against stubborn adoption authorities to rescue Oksana from her circumstances. In America, Oksana endured years of operations that included a double leg amputation. Still, how could she hope to fit in when there were so many things making her different? As it turned out, she would do much more than fit in. Determined to prove herself and fueled by a drive to succeed that still smoldered from childhood, Oksana triumphed in not just one sport but four—winning against the world’s best in elite rowing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, and road cycling competitions. Now considered one of the world’s top athletes, she is the recipient of seventeen Paralympic medals, the most of any US athlete of the Winter Games, Paralympic or Olympic. Oksana’s astonishing story of journeying through a series of dark tunnels is “as true a tale of grit as I’ve ever heard, with a message filled with triumph and beauty—that what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, if we are loved” (Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author of Grit).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sink-a-memoir-by-joseph-earl-thomas--65185475https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sink: A Memoir Author: Joseph Earl Thomas Narrator: Joseph Earl Thomas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack addiction, and demeaned daily for his perceived weakness, Joseph Earl Thomas grew up feeling he was under constant threat. Roaches fell from the ceiling, colonizing bowls of noodles and cereal boxes. Fists and palms pounded down at school and at home, leaving welts that ached long after they disappeared. An inescapable hunger gnawed at his frequently empty stomach, and requests for food were often met with indifference if not open hostility. Deemed too unlike the other boys to ever gain the acceptance he so desperately desired, he began to escape into fantasy and virtual worlds, wells of happiness in a childhood assailed on all sides. In a series of exacting and fierce vignettes, Thomas guides readers through the unceasing cruelty that defined his circumstances, laying bare the depths of his loneliness and illuminating the vital reprieve geek culture offered him. With remarkable tenderness and devastating clarity, he explores how lessons of toxic masculinity were drilled into his body and the way the cycle of violence permeated the very fabric of his environment. Even in the depths of isolation, there were unexpected moments of joy carved out, from summers where he was freed from the injurious structures of his surroundings to the first glimpses of kinship he caught on his journey to becoming a Pokémon master. SINK follows Thomas's coming-of-age towards an understanding of what it means to lose the desire to fit in—with his immediate peers, turbulent family, or the world—and how good it feels to build community, love, and salvation on your own terms.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599867Tue, 21 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sink: A Memoir Author: Joseph Earl Thomas Narrator: Joseph Earl Thomas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599867 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sink: A Memoir Author: Joseph Earl Thomas Narrator: Joseph Earl Thomas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: "A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack addiction, and demeaned daily for his perceived weakness, Joseph Earl Thomas grew up feeling he was under constant threat. Roaches fell from the ceiling, colonizing bowls of noodles and cereal boxes. Fists and palms pounded down at school and at home, leaving welts that ached long after they disappeared. An inescapable hunger gnawed at his frequently empty stomach, and requests for food were often met with indifference if not open hostility. Deemed too unlike the other boys to ever gain the acceptance he so desperately desired, he began to escape into fantasy and virtual worlds, wells of happiness in a childhood assailed on all sides. In a series of exacting and fierce vignettes, Thomas guides readers through the unceasing cruelty that defined his circumstances, laying bare the depths of his loneliness and illuminating the vital reprieve geek culture offered him. With remarkable tenderness and devastating clarity, he explores how lessons of toxic masculinity were drilled into his body and the way the cycle of violence permeated the very fabric of his environment. Even in the depths of isolation, there were unexpected moments of joy carved out, from summers where he was freed from the injurious structures of his surroundings to the first glimpses of kinship he caught on his journey to becoming a Pokémon master. SINK follows Thomas's coming-of-age towards an understanding of what it means to lose the desire to fit in—with his immediate peers, turbulent family, or the world—and how good it feels to build community, love, and salvation on your own terms.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-urgent-life-my-story-of-love-loss-and-survival-by-bozoma-saint-john--65185464https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604239 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival Author: Bozoma Saint John Narrator: Bozoma Saint John Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'The Urgent Life shines a bright light on the intricacies of the shadows she’s been in, and illuminates the beauty of her urgent life.” —Serena Williams From iconic leader Bozoma Saint John, comes a memoir of grief, and one woman's drive to thrive in the face of loss When Bozoma Saint John's husband, Peter, died of cancer, she made one big decision: to live life urgently. Bozoma was no stranger to adversity, having lost her college boyfriend to suicide, navigated an interracial marriage, grieved a child born prematurely--a process that led to her and Peter's separation--and coparented the daughter who she and Peter shared. When Peter knew his cancer was terminal, he gave Bozoma a short list of things to do: cancel the divorce, and fix the wrongs immediately.   In The Urgent Life, Bozoma takes readers through the dizzying, numbing days of multiple griefs, and the courage which these sparked in her to live life in accordance with her deepest values time and time again. We witness Bozoma's journey forward through the highs and the lows, as she negotiates life as a woman determined to learn from tragedies to build a remarkable life worth living even in her brokenness. Bozoma's story is extraordinary, but her grief is not uncommon, and her courage is sure to touch any reader who has loved, mourned and is finding a path through loss and grief, as well as anyone who is maneuvering a pivot and wants to live life to its fullest.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604239Tue, 21 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604239 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival Author: Bozoma Saint John Narrator: Bozoma Saint John Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604239 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival Author: Bozoma Saint John Narrator: Bozoma Saint John Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'The Urgent Life shines a bright light on the intricacies of the shadows she’s been in, and illuminates the beauty of her urgent life.” —Serena Williams From iconic leader Bozoma Saint John, comes a memoir of grief, and one woman's drive to thrive in the face of loss When Bozoma Saint John's husband, Peter, died of cancer, she made one big decision: to live life urgently. Bozoma was no stranger to adversity, having lost her college boyfriend to suicide, navigated an interracial marriage, grieved a child born prematurely--a process that led to her and Peter's separation--and coparented the daughter who she and Peter shared. When Peter knew his cancer was terminal, he gave Bozoma a short list of things to do: cancel the divorce, and fix the wrongs immediately.   In The Urgent Life, Bozoma takes readers through the dizzying, numbing days of multiple griefs, and the courage which these sparked in her to live life in accordance with her deepest values time and time again. We witness Bozoma's journey forward through the highs and the lows, as she negotiates life as a woman determined to learn from tragedies to build a remarkable life worth living even in her brokenness. Bozoma's story is extraordinary, but her grief is not uncommon, and her courage is sure to touch any reader who has loved, mourned and is finding a path through loss and grief, as well as anyone who is maneuvering a pivot and wants to live life to its fullest.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-should-not-be-friends-the-story-of-a-friendship-by-will-schwalbe--65185452https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604306 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship Author: Will Schwalbe Narrator: Will Schwalbe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A warm, funny, irresistible memoir that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship over the course of forty years—from the best-selling author of The End of Your Life Book Club • “A rare view of male friendship.”—NPR “Moving…salted with Schwalbe’s well-established literary intelligence and a palpable empathy.” —The New York Times Book Review By the time Will Schwalbe was a junior at college, he had already met everyone he cared to know: the theater people, writers, visual artists and comp lit majors, and various other quirky characters including the handful of students who shared his own major, Latin and Greek. He also knew exactly who he wanted to avoid: the jocks. The jocks wore baseball caps and moved in packs, filling boisterous tables in the dining hall, and on the whole seemed to be another species entirely, one Will might encounter only at his own peril.  All this changed dramatically when Will collided with Chris Maxey, known to just about everyone as Maxey. Maxey was physically imposing, loud, and a star wrestler who was determined to become a Navy SEAL (where he would later serve for six years). Thanks to the strangely liberating circumstances of a little-known secret society at Yale, the two forged a bond that would become a mainstay of each other’s lives as they repeatedly lost and found each other and themselves in the years after graduation.  From New Haven to New York City, from Hong Kong and Panama to a remarkable school on an island in the Bahamas—through marriages and a divorce, triumphs and devastating losses—We Should Not Be Friends tracks an extraordinary friendship over decades of challenge and change. Schwalbe’s marvelous new work is, at its heart, a joyful testament to the miracle of human connection—and how if we can just get past our preconceptions, we may find some of our greatest friends.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604306Tue, 21 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604306 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship Author: Will Schwalbe Narrator: Will Schwalbe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604306 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship Author: Will Schwalbe Narrator: Will Schwalbe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A warm, funny, irresistible memoir that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship over the course of forty years—from the best-selling author of The End of Your Life Book Club • “A rare view of male friendship.”—NPR “Moving…salted with Schwalbe’s well-established literary intelligence and a palpable empathy.” —The New York Times Book Review By the time Will Schwalbe was a junior at college, he had already met everyone he cared to know: the theater people, writers, visual artists and comp lit majors, and various other quirky characters including the handful of students who shared his own major, Latin and Greek. He also knew exactly who he wanted to avoid: the jocks. The jocks wore baseball caps and moved in packs, filling boisterous tables in the dining hall, and on the whole seemed to be another species entirely, one Will might encounter only at his own peril.  All this changed dramatically when Will collided with Chris Maxey, known to just about everyone as Maxey. Maxey was physically imposing, loud, and a star wrestler who was determined to become a Navy SEAL (where he would later serve for six years). Thanks to the strangely liberating circumstances of a little-known secret society at Yale, the two forged a bond that would become a mainstay of each other’s lives as they repeatedly lost and found each other and themselves in the years after graduation.  From New Haven to New York City, from Hong Kong and Panama to a remarkable school on an island in the Bahamas—through marriages and a divorce, triumphs and devastating losses—We Should Not Be Friends tracks an extraordinary friendship over decades of challenge and change. Schwalbe’s marvelous new work is, at its heart, a joyful testament to the miracle of human connection—and how if we can just get past our preconceptions, we may find some of our greatest friends.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-am-still-with-you-a-reckoning-with-silence-inheritance-and-history-by-emmanuel-iduma--65185439https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History Author: Emmanuel Iduma Narrator: Emeka Emecheta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Powerful and transcendent" —Chigozie Obioma  "Both epic and intimate" —​Margo Jefferson A deeply moving, lyrical journey through the author’s homeland of Nigeria, in search of the truth about his disappeared uncle and the history of a war that shaped him, his family, and a nation In inimitable, rhythmic prose, the author and winner of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize Emmanuel Iduma tells the story of his return to Nigeria, where he grew up, after years of living in New York. He traveled home with an elusive mission: to learn the fate of his uncle Emmanuel, his namesake, who disappeared in the Nigerian Civil War in the late 1960s. A conflict that left so many families broken, the war remains at the margins of the history books, almost taboo to discuss. To find answers, Iduma stopped in city after city throughout the former Biafra region, reconnecting with relatives dear and distant to probe their memories, prowling university libraries to furtively photocopy illicit books, and visiting half-abandoned monuments along the highway. Perhaps, he realized, if he could understand how his father grieved the loss of a brother in the war, he might learn how to grieve his late father in turn.   His is also the story of countless families across the country and across the world who will never have answers or proper funerals for their loved ones. It’s a story about the birth of an artist, about writing itself as an act both healing and political, even dangerous. And it’s a story about family history and legacy, and all the questions the dead leave unanswered. How much of the author’s identity is wrapped up in this inheritance? And what does it mean to return home, when the people who define it are gone?   Equal parts memoir, national history, and political reckoning, I Am Still With You is a profoundly personal story of collective loss and making peace with the unknowable.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603127Tue, 21 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History Author: Emmanuel Iduma Narrator: Emeka Emecheta Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History Author: Emmanuel Iduma Narrator: Emeka Emecheta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Powerful and transcendent" —Chigozie Obioma  "Both epic and intimate" —​Margo Jefferson A deeply moving, lyrical journey through the author’s homeland of Nigeria, in search of the truth about his disappeared uncle and the history of a war that shaped him, his family, and a nation In inimitable, rhythmic prose, the author and winner of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize Emmanuel Iduma tells the story of his return to Nigeria, where he grew up, after years of living in New York. He traveled home with an elusive mission: to learn the fate of his uncle Emmanuel, his namesake, who disappeared in the Nigerian Civil War in the late 1960s. A conflict that left so many families broken, the war remains at the margins of the history books, almost taboo to discuss. To find answers, Iduma stopped in city after city throughout the former Biafra region, reconnecting with relatives dear and distant to probe their memories, prowling university libraries to furtively photocopy illicit books, and visiting half-abandoned monuments along the highway. Perhaps, he realized, if he could understand how his father grieved the loss of a brother in the war, he might learn how to grieve his late father in turn.   His is also the story of countless families across the country and across the world who will never have answers or proper funerals for their loved ones. It’s a story about the birth of an artist, about writing itself as an act both healing and political, even dangerous. And it’s a story about family history and legacy, and all the questions the dead leave unanswered. How much of the author’s identity is wrapped up in this inheritance? And what does it mean to return home, when the people who define it are gone?   Equal parts memoir, national history, and political reckoning, I Am Still With You is a profoundly personal story of collective loss and making peace with the unknowable.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/you-re-that-bitch-other-cute-lessons-about-being-unapologetically-yourself-by-bretman-rock--65185537https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You're That Bitch: & Other Cute Lessons About Being Unapologetically Yourself Author: Bretman Rock Narrator: Bretman Rock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.95 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 13 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “This book is hilarious and that bitch made me laugh out loud.”—Chelsea Handler A chaotically joyous collection of essays from one of the original influencers and the internet's sweetheart, Bretman ''The Baddest'' Rock. Hilarious and earnest, this collection of essays, how-tos, and more goes far beyond what we know of Bretman Rock from social media. Who is Bretman Rock Sacayanan behind the screen and how did he become the original superstar influencer and today’s beloved best friend of the internet? You're That Bitch welcomes you into Bretman Rock's world—from how his childhood in the Philippines, his family, Filipino culture, and being a first-generation immigrant helped shape him into who he is today. Peek into how Bretman became a social media sensation at the precocious age of 14, balancing living a glamorous jet-setting lifestyle on weekends while still serving lunch at his school’s cafeteria, running as a varsity track-star, and making honor roll during the week. With his signature honesty, this is an unfiltered and unprecedented look at what it means to be one of the first digital celebrities and that bitch from dealing with cancel culture, drama and heartbreak, to what it means to love yourself and your community.  From the funniest and undeniably cutest person on the internet, this is a book for the weirdos and for the bad bitches . . . this book is for you!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599811Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You're That Bitch: & Other Cute Lessons About Being Unapologetically Yourself Author: Bretman Rock Narrator: Bretman Rock Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You're That Bitch: & Other Cute Lessons About Being Unapologetically Yourself Author: Bretman Rock Narrator: Bretman Rock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.95 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 13 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “This book is hilarious and that bitch made me laugh out loud.”—Chelsea Handler A chaotically joyous collection of essays from one of the original influencers and the internet's sweetheart, Bretman ''The Baddest'' Rock. Hilarious and earnest, this collection of essays, how-tos, and more goes far beyond what we know of Bretman Rock from social media. Who is Bretman Rock Sacayanan behind the screen and how did he become the original superstar influencer and today’s beloved best friend of the internet? You're That Bitch welcomes you into Bretman Rock's world—from how his childhood in the Philippines, his family, Filipino culture, and being a first-generation immigrant helped shape him into who he is today. Peek into how Bretman became a social media sensation at the precocious age of 14, balancing living a glamorous jet-setting lifestyle on weekends while still serving lunch at his school’s cafeteria, running as a varsity track-star, and making honor roll during the week. With his signature honesty, this is an unfiltered and unprecedented look at what it means to be one of the first digital celebrities and that bitch from dealing with cancel culture, drama and heartbreak, to what it means to love yourself and your community.  From the funniest and undeniably cutest person on the internet, this is a book for the weirdos and for the bad bitches . . . this book is for you!]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/while-time-remains-a-north-korean-girl-s-search-for-freedom-in-america-by-yeonmi-park--65185513https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601102 to listen full audiobooks. Title: While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America Author: Yeonmi Park Narrator: Maureen Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 3.57 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live sounds the alarm on the culture wars, identity politics, and authoritarian tendencies tearing America apart. After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape. When she spoke out about the mass political indoctrination she saw around her in the United States, Park faced censorship and even death threats. In While Time Remains, Park highlights the dangerous hypocrisies, mob tactics, and authoritarian tendencies that speak in the name of wokeness and social justice. No one is spared in her eye-opening account, including the elites who claim to care for the poor and working classes but turn their backs on anyone who dares to think independently. Park arrived in America eight years ago with no preconceptions, no political aims, and no partisan agenda. With urgency and unique insight, the bestselling author and human rights activist reminds us of the fragility of freedom, and what we must do to preserve it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601102Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601102 to listen full audiobooks. Title: While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America Author: Yeonmi Park Narrator: Maureen Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601102 to listen full audiobooks. Title: While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America Author: Yeonmi Park Narrator: Maureen Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 3.57 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live sounds the alarm on the culture wars, identity politics, and authoritarian tendencies tearing America apart. After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape. When she spoke out about the mass political indoctrination she saw around her in the United States, Park faced censorship and even death threats. In While Time Remains, Park highlights the dangerous hypocrisies, mob tactics, and authoritarian tendencies that speak in the name of wokeness and social justice. No one is spared in her eye-opening account, including the elites who claim to care for the poor and working classes but turn their backs on anyone who dares to think independently. Park arrived in America eight years ago with no preconceptions, no political aims, and no partisan agenda. With urgency and unique insight, the bestselling author and human rights activist reminds us of the fragility of freedom, and what we must do to preserve it.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dyscalculia-a-love-story-of-epic-miscalculation-by-camonghne-felix--65185373https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604299 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation Author: Camonghne Felix Narrator: Camonghne Felix Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Powerful . . . a poetic meditation on how love or attempts at loving can drive us to madness.”—The Boston Globe   “We learn about the cracks in Felix’s upbringing, the hurt from the breakup itself, and a pain that spans a lifetime, all through a sharp millennial voice.”—Time A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything—from her early childhood trauma and mental health to her relationship with mathematics—shows up in the tapestry of her healing. In this exquisite and raw reflection, Felix repossesses herself through the exploration of history she’d left behind, using her childhood “dyscalculia”—a disorder that makes it difficult to learn math—as a metaphor for the consequences of her miscalculations in love. Through reckoning with this breakup and other adult gambles in intimacy, Felix asks the question: Who gets to assert their right to pain?   Dyscalculia negotiates the misalignments of perception and reality, love and harm, and the politics of heartbreak, both romantic and familial.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604299Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604299 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation Author: Camonghne Felix Narrator: Camonghne Felix Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604299 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation Author: Camonghne Felix Narrator: Camonghne Felix Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Powerful . . . a poetic meditation on how love or attempts at loving can drive us to madness.”—The Boston Globe   “We learn about the cracks in Felix’s upbringing, the hurt from the breakup itself, and a pain that spans a lifetime, all through a sharp millennial voice.”—Time A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything—from her early childhood trauma and mental health to her relationship with mathematics—shows up in the tapestry of her healing. In this exquisite and raw reflection, Felix repossesses herself through the exploration of history she’d left behind, using her childhood “dyscalculia”—a disorder that makes it difficult to learn math—as a metaphor for the consequences of her miscalculations in love. Through reckoning with this breakup and other adult gambles in intimacy, Felix asks the question: Who gets to assert their right to pain?   Dyscalculia negotiates the misalignments of perception and reality, love and harm, and the politics of heartbreak, both romantic and familial.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/holding-fire-a-reckoning-with-the-american-west-by-bryce-andrews--65185584https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West Author: Bryce Andrews Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the award-winning author of Down from the Mountain, a memoir of inheritance, history, and one gun’s role in the violence that shaped the American West—and an impassioned call to forge a new way forward Bryce Andrews was raised to do no harm. The son of a pacifist and conscientious objector, he moved from Seattle to Montana to tend livestock and the land as a cowboy. For a decade, he was happy. Yet, when Andrews inherited his grandfather’s Smith & Wesson revolver, he felt the weight of the violence braided into his chosen life. Other white men who’d come before him had turned firearms like this one against wildlife, wilderness, and the Indigenous peoples who had lived in these landscapes for millennia. This was how the West was “won.” Now, the losses were all around him and a weapon was in his hand. In precise, elegiac prose, Andrews chronicles his journey to forge a new path for himself, and to reshape one handgun into a tool for good work. As waves of gun violence swept the country and wildfires burned across his beloved valley, he began asking questions—of ranchers, his Native neighbors, his family, and a blacksmith who taught him to shape steel—in search of a new way to live with the land and with one another. In laying down his arms, he transformed an inherited weapon, his ranch, and the arc of his life. Holding Fire is a deeply felt memoir of one Western heart’s wild growth, and a personal testament to how things that seem permanent—inheritance, legacies of violence, forged steel—can change. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597923Tue, 07 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West Author: Bryce Andrews Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West Author: Bryce Andrews Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the award-winning author of Down from the Mountain, a memoir of inheritance, history, and one gun’s role in the violence that shaped the American West—and an impassioned call to forge a new way forward Bryce Andrews was raised to do no harm. The son of a pacifist and conscientious objector, he moved from Seattle to Montana to tend livestock and the land as a cowboy. For a decade, he was happy. Yet, when Andrews inherited his grandfather’s Smith & Wesson revolver, he felt the weight of the violence braided into his chosen life. Other white men who’d come before him had turned firearms like this one against wildlife, wilderness, and the Indigenous peoples who had lived in these landscapes for millennia. This was how the West was “won.” Now, the losses were all around him and a weapon was in his hand. In precise, elegiac prose, Andrews chronicles his journey to forge a new path for himself, and to reshape one handgun into a tool for good work. As waves of gun violence swept the country and wildfires burned across his beloved valley, he began asking questions—of ranchers, his Native neighbors, his family, and a blacksmith who taught him to shape steel—in search of a new way to live with the land and with one another. In laying down his arms, he transformed an inherited weapon, his ranch, and the arc of his life. Holding Fire is a deeply felt memoir of one Western heart’s wild growth, and a personal testament to how things that seem permanent—inheritance, legacies of violence, forged steel—can change. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bff-a-memoir-of-friendship-lost-and-found-by-christie-tate--65185507https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601080 to listen full audiobooks. Title: BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found Author: Christie Tate Narrator: Christie Tate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: * “A love story about the miracle of friendship.” —Maggie Smith * “Fearless and unflinching.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette * From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club Pick, a poignant, funny, and emotionally satisfying memoir about Christie Tate’s lifelong struggle to sustain female friendship, and the extraordinary friend who changed everything. After more than a decade of dead-end dates and dysfunctional relationships, Christie Tate has reclaimed her voice and settled down. Her days of agonizing in group therapy over guys who won’t commit are over, the grueling emotional work required to attach to another person tucked neatly into the past. Or so she thought. Weeks after giddily sharing stories of her new boyfriend at Saturday morning recovery meetings, Christie receives a gift from a friend. Meredith, twenty years older and always impeccably accessorized, gives Christie a box of holiday-themed scarves as well as a gentle suggestion: maybe now is the perfect time to examine why friendships give her trouble. “The work never ends, right?” she says with a wink. Christie isn’t so sure, but she soon realizes that the feeling of “apartness” that has plagued her since childhood isn’t magically going away now that she’s in a healthy romantic relationship. With Meredith by her side, she embarks on a brutally honest exploration of her friendships past and present, sorting through the ways that debilitating shame and jealousy have kept the lasting bonds she craves out of reach—and how she can overcome a history of letting go too soon. “An outstanding portrait of self-excavation” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), BFF explores what happens when we finally break the habits that impair our ability to connect with others, and the ways that one life—however messy and imperfect—can change another.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601080Tue, 07 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601080 to listen full audiobooks. Title: BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found Author: Christie Tate Narrator: Christie Tate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601080 to listen full audiobooks. Title: BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found Author: Christie Tate Narrator: Christie Tate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: * “A love story about the miracle of friendship.” —Maggie Smith * “Fearless and unflinching.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette * From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club Pick, a poignant, funny, and emotionally satisfying memoir about Christie Tate’s lifelong struggle to sustain female friendship, and the extraordinary friend who changed everything. After more than a decade of dead-end dates and dysfunctional relationships, Christie Tate has reclaimed her voice and settled down. Her days of agonizing in group therapy over guys who won’t commit are over, the grueling emotional work required to attach to another person tucked neatly into the past. Or so she thought. Weeks after giddily sharing stories of her new boyfriend at Saturday morning recovery meetings, Christie receives a gift from a friend. Meredith, twenty years older and always impeccably accessorized, gives Christie a box of holiday-themed scarves as well as a gentle suggestion: maybe now is the perfect time to examine why friendships give her trouble. “The work never ends, right?” she says with a wink. Christie isn’t so sure, but she soon realizes that the feeling of “apartness” that has plagued her since childhood isn’t magically going away now that she’s in a healthy romantic relationship. With Meredith by her side, she embarks on a brutally honest exploration of her friendships past and present, sorting through the ways that debilitating shame and jealousy have kept the lasting bonds she craves out of reach—and how she can overcome a history of letting go too soon. “An outstanding portrait of self-excavation” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), BFF explores what happens when we finally break the habits that impair our ability to connect with others, and the ways that one life—however messy and imperfect—can change another.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hijab-butch-blues-a-memoir-by-lamya-h--65185382https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604284 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir Author: Lamya H Narrator: Ashraf Shirazi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this “raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations” (Linah Mohammad, NPR). “A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed THEM’S HONOREE IN LITERATURE • AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • WINNER: The Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, the Stonewall Book Award, the Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award • Lambda Literary Award Finalist A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Autostraddle, Book Riot, BookPage, Harper’s Bazaar, Electric Lit, She Reads When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher—her female teacher—she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can’t yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown. Born in South Asia, she moved to the Middle East at a young age and has spent years feeling out of place, like her own desires and dreams don’t matter, and it’s easier to hide in plain sight. To disappear. But one day in Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam that changes everything: When Maryam learned that she was pregnant, she insisted no man had touched her. Could Maryam, uninterested in men, be . . . like Lamya?   From that moment on, Lamya makes sense of her struggles and triumphs by comparing her experiences with some of the most famous stories in the Quran. She juxtaposes her coming out with Musa liberating his people from the pharoah; asks if Allah, who is neither male nor female, might instead be nonbinary; and, drawing on the faith and hope Nuh needed to construct his ark, begins to build a life of her own—ultimately finding that the answer to her lifelong quest for community and belonging lies in owning her identity as a queer, devout Muslim immigrant.   This searingly intimate memoir in essays, spanning Lamya’s childhood to her arrival in the United States for college through early-adult life in New York City, tells a universal story of courage, trust, and love, celebrating what it means to be a seeker and an architect of one’s own life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604284Tue, 07 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604284 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir Author: Lamya H Narrator: Ashraf Shirazi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 7,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604284 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir Author: Lamya H Narrator: Ashraf Shirazi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this “raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations” (Linah Mohammad, NPR). “A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed THEM’S HONOREE IN LITERATURE • AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • WINNER: The Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, the Stonewall Book Award, the Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award • Lambda Literary Award Finalist A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Autostraddle, Book Riot, BookPage, Harper’s Bazaar, Electric Lit, She Reads When fourteen-year-old Lamya H realizes she has a crush on her teacher—her female teacher—she covers up her attraction, an attraction she can’t yet name, by playing up her roles as overachiever and class clown. Born in South Asia, she moved to the Middle East at a young age and has spent years feeling out of place, like her own desires and dreams don’t matter, and it’s easier to hide in plain sight. To disappear. But one day in Quran class, she reads a passage about Maryam that changes everything: When Maryam learned that she was pregnant, she insisted no man had touched her. Could Maryam, uninterested in men, be . . . like Lamya?   From that moment on, Lamya makes sense of her struggles and triumphs by comparing her experiences with some of the most famous stories in the Quran. She juxtaposes her coming out with Musa liberating his people from the pharoah; asks if Allah, who is neither male nor female, might instead be nonbinary; and, drawing on the faith and hope Nuh needed to construct his ark, begins to build a life of her own—ultimately finding that the answer to her lifelong quest for community and belonging lies in owning her identity as a queer, devout Muslim immigrant.   This searingly intimate memoir in essays, spanning Lamya’s childhood to her arrival in the United States for college through early-adult life in New York City, tells a universal story of courage, trust, and love, celebrating what it means to be a seeker and an architect of one’s own life.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/walk-the-blue-line-no-right-no-left-just-cops-telling-their-true-stories-to-james-patterson-by-matt-eversmann-james-patterson--65185535https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walk the Blue Line: No right, no left—just cops telling their true stories to James Patterson. Author: Matt Eversmann, James Patterson Narrator: Ori Bitter, Melissa Matthews, Robb Moreira, Inés Del Castillo, Corey Carthew, Cody Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Walk in My Combat Boots: true-life stories from the men and women who protect and serve our homes, families and communities. Protect These men and women are our eyes. Our ears. Our protectors. Those who wear a badge, doing their best to help people. Serve These cops serve their communities. They serve their country. They’re in the business of saving lives—even at the risk of their own. Defend These patrol officers and K9 handlers, sheriffs and detectives, reveal what it’s really like to wear the uniform, to carry the weight of the responsibility they’ve been given. This is a calling. This is the job. “Walk the Blue Line is the book that the law-enforcement community has been waiting for. These stories showcase the courage, the hurt, the anger and the joy that can be found in every officer’s DNA—and above all, their commitment to making difficult situations a little bit better." —Jim Pasco, Executive Director, National Fraternal Order of Police]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599870Mon, 06 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walk the Blue Line: No right, no left—just cops telling their true stories to James Patterson. Author: Matt Eversmann, James Patterson Narrator: Ori...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walk the Blue Line: No right, no left—just cops telling their true stories to James Patterson. Author: Matt Eversmann, James Patterson Narrator: Ori Bitter, Melissa Matthews, Robb Moreira, Inés Del Castillo, Corey Carthew, Cody Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Walk in My Combat Boots: true-life stories from the men and women who protect and serve our homes, families and communities. Protect These men and women are our eyes. Our ears. Our protectors. Those who wear a badge, doing their best to help people. Serve These cops serve their communities. They serve their country. They’re in the business of saving lives—even at the risk of their own. Defend These patrol officers and K9 handlers, sheriffs and detectives, reveal what it’s really like to wear the uniform, to carry the weight of the responsibility they’ve been given. This is a calling. This is the job. “Walk the Blue Line is the book that the law-enforcement community has been waiting for. These stories showcase the courage, the hurt, the anger and the joy that can be found in every officer’s DNA—and above all, their commitment to making difficult situations a little bit better." —Jim Pasco, Executive Director, National Fraternal Order of Police]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/getting-better-life-lessons-on-going-under-getting-over-it-and-getting-through-it-by-michael-j-rosen--65185455https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600746 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it Author: Michael J. Rosen Narrator: Michael J. Rosen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 2, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with debilitating chronic illness, and faced death itself when seriously unwell in hospital. In spite of this he has survived, and has even learned to find joy in life in the aftermath of tragedy. In Getting Better, he shares his story and the lessons he has learned along the way. Exploring the roles that trauma and grief have played in his own life, Michael investigates the road to recovery, asking how we can find it within ourselves to live well again after - or even during - the darkest times of our lives. Moving and insightful, Getting Better is an essential companion for anyone who has loved and lost, or struggled and survived. ©2023 Michael Rosen (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600746Thu, 02 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600746 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it Author: Michael J. Rosen Narrator: Michael J. Rosen Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600746 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it Author: Michael J. Rosen Narrator: Michael J. Rosen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 2, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with debilitating chronic illness, and faced death itself when seriously unwell in hospital. In spite of this he has survived, and has even learned to find joy in life in the aftermath of tragedy. In Getting Better, he shares his story and the lessons he has learned along the way. Exploring the roles that trauma and grief have played in his own life, Michael investigates the road to recovery, asking how we can find it within ourselves to live well again after - or even during - the darkest times of our lives. Moving and insightful, Getting Better is an essential companion for anyone who has loved and lost, or struggled and survived. ©2023 Michael Rosen (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/finding-hildasay-how-one-man-walked-the-uk-s-coastline-and-found-hope-and-happiness-by-christian-lewis--65185406https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Hildasay: How one man walked the UK's coastline and found hope and happiness Author: Christian Lewis Narrator: Christian Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In his darkest depression, one idea brought Christian Lewis out of the depths - and into a new life. Finding Hildasay, read by the author, is a brutal and beautiful true story of depression, survival, walking, and the meaning of home. ‘Now I was finally out of the force of the wind, my body began to warm – the part where the real pain sets in. I’d felt it plenty of times before on this journey, but this time it was different. As I began to regain feeling in my fingers and toes, it burned so strongly that I just sat in tears of pain.’ Ex-paratrooper Christian Lewis had hit rock bottom, suffering with depression so severe he would shut himself in his bedroom for weeks. Then while surfing – his only respite – he cast his eyes along the coastline and realized it was the only place he really wanted to be. Making an impulsive decision to set himself a challenge – walk the entire coastline of the UK – Chris gave himself a few days to rustle up a tent and walking boots, then left for good with just a tenner in his pocket and two days’ worth of food. Little did he know at the time just how long it would take to cross the finish line – and the encounters that lay ahead that would turn his life around. Five years later, Chris has navigated the West Coast, Northern Ireland, the hard-rock cliffs of Scotland and the perimeters of the Scottish Islands . He spent three months on an uninhabited island called Hildasay, where there was no fresh water or food. It was there, the most barren his route had become, that the more pride and respect he found within himself – and the more remarkable his journey became. Happiness and hope was just around the corner.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602223Thu, 02 Feb 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Hildasay: How one man walked the UK's coastline and found hope and happiness Author: Christian Lewis Narrator: Christian Lewis Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Hildasay: How one man walked the UK's coastline and found hope and happiness Author: Christian Lewis Narrator: Christian Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In his darkest depression, one idea brought Christian Lewis out of the depths - and into a new life. Finding Hildasay, read by the author, is a brutal and beautiful true story of depression, survival, walking, and the meaning of home. ‘Now I was finally out of the force of the wind, my body began to warm – the part where the real pain sets in. I’d felt it plenty of times before on this journey, but this time it was different. As I began to regain feeling in my fingers and toes, it burned so strongly that I just sat in tears of pain.’ Ex-paratrooper Christian Lewis had hit rock bottom, suffering with depression so severe he would shut himself in his bedroom for weeks. Then while surfing – his only respite – he cast his eyes along the coastline and realized it was the only place he really wanted to be. Making an impulsive decision to set himself a challenge – walk the entire coastline of the UK – Chris gave himself a few days to rustle up a tent and walking boots, then left for good with just a tenner in his pocket and two days’ worth of food. Little did he know at the time just how long it would take to cross the finish line – and the encounters that lay ahead that would turn his life around. Five years later, Chris has navigated the West Coast, Northern Ireland, the hard-rock cliffs of Scotland and the perimeters of the Scottish Islands . He spent three months on an uninhabited island called Hildasay, where there was no fresh water or food. It was there, the most barren his route had become, that the more pride and respect he found within himself – and the more remarkable his journey became. Happiness and hope was just around the corner.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-love-you-save-a-memoir-by-goldie-taylor--65185581https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Love You Save: A Memoir Author: Goldie Taylor Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “The Love You Save will console and inspire countless people."—J.R. Moehringer, New York Times bestselling author of The Tender Bar I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings meets Educated in this harrowing, deeply hopeful memoir of family, faith and the power of books—from acclaimed journalist and human rights activist Goldie Taylor    Aunt Gerald takes in anyone who asks, but the conditions are harsh. For her young niece Goldie Taylor, abandoned by her mother and coping with trauma of her own, life in Gerald’s East St. Louis comes with nothing but a threadbare blanket on the living room floor.    But amid the pain and anguish, Goldie discovers a secret. She can find kinship among writers like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. She can find hope in a nurturing teacher who helps her find her voice. And books, she realizes, can save her life.   Goldie Taylor's debut memoir shines a light on the strictures of race, class and gender in a post–Jim Crow America while offering a nuanced, empathetic portrait of a family in a pitched battle for its very soul. Profoundly moving, exquisitely rendered and ultimately uplifting, The Love You Save is a story about hidden strength, perseverance against unimaginable odds, the beauty and pain of girlhood, and the power of the written word.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593522Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Love You Save: A Memoir Author: Goldie Taylor Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Love You Save: A Memoir Author: Goldie Taylor Narrator: Bahni Turpin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “The Love You Save will console and inspire countless people."—J.R. Moehringer, New York Times bestselling author of The Tender Bar I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings meets Educated in this harrowing, deeply hopeful memoir of family, faith and the power of books—from acclaimed journalist and human rights activist Goldie Taylor    Aunt Gerald takes in anyone who asks, but the conditions are harsh. For her young niece Goldie Taylor, abandoned by her mother and coping with trauma of her own, life in Gerald’s East St. Louis comes with nothing but a threadbare blanket on the living room floor.    But amid the pain and anguish, Goldie discovers a secret. She can find kinship among writers like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. She can find hope in a nurturing teacher who helps her find her voice. And books, she realizes, can save her life.   Goldie Taylor's debut memoir shines a light on the strictures of race, class and gender in a post–Jim Crow America while offering a nuanced, empathetic portrait of a family in a pitched battle for its very soul. Profoundly moving, exquisitely rendered and ultimately uplifting, The Love You Save is a story about hidden strength, perseverance against unimaginable odds, the beauty and pain of girlhood, and the power of the written word.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-on-black-on-our-resilience-and-brilliance-in-america-by-daniel-black--65185567https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America Author: Daniel Black Narrator: Jd Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *From the Viral Clark Atlanta University Commencement Speaker* *From the Georgia Author of the Year Award Winner* *A Zibby's Most Anticipated Book of 2023* *A "Next Big Idea Club" Must-Read Book for January* *An Essence "Books by Black Authors to Read This Winter" Pick* *An Ebony Entertainment "Required Reading" Book for January* *A Lambda Literary "Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature" for January* *A Southern Review of Books Best Book of January* A piercing collection of essays on racial tension in America and the ongoing fight for visibility, change, and lasting hope “There are stories that must be told.” Acclaimed novelist and scholar Daniel Black has spent a career writing into the unspoken, fleshing out, through storytelling, pain that can’t be described. Now, in his debut essay collection, Black gives voice to the experiences of those who often find themselves on the margins. Tackling topics ranging from police brutality to the AIDS crisis to the role of HBCUs to queer representation in the black church, Black on Black celebrates the resilience, fortitude, and survival of black people in a land where their body is always on display. As Daniel Black reminds us, while hope may be slow in coming, it always arrives, and when it does, it delivers beyond the imagination. Propulsive, intimate, and achingly relevant, Black on Black is cultural criticism at its openhearted best.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593516Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America Author: Daniel Black Narrator: Jd Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America Author: Daniel Black Narrator: Jd Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *From the Viral Clark Atlanta University Commencement Speaker* *From the Georgia Author of the Year Award Winner* *A Zibby's Most Anticipated Book of 2023* *A "Next Big Idea Club" Must-Read Book for January* *An Essence "Books by Black Authors to Read This Winter" Pick* *An Ebony Entertainment "Required Reading" Book for January* *A Lambda Literary "Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature" for January* *A Southern Review of Books Best Book of January* A piercing collection of essays on racial tension in America and the ongoing fight for visibility, change, and lasting hope “There are stories that must be told.” Acclaimed novelist and scholar Daniel Black has spent a career writing into the unspoken, fleshing out, through storytelling, pain that can’t be described. Now, in his debut essay collection, Black gives voice to the experiences of those who often find themselves on the margins. Tackling topics ranging from police brutality to the AIDS crisis to the role of HBCUs to queer representation in the black church, Black on Black celebrates the resilience, fortitude, and survival of black people in a land where their body is always on display. As Daniel Black reminds us, while hope may be slow in coming, it always arrives, and when it does, it delivers beyond the imagination. Propulsive, intimate, and achingly relevant, Black on Black is cultural criticism at its openhearted best.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ready-for-absolutely-nothing-a-memoir-by-susannah-constantine--65185565https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593117 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ready for Absolutely Nothing: A Memoir Author: Susannah Constantine Narrator: Susannah Constantine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This darkly funny, confessional memoir from the star of What Not to Wear tells all: from her posh upbringing and the dishy details of her career in fashion to her journey as a recovering alcoholic. The fact that Susannah Constantine made her name as a 'style guru' as part of “Trinny and Susannah” from What Not to Wear is the least interesting thing about her. Susannah grew up amongst the great and good of British aristocracy and (unwittingly) trained to be a society bride. Fittingly, Barbara Cartland was her touchstone for romance: she wanted to be the underdog heroine who ended up marrying a prince. Instead she dated Princess Margaret’s son for several years and traveled in royal circles, including on the island of Mustique, where Princess Margaret–and Hachette author Anne Glenconner–owned homes and had holidays. When that marriage proposal never showed up, she dated Imran Khan –then a gorgeous playboy/cricket player and now the Prime Minister of Pakistan, before meeting her husband. Hers is a tale full to the brim with extraordinary anecdotes. From lavatory dramas with Princess Margaret, to behind-the-scenes power struggles between Margaret Thatcher and the Queen at Balmoral and eye-opening sex-club etiquette with pop royalty–her social landscape has been nothing if not varied. Many of these stories are hilarious and snarky, some are painful, but all of them are honest, gossipy, and show that, in her words, she was “brought up to be ready for absolutely nothing.” In sharing a peek behind the curtain, Constantine does not hold back and many bold names appear in these pages from Elton John, Princess Diana, The Queen, Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall, Andy Warhol, and our own Anne Glenconner and her husband Colin Tenant. But appearances are deceptive and beneath the balls and glamour, life has had a darker side: her mother's bipolar disorder, her father's inability to cope and her own subsequent alcoholism. Somehow, she had to forge her own life, away from the expectations of others. Which she did and does.   READY FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is for fans of The Crown, royal followers, readers of LADY IN WAITING, What Not To Wear fans and anyone who likes a gossipy memoir with bold faced names and a drop dead sense of humor. The fact that Susannah Constantine made her name as a 'style guru' as part of “Trinny and Susannah” from What Not to Wear is the least interesting thing about her. Susannah grew up amongst the great and good of British aristocracy and (unwittingly) trained to be a society bride. Fittingly, Barbara Cartland was her touchstone for romance: she wanted to be the underdog heroine who ended up marrying a prince. Instead she dated Princess Margaret’s son for several years and traveled in royal circles, including on the island of Mustique, where Princess Margaret–and Hachette author Anne Glenconner–owned homes and had holidays. When that marriage proposal never showed up, she dated Imran Khan –then a gorgeous playboy/cricket player and now the Prime Minister of Pakistan, before meeting her husband. Hers is a tale full to the brim with extraordinary anecdotes. From lavatory dramas with Princess Margaret, to behind-the-scenes power struggles between Margaret Thatcher and the Queen at Balmoral and eye-opening sex-club etiquette with pop royalty–her social landscape has been nothing if not varied. Many of these stories are hilarious and snarky, some are painful, but all of them are honest, gossipy, and show that, in her words, she was “brought up to be ready for absolutely nothing.” In sharing a peek behind the curtain, Constantine does not hold back and many bold names appear in these pages from Elton John, Princess Diana, The Queen, Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall, Andy Warhol, and our own Anne Glenconner and her husband Colin Tenant. But appearances are deceptive and beneath the balls and glamour, life has had a darker side: her mother's bipolar disorder, her father's inability to cope and her own subsequent alcoholism. Somehow, she had to forge her own life, away from the expectations of others. Which she did and does.   