https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/listen-to-trending-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-memoirs--6575227https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/364/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Do you want your children to access knowledge early? With over 500,000+ audiobooks, including categories like Ages 5 & Under, Bedtime Stories, and Early Education, we bring your beloved child useful lessons. Get 3 free audiobooks right away for your child to start exploring. Audiobooks can be listened to on iPhone, iPad, Android, helping your child learn anytime, anywhere. Let's build the future for children together! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>enArtsCopyright Travon Collinshttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/9ac33ff87c4a73582f78da35f51bf2b9.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/listen-to-trending-full-audiobooks-in-biography-memoir-memoirs--6575227Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:52:35 +0000Travon CollinsTravon Collinsfeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/364/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Do you want your children to access knowledge early? With over 500,000+ audiobooks, including categories like Ages 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/364/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Do you want your children to access knowledge early? With over 500,000+ audiobooks, including categories like Ages 5 & Under, Bedtime Stories, and Early Education, we bring your beloved child useful lessons. Get 3 free audiobooks right away for your child to start exploring. Audiobooks can be listened to on iPhone, iPad, Android, helping your child learn anytime, anywhere. Let's build the future for children together! 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/gather-me-a-memoir-in-praise-of-the-books-that-saved-me-by-glory-edim--65185819https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me Author: Glory Edim Narrator: Glory Edim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A “dramatic [and] ingeniously crafted” (Los Angeles Times) memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl. “A beautiful portrait of a full life that has been buoyed by an expansive and ever-growing love for words and for language.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This Year “She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”—Toni Morrison, Beloved   For Glory Edim, that “friend of my mind” is books. Edim, who grew up in Virginia to Nigerian immigrant parents, started the popular Well-Read Black Girl book club at age thirty, eventually reaching a community of half a million readers. But her own love of books stretches far back.   Edim’s father moved back to Nigeria while she was still a child, marking the beginning of a series of traumatic changes and losses for her family. What became an escape, a safe space, and a second home for her and her brother was their local library. Books were where Edim found community, and as she grew older she discovered authors and ideas that she wasn’t being taught about in class. Reading wherever and whenever she could, be it in her dorm room or when traveling by subway or plane, she found the Black writers whose words would forever change her life: Nikki Giovanni, through children’s poetry cassettes; Maya Angelou, through a critical high school English teacher; Toni Morrison, while attending Morrison’s alma mater, Howard University; Audre Lorde, on a flight to Nigeria. In prose full of both joy and heartbreak, Edim recounts how these writers and so many others taught her how to value herself by helping her to find her own voice when her mother lost hers, to trust her feelings when her father remarried, and to create bonds with other Black women and uplift their stories.   Gather Me is a glowing testament to how the power of representation in literature can gather the disparate parts that make us who we are and assemble them into a portrait of discovery.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572983Tue, 29 Oct 2024 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me Author: Glory Edim Narrator: Glory Edim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me Author: Glory Edim Narrator: Glory Edim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A “dramatic [and] ingeniously crafted” (Los Angeles Times) memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl. “A beautiful portrait of a full life that has been buoyed by an expansive and ever-growing love for words and for language.”—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This Year “She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”—Toni Morrison, Beloved   For Glory Edim, that “friend of my mind” is books. Edim, who grew up in Virginia to Nigerian immigrant parents, started the popular Well-Read Black Girl book club at age thirty, eventually reaching a community of half a million readers. But her own love of books stretches far back.   Edim’s father moved back to Nigeria while she was still a child, marking the beginning of a series of traumatic changes and losses for her family. What became an escape, a safe space, and a second home for her and her brother was their local library. Books were where Edim found community, and as she grew older she discovered authors and ideas that she wasn’t being taught about in class. Reading wherever and whenever she could, be it in her dorm room or when traveling by subway or plane, she found the Black writers whose words would forever change her life: Nikki Giovanni, through children’s poetry cassettes; Maya Angelou, through a critical high school English teacher; Toni Morrison, while attending Morrison’s alma mater, Howard University; Audre Lorde, on a flight to Nigeria. In prose full of both joy and heartbreak, Edim recounts how these writers and so many others taught her how to value herself by helping her to find her own voice when her mother lost hers, to trust her feelings when her father remarried, and to create bonds with other Black women and uplift their stories.   Gather Me is a glowing testament to how the power of representation in literature can gather the disparate parts that make us who we are and assemble them into a portrait of discovery.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nine-lives-and-counting-a-bounty-hunter-s-journey-to-faith-hope-and-redemption-by-duane-chapman--65185674https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nine Lives and Counting: A Bounty Hunter’s Journey to Faith, Hope, and Redemption Author: Duane Chapman Narrator: Francie Chapman, Duane Chapman, Mike Ortego Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Includes an audiobook-exclusive introduction from the author. Go behind-the-scenes with Duane 'Dog' Chapman, star of the hit reality show Dog the Bounty Hunter and two-time New York Times bestselling author, as he shares new stories about his faith in Jesus, family, and the discovery of God's grace at work throughout his life. From being in a motorcycle gang, to being incarcerated, and then becoming a widely-know TV personality, Duane's life has been anything but ordinary. But, through every success and failure, the one constant has been his faith in God. For the first time, Daune is sharing how his faith has brought him through life's greatest difficulties, giving him renewed purpose and meaning. In Nine Lives and Counting Duane offers fresh insight into some of his well-known life events, and he also gives you access to previously untold stories. You will hear about: - memories of the painful events that shaped Duane's childhood, - the impact of his relationship with his praying mother, - the surprising hope he found in prison, - triumphs and failures from his days as a single dad, - new previously untold stories of bounty hunting, - the tragic loss of his beloved wife Beth to cancer, - the unexpected blessing of finding his new wife Francie, - the work he and Francie are doing to preach and share about Jesus, - his relationship with his kids and family, - and much more.   With all the plot twists of a page-turning novel, Nine Lives and Counting is a real-life chronicle of God's amazing grace and restoration that have marked Duane's journey of faith. You will be inspired.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586445Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nine Lives and Counting: A Bounty Hunter’s Journey to Faith, Hope, and Redemption Author: Duane Chapman Narrator: Francie Chapman, Duane Chapman, Mike...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586445 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nine Lives and Counting: A Bounty Hunter’s Journey to Faith, Hope, and Redemption Author: Duane Chapman Narrator: Francie Chapman, Duane Chapman, Mike Ortego Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 16, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Includes an audiobook-exclusive introduction from the author. Go behind-the-scenes with Duane 'Dog' Chapman, star of the hit reality show Dog the Bounty Hunter and two-time New York Times bestselling author, as he shares new stories about his faith in Jesus, family, and the discovery of God's grace at work throughout his life. From being in a motorcycle gang, to being incarcerated, and then becoming a widely-know TV personality, Duane's life has been anything but ordinary. But, through every success and failure, the one constant has been his faith in God. For the first time, Daune is sharing how his faith has brought him through life's greatest difficulties, giving him renewed purpose and meaning. In Nine Lives and Counting Duane offers fresh insight into some of his well-known life events, and he also gives you access to previously untold stories. You will hear about: - memories of the painful events that shaped Duane's childhood, - the impact of his relationship with his praying mother, - the surprising hope he found in prison, - triumphs and failures from his days as a single dad, - new previously untold stories of bounty hunting, - the tragic loss of his beloved wife Beth to cancer, - the unexpected blessing of finding his new wife Francie, - the work he and Francie are doing to preach and share about Jesus, - his relationship with his kids and family, - and much more.   With all the plot twists of a page-turning novel, Nine Lives and Counting is a real-life chronicle of God's amazing grace and restoration that have marked Duane's journey of faith. You will be inspired.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/waiting-for-the-monsoon-by-rod-nordland--65185651https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting for the Monsoon Author: Rod Nordland Narrator: Peter Ganim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A legendary New York Times war correspondent delivers his unforgettable final dispatch: a deeply moving meditation on life inspired by his sudden battle with terminal brain cancer. For thirty years, Rod Nordland shadowed death. As one of his generation's preeminent war correspondents, he reported in over 150 countries, many of which were in violent upheaval, and was no stranger to witnessing tragedy. But in summer 2019, during the height of India’s erratic monsoon season, Nordland was suddenly faced with a tragedy of his own: he collapsed in the middle of a morning jog, was rushed to the hospital, and diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor. After decades chasing conflicts across the globe, Nordland, now confined to a hospital bed, found the strength to face more personal conflicts. He reconnected with his estranged children and became closer with them than he ever thought possible. He repaired a friendship with a best friend that had been broken for twenty years. The arrogance and certitude that dominated his every action was replaced by a lucid sense of humility and generosity that persisted even after he left the hospital. Norland’s tragedy became, in his own words, “a gift that has enriched my life.”   Waiting for the Monsoon is the exemplary story of confronting death with both eyes open, and of the human capacity to persevere even in the most difficult of times. With tremendous clarity, grace, and courage, Nordland has delivered a powerful final assignment, revealing how facing the unknown can transform experience and change our relationship to the world around us.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589910Tue, 05 Mar 2024 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting for the Monsoon Author: Rod Nordland Narrator: Peter Ganim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589910 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting for the Monsoon Author: Rod Nordland Narrator: Peter Ganim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 5, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A legendary New York Times war correspondent delivers his unforgettable final dispatch: a deeply moving meditation on life inspired by his sudden battle with terminal brain cancer. For thirty years, Rod Nordland shadowed death. As one of his generation's preeminent war correspondents, he reported in over 150 countries, many of which were in violent upheaval, and was no stranger to witnessing tragedy. But in summer 2019, during the height of India’s erratic monsoon season, Nordland was suddenly faced with a tragedy of his own: he collapsed in the middle of a morning jog, was rushed to the hospital, and diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor. After decades chasing conflicts across the globe, Nordland, now confined to a hospital bed, found the strength to face more personal conflicts. He reconnected with his estranged children and became closer with them than he ever thought possible. He repaired a friendship with a best friend that had been broken for twenty years. The arrogance and certitude that dominated his every action was replaced by a lucid sense of humility and generosity that persisted even after he left the hospital. Norland’s tragedy became, in his own words, “a gift that has enriched my life.”   Waiting for the Monsoon is the exemplary story of confronting death with both eyes open, and of the human capacity to persevere even in the most difficult of times. With tremendous clarity, grace, and courage, Nordland has delivered a powerful final assignment, revealing how facing the unknown can transform experience and change our relationship to the world around us.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/living-my-best-life-hun-following-your-dreams-is-no-joke-by-london-hughes--65185850https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573742 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke Author: London Hughes Narrator: London Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From stand-up comedian, actress, and host of The Netflix Afterparty, London Hughes, comes an uplifting and raucously funny memoir to show you how to ditch the self-loathing, start the self-loving, and engage with your inner winner. London Hughes has come a long way from secretly writing Frasier fan fiction alone in her bedroom. Between her breakout Netflix comedy special, To Catch a D*ck, her dating podcast “London, Actually,” and her award-winning TV performances, London the South Londoner has taken the entertainment world by storm. And now, in this sassy, brash, fearless, and funny memoir, London is ready to inspire women of all ages and races with her story—because London is absolutely the best person in the whole wide world to take you on a wild journey of self-discovery. As she herself puts it: “I’ve always been funny. I’ve always been cute. I’ve always been confident. I was born to do this shit.” All her life, London longed to be a badass—an awesome bullet-proof woman who nobody could mess with. At a young age, she made sure she was ready to become a star, developing her own living-room popstar training regimen to prepare for her future life. But London also had her fair share of disastrous experiences in terms of friendships, relationships, and career choices. Each of the fiascos in London’s life has, with hindsight, proved to be a formative life lesson, and helped her grow into the fearless person she is today. You'll definitely be grateful these setbacks happened to her and not you, but you'll also learn that however bad things get, you can always build your self-worth, think long-term, and emerge triumphant, no matter what the world throws at you. From starring in a school sex education video called “Swings and Roundabouts” to being gushed over by a fan while standing next to the Renee Zellweger, London leaves no stone unturned in Living My Best Life, Hun. It took London some time to find her voice and her people, but now that she has, she's mentally high-fiving her 14-year-old self every day.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573742Tue, 05 Sep 2023 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573742 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke Author: London Hughes Narrator: London Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573742 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke Author: London Hughes Narrator: London Hughes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From stand-up comedian, actress, and host of The Netflix Afterparty, London Hughes, comes an uplifting and raucously funny memoir to show you how to ditch the self-loathing, start the self-loving, and engage with your inner winner. London Hughes has come a long way from secretly writing Frasier fan fiction alone in her bedroom. Between her breakout Netflix comedy special, To Catch a D*ck, her dating podcast “London, Actually,” and her award-winning TV performances, London the South Londoner has taken the entertainment world by storm. And now, in this sassy, brash, fearless, and funny memoir, London is ready to inspire women of all ages and races with her story—because London is absolutely the best person in the whole wide world to take you on a wild journey of self-discovery. As she herself puts it: “I’ve always been funny. I’ve always been cute. I’ve always been confident. I was born to do this shit.” All her life, London longed to be a badass—an awesome bullet-proof woman who nobody could mess with. At a young age, she made sure she was ready to become a star, developing her own living-room popstar training regimen to prepare for her future life. But London also had her fair share of disastrous experiences in terms of friendships, relationships, and career choices. Each of the fiascos in London’s life has, with hindsight, proved to be a formative life lesson, and helped her grow into the fearless person she is today. You'll definitely be grateful these setbacks happened to her and not you, but you'll also learn that however bad things get, you can always build your self-worth, think long-term, and emerge triumphant, no matter what the world throws at you. From starring in a school sex education video called “Swings and Roundabouts” to being gushed over by a fan while standing next to the Renee Zellweger, London leaves no stone unturned in Living My Best Life, Hun. It took London some time to find her voice and her people, but now that she has, she's mentally high-fiving her 14-year-old self every day.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-green-lady-a-spirit-a-story-a-place-by-sally-bayley--65185810https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A Place Author: Sally Bayley Narrator: Sally Bayley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 20, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the critically acclaimed author Sally Bayley, The Green Lady is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships between children and their teachers. In the style of her memoir Girl with Dove, this book explores a child’s search for artistic education and a sense of self. Lyrical and playful, Sally Bayley’s writing transports the reader into an eccentric world of teachers, guardians and guiding spirits of place. Moved by her female teachers, and guided by the artist J.M.W. Turner, Bayley’s protagonist goes in search of her maternal ancestors, in particular her grandmother, Edna May Turner. Following the narratives of other women in history who have taken different routes to independence and artistic freedom – including the educational suffragist Mary Neal, actress Margaret Rutherford, and poet Stevie Smith – Bayley considers the paths to happiness and the limitations social convention imposes. Part novel, part memoir, The Green Lady continues the traditions of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as an imagined biography which urgently understands the need for a space of one’s own in which to thrive. As one of the book’s several foster children, Bayley reminds us that families and homes can be found and built within literature and the arts as well as nature's green spaces.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577186Thu, 20 Jul 2023 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A Place Author: Sally Bayley Narrator: Sally Bayley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577186 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A Place Author: Sally Bayley Narrator: Sally Bayley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: July 20, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the critically acclaimed author Sally Bayley, The Green Lady is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships between children and their teachers. In the style of her memoir Girl with Dove, this book explores a child’s search for artistic education and a sense of self. Lyrical and playful, Sally Bayley’s writing transports the reader into an eccentric world of teachers, guardians and guiding spirits of place. Moved by her female teachers, and guided by the artist J.M.W. Turner, Bayley’s protagonist goes in search of her maternal ancestors, in particular her grandmother, Edna May Turner. Following the narratives of other women in history who have taken different routes to independence and artistic freedom – including the educational suffragist Mary Neal, actress Margaret Rutherford, and poet Stevie Smith – Bayley considers the paths to happiness and the limitations social convention imposes. Part novel, part memoir, The Green Lady continues the traditions of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as an imagined biography which urgently understands the need for a space of one’s own in which to thrive. As one of the book’s several foster children, Bayley reminds us that families and homes can be found and built within literature and the arts as well as nature's green spaces.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/breathe-seven-ways-to-win-a-greener-world-by-sadiq-khan--65185774https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575835 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breathe: Seven Ways to Win a Greener World Author: Sadiq Khan Narrator: Sadiq Khan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 25, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A seven-step guide to winning support for tough action on climate change - the first book from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan For many years, Sadiq wasn't fully aware of the dangers posed by air pollution, nor its connection with climate change. Then, at the age of 43, he was unexpectedly diagnosed with adult-onset asthma - brought on by the polluted London air he had been breathing for decades. Scandalised, Sadiq underwent a political transformation that would see him become one of the most prominent global politicians fighting (and winning) elections on green issues. Since becoming Mayor of London in 2016, he has declared a climate emergency, introduced the world's first Ultra-Low Emission Zone, built hundreds of kilometres of new cycle lanes, led a drive for affordable insulation in council homes, and turned London into the first ever 'National Park City'. But with every year bringing more wildfires, extreme temperatures and flooding - and with around 4,000 people still dying prematurely from London's polluted air every year, with older, working class and ethnic minority Londoners most affected - there is so much more to do. Now, Sadiq draws on his experiences to identify the seven ways environmental action gets blown off course. And he reveals how to get it back on track, by: - Proving to sceptics that the climate crisis is a health crisis too; - Overcoming voters' cynicism by building coalitions across the political spectrum; - Shaking hands with everyone from your fiercest opponents to the most steadfast climate activists (even if you're a bit worried they might superglue you). Breathe is a call to action demonstrating how anyone - whether voter, activist or politician - can win the argument on climate. It will help create a world where we can all breathe again. ©2023 Sadiq Khan (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575835Thu, 25 May 2023 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575835 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breathe: Seven Ways to Win a Greener World Author: Sadiq Khan Narrator: Sadiq Khan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 46 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575835 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breathe: Seven Ways to Win a Greener World Author: Sadiq Khan Narrator: Sadiq Khan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 25, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A seven-step guide to winning support for tough action on climate change - the first book from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan For many years, Sadiq wasn't fully aware of the dangers posed by air pollution, nor its connection with climate change. Then, at the age of 43, he was unexpectedly diagnosed with adult-onset asthma - brought on by the polluted London air he had been breathing for decades. Scandalised, Sadiq underwent a political transformation that would see him become one of the most prominent global politicians fighting (and winning) elections on green issues. Since becoming Mayor of London in 2016, he has declared a climate emergency, introduced the world's first Ultra-Low Emission Zone, built hundreds of kilometres of new cycle lanes, led a drive for affordable insulation in council homes, and turned London into the first ever 'National Park City'. But with every year bringing more wildfires, extreme temperatures and flooding - and with around 4,000 people still dying prematurely from London's polluted air every year, with older, working class and ethnic minority Londoners most affected - there is so much more to do. Now, Sadiq draws on his experiences to identify the seven ways environmental action gets blown off course. And he reveals how to get it back on track, by: - Proving to sceptics that the climate crisis is a health crisis too; - Overcoming voters' cynicism by building coalitions across the political spectrum; - Shaking hands with everyone from your fiercest opponents to the most steadfast climate activists (even if you're a bit worried they might superglue you). Breathe is a call to action demonstrating how anyone - whether voter, activist or politician - can win the argument on climate. It will help create a world where we can all breathe again. ©2023 Sadiq Khan (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/namwayut-we-are-all-one-a-pathway-to-reconciliation-by-robert-joseph--65185756https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Namwayut—We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation Author: Robert Joseph Narrator: Evan Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: BC and Yukon Book Prizes, Winner of the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award, 2023 We all share a common humanity. No matter how long or difficult the path ahead, we are all one. Reconciliation belongs to everyone. In this profound book, Chief Robert Joseph, globally recognized peacebuilder and Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk People, traces his journey from his childhood surviving residential school to his present-day role as a leader who inspires individual hope, collective change, and global transformation. Before we get to know where we are going, we need to know where we came from. Reconciliation represents a long way forward, but it is a pathway toward our higher humanity, our highest selves, and an understanding that everybody matters. In Namwayut, Chief Joseph teaches us to transform our relationships with ourselves and each other. As we learn about, honour, and respect the truth of the stories we tell, we can also discover how to dismantle the walls of discrimination, hatred, and racism in our society. Chief Joseph is known as one of the leading voices on peacebuilding in our time, and his dedication to reconciliation has been recognized with multiple honorary degrees and awards. As one of the remaining first-language speakers of Kwak'wala, his wisdom is grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing while making space for something bigger and better for all of us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576086Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Namwayut—We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation Author: Robert Joseph Narrator: Evan Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576086 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Namwayut—We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation Author: Robert Joseph Narrator: Evan Adams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: BC and Yukon Book Prizes, Winner of the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award, 2023 We all share a common humanity. No matter how long or difficult the path ahead, we are all one. Reconciliation belongs to everyone. In this profound book, Chief Robert Joseph, globally recognized peacebuilder and Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk People, traces his journey from his childhood surviving residential school to his present-day role as a leader who inspires individual hope, collective change, and global transformation. Before we get to know where we are going, we need to know where we came from. Reconciliation represents a long way forward, but it is a pathway toward our higher humanity, our highest selves, and an understanding that everybody matters. In Namwayut, Chief Joseph teaches us to transform our relationships with ourselves and each other. As we learn about, honour, and respect the truth of the stories we tell, we can also discover how to dismantle the walls of discrimination, hatred, and racism in our society. Chief Joseph is known as one of the leading voices on peacebuilding in our time, and his dedication to reconciliation has been recognized with multiple honorary degrees and awards. As one of the remaining first-language speakers of Kwak'wala, his wisdom is grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing while making space for something bigger and better for all of us.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/good-girls-a-story-and-study-of-anorexia-by-hadley-freeman--65185831https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Girls: A story and study of anorexia Author: Hadley Freeman Narrator: Hadley Freeman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A BEST BOOK OF 2023 IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN AND WALL STREET JOURNAL From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a searing memoir about her experience with anorexia, and her long journey to full recovery. From the ages of fourteen to seventeen, Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after developing anorexia nervosa. For the next twenty years, she grappled with various forms of self-destructive behaviour as the anorexia mutated and persisted. Anorexia is one of the most widely discussed but least understood mental illnesses. In a brilliant narrative that combines personal experience with deep reporting on the issues around the illness, Freeman details her experiences with anorexia, and how she overcame it. Good Girls is an honest and hopeful story that will be profoundly helpful for those who suffer from an eating disorder, and those who desperately want to understand them.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576208Thu, 13 Apr 2023 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Girls: A story and study of anorexia Author: Hadley Freeman Narrator: Hadley Freeman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Girls: A story and study of anorexia Author: Hadley Freeman Narrator: Hadley Freeman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A BEST BOOK OF 2023 IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN AND WALL STREET JOURNAL From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a searing memoir about her experience with anorexia, and her long journey to full recovery. From the ages of fourteen to seventeen, Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after developing anorexia nervosa. For the next twenty years, she grappled with various forms of self-destructive behaviour as the anorexia mutated and persisted. Anorexia is one of the most widely discussed but least understood mental illnesses. In a brilliant narrative that combines personal experience with deep reporting on the issues around the illness, Freeman details her experiences with anorexia, and how she overcame it. Good Girls is an honest and hopeful story that will be profoundly helpful for those who suffer from an eating disorder, and those who desperately want to understand them.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/it-goes-so-fast-the-year-of-no-do-overs-by-mary-louise-kelly--65185760https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs Author: Mary Louise Kelly Narrator: Mary Louise Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: April 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Narration by the Author! This program is read by the author. Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly that is destined to become a classic—about the year before her son goes to college—and the joys, losses and surprises that happen along the way. The time for do-overs is over. Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said “next year.” Next year will be the year she makes it to her son James’s soccer games (which are on weekdays at 4 p.m., right when she is on the air on NPR’s All Things Considered, talking to millions of listeners). Drive carpool for her son Alexander? Not if she wants to do that story about Ukraine and interview the secretary of state. Like millions of parents who wrestle with raising children while pursuing a career, she has never been cavalier about these decisions. The bargain she has always made with herself is this: this time I’ll get on the plane, and next year I’ll find a way to be there for the mom stuff. Well, James and Alexander are now seventeen and fifteen, and a realization has overtaken Mary Louise: her older son will be leaving soon for college. There used to be years to make good on her promises; now, there are months, weeks, minutes. And with the devastating death of her beloved father, Mary Louise is facing act three of her life head-on. Mary Louise is coming to grips with the reality every parent faces. Childhood has a definite expiration date. You have only so many years with your kids before they leave your house to build their own lives. It’s what every parent is supposed to want, what they raise their children to do. But it is bittersweet. Mary Louise is also dealing with the realities of having aging parents. This pivotal time brings with it the enormous questions of what you did right and what you did wrong. This chronicle of her eldest child’s final year at home, of losing her father, as well as other curve balls thrown at her, is not a definitive answer―not for herself and certainly not for any other parent. But her questions, her issues, will resonate with every parent. And, yes, especially with mothers, who are judged more harshly by society and, more important, judge themselves more harshly. What would she do if she had to decide all over again? Mary Louise’s thoughts as she faces the coming year will speak to anyone who has ever cared about a child or a parent. It. Goes. So. Fast. is honest, funny, poignant, revelatory, and immensely relatable. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584443Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs Author: Mary Louise Kelly Narrator: Mary Louise Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584443 to listen full audiobooks. Title: It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs Author: Mary Louise Kelly Narrator: Mary Louise Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: April 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Narration by the Author! This program is read by the author. Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly that is destined to become a classic—about the year before her son goes to college—and the joys, losses and surprises that happen along the way. The time for do-overs is over. Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said “next year.” Next year will be the year she makes it to her son James’s soccer games (which are on weekdays at 4 p.m., right when she is on the air on NPR’s All Things Considered, talking to millions of listeners). Drive carpool for her son Alexander? Not if she wants to do that story about Ukraine and interview the secretary of state. Like millions of parents who wrestle with raising children while pursuing a career, she has never been cavalier about these decisions. The bargain she has always made with herself is this: this time I’ll get on the plane, and next year I’ll find a way to be there for the mom stuff. Well, James and Alexander are now seventeen and fifteen, and a realization has overtaken Mary Louise: her older son will be leaving soon for college. There used to be years to make good on her promises; now, there are months, weeks, minutes. And with the devastating death of her beloved father, Mary Louise is facing act three of her life head-on. Mary Louise is coming to grips with the reality every parent faces. Childhood has a definite expiration date. You have only so many years with your kids before they leave your house to build their own lives. It’s what every parent is supposed to want, what they raise their children to do. But it is bittersweet. Mary Louise is also dealing with the realities of having aging parents. This pivotal time brings with it the enormous questions of what you did right and what you did wrong. This chronicle of her eldest child’s final year at home, of losing her father, as well as other curve balls thrown at her, is not a definitive answer―not for herself and certainly not for any other parent. But her questions, her issues, will resonate with every parent. And, yes, especially with mothers, who are judged more harshly by society and, more important, judge themselves more harshly. What would she do if she had to decide all over again? Mary Louise’s thoughts as she faces the coming year will speak to anyone who has ever cared about a child or a parent. It. Goes. So. Fast. is honest, funny, poignant, revelatory, and immensely relatable. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/inshallah-united-a-story-of-faith-and-football-by-nooruddean-choudry--65185678https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587566 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inshallah United: A story of faith and football Author: Nooruddean Choudry Narrator: Maanuv Thiara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 16, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awards 2023 Nooruddean Choudry was born in 1979 — the year Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose, Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the last Shah of Iran, and Tim Martin opened his first Wetherspoons. Also that year, a local football club lost the Cup Final to Arsenal courtesy of a man named Sunderland. That club would become an all-consuming obsession for young Nooruddean, who would one day become a small brown man and, vitally, also a Red. Inshallah United is the story of the first British-born son of a Pakistani family living in England’s second city. And geography is important, because if it wasn't for his mum and dad settling in Manchester rather than anywhere else in the world, so much of what makes up Nooruddean's identity could have been so different. As it was, he grew up as a Muslim, Manchester United supporting, Morrissey-loving, Maggie-hating, working-class Manc. Inshallah United is about growing up as a strictly halal Stretford Ender; a devout Muslim and diehard Red. It’s about praying five times a day that United would sign Alan Shearer and knock the Scousers off their perch. And it’s a deeply personal account of life as a Muslim Asian Mancunian kid in the late 80s and 90s, bookmarked by the most successful period in Manchester United's history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587566Thu, 16 Mar 2023 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587566 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inshallah United: A story of faith and football Author: Nooruddean Choudry Narrator: Maanuv Thiara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587566 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inshallah United: A story of faith and football Author: Nooruddean Choudry Narrator: Maanuv Thiara Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 16, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awards 2023 Nooruddean Choudry was born in 1979 — the year Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose, Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the last Shah of Iran, and Tim Martin opened his first Wetherspoons. Also that year, a local football club lost the Cup Final to Arsenal courtesy of a man named Sunderland. That club would become an all-consuming obsession for young Nooruddean, who would one day become a small brown man and, vitally, also a Red. Inshallah United is the story of the first British-born son of a Pakistani family living in England’s second city. And geography is important, because if it wasn't for his mum and dad settling in Manchester rather than anywhere else in the world, so much of what makes up Nooruddean's identity could have been so different. As it was, he grew up as a Muslim, Manchester United supporting, Morrissey-loving, Maggie-hating, working-class Manc. Inshallah United is about growing up as a strictly halal Stretford Ender; a devout Muslim and diehard Red. It’s about praying five times a day that United would sign Alan Shearer and knock the Scousers off their perch. And it’s a deeply personal account of life as a Muslim Asian Mancunian kid in the late 80s and 90s, bookmarked by the most successful period in Manchester United's history.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/push-off-from-here-nine-essential-truths-to-get-you-through-sobriety-and-everything-else-by-laura-mckowen--65185649https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Push Off from Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else) Author: Laura Mckowen Narrator: Laura Mckowen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of We Are the Luckiest and founder of the international recovery community The Luckiest Club comes a modern exploration of addiction that offers nine foundational building blocks that anyone at any stage of sobriety can use. “I wish I had it when I first got sober, but I’m glad I have it now.”—Anne Lamott No matter how far astray you’ve gone or how many times you’ve tried and failed before, as long as you’re still sitting here, breathing, and reading these words, freedom and joy are still possible. When Laura McKowen was two years sober, she received an email from a woman whose sister was struggling with alcohol addiction. McKowen had barely climbed out from the dark place the woman’s sister was in, but she made a list of the things she most needed to hear when she was deep in her own battle. 1. It is not your fault.  2. It is your responsibility. 3. It is unfair that this is your thing. 4. This is your thing. 5. This will never stop being your thing until you face it. 6. You cannot do it alone. 7. Only you can do it. 8. You are loved. 9. We will never stop reminding you of these things. In Push Off from Here, McKowen delves deeply into each of her nine points: what they mean, how they work, and how every person can live them. She addresses topics such as the correlation between trauma and addiction, the importance of radical honesty, letting go of the illusion of control, the value of community, a reminder that healing is a continual process, and that the process is a gift. Whether you’re just starting out or have been sober for decades, McKowen instructs us to be kind to ourselves: Change is messy and progress is rarely linear, but we can always push off from here. The stories and advice McKowen shares are specific to alcohol addiction, but the tenets are universal in their application and useful no matter what challenge you face. With profound honesty and boundless compassion, Push Off from Here provides an actionable framework for healing what pains us and proves that a life of sobriety can be synonymous with a life of magic, peace, and freedom.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589925Tue, 07 Mar 2023 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Push Off from Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else) Author: Laura Mckowen Narrator: Laura Mckowen Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589925 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Push Off from Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else) Author: Laura Mckowen Narrator: Laura Mckowen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of We Are the Luckiest and founder of the international recovery community The Luckiest Club comes a modern exploration of addiction that offers nine foundational building blocks that anyone at any stage of sobriety can use. “I wish I had it when I first got sober, but I’m glad I have it now.”—Anne Lamott No matter how far astray you’ve gone or how many times you’ve tried and failed before, as long as you’re still sitting here, breathing, and reading these words, freedom and joy are still possible. When Laura McKowen was two years sober, she received an email from a woman whose sister was struggling with alcohol addiction. McKowen had barely climbed out from the dark place the woman’s sister was in, but she made a list of the things she most needed to hear when she was deep in her own battle. 1. It is not your fault.  2. It is your responsibility. 3. It is unfair that this is your thing. 4. This is your thing. 5. This will never stop being your thing until you face it. 6. You cannot do it alone. 7. Only you can do it. 8. You are loved. 9. We will never stop reminding you of these things. In Push Off from Here, McKowen delves deeply into each of her nine points: what they mean, how they work, and how every person can live them. She addresses topics such as the correlation between trauma and addiction, the importance of radical honesty, letting go of the illusion of control, the value of community, a reminder that healing is a continual process, and that the process is a gift. Whether you’re just starting out or have been sober for decades, McKowen instructs us to be kind to ourselves: Change is messy and progress is rarely linear, but we can always push off from here. The stories and advice McKowen shares are specific to alcohol addiction, but the tenets are universal in their application and useful no matter what challenge you face. With profound honesty and boundless compassion, Push Off from Here provides an actionable framework for healing what pains us and proves that a life of sobriety can be synonymous with a life of magic, peace, and freedom.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-las-pequenas-virtudes-by-natalia-ginzburg-celia-filipetto-translator--65185826https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Las pequeñas virtudes Author: Natalia Ginzburg, Celia Filipetto (translator) Narrator: Isa Puchol Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 42 minutes Release date: March 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A medio camino entre el ensayo y la autobiografía, Las pequeñas virtudes reúne once textos de tema diverso que comparten una escritura instintiva, radical, una mirada comprometida llana y conclusivamente humana. La guerra y su mordedura atroz de miedo y pobreza, el recuerdo estremecedor y bellamente sostenido de Cesare Pavese y la experiencia intrincada de ser mujer y madre son algunas de las historias de una historia –personal y colectiva– que Natalia Ginzburg ensambla magistralmente, en estas páginas de turbadora belleza, con una reflexión sagaz siempre atenta al otro, arco vital y testimonio del oficio –vocación irrenunciable, orgánica– de escribir. 'Uno de sus mejores libros… La irónica, perspicaz, delicada y detallista observadora; el consciente y lúcido testigo de su época.'—Mercedes Monmany, ABC 'Un atinado retrato de la indigente Italia de Posguerra; un agudo y humorístico análisis de su relación conyugal, la recreación de su prolongada estancia en Londres, un sobrio y sentido homenaje a su amigo Cesare Pavese.'—El País 'Breves y exquisitos ensayos autobiográficos, fruto de una escritora de vocación, de una inteligencia cordial y de una enorme honestidad.'—Josep Maria Esquirol, ABC 'La elevación de lo particular y cotidiano a categoría filosófica tiene lugar con una frescura y naturalidad que logran llegar hasta lo más abstracto, sin desprenderse nunca del hilo concreto de su experiencia como mujer dotada de una capacidad de observación poco común.'—Carmen Martín Gaite]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576365Wed, 01 Mar 2023 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Las pequeñas virtudes Author: Natalia Ginzburg, Celia Filipetto (translator) Narrator: Isa Puchol Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Las pequeñas virtudes Author: Natalia Ginzburg, Celia Filipetto (translator) Narrator: Isa Puchol Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 42 minutes Release date: March 1, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A medio camino entre el ensayo y la autobiografía, Las pequeñas virtudes reúne once textos de tema diverso que comparten una escritura instintiva, radical, una mirada comprometida llana y conclusivamente humana. La guerra y su mordedura atroz de miedo y pobreza, el recuerdo estremecedor y bellamente sostenido de Cesare Pavese y la experiencia intrincada de ser mujer y madre son algunas de las historias de una historia –personal y colectiva– que Natalia Ginzburg ensambla magistralmente, en estas páginas de turbadora belleza, con una reflexión sagaz siempre atenta al otro, arco vital y testimonio del oficio –vocación irrenunciable, orgánica– de escribir. 'Uno de sus mejores libros… La irónica, perspicaz, delicada y detallista observadora; el consciente y lúcido testigo de su época.'—Mercedes Monmany, ABC 'Un atinado retrato de la indigente Italia de Posguerra; un agudo y humorístico análisis de su relación conyugal, la recreación de su prolongada estancia en Londres, un sobrio y sentido homenaje a su amigo Cesare Pavese.'—El País 'Breves y exquisitos ensayos autobiográficos, fruto de una escritora de vocación, de una inteligencia cordial y de una enorme honestidad.'—Josep Maria Esquirol, ABC 'La elevación de lo particular y cotidiano a categoría filosófica tiene lugar con una frescura y naturalidad que logran llegar hasta lo más abstracto, sin desprenderse nunca del hilo concreto de su experiencia como mujer dotada de una capacidad de observación poco común.'—Carmen Martín Gaite]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/metamorphosis-a-life-in-pieces-by-robert-douglas-fairhurst--65185660https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Narrator: Peter Caulfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time: we defuse an argument with a joke; we swerve to prevent a traffic accident. But sometimes we are unlucky enough to be on the trapdoor when the lever is pulled. My own trapdoor was hidden in the consulting room of an Oxford neurologist.' When the trapdoor opened for Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, he plummeted into a world of MRI scans, a disobedient body and the crushing unpredictability of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. But, like Alice tumbling into Wonderland, his fall did something else. It took him deep into his own mind: his hopes, his fears, his loves and losses... and the books that would sustain, inform and nourish him as his life began to transform in ways he could never have imagined. From Kafka to Barbellion, this is a literary map of the journey from the kingdom of the well to the land of the sick, and forwards into a hopeful future. It's an ode to great writing, to storytelling, to science and to the power of the imagination. And, above all, it's a darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain. © Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590657Thu, 16 Feb 2023 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Narrator: Peter Caulfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Narrator: Peter Caulfield Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'We all have trapdoors in our lives. Sometimes we jump off just in time: we defuse an argument with a joke; we swerve to prevent a traffic accident. But sometimes we are unlucky enough to be on the trapdoor when the lever is pulled. My own trapdoor was hidden in the consulting room of an Oxford neurologist.' When the trapdoor opened for Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, he plummeted into a world of MRI scans, a disobedient body and the crushing unpredictability of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis. But, like Alice tumbling into Wonderland, his fall did something else. It took him deep into his own mind: his hopes, his fears, his loves and losses... and the books that would sustain, inform and nourish him as his life began to transform in ways he could never have imagined. From Kafka to Barbellion, this is a literary map of the journey from the kingdom of the well to the land of the sick, and forwards into a hopeful future. It's an ode to great writing, to storytelling, to science and to the power of the imagination. And, above all, it's a darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain. © Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/confessions-by-edward-stourton--65185666https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589480 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Confessions Author: Edward Stourton Narrator: Edward Stourton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 26, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Brought face to face with the author of his obituary and his own inevitable mortality, Edward Stourton is prompted to reflect on the life he has led and the events that have shaped him. Ed was born into a life of privilege: the son of expat parents in colonial Nigeria, he was sent back to Britain to be educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth, the public school now tarnished by revelations of decades of abuse. He then went up to Cambridge, where his life as an undergraduate gave him access to a network of future ministers, judges and newspaper editors. As a young journalist he reported first from party conferences and picket lines and then from war zones, witnessing the events making international headlines, from Haiti to Hong Kong, before returning home to join the infighting on BBC Radio 4's Today. During this time, the Empire has given way to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, men-only clubs have been replaced by Me Too, and instead of a choice selection of voices on a handful of radio and television channels, we have millions of voices on YouTube, Instagram, Tik Tok. The world has changed, and so has Ed. In Confessions, he describes this remarkable journey with candour, humour and the insight that only forty years' experience of writing and reporting can provide. © Edward Stourton 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589480Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589480 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Confessions Author: Edward Stourton Narrator: Edward Stourton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 26, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589480 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Confessions Author: Edward Stourton Narrator: Edward Stourton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 26, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Brought face to face with the author of his obituary and his own inevitable mortality, Edward Stourton is prompted to reflect on the life he has led and the events that have shaped him. Ed was born into a life of privilege: the son of expat parents in colonial Nigeria, he was sent back to Britain to be educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth, the public school now tarnished by revelations of decades of abuse. He then went up to Cambridge, where his life as an undergraduate gave him access to a network of future ministers, judges and newspaper editors. As a young journalist he reported first from party conferences and picket lines and then from war zones, witnessing the events making international headlines, from Haiti to Hong Kong, before returning home to join the infighting on BBC Radio 4's Today. During this time, the Empire has given way to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, men-only clubs have been replaced by Me Too, and instead of a choice selection of voices on a handful of radio and television channels, we have millions of voices on YouTube, Instagram, Tik Tok. The world has changed, and so has Ed. In Confessions, he describes this remarkable journey with candour, humour and the insight that only forty years' experience of writing and reporting can provide. © Edward Stourton 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unraveling-what-i-learned-about-life-while-shearing-sheep-dyeing-wool-and-making-the-world-s-ugliest-sweater-by-peggy-orenstein--65185673https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater Author: Peggy Orenstein Narrator: Peggy Orenstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it’s easy to forget she’s an important thinker too.”—People In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch—shearing, spinning, dyeing wool—and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to everyone.   The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. Some adopted puppies. Others stress-baked. Peggy Orenstein, a lifelong knitter, went just a little further. To keep herself engaged and cope with a series of seismic shifts in family life, she set out to make a garment from the ground up: learning to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, then knitting herself a sweater. Orenstein hoped the project would help her process not just wool but her grief over the recent death of her mother and the decline of her dad, the impending departure of her college-bound daughter, and other thorny issues of aging as a woman in a culture that by turns ignores and disdains them. What she didn’t expect was a journey into some of the major issues of our time: climate anxiety, racial justice, women’s rights, the impact of technology, sustainability, and, ultimately, the meaning of home. With her wry voice, sharp intelligence, and exuberant honesty, Orenstein shares her year-long journey as daughter, wife, mother, writer, and maker—and teaches us all something about creativity and connection.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. Unraveling is a memoir that explores Peggy Orenstein's journey into the world of knitting as a way to cope with the pandemic and other personal struggles. Through her exploration of the cultural history of wool dying, carding, and spinning, she provides readers with a deeper understanding of the true meaning of creativity and the importance of pursuing hobbies. This book is a perfect gift for anyone looking for inspiration and insight into the power of DIY projects.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588832Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater Author: Peggy Orenstein Narrator: Peggy...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater Author: Peggy Orenstein Narrator: Peggy Orenstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it’s easy to forget she’s an important thinker too.”—People In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch—shearing, spinning, dyeing wool—and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to everyone.   The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. Some adopted puppies. Others stress-baked. Peggy Orenstein, a lifelong knitter, went just a little further. To keep herself engaged and cope with a series of seismic shifts in family life, she set out to make a garment from the ground up: learning to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, then knitting herself a sweater. Orenstein hoped the project would help her process not just wool but her grief over the recent death of her mother and the decline of her dad, the impending departure of her college-bound daughter, and other thorny issues of aging as a woman in a culture that by turns ignores and disdains them. What she didn’t expect was a journey into some of the major issues of our time: climate anxiety, racial justice, women’s rights, the impact of technology, sustainability, and, ultimately, the meaning of home. With her wry voice, sharp intelligence, and exuberant honesty, Orenstein shares her year-long journey as daughter, wife, mother, writer, and maker—and teaches us all something about creativity and connection.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. Unraveling is a memoir that explores Peggy Orenstein's journey into the world of knitting as a way to cope with the pandemic and other personal struggles. Through her exploration of the cultural history of wool dying, carding, and spinning, she provides readers with a deeper understanding of the true meaning of creativity and the importance of pursuing hobbies. This book is a perfect gift for anyone looking for inspiration and insight into the power of DIY projects.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-little-girl-who-could-not-cry-by-paolo-luigi-rodari-lidia-maksymowicz--65185703https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry Author: Paolo Luigi Rodari, Lidia Maksymowicz Narrator: Anna Cordell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: January 19, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Number 1 International Bestseller. The heartbreaking, inspiring true story of a girl sent to Auschwitz who survived Mengele’s evil experiments. With a foreword written by His Holiness Pope Francis. Lidia was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, grandparents and foster brother. They were from Belarus, their ‘crime’ that they supported the partisan resistance to Nazi occupation. Lidia was picked by Dr Josef Mengele for his experiments and sent to the children’s block where she survived eighteen months of hell. Injected with infectious diseases, desperately malnourished, she came close to death. Her mother - who risked her life to secretly visit Lidia - was her only tie to humanity. By the time Birkenau was liberated her family had disappeared. Even her mother was presumed dead. Lidia was adopted by a woman from the nearby town of Oswiecim. Too traumatised to feel emotion, she was not an easy child to care for but she came to love her adoptive mother and her new home. Then, in 1962, she discovered that her birth parents were still alive in the USSR and wanted her back. Lidia was faced with an agonising choice . . . The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry is powerful, moving and ultimately hopeful, as Lidia comes to terms with the past and finds the strength to share her story - even making headlines when she meets Pope Francis, who kisses her tattoo. Above all she refuses to hate those who hurt her so badly, saying, ‘Hate only brings more hate. Love, on the other hand, has the power to redeem.’]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590258Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry Author: Paolo Luigi Rodari, Lidia Maksymowicz Narrator: Anna Cordell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry Author: Paolo Luigi Rodari, Lidia Maksymowicz Narrator: Anna Cordell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: January 19, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Number 1 International Bestseller. The heartbreaking, inspiring true story of a girl sent to Auschwitz who survived Mengele’s evil experiments. With a foreword written by His Holiness Pope Francis. Lidia was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, grandparents and foster brother. They were from Belarus, their ‘crime’ that they supported the partisan resistance to Nazi occupation. Lidia was picked by Dr Josef Mengele for his experiments and sent to the children’s block where she survived eighteen months of hell. Injected with infectious diseases, desperately malnourished, she came close to death. Her mother - who risked her life to secretly visit Lidia - was her only tie to humanity. By the time Birkenau was liberated her family had disappeared. Even her mother was presumed dead. Lidia was adopted by a woman from the nearby town of Oswiecim. Too traumatised to feel emotion, she was not an easy child to care for but she came to love her adoptive mother and her new home. Then, in 1962, she discovered that her birth parents were still alive in the USSR and wanted her back. Lidia was faced with an agonising choice . . . The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry is powerful, moving and ultimately hopeful, as Lidia comes to terms with the past and finds the strength to share her story - even making headlines when she meets Pope Francis, who kisses her tattoo. Above all she refuses to hate those who hurt her so badly, saying, ‘Hate only brings more hate. Love, on the other hand, has the power to redeem.’]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/life-on-delay-usa-today-book-club-by-john-hendrickson--65185682https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life on Delay: USA Today Book Club Author: John Hendrickson Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • USA TODAY BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF AUDIBLE'S BEST BIOS AND MEMOIRS OF 2023 • “A raw, intimate look at [Hendrickson's] life with a stutter. It’s a profoundly moving book that will reshape the way you think about people living with this condition.”—Esquire • A candid memoir about a lifelong struggle to speak. “Life On Delay brims with empathy and honesty . . . It moved me in ways that I haven’t experienced before. It’s fantastic.”—Clint Smith, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller How the Word Is Passed “I can’t remember the last time I read a book that made me want to both cry and cheer so much, often at the same time.”—Robert Kolker, best-selling author of Hidden Valley Road In the fall of 2019, John Hendrickson wrote a groundbreaking story for The Atlantic about Joe Biden’s decades-long journey with stuttering, as well as his own. The article went viral, reaching readers around the world and altering the course of Hendrickson’s life. Overnight, he was forced to publicly confront an element of himself that still caused him great pain. He soon learned he wasn’t alone with his feelings: strangers who stutter began sending him their own personal stories, something that continues to this day. Now, in this reported memoir, Hendrickson takes us deep inside the mind and heart of a stutterer as he sets out to answer lingering questions about himself and his condition that he was often too afraid to ask. In Life on Delay, Hendrickson writes candidly about bullying, substance abuse, depression, isolation, and other issues stutterers like him face daily. He explores the intricate family dynamics surrounding his own stutter and revisits key people from his past in unguarded interviews. Readers get an over-the-shoulder view of his childhood; his career as a journalist, which once seemed impossible; and his search for a romantic partner. Along the way, Hendrickson guides us through the evolution of speech therapy, the controversial quest for a “magic pill” to end stuttering, and the burgeoning self-help movement within the stuttering community. Beyond his own experiences, he shares portraits of fellow stutterers who have changed his life, and he writes about a pioneering doctor who is upending the field of speech therapy. Life on Delay is an indelible account of perseverance, a soulful narrative about not giving up, and a glimpse into the process of making peace with our past and present selves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583519Tue, 17 Jan 2023 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life on Delay: USA Today Book Club Author: John Hendrickson Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life on Delay: USA Today Book Club Author: John Hendrickson Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • USA TODAY BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF AUDIBLE'S BEST BIOS AND MEMOIRS OF 2023 • “A raw, intimate look at [Hendrickson's] life with a stutter. It’s a profoundly moving book that will reshape the way you think about people living with this condition.”—Esquire • A candid memoir about a lifelong struggle to speak. “Life On Delay brims with empathy and honesty . . . It moved me in ways that I haven’t experienced before. It’s fantastic.”—Clint Smith, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller How the Word Is Passed “I can’t remember the last time I read a book that made me want to both cry and cheer so much, often at the same time.”—Robert Kolker, best-selling author of Hidden Valley Road In the fall of 2019, John Hendrickson wrote a groundbreaking story for The Atlantic about Joe Biden’s decades-long journey with stuttering, as well as his own. The article went viral, reaching readers around the world and altering the course of Hendrickson’s life. Overnight, he was forced to publicly confront an element of himself that still caused him great pain. He soon learned he wasn’t alone with his feelings: strangers who stutter began sending him their own personal stories, something that continues to this day. Now, in this reported memoir, Hendrickson takes us deep inside the mind and heart of a stutterer as he sets out to answer lingering questions about himself and his condition that he was often too afraid to ask. In Life on Delay, Hendrickson writes candidly about bullying, substance abuse, depression, isolation, and other issues stutterers like him face daily. He explores the intricate family dynamics surrounding his own stutter and revisits key people from his past in unguarded interviews. Readers get an over-the-shoulder view of his childhood; his career as a journalist, which once seemed impossible; and his search for a romantic partner. Along the way, Hendrickson guides us through the evolution of speech therapy, the controversial quest for a “magic pill” to end stuttering, and the burgeoning self-help movement within the stuttering community. Beyond his own experiences, he shares portraits of fellow stutterers who have changed his life, and he writes about a pioneering doctor who is upending the field of speech therapy. Life on Delay is an indelible account of perseverance, a soulful narrative about not giving up, and a glimpse into the process of making peace with our past and present selves.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/drinking-games-a-memoir-by-sarah-levy--65185762https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584438 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drinking Games: A Memoir Author: Sarah Levy Narrator: Sarah Levy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: January 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This program is read by the author. Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived— and how, for her, the last drink was just the beginning. On paper, Sarah Levy’s life was on track. She was 28, living in New York City, working a great job, and socializing every weekend. But Sarah had a secret: her relationship with alcohol was becoming toxic. And only she could save herself. Drinking Games explores the role alcohol has in our formative years, and what it means to opt out of a culture completely enmeshed in drinking. It’s an examination of what our short-term choices about alcohol do to our long-term selves and how they challenge our ability to be vulnerable enough to discover what we really want in life. Candid and dynamic, this book speaks to the all-consuming cycle of working hard, playing harder, and trying to look perfect while you’re at it. Sarah takes us by the hand through her personal journey with blackouts, dating, relationships, wellness culture, startups, social media, friendship, and self-discovery. In this intimate and darkly funny memoir, she stumbles through her twenties, explores the impact alcohol has on relationships and identity, and shows us how life’s messiest moments can end up being the most profound. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584438Tue, 03 Jan 2023 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584438 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drinking Games: A Memoir Author: Sarah Levy Narrator: Sarah Levy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: January 3, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584438 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Drinking Games: A Memoir Author: Sarah Levy Narrator: Sarah Levy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 44 minutes Release date: January 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This program is read by the author. Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived— and how, for her, the last drink was just the beginning. On paper, Sarah Levy’s life was on track. She was 28, living in New York City, working a great job, and socializing every weekend. But Sarah had a secret: her relationship with alcohol was becoming toxic. And only she could save herself. Drinking Games explores the role alcohol has in our formative years, and what it means to opt out of a culture completely enmeshed in drinking. It’s an examination of what our short-term choices about alcohol do to our long-term selves and how they challenge our ability to be vulnerable enough to discover what we really want in life. Candid and dynamic, this book speaks to the all-consuming cycle of working hard, playing harder, and trying to look perfect while you’re at it. Sarah takes us by the hand through her personal journey with blackouts, dating, relationships, wellness culture, startups, social media, friendship, and self-discovery. In this intimate and darkly funny memoir, she stumbles through her twenties, explores the impact alcohol has on relationships and identity, and shows us how life’s messiest moments can end up being the most profound. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/weightless-making-space-for-my-resilient-body-and-soul-by-evette-dionne--65185740https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577579 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul Author: Evette Dionne Narrator: Evette Dionne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender—and toward a brighter future—from National Book Award nominee Evette Dionne My body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map their expectations on, but it has never let me down. In this insightful, funny, and whip-smart book, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black women are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chatrooms to a diagnosis of heart failure at age twenty-nine, Dionne tracks her relationships with friendship, sex, motherhood, agoraphobia, health, pop culture, and self-image. Along the way, she lifts back the curtain to reveal the subtle, insidious forms of surveillance and control levied at fat women: At the doctor’s office, where any health ailment is treated with a directive to lose weight. On dating sites, where larger bodies are rejected or fetishized. On TV, where fat characters are asexual comedic relief. But Dionne’s unflinching account of our deeply held prejudices is matched by her fierce belief in the power of self-love. An unmissable portrait of a woman on a journey toward understanding our society and herself, Weightless holds up a mirror to the world we live in and asks us to imagine the future we deserve.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577579Tue, 06 Dec 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577579 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul Author: Evette Dionne Narrator: Evette Dionne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577579 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul Author: Evette Dionne Narrator: Evette Dionne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 54 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender—and toward a brighter future—from National Book Award nominee Evette Dionne My body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map their expectations on, but it has never let me down. In this insightful, funny, and whip-smart book, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black women are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chatrooms to a diagnosis of heart failure at age twenty-nine, Dionne tracks her relationships with friendship, sex, motherhood, agoraphobia, health, pop culture, and self-image. Along the way, she lifts back the curtain to reveal the subtle, insidious forms of surveillance and control levied at fat women: At the doctor’s office, where any health ailment is treated with a directive to lose weight. On dating sites, where larger bodies are rejected or fetishized. On TV, where fat characters are asexual comedic relief. But Dionne’s unflinching account of our deeply held prejudices is matched by her fierce belief in the power of self-love. An unmissable portrait of a woman on a journey toward understanding our society and herself, Weightless holds up a mirror to the world we live in and asks us to imagine the future we deserve.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-coastline-is-an-immeasurable-thing-a-memoir-across-three-continents-by-mary-alice-daniel--65185767https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576856 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Coastline is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents Author: Mary-Alice Daniel Narrator: Liz Femi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A poetic coming-of-age memoir that probes the legacies and myths of family, race, and religion—from Nigeria to England to America Mary-Alice Daniel’s family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in the Nigerian savanna. They arrived to a blanched, cold world of prim suburbs and unfamiliar customs. So began her family’s series of travels across three continents in search of places of belonging. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing ventures through the physical and mythical landscapes of Daniel’s upbringing. Against the backdrop of a migratory adolescence, she reckons with race, religious conflict, culture clash, and a multiplicity of possible identities. Daniel lays bare the lives and legends of her parents and past generations, unearthing the tribal mythologies that shaped her kin and her own way of being in the world. The impossible question of which tribe to claim as her own is one she has long struggled with: the Nigerian government recognizes her as Longuda, her father’s tribe; according to matrilineal tradition, Daniel belongs to her mother’s tribe, the nomadic Fulani; and the language she grew up speaking is that of the Hausa tribe. But her strongest emotional connection is to her adopted home: California, the final place she reveals to readers through its spellbinding history. Daniel’s approach is deeply personal: in order to reclaim her legacies, she revisits her unsettled childhood and navigates the traditions of her ancestors. Her layered narratives invoke the contrasting spiritualities of her tribes: Islam, Christianity, and magic. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing is a powerful cultural distillation of mythos and ethos, mapping the far-flung corners of the Black diaspora that Daniel inherits and inhabits. Through lyrical observation and deep introspection, she probes the bonds and boundaries of Blackness, from bygone colonial empires to her present home in America. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576856Tue, 29 Nov 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576856 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Coastline is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents Author: Mary-Alice Daniel Narrator: Liz Femi Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576856 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Coastline is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents Author: Mary-Alice Daniel Narrator: Liz Femi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A poetic coming-of-age memoir that probes the legacies and myths of family, race, and religion—from Nigeria to England to America Mary-Alice Daniel’s family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in the Nigerian savanna. They arrived to a blanched, cold world of prim suburbs and unfamiliar customs. So began her family’s series of travels across three continents in search of places of belonging. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing ventures through the physical and mythical landscapes of Daniel’s upbringing. Against the backdrop of a migratory adolescence, she reckons with race, religious conflict, culture clash, and a multiplicity of possible identities. Daniel lays bare the lives and legends of her parents and past generations, unearthing the tribal mythologies that shaped her kin and her own way of being in the world. The impossible question of which tribe to claim as her own is one she has long struggled with: the Nigerian government recognizes her as Longuda, her father’s tribe; according to matrilineal tradition, Daniel belongs to her mother’s tribe, the nomadic Fulani; and the language she grew up speaking is that of the Hausa tribe. But her strongest emotional connection is to her adopted home: California, the final place she reveals to readers through its spellbinding history. Daniel’s approach is deeply personal: in order to reclaim her legacies, she revisits her unsettled childhood and navigates the traditions of her ancestors. Her layered narratives invoke the contrasting spiritualities of her tribes: Islam, Christianity, and magic. A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing is a powerful cultural distillation of mythos and ethos, mapping the far-flung corners of the Black diaspora that Daniel inherits and inhabits. Through lyrical observation and deep introspection, she probes the bonds and boundaries of Blackness, from bygone colonial empires to her present home in America. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-filter-the-good-the-bad-and-the-beautiful-by-paulina-porizkova--65185843https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful Author: Paulina Porizkova Narrator: Maria Shriver, Paulina Porizkova Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A book about a rare life, profound love, profound grief, anxiety, self-assurance, empowerment, aging, loss, and joy. It is nuanced, complex, insightful, helpful, and constantly surprising.” —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of These Precious Days Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective, and enlightening essays about the complexities of womanhood at every age, pulling back the glossy magazine cover and writing from the heart. AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER Born in Cold War Czechoslovakia, Paulina Porizkova rose to prominence as a model, appearing on her first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover in 1984.  As the face of Estée Lauder in 1989, she was one of the highest-paid models in the world. When she was cast in the music video for the song “Drive” by The Cars, it was love at first sight for her and frontman Ric Ocasek. He was forty at the time, and Porizkova was nineteen. The decades to come would bring marriage, motherhood, a budding writing career; and later sadness, loneliness, isolation, and eventually divorce. Following her ex-husband’s death—and the revelation of a deep betrayal—Porizkova stunned fans with her fierce vulnerability and disarming honesty as she let the whole world share in her experience of being a woman who must start over.   This is a wise and compelling exploration of heartbreak, grief, beauty, aging, relationships, re-invention and finding your purpose. In these essays, Porizkova bares her soul and shares the lessons she’s learned—often the hard way. After a lifetime of being looked at, she is ready to be heard.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574397Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful Author: Paulina Porizkova Narrator: Maria Shriver, Paulina Porizkova Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574397 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful Author: Paulina Porizkova Narrator: Maria Shriver, Paulina Porizkova Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A book about a rare life, profound love, profound grief, anxiety, self-assurance, empowerment, aging, loss, and joy. It is nuanced, complex, insightful, helpful, and constantly surprising.” —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of These Precious Days Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective, and enlightening essays about the complexities of womanhood at every age, pulling back the glossy magazine cover and writing from the heart. AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER Born in Cold War Czechoslovakia, Paulina Porizkova rose to prominence as a model, appearing on her first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover in 1984.  As the face of Estée Lauder in 1989, she was one of the highest-paid models in the world. When she was cast in the music video for the song “Drive” by The Cars, it was love at first sight for her and frontman Ric Ocasek. He was forty at the time, and Porizkova was nineteen. The decades to come would bring marriage, motherhood, a budding writing career; and later sadness, loneliness, isolation, and eventually divorce. Following her ex-husband’s death—and the revelation of a deep betrayal—Porizkova stunned fans with her fierce vulnerability and disarming honesty as she let the whole world share in her experience of being a woman who must start over.   This is a wise and compelling exploration of heartbreak, grief, beauty, aging, relationships, re-invention and finding your purpose. In these essays, Porizkova bares her soul and shares the lessons she’s learned—often the hard way. After a lifetime of being looked at, she is ready to be heard.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-wind-at-my-back-resilience-grace-and-other-gifts-from-my-mentor-raven-wilkinson-by-misty-copeland--65185755https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor Raven Wilkinson Author: Misty Copeland Narrator: Misty Copeland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From celebrated ballerina and New York Times bestselling author Misty Copeland, a heartfelt memoir about her friendship with trailblazer Raven Wilkinson which captures the importance of mentorship, shared history, and honoring the past to ensure a stronger future. Misty Copeland made history as the first African-American principal ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre. Her talent, passion, and perseverance enabled her to make strides no one had accomplished before. But as she will tell you, achievement never happens in a void. Behind her, supporting her rise was her mentor Raven Wilkinson. Raven had been virtually alone in her quest to breach the all-white ballet world when she fought to be taken seriously as a Black ballerina in the 1950s and 60s. A trailblazer in the world of ballet decades before Misty’s time, Raven faced overt and casual racism, hostile crowds, and death threats for having the audacity to dance ballet. The Wind at My Back tells the story of two unapologetically Black ballerinas, their friendship, and how they changed each other—and the dance world—forever. Misty Copeland shares her own struggles with racism and exclusion in her pursuit of this dream career and honors the women like Raven who paved the way for her but whose contributions have gone unheralded. She celebrates the connection she made with her mentor, the only teacher who could truly understand the obstacles she faced, beyond the technical or artistic demands. A beautiful and wise memoir of intergenerational friendship and the impressive journeys of two remarkable women, The Wind at My Back captures the importance of mentorship, of shared history, and of respecting the past to ensure a stronger future.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578374Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor Raven Wilkinson Author: Misty Copeland Narrator: Misty Copeland Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578374 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor Raven Wilkinson Author: Misty Copeland Narrator: Misty Copeland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From celebrated ballerina and New York Times bestselling author Misty Copeland, a heartfelt memoir about her friendship with trailblazer Raven Wilkinson which captures the importance of mentorship, shared history, and honoring the past to ensure a stronger future. Misty Copeland made history as the first African-American principal ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre. Her talent, passion, and perseverance enabled her to make strides no one had accomplished before. But as she will tell you, achievement never happens in a void. Behind her, supporting her rise was her mentor Raven Wilkinson. Raven had been virtually alone in her quest to breach the all-white ballet world when she fought to be taken seriously as a Black ballerina in the 1950s and 60s. A trailblazer in the world of ballet decades before Misty’s time, Raven faced overt and casual racism, hostile crowds, and death threats for having the audacity to dance ballet. The Wind at My Back tells the story of two unapologetically Black ballerinas, their friendship, and how they changed each other—and the dance world—forever. Misty Copeland shares her own struggles with racism and exclusion in her pursuit of this dream career and honors the women like Raven who paved the way for her but whose contributions have gone unheralded. She celebrates the connection she made with her mentor, the only teacher who could truly understand the obstacles she faced, beyond the technical or artistic demands. A beautiful and wise memoir of intergenerational friendship and the impressive journeys of two remarkable women, The Wind at My Back captures the importance of mentorship, of shared history, and of respecting the past to ensure a stronger future.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/happily-grey-stories-souvenirs-and-everyday-wonders-from-the-life-in-between-by-mary-lawless-lee--65185670https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Happily Grey: Stories, Souvenirs, and Everyday Wonders from the Life In Between Author: Mary Lawless Lee Narrator: Mary Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Read by the author. Open yourself to the thrill of curiosity in every moment. In this audiobook, Mary Lawless Lee shares how her childhood in a small Texas town taught her to look deeper, reach farther, and love harder, whether she's baiting a fishing hook or choosing shoes for a fashion shoot. Through her stunning writing and delightful stories, Mary invites you to - say yes to adventure with equal parts planning and spontaneity - relish the food and drink that nourishes your spirit--with recipes for Sunday pot roast, butternut squash taquitos, mint mojitos, and more - create a playlist for the places life takes you and the people you meet - remember the feel of dirt on your toes or the first days of falling in love - discover how outdoor pursuits cultivate mindfulness and how to pamper your overworked self at home   Living the Happily Grey life means protecting your time, preserving your energy, and--most of all--loving your people. It means remembering that sometimes less than perfect is exactly enough, and that life is best when we dive deep into the wildness and wonder of this world. Photos, recipes, and lifestyle pieces are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589309Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Happily Grey: Stories, Souvenirs, and Everyday Wonders from the Life In Between Author: Mary Lawless Lee Narrator: Mary Lee Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589309 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Happily Grey: Stories, Souvenirs, and Everyday Wonders from the Life In Between Author: Mary Lawless Lee Narrator: Mary Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Read by the author. Open yourself to the thrill of curiosity in every moment. In this audiobook, Mary Lawless Lee shares how her childhood in a small Texas town taught her to look deeper, reach farther, and love harder, whether she's baiting a fishing hook or choosing shoes for a fashion shoot. Through her stunning writing and delightful stories, Mary invites you to - say yes to adventure with equal parts planning and spontaneity - relish the food and drink that nourishes your spirit--with recipes for Sunday pot roast, butternut squash taquitos, mint mojitos, and more - create a playlist for the places life takes you and the people you meet - remember the feel of dirt on your toes or the first days of falling in love - discover how outdoor pursuits cultivate mindfulness and how to pamper your overworked self at home   Living the Happily Grey life means protecting your time, preserving your energy, and--most of all--loving your people. It means remembering that sometimes less than perfect is exactly enough, and that life is best when we dive deep into the wildness and wonder of this world. Photos, recipes, and lifestyle pieces are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gloves-off-tyson-fury-autobiography-by-tyson-fury--65185687https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583528 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gloves Off: Tyson Fury Autobiography Author: Tyson Fury Narrator: Jake Wood, Tyson Fury Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The No-Holds-Barred Autobiography This audiobook includes exclusive and deeply personal interviews with Tyson Fury throughout the audiobook, offering listeners a unique and intimate insight into his life and mind. Tyson pulls no punches in his most candid, comprehensive and entertaining book yet, which chronicles for the first time in full his inspirational story - the rise, the fall, and the rise again, which saw him come back from the brink of suicide to reclaim his heavyweight crown. Access-all-areas and full of never-before-told stories, Tyson looks back on his life and career to examine what's really defined him: his Travelling upbringing, his fighting family (including his dad John and his half-brother Tommy), his beloved wife Paris, his 6 beautiful children, his mental health battles, his faith, his boxing rivalries and the fights, pitfalls and challenges along the way. Tyson shares fascinating blow-by-blow accounts of his inspiring victories against Deontay Wilder, his recovery from the depths of depression, and his journey to reclaiming his world heavyweight title. With revealing intimacy, Tyson also shares new sides to his character: in the weeks before the biggest fight of his career in 2021 the devoted father was sleeping on a hospital floor in intensive care tending to his new-born daughter Athena who was born premature and fighting for her life. © Tyson Fury 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583528Thu, 10 Nov 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583528 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gloves Off: Tyson Fury Autobiography Author: Tyson Fury Narrator: Jake Wood, Tyson Fury Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583528 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gloves Off: Tyson Fury Autobiography Author: Tyson Fury Narrator: Jake Wood, Tyson Fury Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The No-Holds-Barred Autobiography This audiobook includes exclusive and deeply personal interviews with Tyson Fury throughout the audiobook, offering listeners a unique and intimate insight into his life and mind. Tyson pulls no punches in his most candid, comprehensive and entertaining book yet, which chronicles for the first time in full his inspirational story - the rise, the fall, and the rise again, which saw him come back from the brink of suicide to reclaim his heavyweight crown. Access-all-areas and full of never-before-told stories, Tyson looks back on his life and career to examine what's really defined him: his Travelling upbringing, his fighting family (including his dad John and his half-brother Tommy), his beloved wife Paris, his 6 beautiful children, his mental health battles, his faith, his boxing rivalries and the fights, pitfalls and challenges along the way. Tyson shares fascinating blow-by-blow accounts of his inspiring victories against Deontay Wilder, his recovery from the depths of depression, and his journey to reclaiming his world heavyweight title. With revealing intimacy, Tyson also shares new sides to his character: in the weeks before the biggest fight of his career in 2021 the devoted father was sleeping on a hospital floor in intensive care tending to his new-born daughter Athena who was born premature and fighting for her life. © Tyson Fury 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cold-water-eden-by-richie-fitzgerald--65185685https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cold-Water Eden Author: Richie Fitzgerald Narrator: Patrick Mcbrearty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An immersive memoir about a groundbreaking surfing career, and a stunning portrait of Ireland as one of the world’s most captivating big-wave surfing destinations. Born and raised in Bundoran, with the waves of the west coast of Ireland breaking at his doorstep, Richie Fitzgerald was moulded by his environment – from his initiation to surfing at the age of 9 in the cold Atlantic water to becoming Ireland’s first ever pro surfer and competing on a global scale. But learning to surf in 1980s Ireland wasn’t without its challenges. With little to no equipment, Richie duct-taped Marigolds over woollen gloves to protect his hands from the freezing water and even melted Christening candles to pour on his board in place of surf wax. Yet the west of Ireland boasts waves of size and quality to rival those in California and Hawaii, attracting surfers from all over the world who want to test their mettle, and Richie has surfed the biggest, and most dangerous, of them. Cold-Water Eden is not just a captivating memoir about a transcendent sport: it is at its heart a coming-of-age story about one man’s pursuit of big waves and the dawn of Ireland as a singular destination on the global surf scene.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587550Thu, 10 Nov 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cold-Water Eden Author: Richie Fitzgerald Narrator: Patrick Mcbrearty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: November...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587550 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cold-Water Eden Author: Richie Fitzgerald Narrator: Patrick Mcbrearty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An immersive memoir about a groundbreaking surfing career, and a stunning portrait of Ireland as one of the world’s most captivating big-wave surfing destinations. Born and raised in Bundoran, with the waves of the west coast of Ireland breaking at his doorstep, Richie Fitzgerald was moulded by his environment – from his initiation to surfing at the age of 9 in the cold Atlantic water to becoming Ireland’s first ever pro surfer and competing on a global scale. But learning to surf in 1980s Ireland wasn’t without its challenges. With little to no equipment, Richie duct-taped Marigolds over woollen gloves to protect his hands from the freezing water and even melted Christening candles to pour on his board in place of surf wax. Yet the west of Ireland boasts waves of size and quality to rival those in California and Hawaii, attracting surfers from all over the world who want to test their mettle, and Richie has surfed the biggest, and most dangerous, of them. Cold-Water Eden is not just a captivating memoir about a transcendent sport: it is at its heart a coming-of-age story about one man’s pursuit of big waves and the dawn of Ireland as a singular destination on the global surf scene.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/novelist-as-a-vocation-by-haruki-murakami--65185838https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574457 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Novelist as a Vocation Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Kotaro Watanabe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller—and a unique look at the craft of writing from the beloved and best-selling author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. 'Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers' —New York Times Book Review A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: Esquire, Vulture, LitHub, New York Observer Aspiring writers and readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by this engaging book from the internationally best-selling author. Haruki Murakami now shares with readers his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians. Here are the personal details of a life devoted to craft: the initial moment at a Yakult Swallows baseball game, when he suddenly knew he could write a novel; the importance of memory, what he calls a writer’s “mental chest of drawers”; the necessity of loneliness, patience, and his daily running routine; the seminal role a carrier pigeon played in his career and more.  'What I want to say is that in a certain sense, while the novelist is creating a novel, he is simultaneously being created by the novel as well.' —Haruki Murakami]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574457Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574457 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Novelist as a Vocation Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Kotaro Watanabe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: November...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574457 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Novelist as a Vocation Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Kotaro Watanabe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller—and a unique look at the craft of writing from the beloved and best-selling author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. 'Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers' —New York Times Book Review A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: Esquire, Vulture, LitHub, New York Observer Aspiring writers and readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by this engaging book from the internationally best-selling author. Haruki Murakami now shares with readers his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians. Here are the personal details of a life devoted to craft: the initial moment at a Yakult Swallows baseball game, when he suddenly knew he could write a novel; the importance of memory, what he calls a writer’s “mental chest of drawers”; the necessity of loneliness, patience, and his daily running routine; the seminal role a carrier pigeon played in his career and more.  'What I want to say is that in a certain sense, while the novelist is creating a novel, he is simultaneously being created by the novel as well.' —Haruki Murakami]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-country-by-george-canyon--65185773https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Country Author: George Canyon Narrator: George Canyon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Juno and Canadian Country Music Award winner George Canyon comes a heartfelt and candid memoir charting his humble beginnings in rural Nova Scotia, the hard-won success he found under the bright lights of Nashville, Tennessee, and all the life lessons he learned on and off the road that ultimately led him home. Today, George Canyon is a Platinum Award–winning country musician, known for hits such as “Good Day to Ride,” “I Want You to Live,” and songs that tell stories about family, love, faith, and having a good drink every now and then. But growing up in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, among his close-knit family of grandparents, aunts, and uncles, George wanted nothing more than to be an astronaut. He was always drawn to music, whether it was the hymns he belted out from the church pew or the old guitar he strummed his first notes on at the tender age of five, but it was possibility of a life in the stars that drove him. First, though, he had to learn to fly a plane on Earth, so as soon as he turned twelve, he joined the Air Cadets, following a rich family tradition of serving one’s country. Just two years later, George’s big dreams of being a pilot came crashing to the ground when he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, a disease that meant a lifetime of measuring his food, testing his sugar levels, and taking insulin. And with limited treatment options available in the 1980s, the diagnosis ruled out the air force. Devastated as he was, deep down George knew that there was a greater plan for his life. When a snap decision to audition for a musical led to an offer to join a local country band, everything changed: George found his calling. It would be years of hard work and sacrifice—touring dive bars across the country and working multiple jobs—but with the unwavering support of his family and his deep sense of faith, George got his big break in 2004 when he landed a spot on Nashville Star, a singing competition TV show. From there, he was catapulted onto the world stage. With his natural gift for spinning a good tale and his signature humour and honesty, George recounts his musical journey from small-town Nova Scotia to the big city of Nashville, Tennessee, and how his life came full circle when he returned to Canada—this time, to the wide plains of Alberta. At its heart, this memoir is a love song to a way of life that’s rooted in family, faith, and place, and a reminder to never give up on your dreams.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577126Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Country Author: George Canyon Narrator: George Canyon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Country Author: George Canyon Narrator: George Canyon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Juno and Canadian Country Music Award winner George Canyon comes a heartfelt and candid memoir charting his humble beginnings in rural Nova Scotia, the hard-won success he found under the bright lights of Nashville, Tennessee, and all the life lessons he learned on and off the road that ultimately led him home. Today, George Canyon is a Platinum Award–winning country musician, known for hits such as “Good Day to Ride,” “I Want You to Live,” and songs that tell stories about family, love, faith, and having a good drink every now and then. But growing up in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, among his close-knit family of grandparents, aunts, and uncles, George wanted nothing more than to be an astronaut. He was always drawn to music, whether it was the hymns he belted out from the church pew or the old guitar he strummed his first notes on at the tender age of five, but it was possibility of a life in the stars that drove him. First, though, he had to learn to fly a plane on Earth, so as soon as he turned twelve, he joined the Air Cadets, following a rich family tradition of serving one’s country. Just two years later, George’s big dreams of being a pilot came crashing to the ground when he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, a disease that meant a lifetime of measuring his food, testing his sugar levels, and taking insulin. And with limited treatment options available in the 1980s, the diagnosis ruled out the air force. Devastated as he was, deep down George knew that there was a greater plan for his life. When a snap decision to audition for a musical led to an offer to join a local country band, everything changed: George found his calling. It would be years of hard work and sacrifice—touring dive bars across the country and working multiple jobs—but with the unwavering support of his family and his deep sense of faith, George got his big break in 2004 when he landed a spot on Nashville Star, a singing competition TV show. From there, he was catapulted onto the world stage. With his natural gift for spinning a good tale and his signature humour and honesty, George recounts his musical journey from small-town Nova Scotia to the big city of Nashville, Tennessee, and how his life came full circle when he returned to Canada—this time, to the wide plains of Alberta. At its heart, this memoir is a love song to a way of life that’s rooted in family, faith, and place, and a reminder to never give up on your dreams.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-guest-at-the-feast-by-colm-toibin--65185711https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Guest at the Feast Author: Colm Tóibín Narrator: Colm Tóibín Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In his essay about the life of Irish writer John McGahern, Tóibín reveals the tones of melancholy and amusement within both art and the artist. In his extraordinary essay on his cancer diagnosis, Tóibín unpicks the word 'battle', and illuminates the distress, horror and blankness of his experiences. From the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists, to the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances and tied up with dictators and politics, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as in Marilynne Robinson's fiction. A Guest at the Feast reveals the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. The imprint of the written word on the private self, as Tóibín himself remarks, is extraordinarily powerful. In this collection, that power is gloriously alive, illuminating history and literature, politics and power, family and the self. © Colm Tóibín 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589483Thu, 03 Nov 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Guest at the Feast Author: Colm Tóibín Narrator: Colm Tóibín Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 3, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Guest at the Feast Author: Colm Tóibín Narrator: Colm Tóibín Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In his essay about the life of Irish writer John McGahern, Tóibín reveals the tones of melancholy and amusement within both art and the artist. In his extraordinary essay on his cancer diagnosis, Tóibín unpicks the word 'battle', and illuminates the distress, horror and blankness of his experiences. From the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists, to the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances and tied up with dictators and politics, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as in Marilynne Robinson's fiction. A Guest at the Feast reveals the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. The imprint of the written word on the private self, as Tóibín himself remarks, is extraordinarily powerful. In this collection, that power is gloriously alive, illuminating history and literature, politics and power, family and the self. © Colm Tóibín 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/control-freak-my-epic-adventure-making-video-games-by-cliff-bleszinski--65185825https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games Author: Cliff Bleszinski Narrator: Kurt Kanazawa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The designer of Unreal and Gears of War offers an eye-opening personal account of the video game industry as it grew from niche hobby to hundred-billion-dollar enterprise. Video games are dominating the planet. In 2020, they brought in $180 billion dollars globally—nearly $34 billion in the United States alone. So who are the brilliant designers who create these stunning virtual worlds? Cliff Bleszinski—or CliffyB as he is known to gamers—is one of the few who’ve reached mythical, rock star status. In Control Freak, he gives an unvarnished, all-access tour of the business. Toiling away in his bedroom, Bleszinski created and shipped his first game before graduating high school, and at just seventeen joined a fledgling company called Epic Games. He describes the grueling hours, obscene amounts of Mountain Dew and obsessive focus necessary to achieve his singular creative visions. He details Epic’s rise to industry leader, thanks largely to his work on bestselling franchises Unreal and Gears of War (and, later, his input on a little game called Fortnite), as well as his own awkward ascent from shy, acne-riddled introvert to sports car-driving celebrity rubbing shoulders with Bill Gates. As he writes, “No one is weirder than a nerd with money.” While the book is laced with such self-deprecating humor, Bleszinski also bluntly addresses the challenges that have long-faced the gaming community, including sexism and a lack of representation among both designers and the characters they create. Control Freak is a hilarious, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir. Even if you don’t play games, you’ll walk away from this book recognizing them as a true art form and appreciating the genius of their creators.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576601Tue, 01 Nov 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games Author: Cliff Bleszinski Narrator: Kurt Kanazawa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games Author: Cliff Bleszinski Narrator: Kurt Kanazawa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The designer of Unreal and Gears of War offers an eye-opening personal account of the video game industry as it grew from niche hobby to hundred-billion-dollar enterprise. Video games are dominating the planet. In 2020, they brought in $180 billion dollars globally—nearly $34 billion in the United States alone. So who are the brilliant designers who create these stunning virtual worlds? Cliff Bleszinski—or CliffyB as he is known to gamers—is one of the few who’ve reached mythical, rock star status. In Control Freak, he gives an unvarnished, all-access tour of the business. Toiling away in his bedroom, Bleszinski created and shipped his first game before graduating high school, and at just seventeen joined a fledgling company called Epic Games. He describes the grueling hours, obscene amounts of Mountain Dew and obsessive focus necessary to achieve his singular creative visions. He details Epic’s rise to industry leader, thanks largely to his work on bestselling franchises Unreal and Gears of War (and, later, his input on a little game called Fortnite), as well as his own awkward ascent from shy, acne-riddled introvert to sports car-driving celebrity rubbing shoulders with Bill Gates. As he writes, “No one is weirder than a nerd with money.” While the book is laced with such self-deprecating humor, Bleszinski also bluntly addresses the challenges that have long-faced the gaming community, including sexism and a lack of representation among both designers and the characters they create. Control Freak is a hilarious, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir. Even if you don’t play games, you’ll walk away from this book recognizing them as a true art form and appreciating the genius of their creators.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-philosophy-of-modern-song-by-bob-dylan--65185824https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Philosophy of Modern Song Author: Bob Dylan Narrator: Bob Dylan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. The audio is narrated by an all-star lineup including Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Oscar Isaac, Helen Mirren, Rita Moreno, Sissy Spacek, Alfre Woodard, Jeffrey Wright, and Renée Zellweger! Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years, and like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577125Tue, 01 Nov 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Philosophy of Modern Song Author: Bob Dylan Narrator: Bob Dylan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Philosophy of Modern Song Author: Bob Dylan Narrator: Bob Dylan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. The audio is narrated by an all-star lineup including Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Oscar Isaac, Helen Mirren, Rita Moreno, Sissy Spacek, Alfre Woodard, Jeffrey Wright, and Renée Zellweger! Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years, and like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/independence-day-what-i-learned-about-retirement-from-some-who-ve-done-it-and-some-who-never-will-by-steve-lopez--65185799https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement from Some Who’ve Done It and Some Who Never Will Author: Steve Lopez Narrator: Steve Lopez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Steve Lopez is insightful, ingenious, and often hilarious as he navigates one of life's biggest questions.' --Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Hours Four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and longtime Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez explores the meaning of work and how it defines us in this captivating book that combines memoir, investigatory interviews, and practical application. Grappling with his own decision of whether to retire, Lopez uses his reporter skills not only to look inward but also to interview experts and peers to collect a variety of perspectives as he examines the true nature of a person’s time, identity, and ultimate life satisfaction. In Independence Day, Lopez talks to those who have chosen to extend their working life to its (il)logical extreme--people like Mel Brooks, still working at 94--those who have happily retired and reinvented themselves outside of the constraints of work, and those who would like to retire but can't because of financial constraints. He also turns to professionals on the matter, like two aging scientists, a geriatric specialist, and a psychiatrist, to understand the research-based reasons to retire. With his trademark poignancy, wisdom, and humor, Lopez establishes a useful polemic for himself and others in planning ahead, as he also evaluates questions of identity, financial limitations, and ultimately what to do with your life when the obituary pages are no longer filled with strangers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573509Tue, 01 Nov 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement from Some Who’ve Done It and Some Who Never Will Author: Steve Lopez Narrator: Steve Lopez Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573509 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement from Some Who’ve Done It and Some Who Never Will Author: Steve Lopez Narrator: Steve Lopez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Steve Lopez is insightful, ingenious, and often hilarious as he navigates one of life's biggest questions.' --Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Hours Four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and longtime Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez explores the meaning of work and how it defines us in this captivating book that combines memoir, investigatory interviews, and practical application. Grappling with his own decision of whether to retire, Lopez uses his reporter skills not only to look inward but also to interview experts and peers to collect a variety of perspectives as he examines the true nature of a person’s time, identity, and ultimate life satisfaction. In Independence Day, Lopez talks to those who have chosen to extend their working life to its (il)logical extreme--people like Mel Brooks, still working at 94--those who have happily retired and reinvented themselves outside of the constraints of work, and those who would like to retire but can't because of financial constraints. He also turns to professionals on the matter, like two aging scientists, a geriatric specialist, and a psychiatrist, to understand the research-based reasons to retire. With his trademark poignancy, wisdom, and humor, Lopez establishes a useful polemic for himself and others in planning ahead, as he also evaluates questions of identity, financial limitations, and ultimately what to do with your life when the obituary pages are no longer filled with strangers.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-wouldn-t-do-that-if-i-were-me-modern-blunders-and-modest-triumphs-but-mostly-blunders-by-jason-gay--65185781https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Wouldn't Do That If I Were Me: Modern Blunders and Modest Triumphs (but Mostly Blunders) Author: Jason Gay Narrator: Jason Gay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Wall Street Journal columnist and bestselling author of Little Victories takes a humorous and insightful look at life in the face of overwhelming societal change that we never anticipated—from the effects on parenthood, marriage, friendship, work, and play to all other aspects of the strange lives we find ourselves living. Like many of us, Jason Gay didn’t see this coming: a reshaped world, on edge, often stuck at home, questioning everything, trying to navigate a digital landscape that changes how we think, parent, coach, and live. With a series of topical and interconnected personal pieces, Gay comically takes on this new state of being, looking for the optimism and joy in the face of discouragement. He embarks on a rowdy ride with his son to the Daytona 500, weeks before lockdown. He confides his hilariously banal texts with his wife. He allows his mom to kidnap the family cat. From the modest thrills of Little League parenting to reckoning with the impending death of a close friend, Gay's essays run the gamut of modern life and he approaches it all with humility, grace, and more than a few laughs.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573752Tue, 01 Nov 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Wouldn't Do That If I Were Me: Modern Blunders and Modest Triumphs (but Mostly Blunders) Author: Jason Gay Narrator: Jason Gay Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Wouldn't Do That If I Were Me: Modern Blunders and Modest Triumphs (but Mostly Blunders) Author: Jason Gay Narrator: Jason Gay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 28 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The Wall Street Journal columnist and bestselling author of Little Victories takes a humorous and insightful look at life in the face of overwhelming societal change that we never anticipated—from the effects on parenthood, marriage, friendship, work, and play to all other aspects of the strange lives we find ourselves living. Like many of us, Jason Gay didn’t see this coming: a reshaped world, on edge, often stuck at home, questioning everything, trying to navigate a digital landscape that changes how we think, parent, coach, and live. With a series of topical and interconnected personal pieces, Gay comically takes on this new state of being, looking for the optimism and joy in the face of discouragement. He embarks on a rowdy ride with his son to the Daytona 500, weeks before lockdown. He confides his hilariously banal texts with his wife. He allows his mom to kidnap the family cat. From the modest thrills of Little League parenting to reckoning with the impending death of a close friend, Gay's essays run the gamut of modern life and he approaches it all with humility, grace, and more than a few laughs.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/surrender-40-songs-one-story-by-bono--65185647https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story Author: Bono Narrator: Bono Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.16 of Total 93 Ratings of Narrator: 4.64 of Total 42 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ***WINNER OF THE 2024 AUDIE AWARD FOR AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR*** Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. Narrated by the author, Surrender is an intimate, immersive listening experience, telling stories from Bono’s early days in Dublin, to joining a band and playing sold out stadiums around the world with U2, plus his more than 20 years of activism.    Throughout a remarkable life, music has always been a constant for Bono and in the audiobook, his distinctive voice is interwoven with a very personal soundtrack adding atmosphere and texture to each and every scene. From moments of classic U2 hits to snippets by The Clash, Patti Smith, Verdi, Johnny Cash and Mozart, Surrender also exclusively features clips of newly recorded reimagined versions of U2 songs including ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, ‘With Or Without You’, ‘One’, ‘Beautiful Day’ and more, glimpsed for the first time on Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590674Tue, 01 Nov 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story Author: Bono Narrator: Bono Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story Author: Bono Narrator: Bono Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.16 of Total 93 Ratings of Narrator: 4.64 of Total 42 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ***WINNER OF THE 2024 AUDIE AWARD FOR AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR*** Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. Narrated by the author, Surrender is an intimate, immersive listening experience, telling stories from Bono’s early days in Dublin, to joining a band and playing sold out stadiums around the world with U2, plus his more than 20 years of activism.    Throughout a remarkable life, music has always been a constant for Bono and in the audiobook, his distinctive voice is interwoven with a very personal soundtrack adding atmosphere and texture to each and every scene. From moments of classic U2 hits to snippets by The Clash, Patti Smith, Verdi, Johnny Cash and Mozart, Surrender also exclusively features clips of newly recorded reimagined versions of U2 songs including ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, ‘With Or Without You’, ‘One’, ‘Beautiful Day’ and more, glimpsed for the first time on Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/our-daily-bread-from-argos-to-the-altar-a-priest-s-story-by-father-alex-frost--65185757https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578538 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Daily Bread: From Argos to the Altar – a Priest's Story Author: Father Alex Frost Narrator: Alex Frost Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A warmly funny, intensely moving and startlingly personal account of the lives of an urban parish priest and his parishioners. Father Alex Frost was not always a man of the cloth. He found his calling while running an Argos store in his native Burnley, moonlighting as a stand-up comedian and die-hard fan of The Clarets and Depeche Mode. But having achieved his profession, Fr Alex quickly recognised the 17,000 inhabitants of his new parish were in dire need of help. Burnley is typical of many towns across Britain: a place of run-down council estates, severe poverty litter, crime and drugs, but also a place where the sacred sits alongside the secular in an intimate and personal way. And so it was that he found himself running a food bank from a car park, helping the desperate amid his flock as the pandemic raged. Fr Alex’s down-to-earth style of ministry struck a chord with people of all faiths, cultures and class at a time when the divide between rich and poor is widening cataclysmically. But amid the tragedy, addiction, appalling loss, illness and neglect, there also lies hope, joy and moments of comedy. Our Daily Bread is as much the story of the rich cast of characters that cross the threshold of any church as it is our vicar’s. Through them it shows the continued relevance of the church for those in peril: the poor and the marginalised. This heartfelt and moving book seeks to give a voice to the voiceless, charting the tragedy and pain, humour and hope which are ever-present in his community. It is ultimately about modern poverty – and how we all can, and should, espouse Christian virtues of love, kindness, tolerance.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578538Thu, 27 Oct 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578538 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Daily Bread: From Argos to the Altar – a Priest's Story Author: Father Alex Frost Narrator: Alex Frost Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578538 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Daily Bread: From Argos to the Altar – a Priest's Story Author: Father Alex Frost Narrator: Alex Frost Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A warmly funny, intensely moving and startlingly personal account of the lives of an urban parish priest and his parishioners. Father Alex Frost was not always a man of the cloth. He found his calling while running an Argos store in his native Burnley, moonlighting as a stand-up comedian and die-hard fan of The Clarets and Depeche Mode. But having achieved his profession, Fr Alex quickly recognised the 17,000 inhabitants of his new parish were in dire need of help. Burnley is typical of many towns across Britain: a place of run-down council estates, severe poverty litter, crime and drugs, but also a place where the sacred sits alongside the secular in an intimate and personal way. And so it was that he found himself running a food bank from a car park, helping the desperate amid his flock as the pandemic raged. Fr Alex’s down-to-earth style of ministry struck a chord with people of all faiths, cultures and class at a time when the divide between rich and poor is widening cataclysmically. But amid the tragedy, addiction, appalling loss, illness and neglect, there also lies hope, joy and moments of comedy. Our Daily Bread is as much the story of the rich cast of characters that cross the threshold of any church as it is our vicar’s. Through them it shows the continued relevance of the church for those in peril: the poor and the marginalised. This heartfelt and moving book seeks to give a voice to the voiceless, charting the tragedy and pain, humour and hope which are ever-present in his community. It is ultimately about modern poverty – and how we all can, and should, espouse Christian virtues of love, kindness, tolerance.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/working-girls-trixie-and-katya-s-guide-to-professional-womanhood-by-katya-zamolodchikova-trixie-mattel--65185688https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Working Girls: Trixie and Katya's Guide to Professional Womanhood Author: Katya Zamolodchikova, Trixie Mattel Narrator: Katya Zamolodchikova, Trixie Mattel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From the legendary drag performers, musical artists, comedians and Sunday Times bestselling authors of Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood, Working Girls will be a satirical how-to on everything you need to know to get the job of your dreams and keep it. © Trixie Mattel & Katya Zamolodchikova 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583602Thu, 27 Oct 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Working Girls: Trixie and Katya's Guide to Professional Womanhood Author: Katya Zamolodchikova, Trixie Mattel Narrator: Katya Zamolodchikova, Trixie...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Working Girls: Trixie and Katya's Guide to Professional Womanhood Author: Katya Zamolodchikova, Trixie Mattel Narrator: Katya Zamolodchikova, Trixie Mattel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From the legendary drag performers, musical artists, comedians and Sunday Times bestselling authors of Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood, Working Girls will be a satirical how-to on everything you need to know to get the job of your dreams and keep it. © Trixie Mattel & Katya Zamolodchikova 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/off-the-deep-end-jerry-and-becki-falwell-and-the-collapse-of-an-evangelical-dynasty-by-mark-ebner-giancarlo-granda--65185788https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575664 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Off the Deep End: Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty Author: Mark Ebner, Giancarlo Granda Narrator: Jeremy Arthur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Giancarlo Granda finally reveals the truth about his relationship with Becki Falwell and her husband Jerry Falwell Jr., and the hidden world of political influence, high finance, and criminal intrigue. Jerry Falwell Jr. is a prominent figure in the evangelical world whose support for presidential candidate Donald J. Trump helped secure Trump's Republican nomination in 2016. He captured headlines when it was revealed that he and his wife Becki had participated in a years-long bizarre sexual relationship with a pool attendant they met at the Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach. As Falwell Jr. began to deny this relationship, even more damaging news came out, ultimately forcing him to resign as president of Liberty University, which many consider to be the largest evangelical Christian university in the world.  Giancarlo Granda is now ready to share the story of his years on an ''only in America'' rollercoaster ride through the monied corridors of power and profound hypocrisy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575664Tue, 25 Oct 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575664 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Off the Deep End: Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty Author: Mark Ebner, Giancarlo Granda Narrator: Jeremy Arthur...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575664 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Off the Deep End: Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty Author: Mark Ebner, Giancarlo Granda Narrator: Jeremy Arthur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 34 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Giancarlo Granda finally reveals the truth about his relationship with Becki Falwell and her husband Jerry Falwell Jr., and the hidden world of political influence, high finance, and criminal intrigue. Jerry Falwell Jr. is a prominent figure in the evangelical world whose support for presidential candidate Donald J. Trump helped secure Trump's Republican nomination in 2016. He captured headlines when it was revealed that he and his wife Becki had participated in a years-long bizarre sexual relationship with a pool attendant they met at the Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach. As Falwell Jr. began to deny this relationship, even more damaging news came out, ultimately forcing him to resign as president of Liberty University, which many consider to be the largest evangelical Christian university in the world.  Giancarlo Granda is now ready to share the story of his years on an ''only in America'' rollercoaster ride through the monied corridors of power and profound hypocrisy.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/waypoints-my-scottish-journey-by-sam-heughan--65185733https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waypoints: My Scottish Journey Author: Sam Heughan Narrator: Sam Heughan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 51 Ratings of Narrator: 4.97 of Total 37 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Journey deep into the Scottish Highlands in the first memoir by #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of Outlander, Sam Heughan—exploring his life and reflecting on the waypoints that define him "I had to believe, because frankly, I had come so far there could be no turning back." In this intimate journey of self-discovery, Sam sets out along Scotland's rugged ninety-six-mile West Highland Way to map out the moments that shaped his views on dreams and ambition, family, friendship, love, and life. The result is a love letter to the wild landscape that means so much to him, full of charming, funny, wise, and searching insights into the world through his eyes.  Waypoints is a deeply personal journey that reveals as much about Sam to himself as it does to his readers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578367Tue, 25 Oct 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waypoints: My Scottish Journey Author: Sam Heughan Narrator: Sam Heughan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: October...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waypoints: My Scottish Journey Author: Sam Heughan Narrator: Sam Heughan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 51 Ratings of Narrator: 4.97 of Total 37 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Journey deep into the Scottish Highlands in the first memoir by #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of Outlander, Sam Heughan—exploring his life and reflecting on the waypoints that define him "I had to believe, because frankly, I had come so far there could be no turning back." In this intimate journey of self-discovery, Sam sets out along Scotland's rugged ninety-six-mile West Highland Way to map out the moments that shaped his views on dreams and ambition, family, friendship, love, and life. The result is a love letter to the wild landscape that means so much to him, full of charming, funny, wise, and searching insights into the world through his eyes.  Waypoints is a deeply personal journey that reveals as much about Sam to himself as it does to his readers.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-extraordinary-life-of-an-ordinary-man-a-memoir-by-paul-newman--65185846https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572976 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 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, his greatest roles, acting, his intimate life with Joanne Woodward, his innermost fears and passions and joys. With thoughts/comments throughout from Joanne Woodward, George Roy Hill, Tom Cruise, Elia Kazan and many others. 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 (Marlon Brando and James 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. *Includes a downloadable PDF of all the photographs from the printed book]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572976Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572976 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/572976 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 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, his greatest roles, acting, his intimate life with Joanne Woodward, his innermost fears and passions and joys. With thoughts/comments throughout from Joanne Woodward, George Roy Hill, Tom Cruise, Elia Kazan and many others. 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 (Marlon Brando and James 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. *Includes a downloadable PDF of all the photographs from the printed book]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bad-vibes-only-and-other-things-i-bring-to-the-table-by-nora-mcinerny--65185801https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575260 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) Author: Nora Mcinerny Narrator: Nora Mcinerny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the host of the podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—called “a gift” by The New York Times—a raw and humorous essay collection in the spirit of Jenny Lawson and Samantha Irby. Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching, which is to say, she does not dance at all. A bestselling author and host of the beloved podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking, she has captured the hearts of millions with her disarming and earnest approach to discussing grief and loss. Now, with Bad Vibes Only, she turns her eye on our aggressively, oppressively optimistic culture, our obsession with self-improvement, and what it really means to live authentically in the online age. In essays that revisit her cringey past and anticipate her rapidly approaching, early middle-aged future, McInerny lays bare her own chaos, inviting us to drop the façade of perfection and embrace the truth: that we are all—at best—slightly unhinged. Socrates claimed that the unexamined life is not worth living. Bad Vibes Only is for people who have taken that dictum a bit too far—the overthinkers, the analyzers, the recovering Girl Bosses, and the burned-out personal brand—reminding us that a life worth living is about more than just “good vibes.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575260Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575260 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) Author: Nora Mcinerny Narrator: Nora Mcinerny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575260 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) Author: Nora Mcinerny Narrator: Nora Mcinerny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the host of the podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—called “a gift” by The New York Times—a raw and humorous essay collection in the spirit of Jenny Lawson and Samantha Irby. Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching, which is to say, she does not dance at all. A bestselling author and host of the beloved podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking, she has captured the hearts of millions with her disarming and earnest approach to discussing grief and loss. Now, with Bad Vibes Only, she turns her eye on our aggressively, oppressively optimistic culture, our obsession with self-improvement, and what it really means to live authentically in the online age. In essays that revisit her cringey past and anticipate her rapidly approaching, early middle-aged future, McInerny lays bare her own chaos, inviting us to drop the façade of perfection and embrace the truth: that we are all—at best—slightly unhinged. Socrates claimed that the unexamined life is not worth living. Bad Vibes Only is for people who have taken that dictum a bit too far—the overthinkers, the analyzers, the recovering Girl Bosses, and the burned-out personal brand—reminding us that a life worth living is about more than just “good vibes.”]