READY FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is for fans of The Crown, royal followers, readers of LADY IN WAITING, What Not To Wear fans and anyone who likes a gossipy memoir with bold faced names and a drop dead sense of humor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593117Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593117 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ready for Absolutely Nothing: A Memoir Author: Susannah Constantine Narrator: Susannah Constantine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593117 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ready for Absolutely Nothing: A Memoir Author: Susannah Constantine Narrator: Susannah Constantine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This darkly funny, confessional memoir from the star of What Not to Wear tells all: from her posh upbringing and the dishy details of her career in fashion to her journey as a recovering alcoholic. The fact that Susannah Constantine made her name as a 'style guru' as part of “Trinny and Susannah” from What Not to Wear is the least interesting thing about her. Susannah grew up amongst the great and good of British aristocracy and (unwittingly) trained to be a society bride. Fittingly, Barbara Cartland was her touchstone for romance: she wanted to be the underdog heroine who ended up marrying a prince. Instead she dated Princess Margaret’s son for several years and traveled in royal circles, including on the island of Mustique, where Princess Margaret–and Hachette author Anne Glenconner–owned homes and had holidays. When that marriage proposal never showed up, she dated Imran Khan –then a gorgeous playboy/cricket player and now the Prime Minister of Pakistan, before meeting her husband. Hers is a tale full to the brim with extraordinary anecdotes. From lavatory dramas with Princess Margaret, to behind-the-scenes power struggles between Margaret Thatcher and the Queen at Balmoral and eye-opening sex-club etiquette with pop royalty–her social landscape has been nothing if not varied. Many of these stories are hilarious and snarky, some are painful, but all of them are honest, gossipy, and show that, in her words, she was “brought up to be ready for absolutely nothing.” In sharing a peek behind the curtain, Constantine does not hold back and many bold names appear in these pages from Elton John, Princess Diana, The Queen, Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall, Andy Warhol, and our own Anne Glenconner and her husband Colin Tenant. But appearances are deceptive and beneath the balls and glamour, life has had a darker side: her mother's bipolar disorder, her father's inability to cope and her own subsequent alcoholism. Somehow, she had to forge her own life, away from the expectations of others. Which she did and does.   READY FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is for fans of The Crown, royal followers, readers of LADY IN WAITING, What Not To Wear fans and anyone who likes a gossipy memoir with bold faced names and a drop dead sense of humor. The fact that Susannah Constantine made her name as a 'style guru' as part of “Trinny and Susannah” from What Not to Wear is the least interesting thing about her. Susannah grew up amongst the great and good of British aristocracy and (unwittingly) trained to be a society bride. Fittingly, Barbara Cartland was her touchstone for romance: she wanted to be the underdog heroine who ended up marrying a prince. Instead she dated Princess Margaret’s son for several years and traveled in royal circles, including on the island of Mustique, where Princess Margaret–and Hachette author Anne Glenconner–owned homes and had holidays. When that marriage proposal never showed up, she dated Imran Khan –then a gorgeous playboy/cricket player and now the Prime Minister of Pakistan, before meeting her husband. Hers is a tale full to the brim with extraordinary anecdotes. From lavatory dramas with Princess Margaret, to behind-the-scenes power struggles between Margaret Thatcher and the Queen at Balmoral and eye-opening sex-club etiquette with pop royalty–her social landscape has been nothing if not varied. Many of these stories are hilarious and snarky, some are painful, but all of them are honest, gossipy, and show that, in her words, she was “brought up to be ready...]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-always-think-it-s-forever-a-love-story-set-in-paris-as-told-by-an-unreliable-but-earnest-narrator-by-timothy-goodman--65185379https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603523 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator Author: Timothy Goodman Narrator: Timothy Goodman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 56 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A sweeping, unique memoir about an artist’s year abroad in Paris and how it gave way to an all-encompassing love affair and crushing heartbreak as he wrestled with trauma, masculinity, and the real possibility of hope. Renowned graphic artist Timothy Goodman planned to do what every young artist dreams of and spend a year abroad in Paris. While there, he fell in love in a way he never had before. For the first time in his life, he let himself be loved and finally, truly loved someone else. But the deeper the love, the more crushing the heartbreak when the relationship eventually fell apart, forcing him to look inwards. He confronted traumas of his past as well as his own toxic masculinity, and he learned to finally show up for himself. I Always Think It’s Forever is a one-of-a-kind memoir that chronicles it all—the ups, the downs, love lost, and love found—all in the bold style Goodman is best known for, with poetic prose and a touch of humor added as well. It’s a glimpse inside the heart and mind of a man, first focusing on the time Goodman spent in Paris, including diary entries relating his experiences learning about French food, culture, and language. This touching memoir also explores the painful break-up just six months later in Rome. Goodman artfully describes his attempts at learning to love himself in the end, his scars, cuts, warts, and all in a way no book ever has before.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603523Tue, 31 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603523 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator Author: Timothy Goodman Narrator: Timothy Goodman...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603523 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator Author: Timothy Goodman Narrator: Timothy Goodman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 56 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A sweeping, unique memoir about an artist’s year abroad in Paris and how it gave way to an all-encompassing love affair and crushing heartbreak as he wrestled with trauma, masculinity, and the real possibility of hope. Renowned graphic artist Timothy Goodman planned to do what every young artist dreams of and spend a year abroad in Paris. While there, he fell in love in a way he never had before. For the first time in his life, he let himself be loved and finally, truly loved someone else. But the deeper the love, the more crushing the heartbreak when the relationship eventually fell apart, forcing him to look inwards. He confronted traumas of his past as well as his own toxic masculinity, and he learned to finally show up for himself. I Always Think It’s Forever is a one-of-a-kind memoir that chronicles it all—the ups, the downs, love lost, and love found—all in the bold style Goodman is best known for, with poetic prose and a touch of humor added as well. It’s a glimpse inside the heart and mind of a man, first focusing on the time Goodman spent in Paris, including diary entries relating his experiences learning about French food, culture, and language. This touching memoir also explores the painful break-up just six months later in Rome. Goodman artfully describes his attempts at learning to love himself in the end, his scars, cuts, warts, and all in a way no book ever has before.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-s-your-vibe-tuning-into-your-best-life-by-craig-david--65185544https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596442 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What’s Your Vibe?: Tuning into your best life Author: Craig David Narrator: Craig David Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 26, 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. I am now in a place where I've learned to have good vibes, to be true to myself, but it hasn't always been this way. This is not a traditional memoir, and it's not a self-help book either. It's a series of lessons learned from a life lived, many of which I've only realised in retrospect - after all, it is only through living that we can learn and grow. I'm still learning, still a journeyman, with much to still absorb; still making mistakes, still striving. But I feel privileged now - after a lot of interesting twists and turns along the way - to share my journey with you. This is my story of how I have learned to tune back in and rediscover my good vibes. From DJ gigs in Southampton nightclubs to chart-topping global fame, Craig David found overnight success as a teenager. With no place for feelings of insecurity, he learned to push them down, building a reputation as the man who always had a smile on his face. Further down the line, things began to unravel. All the negative feelings Craig had been ignoring rose to the surface. He had to change his thinking. In Craig's much-anticipated first book - part-memoir, part self-help - he shares his journey of reinvention, self-love and acceptance, and the lessons he's learned along the way. © Craig David 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596442Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596442 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What’s Your Vibe?: Tuning into your best life Author: Craig David Narrator: Craig David Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596442 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What’s Your Vibe?: Tuning into your best life Author: Craig David Narrator: Craig David Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 26, 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. I am now in a place where I've learned to have good vibes, to be true to myself, but it hasn't always been this way. This is not a traditional memoir, and it's not a self-help book either. It's a series of lessons learned from a life lived, many of which I've only realised in retrospect - after all, it is only through living that we can learn and grow. I'm still learning, still a journeyman, with much to still absorb; still making mistakes, still striving. But I feel privileged now - after a lot of interesting twists and turns along the way - to share my journey with you. This is my story of how I have learned to tune back in and rediscover my good vibes. From DJ gigs in Southampton nightclubs to chart-topping global fame, Craig David found overnight success as a teenager. With no place for feelings of insecurity, he learned to push them down, building a reputation as the man who always had a smile on his face. Further down the line, things began to unravel. All the negative feelings Craig had been ignoring rose to the surface. He had to change his thinking. In Craig's much-anticipated first book - part-memoir, part self-help - he shares his journey of reinvention, self-love and acceptance, and the lessons he's learned along the way. © Craig David 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/straight-shooter-a-memoir-of-second-chances-and-first-takes-by-stephen-a-smith--65185514https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes Author: Stephen A. Smith Narrator: Stephen A. Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.88 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 14 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: AN NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE America’s most popular sports media figure tells it like it is in this “raw, deeply authentic, and immensely entertaining” (Bob Iger, #1 New York Times bestselling author and CEO of The Walt Disney Company) book, not only dishing out his signature, uninhibited opinions but also revealing the challenges he overcame in childhood as well as at ESPN. Stephen A. Smith has never been handed anything, nor was he an overnight success. Growing up poor in Queens, the son of Caribbean immigrants and the youngest of six children, he was a sports-obsessed kid who faced struggles, from undiagnosed dyslexia to getting enough cereal to fill his bowl. As a basketball player at Winston-Salem State University, he got a glimmer of his true calling when he wrote a newspaper column arguing for the retirement of his own Hall of Fame coach, Clarence Gaines. Smith hustled and rose up from a reporter on the high school beat at Daily News (New York) to a general sports columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer before getting his own show at ESPN in 2005. After he was unceremoniously fired from the network in 2009, he became even more determined to fight for success. He got himself rehired two years later and, with his razor-sharp intelligence and fearless debate style, found the show he was destined to star in: First Take, the network’s flagship morning program. In Straight Shooter, Smith writes about the greatest highs and deepest lows of his life and career. He gives his thoughts on Skip Bayless, Ray Rice, Colin Kaepernick, the New York Knicks, the Dallas Cowboys, and former President Donald Trump. But he also pulls back the curtain and talks about life beyond the set, sharing authentic stories about his negligent father, his loving mother, being a father himself, his battle with life-threatening COVID-19, and what he really thinks about politics and social issues. He does it all with the same intelligence, humor, and charm that has made him a household name. A provocative and moving “blueprint of tenacity” (Fat Joe), this book is the perfect gift for lovers of sports, television, and anyone who likes their stories delivered straight to the heart.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601077Tue, 17 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes Author: Stephen A. Smith Narrator: Stephen A. Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes Author: Stephen A. Smith Narrator: Stephen A. Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 4 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.88 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 14 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: AN NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE America’s most popular sports media figure tells it like it is in this “raw, deeply authentic, and immensely entertaining” (Bob Iger, #1 New York Times bestselling author and CEO of The Walt Disney Company) book, not only dishing out his signature, uninhibited opinions but also revealing the challenges he overcame in childhood as well as at ESPN. Stephen A. Smith has never been handed anything, nor was he an overnight success. Growing up poor in Queens, the son of Caribbean immigrants and the youngest of six children, he was a sports-obsessed kid who faced struggles, from undiagnosed dyslexia to getting enough cereal to fill his bowl. As a basketball player at Winston-Salem State University, he got a glimmer of his true calling when he wrote a newspaper column arguing for the retirement of his own Hall of Fame coach, Clarence Gaines. Smith hustled and rose up from a reporter on the high school beat at Daily News (New York) to a general sports columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer before getting his own show at ESPN in 2005. After he was unceremoniously fired from the network in 2009, he became even more determined to fight for success. He got himself rehired two years later and, with his razor-sharp intelligence and fearless debate style, found the show he was destined to star in: First Take, the network’s flagship morning program. In Straight Shooter, Smith writes about the greatest highs and deepest lows of his life and career. He gives his thoughts on Skip Bayless, Ray Rice, Colin Kaepernick, the New York Knicks, the Dallas Cowboys, and former President Donald Trump. But he also pulls back the curtain and talks about life beyond the set, sharing authentic stories about his negligent father, his loving mother, being a father himself, his battle with life-threatening COVID-19, and what he really thinks about politics and social issues. He does it all with the same intelligence, humor, and charm that has made him a household name. A provocative and moving “blueprint of tenacity” (Fat Joe), this book is the perfect gift for lovers of sports, television, and anyone who likes their stories delivered straight to the heart.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/top-of-the-class-the-complete-bbc-radio-4-series-by-rachel-portman-digby-jones-gary-rhodes-tasmin-little-michael-portillo-bill-morris--65185472https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601922 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Top of the Class: The complete BBC Radio 4 series Author: Rachel Portman, Digby Jones, Gary Rhodes, Tasmin Little, Michael Portillo, Bill Morris, John Wilson, Marcus Du Sautoy, Lauren Child, Andrea Levy Narrator: Rachel Portman, Digby Jones, Gary Rhodes, Michael Portillo, Bill Morris, John Wilson, Lauren Child, Andrea Levy, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 12, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Major public figures go back to their beginnings and uncover where they really started John Wilson (acclaimed arts and culture reporter and journalist, and presenter of Front Row, Newsnight Review and Pick of the Week) meets up with a variety of public figures from such diverse fields as food, mathematics, politics, writing and music, and takes them back to the influential schools, teachers, and early workplaces they may have forgotten, but which have not forgotten them. His guests include the first Black trade union leader, Lord Bill Morris; classical violinist Tasmin Little; the late restaurateur and television chef, Gary Rhodes; Lord Digby Jones, former Minister of State for Trade and Investment; the late Women's Prize and Costa Book Award winning author, Andrea Levy; veteran journalist, broadcaster and former politician Michael Portillo, and many more. The locations too are widely varied and richly formative - from car component manufacturers and specialist vocational institutions to grammar and private schools. Top of the Class is a fascinating look beneath the usual façade of a public figure, perfect for anyone wanting to see the human face behind a successful life story, as well as the teachers, mentors, best friends and rivals who helped them grow into the person they became. Episode guide First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following dates: Bill Morris 28 July 2008 Tasmin Little 4 August 2008 Lauren Child 11 August 2008 Gary Rhodes 18 August 2008 Marcus du Sautoy 28 December 2010 Rachel Portman 18 January 2011 Lord Digby Jones 25 January 2011 Michael Portillo 19 July 2011 Andrea Levy 26 July 2011 Production credits Presented by John Wilson Produced by Sarah Taylor © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601922Thu, 12 Jan 2023 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601922 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Top of the Class: The complete BBC Radio 4 series Author: Rachel Portman, Digby Jones, Gary Rhodes, Tasmin Little, Michael Portillo, Bill Morris, John...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601922 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Top of the Class: The complete BBC Radio 4 series Author: Rachel Portman, Digby Jones, Gary Rhodes, Tasmin Little, Michael Portillo, Bill Morris, John Wilson, Marcus Du Sautoy, Lauren Child, Andrea Levy Narrator: Rachel Portman, Digby Jones, Gary Rhodes, Michael Portillo, Bill Morris, John Wilson, Lauren Child, Andrea Levy, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 12, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Major public figures go back to their beginnings and uncover where they really started John Wilson (acclaimed arts and culture reporter and journalist, and presenter of Front Row, Newsnight Review and Pick of the Week) meets up with a variety of public figures from such diverse fields as food, mathematics, politics, writing and music, and takes them back to the influential schools, teachers, and early workplaces they may have forgotten, but which have not forgotten them. His guests include the first Black trade union leader, Lord Bill Morris; classical violinist Tasmin Little; the late restaurateur and television chef, Gary Rhodes; Lord Digby Jones, former Minister of State for Trade and Investment; the late Women's Prize and Costa Book Award winning author, Andrea Levy; veteran journalist, broadcaster and former politician Michael Portillo, and many more. The locations too are widely varied and richly formative - from car component manufacturers and specialist vocational institutions to grammar and private schools. Top of the Class is a fascinating look beneath the usual façade of a public figure, perfect for anyone wanting to see the human face behind a successful life story, as well as the teachers, mentors, best friends and rivals who helped them grow into the person they became. Episode guide First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following dates: Bill Morris 28 July 2008 Tasmin Little 4 August 2008 Lauren Child 11 August 2008 Gary Rhodes 18 August 2008 Marcus du Sautoy 28 December 2010 Rachel Portman 18 January 2011 Lord Digby Jones 25 January 2011 Michael Portillo 19 July 2011 Andrea Levy 26 July 2011 Production credits Presented by John Wilson Produced by Sarah Taylor © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fever-by-jonathan-bazzi--65185454https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604049 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fever Author: Jonathan Bazzi Narrator: Vikas Adam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 23 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Jonathan is thirty-one-years-old, living in Milan with his boyfriend of three years and their two Devon Rex cats when, on a day like any other, he gets a fever. But unlike most, this fever doesn’t go away; it’s constant, low-level, and exhausting. After spending weeks Googling his symptoms and documenting his illness, he finally sees a doctor. A series of blood tests, anxious visits to hospitals, and repeated misdiagnoses ensue, until his doctor suggests an HIV test, and the truth is finally revealed: Jonathan is HIV-positive. As Jonathan comes to terms with what this diagnosis will mean for him, his future, and his relationships, he also takes the listener back in time, in search of his history, to the suburbs where he grew up, and from which he feels he has escaped: Rozzano, the ghetto of Milan, and of Italy’s north. In the vein of Edouard Louis and Virginie Despentes, Fever is at once a deeply personal story and a searing examination of class, poverty, prejudice, and opportunity in modern Europe.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604049Tue, 27 Dec 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604049 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fever Author: Jonathan Bazzi Narrator: Vikas Adam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 23 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604049 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fever Author: Jonathan Bazzi Narrator: Vikas Adam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 23 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Jonathan is thirty-one-years-old, living in Milan with his boyfriend of three years and their two Devon Rex cats when, on a day like any other, he gets a fever. But unlike most, this fever doesn’t go away; it’s constant, low-level, and exhausting. After spending weeks Googling his symptoms and documenting his illness, he finally sees a doctor. A series of blood tests, anxious visits to hospitals, and repeated misdiagnoses ensue, until his doctor suggests an HIV test, and the truth is finally revealed: Jonathan is HIV-positive. As Jonathan comes to terms with what this diagnosis will mean for him, his future, and his relationships, he also takes the listener back in time, in search of his history, to the suburbs where he grew up, and from which he feels he has escaped: Rozzano, the ghetto of Milan, and of Italy’s north. In the vein of Edouard Louis and Virginie Despentes, Fever is at once a deeply personal story and a searing examination of class, poverty, prejudice, and opportunity in modern Europe.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ex-muslim-how-one-daring-prayer-to-jesus-changed-a-life-forever-by-naeem-fazal--65185498https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ex-Muslim: How One Daring Prayer to Jesus Changed a Life Forever Author: Naeem Fazal Narrator: Craig Hinkle, Sam Schott, John Behrens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: December 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Jesus revealed himself to a young, brash, Pakistani Muslim. But he didn’t just reveal himself; he turned Naeem Fazal’s world upside down. Moving from Kuwait to Charleston, South Carolina, had been an adventure. Surrendering his life to Jesus Christ was actual treason. And yet, Jesus brought Fazal the most powerful peace he had ever experienced: “It filled the room. It grew roots in my heart and in my soul. It intoxicated me.” In this riveting memoir, Fazal describes how God used extraordinary means to bring a young, underachieving, Muslim immigrant through Desert Storm, across the oceans, into college, and ultimately to pastor a Christian church in North Carolina. He demonstrates that no character flaw, no distance, no cultural chasm is too great for Jesus to reach across. Fazal is candid about his shortcomings, practical about the challenges of cross-cultural engagement, and ultimately inspiring that God is capable of far more than we have grown to expect. He says, “Jesus consistently, stubbornly refuses to limit himself to my expectations. Which makes getting to know him an unfolding adventure of epic proportions.” Whether you are a Muslim, Christian, or neither, Ex-Muslim makes a compelling case that life with Jesus Christ is a true adventure. Photos from Naeem’s life are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602950Tue, 20 Dec 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ex-Muslim: How One Daring Prayer to Jesus Changed a Life Forever Author: Naeem Fazal Narrator: Craig Hinkle, Sam Schott, John Behrens Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602950 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ex-Muslim: How One Daring Prayer to Jesus Changed a Life Forever Author: Naeem Fazal Narrator: Craig Hinkle, Sam Schott, John Behrens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: December 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Jesus revealed himself to a young, brash, Pakistani Muslim. But he didn’t just reveal himself; he turned Naeem Fazal’s world upside down. Moving from Kuwait to Charleston, South Carolina, had been an adventure. Surrendering his life to Jesus Christ was actual treason. And yet, Jesus brought Fazal the most powerful peace he had ever experienced: “It filled the room. It grew roots in my heart and in my soul. It intoxicated me.” In this riveting memoir, Fazal describes how God used extraordinary means to bring a young, underachieving, Muslim immigrant through Desert Storm, across the oceans, into college, and ultimately to pastor a Christian church in North Carolina. He demonstrates that no character flaw, no distance, no cultural chasm is too great for Jesus to reach across. Fazal is candid about his shortcomings, practical about the challenges of cross-cultural engagement, and ultimately inspiring that God is capable of far more than we have grown to expect. He says, “Jesus consistently, stubbornly refuses to limit himself to my expectations. Which makes getting to know him an unfolding adventure of epic proportions.” Whether you are a Muslim, Christian, or neither, Ex-Muslim makes a compelling case that life with Jesus Christ is a true adventure. Photos from Naeem’s life are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/alan-bennett-untold-stories-read-by-alan-bennett-by-alan-bennett--65185332https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613073 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alan Bennett: Untold Stories: Read by Alan Bennett Author: Alan Bennett Narrator: Alan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The complete collected edition of the award-winning writer's unforgettable Untold Stories Over the course of his distinguished entertainment career, Alan Bennett has received multiple awards and honours, including two BAFTAs, four Laurence Olivier Awards, two Tony Awards, an Academy Award nomination for his film The Madness of King George, and a British Book Award for Author of the Year in 2006. In this four-part collection of his remarkable Untold Stories, the acclaimed writer considers his childhood, career, and the current state of the world with his customary blend of wit and poignancy. Part 1: Stories is a moving family memoir recalling his parents' marriage, the lives and deaths of his aunts, and the revelation of a long-held family secret. Part 2: The Diaries covers Alan Bennett's celebrated diaries for 1997-2004, in which he celebrates the joys of nature and comments on the state of the arts and politics with humour and sharp observation. Part 3: Written on the Body is a reflection on youth and a meditation on writing itself, with a look at Alan's schooling in Leeds, the growing pains of puberty, and a window into his creative process. Part 4: A Common Assault harks back to a mugging incident in Italy, a glimpse into his own schooldays that became the inspiration for The History Boys, and a light note on his thoughts on the Honours System. Funny, thoughtful, and fascinating, this wonderful series of essays and stories read by the author offers an extraordinary journey into an exceptional career. For those who want to hear Alan Bennett narrate more of his memoirs, Alan Bennett: Diaries is also available from BBC Audio. Extracts originally broadcast on Radio 4: 10 October - 14 October 2005 20 November - 24 November 2006 Production credits Read by Alan Bennett Produced by Gordon House © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613073Thu, 08 Dec 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613073 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alan Bennett: Untold Stories: Read by Alan Bennett Author: Alan Bennett Narrator: Alan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613073 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alan Bennett: Untold Stories: Read by Alan Bennett Author: Alan Bennett Narrator: Alan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: December 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The complete collected edition of the award-winning writer's unforgettable Untold Stories Over the course of his distinguished entertainment career, Alan Bennett has received multiple awards and honours, including two BAFTAs, four Laurence Olivier Awards, two Tony Awards, an Academy Award nomination for his film The Madness of King George, and a British Book Award for Author of the Year in 2006. In this four-part collection of his remarkable Untold Stories, the acclaimed writer considers his childhood, career, and the current state of the world with his customary blend of wit and poignancy. Part 1: Stories is a moving family memoir recalling his parents' marriage, the lives and deaths of his aunts, and the revelation of a long-held family secret. Part 2: The Diaries covers Alan Bennett's celebrated diaries for 1997-2004, in which he celebrates the joys of nature and comments on the state of the arts and politics with humour and sharp observation. Part 3: Written on the Body is a reflection on youth and a meditation on writing itself, with a look at Alan's schooling in Leeds, the growing pains of puberty, and a window into his creative process. Part 4: A Common Assault harks back to a mugging incident in Italy, a glimpse into his own schooldays that became the inspiration for The History Boys, and a light note on his thoughts on the Honours System. Funny, thoughtful, and fascinating, this wonderful series of essays and stories read by the author offers an extraordinary journey into an exceptional career. For those who want to hear Alan Bennett narrate more of his memoirs, Alan Bennett: Diaries is also available from BBC Audio. Extracts originally broadcast on Radio 4: 10 October - 14 October 2005 20 November - 24 November 2006 Production credits Read by Alan Bennett Produced by Gordon House © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/alan-bennett-diaries-read-by-alan-bennett-by-alan-bennett--65185315https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alan Bennett: Diaries: Read by Alan Bennett Author: Alan Bennett Narrator: Alan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: December 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Classic memoirs from the acclaimed English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter Alan Bennett is one of the country's most celebrated and best-loved authors. This unmissable collection of diaries and memoirs brings together for the first time Telling Tales, Diaries: 1980-1990, the autobiographical section of Untold Stories, which covers the period 1997-2004, and Keeping On Keeping On: The Diaries 2005-2014. In his earliest collection of diaries, Alan Bennett offers a fascinating insight into his life in the eighties, working on location for his early films and enjoying life at home in Camden. In the diaries of Untold Stories, he enjoys the simple pleasures of nature and wonders about the state of religion and politics at the end of the twentieth century. In Keeping On Keeping On, he looks back at a busy decade that saw him write four highly acclaimed plays, reflects on his life with his partner, Rupert Thomas, and considers his lately found status as 'kindly, cosy and essentially harmless'. Telling Tales, meanwhile, provides ten childhood snapshots and reminiscences about his early years-charting his development from a schoolboy in Leeds to a doubtful agnostic teen, as well as his undergraduate life at the University of Oxford. With wit, wisdom, sharp social commentary and perceptive impressions, Alan Bennett's memoirs and diaries are a joy to discover, and a delight to hear again. For those who want to listen to Alan Bennett read Untold Stories in its complete form, Alan Bennett: Untold Stories is also available from BBC Audio. Originally broadcast on Radio 4: 4 June - 15 June 2001 (Telling Tales) 10 October - 14 October 1994 (Diaries 1980-1990) 10 October - 14 October 2005 (Untold Stories) 24 October - 4 November 2016 (Keeping On Keeping On: The Diaries, 2005-2014) Production credits Read by Alan Bennett Music by George Fenton Produced by Liz Allard (Telling Tales) Abridged by Pat McLoughlin Produced by Gillian Hush (Diaries 1980-1990) Abridged and produced by Gordon House (Untold Stories) Abridged and produced by Gordon House (Keeping On Keeping On: The Diaries, 2005-2014) © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613072Thu, 08 Dec 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alan Bennett: Diaries: Read by Alan Bennett Author: Alan Bennett Narrator: Alan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alan Bennett: Diaries: Read by Alan Bennett Author: Alan Bennett Narrator: Alan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: December 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Classic memoirs from the acclaimed English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter Alan Bennett is one of the country's most celebrated and best-loved authors. This unmissable collection of diaries and memoirs brings together for the first time Telling Tales, Diaries: 1980-1990, the autobiographical section of Untold Stories, which covers the period 1997-2004, and Keeping On Keeping On: The Diaries 2005-2014. In his earliest collection of diaries, Alan Bennett offers a fascinating insight into his life in the eighties, working on location for his early films and enjoying life at home in Camden. In the diaries of Untold Stories, he enjoys the simple pleasures of nature and wonders about the state of religion and politics at the end of the twentieth century. In Keeping On Keeping On, he looks back at a busy decade that saw him write four highly acclaimed plays, reflects on his life with his partner, Rupert Thomas, and considers his lately found status as 'kindly, cosy and essentially harmless'. Telling Tales, meanwhile, provides ten childhood snapshots and reminiscences about his early years-charting his development from a schoolboy in Leeds to a doubtful agnostic teen, as well as his undergraduate life at the University of Oxford. With wit, wisdom, sharp social commentary and perceptive impressions, Alan Bennett's memoirs and diaries are a joy to discover, and a delight to hear again. For those who want to listen to Alan Bennett read Untold Stories in its complete form, Alan Bennett: Untold Stories is also available from BBC Audio. Originally broadcast on Radio 4: 4 June - 15 June 2001 (Telling Tales) 10 October - 14 October 1994 (Diaries 1980-1990) 10 October - 14 October 2005 (Untold Stories) 24 October - 4 November 2016 (Keeping On Keeping On: The Diaries, 2005-2014) Production credits Read by Alan Bennett Music by George Fenton Produced by Liz Allard (Telling Tales) Abridged by Pat McLoughlin Produced by Gillian Hush (Diaries 1980-1990) Abridged and produced by Gordon House (Untold Stories) Abridged and produced by Gordon House (Keeping On Keeping On: The Diaries, 2005-2014) © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-light-we-carry-overcoming-in-uncertain-times-by-michelle-obama--65185427https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times Author: Michelle Obama Narrator: Michelle Obama Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.76 of Total 356 Ratings of Narrator: 4.13 of Total 72 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 2024 Grammy® Award Winner • #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.   There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?   Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles—the earned wisdom that helps her continue to “become.” She details her most valuable practices, like “starting kind,” “going high,” and assembling a “kitchen table” of trusted friends and mentors. With trademark humor, candor, and compassion, she also explores issues connected to race, gender, and visibility, encouraging readers to work through fear, find strength in community, and live with boldness.   “When we are able to recognize our own light, we become empowered to use it,” writes Michelle Obama. A rewarding blend of powerful stories and profound advice that will ignite conversation, The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives, identify their sources of gladness, and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603515Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times Author: Michelle Obama Narrator: Michelle Obama Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times Author: Michelle Obama Narrator: Michelle Obama Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.76 of Total 356 Ratings of Narrator: 4.13 of Total 72 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 2024 Grammy® Award Winner • #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.   There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers to life’s big challenges, but Michelle Obama believes that we can all locate and lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. In The Light We Carry, she opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?   Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles—the earned wisdom that helps her continue to “become.” She details her most valuable practices, like “starting kind,” “going high,” and assembling a “kitchen table” of trusted friends and mentors. With trademark humor, candor, and compassion, she also explores issues connected to race, gender, and visibility, encouraging readers to work through fear, find strength in community, and live with boldness.   “When we are able to recognize our own light, we become empowered to use it,” writes Michelle Obama. A rewarding blend of powerful stories and profound advice that will ignite conversation, The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives, identify their sources of gladness, and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-silence-of-your-name-the-afterlife-of-a-suicide-by-alexandra-marshall--65185401https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide Author: Alexandra Marshall Narrator: Alexandra Marshall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Silence of Your Name revolves around the suicide of Marshall’s charismatic and idealistic young husband, Tim Buxton, while they were in Ghana with Operation Crossroads Africa—a progenitor of the Peace Corps. Marshall weaves in her husband’s hidden family history, one tied to Boston’s wealthy social scene and the deaths of notorious Black Sun publisher Harry Crosby and Tim’s aunt Josephine Rotch Bigelow. By allowing readers to experience these distinct periods of time in great detail, Marshall illuminates the toxic effects of denial across classes and generations. As Marshall moves on with her life, now a novelist and young widow, she must navigate her way in the ‘70s publishing world with the guidance of her friend Philip Roth, while still processing the grief of losing her husband. Decades later, Marshall finds herself in the footprints of her past, journeying to Ghana and reuniting with a royal Queen-Mother and the steadfast community that offered her its support decades earlier. As Pulitzer Prize–winning author Megan Marshall writes, she “is relentless in her quest for understanding and release from grief and guilt … but wisdom comes incrementally and her readers partake eagerly at each stage until we, too, have learned that grief may be transformed into love—and brilliant, soothing prose.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603000Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide Author: Alexandra Marshall Narrator: Alexandra Marshall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide Author: Alexandra Marshall Narrator: Alexandra Marshall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Silence of Your Name revolves around the suicide of Marshall’s charismatic and idealistic young husband, Tim Buxton, while they were in Ghana with Operation Crossroads Africa—a progenitor of the Peace Corps. Marshall weaves in her husband’s hidden family history, one tied to Boston’s wealthy social scene and the deaths of notorious Black Sun publisher Harry Crosby and Tim’s aunt Josephine Rotch Bigelow. By allowing readers to experience these distinct periods of time in great detail, Marshall illuminates the toxic effects of denial across classes and generations. As Marshall moves on with her life, now a novelist and young widow, she must navigate her way in the ‘70s publishing world with the guidance of her friend Philip Roth, while still processing the grief of losing her husband. Decades later, Marshall finds herself in the footprints of her past, journeying to Ghana and reuniting with a royal Queen-Mother and the steadfast community that offered her its support decades earlier. As Pulitzer Prize–winning author Megan Marshall writes, she “is relentless in her quest for understanding and release from grief and guilt … but wisdom comes incrementally and her readers partake eagerly at each stage until we, too, have learned that grief may be transformed into love—and brilliant, soothing prose.”]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-el-hombre-que-movia-las-nubes-una-memoria-by-ingrid-rojas-contreras--65185378https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El hombre que movía las nubes: Una memoria Author: Ingrid Rojas Contreras Narrator: Nicole Santamaría Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: La autora de La fruta del borrachero nos entrega una deslumbrante historia caleidoscópica que recupera el legado místico de su familia.   A Ingrid Rojas Contreras la magia le corre por las venas. No era una niña fácil de sorprender: creció en medio de la violencia política de los años ochenta y noventa en Colombia, en una casa siempre atestada de gente que venía a que su madre le leyera el futuro. Su abuelo materno, Nono, era un curandero de renombre, dotado de lo que la familia llamaba “los secretos”: el poder de hablar con los muertos, predecir el futuro, tratar a los enfermos y mover las nubes. La madre de Ingrid, la primera mujer en heredar los secretos, era igualmente poderosa. Mami disfrutaba su habilidad de aparecer en dos lugares a la vez, y era capaz de expulsar al más terco de los espíritus usando apenas un vaso de agua.   Rojas Contreras solía creer que este legado pertenecía solo a su madre y a su abuelo, hasta que un día, en sus veinte y viviendo en Estados Unidos, sufrió una herida en la cabeza que le provocó amnesia. Mientras recuperaba la memoria, su familia le contó que esto había sucedido antes: décadas atrás Mami había tenido una caída que también le había provocado amnesia; y cuando se recuperó, descubrió que tenía acceso a los secretos.   En 2012, urgida por un sueño compartido con Mami y sus hermanas, y por la necesidad imperiosa de volver a aprender la historia familiar tras su pérdida de la memoria, Rojas Contreras decidió acompañar a su madre en un viaje a Colombia para exhumar los restos de Nono. Con la guía impredecible, testaruda y casi siempre divertida de Mami, rastrea sus orígenes indígenas y españoles, revelando la violenta historia colonial que, con el paso del tiempo, separaría a su familia mestiza en dos grupos: los que piensan que los secretos son un don y los que creen que son una maldición.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603506Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El hombre que movía las nubes: Una memoria Author: Ingrid Rojas Contreras Narrator: Nicole Santamaría Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El hombre que movía las nubes: Una memoria Author: Ingrid Rojas Contreras Narrator: Nicole Santamaría Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: La autora de La fruta del borrachero nos entrega una deslumbrante historia caleidoscópica que recupera el legado místico de su familia.   A Ingrid Rojas Contreras la magia le corre por las venas. No era una niña fácil de sorprender: creció en medio de la violencia política de los años ochenta y noventa en Colombia, en una casa siempre atestada de gente que venía a que su madre le leyera el futuro. Su abuelo materno, Nono, era un curandero de renombre, dotado de lo que la familia llamaba “los secretos”: el poder de hablar con los muertos, predecir el futuro, tratar a los enfermos y mover las nubes. La madre de Ingrid, la primera mujer en heredar los secretos, era igualmente poderosa. Mami disfrutaba su habilidad de aparecer en dos lugares a la vez, y era capaz de expulsar al más terco de los espíritus usando apenas un vaso de agua.   Rojas Contreras solía creer que este legado pertenecía solo a su madre y a su abuelo, hasta que un día, en sus veinte y viviendo en Estados Unidos, sufrió una herida en la cabeza que le provocó amnesia. Mientras recuperaba la memoria, su familia le contó que esto había sucedido antes: décadas atrás Mami había tenido una caída que también le había provocado amnesia; y cuando se recuperó, descubrió que tenía acceso a los secretos.   En 2012, urgida por un sueño compartido con Mami y sus hermanas, y por la necesidad imperiosa de volver a aprender la historia familiar tras su pérdida de la memoria, Rojas Contreras decidió acompañar a su madre en un viaje a Colombia para exhumar los restos de Nono. Con la guía impredecible, testaruda y casi siempre divertida de Mami, rastrea sus orígenes indígenas y españoles, revelando la violenta historia colonial que, con el paso del tiempo, separaría a su familia mestiza en dos grupos: los que piensan que los secretos son un don y los que creen que son una maldición.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-light-we-carry-overcoming-in-uncertain-times-by-michelle-obama--65185337https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times Author: Michelle Obama Narrator: Michelle Obama Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.99 of Total 82 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 14 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The powerful, inspiring follow-up to the critically acclaimed, multi-million #1 bestselling memoir Becoming In The Light We Carry, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. She considers the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much? Michelle Obama believes that we can all lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. The Light We Carry offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully overcome various obstacles-the earned wisdom that helps her continue to 'become.' With trademark humour, candour, and compassion, she also explores issues connected to race, gender, and visibility, encouraging readers to work through fear, find strength in community, and live with boldness. The Light We Carry will inspire readers to examine their own lives, identify their sources of gladness, and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world. Praise for Becoming: 'An inspirational memoir that also rings true' -- Daily Telegraph 'This is a rich, entertaining and candid memoir...it is as beautifully written as any piece of fiction' -- i 'In the best moments of Becoming, the miracle of Michelle Obama arises' -- Vanity Fair 'Intimate, inspiring and set to become hugely influential' -- Sunday Times 'Becoming serenely balances gravity and grace, uplift and anecdote' -- Observer 'What a memoir. What a woman' -- Spectator]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604572Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times Author: Michelle Obama Narrator: Michelle Obama Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604572 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times Author: Michelle Obama Narrator: Michelle Obama Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.99 of Total 82 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 14 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The powerful, inspiring follow-up to the critically acclaimed, multi-million #1 bestselling memoir Becoming In The Light We Carry, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. She considers the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much? Michelle Obama believes that we can all lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux. The Light We Carry offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully overcome various obstacles-the earned wisdom that helps her continue to 'become.' With trademark humour, candour, and compassion, she also explores issues connected to race, gender, and visibility, encouraging readers to work through fear, find strength in community, and live with boldness. The Light We Carry will inspire readers to examine their own lives, identify their sources of gladness, and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world. Praise for Becoming: 'An inspirational memoir that also rings true' -- Daily Telegraph 'This is a rich, entertaining and candid memoir...it is as beautifully written as any piece of fiction' -- i 'In the best moments of Becoming, the miracle of Michelle Obama arises' -- Vanity Fair 'Intimate, inspiring and set to become hugely influential' -- Sunday Times 'Becoming serenely balances gravity and grace, uplift and anecdote' -- Observer 'What a memoir. What a woman' -- Spectator]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dance-or-die-from-stateless-refugee-to-international-ballet-star-a-memoir-by-ahmad-joudeh--65185526https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dance or Die: From Stateless Refugee to International Ballet Star A MEMOIR Author: Ahmad Joudeh Narrator: Neil Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Syria-born dancer offers his deeply personal story of war, statelessness, and the pursuit of the art of dance in this inspirational memoir. Dance or Die is an autobiographical coming-of-age account of Ahmad Joudeh, a young refugee who grows up in Damascus with dreams of becoming a dancer. When he is recruited by one of Syria's top dance companies, neither bombs nor family opposition can keep him from taking classes, practicing hard, and becoming a Middle Eastern celebrity on a Lebanese reality show. Despite death threats if Ahmad continues to dance, his father kicking him out of the house, and the war around him intensifying, he persists and even gets a tattoo on his neck right where the executioner's blade would fall that says, 'Dance or Die.' A powerful look at refugee life in Syria, Dance or Die tells of the pursuit of personal expression in the most dangerous of circumstances and of the power of art to transcend war and suffering. It follows Ahmad from Damascus to Beirut to Amsterdam, where he finds a home with one of Europe's top ballet troupes, and from where he continues to fight for the human rights of refugees everywhere through his art, his activism, and his commitment to justice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592752Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dance or Die: From Stateless Refugee to International Ballet Star A MEMOIR Author: Ahmad Joudeh Narrator: Neil Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dance or Die: From Stateless Refugee to International Ballet Star A MEMOIR Author: Ahmad Joudeh Narrator: Neil Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Syria-born dancer offers his deeply personal story of war, statelessness, and the pursuit of the art of dance in this inspirational memoir. Dance or Die is an autobiographical coming-of-age account of Ahmad Joudeh, a young refugee who grows up in Damascus with dreams of becoming a dancer. When he is recruited by one of Syria's top dance companies, neither bombs nor family opposition can keep him from taking classes, practicing hard, and becoming a Middle Eastern celebrity on a Lebanese reality show. Despite death threats if Ahmad continues to dance, his father kicking him out of the house, and the war around him intensifying, he persists and even gets a tattoo on his neck right where the executioner's blade would fall that says, 'Dance or Die.' A powerful look at refugee life in Syria, Dance or Die tells of the pursuit of personal expression in the most dangerous of circumstances and of the power of art to transcend war and suffering. It follows Ahmad from Damascus to Beirut to Amsterdam, where he finds a home with one of Europe's top ballet troupes, and from where he continues to fight for the human rights of refugees everywhere through his art, his activism, and his commitment to justice.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-by-charles-lindbergh--65185509https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Author: Charles Lindbergh Narrator: Tim Getman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: We is the personal account of Charles A. Lindbergh and his historic transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. Published mere months after he completed the journey, his memoir includes his thoughts about the future of aviation and his life leading up to that solo journey. Taking off from Long Island in the Spirit of St. Louis on May twentieth, less than thirty-six hours later he landed in Le Bourget Field in Paris. And over night he transformed from anonymous mail pilot to American hero. New York City threw him the biggest ticker tape parade to date, and he was even awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. In his own words, We brings to life one of the most dramatic events in aviation history and allows us a glimpse into one of the most daring solo journeys of the twentieth century.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598738Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Author: Charles Lindbergh Narrator: Tim Getman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598738 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Author: Charles Lindbergh Narrator: Tim Getman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: We is the personal account of Charles A. Lindbergh and his historic transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. Published mere months after he completed the journey, his memoir includes his thoughts about the future of aviation and his life leading up to that solo journey. Taking off from Long Island in the Spirit of St. Louis on May twentieth, less than thirty-six hours later he landed in Le Bourget Field in Paris. And over night he transformed from anonymous mail pilot to American hero. New York City threw him the biggest ticker tape parade to date, and he was even awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. In his own words, We brings to life one of the most dramatic events in aviation history and allows us a glimpse into one of the most daring solo journeys of the twentieth century.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-we-give-from-marine-to-philanthropist-a-memoir-by-terry-salman--65185446https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What We Give: From Marine to Philanthropist: A Memoir Author: Terry Salman Narrator: Terry Salman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” —Winston Churchill What makes a soldier? What makes a business mind? What makes a philanthropist? In this rich memoir, Canadian icon of mining finance and public service Terry Salman reflects on his remarkable life, offering inspiration and mentorship for others seeking to build their own legacies. Salman traces his journey from his modest beginnings in Montreal as the son of a Turkish immigrant father and Quebec-born mother, to the traumas of the Vietnam War, to his rise up the Canadian business world, and the growing dedication to service that earned him the Order of Canada. He recounts the moments that shaped him: the brotherhood of the U.S. Marines and the lifelong duty of loyalty and community they instilled in him; the traumas he endured as a young sergeant in Vietnam; his return to Canada and the mentors who helped guide his success; and his many roles in helping others. As he climbs the corporate ladder, his deep-seated faith and commitment to social responsibility grows. He takes on leadership roles, including chairman of the Vancouver Public Library Foundation and the St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation—where he helped fund a hospice for AIDS patients—and Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Singapore. Offering an inside view at the Canadian business, political, and philanthropic landscape, What We Give is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how some are driven to succeed, and to give back.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602087Tue, 01 Nov 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What We Give: From Marine to Philanthropist: A Memoir Author: Terry Salman Narrator: Terry Salman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What We Give: From Marine to Philanthropist: A Memoir Author: Terry Salman Narrator: Terry Salman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” —Winston Churchill What makes a soldier? What makes a business mind? What makes a philanthropist? In this rich memoir, Canadian icon of mining finance and public service Terry Salman reflects on his remarkable life, offering inspiration and mentorship for others seeking to build their own legacies. Salman traces his journey from his modest beginnings in Montreal as the son of a Turkish immigrant father and Quebec-born mother, to the traumas of the Vietnam War, to his rise up the Canadian business world, and the growing dedication to service that earned him the Order of Canada. He recounts the moments that shaped him: the brotherhood of the U.S. Marines and the lifelong duty of loyalty and community they instilled in him; the traumas he endured as a young sergeant in Vietnam; his return to Canada and the mentors who helped guide his success; and his many roles in helping others. As he climbs the corporate ladder, his deep-seated faith and commitment to social responsibility grows. He takes on leadership roles, including chairman of the Vancouver Public Library Foundation and the St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation—where he helped fund a hospice for AIDS patients—and Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Singapore. Offering an inside view at the Canadian business, political, and philanthropic landscape, What We Give is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how some are driven to succeed, and to give back.