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/grace-president-obama-and-ten-days-in-the-battle-for-america-by-cody-keenan--65185832https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575413 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America Author: Cody Keenan Narrator: Cody Keenan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.89 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Barack Obama’s chief speechwriter Cody Keenan, a spellbinding account of the ten most dramatic days of the presidency, when a hate-fueled massacre and looming Supreme Court decisions put the character of our country on the line, and a president’s words could bring the nation together or tear it apart.   A white supremacist shooting and an astonishing act of forgiveness. A national reckoning with race and the Confederate flag. The fate of marriage equality and the Affordable Care Act. GRACE is the propulsive story of ten days in June 2015, when Obama and his chief speechwriter Cody Keenan composed a series of high-stakes speeches to meet a succession of stunning developments. Through behind-the-scenes moments—from Obama’s suggestion that Keenan pour a drink, listen to some Miles Davis, and “find the silences,” to the president’s late-night writing sessions in the First Family’s residence—Keenan takes us inside the craft of speechwriting at the highest level for the most demanding of bosses, the relentlessly poetic and perfectionist Barack Obama. GRACE also delivers a fascinating portrait of White House insiders like Ben Rhodes, Valerie Jarrett, Jen Psaki, and the speechwriting team responsible for pulling it all off during a furious, historic stretch of the Obama presidency—including a gifted fact-checker who took Keenan’s rhetoric to task before taking his hand in marriage. GRACE is the most intimate writing that exists on the rhetorical tightrope our first Black president had to walk, culminating with an unforgettable high point: Obama stunning everybody by taking a deep breath and leading the country in a chorus of “Amazing Grace.” Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575413Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575413 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America Author: Cody Keenan Narrator: Cody Keenan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575413 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America Author: Cody Keenan Narrator: Cody Keenan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.89 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Barack Obama’s chief speechwriter Cody Keenan, a spellbinding account of the ten most dramatic days of the presidency, when a hate-fueled massacre and looming Supreme Court decisions put the character of our country on the line, and a president’s words could bring the nation together or tear it apart.   A white supremacist shooting and an astonishing act of forgiveness. A national reckoning with race and the Confederate flag. The fate of marriage equality and the Affordable Care Act. GRACE is the propulsive story of ten days in June 2015, when Obama and his chief speechwriter Cody Keenan composed a series of high-stakes speeches to meet a succession of stunning developments. Through behind-the-scenes moments—from Obama’s suggestion that Keenan pour a drink, listen to some Miles Davis, and “find the silences,” to the president’s late-night writing sessions in the First Family’s residence—Keenan takes us inside the craft of speechwriting at the highest level for the most demanding of bosses, the relentlessly poetic and perfectionist Barack Obama. GRACE also delivers a fascinating portrait of White House insiders like Ben Rhodes, Valerie Jarrett, Jen Psaki, and the speechwriting team responsible for pulling it all off during a furious, historic stretch of the Obama presidency—including a gifted fact-checker who took Keenan’s rhetoric to task before taking his hand in marriage. GRACE is the most intimate writing that exists on the rhetorical tightrope our first Black president had to walk, culminating with an unforgettable high point: Obama stunning everybody by taking a deep breath and leading the country in a chorus of “Amazing Grace.” Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/boldly-go-reflections-on-a-life-of-awe-and-wonder-by-william-shatner-joshua-brandon--65185815https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573555 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder Author: William Shatner, Joshua Brandon Narrator: William Shatner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The beloved star of Star Trek, recent space traveler, and living legend William Shatner reflects on the interconnectivity of all things, our fragile bond with nature, and the joy that comes from exploration with “the insights he’s gleaned over his long, productive life” (Booklist) in this inspiring, revelatory, and exhilarating collection of essays. Long before Gene Roddenberry put him on a starship to explore the galaxy, long before he actually did venture to space, William Shatner was gripped by his own quest for knowledge and meaning. Though his eventful life has been nothing short of extraordinary, Shatner is still never so thrilled as when he experiences something that inspires him to simply say, “Wow.” Within these affecting, entertaining, and informative essays, he demonstrates that astonishing possibilities and true wonder are all around us. By revealing stories of his life—some delightful, others tragic—Shatner reflects on what he has learned along the way to his ninth decade and how important it is to apply the joy of exploration to our own lives. “A refreshingly self-aware portrait of a man determined to live every moment to the fullest” (Publishers Weekly), Boldly Go is an unputdownable celebration of all that our miraculous universe holds for us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573555Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573555 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder Author: William Shatner, Joshua Brandon Narrator: William Shatner Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573555 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder Author: William Shatner, Joshua Brandon Narrator: William Shatner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The beloved star of Star Trek, recent space traveler, and living legend William Shatner reflects on the interconnectivity of all things, our fragile bond with nature, and the joy that comes from exploration with “the insights he’s gleaned over his long, productive life” (Booklist) in this inspiring, revelatory, and exhilarating collection of essays. Long before Gene Roddenberry put him on a starship to explore the galaxy, long before he actually did venture to space, William Shatner was gripped by his own quest for knowledge and meaning. Though his eventful life has been nothing short of extraordinary, Shatner is still never so thrilled as when he experiences something that inspires him to simply say, “Wow.” Within these affecting, entertaining, and informative essays, he demonstrates that astonishing possibilities and true wonder are all around us. By revealing stories of his life—some delightful, others tragic—Shatner reflects on what he has learned along the way to his ninth decade and how important it is to apply the joy of exploration to our own lives. “A refreshingly self-aware portrait of a man determined to live every moment to the fullest” (Publishers Weekly), Boldly Go is an unputdownable celebration of all that our miraculous universe holds for us.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/making-a-scene-by-constance-wu--65185753https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making a Scene Author: Constance Wu Narrator: Constance Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From influential and iconic star Constance Wu, a powerful and poignant memoir-in-essays full of funny and intimate observations that will resonate with readers everywhere. Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Wu thought that girls were supposed to be reserved, graceful, and polite.  Everyone around her praised ladylike behaviour while seeming to disapprove of the louder, rougher girls – the kind of girls who made scenes. And while she spent most of her childhood suppressing her bold, emotional nature, Constance found an early outlet in local community theatre.  The stage was the one place where big feelings were okay – were good, even.  As she continued to reconcile her personality with the expectations of daily life, acting became more than a hobby. It was her refuge, her touchstone, and eventually her vocation.  She went to New York to study classical theatre and pursue an acting career while waiting tables, dating, despairing, and embracing city life.  In 2015, she was cast in the ground-breaking TV sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, a touching, funny story about an Asian American family in the ’90s. Another historic role followed when she starred in the smash hit film Crazy Rich Asians, which featured an entirely Asian cast. These two pivotal moments in Hollywood history opened up a new chapter for Constance, who continues to explore the complexities of Asian American representation. Through raw, hilarious, and relatable stories, Constance fearlessly shares her experiences of growing up in suburban Virginia, scraping by as a struggling actress, falling in love again and again, confronting her identity and influence, and navigating the pressures and pleasures of existing in today’s world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578649Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making a Scene Author: Constance Wu Narrator: Constance Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making a Scene Author: Constance Wu Narrator: Constance Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From influential and iconic star Constance Wu, a powerful and poignant memoir-in-essays full of funny and intimate observations that will resonate with readers everywhere. Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Wu thought that girls were supposed to be reserved, graceful, and polite.  Everyone around her praised ladylike behaviour while seeming to disapprove of the louder, rougher girls – the kind of girls who made scenes. And while she spent most of her childhood suppressing her bold, emotional nature, Constance found an early outlet in local community theatre.  The stage was the one place where big feelings were okay – were good, even.  As she continued to reconcile her personality with the expectations of daily life, acting became more than a hobby. It was her refuge, her touchstone, and eventually her vocation.  She went to New York to study classical theatre and pursue an acting career while waiting tables, dating, despairing, and embracing city life.  In 2015, she was cast in the ground-breaking TV sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, a touching, funny story about an Asian American family in the ’90s. Another historic role followed when she starred in the smash hit film Crazy Rich Asians, which featured an entirely Asian cast. These two pivotal moments in Hollywood history opened up a new chapter for Constance, who continues to explore the complexities of Asian American representation. Through raw, hilarious, and relatable stories, Constance fearlessly shares her experiences of growing up in suburban Virginia, scraping by as a struggling actress, falling in love again and again, confronting her identity and influence, and navigating the pressures and pleasures of existing in today’s world.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/making-a-scene-by-constance-wu--65185714https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making a Scene Author: Constance Wu Narrator: Constance Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.89 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Illuminating.” —The Washington Post * “Candid and relatable.” —Time *“Riveting and personal.” —Mindy Kaling * “Captivatingly immediate.” —The Skimm * A “poignant, frank, and intimate” (The New York Times) memoir by actress Constance Wu about family, love, sex, shame, trauma, and how she found her voice. Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Wu was often scolded for having big feelings or strong reactions. “Good girls don’t make scenes,” people warned her. And while she spent most of her childhood suppressing her bold, emotional nature, she found an early outlet in community theater—it was the one place where big feelings were okay—were good, even. Acting became her refuge, and eventually her vocation. At eighteen she moved to New York, where she’d spend the next ten years of her life auditioning, waiting tables, and struggling to make rent before her two big breaks: the TV sitcom Fresh Off the Boat and the hit film Crazy Rich Asians. Here Constance shares private memories of childhood, young love and heartbreak, sexual assault and harassment, and how she “made it” in Hollywood. Raw, relatable, and enthralling, Making a Scene is an intimate portrait of the pressures and pleasures of existing in today’s world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578303Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making a Scene Author: Constance Wu Narrator: Constance Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making a Scene Author: Constance Wu Narrator: Constance Wu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.89 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “Illuminating.” —The Washington Post * “Candid and relatable.” —Time *“Riveting and personal.” —Mindy Kaling * “Captivatingly immediate.” —The Skimm * A “poignant, frank, and intimate” (The New York Times) memoir by actress Constance Wu about family, love, sex, shame, trauma, and how she found her voice. Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Wu was often scolded for having big feelings or strong reactions. “Good girls don’t make scenes,” people warned her. And while she spent most of her childhood suppressing her bold, emotional nature, she found an early outlet in community theater—it was the one place where big feelings were okay—were good, even. Acting became her refuge, and eventually her vocation. At eighteen she moved to New York, where she’d spend the next ten years of her life auditioning, waiting tables, and struggling to make rent before her two big breaks: the TV sitcom Fresh Off the Boat and the hit film Crazy Rich Asians. Here Constance shares private memories of childhood, young love and heartbreak, sexual assault and harassment, and how she “made it” in Hollywood. Raw, relatable, and enthralling, Making a Scene is an intimate portrait of the pressures and pleasures of existing in today’s world.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/everything-i-never-dreamed-my-life-surviving-and-standing-up-to-domestic-violence-by-ruth-m-glenn--65185684https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584402 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything I Never Dreamed: My Life Surviving and Standing Up to Domestic Violence Author: Ruth M. Glenn Narrator: Ruth M. Glenn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The raw, uplifting, and unforgettable memoir from the CEO and president of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence chronicling her personal battle against abuse, violence, and even a murder attempt. Ruth M. Glenn wasn’t surprised the first time her husband beat her. She was hurt and disappointed but after a childhood in a broken and violent home, she was not surprised. After all, this was just the way things were, right? It was only after she lay bleeding in a carwash parking lot, after being shot three times by him, that Glenn resolved—if she managed to survive—to spend the rest of her life standing up to domestic violence. Now, she brings her full story to the forefront with this survivor’s tale crossed with a rousing call to action. She reveals her difficult but ultimately rewarding journey from that parking lot to sacrificing everything to obtain her advanced degrees. With her evocative and thoughtful voice, Glenn explores the dynamics of domestic violence, why women and children are seen as lesser in our society, how to stop victim-blaming, and how to demystify domestic violence to stop it once and for all. A memoir of resilience and courage, Everything I Never Dreamed is a necessary book that proves that abuse does not have to define a survivor’s entire life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584402Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584402 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything I Never Dreamed: My Life Surviving and Standing Up to Domestic Violence Author: Ruth M. Glenn Narrator: Ruth M. Glenn Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584402 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything I Never Dreamed: My Life Surviving and Standing Up to Domestic Violence Author: Ruth M. Glenn Narrator: Ruth M. Glenn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The raw, uplifting, and unforgettable memoir from the CEO and president of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence chronicling her personal battle against abuse, violence, and even a murder attempt. Ruth M. Glenn wasn’t surprised the first time her husband beat her. She was hurt and disappointed but after a childhood in a broken and violent home, she was not surprised. After all, this was just the way things were, right? It was only after she lay bleeding in a carwash parking lot, after being shot three times by him, that Glenn resolved—if she managed to survive—to spend the rest of her life standing up to domestic violence. Now, she brings her full story to the forefront with this survivor’s tale crossed with a rousing call to action. She reveals her difficult but ultimately rewarding journey from that parking lot to sacrificing everything to obtain her advanced degrees. With her evocative and thoughtful voice, Glenn explores the dynamics of domestic violence, why women and children are seen as lesser in our society, how to stop victim-blaming, and how to demystify domestic violence to stop it once and for all. A memoir of resilience and courage, Everything I Never Dreamed is a necessary book that proves that abuse does not have to define a survivor’s entire life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fingers-crossed-how-music-saved-me-from-success-rough-trade-book-of-the-year-by-miki-berenyi--65185736https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success: Rough Trade Book of the Year Author: Miki Berenyi Narrator: Mark Gardener, Miki Berenyi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Rough Trade Book of the Year Resident Book of the Year A Rolling Stone Book of the Year A Mojo Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year Formed in 1988, Lush were part of the London gig scene during one of the most vibrant and creative periods in UK music. Now, Miki Berenyi tells all. From the bohemian ways of her father's social circle to the privileged glamour of her mother's acting career, Miki's young life was a blur of travel, celebrities and peripatetic schooling. But frequent relocation, parental neglect and the dark presence of her abusive grandmother resulted in crippling shyness, mental-health issues and a vulnerability to exploitation. The route out of this hole was music - a passion shared by schoolmate Emma Anderson. The teenagers began attending gigs together and would ultimately go on to form Lush. Talented and exuberant, the band became hot property, swiftly transitioning from shoegaze icons to Britpop darlings. Re-living the tours, recording sessions and music-industry madness they experienced along the way, this uncompromising memoir documents Lush's thrilling rise and untimely fall. Yet at the heart of the book are Miki's own battles: the conflict between her mouthy public persona and her thin-skinned private identity; the trials of being a woman in an infuriatingly male world; the struggle to find a middle ground between 'safe' indie obscurity and 'sell-out' international success. Miki also explores her complicated relationship with Emma - one that has fluctuated between camaraderie and rivalry over the years - and addresses the devastating tragedy that led to the band's split. Told through frank confession, wry humour and searing emotional honesty, this is the incredible tale of a trailblazing woman and a seminal band.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587583Thu, 29 Sep 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success: Rough Trade Book of the Year Author: Miki Berenyi Narrator: Mark Gardener, Miki Berenyi Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587583 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success: Rough Trade Book of the Year Author: Miki Berenyi Narrator: Mark Gardener, Miki Berenyi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Rough Trade Book of the Year Resident Book of the Year A Rolling Stone Book of the Year A Mojo Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year Formed in 1988, Lush were part of the London gig scene during one of the most vibrant and creative periods in UK music. Now, Miki Berenyi tells all. From the bohemian ways of her father's social circle to the privileged glamour of her mother's acting career, Miki's young life was a blur of travel, celebrities and peripatetic schooling. But frequent relocation, parental neglect and the dark presence of her abusive grandmother resulted in crippling shyness, mental-health issues and a vulnerability to exploitation. The route out of this hole was music - a passion shared by schoolmate Emma Anderson. The teenagers began attending gigs together and would ultimately go on to form Lush. Talented and exuberant, the band became hot property, swiftly transitioning from shoegaze icons to Britpop darlings. Re-living the tours, recording sessions and music-industry madness they experienced along the way, this uncompromising memoir documents Lush's thrilling rise and untimely fall. Yet at the heart of the book are Miki's own battles: the conflict between her mouthy public persona and her thin-skinned private identity; the trials of being a woman in an infuriatingly male world; the struggle to find a middle ground between 'safe' indie obscurity and 'sell-out' international success. Miki also explores her complicated relationship with Emma - one that has fluctuated between camaraderie and rivalry over the years - and addresses the devastating tragedy that led to the band's split. Told through frank confession, wry humour and searing emotional honesty, this is the incredible tale of a trailblazing woman and a seminal band.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-pocketful-of-happiness-by-richard-e-grant--65185708https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580029 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Pocketful of Happiness Author: Richard E. Grant Narrator: Richard E. Grant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.91 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a life spent together. It is an honour to be invited in on these diaries. I cannot remember being so moved by a book' Dolly Alderton 'Fascinating, funny and heart wrenching' Dame Julie Walters 'An emotional rollercoaster - profoundly moving and wonderfully entertaining. A brilliant memoir about living, loving and losing' Bernardine Evaristo ‘One of the bravest, strongest, funniest memoirs I’ve ever read’ Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry An intimate and uplifting memoir by Richard E. Grant.   Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has been a fixture on our screens since his breakout role in Withnail and I in 1987. When his beloved wife Joan died in 2021 after almost forty years together, she set him a challenge: to find a pocketful of happiness in every day.   The result is this book.    Set between the present day and flashbacks to delightfully indiscreet diary entries recalling landmarks from his remarkable life and glittering career, this is an immensely personal and profound memoir that celebrates and cherishes life’s unexpected joys.   Funny, moving and perceptive, A Pocketful of Happiness is an insight into the life of a much loved British actor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580029Thu, 29 Sep 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580029 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Pocketful of Happiness Author: Richard E. Grant Narrator: Richard E. Grant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580029 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Pocketful of Happiness Author: Richard E. Grant Narrator: Richard E. Grant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.91 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 7 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a life spent together. It is an honour to be invited in on these diaries. I cannot remember being so moved by a book' Dolly Alderton 'Fascinating, funny and heart wrenching' Dame Julie Walters 'An emotional rollercoaster - profoundly moving and wonderfully entertaining. A brilliant memoir about living, loving and losing' Bernardine Evaristo ‘One of the bravest, strongest, funniest memoirs I’ve ever read’ Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry An intimate and uplifting memoir by Richard E. Grant.   Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has been a fixture on our screens since his breakout role in Withnail and I in 1987. When his beloved wife Joan died in 2021 after almost forty years together, she set him a challenge: to find a pocketful of happiness in every day.   The result is this book.    Set between the present day and flashbacks to delightfully indiscreet diary entries recalling landmarks from his remarkable life and glittering career, this is an immensely personal and profound memoir that celebrates and cherishes life’s unexpected joys.   Funny, moving and perceptive, A Pocketful of Happiness is an insight into the life of a much loved British actor.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ready-for-absolutely-nothing-if-you-like-lady-in-waiting-by-anne-glenconner-you-ll-like-this-the-times-by-susannah-constantine--65185690https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ready For Absolutely Nothing: ‘If you like Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner, you’ll like this’ The Times Author: Susannah Constantine Narrator: Susannah Constantine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Susannah Constantine, our loved style guru and one half of the outrageously popular television programme, What Not to Wear, spent her youth entangled in glitz and glamour. Susannah's very first memoir is filled to the brim with scandalous stories, jaw-dropping royal relationships and star-studded encounters from pop stars to the fashion greats. But beneath it all is a woman who is still getting to know herself, even after falling in love at first sight, presenting one of the most monumental television programmes ever and having Princess Margaret as a second mother figure. Uncertain of her future, unsure of how to cope with her own mother's tragic battle with bipolar disorder, and becoming a mother herself, Susannah is on a journey of discovery and her memoir tells you her greatest loves and lessons, bound together with disarming honesty and beguiling humour. © Susannah Constantine 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583515Thu, 29 Sep 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ready For Absolutely Nothing: ‘If you like Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner, you’ll like this’ The Times Author: Susannah Constantine Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ready For Absolutely Nothing: ‘If you like Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner, you’ll like this’ The Times Author: Susannah Constantine Narrator: Susannah Constantine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 4 minutes Release date: September 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Susannah Constantine, our loved style guru and one half of the outrageously popular television programme, What Not to Wear, spent her youth entangled in glitz and glamour. Susannah's very first memoir is filled to the brim with scandalous stories, jaw-dropping royal relationships and star-studded encounters from pop stars to the fashion greats. But beneath it all is a woman who is still getting to know herself, even after falling in love at first sight, presenting one of the most monumental television programmes ever and having Princess Margaret as a second mother figure. Uncertain of her future, unsure of how to cope with her own mother's tragic battle with bipolar disorder, and becoming a mother herself, Susannah is on a journey of discovery and her memoir tells you her greatest loves and lessons, bound together with disarming honesty and beguiling humour. © Susannah Constantine 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/god-family-country-a-memoir-by-jim-defelice-craig-morgan--65185713https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God, Family, Country: A Memoir Author: Jim DeFelice, Craig Morgan Narrator: Jim DeFelice Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Country music icon, army veteran, father, outdoorsman—Craig Morgan shares all aspects of his life, revealing stories even his most avid fans don’t know. Written with Jim DeFelice, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller American Sniper In 1989, as US news outlets declared an end to Operation Just Cause, Craig Morgan was part of an elite group of military operatives jumping into the jungle along the Panamanian border on a covert operation. Fans know the country music star from his hit songs and acclaimed albums, but there’s a lot more to him—a soldier who worked with the CIA in Panama, an undercover agent who fought sex traffickers in Thailand, and a dedicated family man who lives the values he sings. Craig details these many facets of his life and more in God, Family, Country. An on-stage appearance with his father’s band at age ten may have planted the seeds for life as a country star, but first he trained as a paratrooper in the army. After earning numerous distinctions, his path to sergeant major was all but assured. Then came a momentous decision: he left the active military to pursue music. With unwavering support from his wife and a pack of part-time jobs, he toughed out the lean years and achieved his first big success with the poignant ballad “Almost Home.” Other hits soon followed, from party songs like “Redneck Yacht Club” to the soul-rending “The Father, My Son, and the Holy Ghost.” Born from the anguish of his son Jerry’s passing, the song’s tribute has consoled and inspired millions across the world. Duty to country has been a constant throughout his life and globe-spanning career. In 2006, as “That’s What I Love about Sunday” topped country radio charts, Craig was riding in a convoy of Humvees in Iraq. An avid outdoorsman, a former sheriff’s deputy who’s still a member of the auxiliary, and always a husband and father first, Craig Morgan will inspire you with his life lived by the deepest values: God, family, country.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578425Tue, 27 Sep 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God, Family, Country: A Memoir Author: Jim DeFelice, Craig Morgan Narrator: Jim DeFelice Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God, Family, Country: A Memoir Author: Jim DeFelice, Craig Morgan Narrator: Jim DeFelice Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Country music icon, army veteran, father, outdoorsman—Craig Morgan shares all aspects of his life, revealing stories even his most avid fans don’t know. Written with Jim DeFelice, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller American Sniper In 1989, as US news outlets declared an end to Operation Just Cause, Craig Morgan was part of an elite group of military operatives jumping into the jungle along the Panamanian border on a covert operation. Fans know the country music star from his hit songs and acclaimed albums, but there’s a lot more to him—a soldier who worked with the CIA in Panama, an undercover agent who fought sex traffickers in Thailand, and a dedicated family man who lives the values he sings. Craig details these many facets of his life and more in God, Family, Country. An on-stage appearance with his father’s band at age ten may have planted the seeds for life as a country star, but first he trained as a paratrooper in the army. After earning numerous distinctions, his path to sergeant major was all but assured. Then came a momentous decision: he left the active military to pursue music. With unwavering support from his wife and a pack of part-time jobs, he toughed out the lean years and achieved his first big success with the poignant ballad “Almost Home.” Other hits soon followed, from party songs like “Redneck Yacht Club” to the soul-rending “The Father, My Son, and the Holy Ghost.” Born from the anguish of his son Jerry’s passing, the song’s tribute has consoled and inspired millions across the world. Duty to country has been a constant throughout his life and globe-spanning career. In 2006, as “That’s What I Love about Sunday” topped country radio charts, Craig was riding in a convoy of Humvees in Iraq. An avid outdoorsman, a former sheriff’s deputy who’s still a member of the auxiliary, and always a husband and father first, Craig Morgan will inspire you with his life lived by the deepest values: God, family, country.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-billion-years-my-escape-from-a-life-in-the-highest-ranks-of-scientology-by-mike-rinder--65185695https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583586 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology Author: Mike Rinder Narrator: Mike Rinder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.91 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.64 of Total 11 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One of the highest-ranking defectors from Scientology exposes the secret inner workings of the powerful organization in this remarkable memoir that is “not only a cautionary tale but also an inspiring story of resilience” (Leah Remini, New York Times bestselling author). Mike Rinder’s parents began taking him to their local Scientology center when he was five years old. After high school, he signed a billion-year contract and was admitted into Scientology’s elite inner circle, the Sea Organization. Brought to founder L. Ron Hubbard’s yacht and promised training in Hubbard’s most advanced techniques, Rinder was instead put to work swabbing the decks. Still, Rinder bought into the doctrine that his personal comfort was secondary to the higher purpose of Hubbard’s world-saving mission, swiftly rising through the ranks. In the 1980s, Rinder became Scientology’s international spokesperson and the head of its powerful Office of Special Affairs. He helped negotiate Scientology’s pivotal tax exemption from the IRS and engaged with the organization’s prominent celebrity members, including Tom Cruise, Lisa Marie Presley, and John Travolta. Yet Rinder couldn’t shake a nagging feeling that something was amiss—Hubbard’s promises remained unfulfilled at his death, and his successor, David Miscavige, was a ruthless and vindictive man who did not hesitate to confine many top Scientologists, Mike among them, to a makeshift prison known as the Hole. In 2007, at the age of fifty-two, Rinder finally escaped Scientology. Overnight, he became one of the organization’s biggest public enemies. He was followed, hacked, spied on, and tracked. But he refused to be intimidated and today helps people break free of Scientology. “An intensely personal, cathartic memoir of blind allegiance, betrayal, and liberation” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), A Billion Years reveals the dark, dystopian truth about Scientology as never before.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583586Tue, 27 Sep 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583586 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology Author: Mike Rinder Narrator: Mike Rinder Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583586 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology Author: Mike Rinder Narrator: Mike Rinder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.91 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.64 of Total 11 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: One of the highest-ranking defectors from Scientology exposes the secret inner workings of the powerful organization in this remarkable memoir that is “not only a cautionary tale but also an inspiring story of resilience” (Leah Remini, New York Times bestselling author). Mike Rinder’s parents began taking him to their local Scientology center when he was five years old. After high school, he signed a billion-year contract and was admitted into Scientology’s elite inner circle, the Sea Organization. Brought to founder L. Ron Hubbard’s yacht and promised training in Hubbard’s most advanced techniques, Rinder was instead put to work swabbing the decks. Still, Rinder bought into the doctrine that his personal comfort was secondary to the higher purpose of Hubbard’s world-saving mission, swiftly rising through the ranks. In the 1980s, Rinder became Scientology’s international spokesperson and the head of its powerful Office of Special Affairs. He helped negotiate Scientology’s pivotal tax exemption from the IRS and engaged with the organization’s prominent celebrity members, including Tom Cruise, Lisa Marie Presley, and John Travolta. Yet Rinder couldn’t shake a nagging feeling that something was amiss—Hubbard’s promises remained unfulfilled at his death, and his successor, David Miscavige, was a ruthless and vindictive man who did not hesitate to confine many top Scientologists, Mike among them, to a makeshift prison known as the Hole. In 2007, at the age of fifty-two, Rinder finally escaped Scientology. Overnight, he became one of the organization’s biggest public enemies. He was followed, hacked, spied on, and tracked. But he refused to be intimidated and today helps people break free of Scientology. “An intensely personal, cathartic memoir of blind allegiance, betrayal, and liberation” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), A Billion Years reveals the dark, dystopian truth about Scientology as never before.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-little-bit-broken-a-memoir-by-roz-weston--65185686https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Little Bit Broken: A Memoir Author: Roz Weston Narrator: Roz Weston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER It never gets better, but it does get easier. That's the first thing Roz says to anyone who asks him for advice. Anyone who's fighting like hell, just hanging on or putting the pieces back together. When you're broken, fixed becomes an obsession.  Roz is a multi-platform entertainer and storyteller who hosts three shows a day and sleeps five hours a night. On The Roz & Mocha Show, ET Canada Live and Entertainment Tonight Canada Roz built an audience and turned them into family. But as with most families, there is just some shit we don't talk about.  From growing up in a small town to getting lost, drunk and terrified in New York while interning for The Howard Stern Show; from finding comfort in the arms and beds of strangers to kicking an opioid addiction he didn't know he had; from broken bones to broken hearts and a broken marriage. From navigating grief and guilt following the devastating loss of his father to persevering in the face of an ongoing and private battle with his own body. All is shared in Roz's disarming signature blend of blunt truth and humour. A Little Bit Broken is a deeply personal and inspiring account of self-forgiveness, redemption and recovering from bad choices—because let's face it, the reason we make bad choices is that they usually feel really good. And Roz has made them all. 'This book is the whole story I've never shared before. . . . This is the shit we don’t talk about. Welcome to the family.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584207Tue, 27 Sep 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Little Bit Broken: A Memoir Author: Roz Weston Narrator: Roz Weston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Little Bit Broken: A Memoir Author: Roz Weston Narrator: Roz Weston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER It never gets better, but it does get easier. That's the first thing Roz says to anyone who asks him for advice. Anyone who's fighting like hell, just hanging on or putting the pieces back together. When you're broken, fixed becomes an obsession.  Roz is a multi-platform entertainer and storyteller who hosts three shows a day and sleeps five hours a night. On The Roz & Mocha Show, ET Canada Live and Entertainment Tonight Canada Roz built an audience and turned them into family. But as with most families, there is just some shit we don't talk about.  From growing up in a small town to getting lost, drunk and terrified in New York while interning for The Howard Stern Show; from finding comfort in the arms and beds of strangers to kicking an opioid addiction he didn't know he had; from broken bones to broken hearts and a broken marriage. From navigating grief and guilt following the devastating loss of his father to persevering in the face of an ongoing and private battle with his own body. All is shared in Roz's disarming signature blend of blunt truth and humour. A Little Bit Broken is a deeply personal and inspiring account of self-forgiveness, redemption and recovering from bad choices—because let's face it, the reason we make bad choices is that they usually feel really good. And Roz has made them all. 'This book is the whole story I've never shared before. . . . This is the shit we don’t talk about. Welcome to the family.']]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/scratching-river-by-michelle-porter--65185648https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scratching River Author: Michelle Porter Narrator: Michelle Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Scratching River braids the voices of mother, brother, sister, ancestor, and river to create a story about environmental, personal, and collective healing. This memoir revolves around a search for home for the author’s older brother, who is both autistic and schizophrenic, and an unexpected emotional journey that led to acceptance, understanding and, ultimately, reconciliation. Michelle Porter brings together the oral history of a Métis ancestor, studies of river morphology, and news clippings about abuse her older brother endured at a rural Alberta group home to tell a tale about love, survival, and hope. This book is a voice in your ear, urging you to explore your own braided histories and relationships.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590673Tue, 27 Sep 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scratching River Author: Michelle Porter Narrator: Michelle Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 27,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scratching River Author: Michelle Porter Narrator: Michelle Porter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Scratching River braids the voices of mother, brother, sister, ancestor, and river to create a story about environmental, personal, and collective healing. This memoir revolves around a search for home for the author’s older brother, who is both autistic and schizophrenic, and an unexpected emotional journey that led to acceptance, understanding and, ultimately, reconciliation. Michelle Porter brings together the oral history of a Métis ancestor, studies of river morphology, and news clippings about abuse her older brother endured at a rural Alberta group home to tell a tale about love, survival, and hope. This book is a voice in your ear, urging you to explore your own braided histories and relationships.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/born-to-shine-do-good-find-your-joy-and-build-a-life-you-love-by-kendra-scott--65185769https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Born to Shine: Do Good, Find Your Joy, and Build a Life You Love Author: Kendra Scott Narrator: Kendra Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This authentic and dynamic memoir from the bestselling author and CEO of Kendra Scott Jewelry delivers inspiration, leadership lessons, and spellbinding storytelling. For twenty years, Kendra Scott built her eponymous jewelry company from a hobby and an idea into a company worth more than a billion dollars, creating beautiful and affordable pieces with signature-cut natural gemstones packaged in a sunny yellow box. By any measure, she’s the woman who has it all: a self-made billionaire, a generous philanthropist, and a mother of three with a squad of strong female friendships.   Sounds pretty perfect, right?   But perfection is a myth that doesn’t serve any of us. A myth that encourages us to assume that we know what other people are going through, to judge each other on appearances and reputations, to present the best versions of ourselves and pretend like we’ve got it all together even when everything is falling apart. Perfection isn’t just a lie, it’s exhausting, and Kendra is tired of it.   In this vulnerable, wise, and laugh-out-loud book, Kendra takes us on a journey of personal stories and hard-earned life lessons, from her humble beginnings as an awkward, bullied young girl in small-town Wisconsin to launching a business in her spare bedroom with $500. With every pitfall, misstep, and failure, Kendra builds a life—and a career—rooted in joy, purpose, and doing good, a life she wants for every reader.   With heart and humor, Kendra reminds us that not all that glitters is gold, and that there is no level of success that can insulate you from what it means to be a human being: that life is as messy as it is magical, that bad things happen to good people for no good reason, and that a good life does not mean a perfect one.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584127Tue, 20 Sep 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Born to Shine: Do Good, Find Your Joy, and Build a Life You Love Author: Kendra Scott Narrator: Kendra Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Born to Shine: Do Good, Find Your Joy, and Build a Life You Love Author: Kendra Scott Narrator: Kendra Scott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This authentic and dynamic memoir from the bestselling author and CEO of Kendra Scott Jewelry delivers inspiration, leadership lessons, and spellbinding storytelling. For twenty years, Kendra Scott built her eponymous jewelry company from a hobby and an idea into a company worth more than a billion dollars, creating beautiful and affordable pieces with signature-cut natural gemstones packaged in a sunny yellow box. By any measure, she’s the woman who has it all: a self-made billionaire, a generous philanthropist, and a mother of three with a squad of strong female friendships.   Sounds pretty perfect, right?   But perfection is a myth that doesn’t serve any of us. A myth that encourages us to assume that we know what other people are going through, to judge each other on appearances and reputations, to present the best versions of ourselves and pretend like we’ve got it all together even when everything is falling apart. Perfection isn’t just a lie, it’s exhausting, and Kendra is tired of it.   In this vulnerable, wise, and laugh-out-loud book, Kendra takes us on a journey of personal stories and hard-earned life lessons, from her humble beginnings as an awkward, bullied young girl in small-town Wisconsin to launching a business in her spare bedroom with $500. With every pitfall, misstep, and failure, Kendra builds a life—and a career—rooted in joy, purpose, and doing good, a life she wants for every reader.   With heart and humor, Kendra reminds us that not all that glitters is gold, and that there is no level of success that can insulate you from what it means to be a human being: that life is as messy as it is magical, that bad things happen to good people for no good reason, and that a good life does not mean a perfect one.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-undercurrents-a-story-of-berlin-by-kirsty-bell--65185676https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin Author: Kirsty Bell Narrator: Rachel Pickup Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories. The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city’s theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking East, right into the heart of a metropolis in the making, on a terrain inscribed indelibly with trauma. When her marriage breaks down, Kirsty Bell—a British-American art critic, adrift in her mid-forties—becomes fixated on the history of her building and of her adoptive city. Taking the view from her apartment window as her starting point, she turns to the lives of the house’s various inhabitants, to accounts penned by Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Gabriele Tergit, and to the female protagonists in the works of Theodor Fontane, Irmgard Keun, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A new cultural topography of Berlin emerges, one which taps into energetic undercurrents to recover untold or forgotten stories beneath the city’s familiar narratives.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590325Tue, 20 Sep 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin Author: Kirsty Bell Narrator: Rachel Pickup Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590325 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin Author: Kirsty Bell Narrator: Rachel Pickup Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories. The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city’s theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking East, right into the heart of a metropolis in the making, on a terrain inscribed indelibly with trauma. When her marriage breaks down, Kirsty Bell—a British-American art critic, adrift in her mid-forties—becomes fixated on the history of her building and of her adoptive city. Taking the view from her apartment window as her starting point, she turns to the lives of the house’s various inhabitants, to accounts penned by Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Gabriele Tergit, and to the female protagonists in the works of Theodor Fontane, Irmgard Keun, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A new cultural topography of Berlin emerges, one which taps into energetic undercurrents to recover untold or forgotten stories beneath the city’s familiar narratives.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dinners-with-ruth-a-memoir-of-friendship-by-nina-totenberg--65185780https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir of Friendship Author: Nina Totenberg Narrator: Nina Totenberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 38 Ratings of Narrator: 4.42 of Total 12 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prizewinning reporter, and nearly twenty-two years before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, Nina called Ruth. A reporter for The National Observer, Nina was curious about Ruth’s legal brief, asking the Supreme Court to do something revolutionary: declare a law that discriminated “on the basis of sex” to be unconstitutional. In a time when women were fired for becoming pregnant, often could not apply for credit cards, or get a mortgage in their own names, Ruth patiently explained her argument. That call launched a remarkable, nearly fifty-year friendship. Dinners with Ruth is an extraordinary account of two women who paved the way for future generations by tearing down professional and legal barriers. It is also an intimate memoir of the power of friendships as women began to pry open career doors and transform the workplace. At the story’s heart is one, special relationship: Ruth and Nina saw each other not only through personal joys, but also illness, loss, and widowhood. During the devastating illness and eventual death of Nina’s first husband, Ruth drew her out of grief; twelve years later, Nina would reciprocate when Ruth’s beloved husband died. They shared not only a love of opera, but also of shopping, as they instinctively understood that clothes were armor for women who wanted to be taken seriously in a workplace dominated by men. During Ruth’s last year, they shared so many small dinners that Saturdays were “reserved for Ruth” in Nina’s house. Dinners with Ruth also weaves together compelling, personal portraits of other fascinating women and men from Nina’s life, including her cherished NPR colleagues Cokie Roberts and Linda Wertheimer; her beloved husbands; her friendships with multiple Supreme Court Justices, including Lewis Powell, William Brennan, and Antonin Scalia, and Nina’s own family—her father, the legendary violinist Roman Totenberg, and her “best friends,” her sisters. Inspiring and revelatory, Dinners with Ruth is a moving story of the joy and true meaning of friendship.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575263Tue, 13 Sep 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir of Friendship Author: Nina Totenberg Narrator: Nina Totenberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir of Friendship Author: Nina Totenberg Narrator: Nina Totenberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 38 Ratings of Narrator: 4.42 of Total 12 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prizewinning reporter, and nearly twenty-two years before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, Nina called Ruth. A reporter for The National Observer, Nina was curious about Ruth’s legal brief, asking the Supreme Court to do something revolutionary: declare a law that discriminated “on the basis of sex” to be unconstitutional. In a time when women were fired for becoming pregnant, often could not apply for credit cards, or get a mortgage in their own names, Ruth patiently explained her argument. That call launched a remarkable, nearly fifty-year friendship. Dinners with Ruth is an extraordinary account of two women who paved the way for future generations by tearing down professional and legal barriers. It is also an intimate memoir of the power of friendships as women began to pry open career doors and transform the workplace. At the story’s heart is one, special relationship: Ruth and Nina saw each other not only through personal joys, but also illness, loss, and widowhood. During the devastating illness and eventual death of Nina’s first husband, Ruth drew her out of grief; twelve years later, Nina would reciprocate when Ruth’s beloved husband died. They shared not only a love of opera, but also of shopping, as they instinctively understood that clothes were armor for women who wanted to be taken seriously in a workplace dominated by men. During Ruth’s last year, they shared so many small dinners that Saturdays were “reserved for Ruth” in Nina’s house. Dinners with Ruth also weaves together compelling, personal portraits of other fascinating women and men from Nina’s life, including her cherished NPR colleagues Cokie Roberts and Linda Wertheimer; her beloved husbands; her friendships with multiple Supreme Court Justices, including Lewis Powell, William Brennan, and Antonin Scalia, and Nina’s own family—her father, the legendary violinist Roman Totenberg, and her “best friends,” her sisters. Inspiring and revelatory, Dinners with Ruth is a moving story of the joy and true meaning of friendship.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-family-torn-apart-three-sisters-and-a-dark-secret-that-threatens-to-separate-them-for-ever-by-cathy-glass--65185792https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574404 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for ever Author: Cathy Glass Narrator: Denica Fairman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass. Their older half-sister Ashleigh has accused their father of something horrible, and the two young sisters have been removed from home to keep them safe. Cathy tries to comfort the girls, but they are inconsolable. They just want their mummy and daddy, whom they love dearly. The girls appear to have been well looked after, but as they settle and start to talk of life at home, it becomes clear something is badly wrong. Then a chance remark sets in motion a chain of events that eventually changes everything.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574404Thu, 01 Sep 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574404 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for ever Author: Cathy Glass Narrator: Denica Fairman Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574404 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for ever Author: Cathy Glass Narrator: Denica Fairman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass. Their older half-sister Ashleigh has accused their father of something horrible, and the two young sisters have been removed from home to keep them safe. Cathy tries to comfort the girls, but they are inconsolable. They just want their mummy and daddy, whom they love dearly. The girls appear to have been well looked after, but as they settle and start to talk of life at home, it becomes clear something is badly wrong. Then a chance remark sets in motion a chain of events that eventually changes everything.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/and-finally-matters-of-life-and-death-the-sunday-times-bestseller-from-the-author-of-do-no-harm-by-henry-marsh--65185749https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578565 to listen full audiobooks. Title: And Finally: Matters of Life and Death, the Sunday Times bestseller from the author of DO NO HARM Author: Henry Marsh Narrator: Henry Marsh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. As a neurosurgeon, I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. But rarely, if ever, did I think about what it would be like if what I witnessed at work every day happened to me. This book is the story of how I became a patient myself. As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and death finds himself contemplating what might be his own death sentence. As he navigates the bewildering transition from doctor to patient, he is haunted by past failures and projects yet to be completed, and frustrated by the inconveniences of illness and old age. But he is also more entranced than ever by the mysteries of science and the brain, the beauty of the natural world and his love for his family. Elegiac, candid, luminous and poignant, And Finally is ultimately not so much a book about death, but a book about life and what matters in the end. © Henry Marsh 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578565Thu, 01 Sep 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578565 to listen full audiobooks. Title: And Finally: Matters of Life and Death, the Sunday Times bestseller from the author of DO NO HARM Author: Henry Marsh Narrator: Henry Marsh Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578565 to listen full audiobooks. Title: And Finally: Matters of Life and Death, the Sunday Times bestseller from the author of DO NO HARM Author: Henry Marsh Narrator: Henry Marsh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. As a neurosurgeon, I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. But rarely, if ever, did I think about what it would be like if what I witnessed at work every day happened to me. This book is the story of how I became a patient myself. As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact of his diagnosis of advanced cancer. And Finally explores what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on the frontline of life and death finds himself contemplating what might be his own death sentence. As he navigates the bewildering transition from doctor to patient, he is haunted by past failures and projects yet to be completed, and frustrated by the inconveniences of illness and old age. But he is also more entranced than ever by the mysteries of science and the brain, the beauty of the natural world and his love for his family. Elegiac, candid, luminous and poignant, And Finally is ultimately not so much a book about death, but a book about life and what matters in the end. © Henry Marsh 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/just-dope-a-leading-attorney-s-personal-journey-inside-the-war-on-drugs-by-allison-margolin--65185806https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Dope: A Leading Attorney's Personal Journey Inside the War on Drugs Author: Allison Margolin Narrator: Sanya Simmons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For readers of Dopesick and Drug Use for Grown-Ups--a celebrated cannabis attorney's insider look at the War on Drugs and what comes next for the drug legalization movement. Spoiler: everyone uses drugs. Whether you’re popping an aspirin for a headache, pushing through the day with an extra jolt of caffeine, unwinding with a perfectly rolled joint, or availing yourself of harder substances, chances are--at some point in your life--you’ve consumed mind-altering substances. Getting high is something most of us do, and in many cases do safely--yet drugs remain a singular public enemy. The number of Americans arrested for drug possession has tripled since 1980. A whole fifth of the incarcerated population is in on drug charges. The War on Drugs--systematically designed to disenfranchise Black communities and leftist political activists--continues to wreak havoc to this day. The ugly truth is that drug prohibition doesn’t stop drug use. It only makes it more harmful. Allison Margolin, an LA-based criminal defense attorney, is one of the nation’s leading experts in cannabis licensing and law. Integrating pop culture and personal stories into social analysis, she puts drug criminalization on trial to advocate for an evidence-based, commonsense approach to drug use and legalization. From a fresh policy and social commentary perspective, Margolin explores:   •  The history of drug prohibition in the United States--when it started, how it evolved, and where it stands now   •  The problem with campaigns like “This Is Your Brain on Drugs”   •  How our current drug policy is rooted more in racism, bias, and pharma money than science or psychology   •  The false dichotomy between “good” and “bad” drugs   •  The grifting and exploitation of the Rehab Industrial Complex   •  What real drug education can (and should) look like For readers of Dopesick and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Just Dope is part memoir, part whip-smart policy critique, part social drug history of LA, and a vital call to knowledge and action.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573714Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Dope: A Leading Attorney's Personal Journey Inside the War on Drugs Author: Allison Margolin Narrator: Sanya Simmons Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just Dope: A Leading Attorney's Personal Journey Inside the War on Drugs Author: Allison Margolin Narrator: Sanya Simmons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For readers of Dopesick and Drug Use for Grown-Ups--a celebrated cannabis attorney's insider look at the War on Drugs and what comes next for the drug legalization movement. Spoiler: everyone uses drugs. Whether you’re popping an aspirin for a headache, pushing through the day with an extra jolt of caffeine, unwinding with a perfectly rolled joint, or availing yourself of harder substances, chances are--at some point in your life--you’ve consumed mind-altering substances. Getting high is something most of us do, and in many cases do safely--yet drugs remain a singular public enemy. The number of Americans arrested for drug possession has tripled since 1980. A whole fifth of the incarcerated population is in on drug charges. The War on Drugs--systematically designed to disenfranchise Black communities and leftist political activists--continues to wreak havoc to this day. The ugly truth is that drug prohibition doesn’t stop drug use. It only makes it more harmful. Allison Margolin, an LA-based criminal defense attorney, is one of the nation’s leading experts in cannabis licensing and law. Integrating pop culture and personal stories into social analysis, she puts drug criminalization on trial to advocate for an evidence-based, commonsense approach to drug use and legalization. From a fresh policy and social commentary perspective, Margolin explores:   •  The history of drug prohibition in the United States--when it started, how it evolved, and where it stands now   •  The problem with campaigns like “This Is Your Brain on Drugs”   •  How our current drug policy is rooted more in racism, bias, and pharma money than science or psychology   •  The false dichotomy between “good” and “bad” drugs   •  The grifting and exploitation of the Rehab Industrial Complex   •  What real drug education can (and should) look like For readers of Dopesick and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Just Dope is part memoir, part whip-smart policy critique, part social drug history of LA, and a vital call to knowledge and action.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/scenes-from-my-life-a-memoir-by-michael-k-williams-jon-sternfeld--65185823https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575050 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scenes from My Life: A Memoir Author: Michael K. Williams, Jon Sternfeld Narrator: Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • A “gripping, revelatory” (NPR) memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give back—from the late iconic actor beloved for his roles in The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, and Lovecraft Country   “Williams’s cool rasp leaps off every page, his story told in the direct yet impassioned language that defined his greatest characters.”—Vulture ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, NPR, The Root When Michael K. Williams died on September 6, 2021, he left behind a career as one of the most electrifying actors of his generation. From his star turn as Omar Little in The Wire to Chalky White in Boardwalk Empire to Emmy-nominated roles in HBO’s The Night Of and Lovecraft Country, Williams inhabited a slew of indelible roles that he portrayed with a rawness and vulnerability that leapt off the screen. Beyond the nominations and acclaim, Williams played characters who connected, whose humanity couldn’t be denied, whose stories were too often left out of the main narrative. At the time of his death, Williams had nearly finished a memoir that tells the story of his past while looking to the future, a book that merges his life and his life’s work. Mike, as his friends knew him, was so much more than an actor. In Scenes from My Life, he traces his life in whole, from his childhood in East Flatbush and his early years as a dancer to his battles with addiction and the bar fight that left his face with his distinguishing scar. He was a committed Brooklyn resident and activist who dedicated his life to working with social justice organizations and his community, especially in helping at-risk youth find their voice and carve out their future. Williams worked to keep the spotlight on those he fought for and with, whom he believed in with his whole heart. Imbued with poignance and raw honesty, Scenes from My Life is the story of a performer who gave his all to everything he did—in his own voice, in his own words, as only he could.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575050Tue, 23 Aug 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575050 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scenes from My Life: A Memoir Author: Michael K. Williams, Jon Sternfeld Narrator: Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575050 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scenes from My Life: A Memoir Author: Michael K. Williams, Jon Sternfeld Narrator: Dion Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • A “gripping, revelatory” (NPR) memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give back—from the late iconic actor beloved for his roles in The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, and Lovecraft Country   “Williams’s cool rasp leaps off every page, his story told in the direct yet impassioned language that defined his greatest characters.”—Vulture ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, NPR, The Root When Michael K. Williams died on September 6, 2021, he left behind a career as one of the most electrifying actors of his generation. From his star turn as Omar Little in The Wire to Chalky White in Boardwalk Empire to Emmy-nominated roles in HBO’s The Night Of and Lovecraft Country, Williams inhabited a slew of indelible roles that he portrayed with a rawness and vulnerability that leapt off the screen. Beyond the nominations and acclaim, Williams played characters who connected, whose humanity couldn’t be denied, whose stories were too often left out of the main narrative. At the time of his death, Williams had nearly finished a memoir that tells the story of his past while looking to the future, a book that merges his life and his life’s work. Mike, as his friends knew him, was so much more than an actor. In Scenes from My Life, he traces his life in whole, from his childhood in East Flatbush and his early years as a dancer to his battles with addiction and the bar fight that left his face with his distinguishing scar. He was a committed Brooklyn resident and activist who dedicated his life to working with social justice organizations and his community, especially in helping at-risk youth find their voice and carve out their future. Williams worked to keep the spotlight on those he fought for and with, whom he believed in with his whole heart. Imbued with poignance and raw honesty, Scenes from My Life is the story of a performer who gave his all to everything he did—in his own voice, in his own words, as only he could.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-place-in-the-world-finding-the-meaning-of-home-by-frances-mayes--65185803https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575053 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home Author: Frances Mayes Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. “Personal, warm, and lovely . . . a charming read. The book feels like a warm conversation with your most thoughtful, curious friend.”—Garden & Gun LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • VERANDA BOOK CLUB PICK “Where you are is who you are.” Though Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on the idea of home, from the earliest imprint of four walls to the startling discoveries of feeling the strange ease of homes abroad, friends’ homes, and even momentary homes that spark desires for other lives. From her travels across Italy to the American South, France, and Mexico, Mayes examines the connective tissue among them through the homes she’s inhabited. A Place in the World explores Mayes’s passion for and obsession with houses and the objects that inhabit them—books, rich food, gardens, beloved friends, and transportive art. The indelible marks that each refuge has left on her and how each home influenced the next serve as the foundations of the book’s chapters. Written in Mayes’s signature intimate style, A Place in the World captures the adventure of moving on while seeking comfort in the cornerstone closest to all of us—home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575053Tue, 23 Aug 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575053 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home Author: Frances Mayes Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575053 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home Author: Frances Mayes Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. “Personal, warm, and lovely . . . a charming read. The book feels like a warm conversation with your most thoughtful, curious friend.”—Garden & Gun LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • VERANDA BOOK CLUB PICK “Where you are is who you are.” Though Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on the idea of home, from the earliest imprint of four walls to the startling discoveries of feeling the strange ease of homes abroad, friends’ homes, and even momentary homes that spark desires for other lives. From her travels across Italy to the American South, France, and Mexico, Mayes examines the connective tissue among them through the homes she’s inhabited. A Place in the World explores Mayes’s passion for and obsession with houses and the objects that inhabit them—books, rich food, gardens, beloved friends, and transportive art. The indelible marks that each refuge has left on her and how each home influenced the next serve as the foundations of the book’s chapters. Written in Mayes’s signature intimate style, A Place in the World captures the adventure of moving on while seeking comfort in the cornerstone closest to all of us—home.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/smart-stupid-and-sixty-by-nigel-marsh--65185680https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Smart, Stupid and Sixty Author: Nigel Marsh Narrator: Nigel Marsh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Twenty years ago, Nigel Marsh was an overweight mortgage slave struggling to balance a career, marriage and four children under eight. Until he lost his job. In Fat, Forty and Fired, Nigel wrote about falling off the corporate hamster wheel and surviving. Now that he's approaching sixty, he can't help but notice it's been a while since he was asked onto that wheel by other hamsters. One day he reads that a graduate trainee who used to work for him in London is now a global CEO with an office on the top floor of a skyscraper in New York. Nigel, by contrast, is wearing a dressing gown and sitting at his writing desk in a dank storage room under his garage in Sydney. It's enough to give anyone a moment of self-doubt. Could it be that Nigel's most successful days are behind him? Or is conventional success simply that - conventional success? And is it possible that his happiest days lie ahead? In his memoir for his sixth decade on earth, Nigel ponders ageing well, sex, parenting adult children, his parents' passing, and the secret to living a happy life. By turns entertaining, thought-provoking, poignant and life-affirming, Smart, Stupid and Sixty is a celebration of the third trimester as a privilege to be enjoyed rather than a sentence to be endured.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584206Tue, 16 Aug 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Smart, Stupid and Sixty Author: Nigel Marsh Narrator: Nigel Marsh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584206 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Smart, Stupid and Sixty Author: Nigel Marsh Narrator: Nigel Marsh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Twenty years ago, Nigel Marsh was an overweight mortgage slave struggling to balance a career, marriage and four children under eight. Until he lost his job. In Fat, Forty and Fired, Nigel wrote about falling off the corporate hamster wheel and surviving. Now that he's approaching sixty, he can't help but notice it's been a while since he was asked onto that wheel by other hamsters. One day he reads that a graduate trainee who used to work for him in London is now a global CEO with an office on the top floor of a skyscraper in New York. Nigel, by contrast, is wearing a dressing gown and sitting at his writing desk in a dank storage room under his garage in Sydney. It's enough to give anyone a moment of self-doubt. Could it be that Nigel's most successful days are behind him? Or is conventional success simply that - conventional success? And is it possible that his happiest days lie ahead? In his memoir for his sixth decade on earth, Nigel ponders ageing well, sex, parenting adult children, his parents' passing, and the secret to living a happy life. By turns entertaining, thought-provoking, poignant and life-affirming, Smart, Stupid and Sixty is a celebration of the third trimester as a privilege to be enjoyed rather than a sentence to be endured.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-m-glad-my-mom-died-by-jennette-mccurdy--65185841https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575271 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm Glad My Mom Died Author: Jennette McCurdy Narrator: Jennette McCurdy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.66 of Total 2720 Ratings of Narrator: 4.81 of Total 1221 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: * #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * MORE THAN 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD! A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income. In I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!”), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants. Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I’m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575271Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575271 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm Glad My Mom Died Author: Jennette McCurdy Narrator: Jennette McCurdy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575271 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm Glad My Mom Died Author: Jennette McCurdy Narrator: Jennette McCurdy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.66 of Total 2720 Ratings of Narrator: 4.81 of Total 1221 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: * #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * MORE THAN 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD! A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income. In I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!”), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants. Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I’m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fifth-act-america-s-end-in-afghanistan-by-elliot-ackerman--65185829https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576556 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan Author: Elliot Ackerman Narrator: Elliot Ackerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “The American betrayal of Afghanistan took twenty years. Elliot Ackerman, a participant and witness, tells the story with unsparing honesty in this intensely personal chronicle.” —George Packer A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war’s echoing legacy Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and later as a CIA paramilitary officer marked him indelibly. When the Taliban began to close in on Kabul in August 2021 and the Afghan regime began its death spiral, he found himself pulled back into the conflict. Afghan nationals who had worked closely with the American military and intelligence communities for years now faced brutal reprisal and sought frantically to flee the country with their families. The official US government evacuation effort was a bureaucratic failure that led to a humanitarian catastrophe. With former colleagues and friends protecting the airport in Kabul, Ackerman joined an impromptu effort by a group of journalists and other veterans to arrange flights and negotiate with both Taliban and American forces to secure the safe evacuation of hundreds. These were desperate measures taken during a desperate end to America's longest war. For Ackerman, it also became a chance to reconcile his past with his present.   The Fifth Act is an astonishing human document that brings the weight of twenty years of war to bear on a single week, the week the war ended. Using the dramatic rescue efforts in Kabul as his lattice, Ackerman weaves a personal history of the war's long progression, beginning with the initial invasion in the months after 9/11. It is a play in five acts, the fifth act being the story’s tragic denouement, a prelude to Afghanistan's dark future. Any reader who wants to understand what went wrong with the war’s trajectory will find a trenchant account here. But The Fifth Act also brings readers into close contact with a remarkable group of characters, American and Afghan, who fought the war with courage and dedication, and at great personal cost. Ackerman's story is a first draft of history that feels like a timeless classic.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576556Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576556 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan Author: Elliot Ackerman Narrator: Elliot Ackerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 16 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576556 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan Author: Elliot Ackerman Narrator: Elliot Ackerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “The American betrayal of Afghanistan took twenty years. Elliot Ackerman, a participant and witness, tells the story with unsparing honesty in this intensely personal chronicle.” —George Packer A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war’s echoing legacy Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and later as a CIA paramilitary officer marked him indelibly. When the Taliban began to close in on Kabul in August 2021 and the Afghan regime began its death spiral, he found himself pulled back into the conflict. Afghan nationals who had worked closely with the American military and intelligence communities for years now faced brutal reprisal and sought frantically to flee the country with their families. The official US government evacuation effort was a bureaucratic failure that led to a humanitarian catastrophe. With former colleagues and friends protecting the airport in Kabul, Ackerman joined an impromptu effort by a group of journalists and other veterans to arrange flights and negotiate with both Taliban and American forces to secure the safe evacuation of hundreds. These were desperate measures taken during a desperate end to America's longest war. For Ackerman, it also became a chance to reconcile his past with his present.   The Fifth Act is an astonishing human document that brings the weight of twenty years of war to bear on a single week, the week the war ended. Using the dramatic rescue efforts in Kabul as his lattice, Ackerman weaves a personal history of the war's long progression, beginning with the initial invasion in the months after 9/11. It is a play in five acts, the fifth act being the story’s tragic denouement, a prelude to Afghanistan's dark future. Any reader who wants to understand what went wrong with the war’s trajectory will find a trenchant account here. But The Fifth Act also brings readers into close contact with a remarkable group of characters, American and Afghan, who fought the war with courage and dedication, and at great personal cost. Ackerman's story is a first draft of history that feels like a timeless classic.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-shadow-of-death-from-my-battles-in-fallujah-to-the-battle-for-my-soul-by-fernando-arroyo--65185791https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shadow of Death: From My Battles in Fallujah to the Battle for My Soul Author: Fernando Arroyo Narrator: Shawn Compton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When I returned home from my latest deployment in the U.S. Army, my life began to fall apart. One night, after heavy drinking, I placed my 1911 pistol in my mouth and thought a prayer—silence. I deactivated the safety and began to slowly squeeze the trigger. BANG! I dropped the pistol, and I looked around me, but there was no blood. The bang I heard was the Bible on my desk falling and hitting the floor. I fell to my knees and asked God for forgiveness. I surrendered to Jesus Christ and asked him to help me. He answered.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573068Wed, 03 Aug 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shadow of Death: From My Battles in Fallujah to the Battle for My Soul Author: Fernando Arroyo Narrator: Shawn Compton Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shadow of Death: From My Battles in Fallujah to the Battle for My Soul Author: Fernando Arroyo Narrator: Shawn Compton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 25 minutes Release date: August 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When I returned home from my latest deployment in the U.S. Army, my life began to fall apart. One night, after heavy drinking, I placed my 1911 pistol in my mouth and thought a prayer—silence. I deactivated the safety and began to slowly squeeze the trigger. BANG! I dropped the pistol, and I looked around me, but there was no blood. The bang I heard was the Bible on my desk falling and hitting the floor. I fell to my knees and asked God for forgiveness. I surrendered to Jesus Christ and asked him to help me. He answered.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/patting-the-shark-by-tim-baker--65185771https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patting the Shark Author: Tim Baker Narrator: Tim Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Tim Baker was living the dream. A best-selling and award-winning surf writer with a beautiful family, a lifetime of exotic travel and a home walking distance to quality waves. That all changed on July 7, 2015, when he was diagnosed, out of the blue, with stage 4, metastatic prostate cancer. So began a descent into the debilitating world of aggressive cancer treatments and a fight for a survival as brutal as any big wave hold down. Tim writes candidly and with a raw vulnerability about this perilous journey through chemotherapy, hormone therapy, radiation and surgery, and his own determined lifestyle strategies to maintain mind, body and spirit. Happily, surfing provided one of his most powerful forms of therapy, and writing about his experiences has proven deeply cathartic. In 2020, 1.5 million men were diagnosed with prostate cancer globally and 375,000 lost their lives. In Australia, one in seven men will develop prostate cancer. Yet mainstream oncology concedes its ability to keep men with prostate cancer alive has outstripped its ability to manage the often-devastating side effects of treatment. Men with prostate cancer are living longer but with a steadily declining quality of life. Patting The Shark documents Tim's efforts to navigate his way through the maze of conventional and supportive therapies - meditation, diet, exercise, emotional support, counselling. Ultimately, it is a desperate plea for a more integrative approach to cancer care, treating the whole person and not just the cancer, allowing cancer patients a sense of empowerment and agency in charting their path through treatment. This is a story about facing your mortality, staring down your fears, and working out what really matters in life, when so many elements of your identity are stripped away. It offers hope, comfort and empathy for anyone facing a cancer diagnosis and their loved ones.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584205Tue, 02 Aug 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patting the Shark Author: Tim Baker Narrator: Tim Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patting the Shark Author: Tim Baker Narrator: Tim Baker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Tim Baker was living the dream. A best-selling and award-winning surf writer with a beautiful family, a lifetime of exotic travel and a home walking distance to quality waves. That all changed on July 7, 2015, when he was diagnosed, out of the blue, with stage 4, metastatic prostate cancer. So began a descent into the debilitating world of aggressive cancer treatments and a fight for a survival as brutal as any big wave hold down. Tim writes candidly and with a raw vulnerability about this perilous journey through chemotherapy, hormone therapy, radiation and surgery, and his own determined lifestyle strategies to maintain mind, body and spirit. Happily, surfing provided one of his most powerful forms of therapy, and writing about his experiences has proven deeply cathartic. In 2020, 1.5 million men were diagnosed with prostate cancer globally and 375,000 lost their lives. In Australia, one in seven men will develop prostate cancer. Yet mainstream oncology concedes its ability to keep men with prostate cancer alive has outstripped its ability to manage the often-devastating side effects of treatment. Men with prostate cancer are living longer but with a steadily declining quality of life. Patting The Shark documents Tim's efforts to navigate his way through the maze of conventional and supportive therapies - meditation, diet, exercise, emotional support, counselling. Ultimately, it is a desperate plea for a more integrative approach to cancer care, treating the whole person and not just the cancer, allowing cancer patients a sense of empowerment and agency in charting their path through treatment. This is a story about facing your mortality, staring down your fears, and working out what really matters in life, when so many elements of your identity are stripped away. It offers hope, comfort and empathy for anyone facing a cancer diagnosis and their loved ones.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sentimental-economy-by-edoardo-nesi--65185662https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sentimental Economy Author: Edoardo Nesi Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the Strega Prize–winning author of Story of My People comes an astute, multifaceted essay on the seismic shifts of 2020 and how he and people from all walks of life are adapting. Attempting to make sense of the incredible upheaval of 2020—from the devastating impact of COVID-19 to the sudden loss of his father—Edoardo Nesi considers the changing global economy and its effect on our lives. He shares the stories of Alberto Magelli, a small textile entrepreneur; Livia Firth, a prominent advocate for sustainability; Elisa Martelli, a young Sangiovese winemaker; Enrico Giovannini, a leading economist and statistician; Rino Pratesi, a proud butcher from the heart of Tuscany; and more. From the overworked to the unemployed, we’re all grappling with difficult questions about our current disorienting world: Will we ever feel healthy again, and what will it take to regain “normality”? What does progress mean today? Have science and technology let us down? What will the increased prevalence of remote working mean for our cities, and for our lifestyles generally? Deftly weaving together the personal and the economic, Nesi takes us on a fascinating journey to understanding.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586918Tue, 02 Aug 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sentimental Economy Author: Edoardo Nesi Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 2,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sentimental Economy Author: Edoardo Nesi Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the Strega Prize–winning author of Story of My People comes an astute, multifaceted essay on the seismic shifts of 2020 and how he and people from all walks of life are adapting. Attempting to make sense of the incredible upheaval of 2020—from the devastating impact of COVID-19 to the sudden loss of his father—Edoardo Nesi considers the changing global economy and its effect on our lives. He shares the stories of Alberto Magelli, a small textile entrepreneur; Livia Firth, a prominent advocate for sustainability; Elisa Martelli, a young Sangiovese winemaker; Enrico Giovannini, a leading economist and statistician; Rino Pratesi, a proud butcher from the heart of Tuscany; and more. From the overworked to the unemployed, we’re all grappling with difficult questions about our current disorienting world: Will we ever feel healthy again, and what will it take to regain “normality”? What does progress mean today? Have science and technology let us down? What will the increased prevalence of remote working mean for our cities, and for our lifestyles generally? Deftly weaving together the personal and the economic, Nesi takes us on a fascinating journey to understanding.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/holding-the-line-a-lifetime-of-defending-democracy-and-american-values-by-ronny-jackson--65185834https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Holding the Line: A Lifetime of Defending Democracy and American Values Author: Ronny Jackson Narrator: Alan Peterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A behind-the-scenes political memoir written by a prominent White House physician.I would talk to the president before the chief of staff even saw the president in the morning. I walked into work, and I was already in the Oval Office talking to President Trump.It was rarely medical, to be honest with you; it was whatever was going on in the news. I’d be the first person he’d see in the morning. The president was completing tasks two to three hours before anybody else showed up in the West Wing to work. He’d get up at five o’clock in the morning and would be watching TV, tweeting, making phone calls, and doing all types of other tasks.President Trump would poke his head into my office or I’d walk out, and we would say, “Good morning. Did you see this or that?” He was always asking me about things on TV and what was going on, from Iran to Stormy Daniels.He’d say, “Walk with me.” So I’d walk him to the Oval Office, and we’d talk about everything. I’d walk out through the outer Oval Office and the chief of staff, national security advisor, and even the CIA briefer would be standing there, waiting to get in and talk to him. I’d walk out, they’d walk in, and his day would start. I was the first person he saw every morning and the last person he saw every evening when he went to bed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573250Tue, 26 Jul 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Holding the Line: A Lifetime of Defending Democracy and American Values Author: Ronny Jackson Narrator: Alan Peterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Holding the Line: A Lifetime of Defending Democracy and American Values Author: Ronny Jackson Narrator: Alan Peterson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A behind-the-scenes political memoir written by a prominent White House physician.I would talk to the president before the chief of staff even saw the president in the morning. I walked into work, and I was already in the Oval Office talking to President Trump.It was rarely medical, to be honest with you; it was whatever was going on in the news. I’d be the first person he’d see in the morning. The president was completing tasks two to three hours before anybody else showed up in the West Wing to work. He’d get up at five o’clock in the morning and would be watching TV, tweeting, making phone calls, and doing all types of other tasks.President Trump would poke his head into my office or I’d walk out, and we would say, “Good morning. Did you see this or that?” He was always asking me about things on TV and what was going on, from Iran to Stormy Daniels.He’d say, “Walk with me.” So I’d walk him to the Oval Office, and we’d talk about everything. I’d walk out through the outer Oval Office and the chief of staff, national security advisor, and even the CIA briefer would be standing there, waiting to get in and talk to him. I’d walk out, they’d walk in, and his day would start. I was the first person he saw every morning and the last person he saw every evening when he went to bed.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/milo-s-eyes-how-a-blind-equestrian-and-her-seeing-eye-horse-rescued-each-other-by-lissa-bachner--65185729https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Milo's Eyes: How a Blind Equestrian and Her 'Seeing Eye Horse' Rescued Each Other Author: Lissa Bachner Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The extraordinary bond between Lissa Bachner, a young blind woman, and Milo, a neglected, frightened horse, helped them become one of America's most inspiring, successful riding teams in the world of show jumping. Lissa Bachner was born with a passion for horses and won her first blue ribbon at age five. Other awards would follow as a young rider, and for years Lissa trained with jumpers, tackling more difficult leaps, and working to perfect her ride. When blindness struck in her teens, it appeared her passion for riding would come to an end. How could she jump hurdles when she could barely navigate through her own home? But success, trust, and love came to Lissa when her trainer convinced her to buy a 'diamond in the rough' from Germany. On New Year's Eve, Milo arrived at the barn, frightened and neglected. Taking one look at his shaking, filthy body, Lissa promised Milo that he would only know kindness. Through countless eye surgeries and the many months of training and work, Lissa and Milo formed a magic bond that made them inseparable. With effortless humor and penetrating compassion, Lissa weaves a story of unfaltering faith in Milo, and the unconditional love they shared.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588096Tue, 26 Jul 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Milo's Eyes: How a Blind Equestrian and Her 'Seeing Eye Horse' Rescued Each Other Author: Lissa Bachner Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Milo's Eyes: How a Blind Equestrian and Her 'Seeing Eye Horse' Rescued Each Other Author: Lissa Bachner Narrator: Johanna Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The extraordinary bond between Lissa Bachner, a young blind woman, and Milo, a neglected, frightened horse, helped them become one of America's most inspiring, successful riding teams in the world of show jumping. Lissa Bachner was born with a passion for horses and won her first blue ribbon at age five. Other awards would follow as a young rider, and for years Lissa trained with jumpers, tackling more difficult leaps, and working to perfect her ride. When blindness struck in her teens, it appeared her passion for riding would come to an end. How could she jump hurdles when she could barely navigate through her own home? But success, trust, and love came to Lissa when her trainer convinced her to buy a 'diamond in the rough' from Germany. On New Year's Eve, Milo arrived at the barn, frightened and neglected. Taking one look at his shaking, filthy body, Lissa promised Milo that he would only know kindness. Through countless eye surgeries and the many months of training and work, Lissa and Milo formed a magic bond that made them inseparable. With effortless humor and penetrating compassion, Lissa weaves a story of unfaltering faith in Milo, and the unconditional love they shared.]]>905cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/silenced-the-shocking-true-story-of-a-young-girl-too-afraid-to-speak-by-rosie-lewis--65185833https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silenced: The shocking true story of a young girl too afraid to speak Author: Rosie Lewis Narrator: Madeline Gould Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A family with a dark secret. A child who refuses to speak. Rosie must help her before it’s too late. Nine-year-old Caitlin has a secret, but she cannot tell anyone about it. When her mother is sectioned under the Mental Health Act she and her three siblings have to go and live with her grandmother Julie and grandad Ryan. Caitlin finds her new living conditions challenging: cat poo on the carpet, rubbish everywhere and the constant stare of her grandad – she retreats more and more into herself. When foster carer Rosie Lewis meets Caitlin she knows something is deeply wrong with this little girl, who is withdrawn, afraid and refuses to speak. Rosie decides to take her in, but Caitlin’s silence continues, and Rosie knows she must act. Why is Caitlin so afraid to speak? Could it be that the family has a dark secret? One that is so shocking it can no longer be hidden?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574403Thu, 21 Jul 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silenced: The shocking true story of a young girl too afraid to speak Author: Rosie Lewis Narrator: Madeline Gould Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silenced: The shocking true story of a young girl too afraid to speak Author: Rosie Lewis Narrator: Madeline Gould Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A family with a dark secret. A child who refuses to speak. Rosie must help her before it’s too late. Nine-year-old Caitlin has a secret, but she cannot tell anyone about it. When her mother is sectioned under the Mental Health Act she and her three siblings have to go and live with her grandmother Julie and grandad Ryan. Caitlin finds her new living conditions challenging: cat poo on the carpet, rubbish everywhere and the constant stare of her grandad – she retreats more and more into herself. When foster carer Rosie Lewis meets Caitlin she knows something is deeply wrong with this little girl, who is withdrawn, afraid and refuses to speak. Rosie decides to take her in, but Caitlin’s silence continues, and Rosie knows she must act. Why is Caitlin so afraid to speak? Could it be that the family has a dark secret? One that is so shocking it can no longer be hidden?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/one-place-de-l-eglise-a-year-in-provence-for-the-21st-century-by-trevor-dolby--65185752https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Place de l’Eglise: A Year in Provence for the 21st century Author: Trevor Dolby Narrator: Trevor Dolby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A thousand years ago, around the time King Harold inconveniently got shot with an arrow and a group of ladies made a tapestry, in the south of France a man and his friends decided to build a house next to a church. Over the centuries many things happened in that house, none of which found its way into history books. With the coming of the first decade of the twenty-first century, One Place de l'Eglise had become rather derelict. The roof leaked, the mortar in the ancient walls was crumbling, a fertilizer bag stuffed a broken window. There was no electricity to speak of, the plumbing was a lead pipe in one room, the cellar doors had rotted. And there it stood. Shutters and doors firmly locked, the villagers of Causses-et-Veyran passing by to the church next door. Then, an impoverished - in his mind at any rate - Londoner and his wife went a little crazy and bought it. It was love at first sight. Over the years they gradually turn the house into a home. They navigate the language, floods and freezing winters. And eventually they find their place - their bar, their baker, their builder (ignore him at their peril). Slowly the family and the locals get to know one another and these busy English discover slower joys - the scent of thyme and lavender, the warmth of sun on stone walls, nights hung with stars, silence in the hills, the importance of history and memory, the liberation of laughter and the secrets of fig jam. One Place de L'Eglise is a love letter - to a house, a village, a country - from an outsider who discovers you can never be a stranger when you're made to feel so at home. Old houses never belong to people. People belong to them. © Trevor Dolby 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578561Thu, 21 Jul 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Place de l’Eglise: A Year in Provence for the 21st century Author: Trevor Dolby Narrator: Trevor Dolby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578561 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Place de l’Eglise: A Year in Provence for the 21st century Author: Trevor Dolby Narrator: Trevor Dolby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A thousand years ago, around the time King Harold inconveniently got shot with an arrow and a group of ladies made a tapestry, in the south of France a man and his friends decided to build a house next to a church. Over the centuries many things happened in that house, none of which found its way into history books. With the coming of the first decade of the twenty-first century, One Place de l'Eglise had become rather derelict. The roof leaked, the mortar in the ancient walls was crumbling, a fertilizer bag stuffed a broken window. There was no electricity to speak of, the plumbing was a lead pipe in one room, the cellar doors had rotted. And there it stood. Shutters and doors firmly locked, the villagers of Causses-et-Veyran passing by to the church next door. Then, an impoverished - in his mind at any rate - Londoner and his wife went a little crazy and bought it. It was love at first sight. Over the years they gradually turn the house into a home. They navigate the language, floods and freezing winters. And eventually they find their place - their bar, their baker, their builder (ignore him at their peril). Slowly the family and the locals get to know one another and these busy English discover slower joys - the scent of thyme and lavender, the warmth of sun on stone walls, nights hung with stars, silence in the hills, the importance of history and memory, the liberation of laughter and the secrets of fig jam. One Place de L'Eglise is a love letter - to a house, a village, a country - from an outsider who discovers you can never be a stranger when you're made to feel so at home. Old houses never belong to people. People belong to them. © Trevor Dolby 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/train-lord-the-astonishing-true-story-of-one-man-s-journey-to-getting-his-life-back-on-track-by-oliver-mol--65185725https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Train Lord: The Astonishing True Story of One Man's Journey to Getting His Life Back On Track Author: Oliver Mol Narrator: Oliver Mol Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The astonishing true story of trust, pain, becoming lost, and finding a way back to yourself despite it all. What happens when a writer can no longer write? What happens when pain is so intense that you question who you are and whether you can bare it any longer? Oliver Mol was a successful, clever, healthy twenty-five-year old. Then one day the migraine started. For ten months, the pain was constant, exacerbated by writing, reading, using computers, looking at phones or anything with a screen. Slowly he became a writer who no longer wrote, and a person who could no longer could communicate with the modern world. In literature, and life, Oliver began to disappear. His doctors can't figure out how to fix him. He suffers a breakdown. One evening, high on pain killers, Oliver Googles the only thing he can think of: 'full-time job, no experience, Sydney'. An ad for a train guard appears and, desperate, Oliver takes it. For two years Oliver will watch others live their lives, observing the minutia and intimacy of strangers brought together briefly and connected by the steady march of time. Exquisitely written and bravely told, Train Lord is a searingly personal yet universal book, which asks what happens when your sense of self is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back. © Oliver Mol 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578094Thu, 21 Jul 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Train Lord: The Astonishing True Story of One Man's Journey to Getting His Life Back On Track Author: Oliver Mol Narrator: Oliver Mol Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Train Lord: The Astonishing True Story of One Man's Journey to Getting His Life Back On Track Author: Oliver Mol Narrator: Oliver Mol Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 11 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The astonishing true story of trust, pain, becoming lost, and finding a way back to yourself despite it all. What happens when a writer can no longer write? What happens when pain is so intense that you question who you are and whether you can bare it any longer? Oliver Mol was a successful, clever, healthy twenty-five-year old. Then one day the migraine started. For ten months, the pain was constant, exacerbated by writing, reading, using computers, looking at phones or anything with a screen. Slowly he became a writer who no longer wrote, and a person who could no longer could communicate with the modern world. In literature, and life, Oliver began to disappear. His doctors can't figure out how to fix him. He suffers a breakdown. One evening, high on pain killers, Oliver Googles the only thing he can think of: 'full-time job, no experience, Sydney'. An ad for a train guard appears and, desperate, Oliver takes it. For two years Oliver will watch others live their lives, observing the minutia and intimacy of strangers brought together briefly and connected by the steady march of time. Exquisitely written and bravely told, Train Lord is a searingly personal yet universal book, which asks what happens when your sense of self is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back. © Oliver Mol 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-don-t-want-to-talk-about-home-a-migrant-s-search-for-belonging-by-suad-aldarra--65185664https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589487 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Don't Want to Talk About Home: A migrant’s search for belonging Author: Suad Aldarra Narrator: Nadia Albina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'I carry my troubled homeland within me; I hide it like a crime.' Growing up in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia, Suad Aldarra felt stifled. The daughter of Syrian parents, she railed against the extreme strictures placed on women in Saudi society at the time and the rising prejudice her family faced as migrants. When the opportunity arose to study software engineering at Damascus University, she jumped at the chance to move to the city she loved for a degree of freedom she'd never known. But when the war started, everything changed. Suddenly Suad and her new husband Housam were thrown into a world of relentless pressure and fled to post-Arab Spring Egypt. Suad's degree in engineering was the saving grace that allowed her to travel to Ireland on a working visa. Yet reaching safety came at a price... I Don't Want to Talk About Home is not a memoir about war and destruction. It's not about camps or boats. It's about the enduring love for a home that ceased to exist and how to build a life out of the rubble. With great warmth and insight, Suad writes about those left behind paper borders, the sacrifices made, and the parts of yourself you lose and find when integrating into a new world. Powerful, fascinating and deeply moving - this book pushes aside our lazy images of human migration and refugees. I loved it. - RODDY DOYLE author of Love Full of heart, honesty and hard-learnt wisdom... a captivating journey across continents, history and culture. I literally couldn't put this book down. - JAN CARSON author of The Raptures © Suad Aldarra 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589487Thu, 14 Jul 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589487 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Don't Want to Talk About Home: A migrant’s search for belonging Author: Suad Aldarra Narrator: Nadia Albina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589487 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Don't Want to Talk About Home: A migrant’s search for belonging Author: Suad Aldarra Narrator: Nadia Albina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'I carry my troubled homeland within me; I hide it like a crime.' Growing up in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia, Suad Aldarra felt stifled. The daughter of Syrian parents, she railed against the extreme strictures placed on women in Saudi society at the time and the rising prejudice her family faced as migrants. When the opportunity arose to study software engineering at Damascus University, she jumped at the chance to move to the city she loved for a degree of freedom she'd never known. But when the war started, everything changed. Suddenly Suad and her new husband Housam were thrown into a world of relentless pressure and fled to post-Arab Spring Egypt. Suad's degree in engineering was the saving grace that allowed her to travel to Ireland on a working visa. Yet reaching safety came at a price... I Don't Want to Talk About Home is not a memoir about war and destruction. It's not about camps or boats. It's about the enduring love for a home that ceased to exist and how to build a life out of the rubble. With great warmth and insight, Suad writes about those left behind paper borders, the sacrifices made, and the parts of yourself you lose and find when integrating into a new world. Powerful, fascinating and deeply moving - this book pushes aside our lazy images of human migration and refugees. I loved it. - RODDY DOYLE author of Love Full of heart, honesty and hard-learnt wisdom... a captivating journey across continents, history and culture. I literally couldn't put this book down. - JAN CARSON author of The Raptures © Suad Aldarra 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mixed-race-experience-reflections-and-revelations-on-multicultural-identity-by-natalie-evans-naomi-evans--65185847https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity Author: Natalie Evans, Naomi Evans Narrator: Naomi Evans, Natalie Evans Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 53 minutes Release date: July 7, 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. What does it mean to be mixed race in today's society? In this powerful book, Natalie and Naomi Evans, founders of anti-racist advocacy and platform Everyday Racism, explore the complexities of mixed-race identities - from the discrimination endured by the 1.2 million mixed people in Britain and millions more elsewhere, to the privileges it can afford. Sharing their own personal experiences of growing up in Britain to illuminate the nuances of racial identity, the book also weaves in: - Interviews with people from mixed backgrounds and in mixed relationships - Research to dispel common myths and stereotypes - Practical advice for mixed-race families and friendships The Mixed-Race Experience will help you to recognise and confront the racism within your own family and communities, helping us all to deepen our intersectional awareness and commitment to allyship. Thought-provoking, sensitive and challenging, The Mixed Race Experience is a deeply moving look at identity and belonging. 'Natalie and Naomi are truly inspirational thought leaders.' Sophie Williams, author of Anti-Racist Ally and Millennial Black © Naomi and Natalie Evans 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573389Thu, 07 Jul 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity Author: Natalie Evans, Naomi Evans Narrator: Naomi Evans, Natalie...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity Author: Natalie Evans, Naomi Evans Narrator: Naomi Evans, Natalie Evans Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 53 minutes Release date: July 7, 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. What does it mean to be mixed race in today's society? In this powerful book, Natalie and Naomi Evans, founders of anti-racist advocacy and platform Everyday Racism, explore the complexities of mixed-race identities - from the discrimination endured by the 1.2 million mixed people in Britain and millions more elsewhere, to the privileges it can afford. Sharing their own personal experiences of growing up in Britain to illuminate the nuances of racial identity, the book also weaves in: - Interviews with people from mixed backgrounds and in mixed relationships - Research to dispel common myths and stereotypes - Practical advice for mixed-race families and friendships The Mixed-Race Experience will help you to recognise and confront the racism within your own family and communities, helping us all to deepen our intersectional awareness and commitment to allyship. Thought-provoking, sensitive and challenging, The Mixed Race Experience is a deeply moving look at identity and belonging. 'Natalie and Naomi are truly inspirational thought leaders.' Sophie Williams, author of Anti-Racist Ally and Millennial Black © Naomi and Natalie Evans 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nein-nein-nein-one-man-s-tale-of-depression-psychic-torment-and-a-bus-tour-of-the-holocaust-by-jerry-stahl--65185816https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust Author: Jerry Stahl Narrator: Jerry Stahl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A guided group tour to concentration camps in Poland and Germany allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both despair and humor. In September 2016, Jerry Stahl was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau that gave him anxiety. It was the fact that he would be traveling with two dozen strangers, by bus. In a tour group. And he was not a tour-group kind of guy. The decision to visit Holocaust-world did not come easy. Stahl's lifelong depression at an all-time high, his career and personal life at an all-time low, he had the idea to go on a trip where the despair he was feeling—out-of-control sadness, regret, and fear, not just for himself, but for our entire country—would be appropriate. And where was despair more appropriate than the land of the Six Million? Seamlessly weaving global and personal history, through the lens of Stahl's own bent perspective, Nein, Nein, Nein! stands out as a triumph of strange-o reporting, a tale that takes us from gang polkas to tour-rash to the truly disturbing snack bar at Auschwitz. Strap in for a raw, surreal, and redemptively hilarious trip. Get on the bus.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576898Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust Author: Jerry Stahl Narrator: Jerry Stahl Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576898 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust Author: Jerry Stahl Narrator: Jerry Stahl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A guided group tour to concentration camps in Poland and Germany allows Stahl to confront personal and historical demons with both despair and humor. In September 2016, Jerry Stahl was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau that gave him anxiety. It was the fact that he would be traveling with two dozen strangers, by bus. In a tour group. And he was not a tour-group kind of guy. The decision to visit Holocaust-world did not come easy. Stahl's lifelong depression at an all-time high, his career and personal life at an all-time low, he had the idea to go on a trip where the despair he was feeling—out-of-control sadness, regret, and fear, not just for himself, but for our entire country—would be appropriate. And where was despair more appropriate than the land of the Six Million? Seamlessly weaving global and personal history, through the lens of Stahl's own bent perspective, Nein, Nein, Nein! stands out as a triumph of strange-o reporting, a tale that takes us from gang polkas to tour-rash to the truly disturbing snack bar at Auschwitz. Strap in for a raw, surreal, and redemptively hilarious trip. Get on the bus.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-all-of-it-a-bogan-rhapsody-by-cadance-bell--65185744https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579337 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody Author: Cadance Bell Narrator: Cadance Bell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If you're alive, you can do anything. If you're reading this, you're not dead. Seven years ago, Ben was loveless, overweight, in debt and living in his parents' rumpus room, trying to find a way to quietly die. Days passed by in a haze of marijuana smoke and self-loathing. Then, one day, Ben decided not to die. He decided to change everything - starting with the Ben bit. Becoming Cadance would be more than a gender transition. It would be a transition in every way. It would mean leaving behind a rural Mudgee childhood filled with Frogger, hot chips, Godliness and a forbidden love of Sarah Parker's My Little Pony; and the violence, drugs and secrecy that plagued her twenties. Choosing to live was just the beginning; what mattered was how she existed. She was going to experience the all of it. Written with dazzling creativity and exuberance, The All of It is a wild coming-of-gender memoir like no other. Tender, tragic, hilarious and life-affirming, it will leave you understanding a little more about trans people, rural Australia, family, millennials and the beautiful contradictions of our kaleidoscopic world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579337Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579337 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody Author: Cadance Bell Narrator: Cadance Bell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 20 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579337 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody Author: Cadance Bell Narrator: Cadance Bell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 20 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If you're alive, you can do anything. If you're reading this, you're not dead. Seven years ago, Ben was loveless, overweight, in debt and living in his parents' rumpus room, trying to find a way to quietly die. Days passed by in a haze of marijuana smoke and self-loathing. Then, one day, Ben decided not to die. He decided to change everything - starting with the Ben bit. Becoming Cadance would be more than a gender transition. It would be a transition in every way. It would mean leaving behind a rural Mudgee childhood filled with Frogger, hot chips, Godliness and a forbidden love of Sarah Parker's My Little Pony; and the violence, drugs and secrecy that plagued her twenties. Choosing to live was just the beginning; what mattered was how she existed. She was going to experience the all of it. Written with dazzling creativity and exuberance, The All of It is a wild coming-of-gender memoir like no other. Tender, tragic, hilarious and life-affirming, it will leave you understanding a little more about trans people, rural Australia, family, millennials and the beautiful contradictions of our kaleidoscopic world.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-the-ways-our-dead-still-speak-a-funeral-director-on-life-death-and-the-hereafter-by-caleb-wilde--65185683https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak: A Funeral Director on Life, Death, and the Hereafter Author: Caleb Wilde Narrator: Kyle Tait Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What if our dead remain with us? What if closure is not the goal? No matter what you believe about the afterlife, what if the hereafter intersects with the here and now? Caleb Wilde, author of the acclaimed memoir Confessions of a Funeral Director, was a skeptic. The baffling stories people told him—deathbed visions of long-dead parents, visits from the other side—must be hallucinations or wishful thinking, he thought. But the more stories he heard, and the more he learned about non-Western understandings of body and spirit, the less sure he was. All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak takes listeners on a lyrical and tender quest to encounter the hereafter. As Wilde picks up bodies, organizes funerals, and meets with grieving families in a small town in Pennsylvania, those who remain share with him—and us—what they experience in the thin places between life and death. Entwining these stories with his own as a sixth-generation funeral director, and with the findings of neuroscience and the solace of faith, Wilde creates a searching, reverent inquiry into all the ways our dead remain with us. In the process, he takes on prevailing dogmas about death: from a narrow Christian view of heaven and hell, to secular assumptions that death is the end, to pop-psychology maxims that say we all need 'closure' after our loved ones die.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588026Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak: A Funeral Director on Life, Death, and the Hereafter Author: Caleb Wilde Narrator: Kyle Tait Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak: A Funeral Director on Life, Death, and the Hereafter Author: Caleb Wilde Narrator: Kyle Tait Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: What if our dead remain with us? What if closure is not the goal? No matter what you believe about the afterlife, what if the hereafter intersects with the here and now? Caleb Wilde, author of the acclaimed memoir Confessions of a Funeral Director, was a skeptic. The baffling stories people told him—deathbed visions of long-dead parents, visits from the other side—must be hallucinations or wishful thinking, he thought. But the more stories he heard, and the more he learned about non-Western understandings of body and spirit, the less sure he was. All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak takes listeners on a lyrical and tender quest to encounter the hereafter. As Wilde picks up bodies, organizes funerals, and meets with grieving families in a small town in Pennsylvania, those who remain share with him—and us—what they experience in the thin places between life and death. Entwining these stories with his own as a sixth-generation funeral director, and with the findings of neuroscience and the solace of faith, Wilde creates a searching, reverent inquiry into all the ways our dead remain with us. In the process, he takes on prevailing dogmas about death: from a narrow Christian view of heaven and hell, to secular assumptions that death is the end, to pop-psychology maxims that say we all need 'closure' after our loved ones die.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-unlikely-voyage-of-jack-de-crow-by-a-j-mackinnon--65185653https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow Author: A. J. Mackinnon Narrator: A. J. Mackinnon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A revitalised edition of this much-loved bestseller. Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an amazing voyage in a boat called Jack de Crow. A couple of quiet weeks sailing the River Severn was the intention. Somehow things got out of hand – a year later I had reached Romania and was still going... Equipped with his cheerful optimism and a pith helmet, this Australian Odysseus in a dinghy travels from the borders of North Wales to the Black Sea – 4,900 kilometres over salt and fresh water, under sail, at the oars, or at the end of a tow-rope – through twelve countries, 282 locks and numerous trials and adventures, including an encounter with Balkan pirates. Along the way he experiences the kindness of strangers, gets very lost, and perfects the art of slow travel. ‘A marvellous adventure, and Mackinnon recounts it with humour and unflagging enthusiasm ... a clever and entirely engaging read' Melbourne Times ‘A great travel writer and more importantly a great traveller' Sydney Morning Herald ‘Not just an adventurer, but an artist, philosopher and keen observer of the world around him' Canberra Times ‘A wonderful idea for a book – a series of ever bolder improvisations ... undertaken in praise of the spirit of adventure' Times Literary Supplement ‘Mackinnon's journey makes a lovely picaresque tale, one dotted with English literary references and wonderful descriptions of the English and European countryside' Good Reading]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589862Fri, 01 Jul 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow Author: A. J. Mackinnon Narrator: A. J. Mackinnon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 39 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow Author: A. J. Mackinnon Narrator: A. J. Mackinnon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A revitalised edition of this much-loved bestseller. Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an amazing voyage in a boat called Jack de Crow. A couple of quiet weeks sailing the River Severn was the intention. Somehow things got out of hand – a year later I had reached Romania and was still going... Equipped with his cheerful optimism and a pith helmet, this Australian Odysseus in a dinghy travels from the borders of North Wales to the Black Sea – 4,900 kilometres over salt and fresh water, under sail, at the oars, or at the end of a tow-rope – through twelve countries, 282 locks and numerous trials and adventures, including an encounter with Balkan pirates. Along the way he experiences the kindness of strangers, gets very lost, and perfects the art of slow travel. ‘A marvellous adventure, and Mackinnon recounts it with humour and unflagging enthusiasm ... a clever and entirely engaging read' Melbourne Times ‘A great travel writer and more importantly a great traveller' Sydney Morning Herald ‘Not just an adventurer, but an artist, philosopher and keen observer of the world around him' Canberra Times ‘A wonderful idea for a book – a series of ever bolder improvisations ... undertaken in praise of the spirit of adventure' Times Literary Supplement ‘Mackinnon's journey makes a lovely picaresque tale, one dotted with English literary references and wonderful descriptions of the English and European countryside' Good Reading]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/self-portrait-by-celia-paul--65185776https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Self-Portrait Author: Celia Paul Narrator: Rachel Bavidge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. **Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2019** I'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer. Self-Portrait reveals a life truly lived through art. In this short, intimate memoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past and present selves. From her move to the Slade School of Fine Art at sixteen, through a profound and intense affair with the older and better-known artist Lucian Freud, to the practices of her present-day studio, she meticulously assembles the surprising, beautiful, haunting scenes of a life. Paul brings to her prose the same qualities that she brings to her art: a brutal honesty, a delicate but powerful intensity, and an acute eye for visual detail. At its heart, this is a book about a young woman becoming an artist, with all the sacrifices and complications that entails. As she moves out of Freud's shadow, and navigates a path to artistic freedom, Paul's power and identity as an artist emerge from the page. Self-Portrait is a uniquely arresting, poignant book, and a work of art and literature by a singular talent. 'Fascinating... Painfully honest on what it means to be a woman who puts art first, no matter what.' Olivia Laing, New Statesman © Celia Paul 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581148Thu, 30 Jun 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Self-Portrait Author: Celia Paul Narrator: Rachel Bavidge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Self-Portrait Author: Celia Paul Narrator: Rachel Bavidge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. **Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2019** I'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer. Self-Portrait reveals a life truly lived through art. In this short, intimate memoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past and present selves. From her move to the Slade School of Fine Art at sixteen, through a profound and intense affair with the older and better-known artist Lucian Freud, to the practices of her present-day studio, she meticulously assembles the surprising, beautiful, haunting scenes of a life. Paul brings to her prose the same qualities that she brings to her art: a brutal honesty, a delicate but powerful intensity, and an acute eye for visual detail. At its heart, this is a book about a young woman becoming an artist, with all the sacrifices and complications that entails. As she moves out of Freud's shadow, and navigates a path to artistic freedom, Paul's power and identity as an artist emerge from the page. Self-Portrait is a uniquely arresting, poignant book, and a work of art and literature by a singular talent. 'Fascinating... Painfully honest on what it means to be a woman who puts art first, no matter what.' Olivia Laing, New Statesman © Celia Paul 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hangmen-riding-with-an-outlaw-motorcycle-club-in-the-old-days-by-dale-arenson--65185671https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586606 to listen full audiobooks. Title: HANGMEN: Riding with an Outlaw Motorcycle Club in the old days Author: Dale Arenson Narrator: Matt Godfrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Come and ride with the outlaw bikers in California in the glory days of the '60s and '70s. During the wild times of choppers and gang brawls, action and violence that seemed to know no end. Times that cannot be recreated today. Girls, guys, guns, and bikes. Living a life like no other.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586606Tue, 28 Jun 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586606 to listen full audiobooks. Title: HANGMEN: Riding with an Outlaw Motorcycle Club in the old days Author: Dale Arenson Narrator: Matt Godfrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586606 to listen full audiobooks. Title: HANGMEN: Riding with an Outlaw Motorcycle Club in the old days Author: Dale Arenson Narrator: Matt Godfrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Come and ride with the outlaw bikers in California in the glory days of the '60s and '70s. During the wild times of choppers and gang brawls, action and violence that seemed to know no end. Times that cannot be recreated today. Girls, guys, guns, and bikes. Living a life like no other.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-heart-fades-blue-volume-three-by-jerry-a-lang--65185821https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575074 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Heart Fades Blue: Volume Three Series: #3 of Black Heart Fades Blue Author: Jerry A. Lang Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If you're looking for the events that inspired the lyrics to all my songs? Those stories are in this book. If you're looking for what I did when I was younger? That's in here. What changed me, made me stop hating and hurting? It's all here. This is my story and I'm sticking to it. That's the one thing I have, the truth. Volume three of Black Heart Fades Blue, a three-part memoir by the founder and frontman for one of punk rock's most notorious acts, Poison Idea. In 1980, Jerry A. formed Poison Idea, a Portland-based punk band that gave voice to disaffected and disenfranchised youth for over thirty years. As happened to so many punk bands, Jerry A. and Poison Idea also went all in on drugs and drinking as they toured the country, spiraling out of control and blowing both the band and their lives apart. Black Heart Fades Blue is not an apology or a nostalgic catalog of events, but a true reckoning with one's past and present. A memoir of a time and a place and a movement, as well as a deep conversation about the memories and moments we leave behind, Black Heart Fades Blue is a deep exploration of an unconventional life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575074Tue, 21 Jun 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575074 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Heart Fades Blue: Volume Three Series: #3 of Black Heart Fades Blue Author: Jerry A. Lang Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575074 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Heart Fades Blue: Volume Three Series: #3 of Black Heart Fades Blue Author: Jerry A. Lang Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If you're looking for the events that inspired the lyrics to all my songs? Those stories are in this book. If you're looking for what I did when I was younger? That's in here. What changed me, made me stop hating and hurting? It's all here. This is my story and I'm sticking to it. That's the one thing I have, the truth. Volume three of Black Heart Fades Blue, a three-part memoir by the founder and frontman for one of punk rock's most notorious acts, Poison Idea. In 1980, Jerry A. formed Poison Idea, a Portland-based punk band that gave voice to disaffected and disenfranchised youth for over thirty years. As happened to so many punk bands, Jerry A. and Poison Idea also went all in on drugs and drinking as they toured the country, spiraling out of control and blowing both the band and their lives apart. Black Heart Fades Blue is not an apology or a nostalgic catalog of events, but a true reckoning with one's past and present. A memoir of a time and a place and a movement, as well as a deep conversation about the memories and moments we leave behind, Black Heart Fades Blue is a deep exploration of an unconventional life.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hong-kong-diaries-by-chris-patten--65185766https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hong Kong Diaries Author: Chris Patten Narrator: Chris Patten Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 21, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not - as other British colonies over the decades - for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five years he kept this diary, which describes in detail how Hong Kong was run as a British colony and what happened as the handover approached. The book gives unprecedented insights into negotiating with the Chinese, about how the institutions of democracy in Hong Kong were (belatedly) strengthened and how Patten sought to ensure that a strong degree of self-government would continue after 1997. Unexpectedly, his opponents included not only the Chinese themselves, but some British businessmen and civil service mandarins upset by Patten's efforts, for whom political freedom and the rule of law in Hong Kong seemed less important than keeping on the right side of Beijing. The book concludes with an account of what has happened in Hong Kong since the handover, a powerful assessment of recent events and Patten's reflections on how to deal with China - then and now. © Chris Patten 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575838Tue, 21 Jun 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hong Kong Diaries Author: Chris Patten Narrator: Chris Patten Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 21, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hong Kong Diaries Author: Chris Patten Narrator: Chris Patten Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 21, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not - as other British colonies over the decades - for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five years he kept this diary, which describes in detail how Hong Kong was run as a British colony and what happened as the handover approached. The book gives unprecedented insights into negotiating with the Chinese, about how the institutions of democracy in Hong Kong were (belatedly) strengthened and how Patten sought to ensure that a strong degree of self-government would continue after 1997. Unexpectedly, his opponents included not only the Chinese themselves, but some British businessmen and civil service mandarins upset by Patten's efforts, for whom political freedom and the rule of law in Hong Kong seemed less important than keeping on the right side of Beijing. The book concludes with an account of what has happened in Hong Kong since the handover, a powerful assessment of recent events and Patten's reflections on how to deal with China - then and now. © Chris Patten 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-die-inseltierarztin-by-stephanie-petersen--65185705https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579695 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Inseltierärztin Author: Stephanie Petersen Narrator: Jutta Seifert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Schon als kleines Mädchen wollte Stephanie Petersen Tierärztin werden. Der Liebe wegen strandete sie auf Sylt - dort, wo andere Urlaub machen, führt sie seit fast 20 Jahren ihre eigene Praxis. In ihrem Alltag mit kleinen und größeren Tieren gleicht kein Tag dem anderen, und in all den Jahren hat Dr. Petersen viel erlebt; lustige Begegnungen mit Hunden und ihren Haltern, dramatische Rettungsaktionen und traurige Abschiede von langjährigen Weggefährten, all das vor der großartigen Kulisse der schönsten Insel Deutschlands. Diese Geschichten erzählt sie nun – mit Witz, Tempo, Feingefühl und vor allem einem großen Herz für Tiere.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579695Fri, 17 Jun 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579695 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Inseltierärztin Author: Stephanie Petersen Narrator: Jutta Seifert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579695 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Inseltierärztin Author: Stephanie Petersen Narrator: Jutta Seifert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Schon als kleines Mädchen wollte Stephanie Petersen Tierärztin werden. Der Liebe wegen strandete sie auf Sylt - dort, wo andere Urlaub machen, führt sie seit fast 20 Jahren ihre eigene Praxis. In ihrem Alltag mit kleinen und größeren Tieren gleicht kein Tag dem anderen, und in all den Jahren hat Dr. Petersen viel erlebt; lustige Begegnungen mit Hunden und ihren Haltern, dramatische Rettungsaktionen und traurige Abschiede von langjährigen Weggefährten, all das vor der großartigen Kulisse der schönsten Insel Deutschlands. Diese Geschichten erzählt sie nun – mit Witz, Tempo, Feingefühl und vor allem einem großen Herz für Tiere.-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kitchen-medicine-how-i-fed-my-daughter-out-of-failure-to-thrive-by-debi-lewis--65185668https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588037 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kitchen Medicine: How I Fed My Daughter out of Failure to Thrive Author: Debi Lewis Narrator: Debi Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For many parents, feeding their children is easy and instinctive. For others, though, it is on the same spectrum in which Debi Lewis found herself: part of what felt like an endless slog to move her daughter from failure-to-thrive to something that looked, if not like thriving, at least like survival. The emotional weight of not being able to feed one's child feels like a betrayal of the most basic aspect of nurturing. While every faux matzo ball, every protein-packed smoothie that tasted like a milkshake, every new lentil dish that her daughter liked made Lewis's spirit rise, every dish pushed away made it sink. Kitchen Medicine tells the story of how Lewis made her way through mothering and feeding a sick child, aided by Lewis's growing confidence in front of the stove. It's about how she eventually saw her role as more than caretaker and fighter for her daughter's health and how she had to redefine what mothering—and feeding—looked like once her daughter was well. This is the story of learning to feed a child who can't seem to eat. It's the story of growing love for food, a mirror for people who cook for fuel and those who cook for love; for those who see the miracle in the growing child and in the fresh peach; for matzo-ball lovers and the gluten-intolerant; and for parents who want to feed their kids without starving their souls.