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-extraordinary-life-of-an-ordinary-man-a-memoir-by-paul-newman--65185539https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir Author: Paul Newman Narrator: Emily Wachtel, Clea Newman Soderlund, Melissa Newman, Ari Fliakos, January LaVoy, Jeff Daniels, John Rubinstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. In 1986, Paul Newman and his closest friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern, began an extraordinary project. Stuart was to compile an oral history, to have Newman's family and friends and those who worked closely with him, talk about the actor's life. And then Newman would work with Stewart and give his side of the story. The only stipulation was that anyone who spoke on the record had to be completely honest. That same stipulation applied to Newman himself. The project lasted five years. The result is an extraordinary memoir, culled from thousands of pages of transcripts. The book is insightful, revealing, surprising. Newman's voice is powerful, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always meeting that high standard of searing honesty. The additional voices - from childhood friends and Navy buddies, from family members and film and theater collaborators such as Tom Cruise, George Roy Hill, Martin Ritt, and John Huston -that run throughout add richness and color and context to the story Newman is telling. Newman's often traumatic childhood is brilliantly detailed. He talks about his teenage insecurities, his early failures with women, his rise to stardom, his early rivals (Brando and Dean), his first marriage, his drinking, his philanthropy, the death of his son Scott, his strong desire for his daughters to know and understand the truth about their father. Perhaps the most moving material in the book centers around his relationship with Joanne Woodward - their love for each other, his dependence on her, the way she shaped him intellectually, emotionally and sexually. THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF AN ORDINARY MAN is revelatory and introspective, personal and analytical, loving and tender in some places, always complex and profound. © Paul Newman 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599046Thu, 27 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir Author: Paul Newman Narrator: Emily Wachtel, Clea Newman Soderlund, Melissa Newman, Ari Fliakos,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir Author: Paul Newman Narrator: Emily Wachtel, Clea Newman Soderlund, Melissa Newman, Ari Fliakos, January LaVoy, Jeff Daniels, John Rubinstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. In 1986, Paul Newman and his closest friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern, began an extraordinary project. Stuart was to compile an oral history, to have Newman's family and friends and those who worked closely with him, talk about the actor's life. And then Newman would work with Stewart and give his side of the story. The only stipulation was that anyone who spoke on the record had to be completely honest. That same stipulation applied to Newman himself. The project lasted five years. The result is an extraordinary memoir, culled from thousands of pages of transcripts. The book is insightful, revealing, surprising. Newman's voice is powerful, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always meeting that high standard of searing honesty. The additional voices - from childhood friends and Navy buddies, from family members and film and theater collaborators such as Tom Cruise, George Roy Hill, Martin Ritt, and John Huston -that run throughout add richness and color and context to the story Newman is telling. Newman's often traumatic childhood is brilliantly detailed. He talks about his teenage insecurities, his early failures with women, his rise to stardom, his early rivals (Brando and Dean), his first marriage, his drinking, his philanthropy, the death of his son Scott, his strong desire for his daughters to know and understand the truth about their father. Perhaps the most moving material in the book centers around his relationship with Joanne Woodward - their love for each other, his dependence on her, the way she shaped him intellectually, emotionally and sexually. THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF AN ORDINARY MAN is revelatory and introspective, personal and analytical, loving and tender in some places, always complex and profound. © Paul Newman 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-trainspotter-s-notebook-the-unmissable-book-from-tiktok-s-trainspotting-sensation-by-francis-bourgeois--65185410https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604571 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trainspotter's Notebook: The unmissable book from TikTok's trainspotting sensation Author: Francis Bourgeois Narrator: Francis Bourgeois Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The adventure filled memoir written and read by the world's most beloved trainspotter, TikTok sensation Francis Bourgeois. 'Thrashing builds and builds. I look down and pull up my sleeve: I've got goosebumps, making all the hairs on my arm stand on end. I'm absolutely buzzing.' From sleeping in a car to get a good shot of 73962 Dick Mabbutt to trainspotting with Joe Jonas, Francis Bourgeois has been on one hell of a ride over the past year. Bringing joy to millions, his epic journeys have highlighted the importance of connecting with your passions. In The Trainspotter's Notebook, Francis shares his greatest trainspotting adventures and takes you with him across the fields and footbridges of Britain, passing through historic terminals and backwater stations in pursuit of tones, thrash and locomotive perfection. Told in his inimitable style, these hilarious and heart-warming tales take you behind the scenes of his most popular videos, and celebrate the places and people of the railway. Are you ready to depart? 'Oh for goodness sake, I'm on the wrong platform!' © Francis Bourgeois 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604571Thu, 27 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604571 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trainspotter's Notebook: The unmissable book from TikTok's trainspotting sensation Author: Francis Bourgeois Narrator: Francis Bourgeois Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604571 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trainspotter's Notebook: The unmissable book from TikTok's trainspotting sensation Author: Francis Bourgeois Narrator: Francis Bourgeois Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The adventure filled memoir written and read by the world's most beloved trainspotter, TikTok sensation Francis Bourgeois. 'Thrashing builds and builds. I look down and pull up my sleeve: I've got goosebumps, making all the hairs on my arm stand on end. I'm absolutely buzzing.' From sleeping in a car to get a good shot of 73962 Dick Mabbutt to trainspotting with Joe Jonas, Francis Bourgeois has been on one hell of a ride over the past year. Bringing joy to millions, his epic journeys have highlighted the importance of connecting with your passions. In The Trainspotter's Notebook, Francis shares his greatest trainspotting adventures and takes you with him across the fields and footbridges of Britain, passing through historic terminals and backwater stations in pursuit of tones, thrash and locomotive perfection. Told in his inimitable style, these hilarious and heart-warming tales take you behind the scenes of his most popular videos, and celebrate the places and people of the railway. Are you ready to depart? 'Oh for goodness sake, I'm on the wrong platform!' © Francis Bourgeois 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/inciting-joy-essays-by-ross-gay--65185477https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inciting Joy: Essays Author: Ross Gay Narrator: Ross Gay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes a "brilliant" intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection (Ada Limón, U.S. poet laureate). In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prizewinning poet and author Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection, and also, crucially, how we can expand it.    Taking a clear-eyed look at injustice, political polarization, and the destruction of the natural world, Gay shows us how we might resist, how the study of joy might lead us to a wild, unpredictable, transgressive, and unboundaried solidarity. In fact, it just might help us survive.  In an era when divisive voices take up so much airspace, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together, to what we love?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603122Tue, 25 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inciting Joy: Essays Author: Ross Gay Narrator: Ross Gay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inciting Joy: Essays Author: Ross Gay Narrator: Ross Gay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes a "brilliant" intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection (Ada Limón, U.S. poet laureate). In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prizewinning poet and author Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. Throughout Inciting Joy, he explores how we can practice recognizing that connection, and also, crucially, how we can expand it.    Taking a clear-eyed look at injustice, political polarization, and the destruction of the natural world, Gay shows us how we might resist, how the study of joy might lead us to a wild, unpredictable, transgressive, and unboundaried solidarity. In fact, it just might help us survive.  In an era when divisive voices take up so much airspace, Inciting Joy offers a vital alternative: What might be possible if we turn our attention to what brings us together, to what we love?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/time-and-tide-by-charlie-bird--65185588https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time and Tide Author: Charlie Bird Narrator: Bryan Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A poignant and introspective memoir from Irish journalist and broadcaster Charlie Bird. In 2021, Charlie Bird was diagnosed with motor neurone disease – a man whose voice was so synonymous with his career faced losing it completely. Yet knowing he had just a short time left with family and friends, what emerged was a great sense of resilience and motivation to take advantage of every moment. Here, Charlie reflects on his life and phenomenal broadcast career through the lense of his diagnosis, as he ponders the big questions and takes stock of the small moments that we so often overlook. Written over the course of 2022 as his health deteriorated, with the help of long-time friend and fellow journalist Ray Burke, this is a candid and unforgettable story about the triumph of the human spirit and, ultimately, what it means to be alive.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590869Thu, 20 Oct 2022 06:02:10 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time and Tide Author: Charlie Bird Narrator: Bryan Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 20, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Time and Tide Author: Charlie Bird Narrator: Bryan Murray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A poignant and introspective memoir from Irish journalist and broadcaster Charlie Bird. In 2021, Charlie Bird was diagnosed with motor neurone disease – a man whose voice was so synonymous with his career faced losing it completely. Yet knowing he had just a short time left with family and friends, what emerged was a great sense of resilience and motivation to take advantage of every moment. Here, Charlie reflects on his life and phenomenal broadcast career through the lense of his diagnosis, as he ponders the big questions and takes stock of the small moments that we so often overlook. Written over the course of 2022 as his health deteriorated, with the help of long-time friend and fellow journalist Ray Burke, this is a candid and unforgettable story about the triumph of the human spirit and, ultimately, what it means to be alive.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beyond-the-wand-the-magic-and-mayhem-of-growing-up-a-wizard-by-tom-felton--65185519https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard Author: Tom Felton Narrator: Tom Felton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4.95 of Total 19 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. They called for a break, and Gambon magicked up a cigarette from out of his beard. He and I were often to be found outside the stage door, having 'a breath of fresh air', as we referred to it. There would be painters and plasterers and chippies and sparks, and among them all would be me and Dumbledore having a crafty cigarette. From Borrower to wizard, Tom Felton's adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame saw him catapulted into the limelight aged just twelve when he landed the iconic role of Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films. Speaking with candour and his own trademark humour, Tom shares his experience of growing up on screen and as part of the wizarding world for the very first time. He tells all about his big break, what filming was really like and the lasting friendships he made during ten years as part of the franchise, as well as the highs and lows of fame and the reality of navigating adult life after filming finished. Prepare to meet a real-life wizard. Now featuring a totally new chapter © Tom Felton 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597244Thu, 20 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard Author: Tom Felton Narrator: Tom Felton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 57...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard Author: Tom Felton Narrator: Tom Felton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4.95 of Total 19 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. They called for a break, and Gambon magicked up a cigarette from out of his beard. He and I were often to be found outside the stage door, having 'a breath of fresh air', as we referred to it. There would be painters and plasterers and chippies and sparks, and among them all would be me and Dumbledore having a crafty cigarette. From Borrower to wizard, Tom Felton's adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame saw him catapulted into the limelight aged just twelve when he landed the iconic role of Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films. Speaking with candour and his own trademark humour, Tom shares his experience of growing up on screen and as part of the wizarding world for the very first time. He tells all about his big break, what filming was really like and the lasting friendships he made during ten years as part of the franchise, as well as the highs and lows of fame and the reality of navigating adult life after filming finished. Prepare to meet a real-life wizard. Now featuring a totally new chapter © Tom Felton 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beyond-the-wand-the-magic-and-mayhem-of-growing-up-a-wizard-by-tom-felton--65185525https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard Author: Tom Felton Narrator: Tom Felton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.61 of Total 64 Ratings of Narrator: 4.97 of Total 39 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, get a backstage pass into Tom Felton’s life on and off the big screen in this #1 New York Times bestseller.   Tom Felton’s adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame in beloved films like The Borrowers catapulted him into the limelight, but nothing could prepare him for what was to come after he landed the iconic role of the Draco Malfoy, the bleached blonde villain of the Harry Potter movies. For the next ten years, he was at the center of a huge pop culture phenomenon and yet, in between filming, he would go back to being a normal teenager trying to fit into a normal school.    Speaking with great candor and his signature humor, Tom shares his experience growing up as part of the wizarding world while also trying to navigate the muggle world. He tells stories from his early days in the business like his first acting gig where he was mistaken for fellow blonde child actor Macaulay Culkin and his Harry Potter audition where, in a very Draco-like move, he fudged how well he knew the books the series was based on (not at all). He reflects on his experiences working with cinematic greats such as Alan Rickman, Sir Michael Gambon, Dame Maggie Smith, and Ralph Fiennes (including that awkward Voldemort hug). And, perhaps most poignantly, he discusses the lasting relationships he made over that decade of filming, including with Emma Watson, who started out as a pesky nine-year-old whom he mocked for not knowing what a boom mic was but who soon grew into one of his dearest friends. Then, of course, there are the highs and lows of fame and navigating life after such a momentous and life-changing experience.   Now with a new chapter Felton delves into his experience of fame, Beyond the Wand is an entertaining, funny, and poignant must-read for any Harry Potter fan. Prepare to meet a real-life wizard.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591261Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:02:10 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard Author: Tom Felton Narrator: Tom Felton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591261 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard Author: Tom Felton Narrator: Tom Felton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.61 of Total 64 Ratings of Narrator: 4.97 of Total 39 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, get a backstage pass into Tom Felton’s life on and off the big screen in this #1 New York Times bestseller.   Tom Felton’s adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame in beloved films like The Borrowers catapulted him into the limelight, but nothing could prepare him for what was to come after he landed the iconic role of the Draco Malfoy, the bleached blonde villain of the Harry Potter movies. For the next ten years, he was at the center of a huge pop culture phenomenon and yet, in between filming, he would go back to being a normal teenager trying to fit into a normal school.    Speaking with great candor and his signature humor, Tom shares his experience growing up as part of the wizarding world while also trying to navigate the muggle world. He tells stories from his early days in the business like his first acting gig where he was mistaken for fellow blonde child actor Macaulay Culkin and his Harry Potter audition where, in a very Draco-like move, he fudged how well he knew the books the series was based on (not at all). He reflects on his experiences working with cinematic greats such as Alan Rickman, Sir Michael Gambon, Dame Maggie Smith, and Ralph Fiennes (including that awkward Voldemort hug). And, perhaps most poignantly, he discusses the lasting relationships he made over that decade of filming, including with Emma Watson, who started out as a pesky nine-year-old whom he mocked for not knowing what a boom mic was but who soon grew into one of his dearest friends. Then, of course, there are the highs and lows of fame and navigating life after such a momentous and life-changing experience.   Now with a new chapter Felton delves into his experience of fame, Beyond the Wand is an entertaining, funny, and poignant must-read for any Harry Potter fan. Prepare to meet a real-life wizard.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/you-what-humorous-stories-cautionary-tales-and-unexpected-insights-about-a-career-in-medicine-by-john-chase-md--65185522https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You What?!: Humorous Stories, Cautionary Tales, and Unexpected Insights about a Career in Medicine Author: John Chase Md Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The end of residency isn’t the utopia you might have imagined. You know what to do with the medical stuff, but what about navigating private practice, unfamiliar hospitals, and—patients! In this collection of absurd moments, practical advice, and humorous tales from the medical trenches, Dr. John Chase shares stories from his forty years as an orthopedic surgeon and offers insight into how to be successful, have fun, and take care of patients without missing out on what really matters in life. You What?! is an entertaining and quick book for medical students, those in the medical field, and people who want insight into the humorous side of how doctors think.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595345Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You What?!: Humorous Stories, Cautionary Tales, and Unexpected Insights about a Career in Medicine Author: John Chase Md Narrator: Bronson Pinchot...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: You What?!: Humorous Stories, Cautionary Tales, and Unexpected Insights about a Career in Medicine Author: John Chase Md Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The end of residency isn’t the utopia you might have imagined. You know what to do with the medical stuff, but what about navigating private practice, unfamiliar hospitals, and—patients! In this collection of absurd moments, practical advice, and humorous tales from the medical trenches, Dr. John Chase shares stories from his forty years as an orthopedic surgeon and offers insight into how to be successful, have fun, and take care of patients without missing out on what really matters in life. You What?! is an entertaining and quick book for medical students, those in the medical field, and people who want insight into the humorous side of how doctors think.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/little-voices-how-kids-in-spirit-helped-a-reluctant-medium-escape-and-heal-from-abuse-by-kiersten-parsons-hathcock--65185358https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Voices: How Kids in Spirit Helped a Reluctant Medium Escape and Heal from Abuse Author: Kiersten Parsons Hathcock Narrator: Kiersten Parsons Hathcock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Never in a million years did Kiersten Parsons Hathcock—a Shark Tank-winning entrepreneur with an internationally known furniture company—think she would suddenly start channeling children in spirit at the age of thirty-six. She never expected that, while she was helping them reveal the secrets of their deaths, they would help her see dark and painful secrets buried in her own psyche. As a skeptic and firm believer in science, Kiersten struggled with her newfound intuitive skills and the reason they were coming to light. She powered through fear to reach out to strangers and law enforcement with the messages she received. After receiving validation that what she was experiencing was real, helping families and law enforcement became a mission. It had to be—the kids were coming to her for help. One question remained: Why was this happening to her? And the answer was startling. The children were coming to help Kiersten as much as she was helping them. Before she could understand that, though, this happily married mother would have to stumble down a destructive path under a spell cast by a narcissistically abusive predator to learn to trust and use intuition to heal her childhood trauma—and escape a dangerous man she thought she loved. While Kiersten’s late-in-life mediumship ability is extraordinary, the wounds she’d buried that led her on a toxic path is a story many can relate to. Little Voices vividly inspires everyone to explore their own patterns, uncover their hidden pain, and trust their intuition in order to rise from the ashes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608241Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Voices: How Kids in Spirit Helped a Reluctant Medium Escape and Heal from Abuse Author: Kiersten Parsons Hathcock Narrator: Kiersten Parsons...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Voices: How Kids in Spirit Helped a Reluctant Medium Escape and Heal from Abuse Author: Kiersten Parsons Hathcock Narrator: Kiersten Parsons Hathcock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Never in a million years did Kiersten Parsons Hathcock—a Shark Tank-winning entrepreneur with an internationally known furniture company—think she would suddenly start channeling children in spirit at the age of thirty-six. She never expected that, while she was helping them reveal the secrets of their deaths, they would help her see dark and painful secrets buried in her own psyche. As a skeptic and firm believer in science, Kiersten struggled with her newfound intuitive skills and the reason they were coming to light. She powered through fear to reach out to strangers and law enforcement with the messages she received. After receiving validation that what she was experiencing was real, helping families and law enforcement became a mission. It had to be—the kids were coming to her for help. One question remained: Why was this happening to her? And the answer was startling. The children were coming to help Kiersten as much as she was helping them. Before she could understand that, though, this happily married mother would have to stumble down a destructive path under a spell cast by a narcissistically abusive predator to learn to trust and use intuition to heal her childhood trauma—and escape a dangerous man she thought she loved. While Kiersten’s late-in-life mediumship ability is extraordinary, the wounds she’d buried that led her on a toxic path is a story many can relate to. Little Voices vividly inspires everyone to explore their own patterns, uncover their hidden pain, and trust their intuition in order to rise from the ashes.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dear-queer-self-an-experiment-in-memoir-by-jonathan-alexander--65185343https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611984 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir Author: Jonathan Alexander Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An unvarnished accounting of one man’s struggle toward sexual and emotional maturity In this unconventional memoir, Jonathan Alexander addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self. Focusing on three years—1989, 1993, and 1996—Dear Queer Self follows the author through the homophobic heights of the AIDS epidemic, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of Bill Clinton, and the steady advancements in gay rights that followed. With humor and wit afforded by hindsight, Alexander relives his closeted college years, his experiments with his sexuality in graduate school, his first marriage to a woman, and his budding career as a college professor. As he moves from tortured self-denial to hard-won self-acceptance, the author confronts the deeply uncomfortable ways he is implicated in his own story. More than just a coming-out narrative, Dear Queer Self is both an intimate psychological exploration and a cultural examination—a meshing of inner and outer realities and a personal reckoning with how we sometimes torture the truth to make a life. It is also a love letter, an homage to a decade of rapid change, and a playlist of the sounds, sights, and feelings of a difficult, but ultimately transformative, time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611984Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611984 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir Author: Jonathan Alexander Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 2 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611984 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir Author: Jonathan Alexander Narrator: Donald Corren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An unvarnished accounting of one man’s struggle toward sexual and emotional maturity In this unconventional memoir, Jonathan Alexander addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self. Focusing on three years—1989, 1993, and 1996—Dear Queer Self follows the author through the homophobic heights of the AIDS epidemic, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of Bill Clinton, and the steady advancements in gay rights that followed. With humor and wit afforded by hindsight, Alexander relives his closeted college years, his experiments with his sexuality in graduate school, his first marriage to a woman, and his budding career as a college professor. As he moves from tortured self-denial to hard-won self-acceptance, the author confronts the deeply uncomfortable ways he is implicated in his own story. More than just a coming-out narrative, Dear Queer Self is both an intimate psychological exploration and a cultural examination—a meshing of inner and outer realities and a personal reckoning with how we sometimes torture the truth to make a life. It is also a love letter, an homage to a decade of rapid change, and a playlist of the sounds, sights, and feelings of a difficult, but ultimately transformative, time.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/call-me-mrs-brown-the-hilarious-autobiography-from-the-star-of-mrs-brown-s-boys-by-brendan-o-carroll--65185348https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602879 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call Me Mrs. Brown: The hilarious autobiography from the star of Mrs. Brown’s Boys Author: Brendan O'carroll Narrator: Brendan O'carroll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The very first autobiography from Brendan O'Carroll. Before he became the nation's favourite Mammy, Brendan O'Carroll was known, simply as Brendan. He's the youngest of eleven children from a poor family in Dublin, he's a boy whose father died when he was just nine years old; he's someone whose hope and determination meant he never gave up. Throughout the tough moments, Brendan always had humour and a good story to tell alongside the ever-guiding inspiration of his own Mammy, a formidable figure who became Ireland's first female Labour MP, all whilst raising eleven children by herself. Just like the show so brilliantly expresses, Brendan's first autobiography, the real story behind the man who became Mrs Brown, combines uplifting heart, warmth and hilarity. © Brendan O'Carroll 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602879Thu, 13 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602879 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call Me Mrs. Brown: The hilarious autobiography from the star of Mrs. Brown’s Boys Author: Brendan O'carroll Narrator: Brendan O'carroll Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602879 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Call Me Mrs. Brown: The hilarious autobiography from the star of Mrs. Brown’s Boys Author: Brendan O'carroll Narrator: Brendan O'carroll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The very first autobiography from Brendan O'Carroll. Before he became the nation's favourite Mammy, Brendan O'Carroll was known, simply as Brendan. He's the youngest of eleven children from a poor family in Dublin, he's a boy whose father died when he was just nine years old; he's someone whose hope and determination meant he never gave up. Throughout the tough moments, Brendan always had humour and a good story to tell alongside the ever-guiding inspiration of his own Mammy, a formidable figure who became Ireland's first female Labour MP, all whilst raising eleven children by herself. Just like the show so brilliantly expresses, Brendan's first autobiography, the real story behind the man who became Mrs Brown, combines uplifting heart, warmth and hilarity. © Brendan O'Carroll 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/runaway-notes-on-the-myths-that-made-me-by-erin-keane--65185571https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me Author: Erin Keane Narrator: Erin Keane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in the stories families tell. In 1970, Erin Keane’s mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing freedom, hardship, and tragedy. At fifteen, she met a man in New York City and married him. He was thirty-six. Through a deft balance of journalistic digging, cultural criticism, and poetic reimagining, Keane pieces together the true story of her mother’s teenage years, questioning almost everything she’s been told about her parents and their relationship. Along the way, she also considers how pop culture has kept similar narratives alive in her. At stake are some of the most profound questions we can ask ourselves: What’s true? What gets remembered? Who gets to tell the stories that make us who we are? Whether it’s talking about painful family history, #MeToo, Star Wars, true crime forensics, or The Gilmore Girls, Runaway is an unforgettable look at all the different ways the stories we tell—both personal and pop cultural—create us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592573Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me Author: Erin Keane Narrator: Erin Keane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me Author: Erin Keane Narrator: Erin Keane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in the stories families tell. In 1970, Erin Keane’s mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing freedom, hardship, and tragedy. At fifteen, she met a man in New York City and married him. He was thirty-six. Through a deft balance of journalistic digging, cultural criticism, and poetic reimagining, Keane pieces together the true story of her mother’s teenage years, questioning almost everything she’s been told about her parents and their relationship. Along the way, she also considers how pop culture has kept similar narratives alive in her. At stake are some of the most profound questions we can ask ourselves: What’s true? What gets remembered? Who gets to tell the stories that make us who we are? Whether it’s talking about painful family history, #MeToo, Star Wars, true crime forensics, or The Gilmore Girls, Runaway is an unforgettable look at all the different ways the stories we tell—both personal and pop cultural—create us.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dying-of-politeness-a-memoir-by-geena-davis--65185559https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dying of Politeness: A Memoir Author: Geena Davis Narrator: Geena Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘I adored this book. It’s so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read’ Emma Thompson A Times Film and Theatre Book of the Year 2022 From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, Dying of Politeness is the candid, surprising tale of her journey from her epically polite childhood to the roles that put her in the spotlight and gave her the strength to become a powerhouse in Hollywood. At three years old, Geena announced she was going to be in movies. Now, with a slew of iconic roles and awards under her belt, she has surpassed her childhood dream, but her journey has been one of fits and starts, with a pothole or two along the way. In this hilarious memoir, Geena regales us with tales of a career playing everything from an amnesiac assassin to the parent of a rodent in Stuart Little; a soap star in her underwear to a housewife turned road warrior in Thelma & Louise; a baseball phenomenon in A League of Their Own to the first female President of the United States in Commander in Chief, and more. She is frank about her eccentric childhood; her many relationships, including her spontaneous Las Vegas wedding to Jeff Goldblum; her archery exploits which led her to the Olympic trials; and how she became a tireless advocate for women and girls, founding her own institute which engages film and TV creators to better represent women and actors from diverse backgrounds. Dying of Politeness is a touching account of one woman’s journey to fight for herself, and ultimately fighting for women all around the globe.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592184Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dying of Politeness: A Memoir Author: Geena Davis Narrator: Geena Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592184 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dying of Politeness: A Memoir Author: Geena Davis Narrator: Geena Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ‘I adored this book. It’s so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read’ Emma Thompson A Times Film and Theatre Book of the Year 2022 From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, Dying of Politeness is the candid, surprising tale of her journey from her epically polite childhood to the roles that put her in the spotlight and gave her the strength to become a powerhouse in Hollywood. At three years old, Geena announced she was going to be in movies. Now, with a slew of iconic roles and awards under her belt, she has surpassed her childhood dream, but her journey has been one of fits and starts, with a pothole or two along the way. In this hilarious memoir, Geena regales us with tales of a career playing everything from an amnesiac assassin to the parent of a rodent in Stuart Little; a soap star in her underwear to a housewife turned road warrior in Thelma & Louise; a baseball phenomenon in A League of Their Own to the first female President of the United States in Commander in Chief, and more. She is frank about her eccentric childhood; her many relationships, including her spontaneous Las Vegas wedding to Jeff Goldblum; her archery exploits which led her to the Olympic trials; and how she became a tireless advocate for women and girls, founding her own institute which engages film and TV creators to better represent women and actors from diverse backgrounds. Dying of Politeness is a touching account of one woman’s journey to fight for herself, and ultimately fighting for women all around the globe.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-grace-filled-homestead-lessons-i-ve-learned-about-faith-family-and-the-farm-by-lana-stenner--65185562https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591161 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Grace-Filled Homestead: Lessons I've Learned about Faith, Family, and the Farm Author: Lana Stenner Narrator: Lana Stenner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For nearly two decades, Lana Stenner and her family have been living their version of the simple life on their small Midwest farmstead—following God, chasing goats, and tending gardens. Join Lana as she shares heartwarming stories, hearty recipes, and some of the valuable lessons she’s learned in her homesteading journey, including the following: -Chase your dreams over, under, or through that fence. Persevere. -Intentional living brings joy. Laser focus on what’s important. -Hard work is holy work. No job is beneath you. Though you may not be ready to pack up and move into a 120-year-old farmhouse like Lana, you can experience more grace and authenticity right where you are when you learn to seek beauty in your surroundings, cultivate bonds with those you love, and work hand in hand with God.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591161Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:02:10 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591161 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Grace-Filled Homestead: Lessons I've Learned about Faith, Family, and the Farm Author: Lana Stenner Narrator: Lana Stenner Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591161 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Grace-Filled Homestead: Lessons I've Learned about Faith, Family, and the Farm Author: Lana Stenner Narrator: Lana Stenner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For nearly two decades, Lana Stenner and her family have been living their version of the simple life on their small Midwest farmstead—following God, chasing goats, and tending gardens. Join Lana as she shares heartwarming stories, hearty recipes, and some of the valuable lessons she’s learned in her homesteading journey, including the following: -Chase your dreams over, under, or through that fence. Persevere. -Intentional living brings joy. Laser focus on what’s important. -Hard work is holy work. No job is beneath you. Though you may not be ready to pack up and move into a 120-year-old farmhouse like Lana, you can experience more grace and authenticity right where you are when you learn to seek beauty in your surroundings, cultivate bonds with those you love, and work hand in hand with God.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/maybe-we-ll-make-it-by-margo-price--65185346https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603196 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maybe We'll Make It Author: Margo Price Narrator: Margo Price Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Audiobook exclusive: original and never-before-released music from the author, Margo Price. When Margo Price was nineteen years old, she dropped out of college and moved to Nashville to become a musician. She busked on the street, played open mics, and even threw out her TV so that she would do nothing but write songs. She met Jeremy Ivey, a fellow musician who would become her closest collaborator and her husband. But after working on their craft for more than a decade, Price and Ivey had no label, no band, and plenty of heartache. Maybe We’ll Make It is a memoir of loss, motherhood, and the search for artistic freedom in the midst of the agony experienced by so many aspiring musicians: bad gigs and long tours, rejection and sexual harassment, too much drinking, and barely enough money to live on. Price, though, refused to break and turned her lowest moments into the classic country songs that eventually comprised the debut album that launched her career. In the authentic voice hailed by Pitchfork for tackling 'Steinbeck-sized issues with no-bullshit humility,' Price shares the stories that became songs and the small acts of love and camaraderie it takes to survive in a music industry that is often unkind to women. Now a Grammy-nominated “Best New Artist,” Price tells a love story of music, collaboration, and the struggle to build a career while trying to maintain her singular voice and style.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603196Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603196 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maybe We'll Make It Author: Margo Price Narrator: Margo Price Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603196 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maybe We'll Make It Author: Margo Price Narrator: Margo Price Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Audiobook exclusive: original and never-before-released music from the author, Margo Price. When Margo Price was nineteen years old, she dropped out of college and moved to Nashville to become a musician. She busked on the street, played open mics, and even threw out her TV so that she would do nothing but write songs. She met Jeremy Ivey, a fellow musician who would become her closest collaborator and her husband. But after working on their craft for more than a decade, Price and Ivey had no label, no band, and plenty of heartache. Maybe We’ll Make It is a memoir of loss, motherhood, and the search for artistic freedom in the midst of the agony experienced by so many aspiring musicians: bad gigs and long tours, rejection and sexual harassment, too much drinking, and barely enough money to live on. Price, though, refused to break and turned her lowest moments into the classic country songs that eventually comprised the debut album that launched her career. In the authentic voice hailed by Pitchfork for tackling 'Steinbeck-sized issues with no-bullshit humility,' Price shares the stories that became songs and the small acts of love and camaraderie it takes to survive in a music industry that is often unkind to women. Now a Grammy-nominated “Best New Artist,” Price tells a love story of music, collaboration, and the struggle to build a career while trying to maintain her singular voice and style.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/calling-the-shots-my-autobiography-by-sue-barker--65185536https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/594480 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Calling the Shots: My Autobiography Author: Sue Barker Narrator: Sue Barker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 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. Rewind to 1971, and Sue Barker's coach is sending his 15-year-old tennis protégé to a junior championship in France, alone, with a one-way ticket, telling her she'd have to win the money to pay for her return fare. Sue hides in the grounds of the hosting tennis club overnight, to avoid paying for a hotel. The next day, she walks onto court and smashes it. Five years later, and she's Britain's No 1. The same combination of grit, grace and talent took her to the top of live Sports TV. And now, after four decades on camera encouraging other legends to share their stories, she is telling her own. Going all in for her once-only autobiography, Sue takes us inside the showbizzy world of 70s and early 80s tennis, dating the stars, hitting the headlines. She reveals the battles she fought for hard-won success in two careers, gives us a ringside seat on the nation's biggest sporting dramas, and a fascinating insider's understanding of competitors under pressure. This is the remarkable life story of a tennis champion, an award-winning broadcaster who has brought sporting history into our living rooms for decades, and a trail-blazing woman who has always called the shots. © Sue Barker 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/594480Thu, 29 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/594480 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Calling the Shots: My Autobiography Author: Sue Barker Narrator: Sue Barker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/594480 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Calling the Shots: My Autobiography Author: Sue Barker Narrator: Sue Barker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 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. Rewind to 1971, and Sue Barker's coach is sending his 15-year-old tennis protégé to a junior championship in France, alone, with a one-way ticket, telling her she'd have to win the money to pay for her return fare. Sue hides in the grounds of the hosting tennis club overnight, to avoid paying for a hotel. The next day, she walks onto court and smashes it. Five years later, and she's Britain's No 1. The same combination of grit, grace and talent took her to the top of live Sports TV. And now, after four decades on camera encouraging other legends to share their stories, she is telling her own. Going all in for her once-only autobiography, Sue takes us inside the showbizzy world of 70s and early 80s tennis, dating the stars, hitting the headlines. She reveals the battles she fought for hard-won success in two careers, gives us a ringside seat on the nation's biggest sporting dramas, and a fascinating insider's understanding of competitors under pressure. This is the remarkable life story of a tennis champion, an award-winning broadcaster who has brought sporting history into our living rooms for decades, and a trail-blazing woman who has always called the shots. © Sue Barker 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/home-truths-by-david-williamson--65185462https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Truths Author: David Williamson Narrator: David Williamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The revealing and candid memoir of Australia's legendary playwright and screenwriter The definitive memoir of David Williamson, author of iconic dramas such as The Removalists, The Club, Don's Party, Emerald City and Travelling North, as well as more than fifty other plays, explores the life of the writer and the true stories and real lives that inspired his works. A powerful force in theatre since the 1970s, Williamson's plays have uniquely explored the pulse of our Australianness. After five decades of chronicling the blunders, mishaps and messes that he and his fellow Australians got themselves into, Williamson has penned his long-awaited memoir, Home Truths. It reveals the story of the man behind the work: how a childhood defined by marital discord sparked a lifelong fascination with the power of drama to explore emotional conflict; how a mechanical engineering student became our most successful playwright; the anxiety that plagued him as he crafted his plays; the joy of connecting with an audience and the enduring sting of the critics; and the great love story that defined his personal life. Fearless, candid and witty, Williamson also writes about the plethora of odd, interesting, caustic and brilliant people – actors, directors, writers, theatre critics, politicians – who have intersected with his life and work: from a young Jacki Weaver and Chris Haywood in the first Sydney production of The Removalists in 1971 to Nicole Kidman on the brink of stardom in the 1988 feature film of Emerald City and lively dinners with political powerhouse Paul Keating; and from Graham Kennedy in the 1976 film version of Don's Party through eventful overseas travels with Gareth Evans, Peter Carey and Tim Winton to a West End production of Up for Grabs starring Madonna, and the satisfaction of seeing his sons Felix and Rory tread the boards in several of his own plays. Praise for David Williamson: 'Australia's most enduringly popular social comedy writer … keenly observant and satirical.' The Sydney Morning Herald 'Williamson always keeps us engaged … his words weave a spellbinding course … testament to the power of [his] language.' The Daily Telegraph 'Our greatest dramatic entertainer.' Chris Boyd, Financial Review 'His genius has been to define for us, in advance of our own recognition, the qualities which make up the Australian character.' Katharine Brisbane, The Australian 'It would be impossible to fault Williamson for not being brutally honest.' Jasper Lindell, Canberra Times 'Known for his sharp wit, brutal dialogue and fierce politics, Williamson's book is savage, funny and tender in equal parts. It's also first-class eyewitness cultural history.' Filmink 'Home Truths unfurls a sweeping and surprising life. It is a potpourri of Australian middle-class mores, exiting cultural schisms in the nation's theatre fuelled by young men and women who would go on to change the face of stage and screen, the politics of the day, love trysts and betrayal, backstage drama, fame and financial success, family, enemies made and friends lost, marriage and divorce, all backdropped by Williamson's remarkable work.' Matthew Condon, The Australian '... the overall momentum is powerfully sustained. Home Truths is as much a collective portrait as a self-portrait, and anyone who picks it up is likely to be carried on by the surge and the propulsion.' Peter Craven, Sydney Morning Herald 'Like so many of his plays, it is name-dropping, gossipy and wonderfully entertaining.' Susan Lever, Inside Story 'The book is packed with detail, personal and professional, as he covers his life step by step, highs and lows, plenty of each.' NZ Listener]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603079Thu, 29 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Truths Author: David Williamson Narrator: David Williamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 29,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Truths Author: David Williamson Narrator: David Williamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 53 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The revealing and candid memoir of Australia's legendary playwright and screenwriter The definitive memoir of David Williamson, author of iconic dramas such as The Removalists, The Club, Don's Party, Emerald City and Travelling North, as well as more than fifty other plays, explores the life of the writer and the true stories and real lives that inspired his works. A powerful force in theatre since the 1970s, Williamson's plays have uniquely explored the pulse of our Australianness. After five decades of chronicling the blunders, mishaps and messes that he and his fellow Australians got themselves into, Williamson has penned his long-awaited memoir, Home Truths. It reveals the story of the man behind the work: how a childhood defined by marital discord sparked a lifelong fascination with the power of drama to explore emotional conflict; how a mechanical engineering student became our most successful playwright; the anxiety that plagued him as he crafted his plays; the joy of connecting with an audience and the enduring sting of the critics; and the great love story that defined his personal life. Fearless, candid and witty, Williamson also writes about the plethora of odd, interesting, caustic and brilliant people – actors, directors, writers, theatre critics, politicians – who have intersected with his life and work: from a young Jacki Weaver and Chris Haywood in the first Sydney production of The Removalists in 1971 to Nicole Kidman on the brink of stardom in the 1988 feature film of Emerald City and lively dinners with political powerhouse Paul Keating; and from Graham Kennedy in the 1976 film version of Don's Party through eventful overseas travels with Gareth Evans, Peter Carey and Tim Winton to a West End production of Up for Grabs starring Madonna, and the satisfaction of seeing his sons Felix and Rory tread the boards in several of his own plays. Praise for David Williamson: 'Australia's most enduringly popular social comedy writer … keenly observant and satirical.' The Sydney Morning Herald 'Williamson always keeps us engaged … his words weave a spellbinding course … testament to the power of [his] language.' The Daily Telegraph 'Our greatest dramatic entertainer.' Chris Boyd, Financial Review 'His genius has been to define for us, in advance of our own recognition, the qualities which make up the Australian character.' Katharine Brisbane, The Australian 'It would be impossible to fault Williamson for not being brutally honest.' Jasper Lindell, Canberra Times 'Known for his sharp wit, brutal dialogue and fierce politics, Williamson's book is savage, funny and tender in equal parts. It's also first-class eyewitness cultural history.' Filmink 'Home Truths unfurls a sweeping and surprising life. It is a potpourri of Australian middle-class mores, exiting cultural schisms in the nation's theatre fuelled by young men and women who would go on to change the face of stage and screen, the politics of the day, love trysts and betrayal, backstage drama, fame and financial success, family, enemies made and friends lost, marriage and divorce, all backdropped by Williamson's remarkable work.' Matthew Condon, The Australian '... the overall momentum is powerfully sustained. Home Truths is as much a collective portrait as a self-portrait, and anyone who picks it up is likely to be carried on by the surge and the propulsion.' Peter Craven, Sydney Morning Herald 'Like so many of his plays, it is name-dropping, gossipy and wonderfully entertaining.' Susan Lever, Inside Story 'The book is packed with detail, personal and professional, as...]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/strong-female-character-by-hanna-flint--65185387https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strong Female Character Author: Hanna Flint Narrator: Unknown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'At a time when fluff and gossip reign supreme, Hanna Flint's work is consistently insightful, informative and engaging all at once. I always finish reading it feeling just a tad bit smarter.' Candice Frederick, Huffington Post 'One of the smartest pop culture commentators out there.' Toby Moses, Guardian Hanna Flint speaks from the heart in Strong Female Character, a personal and incisive reflection on how cinema has been the key to understanding herself and the world we live in. A staunch feminist of mixed-race heritage, Hanna has succeeded in an industry not designed for people like her. Interweaving anecdotes from familial and personal experiences - episodes of messy sex, introspection, and that time actor Vincent D'Onofrio tweeted that Hanna Flint sounded 'like a secret agent' - she offers a critical eye on the screen's representation of women and ethnic minorities, their impact on her life, body image and ambitions, with the humour and eloquence that has made her a leading film critic of her generation. Divided into the sections Origin Story, Coming of Age, Adult Material, Workplace Drama and Strong Female Character, the audiobook ponders how the creative industries could better reflect our multicultural society. Warm, funny and engaging and full of film-infused lessons, Strong Female Character will appeal to readers of all backgrounds and seeks to help us better see ourselves in our own eyes rather than letting others decide who and what we can be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604189Thu, 29 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strong Female Character Author: Hanna Flint Narrator: Unknown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strong Female Character Author: Hanna Flint Narrator: Unknown Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'At a time when fluff and gossip reign supreme, Hanna Flint's work is consistently insightful, informative and engaging all at once. I always finish reading it feeling just a tad bit smarter.' Candice Frederick, Huffington Post 'One of the smartest pop culture commentators out there.' Toby Moses, Guardian Hanna Flint speaks from the heart in Strong Female Character, a personal and incisive reflection on how cinema has been the key to understanding herself and the world we live in. A staunch feminist of mixed-race heritage, Hanna has succeeded in an industry not designed for people like her. Interweaving anecdotes from familial and personal experiences - episodes of messy sex, introspection, and that time actor Vincent D'Onofrio tweeted that Hanna Flint sounded 'like a secret agent' - she offers a critical eye on the screen's representation of women and ethnic minorities, their impact on her life, body image and ambitions, with the humour and eloquence that has made her a leading film critic of her generation. Divided into the sections Origin Story, Coming of Age, Adult Material, Workplace Drama and Strong Female Character, the audiobook ponders how the creative industries could better reflect our multicultural society. Warm, funny and engaging and full of film-infused lessons, Strong Female Character will appeal to readers of all backgrounds and seeks to help us better see ourselves in our own eyes rather than letting others decide who and what we can be.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-accidental-duchess-from-farmer-s-daughter-to-belvoir-castle-by-duchess-of-rutland-emma-manners--65185566https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Accidental Duchess: From Farmer's Daughter to Belvoir Castle Author: Duchess Of Rutland Emma Manners Narrator: Duchess Of Rutland Emma Manners Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 23 minutes Release date: September 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This audiobook is read by the author, Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland. 'The Duchess does indeed seem a remarkable woman . . . this is an engaging book' Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph When Emma Watkins, the pony-mad daughter of a Welsh farmer, imagined her future, she imagined following in her mother's footsteps to marry a farmer of her own. But then she fell in love with David Manners, having no idea that he was heir to one of the most senior hereditary titles in the land. When David succeeded his father, Emma found herself becoming the chatelaine of Belvoir Castle, ancestral home of the Dukes of Rutland. She had to cope with five boisterous children while faced with a vast estate in desperate need of modernisation and staff who wanted nothing to change - it was a daunting responsibility. Yet with sound advice from the doyenne of duchesses, Duchess ‘Debo’ of Devonshire, she met each challenge with optimism and gusto, including scaling the castle roof in a storm to unclog a flooding gutter; being caught in her nightdress by mesmerised Texan tourists and disguising herself as a cleaner to watch filming of The Crown. She even took on the castle ghosts . . . At times the problems she faced seemed insoluble yet, with her unstoppable energy and talent for thinking on the hoof, she won through, inspired by the vision and passion of those Rutland duchesses in whose footsteps she trod, and indeed the redoubtable and resourceful women who forged her way, whose homes were not castles but remote farmhouses in the Radnorshire Hills. Vividly written and bursting with insights, The Accidental Duchess will appeal to everyone who has visited a stately home and wondered what it would be like to one day find yourself not only living there, but in charge of its future.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592907Thu, 15 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Accidental Duchess: From Farmer's Daughter to Belvoir Castle Author: Duchess Of Rutland Emma Manners Narrator: Duchess Of Rutland Emma Manners...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Accidental Duchess: From Farmer's Daughter to Belvoir Castle Author: Duchess Of Rutland Emma Manners Narrator: Duchess Of Rutland Emma Manners Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 23 minutes Release date: September 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This audiobook is read by the author, Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland. 