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588037Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588037 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kitchen Medicine: How I Fed My Daughter out of Failure to Thrive Author: Debi Lewis Narrator: Debi Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588037 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kitchen Medicine: How I Fed My Daughter out of Failure to Thrive Author: Debi Lewis Narrator: Debi Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For many parents, feeding their children is easy and instinctive. For others, though, it is on the same spectrum in which Debi Lewis found herself: part of what felt like an endless slog to move her daughter from failure-to-thrive to something that looked, if not like thriving, at least like survival. The emotional weight of not being able to feed one's child feels like a betrayal of the most basic aspect of nurturing. While every faux matzo ball, every protein-packed smoothie that tasted like a milkshake, every new lentil dish that her daughter liked made Lewis's spirit rise, every dish pushed away made it sink. Kitchen Medicine tells the story of how Lewis made her way through mothering and feeding a sick child, aided by Lewis's growing confidence in front of the stove. It's about how she eventually saw her role as more than caretaker and fighter for her daughter's health and how she had to redefine what mothering—and feeding—looked like once her daughter was well. This is the story of learning to feed a child who can't seem to eat. It's the story of growing love for food, a mirror for people who cook for fuel and those who cook for love; for those who see the miracle in the growing child and in the fresh peach; for matzo-ball lovers and the gluten-intolerant; and for parents who want to feed their kids without starving their souls.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/burl-journalism-giant-and-medical-trailblazer-by-jane-wolfe--65185654https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burl: Journalism Giant and Medical Trailblazer Author: Jane Wolfe Narrator: Jay Aaseng, Kaleo Griffith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The riveting biography of Burl Osborne, former chairman of The Associated Press and publisher of The Dallas Morning News, who waged and won one of the last great newspaper wars in the U.S. Burl is the story of one man’s unlikely rise from the coal mines of Appalachia to the pinnacle of journalism. After being diagnosed with a fatal kidney disease as a child, Burl Osborne pioneered home dialysis treatment and became the 130th person to undergo a live kidney transplant in 1966—then an unproven, high-risk operation. While managing his challenging illness, Burl distinguished himself early as a writer and reporter with The Associated Press, eventually rising to the top of the wire service’s executive ranks. Then, against the advice of his colleagues and the newspaper’s own doctors, he sought an even greater challenge: joining The Dallas Morning News to lead the fight in one of America’s last great newspaper wars.   Throughout his life and career, he garnered respect from business and political leaders, reporters, editors, and publishers around the country. Burl thrusts readers into the improbable and remarkable life of a man at the forefront of both medicine and the golden age of journalism.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589829Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burl: Journalism Giant and Medical Trailblazer Author: Jane Wolfe Narrator: Jay Aaseng, Kaleo Griffith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Burl: Journalism Giant and Medical Trailblazer Author: Jane Wolfe Narrator: Jay Aaseng, Kaleo Griffith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 11 minutes Release date: June 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The riveting biography of Burl Osborne, former chairman of The Associated Press and publisher of The Dallas Morning News, who waged and won one of the last great newspaper wars in the U.S. Burl is the story of one man’s unlikely rise from the coal mines of Appalachia to the pinnacle of journalism. After being diagnosed with a fatal kidney disease as a child, Burl Osborne pioneered home dialysis treatment and became the 130th person to undergo a live kidney transplant in 1966—then an unproven, high-risk operation. While managing his challenging illness, Burl distinguished himself early as a writer and reporter with The Associated Press, eventually rising to the top of the wire service’s executive ranks. Then, against the advice of his colleagues and the newspaper’s own doctors, he sought an even greater challenge: joining The Dallas Morning News to lead the fight in one of America’s last great newspaper wars.   Throughout his life and career, he garnered respect from business and political leaders, reporters, editors, and publishers around the country. Burl thrusts readers into the improbable and remarkable life of a man at the forefront of both medicine and the golden age of journalism.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/becoming-molly-mae-by-molly-mae-hague--65185830https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Molly-Mae Author: Molly-Mae Hague Narrator: Molly-Mae Hague Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The real Molly-Mae, in her own words Molly-Mae is no stranger to the limelight, having found fame on TV and online. But behind the polished exterior there is a young girl with a unique story. It's the Molly not everyone gets to see. In Becoming Molly-Mae she unravels herself completely for the first time to open up about how she nurtured her creativity from a young age, took ownership of her body image, battle self-doubt and built a happy life. Along the way she shares the moments, relationships and life lessons that have made her who she is. From the energetic child who loved Irish dancing and pageants, to the teenager holding down a job at Boots whilst building her dreams at fashion school, her journey to Love Island and how she copes with fame today. By sharing these parts of herself, Molly-Mae gives a fresh take on finding beauty and balance in a busy world. © Molly-Mae Hague 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575433Thu, 09 Jun 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Molly-Mae Author: Molly-Mae Hague Narrator: Molly-Mae Hague Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575433 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Molly-Mae Author: Molly-Mae Hague Narrator: Molly-Mae Hague Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 9, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The real Molly-Mae, in her own words Molly-Mae is no stranger to the limelight, having found fame on TV and online. But behind the polished exterior there is a young girl with a unique story. It's the Molly not everyone gets to see. In Becoming Molly-Mae she unravels herself completely for the first time to open up about how she nurtured her creativity from a young age, took ownership of her body image, battle self-doubt and built a happy life. Along the way she shares the moments, relationships and life lessons that have made her who she is. From the energetic child who loved Irish dancing and pageants, to the teenager holding down a job at Boots whilst building her dreams at fashion school, her journey to Love Island and how she copes with fame today. By sharing these parts of herself, Molly-Mae gives a fresh take on finding beauty and balance in a busy world. © Molly-Mae Hague 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-cuando-te-llaman-terrorista-by-asha-bandele-patrisse-khan-cullors--65185715https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584159 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cuando te llaman terrorista Author: Asha Bandele, Patrisse Khan–cullors Narrator: Marta Martín, Angi Sansón Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Cuando decides denunciar las injustas muertes de la gente de tu comunidad e inicias un movimiento revolucionario, tal vez algunos te llamen terrorista. Esto es lo que les sucedió a Patrisse Khan-Cullors y Asha Bandele, entre otros muchos activistas, cuando decidieron impulsar el movimiento Black Lives Matter, el cual incendió las redes sociales en 2013 tras la absolución de George Zimmerman por la muerte del adolescente afroamericano Trayvon Martin. «Cuando te llaman terrorista» es un relato de las injusticias raciales que vivió Patrisse Khan-Cullors durante su adolescencia y los pasos que la llevaron a cofundar el movimiento Black Lives Matter junto con Alicia Garza y Opal Tometi. Este libro de memorias, escrito a cuatro manos con la periodista Asha Bandele, es un discurso empoderado de supervivencia y resiliencia sobre lo que significa ser mujer negra en Estados Unidos y un poderoso estímulo que llama a la acción contra la injusticia social. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - Patrisse Khan-Cullors, nacida en 1983, es una activista estadounidense por los derechos humanos, en concreto, por los derechos de los afroamericanos, de la comunidad LGBTQ y de los presos en las cárceles estadounidenses. Es cofundadora del conocido movimiento Black Lives Matter y en 2020 la revista «Time» la incluyó entre las 100 personas más influyentes del año. Asha Bandele es una escritora y activista por la justicia social. En 1999 publicó sus memorias, «The Prisonerʼs Wife», sobre su relación con un hombre que cumple cadena perpetua en Nueva York. Ha colaborado con periódicos como «New York Times», «The Nation» o «Vibe». Actualmente es directora sénior para la Drug Policy Alliance de Nueva York.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584159Wed, 08 Jun 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584159 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cuando te llaman terrorista Author: Asha Bandele, Patrisse Khan–cullors Narrator: Marta Martín, Angi Sansón Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584159 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cuando te llaman terrorista Author: Asha Bandele, Patrisse Khan–cullors Narrator: Marta Martín, Angi Sansón Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Cuando decides denunciar las injustas muertes de la gente de tu comunidad e inicias un movimiento revolucionario, tal vez algunos te llamen terrorista. Esto es lo que les sucedió a Patrisse Khan-Cullors y Asha Bandele, entre otros muchos activistas, cuando decidieron impulsar el movimiento Black Lives Matter, el cual incendió las redes sociales en 2013 tras la absolución de George Zimmerman por la muerte del adolescente afroamericano Trayvon Martin. «Cuando te llaman terrorista» es un relato de las injusticias raciales que vivió Patrisse Khan-Cullors durante su adolescencia y los pasos que la llevaron a cofundar el movimiento Black Lives Matter junto con Alicia Garza y Opal Tometi. Este libro de memorias, escrito a cuatro manos con la periodista Asha Bandele, es un discurso empoderado de supervivencia y resiliencia sobre lo que significa ser mujer negra en Estados Unidos y un poderoso estímulo que llama a la acción contra la injusticia social. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - Patrisse Khan-Cullors, nacida en 1983, es una activista estadounidense por los derechos humanos, en concreto, por los derechos de los afroamericanos, de la comunidad LGBTQ y de los presos en las cárceles estadounidenses. Es cofundadora del conocido movimiento Black Lives Matter y en 2020 la revista «Time» la incluyó entre las 100 personas más influyentes del año. Asha Bandele es una escritora y activista por la justicia social. En 1999 publicó sus memorias, «The Prisonerʼs Wife», sobre su relación con un hombre que cumple cadena perpetua en Nueva York. Ha colaborado con periódicos como «New York Times», «The Nation» o «Vibe». Actualmente es directora sénior para la Drug Policy Alliance de Nueva York.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-heart-fades-blue-volume-two-by-jerry-a-lang--65185795https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575073 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Heart Fades Blue: Volume Two Series: #2 of Black Heart Fades Blue Author: Jerry A. Lang Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If you're looking for the events that inspired the lyrics to all my songs? Those stories are in this book. If you're looking for what I did when I was younger? That's in here. What changed me, made me stop hating and hurting? It's all here. This is my story and I'm sticking to it. That's the one thing I have, the truth. Volume two of Black Heart Fades Blue, a three-part memoir by the founder and frontman for one of punk rock's most notorious acts, Poison Idea In 1980, Jerry A. formed Poison Idea, a Portland-based punk band that gave voice to disaffected and disenfranchised youth for over thirty years. As happened to so many punk bands, Jerry A. and Poison Idea also went all in on drugs and drinking as they toured the country, spiraling out of control and blowing both the band and their lives apart. Black Heart Fades Blue is not an apology or a nostalgic catalog of events, but a true reckoning with one's past and present. A memoir of a time and a place and a movement, as well as a deep conversation about the memories and moments we leave behind, Black Heart Fades Blue is a deep exploration of an unconventional life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575073Tue, 07 Jun 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575073 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Heart Fades Blue: Volume Two Series: #2 of Black Heart Fades Blue Author: Jerry A. Lang Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575073 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Heart Fades Blue: Volume Two Series: #2 of Black Heart Fades Blue Author: Jerry A. Lang Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If you're looking for the events that inspired the lyrics to all my songs? Those stories are in this book. If you're looking for what I did when I was younger? That's in here. What changed me, made me stop hating and hurting? It's all here. This is my story and I'm sticking to it. That's the one thing I have, the truth. Volume two of Black Heart Fades Blue, a three-part memoir by the founder and frontman for one of punk rock's most notorious acts, Poison Idea In 1980, Jerry A. formed Poison Idea, a Portland-based punk band that gave voice to disaffected and disenfranchised youth for over thirty years. As happened to so many punk bands, Jerry A. and Poison Idea also went all in on drugs and drinking as they toured the country, spiraling out of control and blowing both the band and their lives apart. Black Heart Fades Blue is not an apology or a nostalgic catalog of events, but a true reckoning with one's past and present. A memoir of a time and a place and a movement, as well as a deep conversation about the memories and moments we leave behind, Black Heart Fades Blue is a deep exploration of an unconventional life.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-by-simon-jordan--65185775https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Be Careful What You Wish For Author: Simon Jordan Narrator: Simon Jordan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 2, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Read this explosive insight into the previously unseen world of football club ownership by one of the game's most-recognisable figures. Multimillionaire at 32 Youngest Premier League football club owner at 36 His club and a fortune lost at 42 Owning your childhood club - that's the dream, isn't it? Simon Jordan made his fortune building a mobile phone company from scratch. When he sold it for £75 million, he bought Crystal Palace FC, the club he'd supported as a boy, and led them into the Premier League. Ten years later Palace was in administration and Jordan had lost nigh on everything. Be Careful What You Wish For lifts the lid on being the owner of a football club and how the game really works. Hopes and dreams sit alongside greed, self-interest, dodgy transfers, boardroom fights and dressing room dressing downs. Throughout no one is spared, least of all Jordan himself. **A finalist for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year** **Shortlisted for the British Sports Book Award for best autobiography* © Simon Jordan 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575683Thu, 02 Jun 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Be Careful What You Wish For Author: Simon Jordan Narrator: Simon Jordan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 2,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Be Careful What You Wish For Author: Simon Jordan Narrator: Simon Jordan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 2, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Read this explosive insight into the previously unseen world of football club ownership by one of the game's most-recognisable figures. Multimillionaire at 32 Youngest Premier League football club owner at 36 His club and a fortune lost at 42 Owning your childhood club - that's the dream, isn't it? Simon Jordan made his fortune building a mobile phone company from scratch. When he sold it for £75 million, he bought Crystal Palace FC, the club he'd supported as a boy, and led them into the Premier League. Ten years later Palace was in administration and Jordan had lost nigh on everything. Be Careful What You Wish For lifts the lid on being the owner of a football club and how the game really works. Hopes and dreams sit alongside greed, self-interest, dodgy transfers, boardroom fights and dressing room dressing downs. Throughout no one is spared, least of all Jordan himself. **A finalist for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year** **Shortlisted for the British Sports Book Award for best autobiography* © Simon Jordan 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-rueda-de-la-vida-solo-haciendo-lo-que-de-verdad-os-importa-podreis-bendecir-la-vida-cuando-la-muerte-este-cerca-by-elisabet--65185658https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La rueda de la vida: Solo haciendo lo que de verdad os importa, podréis bendecir la vida cuando la muerte esté cerca Author: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Narrator: Berenice Vega Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: La rueda de la vida es el legado espiritual de esta extraordinaria mujer que, al reconciliarnos con la muerte, nos enseñó a amar la vida. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross supo desde muy joven que su misión era aliviar el sufrimiento humano, y ese compromiso la llevó al cuidado de enfermos terminales. Mucho fue lo que aprendió de esta experiencia: vio que los niños dejaban este mundo confiados y serenos; observó que algunos adultos partían sintiéndose liberados, mientras que otros se aferraban a la vida porque aún les quedaba una tarea que concluir. Pero todos hallaban consuelo en la expresión de sus sentimientos y en el amor incondicional de quien les prestaba oído. A Elisabeth no le quedaron dudas: morir es tan natural como nacer y crecer, pero el materialismo de nuestra cultura ha convertido este último acto de desarrollo en algo aterrador. Elisabeth Kübler-Rossfue médico psiquiatra de gran prestigio mundial. La publicación de su obra La muerte un amanecer la dio a conocer a millones de lectores. «Haced lo que de verdad os importa... sólo así podréis bendecir la vida cuando la muerte esté cerca.»]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590637Thu, 02 Jun 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La rueda de la vida: Solo haciendo lo que de verdad os importa, podréis bendecir la vida cuando la muerte esté cerca Author: Elisabeth...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/590637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La rueda de la vida: Solo haciendo lo que de verdad os importa, podréis bendecir la vida cuando la muerte esté cerca Author: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Narrator: Berenice Vega Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 25 minutes Release date: June 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: La rueda de la vida es el legado espiritual de esta extraordinaria mujer que, al reconciliarnos con la muerte, nos enseñó a amar la vida. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross supo desde muy joven que su misión era aliviar el sufrimiento humano, y ese compromiso la llevó al cuidado de enfermos terminales. Mucho fue lo que aprendió de esta experiencia: vio que los niños dejaban este mundo confiados y serenos; observó que algunos adultos partían sintiéndose liberados, mientras que otros se aferraban a la vida porque aún les quedaba una tarea que concluir. Pero todos hallaban consuelo en la expresión de sus sentimientos y en el amor incondicional de quien les prestaba oído. A Elisabeth no le quedaron dudas: morir es tan natural como nacer y crecer, pero el materialismo de nuestra cultura ha convertido este último acto de desarrollo en algo aterrador. Elisabeth Kübler-Rossfue médico psiquiatra de gran prestigio mundial. La publicación de su obra La muerte un amanecer la dio a conocer a millones de lectores. «Haced lo que de verdad os importa... sólo así podréis bendecir la vida cuando la muerte esté cerca.»]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/half-bads-in-white-regalia-a-memoir-by-cody-caetano--65185809https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir Author: Cody Caetano Narrator: Cody Caetano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *WINNER OF THE 2023 INDIGENOUS VOICES AWARD FOR PUBLISHED PROSE IN ENGLISH* *FINALIST FOR THE 2023 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR* *LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2023* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS* NATIONAL BESTSELLER A family tries to learn from the mistakes of past generations in this whirlwind memoir from a wholly original new voice. The Caetanos move into a doomed house in the highway village of Happyland before an inevitable divorce pulls Cody’s parents in separate directions. His mom, Mindimooye, having discovered her Anishinaabe birth family and Sixties Scoop origin story, embarks on a series of fraught relationships and fresh starts. His dad, O Touro, a Portuguese immigrant and drifter, falls back into “big do, little think” behaviour, despite his best intentions. Left alone at the house in Happyland, Cody and his siblings must fend for themselves, even as the pipes burst and the lights go out. His protective big sister, Kris, finds inventive ways to put food on the table, and his stoic big brother, Julian, facilitates his regular escapes into the world of video games. As life yanks them from one temporary solution to the next, they steal moments of joy and resist buckling under “baddie” temptations aplenty. Capturing the chaos and wonder of a precarious childhood, Cody Caetano delivers a fever dream coming-of-age garnished with a slang all his own. Half-Bads in White Regalia is an unforgettable debut that unspools a tangled family history with warmth, humour, and deep generosity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572596Tue, 31 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir Author: Cody Caetano Narrator: Cody Caetano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572596 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir Author: Cody Caetano Narrator: Cody Caetano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 43 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *WINNER OF THE 2023 INDIGENOUS VOICES AWARD FOR PUBLISHED PROSE IN ENGLISH* *FINALIST FOR THE 2023 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR* *LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2023* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS* NATIONAL BESTSELLER A family tries to learn from the mistakes of past generations in this whirlwind memoir from a wholly original new voice. The Caetanos move into a doomed house in the highway village of Happyland before an inevitable divorce pulls Cody’s parents in separate directions. His mom, Mindimooye, having discovered her Anishinaabe birth family and Sixties Scoop origin story, embarks on a series of fraught relationships and fresh starts. His dad, O Touro, a Portuguese immigrant and drifter, falls back into “big do, little think” behaviour, despite his best intentions. Left alone at the house in Happyland, Cody and his siblings must fend for themselves, even as the pipes burst and the lights go out. His protective big sister, Kris, finds inventive ways to put food on the table, and his stoic big brother, Julian, facilitates his regular escapes into the world of video games. As life yanks them from one temporary solution to the next, they steal moments of joy and resist buckling under “baddie” temptations aplenty. Capturing the chaos and wonder of a precarious childhood, Cody Caetano delivers a fever dream coming-of-age garnished with a slang all his own. Half-Bads in White Regalia is an unforgettable debut that unspools a tangled family history with warmth, humour, and deep generosity.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hip-hop-hymns-by-mawunyo-gbogbo--65185700https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hip Hop & Hymns Author: Mawunyo Gbogbo Narrator: Chantelle Jamieson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Hip hop and hymns: the two would always go hand in hand for me. My life would always straddle both. The sacred and the profane, all living on the same block, all divine in the end.' Mawunyo Gbogbo is a church-going African Australian girl growing up in the sleepy mining town of Muswellbrook, NSW. At home, her parents fight all the time, and sibling rivalry runs deep. At primary school, Black Is Beautiful until a racist bully dares to tell her otherwise. But at high school, she falls in love with two things that will alter the course of her adult life: the seductive thrill of hip hop music and charismatic bad boy Tyce Carrington. Tyce also feels like an alien in Australia, despite his Aboriginality - or because of it. When Mawunyo's offered a chance to further her budding media career in New York City at the Bible of hip hop, The Source magazine, she throws herself headlong into the city's heady buzz and hustle - but even as it lures her in, it threatens to derail her dreams. Hip Hop & Hymns is a tussle between the search for belonging and ultimately accepting who you are, and a clear-eyed, heartfelt story about daring greatly and what it can mean to be Black in Australia.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580563Tue, 31 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hip Hop & Hymns Author: Mawunyo Gbogbo Narrator: Chantelle Jamieson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 31,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580563 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hip Hop & Hymns Author: Mawunyo Gbogbo Narrator: Chantelle Jamieson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Hip hop and hymns: the two would always go hand in hand for me. My life would always straddle both. The sacred and the profane, all living on the same block, all divine in the end.' Mawunyo Gbogbo is a church-going African Australian girl growing up in the sleepy mining town of Muswellbrook, NSW. At home, her parents fight all the time, and sibling rivalry runs deep. At primary school, Black Is Beautiful until a racist bully dares to tell her otherwise. But at high school, she falls in love with two things that will alter the course of her adult life: the seductive thrill of hip hop music and charismatic bad boy Tyce Carrington. Tyce also feels like an alien in Australia, despite his Aboriginality - or because of it. When Mawunyo's offered a chance to further her budding media career in New York City at the Bible of hip hop, The Source magazine, she throws herself headlong into the city's heady buzz and hustle - but even as it lures her in, it threatens to derail her dreams. Hip Hop & Hymns is a tussle between the search for belonging and ultimately accepting who you are, and a clear-eyed, heartfelt story about daring greatly and what it can mean to be Black in Australia.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/toujours-la-france-living-the-dream-in-rural-france-by-janine-marsh--65185710https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toujours La France!: Living the Dream in Rural France Author: Janine Marsh Narrator: Esther Wane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Following on from her hugely popular books, My Good Life in France and My Good Year in France, ex-pat Janine Marsh shares more heart-warming and entertaining stories of her new life in rural France. Since giving up their city jobs in London and moving to rural France over ten years ago, Janine and husband Mark have renovated their dream home and built a new life for themselves, adjusting to the delights and the peculiarities of life in a small French village. Including much-loved village characters such as Mr. and Mrs. Pepperpot, Jean-Claude, Claudette, and the infamous Bread Man, in Toujours La France Janine also introduces listeners to some new faces and funny stories, as she and Mark continue their lives in this special part of northern France. With birthday parties, rural traditions, christenings, and even a funeral, there is never a quiet moment in the Seven Valleys.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580240Fri, 27 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toujours La France!: Living the Dream in Rural France Author: Janine Marsh Narrator: Esther Wane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Toujours La France!: Living the Dream in Rural France Author: Janine Marsh Narrator: Esther Wane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 27, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Following on from her hugely popular books, My Good Life in France and My Good Year in France, ex-pat Janine Marsh shares more heart-warming and entertaining stories of her new life in rural France. Since giving up their city jobs in London and moving to rural France over ten years ago, Janine and husband Mark have renovated their dream home and built a new life for themselves, adjusting to the delights and the peculiarities of life in a small French village. Including much-loved village characters such as Mr. and Mrs. Pepperpot, Jean-Claude, Claudette, and the infamous Bread Man, in Toujours La France Janine also introduces listeners to some new faces and funny stories, as she and Mark continue their lives in this special part of northern France. With birthday parties, rural traditions, christenings, and even a funeral, there is never a quiet moment in the Seven Valleys.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/play-it-right-the-remarkable-story-of-a-gambler-who-beat-the-odds-on-wall-street-by-kamal-gupta--65185842https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Play It Right: The Remarkable Story of a Gambler Who Beat the Odds on Wall Street Author: Kamal Gupta Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: All around the world, the words 'Wall Street' conjure up a powerful image. For some, it is the center of America's capitalist system and the engine of its economic growth. For others, it is the home of rapacious bankers and reckless traders whose greed would lead to a global financial crisis. For an Indian-born blackjack player, Wall Street represented something else entirely—a chance for him to play in the largest casino in the world. Kamal Gupta's improbable journey, from a wide-eyed Indian immigrant to an ultimate insider in the rarefied world of investment banks and hedge funds, is a uniquely American story. After spending seven years creating an investment methodology, Gupta went on an incredible run, generating an unprecedented 103 consecutive months of positive returns while managing money at large hedge funds. His success did not go unnoticed, and he found himself under constant pressure to take bigger risks to make even more money. He refused and always played it right, knowing that there was such a thing as 'enough' money, something very few, if any, of his Wall Street peers understood. Much like Maria Konnikova's bestseller, The Biggest Bluff, Play It Right isn't so much about money as it is about the human condition and beating the odds, whether at a casino, on Wall Street, or in life itself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575142Tue, 24 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Play It Right: The Remarkable Story of a Gambler Who Beat the Odds on Wall Street Author: Kamal Gupta Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Play It Right: The Remarkable Story of a Gambler Who Beat the Odds on Wall Street Author: Kamal Gupta Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: All around the world, the words 'Wall Street' conjure up a powerful image. For some, it is the center of America's capitalist system and the engine of its economic growth. For others, it is the home of rapacious bankers and reckless traders whose greed would lead to a global financial crisis. For an Indian-born blackjack player, Wall Street represented something else entirely—a chance for him to play in the largest casino in the world. Kamal Gupta's improbable journey, from a wide-eyed Indian immigrant to an ultimate insider in the rarefied world of investment banks and hedge funds, is a uniquely American story. After spending seven years creating an investment methodology, Gupta went on an incredible run, generating an unprecedented 103 consecutive months of positive returns while managing money at large hedge funds. His success did not go unnoticed, and he found himself under constant pressure to take bigger risks to make even more money. He refused and always played it right, knowing that there was such a thing as 'enough' money, something very few, if any, of his Wall Street peers understood. Much like Maria Konnikova's bestseller, The Biggest Bluff, Play It Right isn't so much about money as it is about the human condition and beating the odds, whether at a casino, on Wall Street, or in life itself.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-heart-fades-blue-volume-one-by-jerry-a-lang--65185828https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Heart Fades Blue: Volume One Series: #1 of Black Heart Fades Blue Author: Jerry A. Lang Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If you're looking for the events that inspired the lyrics to all my songs? Those stories are in this book. If you're looking for what I did when I was younger? That's in here. What changed me, made me stop hating and hurting? It's all here. This is my story and I'm sticking to it. That's the one thing I have, the truth. Volume one of Black Heart Fades Blue, a three-part memoir by the founder and frontman for one of punk rock's most notorious acts, Poison Idea In 1980, Jerry A. formed Poison Idea, a Portland-based punk band that gave voice to disaffected and disenfranchised youth for over thirty years. As happened to so many punk bands, Jerry A. and Poison Idea also went all in on drugs and drinking as they toured the country, spiraling out of control and blowing both the band and their lives apart. Black Heart Fades Blue is not an apology or a nostalgic catalog of events, but a true reckoning with one's past and present. A memoir of a time and a place and a movement, as well as a deep conversation about the memories and moments we leave behind, Black Heart Fades Blue is a deep exploration of an unconventional life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575072Tue, 24 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Heart Fades Blue: Volume One Series: #1 of Black Heart Fades Blue Author: Jerry A. Lang Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575072 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Heart Fades Blue: Volume One Series: #1 of Black Heart Fades Blue Author: Jerry A. Lang Narrator: David De Vries Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: If you're looking for the events that inspired the lyrics to all my songs? Those stories are in this book. If you're looking for what I did when I was younger? That's in here. What changed me, made me stop hating and hurting? It's all here. This is my story and I'm sticking to it. That's the one thing I have, the truth. Volume one of Black Heart Fades Blue, a three-part memoir by the founder and frontman for one of punk rock's most notorious acts, Poison Idea In 1980, Jerry A. formed Poison Idea, a Portland-based punk band that gave voice to disaffected and disenfranchised youth for over thirty years. As happened to so many punk bands, Jerry A. and Poison Idea also went all in on drugs and drinking as they toured the country, spiraling out of control and blowing both the band and their lives apart. Black Heart Fades Blue is not an apology or a nostalgic catalog of events, but a true reckoning with one's past and present. A memoir of a time and a place and a movement, as well as a deep conversation about the memories and moments we leave behind, Black Heart Fades Blue is a deep exploration of an unconventional life.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ponies-at-the-edge-of-the-world-on-nature-belonging-and-finding-home-by-catherine-munro--65185789https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578567 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ponies At The Edge Of The World: On nature, belonging and finding home Author: Catherine Munro Narrator: Catherine Munro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. I had drifted, gotten lost, strayed from the paths and places I love. I felt Shetland calling me, and in this moment, I began my slow, imperfect journey towards finding home. Catherine Munro transforms her life when she moves to Shetland to study the hardy ponies who call this archipelago home. Over the course of her first year, she is welcomed into the rhythms and routines that characterise life at the edge of the world. When faced with personal loss, Catherine finds comfort and connection in the shared lives of the people, animals and wild landscapes of Shetland. The Ponies at the Edge of the World is a heartfelt love letter to the beauty and resilience of these magical ponies and their native land. This is a stunning book on community, hope and finding home. 'A meditation on connection between humans and animals, and the homes we make in wild places. I was completely immersed' Katherine May, bestselling author of Wintering © Catherine Munro 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578567Thu, 19 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578567 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ponies At The Edge Of The World: On nature, belonging and finding home Author: Catherine Munro Narrator: Catherine Munro Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578567 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ponies At The Edge Of The World: On nature, belonging and finding home Author: Catherine Munro Narrator: Catherine Munro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. I had drifted, gotten lost, strayed from the paths and places I love. I felt Shetland calling me, and in this moment, I began my slow, imperfect journey towards finding home. Catherine Munro transforms her life when she moves to Shetland to study the hardy ponies who call this archipelago home. Over the course of her first year, she is welcomed into the rhythms and routines that characterise life at the edge of the world. When faced with personal loss, Catherine finds comfort and connection in the shared lives of the people, animals and wild landscapes of Shetland. The Ponies at the Edge of the World is a heartfelt love letter to the beauty and resilience of these magical ponies and their native land. This is a stunning book on community, hope and finding home. 'A meditation on connection between humans and animals, and the homes we make in wild places. I was completely immersed' Katherine May, bestselling author of Wintering © Catherine Munro 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/doddie-s-diary-the-highs-the-lows-and-the-laughter-from-my-fight-with-mnd-by-doddie-weir-stewart-weir--65185741https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578807 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Doddie's Diary: The Highs, the Lows and the Laughter from My Fight with MND Author: Doddie Weir, Stewart Weir Narrator: Andrew Cotter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'I never set out to take the lead. It just happened - like MND itself. But we are making a fight of it.' DODDIE WEIR In the five years since Doddie Weir's MND diagnosis, he has continued to live life to the max. He's raised millions for research and support for his fellow sufferers with the help of some incredible charity fundraisers, celebrated his 50th birthday and been awarded an OBE. And throughout it all, Doddie has tackled life head on, like the mad charging giraffe he has always been, both on and off the rugby pitch. Now, join Doddie as he lifts the lid on what his life with MND has really been like, both in public and in private. Being Doddie, there's always lots of laughter and an incredibly positive attitude, but it's also a rollercoaster of emotions. It's a battle Doddie will continue to tackle with his trademark dignity and legendary humour. And it's a fight he remains determined to win.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578807Thu, 19 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578807 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Doddie's Diary: The Highs, the Lows and the Laughter from My Fight with MND Author: Doddie Weir, Stewart Weir Narrator: Andrew Cotter Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578807 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Doddie's Diary: The Highs, the Lows and the Laughter from My Fight with MND Author: Doddie Weir, Stewart Weir Narrator: Andrew Cotter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'I never set out to take the lead. It just happened - like MND itself. But we are making a fight of it.' DODDIE WEIR In the five years since Doddie Weir's MND diagnosis, he has continued to live life to the max. He's raised millions for research and support for his fellow sufferers with the help of some incredible charity fundraisers, celebrated his 50th birthday and been awarded an OBE. And throughout it all, Doddie has tackled life head on, like the mad charging giraffe he has always been, both on and off the rugby pitch. Now, join Doddie as he lifts the lid on what his life with MND has really been like, both in public and in private. Being Doddie, there's always lots of laughter and an incredibly positive attitude, but it's also a rollercoaster of emotions. It's a battle Doddie will continue to tackle with his trademark dignity and legendary humour. And it's a fight he remains determined to win.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/project-solomon-the-true-story-of-a-lonely-horse-who-found-a-home-and-became-a-hero-by-jodi-stuber-jennifer-marshall-bleakley--65185782https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Project Solomon: The True Story of a Lonely Horse Who Found a Home--and Became a Hero Author: Jodi Stuber, Jennifer Marshall Bleakley Narrator: Jaimee Draper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “It’s hard to be lonely, isn’t it? To miss someone who should be here?” Jodi Stuber wasn't looking for another horse for her struggling therapy ranch―let alone one like Solomon. After losing his herd, he was solitary and sad, spending his days standing near the plastic deer in his yard for company. No stranger herself to loss and heartache, Jodi knew she had to give Solomon a home. The road to recovery wouldn’t be easy. As Solomon struggled to fit in with his new herd and Jodi continued to navigate her own grief, the two developed a deep bond. But just as Jodi and Solomon were both beginning to heal, an unthinkable tragedy struck the therapy ranch. And Solomon was about to teach Jodi the greatest lesson of all. Written by Jennifer Marshall Bleakley, author of Joey: How a Blind Rescue Horse Helped Others Learn to See, Project Solomon is a powerful story of resilience, sacrifice, and love that reminds us all how much we matter―to each other and to God.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577997Tue, 17 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Project Solomon: The True Story of a Lonely Horse Who Found a Home--and Became a Hero Author: Jodi Stuber, Jennifer Marshall Bleakley Narrator: Jaimee...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Project Solomon: The True Story of a Lonely Horse Who Found a Home--and Became a Hero Author: Jodi Stuber, Jennifer Marshall Bleakley Narrator: Jaimee Draper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “It’s hard to be lonely, isn’t it? To miss someone who should be here?” Jodi Stuber wasn't looking for another horse for her struggling therapy ranch―let alone one like Solomon. After losing his herd, he was solitary and sad, spending his days standing near the plastic deer in his yard for company. No stranger herself to loss and heartache, Jodi knew she had to give Solomon a home. The road to recovery wouldn’t be easy. As Solomon struggled to fit in with his new herd and Jodi continued to navigate her own grief, the two developed a deep bond. But just as Jodi and Solomon were both beginning to heal, an unthinkable tragedy struck the therapy ranch. And Solomon was about to teach Jodi the greatest lesson of all. Written by Jennifer Marshall Bleakley, author of Joey: How a Blind Rescue Horse Helped Others Learn to See, Project Solomon is a powerful story of resilience, sacrifice, and love that reminds us all how much we matter―to each other and to God.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/opening-doors-how-daring-to-ask-for-help-changed-my-life-and-will-change-yours-too-by-reggie-nelson--65185813https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Opening Doors: How Daring to Ask For Help Changed My Life (And Will Change Yours Too) Author: Reggie Nelson Narrator: Reggie Nelson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Whatever ideas, plans and dreams you have, you've got to go for them! Be your biggest supporter, learn to eradicate the doubts in your mind, embrace the rejections and start opening doors...' Reggie Nelson had a tough childhood growing up on a council estate in east London. His father suddenly died and his mother had to work multiple jobs just to get by. But when she had to collect Reggie from a cell where he, at only 12, was being held for troublemaking, he knew he needed to change. After catching an episode of How'd You Get So Rich?, Reggie was inspired to get any advice he could to help him turn his life around. So, he got on a train to London's most affluent areas and started knocking on doors. What he found was more powerful than he thought possible - and changed the course of his life. Inspiring, moving and empowering, Opening Doors is a story of how the power of guidance, visibility and mentoring can give anyone the platform to learn and succeed. Because when one door closes, another door will always open...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577266Thu, 12 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Opening Doors: How Daring to Ask For Help Changed My Life (And Will Change Yours Too) Author: Reggie Nelson Narrator: Reggie Nelson Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Opening Doors: How Daring to Ask For Help Changed My Life (And Will Change Yours Too) Author: Reggie Nelson Narrator: Reggie Nelson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Whatever ideas, plans and dreams you have, you've got to go for them! Be your biggest supporter, learn to eradicate the doubts in your mind, embrace the rejections and start opening doors...' Reggie Nelson had a tough childhood growing up on a council estate in east London. His father suddenly died and his mother had to work multiple jobs just to get by. But when she had to collect Reggie from a cell where he, at only 12, was being held for troublemaking, he knew he needed to change. After catching an episode of How'd You Get So Rich?, Reggie was inspired to get any advice he could to help him turn his life around. So, he got on a train to London's most affluent areas and started knocking on doors. What he found was more powerful than he thought possible - and changed the course of his life. Inspiring, moving and empowering, Opening Doors is a story of how the power of guidance, visibility and mentoring can give anyone the platform to learn and succeed. Because when one door closes, another door will always open...]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/song-of-spider-man-the-inside-story-of-the-most-controversial-musical-in-broadway-history-by-glen-berger--65185745https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578973 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History Author: Glen Berger Narrator: Glen Berger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “One of the best literary works of this year” (Miami Herald-Tribune): The true story of a theatrical dream—or nightmare—come true…the making of the Spider-Man musical. As you might imagine, writing a Broadway musical has its challenges. But it turns out there are challenges one can’t begin to imagine when collaborating with two rock legends and a superstar director to stage the biggest, most expensive production in theater history. Renowned director Julie Taymor picked playwright Glen Berger to cowrite the book for a $25 million Spider-Man musical. Together—along with U2’s Bono and Edge—they would shape a work that was technically daring and emotionally profound, with a story fueled by the hero’s quest for love…and the villains’ quest for revenge. Or at least, that’s what they’d hoped for. But when charismatic producer Tony Adams died suddenly, the show began to lose its footing. Soon the budget was ballooning, financing was evaporating, and producers were jumping ship or getting demoted. And then came the injuries. And then came word-of-mouth about the show itself. What followed was a pageant of foul-ups, falling-outs, ever-more harrowing mishaps, and a whole lot of malfunctioning spider legs. This “circus-rock-and-roll-drama,” with its $65 million price tag, had become more of a spectacle than its creators ever wished for. During the show’s unprecedented seven months of previews, the company’s struggles to reach opening night inspired breathless tabloid coverage and garnered international notoriety. Through it all, Berger observed the chaos with his signature mix of big ambition and self-deprecating humor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578973Tue, 10 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578973 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History Author: Glen Berger Narrator: Glen Berger Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578973 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History Author: Glen Berger Narrator: Glen Berger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “One of the best literary works of this year” (Miami Herald-Tribune): The true story of a theatrical dream—or nightmare—come true…the making of the Spider-Man musical. As you might imagine, writing a Broadway musical has its challenges. But it turns out there are challenges one can’t begin to imagine when collaborating with two rock legends and a superstar director to stage the biggest, most expensive production in theater history. Renowned director Julie Taymor picked playwright Glen Berger to cowrite the book for a $25 million Spider-Man musical. Together—along with U2’s Bono and Edge—they would shape a work that was technically daring and emotionally profound, with a story fueled by the hero’s quest for love…and the villains’ quest for revenge. Or at least, that’s what they’d hoped for. But when charismatic producer Tony Adams died suddenly, the show began to lose its footing. Soon the budget was ballooning, financing was evaporating, and producers were jumping ship or getting demoted. And then came the injuries. And then came word-of-mouth about the show itself. What followed was a pageant of foul-ups, falling-outs, ever-more harrowing mishaps, and a whole lot of malfunctioning spider legs. This “circus-rock-and-roll-drama,” with its $65 million price tag, had become more of a spectacle than its creators ever wished for. During the show’s unprecedented seven months of previews, the company’s struggles to reach opening night inspired breathless tabloid coverage and garnered international notoriety. Through it all, Berger observed the chaos with his signature mix of big ambition and self-deprecating humor.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-alles-ist-gut-nach-einem-langen-bunten-und-verruckten-leben-by-zita-kappler-dr-cornelia-von-schelling--65185691https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - ALLES IST GUT: nach einem langen, bunten und verrückten Leben Author: Zita Kappler, Dr. Cornelia Von Schelling Narrator: Corinna Gessner, Zita Kappler, Annette Müller, Annette Bokpe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: May 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ebook ist Platz Nr. 1 - Bestseller am 10. + 11. Mai 2021 in Kindle und Bücher: Religiöse Biografien und Erinnerungen. Zita Kappler ist eine aussergewöhnliche Frau. 1926 geboren erlebt sie den Krieg und ist dadurch Zeitzeugin. Es folgen bewegte, spannende Lebensjahre. Ihr spirituelles Wirken auf andere Menschen entfaltet sich allerdings erst in sehr späten Jahren. Im Alter von 78 Jahren beginnt sie ein ganz neues Leben. Profanes lässt sie hinter sich, wird erfolgreiche Heilerin und unterrichtet das Geistige Heilen an der ÉCOLE SAN ESPRIT. An der ersten Klinik für Geistiges Heilen betreut sie viele Hilfesuchende. Bis ins ganz hohe Alter wirkt sie als Heilerin sowie als Weisheitslehrerin und sie hat auf unzählige junge und alte Menschen einen maßgeblichen Einfluss. Sie ermutigt zum Umdenken und fordert dazu auf, die eigene Größe zu erkennen und in diese hinein zu wachsen. Ein Buch, das den Glauben an das Gute im Menschen stärkt und dass mit großer Hoffnung an eine gute Zukunft erfüllt. Es ist beglückend und fesselnd an Zitas Lebenserfahrungen teilzuhaben und zu sehen wie sie ihr Leben mit seinen verschlungenen und sehr speziellen Schicksalswegen und Schicksalsschlägen gemeistert hat und welch wunderbare Früchte sie daraus hervorgebracht hat. Ich wünsche mir, dass möglichst viele Menschen Zitas Lebensbuch lesen, um von ihrer Weisheit zu profitieren. Corinna Gessner, Ärztin Es sind beeindruckende Geschichten, die Zita da aus ihrem Leben erzählt. Es macht Spaß, sie zu lesen. Sie geben Stoff zum Nachdenken. Viele von Zitas Weisheiten verbergen sich zwischen den Zeilen. Mir kommt es vor, als würde mir nach jedem Abschnitt etwas zugerufen, was da zwar nicht ausdrücklich geschrieben steht, aber doch da ist. Die Geschichte beginnt, wo die Worte enden. Annette Bokpe, Journalistin]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585516Sun, 08 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - ALLES IST GUT: nach einem langen, bunten und verrückten Leben Author: Zita Kappler, Dr. Cornelia Von Schelling Narrator: Corinna Gessner,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - ALLES IST GUT: nach einem langen, bunten und verrückten Leben Author: Zita Kappler, Dr. Cornelia Von Schelling Narrator: Corinna Gessner, Zita Kappler, Annette Müller, Annette Bokpe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: May 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ebook ist Platz Nr. 1 - Bestseller am 10. + 11. Mai 2021 in Kindle und Bücher: Religiöse Biografien und Erinnerungen. Zita Kappler ist eine aussergewöhnliche Frau. 1926 geboren erlebt sie den Krieg und ist dadurch Zeitzeugin. Es folgen bewegte, spannende Lebensjahre. Ihr spirituelles Wirken auf andere Menschen entfaltet sich allerdings erst in sehr späten Jahren. Im Alter von 78 Jahren beginnt sie ein ganz neues Leben. Profanes lässt sie hinter sich, wird erfolgreiche Heilerin und unterrichtet das Geistige Heilen an der ÉCOLE SAN ESPRIT. An der ersten Klinik für Geistiges Heilen betreut sie viele Hilfesuchende. Bis ins ganz hohe Alter wirkt sie als Heilerin sowie als Weisheitslehrerin und sie hat auf unzählige junge und alte Menschen einen maßgeblichen Einfluss. Sie ermutigt zum Umdenken und fordert dazu auf, die eigene Größe zu erkennen und in diese hinein zu wachsen. Ein Buch, das den Glauben an das Gute im Menschen stärkt und dass mit großer Hoffnung an eine gute Zukunft erfüllt. Es ist beglückend und fesselnd an Zitas Lebenserfahrungen teilzuhaben und zu sehen wie sie ihr Leben mit seinen verschlungenen und sehr speziellen Schicksalswegen und Schicksalsschlägen gemeistert hat und welch wunderbare Früchte sie daraus hervorgebracht hat. Ich wünsche mir, dass möglichst viele Menschen Zitas Lebensbuch lesen, um von ihrer Weisheit zu profitieren. Corinna Gessner, Ärztin Es sind beeindruckende Geschichten, die Zita da aus ihrem Leben erzählt. Es macht Spaß, sie zu lesen. Sie geben Stoff zum Nachdenken. Viele von Zitas Weisheiten verbergen sich zwischen den Zeilen. Mir kommt es vor, als würde mir nach jedem Abschnitt etwas zugerufen, was da zwar nicht ausdrücklich geschrieben steht, aber doch da ist. Die Geschichte beginnt, wo die Worte enden. Annette Bokpe, Journalistin]]>185cktencleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/letters-to-gwen-john-by-celia-paul--65185765https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters to Gwen John Author: Celia Paul Narrator: Rachel Bavidge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A unique combination of memoir and artistic biography, interspersed with original artworks, from the acclaimed artist and author of SELF-PORTRAIT. We are both painters. We can connect to each other through images, in our own unvoiced language. But I will try and reach you with words. Through talking to you I may come alive and begin to speak. Celia Paul has felt a lifelong connection to the artist Gwen John. There are extraordinary parallels in their lives and work. Both have always made art on their own terms. Both were involved with older male artists. Both worked hard to keep themselves and the sacred flame of their creativity from being extinguished by others. Letters to Gwen John is Paul's imagined correspondence with Gwen John, whose life and work have loomed so large in hers. These intimate, passionate, haunting letters allow Paul to reach across eras, to weigh up the sacrifices she has made, and to explore the rich possibilities of a life apart. With illuminating insights into the life and work of Gwen John, Letters to Gwen John is a unique form of memoir and conversation, and an unforgettable insight into a life devoted to making art. © Celia Paul 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578098Thu, 05 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters to Gwen John Author: Celia Paul Narrator: Rachel Bavidge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 5, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters to Gwen John Author: Celia Paul Narrator: Rachel Bavidge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A unique combination of memoir and artistic biography, interspersed with original artworks, from the acclaimed artist and author of SELF-PORTRAIT. We are both painters. We can connect to each other through images, in our own unvoiced language. But I will try and reach you with words. Through talking to you I may come alive and begin to speak. Celia Paul has felt a lifelong connection to the artist Gwen John. There are extraordinary parallels in their lives and work. Both have always made art on their own terms. Both were involved with older male artists. Both worked hard to keep themselves and the sacred flame of their creativity from being extinguished by others. Letters to Gwen John is Paul's imagined correspondence with Gwen John, whose life and work have loomed so large in hers. These intimate, passionate, haunting letters allow Paul to reach across eras, to weigh up the sacrifices she has made, and to explore the rich possibilities of a life apart. With illuminating insights into the life and work of Gwen John, Letters to Gwen John is a unique form of memoir and conversation, and an unforgettable insight into a life devoted to making art. © Celia Paul 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lisa-by-lisa-curry--65185764https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lisa Author: Lisa Curry Narrator: Lisa Curry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The long-awaited memoir of one of Australia's most enduring and inspiring sporting icons. Triple Olympian and wellness entrepreneur Lisa Curry has lived her life in the public eye for six decades. In this very personal memoir, she shares the untold story of being Lisa. A swimming prodigy who became one of Australia's first fitness entrepreneurs, Lisa Curry swam to Olympic fame in the '80s and '90s. With celerity and celebrity, she became in equal parts the darling of women's magazines and tabloid fodder, until, at 58, a family tragedy nearly consumed her. From the golden girl of Australian swimming to a 'super mum' and now a proud grannie, Lisa Curry has a powerful story to tell of endurance and enduring. In 1972, ten-year-old Lisa escaped the heat of a hot and muggy Brisbane day in the local pool when she was spotted by Dawn Fraser's legendary swim coach, Harry Gallagher. Within two years of joining his swim squad, Lisa would be one of the fastest swimmers of her age in the world. Over the next 23 years, Lisa honed her natural talent with a legendary work ethic and a punishing training ritual of 5 am starts. Countless hours of long, unbroken swimming of up to 60km a week in solitary union with the black lines of the pool would take Lisa to three Olympic Games: Moscow 1980, Los Angeles 1984, and Barcelona 1992; three Commonwealth Games; and two World Championships. By the time Lisa called time on her sporting career, she had become the only Australian to hold Commonwealth and Australian records in every stroke except backstroke, and from 50 to 400 metres, a feat that has not been repeated to this day. In this funny, heartbreaking but always life-affirming memoir, Lisa Curry reflects on a life well lived and the experiences that shaped her: swimming, family, marriage, divorce, and love found again. It is a powerful story of resilience, of highs and lows, and of starting out and starting again.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576862Wed, 04 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lisa Author: Lisa Curry Narrator: Lisa Curry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576862 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lisa Author: Lisa Curry Narrator: Lisa Curry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The long-awaited memoir of one of Australia's most enduring and inspiring sporting icons. Triple Olympian and wellness entrepreneur Lisa Curry has lived her life in the public eye for six decades. In this very personal memoir, she shares the untold story of being Lisa. A swimming prodigy who became one of Australia's first fitness entrepreneurs, Lisa Curry swam to Olympic fame in the '80s and '90s. With celerity and celebrity, she became in equal parts the darling of women's magazines and tabloid fodder, until, at 58, a family tragedy nearly consumed her. From the golden girl of Australian swimming to a 'super mum' and now a proud grannie, Lisa Curry has a powerful story to tell of endurance and enduring. In 1972, ten-year-old Lisa escaped the heat of a hot and muggy Brisbane day in the local pool when she was spotted by Dawn Fraser's legendary swim coach, Harry Gallagher. Within two years of joining his swim squad, Lisa would be one of the fastest swimmers of her age in the world. Over the next 23 years, Lisa honed her natural talent with a legendary work ethic and a punishing training ritual of 5 am starts. Countless hours of long, unbroken swimming of up to 60km a week in solitary union with the black lines of the pool would take Lisa to three Olympic Games: Moscow 1980, Los Angeles 1984, and Barcelona 1992; three Commonwealth Games; and two World Championships. By the time Lisa called time on her sporting career, she had become the only Australian to hold Commonwealth and Australian records in every stroke except backstroke, and from 50 to 400 metres, a feat that has not been repeated to this day. In this funny, heartbreaking but always life-affirming memoir, Lisa Curry reflects on a life well lived and the experiences that shaped her: swimming, family, marriage, divorce, and love found again. It is a powerful story of resilience, of highs and lows, and of starting out and starting again.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rattled-a-rare-first-person-account-of-surviving-a-stalker-by-ellis-gunn--65185693https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rattled: A rare, first person account of surviving a stalker Author: Ellis Gunn Narrator: Ellis Gunn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A nail-biting memoir that brings a confronting new perspective on the safety of women and the many ways they are silenced. Rattled tells a frighteningly honest story of what it feels like to be pursued by a stalker. What if your life were suddenly transformed by anxiety and fear? The fear of being alone, the anxiety compelling you to stay in public places and avoid predictable routines. The horrible uncertainty of not knowing whether you should fear for your life, and maybe even the lives of your children. The dreadful knowledge that, ultimately, you are powerless to escape. Ellis Gunn's world is turned upside down when she realises that she is being followed by a man she doesn't know-and that she can't make him stop. The experience conjures up other incidents of sexual harassment and abuse that she has endured, incidents she often accepted as 'normal'. Spurred on to look deeper, she discovers that stalking is part of an underlying misogyny that more than half the population is dealing with on a daily basis. Alarming, and at times even darkly amusing, Rattled is a thought-provoking, heart-in-your-throat memoir that begins in outrage and ends with a celebration of the howling winds of change sweeping the globe. 'As gripping as a thriller, as moving as a tragedy, as passionate as a polemic, as practical as a manual. An extraordinary, candid, wise and terrifying book for our times.' JANE CARO]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583099Tue, 03 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rattled: A rare, first person account of surviving a stalker Author: Ellis Gunn Narrator: Ellis Gunn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rattled: A rare, first person account of surviving a stalker Author: Ellis Gunn Narrator: Ellis Gunn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A nail-biting memoir that brings a confronting new perspective on the safety of women and the many ways they are silenced. Rattled tells a frighteningly honest story of what it feels like to be pursued by a stalker. What if your life were suddenly transformed by anxiety and fear? The fear of being alone, the anxiety compelling you to stay in public places and avoid predictable routines. The horrible uncertainty of not knowing whether you should fear for your life, and maybe even the lives of your children. The dreadful knowledge that, ultimately, you are powerless to escape. Ellis Gunn's world is turned upside down when she realises that she is being followed by a man she doesn't know-and that she can't make him stop. The experience conjures up other incidents of sexual harassment and abuse that she has endured, incidents she often accepted as 'normal'. Spurred on to look deeper, she discovers that stalking is part of an underlying misogyny that more than half the population is dealing with on a daily basis. Alarming, and at times even darkly amusing, Rattled is a thought-provoking, heart-in-your-throat memoir that begins in outrage and ends with a celebration of the howling winds of change sweeping the globe. 'As gripping as a thriller, as moving as a tragedy, as passionate as a polemic, as practical as a manual. An extraordinary, candid, wise and terrifying book for our times.' JANE CARO]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-quest-for-the-hidden-lands-synchronicity-serendipity-spirituality-by-norma-levine--65185657https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Quest for the Hidden Lands: Synchronicity, Serendipity, Spirituality Author: Norma Levine Narrator: Norma Levine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: My budding career as a literary scholar was suddenly hijacked by a singular seemingly random event. It was 1976 when I tiptoed into a tiny Buddhist shrine room in a farmhouse nestled into the Black Mountains of Wales and there beheld a Tibetan master, the 16th Karmapa, sitting on a throne performing a ceremony known as The Black Hat. My mind came to an immediate stop, suspended. It felt familiar, like the secret garden of childhood. I can still remember every detail like it was yesterday: Karmapa occupies the throne completely. He has a spiritual dignity that makes it his rightful seat, just as the lion proclaims his natural dominion. The force of his presence alone brings a hushed silence to the room. It feels like it has expanded into a cathedral. Two monks blow long Tibetan horns in a haunting wail so loud and long it startles thought patterns, blowing them away like clouds. The Karmapa slowly opens the Black Hat-box, takes the black silk crown in his hand, and puts it on his head holding it down with one hand. With the other hand he fingers a crystal rosary moving it deftly, twirling the beads around three times. The horns continue while he gazes with eyes that seem to dissolve the fiction of time and the boundaries of space. Time is standing still. That glimpse into enlightened mind became embedded like a seed and grew into a quest over the next decades to find the key places on our planet called the Hidden Lands. The legend came alive while I was living in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. I met Tibetans who had been to the supreme Hidden Land of Pemako while escaping from the Chinese invasion of Tibet. They made it sound like the ‘promised land’ with streams flowing with milky water. There were certain plants that could induce enlightenment. Why did it take decades to get there? What made the right ingredients emerge to penetrate this sacred sanctuary? And the big question: Who hid it and why?