'The Duchess does indeed seem a remarkable woman . . . this is an engaging book' Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph When Emma Watkins, the pony-mad daughter of a Welsh farmer, imagined her future, she imagined following in her mother's footsteps to marry a farmer of her own. But then she fell in love with David Manners, having no idea that he was heir to one of the most senior hereditary titles in the land. When David succeeded his father, Emma found herself becoming the chatelaine of Belvoir Castle, ancestral home of the Dukes of Rutland. She had to cope with five boisterous children while faced with a vast estate in desperate need of modernisation and staff who wanted nothing to change - it was a daunting responsibility. Yet with sound advice from the doyenne of duchesses, Duchess ‘Debo’ of Devonshire, she met each challenge with optimism and gusto, including scaling the castle roof in a storm to unclog a flooding gutter; being caught in her nightdress by mesmerised Texan tourists and disguising herself as a cleaner to watch filming of The Crown. She even took on the castle ghosts . . . At times the problems she faced seemed insoluble yet, with her unstoppable energy and talent for thinking on the hoof, she won through, inspired by the vision and passion of those Rutland duchesses in whose footsteps she trod, and indeed the redoubtable and resourceful women who forged her way, whose homes were not castles but remote farmhouses in the Radnorshire Hills. Vividly written and bursting with insights, The Accidental Duchess will appeal to everyone who has visited a stately home and wondered what it would be like to one day find yourself not only living there, but in charge of its future.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-be-a-sister-a-love-story-with-a-twist-of-autism-by-eileen-garvin--65185547https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Be a Sister: A Love Story with a Twist of Autism Author: Eileen Garvin Narrator: Eileen Garvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Eileen Garvin’s older sister, Margaret, was diagnosed with severe autism at age three. Growing up alongside Margaret wasn’t easy: Eileen often found herself in situations that were simultaneously awkward, hilarious, and heartbreaking. For example, losing a blue plastic hairbrush could leave Margaret inconsolable for hours, and a quiet Sunday Mass might provoke an outburst of laughter, swearing, or dancing. How to Be a Sister begins when Eileen, after several years in New Mexico, has just moved back to the Pacific Northwest, where she grew up. Being 1,600 miles away allowed Eileen to avoid the question that has dogged her since birth: What is she going to do about Margaret? Now, Eileen must grapple with this question once again as she tentatively tries to reconnect with Margaret. How can she have a relationship with someone who can’t drive, send an email, or use a telephone? What role will Eileen play in Margaret’s life as their parents age, and after they die? Will she remain in Margaret’s life, or will she walk away? A deeply felt, impeccably written memoir, How to Be a Sister will speak to siblings, parents, friends, and teachers of people with autism—and to anyone who sometimes struggles to connect with someone difficult or different.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597838Thu, 15 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Be a Sister: A Love Story with a Twist of Autism Author: Eileen Garvin Narrator: Eileen Garvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Be a Sister: A Love Story with a Twist of Autism Author: Eileen Garvin Narrator: Eileen Garvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Eileen Garvin’s older sister, Margaret, was diagnosed with severe autism at age three. Growing up alongside Margaret wasn’t easy: Eileen often found herself in situations that were simultaneously awkward, hilarious, and heartbreaking. For example, losing a blue plastic hairbrush could leave Margaret inconsolable for hours, and a quiet Sunday Mass might provoke an outburst of laughter, swearing, or dancing. How to Be a Sister begins when Eileen, after several years in New Mexico, has just moved back to the Pacific Northwest, where she grew up. Being 1,600 miles away allowed Eileen to avoid the question that has dogged her since birth: What is she going to do about Margaret? Now, Eileen must grapple with this question once again as she tentatively tries to reconnect with Margaret. How can she have a relationship with someone who can’t drive, send an email, or use a telephone? What role will Eileen play in Margaret’s life as their parents age, and after they die? Will she remain in Margaret’s life, or will she walk away? A deeply felt, impeccably written memoir, How to Be a Sister will speak to siblings, parents, friends, and teachers of people with autism—and to anyone who sometimes struggles to connect with someone difficult or different.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-country-for-eight-spot-butterflies-with-an-introduction-by-arundhati-roy-by-julian-aguon--65185339https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: With an introduction by Arundhati Roy Author: Julian Aguon Narrator: Kevin Shen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon's No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming-of-age story and a call for justice-for everyone, but in particular, for Indigenous peoples. Aguon beautifully weaves together stories from his childhood in the villages of Guam with searing political commentary about matters ranging from nuclear weapons to global warming. Bearing witness and reckoning with the challenges of truth-telling in an era of rampant obfuscation, he culls from his own life experiences to illuminate a collective path out of the darkness. A powerful and bold new voice writing at the intersection of Indigenous rights and environmental justice, Aguon is entrenched in the struggles of the people of the Pacific who are fighting to liberate themselves from colonial rule, defend their sacred sites and obtain justice for generations of harm. In No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies, Aguon shares his wisdom and reflections on love, grief, joy and triumph, and extends an offer to join him in a hard-earned hope for a better world. 'A powerful, beautiful book. Its fierce love - of the land, the ocean, the elders and the ancestors - warms the heart and moves the spirit.' - Alice Walker © Julian Aguon 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612292Thu, 15 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: With an introduction by Arundhati Roy Author: Julian Aguon Narrator: Kevin Shen Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: With an introduction by Arundhati Roy Author: Julian Aguon Narrator: Kevin Shen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon's No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming-of-age story and a call for justice-for everyone, but in particular, for Indigenous peoples. Aguon beautifully weaves together stories from his childhood in the villages of Guam with searing political commentary about matters ranging from nuclear weapons to global warming. Bearing witness and reckoning with the challenges of truth-telling in an era of rampant obfuscation, he culls from his own life experiences to illuminate a collective path out of the darkness. A powerful and bold new voice writing at the intersection of Indigenous rights and environmental justice, Aguon is entrenched in the struggles of the people of the Pacific who are fighting to liberate themselves from colonial rule, defend their sacred sites and obtain justice for generations of harm. In No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies, Aguon shares his wisdom and reflections on love, grief, joy and triumph, and extends an offer to join him in a hard-earned hope for a better world. 'A powerful, beautiful book. Its fierce love - of the land, the ocean, the elders and the ancestors - warms the heart and moves the spirit.' - Alice Walker © Julian Aguon 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/babble-on-a-drug-memoir-by-andrew-brobyn--65185383https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Babble On: A Drug Memoir Author: Andrew Brobyn Narrator: Jamie Renell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A mid-level drug trafficker and self-proclaimed low-life with a big vocabulary comes to terms with his actions and his mental health. Andrew Brobyn's relationship was in shambles before he took the terrible acid that sent him on an almost decade-long journey seeking redemption. His immediate plans following university were to liquidate his illicit assets, sell his client list, pack up shop, and retire to his parents' home in Toronto, while he figured out what to do with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a quarter million in cash. As his drug use and bipolar disorder spiral, his situation gets stranger and stranger, taking him from his university campus to strip clubs, psych wards, and the slammer. Equal parts hilarious and terrifying, Babble On is a psycho-philosophical memoir that tracks Brobyn as he navigates the consequences of his eccentric choices and struggles with profound ambivalence toward his own health and well-being.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602650Tue, 13 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Babble On: A Drug Memoir Author: Andrew Brobyn Narrator: Jamie Renell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Babble On: A Drug Memoir Author: Andrew Brobyn Narrator: Jamie Renell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A mid-level drug trafficker and self-proclaimed low-life with a big vocabulary comes to terms with his actions and his mental health. Andrew Brobyn's relationship was in shambles before he took the terrible acid that sent him on an almost decade-long journey seeking redemption. His immediate plans following university were to liquidate his illicit assets, sell his client list, pack up shop, and retire to his parents' home in Toronto, while he figured out what to do with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a quarter million in cash. As his drug use and bipolar disorder spiral, his situation gets stranger and stranger, taking him from his university campus to strip clubs, psych wards, and the slammer. Equal parts hilarious and terrifying, Babble On is a psycho-philosophical memoir that tracks Brobyn as he navigates the consequences of his eccentric choices and struggles with profound ambivalence toward his own health and well-being.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/aura-a-memoir-by-hillary-leftwich--65185350https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aura: A Memoir Author: Hillary Leftwich Narrator: Hillary Leftwich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Aura is more than a memoir—it’s a spell book for survival, a powerful promise from mother to son, and an intimate examination of power, spirituality, and the abuse of both. Hillary Leftwich weaves together the stories of her life to create startlingly raw memories that are both personal and profoundly universal. She explores the devastating impact of patriarchy in her own life while searching for answers in witchcraft, womanhood, and motherhood. Urgently portrayed and deeply felt, Aura is a complex tapestry of letters, spells, and memories. Her story is a vivid confrontation against an unforgiving world that traps women and children in the systems meant to save them. This is a story for seekers, searchers, and anyone in the process of saving themselves and their loved ones.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610718Tue, 13 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aura: A Memoir Author: Hillary Leftwich Narrator: Hillary Leftwich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 13,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aura: A Memoir Author: Hillary Leftwich Narrator: Hillary Leftwich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Aura is more than a memoir—it’s a spell book for survival, a powerful promise from mother to son, and an intimate examination of power, spirituality, and the abuse of both. Hillary Leftwich weaves together the stories of her life to create startlingly raw memories that are both personal and profoundly universal. She explores the devastating impact of patriarchy in her own life while searching for answers in witchcraft, womanhood, and motherhood. Urgently portrayed and deeply felt, Aura is a complex tapestry of letters, spells, and memories. Her story is a vivid confrontation against an unforgiving world that traps women and children in the systems meant to save them. This is a story for seekers, searchers, and anyone in the process of saving themselves and their loved ones.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/part-of-my-world-what-i-ve-learned-from-the-little-mermaid-about-love-faith-and-finding-my-voice-by-carol-traver-jodi-benson--65185334https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Part of My World: What I’ve Learned from The Little Mermaid about Love, Faith, and Finding My Voice Author: Carol Traver, Jodi Benson Narrator: Paige O'hara, Jodi Benson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Audie Award Finalist 2023, Christian Book Award - Finalist 2023!!! Join Disney Legend Jodi Benson on a magical journey from a Midwestern town to the bright lights of Broadway and the recording booth where she brought one of the most beloved Disney princesses of all time to life! A treasure trove of colorful characters and unforgettable anecdotes, Part of My World reads like a real-life fairy tale as a girl with a big voice and even bigger dreams sets out on the adventure of a lifetime. Along the way, Jodi shares lessons she's learned about faith, friendship, love, loss, taking chances, making mistakes, following God’s call, and chasing your dreams. In Part of My World you’ll come alongside Jodi as she - struggles to find her footing in the rehearsal halls of Manhattan; - finds (then loses, then marries) her prince charming; - makes a splash on Broadway; - gives voice to a feisty redheaded mermaid, a blonde bombshell named Barbie, and a Tony-nominated powerhouse named Polly; and - searches for her own personal happily ever after. Written with warmth, humor, and disarming vulnerability, Part of My World is a captivating glimpse behind the curtain at the making of one of the most celebrated animated movies of all time, and a must-read for Disney fans of all ages.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608194Tue, 13 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Part of My World: What I’ve Learned from The Little Mermaid about Love, Faith, and Finding My Voice Author: Carol Traver, Jodi Benson Narrator: Paige...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Part of My World: What I’ve Learned from The Little Mermaid about Love, Faith, and Finding My Voice Author: Carol Traver, Jodi Benson Narrator: Paige O'hara, Jodi Benson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Audie Award Finalist 2023, Christian Book Award - Finalist 2023!!! Join Disney Legend Jodi Benson on a magical journey from a Midwestern town to the bright lights of Broadway and the recording booth where she brought one of the most beloved Disney princesses of all time to life! A treasure trove of colorful characters and unforgettable anecdotes, Part of My World reads like a real-life fairy tale as a girl with a big voice and even bigger dreams sets out on the adventure of a lifetime. Along the way, Jodi shares lessons she's learned about faith, friendship, love, loss, taking chances, making mistakes, following God’s call, and chasing your dreams. In Part of My World you’ll come alongside Jodi as she - struggles to find her footing in the rehearsal halls of Manhattan; - finds (then loses, then marries) her prince charming; - makes a splash on Broadway; - gives voice to a feisty redheaded mermaid, a blonde bombshell named Barbie, and a Tony-nominated powerhouse named Polly; and - searches for her own personal happily ever after. Written with warmth, humor, and disarming vulnerability, Part of My World is a captivating glimpse behind the curtain at the making of one of the most celebrated animated movies of all time, and a must-read for Disney fans of all ages.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/finding-my-own-rhythm-my-story-by-motsi-mabuse--65185469https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603675 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding My Own Rhythm: My Story Author: Motsi Mabuse Narrator: Motsi Mabuse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From competing in tournaments round the world to being crowned Latin dance champion, becoming a beloved Judge on Strictly Come Dancing and starting her own dance school, Motsi Mabuse has never let anything hold her back from fulfilling her dreams. In Finding My Own Rhythm, Motsi opens up about the determination, hard work and resilience it took to get to where she is today from the moment she fell in love with the glitterball world as a young child watching a dance tournament whilst on holiday. She takes us back to growing up in apartheid South Africa where she experienced exclusion and discrimination, raising money to compete in cut-throat international competitions and the huge leap of faith she took giving up her law degree, moving to Germany to be with her dance partner and throwing everything in to becoming the best dancer she could be. Motsi leads us in to the dazzling, rhinestone-studded world of dance, through the ups and down, romances and heartbreaks, the long hours and the triumphs that made it all worth it, all while staying true to herself and moving to the beat of her own rhythm. © Motsi Mabuse 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603675Thu, 08 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603675 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding My Own Rhythm: My Story Author: Motsi Mabuse Narrator: Motsi Mabuse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603675 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding My Own Rhythm: My Story Author: Motsi Mabuse Narrator: Motsi Mabuse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From competing in tournaments round the world to being crowned Latin dance champion, becoming a beloved Judge on Strictly Come Dancing and starting her own dance school, Motsi Mabuse has never let anything hold her back from fulfilling her dreams. In Finding My Own Rhythm, Motsi opens up about the determination, hard work and resilience it took to get to where she is today from the moment she fell in love with the glitterball world as a young child watching a dance tournament whilst on holiday. She takes us back to growing up in apartheid South Africa where she experienced exclusion and discrimination, raising money to compete in cut-throat international competitions and the huge leap of faith she took giving up her law degree, moving to Germany to be with her dance partner and throwing everything in to becoming the best dancer she could be. Motsi leads us in to the dazzling, rhinestone-studded world of dance, through the ups and down, romances and heartbreaks, the long hours and the triumphs that made it all worth it, all while staying true to herself and moving to the beat of her own rhythm. © Motsi Mabuse 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-perfect-day-to-boss-up-a-hustler-s-guide-to-building-your-empire-by-rick-ross--65185553https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Perfect Day to Boss Up: A Hustler's Guide to Building Your Empire Author: Rick Ross Narrator: Jd Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Biggest Edition – Revised and Expanded with All New Chapters A captivating and inspiring guide to building an untouchable empire from mud to marble, no matter what obstacles stand in the way Rick Ross is a hip-hop icon and a towering figure in the business world, but his path to success was not always easy. Despite adversity and setbacks, Ross held tight to his vision and never settled for anything less than greatness. Now, for the first time, he shares his secrets to success, offering his own life as a road map to readers looking to build their own empire. Along the way he reveals:    - How to turn your ambition into action  - Tips for managing and investing your money  - Inside stories from his business and music ventures  - Why failure is central to success  - Secrets to handling stressful situations  - How to build the perfect team    As Ross explains, “It doesn’t matter what’s going on. Even the most dire situation is just another opportunity to boss up.”Intimate, insightful and brimming with no-nonsense advice, The Perfect Time to Boss Up is the ideal book for hustlers everywhere.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593491Tue, 06 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Perfect Day to Boss Up: A Hustler's Guide to Building Your Empire Author: Rick Ross Narrator: Jd Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Perfect Day to Boss Up: A Hustler's Guide to Building Your Empire Author: Rick Ross Narrator: Jd Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Biggest Edition – Revised and Expanded with All New Chapters A captivating and inspiring guide to building an untouchable empire from mud to marble, no matter what obstacles stand in the way Rick Ross is a hip-hop icon and a towering figure in the business world, but his path to success was not always easy. Despite adversity and setbacks, Ross held tight to his vision and never settled for anything less than greatness. Now, for the first time, he shares his secrets to success, offering his own life as a road map to readers looking to build their own empire. Along the way he reveals:    - How to turn your ambition into action  - Tips for managing and investing your money  - Inside stories from his business and music ventures  - Why failure is central to success  - Secrets to handling stressful situations  - How to build the perfect team    As Ross explains, “It doesn’t matter what’s going on. Even the most dire situation is just another opportunity to boss up.”Intimate, insightful and brimming with no-nonsense advice, The Perfect Time to Boss Up is the ideal book for hustlers everywhere.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-ran-into-some-trouble-by-peggy-caserta-maggie-falcon--65185368https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Ran Into Some Trouble Author: Peggy Caserta, Maggie Falcon Narrator: Carol Monda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Peggy Caserta, founder of the famous Haight-Ashbury hippie boutique Mnasidika and lover and girlfriend of Janis Joplin, was a Louisiana homecoming queen turned airsick stewardess who eventually landed in 1960s San Francisco and set up shop. Her store was a hang-out for the Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company; it was where Wes Wilson’s posters hung, where Bill Graham sold concert tickets, and where Owsley’s LSD was enjoyed. Caserta’s world of psychedelic peace, love, LSD, and rock kaleidoscoped into bereavement, heroin addiction, prison, and desperation. She was hated, betrayed, and self-exiled, and after many, many years has recovered, returning home to the bayou to care for her mother with dementia. Now Caserta is giving a new generation an inside look into a revolution—both countercultural and personal—in her new memoir. It’s the celebration of a transitional time in history and an attempt at redemption.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603801Tue, 06 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Ran Into Some Trouble Author: Peggy Caserta, Maggie Falcon Narrator: Carol Monda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Ran Into Some Trouble Author: Peggy Caserta, Maggie Falcon Narrator: Carol Monda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Peggy Caserta, founder of the famous Haight-Ashbury hippie boutique Mnasidika and lover and girlfriend of Janis Joplin, was a Louisiana homecoming queen turned airsick stewardess who eventually landed in 1960s San Francisco and set up shop. Her store was a hang-out for the Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company; it was where Wes Wilson’s posters hung, where Bill Graham sold concert tickets, and where Owsley’s LSD was enjoyed. Caserta’s world of psychedelic peace, love, LSD, and rock kaleidoscoped into bereavement, heroin addiction, prison, and desperation. She was hated, betrayed, and self-exiled, and after many, many years has recovered, returning home to the bayou to care for her mother with dementia. Now Caserta is giving a new generation an inside look into a revolution—both countercultural and personal—in her new memoir. It’s the celebration of a transitional time in history and an attempt at redemption.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-girl-who-fell-from-the-sky-by-emma-carey--65185518https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600305 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Author: Emma Carey Narrator: Emma Carey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: There on that helicopter, somewhere over Switzerland on a Sunday in June, came the first tiny whisper. A voice that would carry me for years to come. ‘I'm going to be okay. There's still joy here.' When Emma Carey was twenty, she fell from 14,000 feet and survived. In The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, Emma tells us the inspirational story of how, through one of her greatest tragedies, she found her truest self. From waking up in hospital a paraplegic to learning how to use her legs again, through the six-year-long court case and now being finally free to make the most of her life, Emma teaches us the importance of courage and resilience. This heartfelt book is more than a memoir, it's a call to action that reminds us not to take our lives and abilities for granted but to live every day like it could be our last. ‘Emma Carey is a powerhouse. This book will change a lot of perceptions about what you think it's like to live with disability.' DYLAN ALCOTT]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600305Thu, 01 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600305 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Author: Emma Carey Narrator: Emma Carey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600305 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Author: Emma Carey Narrator: Emma Carey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: There on that helicopter, somewhere over Switzerland on a Sunday in June, came the first tiny whisper. A voice that would carry me for years to come. ‘I'm going to be okay. There's still joy here.' When Emma Carey was twenty, she fell from 14,000 feet and survived. In The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, Emma tells us the inspirational story of how, through one of her greatest tragedies, she found her truest self. From waking up in hospital a paraplegic to learning how to use her legs again, through the six-year-long court case and now being finally free to make the most of her life, Emma teaches us the importance of courage and resilience. This heartfelt book is more than a memoir, it's a call to action that reminds us not to take our lives and abilities for granted but to live every day like it could be our last. ‘Emma Carey is a powerhouse. This book will change a lot of perceptions about what you think it's like to live with disability.' DYLAN ALCOTT]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pandamonium-how-not-to-run-a-record-label-by-simon-williams--65185418https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604188 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label Author: Simon Williams Narrator: Simon Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Hilarious, heart-wrenching and packed with British music history.' - COLDPLAY A Virgin Radio Book of the Year It's a life-and-near-death story. But whose life? And whose near-death? As a one-time NME journalist, former Xfm radio presenter, toilet-circuit promoter and the founder of enduring homespun British record label Fierce Panda, Simon Williams has been at the cutting, cutting, cutting edge of all things 'indie' for over thirty years. During his tenure as managing director of Fierce Panda (a role he holds to this day), Simon was responsible for tripping over bands such as Coldplay, Keane, Placebo and countless other acts of independent hue - some of whom have gone on to achieve earth-shattering musical superstardom, while others have merely baffled the crowd at the Bull & Gate in north London on a wet Wednesday evening. Unfiltered and unflinching, Pandamonium! is the story of Simon's time at the indie coalface, filled with insider anecdotes to entertain music enthusiasts everywhere - from the origins of a bootlegged Oasis release to Chris Martin's delight at reaching number ninety-two in the charts. But it is also the story of how Simon tried to bring a premature end to proceedings, documenting in blunt, matter-of-fact detail his longstanding mental-health struggles. Yet, despite his raw and often poignant honesty, Simon writes with the warmth, wit, self-deprecation and wide-eyed good fortune of someone who has stared into the abyss and survived, bounding down a few indie rabbit holes along the way.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604188Thu, 01 Sep 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604188 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label Author: Simon Williams Narrator: Simon Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604188 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label Author: Simon Williams Narrator: Simon Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Hilarious, heart-wrenching and packed with British music history.' - COLDPLAY A Virgin Radio Book of the Year It's a life-and-near-death story. But whose life? And whose near-death? As a one-time NME journalist, former Xfm radio presenter, toilet-circuit promoter and the founder of enduring homespun British record label Fierce Panda, Simon Williams has been at the cutting, cutting, cutting edge of all things 'indie' for over thirty years. During his tenure as managing director of Fierce Panda (a role he holds to this day), Simon was responsible for tripping over bands such as Coldplay, Keane, Placebo and countless other acts of independent hue - some of whom have gone on to achieve earth-shattering musical superstardom, while others have merely baffled the crowd at the Bull & Gate in north London on a wet Wednesday evening. Unfiltered and unflinching, Pandamonium! is the story of Simon's time at the indie coalface, filled with insider anecdotes to entertain music enthusiasts everywhere - from the origins of a bootlegged Oasis release to Chris Martin's delight at reaching number ninety-two in the charts. But it is also the story of how Simon tried to bring a premature end to proceedings, documenting in blunt, matter-of-fact detail his longstanding mental-health struggles. Yet, despite his raw and often poignant honesty, Simon writes with the warmth, wit, self-deprecation and wide-eyed good fortune of someone who has stared into the abyss and survived, bounding down a few indie rabbit holes along the way.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pipestone-my-life-in-an-indian-boarding-school-by-adam-fortunate-eagle-laurence-m-hauptman--65185558https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School Author: Adam Fortunate Eagle, Laurence M. Hauptman Narrator: Kaipo Schwab Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a 'contrary warrior' by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier's pluralist vision was reshaping the federal boarding school system to promote greater respect for Native cultures and traditions. But this book is hardly a dry history of the late boarding school era. Telling this story in the voice of his younger self, the author takes us on a delightful journey into his childhood and the inner world of the boarding school. Along the way, he shares anecdotes of dormitory culture, student pranks, and warrior games. Although Fortunate Eagle recognizes Pipestone's shortcomings, he describes his time there as nothing less than 'a little bit of heaven.' Were all Indian boarding schools the dispiriting places that history has suggested? This book allows listeners to decide for themselves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592829Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School Author: Adam Fortunate Eagle, Laurence M. Hauptman Narrator: Kaipo Schwab Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School Author: Adam Fortunate Eagle, Laurence M. Hauptman Narrator: Kaipo Schwab Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a 'contrary warrior' by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier's pluralist vision was reshaping the federal boarding school system to promote greater respect for Native cultures and traditions. But this book is hardly a dry history of the late boarding school era. Telling this story in the voice of his younger self, the author takes us on a delightful journey into his childhood and the inner world of the boarding school. Along the way, he shares anecdotes of dormitory culture, student pranks, and warrior games. Although Fortunate Eagle recognizes Pipestone's shortcomings, he describes his time there as nothing less than 'a little bit of heaven.' Were all Indian boarding schools the dispiriting places that history has suggested? This book allows listeners to decide for themselves.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/don-t-look-away-by-danielle-laidley--65185331https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Look Away Author: Danielle Laidley Narrator: Rebecca Macauley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'It's an inspiring, disarming, and deeply moving book, and it deserves to be widely read.' Craig Silvey Now a Stan Original Documentary. Fearless. Tough. Uncompromising. This was the persona of former elite footballer and senior AFL coach Danielle Laidley. Fearful. Vulnerable. Uncertain. This is how Danielle felt for most of her life. For the best part of five decades, within a hyper-masculine sporting environment, Danielle Laidley harboured a secret. As a boy growing up in the backblocks of Perth, as a teenager and young man playing AFL, as a married father of three, she knew she was female, regardless of the gender she was assigned at birth. For years Danielle lived a compartmentalised life, managing her secret first with a relentless quest for sporting success and workaholism, and eventually with substances that dulled the pain. She covertly experimented with her transgender life but eventually rumours began to circulate. The walls started closing in. Then there was nowhere to hide. This is an unflinching account of what it's like to know you don't fit the body you were born into, and the desperate measures taken to mask the fear of being outed, of losing those you love. It's also an uncensored behind-the-scenes look at elite football from the perspective of player and coach, where Danielle is both participant in and analytical observer of her double life. It's about the courage it takes to step into the world as Danielle May.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613411Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Look Away Author: Danielle Laidley Narrator: Rebecca Macauley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 30,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Look Away Author: Danielle Laidley Narrator: Rebecca Macauley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'It's an inspiring, disarming, and deeply moving book, and it deserves to be widely read.' Craig Silvey Now a Stan Original Documentary. Fearless. Tough. Uncompromising. This was the persona of former elite footballer and senior AFL coach Danielle Laidley. Fearful. Vulnerable. Uncertain. This is how Danielle felt for most of her life. For the best part of five decades, within a hyper-masculine sporting environment, Danielle Laidley harboured a secret. As a boy growing up in the backblocks of Perth, as a teenager and young man playing AFL, as a married father of three, she knew she was female, regardless of the gender she was assigned at birth. For years Danielle lived a compartmentalised life, managing her secret first with a relentless quest for sporting success and workaholism, and eventually with substances that dulled the pain. She covertly experimented with her transgender life but eventually rumours began to circulate. The walls started closing in. Then there was nowhere to hide. This is an unflinching account of what it's like to know you don't fit the body you were born into, and the desperate measures taken to mask the fear of being outed, of losing those you love. It's also an uncensored behind-the-scenes look at elite football from the perspective of player and coach, where Danielle is both participant in and analytical observer of her double life. It's about the courage it takes to step into the world as Danielle May.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/head-trauma-the-bruising-diary-of-a-head-teacher-by-nick-smith--65185460https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Head Trauma: The Bruising Diary of a Head Teacher Author: Nick Smith Narrator: Finlay Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A humorous yet honest look at the education system, from trainee to headteacher across an extraordinary thirty-year career. 'As I began my teacher training, little did I know of what awaited me. Almost three decades and seven schools later, I am head of a state secondary school. On the wall in my office is a children's toy, a plastic monster's head which, if pressed, emits a pre-recorded message: 'It beggars belief!'. I press the monster whenever I, pupils, parents, staff, or the Department of Education do something that is notable, ludicrous, odd, bewildering or unreasonable. It is pressed so often that I am forever having to replace the batteries.' Nick Smith charts his journey from trainee teacher through to inspiring head across his near thirty-year career, with fascinating insights into the educational system along the way. The catalogue of incidents ranges from the embarrassing to the ridiculous, hilarious to the heart-breaking, and together they illustrate the daily grind of life at the whiteboard face in UK schools. Head Trauma is more than an amusing look at the trials of teacherdom - it's a call to arms for parents, teachers and pupils alike.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600326Thu, 18 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Head Trauma: The Bruising Diary of a Head Teacher Author: Nick Smith Narrator: Finlay Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600326 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Head Trauma: The Bruising Diary of a Head Teacher Author: Nick Smith Narrator: Finlay Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A humorous yet honest look at the education system, from trainee to headteacher across an extraordinary thirty-year career. 'As I began my teacher training, little did I know of what awaited me. Almost three decades and seven schools later, I am head of a state secondary school. On the wall in my office is a children's toy, a plastic monster's head which, if pressed, emits a pre-recorded message: 'It beggars belief!'. I press the monster whenever I, pupils, parents, staff, or the Department of Education do something that is notable, ludicrous, odd, bewildering or unreasonable. It is pressed so often that I am forever having to replace the batteries.' Nick Smith charts his journey from trainee teacher through to inspiring head across his near thirty-year career, with fascinating insights into the educational system along the way. The catalogue of incidents ranges from the embarrassing to the ridiculous, hilarious to the heart-breaking, and together they illustrate the daily grind of life at the whiteboard face in UK schools. Head Trauma is more than an amusing look at the trials of teacherdom - it's a call to arms for parents, teachers and pupils alike.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-reiss-aus-46-000-kilometer-roadtrip-durch-afrika-oder-von-einer-die-auszog-um-leben-zu-lernen-by-lena-wendt--65185333https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Reiss aus: 46.000 Kilometer Roadtrip durch Afrika. Oder von einer, die auszog, um leben zu lernen. Author: Lena Wendt Narrator: Lena Wendt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ein halbes Jahr Auszeit wollen sich Ulli und Lena nehmen und von Hamburg nach Südafrika fahren, den Kontinent entdecken, aber auch sich selbst wiederfinden. In Südafrika kommen sie nie an. Stattdessen reisen sie in ihrem alten Land Rover und einem 40 Jahre alten Dachzelt zwei Jahre durch Westafrika. Es geht um einiges. Darum, in sich selbst hinein zu hören, sich selbst bewusst zu werden und sich wieder zu spüren. Und nicht eher umzudrehen, bis sich an der eigenen Einstellung am Leben etwas grundlegend geändert hat. Über die Höhen und Tiefen der Reise, die Begegnung mit sich selbst und mit den Menschen auf dem 46000 km langen Weg erzählt Lena in diesem Buch. Und sie erzählt ihre und Ullis Geschichte, eine spannungsvolle Story zweier, die eine gemeinsame Reise unterschiedlicher nicht hätten erleben können.Das Buch zum Film 'Reiss aus - Zwei Menschen. Zwei Jahre. Ein Traum'-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612519Wed, 17 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Reiss aus: 46.000 Kilometer Roadtrip durch Afrika. Oder von einer, die auszog, um leben zu lernen. Author: Lena Wendt Narrator: Lena Wendt...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Reiss aus: 46.000 Kilometer Roadtrip durch Afrika. Oder von einer, die auszog, um leben zu lernen. Author: Lena Wendt Narrator: Lena Wendt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ein halbes Jahr Auszeit wollen sich Ulli und Lena nehmen und von Hamburg nach Südafrika fahren, den Kontinent entdecken, aber auch sich selbst wiederfinden. In Südafrika kommen sie nie an. Stattdessen reisen sie in ihrem alten Land Rover und einem 40 Jahre alten Dachzelt zwei Jahre durch Westafrika. Es geht um einiges. Darum, in sich selbst hinein zu hören, sich selbst bewusst zu werden und sich wieder zu spüren. Und nicht eher umzudrehen, bis sich an der eigenen Einstellung am Leben etwas grundlegend geändert hat. Über die Höhen und Tiefen der Reise, die Begegnung mit sich selbst und mit den Menschen auf dem 46000 km langen Weg erzählt Lena in diesem Buch. Und sie erzählt ihre und Ullis Geschichte, eine spannungsvolle Story zweier, die eine gemeinsame Reise unterschiedlicher nicht hätten erleben können.Das Buch zum Film 'Reiss aus - Zwei Menschen. Zwei Jahre. Ein Traum'-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/business-model-when-incredible-will-meets-professional-skill-by-david-c-williams--65185491https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597286 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Business Model: When Incredible Will Meets Professional Skill Author: David C. Williams Narrator: David C. Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 49 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “For all of David’s technology genius and innovation, he keeps it real…He leads with love, kindness, and a willingness to take others up with him.” —Nancy Lieberman, Broadcaster for ABC, NBC, ESPN, Basketball Hall of Famer, and Former and Olympic Silver Medalist What does it mean to create a “model”? First, we naturally tune our attention toward role models during early childhood and take data to form an accurate model of our world. And from there, we model and remodel ourselves to become more like the ideal person we conceptualize in our imagination. Business Model gives readers a front-row view of Williams’ own life experiences that gave rise to his unique business model. With a journey spanning from his early beginnings as a youth in South Dallas to his recent Legacy Award as the 2021 Black Engineer of the Year STEM Global Competitiveness Conference, profound wisdom is derived from every page. Multi-talented author and AT&T Assistant Vice President of Automation, David C. Williams is fun, compassionate, and drives $100Ms in business. He is also an inaugural Dream in Black winner, Champion of Diversity winner, and has been featured as the cover story in several magazines, including interviews with Ebony, Fox, NBC, and more. Williams’ many trials and triumphs present a powerful opportunity for readers to explore their own lives to extract invaluable lessons and skills. Throughout Business Model, readers will be treated to countless inspiring perspectives on self-transformation, business success, and transcending adversity, including: Using our past life experiences to fulfill our future ambitions Overcoming obstacles in the corporate world Driving a positive impact on society at large Tapping into the innovation and insight within us all David C. Williams embodies full transparency and vulnerability as he puts each significant experience of his life on full display. In doing so, Business Model treats its readers to one of the most remarkable, meaningful, and powerful stories seen in years.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597286Tue, 16 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597286 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Business Model: When Incredible Will Meets Professional Skill Author: David C. Williams Narrator: David C. Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597286 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Business Model: When Incredible Will Meets Professional Skill Author: David C. Williams Narrator: David C. Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 49 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “For all of David’s technology genius and innovation, he keeps it real…He leads with love, kindness, and a willingness to take others up with him.” —Nancy Lieberman, Broadcaster for ABC, NBC, ESPN, Basketball Hall of Famer, and Former and Olympic Silver Medalist What does it mean to create a “model”? First, we naturally tune our attention toward role models during early childhood and take data to form an accurate model of our world. And from there, we model and remodel ourselves to become more like the ideal person we conceptualize in our imagination. Business Model gives readers a front-row view of Williams’ own life experiences that gave rise to his unique business model. With a journey spanning from his early beginnings as a youth in South Dallas to his recent Legacy Award as the 2021 Black Engineer of the Year STEM Global Competitiveness Conference, profound wisdom is derived from every page. Multi-talented author and AT&T Assistant Vice President of Automation, David C. Williams is fun, compassionate, and drives $100Ms in business. He is also an inaugural Dream in Black winner, Champion of Diversity winner, and has been featured as the cover story in several magazines, including interviews with Ebony, Fox, NBC, and more. Williams’ many trials and triumphs present a powerful opportunity for readers to explore their own lives to extract invaluable lessons and skills. Throughout Business Model, readers will be treated to countless inspiring perspectives on self-transformation, business success, and transcending adversity, including: Using our past life experiences to fulfill our future ambitions Overcoming obstacles in the corporate world Driving a positive impact on society at large Tapping into the innovation and insight within us all David C. Williams embodies full transparency and vulnerability as he puts each significant experience of his life on full display. In doing so, Business Model treats its readers to one of the most remarkable, meaningful, and powerful stories seen in years.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/many-have-pictures-like-this-by-carey-bagdassarian--65185474https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Many Have Pictures Like This Author: Carey Bagdassarian Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In a gathering of stories, Many Have Pictures Like This chronicles a family’s history and passing, from Armenian villages before WWI to the Armenian Genocide, to Romania, and finally to the United States. Much is fictionalized, all is based on truth, and the author asks the question throughout: What is owed to one’s dead? Whether walking with his father to a pizzeria or sitting with his mother in an imagined coffee house, whether enjoying his grandmother’s immigrant mac-and-cheese or playing catch with a friend on a hot New York day and encountering his godmother, the author learns what life demanded from his family. “I guess what I’m most interested in,” he says, “what I need to know, is how they continued on with their lives—with their spirits intact to varying degrees—after what they’d endured by the circumstances of their origins and time and place.” His own place as an immigrant and his family’s expectations for him are in the mix. And there’s the necessary acknowledgment that the monsters his family escaped never go away, not even in the New World. Sometimes serious, sometimes playful, and with lessons learned from salmon and ravens in the author’s attempt to flee his family’s story, this collection is a mythology of a handful of people with experiences not entirely unique in the history of the world, though they were.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604046Tue, 16 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Many Have Pictures Like This Author: Carey Bagdassarian Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 10 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Many Have Pictures Like This Author: Carey Bagdassarian Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In a gathering of stories, Many Have Pictures Like This chronicles a family’s history and passing, from Armenian villages before WWI to the Armenian Genocide, to Romania, and finally to the United States. Much is fictionalized, all is based on truth, and the author asks the question throughout: What is owed to one’s dead? Whether walking with his father to a pizzeria or sitting with his mother in an imagined coffee house, whether enjoying his grandmother’s immigrant mac-and-cheese or playing catch with a friend on a hot New York day and encountering his godmother, the author learns what life demanded from his family. “I guess what I’m most interested in,” he says, “what I need to know, is how they continued on with their lives—with their spirits intact to varying degrees—after what they’d endured by the circumstances of their origins and time and place.” His own place as an immigrant and his family’s expectations for him are in the mix. And there’s the necessary acknowledgment that the monsters his family escaped never go away, not even in the New World. Sometimes serious, sometimes playful, and with lessons learned from salmon and ravens in the author’s attempt to flee his family’s story, this collection is a mythology of a handful of people with experiences not entirely unique in the history of the world, though they were.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-lo-que-aprendemos-de-los-gatos-by-paloma-diaz-mas--65185543https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Lo que aprendemos de los gatos Author: Paloma Díaz-Mas Narrator: Ana Serrano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Los seres humanos —piensa el gato— tienen una irremediable tendencia a entender las cosas al revés. Por ejemplo, si ven un libro que se titula «Lo que aprendemos de los gatos», probablemente creerán que trata de lo que los humanos pueden aprender acerca de los gatos, para conocerlos mejor (cosa que, dicho sea de paso, tampoco estaría de más); sin embargo, para cualquiera que sea capaz de pensar con claridad, resulta evidente que «Lo que aprendemos de los gatos» significa otra cosa: lo que los humanos pueden aprender a partir de los gatos, es decir, lo que los gatos pueden enseñarles. Este tipo de errores se producen porque los humanos parten de la absurda creencia de que son animales superiores, cuando todo el mundo sabe que los animales superiores son los gatos. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - Paloma Díaz-Mas es una escritora, catedrática universitaria e investigadora española. Estudió Filosofía y Letras y Periodismo, especializándose en poesía sefardí. Actualmente es profesora de investigación en el CSIC y miembro de la Real Academia Española. Además, ha recibido importantes reconocimientos literarios, como el Premio Herralde de novela en 1992 y el Premio Euskadi en el 2000.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597320Fri, 12 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Lo que aprendemos de los gatos Author: Paloma Díaz-Mas Narrator: Ana Serrano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 39 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597320 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Lo que aprendemos de los gatos Author: Paloma Díaz-Mas Narrator: Ana Serrano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Los seres humanos —piensa el gato— tienen una irremediable tendencia a entender las cosas al revés. Por ejemplo, si ven un libro que se titula «Lo que aprendemos de los gatos», probablemente creerán que trata de lo que los humanos pueden aprender acerca de los gatos, para conocerlos mejor (cosa que, dicho sea de paso, tampoco estaría de más); sin embargo, para cualquiera que sea capaz de pensar con claridad, resulta evidente que «Lo que aprendemos de los gatos» significa otra cosa: lo que los humanos pueden aprender a partir de los gatos, es decir, lo que los gatos pueden enseñarles. Este tipo de errores se producen porque los humanos parten de la absurda creencia de que son animales superiores, cuando todo el mundo sabe que los animales superiores son los gatos. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - Paloma Díaz-Mas es una escritora, catedrática universitaria e investigadora española. Estudió Filosofía y Letras y Periodismo, especializándose en poesía sefardí. Actualmente es profesora de investigación en el CSIC y miembro de la Real Academia Española. Además, ha recibido importantes reconocimientos literarios, como el Premio Herralde de novela en 1992 y el Premio Euskadi en el 2000.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thunderstone-a-true-story-of-losing-one-home-and-discovering-another-by-nancy-campbell--65185470https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home And Discovering Another Author: Nancy Campbell Narrator: Tania Rodrigues Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Can a tiny vehicle provide the space to rebuild a life? Thunderstone: a sculpted & fearless memoir from the award-winning author of Fifty Words for Snow - a Waterstones Book of the Month.  ‘It was believed lightning would not strike a house that held a thunderstone. And so these fossils were placed on top of clocks, under floorboards, over stable doors... But there are some storms that thunderstones cannot prevent.’ In the wake of a traumatic lockdown, Nancy Campbell buys an old caravan and drives it into a strip of neglected woodland between a canal and railway. It is the first home she has ever owned. It will not move again. As summer begins, Nancy embraces the challenge of how to live well in a space in which possessions and emotions often threaten to tumble. And as illness and uncertainty loom once more, it is this anchored van that will bring her solace and hope. An intimate journal across the span of a defining summer, Thunderstone is a celebration of transformation; an invitation to approach life with imagination and to embrace change bravely.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601015Thu, 11 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home And Discovering Another Author: Nancy Campbell Narrator: Tania Rodrigues Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home And Discovering Another Author: Nancy Campbell Narrator: Tania Rodrigues Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Can a tiny vehicle provide the space to rebuild a life? Thunderstone: a sculpted & fearless memoir from the award-winning author of Fifty Words for Snow - a Waterstones Book of the Month.  ‘It was believed lightning would not strike a house that held a thunderstone. And so these fossils were placed on top of clocks, under floorboards, over stable doors... But there are some storms that thunderstones cannot prevent.’ In the wake of a traumatic lockdown, Nancy Campbell buys an old caravan and drives it into a strip of neglected woodland between a canal and railway. It is the first home she has ever owned. It will not move again. As summer begins, Nancy embraces the challenge of how to live well in a space in which possessions and emotions often threaten to tumble. And as illness and uncertainty loom once more, it is this anchored van that will bring her solace and hope. An intimate journal across the span of a defining summer, Thunderstone is a celebration of transformation; an invitation to approach life with imagination and to embrace change bravely.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/clarity-a-memoir-by-diana-estill--65185560https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Clarity: A Memoir Author: Diana Estill Narrator: Diana Estill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 2021 International Book Awards Finalist, Health: Psychology & Mental Health At age four, Diana manages her family's banking, grocery shops alone, and befriends the town drunk. Her father is too busy chasing skirts and throwing fits to notice what she does. And her mom is too mentally absent to properly parent. While Diana's narcissistic dad terrorizes and exploits her, she works harder to please him. Estill, an award-winning humor author, shares an honest and comedic look at her dysfunctional childhood. As an adult, she struggles to reclaim her power while caring for her dementia-impaired dad. In this thought-provoking tale of resilience, the author pierces the fog of emotional and sexual abuse.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595005Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Clarity: A Memoir Author: Diana Estill Narrator: Diana Estill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595005 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Clarity: A Memoir Author: Diana Estill Narrator: Diana Estill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 2021 International Book Awards Finalist, Health: Psychology & Mental Health At age four, Diana manages her family's banking, grocery shops alone, and befriends the town drunk. Her father is too busy chasing skirts and throwing fits to notice what she does. And her mom is too mentally absent to properly parent. While Diana's narcissistic dad terrorizes and exploits her, she works harder to please him. Estill, an award-winning humor author, shares an honest and comedic look at her dysfunctional childhood. As an adult, she struggles to reclaim her power while caring for her dementia-impaired dad. In this thought-provoking tale of resilience, the author pierces the fog of emotional and sexual abuse.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fierce-mercy-daring-to-live-out-god-s-compassion-in-bold-and-practical-ways-by-abby-johnson--65185515https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fierce Mercy: Daring to Live Out God’s Compassion in Bold and Practical Ways Author: Abby Johnson Narrator: Abby Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Abby Johnson thought she knew what mercy was when she ushered desperate women toward abortion as the director of a Planned Parenthood facility. She was wrong. It wasn't until she understood the blood on her hands that she personally experienced the power of God's fierce yet tender mercy to transform her life. But she never imagined what could happen once she allowed that very mercy to infiltrate her life and spill out into a hurting world. In Fierce Mercy, Abby calls you to experience a transformation of your own. Against the backdrop of her first decade involved in the pro-life movement, Abby helps you discover God's unrestrained mercy at work in your own life and take steps toward becoming a channel of that life-changing mercy in the world around you. She shows you how to model God's mercy, freely offer mercy to those who seem undeserving, respond with mercy when others err or offend, and bear witness to God's unrestrained compassion so that others may know him. This is Abby's challenge to you: dare to do what is hard, what is right, and what is good. And do all of it in love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600151Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fierce Mercy: Daring to Live Out God’s Compassion in Bold and Practical Ways Author: Abby Johnson Narrator: Abby Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600151 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fierce Mercy: Daring to Live Out God’s Compassion in Bold and Practical Ways Author: Abby Johnson Narrator: Abby Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Abby Johnson thought she knew what mercy was when she ushered desperate women toward abortion as the director of a Planned Parenthood facility. She was wrong. It wasn't until she understood the blood on her hands that she personally experienced the power of God's fierce yet tender mercy to transform her life. But she never imagined what could happen once she allowed that very mercy to infiltrate her life and spill out into a hurting world. In Fierce Mercy, Abby calls you to experience a transformation of your own. Against the backdrop of her first decade involved in the pro-life movement, Abby helps you discover God's unrestrained mercy at work in your own life and take steps toward becoming a channel of that life-changing mercy in the world around you. She shows you how to model God's mercy, freely offer mercy to those who seem undeserving, respond with mercy when others err or offend, and bear witness to God's unrestrained compassion so that others may know him. This is Abby's challenge to you: dare to do what is hard, what is right, and what is good. And do all of it in love.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-is-one-way-to-dance-essays-by-sejal-shah--65185442https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is One Way to Dance: Essays Author: Sejal Shah Narrator: Priya Ayyar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A powerful meditation on identity and belonging, Sejal Shah explores the tension of being both invisible and hyper-visible in a country that struggles with race. The daughter of immigrants from Indian and Kenya, Shah wrestles with her experiences growing up in—and returning to—western New York, an area of stark racial and socioeconomic segregation. Her work illuminates how we are all marked by family and place; by the limits of our bodies; by our losses and regrets; by who and what we love; by our ambivalences and our silences. This is a book about growing up Indian in non-Indian places, about what it means to be American, South Asian American, a writer of color, and a feminist. Shah considers the implications of being asked where are you from—the geographic and cultural distances between people, how these gaps are imagined and real, constructed and changing. These literary essays will certainly appeal to readers of short stories and poetry as well.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602059Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is One Way to Dance: Essays Author: Sejal Shah Narrator: Priya Ayyar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602059 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is One Way to Dance: Essays Author: Sejal Shah Narrator: Priya Ayyar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A powerful meditation on identity and belonging, Sejal Shah explores the tension of being both invisible and hyper-visible in a country that struggles with race. The daughter of immigrants from Indian and Kenya, Shah wrestles with her experiences growing up in—and returning to—western New York, an area of stark racial and socioeconomic segregation. Her work illuminates how we are all marked by family and place; by the limits of our bodies; by our losses and regrets; by who and what we love; by our ambivalences and our silences. This is a book about growing up Indian in non-Indian places, about what it means to be American, South Asian American, a writer of color, and a feminist. Shah considers the implications of being asked where are you from—the geographic and cultural distances between people, how these gaps are imagined and real, constructed and changing. These literary essays will certainly appeal to readers of short stories and poetry as well.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cinder-girl-growing-up-on-america-s-fringe-by-holly-thompson-rehder--65185326https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cinder Girl: Growing Up on America's Fringe Author: Holly Thompson Rehder Narrator: Holly Thompson Rehder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Cinder Girl sits in the rarest class of memoir—a towering literary triumph which melds searing and tragic personal history with an incredible story of resilience, hope, and civic success.Growing up on welfare, food stamps, and Greyhound buses, Holly Thompson Rehder quit school at fifteen to help take care of her mother and younger sister after a devastating car accident. Getting married and pregnant soon thereafter, like so many other young girls caught in the poverty-cycle, Holly decided that the life she had been born into was not what she intended to give her child.But unlike others who wind up mired in a lifetime of poverty, dysfunction, and despair, Holly used her resourcefulness, faith, and sheer stubborn American grit to fight her way out of the gutter.Two decades later she was a successful businesswoman. And today, she is a rising political star who serves as an inspiration to young women across the state of Missouri—and indeed, the entire nation—all while never forgetting where she came from. She worked her butt off to help so many others born into seemingly helpless circumstances.As a rare lawmaker who speaks candidly from raw personal experience, in Cinder Girl, Rehder rises above standard political prose to provide an unvarnished look inside the worst of American poverty––those living in the margins. Rehder challenges us to recall the plight of those far less fortunate, who struggle without the opportunities most of us take for granted.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612498Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cinder Girl: Growing Up on America's Fringe Author: Holly Thompson Rehder Narrator: Holly Thompson Rehder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cinder Girl: Growing Up on America's Fringe Author: Holly Thompson Rehder Narrator: Holly Thompson Rehder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Cinder Girl sits in the rarest class of memoir—a towering literary triumph which melds searing and tragic personal history with an incredible story of resilience, hope, and civic success.Growing up on welfare, food stamps, and Greyhound buses, Holly Thompson Rehder quit school at fifteen to help take care of her mother and younger sister after a devastating car accident. Getting married and pregnant soon thereafter, like so many other young girls caught in the poverty-cycle, Holly decided that the life she had been born into was not what she intended to give her child.But unlike others who wind up mired in a lifetime of poverty, dysfunction, and despair, Holly used her resourcefulness, faith, and sheer stubborn American grit to fight her way out of the gutter.Two decades later she was a successful businesswoman. And today, she is a rising political star who serves as an inspiration to young women across the state of Missouri—and indeed, the entire nation—all while never forgetting where she came from. She worked her butt off to help so many others born into seemingly helpless circumstances.As a rare lawmaker who speaks candidly from raw personal experience, in Cinder Girl, Rehder rises above standard political prose to provide an unvarnished look inside the worst of American poverty––those living in the margins. Rehder challenges us to recall the plight of those far less fortunate, who struggle without the opportunities most of us take for granted.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/happy-as-a-memoir-of-the-magic-of-family-from-one-of-australia-s-most-popular-tv-personalities-and-gold-logie-award-winner-2024-by-larry-em--65185583https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Happy As: a memoir of the magic of family from one of Australia's most popular TV personalities and Gold Logie award winner 2024 Author: Larry Emdur Narrator: Larry Emdur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Larry Emdur is one of Australia's most popular and enduring TV personalities. Happy As is a memoir of becoming Larry. Gold Logie Winner for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television 2024 Long before the game shows and morning TV, Larry Emdur was just Larry, a cheeky kid from Bondi who grew up paddling round the kiddies' pool on a foam surfboard, and rocking a safari suit and bowl haircut. It was an idyllic childhood growing up in the 1970s and '80s, dominated by endless summers, adventures with mates, sunburnt noses and board rashes, all underpinned by his dad's simple rule: 'Be nice to everyone.' Told with wit and warmth, Happy As charts Larry's career as a professional show-off, from winner of the Rose Bay Public School marching parade to living-room fixture. From his first 'job' pinching golf balls to that big TV break; from awkward teen romances to true love; from the less-than-impressed prize winners on The Price is Right to unexpectedly bonding with Yoko Ono - this is a life-affirming collection of stories about the enduring love of family and friends, and just how far being nice to everyone will get you. A perfect blend of nostalgia, side-splitting humour and heartbreaking pathos that will leave you wishing it was the '80s again. Emdur's laugh-out-loud chronicle of his four decades in television, the book also serves as a sepia-toned recollection of a time when childhoods were long and families were everything. Angela Mollard, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592178Wed, 03 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Happy As: a memoir of the magic of family from one of Australia's most popular TV personalities and Gold Logie award winner 2024 Author: Larry Emdur...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Happy As: a memoir of the magic of family from one of Australia's most popular TV personalities and Gold Logie award winner 2024 Author: Larry Emdur Narrator: Larry Emdur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Larry Emdur is one of Australia's most popular and enduring TV personalities. Happy As is a memoir of becoming Larry. Gold Logie Winner for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television 2024 Long before the game shows and morning TV, Larry Emdur was just Larry, a cheeky kid from Bondi who grew up paddling round the kiddies' pool on a foam surfboard, and rocking a safari suit and bowl haircut. It was an idyllic childhood growing up in the 1970s and '80s, dominated by endless summers, adventures with mates, sunburnt noses and board rashes, all underpinned by his dad's simple rule: 'Be nice to everyone.' Told with wit and warmth, Happy As charts Larry's career as a professional show-off, from winner of the Rose Bay Public School marching parade to living-room fixture. From his first 'job' pinching golf balls to that big TV break; from awkward teen romances to true love; from the less-than-impressed prize winners on The Price is Right to unexpectedly bonding with Yoko Ono - this is a life-affirming collection of stories about the enduring love of family and friends, and just how far being nice to everyone will get you. A perfect blend of nostalgia, side-splitting humour and heartbreaking pathos that will leave you wishing it was the '80s again. Emdur's laugh-out-loud chronicle of his four decades in television, the book also serves as a sepia-toned recollection of a time when childhoods were long and families were everything. Angela Mollard, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-summertime-of-our-dreams-by-michael-pascoe--65185489https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Summertime of Our Dreams Author: Michael Pascoe Narrator: Michael Pascoe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable celebration of life, a hymn to the land, and a meditation on the memory and dreams of youth To be invited to walk beside a dying man, a good man, to be asked into his mind as its existence is counted down, to be offered his gaze into the abyss, to know another soul in the honesty of the deathbed. A privilege. Here is a moving and unusual memoir by Michael Pascoe about his relationship with Jim, his friend since boarding school in Queensland, as he faces up to terminal illness. We see a group of friends as they meet occasionally to talk about their shared youth and their mortality. Eloquent, profound – and sometimes funny, as mates can be with one another – these encounters, as well as Michael and Jim's correspondence about living, dying, memory and family – will resonate deeply with readers. The narrative is also a reflection on the author's own story from son of a country cop to one of Australia's best-known journalists, taking the reader on a journey – both literal and metaphorical – as he drives north in his beloved Alfa Romeo, exploring along the way what it means to be a son and a father, how one ages and deals with one's own mortality. We were just boys, forming bonds we didn't know existed until we dared reach for them and found them strong.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600437Wed, 03 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Summertime of Our Dreams Author: Michael Pascoe Narrator: Michael Pascoe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Summertime of Our Dreams Author: Michael Pascoe Narrator: Michael Pascoe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An unforgettable celebration of life, a hymn to the land, and a meditation on the memory and dreams of youth To be invited to walk beside a dying man, a good man, to be asked into his mind as its existence is counted down, to be offered his gaze into the abyss, to know another soul in the honesty of the deathbed. A privilege. Here is a moving and unusual memoir by Michael Pascoe about his relationship with Jim, his friend since boarding school in Queensland, as he faces up to terminal illness. We see a group of friends as they meet occasionally to talk about their shared youth and their mortality. Eloquent, profound – and sometimes funny, as mates can be with one another – these encounters, as well as Michael and Jim's correspondence about living, dying, memory and family – will resonate deeply with readers. The narrative is also a reflection on the author's own story from son of a country cop to one of Australia's best-known journalists, taking the reader on a journey – both literal and metaphorical – as he drives north in his beloved Alfa Romeo, exploring along the way what it means to be a son and a father, how one ages and deals with one's own mortality. We were just boys, forming bonds we didn't know existed until we dared reach for them and found them strong.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/five-years-in-heaven-the-unlikely-friendship-that-answered-life-s-greatest-questions-by-john-schlimm--65185395https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Five Years in Heaven: The Unlikely Friendship That Answered Life's Greatest Questions Author: John Schlimm Narrator: John Schlimm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What is heaven on earth? The answer lies in this true story of one young man’s journey to find hope and purpose with the help of an unlikely teacher—a compassionate and wise old nun, whom the world had long-forgotten. By the time Harvard-educated John Schlimm turned thirty-one years old, he had worked with some of the biggest superstars in Nashville and served under the most powerful people in the White House. But something was missing. His life had come to a standstill, lost in a whirl of questions about belonging, faith, rejection, and purpose. He soon decides to return to his small-town roots in search of a new beginning. Returning home, John meets eighty-seven-year-old Sister Augustine, the beguiling self-taught artist-in-residence at the ceramic shop on the sprawling grounds of the local 150-year-old convent. John is instantly bowled over by Sister’s quiet grace and vision. Before long, his weekly visits to Sister’s shop become a master’s class in the meaning of life, love, humility, and second chances. As she directed him on the road to self-discovery and salvation, John returned the favor by putting Sister Augustine on the front page of newspapers and showing his friend that her life still had one very important and unexpected final chapter yet to go. In Five Years in Heaven, John shares the wisdom, humor, grace, and inspiration he experienced during his hundreds of visits with Sister Augustine. Five Years in Heaven reminds us that we can find love and joy in the most unlikely of places, and that the building blocks of peace and happiness are always within our reach.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603800Tue, 02 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Five Years in Heaven: The Unlikely Friendship That Answered Life's Greatest Questions Author: John Schlimm Narrator: John Schlimm Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Five Years in Heaven: The Unlikely Friendship That Answered Life's Greatest Questions Author: John Schlimm Narrator: John Schlimm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What is heaven on earth? The answer lies in this true story of one young man’s journey to find hope and purpose with the help of an unlikely teacher—a compassionate and wise old nun, whom the world had long-forgotten. By the time Harvard-educated John Schlimm turned thirty-one years old, he had worked with some of the biggest superstars in Nashville and served under the most powerful people in the White House. But something was missing. His life had come to a standstill, lost in a whirl of questions about belonging, faith, rejection, and purpose. He soon decides to return to his small-town roots in search of a new beginning. Returning home, John meets eighty-seven-year-old Sister Augustine, the beguiling self-taught artist-in-residence at the ceramic shop on the sprawling grounds of the local 150-year-old convent. John is instantly bowled over by Sister’s quiet grace and vision. Before long, his weekly visits to Sister’s shop become a master’s class in the meaning of life, love, humility, and second chances. As she directed him on the road to self-discovery and salvation, John returned the favor by putting Sister Augustine on the front page of newspapers and showing his friend that her life still had one very important and unexpected final chapter yet to go. In Five Years in Heaven, John shares the wisdom, humor, grace, and inspiration he experienced during his hundreds of visits with Sister Augustine. Five Years in Heaven reminds us that we can find love and joy in the most unlikely of places, and that the building blocks of peace and happiness are always within our reach.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/weekends-with-matt-a-memoir-of-an-unlikely-friendship-forged-over-wine-by-matt-fowles-peter-coleman--65185497https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weekends with Matt: A memoir of an unlikely friendship forged over wine Author: Matt Fowles, Peter Coleman Narrator: John Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Weekends with Matt is a classic odd-couple tale of two very different men and the common ground that can be found over a shared passion. The peacock's tail is used to describe a wine that is wonderfully complex and ultimately rewarding. Surely there's no better metaphor for life. It was at the bottle shop, somewhere between the chardonnay and the zinfandel, that Peter realised he didn't have a clue about wine. On his way to a dinner party and in a mild panic, he called Matt, a wine-loving acquaintance who expertly steered him towards the perfect bottle. The selection was a hit, but it was Matt's passion that stuck in Peter's mind. He decided to visit Matt's vineyard for an introduction to the noble grape. One visit led to another and this unlikely pairing of a Proust-quoting intellectual and a farmer with a love of hunting found themselves bonding over life, ideas, vulnerability, aspiration, nature, philosophy and, of course, a glass or three of wine. Like a tipsy Tuesdays with Morrie, this well-crafted tale is as much a guide to life as the mysteries of wine. With thought-provoking notes and philosophical undertones, this is a delightful story that readers will love to sip and savour.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600436Mon, 01 Aug 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weekends with Matt: A memoir of an unlikely friendship forged over wine Author: Matt Fowles, Peter Coleman Narrator: John Robertson Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weekends with Matt: A memoir of an unlikely friendship forged over wine Author: Matt Fowles, Peter Coleman Narrator: John Robertson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Weekends with Matt is a classic odd-couple tale of two very different men and the common ground that can be found over a shared passion. The peacock's tail is used to describe a wine that is wonderfully complex and ultimately rewarding. Surely there's no better metaphor for life. It was at the bottle shop, somewhere between the chardonnay and the zinfandel, that Peter realised he didn't have a clue about wine. On his way to a dinner party and in a mild panic, he called Matt, a wine-loving acquaintance who expertly steered him towards the perfect bottle. The selection was a hit, but it was Matt's passion that stuck in Peter's mind. He decided to visit Matt's vineyard for an introduction to the noble grape. One visit led to another and this unlikely pairing of a Proust-quoting intellectual and a farmer with a love of hunting found themselves bonding over life, ideas, vulnerability, aspiration, nature, philosophy and, of course, a glass or three of wine. Like a tipsy Tuesdays with Morrie, this well-crafted tale is as much a guide to life as the mysteries of wine. With thought-provoking notes and philosophical undertones, this is a delightful story that readers will love to sip and savour.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lifting-the-fire-hydrant-lid-a-female-firefighter-memoir-by-kate-fullen--65185349https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lifting the Fire Hydrant Lid: a Female Firefighter Memoir Author: Kate Fullen Narrator: Colleen Prendergast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A raw, eye-opening memoir from a North East firefighter, charting her journey into the male dominated heart of the British Fire and Rescue Service. Lifting the Fire Hydrant Lid follows young, idealistic recruit, Kate Fullen, as she negotiates training school and settles into life on the watch. With incidents and routine tasks woven into the fabric of the story, it describes the consuming pressure, emotional turmoil and unpredictable nature of the job. Utilising the rare perspective of a northern, queer, working-class female firefighter, Lifting the Fire Hydrant Lid examines the more intricate difficulties experienced by minority groups and gives a voice to a profession that is seldom heard and rarely seen. - Kate lives in the North East of England and has been a firefighter for over 16 years. Born in County Durham, the second of four children and sandwiched between two brothers, Kate soon became accustomed to holding her own. She reached a high level in numerous sports and won three consecutive national chess championships. After graduating from the University of Sunderland with a Sports Science degree, a chance visit to an open day at the Fire Service Training Centre changed her life forever. Kate has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro; coached soccer in USA; managed a successful women’s football team; completed the first ‘Tough Mudder’ event in Scotland; and more recently adopted 2 boys as a single parent. Following the arrival of her second son, Kate changed direction, she now works as a personal trainer and life coach, encouraging others to follow their dreams.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604205Thu, 28 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lifting the Fire Hydrant Lid: a Female Firefighter Memoir Author: Kate Fullen Narrator: Colleen Prendergast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lifting the Fire Hydrant Lid: a Female Firefighter Memoir Author: Kate Fullen Narrator: Colleen Prendergast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A raw, eye-opening memoir from a North East firefighter, charting her journey into the male dominated heart of the British Fire and Rescue Service. Lifting the Fire Hydrant Lid follows young, idealistic recruit, Kate Fullen, as she negotiates training school and settles into life on the watch. With incidents and routine tasks woven into the fabric of the story, it describes the consuming pressure, emotional turmoil and unpredictable nature of the job. Utilising the rare perspective of a northern, queer, working-class female firefighter, Lifting the Fire Hydrant Lid examines the more intricate difficulties experienced by minority groups and gives a voice to a profession that is seldom heard and rarely seen. - Kate lives in the North East of England and has been a firefighter for over 16 years. Born in County Durham, the second of four children and sandwiched between two brothers, Kate soon became accustomed to holding her own. She reached a high level in numerous sports and won three consecutive national chess championships. After graduating from the University of Sunderland with a Sports Science degree, a chance visit to an open day at the Fire Service Training Centre changed her life forever. Kate has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro; coached soccer in USA; managed a successful women’s football team; completed the first ‘Tough Mudder’ event in Scotland; and more recently adopted 2 boys as a single parent. Following the arrival of her second son, Kate changed direction, she now works as a personal trainer and life coach, encouraging others to follow their dreams.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/old-jules-by-mari-sandoz--65185592https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Old Jules Author: Mari Sandoz Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez, Gabrielle De Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz’s masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of “the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts,” Sandoz recalls. “Of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheepmen, of the tragic scarcity of women, when a man had to ‘marry anything that got off the train,’ of the droughts, the storms, the wind, and isolation. But the most impressive stories were those told to me by Old Jules himself.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590920Tue, 26 Jul 2022 06:02:10 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Old Jules Author: Mari Sandoz Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez, Gabrielle De Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 24 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Old Jules Author: Mari Sandoz Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez, Gabrielle De Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz’s masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of “the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts,” Sandoz recalls. “Of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheepmen, of the tragic scarcity of women, when a man had to ‘marry anything that got off the train,’ of the droughts, the storms, the wind, and isolation. But the most impressive stories were those told to me by Old Jules himself.”]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/society-as-i-have-found-it-by-ward-mcallister--65185585https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Society As I Have Found It Author: Ward Mcallister Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ward McAllister lived in the mid-to-late nineteenth-century USA. This audiobook encompasses his commentary on the parties held by the elite in the USA and Europe during that time. Well-connected and well-traveled, McAllister describes the habits, trends, and wealth of the upper classes of society. As the author testifies, it was a time of transformative, unprecedented extravagance through the emergence of new technology and new prosperity. The locations of the social gatherings which McAllister attended during this time aren’t limited to the USA, but encompass much of Europe as well.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592570Tue, 26 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Society As I Have Found It Author: Ward Mcallister Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 24 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Society As I Have Found It Author: Ward Mcallister Narrator: Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ward McAllister lived in the mid-to-late nineteenth-century USA. This audiobook encompasses his commentary on the parties held by the elite in the USA and Europe during that time. Well-connected and well-traveled, McAllister describes the habits, trends, and wealth of the upper classes of society. As the author testifies, it was a time of transformative, unprecedented extravagance through the emergence of new technology and new prosperity. The locations of the social gatherings which McAllister attended during this time aren’t limited to the USA, but encompass much of Europe as well.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sky-s-story-thrown-away-children-book-5-by-louise-allen--65185504https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sky's Story: Thrown Away Children Book 5 Series: #5 of Thrown Away Children Author: Louise Allen Narrator: Melanie Crawley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by unhinged parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer Louise's home, neglected, malnourished, and indoctrinated. Louise had to draw on all of her experience as one of Britain's leading foster carers to rehabilitate and change the course of their lives. But with constant attempts to thwart her work, Louise ends up under siege in her own home. Will she succeed or is their fate sealed forever?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600278Thu, 21 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sky's Story: Thrown Away Children Book 5 Series: #5 of Thrown Away Children Author: Louise Allen Narrator: Melanie Crawley Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600278 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sky's Story: Thrown Away Children Book 5 Series: #5 of Thrown Away Children Author: Louise Allen Narrator: Melanie Crawley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by unhinged parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer Louise's home, neglected, malnourished, and indoctrinated. Louise had to draw on all of her experience as one of Britain's leading foster carers to rehabilitate and change the course of their lives. But with constant attempts to thwart her work, Louise ends up under siege in her own home. Will she succeed or is their fate sealed forever?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/won-t-you-love-me-unloved-as-a-girl-abused-as-a-woman-the-true-story-of-ava-s-fight-for-survival-from-the-no-1-bestseller-for-fans-of--65185500https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Won't You Love Me?: Unloved as a girl, abused as a woman – the true story of Ava’s fight for survival, from the No.1 bestseller, for fans of Cathy Glass Author: Toni Maguire, Ava Thomas Narrator: Katy Sobey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From No.1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and survival. 'Whatever you do, don't go back to him, not this time. If not for your sake, then for your children's.' Ava Thomas knew leaving was the right decision. Trapped and manipulated in her relationship, and after yet another violent beating whilst she was pregnant, Ava was helped to a women's refuge with her children. Listening to the stories of other women there, Ava began thinking back to where it all started to go wrong. Brought up by a mother who never loved her, Ava sought that missing care and warmth elsewhere. Running away to her father's home as a teenager, she thought she might finally be safe. But after being abused by her own brother, she was thrown out onto the streets. Ava searched for the love she had been desperately missing her whole life, and ended up in a relationship controlled by domestic violence. Lifted by the strength of the other women around her, Ava found a new home, a fresh start and never looked back - with her loving children by her side. *In aid of the NSPCC: for each paperback book sold, Bonnier Books UK shall donate 2.5% of its net receipts to the NSPCC (registered charity numbers 216401 and SC037717).*]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597275Thu, 21 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Won't You Love Me?: Unloved as a girl, abused as a woman – the true story of Ava’s fight for survival, from the No.1 bestseller, for fans of Cathy...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Won't You Love Me?: Unloved as a girl, abused as a woman – the true story of Ava’s fight for survival, from the No.1 bestseller, for fans of Cathy Glass Author: Toni Maguire, Ava Thomas Narrator: Katy Sobey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From No.1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and survival. 'Whatever you do, don't go back to him, not this time. If not for your sake, then for your children's.' Ava Thomas knew leaving was the right decision. Trapped and manipulated in her relationship, and after yet another violent beating whilst she was pregnant, Ava was helped to a women's refuge with her children. Listening to the stories of other women there, Ava began thinking back to where it all started to go wrong. Brought up by a mother who never loved her, Ava sought that missing care and warmth elsewhere. Running away to her father's home as a teenager, she thought she might finally be safe. But after being abused by her own brother, she was thrown out onto the streets. Ava searched for the love she had been desperately missing her whole life, and ended up in a relationship controlled by domestic violence. Lifted by the strength of the other women around her, Ava found a new home, a fresh start and never looked back - with her loving children by her side. *In aid of the NSPCC: for each paperback book sold, Bonnier Books UK shall donate 2.5% of its net receipts to the NSPCC (registered charity numbers 216401 and SC037717).*]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-cosas-que-no-quiero-saber-by-deborah-levy--65185392https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cosas que no quiero saber Author: Deborah Levy Narrator: Conchi Ramírez De Haro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Premio Femina 2020 de novela extranjera: Cosasque no quiero saber y El coste de vivir, la «autobiografía en construcción» de Deborah Levy. Cosas queno quiero saber y El coste devivir forman la «autobiografía en construcción» de Deborah Levy,un relato de la feminidad como libertad y no como castigo, ambos galardonados con el Premio Femina 2020 de novela extranjera. Deborah Levy arranca estas memorias recordando la etapa de su vida en que rompía a llorar cuando subía unas escaleras mecánicas. Esemovimiento inocuo lallevaba a rincones de su memoria a los que no quería volver. Son esos recuerdos los que forman Cosas que no quiero saber, el inicio de su «autobiografía en construcción». Esta primera parte de lo que será un tríptico sobre la condición de ser mujer nace como respuesta al ensayo «Por qué escribo», de George Orwell. Sin embargo, Levy no viene a dar respuestas. Viene a abrir interrogantes que deja flotando en una atmósfera formada por toda la fuerza poética de su escritura. Su magia no es otra que la de las conexiones impredecibles de la memoria: el primermordisco a un albaricoque la traslada a la salida de sus hijos de la escuela, observando a las otras madres, «jóvenes convertidas en sombras de lo que habían sido»; el llanto de una mujer le devuelve la nieve cayendo sobre su padre en el Johannesburgo del apartheid, poco antes de ser encarcelado; el olor del curry la lleva a su adolescencia en Londres, escribiendo en servilletas de bares y soñando con una habitación propia. Leer a Levy es querer entrar en sus recuerdos y dejarse llevar por la calma y el aplomo de quien ha aprendido todo lo que sabe (y todo lo que no querría saber) a fuerza de buscar su propia voz. Reseñas: «Imprescindible. Leerla es como encontrar un oasis.» The Guardian «El punto fuerte de Levy es su originalidad de pensamiento y expresión.» Jeanette Winterson «Una narración vivaz y brillante sobre cómo los detalles más inocentes de la vida personal de una escritora pueden alcanzar el poder en la ficción.» The New York Times Book Review «Un relato vívido y sorprendente de la vida de la escritora, que feminiza y personaliza las contundentes a afirmaciones de Orwell.» The Spectator «Levy es una escritora hábil y crea un despliegue de emociones intensas en una prosa precisa y controlada.» The Independent «Unaversión actualizada de Una habitación propia [...]. Sospecho que será citado durante muchos años.» The Irish Examiner]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605513Thu, 21 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cosas que no quiero saber Author: Deborah Levy Narrator: Conchi Ramírez De Haro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cosas que no quiero saber Author: Deborah Levy Narrator: Conchi Ramírez De Haro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Premio Femina 2020 de novela extranjera: Cosasque no quiero saber y El coste de vivir, la «autobiografía en construcción» de Deborah Levy. Cosas queno quiero saber y El coste devivir forman la «autobiografía en construcción» de Deborah Levy,un relato de la feminidad como libertad y no como castigo, ambos galardonados con el Premio Femina 2020 de novela extranjera. Deborah Levy arranca estas memorias recordando la etapa de su vida en que rompía a llorar cuando subía unas escaleras mecánicas. Esemovimiento inocuo lallevaba a rincones de su memoria a los que no quería volver. Son esos recuerdos los que forman Cosas que no quiero saber, el inicio de su «autobiografía en construcción». Esta primera parte de lo que será un tríptico sobre la condición de ser mujer nace como respuesta al ensayo «Por qué escribo», de George Orwell. Sin embargo, Levy no viene a dar respuestas. Viene a abrir interrogantes que deja flotando en una atmósfera formada por toda la fuerza poética de su escritura. Su magia no es otra que la de las conexiones impredecibles de la memoria: el primermordisco a un albaricoque la traslada a la salida de sus hijos de la escuela, observando a las otras madres, «jóvenes convertidas en sombras de lo que habían sido»; el llanto de una mujer le devuelve la nieve cayendo sobre su padre en el Johannesburgo del apartheid, poco antes de ser encarcelado; el olor del curry la lleva a su adolescencia en Londres, escribiendo en servilletas de bares y soñando con una habitación propia. Leer a Levy es querer entrar en sus recuerdos y dejarse llevar por la calma y el aplomo de quien ha aprendido todo lo que sabe (y todo lo que no querría saber) a fuerza de buscar su propia voz. Reseñas: «Imprescindible. Leerla es como encontrar un oasis.» The Guardian «El punto fuerte de Levy es su originalidad de pensamiento y expresión.» Jeanette Winterson «Una narración vivaz y brillante sobre cómo los detalles más inocentes de la vida personal de una escritora pueden alcanzar el poder en la ficción.» The New York Times Book Review «Un relato vívido y sorprendente de la vida de la escritora, que feminiza y personaliza las contundentes a afirmaciones de Orwell.» The Spectator «Levy es una escritora hábil y crea un despliegue de emociones intensas en una prosa precisa y controlada.» The Independent «Unaversión actualizada de Una habitación propia [...]. Sospecho que será citado durante muchos años.» The Irish Examiner]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-the-name-of-the-lord-a-nun-s-tell-all-by-nandakumar-k-sister-lucy-kalapura--65185423https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Name of the Lord: A Nun's Tell-All Author: Nandakumar K., Sister Lucy Kalapura Narrator: Suma Lerin Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: July 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A bestseller in Malayalam when it was first published in 2019 as Karthavinte Namathil, In the Name of the Lord is a harrowing account of Sister Lucy Kalapura's life as a nun and her spirited fight for justice. Cast out for writing a poem, for owning a car, for talking about the sexual harassment that nuns face in the Church, Sr Lucy reveals what it was like for her to join a nunnery hoping to lead a life of faith and service but to instead be confronted with unexpected and bone-chilling realities. She presents an unsettling narrative about nuns who have no choice but to surrender to the lechery of their male counterparts, as well as about issues such as corruption within the Church, the distorted faces of authority, the partisanship of the state, and the much-talked-about recent sexual assault case involving the Bishop of Jalandhar. At a time when women continue to hesitate to report the sexual misconduct they face at home, at their workplaces and in society, this no-holds-barred memoir of a nun who has taken on the all-powerful Catholic Church by herself will inspire many to speak up for themselves as well as to think about how India treats its women.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601409Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Name of the Lord: A Nun's Tell-All Author: Nandakumar K., Sister Lucy Kalapura Narrator: Suma Lerin Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In the Name of the Lord: A Nun's Tell-All Author: Nandakumar K., Sister Lucy Kalapura Narrator: Suma Lerin Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 57 minutes Release date: July 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A bestseller in Malayalam when it was first published in 2019 as Karthavinte Namathil, In the Name of the Lord is a harrowing account of Sister Lucy Kalapura's life as a nun and her spirited fight for justice. Cast out for writing a poem, for owning a car, for talking about the sexual harassment that nuns face in the Church, Sr Lucy reveals what it was like for her to join a nunnery hoping to lead a life of faith and service but to instead be confronted with unexpected and bone-chilling realities. She presents an unsettling narrative about nuns who have no choice but to surrender to the lechery of their male counterparts, as well as about issues such as corruption within the Church, the distorted faces of authority, the partisanship of the state, and the much-talked-about recent sexual assault case involving the Bishop of Jalandhar. At a time when women continue to hesitate to report the sexual misconduct they face at home, at their workplaces and in society, this no-holds-barred memoir of a nun who has taken on the all-powerful Catholic Church by herself will inspire many to speak up for themselves as well as to think about how India treats its women.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-le-nom-perdu-der-verlorene-name-by-gregor-hoppner--65185397https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604164 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Le nom perdu: Der verlorene Name Author: Gregor Höppner Narrator: Gregor Höppner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: July 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Vier Jahrzehnte nach ihrem Tod findet Gregor Höppner im Tagebuch seiner Mutter den Namen eines französischen Kriegsgefangenen. Er stößt auf die Geschichte der großen, geheimen Liebe einer selbstbewussten, jungen Frau während des Zweiten Weltkriegs voller ungestillter Sehnsüchte und unerfüllten Hoffnungen. Mit einem Freund begibt er sich auf die Suche nach dem verlorenen Namen und der Geschichte seiner Mutter aus einem früheren Leben. 'Nur mit Mühe und Not redete ich ihm aus mich mitzunehmen! Stieg dann hinter Braunschweig des Morgens um 4 Uhr auf freier Strecke aus dem Güterzug, um meinen Weg allein weiterzugehen. Nichts hatte er behalten bis auf ein halbes Brot, alles musste ich mitnehmen. Nie vergesse ich den Augenblick, als sich der lange Zug in Bewegung setzte und er weiß, schneeweiß im Gesicht in der Tür stand und weinte und dann mußte ich gehen, den schwersten Weg meines Lebens allein, verlassen, betrogen und belogen.' Luzies Tagebuch 1948]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604164Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604164 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Le nom perdu: Der verlorene Name Author: Gregor Höppner Narrator: Gregor Höppner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604164 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Le nom perdu: Der verlorene Name Author: Gregor Höppner Narrator: Gregor Höppner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: July 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Vier Jahrzehnte nach ihrem Tod findet Gregor Höppner im Tagebuch seiner Mutter den Namen eines französischen Kriegsgefangenen. Er stößt auf die Geschichte der großen, geheimen Liebe einer selbstbewussten, jungen Frau während des Zweiten Weltkriegs voller ungestillter Sehnsüchte und unerfüllten Hoffnungen. Mit einem Freund begibt er sich auf die Suche nach dem verlorenen Namen und der Geschichte seiner Mutter aus einem früheren Leben. 'Nur mit Mühe und Not redete ich ihm aus mich mitzunehmen! Stieg dann hinter Braunschweig des Morgens um 4 Uhr auf freier Strecke aus dem Güterzug, um meinen Weg allein weiterzugehen. Nichts hatte er behalten bis auf ein halbes Brot, alles musste ich mitnehmen. Nie vergesse ich den Augenblick, als sich der lange Zug in Bewegung setzte und er weiß, schneeweiß im Gesicht in der Tür stand und weinte und dann mußte ich gehen, den schwersten Weg meines Lebens allein, verlassen, betrogen und belogen.' Luzies Tagebuch 1948]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-chianti-zum-fruhstuck-wie-ich-aufhorte-zu-trinken-und-anfing-zu-leben-by-clare-pooley--65185359https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Chianti zum Frühstück: Wie ich aufhörte zu trinken und anfing zu leben Author: Clare Pooley Narrator: Heidi Jürgens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: July 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Mittags ein Gläschen mit der Freundin, abends mit dem Partner. Immer mehr Alkohol, um endlich loszulassen vom Stress durch Job und Kinder. Doch die Abstürze häufen sich. Nach einem besonders heftigen Wochenende packt Clare Pooley den Wein in den Schrank, kauft Kisten von alkoholfreiem Bier – und kämpft.Mutig und offen lässt sie ihre Hörer_innen teilhaben an den ersten 365 Tagen ohne den Stoff, nach dem sie süchtig ist. Sie erzählt vom Auf und Ab ihrer Gefühle, vom Staunen ihrer Freunde über die neue Clare. Am Ende des Jahres lebt sie ein Leben, das sie sich nie hätte träumen lassen.Eingestreut in Clares herrlich ehrlichen Erfahrungsbericht ist viel praktischer Rat: Woher weiß ich, dass ich zu viel trinke? Wie überstehe ich Partys und Weihnachten? Was richtet der Alkohol in meinem Körper an? Clare Pooleys Humor, ihre positive Haltung und ihre ganz direkte Art machen dieses Werk zum absoluten Hörvergnügen mit ernstem Hintergrund.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610941Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Chianti zum Frühstück: Wie ich aufhörte zu trinken und anfing zu leben Author: Clare Pooley Narrator: Heidi Jürgens Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Chianti zum Frühstück: Wie ich aufhörte zu trinken und anfing zu leben Author: Clare Pooley Narrator: Heidi Jürgens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: July 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Mittags ein Gläschen mit der Freundin, abends mit dem Partner. Immer mehr Alkohol, um endlich loszulassen vom Stress durch Job und Kinder. Doch die Abstürze häufen sich. Nach einem besonders heftigen Wochenende packt Clare Pooley den Wein in den Schrank, kauft Kisten von alkoholfreiem Bier – und kämpft.Mutig und offen lässt sie ihre Hörer_innen teilhaben an den ersten 365 Tagen ohne den Stoff, nach dem sie süchtig ist. Sie erzählt vom Auf und Ab ihrer Gefühle, vom Staunen ihrer Freunde über die neue Clare. Am Ende des Jahres lebt sie ein Leben, das sie sich nie hätte träumen lassen.Eingestreut in Clares herrlich ehrlichen Erfahrungsbericht ist viel praktischer Rat: Woher weiß ich, dass ich zu viel trinke? Wie überstehe ich Partys und Weihnachten? Was richtet der Alkohol in meinem Körper an? Clare Pooleys Humor, ihre positive Haltung und ihre ganz direkte Art machen dieses Werk zum absoluten Hörvergnügen mit ernstem Hintergrund.-]]>305ck,hstcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-of-the-mind-interrupted-essays-on-mental-health-and-disability-in-higher-education-by-katie-rose-guest-pryal--65185586https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education Author: Katie Rose Guest Pryal Narrator: Erica Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 19, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Early in her career, Katie Pryal learned that being a professor isn’t easy if your brain isn’t quite right. “I was a junior in college when I finally realized that I was different in a way that my medically inclined parents would call ‘clinical.’” In these deeply personal, fiery essays, Pryal tells her story of transformation that began the moment she chose to publicly disclose her own mental illness and leave her career in higher education to begin fighting for a better world for people with psychiatric disabilities. The stories she tells are universal: the fear of stigma, the fight for accommodations, and the raw reality of living with mental illness in a world that pushes mental health to the margins. People carelessly call each other “schizo” and “bipolar.” A colleague is fired for “instability.” Pryal learned that, as a psychiatrically disabled person working in higher education, her very livelihood could be stripped away by the groundless suspicions of others. But the problem persists beyond academia. With candor and grace, these essays discuss the disclosure of disabilities, accommodations and accessibility, how to be a good abled friend to a disabled person, the trigger warnings debate, and more. While harrowing at times, Pryal’s story is ultimately one of hope. With this memoir, she aims to make higher education—and all of our society—more humane.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590923Tue, 19 Jul 2022 06:02:10 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education Author: Katie Rose Guest Pryal Narrator: Erica Sullivan...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education Author: Katie Rose Guest Pryal Narrator: Erica Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 42 minutes Release date: July 19, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Early in her career, Katie Pryal learned that being a professor isn’t easy if your brain isn’t quite right. “I was a junior in college when I finally realized that I was different in a way that my medically inclined parents would call ‘clinical.’” In these deeply personal, fiery essays, Pryal tells her story of transformation that began the moment she chose to publicly disclose her own mental illness and leave her career in higher education to begin fighting for a better world for people with psychiatric disabilities. The stories she tells are universal: the fear of stigma, the fight for accommodations, and the raw reality of living with mental illness in a world that pushes mental health to the margins. People carelessly call each other “schizo” and “bipolar.” A colleague is fired for “instability.” Pryal learned that, as a psychiatrically disabled person working in higher education, her very livelihood could be stripped away by the groundless suspicions of others. But the problem persists beyond academia. With candor and grace, these essays discuss the disclosure of disabilities, accommodations and accessibility, how to be a good abled friend to a disabled person, the trigger warnings debate, and more. While harrowing at times, Pryal’s story is ultimately one of hope. With this memoir, she aims to make higher education—and all of our society—more humane.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-monk-of-park-avenue-a-modern-daoist-odyssey-by-yun-rou--65185554https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Monk of Park Avenue: A Modern Daoist Odyssey Author: Yun Rou Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A literary memoir like no other, Monk of Park Avenue recounts novelist and martial master Monk Yon Rou's spiritual journey of self-discovery. A spiritual journey with extraordinary encounters. Yon Rou's memoir is a kaleidoscopic ride through the upper echelons of New York Society and the nature-worshipping, sword-wielding world of East Asian religious and martial arts. Monk of Park Avenue divulges a privileged childhood in Manhattan, followed by the bitter rigors of kung fu in China and meditations in Daoist temples. Join Yon Rou's adventure as he encounters kings, Nobel laureates, and the Mob. Meet celebrities along the way. A story of love, loss, persistence, triumph, and mastery, The Monk of Park Avenue is peopled with the likes of Milos Forman, Richard Holbrooke, Paul McCartney, Warren Beatty, and now-infamous opioid purveyors, the Sackler Family. Yun Rou's memoir is no mere celebrity tell-all, but a novelist and martial master's path to self-discovery. The Monk of Park Avenue offers you: ● Paths for personal and spiritual growth ● Anecdotal stories of self-discovery and insights into how to live ● An eloquent, candid exploration of spiritual transformation]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597392Tue, 19 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Monk of Park Avenue: A Modern Daoist Odyssey Author: Yun Rou Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Monk of Park Avenue: A Modern Daoist Odyssey Author: Yun Rou Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A literary memoir like no other, Monk of Park Avenue recounts novelist and martial master Monk Yon Rou's spiritual journey of self-discovery. A spiritual journey with extraordinary encounters. Yon Rou's memoir is a kaleidoscopic ride through the upper echelons of New York Society and the nature-worshipping, sword-wielding world of East Asian religious and martial arts. Monk of Park Avenue divulges a privileged childhood in Manhattan, followed by the bitter rigors of kung fu in China and meditations in Daoist temples. Join Yon Rou's adventure as he encounters kings, Nobel laureates, and the Mob. Meet celebrities along the way. A story of love, loss, persistence, triumph, and mastery, The Monk of Park Avenue is peopled with the likes of Milos Forman, Richard Holbrooke, Paul McCartney, Warren Beatty, and now-infamous opioid purveyors, the Sackler Family. Yun Rou's memoir is no mere celebrity tell-all, but a novelist and martial master's path to self-discovery. The Monk of Park Avenue offers you: ● Paths for personal and spiritual growth ● Anecdotal stories of self-discovery and insights into how to live ● An eloquent, candid exploration of spiritual transformation]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-trans-parent-wie-eine-normvariante-der-natur-ihren-weg-findet-by-christin-lohner--65185529https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - trans(*)parent: Wie eine Normvariante der Natur ihren Weg findet Author: Christin Löhner Narrator: Christin Löhner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Christin ist - nun ja, Christin ist eben Christin. Christin ist eine ganz normale Frau und Christin möchte Dir hier erzählen, wieso das eigentlich gar nicht so normal ist und wie es dazu gekommen ist, das Christin Christin wurde. Verwirrend? Ja, das war es viele Jahre lang für mich auch. Ich war nicht immer Christin, so viel müsstest Du inzwischen schon verstanden haben. Und doch ist mein heutiger, offizieller und rechtsgültiger Name Christin. Nach vielen anderen Vornamen, die ich ausprobiert hatte und die mir nach kürzester Zeit nicht mehr gefielen, habe ich mich für diesen entschieden. Und da es ja irgendwie trendy ist, auch noch einen zweiten Vornamen zu haben, entschied ich mich dann noch für Sophie. Ich bin transsexuell, eine transsexuelle Frau, oder - für mich - eben einfach eine ganz normale Frau. Ich möchte Dir schonungslos, aber auch gefühlvoll und möglichst detailliert erzählen, wie mein Leben als transsexuelle Frau bisher so war und auch in Zukunft weitergehen wird. Es werden viele Geschichten aus meiner Kindheit, Gefühle, Gedanken, schöne Geschichten, traurige Geschichten, aber natürlich auch viele Probleme erzählt und ich werde versuchen, so wenig wie möglich zu vergessen und so viele Erinnerungen wie möglich einzubauen. Dies ist eine Autobiographie über mein Leben und meinen Weg als transsexuelle Frau und sie soll Dir anhand meines Beispiels zeigen, wie solch ein Leben aussehen kann und wie man Hürden und Probleme überwindet. Ich hoffe sehr, das ich mit diesem Buch das Verständnis und die Akzeptanz und auch Toleranz in der Gesellschaft steigern kann und neben den immer häufiger werdenden Medienberichten soll es dazu beitragen, dieses Thema in die Welt hinaus zu tragen und verständlich zu machen. Es ist zwar schön und positiv, dass das Thema inzwischen immer öfter medial aufgegriffen wird, wir können trotzdem nicht genug dafür tun, um es noch mehr an die Öffentlichkeit zu bringen und so die Akzeptanz, die Toleranz und vor allem überhaupt auch das Wissen um uns in der Gesellschaft zu schüren. Viel zu oft werden transsexuelle Personen nach wie vor als Psychopathen, als kranke oder gar perverse Menschen hingestellt, diskriminiert, geschlagen und auch erschlagen. Dies alles möchte ich mit meinem Buch und auch mit meiner sonstigen Arbeit im sozialen Bereich diese Themen betreffend, ändern und dafür setze ich mich ein.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600083Thu, 14 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - trans(*)parent: Wie eine Normvariante der Natur ihren Weg findet Author: Christin Löhner Narrator: Christin Löhner Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - trans(*)parent: Wie eine Normvariante der Natur ihren Weg findet Author: Christin Löhner Narrator: Christin Löhner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Christin ist - nun ja, Christin ist eben Christin. Christin ist eine ganz normale Frau und Christin möchte Dir hier erzählen, wieso das eigentlich gar nicht so normal ist und wie es dazu gekommen ist, das Christin Christin wurde. Verwirrend? Ja, das war es viele Jahre lang für mich auch. Ich war nicht immer Christin, so viel müsstest Du inzwischen schon verstanden haben. Und doch ist mein heutiger, offizieller und rechtsgültiger Name Christin. Nach vielen anderen Vornamen, die ich ausprobiert hatte und die mir nach kürzester Zeit nicht mehr gefielen, habe ich mich für diesen entschieden. Und da es ja irgendwie trendy ist, auch noch einen zweiten Vornamen zu haben, entschied ich mich dann noch für Sophie. Ich bin transsexuell, eine transsexuelle Frau, oder - für mich - eben einfach eine ganz normale Frau. Ich möchte Dir schonungslos, aber auch gefühlvoll und möglichst detailliert erzählen, wie mein Leben als transsexuelle Frau bisher so war und auch in Zukunft weitergehen wird. Es werden viele Geschichten aus meiner Kindheit, Gefühle, Gedanken, schöne Geschichten, traurige Geschichten, aber natürlich auch viele Probleme erzählt und ich werde versuchen, so wenig wie möglich zu vergessen und so viele Erinnerungen wie möglich einzubauen. Dies ist eine Autobiographie über mein Leben und meinen Weg als transsexuelle Frau und sie soll Dir anhand meines Beispiels zeigen, wie solch ein Leben aussehen kann und wie man Hürden und Probleme überwindet. Ich hoffe sehr, das ich mit diesem Buch das Verständnis und die Akzeptanz und auch Toleranz in der Gesellschaft steigern kann und neben den immer häufiger werdenden Medienberichten soll es dazu beitragen, dieses Thema in die Welt hinaus zu tragen und verständlich zu machen. Es ist zwar schön und positiv, dass das Thema inzwischen immer öfter medial aufgegriffen wird, wir können trotzdem nicht genug dafür tun, um es noch mehr an die Öffentlichkeit zu bringen und so die Akzeptanz, die Toleranz und vor allem überhaupt auch das Wissen um uns in der Gesellschaft zu schüren. Viel zu oft werden transsexuelle Personen nach wie vor als Psychopathen, als kranke oder gar perverse Menschen hingestellt, diskriminiert, geschlagen und auch erschlagen. Dies alles möchte ich mit meinem Buch und auch mit meiner sonstigen Arbeit im sozialen Bereich diese Themen betreffend, ändern und dafür setze ich mich ein.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-new-ringer-by-roland-breckwoldt--65185487https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The New Ringer Author: Roland Breckwoldt Narrator: Tim Carroll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A shy young man from the suburban outskirts takes himself to Gulf Country on a 1960s boys own adventure that changes his life forever. 'We can give you a start. You will need a six foot by four foot piece of canvas and blanket. If you stay for three months we will refund your fare. You will need to fly TAA out of Cloncurry and advise me your date of arrival.' And so began the adventures and misadventures of young Roland Breckwoldt. It was 1960. He was not yet sixteen, and the unworldly Roland was leaving his home on the semi-agricultural fringes of Sydney to work as a stockman on the vast cattle stations of the Gulf Country of North Queensland. A more unlikely stockman you would not find. Born in an internment camp in Central Victoria, his family had come to Australia from Germany via Shanghai. But it was out mustering on horseback and living in remote bush camps with characters as eccentric as any in outback Australia that Roland learnt about the world and discovered his place in it. Full of youthful stumbles and told with great freshness and gentle humour, this beautifully written coming of age story is a nostalgic and evocative reminder of a disappearing way of life. 