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589687Tue, 03 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Quest for the Hidden Lands: Synchronicity, Serendipity, Spirituality Author: Norma Levine Narrator: Norma Levine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589687 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Quest for the Hidden Lands: Synchronicity, Serendipity, Spirituality Author: Norma Levine Narrator: Norma Levine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 40 minutes Release date: May 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: My budding career as a literary scholar was suddenly hijacked by a singular seemingly random event. It was 1976 when I tiptoed into a tiny Buddhist shrine room in a farmhouse nestled into the Black Mountains of Wales and there beheld a Tibetan master, the 16th Karmapa, sitting on a throne performing a ceremony known as The Black Hat. My mind came to an immediate stop, suspended. It felt familiar, like the secret garden of childhood. I can still remember every detail like it was yesterday: Karmapa occupies the throne completely. He has a spiritual dignity that makes it his rightful seat, just as the lion proclaims his natural dominion. The force of his presence alone brings a hushed silence to the room. It feels like it has expanded into a cathedral. Two monks blow long Tibetan horns in a haunting wail so loud and long it startles thought patterns, blowing them away like clouds. The Karmapa slowly opens the Black Hat-box, takes the black silk crown in his hand, and puts it on his head holding it down with one hand. With the other hand he fingers a crystal rosary moving it deftly, twirling the beads around three times. The horns continue while he gazes with eyes that seem to dissolve the fiction of time and the boundaries of space. Time is standing still. That glimpse into enlightened mind became embedded like a seed and grew into a quest over the next decades to find the key places on our planet called the Hidden Lands. The legend came alive while I was living in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. I met Tibetans who had been to the supreme Hidden Land of Pemako while escaping from the Chinese invasion of Tibet. They made it sound like the ‘promised land’ with streams flowing with milky water. There were certain plants that could induce enlightenment. Why did it take decades to get there? What made the right ingredients emerge to penetrate this sacred sanctuary? And the big question: Who hid it and why?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-salvaje-by-cherryl-strayed--65185719https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Salvaje Author: Cherryl Strayed Narrator: Meritxell Donaire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Un libro poderoso e incendiariamente honesto: la historia de los 1800 kilómetros que la joven autora anduvo por la cordillera del Pacífico de los Estados Unidos. Con veintidós años creía que lo había perdido todo en la vida, tras tomar la decisión de separarse y de que su madre muriera de cáncer. Sus hermanos se dispersaron y ella se quedó sin pilares sobre los que construir su vida. Cuatro años después de la muerte de su madre toma la decisión más impulsiva de su vida: andar el camino del las Cumbres del Pacífico, una ruta de senderismo que recorre toda la costa oeste de los Estados Unidos, desde el desierto Mojave en California y Oregon al estado de Washington. Y decide hacerlo completamente sola. Sin ninguna experiencia en senderismo, y ni tan solo habiendo pasado jamás una noche al aire libre, para ella se trataba de una idea, vaga y extravagante y prometedora. Pero esa promesa se convirtió en la necesidad de volver a juntar las piezas del rompecabezas en que se ha convertido su vida. Narrada con suspense, estilo, sentido del humor y ternura, Wild consigue atrapar el miedo y los placeres en la vida de una joven que se encuentra en el proceso de forjar su vida contra toda expectativa, en el viaje que la volvió loca, que la fortaleció y que acabó por sanarla. - Cheryl Strayed nació en Pensilvania, es la mediana de tres hermanos y fue a las universidades de Saint Thomas y Minnesota, donde se licenció cum laude de dos especialidades: literatura inglesa y estudios femeninos. Trabajó como camarera, en campañas políticas, como administrativa y técnica sanitaria. Además de Salvaje, libro publicado en diecisiete países y que ha sido adaptado al cine por Reese Witherspoon, Strayed ha publicado dos novelas, artículos en medios como The Washington Post Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue y Allure, entre otros, y la popular columna de consejos «Dear Sugars» que dio lugar a Pequeñas cosas bellas (Roca Editorial, 2015).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588852Sun, 01 May 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Salvaje Author: Cherryl Strayed Narrator: Meritxell Donaire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588852 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Salvaje Author: Cherryl Strayed Narrator: Meritxell Donaire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Un libro poderoso e incendiariamente honesto: la historia de los 1800 kilómetros que la joven autora anduvo por la cordillera del Pacífico de los Estados Unidos. Con veintidós años creía que lo había perdido todo en la vida, tras tomar la decisión de separarse y de que su madre muriera de cáncer. Sus hermanos se dispersaron y ella se quedó sin pilares sobre los que construir su vida. Cuatro años después de la muerte de su madre toma la decisión más impulsiva de su vida: andar el camino del las Cumbres del Pacífico, una ruta de senderismo que recorre toda la costa oeste de los Estados Unidos, desde el desierto Mojave en California y Oregon al estado de Washington. Y decide hacerlo completamente sola. Sin ninguna experiencia en senderismo, y ni tan solo habiendo pasado jamás una noche al aire libre, para ella se trataba de una idea, vaga y extravagante y prometedora. Pero esa promesa se convirtió en la necesidad de volver a juntar las piezas del rompecabezas en que se ha convertido su vida. Narrada con suspense, estilo, sentido del humor y ternura, Wild consigue atrapar el miedo y los placeres en la vida de una joven que se encuentra en el proceso de forjar su vida contra toda expectativa, en el viaje que la volvió loca, que la fortaleció y que acabó por sanarla. - Cheryl Strayed nació en Pensilvania, es la mediana de tres hermanos y fue a las universidades de Saint Thomas y Minnesota, donde se licenció cum laude de dos especialidades: literatura inglesa y estudios femeninos. Trabajó como camarera, en campañas políticas, como administrativa y técnica sanitaria. Además de Salvaje, libro publicado en diecisiete países y que ha sido adaptado al cine por Reese Witherspoon, Strayed ha publicado dos novelas, artículos en medios como The Washington Post Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue y Allure, entre otros, y la popular columna de consejos «Dear Sugars» que dio lugar a Pequeñas cosas bellas (Roca Editorial, 2015).]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-fuera-de-lugar-by-mariano-sanchez-soler--65185717https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Fuera de lugar Author: Mariano Sánchez Soler Narrator: Fernando Cea Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 2 minutes Release date: April 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: «Fuera de lugar» es un poemario que recoge la trayectoria vital y poética de Mariano Sánchez Soler a lo largo de casi tres décadas. Es la culminación de un viaje poético iniciado a finales de los años setenta en «Walking blues», un poemario nacido del exilio urbano de un estudiante mediterráneo, alejado del mar por primera vez en su vida. Sobre este andamiaje literario, Sánchez Soler escribió después «Almar» (Premio Alcudia, 1978), «La ciudad flotante» (Premio Álvaro Iglesias del Ministerio de Cultura, 1983) y «La ciudad sumergida en el mar», hasta llegar a esta obra. - Mariano Sánchez Soler es un escritor y periodista español, licenciado en Ciencias de la Información por la UCM y doctor por la Universidad de Alicante. Ha trabajado y colaborado para periódicos como «El Periódico de Catalunya», «Diario 16» o «Le Monde Diplomatique». Ha recibido importantes premios literarios, como el Premio Castelló Negre en 2020 y el Premio Bruma Negra en 2017 al conjunto de su obra.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584152Fri, 29 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Fuera de lugar Author: Mariano Sánchez Soler Narrator: Fernando Cea Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 2 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/584152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Fuera de lugar Author: Mariano Sánchez Soler Narrator: Fernando Cea Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 2 minutes Release date: April 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: «Fuera de lugar» es un poemario que recoge la trayectoria vital y poética de Mariano Sánchez Soler a lo largo de casi tres décadas. Es la culminación de un viaje poético iniciado a finales de los años setenta en «Walking blues», un poemario nacido del exilio urbano de un estudiante mediterráneo, alejado del mar por primera vez en su vida. Sobre este andamiaje literario, Sánchez Soler escribió después «Almar» (Premio Alcudia, 1978), «La ciudad flotante» (Premio Álvaro Iglesias del Ministerio de Cultura, 1983) y «La ciudad sumergida en el mar», hasta llegar a esta obra. - Mariano Sánchez Soler es un escritor y periodista español, licenciado en Ciencias de la Información por la UCM y doctor por la Universidad de Alicante. Ha trabajado y colaborado para periódicos como «El Periódico de Catalunya», «Diario 16» o «Le Monde Diplomatique». Ha recibido importantes premios literarios, como el Premio Castelló Negre en 2020 y el Premio Bruma Negra en 2017 al conjunto de su obra.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/loving-and-losing-you-azaylia-my-inspirational-daughter-and-our-unbreakable-bond-by-safiyya-vorajee--65185768https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575682 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loving and Losing You, Azaylia: My Inspirational Daughter and our Unbreakable Bond Author: Safiyya Vorajee Narrator: Safiyya Vorajee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 28, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. What the world saw, and what it didn't 'Nothing could ever have prepared me for this. Some days it breaks me, and I can't even bear to do it. I always thought I was tough, but it brings me to my knees every single time.' Safiyya's beautiful baby daughter, Azaylia, was eight weeks old when she was diagnosed with leukaemia. By the age of 8 months, Safiyya and her partner, Ashley, had to say their final goodbye. This is Safiyya's account of motherhood, hope and loss. It is about the unbreakable and incomparable bond between mother and daughter ... about what happens to a family when they face a life without the person that completed them, putting readers in the shoes no parent wants to be in. But, above all, it's a celebration of a remarkable little life that showed spirit that no baby should have to and a family who loved and fought to hold onto every precious moment. © Safiyya Vorajee 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575682Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575682 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loving and Losing You, Azaylia: My Inspirational Daughter and our Unbreakable Bond Author: Safiyya Vorajee Narrator: Safiyya Vorajee Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575682 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loving and Losing You, Azaylia: My Inspirational Daughter and our Unbreakable Bond Author: Safiyya Vorajee Narrator: Safiyya Vorajee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 28, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. What the world saw, and what it didn't 'Nothing could ever have prepared me for this. Some days it breaks me, and I can't even bear to do it. I always thought I was tough, but it brings me to my knees every single time.' Safiyya's beautiful baby daughter, Azaylia, was eight weeks old when she was diagnosed with leukaemia. By the age of 8 months, Safiyya and her partner, Ashley, had to say their final goodbye. This is Safiyya's account of motherhood, hope and loss. It is about the unbreakable and incomparable bond between mother and daughter ... about what happens to a family when they face a life without the person that completed them, putting readers in the shoes no parent wants to be in. But, above all, it's a celebration of a remarkable little life that showed spirit that no baby should have to and a family who loved and fought to hold onto every precious moment. © Safiyya Vorajee 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-en-todos-los-frentes-by-clarissa-ward--65185669https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588848 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - En todos los frentes Author: Clarissa Ward Narrator: Aneta Fernández Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Las maravillosas memorias de Clarissa Ward, la reportera estrella de la CNN, que narró al mundo la caída de Kabul. Clarissa Ward es una reportera de guerra que ha ganado premios importantes por su trabajo cubriendo conflictos en Siria, Egipto, Afganistán, fue la periodista que cubrió la caída de Kabul. Tuvo una infancia privilegiada, pero prefirió ir a los frentes e informar de la cruda realidad de los conflictos, de una manera empática, cuenta las historias más difíciles. En todos los frentes es el relato fascinante de su trabajo durante años, cubriendo los 'puntos calientes' del extremismo. Tras una vida privilegiada y solitaria, Ward se convirtió en corresponsal de guerra tras la tragedia del 11 S. Desde el inicio ella estuvo 'empotrada' con los marines durante la guerra de Irak, y luego en otros países árabes. No hay lugar donde Ward no deje su huella, es en la guerra de Siria donde destacó por ser la periodista occidental que cubrió más este conflicto. Se infiltró varias veces con los rebeldes sirios para investigar sobre los extremistas occidentales que se sienten atraídos por ISIS. También ha informado del reinado de terror de Bashar al-Assad, sin miedo. En 2018 asumió nuevos retos para la CNN y fue madre. Esta es la historia inolvidable de una periodista extraordinaria y de un mundo cambiante. - Clarissa Ward es una reconocida reportera de conflictos, es 'CNN chief international correspondent'. Habla siete idiomas, ha sido reportera en Siria, Egipto y ha trabajado desde Bagdad, Beirut, Peking y Moscú. Ha visto y documentado el violento cambio del mundo desde muy cerca. Con su fuerte empatía y su increíble valentía, Ward encuentra la manera de contar una historia muy dura. En todos los frentes es una historia fascinante de la excepcional carrera de periodismo en esta época de extremismos. Ha ganado múltiples premios: Peabody, a la excelencia en el periodismo, y el Murrow, al mejor trabajo de periodismo fuera de EE.UU.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588848Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588848 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - En todos los frentes Author: Clarissa Ward Narrator: Aneta Fernández Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588848 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - En todos los frentes Author: Clarissa Ward Narrator: Aneta Fernández Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 28, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Las maravillosas memorias de Clarissa Ward, la reportera estrella de la CNN, que narró al mundo la caída de Kabul. Clarissa Ward es una reportera de guerra que ha ganado premios importantes por su trabajo cubriendo conflictos en Siria, Egipto, Afganistán, fue la periodista que cubrió la caída de Kabul. Tuvo una infancia privilegiada, pero prefirió ir a los frentes e informar de la cruda realidad de los conflictos, de una manera empática, cuenta las historias más difíciles. En todos los frentes es el relato fascinante de su trabajo durante años, cubriendo los 'puntos calientes' del extremismo. Tras una vida privilegiada y solitaria, Ward se convirtió en corresponsal de guerra tras la tragedia del 11 S. Desde el inicio ella estuvo 'empotrada' con los marines durante la guerra de Irak, y luego en otros países árabes. No hay lugar donde Ward no deje su huella, es en la guerra de Siria donde destacó por ser la periodista occidental que cubrió más este conflicto. Se infiltró varias veces con los rebeldes sirios para investigar sobre los extremistas occidentales que se sienten atraídos por ISIS. También ha informado del reinado de terror de Bashar al-Assad, sin miedo. En 2018 asumió nuevos retos para la CNN y fue madre. Esta es la historia inolvidable de una periodista extraordinaria y de un mundo cambiante. - Clarissa Ward es una reconocida reportera de conflictos, es 'CNN chief international correspondent'. Habla siete idiomas, ha sido reportera en Siria, Egipto y ha trabajado desde Bagdad, Beirut, Peking y Moscú. Ha visto y documentado el violento cambio del mundo desde muy cerca. Con su fuerte empatía y su increíble valentía, Ward encuentra la manera de contar una historia muy dura. En todos los frentes es una historia fascinante de la excepcional carrera de periodismo en esta época de extremismos. Ha ganado múltiples premios: Peabody, a la excelencia en el periodismo, y el Murrow, al mejor trabajo de periodismo fuera de EE.UU.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/don-t-blow-yourself-up-the-further-true-adventures-and-travails-of-the-rocket-boy-of-october-sky-by-homer-hickam--65185797https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Blow Yourself Up: The Further True Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky Author: Homer Hickam Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Homer Hickam, the author of the #1 bestselling Rocket Boys adapted into the beloved film October Sky, comes this astonishing memoir of high adventure, war, love, NASA, and his struggle for literary success. Homer Hickam's memoir Rocket Boys and the movie adaptation October Sky have become one of the most popular stories in the world, inspiring millions to pursue a better life. But what happened to Homer after he was a West Virginia rocket boy? In his latest memoir, Homer recounts his life in college where he built the world's biggest, baddest game cannon, fought through some of the worst battles in Vietnam, became a scuba instructor, discovered sunken U-boats, wrote the definitive account of a World War II naval battle, befriended Tom Clancy, made a desperate attempt to save the passengers of a sunken river boat, trained the first Japanese astronauts, taught David Letterman to scuba dive, helped to fix the Hubble Space Telescope, wrote his number one bestselling Rocket Boys, and was on set during the making of October Sky. Although told with humor and wit, Hickam does not shy away from the pain and hardship endured and the mistakes he made during the tumultuous decades since his life in the town he made famous—Coalwood, West Virginia.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577933Tue, 26 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Blow Yourself Up: The Further True Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky Author: Homer Hickam Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Blow Yourself Up: The Further True Adventures and Travails of the Rocket Boy of October Sky Author: Homer Hickam Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From Homer Hickam, the author of the #1 bestselling Rocket Boys adapted into the beloved film October Sky, comes this astonishing memoir of high adventure, war, love, NASA, and his struggle for literary success. Homer Hickam's memoir Rocket Boys and the movie adaptation October Sky have become one of the most popular stories in the world, inspiring millions to pursue a better life. But what happened to Homer after he was a West Virginia rocket boy? In his latest memoir, Homer recounts his life in college where he built the world's biggest, baddest game cannon, fought through some of the worst battles in Vietnam, became a scuba instructor, discovered sunken U-boats, wrote the definitive account of a World War II naval battle, befriended Tom Clancy, made a desperate attempt to save the passengers of a sunken river boat, trained the first Japanese astronauts, taught David Letterman to scuba dive, helped to fix the Hubble Space Telescope, wrote his number one bestselling Rocket Boys, and was on set during the making of October Sky. Although told with humor and wit, Hickam does not shy away from the pain and hardship endured and the mistakes he made during the tumultuous decades since his life in the town he made famous—Coalwood, West Virginia.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-re-taking-fire-a-reporter-s-view-of-the-vietnam-war-tet-and-the-fall-of-lbj-by-peter-arnett--65185761https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576057 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We’re Taking Fire: A Reporter’s View of the Vietnam War, Tet, and the Fall of LBJ Author: Peter Arnett Narrator: Peter Arnett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On the fiftieth anniversary of the Tet Offensive comes We're Taking Fire, a powerful examination by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Peter Arnett of what led to that pivotal moment of the Vietnam War in 1968 and the tumultuous aftermath. Through his reports for the Associated Press from the early 1960s to the fall of Saigon in 1975, and interviews conducted during and after the war, Arnett explains the complexities that drove the decisions made by the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations and how each was unable to achieve a winning strategy that would put an end to the unpopular and controversial conflict. As an eyewitness to the battles, maneuvers, and cultural challenges that prevented a definitive victory, Arnett provides unique insights that only one who was on the ground can share as well as perspectives shaped by decades of observing America and Vietnam since the war. We're Taking Fire, which deciphers the war and its toll on Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency, is a must-listen about lessons learned and lessons forgotten.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576057Tue, 26 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576057 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We’re Taking Fire: A Reporter’s View of the Vietnam War, Tet, and the Fall of LBJ Author: Peter Arnett Narrator: Peter Arnett Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576057 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We’re Taking Fire: A Reporter’s View of the Vietnam War, Tet, and the Fall of LBJ Author: Peter Arnett Narrator: Peter Arnett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On the fiftieth anniversary of the Tet Offensive comes We're Taking Fire, a powerful examination by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Peter Arnett of what led to that pivotal moment of the Vietnam War in 1968 and the tumultuous aftermath. Through his reports for the Associated Press from the early 1960s to the fall of Saigon in 1975, and interviews conducted during and after the war, Arnett explains the complexities that drove the decisions made by the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations and how each was unable to achieve a winning strategy that would put an end to the unpopular and controversial conflict. As an eyewitness to the battles, maneuvers, and cultural challenges that prevented a definitive victory, Arnett provides unique insights that only one who was on the ground can share as well as perspectives shaped by decades of observing America and Vietnam since the war. We're Taking Fire, which deciphers the war and its toll on Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency, is a must-listen about lessons learned and lessons forgotten.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/into-the-inferno-a-photographer-s-journey-through-california-s-megafires-and-fallout-by-stuart-palley--65185734https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into the Inferno: A Photographer’s Journey through California’s Megafires and Fallout Author: Stuart Palley Narrator: Stuart Palley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of Young Men and Fire and Fire on the Mountain, Stuart Palley’s memoir Into the Inferno documents eight years of devastating wildfire in California, showing how fire can transform a landscape as well as a soul … For nearly a decade, Palley has been on the front line of fire. He has witnessed homeowners on the worst day of their lives. He’s seen puddles of aluminum where cars were once parked. He’s watched as 150-foot walls of flame cascaded down mountainsides and crashed into the Pacific Ocean. And he’s captured, time and again, the tireless commitment of firefighters as they work to save lives and homes, in terrain where fire always seems to have the upper hand. In this memoir, Palley recalls how he went from learning to be safe on the fire line to a fire-savvy documentarian of wildfire and climate change. He covers some of California’s largest, most destructive, and deadliest fires between 2012 and 2020, lugging his gear from the Wine Country Fire Siege to the Thomas Fire and ultimately to the Woolsey Fire in Malibu. And he shows how, in a relatively short span of time, fire season in California has grown into a perpetual crisis, requiring billions of dollars and thousands of firefighters each year. Ultimately, the experiences, the voices, and the science shared in the memoir form an urgent call for climate action. Into the Inferno stands alongside Palley’s photography to show just what kind of environmental tragedy we can expect if we do nothing.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578895Tue, 26 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into the Inferno: A Photographer’s Journey through California’s Megafires and Fallout Author: Stuart Palley Narrator: Stuart Palley Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into the Inferno: A Photographer’s Journey through California’s Megafires and Fallout Author: Stuart Palley Narrator: Stuart Palley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In the tradition of Young Men and Fire and Fire on the Mountain, Stuart Palley’s memoir Into the Inferno documents eight years of devastating wildfire in California, showing how fire can transform a landscape as well as a soul … For nearly a decade, Palley has been on the front line of fire. He has witnessed homeowners on the worst day of their lives. He’s seen puddles of aluminum where cars were once parked. He’s watched as 150-foot walls of flame cascaded down mountainsides and crashed into the Pacific Ocean. And he’s captured, time and again, the tireless commitment of firefighters as they work to save lives and homes, in terrain where fire always seems to have the upper hand. In this memoir, Palley recalls how he went from learning to be safe on the fire line to a fire-savvy documentarian of wildfire and climate change. He covers some of California’s largest, most destructive, and deadliest fires between 2012 and 2020, lugging his gear from the Wine Country Fire Siege to the Thomas Fire and ultimately to the Woolsey Fire in Malibu. And he shows how, in a relatively short span of time, fire season in California has grown into a perpetual crisis, requiring billions of dollars and thousands of firefighters each year. Ultimately, the experiences, the voices, and the science shared in the memoir form an urgent call for climate action. Into the Inferno stands alongside Palley’s photography to show just what kind of environmental tragedy we can expect if we do nothing.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cricket-ka-commonwealth-vishwa-ke-sabse-shishth-khel-ke-saath-mera-ajivan-prem-sambandh-by-ramachandra-guha-ketan-mishra--65185672https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cricket Ka Commonwealth: Vishwa ke Sabse Shishth Khel ke Saath Mera Ajivan Prem Sambandh Author: Ramachandra Guha, Ketan Mishra Narrator: Kandarp Relhan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Ramachandra Guha began following the game in the early 1960s, India was utterly marginal to the world of cricket: the country still hadn't won a Test match overseas; by the time he joined the Board of Control for Cricket in India, fifty years later, India had become world cricket's sole superpower. Cricket ka Commonwealth, the Hindi translation of the popular and critically acclaimed The Commonwealth of Cricket, is a first-person account of this astonishing transformation. The book traces the entire arc of cricket in India, across all levels at which the game is played: school, college, club, state, country. It presents vivid portraits of local heroes, provincial icons, and international stars. Cast as a work of literature, Cricket ka Commonwealth is keenly informed by the author's scholarly training, the stories and sketches narrated against a wider canvas of social and historical change. The book blends memoir, anecdote, reportage and political critique, providing a rich, insightful and rivetingly readable account of this greatest of games as played in the country that has most energetically made this sport its own.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585148Wed, 20 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cricket Ka Commonwealth: Vishwa ke Sabse Shishth Khel ke Saath Mera Ajivan Prem Sambandh Author: Ramachandra Guha, Ketan Mishra Narrator: Kandarp...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585148 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cricket Ka Commonwealth: Vishwa ke Sabse Shishth Khel ke Saath Mera Ajivan Prem Sambandh Author: Ramachandra Guha, Ketan Mishra Narrator: Kandarp Relhan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 32 minutes Release date: April 20, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Ramachandra Guha began following the game in the early 1960s, India was utterly marginal to the world of cricket: the country still hadn't won a Test match overseas; by the time he joined the Board of Control for Cricket in India, fifty years later, India had become world cricket's sole superpower. Cricket ka Commonwealth, the Hindi translation of the popular and critically acclaimed The Commonwealth of Cricket, is a first-person account of this astonishing transformation. The book traces the entire arc of cricket in India, across all levels at which the game is played: school, college, club, state, country. It presents vivid portraits of local heroes, provincial icons, and international stars. Cast as a work of literature, Cricket ka Commonwealth is keenly informed by the author's scholarly training, the stories and sketches narrated against a wider canvas of social and historical change. The book blends memoir, anecdote, reportage and political critique, providing a rich, insightful and rivetingly readable account of this greatest of games as played in the country that has most energetically made this sport its own.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/body-becoming-a-path-to-our-liberation-by-roberto-che-espinoza--65185853https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation Author: Roberto Ché Espinoza Narrator: Robyn Henderson-Espinoza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The body that Robyn Henderson-Espinoza inhabits is a nonbinary body, a trans body, a body in two races—and a body continually in discovery. Theirs is also a body on sojourn invested in experience, body understanding, and engagement in and for human thriving. Henderson-Espinoza relates coming into a new body story, beginning with the deep emotional work of connecting the abstract intelligence of their mind with their body's intelligence, to explore the relationship between living and becoming, doing and listening. Combining that deep listening and living with their work in activism, Body, Becoming offers us a way of understanding the body beyond constructions—political or medical-industrial-complex defined—toward cultivating the body as important in our endeavors to build a more inclusive vision for democracy. Mixing memoir and faith, somatics theory and body practice, Henderson-Espinoza steers us through territory both familiar and difficult—as we discover embodiment as the primary place of deep wisdom, where culture shifts originate and materialize—and a better world becomes, as we too become.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574249Tue, 19 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation Author: Roberto Ché Espinoza Narrator: Robyn Henderson-Espinoza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation Author: Roberto Ché Espinoza Narrator: Robyn Henderson-Espinoza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The body that Robyn Henderson-Espinoza inhabits is a nonbinary body, a trans body, a body in two races—and a body continually in discovery. Theirs is also a body on sojourn invested in experience, body understanding, and engagement in and for human thriving. Henderson-Espinoza relates coming into a new body story, beginning with the deep emotional work of connecting the abstract intelligence of their mind with their body's intelligence, to explore the relationship between living and becoming, doing and listening. Combining that deep listening and living with their work in activism, Body, Becoming offers us a way of understanding the body beyond constructions—political or medical-industrial-complex defined—toward cultivating the body as important in our endeavors to build a more inclusive vision for democracy. Mixing memoir and faith, somatics theory and body practice, Henderson-Espinoza steers us through territory both familiar and difficult—as we discover embodiment as the primary place of deep wisdom, where culture shifts originate and materialize—and a better world becomes, as we too become.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/saigon-has-fallen-a-wartime-recollection-by-peter-arnett--65185845https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saigon Has Fallen: A Wartime Recollection Author: Peter Arnett Narrator: Peter Arnett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this intimate and exclusive remembrance of the Fall of Saigon, celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett tells the story of his role covering the controversial Vietnam War for the Associated Press from 1962 to its end on April 30, 1975. Arnett's clear-eyed coverage displeased President Lyndon Johnson and officials on all sides of the conflict. Writing candidly and vividly about his risks and triumphs, Arnett also shares his fears and fights in reporting against the backdrop of war. Arnett places listeners at the historic pivot-points of Vietnam: covering Marine landings, mountaintop battles, Saigon's decline and fall, and the safe evacuation of a planeload of fifty-seven infants in the midst of chaos. Peter Arnett's sweeping view and his frank, descriptive, and dramatic writing brings the Vietnam War to life in a uniquely insightful way for the fortieth anniversary of the Fall of Saigon. Arnett won the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for his Vietnam coverage. He later went on to TV-reporting fame covering the Gulf War for CNN.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576012Tue, 19 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saigon Has Fallen: A Wartime Recollection Author: Peter Arnett Narrator: Peter Arnett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 9 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576012 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Saigon Has Fallen: A Wartime Recollection Author: Peter Arnett Narrator: Peter Arnett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this intimate and exclusive remembrance of the Fall of Saigon, celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett tells the story of his role covering the controversial Vietnam War for the Associated Press from 1962 to its end on April 30, 1975. Arnett's clear-eyed coverage displeased President Lyndon Johnson and officials on all sides of the conflict. Writing candidly and vividly about his risks and triumphs, Arnett also shares his fears and fights in reporting against the backdrop of war. Arnett places listeners at the historic pivot-points of Vietnam: covering Marine landings, mountaintop battles, Saigon's decline and fall, and the safe evacuation of a planeload of fifty-seven infants in the midst of chaos. Peter Arnett's sweeping view and his frank, descriptive, and dramatic writing brings the Vietnam War to life in a uniquely insightful way for the fortieth anniversary of the Fall of Saigon. Arnett won the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for his Vietnam coverage. He later went on to TV-reporting fame covering the Gulf War for CNN.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-mi-amigo-del-alma-como-mi-perro-me-salvo-de-la-depresion-by-julie-barton--65185746https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi amigo del alma. Cómo mi perro me salvó de la depresión Author: Julie Barton Narrator: Mireia Magallón Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Unas memorias honestas y profundamente conmovedoras sobre la lucha de una joven mujer contra la depresión y cómo su perro salvó su vida. Con tan solo 22 años de edad Julie Barton sufrió un colapso en el suelo de la cocina en su casa de Manhattan. Llevaba ya un año que había dejado sus estudios con una depresión muy severa. Gracias a una extraña llamada telefónica, su madre viajó desde Ohio a Nueva York y se la llevó a casa. Perseguida por los recuerdos problemáticos de su niñez. Julie continuo inmersa en una desesperante depresión que casi le llevó al suicidio. Psiquiatras, terapeutas y su propia familia trataron de intervenir, pero nada ni nadie era capaz de conectar con ella, hasta que un día decidió adoptar a un cachorro Golden Retriever al que bautizó como Bunker Hill. Este libro captura la angustia de la depresión, el lento camino para la recuperación, la belleza del perdón y el maravilloso camino en el que los animales pueden ayudar a sanar hasta los corazones y las mentes más destrozadas. - Julie Barton vive en Carolina del Norte con su esposo, sus dos hijas y una pequeña manada de mascotas.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585125Fri, 15 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi amigo del alma. Cómo mi perro me salvó de la depresión Author: Julie Barton Narrator: Mireia Magallón Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585125 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Mi amigo del alma. Cómo mi perro me salvó de la depresión Author: Julie Barton Narrator: Mireia Magallón Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 15, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Unas memorias honestas y profundamente conmovedoras sobre la lucha de una joven mujer contra la depresión y cómo su perro salvó su vida. Con tan solo 22 años de edad Julie Barton sufrió un colapso en el suelo de la cocina en su casa de Manhattan. Llevaba ya un año que había dejado sus estudios con una depresión muy severa. Gracias a una extraña llamada telefónica, su madre viajó desde Ohio a Nueva York y se la llevó a casa. Perseguida por los recuerdos problemáticos de su niñez. Julie continuo inmersa en una desesperante depresión que casi le llevó al suicidio. Psiquiatras, terapeutas y su propia familia trataron de intervenir, pero nada ni nadie era capaz de conectar con ella, hasta que un día decidió adoptar a un cachorro Golden Retriever al que bautizó como Bunker Hill. Este libro captura la angustia de la depresión, el lento camino para la recuperación, la belleza del perdón y el maravilloso camino en el que los animales pueden ayudar a sanar hasta los corazones y las mentes más destrozadas. - Julie Barton vive en Carolina del Norte con su esposo, sus dos hijas y una pequeña manada de mascotas.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/behind-the-seams-the-perfect-gift-for-fans-of-the-great-british-sewing-bee-by-esme-young--65185758https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577163 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Behind the Seams: The perfect gift for fans of The Great British Sewing Bee Author: Esme Young Narrator: Esme Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 14, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** From adventures at Central Saint Martins to The Great British Sewing Bee, go behind the scenes of Esme Young's amazing life... At age five, Esme was asked to write in her notebook, but instead, she filled it with drawings - the only way she knew to express herself. At seven, when it was discovered she was partially deaf, she found refuge in her sketchbooks. Shortly after, Esme made her first garment and a passion for sewing and designing was born. As a teenager, she made her way to London where her creative journey truly began. Living in a squat with other young creatives, Esme made the most of her time; studying at Central Saint Martins, launching a clothing line called Swanky Modes with three friends and £50 each, watching Notting Hill Carnival with David Bowie, and altering a dress for Cher. The '90s saw a career move into costumes for films, where she designed outfits for Trainspotting, Bridget Jones's Diary and The Beach, before she moved onto the small screen herself. A celebration of a creative life lived differently, Behind the Seams is a reminder that it's never too early, or too late to pick up a needle and start stitching in a new direction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577163Thu, 14 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577163 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Behind the Seams: The perfect gift for fans of The Great British Sewing Bee Author: Esme Young Narrator: Esme Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577163 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Behind the Seams: The perfect gift for fans of The Great British Sewing Bee Author: Esme Young Narrator: Esme Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 14, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: *** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** From adventures at Central Saint Martins to The Great British Sewing Bee, go behind the scenes of Esme Young's amazing life... At age five, Esme was asked to write in her notebook, but instead, she filled it with drawings - the only way she knew to express herself. At seven, when it was discovered she was partially deaf, she found refuge in her sketchbooks. Shortly after, Esme made her first garment and a passion for sewing and designing was born. As a teenager, she made her way to London where her creative journey truly began. Living in a squat with other young creatives, Esme made the most of her time; studying at Central Saint Martins, launching a clothing line called Swanky Modes with three friends and £50 each, watching Notting Hill Carnival with David Bowie, and altering a dress for Cher. The '90s saw a career move into costumes for films, where she designed outfits for Trainspotting, Bridget Jones's Diary and The Beach, before she moved onto the small screen herself. A celebration of a creative life lived differently, Behind the Seams is a reminder that it's never too early, or too late to pick up a needle and start stitching in a new direction.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nothing-special-the-mostly-true-sometimes-funny-tales-of-two-sisters-by-dianne-bilyak--65185675https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588362 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nothing Special: The Mostly True, Sometimes Funny Tales of Two Sisters Author: Dianne Bilyak Narrator: Dianne Bilyak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A late bloomer’s coming-of-age memoir asks how does one accept and free themselves from visible and invisible disabilities and still retain their sense of connection and humor? Nothing Special is a disarmingly candid tale of two sisters growing up in the 1970s in rural Connecticut. Older sister Chris, who has Down syndrome, is an extrovert, while the author, her younger, typically developing sister shoulders the burdens and grief of her parents. In Nothing Special Bilyak offers vignettes that range from heartrending to laugh-out-loud funny as well as a real-world picture of fighting for her own life, finding a place in her family, and strengthening the relationship with her sister. 'Bilyak's Nothing Special is, despite its witty title, something special. [S]he takes us on a wild ride with her charismatic sister, the unflappable, self-avowed and completely uncowed Dr. Irma King, who just happens to have Down syndrome.' —Dorion Sagan 'With charming specificity and hilarity, Bilyak writes frankly about her own identity, and that of her sister's. Through honest self-reflection and observation, Bilyak hits home something that we so badly need to hear right now: that people with disabilities are not a monolith, and that there is no perfect way to love or be loved by them.' ―Bekah Brunstetter 'Dianne Bilyak's Nothing Special is wonderfully fulfilling and accessible―you feel like you're reading this incredibly honest diary about the complexities of family that's so relatable!' ―Brian Donovan “Nothing Special is a revaluation of cultural perceptions of Down syndrome and a realistic portrayal of gritty humor in the face of adversity. Bilyak’s honesty is breathtaking, with anecdotes ranging from poignant to laugh-out-loud funny.' ―Richard Blanco]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588362Thu, 14 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588362 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nothing Special: The Mostly True, Sometimes Funny Tales of Two Sisters Author: Dianne Bilyak Narrator: Dianne Bilyak Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588362 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nothing Special: The Mostly True, Sometimes Funny Tales of Two Sisters Author: Dianne Bilyak Narrator: Dianne Bilyak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A late bloomer’s coming-of-age memoir asks how does one accept and free themselves from visible and invisible disabilities and still retain their sense of connection and humor? Nothing Special is a disarmingly candid tale of two sisters growing up in the 1970s in rural Connecticut. Older sister Chris, who has Down syndrome, is an extrovert, while the author, her younger, typically developing sister shoulders the burdens and grief of her parents. In Nothing Special Bilyak offers vignettes that range from heartrending to laugh-out-loud funny as well as a real-world picture of fighting for her own life, finding a place in her family, and strengthening the relationship with her sister. 'Bilyak's Nothing Special is, despite its witty title, something special. [S]he takes us on a wild ride with her charismatic sister, the unflappable, self-avowed and completely uncowed Dr. Irma King, who just happens to have Down syndrome.' —Dorion Sagan 'With charming specificity and hilarity, Bilyak writes frankly about her own identity, and that of her sister's. Through honest self-reflection and observation, Bilyak hits home something that we so badly need to hear right now: that people with disabilities are not a monolith, and that there is no perfect way to love or be loved by them.' ―Bekah Brunstetter 'Dianne Bilyak's Nothing Special is wonderfully fulfilling and accessible―you feel like you're reading this incredibly honest diary about the complexities of family that's so relatable!' ―Brian Donovan “Nothing Special is a revaluation of cultural perceptions of Down syndrome and a realistic portrayal of gritty humor in the face of adversity. Bilyak’s honesty is breathtaking, with anecdotes ranging from poignant to laugh-out-loud funny.' ―Richard Blanco]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-s-good-a-memoir-in-fourteen-ingredients-by-peter-hoffman--65185793https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575181 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What’s Good?: A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients Author: Peter Hoffman Narrator: Peter Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A culinary pioneer blends memoir with a joyful inquiry into the ingredients he uses and their origins What goes into the making of a chef, a restau­rant, a dish? In his highly anticipated first book, influential chef Peter Hoffman offers thoughtful and delectable answers to these questions. Hoffman tells the story of his upbringing, professional education, and evolution as a chef and restaurant owner through its components—everything from the importance of your relationship with your refrigerator repairman and an account of how a burger killed his restaurant, to his belief in peppers as a perfect food. Along with these personal stories from a life in restaurants, Hoffman braids in passionately curious explorations into the cultural, historical, and botani­cal backstories of the foods we eat. Beginning with a spring maple sap run and ending with the late-season, frost-defying vegetables, he follows the progress of the seasons and their reflections in his greenmarket favorites, moving ingredient to ingredient through the bounty of the natural world. Hoffman meets with farmers and vendors and unravels the magic of what we eat, deepening every cook's appreciation for what's on their kitchen counter. What's Good? is a layered, insightful, and utterly enjoyable meal.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575181Tue, 12 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575181 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What’s Good?: A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients Author: Peter Hoffman Narrator: Peter Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 51 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575181 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What’s Good?: A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredients Author: Peter Hoffman Narrator: Peter Hoffman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A culinary pioneer blends memoir with a joyful inquiry into the ingredients he uses and their origins What goes into the making of a chef, a restau­rant, a dish? In his highly anticipated first book, influential chef Peter Hoffman offers thoughtful and delectable answers to these questions. Hoffman tells the story of his upbringing, professional education, and evolution as a chef and restaurant owner through its components—everything from the importance of your relationship with your refrigerator repairman and an account of how a burger killed his restaurant, to his belief in peppers as a perfect food. Along with these personal stories from a life in restaurants, Hoffman braids in passionately curious explorations into the cultural, historical, and botani­cal backstories of the foods we eat. Beginning with a spring maple sap run and ending with the late-season, frost-defying vegetables, he follows the progress of the seasons and their reflections in his greenmarket favorites, moving ingredient to ingredient through the bounty of the natural world. Hoffman meets with farmers and vendors and unravels the magic of what we eat, deepening every cook's appreciation for what's on their kitchen counter. What's Good? is a layered, insightful, and utterly enjoyable meal.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/write-for-your-life-by-anna-quindlen--65185770https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577174 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Write for Your Life Author: Anna Quindlen Narrator: Anna Quindlen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this clarion call to pick up a pen and find yourself from “one of our most astute chroniclers of modern life” (The New York Times Book Review), #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen shows us how anyone can write, and why everyone should.  What really matters in life? What truly lasts in our hearts and minds? Where can we find community, history, humanity? In this lyrical new book, the answer is clear: through writing. This is a book for what Quindlen calls “civilians,” those who want to use the written word to become more human, more themselves.  Write for Your Life argues that there has never been a more important time to stop and record what we are thinking and feeling. Using examples from past, present, and future—from Anne Frank to Toni Morrison, from love letters written after World War II to journal reflections from nurses and doctors today—Write for Your Life vividly illuminates the ways in which writing connects us to ourselves and to those we cherish. Drawing on her personal experiences not just as a writer but as a mother and daughter, Quindlen makes the case that recording our daily lives in writing is essential.  When we write we not only look, we see; we not only react but reflect. Writing gives you something to hold onto in a changing world. “To write the present,” Quindlen says, “is to believe in the future.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577174Tue, 12 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577174 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Write for Your Life Author: Anna Quindlen Narrator: Anna Quindlen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577174 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Write for Your Life Author: Anna Quindlen Narrator: Anna Quindlen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this clarion call to pick up a pen and find yourself from “one of our most astute chroniclers of modern life” (The New York Times Book Review), #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen shows us how anyone can write, and why everyone should.  What really matters in life? What truly lasts in our hearts and minds? Where can we find community, history, humanity? In this lyrical new book, the answer is clear: through writing. This is a book for what Quindlen calls “civilians,” those who want to use the written word to become more human, more themselves.  Write for Your Life argues that there has never been a more important time to stop and record what we are thinking and feeling. Using examples from past, present, and future—from Anne Frank to Toni Morrison, from love letters written after World War II to journal reflections from nurses and doctors today—Write for Your Life vividly illuminates the ways in which writing connects us to ourselves and to those we cherish. Drawing on her personal experiences not just as a writer but as a mother and daughter, Quindlen makes the case that recording our daily lives in writing is essential.  When we write we not only look, we see; we not only react but reflect. Writing gives you something to hold onto in a changing world. “To write the present,” Quindlen says, “is to believe in the future.”]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/home-cooking-a-writer-in-the-kitchen-a-memoir-and-cookbook-by-laurie-colwin--65185747https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen: A Memoir and Cookbook Author: Laurie Colwin Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.81 of Total 16 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, the acclaimed author of Happy All the Time delivers a beloved cookbook manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. • With a foreword by Ruth Reichl. “As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking.” —The New York Times Book Review From the humble hotplate of her one-room apartment to the crowded kitchens of bustling parties, Colwin regales us with tales of meals gone both magnificently well and disastrously wrong. Hilarious, personal, and full of Colwin’s hard-won expertise, Home Cooking will speak to the heart of any amateur cook, professional chef, or food lover.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576838Tue, 12 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen: A Memoir and Cookbook Author: Laurie Colwin Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576838 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen: A Memoir and Cookbook Author: Laurie Colwin Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.81 of Total 16 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, the acclaimed author of Happy All the Time delivers a beloved cookbook manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. • With a foreword by Ruth Reichl. “As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking.” —The New York Times Book Review From the humble hotplate of her one-room apartment to the crowded kitchens of bustling parties, Colwin regales us with tales of meals gone both magnificently well and disastrously wrong. Hilarious, personal, and full of Colwin’s hard-won expertise, Home Cooking will speak to the heart of any amateur cook, professional chef, or food lover.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-my-bones-know-by-stephanie-foo--65185677https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What My Bones Know Author: Stephanie Foo Narrator: Stephanie Foo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 7, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life. Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. . . . I want to have words for what my bones know. By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD - a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years. Both of Foo's parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she'd moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD. In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown in California to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don't move on from trauma - but you can learn to move with it. Powerful, enlightening and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body - and examines one woman's ability to reclaim agency from her trauma. “Achingly exquisite…providing real hope for those who long to heal.” LORI GOTTLIEB, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone A sharp, insightful and stirring memoir. ? Kirkus Reviews Foo's writing is shrewdly insightful. Highly recommended. -- Library Journal (starred review) This is a work of immense beauty. ? Publishers Weekly What My Bones Know is an absolute triumph. Foo's beautifully written memoir is a balm and a light for anyone afraid that their early traumas have permanently stunted their capacity for connection, love, and purpose. -- Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author of GROUP A marvel of a book. -- Ed Yong, New York Times bestselling author of I CONTAIN MULTITUDES A crucial, life-changing book. -- Esmé Weijun Wang, New York Times bestselling author of THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS Funny and devastating, terrifying and transcendent --Jenny Odell, New York Times bestselling author of HOW TO DO NOTHING]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588110Thu, 07 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What My Bones Know Author: Stephanie Foo Narrator: Stephanie Foo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 7, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588110 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What My Bones Know Author: Stephanie Foo Narrator: Stephanie Foo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 7, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life. Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. . . . I want to have words for what my bones know. By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD - a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years. Both of Foo's parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she'd moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD. In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown in California to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don't move on from trauma - but you can learn to move with it. Powerful, enlightening and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body - and examines one woman's ability to reclaim agency from her trauma. “Achingly exquisite…providing real hope for those who long to heal.” LORI GOTTLIEB, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone A sharp, insightful and stirring memoir. ? Kirkus Reviews Foo's writing is shrewdly insightful. Highly recommended. -- Library Journal (starred review) This is a work of immense beauty. ? Publishers Weekly What My Bones Know is an absolute triumph. Foo's beautifully written memoir is a balm and a light for anyone afraid that their early traumas have permanently stunted their capacity for connection, love, and purpose. -- Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author of GROUP A marvel of a book. -- Ed Yong, New York Times bestselling author of I CONTAIN MULTITUDES A crucial, life-changing book. -- Esmé Weijun Wang, New York Times bestselling author of THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS Funny and devastating, terrifying and transcendent --Jenny Odell, New York Times bestselling author of HOW TO DO NOTHING]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-s-so-funny-a-cartoonist-s-memoir-by-david-sipress--65185840https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What's So Funny?: A Cartoonist's Memoir Author: David Sipress Narrator: T. Ryder Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: David Sipress, a dreamer and obsessive drawer living with his Upper West Side family in the age of JFK and Sputnik, goes hazy when it comes to the ceaselessly imparted lessons-on-life from his meticulous father and the angsty expectations of his migraine-prone mother.  With wry and brilliantly observed prose, Sipress paints his hapless place in the family, from the time he is tricked by his unreliable older sister into rocketing his pet turtle out his twelfth-floor bedroom window, to the moment he walks away from a Harvard PhD program in Russian history to begin his life as a professional cartoonist. Sipress' cartoons appear in the story with spot-on precision, inducing delightful Aha! moments in answer to the perennial question aimed at cartoonists: Where do you get your ideas?  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574549Tue, 05 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What's So Funny?: A Cartoonist's Memoir Author: David Sipress Narrator: T. Ryder Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What's So Funny?: A Cartoonist's Memoir Author: David Sipress Narrator: T. Ryder Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: David Sipress, a dreamer and obsessive drawer living with his Upper West Side family in the age of JFK and Sputnik, goes hazy when it comes to the ceaselessly imparted lessons-on-life from his meticulous father and the angsty expectations of his migraine-prone mother.  With wry and brilliantly observed prose, Sipress paints his hapless place in the family, from the time he is tricked by his unreliable older sister into rocketing his pet turtle out his twelfth-floor bedroom window, to the moment he walks away from a Harvard PhD program in Russian history to begin his life as a professional cartoonist. Sipress' cartoons appear in the story with spot-on precision, inducing delightful Aha! moments in answer to the perennial question aimed at cartoonists: Where do you get your ideas?  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/god-the-mafia-my-dad-and-me-a-true-story-of-secrets-and-survival-by-lori-peters--65185701https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585104 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me: A True Story of Secrets and Survival Author: Lori Peters Narrator: Anna Caputo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1974, Lori Lee Peters was an impressionable thirteen-year-old growing up in the suburban town of Lodi, California. The wider world—from which her parents sheltered her and her sisters—fascinated Lori. She was curious about everything, informed about little, and dependent on friends to fill gaps with the knowledge she craved. Religion was a topic rarely discussed in her household. So when friends shared their beliefs about God as fact, Lori thought her days on Earth were numbered. She carried this news with her for decades as a deadly secret she couldn’t share with her family. Little did she know that her father—her hero—had a secret of his own. In God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me, Lori shares a tale of enduring love, unwavering courage, and the unbreakable bond between a father and daughter. These are the true stories of Lori and her father, Lou Peters, a former combat Marine who attracted the attention of the Bonnano crime family and was thrust into a spotlight he never imagined for himself. You’ll learn about the strength required to protect those you love in battles no one else sees—not even the family you’re protecting. Equal parts beautiful and tragic, this gripping memoir reveals the inexplicable ties that bind, the hope that’s always possible, and the overwhelming power of love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585104Tue, 05 Apr 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585104 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me: A True Story of Secrets and Survival Author: Lori Peters Narrator: Anna Caputo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585104 to listen full audiobooks. Title: God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me: A True Story of Secrets and Survival Author: Lori Peters Narrator: Anna Caputo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In 1974, Lori Lee Peters was an impressionable thirteen-year-old growing up in the suburban town of Lodi, California. The wider world—from which her parents sheltered her and her sisters—fascinated Lori. She was curious about everything, informed about little, and dependent on friends to fill gaps with the knowledge she craved. Religion was a topic rarely discussed in her household. So when friends shared their beliefs about God as fact, Lori thought her days on Earth were numbered. She carried this news with her for decades as a deadly secret she couldn’t share with her family. Little did she know that her father—her hero—had a secret of his own. In God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me, Lori shares a tale of enduring love, unwavering courage, and the unbreakable bond between a father and daughter. These are the true stories of Lori and her father, Lou Peters, a former combat Marine who attracted the attention of the Bonnano crime family and was thrust into a spotlight he never imagined for himself. You’ll learn about the strength required to protect those you love in battles no one else sees—not even the family you’re protecting. Equal parts beautiful and tragic, this gripping memoir reveals the inexplicable ties that bind, the hope that’s always possible, and the overwhelming power of love.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-uncaged-sky-my-804-days-in-an-iranian-prison-by-kylie-moore-gilbert--65185706https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580597 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison Author: Kylie Moore-Gilbert Narrator: Kylie Moore-Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran's feared Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Convicted of espionage in a shadowy trial presided over by Iran's most notorious judge, Dr Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Incarcerated in Tehran's Evin and Qarchak prisons for 804 days, this is the full and gripping account of her harrowing ordeal. Held in a filthy solitary confinement cell for months, and subjected to relentless interrogation, Kylie was pushed to the limits of her endurance by extreme physical and psychological deprivation. Kylie's only lifeline was the covert friendships she made with other prisoners inside the Revolutionary Guards' maximum-security compound where she had been ‘disappeared', communicating in great danger through the air vents between cells, and by hiding secret letters in hava khori, the narrow outdoor balcony where she was led, blindfolded, for a solitary hour each day. Cut off from the outside world, Kylie realised she alone had the power to change the dynamics of her incarceration. To survive, she began to fight back, adopting a strategy of resistance with her captors. Multiple hunger strikes, letters smuggled to the media, co-ordinated protests with other prisoners and a daring escape attempt led to her transfer to the isolated desert prison, Qarchak, to live among convicted criminals. On November 25, 2020, after more than two years of struggle, Kylie was finally released in a high stakes three-nation prisoner swap deal orchestrated by the Australian government, laying bare the complex game of global politics in which she had become a valuable pawn. Written with extraordinary insight and vivid immediacy, The Uncaged Sky is Kylie Moore-Gilbert's remarkable story of courage and resilience, and a powerful meditation on hope, solidarity and what it means to be free.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580597Wed, 30 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580597 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison Author: Kylie Moore-Gilbert Narrator: Kylie Moore-Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580597 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Uncaged Sky: My 804 days in an Iranian prison Author: Kylie Moore-Gilbert Narrator: Kylie Moore-Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 30, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran's feared Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Convicted of espionage in a shadowy trial presided over by Iran's most notorious judge, Dr Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Incarcerated in Tehran's Evin and Qarchak prisons for 804 days, this is the full and gripping account of her harrowing ordeal. Held in a filthy solitary confinement cell for months, and subjected to relentless interrogation, Kylie was pushed to the limits of her endurance by extreme physical and psychological deprivation. Kylie's only lifeline was the covert friendships she made with other prisoners inside the Revolutionary Guards' maximum-security compound where she had been ‘disappeared', communicating in great danger through the air vents between cells, and by hiding secret letters in hava khori, the narrow outdoor balcony where she was led, blindfolded, for a solitary hour each day. Cut off from the outside world, Kylie realised she alone had the power to change the dynamics of her incarceration. To survive, she began to fight back, adopting a strategy of resistance with her captors. Multiple hunger strikes, letters smuggled to the media, co-ordinated protests with other prisoners and a daring escape attempt led to her transfer to the isolated desert prison, Qarchak, to live among convicted criminals. On November 25, 2020, after more than two years of struggle, Kylie was finally released in a high stakes three-nation prisoner swap deal orchestrated by the Australian government, laying bare the complex game of global politics in which she had become a valuable pawn. Written with extraordinary insight and vivid immediacy, The Uncaged Sky is Kylie Moore-Gilbert's remarkable story of courage and resilience, and a powerful meditation on hope, solidarity and what it means to be free.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-helluva-life-in-hockey-a-memoir-by-brian-mcfarlane--65185679https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Helluva Life in Hockey: A Memoir Author: Brian Mcfarlane Narrator: Brian Mcfarlane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 31 minutes Release date: March 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A captivating memoir from Canada's foremost hockey historian and a beloved NHL commentator It's been 85 years since Brian McFarlane first laced a pair of skates and tested the black ice on a tiny pond. And then he discovered the joy of hockey. Ultimately, there would be grade school hockey, high school hockey, junior hockey, college hockey, and, miraculously, two decades with the NHL Oldtimers anchoring his life. He was the rank amateur playing on a line with the Big M and Norm Ullman, facing off against icons like Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay at Maple Leaf Gardens - even scoring a goal. He suited up at the Montreal Forum, elbow-to-elbow against John Ferguson, before thousands of fans. (There was even a stint with the Flying Fathers who ordained him a "Bishop" after a hat trick.) Off the ice, in 1960, McFarlane was the first Canadian to be a commentator on CBS's coverage of the NHL. He also survived 25 years of Hockey Night in Canada - despite confrontations with Punch Imlach, Harold Ballard, Bobby Hull, and Eddie Shack. Now, in this revealing autobiography, he remembers it all. For Brian McFarlane, it has been a helluva life in hockey.