'A beautifully written - yet stunningly different - memoir of a young misfit. Absolutely loved it.' RAY MARTIN]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600431Thu, 14 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The New Ringer Author: Roland Breckwoldt Narrator: Tim Carroll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The New Ringer Author: Roland Breckwoldt Narrator: Tim Carroll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A shy young man from the suburban outskirts takes himself to Gulf Country on a 1960s boys own adventure that changes his life forever. 'We can give you a start. You will need a six foot by four foot piece of canvas and blanket. If you stay for three months we will refund your fare. You will need to fly TAA out of Cloncurry and advise me your date of arrival.' And so began the adventures and misadventures of young Roland Breckwoldt. It was 1960. He was not yet sixteen, and the unworldly Roland was leaving his home on the semi-agricultural fringes of Sydney to work as a stockman on the vast cattle stations of the Gulf Country of North Queensland. A more unlikely stockman you would not find. Born in an internment camp in Central Victoria, his family had come to Australia from Germany via Shanghai. But it was out mustering on horseback and living in remote bush camps with characters as eccentric as any in outback Australia that Roland learnt about the world and discovered his place in it. Full of youthful stumbles and told with great freshness and gentle humour, this beautifully written coming of age story is a nostalgic and evocative reminder of a disappearing way of life. 'A beautifully written - yet stunningly different - memoir of a young misfit. Absolutely loved it.' RAY MARTIN]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-very-strange-man-a-memoir-of-aidan-higgins-by-alannah-hopkin--65185336https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Very Strange Man: a Memoir of Aidan Higgins Author: Alannah Hopkin Narrator: Aoife Mcmahon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a literary stylist, often cited as the heir to Ireland’s great Modernist tradition. They wrote steadily during their twenty-nine years together, but their careers could not have been more different: while Aidan focused on fiction and memoirs, Alannah prioritised work that paid the bills. This gave Aidan the most stable and productive years of his life. But as his eyesight failed and his memory began to fade, Alannah became his carer and had to fight to keep her own writing career alive. Drawing from diaries and notebooks, and correspondence with writers such as Samuel Beckett, Alice Munro and Harold Pinter, this is a unique record of a major Irish writer. From the joyful honeymoon years – filled with launches, festivals and visits to their Kinsale home by Richard Ford, Edna O’Brien and other literary legends – to the increasingly difficult years of Aidan’s decline, Hopkin tells their story candidly and without commentary. She shows us how, in spite of all, they remained the best of friends, in love until Aidan’s very last breath. A Very Strange Man is an exceptional piece of writing, objective and authoritative, personal, honest and moving. - Allannah Hopkin is based in southwest Ireland. She is The 2020 Frank O’Connor International Fellow. Her story collection 'The Dogs of Inishere' was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2017. Her stories have appeared in the London Magazine and The Cork Literary Review, among others, and have been short-listed for the RTÉ Short Story Award. She has published two novels with Hamish Hamilton.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611916Thu, 14 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Very Strange Man: a Memoir of Aidan Higgins Author: Alannah Hopkin Narrator: Aoife Mcmahon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Very Strange Man: a Memoir of Aidan Higgins Author: Alannah Hopkin Narrator: Aoife Mcmahon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a literary stylist, often cited as the heir to Ireland’s great Modernist tradition. They wrote steadily during their twenty-nine years together, but their careers could not have been more different: while Aidan focused on fiction and memoirs, Alannah prioritised work that paid the bills. This gave Aidan the most stable and productive years of his life. But as his eyesight failed and his memory began to fade, Alannah became his carer and had to fight to keep her own writing career alive. Drawing from diaries and notebooks, and correspondence with writers such as Samuel Beckett, Alice Munro and Harold Pinter, this is a unique record of a major Irish writer. From the joyful honeymoon years – filled with launches, festivals and visits to their Kinsale home by Richard Ford, Edna O’Brien and other literary legends – to the increasingly difficult years of Aidan’s decline, Hopkin tells their story candidly and without commentary. She shows us how, in spite of all, they remained the best of friends, in love until Aidan’s very last breath. A Very Strange Man is an exceptional piece of writing, objective and authoritative, personal, honest and moving. - Allannah Hopkin is based in southwest Ireland. She is The 2020 Frank O’Connor International Fellow. Her story collection 'The Dogs of Inishere' was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2017. Her stories have appeared in the London Magazine and The Cork Literary Review, among others, and have been short-listed for the RTÉ Short Story Award. She has published two novels with Hamish Hamilton.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/italian-ti-presento-francesca-by-loretta-candelaresi--65185318https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Italian] - Ti Presento Francesca Author: Loretta Candelaresi Narrator: Francesca Di Natali Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Il suo motto personale: "Nella vita bisogna sempre credere in se stessi, non mollare davanti alle difficoltà, non cambiare né per amici né per conoscenti, altrimenti che amici sono!!!! Vivi la vita con serenità e pensa Ke ogni giorno sarà meglio di quello passato. Vivi il giorno successivo pensando a ciò ke + ti piace!!! ..... E ricorda tu 6 tu e nessun altro". L'amicizia come elemento universale trasversale che attraversa i confini, le generazioni, le difficoltà, il dolore. L'amicizia come unico rimedio e linguaggio senza confini, accettato da tutti, perché insieme all'amore rappresenta l'unico balsamo che risana la persona umana. La vita di una giovane donna, coraggiosa, mette in risalto questo immenso valore.Il suo motto personale: "Nella vita bisogna sempre credere in se stessi, non mollare davanti alle difficoltà, non cambiare né per amici né per conoscenti, altrimenti che amici sono!!!! Vivi la vita con serenità e pensa Ke ogni giorno sarà meglio di quello passato. Vivi il giorno successivo pensando a ciò ke + ti piace!!! ..... E ricorda tu 6 tu e nessun altro". L'amicizia come elemento universale trasversale che attraversa i confini, le generazioni, le difficoltà, il dolore. L'amicizia come unico rimedio e linguaggio senza confini, accettato da tutti, perché insieme all'amore rappresenta l'unico balsamo che risana la persona umana. La vita di una giovane donna, coraggiosa, mette in risalto questo immenso valore. Una storia che ci fa palpitare il cuore, che ci fa riflettere e interrogare; che ci invita ad esplorare la profondità dell'animo e che ci meraviglia continuamente. Attraverso una serie di avvenimenti si snoda il racconto della nostra protagonista che comunque ci lascia la sua eredità di eroina romantica. Lei inarrestabile, diretta come un gancio destro, dissacrante, vivace, vera, libera, sincera sempre e ad ogni costo, coerente, forte e dignitosa. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612806Thu, 14 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Italian] - Ti Presento Francesca Author: Loretta Candelaresi Narrator: Francesca Di Natali Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Italian] - Ti Presento Francesca Author: Loretta Candelaresi Narrator: Francesca Di Natali Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Il suo motto personale: "Nella vita bisogna sempre credere in se stessi, non mollare davanti alle difficoltà, non cambiare né per amici né per conoscenti, altrimenti che amici sono!!!! Vivi la vita con serenità e pensa Ke ogni giorno sarà meglio di quello passato. Vivi il giorno successivo pensando a ciò ke + ti piace!!! ..... E ricorda tu 6 tu e nessun altro". L'amicizia come elemento universale trasversale che attraversa i confini, le generazioni, le difficoltà, il dolore. L'amicizia come unico rimedio e linguaggio senza confini, accettato da tutti, perché insieme all'amore rappresenta l'unico balsamo che risana la persona umana. La vita di una giovane donna, coraggiosa, mette in risalto questo immenso valore.Il suo motto personale: "Nella vita bisogna sempre credere in se stessi, non mollare davanti alle difficoltà, non cambiare né per amici né per conoscenti, altrimenti che amici sono!!!! Vivi la vita con serenità e pensa Ke ogni giorno sarà meglio di quello passato. Vivi il giorno successivo pensando a ciò ke + ti piace!!! ..... E ricorda tu 6 tu e nessun altro". L'amicizia come elemento universale trasversale che attraversa i confini, le generazioni, le difficoltà, il dolore. L'amicizia come unico rimedio e linguaggio senza confini, accettato da tutti, perché insieme all'amore rappresenta l'unico balsamo che risana la persona umana. La vita di una giovane donna, coraggiosa, mette in risalto questo immenso valore. Una storia che ci fa palpitare il cuore, che ci fa riflettere e interrogare; che ci invita ad esplorare la profondità dell'animo e che ci meraviglia continuamente. Attraverso una serie di avvenimenti si snoda il racconto della nostra protagonista che comunque ci lascia la sua eredità di eroina romantica. Lei inarrestabile, diretta come un gancio destro, dissacrante, vivace, vera, libera, sincera sempre e ad ogni costo, coerente, forte e dignitosa. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/on-our-way-home-from-the-revolution-reflections-on-ukraine-by-sonya-bilocerkowycz--65185580https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine Author: Sonya Bilocerkowycz Narrator: Sonya Bilocerkowycz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 2014 Sonya Bilocerkowycz is a tourist at a deadly revolution. At first she is enamored with the Ukrainians' idealism, which reminds her of her own patriotic family. But when the romantic revolution melts into a war with Russia, she becomes disillusioned, prompting a return home to the US and the diaspora community that raised her. As the daughter of a man who studies Ukrainian dissidents for a living, the granddaughter of war refugees, and the great-granddaughter of a gulag victim, Bilocerkowycz has inherited a legacy of political oppression. But what does it mean when she discovers a missing page from her family's survival story—one that raises questions about her own guilt? In these linked essays, Bilocerkowycz invites listeners to meet a swirling cast of post-Soviet characters, including a Russian intelligence officer who finds Osama bin Laden a few weeks after 9/11; a Ukrainian poet whose nose gets broken by Russian separatists; and a long-lost relative who drives a bus into the heart of Chernobyl. On Our Way Home from the Revolution muddles our easy distinctions between innocence and culpability, agency and fate.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592755Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine Author: Sonya Bilocerkowycz Narrator: Sonya Bilocerkowycz Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine Author: Sonya Bilocerkowycz Narrator: Sonya Bilocerkowycz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 2014 Sonya Bilocerkowycz is a tourist at a deadly revolution. At first she is enamored with the Ukrainians' idealism, which reminds her of her own patriotic family. But when the romantic revolution melts into a war with Russia, she becomes disillusioned, prompting a return home to the US and the diaspora community that raised her. As the daughter of a man who studies Ukrainian dissidents for a living, the granddaughter of war refugees, and the great-granddaughter of a gulag victim, Bilocerkowycz has inherited a legacy of political oppression. But what does it mean when she discovers a missing page from her family's survival story—one that raises questions about her own guilt? In these linked essays, Bilocerkowycz invites listeners to meet a swirling cast of post-Soviet characters, including a Russian intelligence officer who finds Osama bin Laden a few weeks after 9/11; a Ukrainian poet whose nose gets broken by Russian separatists; and a long-lost relative who drives a bus into the heart of Chernobyl. On Our Way Home from the Revolution muddles our easy distinctions between innocence and culpability, agency and fate.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-woman-s-battles-and-transformations-by-edouard-louis--65185517https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman’s Battles and Transformations Author: Édouard Louis Narrator: Joseph Kloska Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 32 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Everything started with a photo. To see her free, hurtling fulsomely towards the future, made me think back to the life she shared with my father. Seeing the photo reminded me that those twenty years of devastation were not anything natural but were the result of external forces - society, masculinity, my father - and that things could have been otherwise. One day, Édouard Louis finds a photograph of his mother from twenty years ago. A picture of a happy young woman, full of hopes and dreams. Growing up, Édouard only knew his mother's sadness, as she found herself trapped in the humdrum life of a housewife, and her struggles against the dominant world of men. What happened in those years since the photo was taken? Then, at the age of forty-five, his mother frees herself from this oppression. She leaves her husband and her old life behind, to start a new one in Paris. A Woman's Battles and Transformations is Édouard Louis's most tender book yet. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives, with politics and power - and with the possibility of escape. It is an exquisite and loving portrait of a mother, and an honouring of her self-discovery and liberation as she chooses to live on her own terms. Translated from the French by Tash Aw 'Édouard Louis is one of the most important literary voices of his generation' Guardian © Édouard Louis 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596447Thu, 07 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman’s Battles and Transformations Author: Édouard Louis Narrator: Joseph Kloska Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 32 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman’s Battles and Transformations Author: Édouard Louis Narrator: Joseph Kloska Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 32 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Everything started with a photo. To see her free, hurtling fulsomely towards the future, made me think back to the life she shared with my father. Seeing the photo reminded me that those twenty years of devastation were not anything natural but were the result of external forces - society, masculinity, my father - and that things could have been otherwise. One day, Édouard Louis finds a photograph of his mother from twenty years ago. A picture of a happy young woman, full of hopes and dreams. Growing up, Édouard only knew his mother's sadness, as she found herself trapped in the humdrum life of a housewife, and her struggles against the dominant world of men. What happened in those years since the photo was taken? Then, at the age of forty-five, his mother frees herself from this oppression. She leaves her husband and her old life behind, to start a new one in Paris. A Woman's Battles and Transformations is Édouard Louis's most tender book yet. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives, with politics and power - and with the possibility of escape. It is an exquisite and loving portrait of a mother, and an honouring of her self-discovery and liberation as she chooses to live on her own terms. Translated from the French by Tash Aw 'Édouard Louis is one of the most important literary voices of his generation' Guardian © Édouard Louis 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-girl-worth-more-the-courageous-story-of-an-ordinary-middle-class-girl-trafficked-into-a-sex-slave-ring-by-joanne-phillips-shannon-kyle--65185516https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600289 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Girl Worth More: The courageous story of an ordinary middle class girl trafficked into a sex slave ring Author: Joanne Phillips, Shannon Kyle Narrator: Aoife Mcmahon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Joanne Phillips' ordeal began aged 13 when she was gang-raped in her bedroom by local boys. Following the trauma, she dropped out of school, was befriended by an older man and was forced into prostitution aged 16. Over the next six years, she was raped by over 500 men, starved, beaten, and transported around the country to brothels. Forced to have sex with men from all walks of life including lawyers, stockbrokers, doctors, a parish councillor, Joanne was even made to have sex with her former school headteacher – who didn't recognise her. Every attempt to flee failed. Police warned her mother and stepdad she had chosen the lifestyle and even threatened to charge her parents with living off immoral earnings if they allowed her to move back. Escape seemed impossible, until one day she couldn't take any more. Just before her 21st birthday, Joanne eventually escaped her enslavement. After being left alone briefly in a London flat, where she was expected to work, she took a chance after finding a bag of money and a handgun. Fearing for her life, she fled into the night with nothing but a plastic bag of cash. After catching a train to Northern Ireland, she found her real dad and hid at his home from her pimp. Desperate to readjust to normal life, she found a job and went on to study at university. But when she tried to explain to a new boyfriend about her past, he didn't believe any of it was true, so she vowed to keep the abuse a secret – until years later, a conversation with one of her own teenage daughters changed her life...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600289Thu, 07 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600289 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Girl Worth More: The courageous story of an ordinary middle class girl trafficked into a sex slave ring Author: Joanne Phillips, Shannon Kyle...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600289 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Girl Worth More: The courageous story of an ordinary middle class girl trafficked into a sex slave ring Author: Joanne Phillips, Shannon Kyle Narrator: Aoife Mcmahon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Joanne Phillips' ordeal began aged 13 when she was gang-raped in her bedroom by local boys. Following the trauma, she dropped out of school, was befriended by an older man and was forced into prostitution aged 16. Over the next six years, she was raped by over 500 men, starved, beaten, and transported around the country to brothels. Forced to have sex with men from all walks of life including lawyers, stockbrokers, doctors, a parish councillor, Joanne was even made to have sex with her former school headteacher – who didn't recognise her. Every attempt to flee failed. Police warned her mother and stepdad she had chosen the lifestyle and even threatened to charge her parents with living off immoral earnings if they allowed her to move back. Escape seemed impossible, until one day she couldn't take any more. Just before her 21st birthday, Joanne eventually escaped her enslavement. After being left alone briefly in a London flat, where she was expected to work, she took a chance after finding a bag of money and a handgun. Fearing for her life, she fled into the night with nothing but a plastic bag of cash. After catching a train to Northern Ireland, she found her real dad and hid at his home from her pimp. Desperate to readjust to normal life, she found a job and went on to study at university. But when she tried to explain to a new boyfriend about her past, he didn't believe any of it was true, so she vowed to keep the abuse a secret – until years later, a conversation with one of her own teenage daughters changed her life...]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/coasting-a-private-journey-by-jonathan-raban--65185486https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603792 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coasting: A Private Journey Author: Jonathan Raban Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he’s sailing around the serpentine, two-thousand-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage—which coincided with the Falklands war of 1982—into an occasion for meditations on his country, his childhood, and the elusive notion of home. Whether he’s chatting with bored tax exiles on the Isle of Man, wrestling down a mainsail during a titanic gale, or crashing a Scottish house party where the kilted guests turn out to be Americans, Raban is alert to the slightest nuance of meaning. One can read Coasting for his precise naturalistic descriptions or his mordant comments on the new England, where the principal industry seems to be the marketing of Englishness. But one always reads it with pleasure.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603792Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603792 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coasting: A Private Journey Author: Jonathan Raban Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603792 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coasting: A Private Journey Author: Jonathan Raban Narrator: James Langton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 37 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he’s sailing around the serpentine, two-thousand-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage—which coincided with the Falklands war of 1982—into an occasion for meditations on his country, his childhood, and the elusive notion of home. Whether he’s chatting with bored tax exiles on the Isle of Man, wrestling down a mainsail during a titanic gale, or crashing a Scottish house party where the kilted guests turn out to be Americans, Raban is alert to the slightest nuance of meaning. One can read Coasting for his precise naturalistic descriptions or his mordant comments on the new England, where the principal industry seems to be the marketing of Englishness. But one always reads it with pleasure.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-mas-alla-by-catalina-escobar-restrepo--65185390https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602219 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Más allá Author: Catalina Escobar Restrepo Narrator: Barbara Drebnieks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Catalina es una impresionante fuerza de la naturaleza. Ese huracán que la impulsó a crear la Fundación Juanfe viene de las tragedias que ha tenido que enfrentar. Este libro evidencia la tremenda fuerza interior que la mueve en todo lo que hace' Miguel Silva Hace veintiún años Catalina Escobar perdió a su hijo de tan solo quince meses en un fatal accidente. En medio de una profunda tristeza, y con el peso del drama del que era testigo como voluntaria de una clínica de maternidad en una ciudad tan desigual como Cartagena, Catalina reunió fuerzas, conocimientos y su vocación de servicio para trabajar por todos aquellos niños y niñas cuyas muertes sí podían evitarse. Así nació la Fundación Juanfe, un referente de emprendimiento social en el mundo que ha conseguido, entre otras cosas, reducir una de las tasas de mortalidad más altas de América Latina y ayudar a miles de madres adolescentes a consolidar un proyecto de vida. Catalina, también conocida como 'la heroína de los niños', es una líder, empresaria y gestora excepcional que hizo parte de la selección final de CNN Heroes en 2012.Más allá lleva al lector por un viaje emotivo e inspirador, lo acerca a los rincones más oscuros del infortunio humano y pone en evidencia la empatía, el amor y la esperanza que aún hoy están presentes en el mundo]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602219Fri, 01 Jul 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602219 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Más allá Author: Catalina Escobar Restrepo Narrator: Barbara Drebnieks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602219 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Más allá Author: Catalina Escobar Restrepo Narrator: Barbara Drebnieks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: July 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Catalina es una impresionante fuerza de la naturaleza. Ese huracán que la impulsó a crear la Fundación Juanfe viene de las tragedias que ha tenido que enfrentar. Este libro evidencia la tremenda fuerza interior que la mueve en todo lo que hace' Miguel Silva Hace veintiún años Catalina Escobar perdió a su hijo de tan solo quince meses en un fatal accidente. En medio de una profunda tristeza, y con el peso del drama del que era testigo como voluntaria de una clínica de maternidad en una ciudad tan desigual como Cartagena, Catalina reunió fuerzas, conocimientos y su vocación de servicio para trabajar por todos aquellos niños y niñas cuyas muertes sí podían evitarse. Así nació la Fundación Juanfe, un referente de emprendimiento social en el mundo que ha conseguido, entre otras cosas, reducir una de las tasas de mortalidad más altas de América Latina y ayudar a miles de madres adolescentes a consolidar un proyecto de vida. Catalina, también conocida como 'la heroína de los niños', es una líder, empresaria y gestora excepcional que hizo parte de la selección final de CNN Heroes en 2012.Más allá lleva al lector por un viaje emotivo e inspirador, lo acerca a los rincones más oscuros del infortunio humano y pone en evidencia la empatía, el amor y la esperanza que aún hoy están presentes en el mundo]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fishing-with-tardelli-a-memoir-of-family-in-time-lost-by-neil-besner--65185495https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fishing With Tardelli: A Memoir of Family in Time Lost Author: Neil Besner Narrator: Neil Besner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A literary meditation on memory, time, love, and loss Fishing With Tardelli contemplates the relations among four parents - mother, father, stepfather, and a Brazilian fishing companion - and the author. Over marriages and remarriages, fathers and mothers become stepfathers and stepmothers, and brothers gain and lose stepbrothers and half-brothers, sisters and half-sisters across two continents. The various homes become part of Besner's internal geography; memory, dream, story, fable become permeable layers folded over bald facts baldly stated. Beginning with an older man's recollections of himself as a young teenager fishing with Tardelli in the bay in Rio de Janeiro, the memoir reflects on time lost and time regained. The narration ranges across the mid-'40s in Montreal, where two couples marry, divorce, and remarry in a new configuration; proceeds to Rio de Janeiro in the mid-'50s, when one of these newly formed families emigrates; and returns to Montreal in the late '60s and early '70s. After a 50-year interlude, Besner returns from Western Canada to the pandemic moment in Toronto.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602816Thu, 30 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fishing With Tardelli: A Memoir of Family in Time Lost Author: Neil Besner Narrator: Neil Besner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fishing With Tardelli: A Memoir of Family in Time Lost Author: Neil Besner Narrator: Neil Besner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A literary meditation on memory, time, love, and loss Fishing With Tardelli contemplates the relations among four parents - mother, father, stepfather, and a Brazilian fishing companion - and the author. Over marriages and remarriages, fathers and mothers become stepfathers and stepmothers, and brothers gain and lose stepbrothers and half-brothers, sisters and half-sisters across two continents. The various homes become part of Besner's internal geography; memory, dream, story, fable become permeable layers folded over bald facts baldly stated. Beginning with an older man's recollections of himself as a young teenager fishing with Tardelli in the bay in Rio de Janeiro, the memoir reflects on time lost and time regained. The narration ranges across the mid-'40s in Montreal, where two couples marry, divorce, and remarry in a new configuration; proceeds to Rio de Janeiro in the mid-'50s, when one of these newly formed families emigrates; and returns to Montreal in the late '60s and early '70s. After a 50-year interlude, Besner returns from Western Canada to the pandemic moment in Toronto.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-first-world-war-adventures-of-nariman-karkaria-a-memoir-by-murali-ranganathan-nariman-karkaria--65185450https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The First World War Adventures Of Nariman Karkaria: A Memoir Author: Murali Ranganathan, Nariman Karkaria Narrator: Ranjit Madgavkar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Amazing! An astonishing find! - AMITAV GHOSH Nariman Karkaria, a young Parsi from Gujarat, had always wanted to see the world. So he left home as a teenager with fifty rupees in his pocket to do just that. After working in Hong Kong and Peking for a few years, in 1914, when war was in the air, he decided to volunteer for the British Army. Passing through China, Manchuria, Siberia, Russia and Scandinavia, he reached London early in 1915 and managed to register as a private with the 24th Middlesex Regiment. He was now a Tommy. Incredibly, Karkaria saw action on three major fronts in the next three years. In 1916, he was in the trenches at the Battle of the Somme. After convalescing from an injury, he was sent off to the Middle Eastern Front where he fought in the Battle of Jerusalem in 1917. He was then transferred to the Balkan Front in 1918, where he served in Salonika. After being discharged, he returned to India and wrote a book in Gujarati about his years of travel and adventure, which was published in 1922. Karkaria's war memoir is truly one of a kind. And in Murali Ranganathan's brilliant translation, this astonishing story comes alive with rare immediacy and vigour.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601410Wed, 29 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The First World War Adventures Of Nariman Karkaria: A Memoir Author: Murali Ranganathan, Nariman Karkaria Narrator: Ranjit Madgavkar Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The First World War Adventures Of Nariman Karkaria: A Memoir Author: Murali Ranganathan, Nariman Karkaria Narrator: Ranjit Madgavkar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Amazing! An astonishing find! - AMITAV GHOSH Nariman Karkaria, a young Parsi from Gujarat, had always wanted to see the world. So he left home as a teenager with fifty rupees in his pocket to do just that. After working in Hong Kong and Peking for a few years, in 1914, when war was in the air, he decided to volunteer for the British Army. Passing through China, Manchuria, Siberia, Russia and Scandinavia, he reached London early in 1915 and managed to register as a private with the 24th Middlesex Regiment. He was now a Tommy. Incredibly, Karkaria saw action on three major fronts in the next three years. In 1916, he was in the trenches at the Battle of the Somme. After convalescing from an injury, he was sent off to the Middle Eastern Front where he fought in the Battle of Jerusalem in 1917. He was then transferred to the Balkan Front in 1918, where he served in Salonika. After being discharged, he returned to India and wrote a book in Gujarati about his years of travel and adventure, which was published in 1922. Karkaria's war memoir is truly one of a kind. And in Murali Ranganathan's brilliant translation, this astonishing story comes alive with rare immediacy and vigour.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-letra-de-medico-by-carlos-presman--65185570https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Letra de Médico Author: Carlos Presman Narrator: Gabriel Saint Genez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: La letra de médico tiene fama de ser algo que no se entiende, pero este libro es todo lo contrario. Carlos Presman escribió una memoria profesional amena, fascinante, que estaba faltando. Así lo demuestran más de veinte ediciones y veinte mil ejemplares vendidos. La edición completa de esta obra se divide en 'Historias personales', 'Cuentos clínicos' e 'Historias a su salud'. Con relatos breves y muy buena pluma, Presman nos pasea por los desafíos de la relación médico-paciente, saca de la galera las anécdotas más interesantes y redondea, en definitiva, uno de los mejores retratos contemporáneos de la ciencia y el arte de curar. - Carlos Presman (Córdoba, Argentina, 1961) es un médico y escritor argentino. Especializado en Medicina Interna y Terapia Intensiva, es titular de la cátedra de Semiología en la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Participa en diferentes medios de comunicación con columnas referidas a temas de salud. Su libro 'Letra de médico' (tomos I y II) se convirtió en un best seller y además es muy utilizado en varias carreras de Medicina. Publicó las novelas 'Ni vivo ni muerto' (traducida al alemán) y 'Vivir 100 años'.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600940Tue, 28 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Letra de Médico Author: Carlos Presman Narrator: Gabriel Saint Genez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Letra de Médico Author: Carlos Presman Narrator: Gabriel Saint Genez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: La letra de médico tiene fama de ser algo que no se entiende, pero este libro es todo lo contrario. Carlos Presman escribió una memoria profesional amena, fascinante, que estaba faltando. Así lo demuestran más de veinte ediciones y veinte mil ejemplares vendidos. La edición completa de esta obra se divide en 'Historias personales', 'Cuentos clínicos' e 'Historias a su salud'. Con relatos breves y muy buena pluma, Presman nos pasea por los desafíos de la relación médico-paciente, saca de la galera las anécdotas más interesantes y redondea, en definitiva, uno de los mejores retratos contemporáneos de la ciencia y el arte de curar. - Carlos Presman (Córdoba, Argentina, 1961) es un médico y escritor argentino. Especializado en Medicina Interna y Terapia Intensiva, es titular de la cátedra de Semiología en la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Participa en diferentes medios de comunicación con columnas referidas a temas de salud. Su libro 'Letra de médico' (tomos I y II) se convirtió en un best seller y además es muy utilizado en varias carreras de Medicina. Publicó las novelas 'Ni vivo ni muerto' (traducida al alemán) y 'Vivir 100 años'.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-der-magier-in-uns-wie-wir-mit-neugier-und-vorstellungskraft-unsere-welt-verandern-konnen-by-thimon-von-berlepsch--65185363https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Magier in uns - Wie wir mit Neugier und Vorstellungskraft unsere Welt verändern können Author: Thimon Von Berlepsch Narrator: Claus Vester Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Der berühmte Magier Thimon von Berlepsch gewährt seinen Leser:innen Einblicke in seine Kunst, sein Handwerk, sein Leben. Auf seiner Reise nimmt er uns mit zu Zauberern, Schamanen und vielen weiteren magischen Persönlichkeiten, die seinen eigenen Werdegang geprägt haben. Mit viel Witz, Charme und ein bisschen Magie zeigt er, wie man es schafft, wieder mehr Aufregung und Spannung Zutritt in das eigene Leben zu gewähren und dass die Welt magischer Ort sein kann, wenn man es denn zulässt.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602814Fri, 24 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Magier in uns - Wie wir mit Neugier und Vorstellungskraft unsere Welt verändern können Author: Thimon Von Berlepsch Narrator: Claus...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602814 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Magier in uns - Wie wir mit Neugier und Vorstellungskraft unsere Welt verändern können Author: Thimon Von Berlepsch Narrator: Claus Vester Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Der berühmte Magier Thimon von Berlepsch gewährt seinen Leser:innen Einblicke in seine Kunst, sein Handwerk, sein Leben. Auf seiner Reise nimmt er uns mit zu Zauberern, Schamanen und vielen weiteren magischen Persönlichkeiten, die seinen eigenen Werdegang geprägt haben. Mit viel Witz, Charme und ein bisschen Magie zeigt er, wie man es schafft, wieder mehr Aufregung und Spannung Zutritt in das eigene Leben zu gewähren und dass die Welt magischer Ort sein kann, wenn man es denn zulässt.-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-i-learned-to-live-with-panic-an-honest-and-intimate-exploration-on-how-to-cope-with-panic-attacks-by-claire-eastham--65185521https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599033 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How I Learned to Live With Panic: an honest and intimate exploration on how to cope with panic attacks Author: Claire Eastham Narrator: Claire Eastham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 23, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Award-winning blogger and author Claire Eastham is an expert on panic. She's not a doctor or an academic, but over a seven-year period, she has experienced 371 panic attacks (and counting), and learnt a thing or two along the way. Part memoir, part guide, How I Learned to Live with Panic is an intimate, honest and ultimately uplifting exploration into panic attacks. In practical thematic chapters Claire covers the crisis points where panic can hit and interviews a host of people - scientists, professors, dieticians, psychologists and people who struggle with panic - to anatomise how it can be managed. Frank, funny and blazing, Claire's story will speak to all those seeking to reclaim their lives. 'I wish I had this book when I was 18... It's smart, witty, informative and, importantly, it lets you know that if you have panic attacks too...you are not alone' Dr Sophie Mort, author of A Manual For Being Human 'An electric, warm, comforting and funny handbook on panic and how to cope and live alongside it' Laura Dockrill, author of What Have I Done? Previously published as F**k I Think I'm Dying © Claire Eastham 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599033Thu, 23 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599033 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How I Learned to Live With Panic: an honest and intimate exploration on how to cope with panic attacks Author: Claire Eastham Narrator: Claire Eastham...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599033 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How I Learned to Live With Panic: an honest and intimate exploration on how to cope with panic attacks Author: Claire Eastham Narrator: Claire Eastham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: June 23, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Award-winning blogger and author Claire Eastham is an expert on panic. She's not a doctor or an academic, but over a seven-year period, she has experienced 371 panic attacks (and counting), and learnt a thing or two along the way. Part memoir, part guide, How I Learned to Live with Panic is an intimate, honest and ultimately uplifting exploration into panic attacks. In practical thematic chapters Claire covers the crisis points where panic can hit and interviews a host of people - scientists, professors, dieticians, psychologists and people who struggle with panic - to anatomise how it can be managed. Frank, funny and blazing, Claire's story will speak to all those seeking to reclaim their lives. 'I wish I had this book when I was 18... It's smart, witty, informative and, importantly, it lets you know that if you have panic attacks too...you are not alone' Dr Sophie Mort, author of A Manual For Being Human 'An electric, warm, comforting and funny handbook on panic and how to cope and live alongside it' Laura Dockrill, author of What Have I Done? Previously published as F**k I Think I'm Dying © Claire Eastham 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-el-club-de-lectura-del-final-de-tu-vida-by-will-schwalbe--65185542https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El club de lectura del final de tu vida Author: Will Schwalbe Narrator: Sergio Alberto Bustos De La Tijera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 1 minute Release date: June 22, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ¿Qué estás leyendo? Ésa es la pregunta que le plantea Will Schwalbe a su madre, Mary Ann, mientras están sentados en la sala de espera del centro de atención a pacientes de cáncer del hospital Memorial Sloan-Kettering. En 2007, Mary Ann regresó de un viaje de ayuda humanitaria a Pakistán y Afganistán aquejada de lo que los médicos creyeron que era una clase de hepatitis muy poco común. Meses después le diagnosticaron un cáncer de páncreas en estado avanzado. Will y Mary Anne comparten sus esperanzas e inquietudes a través de sus libros preferidos. Cuando leen, no son una persona enferma y una persona sana, sino una madre y un hijo que viajan juntos.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601734Wed, 22 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El club de lectura del final de tu vida Author: Will Schwalbe Narrator: Sergio Alberto Bustos De La Tijera Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El club de lectura del final de tu vida Author: Will Schwalbe Narrator: Sergio Alberto Bustos De La Tijera Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 1 minute Release date: June 22, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ¿Qué estás leyendo? Ésa es la pregunta que le plantea Will Schwalbe a su madre, Mary Ann, mientras están sentados en la sala de espera del centro de atención a pacientes de cáncer del hospital Memorial Sloan-Kettering. En 2007, Mary Ann regresó de un viaje de ayuda humanitaria a Pakistán y Afganistán aquejada de lo que los médicos creyeron que era una clase de hepatitis muy poco común. Meses después le diagnosticaron un cáncer de páncreas en estado avanzado. Will y Mary Anne comparten sus esperanzas e inquietudes a través de sus libros preferidos. Cuando leen, no son una persona enferma y una persona sana, sino una madre y un hijo que viajan juntos.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-sin-mas-amigos-que-las-montanas-by-behrouz-boochani--65185413https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sin más amigos que las montañas Author: Behrouz Boochani Narrator: Paris Roa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 22, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: El 2013 Behrouz Boochani fue ilegalmente detenido en la isla de Manus, un centro de detención de inmigrantes cerca de la costa de Australia. En la cárcel, donde ha pasado seis años, sin herramientas ni espacio para la creación, Boochani escribió heroicamente a través de WhatsApp este libro. Un libro sobre la violencia y las injusticias que se cometen en nuestro nombre con la excusa de la ley. La obra se publicó en Australia y ganó los premios más importantes del país convirtiéndose en una denuncia y visibilizando una vergüenza internacional. Uno de los libros más vendidos en 2019 es el grito de resistencia y el extraordinario testimonio de un refugiado. Una voz que representa las vivencias de tantos refugiados y migrantes apátridas encarcelados en todo el mundo. Behrouz Boochani es periodista y un reconocido defensor de los derechos humanos, ganador de un Media Award de Amnistía Internacional de Australia, se le han otorgado también los premios del Diaspora Symposium Social Justice Award, del Liberty Victoria 2018 Empty Chair Award, del Anna Politkovskaya de periodismo y del Premio Veu Lliure PEN Català 2020]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601745Wed, 22 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sin más amigos que las montañas Author: Behrouz Boochani Narrator: Paris Roa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 14 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sin más amigos que las montañas Author: Behrouz Boochani Narrator: Paris Roa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 22, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: El 2013 Behrouz Boochani fue ilegalmente detenido en la isla de Manus, un centro de detención de inmigrantes cerca de la costa de Australia. En la cárcel, donde ha pasado seis años, sin herramientas ni espacio para la creación, Boochani escribió heroicamente a través de WhatsApp este libro. Un libro sobre la violencia y las injusticias que se cometen en nuestro nombre con la excusa de la ley. La obra se publicó en Australia y ganó los premios más importantes del país convirtiéndose en una denuncia y visibilizando una vergüenza internacional. Uno de los libros más vendidos en 2019 es el grito de resistencia y el extraordinario testimonio de un refugiado. Una voz que representa las vivencias de tantos refugiados y migrantes apátridas encarcelados en todo el mundo. Behrouz Boochani es periodista y un reconocido defensor de los derechos humanos, ganador de un Media Award de Amnistía Internacional de Australia, se le han otorgado también los premios del Diaspora Symposium Social Justice Award, del Liberty Victoria 2018 Empty Chair Award, del Anna Politkovskaya de periodismo y del Premio Veu Lliure PEN Català 2020]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wah-things-i-never-told-my-mother-by-cynthia-rogerson--65185573https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wah! Things I Never Told My Mother Author: Cynthia Rogerson Narrator: Helen Keeley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Cynthia's mother is dying. Often. Travelling between her home in Scotland and California, as she spends time at her mother's bedside. Cynthia recalls her youthful adventures: living in a squat, train-hopping, hitchhiking and all the other things she never told her mother.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600329Thu, 16 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wah! Things I Never Told My Mother Author: Cynthia Rogerson Narrator: Helen Keeley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wah! Things I Never Told My Mother Author: Cynthia Rogerson Narrator: Helen Keeley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: June 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Cynthia's mother is dying. Often. Travelling between her home in Scotland and California, as she spends time at her mother's bedside. Cynthia recalls her youthful adventures: living in a squat, train-hopping, hitchhiking and all the other things she never told her mother.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/editor-missing-the-media-in-today-s-india-by-ruben-banerjee--65185575https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Editor Missing: The Media in Today's India Author: Ruben Banerjee Narrator: Anuj Datta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: June 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is a time when the space for free speech is shrinking in India, along with a growing intolerance of contrarian views. The right to dissent, which should be the bedrock of any democracy, is seriously endangered. There is widespread belief that we are in an undeclared emergency. Not everyone agrees with this, though, and the jury is out on the state of play in the world's largest democracy. As charges and countercharges fly, with no unanimity in sight, India's national discourse, particularly its news media, is becoming increasingly divided and polarized. In Editor Missing, veteran journalist Ruben Banerjee attempts to provide clarity on the state of Indian media at a time when there is consensus only on the lack of it. The media mirrors society, and Banerjee is best placed to tell its contested story in contemporary India. As a top editor for various publications, he has had a ringside view for years of the decline in its standards, quality and objectivity. His own experiences reflect the time we live in. The book provides rare insights into the minefield that an editor today runs into - from pressures that are exerted to the risks of upsetting the powers that be. At the end of it, the reader is left with a chilling realization that defending the truth can come at a huge personal cost in present-day India.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599888Wed, 15 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Editor Missing: The Media in Today's India Author: Ruben Banerjee Narrator: Anuj Datta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599888 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Editor Missing: The Media in Today's India Author: Ruben Banerjee Narrator: Anuj Datta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 42 minutes Release date: June 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is a time when the space for free speech is shrinking in India, along with a growing intolerance of contrarian views. The right to dissent, which should be the bedrock of any democracy, is seriously endangered. There is widespread belief that we are in an undeclared emergency. Not everyone agrees with this, though, and the jury is out on the state of play in the world's largest democracy. As charges and countercharges fly, with no unanimity in sight, India's national discourse, particularly its news media, is becoming increasingly divided and polarized. In Editor Missing, veteran journalist Ruben Banerjee attempts to provide clarity on the state of Indian media at a time when there is consensus only on the lack of it. The media mirrors society, and Banerjee is best placed to tell its contested story in contemporary India. As a top editor for various publications, he has had a ringside view for years of the decline in its standards, quality and objectivity. His own experiences reflect the time we live in. The book provides rare insights into the minefield that an editor today runs into - from pressures that are exerted to the risks of upsetting the powers that be. At the end of it, the reader is left with a chilling realization that defending the truth can come at a huge personal cost in present-day India.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-el-otro-fangio-by-eduardo-gesumaria-sprinter--65185572https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El otro Fangio Author: Eduardo Gesumaría Sprinter Narrator: Gabriel Saint Genez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: June 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: El otro Fangio es una biografía del cinco veces campeón de Fórmula 1 escrita por Eduardo Gesumaría, avezado periodista que fuera su amigo durante tres décadas. El libro aborda algunas de las facetas y anécdotas más impactantes de este hombre consagrado al volante: su vida en Balcarce, sus amores y renuncias, sus accidentes, el particular secuestro que sufrió en Cuba a fines de los ´50 y muchos detalles de las artes que lo convirtieron en uno de los mejores corredores de todos los tiempos (si no el mejor). - Eduardo Gesumaría (Córdoba, Argentina, 1936 - 2020), también conocido como 'Sprinter', fue un periodista argentino especializado en automovilismo. Trabajó en las radios LV2, LV3, Radio Universidad de su provincia. En sus últimos años conducía su programa Autodinámica –ya un clásico de la radiofonía dedicada al deporte– en Radio Mitre. Escribió artículos para los diarios Meridiano, Orientación, Los Principios y La voz del Interior, y en las revistas Automundo, Corsa y Campeones. Publicó los libros La historia del automovilismo de Córdoba; Oscar Cabalén, el ídolo; Apuntes de la radio y televisión de Córdoba; Pirín Gradassi; Las 200 carreras de Fangio y El otro Fangio. En 1960 Gesumaría estuvo al frente del primer programa de automovilismo en la televisión argentina.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600941Wed, 15 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El otro Fangio Author: Eduardo Gesumaría Sprinter Narrator: Gabriel Saint Genez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600941 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El otro Fangio Author: Eduardo Gesumaría Sprinter Narrator: Gabriel Saint Genez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 39 minutes Release date: June 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: El otro Fangio es una biografía del cinco veces campeón de Fórmula 1 escrita por Eduardo Gesumaría, avezado periodista que fuera su amigo durante tres décadas. El libro aborda algunas de las facetas y anécdotas más impactantes de este hombre consagrado al volante: su vida en Balcarce, sus amores y renuncias, sus accidentes, el particular secuestro que sufrió en Cuba a fines de los ´50 y muchos detalles de las artes que lo convirtieron en uno de los mejores corredores de todos los tiempos (si no el mejor). - Eduardo Gesumaría (Córdoba, Argentina, 1936 - 2020), también conocido como 'Sprinter', fue un periodista argentino especializado en automovilismo. Trabajó en las radios LV2, LV3, Radio Universidad de su provincia. En sus últimos años conducía su programa Autodinámica –ya un clásico de la radiofonía dedicada al deporte– en Radio Mitre. Escribió artículos para los diarios Meridiano, Orientación, Los Principios y La voz del Interior, y en las revistas Automundo, Corsa y Campeones. Publicó los libros La historia del automovilismo de Córdoba; Oscar Cabalén, el ídolo; Apuntes de la radio y televisión de Córdoba; Pirín Gradassi; Las 200 carreras de Fangio y El otro Fangio. En 1960 Gesumaría estuvo al frente del primer programa de automovilismo en la televisión argentina.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spil-xm-a-weaving-of-recovery-resilience-and-resurgence-by-nicola-i-campbell--65185466https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599978 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spíləxm: A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience, and Resurgence Author: Nicola I. Campbell Narrator: Nicola I. Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If the hurt and grief we carry is a woven blanket, it is time to weave ourselves anew. In the Nłeʔkepmxcín language, spíləx̣m are remembered stories, often shared over tea in the quiet hours between Elders. Rooted within the British Columbia landscape, and with an almost tactile representation of being on the land and water, Spíləx̣m explores resilience, reconnection, and narrative memory through stories. Captivating and deeply moving, this story basket of memories tells one Indigenous woman’s journey of overcoming adversity and colonial trauma to find strength through creative works and traditional perspectives of healing, transformation, and resurgence.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599978Wed, 15 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599978 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spíləxm: A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience, and Resurgence Author: Nicola I. Campbell Narrator: Nicola I. Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599978 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spíləxm: A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience, and Resurgence Author: Nicola I. Campbell Narrator: Nicola I. Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If the hurt and grief we carry is a woven blanket, it is time to weave ourselves anew. In the Nłeʔkepmxcín language, spíləx̣m are remembered stories, often shared over tea in the quiet hours between Elders. Rooted within the British Columbia landscape, and with an almost tactile representation of being on the land and water, Spíləx̣m explores resilience, reconnection, and narrative memory through stories. Captivating and deeply moving, this story basket of memories tells one Indigenous woman’s journey of overcoming adversity and colonial trauma to find strength through creative works and traditional perspectives of healing, transformation, and resurgence.