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586674Wed, 30 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Helluva Life in Hockey: A Memoir Author: Brian Mcfarlane Narrator: Brian Mcfarlane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 31 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Helluva Life in Hockey: A Memoir Author: Brian Mcfarlane Narrator: Brian Mcfarlane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 31 minutes Release date: March 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A captivating memoir from Canada's foremost hockey historian and a beloved NHL commentator It's been 85 years since Brian McFarlane first laced a pair of skates and tested the black ice on a tiny pond. And then he discovered the joy of hockey. Ultimately, there would be grade school hockey, high school hockey, junior hockey, college hockey, and, miraculously, two decades with the NHL Oldtimers anchoring his life. He was the rank amateur playing on a line with the Big M and Norm Ullman, facing off against icons like Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay at Maple Leaf Gardens - even scoring a goal. He suited up at the Montreal Forum, elbow-to-elbow against John Ferguson, before thousands of fans. (There was even a stint with the Flying Fathers who ordained him a "Bishop" after a hat trick.) Off the ice, in 1960, McFarlane was the first Canadian to be a commentator on CBS's coverage of the NHL. He also survived 25 years of Hockey Night in Canada - despite confrontations with Punch Imlach, Harold Ballard, Bobby Hull, and Eddie Shack. Now, in this revealing autobiography, he remembers it all. For Brian McFarlane, it has been a helluva life in hockey.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-final-curtsey-a-royal-memoir-by-the-queen-s-cousin-by-margaret-rhodes--65185848https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574230 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin Author: Margaret Rhodes Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Sunday Times number one bestseller in the United Kingdom, this is the intimate and revealing autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish aristocracy, into a now almost vanished world of privilege. Royalty often came to stay, and her house was run in the style of Downton Abbey. During the Second World War, she 'lodged' at Buckingham Palace while she worked for MI5. She was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousin, Princess Elizabeth, to Prince Philip. Three years later, the King and Queen attended her own wedding, in which Princess Margaret was a bridesmaid. In 1990, she was appointed as a lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother, acting also as her companion, which she describes in touching detail. In the early months of 2002, she spent as much time as possible with her ailing aunt and was at her bedside when she died. The next morning, she went to Queen Elizabeth's bedroom to pray, and in farewell dropped her a final curtsey. The Queen Mother regarded Margaret Rhodes as her 'third daughter,' and she has been extremely close to her cousins, the Queen and Princess Margaret, throughout their lives. Full of charming anecdotes and fascinating characters, this is an unparalleled insight into the private life of the British monarchy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574230Tue, 29 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574230 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin Author: Margaret Rhodes Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574230 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin Author: Margaret Rhodes Narrator: Jennifer M. Dixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A Sunday Times number one bestseller in the United Kingdom, this is the intimate and revealing autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish aristocracy, into a now almost vanished world of privilege. Royalty often came to stay, and her house was run in the style of Downton Abbey. During the Second World War, she 'lodged' at Buckingham Palace while she worked for MI5. She was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousin, Princess Elizabeth, to Prince Philip. Three years later, the King and Queen attended her own wedding, in which Princess Margaret was a bridesmaid. In 1990, she was appointed as a lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother, acting also as her companion, which she describes in touching detail. In the early months of 2002, she spent as much time as possible with her ailing aunt and was at her bedside when she died. The next morning, she went to Queen Elizabeth's bedroom to pray, and in farewell dropped her a final curtsey. The Queen Mother regarded Margaret Rhodes as her 'third daughter,' and she has been extremely close to her cousins, the Queen and Princess Margaret, throughout their lives. Full of charming anecdotes and fascinating characters, this is an unparalleled insight into the private life of the British monarchy.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-jane-austen-remedy-by-ruth-wilson--65185835https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576291 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Jane Austen Remedy Author: Ruth Wilson Narrator: Jenny Seedsman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re-reading each of Jane Austen's novels. As she approached the age of seventy, Ruth Wilson began to have recurring dreams about losing her voice. Unable to dismiss her feelings of unexplainable sadness, she made the radical decision to retreat from her conventional life with her husband to a small sunshine-yellow cottage in the Southern Highlands where she lived alone for the next decade. Ruth had fostered a lifelong love of reading, and from the moment she first encountered Pride and Prejudice in the 1940s she had looked to Jane Austen's heroines as her models for the sort of woman she wanted to become. As Ruth settled into her cottage, she resolved to re-read Austen's six novels and rediscover the heroines who had inspired her; to read between the lines of both the novels and her own life. And as she read, she began to reclaim her voice. The Jane Austen Remedy is a beautiful, life-affirming memoir of love, self-acceptance and the curative power of reading. Published the year Ruth turns ninety, it is an inspirational account of the lessons learned from Jane Austen over nearly eight decades, as well as a timely reminder that it's never too late to seize a second chance. ‘Ruth is proof that Jane Austen is a way of thinking, of being, of loving.' CASSIE McCULLAGH ‘A deeply necessary book, showing elegantly and incisively how Jane Austen can guide us through life's problems . . . and also feels like an extended chat with a Jane Austen-reading friend.' SUSANNAH FULLERTON, President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576291Tue, 29 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576291 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Jane Austen Remedy Author: Ruth Wilson Narrator: Jenny Seedsman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 29,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576291 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Jane Austen Remedy Author: Ruth Wilson Narrator: Jenny Seedsman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re-reading each of Jane Austen's novels. As she approached the age of seventy, Ruth Wilson began to have recurring dreams about losing her voice. Unable to dismiss her feelings of unexplainable sadness, she made the radical decision to retreat from her conventional life with her husband to a small sunshine-yellow cottage in the Southern Highlands where she lived alone for the next decade. Ruth had fostered a lifelong love of reading, and from the moment she first encountered Pride and Prejudice in the 1940s she had looked to Jane Austen's heroines as her models for the sort of woman she wanted to become. As Ruth settled into her cottage, she resolved to re-read Austen's six novels and rediscover the heroines who had inspired her; to read between the lines of both the novels and her own life. And as she read, she began to reclaim her voice. The Jane Austen Remedy is a beautiful, life-affirming memoir of love, self-acceptance and the curative power of reading. Published the year Ruth turns ninety, it is an inspirational account of the lessons learned from Jane Austen over nearly eight decades, as well as a timely reminder that it's never too late to seize a second chance. ‘Ruth is proof that Jane Austen is a way of thinking, of being, of loving.' CASSIE McCULLAGH ‘A deeply necessary book, showing elegantly and incisively how Jane Austen can guide us through life's problems . . . and also feels like an extended chat with a Jane Austen-reading friend.' SUSANNAH FULLERTON, President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/growing-up-in-country-australia-by-rick-morton--65185739https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Growing Up in Country Australia Author: Rick Morton Narrator: Rebecca Bower, Rick Morton, Tamala Shelton, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Black Inc.'s bestselling Growing Up series goes to the country Growing Up in Country Australia is a fresh, modern look at country Australia. There are stories of joy, adventure, nostalgia, connection to nature and freedom, but also more grim tales - of drought, fires, mouse plagues and isolation. From the politics of the country school bus to the class divides between locals, from shooting foxes with Dad to giving up meat as an adult, from working on the family farm to selling up and moving to the city, the picture painted is diverse and unexpected. This is country Australia as you've never seen it before. Including nearly forty stories by established and emerging authors from a wide range of backgrounds - including First Nations and new migrants - Growing Up in Country Australia is a unique and revealing snapshot of rural life. Contributors include Holden Sheppard, Laura Jean McKay, Annabel Crabb, Sami Shah, Lech Blaine, Tony Armstrong, Bridie Jabour, Jes Layton, Lily Chan, Jay Carmichael and many others. ‘A colourful and griping pastiche that updates the experience outside Australia's cities and large regional centres. You will find, despite the absolute variety in these essays, that there is still something ineffable about life in the country.' RICK MORTON, editor]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578024Tue, 29 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Growing Up in Country Australia Author: Rick Morton Narrator: Rebecca Bower, Rick Morton, Tamala Shelton, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Growing Up in Country Australia Author: Rick Morton Narrator: Rebecca Bower, Rick Morton, Tamala Shelton, Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Black Inc.'s bestselling Growing Up series goes to the country Growing Up in Country Australia is a fresh, modern look at country Australia. There are stories of joy, adventure, nostalgia, connection to nature and freedom, but also more grim tales - of drought, fires, mouse plagues and isolation. From the politics of the country school bus to the class divides between locals, from shooting foxes with Dad to giving up meat as an adult, from working on the family farm to selling up and moving to the city, the picture painted is diverse and unexpected. This is country Australia as you've never seen it before. Including nearly forty stories by established and emerging authors from a wide range of backgrounds - including First Nations and new migrants - Growing Up in Country Australia is a unique and revealing snapshot of rural life. Contributors include Holden Sheppard, Laura Jean McKay, Annabel Crabb, Sami Shah, Lech Blaine, Tony Armstrong, Bridie Jabour, Jes Layton, Lily Chan, Jay Carmichael and many others. ‘A colourful and griping pastiche that updates the experience outside Australia's cities and large regional centres. You will find, despite the absolute variety in these essays, that there is still something ineffable about life in the country.' RICK MORTON, editor]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ultra-top-model-to-top-ultra-runner-by-michele-graglia-folco-terzani--65185689https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ultra: Top Model to Top Ultra Runner Author: Michele Graglia, Folco Terzani Narrator: Michele Graglia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Michele Graglia left Italy for Miami in 2007 to expand the family business. Caught in a thunderstorm, he ducked into a Johnny Rockets, got scouted by a renowned agent, and walked out a professional model. An elite modeling career brought expensive cars, penthouses, parties, and celebrities, but his accidental “American Dream” was never his own. Feeling the emptiness of a shallow, dark lifestyle, Michele set out for adventure and fulfillment, finding it in the unlikeliest place—a book about ultramarathon running. Within a few short years, his passion and dedication for ultrarunning placed him among the top endurance athletes in the world. Running hundreds of miles in the extremes of the frozen Yukon and the scorching heat of Death Valley, he pushed his body and mind beyond every limit imaginable. Ultra is not about winning. It’s not about running. It’s a means to return to Nature and a journey to find your purpose, giving your all on the quest for your best self.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583593Tue, 29 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ultra: Top Model to Top Ultra Runner Author: Michele Graglia, Folco Terzani Narrator: Michele Graglia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 28...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583593 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ultra: Top Model to Top Ultra Runner Author: Michele Graglia, Folco Terzani Narrator: Michele Graglia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 28 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Michele Graglia left Italy for Miami in 2007 to expand the family business. Caught in a thunderstorm, he ducked into a Johnny Rockets, got scouted by a renowned agent, and walked out a professional model. An elite modeling career brought expensive cars, penthouses, parties, and celebrities, but his accidental “American Dream” was never his own. Feeling the emptiness of a shallow, dark lifestyle, Michele set out for adventure and fulfillment, finding it in the unlikeliest place—a book about ultramarathon running. Within a few short years, his passion and dedication for ultrarunning placed him among the top endurance athletes in the world. Running hundreds of miles in the extremes of the frozen Yukon and the scorching heat of Death Valley, he pushed his body and mind beyond every limit imaginable. Ultra is not about winning. It’s not about running. It’s a means to return to Nature and a journey to find your purpose, giving your all on the quest for your best self.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/patient-doctor-privilege-by-david-fulton--65185730https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patient Doctor Privilege Author: David Fulton Narrator: David Fulton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 25, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Being the subject matter and writer, David takes a no-holds-bar approach to deciphering his past. From being a teenager fed up with the lack of guidance from the adults in his life, to an angry 20-year-old that thinks he knows everything and ultimately a man who had to put the pieces back together after being committed to several psych wards on a number of occasions. He never saw the moment on the end of his bed thinking about the nature of the world resulting in him losing touch with reality. But it was the moment he broke through the pressures in the west: to be better; to work harder; and ultimately chase your dreams. That he realised nothing meant anything. The only purpose in life was to laugh when something was funny, cry when something was sad, move when the wind blew, eat when you were hungry and enjoy ever fleeting moment. However, being a disciplined, calculated, accomplished engineer, this new paradigm didn't fit in with the persona he had spent a like time creating. On multiple occasions these two conflicting worlds clashed and opened up opportunities for growth and self-discovery. But be prepared. While talking about his underlying issues has become second nature for him, and he has been hospital free for several years, his autobiography is confronting, confusing and potentially eye opening. Unlike the hero he thought he was at a young age, he closes with identifying with the coward within and admitting that just because he couldn't see a future, it didn't mean one wasn't awaiting him around the corner. Similarly, to that which is discussed behind closed doors, he opens with inviting you to his 'Patient Doctor Privilege'. He contests such a privilege needs to be dissolved for the collective benefit and admits despite the necessity to disconnect at times, that each of us, no matter how fucked up we are or even if we've hurt someone, we need to talk about it with one another.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580395Fri, 25 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patient Doctor Privilege Author: David Fulton Narrator: David Fulton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 25,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patient Doctor Privilege Author: David Fulton Narrator: David Fulton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 25, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Being the subject matter and writer, David takes a no-holds-bar approach to deciphering his past. From being a teenager fed up with the lack of guidance from the adults in his life, to an angry 20-year-old that thinks he knows everything and ultimately a man who had to put the pieces back together after being committed to several psych wards on a number of occasions. He never saw the moment on the end of his bed thinking about the nature of the world resulting in him losing touch with reality. But it was the moment he broke through the pressures in the west: to be better; to work harder; and ultimately chase your dreams. That he realised nothing meant anything. The only purpose in life was to laugh when something was funny, cry when something was sad, move when the wind blew, eat when you were hungry and enjoy ever fleeting moment. However, being a disciplined, calculated, accomplished engineer, this new paradigm didn't fit in with the persona he had spent a like time creating. On multiple occasions these two conflicting worlds clashed and opened up opportunities for growth and self-discovery. But be prepared. While talking about his underlying issues has become second nature for him, and he has been hospital free for several years, his autobiography is confronting, confusing and potentially eye opening. Unlike the hero he thought he was at a young age, he closes with identifying with the coward within and admitting that just because he couldn't see a future, it didn't mean one wasn't awaiting him around the corner. Similarly, to that which is discussed behind closed doors, he opens with inviting you to his 'Patient Doctor Privilege'. He contests such a privilege needs to be dissolved for the collective benefit and admits despite the necessity to disconnect at times, that each of us, no matter how fucked up we are or even if we've hurt someone, we need to talk about it with one another.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-yo-dita-kraus-la-bibliotecaria-de-auschwitz-by-dita-kraus--65185712https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578557 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Yo, Dita Kraus. La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz Author: Dita Kraus Narrator: Marta Barriuso Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nacida en Praga en 1929, hija de familia judía, Dita Kraus ha vivido las décadas más turbulentas de los siglos XX y XXI. En estas, sus memorias, Dita escribe con sorprendente claridad sobre los horrores y las alegrías de una vida interrumpida por el Holocausto. Desde sus primeros recuerdos y amistades de infancia en Praga antes de la guerra, hasta la ocupación nazi que llevó a ella y a su familia a ser enviadas al gueto judío en Terezín, así como al miedo y la valentía inimaginables de su encarcelamiento en Auschwitz y Bergen-Belsen, y la vida después de la liberación. Dita ofrece un testimonio inquebrantable sobre las duras condiciones de los campamentos y su papel como bibliotecaria de los preciosos libros que sus compañeros prisioneros lograron pasar como contrabando esquivando la mirada vigilante de los guardias y que ella atesoró y cuidó. Pero también mira más allá del Holocausto, haciendo hincapié en la vida que reconstruyó después de la guerra: su matrimonio con su compañero, también superviviente, Otto B Kraus, una nueva vida en Israel y la felicidad y las angustias de la maternidad. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - Dita Kraus nació en Praga en 1929. En 1942, cuando Dita tenía trece años, ella y sus padres fueron deportados al gueto de Terezín, luego a Auschwitz, donde el padre de Dita murió. Ella y su madre fueron enviadas a Alemania a realizar trabajos forzados, y finalmente al campo de concentración de Bergen-Belsen. La madre de Dita no sobrevivió. Después de la guerra, Dita se casó con el autor Otto B. Kraus, quien fue prisionero en Auschwitz y profesor en el campo de concentración.  Emigraron a Israel en 1949, donde ambos empezaron a trabajar como maestros. Tienen tres hijos. Desde la muerte de Otto en el año 2000, Dita vive sola en Netanya. Tiene cuatro nietos y cuatro bisnietos.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578557Fri, 18 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578557 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Yo, Dita Kraus. La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz Author: Dita Kraus Narrator: Marta Barriuso Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578557 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Yo, Dita Kraus. La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz Author: Dita Kraus Narrator: Marta Barriuso Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 18, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Nacida en Praga en 1929, hija de familia judía, Dita Kraus ha vivido las décadas más turbulentas de los siglos XX y XXI. En estas, sus memorias, Dita escribe con sorprendente claridad sobre los horrores y las alegrías de una vida interrumpida por el Holocausto. Desde sus primeros recuerdos y amistades de infancia en Praga antes de la guerra, hasta la ocupación nazi que llevó a ella y a su familia a ser enviadas al gueto judío en Terezín, así como al miedo y la valentía inimaginables de su encarcelamiento en Auschwitz y Bergen-Belsen, y la vida después de la liberación. Dita ofrece un testimonio inquebrantable sobre las duras condiciones de los campamentos y su papel como bibliotecaria de los preciosos libros que sus compañeros prisioneros lograron pasar como contrabando esquivando la mirada vigilante de los guardias y que ella atesoró y cuidó. Pero también mira más allá del Holocausto, haciendo hincapié en la vida que reconstruyó después de la guerra: su matrimonio con su compañero, también superviviente, Otto B Kraus, una nueva vida en Israel y la felicidad y las angustias de la maternidad. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - Dita Kraus nació en Praga en 1929. En 1942, cuando Dita tenía trece años, ella y sus padres fueron deportados al gueto de Terezín, luego a Auschwitz, donde el padre de Dita murió. Ella y su madre fueron enviadas a Alemania a realizar trabajos forzados, y finalmente al campo de concentración de Bergen-Belsen. La madre de Dita no sobrevivió. Después de la guerra, Dita se casó con el autor Otto B. Kraus, quien fue prisionero en Auschwitz y profesor en el campo de concentración.  Emigraron a Israel en 1949, donde ambos empezaron a trabajar como maestros. Tienen tres hijos. Desde la muerte de Otto en el año 2000, Dita vive sola en Netanya. Tiene cuatro nietos y cuatro bisnietos.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-registro-by-federico-reyes-heroles--65185759https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577973 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Registro Author: Federico Reyes Heroles Narrator: Javier Poza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: March 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: «Ni fórmula, ni sistema: una ruta de viaje, una ruta, eso sí, reflexionada.» Si toda vida es un viaje, resulta idóneo contar con los instrumentos de navegación adecuados. No hay que confiarse, el hecho de que el territorio de nuestra expedición nos sea aparentemente familiar no implica que estemos libres de extravíos. Un mapa puede ser esencial -un mapa, por supuesto, de nosotros mismos. En este libro, Federico Reyes Heroles se convierte en cartógrafo de su existencia. La técnica que utiliza es sencilla pero infalible: levantar un registro de las coordenadas que han dotado de sentido a su vida. Momentos de plenitud, obsesiones y pasiones quedan asentados en este inventario personal. Así, por este Registro pasan el insomnio y el ritual de iniciar el día, el vicio de la música y el placer de la concentración, el amor a los árboles y a los perros, el gozo como lujo (y no viceversa), el arte de la conversación y el paraíso privado de las caricias. El mapa obtenido sirve como guía para revisitar las provincias de la memoria, pero también como brújula para seguir definiendo la ruta de los días por venir. Es útil para el propio cartógrafo, pero también para los viajeros de otras tierras. Pues, como toda verdadera literatura, este Registro es íntimo y general a la vez.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577973Thu, 17 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577973 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Registro Author: Federico Reyes Heroles Narrator: Javier Poza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577973 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Registro Author: Federico Reyes Heroles Narrator: Javier Poza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: March 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: «Ni fórmula, ni sistema: una ruta de viaje, una ruta, eso sí, reflexionada.» Si toda vida es un viaje, resulta idóneo contar con los instrumentos de navegación adecuados. No hay que confiarse, el hecho de que el territorio de nuestra expedición nos sea aparentemente familiar no implica que estemos libres de extravíos. Un mapa puede ser esencial -un mapa, por supuesto, de nosotros mismos. En este libro, Federico Reyes Heroles se convierte en cartógrafo de su existencia. La técnica que utiliza es sencilla pero infalible: levantar un registro de las coordenadas que han dotado de sentido a su vida. Momentos de plenitud, obsesiones y pasiones quedan asentados en este inventario personal. Así, por este Registro pasan el insomnio y el ritual de iniciar el día, el vicio de la música y el placer de la concentración, el amor a los árboles y a los perros, el gozo como lujo (y no viceversa), el arte de la conversación y el paraíso privado de las caricias. El mapa obtenido sirve como guía para revisitar las provincias de la memoria, pero también como brújula para seguir definiendo la ruta de los días por venir. Es útil para el propio cartógrafo, pero también para los viajeros de otras tierras. Pues, como toda verdadera literatura, este Registro es íntimo y general a la vez.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-una-furtiva-lagrima-by-nelida-pinon--65185721https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578103 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Una furtiva lágrima Author: Nélida Piñon Narrator: Janaína Soares Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Vuelve la gran escritora brasileña de las últimas décadas y Premio Príncipe de Asturias. «Literatura pura, auténtica, íntegra, hecha a partir del amor a la palabra, a la vocación, al arte, a la belleza y a la creación.» Mario Vargas Llosa «Soy mujer, brasileña, escritora, cosmopolita, aldeana, un ser de todas partes, de todos los puertos.» Una furtiva lágrima es el diario luminoso, íntimo y singular de una de las escritoras más importantes de la literatura latinoamericana. En este collage impresionista, formado por las reflexiones y los retazos más lúcidos de una inteligencia imparable, Nélida Piñon compone un autorretrato de su historia personal, de su familia y de sus raíces. Las meditaciones en torno a la literatura, el oficio de la escritura, la lengua portuguesa o la historia universal se mezclan de modo natural con un análisis de sí misma, de su condición de mujer, de su condición de escritora y de brasileña. Esta riqueza de enfoques y tentativas son, en el fondo, vías de acceso a una personalidad única y diversa; al fin y al cabo, la propia Nélida Piñon afirma sobre sí misma: «Soy múltiple». La crítica ha dicho... «Esa honradez y esa fidelidad tanto a su fuerte carácter como a su sólida poética [son] los grandes alicientes de este autorretrato de cuerpo entero de la escritora.» Iñaki Ezkerra, Sur «La épica del corazón y la alegría sencilla de existir, con los fracasos y los riesgos que entraña (fórmula misteriosa y perversa), palpita en Una furtiva lágrima, con deseo, curiosidad y el saber de años de oficio. [...] Carta magna. Este libro es una constitución esencial de la memoria que Nélida se escribe a sí misma y nos ofrece como una herencia en vida. » Ana Abelenda, La Voz de Galicia «Qué estupendo libro: [...] provoca el deseo, como quería Borges, de pergeñar su reseña solo con citas del texto.» Nadal Suau, El Cultural de El Mundo «Nélida Piñon eleva una frase a lo sublime. No se corrompe con sentimentalismos vacuos y disimula susdolores -quién no lo hace- con la fortaleza de quien ha de tomar sus propias decisiones.» Alberto Barciela, El Progreso «Referencia absoluta de la literaturabrasileña actual, escritora carismática y comprometida con la voz de Iberoamérica.» María Luisa Blanco, El País «Una de las protagonistas más relevantes y originales de la cultura brasileña, que nunca duda en participar en todas las formas de lucha.» Le Monde «La magia de Nélida Piñon consiste en unir imaginación y compasión, para dar a sus personajes y sus lectores - una piel con la misma temperatura que la de ellos -.» Carlos Fuentes «Literatura de primerísima calidad. La dimensión amazónica de la imaginación de Nélida Piñon eleva a la autora a la categoría de genio.» Publishers Weekly «Con la fuerza de su imaginación, tiene la capacidad de expresar literariamente los sueños de todo Brasil e incluso de toda la gran familia latinoamericana.» The New York Times Book Review «Nélida Piñon no solo es una de las más grandes escritoras en lengua portuguesa de su tiempo sino una de las más relevantes en el panorama internacional.» Mercedes Monmany, ABC «Tan actual y universal que no tiene nada que envidiar a la obra de autores como John Banville, Philip Roth y Paul Auster, que también fueron galardonados con el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras.» Jonatan Silva, Paraná Online «Piñon es una escritora de pulmones poderosos e imaginación desbordante que ha creado una literatura apegada a las pasiones y todo menos aséptica.» La Vanguardia]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578103Thu, 17 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578103 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Una furtiva lágrima Author: Nélida Piñon Narrator: Janaína Soares Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578103 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Una furtiva lágrima Author: Nélida Piñon Narrator: Janaína Soares Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 17, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Vuelve la gran escritora brasileña de las últimas décadas y Premio Príncipe de Asturias. «Literatura pura, auténtica, íntegra, hecha a partir del amor a la palabra, a la vocación, al arte, a la belleza y a la creación.» Mario Vargas Llosa «Soy mujer, brasileña, escritora, cosmopolita, aldeana, un ser de todas partes, de todos los puertos.» Una furtiva lágrima es el diario luminoso, íntimo y singular de una de las escritoras más importantes de la literatura latinoamericana. En este collage impresionista, formado por las reflexiones y los retazos más lúcidos de una inteligencia imparable, Nélida Piñon compone un autorretrato de su historia personal, de su familia y de sus raíces. Las meditaciones en torno a la literatura, el oficio de la escritura, la lengua portuguesa o la historia universal se mezclan de modo natural con un análisis de sí misma, de su condición de mujer, de su condición de escritora y de brasileña. Esta riqueza de enfoques y tentativas son, en el fondo, vías de acceso a una personalidad única y diversa; al fin y al cabo, la propia Nélida Piñon afirma sobre sí misma: «Soy múltiple». La crítica ha dicho... «Esa honradez y esa fidelidad tanto a su fuerte carácter como a su sólida poética [son] los grandes alicientes de este autorretrato de cuerpo entero de la escritora.» Iñaki Ezkerra, Sur «La épica del corazón y la alegría sencilla de existir, con los fracasos y los riesgos que entraña (fórmula misteriosa y perversa), palpita en Una furtiva lágrima, con deseo, curiosidad y el saber de años de oficio. [...] Carta magna. Este libro es una constitución esencial de la memoria que Nélida se escribe a sí misma y nos ofrece como una herencia en vida. » Ana Abelenda, La Voz de Galicia «Qué estupendo libro: [...] provoca el deseo, como quería Borges, de pergeñar su reseña solo con citas del texto.» Nadal Suau, El Cultural de El Mundo «Nélida Piñon eleva una frase a lo sublime. No se corrompe con sentimentalismos vacuos y disimula susdolores -quién no lo hace- con la fortaleza de quien ha de tomar sus propias decisiones.» Alberto Barciela, El Progreso «Referencia absoluta de la literaturabrasileña actual, escritora carismática y comprometida con la voz de Iberoamérica.» María Luisa Blanco, El País «Una de las protagonistas más relevantes y originales de la cultura brasileña, que nunca duda en participar en todas las formas de lucha.» Le Monde «La magia de Nélida Piñon consiste en unir imaginación y compasión, para dar a sus personajes y sus lectores - una piel con la misma temperatura que la de ellos -.» Carlos Fuentes «Literatura de primerísima calidad. La dimensión amazónica de la imaginación de Nélida Piñon eleva a la autora a la categoría de genio.» Publishers Weekly «Con la fuerza de su imaginación, tiene la capacidad de expresar literariamente los sueños de todo Brasil e incluso de toda la gran familia latinoamericana.» The New York Times Book Review «Nélida Piñon no solo es una de las más grandes escritoras en lengua portuguesa de su tiempo sino una de las más relevantes en el panorama internacional.» Mercedes Monmany, ABC «Tan actual y universal que no tiene nada que envidiar a la obra de autores como John Banville, Philip Roth y Paul Auster, que también fueron galardonados con el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras.» Jonatan Silva, Paraná Online «Piñon es una escritora de pulmones poderosos e imaginación desbordante que ha creado una literatura apegada a las pasiones y todo menos aséptica.» La Vanguardia]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-book-of-timothy-the-devil-my-brother-and-me-a-memoir-by-joan-nockels-wilson--65185735https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579475 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Timothy: The Devil, My Brother, and Me [A Memoir] Author: Joan Nockels Wilson Narrator: Maria Marquis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Set in Rome, Chicago, and Anchorage, and spanning thirty years from crime to confrontation, The Book of Timothy: The Devil, My Brother, and Me recounts in lyric movements a sister’s journey, partly through trickery, but eventually through truth, to gain a long-absent admission from the priest who abused her brother. While on that journey, Nockels Wilson, a former prosecutor, confronts not only the priest, but her personal quest for vengeance. She further seeks an understanding of how the first Book of Timothy, the alleged work of St. Paul, contributed to the silencing of women in her once loved Catholic Church. This Book of Timothy promises to take the reader on a quest for justice and down a path of unexpected coincidences that ends where it first began: out of a great love for a brother and in the power of first memory.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579475Wed, 16 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579475 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Timothy: The Devil, My Brother, and Me [A Memoir] Author: Joan Nockels Wilson Narrator: Maria Marquis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579475 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Timothy: The Devil, My Brother, and Me [A Memoir] Author: Joan Nockels Wilson Narrator: Maria Marquis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 16, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Set in Rome, Chicago, and Anchorage, and spanning thirty years from crime to confrontation, The Book of Timothy: The Devil, My Brother, and Me recounts in lyric movements a sister’s journey, partly through trickery, but eventually through truth, to gain a long-absent admission from the priest who abused her brother. While on that journey, Nockels Wilson, a former prosecutor, confronts not only the priest, but her personal quest for vengeance. She further seeks an understanding of how the first Book of Timothy, the alleged work of St. Paul, contributed to the silencing of women in her once loved Catholic Church. This Book of Timothy promises to take the reader on a quest for justice and down a path of unexpected coincidences that ends where it first began: out of a great love for a brother and in the power of first memory.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-ich-ein-kind-der-kleinen-mehrheit-by-gianni-jovanovic-oyindamola-alashe--65185738https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ich, ein Kind der kleinen Mehrheit Author: Gianni Jovanovic, Oyindamola Alashe Narrator: Gianni Jovanovic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: »Wir sind die Kinder der kleinen Mehrheiten. Unsere Stimmen müssen in der Gesellschaft gehört werden.«Was für eine Geschichte! Gianni Jovanovic hat mit 43 Jahren mehr erfahren als andere in ihrem ganzen Leben: 1978 in Rüsselsheim geboren, erlebten er und seine Familie immer wieder rassistische Anfeindungen. Mit 14 verheirateten seine Eltern ihn. Mit 17 war er bereits zweifacher Vater, Anfang 20 outete sich Gianni Jovanovic als schwul. Inzwischen ist er seit 18 Jahren mit seinem Ehemann zusammen, zweifacher Großvater und die wohl bekannteste Stimme der Rom:nja und Sinti:zze in Deutschland. Gemeinsam mit der Journalistin Oyindamola Alashe erzählt er diese Geschichte einer Selbstermächtigung und entwirft dabei auch seine Vision einer antirassistischen, diversen Gesellschaft. Gianni Jovanovic' Geheimwaffen: Charme und Humor. Besonders auch dann, wenn es weh tut. »Gianni Jovanovic sprengt Erwartungen auf wundervolle Weise! Er kann eine Sache so gut wie kein anderer: Ambivalenzen zulassen, ohne Scham, ohne Beschönigung. Dabei ist er alles andere als zynisch, sondern ansteckend lebensbejahend.« Alice Hasters -]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577702Mon, 14 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ich, ein Kind der kleinen Mehrheit Author: Gianni Jovanovic, Oyindamola Alashe Narrator: Gianni Jovanovic Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577702 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ich, ein Kind der kleinen Mehrheit Author: Gianni Jovanovic, Oyindamola Alashe Narrator: Gianni Jovanovic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 14, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: »Wir sind die Kinder der kleinen Mehrheiten. Unsere Stimmen müssen in der Gesellschaft gehört werden.«Was für eine Geschichte! Gianni Jovanovic hat mit 43 Jahren mehr erfahren als andere in ihrem ganzen Leben: 1978 in Rüsselsheim geboren, erlebten er und seine Familie immer wieder rassistische Anfeindungen. Mit 14 verheirateten seine Eltern ihn. Mit 17 war er bereits zweifacher Vater, Anfang 20 outete sich Gianni Jovanovic als schwul. Inzwischen ist er seit 18 Jahren mit seinem Ehemann zusammen, zweifacher Großvater und die wohl bekannteste Stimme der Rom:nja und Sinti:zze in Deutschland. Gemeinsam mit der Journalistin Oyindamola Alashe erzählt er diese Geschichte einer Selbstermächtigung und entwirft dabei auch seine Vision einer antirassistischen, diversen Gesellschaft. Gianni Jovanovic' Geheimwaffen: Charme und Humor. Besonders auch dann, wenn es weh tut. »Gianni Jovanovic sprengt Erwartungen auf wundervolle Weise! Er kann eine Sache so gut wie kein anderer: Ambivalenzen zulassen, ohne Scham, ohne Beschönigung. Dabei ist er alles andere als zynisch, sondern ansteckend lebensbejahend.« Alice Hasters -]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dying-to-be-me-by-anita-moorjani--65185805https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577760 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dying to Be Me Author: Anita Moorjani Narrator: Anita Moorjani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: March 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.31 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this book, Anita shares how after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body began shutting down. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she would realize her inherent worth and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, Anita found that her condition had improved so rapidly that she was able to be released from the hospital within weeks . . . without a trace of cancer in her body! After years of struggling to forge her own path while trying to meet everyone else's expectations, she had the realization-as a result of her epiphany on the other side-that she had the power to heal herself . . . and that there are miracles in the Universe that she had never even imagined.In Dying to Be Me, Anita shares all she has learned about illness, healing, fear, 'being love,' and the true magnificence of each and every human being!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577760Tue, 08 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577760 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dying to Be Me Author: Anita Moorjani Narrator: Anita Moorjani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: March 8, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577760 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dying to Be Me Author: Anita Moorjani Narrator: Anita Moorjani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: March 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.31 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In this book, Anita shares how after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body began shutting down. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she would realize her inherent worth and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, Anita found that her condition had improved so rapidly that she was able to be released from the hospital within weeks . . . without a trace of cancer in her body! After years of struggling to forge her own path while trying to meet everyone else's expectations, she had the realization-as a result of her epiphany on the other side-that she had the power to heal herself . . . and that there are miracles in the Universe that she had never even imagined.In Dying to Be Me, Anita shares all she has learned about illness, healing, fear, 'being love,' and the true magnificence of each and every human being!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/making-the-ordinary-extraordinary-my-seven-years-in-occult-los-angeles-with-manly-palmer-hall-by-tamra-lucid--65185785https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575253 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: My Seven Years in Occult Los Angeles with Manly Palmer Hall Author: Tamra Lucid Narrator: Tamra Lucid, Danny Goldberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Release date: March 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: • Details how the author and her boyfriend developed a close friendship with Manly Hall and how Hall at first mistook her boyfriend as his heir apparent • Explains how Hall adopted the author as his “girl Friday” and personal weirdo screener, giving her access to the inner circles of occult Los Angeles • Richly depicts the characters who worked and gathered at Hall’s Philosophical Research Society, including Hall’s wife, the famed “Mad Marie” In the early 1980s, underground musicians Tamra Lucid and her boyfriend Ronnie Pontiac discovered the book The Secret Teachings of All Ages at the Bodhi Tree bookstore in Los Angeles. Poring over the tome, they were awakened to the esoteric and occult teachings of the world. Tamra and Ronnie were delighted to discover that the book’s author, Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990), master teacher of Hermetic mysteries and collector of all things mystical, lived in LA and gave lectures every Sunday at his mystery school, the Philosophical Research Society (PRS). After their first tantalizing Sunday lecture, Tamra and Ronnie soon started volunteering at the PRS, beginning a seven-year friendship with Manly P. Hall, who eventually officiated their wedding in his backyard. In this touching, hilarious, and ultimately tragic autobiographical account, Tamra shares an intimate portrait of Hall and the occult world of New Age Los Angeles, including encounters with astrologers, scholars, artists, spiritual seekers, and celebrities such as Jean Houston and Marianne Williamson. Tamra vividly describes how she used her time at the PRS to learn everything she could not only about metaphysics but also about the people who practice it. But when Tamra begs Hall to banish a certain man from the PRS--the same man who inherited Hall’s estate and whom his wife Marie later alleged was Hall’s murderer--Tamra and Ronnie are the ones banished. Tamra’s noir chronicle of an improbable friendship between a twenty-something punk and an eighty-year-old metaphysical scholar reveals Hall not only as an inspiring esoteric thinker but also as a genuinely kind human being who simply wanted to share his quest for inner meaning and rare wisdom with the world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575253Tue, 08 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575253 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: My Seven Years in Occult Los Angeles with Manly Palmer Hall Author: Tamra Lucid Narrator: Tamra Lucid, Danny...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575253 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: My Seven Years in Occult Los Angeles with Manly Palmer Hall Author: Tamra Lucid Narrator: Tamra Lucid, Danny Goldberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Release date: March 8, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: • Details how the author and her boyfriend developed a close friendship with Manly Hall and how Hall at first mistook her boyfriend as his heir apparent • Explains how Hall adopted the author as his “girl Friday” and personal weirdo screener, giving her access to the inner circles of occult Los Angeles • Richly depicts the characters who worked and gathered at Hall’s Philosophical Research Society, including Hall’s wife, the famed “Mad Marie” In the early 1980s, underground musicians Tamra Lucid and her boyfriend Ronnie Pontiac discovered the book The Secret Teachings of All Ages at the Bodhi Tree bookstore in Los Angeles. Poring over the tome, they were awakened to the esoteric and occult teachings of the world. Tamra and Ronnie were delighted to discover that the book’s author, Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990), master teacher of Hermetic mysteries and collector of all things mystical, lived in LA and gave lectures every Sunday at his mystery school, the Philosophical Research Society (PRS). After their first tantalizing Sunday lecture, Tamra and Ronnie soon started volunteering at the PRS, beginning a seven-year friendship with Manly P. Hall, who eventually officiated their wedding in his backyard. In this touching, hilarious, and ultimately tragic autobiographical account, Tamra shares an intimate portrait of Hall and the occult world of New Age Los Angeles, including encounters with astrologers, scholars, artists, spiritual seekers, and celebrities such as Jean Houston and Marianne Williamson. Tamra vividly describes how she used her time at the PRS to learn everything she could not only about metaphysics but also about the people who practice it. But when Tamra begs Hall to banish a certain man from the PRS--the same man who inherited Hall’s estate and whom his wife Marie later alleged was Hall’s murderer--Tamra and Ronnie are the ones banished. Tamra’s noir chronicle of an improbable friendship between a twenty-something punk and an eighty-year-old metaphysical scholar reveals Hall not only as an inspiring esoteric thinker but also as a genuinely kind human being who simply wanted to share his quest for inner meaning and rare wisdom with the world.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/currowan-a-story-of-fire-and-a-community-during-australia-s-worst-summer-by-bronwyn-adcock--65185751https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Currowan: A Story of Fire and a Community During Australia's Worst Summer Author: Bronwyn Adcock Narrator: Olivia Beardsley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ignited by a lightning strike in a remote forest, the Currowan fire was one of the most terrifying episodes of Australia's Black Summer. It burnt for seventy-four days, consuming nearly 5,000 square kilometres of land, destroying well over 500 homes, and leaving many people shattered. In the aftermath, there were questions. Why were resources so few that many faced the flames alone? Why was there back-burning on a day of extreme fire danger? Why weren't they better prepared? Bronwyn Adcock fled the inferno with her children. Her husband, firefighting at the front, rang with a plea for help before his phone went dead, leaving her to fear whether he would make it out alive. Now Bronwyn tells her story, and those of many others - what they saw, thought, and felt as they battled that blaze of never-before-seen intensity.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578685Tue, 01 Mar 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Currowan: A Story of Fire and a Community During Australia's Worst Summer Author: Bronwyn Adcock Narrator: Olivia Beardsley Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578685 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Currowan: A Story of Fire and a Community During Australia's Worst Summer Author: Bronwyn Adcock Narrator: Olivia Beardsley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ignited by a lightning strike in a remote forest, the Currowan fire was one of the most terrifying episodes of Australia's Black Summer. It burnt for seventy-four days, consuming nearly 5,000 square kilometres of land, destroying well over 500 homes, and leaving many people shattered. In the aftermath, there were questions. Why were resources so few that many faced the flames alone? Why was there back-burning on a day of extreme fire danger? Why weren't they better prepared? Bronwyn Adcock fled the inferno with her children. Her husband, firefighting at the front, rang with a plea for help before his phone went dead, leaving her to fear whether he would make it out alive. Now Bronwyn tells her story, and those of many others - what they saw, thought, and felt as they battled that blaze of never-before-seen intensity.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-hans-erdmann-schonbeck-und-nie-kann-ich-vergessen-by-tim-prose--65185778https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576804 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Hans-Erdmann Schönbeck: ...und nie kann ich vergessen Author: Tim Pröse Narrator: Gordon Piedesack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hans-Erdmann Schönbeck lag mit schwersten Verletzungen und erblindet vor Stalingrad und hatte keine Hoffnung. Doch er wurde gerettet. Als einer der letzten wurde er aus der Hölle geflogen. Fast 80 Jahre später, mit knapp 100 Jahren Lebensweisheit, blickt Schönbeck nun gemeinsam mit Spiegel-Bestseller-Autor Tim Pröse zurück: Auf seinen inneren Widerstand gegen Hitler. Auf die verpasste Gelegenheit, ihn zu töten, als Schönbeck nach der Schlacht in Hitlers Nähe kommandiert wird. Ein paar Nächte schläft er auch neben Graf Stauffenbergs Bombe. All das beschäftigt ihn, doch es bricht ihn nicht. Er macht steile Karriere in der Automobilindustrie und bleibt voller Demut und Dankbarkeit, gerettet worden zu sein. Mit dem großen Wissen, was Freiheit und Diktatur wirklich bedeuten, spricht er über alte und neue Werte. Und das, was uns Menschen zusammenhält.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576804Mon, 21 Feb 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576804 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Hans-Erdmann Schönbeck: ...und nie kann ich vergessen Author: Tim Pröse Narrator: Gordon Piedesack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576804 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Hans-Erdmann Schönbeck: ...und nie kann ich vergessen Author: Tim Pröse Narrator: Gordon Piedesack Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hans-Erdmann Schönbeck lag mit schwersten Verletzungen und erblindet vor Stalingrad und hatte keine Hoffnung. Doch er wurde gerettet. Als einer der letzten wurde er aus der Hölle geflogen. Fast 80 Jahre später, mit knapp 100 Jahren Lebensweisheit, blickt Schönbeck nun gemeinsam mit Spiegel-Bestseller-Autor Tim Pröse zurück: Auf seinen inneren Widerstand gegen Hitler. Auf die verpasste Gelegenheit, ihn zu töten, als Schönbeck nach der Schlacht in Hitlers Nähe kommandiert wird. Ein paar Nächte schläft er auch neben Graf Stauffenbergs Bombe. All das beschäftigt ihn, doch es bricht ihn nicht. Er macht steile Karriere in der Automobilindustrie und bleibt voller Demut und Dankbarkeit, gerettet worden zu sein. Mit dem großen Wissen, was Freiheit und Diktatur wirklich bedeuten, spricht er über alte und neue Werte. Und das, was uns Menschen zusammenhält.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-hyperrealist-life-and-legacy-by-carole-a-feuerman--65185777https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Hyperrealist Life and Legacy Author: Carole A. Feuerman Narrator: Carole A. Feuerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This book dives deep into my experiences as a woman artist. It highlights my struggles to survive the odds, through balance, perseverance, and independence, on my journey to fulfill my true calling. The changes and transitions that take place within an artist’s life are worth documenting. Their autobiography is their story. Art Historians write essays about artists and their works, to be published inside a book, but few know about the artist’s life, their personal stories, and why and how they became an artist. I hope my publication leaves a lasting account of my story. Art has always been my saving grace. ©2021 Carole A. Feuerman (P)2021 Carole A. Feuerman]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576715Mon, 21 Feb 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Hyperrealist Life and Legacy Author: Carole A. Feuerman Narrator: Carole A. Feuerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Hyperrealist Life and Legacy Author: Carole A. Feuerman Narrator: Carole A. Feuerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 21, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This book dives deep into my experiences as a woman artist. It highlights my struggles to survive the odds, through balance, perseverance, and independence, on my journey to fulfill my true calling. The changes and transitions that take place within an artist’s life are worth documenting. Their autobiography is their story. Art Historians write essays about artists and their works, to be published inside a book, but few know about the artist’s life, their personal stories, and why and how they became an artist. I hope my publication leaves a lasting account of my story. Art has always been my saving grace. ©2021 Carole A. Feuerman (P)2021 Carole A. Feuerman]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/get-beethoven-by-paul-cassidy--65185812https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 'Get Beethoven!' Author: Paul Cassidy Narrator: Paul Cassidy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A comic book character is born, the youngest of sixteen, into a war torn country. Facing extreme brutality at school and on the streets, not to mention the oppression of the Catholic Church, he finds music. Armed with a violin and a burning passion, he escapes the madness and sets off to pursue his dreams. 'Get Beethoven!' is the inspirational story of Paul Cassidy's life. Overcoming adversity in his younger years, Paul recounts tragedy, joy, horror and humour. Informative and entertaining, the book charts his journey up to joining the Brodsky Quartet in 1982.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575255Sun, 13 Feb 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 'Get Beethoven!' Author: Paul Cassidy Narrator: Paul Cassidy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 13, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575255 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 'Get Beethoven!' Author: Paul Cassidy Narrator: Paul Cassidy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: February 13, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A comic book character is born, the youngest of sixteen, into a war torn country. Facing extreme brutality at school and on the streets, not to mention the oppression of the Catholic Church, he finds music. Armed with a violin and a burning passion, he escapes the madness and sets off to pursue his dreams. 'Get Beethoven!' is the inspirational story of Paul Cassidy's life. Overcoming adversity in his younger years, Paul recounts tragedy, joy, horror and humour. Informative and entertaining, the book charts his journey up to joining the Brodsky Quartet in 1982.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-nullerjahre-jugend-in-bluhenden-landschaften-by-hendrik-bolz--65185702https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581865 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Nullerjahre: Jugend in blühenden Landschaften Author: Hendrik Bolz Narrator: Hendrik Bolz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: February 10, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Vom Austeilen und Auf-die-Fresse-Kriegen: eine Nachwendejugend in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.Hendrik Bolz, geboren 1988, ist in Stralsund aufgewachsen, im nordöstlichsten Winkel Deutschlands, in einer Welt, die, obwohl das Land längst nicht mehr »DDR« heißt, wenig mit dem zu tun hat, was im Westen als Normalität durchgeht. Lediglich das RTL-Nachmittagsprogramm, das im Hintergrund zu hören ist, deutet darauf hin: Es sind dieselben Nullerjahre.Während in den Plattenbauten von Knieper West immer mehr Erwachsene die Suche nach einem Platz im neuen System aufgeben, nehmen Hendrik und seine Freunde die Herausforderung an: Sie finden Auswege aus der Langeweile und Fluchtwege, um keine Prügel zu kassieren. Langsam zerfallen die Frontlinien der Baseballschlägerjahre, an die Stelle der Springerstiefel treten Turnschuhe, die Böhsen Onkelz werden von Aggro Berlin abgelöst, die Optionen bleiben die gleichen: Fressen oder Gefressenwerden.Im Kindergarten, in der Schule und im Fußballverein haben sie gelernt, dass ein großer Junge nicht weint und dass der Klügere nur so lange nachgibt, bis er der Dümmere ist. Nun gilt es, härter zu werden, um, wenn es drauf ankommt, dem anderen die Nase zu brechen. Und stumpfer zu werden, um dabei nicht zu zögern. Die Mittel finden sich – Kraftsport, Drogen, Rap. Und bald sind es neue »Kleine«, die sich verstecken müssen.Hendrik Bolz erzählt eindringlich von einem Jahrzehnt im Osten Deutschlands, das uns ein Stück bundesrepublikanische Gegenwart erklären kann.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581865Thu, 10 Feb 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581865 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Nullerjahre: Jugend in blühenden Landschaften Author: Hendrik Bolz Narrator: Hendrik Bolz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581865 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Nullerjahre: Jugend in blühenden Landschaften Author: Hendrik Bolz Narrator: Hendrik Bolz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: February 10, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Vom Austeilen und Auf-die-Fresse-Kriegen: eine Nachwendejugend in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.Hendrik Bolz, geboren 1988, ist in Stralsund aufgewachsen, im nordöstlichsten Winkel Deutschlands, in einer Welt, die, obwohl das Land längst nicht mehr »DDR« heißt, wenig mit dem zu tun hat, was im Westen als Normalität durchgeht. Lediglich das RTL-Nachmittagsprogramm, das im Hintergrund zu hören ist, deutet darauf hin: Es sind dieselben Nullerjahre.Während in den Plattenbauten von Knieper West immer mehr Erwachsene die Suche nach einem Platz im neuen System aufgeben, nehmen Hendrik und seine Freunde die Herausforderung an: Sie finden Auswege aus der Langeweile und Fluchtwege, um keine Prügel zu kassieren. Langsam zerfallen die Frontlinien der Baseballschlägerjahre, an die Stelle der Springerstiefel treten Turnschuhe, die Böhsen Onkelz werden von Aggro Berlin abgelöst, die Optionen bleiben die gleichen: Fressen oder Gefressenwerden.Im Kindergarten, in der Schule und im Fußballverein haben sie gelernt, dass ein großer Junge nicht weint und dass der Klügere nur so lange nachgibt, bis er der Dümmere ist. Nun gilt es, härter zu werden, um, wenn es drauf ankommt, dem anderen die Nase zu brechen. Und stumpfer zu werden, um dabei nicht zu zögern. Die Mittel finden sich – Kraftsport, Drogen, Rap. Und bald sind es neue »Kleine«, die sich verstecken müssen.Hendrik Bolz erzählt eindringlich von einem Jahrzehnt im Osten Deutschlands, das uns ein Stück bundesrepublikanische Gegenwart erklären kann.-]]>305hendencleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-susser-vogel-jugend-oder-der-abend-wirft-langere-schatten-by-hellmuth-karasek--65185697https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581856 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Süßer Vogel Jugend oder Der Abend wirft längere Schatten Author: Hellmuth Karasek Narrator: Hellmuth Karasek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 33 minutes Release date: February 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ein Bestseller über das Älter werden! Mit über 70 Jahren setzt sich der bekannte Dramatiker, Journalist und Literaturkritiker Hellmuth Karasek in 'Süßer Vogel Jugend oder Der Abend wirft längere Schatten' mit dem eigenen Altern auseinander. In für den Erfolgsautor typisch leichten Schreibstil erzählt er mit viel Sprachwitz über sein Leben. Dabei handelt es sich um Geschichten voller Erinnerungen aus vergangenen Tagen, sowie unterhaltsamer Anekdoten und Reflexionen über das Älter werden... -]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581856Thu, 03 Feb 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581856 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Süßer Vogel Jugend oder Der Abend wirft längere Schatten Author: Hellmuth Karasek Narrator: Hellmuth Karasek Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581856 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Süßer Vogel Jugend oder Der Abend wirft längere Schatten Author: Hellmuth Karasek Narrator: Hellmuth Karasek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 33 minutes Release date: February 3, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ein Bestseller über das Älter werden! Mit über 70 Jahren setzt sich der bekannte Dramatiker, Journalist und Literaturkritiker Hellmuth Karasek in 'Süßer Vogel Jugend oder Der Abend wirft längere Schatten' mit dem eigenen Altern auseinander. In für den Erfolgsautor typisch leichten Schreibstil erzählt er mit viel Sprachwitz über sein Leben. Dabei handelt es sich um Geschichten voller Erinnerungen aus vergangenen Tagen, sowie unterhaltsamer Anekdoten und Reflexionen über das Älter werden... -]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-gay-church-days-memoir-of-a-closeted-evangelical-pastor-who-eventually-had-enough-by-george-azar--65185814https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576727 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Gay Church Days: Memoir of a closeted Evangelical pastor who eventually had enough Author: George Azar Narrator: George Azar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: George was your average American kid born to traditional Middle Eastern immigrants. Curious about life but tortured by vicious bullying in middle school, he found what seemed like a solution: evangelical Christianity. It appeared to have the cure for his most “shameful sin.” Believing his homosexual feelings were an abomination before God, he committed his life to a church community that accepted him, conditionally. While hiding the scariest truths about him for fear of losing their love, he went from Bible study to Bible college, committing every aspect of his life to his faith – even forsaking important relationships “for the sake of the Gospel.” Little did he know that the steady trickle of relinquished identity would create a psychological dysmorphia that allowed his oppressors to keep him in dangerous isolation. My Gay Church Days is the true story of a profoundly insecure evangelical pastor who eventually decided enough was enough. After failed relationships, crippling anxiety, and cult-like codependency, George broke away from rigid Christianity to pursue the thing he once found most dreadful and fearful about himself. This book is a crusade of revealing, an exploration of conformity, oppression, awakening, and self-discovery unlike any other. Ultimately, it is also a quest to save other “lost souls” by example, calling others to rise above the expectations of others and accept themselves as they are.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576727Wed, 02 Feb 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576727 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Gay Church Days: Memoir of a closeted Evangelical pastor who eventually had enough Author: George Azar Narrator: George Azar Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576727 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Gay Church Days: Memoir of a closeted Evangelical pastor who eventually had enough Author: George Azar Narrator: George Azar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 2, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: George was your average American kid born to traditional Middle Eastern immigrants. Curious about life but tortured by vicious bullying in middle school, he found what seemed like a solution: evangelical Christianity. It appeared to have the cure for his most “shameful sin.” Believing his homosexual feelings were an abomination before God, he committed his life to a church community that accepted him, conditionally. While hiding the scariest truths about him for fear of losing their love, he went from Bible study to Bible college, committing every aspect of his life to his faith – even forsaking important relationships “for the sake of the Gospel.” Little did he know that the steady trickle of relinquished identity would create a psychological dysmorphia that allowed his oppressors to keep him in dangerous isolation. My Gay Church Days is the true story of a profoundly insecure evangelical pastor who eventually decided enough was enough. After failed relationships, crippling anxiety, and cult-like codependency, George broke away from rigid Christianity to pursue the thing he once found most dreadful and fearful about himself. This book is a crusade of revealing, an exploration of conformity, oppression, awakening, and self-discovery unlike any other. Ultimately, it is also a quest to save other “lost souls” by example, calling others to rise above the expectations of others and accept themselves as they are.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/an-everyday-cult-by-gerette-buglion--65185839https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576166 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Everyday Cult Author: Gerette Buglion Narrator: Gerette Buglion And Sarah Edmondson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This true-life story shows how the author's innocent quest for meaning is hijacked by a teacher who recognized her thirst for spiritual knowledge…awakening insight while simultaneously strangling her capacity for critical thinking. An Everyday Cult follows the arc of Buglion's journey through young motherhood into a group that welcomed her but also captured her mind, her heart, and her money. She shows us how a mind and psyche can be compromised by a controlling leader, using techniques that fly under the radar of human awareness—and she implores readers to wake up to these ever-present abuses of power. Gerette vividly describes a personal journey that became increasingly treacherous, culminating in tragedy. In the telling of her story, she exposes the impact of cultic manipulation on daily life. Written in an engaging, self-reflective style, rich with insight into techniques common to cults the world over, An Everyday Cult increases the listener’s understanding and awareness of destructive dynamics that just might be closer to home than anyone ever imagined. An Everyday Cult audio book is written and narrated by Gerette Buglion with a forward written and narrated by Sarah Edmondson, author of Scarred: the True Story of How I Escaped NXVIM, the Cult That Bound My Life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576166Wed, 19 Jan 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576166 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Everyday Cult Author: Gerette Buglion Narrator: Gerette Buglion And Sarah Edmondson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576166 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Everyday Cult Author: Gerette Buglion Narrator: Gerette Buglion And Sarah Edmondson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 19, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This true-life story shows how the author's innocent quest for meaning is hijacked by a teacher who recognized her thirst for spiritual knowledge…awakening insight while simultaneously strangling her capacity for critical thinking. An Everyday Cult follows the arc of Buglion's journey through young motherhood into a group that welcomed her but also captured her mind, her heart, and her money. She shows us how a mind and psyche can be compromised by a controlling leader, using techniques that fly under the radar of human awareness—and she implores readers to wake up to these ever-present abuses of power. Gerette vividly describes a personal journey that became increasingly treacherous, culminating in tragedy. In the telling of her story, she exposes the impact of cultic manipulation on daily life. Written in an engaging, self-reflective style, rich with insight into techniques common to cults the world over, An Everyday Cult increases the listener’s understanding and awareness of destructive dynamics that just might be closer to home than anyone ever imagined. An Everyday Cult audio book is written and narrated by Gerette Buglion with a forward written and narrated by Sarah Edmondson, author of Scarred: the True Story of How I Escaped NXVIM, the Cult That Bound My Life.