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kannada-peruvina-pavithra-kaniveyalli-by-nemichandra--65185551https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Kannada] - Peruvina Pavithra Kaniveyalli Author: Nemichandra Narrator: Nemichandra Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 10, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ಪೆರು ಕಣಿವೆಗೆಂದು ಹೊರಟು, ಪರವಾನಗಿ ಇಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೂ ಅಕ್ಕಪಕ್ಕದ ದೇಶಗಳಲ್ಲೂ ಸುಳಿದಾಡಿದ ರೋಮಾಂಚನಕಾರಿ ಚಿತ್ರಣ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಎದುರಾಗುವ ಭಾಷೆಯ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯನ್ನು ತಮ್ಮದೇ ಕೈ ಬಾಯಿ ಸನ್ನೆಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ನಿಭಾಯಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು, ಅದೇ ರೀತಿ ಆಹಾರದ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಯನ್ನು ಬಗೆಹರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು, ನಮ್ಮ ಜನರಂತೆಯೇ ಆದರಿಸುವ, ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುವ, ಸ್ನೇಹಭಾವ ತೋರಿಸುವ ಜನರನ್ನು ಭೇಟಿ ಮಾಡಿದ ಅನುಭವಗಳನ್ನು ಲೇಖಕಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ವಾರಸ್ಯಕರವಾಗಿ ವರ್ಣಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಗೆಳತಿಯ ಜೊತೆಗೂಡಿ ಬೆಟ್ಟವೇರಿ, ಕಣಿವೆ ಇಳಿದು, ಅಮೆಜಾನ್ ನದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ರಾತ್ರಿ ದೋಣಿ ಪಯಣ ಮಾಡಿದ ರೋಮಾಂಚಕ ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು, ಮಹಿಳೆಯರ ಅಪೂರ್ವ ಸಾಧನೆಯನ್ನು ನೇಮಿಚಂದ್ರ ಅವರು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕುತೂಹಲಭರಿತವಾಗಿ ದಾಖಲಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593310Fri, 10 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Kannada] - Peruvina Pavithra Kaniveyalli Author: Nemichandra Narrator: Nemichandra Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 50 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Kannada] - Peruvina Pavithra Kaniveyalli Author: Nemichandra Narrator: Nemichandra Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 50 minutes Release date: June 10, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ಪೆರು ಕಣಿವೆಗೆಂದು ಹೊರಟು, ಪರವಾನಗಿ ಇಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೂ ಅಕ್ಕಪಕ್ಕದ ದೇಶಗಳಲ್ಲೂ ಸುಳಿದಾಡಿದ ರೋಮಾಂಚನಕಾರಿ ಚಿತ್ರಣ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಸಿಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಎದುರಾಗುವ ಭಾಷೆಯ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಯನ್ನು ತಮ್ಮದೇ ಕೈ ಬಾಯಿ ಸನ್ನೆಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ನಿಭಾಯಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು, ಅದೇ ರೀತಿ ಆಹಾರದ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಯನ್ನು ಬಗೆಹರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು, ನಮ್ಮ ಜನರಂತೆಯೇ ಆದರಿಸುವ, ಪ್ರೀತಿಸುವ, ಸ್ನೇಹಭಾವ ತೋರಿಸುವ ಜನರನ್ನು ಭೇಟಿ ಮಾಡಿದ ಅನುಭವಗಳನ್ನು ಲೇಖಕಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ವಾರಸ್ಯಕರವಾಗಿ ವರ್ಣಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಗೆಳತಿಯ ಜೊತೆಗೂಡಿ ಬೆಟ್ಟವೇರಿ, ಕಣಿವೆ ಇಳಿದು, ಅಮೆಜಾನ್ ನದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ರಾತ್ರಿ ದೋಣಿ ಪಯಣ ಮಾಡಿದ ರೋಮಾಂಚಕ ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶಗಳನ್ನು, ಮಹಿಳೆಯರ ಅಪೂರ್ವ ಸಾಧನೆಯನ್ನು ನೇಮಿಚಂದ್ರ ಅವರು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕುತೂಹಲಭರಿತವಾಗಿ ದಾಖಲಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-los-diez-pasos-hacia-nanette-memorias-incomodas-by-hannah-gadsby--65185481https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los diez pasos hacia Nanette: Memorias incómodas Author: Hannah Gadsby Narrator: Gwendolyne Flores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hannah Gadsby desvela los momentos que definieron su vida y la llevaron a subir al escenario con toda la verdad por delante. Tan dura como divertida, Los diez pasos hacia Nanette es una «autobiografía incómoda» que, siguiendo la costumbre de su autora de jugar con las expectativas y las reglas de la comedia, nos acerca a una de las voces más explosivas e influyentes de nuestro tiempo. «No hay nada más fuerte que una mujer rota que logra recomponerse». Hannah Gadsby Nanette no fue solo un espectáculo de stand-up insuperable, fue también un arrollador éxito viral que cautivó al público por su sinceridad desgarrada y por su habilidad para generar a un mismo tiempo tensión y risa. El éxito mundial de Gadsby podría hacernos creer que la fama le llegó de la noche a la mañana, pero el camino que la llevó a lo más alto de la escena internacional fue en realidad bastante tortuoso. En Los diez pasos hacia Nanette, Gadbsy nos brinda su retrato más íntimo: su adolescencia como persona queer en Tasmania (donde la homosexualidad fue ilegal hasta 1997), los trabajos itinerantes en Australia tras la universidad, sus duros encontronazos con la homofobia y la violencia sexual, su constante evolución como cómica, los diagnósticos tardíos de autismo y TDAH... y finalmente el hallazgo de lo que había de ser la esencia de Nanette, es decir, la renuncia a mofarse de sí misma en sus chistes, el rechazo de la misoginia y el compromiso moral con decir la verdad a toda costa. La crítica ha dicho: «Hannah es una fuerza prometeica, un talento revolucionario. Con este libro gracioso, conmovedor y a veces trágico lo que ha hecho es señalarnos dónde se originaron sus hogueras». Emma Thompson «Hannah Gadsby es la perfecta representación de la verdad que se esconde detrás de toda broma». La Vanguardia «Una clara muestra de todo lo bueno que puede pasar cuando una voz diferente se hace oír». Victoria Segal, The Times «Gadsby se muestra aquí como una escritora clara, inteligente y sustanciosa, capaz de hablarnos de sus años de formativos y de la evolución de su carrera y a la vez tocar temas relativos a la cultura popular, la política, la salud mental o el autismo». Steph Harmon, The Guardian «Un libro aparentemente de memorias que, sin embargo, escapa a toda convención y con el que Gadbsy logra, desde el núcleo irradiador que es su espectáculo más famoso, reconstruir con detalle su trayectoria vital». Thomas Floyd, The Washington Post «Sus fans comprobarán con sumo placer que Gadbsy, sobre el papel, es tan buena como sobre el escenario.» Trish Bendix, Time La crítica ha dicho sobre Nanette: «Nanette es un fenómeno internacional, el monólogo más comentado, reseñado y compartido en años, exquisitamente sincronizado con la era MeToo». The New York Times «Tan divertido como profundamente furioso». The New Yorker «Nanette es sencillamente extraordinaria. Me ha conmovido y me ha hechoreflexionar sobre el humor, el yo, el autodesprecio y los usos de la ira. Muchas gracias. Es simplemente brillante». Roxane Gay «Una hora y tres minutos. Ese es el tiempo que tarda Gadsby en destrozarte con sus palabras, ojos vidriosos y realidad sin filtros». El País «Jamás he llorado tan desconsoladamente en un espectáculo de comedia stand up». Monica Lewinsky]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599068Thu, 09 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los diez pasos hacia Nanette: Memorias incómodas Author: Hannah Gadsby Narrator: Gwendolyne Flores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los diez pasos hacia Nanette: Memorias incómodas Author: Hannah Gadsby Narrator: Gwendolyne Flores Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hannah Gadsby desvela los momentos que definieron su vida y la llevaron a subir al escenario con toda la verdad por delante. Tan dura como divertida, Los diez pasos hacia Nanette es una «autobiografía incómoda» que, siguiendo la costumbre de su autora de jugar con las expectativas y las reglas de la comedia, nos acerca a una de las voces más explosivas e influyentes de nuestro tiempo. «No hay nada más fuerte que una mujer rota que logra recomponerse». Hannah Gadsby Nanette no fue solo un espectáculo de stand-up insuperable, fue también un arrollador éxito viral que cautivó al público por su sinceridad desgarrada y por su habilidad para generar a un mismo tiempo tensión y risa. El éxito mundial de Gadsby podría hacernos creer que la fama le llegó de la noche a la mañana, pero el camino que la llevó a lo más alto de la escena internacional fue en realidad bastante tortuoso. En Los diez pasos hacia Nanette, Gadbsy nos brinda su retrato más íntimo: su adolescencia como persona queer en Tasmania (donde la homosexualidad fue ilegal hasta 1997), los trabajos itinerantes en Australia tras la universidad, sus duros encontronazos con la homofobia y la violencia sexual, su constante evolución como cómica, los diagnósticos tardíos de autismo y TDAH... y finalmente el hallazgo de lo que había de ser la esencia de Nanette, es decir, la renuncia a mofarse de sí misma en sus chistes, el rechazo de la misoginia y el compromiso moral con decir la verdad a toda costa. La crítica ha dicho: «Hannah es una fuerza prometeica, un talento revolucionario. Con este libro gracioso, conmovedor y a veces trágico lo que ha hecho es señalarnos dónde se originaron sus hogueras». Emma Thompson «Hannah Gadsby es la perfecta representación de la verdad que se esconde detrás de toda broma». La Vanguardia «Una clara muestra de todo lo bueno que puede pasar cuando una voz diferente se hace oír». Victoria Segal, The Times «Gadsby se muestra aquí como una escritora clara, inteligente y sustanciosa, capaz de hablarnos de sus años de formativos y de la evolución de su carrera y a la vez tocar temas relativos a la cultura popular, la política, la salud mental o el autismo». Steph Harmon, The Guardian «Un libro aparentemente de memorias que, sin embargo, escapa a toda convención y con el que Gadbsy logra, desde el núcleo irradiador que es su espectáculo más famoso, reconstruir con detalle su trayectoria vital». Thomas Floyd, The Washington Post «Sus fans comprobarán con sumo placer que Gadbsy, sobre el papel, es tan buena como sobre el escenario.» Trish Bendix, Time La crítica ha dicho sobre Nanette: «Nanette es un fenómeno internacional, el monólogo más comentado, reseñado y compartido en años, exquisitamente sincronizado con la era MeToo». The New York Times «Tan divertido como profundamente furioso». The New Yorker «Nanette es sencillamente extraordinaria. Me ha conmovido y me ha hechoreflexionar sobre el humor, el yo, el autodesprecio y los usos de la ira. Muchas gracias. Es simplemente brillante». Roxane Gay «Una hora y tres minutos. Ese es el tiempo que tarda Gadsby en destrozarte con sus palabras, ojos vidriosos y realidad sin filtros». El País «Jamás he llorado tan desconsoladamente en un espectáculo de comedia stand up». Monica Lewinsky]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-your-hand-is-in-the-lion-s-mouth-the-life-and-wisdom-of-a-man-named-green-by-nita-whitaker--65185328https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Your Hand is in the Lion's Mouth: The Life and Wisdom of a Man named Green Author: Nita Whitaker Narrator: Nita Whitaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: WHEN YOUR HAND IS IN THE LION'S MOUTH is a narrative non-fiction told in forty-two stories that is a father-daughter memoir. The foundational paternal love, wisdom and life lessons shared can father us all, and at 96 years young, he keeps inspiring and teaching us with his foundational practical wisdom. Not often enough do we hear of great black fathers in our stories or media, one that goes beyond stereotype, shining a light on a devoted man who lifts and enlightens. Green is one of those men. The simplicity and complexity of the life into which he was born informed the wisdom and worldliness he would gain. Born as the second youngest of nineteen children in a rural northwest Louisiana farming community, the lion of the Jim Crow South loomed large and oppressively in the 1920's. But, Green Whitaker had the beautiful gift of a family devoted to each other to guide him through. That familial devotion and grounding grew him into a man of great integrity and grit whose love melded with the faith seeds planted in his quest for a piece of the American dream. He continues to be a beloved father, uncle and friend, as well as a father figure to more than his own children, serving as a mentor and willing role model for his entire community and more. His love and nurturing gave me the confidence to pursue a career in entertainment. His example is the salve our souls need; a re-parenting from a father figure whose voice and simple wisdom can nourish and support the child within each of us. Green is the last surviving of his large family and is the portal to his family's history and legacy. It is not an academic book on parenting, but a sharing, a recollection of unpolished gems of wisdom about how to have better values, sharing the ways he to be more kind, loving and honest to foster a rich life. It gives us a glimpse into the life and earned wisdom of a distinguished black father named Green, and how he shares his practical life gems with his children, his community, and especially his youngest daughter, Nita.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612873Sat, 04 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Your Hand is in the Lion's Mouth: The Life and Wisdom of a Man named Green Author: Nita Whitaker Narrator: Nita Whitaker Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612873 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Your Hand is in the Lion's Mouth: The Life and Wisdom of a Man named Green Author: Nita Whitaker Narrator: Nita Whitaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: WHEN YOUR HAND IS IN THE LION'S MOUTH is a narrative non-fiction told in forty-two stories that is a father-daughter memoir. The foundational paternal love, wisdom and life lessons shared can father us all, and at 96 years young, he keeps inspiring and teaching us with his foundational practical wisdom. Not often enough do we hear of great black fathers in our stories or media, one that goes beyond stereotype, shining a light on a devoted man who lifts and enlightens. Green is one of those men. The simplicity and complexity of the life into which he was born informed the wisdom and worldliness he would gain. Born as the second youngest of nineteen children in a rural northwest Louisiana farming community, the lion of the Jim Crow South loomed large and oppressively in the 1920's. But, Green Whitaker had the beautiful gift of a family devoted to each other to guide him through. That familial devotion and grounding grew him into a man of great integrity and grit whose love melded with the faith seeds planted in his quest for a piece of the American dream. He continues to be a beloved father, uncle and friend, as well as a father figure to more than his own children, serving as a mentor and willing role model for his entire community and more. His love and nurturing gave me the confidence to pursue a career in entertainment. His example is the salve our souls need; a re-parenting from a father figure whose voice and simple wisdom can nourish and support the child within each of us. Green is the last surviving of his large family and is the portal to his family's history and legacy. It is not an academic book on parenting, but a sharing, a recollection of unpolished gems of wisdom about how to have better values, sharing the ways he to be more kind, loving and honest to foster a rich life. It gives us a glimpse into the life and earned wisdom of a distinguished black father named Green, and how he shares his practical life gems with his children, his community, and especially his youngest daughter, Nita.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-de-donde-soy-by-joan-didion--65185545https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - De donde soy Author: Joan Didion Narrator: Susie Caraballo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Unas apasionantes memorias sobre la California natal de Joan Didion, autora de El año del pensamiento mágico, narradas con la inconfundible mirada personal y emotiva que caracteriza su obra. «Irresistible [...]. Un canto al lugar dónde su familia ha vivido durante generaciones, pero uno lleno de preguntas y dudas». The New York Times Joan Didion dedica estas memorias a su California natal, el estado al que, siglos atrás, llegaron sus antepasados y al que ella ató gran parte de su vida y de su obra. «Este libro representa una exploración de mis propias confusiones acerca del lugar y la forma en que crecí [...] unos malentendidos y malinterpretaciones que forman parte de quien soy en tanta medidaque todavía hoy solo les hago frente de refilón», decía Didion sobre un libro tan intelectualmente provocador como íntimo. Mezclando historia, crónica, memoria y crítica literaria, la autora explora los romances de California con la tierra y con el agua, sus deudas no reconocidas con los ferrocarriles, la industria aeroespacial y con el Gobierno central, así como el contraste entre su culto al individualismo y su fetiche por las cárceles. Ya sea escribiendo sobre sus antepasados, sobre depredadores sexuales, políticos corruptos o escritores (sin excluirse a sí misma), Didion vuelve a demostrar aquí su incomparable capacidad de observación. De dónde soy nos regala una mirada única al dibujar un mapa histórico y personal de la Costa Oeste de Estados Unidos, pero también al reflexionar sobre la escritura mientras revisa, a través del arte, la política, la economía y las vivencias de sus antepasados, el ideal de la «tierra prometida» a lo largo de dos siglos. La crítica ha dicho: «Nos encontramos ante la mejor Didion, una escritora que dio buena cuenta de la historia y el estado mental de su país y de California […] Sin duda, su aproximación es original y personal, resultado de su particular forma de mirar». José Luis G. Gómez, La Opinión de Málaga «La mejor cronista de California». Vogue «Una voz sin parangón en el periodismo contemporáneo». The New York Times «Didion ha escrito un librito valiente, un buen libro que debe leerse con tanto cuidado como con el que fue escrito [...]. Es una autora de una honestidad implacable». The Washington Post «Si alguien necesita alguna prueba más de que Didion es una de las mejores ensayistas contemporáneas, este libro lo confirmará». The Seattle Times «Didion es una Walt Whitman contemporánea, cantando sobre América al cantar sobre sí misma». Slate.com «Tanto en la despedida como en la elegía, De dónde soy es un libro sacudido por la tormenta. Su historia es densa [...], su prosa aguda, directa y cincelada». The Los Angeles Times Book Review «Didion descubre el lugar exacto donde se cruzan la geografía y el viaje personal, y el resultado es una obra tan convincente y enigmática como los temas que trata». Time Out «Suprosa tenaz, hermosa y quirúrgicamente precisa no se parece a ninguna otra cosa que haya leído nunca». Donna Tartt «Uno de los estilos literarios más reconocibles y brillantes que ha surgido en Estados Unidos durante las últimas cuatro décadas [...] Didion es una de las grandes escritoras estadounidenses». The New York Times Book Review «Una amalgama fascinante de memorias y cronología histórica. [...] Elaborado con exquisitez, tan sutil como el lento despertar de un sueño agradable». The Baltimore Sun]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596087Thu, 02 Jun 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - De donde soy Author: Joan Didion Narrator: Susie Caraballo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 2,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - De donde soy Author: Joan Didion Narrator: Susie Caraballo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: June 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Unas apasionantes memorias sobre la California natal de Joan Didion, autora de El año del pensamiento mágico, narradas con la inconfundible mirada personal y emotiva que caracteriza su obra. «Irresistible [...]. Un canto al lugar dónde su familia ha vivido durante generaciones, pero uno lleno de preguntas y dudas». The New York Times Joan Didion dedica estas memorias a su California natal, el estado al que, siglos atrás, llegaron sus antepasados y al que ella ató gran parte de su vida y de su obra. «Este libro representa una exploración de mis propias confusiones acerca del lugar y la forma en que crecí [...] unos malentendidos y malinterpretaciones que forman parte de quien soy en tanta medidaque todavía hoy solo les hago frente de refilón», decía Didion sobre un libro tan intelectualmente provocador como íntimo. Mezclando historia, crónica, memoria y crítica literaria, la autora explora los romances de California con la tierra y con el agua, sus deudas no reconocidas con los ferrocarriles, la industria aeroespacial y con el Gobierno central, así como el contraste entre su culto al individualismo y su fetiche por las cárceles. Ya sea escribiendo sobre sus antepasados, sobre depredadores sexuales, políticos corruptos o escritores (sin excluirse a sí misma), Didion vuelve a demostrar aquí su incomparable capacidad de observación. De dónde soy nos regala una mirada única al dibujar un mapa histórico y personal de la Costa Oeste de Estados Unidos, pero también al reflexionar sobre la escritura mientras revisa, a través del arte, la política, la economía y las vivencias de sus antepasados, el ideal de la «tierra prometida» a lo largo de dos siglos. La crítica ha dicho: «Nos encontramos ante la mejor Didion, una escritora que dio buena cuenta de la historia y el estado mental de su país y de California […] Sin duda, su aproximación es original y personal, resultado de su particular forma de mirar». José Luis G. Gómez, La Opinión de Málaga «La mejor cronista de California». Vogue «Una voz sin parangón en el periodismo contemporáneo». The New York Times «Didion ha escrito un librito valiente, un buen libro que debe leerse con tanto cuidado como con el que fue escrito [...]. Es una autora de una honestidad implacable». The Washington Post «Si alguien necesita alguna prueba más de que Didion es una de las mejores ensayistas contemporáneas, este libro lo confirmará». The Seattle Times «Didion es una Walt Whitman contemporánea, cantando sobre América al cantar sobre sí misma». Slate.com «Tanto en la despedida como en la elegía, De dónde soy es un libro sacudido por la tormenta. Su historia es densa [...], su prosa aguda, directa y cincelada». The Los Angeles Times Book Review «Didion descubre el lugar exacto donde se cruzan la geografía y el viaje personal, y el resultado es una obra tan convincente y enigmática como los temas que trata». Time Out «Suprosa tenaz, hermosa y quirúrgicamente precisa no se parece a ninguna otra cosa que haya leído nunca». Donna Tartt «Uno de los estilos literarios más reconocibles y brillantes que ha surgido en Estados Unidos durante las últimas cuatro décadas [...] Didion es una de las grandes escritoras estadounidenses». The New York Times Book Review «Una amalgama fascinante de memorias y cronología histórica. [...] Elaborado con exquisitez, tan sutil como el lento despertar de un sueño agradable». The Baltimore Sun]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/brady-street-pharmacy-by-tea-krulos--65185569https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593009 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brady Street Pharmacy Author: Tea Krulos Narrator: Tea Krulos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 57 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Amongst sacred institutions lost to time, the drug store lunch counter remains one of the most lamented and revered pieces of true americana. The community and chaos generated within the walls of these one-stop mom & pops is legendary. Tea Krulos recounts tales from the last days of one of Milwaukee’s finest.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593009Tue, 31 May 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593009 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brady Street Pharmacy Author: Tea Krulos Narrator: Tea Krulos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 57 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593009 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brady Street Pharmacy Author: Tea Krulos Narrator: Tea Krulos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 57 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Amongst sacred institutions lost to time, the drug store lunch counter remains one of the most lamented and revered pieces of true americana. The community and chaos generated within the walls of these one-stop mom & pops is legendary. Tea Krulos recounts tales from the last days of one of Milwaukee’s finest.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/more-than-one-thing-can-be-true-a-story-of-survival-by-caroline-brunne--65185591https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More Than One Thing Can Be True: a story of survival Author: Caroline Brunne Narrator: Caroline Brunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this work of deep reflection, insight, and vulnerability Caroline Brunne shares her story of becoming the woman she is today. From the shores of the picturesque island of Mauritius, to suburban Victoria, through to her childhood home in Queensland, deep in the heart of her life journey is her lived experience of trauma, the impact of childhood sexual abuse and her ongoing quest to support her fellow survivors to reduce the shame they may carry. With sensitivity around the subject of childhood sexual abuse, Caroline courageously discloses her truth while examining the complexities of trauma as she learns that more than one thing can be true. There is a strong message of hope and courage in Caroline’s story as she opens up conversations to enable opportunities for change, both in survivor support and in the space of child safety. Walk beside Caroline as she sheds the label of victim and claims her powerful voice as a survivor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591730Mon, 30 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More Than One Thing Can Be True: a story of survival Author: Caroline Brunne Narrator: Caroline Brunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591730 to listen full audiobooks. Title: More Than One Thing Can Be True: a story of survival Author: Caroline Brunne Narrator: Caroline Brunne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this work of deep reflection, insight, and vulnerability Caroline Brunne shares her story of becoming the woman she is today. From the shores of the picturesque island of Mauritius, to suburban Victoria, through to her childhood home in Queensland, deep in the heart of her life journey is her lived experience of trauma, the impact of childhood sexual abuse and her ongoing quest to support her fellow survivors to reduce the shame they may carry. With sensitivity around the subject of childhood sexual abuse, Caroline courageously discloses her truth while examining the complexities of trauma as she learns that more than one thing can be true. There is a strong message of hope and courage in Caroline’s story as she opens up conversations to enable opportunities for change, both in survivor support and in the space of child safety. Walk beside Caroline as she sheds the label of victim and claims her powerful voice as a survivor.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dance-me-to-the-end-ten-months-and-ten-days-with-als-by-alison-acheson--65185587https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days with ALS Author: Alison Acheson Narrator: Ellen Dubin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Marty, age 57, was given a preliminary diagnosis of ALS by his family doctor. Seven weeks later, the diagnosis was confirmed by a neurologist. Ten months and ten days later, Marty passed away. From day one, Alison, Marty's spouse of over twenty-five years, kept a journal as a way to navigate the overwhelming state of her mind and soul. Soon the rawness of her words harmonized to tell the story of Marty's diagnosis, illness, and decline. Her journal became a chronicle of caregiving as well as an emotional exploration of the tensions between the intuitive and the pragmatic, the logical and illogical, and the all-consuming demands of being both spouse and nurse. Divided into short pieces, some of which reads as free verse, Alison's words are at times profoundly intense and painfully private. The composition of the intricate notes of a life in its final movements includes another stanza of the journal that became Dance Me to the End: the guiding of children grappling with the imminent loss of a parent, and the shifting roles of family, friends, and community-all of which add their own complex rhythms. Dance Me to the End is an evocative memoir about the emotional impact of witnessing a loved one suffer from a neurological, degenerative, and terminal disease. This is a detailed account of grief, shock and pain coexisting with the levity, laughter and love shared with her husband and sons in those final months of Marty's life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591199Mon, 30 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days with ALS Author: Alison Acheson Narrator: Ellen Dubin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591199 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days with ALS Author: Alison Acheson Narrator: Ellen Dubin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 21 minutes Release date: May 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Marty, age 57, was given a preliminary diagnosis of ALS by his family doctor. Seven weeks later, the diagnosis was confirmed by a neurologist. Ten months and ten days later, Marty passed away. From day one, Alison, Marty's spouse of over twenty-five years, kept a journal as a way to navigate the overwhelming state of her mind and soul. Soon the rawness of her words harmonized to tell the story of Marty's diagnosis, illness, and decline. Her journal became a chronicle of caregiving as well as an emotional exploration of the tensions between the intuitive and the pragmatic, the logical and illogical, and the all-consuming demands of being both spouse and nurse. Divided into short pieces, some of which reads as free verse, Alison's words are at times profoundly intense and painfully private. The composition of the intricate notes of a life in its final movements includes another stanza of the journal that became Dance Me to the End: the guiding of children grappling with the imminent loss of a parent, and the shifting roles of family, friends, and community-all of which add their own complex rhythms. Dance Me to the End is an evocative memoir about the emotional impact of witnessing a loved one suffer from a neurological, degenerative, and terminal disease. This is a detailed account of grief, shock and pain coexisting with the levity, laughter and love shared with her husband and sons in those final months of Marty's life.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/waswanipi-by-soucy-jean-yves--65185557https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waswanipi Author: Soucy Jean-Yves Narrator: Braden Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 59 minutes Release date: May 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It is 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and looking for a summer job. He dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower. But to his dismay he is sent to an equipment depot somewhere between Val-d'Or and Chibougamau in Northern Quebec. His disappointment vanishes when he learns that the depot is located near a Cree community and that he will have two Cree guides, including a man named William Saganash, and his work will involve canoeing through the lakes and rivers of the region. On each encounter with the Crees, on each of the long trips across water or through the bush, Jean-Yves expects to see a new world but realizes he's meeting a different civilization, as different from his own as Chinese civilization. Yet he knows nothing about it. Nor does he understand the nature surrounding them as do his Cree guides, and friends. Jean-Yves Soucy wrote this story because Romeo Saganash, son of William, insisted: "You have to write that, Jean-Yves. About your relationship with my father and the others, how you saw the village. You got to see the end of an era." He unfortunately passed away before completing it. However, in his poignant Afterword, Romeo Saganash provides a finishing touch to this story of an unlikely meeting of two worlds.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591201Mon, 30 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waswanipi Author: Soucy Jean-Yves Narrator: Braden Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 59 minutes Release date: May 30, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waswanipi Author: Soucy Jean-Yves Narrator: Braden Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 59 minutes Release date: May 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: It is 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and looking for a summer job. He dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower. But to his dismay he is sent to an equipment depot somewhere between Val-d'Or and Chibougamau in Northern Quebec. His disappointment vanishes when he learns that the depot is located near a Cree community and that he will have two Cree guides, including a man named William Saganash, and his work will involve canoeing through the lakes and rivers of the region. On each encounter with the Crees, on each of the long trips across water or through the bush, Jean-Yves expects to see a new world but realizes he's meeting a different civilization, as different from his own as Chinese civilization. Yet he knows nothing about it. Nor does he understand the nature surrounding them as do his Cree guides, and friends. Jean-Yves Soucy wrote this story because Romeo Saganash, son of William, insisted: "You have to write that, Jean-Yves. About your relationship with my father and the others, how you saw the village. You got to see the end of an era." He unfortunately passed away before completing it. However, in his poignant Afterword, Romeo Saganash provides a finishing touch to this story of an unlikely meeting of two worlds.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-her-shoes-by-erin-darcy--65185555https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590675 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Her Shoes Author: Erin Darcy Narrator: Gina Burke, Aoife Mcmahon, Caroline Lennon, Laurence Bouvard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In early 2018, Erin Darcy created an online art project, In Her Shoes – Women of the Eighth, to safely and anonymously share private stories of the real and devastating impact of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Ireland. In the five months leading up to the referendum on abortion, the project asked a simple question of undecided voters: put yourself in her shoes. Within weeks, Erin was receiving hundreds of stories from a broad spectrum of experiences of planned and unplanned terminations. By the time Ireland historically voted Yes to Repeal the Eighth on 25 May 2018, the page had gathered over 100,000 followers, was reaching over four million readers each week and had been featured by international news outlets. What began as a solo act of grassroots activism by a mother and an artist had unleashed a national conversation on human rights that would change Ireland forever. Where once there had been silence and shame, now there was honesty and empathy. For 43 per cent of voters, it was ‘stories in the anthology and a memoir media’ that influenced their decision to vote 'Yes'. But for Erin Darcy, In Her Shoes was also a distraction from her own heartbreaking loss, loneliness and depression as she grieved her mother’s death and sought a community of her own. In time, it became an act of healing, as she connected with other women, mothers and campaigners who felt the same overwhelming need to do something. Here, In Her Shoes: Women of the Eighth reproduces thirty-two of those anonymous stories, representing the entire island of Ireland. Published with their authors’ consent, they are powerful testimonies to storytelling as salvation from heartache, stigma and threat. Together, they record lived truths previously omitted from history and signal a monumental change in the social landscape of Ireland. Please note that this audiobook includes graphic descriptions and lived experiences that some listeners may find upsetting. - Born in Oklahoma, Erin grew up travelling the Mid West of the US with her family. At the age of 15 and looking for a pen pal in Ireland – she found the man of her dreams and traveled alone to Ireland when she was 17 to meet him in person. She finished school and moved to Galway, where she now resides with her husband and three children. Erin is a self taught artist and activist. Inspired by women and children, Erin's paintings and writing often reflects the taboo subjects of miscarriage, grief, mother-loss, abortion, depression, and radical self love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590675Wed, 25 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590675 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Her Shoes Author: Erin Darcy Narrator: Gina Burke, Aoife Mcmahon, Caroline Lennon, Laurence Bouvard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590675 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Her Shoes Author: Erin Darcy Narrator: Gina Burke, Aoife Mcmahon, Caroline Lennon, Laurence Bouvard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In early 2018, Erin Darcy created an online art project, In Her Shoes – Women of the Eighth, to safely and anonymously share private stories of the real and devastating impact of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Ireland. In the five months leading up to the referendum on abortion, the project asked a simple question of undecided voters: put yourself in her shoes. Within weeks, Erin was receiving hundreds of stories from a broad spectrum of experiences of planned and unplanned terminations. By the time Ireland historically voted Yes to Repeal the Eighth on 25 May 2018, the page had gathered over 100,000 followers, was reaching over four million readers each week and had been featured by international news outlets. What began as a solo act of grassroots activism by a mother and an artist had unleashed a national conversation on human rights that would change Ireland forever. Where once there had been silence and shame, now there was honesty and empathy. For 43 per cent of voters, it was ‘stories in the anthology and a memoir media’ that influenced their decision to vote 'Yes'. But for Erin Darcy, In Her Shoes was also a distraction from her own heartbreaking loss, loneliness and depression as she grieved her mother’s death and sought a community of her own. In time, it became an act of healing, as she connected with other women, mothers and campaigners who felt the same overwhelming need to do something. Here, In Her Shoes: Women of the Eighth reproduces thirty-two of those anonymous stories, representing the entire island of Ireland. Published with their authors’ consent, they are powerful testimonies to storytelling as salvation from heartache, stigma and threat. Together, they record lived truths previously omitted from history and signal a monumental change in the social landscape of Ireland. Please note that this audiobook includes graphic descriptions and lived experiences that some listeners may find upsetting. - Born in Oklahoma, Erin grew up travelling the Mid West of the US with her family. At the age of 15 and looking for a pen pal in Ireland – she found the man of her dreams and traveled alone to Ireland when she was 17 to meet him in person. She finished school and moved to Galway, where she now resides with her husband and three children. Erin is a self taught artist and activist. Inspired by women and children, Erin's paintings and writing often reflects the taboo subjects of miscarriage, grief, mother-loss, abortion, depression, and radical self love.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/russian-nostal-gia-by-nadezda-teffi--65185511https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Ностальгия Author: надежда тэффи Narrator: юлия яблонская Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: К 150-летию юбилея Надежды Тэффи мы рады представить вам «Ностальгию» – трагикомические мемуары от «королевы русского юмора» В 2022 году отмечается 150 лет со дня рождения Надежды «Тэффи» Лохвицкой. Всеобщая любимица, пользующаяся успехом и вниманием у самой разнообразной аудитории, от Ленина и Николая II до Ильи Репина и Григория Распутина, она была и остается неповторимым явлением русской литературы. Ее называли первой русской юмористкой начала XX века. Но мимолетный юмор Тэффи всегда сопровождает щемящая грусть, именно это делает ее произведения настоящими. Ее же словами, «жить в анекдоте ведь не весело, скорее трагично». В «Ностальгии» нет исторических справок или «освещений и умозаключений». В ней нет выдающихся личностей, героев или злодеев. Люди «Ностальгии» — это простые обыватели, жертвы вынужденных обстоятельств, стоящие перед лицом невзгод и преодолевающие их как все. Обрамленная тяготами революционного времени и смирением перед судьбой, «Ностальгия» — это портрет личных переживаний, душевной тоски и, конечно, ностальгии: по месту, времени и по единению с самой собой.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596481Fri, 20 May 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Ностальгия Author: надежда тэффи Narrator: юлия яблонская Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 20,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596481 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Ностальгия Author: надежда тэффи Narrator: юлия яблонская Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: К 150-летию юбилея Надежды Тэффи мы рады представить вам «Ностальгию» – трагикомические мемуары от «королевы русского юмора» В 2022 году отмечается 150 лет со дня рождения Надежды «Тэффи» Лохвицкой. Всеобщая любимица, пользующаяся успехом и вниманием у самой разнообразной аудитории, от Ленина и Николая II до Ильи Репина и Григория Распутина, она была и остается неповторимым явлением русской литературы. Ее называли первой русской юмористкой начала XX века. Но мимолетный юмор Тэффи всегда сопровождает щемящая грусть, именно это делает ее произведения настоящими. Ее же словами, «жить в анекдоте ведь не весело, скорее трагично». В «Ностальгии» нет исторических справок или «освещений и умозаключений». В ней нет выдающихся личностей, героев или злодеев. Люди «Ностальгии» — это простые обыватели, жертвы вынужденных обстоятельств, стоящие перед лицом невзгод и преодолевающие их как все. Обрамленная тяготами революционного времени и смирением перед судьбой, «Ностальгия» — это портрет личных переживаний, душевной тоски и, конечно, ностальгии: по месту, времени и по единению с самой собой.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/27-letters-to-my-daughter-a-beautiful-and-heartfelt-memoir-on-how-to-live-by-ella-ward--65185531https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 27 Letters to My Daughter: a beautiful and heartfelt memoir on how to live Author: Ella Ward Narrator: Ella Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: May 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When death is dancing closer than you'd like, what becomes important? What do you need to tell your child? And how do you want to be remembered? A beautiful, tender, funny and poignant guide on how to really live, from a mother to her daughter. Ella Ward comes from a long line of irrepressibly charming raconteurs, letter-writers, storytellers and people who 'quite like giving toasts at parties'. And so, a few years ago, when Ella was 36 years old, with a husband and a young daughter, and was told that she had a rare cancer and might die, she decided that death wasn't going to stand in the way of her mothering her child. As Ella's treatment for her cancer began, she started drafting letters to her daughter. To tell her about life, love, death, the importance of cotton knickers and - above all - her family. The kind of people who weren't dissuaded by little things like cancer. Or war. Or loss. Or a charging elephant. This is a story of what we inherit, and how we become ourselves. This is the story of a family - a glorious, funny, exotic and gutsy family - but it's really a story about how your attitude to life, can shape your life. A time-travelling memoir from one mother, and the generations that came before her - these are twenty-seven letters about the good, the bad, the magical and the whole damn thing. Jaunty, brave, moving and immensely appealing, this is a gloriously endearing inspirational story in the tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Last Lecture ... although with slightly more dry martinis. 'Not many people write hilariously and beautifully about something really intense and life altering. [This book] takes you all the way from heartbreak to hilarity - it will be your best friend for a while.' Martha Beck, New York Times bestselling author of The Way of Integrity]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590725Mon, 16 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 27 Letters to My Daughter: a beautiful and heartfelt memoir on how to live Author: Ella Ward Narrator: Ella Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590725 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 27 Letters to My Daughter: a beautiful and heartfelt memoir on how to live Author: Ella Ward Narrator: Ella Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: May 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When death is dancing closer than you'd like, what becomes important? What do you need to tell your child? And how do you want to be remembered? A beautiful, tender, funny and poignant guide on how to really live, from a mother to her daughter. Ella Ward comes from a long line of irrepressibly charming raconteurs, letter-writers, storytellers and people who 'quite like giving toasts at parties'. And so, a few years ago, when Ella was 36 years old, with a husband and a young daughter, and was told that she had a rare cancer and might die, she decided that death wasn't going to stand in the way of her mothering her child. As Ella's treatment for her cancer began, she started drafting letters to her daughter. To tell her about life, love, death, the importance of cotton knickers and - above all - her family. The kind of people who weren't dissuaded by little things like cancer. Or war. Or loss. Or a charging elephant. This is a story of what we inherit, and how we become ourselves. This is the story of a family - a glorious, funny, exotic and gutsy family - but it's really a story about how your attitude to life, can shape your life. A time-travelling memoir from one mother, and the generations that came before her - these are twenty-seven letters about the good, the bad, the magical and the whole damn thing. Jaunty, brave, moving and immensely appealing, this is a gloriously endearing inspirational story in the tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Last Lecture ... although with slightly more dry martinis. 'Not many people write hilariously and beautifully about something really intense and life altering. [This book] takes you all the way from heartbreak to hilarity - it will be your best friend for a while.' Martha Beck, New York Times bestselling author of The Way of Integrity]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dutch-flemish-onderweg-op-weg-naar-santiago-op-zoek-naar-mezelf-by-bente-van-de-wouw--65185549https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592202 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Dutch; Flemish] - Onderweg: Op weg naar Santiago, op zoek naar mezelf Author: Bente Van De Wouw Narrator: Lidewij Mahler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Na een zware burn-out raapt Bente zich wandelend bij elkaar op de legendarische Santiago de Compostela 'Er is iets magisch aan breken in duizend stukjes. Want nu al die scherven aan je voeten liggen, met scherpe randen en vreemde hoekjes, zijn je armen vrij om te bewegen. Hoef je geen angst meer te voelen om uit elkaar te vallen. Want dat is al gebeurd. En dus laat je los.' Bente van de Wouw had niet verwacht alleen en onvoorbereid aan het startpunt van de pelgrimstocht naar Santiago de Compostela te staan. Maar zo waren er wel meer dingen in haar leven gebeurd die ze niet aan had zien komen. De burn-out was een verrassing voor haar, net als de lege kledingkast van haar jeugdliefde in hun huis. De donkerte in zichzelf had ze niet zien aankomen, en dat het licht langzaam weer ging branden al helemaal niet. Tijdens de prachtig omschreven, loodzware voettocht van 800 kilometer door Spanje leert ze haar angst te omarmen. Bente van de Wouw (1994) werkt als schrijver en journalist en is de online editor van Flow Magazine. Ze studeerde cum laude af aan de Hogeschool van Amsterdam en schreef onder meer voor Grazia, CosmoGirl!, Flow Magazine, Metro en Hebban.nl. Op haar internationale Instagramaccount @tobehonestnl is ze open over haar eigen mentale gezondheid. 'Het verhaal van Bente over haar burn-out vond ik heel aangrijpend en tegelijkertijd ontzettend stoer. Geef nooit op, is haar boodschap. Letterlijk stap voor stap vecht zij zich eruit. Want een gevecht is het! Ik heb bewondering voor haar moed en doorzettingsvermogen.' Harriët Janssen, Boekhandel Dominicanen, Maastricht 'Heb het boek met plezier gelezen. Mooie beschrijving van de pelgrimstocht en de burn-out van binnenuit beschreven.' Astrid Derijks, Boekhandel Derijks, Oss 'Ik heb met veel plezier Onderweg van Bente van de Wouw gelezen. Ik wandelde met haar mee al was het onder een dekentje op de bank. Ook mooi hoe openhartig zij over haarzelf en haar angsten schrijft!' Annelies van Ree, Boekhandel Heinen, Den Bosch]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592202Mon, 16 May 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592202 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Dutch; Flemish] - Onderweg: Op weg naar Santiago, op zoek naar mezelf Author: Bente Van De Wouw Narrator: Lidewij Mahler Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592202 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Dutch; Flemish] - Onderweg: Op weg naar Santiago, op zoek naar mezelf Author: Bente Van De Wouw Narrator: Lidewij Mahler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Na een zware burn-out raapt Bente zich wandelend bij elkaar op de legendarische Santiago de Compostela 'Er is iets magisch aan breken in duizend stukjes. Want nu al die scherven aan je voeten liggen, met scherpe randen en vreemde hoekjes, zijn je armen vrij om te bewegen. Hoef je geen angst meer te voelen om uit elkaar te vallen. Want dat is al gebeurd. En dus laat je los.' Bente van de Wouw had niet verwacht alleen en onvoorbereid aan het startpunt van de pelgrimstocht naar Santiago de Compostela te staan. Maar zo waren er wel meer dingen in haar leven gebeurd die ze niet aan had zien komen. De burn-out was een verrassing voor haar, net als de lege kledingkast van haar jeugdliefde in hun huis. De donkerte in zichzelf had ze niet zien aankomen, en dat het licht langzaam weer ging branden al helemaal niet. Tijdens de prachtig omschreven, loodzware voettocht van 800 kilometer door Spanje leert ze haar angst te omarmen. Bente van de Wouw (1994) werkt als schrijver en journalist en is de online editor van Flow Magazine. Ze studeerde cum laude af aan de Hogeschool van Amsterdam en schreef onder meer voor Grazia, CosmoGirl!, Flow Magazine, Metro en Hebban.nl. Op haar internationale Instagramaccount @tobehonestnl is ze open over haar eigen mentale gezondheid. 'Het verhaal van Bente over haar burn-out vond ik heel aangrijpend en tegelijkertijd ontzettend stoer. Geef nooit op, is haar boodschap. Letterlijk stap voor stap vecht zij zich eruit. Want een gevecht is het! Ik heb bewondering voor haar moed en doorzettingsvermogen.' Harriët Janssen, Boekhandel Dominicanen, Maastricht 'Heb het boek met plezier gelezen. Mooie beschrijving van de pelgrimstocht en de burn-out van binnenuit beschreven.' Astrid Derijks, Boekhandel Derijks, Oss 'Ik heb met veel plezier Onderweg van Bente van de Wouw gelezen. Ik wandelde met haar mee al was het onder een dekentje op de bank. Ook mooi hoe openhartig zij over haarzelf en haar angsten schrijft!' Annelies van Ree, Boekhandel Heinen, Den Bosch]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-naufragos-sin-tierra-by-yolanda-alvarez--65185548https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593667 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Náufragos sin tierra Author: Yolanda álvarez Narrator: Paloma Insa Rico Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Pensaban cubrir la misión de rescate durante una semana y estuvieron casi un mes en el mar. La periodista de TVE Yolanda Álvarez, junto al reportero gráfico Joaquín Relaño, vivieron en el verano de 2019 una odisea junto a decenas de personas ansiosas por alcanzar las costas de Europa. Este es el relato emocionante y crudo de aquella travesía a bordo del Open Arms, con 160 hombres, mujeres y niños en peligro de naufragio. Con los puertos seguros más cercanos cerrados al desembarco, la misión 65 del Open Arms se convirtió en la más dura del buque de rescate, una secuencia de jornadas agónicas que el equipo de periodistas transmitió al mundo prácticamente en directo. Yolanda Álvarez narra sus vivencias, en condiciones a veces extremas, y describe cómo es convivir en un barco con capacidad para 19 tripulantes y tener a bordo a tantos náufragos a la espera de llegar a una tierra de acogida y sin rumbo en el mar después de dejar atrás un infierno de explotación, violencia, abusos e incluso esclavitud. Un relato cargado de humanidad que desvela, sin filtros, la realidad de quienes intentan salvar su vida de una muerte segura. - Yolanda Álvarez nació en Burjassot (Valencia) en 1974. Estudió Periodismo en Valencia, donde, tras unos años en televisión y comunicación, empezó a trabajar en Televisión Española. En 2007, ya en Madrid, se incorporó al Área Internacional de los Servicios Informativos de TVE. Cubrió como enviada especial las protestas de la 'Marcha Verde' en Irán, las revueltas árabes en Túnez y Yemen, y las crisis de refugiados por las guerras en Libia y en la R. D. del Congo, entre otras. Fue corresponsal en Oriente Próximo durante cuatro años, donde cubrió las guerras en Gaza de 2012 y 2014. Por su trabajo periodístico en la Franja durante la ofensiva más sangrienta, obtuvo el Premio Libertad de Expresión, el Premio Derechos Humanos y el Premio Turia a la Mejor Contribución de Medios de Comunicación. Desde 2015, es reportera del programa En Portada, donde sigue ejerciendo un periodismo humano y comprometido con las personas que sufren. Su reportaje Esclavas del Daesh, sobre el genocidio yazidí, obtuvo el mayor galardón del Festival de Hamburgo 2017. Y Prisionero 151/716, sobre las torturas en la cárcel de Abu Ghraib, un Delfín de Oro en Cannes Corporate Awards 2019. Mediterránea de origen y de corazón, en verano de 2019, Yolanda Álvarez se embarcó con TVE en el Open Arms, donde pasó casi un mes relatando la misión más dura del barco de rescate, que visibilizó ante el mundo el drama de las personas que arriesgan su vida en el Mare Nostrum para llegar a una Europa que les cierra sus puertas.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593667Sun, 15 May 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593667 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Náufragos sin tierra Author: Yolanda álvarez Narrator: Paloma Insa Rico Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593667 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Náufragos sin tierra Author: Yolanda álvarez Narrator: Paloma Insa Rico Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Pensaban cubrir la misión de rescate durante una semana y estuvieron casi un mes en el mar. La periodista de TVE Yolanda Álvarez, junto al reportero gráfico Joaquín Relaño, vivieron en el verano de 2019 una odisea junto a decenas de personas ansiosas por alcanzar las costas de Europa. Este es el relato emocionante y crudo de aquella travesía a bordo del Open Arms, con 160 hombres, mujeres y niños en peligro de naufragio. Con los puertos seguros más cercanos cerrados al desembarco, la misión 65 del Open Arms se convirtió en la más dura del buque de rescate, una secuencia de jornadas agónicas que el equipo de periodistas transmitió al mundo prácticamente en directo. Yolanda Álvarez narra sus vivencias, en condiciones a veces extremas, y describe cómo es convivir en un barco con capacidad para 19 tripulantes y tener a bordo a tantos náufragos a la espera de llegar a una tierra de acogida y sin rumbo en el mar después de dejar atrás un infierno de explotación, violencia, abusos e incluso esclavitud. Un relato cargado de humanidad que desvela, sin filtros, la realidad de quienes intentan salvar su vida de una muerte segura. - Yolanda Álvarez nació en Burjassot (Valencia) en 1974. Estudió Periodismo en Valencia, donde, tras unos años en televisión y comunicación, empezó a trabajar en Televisión Española. En 2007, ya en Madrid, se incorporó al Área Internacional de los Servicios Informativos de TVE. Cubrió como enviada especial las protestas de la 'Marcha Verde' en Irán, las revueltas árabes en Túnez y Yemen, y las crisis de refugiados por las guerras en Libia y en la R. D. del Congo, entre otras. Fue corresponsal en Oriente Próximo durante cuatro años, donde cubrió las guerras en Gaza de 2012 y 2014. Por su trabajo periodístico en la Franja durante la ofensiva más sangrienta, obtuvo el Premio Libertad de Expresión, el Premio Derechos Humanos y el Premio Turia a la Mejor Contribución de Medios de Comunicación. Desde 2015, es reportera del programa En Portada, donde sigue ejerciendo un periodismo humano y comprometido con las personas que sufren. Su reportaje Esclavas del Daesh, sobre el genocidio yazidí, obtuvo el mayor galardón del Festival de Hamburgo 2017. Y Prisionero 151/716, sobre las torturas en la cárcel de Abu Ghraib, un Delfín de Oro en Cannes Corporate Awards 2019. Mediterránea de origen y de corazón, en verano de 2019, Yolanda Álvarez se embarcó con TVE en el Open Arms, donde pasó casi un mes relatando la misión más dura del barco de rescate, que visibilizó ante el mundo el drama de las personas que arriesgan su vida en el Mare Nostrum para llegar a una Europa que les cierra sus puertas.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bright-lights-big-empty-a-journey-of-profound-awakening-by-ron-baker--65185546https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595224 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright Lights, Big Empty: A Journey of Profound Awakening Author: Ron Baker Narrator: Ron Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: IN THE EYES OF THE PUBLIC, RON BAKER HAD ALREADY BECOME AN INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS, performing over sixty lead roles in operas and Broadway shows around the world. However, on the inside, he felt empty and insecure. Something important was missing from his life. Then, a chance encounter on a bus changed everything. What follows is an epic saga of spiritual empowerment like no other—from the channeled urgings of Archangel Gabriel for Ron to reframe his entire life, to the planet-shifting quests in the Great Pyramid of Egypt and on the mountaintop of Machu Picchu in Peru. Full of practical guidance that will help you take powerful steps on your own journey, as well as priceless clarity about the unprecedented shifts that are taking place in the world today, Bright Lights, Big Empty invites you on the adventure of a lifetime—revealing a depth of personal transformation that few imagine possible.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595224Sun, 15 May 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595224 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright Lights, Big Empty: A Journey of Profound Awakening Author: Ron Baker Narrator: Ron Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595224 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright Lights, Big Empty: A Journey of Profound Awakening Author: Ron Baker Narrator: Ron Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: IN THE EYES OF THE PUBLIC, RON BAKER HAD ALREADY BECOME AN INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS, performing over sixty lead roles in operas and Broadway shows around the world. However, on the inside, he felt empty and insecure. Something important was missing from his life. Then, a chance encounter on a bus changed everything. What follows is an epic saga of spiritual empowerment like no other—from the channeled urgings of Archangel Gabriel for Ron to reframe his entire life, to the planet-shifting quests in the Great Pyramid of Egypt and on the mountaintop of Machu Picchu in Peru. Full of practical guidance that will help you take powerful steps on your own journey, as well as priceless clarity about the unprecedented shifts that are taking place in the world today, Bright Lights, Big Empty invites you on the adventure of a lifetime—revealing a depth of personal transformation that few imagine possible.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beyond-the-next-village-a-year-of-magic-and-medicine-in-nepal-by-mary-anne-mercer--65185563https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592480 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Next Village: A Year of Magic and Medicine in Nepal Author: Mary Anne Mercer Narrator: Mary Anne Mercer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Beyond the Next Village is Mary Anne Mercer's memoir of discovery, growth, and awakening in 1978 Nepal, which was then a mysterious country to most of the world. After arriving in Nepal, Mercer, an American nurse, spent a year traveling on foot-often in flip-flops-with a Nepali health team, providing immunizations and clinical care in each village they visited. Communicating in a newly acquired language, she was often called upon to provide the only modern medicine available to the people she and her team were serving. Over time, she learned to recognize and respect the prominence of their cultural beliefs about health and illness. Encounters with life-threatening conditions such as severe malnutrition and ectopic pregnancy gave her an enlightening view of both the limitations and power of modern health care; immersed in villagers' lives and those of her own team, she realized she was living in not just another country, but another time. This unique story of the joys and perils of one woman's journey in the shadow of the Himalayas, Beyond the Next Village opens a window into a world where the spirits were as real as the trees, the birds, or the rain-and healing could be as much magic as medicine.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592480Wed, 11 May 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592480 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Next Village: A Year of Magic and Medicine in Nepal Author: Mary Anne Mercer Narrator: Mary Anne Mercer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592480 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Next Village: A Year of Magic and Medicine in Nepal Author: Mary Anne Mercer Narrator: Mary Anne Mercer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Beyond the Next Village is Mary Anne Mercer's memoir of discovery, growth, and awakening in 1978 Nepal, which was then a mysterious country to most of the world. After arriving in Nepal, Mercer, an American nurse, spent a year traveling on foot-often in flip-flops-with a Nepali health team, providing immunizations and clinical care in each village they visited. Communicating in a newly acquired language, she was often called upon to provide the only modern medicine available to the people she and her team were serving. Over time, she learned to recognize and respect the prominence of their cultural beliefs about health and illness. Encounters with life-threatening conditions such as severe malnutrition and ectopic pregnancy gave her an enlightening view of both the limitations and power of modern health care; immersed in villagers' lives and those of her own team, she realized she was living in not just another country, but another time. This unique story of the joys and perils of one woman's journey in the shadow of the Himalayas, Beyond the Next Village opens a window into a world where the spirits were as real as the trees, the birds, or the rain-and healing could be as much magic as medicine.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/he-knows-my-name-series-portrait-of-a-lady-part-1-by-raven-day-mcshane--65185589https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: He Knows My Name: Series: Portrait of a Lady: Part 1 Author: Raven Day Mcshane Narrator: Alex Picard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Peer through the windows of Raven Day McShane’s life as she leaves her Army life for the civilian world—not an easy task for any military veteran. With undiagnosed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Raven and her son, Aaron, encounter tremendous hardships as they journey through life, not always together, ultimately to learn that life is not how we plan. But together or apart, they realize that they can put life back together with faith in each other and with love. Family is not always those we are related to, but the ones who help us during our times of need, and no adversity can take away their bond. About the Author Raven Day McShane is a military veteran with her Master’s in Rehabilitation Counseling. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Leadership and Behavioral Health. She has one adult son, Aric. Her hobbies include crocheting, cycling, walking, hiking, vegetable gardening, community building, traveling, and volunteer work in the community. She’s a partner at St. Lukes United Methodist Church in Orlando and participates in Shalom Prison Writing Ministry; Inside Out Jail Ministry; Connect Ministries, Woman’s Bible Group, and Singles Serving Bible Group at St. Lukes UMC.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591736Wed, 04 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: He Knows My Name: Series: Portrait of a Lady: Part 1 Author: Raven Day Mcshane Narrator: Alex Picard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: He Knows My Name: Series: Portrait of a Lady: Part 1 Author: Raven Day Mcshane Narrator: Alex Picard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Peer through the windows of Raven Day McShane’s life as she leaves her Army life for the civilian world—not an easy task for any military veteran. With undiagnosed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Raven and her son, Aaron, encounter tremendous hardships as they journey through life, not always together, ultimately to learn that life is not how we plan. But together or apart, they realize that they can put life back together with faith in each other and with love. Family is not always those we are related to, but the ones who help us during our times of need, and no adversity can take away their bond. About the Author Raven Day McShane is a military veteran with her Master’s in Rehabilitation Counseling. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Leadership and Behavioral Health. She has one adult son, Aric. Her hobbies include crocheting, cycling, walking, hiking, vegetable gardening, community building, traveling, and volunteer work in the community. She’s a partner at St. Lukes United Methodist Church in Orlando and participates in Shalom Prison Writing Ministry; Inside Out Jail Ministry; Connect Ministries, Woman’s Bible Group, and Singles Serving Bible Group at St. Lukes UMC.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-back-door-people-memories-from-the-houses-where-i-lived-by-barbara-braseth-johnson--65185590https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591793 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Back Door People: memories from the houses where I lived Author: Barbara Braseth Johnson Narrator: Barbara Braseth Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A charming look at the Depression Era through the eyes of a young girl growing up in northern Minnesota. Barbara was born in 1931 when economic times were hard but life was simple. She lived with her parents and siblings in five houses by the time she was twelve, and takes the listener along as describes the houses and shares her stories of saving for a bike, paying for piano lessons with porcupine meatballs, enjoying five-cent ice cream cones, and learning the basics of journalism work at the local newspaper office. This story was written by Barbara Braseth Johnson at age 85 so her grandchildren could get a glimpse of what it was like to live without tv and cell phones and computers. She can be reached by email at barbjohnson104@gmail.com.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591793Tue, 03 May 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591793 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Back Door People: memories from the houses where I lived Author: Barbara Braseth Johnson Narrator: Barbara Braseth Johnson Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591793 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Back Door People: memories from the houses where I lived Author: Barbara Braseth Johnson Narrator: Barbara Braseth Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A charming look at the Depression Era through the eyes of a young girl growing up in northern Minnesota. Barbara was born in 1931 when economic times were hard but life was simple. She lived with her parents and siblings in five houses by the time she was twelve, and takes the listener along as describes the houses and shares her stories of saving for a bike, paying for piano lessons with porcupine meatballs, enjoying five-cent ice cream cones, and learning the basics of journalism work at the local newspaper office. This story was written by Barbara Braseth Johnson at age 85 so her grandchildren could get a glimpse of what it was like to live without tv and cell phones and computers. She can be reached by email at barbjohnson104@gmail.com.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/it-s-a-great-life-if-you-don-t-weaken-family-faith-and-48-years-on-television-by-dave-lopez--65185564https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It's A Great Life if You Don't Weaken: Family, Faith and 48 Years on Television Author: Dave Lopez Narrator: Dave Lopez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For nearly fifty years, Dave Lopez covered every major story in the Southland. The veteran news reporter was a nightly presence in LA living rooms on KCBS Channel 2 for a remarkable 48-year career on camera. General managers and news directors came and went in the unforgiving world of major market TV news, but Dave outlasted more than twenty regime changes. LA's man in the street kept his head down, nose to the grindstone, and relentlessly chased breaking news. He garnered Emmys, accolades, and tens of thousands of fans along the way. One of the first Hispanic reporters on a major station, Dave's inaugural on-air report on Channel 2 in 1977 concerned an apartment fire that nearly ended in tragedy because none of the firefighters on the scene spoke Spanish. His report ended with the note that the Los Angeles Fire Department was beginning a program to actively recruit bilingual first responders; officials were also thinking of offering Spanish classes at LAFD. Dave was personally breaking barriers decades before Mexican lives officially "mattered"-success he credits entirely to his upbringing. Professional success came early, but the true measure of a man is his family. In this nostalgic look back, Dave recalls the values instilled by his hardworking father-a man he worshiped and feared in equal measures. It is also a love story that began in high school . . . and how the fearless reporter who thought he could conquer or investigate his way out of anything was forced to accept that some foes cannot be beaten. When he lost both his beloved wife and mother and his invincible father fell apart, Dave finally lost his unflagging optimism . . . and was forced to begin again just as the entire world of news was undergoing a sea change. IT'S A GREAT LIFE IF YOU DON'T WEAKEN is an inspirational tale of faith, family, and the news from a true LA native. Set against the backdrop of every major story of the last half-century-from Vietnam War protests to the O.J. Simpson trial to countless politicians behaving badly-this story is a vivid remembrance of a life well lived, both on and off camera.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590688Tue, 19 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It's A Great Life if You Don't Weaken: Family, Faith and 48 Years on Television Author: Dave Lopez Narrator: Dave Lopez Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It's A Great Life if You Don't Weaken: Family, Faith and 48 Years on Television Author: Dave Lopez Narrator: Dave Lopez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 56 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For nearly fifty years, Dave Lopez covered every major story in the Southland. The veteran news reporter was a nightly presence in LA living rooms on KCBS Channel 2 for a remarkable 48-year career on camera. General managers and news directors came and went in the unforgiving world of major market TV news, but Dave outlasted more than twenty regime changes. LA's man in the street kept his head down, nose to the grindstone, and relentlessly chased breaking news. He garnered Emmys, accolades, and tens of thousands of fans along the way. One of the first Hispanic reporters on a major station, Dave's inaugural on-air report on Channel 2 in 1977 concerned an apartment fire that nearly ended in tragedy because none of the firefighters on the scene spoke Spanish. His report ended with the note that the Los Angeles Fire Department was beginning a program to actively recruit bilingual first responders; officials were also thinking of offering Spanish classes at LAFD. Dave was personally breaking barriers decades before Mexican lives officially "mattered"-success he credits entirely to his upbringing. Professional success came early, but the true measure of a man is his family. In this nostalgic look back, Dave recalls the values instilled by his hardworking father-a man he worshiped and feared in equal measures. It is also a love story that began in high school . . . and how the fearless reporter who thought he could conquer or investigate his way out of anything was forced to accept that some foes cannot be beaten. When he lost both his beloved wife and mother and his invincible father fell apart, Dave finally lost his unflagging optimism . . . and was forced to begin again just as the entire world of news was undergoing a sea change. IT'S A GREAT LIFE IF YOU DON'T WEAKEN is an inspirational tale of faith, family, and the news from a true LA native. Set against the backdrop of every major story of the last half-century-from Vietnam War protests to the O.J. Simpson trial to countless politicians behaving badly-this story is a vivid remembrance of a life well lived, both on and off camera.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/consider-your-ass-kissed-by-ruta-lee--65185352https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Consider Your Ass Kissed Author: Ruta Lee Narrator: Ruta Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ruta Lee’s memoir is a treasure trove of wonderful personal stories and anecdotes with rare firsthand and authentic memories of the entertainment industry. Ruta Lee is Hollywood! She tells the fascinating stories of her life as a rising star in the golden years of Hollywood; a career that spans seven decades. You will meet the famous actors, dancers, and singers who are now legends that Ruta worked with and whose stories of life behind the scenes intertwined with Ruta’s. The stories of Ruta’s life are told here with truth, with humor, and with an honesty that is Ruta Lee. In Consider Your Ass Kissed, Ruta discusses her starring roles in films such as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Funny Face, Bullet for a Badman, Witness for the Prosecution, and Sergeants 3. Ruta has worked with Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Charles Bronson, James Garner, Johnny Carson, Fred Astaire, Robin Williams, Howard Keel, Bob Crane, Frank Sinatra, and the rest of the Rat Pack—the list goes on! The iconic ladies she called friends include Rona Barrett, Phyllis Diller, Julie Newmar, Lucille Ball, Sally Fields, Gypsy Rose Lee (no relation), and her best friend and founder of Thalians, Debbie Reynolds. During Ruta’s thriving film career, she launched into television success with over 2000 appearances, starring and guest starring in shows like Perry Mason, the George Burns & Gracie Allen show, the Andy Griffith show, Dragnet, Peter Gun, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Marcus Welby MD, The Twilight Zone, Ironside, The Flying Nun, Hogan’s Heroes, Mork & Mindy, Benson, The Love Boat, Murder She Wrote, Roseanne, Days of Our Lives, Power Rangers, and, of course, 77 Sunset Strip and The Lucy Show. She even auditioned for the role of Ginger on Gilligan’s Island. Lee was also co-host on NBC’s High Rollers with Alex Trebek, a regular on Hollywood Squares with Peter Marshall, and made several television movies. She had series leads in CBS’ Coming of Age and HBO’s 1st and Ten. Her stints on the Bonnie Hunt Show remain among her favorites. Thalians founder Debbie Reynolds and Ruta were the Leading Ladies of “Hollywood for Mental Health” and raised millions for The Thalians Mental Health Center, with star studded events. The audiobook includes a bonus PDF containing photographs from Ruta’s illustrious career.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611440Tue, 12 Apr 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Consider Your Ass Kissed Author: Ruta Lee Narrator: Ruta Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Consider Your Ass Kissed Author: Ruta Lee Narrator: Ruta Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ruta Lee’s memoir is a treasure trove of wonderful personal stories and anecdotes with rare firsthand and authentic memories of the entertainment industry. Ruta Lee is Hollywood! She tells the fascinating stories of her life as a rising star in the golden years of Hollywood; a career that spans seven decades. You will meet the famous actors, dancers, and singers who are now legends that Ruta worked with and whose stories of life behind the scenes intertwined with Ruta’s. The stories of Ruta’s life are told here with truth, with humor, and with an honesty that is Ruta Lee. In Consider Your Ass Kissed, Ruta discusses her starring roles in films such as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Funny Face, Bullet for a Badman, Witness for the Prosecution, and Sergeants 3. Ruta has worked with Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Charles Bronson, James Garner, Johnny Carson, Fred Astaire, Robin Williams, Howard Keel, Bob Crane, Frank Sinatra, and the rest of the Rat Pack—the list goes on! The iconic ladies she called friends include Rona Barrett, Phyllis Diller, Julie Newmar, Lucille Ball, Sally Fields, Gypsy Rose Lee (no relation), and her best friend and founder of Thalians, Debbie Reynolds. During Ruta’s thriving film career, she launched into television success with over 2000 appearances, starring and guest starring in shows like Perry Mason, the George Burns & Gracie Allen show, the Andy Griffith show, Dragnet, Peter Gun, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Marcus Welby MD, The Twilight Zone, Ironside, The Flying Nun, Hogan’s Heroes, Mork & Mindy, Benson, The Love Boat, Murder She Wrote, Roseanne, Days of Our Lives, Power Rangers, and, of course, 77 Sunset Strip and The Lucy Show. She even auditioned for the role of Ginger on Gilligan’s Island. Lee was also co-host on NBC’s High Rollers with Alex Trebek, a regular on Hollywood Squares with Peter Marshall, and made several television movies. She had series leads in CBS’ Coming of Age and HBO’s 1st and Ten. Her stints on the Bonnie Hunt Show remain among her favorites. Thalians founder Debbie Reynolds and Ruta were the Leading Ladies of “Hollywood for Mental Health” and raised millions for The Thalians Mental Health Center, with star studded events. The audiobook includes a bonus PDF containing photographs from Ruta’s illustrious career.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/healing-when-a-nurse-becomes-a-patient-by-theresa-brown--65185314https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient Author: Theresa Brown Narrator: Abby Craden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shift comes a frank look at navigating the world of healthcare as a cancer nurse becomes a patient and experiences the system from the other side.​ Despite her training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, Brown finds it difficult to navigate the medical maze from the other side of the bed. Why is she so often left in the dark about procedures and treatments? Why is she expected to research her own best treatment options? Why is there so much red tape? At times she’s mad at herself for not speaking up and asking for what she needs but knows that being a “difficult” patient could mean she gets worse care. Of the almost four million women in this country living with breast cancer, many have had, like Brown, a treatable form of the disease. Both unnerving and extremely relatable, her experience shows us how our for-profit health care industry “cures” us but at the same time leaves so many of us feeling alienated and uncared for. As she did so brilliantly in her New York Times bestseller, The Shift, Brown relays the unforgettable details of her daily life—the needles, the chemo drugs, the rubber gloves, the bureaucratic frustrations—but this time from her new perch as a patient, looking back at some of her own cases and considering what she didn’t know then about the warping effects of fear and the healing virtues of compassion. “People failed me when I was a patient and I failed patients when working as a nurse. I see that now,” she writes. Healing is must-read for all of us who have tried to find healing through our health-care system.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612826Tue, 12 Apr 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient Author: Theresa Brown Narrator: Abby Craden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient Author: Theresa Brown Narrator: Abby Craden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shift comes a frank look at navigating the world of healthcare as a cancer nurse becomes a patient and experiences the system from the other side.​ Despite her training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, Brown finds it difficult to navigate the medical maze from the other side of the bed. Why is she so often left in the dark about procedures and treatments? Why is she expected to research her own best treatment options? Why is there so much red tape? At times she’s mad at herself for not speaking up and asking for what she needs but knows that being a “difficult” patient could mean she gets worse care. Of the almost four million women in this country living with breast cancer, many have had, like Brown, a treatable form of the disease. Both unnerving and extremely relatable, her experience shows us how our for-profit health care industry “cures” us but at the same time leaves so many of us feeling alienated and uncared for. As she did so brilliantly in her New York Times bestseller, The Shift, Brown relays the unforgettable details of her daily life—the needles, the chemo drugs, the rubber gloves, the bureaucratic frustrations—but this time from her new perch as a patient, looking back at some of her own cases and considering what she didn’t know then about the warping effects of fear and the healing virtues of compassion. “People failed me when I was a patient and I failed patients when working as a nurse. I see that now,” she writes. Healing is must-read for all of us who have tried to find healing through our health-care system.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hope-my-journey-of-love-loss-and-faith-by-matthew-mattera--65185347https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hope: My Journey of Love, Loss, and Faith Author: Matthew Mattera Narrator: Denny Brownlee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At the age of six, Matthew lost his father to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. At the age of thirty-seven, he lost his fifteen-year-old daughter to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Between those two deaths, he lost a cousin and two uncles to suicide, and a brother to self-harm. Hope reveals the tenacity of the human heart, showcases unrelenting faith, and shares immovable hope while giving a breathtaking inside look into the battle against generational dysfunction, destruction, and death. Matthew goes beyond simple “suicide awareness” by giving a raw perspective into its warning signs, contributing factors, depth of impact, and the cascade of damage inflicted upon those left behind. Matthew challenges us to have a critical discussion about suicide as a three-part-problem set: body/mind/spirit while telling us how to embrace growth and healing, engage in the careful art of stewarding hardship and trials, and the need for both accountability and partnership with healthy people who are committed to helping the wounded heal and grow.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611488Mon, 11 Apr 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hope: My Journey of Love, Loss, and Faith Author: Matthew Mattera Narrator: Denny Brownlee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/611488 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hope: My Journey of Love, Loss, and Faith Author: Matthew Mattera Narrator: Denny Brownlee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: At the age of six, Matthew lost his father to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. At the age of thirty-seven, he lost his fifteen-year-old daughter to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Between those two deaths, he lost a cousin and two uncles to suicide, and a brother to self-harm. Hope reveals the tenacity of the human heart, showcases unrelenting faith, and shares immovable hope while giving a breathtaking inside look into the battle against generational dysfunction, destruction, and death. Matthew goes beyond simple “suicide awareness” by giving a raw perspective into its warning signs, contributing factors, depth of impact, and the cascade of damage inflicted upon those left behind. Matthew challenges us to have a critical discussion about suicide as a three-part-problem set: body/mind/spirit while telling us how to embrace growth and healing, engage in the careful art of stewarding hardship and trials, and the need for both accountability and partnership with healthy people who are committed to helping the wounded heal and grow.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/khabaar-an-immigrant-journey-of-food-memory-and-family-by-madhushree-ghosh--65185371https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family Author: Madhushree Ghosh Narrator: Deepti Gupta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: April 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country? These questions are integral to the author’s own immigrant journey to America as a daughter of Indian refugees (from what’s now Bangladesh to India during the 1947 Partition of India); as a woman of color in science; as a woman who left an abusive marriage; and as a woman who keeps her parents’ memory alive through her Bengali food.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604501Mon, 04 Apr 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family Author: Madhushree Ghosh Narrator: Deepti Gupta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family Author: Madhushree Ghosh Narrator: Deepti Gupta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: April 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country? These questions are integral to the author’s own immigrant journey to America as a daughter of Indian refugees (from what’s now Bangladesh to India during the 1947 Partition of India); as a woman of color in science; as a woman who left an abusive marriage; and as a woman who keeps her parents’ memory alive through her Bengali food.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-100-quotes-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky-by-fiodor-dostoievski--65185416https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - 100 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Author: Fiódor Dostoievski Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Fyodor Dostoyevsky is one of the greatest Russian writers that ever lived. His works continue to influence writers and philosophers to this day. After becoming a second lieutenant, he resigned from the army in 1859 and committed himself completely to writing. He became an admired writer after the publication of 'Crime and Punishment' (1866) and 'The Idiot' (1869). The author's final book was also his opus magnus. 'The Brothers Karamazov' was serialised in the periodical 'Russkiy Vestnik' between January 1879 and November 1880. Dostoyevsky died of a pulmonary haemorrhage three months later in February 1881. These 100 quotations aim to give the listener access to his monumental work through a selection of his most outstanding thoughts, in a format accessible to all. A quotation is more than an extract from a statement, it can be a witticism, a summary of complex thought, a maxim or an opening to a deeper reflection. - -]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601674Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - 100 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Author: Fiódor Dostoievski Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - 100 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Author: Fiódor Dostoievski Narrator: Brad Carty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Fyodor Dostoyevsky is one of the greatest Russian writers that ever lived. His works continue to influence writers and philosophers to this day. After becoming a second lieutenant, he resigned from the army in 1859 and committed himself completely to writing. He became an admired writer after the publication of 'Crime and Punishment' (1866) and 'The Idiot' (1869). The author's final book was also his opus magnus. 'The Brothers Karamazov' was serialised in the periodical 'Russkiy Vestnik' between January 1879 and November 1880. Dostoyevsky died of a pulmonary haemorrhage three months later in February 1881. These 100 quotations aim to give the listener access to his monumental work through a selection of his most outstanding thoughts, in a format accessible to all. A quotation is more than an extract from a statement, it can be a witticism, a summary of complex thought, a maxim or an opening to a deeper reflection. - -]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-running-shaped-hole-a-memoir-by-robert-earl-stewart--65185523https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Running-Shaped Hole: A Memoir Author: Robert Earl Stewart Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A searching, self-deprecating memoir of a man on his way to eating himself to death before discovering the anxiety and fulfillment of distance running When Robert Earl Stewart sees his pants lying across the end of his bed, they remind him of a flag draped over a coffin—his coffin. At thirty-eight years old he weighs 368 pounds and is slowly eating himself to death. The only thing that helps him deal with the fear and shame is eating. But one day, following a terrifying doctor’s appointment, he goes for a walk—an act that sets The Running-Shaped Hole in motion. Within a year, he is running long distances, fulfilling his mother’s dying wishes, reversing the disastrous course of his eating, losing 140 pounds, and, after several mishaps and jail time, eventually running the Detroit Free Press Half-Marathon. At turns philosophical and slapstick, this memoir examines the life-altering effects running has on a man who, left to his own devices, struggles to be a husband, a father, a son, and a writer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603791Tue, 29 Mar 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Running-Shaped Hole: A Memoir Author: Robert Earl Stewart Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 5 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Running-Shaped Hole: A Memoir Author: Robert Earl Stewart Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A searching, self-deprecating memoir of a man on his way to eating himself to death before discovering the anxiety and fulfillment of distance running When Robert Earl Stewart sees his pants lying across the end of his bed, they remind him of a flag draped over a coffin—his coffin. At thirty-eight years old he weighs 368 pounds and is slowly eating himself to death. The only thing that helps him deal with the fear and shame is eating. But one day, following a terrifying doctor’s appointment, he goes for a walk—an act that sets The Running-Shaped Hole in motion. Within a year, he is running long distances, fulfilling his mother’s dying wishes, reversing the disastrous course of his eating, losing 140 pounds, and, after several mishaps and jail time, eventually running the Detroit Free Press Half-Marathon. At turns philosophical and slapstick, this memoir examines the life-altering effects running has on a man who, left to his own devices, struggles to be a husband, a father, a son, and a writer.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-magic-failed-a-memoir-of-a-lebanese-childhood-caught-between-east-and-west-by-fouad-ajami--65185494https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602500 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Magic Failed: A Memoir of a Lebanese Childhood, Caught between East and West Author: Fouad Ajami Narrator: Assaf Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 22, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the author of The Arab Predicament and Dream Palace of the Arabs comes a beautiful and haunting memoir of growing up in Lebanon in the ’50s and ’60s—the story of a sensitive young man and budding intellectual caught between tradition and modernity, east and west. As one of the most profound and insightful scholars of the Middle East, Fouad Ajami’s sensibility was powerfully shaped by his childhood and youth in Lebanon in the ’50s and ’60s. The time was a transitional one—not only for the Middle East, but for America and the world. Lebanon in this era was just coming into its own as a cosmopolitan destination of the international jet set as well as earnest American educators seeking to modernize Arab society. The disruptive forces of the Middle East—the Cold War, the Palestinian conflict, religious extremism, the money and oil of the Gulf—were only just beginning to appear. In this haunting and beautifully written memoir of his Lebanese childhood, the late Middle East scholar, Fouad Ajami, casts a discerning light into the corners and alleyways of an Arab reality that would later erupt into full view.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602500Tue, 22 Mar 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602500 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Magic Failed: A Memoir of a Lebanese Childhood, Caught between East and West Author: Fouad Ajami Narrator: Assaf Cohen Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602500 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Magic Failed: A Memoir of a Lebanese Childhood, Caught between East and West Author: Fouad Ajami Narrator: Assaf Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 22, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the author of The Arab Predicament and Dream Palace of the Arabs comes a beautiful and haunting memoir of growing up in Lebanon in the ’50s and ’60s—the story of a sensitive young man and budding intellectual caught between tradition and modernity, east and west. As one of the most profound and insightful scholars of the Middle East, Fouad Ajami’s sensibility was powerfully shaped by his childhood and youth in Lebanon in the ’50s and ’60s. The time was a transitional one—not only for the Middle East, but for America and the world. Lebanon in this era was just coming into its own as a cosmopolitan destination of the international jet set as well as earnest American educators seeking to modernize Arab society. The disruptive forces of the Middle East—the Cold War, the Palestinian conflict, religious extremism, the money and oil of the Gulf—were only just beginning to appear. In this haunting and beautifully written memoir of his Lebanese childhood, the late Middle East scholar, Fouad Ajami, casts a discerning light into the corners and alleyways of an Arab reality that would later erupt into full view.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/look-at-it-this-way-the-blind-leading-the-sighted-by-sammy-sweetspirit--65185503https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Look at It This Way: The Blind Leading the Sighted Author: Sammy Sweetspirit Narrator: Sammy Sweetspirit Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A powerful book that creates a conversation around the topic of blindness Look at It This Way answers questions we all may have been reluctant to ask, it gives us a glimpse into what blind people experience living in a sighted world, and it breaks through barriers that may cause people to think that differences equate to superiority or inferiority. There is an open discussion about the challenges blind people face and how those challenges can be overcome, by creating a space of understanding and awareness between people who are sighted and people who are blind. This book invites us to remember how connected all of us truly are and gives us ways to strengthen our bonds with each other, whether we can see or not.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601333Tue, 15 Mar 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Look at It This Way: The Blind Leading the Sighted Author: Sammy Sweetspirit Narrator: Sammy Sweetspirit Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601333 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Look at It This Way: The Blind Leading the Sighted Author: Sammy Sweetspirit Narrator: Sammy Sweetspirit Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A powerful book that creates a conversation around the topic of blindness Look at It This Way answers questions we all may have been reluctant to ask, it gives us a glimpse into what blind people experience living in a sighted world, and it breaks through barriers that may cause people to think that differences equate to superiority or inferiority. There is an open discussion about the challenges blind people face and how those challenges can be overcome, by creating a space of understanding and awareness between people who are sighted and people who are blind. This book invites us to remember how connected all of us truly are and gives us ways to strengthen our bonds with each other, whether we can see or not.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/broken-wide-open-by-shana-pennington-baird--65185432https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601352 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Broken Wide Open Author: Shana Pennington-Baird Narrator: Shana Pennington-Baird Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In August of 2019, Shana Pennington-Baird found herself in the wilds of Ireland, traveling alone, when she had a major health emergency. During the course of this one-hour musical adventure, Shana will take you on a journey of diagnosis, emergency open-heart surgery, recovery, and recuperation 5,000 miles from home. She will make you laugh since that’s how she got through it, and tell you all the stories that she shared with medical professionals when she got home, which put them in stitches. The show includes crazy ambulance rides, instant friendships from AirBnB hosts, slumber parties on the cardio rehab floor, and lots of good Barry’s Irish Tea with bacon rashers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601352Tue, 15 Mar 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601352 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Broken Wide Open Author: Shana Pennington-Baird Narrator: Shana Pennington-Baird Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601352 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Broken Wide Open Author: Shana Pennington-Baird Narrator: Shana Pennington-Baird Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In August of 2019, Shana Pennington-Baird found herself in the wilds of Ireland, traveling alone, when she had a major health emergency. During the course of this one-hour musical adventure, Shana will take you on a journey of diagnosis, emergency open-heart surgery, recovery, and recuperation 5,000 miles from home. She will make you laugh since that’s how she got through it, and tell you all the stories that she shared with medical professionals when she got home, which put them in stitches. The show includes crazy ambulance rides, instant friendships from AirBnB hosts, slumber parties on the cardio rehab floor, and lots of good Barry’s Irish Tea with bacon rashers.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-dangerous-truth-about-today-s-marijuana-johnny-stack-s-life-and-death-story-by-laura-stack--65185574https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dangerous Truth about Today’s Marijuana: Johnny Stack’s Life and Death Story Author: Laura Stack Narrator: Laura Stack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is the poignant life-and-death story of Johnny Stack, whose young and vibrant life ended by suicide after his descent into addiction to high-potency marijuana and cannabis-induced psychosis. You’ll laugh and cry with his mother, Laura Stack, as she retells the story of Johnny’s joyful childhood and then takes you through the unthinkable tragedy of his loss. It’s every parent’s nightmare. But this audiobook is much more than Johnny’s story. Today Laura, who is a nationally recognized speaker and best-selling author, leads a national effort of parents, impacted family members, healthcare professionals, coalitions, teachers, and youth who are concerned about the harmful effects of marijuana on our children, teenagers, and emerging adults. This audiobook is a clarion call for parents across America to educate themselves about the risks of today’s high-THC marijuana products and to better understand the potentially devastating effects on youth mental health. Laura’s real-life story is backed by recent scientific-based research on how today’s potent THC products lead to mental illnesses in adolescents, such as anxiety, depression, paranoia, psychosis, and sadly, suicidal ideation. This audiobook is her vision to dramatically decrease adolescent marijuana usage, the false perception of safety, mental illness, and suicide, to allow our youth to live productive, happy lives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599913Tue, 08 Mar 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dangerous Truth about Today’s Marijuana: Johnny Stack’s Life and Death Story Author: Laura Stack Narrator: Laura Stack Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dangerous Truth about Today’s Marijuana: Johnny Stack’s Life and Death Story Author: Laura Stack Narrator: Laura Stack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This is the poignant life-and-death story of Johnny Stack, whose young and vibrant life ended by suicide after his descent into addiction to high-potency marijuana and cannabis-induced psychosis. You’ll laugh and cry with his mother, Laura Stack, as she retells the story of Johnny’s joyful childhood and then takes you through the unthinkable tragedy of his loss. It’s every parent’s nightmare. But this audiobook is much more than Johnny’s story. Today Laura, who is a nationally recognized speaker and best-selling author, leads a national effort of parents, impacted family members, healthcare professionals, coalitions, teachers, and youth who are concerned about the harmful effects of marijuana on our children, teenagers, and emerging adults. This audiobook is a clarion call for parents across America to educate themselves about the risks of today’s high-THC marijuana products and to better understand the potentially devastating effects on youth mental health. Laura’s real-life story is backed by recent scientific-based research on how today’s potent THC products lead to mental illnesses in adolescents, such as anxiety, depression, paranoia, psychosis, and sadly, suicidal ideation. This audiobook is her vision to dramatically decrease adolescent marijuana usage, the false perception of safety, mental illness, and suicide, to allow our youth to live productive, happy lives.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/aurelia-aurelia-a-memoir-by-kathryn-davis--65185533https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir Author: Kathryn Davis Narrator: Kathryn Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An eerily dream-like memoir, and the first work of nonfiction by one of our most inventive novelists Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe. She has the confidence of a teenager cultivating her earliest obsessions—Woolf, Durrell, Bergman—sure of her maturity, sure of the life that awaits her. Soon she finds herself in a Greece far drearier than the Greece of fantasy, “climbing up and down the steep paths every morning with the real old women, looking for kindling.” Kathryn Davis’s hypnotic new book is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. At its center is the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of their marriage, its deep joys and stinging frustrations; it is also a book about time, the inexorable events that determine beginnings and endings.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598582Tue, 01 Mar 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir Author: Kathryn Davis Narrator: Kathryn Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 53 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598582 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir Author: Kathryn Davis Narrator: Kathryn Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An eerily dream-like memoir, and the first work of nonfiction by one of our most inventive novelists Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe. She has the confidence of a teenager cultivating her earliest obsessions—Woolf, Durrell, Bergman—sure of her maturity, sure of the life that awaits her. Soon she finds herself in a Greece far drearier than the Greece of fantasy, “climbing up and down the steep paths every morning with the real old women, looking for kindling.” Kathryn Davis’s hypnotic new book is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. At its center is the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of their marriage, its deep joys and stinging frustrations; it is also a book about time, the inexorable events that determine beginnings and endings.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/batman-s-batman-a-memoir-from-hollywood-land-of-bilk-and-money-by-michael-e-uslan--65185532https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Batman’s Batman: A Memoir from Hollywood, Land of Bilk and Money Author: Michael E. Uslan Narrator: Michael E. Uslan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An insider’s look at Hollywood and how movies and television shows are made In Batman’s Batman, Michael E. Uslan, executive producer of the Batman movie franchise, offers an insider’s look at Hollywood and the process of how movies and television shows go from the drawing board to your screens. Continuing the delightful tale of his adventures begun in The Boy Who Loved Batman, Uslan draws on both his successful and less successful attempts to bring ideas to the screen, offering a helpful, honest, and breezily told guide to producing films. From passion to promotion, from the initial pitch to selecting the best partners and packaging, Uslan reveals the thirteen qualities essential to would-be producers. A lively memoir and a valuable glimpse inside Hollywood rarely seen by the public, Batman’s Batman is sure to please fans of Michael Uslan and the Batman franchise, but will also prove to be an invaluable resource for any aspiring producers, as he guides listeners through the Land of Bilk and Money.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598587Tue, 01 Mar 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Batman’s Batman: A Memoir from Hollywood, Land of Bilk and Money Author: Michael E. Uslan Narrator: Michael E. Uslan Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Batman’s Batman: A Memoir from Hollywood, Land of Bilk and Money Author: Michael E. Uslan Narrator: Michael E. Uslan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An insider’s look at Hollywood and how movies and television shows are made In Batman’s Batman, Michael E. Uslan, executive producer of the Batman movie franchise, offers an insider’s look at Hollywood and the process of how movies and television shows go from the drawing board to your screens. Continuing the delightful tale of his adventures begun in The Boy Who Loved Batman, Uslan draws on both his successful and less successful attempts to bring ideas to the screen, offering a helpful, honest, and breezily told guide to producing films. From passion to promotion, from the initial pitch to selecting the best partners and packaging, Uslan reveals the thirteen qualities essential to would-be producers. A lively memoir and a valuable glimpse inside Hollywood rarely seen by the public, Batman’s Batman is sure to please fans of Michael Uslan and the Batman franchise, but will also prove to be an invaluable resource for any aspiring producers, as he guides listeners through the Land of Bilk and Money.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-great-indoorsman-essays-by-andrew-farkas--65185530https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598594 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Indoorsman: Essays Author: Andrew Farkas Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Many authors have traveled and explored the out-of-doors, both in life and then in their books, proving themselves stalwart, audacious, even heroic; Andrew Farkas is not among them. He is brave enough to admit that the outdoors isn’t for him. Instead, in these essays Farkas reports on his bold explorations of a very different territory: the in-of-doors, the waiting rooms, kitchens, malls, bars, theaters, roadside motel rooms, and other places that feature temperature control, protection from rampaging predators, and a higher degree of comfort than can be found outside. Farkas discovers that, just as the mannered and wonderfully (gloriously) artificial indoors influences us greatly, our lives are also controlled much more by fiction than by anything “real.” So come in out of the weather (it’s always terrible) and join the Great Indoorsman on his adventures, where he makes fun of pretty much everything, most of all himself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598594Tue, 01 Mar 2022 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598594 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Indoorsman: Essays Author: Andrew Farkas Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598594 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Great Indoorsman: Essays Author: Andrew Farkas Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Many authors have traveled and explored the out-of-doors, both in life and then in their books, proving themselves stalwart, audacious, even heroic; Andrew Farkas is not among them. He is brave enough to admit that the outdoors isn’t for him. Instead, in these essays Farkas reports on his bold explorations of a very different territory: the in-of-doors, the waiting rooms, kitchens, malls, bars, theaters, roadside motel rooms, and other places that feature temperature control, protection from rampaging predators, and a higher degree of comfort than can be found outside. Farkas discovers that, just as the mannered and wonderfully (gloriously) artificial indoors influences us greatly, our lives are also controlled much more by fiction than by anything “real.” So come in out of the weather (it’s always terrible) and join the Great Indoorsman on his adventures, where he makes fun of pretty much everything, most of all himself.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-end-of-her-racing-against-alzheimer-s-to-solve-a-murder-by-wayne-hoffman--65185556https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer's to Solve a Murder Author: Wayne Hoffman Narrator: Tim Getman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Who was behind the brutal murder of my great-grandmother? wondered Wayne Hoffman, a New York City–based journalist and novelist. The crime wasn’t just a family legend—it made headlines across Canada in 1913—but her killer had never been found. In The End of Her, Hoffman meticulously researches this century-old tragedy, while facing another: his mother’s decline from Alzheimer’s. Weaving back and forth between past and present, Hoffman invokes in dramatic detail the life and death of his immigrant great-grandmother in Winnipeg’s Hebrew Colony, and his mother’s downward spiral. In the process, he discovers an extended family that has been scattered across thousands of miles for a hundred years.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591666Tue, 08 Feb 2022 06:02:10 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer's to Solve a Murder Author: Wayne Hoffman Narrator: Tim Getman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer's to Solve a Murder Author: Wayne Hoffman Narrator: Tim Getman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Who was behind the brutal murder of my great-grandmother? wondered Wayne Hoffman, a New York City–based journalist and novelist. The crime wasn’t just a family legend—it made headlines across Canada in 1913—but her killer had never been found. In The End of Her, Hoffman meticulously researches this century-old tragedy, while facing another: his mother’s decline from Alzheimer’s. Weaving back and forth between past and present, Hoffman invokes in dramatic detail the life and death of his immigrant great-grandmother in Winnipeg’s Hebrew Colony, and his mother’s downward spiral. In the process, he discovers an extended family that has been scattered across thousands of miles for a hundred years.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-have-always-been-me-a-memoir-by-precious-brady-davis--65185434https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Have Always Been Me: A Memoir Author: Precious Brady-Davis Narrator: Precious Brady-Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A powerful memoir of independence, releasing the past, and living the dream by award-winning trans advocate Precious Brady-Davis. Precious Brady-Davis remembers the sense of being singular and grappling with “otherness.” Born into traumatic circumstances, Davis was brought up in the Omaha foster care system and the Pentecostal faith. As a biracial, gender-nonconforming kid, she felt displaced. Yet she realized by coming into her identity that she had a purpose all along. In I Have Always Been Me, Brady-Davis reflects on a childhood of neglect, instability, and abandonment. She reveals her determination to dream through it and shares her profound journey as a trans woman now fully actualized, absolutely confident, and precious. She speaks to anyone who has ever tried to find their place in this world and imparts the wisdom that comes with surmounting odds and celebrating on the other side. A memoir, a love story, and an outreach for the marginalized, Precious’s sojourn is a song of self-reliance and pride and an invitation to join in the chorus.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603662Thu, 01 Jul 2021 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Have Always Been Me: A Memoir Author: Precious Brady-Davis Narrator: Precious Brady-Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Have Always Been Me: A Memoir Author: Precious Brady-Davis Narrator: Precious Brady-Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A powerful memoir of independence, releasing the past, and living the dream by award-winning trans advocate Precious Brady-Davis. Precious Brady-Davis remembers the sense of being singular and grappling with “otherness.” Born into traumatic circumstances, Davis was brought up in the Omaha foster care system and the Pentecostal faith. As a biracial, gender-nonconforming kid, she felt displaced. Yet she realized by coming into her identity that she had a purpose all along. In I Have Always Been Me, Brady-Davis reflects on a childhood of neglect, instability, and abandonment. She reveals her determination to dream through it and shares her profound journey as a trans woman now fully actualized, absolutely confident, and precious. She speaks to anyone who has ever tried to find their place in this world and imparts the wisdom that comes with surmounting odds and celebrating on the other side. A memoir, a love story, and an outreach for the marginalized, Precious’s sojourn is a song of self-reliance and pride and an invitation to join in the chorus.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-puma-years-a-memoir-by-laura-coleman--65185540https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Puma Years: A Memoir Author: Laura Coleman Narrator: Laura Coleman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares the story of her liberating journey in the Amazon jungle, where she fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life. Laura was in her early twenties and directionless when she quit her job to backpack in Bolivia. Fate landed her at a wildlife sanctuary on the edge of the Amazon jungle where she was assigned to a beautiful and complex puma named Wayra. Wide-eyed, inexperienced, and comically terrified, Laura made the scrappy, make-do camp her home. And in Wayra, she made a friend for life. They weren’t alone, not with over a hundred quirky animals to care for, each lost and hurt in their own way: a pair of suicidal, bra-stealing monkeys, a frustrated parrot desperate to fly, and a pig with a wicked sense of humor. The humans, too, were cause for laughter and tears. There were animal whisperers, committed staff, wildly devoted volunteers, handsome heartbreakers, and a machete-wielding prom queen who carried Laura through. Most of all, there was the jungle—lyrical and alive—and there was Wayra, who would ultimately teach Laura so much about love, healing, and the person she was capable of becoming. Set against a turbulent and poignant backdrop of deforestation, the illegal pet trade, and forest fires, The Puma Years explores what happens when two desperate creatures in need of rescue find one another.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596403Tue, 01 Jun 2021 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Puma Years: A Memoir Author: Laura Coleman Narrator: Laura Coleman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: June 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Puma Years: A Memoir Author: Laura Coleman Narrator: Laura Coleman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares the story of her liberating journey in the Amazon jungle, where she fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life. Laura was in her early twenties and directionless when she quit her job to backpack in Bolivia. Fate landed her at a wildlife sanctuary on the edge of the Amazon jungle where she was assigned to a beautiful and complex puma named Wayra. Wide-eyed, inexperienced, and comically terrified, Laura made the scrappy, make-do camp her home. And in Wayra, she made a friend for life. They weren’t alone, not with over a hundred quirky animals to care for, each lost and hurt in their own way: a pair of suicidal, bra-stealing monkeys, a frustrated parrot desperate to fly, and a pig with a wicked sense of humor. The humans, too, were cause for laughter and tears. There were animal whisperers, committed staff, wildly devoted volunteers, handsome heartbreakers, and a machete-wielding prom queen who carried Laura through. Most of all, there was the jungle—lyrical and alive—and there was Wayra, who would ultimately teach Laura so much about love, healing, and the person she was capable of becoming. Set against a turbulent and poignant backdrop of deforestation, the illegal pet trade, and forest fires, The Puma Years explores what happens when two desperate creatures in need of rescue find one another.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/turkish-guzel-bir-hayat-by-j-k-rowling--65185576https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Güzel Bir Hayat Author: J.K. Rowling Narrator: Sedat Beriş Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 27, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Dünyayı değiştirmek için büyüye ihtiyacımız yok; ihtiyacımız olan gücü zaten içimizde taşıyoruz.' J.K. Rowling Harvard Üniversitesi'nde mezuniyet konuşması yapmaya davet edildiğinde, çok değerli bulduğu iki konunun üzerinde durmayı seçti: başarısızlığın faydaları ile hayal gücünün önemi. Başarısızlığa uğramayı göze almanın, klasik tüm başarı ölçütleri kadar, güzel bir hayat için elzem olduğunu; kendimizi başkalarının –özellikle bizden daha talihsiz olanların– yerine koymanın geliştirilmesi gereken benzersiz bir insani özellik olduğunu vurguladı. Rowling'in paylaştığı hikâyeler ve genç mezunlara sorduğu kışkırtıcı sorular o günden beri birçok kişiyi 'güzel bir hayat' yaşamanın ne anlama geldiğini düşünmeye teşvik etti. Rowling'in sözleri hayatlarının dönüm noktasında duran her yaştan insanı harekete geçmeye itiyor ya da onlara teselli sunuyor. Risk alıp belki bu yolda başarısızlığa uğrayarak ve hayal gücümüzü kullanarak hayatın karşımıza çıkardığı fırsatlara daha açık olabileceğimizin altını çiziyor. 'Hayat bir hikâye gibidir; ne kadar uzun olduğu değil, ne kadar güzel olduğu önemlidir.' SENECA]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599833Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Güzel Bir Hayat Author: J.K. Rowling Narrator: Sedat Beriş Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 27,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Turkish] - Güzel Bir Hayat Author: J.K. Rowling Narrator: Sedat Beriş Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 27, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Dünyayı değiştirmek için büyüye ihtiyacımız yok; ihtiyacımız olan gücü zaten içimizde taşıyoruz.' J.K. Rowling Harvard Üniversitesi'nde mezuniyet konuşması yapmaya davet edildiğinde, çok değerli bulduğu iki konunun üzerinde durmayı seçti: başarısızlığın faydaları ile hayal gücünün önemi. Başarısızlığa uğramayı göze almanın, klasik tüm başarı ölçütleri kadar, güzel bir hayat için elzem olduğunu; kendimizi başkalarının –özellikle bizden daha talihsiz olanların– yerine koymanın geliştirilmesi gereken benzersiz bir insani özellik olduğunu vurguladı. Rowling'in paylaştığı hikâyeler ve genç mezunlara sorduğu kışkırtıcı sorular o günden beri birçok kişiyi 'güzel bir hayat' yaşamanın ne anlama geldiğini düşünmeye teşvik etti. Rowling'in sözleri hayatlarının dönüm noktasında duran her yaştan insanı harekete geçmeye itiyor ya da onlara teselli sunuyor. Risk alıp belki bu yolda başarısızlığa uğrayarak ve hayal gücümüzü kullanarak hayatın karşımıza çıkardığı fırsatlara daha açık olabileceğimizin altını çiziyor. 'Hayat bir hikâye gibidir; ne kadar uzun olduğu değil, ne kadar güzel olduğu önemlidir.' SENECA]]>125zelcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spymaster-the-life-of-britain-s-most-decorated-cold-war-spy-and-head-of-mi6-sir-maurice-oldfield-by-martin-pearce--65185582https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield Author: Martin Pearce Narrator: Martin Pearce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 1, 2018 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era. A farmer's son from a provincial grammar school, Sir Maurice was the first Chief of MI6 who didn't come to the role via the traditional route. Oldfield was the voice of British Intelligence in Washington at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and was largely responsible for keeping the UK out of the Vietnam War. Working his way to the top, he took on the job of rebuilding confidence in the British Secret Service in the wake of the Cambridge spies scandal. This is the fascinating story of a complex, likable character as well as a formidable intelligence chief.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598713Mon, 01 Jan 2018 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield Author: Martin Pearce Narrator: Martin Pearce...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598713 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield Author: Martin Pearce Narrator: Martin Pearce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 1, 2018 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era. A farmer's son from a provincial grammar school, Sir Maurice was the first Chief of MI6 who didn't come to the role via the traditional route. Oldfield was the voice of British Intelligence in Washington at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and was largely responsible for keeping the UK out of the Vietnam War. Working his way to the top, he took on the job of rebuilding confidence in the British Secret Service in the wake of the Cambridge spies scandal. This is the fascinating story of a complex, likable character as well as a formidable intelligence chief.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-promise-is-a-promise-by-dr-wayne-dyer--65185467https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Promise is a Promise Author: Dr. Wayne Dyer Narrator: Dr. Wayne Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 1, 1996 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An Almost Unbelievable Story of a Mother's Unconditional Love and What It Can Teach Us.This story, which tells of Kaye O'Bara's devotion to her comatose daughter, Edwarda, transcends our own experiences of love. It reminds us to look within and see where we can give unconditionally.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603027Sun, 01 Sep 1996 06:02:09 +0000Mandy WisokyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Promise is a Promise Author: Dr. Wayne Dyer Narrator: Dr. Wayne Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 20 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Promise is a Promise Author: Dr. Wayne Dyer Narrator: Dr. Wayne Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 1, 1996 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An Almost Unbelievable Story of a Mother's Unconditional Love and What It Can Teach Us.This story, which tells of Kaye O'Bara's devotion to her comatose daughter, Edwarda, transcends our own experiences of love. It reminds us to look within and see where we can give unconditionally.]]>185cleanfull