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/two-years-before-the-mast-by-richard-henry-dana-jr--65185844https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two Years Before the Mast Author: Richard Henry Dana Jr Narrator: Robert G. Slade Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana Jr's captivating account of life as a common sailor on board a merchant ship in the early 1830s. Initially an attempt to remedy the author's eye fatigue, the two-year voyage from Boston to California had a transformative effect on Dana, whose diary gives a fascinating snapshot of pre-Gold Rush California. Dana captures the cruel conditions on board ship, the injustices of merchant seamen at the hands of brutally unforgiving captains, and the treacherous icy weather at Cape Horn. He portrays a rich cast of characters (human and non-human), including the people of Mexican California from whose ranches Dana would load and ship cowhides - then the most active trade along the California Coast. An iconic maritime memoir said to have influenced Herman Melville, Two Years Before the Mast remains one of America's greatest and most vivid seafaring tales. This recording includes Twenty-Four Years After, Dana's nostalgic reflection on his famous adventure.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574205Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two Years Before the Mast Author: Richard Henry Dana Jr Narrator: Robert G. Slade Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 26 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/574205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two Years Before the Mast Author: Richard Henry Dana Jr Narrator: Robert G. Slade Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana Jr's captivating account of life as a common sailor on board a merchant ship in the early 1830s. Initially an attempt to remedy the author's eye fatigue, the two-year voyage from Boston to California had a transformative effect on Dana, whose diary gives a fascinating snapshot of pre-Gold Rush California. Dana captures the cruel conditions on board ship, the injustices of merchant seamen at the hands of brutally unforgiving captains, and the treacherous icy weather at Cape Horn. He portrays a rich cast of characters (human and non-human), including the people of Mexican California from whose ranches Dana would load and ship cowhides - then the most active trade along the California Coast. An iconic maritime memoir said to have influenced Herman Melville, Two Years Before the Mast remains one of America's greatest and most vivid seafaring tales. This recording includes Twenty-Four Years After, Dana's nostalgic reflection on his famous adventure.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-crazy-summer-a-memoir-god-medication-and-me-by-the-real-english-elaine--65185818https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My CRAZY Summer a memoir:: God, medication and me... Author: The Real English Elaine Narrator: The Real English Elaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Elaine is someone that people would describe as 'having it all together,' an extrovert who loves people. It was, therefore, very out of character when in the summer of 2014, she isolated herself. Off work for almost six months, Elaine battled Major Depressive Disorder. What was more challenging was the internal conflict she had between 'faith and medication.' As a suicide survivor, her memoir describes her journey going into the deepest darkest pit and with the help of medication coming out into the light. She shares her personal journals written during the time, with the intent of helping others see the struggles she experienced. Elaine's desire is for her story to bring hope for the hopeless - especially as it related to the conflict between faith and medication; understanding for those who are family and friends of the person struggling with depression. She is passionate about #stigmafree and creating a society where 'I'm a suicide survivor' is as accepted as 'I'm a recovering alcoholic.' The Real English Elaine now lives in the freedom of living authentically, and she has 'taken off the mask.' Originally from the UK, Elaine Sephton, aka The Real English Elaine. As a mental health advocate, she wants to raise awareness for those who 'seem to have it all together', to have the courage to reach out and get the support early enough for them to experience 'freedom.' As a member of The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), she is inspired to build better lives for those affected by mental illness and has taken the #stigmafree pledge. Elaine is a professional coach and holds her CHPC from the Human Potential Institute. She is a member of the ICF.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576714Tue, 11 Jan 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My CRAZY Summer a memoir:: God, medication and me... Author: The Real English Elaine Narrator: The Real English Elaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576714 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My CRAZY Summer a memoir:: God, medication and me... Author: The Real English Elaine Narrator: The Real English Elaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 11, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Elaine is someone that people would describe as 'having it all together,' an extrovert who loves people. It was, therefore, very out of character when in the summer of 2014, she isolated herself. Off work for almost six months, Elaine battled Major Depressive Disorder. What was more challenging was the internal conflict she had between 'faith and medication.' As a suicide survivor, her memoir describes her journey going into the deepest darkest pit and with the help of medication coming out into the light. She shares her personal journals written during the time, with the intent of helping others see the struggles she experienced. Elaine's desire is for her story to bring hope for the hopeless - especially as it related to the conflict between faith and medication; understanding for those who are family and friends of the person struggling with depression. She is passionate about #stigmafree and creating a society where 'I'm a suicide survivor' is as accepted as 'I'm a recovering alcoholic.' The Real English Elaine now lives in the freedom of living authentically, and she has 'taken off the mask.' Originally from the UK, Elaine Sephton, aka The Real English Elaine. As a mental health advocate, she wants to raise awareness for those who 'seem to have it all together', to have the courage to reach out and get the support early enough for them to experience 'freedom.' As a member of The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), she is inspired to build better lives for those affected by mental illness and has taken the #stigmafree pledge. Elaine is a professional coach and holds her CHPC from the Human Potential Institute. She is a member of the ICF.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-supper-a-summer-in-italy-by-rachel-cusk--65185681https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583553 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy Author: Rachel Cusk Narrator: Antonia Beamish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A vivid and elegant account of a family’s season abroad by one of our finest contemporary authors. Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to Italy to search for art and its meanings, for freedom from routine, for a different path into the future. The award-winning writer Rachel Cusk describes a three-month journey around the Italy of Raphael and rented villas, of the Piero della Francesca Trail and the tourist furnace of Amalfi, of soccer and the simple glories of pasta and gelato. With her husband and two children, Cusk uncovers the mystery of a foreign language, the perils and pleasures of unbelonging, and the startling thrill of discovery—at once historic and intimate. Both sharp and humane in its exploration of the desire to travel and to escape, of art and its inspirations, of beauty and ugliness, and of the challenge of balancing domestic life with creativity, The Last Supper is an astonishing memoir.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583553Tue, 04 Jan 2022 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583553 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy Author: Rachel Cusk Narrator: Antonia Beamish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583553 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy Author: Rachel Cusk Narrator: Antonia Beamish Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 4, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A vivid and elegant account of a family’s season abroad by one of our finest contemporary authors. Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to Italy to search for art and its meanings, for freedom from routine, for a different path into the future. The award-winning writer Rachel Cusk describes a three-month journey around the Italy of Raphael and rented villas, of the Piero della Francesca Trail and the tourist furnace of Amalfi, of soccer and the simple glories of pasta and gelato. With her husband and two children, Cusk uncovers the mystery of a foreign language, the perils and pleasures of unbelonging, and the startling thrill of discovery—at once historic and intimate. Both sharp and humane in its exploration of the desire to travel and to escape, of art and its inspirations, of beauty and ugliness, and of the challenge of balancing domestic life with creativity, The Last Supper is an astonishing memoir.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/fortune-favors-the-brave-an-extraordinary-memoir-by-kiri-westby--65185696https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fortune Favors the Brave: An Extraordinary Memoir Author: Kiri Westby Narrator: Kiri Westby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: December 28, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From inside an interrogation session with the Chinese Secret Police, a young American activist recounts her path into global human rights work—exploring critical lessons on privilege and compassion in the context of war and extreme suffering. When I was arrested by the Chinese military for launching a historic Tibetan Freedom protest, I knew every trial and lesson had been worth it—even if it meant facing a life in prison. After a childhood infused with esoteric Buddhist teachings, I was forged into a global activist through years of witnessing and collaborating in the dissent of women on the front lines of war. From villages in Nepal, to refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the streets of Bogota, Colombia, my initiation into human rights activism was raw and transformative. The bravery of those women bolstered me in my darkest hours of interrogation and torture by the Chinese Police, and it guides me now to share my true story—no matter the repercussions. This is not a tale the Chinese government wants told. During my years working in war zones, I often wondered if I’d have the courage to stand up to tyranny, to lay my life on the line to confront undeniable persecution. In 2007—on the slopes of Mt. Everest—I found out. Take a literary journey with me as I reveal the bumpy road I took to becoming my bravest self—learning to leverage a life of advantage, find a place for my own joy, and cultivate the courage needed to play a distinct role in history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580581Tue, 28 Dec 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fortune Favors the Brave: An Extraordinary Memoir Author: Kiri Westby Narrator: Kiri Westby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580581 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fortune Favors the Brave: An Extraordinary Memoir Author: Kiri Westby Narrator: Kiri Westby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: December 28, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From inside an interrogation session with the Chinese Secret Police, a young American activist recounts her path into global human rights work—exploring critical lessons on privilege and compassion in the context of war and extreme suffering. When I was arrested by the Chinese military for launching a historic Tibetan Freedom protest, I knew every trial and lesson had been worth it—even if it meant facing a life in prison. After a childhood infused with esoteric Buddhist teachings, I was forged into a global activist through years of witnessing and collaborating in the dissent of women on the front lines of war. From villages in Nepal, to refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the streets of Bogota, Colombia, my initiation into human rights activism was raw and transformative. The bravery of those women bolstered me in my darkest hours of interrogation and torture by the Chinese Police, and it guides me now to share my true story—no matter the repercussions. This is not a tale the Chinese government wants told. During my years working in war zones, I often wondered if I’d have the courage to stand up to tyranny, to lay my life on the line to confront undeniable persecution. In 2007—on the slopes of Mt. Everest—I found out. Take a literary journey with me as I reveal the bumpy road I took to becoming my bravest self—learning to leverage a life of advantage, find a place for my own joy, and cultivate the courage needed to play a distinct role in history.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cat-whiskers-and-talking-furniture-a-memoir-of-radio-and-television-broadcasting-by-john-rayburn--65185727https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cat Whiskers and Talking Furniture: A Memoir of Radio and Television Broadcasting Author: John Rayburn Narrator: John Rayburn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 29 minutes Release date: December 21, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The so-called Golden Age of Radio lasted little more than a quarter century from approximately 1926 to 1952–54. This is what it was like: “Of all the forms of theater, radio drama commanded the most effective stage. No medium—not theater, not film, not television—had more sheer space in which to achieve the basic goal of drama, telling a story. Theater is bounded by the bare boards and the footlights and the flats, film by the white screen, and television by the comparatively tiny tube. But radio … radio played itself out in boundless space … the listener’s mind … your mind. We in radio always called it the theater of imagination. We proudly traced our lineage back to the primitive campfire and the tribal storytellers as the passers-on of legend, heroic adventure, mysteries of nature. They told their stories orally and so did we. We did not show, we told you. We made you believe everything because it was happening before your mind’s eye. The basic appeal of radio drama was that you had to listen if you wanted to follow it. It wasn’t enough to merely hear it. You had to listen. The word listen implies a conscious effort to pay attention, to participate. Senses were activated, the curiosity was sparked, the imagination was fired, and the listener found himself participating. He was a collaborator. In his brain he matched a face and a body to the voice. In his mind he saw the action. And that was the basic difference between radio and every other visual medium. A good movie, a fine stage play, a television drama, excellent ballet … all those required an appreciative audience, but only radio called for a creative audience, a listener who really worked with the writer, the director, the actors, and technicians to give completeness to the creative process.”]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579091Tue, 21 Dec 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cat Whiskers and Talking Furniture: A Memoir of Radio and Television Broadcasting Author: John Rayburn Narrator: John Rayburn Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cat Whiskers and Talking Furniture: A Memoir of Radio and Television Broadcasting Author: John Rayburn Narrator: John Rayburn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 29 minutes Release date: December 21, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: The so-called Golden Age of Radio lasted little more than a quarter century from approximately 1926 to 1952–54. This is what it was like: “Of all the forms of theater, radio drama commanded the most effective stage. No medium—not theater, not film, not television—had more sheer space in which to achieve the basic goal of drama, telling a story. Theater is bounded by the bare boards and the footlights and the flats, film by the white screen, and television by the comparatively tiny tube. But radio … radio played itself out in boundless space … the listener’s mind … your mind. We in radio always called it the theater of imagination. We proudly traced our lineage back to the primitive campfire and the tribal storytellers as the passers-on of legend, heroic adventure, mysteries of nature. They told their stories orally and so did we. We did not show, we told you. We made you believe everything because it was happening before your mind’s eye. The basic appeal of radio drama was that you had to listen if you wanted to follow it. It wasn’t enough to merely hear it. You had to listen. The word listen implies a conscious effort to pay attention, to participate. Senses were activated, the curiosity was sparked, the imagination was fired, and the listener found himself participating. He was a collaborator. In his brain he matched a face and a body to the voice. In his mind he saw the action. And that was the basic difference between radio and every other visual medium. A good movie, a fine stage play, a television drama, excellent ballet … all those required an appreciative audience, but only radio called for a creative audience, a listener who really worked with the writer, the director, the actors, and technicians to give completeness to the creative process.”]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/true-identity-cracking-the-oldest-kidnapping-cold-case-and-finding-my-missing-twin-by-paul-joseph-fronczak-alex-tresniowski--65185726https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Identity: Cracking the Oldest Kidnapping Cold Case and Finding My Missing Twin Author: Paul Joseph Fronczak, Alex Tresniowski Narrator: Paul Joseph Fronczak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: December 21, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A man desperate to know his true identity struggles to solve the infamous kidnapping that nearly destroyed his family—and find his twin sister, who has been missing for more than fifty years. When he was ten years old, Paul Fronczak was snooping around for Christmas presents in a crawl space in his family’s Chicago home. There, he found hundreds of old newspaper clippings about the kidnapping of a one-day-old infant in a hospital in 1964. He also learned that, two years later, the boy was found and returned to his family—and that the boy was him. Nearly fifty years later, Paul, acting on long-held suspicions, took a DNA test that proved he was not the kidnapped boy. In an instant, he found himself at the center of two half-century-old mysteries—who was he, and where was the real Paul? True Identity is about three separate major investigations—the hunt for the real Paul Fronczak; the search for the author’s missing twin sister Jill; and finally, the investigation into his true identity, his heart and soul and the demons inside him—inherited and created—that still need to be confronted. Includes bonus PDF with images.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579083Tue, 21 Dec 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Identity: Cracking the Oldest Kidnapping Cold Case and Finding My Missing Twin Author: Paul Joseph Fronczak, Alex Tresniowski Narrator: Paul...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579083 to listen full audiobooks. Title: True Identity: Cracking the Oldest Kidnapping Cold Case and Finding My Missing Twin Author: Paul Joseph Fronczak, Alex Tresniowski Narrator: Paul Joseph Fronczak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 29 minutes Release date: December 21, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.75 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A man desperate to know his true identity struggles to solve the infamous kidnapping that nearly destroyed his family—and find his twin sister, who has been missing for more than fifty years. When he was ten years old, Paul Fronczak was snooping around for Christmas presents in a crawl space in his family’s Chicago home. There, he found hundreds of old newspaper clippings about the kidnapping of a one-day-old infant in a hospital in 1964. He also learned that, two years later, the boy was found and returned to his family—and that the boy was him. Nearly fifty years later, Paul, acting on long-held suspicions, took a DNA test that proved he was not the kidnapped boy. In an instant, he found himself at the center of two half-century-old mysteries—who was he, and where was the real Paul? True Identity is about three separate major investigations—the hunt for the real Paul Fronczak; the search for the author’s missing twin sister Jill; and finally, the investigation into his true identity, his heart and soul and the demons inside him—inherited and created—that still need to be confronted. Includes bonus PDF with images.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-monika-b-ich-bin-nicht-mehr-eure-tochter-ein-madchen-wird-von-seiner-familie-jahrelang-misshandelt-by-karin-jackel--65185699https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Monika B. Ich bin nicht mehr eure Tochter: Ein Mädchen wird von seiner Familie jahrelang misshandelt Author: Karin Jäckel Narrator: Annalena Schmidt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: December 15, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: TRIGGERWARNUNG: Dieses Hörbuch enthält Inhalte, die triggern können. Diese sind: Gewalt, Kindesmissbrauch, sexueller Missbrauch. Monika ist ein echtes Wunschkind. Sie soll die gutbürgerliche Familie komplettieren. Doch hinter der heilen Fassade spielt sich Unfassbares ab. Von Anfang an wird Monikas Leben von sexuellen Übergriffen bestimmt. Was der Großvater an dem Kleinkind begeht, setzt sich in jahrelangen Vergewaltigungen durch den Vater und die älteren Brüder fort. Erst nach dem Freitod ihres jüngeren Bruders Georg, der nicht weiter mit ansehen kann, was mit seiner geliebten Schwester geschieht, gelingt es Monika, sich aus dieser Hölle zu befreien.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579631Wed, 15 Dec 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Monika B. Ich bin nicht mehr eure Tochter: Ein Mädchen wird von seiner Familie jahrelang misshandelt Author: Karin Jäckel Narrator: Annalena...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Monika B. Ich bin nicht mehr eure Tochter: Ein Mädchen wird von seiner Familie jahrelang misshandelt Author: Karin Jäckel Narrator: Annalena Schmidt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 52 minutes Release date: December 15, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: TRIGGERWARNUNG: Dieses Hörbuch enthält Inhalte, die triggern können. Diese sind: Gewalt, Kindesmissbrauch, sexueller Missbrauch. Monika ist ein echtes Wunschkind. Sie soll die gutbürgerliche Familie komplettieren. Doch hinter der heilen Fassade spielt sich Unfassbares ab. Von Anfang an wird Monikas Leben von sexuellen Übergriffen bestimmt. Was der Großvater an dem Kleinkind begeht, setzt sich in jahrelangen Vergewaltigungen durch den Vater und die älteren Brüder fort. Erst nach dem Freitod ihres jüngeren Bruders Georg, der nicht weiter mit ansehen kann, was mit seiner geliebten Schwester geschieht, gelingt es Monika, sich aus dieser Hölle zu befreien.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-messmers-reisen-messmers-gedanken-by-martin-walser--65185704https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579646 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Meßmers Reisen, Meßmers Gedanken Author: Martin Walser Narrator: Burghard Klaußner, Stefan Kurt, Martin Walser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 5 minutes Release date: December 8, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Martin Walser erschafft mit Meßmer eine Figur voller Widersprüche. In seiner philosophischen Autobiografie führt Walser aufreibende Dialoge mit seinem Alter Ego. Assoziativ, existentiell und fragmentarisch hinterfragt der gefeierte Autor im Sammelband 'Meßmers Gedanken, Meßmers Reisen' das Selbst radikal und in knapper Form.'Der Walser-Meßmer ist ein Aphoristiker von geradezu überwältigender Offenheit, mit dem Mut zur Selbstverletzung und -entblößung' (Christoph Schröder, Die Zeit)-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579646Wed, 08 Dec 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579646 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Meßmers Reisen, Meßmers Gedanken Author: Martin Walser Narrator: Burghard Klaußner, Stefan Kurt, Martin Walser Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579646 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Meßmers Reisen, Meßmers Gedanken Author: Martin Walser Narrator: Burghard Klaußner, Stefan Kurt, Martin Walser Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 5 minutes Release date: December 8, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Martin Walser erschafft mit Meßmer eine Figur voller Widersprüche. In seiner philosophischen Autobiografie führt Walser aufreibende Dialoge mit seinem Alter Ego. Assoziativ, existentiell und fragmentarisch hinterfragt der gefeierte Autor im Sammelband 'Meßmers Gedanken, Meßmers Reisen' das Selbst radikal und in knapper Form.'Der Walser-Meßmer ist ein Aphoristiker von geradezu überwältigender Offenheit, mit dem Mut zur Selbstverletzung und -entblößung' (Christoph Schröder, Die Zeit)-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-general-s-barber-and-the-seamstress-a-polish-love-story-by-tereska-jozefa-buko--65185796https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The General’s Barber and the Seamstress: A Polish Love Story Author: Tereska Józefa Buko Narrator: Meg Kruszewska Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Hitler invades Poland in 1939, newlyweds Józef and Marysia Buko are catapulted into a sudden and heart-wrenching seven-year separation. Józef honors the soldier’s code and is forced to fight battles in many foreign lands. Marysia remains in Warsaw to join in the underground resistance against Poland’s Nazi occupiers. Each faces life-threatening situations demanding courage, faith, and resilience if the couple is ever to see each other again. Many books have been written about the heroic actions following both attacks, but few of these works reveal the consequences of war on the daily lives of ordinary people. The General's Barber and the Seamstress gives a personal and intimate face to balance the military stories.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577630Tue, 07 Dec 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The General’s Barber and the Seamstress: A Polish Love Story Author: Tereska Józefa Buko Narrator: Meg Kruszewska Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The General’s Barber and the Seamstress: A Polish Love Story Author: Tereska Józefa Buko Narrator: Meg Kruszewska Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When Hitler invades Poland in 1939, newlyweds Józef and Marysia Buko are catapulted into a sudden and heart-wrenching seven-year separation. Józef honors the soldier’s code and is forced to fight battles in many foreign lands. Marysia remains in Warsaw to join in the underground resistance against Poland’s Nazi occupiers. Each faces life-threatening situations demanding courage, faith, and resilience if the couple is ever to see each other again. Many books have been written about the heroic actions following both attacks, but few of these works reveal the consequences of war on the daily lives of ordinary people. The General's Barber and the Seamstress gives a personal and intimate face to balance the military stories.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-were-the-morris-orphans-4-brothers-5-sisters-me-by-kathi-morris--65185820https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Were the Morris Orphans: 4 Brothers, 5 Sisters & Me Author: Kathi Morris Narrator: Pam Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When a drunk driver orphans ten children, their plea to stay together sparks international news—and prompts a trust fund that attracts corrupt and abusive fostering. “They’re not dead, are they?” The officer’s body visibly slumped as he delivered his final nod. From that July day in 1968 on, the Morris family became the Morris orphans: ten children who attracted nationwide attention, and a trust fund that didn’t bring out the best in those who fostered them. Kathi, the oldest, was only seventeen when her parents were killed by a drunk driver. This is her story—behind the headlines—of when the Morris orphans only had their mutual loss and each other.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576893Tue, 30 Nov 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Were the Morris Orphans: 4 Brothers, 5 Sisters & Me Author: Kathi Morris Narrator: Pam Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576893 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Were the Morris Orphans: 4 Brothers, 5 Sisters & Me Author: Kathi Morris Narrator: Pam Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: When a drunk driver orphans ten children, their plea to stay together sparks international news—and prompts a trust fund that attracts corrupt and abusive fostering. “They’re not dead, are they?” The officer’s body visibly slumped as he delivered his final nod. From that July day in 1968 on, the Morris family became the Morris orphans: ten children who attracted nationwide attention, and a trust fund that didn’t bring out the best in those who fostered them. Kathi, the oldest, was only seventeen when her parents were killed by a drunk driver. This is her story—behind the headlines—of when the Morris orphans only had their mutual loss and each other.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jane-doe-9-a-surviving-r-kelly-victim-speaks-out-by-lizzette-martinez-keelin-macgregor--65185763https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: JANE DOE #9: A Surviving R. Kelly Victim Speaks Out Author: Lizzette Martinez, Keelin Macgregor Narrator: Tamika Katon-Donegal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In January of 1995, seventeen-year-old Lizzette Martinez met Grammy-winning musician and record producer R. Kelly at Aventura Mall in Florida where he was performing. At first, it seemed that her hopes of becoming a professional singer were about to come true when he offered to help boost her career. However, this mentorship quickly turned into sexual grooming, leading to years of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. After struggling to free herself of the relationship and rebuild on her own, Lizzette’s successful new life, far away from the entertainment industry, was interrupted in 2017 by allegations against R. Kelly by other women. This led her to coming forward to the authorities with her own history of abuse by the music icon. In January 2019, Lizzette participated with other survivors in a documentary series with Lifetime called Surviving R. Kelly. It should have been a healing experience, but instead it left them feeling abandoned and fearful for their lives. In August 2021, Kelly went on trial in New York on racketeering and sex trafficking charges and was found guilty of all charges. In Jane Doe #9, listeners get a no-holds-barred look at Martinez’s relationship with Kelly, her efforts to break free and pursue her dreams, and courage to take on her abuser and seek justice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576900Tue, 30 Nov 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: JANE DOE #9: A Surviving R. Kelly Victim Speaks Out Author: Lizzette Martinez, Keelin Macgregor Narrator: Tamika Katon-Donegal Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: JANE DOE #9: A Surviving R. Kelly Victim Speaks Out Author: Lizzette Martinez, Keelin Macgregor Narrator: Tamika Katon-Donegal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: November 30, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: In January of 1995, seventeen-year-old Lizzette Martinez met Grammy-winning musician and record producer R. Kelly at Aventura Mall in Florida where he was performing. At first, it seemed that her hopes of becoming a professional singer were about to come true when he offered to help boost her career. However, this mentorship quickly turned into sexual grooming, leading to years of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. After struggling to free herself of the relationship and rebuild on her own, Lizzette’s successful new life, far away from the entertainment industry, was interrupted in 2017 by allegations against R. Kelly by other women. This led her to coming forward to the authorities with her own history of abuse by the music icon. In January 2019, Lizzette participated with other survivors in a documentary series with Lifetime called Surviving R. Kelly. It should have been a healing experience, but instead it left them feeling abandoned and fearful for their lives. In August 2021, Kelly went on trial in New York on racketeering and sex trafficking charges and was found guilty of all charges. In Jane Doe #9, listeners get a no-holds-barred look at Martinez’s relationship with Kelly, her efforts to break free and pursue her dreams, and courage to take on her abuser and seek justice.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/walden-or-life-in-the-woods-by-henry-david-thoreau--65185790https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576418 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walden, or Life in the Woods Author: Henry David Thoreau Narrator: Linda Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 23, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.” And so it began. Henry David Thoreau, at twenty-seven, built a tiny, one-room cabin in the woods—on land owned by his friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson—and began his two-year experiment in frugality on the shore of Walden Pond. He wasn’t seeking isolation so much as simplicity, to “live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.” This book is his account of his time spent there. And yet it is so much more. A keen observer, Thoreau is challenging, opinionated, funny, and sharp. E. B. White said of him, “Henry went forth to battle when he took to the woods, and Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives—the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.” First published in 1854, these essays on politics, philosophy, humanity, and the natural world are at once deeply personal and strikingly universal. He writes with drive, hope, and frustration, with quick humor and exacting honesty. He is an astonishingly good writer. And his words and insights will stay with you long after the last page.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576418Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576418 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walden, or Life in the Woods Author: Henry David Thoreau Narrator: Linda Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 33 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576418 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Walden, or Life in the Woods Author: Henry David Thoreau Narrator: Linda Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 33 minutes Release date: November 23, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.” And so it began. Henry David Thoreau, at twenty-seven, built a tiny, one-room cabin in the woods—on land owned by his friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson—and began his two-year experiment in frugality on the shore of Walden Pond. He wasn’t seeking isolation so much as simplicity, to “live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.” This book is his account of his time spent there. And yet it is so much more. A keen observer, Thoreau is challenging, opinionated, funny, and sharp. E. B. White said of him, “Henry went forth to battle when he took to the woods, and Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives—the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.” First published in 1854, these essays on politics, philosophy, humanity, and the natural world are at once deeply personal and strikingly universal. He writes with drive, hope, and frustration, with quick humor and exacting honesty. He is an astonishingly good writer. And his words and insights will stay with you long after the last page.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-story-of-my-life-by-helen-keller--65185787https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576419 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Story of My Life Author: Helen Keller Narrator: Amy J. Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 23, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This inspiring autobiography by Helen Keller is an account of her life from her family history up to her last years of college, supplemented by her personal letters from age seven to twenty-one. This edition includes letters and reports contributed by her teacher, Anne Sullivan, and the editor, John Albert Macy. Not only does her story demonstrate the challenges of becoming educated after losing her sight and hearing as a small child, but also a peek into the history of the world for a Deafblind person in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It depicts a young woman with an irrepressible determination to prove that she has the capacity to live a meaningful life beyond society's vision of her boundaries. Her wisdom and keen observations defy her age. Through her words, we see how much and how little life has changed since 1900; all of it from the perspective of one whose physical restraints most of us cannot truly comprehend. The supplemental information provides the additional context of the hurdles Helen Keller overcame to reach her accomplishments in life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576419Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576419 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Story of My Life Author: Helen Keller Narrator: Amy J. Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 23,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576419 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Story of My Life Author: Helen Keller Narrator: Amy J. Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 23, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: This inspiring autobiography by Helen Keller is an account of her life from her family history up to her last years of college, supplemented by her personal letters from age seven to twenty-one. This edition includes letters and reports contributed by her teacher, Anne Sullivan, and the editor, John Albert Macy. Not only does her story demonstrate the challenges of becoming educated after losing her sight and hearing as a small child, but also a peek into the history of the world for a Deafblind person in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It depicts a young woman with an irrepressible determination to prove that she has the capacity to live a meaningful life beyond society's vision of her boundaries. Her wisdom and keen observations defy her age. Through her words, we see how much and how little life has changed since 1900; all of it from the perspective of one whose physical restraints most of us cannot truly comprehend. The supplemental information provides the additional context of the hurdles Helen Keller overcame to reach her accomplishments in life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wave-woman-the-life-and-struggles-of-a-surfing-pioneer-by-vicky-heldreich-durand--65185794https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wave Woman: The Life and Struggles of a Surfing Pioneer Author: Vicky Heldreich Durand Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 16, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Wave Woman is the untold story of an adventurer whose zest for life and learning kept her alive for ninety-eight years. Betty Pembroke Heldreich Winstedt was the granddaughter of Mormon pioneers who, after spending an active and athletic childhood in Salt Lake City, moved to Santa Monica with her family and enrolled at USC to study dental hygiene. Betty went on to elope with a man she hardly knew, and to have two daughters. In middle age, Betty finally followed her dream of living near the ocean; she moved to Hawaii and, at age forty-one, took up surfing. She lived and surfed at Waikiki during the golden years of the mid-1950s and was a pioneer surfer at Makaha Beach. She was competitive in early big-wave surfing championships and was among the first women to compete in Lima, Peru, where she won first place. Betty was an Olympic hopeful, a pilot, a mother, a sculptor, a jeweler, a builder, a fisherwoman, an ATV rider, and a potter who lived life her way, dealing with adversity and heartache on her own stoic terms. A love letter from a daughter to her larger-than-life mother, Wave Woman will speak to any woman searching for self-confidence, fulfillment, and happiness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575529Tue, 16 Nov 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wave Woman: The Life and Struggles of a Surfing Pioneer Author: Vicky Heldreich Durand Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wave Woman: The Life and Struggles of a Surfing Pioneer Author: Vicky Heldreich Durand Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 16, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Wave Woman is the untold story of an adventurer whose zest for life and learning kept her alive for ninety-eight years. Betty Pembroke Heldreich Winstedt was the granddaughter of Mormon pioneers who, after spending an active and athletic childhood in Salt Lake City, moved to Santa Monica with her family and enrolled at USC to study dental hygiene. Betty went on to elope with a man she hardly knew, and to have two daughters. In middle age, Betty finally followed her dream of living near the ocean; she moved to Hawaii and, at age forty-one, took up surfing. She lived and surfed at Waikiki during the golden years of the mid-1950s and was a pioneer surfer at Makaha Beach. She was competitive in early big-wave surfing championships and was among the first women to compete in Lima, Peru, where she won first place. Betty was an Olympic hopeful, a pilot, a mother, a sculptor, a jeweler, a builder, a fisherwoman, an ATV rider, and a potter who lived life her way, dealing with adversity and heartache on her own stoic terms. A love letter from a daughter to her larger-than-life mother, Wave Woman will speak to any woman searching for self-confidence, fulfillment, and happiness.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-alles-zu-seiner-zeit-by-michail-gorbatschow--65185737https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579834 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Alles zu seiner Zeit Author: Michail Gorbatschow Narrator: Christoph Bantzer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 28, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Spannende Einblicke in Michail Gorbatschows Vita'Alles zu seiner Zeit' beleuchtet sowohl Gorbatschows - vom Kalten Krieg geprägtes­ öffentliches Leben, als auch das Privatleben mit seiner Frau Raissa. Diese lebendige Autobiografie eröffnet historisch interessierten Leser*innen eine Innensicht auf die russische Geschichte und Politik mit all ihren Intrigen und Machtspielen. Durch Tagebucheinträge und Erinnerungen lernt man den ehemaligen Präsidenten der Sowjetunion auch persönlich kennen.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579834Thu, 28 Oct 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579834 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Alles zu seiner Zeit Author: Michail Gorbatschow Narrator: Christoph Bantzer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579834 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Alles zu seiner Zeit Author: Michail Gorbatschow Narrator: Christoph Bantzer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: October 28, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Spannende Einblicke in Michail Gorbatschows Vita'Alles zu seiner Zeit' beleuchtet sowohl Gorbatschows - vom Kalten Krieg geprägtes­ öffentliches Leben, als auch das Privatleben mit seiner Frau Raissa. Diese lebendige Autobiografie eröffnet historisch interessierten Leser*innen eine Innensicht auf die russische Geschichte und Politik mit all ihren Intrigen und Machtspielen. Durch Tagebucheinträge und Erinnerungen lernt man den ehemaligen Präsidenten der Sowjetunion auch persönlich kennen.-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-caroline-schlegel-schelling-by-sigrid-damm--65185692https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Caroline Schlegel-Schelling Author: Sigrid Damm Narrator: Sigrid Damm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 28, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Friedrich Schlegel nannte sie eine 'politische-erotische Natur', und ihr Wohnhaus wurde zum literarischen Epizentrum der Romantik: Caroline Schlegel-Schelling war einer der faszinierendsten Frauen ihrer Zeit. Sigrid Damm präsentiert eine ausgewählte Sammlung der schönsten Briefe von Caroline Schlegel-Schelling - Ein wunderbarer Essay über ein widerspruchreiches Leben. -]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581754Thu, 28 Oct 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Caroline Schlegel-Schelling Author: Sigrid Damm Narrator: Sigrid Damm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 42 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Caroline Schlegel-Schelling Author: Sigrid Damm Narrator: Sigrid Damm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 28, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Friedrich Schlegel nannte sie eine 'politische-erotische Natur', und ihr Wohnhaus wurde zum literarischen Epizentrum der Romantik: Caroline Schlegel-Schelling war einer der faszinierendsten Frauen ihrer Zeit. Sigrid Damm präsentiert eine ausgewählte Sammlung der schönsten Briefe von Caroline Schlegel-Schelling - Ein wunderbarer Essay über ein widerspruchreiches Leben. -]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-der-himmel-in-den-pfutzen-ein-leben-zwischen-galizien-und-dem-kurfurstendamm-by-anatol-gotfryd--65185731https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Himmel in den Pfützen - Ein Leben zwischen Galizien und dem Kurfürstendamm Author: Anatol Gotfryd Narrator: Harald Schröpfer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 21, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Anatol Gotfryds mitreißende Erzählung und Harald Schröpfers angenehme Stimme fesseln den Hörer von Anfang bis zum Ende.Gotfryds idyllische Heimat Galizien ist nicht plötzlich nicht mehr, wie sie einst war, als sie 1939 von der Roten Armee und zwei Jahre später von den Deutschen besetzt wird. Er beschreibt, wie er dem Tod nur knapp entkommen konnte sowie seine Zeit auf der Flucht. Die Geschichte eines Lebens, das voller Rückschläge und Gefahren und schließlich doch von großem Erfolg geprägt war.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579816Thu, 21 Oct 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Himmel in den Pfützen - Ein Leben zwischen Galizien und dem Kurfürstendamm Author: Anatol Gotfryd Narrator: Harald Schröpfer Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Himmel in den Pfützen - Ein Leben zwischen Galizien und dem Kurfürstendamm Author: Anatol Gotfryd Narrator: Harald Schröpfer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 21, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Anatol Gotfryds mitreißende Erzählung und Harald Schröpfers angenehme Stimme fesseln den Hörer von Anfang bis zum Ende.Gotfryds idyllische Heimat Galizien ist nicht plötzlich nicht mehr, wie sie einst war, als sie 1939 von der Roten Armee und zwei Jahre später von den Deutschen besetzt wird. Er beschreibt, wie er dem Tod nur knapp entkommen konnte sowie seine Zeit auf der Flucht. Die Geschichte eines Lebens, das voller Rückschläge und Gefahren und schließlich doch von großem Erfolg geprägt war.-]]>305rstendamm,tzencleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arabic-n-almwsyqy-by-bytr-handkh--65185817https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - عن الموسيقى Author: بيتر هاندكه Narrator: أحمد زين Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 27, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: يصطحبك بيتر هاندكه إلى رحلة شخصية تعرف من خلالها الكثير والكثير عن موسيقى البوب، وكيف أثرت في جيل كامل. تكتشف أعماق الكاتب الحاصل على جائزة نوبل وتراها عن قرب. هل للموسيقى ذلك الأثر حقًا؟ استمع إلى كتاب 'عن الموسيقى' للكاتب بيتر هاندكه فقط وحصريًا على كتاب صوتي]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571869Fri, 27 Aug 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - عن الموسيقى Author: بيتر هاندكه Narrator: أحمد زين Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 27, 2021...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - عن الموسيقى Author: بيتر هاندكه Narrator: أحمد زين Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 27, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: يصطحبك بيتر هاندكه إلى رحلة شخصية تعرف من خلالها الكثير والكثير عن موسيقى البوب، وكيف أثرت في جيل كامل. تكتشف أعماق الكاتب الحاصل على جائزة نوبل وتراها عن قرب. هل للموسيقى ذلك الأثر حقًا؟ استمع إلى كتاب 'عن الموسيقى' للكاتب بيتر هاندكه فقط وحصريًا على كتاب صوتي]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-amerikanisches-tagebuch-1962-by-siegfried-lenz--65185732https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Amerikanisches Tagebuch 1962 Author: Siegfried Lenz Narrator: Burghart Klaussner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 30, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dieser Zeitzeugenbericht eines Außenstehenden spiegelt die angespannte Stimmung Anfang der 1960er Jahre in den USA auf fesselnde Weise wider.Über einen Monat lang reist Siegfried Lenz 1962 durch die USA. 50 Jahre später veröffentlicht er sein Reisetagebuch. Er spürt die bedrohliche Atmosphäre des Kalten Krieges, die der Sprecher dieses Hörbuchs, Burghart Klaußner nur zu gut wiedergeben kann.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579241Fri, 30 Jul 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Amerikanisches Tagebuch 1962 Author: Siegfried Lenz Narrator: Burghart Klaussner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 32 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Amerikanisches Tagebuch 1962 Author: Siegfried Lenz Narrator: Burghart Klaussner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 30, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Dieser Zeitzeugenbericht eines Außenstehenden spiegelt die angespannte Stimmung Anfang der 1960er Jahre in den USA auf fesselnde Weise wider.Über einen Monat lang reist Siegfried Lenz 1962 durch die USA. 50 Jahre später veröffentlicht er sein Reisetagebuch. Er spürt die bedrohliche Atmosphäre des Kalten Krieges, die der Sprecher dieses Hörbuchs, Burghart Klaußner nur zu gut wiedergeben kann.-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-das-sommerloch-links-und-rechts-der-politik-by-norbert-blum--65185748https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578767 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das Sommerloch. Links und rechts der Politik Author: Norbert Blüm Narrator: Norbert Blüm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Norbert Blüm, der Werkzeugmacher, Philosoph und Minister im Kabinett der Kohl Regierung beschreibt in dieser Sammlung das 'politische Sommerloch, welches [ihn] 16 Jahre lang gequält hat'. Egal ob die Fußball-WM 1954, seine Erfahrungen mit Harry Potter, einem Aufstieg zum Kilimandscharo, seinem Lieblingsitaliener oder politische Leitlinien: Norbert Blüm berichtet von den Absurditäten des politischen Alltags, davon, wie er Bonn immer noch eine Träne nachweint, aber auch was der Abschied von der Macht bedeutet. Eine Sammlung voller unkonventioneller Texte eines Politikers, der immer schon mehr als nur Akten im Kopf hatte und sich dann seinen anderen Interessen, dem Engagement für Menschenrechte, dem Schreiben und der Liebe zur Literatur widmete.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578767Thu, 01 Jul 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578767 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das Sommerloch. Links und rechts der Politik Author: Norbert Blüm Narrator: Norbert Blüm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 16...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578767 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das Sommerloch. Links und rechts der Politik Author: Norbert Blüm Narrator: Norbert Blüm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 16 minutes Release date: July 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Norbert Blüm, der Werkzeugmacher, Philosoph und Minister im Kabinett der Kohl Regierung beschreibt in dieser Sammlung das 'politische Sommerloch, welches [ihn] 16 Jahre lang gequält hat'. Egal ob die Fußball-WM 1954, seine Erfahrungen mit Harry Potter, einem Aufstieg zum Kilimandscharo, seinem Lieblingsitaliener oder politische Leitlinien: Norbert Blüm berichtet von den Absurditäten des politischen Alltags, davon, wie er Bonn immer noch eine Träne nachweint, aber auch was der Abschied von der Macht bedeutet. Eine Sammlung voller unkonventioneller Texte eines Politikers, der immer schon mehr als nur Akten im Kopf hatte und sich dann seinen anderen Interessen, dem Engagement für Menschenrechte, dem Schreiben und der Liebe zur Literatur widmete.-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-gestandnisse-eines-kuchenchefs-was-sie-uber-restaurants-nie-wissen-wollten-by-anthony-bourdain--65185784https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Geständnisse eines Küchenchefs - was Sie über Restaurants nie wissen wollten Author: Anthony Bourdain Narrator: Volker Niederfahrenhorst Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 23, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Montags keine Meeresfrüchte! Das ist noch eine der harmloseren Gefahren, auf die Anthony Bourdain in seinen gnadenlosen, abgründig witzigen Memoiren hinweist. Von der Strandkneipe bis zum Nobelrestaurant hat er alles durchlebt, was diese wahrhaft heiße Szene zu bieten hat. Seine Hörer lässt er einen unvergesslichen Blick hinter die Küchentür werfen und nimmt sie mit auf eine abenteuerliche, amüsante Reise in die dunklen Gefi lde der kulinarischen Welt.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579399Wed, 23 Jun 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Geständnisse eines Küchenchefs - was Sie über Restaurants nie wissen wollten Author: Anthony Bourdain Narrator: Volker Niederfahrenhorst...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579399 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Geständnisse eines Küchenchefs - was Sie über Restaurants nie wissen wollten Author: Anthony Bourdain Narrator: Volker Niederfahrenhorst Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 23, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Montags keine Meeresfrüchte! Das ist noch eine der harmloseren Gefahren, auf die Anthony Bourdain in seinen gnadenlosen, abgründig witzigen Memoiren hinweist. Von der Strandkneipe bis zum Nobelrestaurant hat er alles durchlebt, was diese wahrhaft heiße Szene zu bieten hat. Seine Hörer lässt er einen unvergesslichen Blick hinter die Küchentür werfen und nimmt sie mit auf eine abenteuerliche, amüsante Reise in die dunklen Gefi lde der kulinarischen Welt.-]]>305ber,chenchefscleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-fur-ne-moment-by-wolfgang-niedecken--65185786https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578710 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Für 'ne Moment Author: Wolfgang Niedecken Narrator: Wolfgang Niedecken Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 42 minutes Release date: June 22, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ein absolutes Muss für alle BAP-Fans! Wolfgang Niedecken ist ein artistisches Multitalent – als Maler und Frontmann der Kölschrock-Band BAP gehört er zu den erfolgreichsten Künstlern Deutschlands. In dieser kurzweiligen und ehrlichen Biografie erinnert Niedecken sich zurück und erzählt gemeinsam mit Co-Autor Oliver Kobold die Geschichte seines Lebens: von einer Kindheit in der Nachkriegszeit über musikalische Erfolge bis hin zu künstlerischem und gesellschaftlichem Engagement über Deutschlands Grenzen hinaus.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578710Tue, 22 Jun 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578710 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Für 'ne Moment Author: Wolfgang Niedecken Narrator: Wolfgang Niedecken Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 42 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578710 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Für 'ne Moment Author: Wolfgang Niedecken Narrator: Wolfgang Niedecken Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 42 minutes Release date: June 22, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ein absolutes Muss für alle BAP-Fans! Wolfgang Niedecken ist ein artistisches Multitalent – als Maler und Frontmann der Kölschrock-Band BAP gehört er zu den erfolgreichsten Künstlern Deutschlands. In dieser kurzweiligen und ehrlichen Biografie erinnert Niedecken sich zurück und erzählt gemeinsam mit Co-Autor Oliver Kobold die Geschichte seines Lebens: von einer Kindheit in der Nachkriegszeit über musikalische Erfolge bis hin zu künstlerischem und gesellschaftlichem Engagement über Deutschlands Grenzen hinaus.-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-zugabe-der-geschichte-einer-ruckkehr-by-wolfgang-niedecken--65185722https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zugabe. Der Geschichte einer Rückkehr Author: Wolfgang Niedecken Narrator: Wolfgang Niedecken Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 22, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ein mitreißendes Werk über Rückschläge, Kampfgeist und Hoffnung! Wolfgang Niedecken ist Frontmann der erfolgreichen Kölschrock-Band BAP. Im Jahr 2011 ereilt den Musiker jedoch ein schweres gesundheitliches Unglück: ein Schlaganfall. Niedecken muss sich ins Leben zurück kämpfen und eine anstrengende Rehabilitation durchlaufen. In dieser persönlichen 'Zugabe' zu seiner Biografie erzählt Niedecken von neuen Perspektiven auf das Leben, überwundenen Hindernissen und Dankbarkeit.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579133Tue, 22 Jun 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zugabe. Der Geschichte einer Rückkehr Author: Wolfgang Niedecken Narrator: Wolfgang Niedecken Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579133 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zugabe. Der Geschichte einer Rückkehr Author: Wolfgang Niedecken Narrator: Wolfgang Niedecken Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 41 minutes Release date: June 22, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Ein mitreißendes Werk über Rückschläge, Kampfgeist und Hoffnung! Wolfgang Niedecken ist Frontmann der erfolgreichen Kölschrock-Band BAP. Im Jahr 2011 ereilt den Musiker jedoch ein schweres gesundheitliches Unglück: ein Schlaganfall. Niedecken muss sich ins Leben zurück kämpfen und eine anstrengende Rehabilitation durchlaufen. In dieser persönlichen 'Zugabe' zu seiner Biografie erzählt Niedecken von neuen Perspektiven auf das Leben, überwundenen Hindernissen und Dankbarkeit.-]]>305ckkehrcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-undressed-aus-einem-leben-mit-mir-by-wolfgang-joop--65185716https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579144 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Undressed. Aus einem Leben mit mir Author: Wolfgang Joop Narrator: Sandra Borgmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 22, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Undressed. Aus einem Leben mit mir' gibt dem Leser einen Einblick in Joops Leben als weltberühmter Designer. Als Leser erfährt man, wie es ist, ein Leben mit ständiger Entwicklung und hohem Druck zu führen, in dem man in der Modebranche ständig auf dem neuesten Stand sein muss. Trotz des stressigen Lebens hat Joop es geschafft, das Leben als Ehemann, Vater, Künstler, Modedesigner und Unternehmer unter einen Hut zu bekommen. Man erfährt auch, wie er sich durch die Niederlagen gekämpft hat, die Teil der harten, wettbewerbsorientierten Branche sind. -]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579144Tue, 22 Jun 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579144 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Undressed. Aus einem Leben mit mir Author: Wolfgang Joop Narrator: Sandra Borgmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 34 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579144 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Undressed. Aus einem Leben mit mir Author: Wolfgang Joop Narrator: Sandra Borgmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 22, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Undressed. Aus einem Leben mit mir' gibt dem Leser einen Einblick in Joops Leben als weltberühmter Designer. Als Leser erfährt man, wie es ist, ein Leben mit ständiger Entwicklung und hohem Druck zu führen, in dem man in der Modebranche ständig auf dem neuesten Stand sein muss. Trotz des stressigen Lebens hat Joop es geschafft, das Leben als Ehemann, Vater, Künstler, Modedesigner und Unternehmer unter einen Hut zu bekommen. Man erfährt auch, wie er sich durch die Niederlagen gekämpft hat, die Teil der harten, wettbewerbsorientierten Branche sind. -]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-gib-die-dinge-der-jugend-mit-grazie-auf-by-volker-lechtenbrink--65185709https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579187 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Gib die Dinge der Jugend mit Grazie auf! Author: Volker Lechtenbrink Narrator: Volker Lechtenbrink Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 54 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Offen, ehrlich und persönlich: Schauspieler und Musiker Volker Lechtenbrink erzählt in seiner Biografie die Geschichte eines bewegten Lebens. Das künstlerische Multitalent Lechtenbrink berichtet von seinen Anfängen am Hamburger Theater und prägenden Begegnungen mit Größen der Schauspiel- und Musikszene. Berufliche Erfolge, private Höhen und Tiefen und vieles mehr – Lechtenbrink gewährt seinen Lesern mit einem Augenzwinkern brandneue Einblicke in seinen Werdegang zu einem der bekanntesten Schauspieler Deutschlands.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579187Tue, 15 Jun 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579187 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Gib die Dinge der Jugend mit Grazie auf! Author: Volker Lechtenbrink Narrator: Volker Lechtenbrink Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579187 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Gib die Dinge der Jugend mit Grazie auf! Author: Volker Lechtenbrink Narrator: Volker Lechtenbrink Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 54 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Offen, ehrlich und persönlich: Schauspieler und Musiker Volker Lechtenbrink erzählt in seiner Biografie die Geschichte eines bewegten Lebens. Das künstlerische Multitalent Lechtenbrink berichtet von seinen Anfängen am Hamburger Theater und prägenden Begegnungen mit Größen der Schauspiel- und Musikszene. Berufliche Erfolge, private Höhen und Tiefen und vieles mehr – Lechtenbrink gewährt seinen Lesern mit einem Augenzwinkern brandneue Einblicke in seinen Werdegang zu einem der bekanntesten Schauspieler Deutschlands.-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-seelenficker-by-natascha--65185742https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Seelenficker  Author: Natascha Narrator: Maria Koschny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Vor 10 Jahren erschien dieses Buch und wurde zum 'Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo' der Handygeneration. Drogenstrich, Missbrauch, Leben in einer Parallelwelt zu der behaglichen bürgerlichen. Was uns Natascha zu erzählen hat, sollte niemanden ungerührt lassen.'Ich habe mir immer gedacht, wenn ich Drogen nehme, dann können sie ruhig meinen Körper ficken, dann sollen sie mit mir machen, was sie wollen. Denn ich hasse meinen Körper, der ist so fett und hässlich und unförmig und sowieso habe ich es nicht besser verdient. Doch in den Momenten, wenn die Drogen aufhören zu wirken, merke ich, dass die Leute auch meine Seele ficken. Das tut weh, nein, mehr noch, das zerstört, ohne zu zerstören, man bleibt übrig und weiß, dass man kaputt ist, unheilbar, und dass man damit leben muss.'Gerade volljährig geworden, erzählt die Autorin von ihrer Kindheit im Heim, von den ersten Drogen mit zwölf und dem Drogenstrich, dem harten Leben zwischen Freiern, Zuhältern, Dealern und der Schule. Ungeschönt, unerbittlich ehrlich zeigt sie uns, wie das Leben in Deutschland auch aussehen kann, fernab von Behaglichkeit und Familie.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579193Tue, 08 Jun 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Seelenficker  Author: Natascha Narrator: Maria Koschny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Seelenficker  Author: Natascha Narrator: Maria Koschny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 3 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Vor 10 Jahren erschien dieses Buch und wurde zum 'Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo' der Handygeneration. Drogenstrich, Missbrauch, Leben in einer Parallelwelt zu der behaglichen bürgerlichen. Was uns Natascha zu erzählen hat, sollte niemanden ungerührt lassen.'Ich habe mir immer gedacht, wenn ich Drogen nehme, dann können sie ruhig meinen Körper ficken, dann sollen sie mit mir machen, was sie wollen. Denn ich hasse meinen Körper, der ist so fett und hässlich und unförmig und sowieso habe ich es nicht besser verdient. Doch in den Momenten, wenn die Drogen aufhören zu wirken, merke ich, dass die Leute auch meine Seele ficken. Das tut weh, nein, mehr noch, das zerstört, ohne zu zerstören, man bleibt übrig und weiß, dass man kaputt ist, unheilbar, und dass man damit leben muss.'Gerade volljährig geworden, erzählt die Autorin von ihrer Kindheit im Heim, von den ersten Drogen mit zwölf und dem Drogenstrich, dem harten Leben zwischen Freiern, Zuhältern, Dealern und der Schule. Ungeschönt, unerbittlich ehrlich zeigt sie uns, wie das Leben in Deutschland auch aussehen kann, fernab von Behaglichkeit und Familie.-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-ungeschminkt-mein-schrilles-doppelleben-by-olivia-jones-lena-obschinsky--65185743https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ungeschminkt: Mein schrilles Doppelleben Author: Olivia Jones, Lena Obschinsky Narrator: Magnif.Ck, Fanny Funtastic, Veuve Noire, Barbie Stupid, Olivia Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 27, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Alle kennen Olivia Jones – aber kennen Sie 'Oliver Jones'? Den Mann, der als Teenager alles auf eine Karte setzte, um endlich das zu werden, was andere damals verachteten: ein Mann in Frauenkleidern? In diesem Buch lässt Oli(via) erstmals 50 Jahre des schrillsten deutschen Doppellebens 'ungeschminkt' Revue passieren. All das, was bisher noch nie so offen erzählt wurde: Geschichten von Enttäuschungen, familiären Tragödien, von Armut, Liebe, Humor, Skandalen und Durchhaltevermögen. Und vor allem: vom Mut und der Freude am bunten Leben in all seinen Facetten.Blicken Sie mit Olivia hinter die verrückten Kulissen von Deutschlands buntestem Familienunternehmen, der einzigartigen 'Olivia-Jones-Familie', und tauchen Sie ein in Olivias außergewöhnliche Welt: extrovertiert, glitzernd, aber auch liebevoll und wertschätzend – denn in Olivias Umfeld darf jeder so sein, wie er ist.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579270Thu, 27 May 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ungeschminkt: Mein schrilles Doppelleben Author: Olivia Jones, Lena Obschinsky Narrator: Magnif.Ck, Fanny Funtastic, Veuve Noire, Barbie...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Ungeschminkt: Mein schrilles Doppelleben Author: Olivia Jones, Lena Obschinsky Narrator: Magnif.Ck, Fanny Funtastic, Veuve Noire, Barbie Stupid, Olivia Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: May 27, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Alle kennen Olivia Jones – aber kennen Sie 'Oliver Jones'? Den Mann, der als Teenager alles auf eine Karte setzte, um endlich das zu werden, was andere damals verachteten: ein Mann in Frauenkleidern? In diesem Buch lässt Oli(via) erstmals 50 Jahre des schrillsten deutschen Doppellebens 'ungeschminkt' Revue passieren. All das, was bisher noch nie so offen erzählt wurde: Geschichten von Enttäuschungen, familiären Tragödien, von Armut, Liebe, Humor, Skandalen und Durchhaltevermögen. Und vor allem: vom Mut und der Freude am bunten Leben in all seinen Facetten.Blicken Sie mit Olivia hinter die verrückten Kulissen von Deutschlands buntestem Familienunternehmen, der einzigartigen 'Olivia-Jones-Familie', und tauchen Sie ein in Olivias außergewöhnliche Welt: extrovertiert, glitzernd, aber auch liebevoll und wertschätzend – denn in Olivias Umfeld darf jeder so sein, wie er ist.-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arabic-thr-alghym-by-sarh-al-fryan--65185811https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - طهر الغيم Author: ساره آل فريان Narrator: مي أحمد Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 21, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: تجربة ذاتية إنسانية خالصة تعرضها الكاتبة تسمو بروح القارئ. كتاب يجمع بين تعريف العمل التطوعي وتأثيره على نفس الإنسان، وقائم على كثير من المقالات التي تركز على القيم والمبادئ الحياتية. استمع الآن إلى كتاب 'طهر الغيم' للكاتبة سارا آل فريان فقط وحصريًا على كتاب صوتي]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572046Fri, 21 May 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - طهر الغيم Author: ساره آل فريان Narrator: مي أحمد Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 21, 2021 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - طهر الغيم Author: ساره آل فريان Narrator: مي أحمد Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: May 21, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: تجربة ذاتية إنسانية خالصة تعرضها الكاتبة تسمو بروح القارئ. كتاب يجمع بين تعريف العمل التطوعي وتأثيره على نفس الإنسان، وقائم على كثير من المقالات التي تركز على القيم والمبادئ الحياتية. استمع الآن إلى كتاب 'طهر الغيم' للكاتبة سارا آل فريان فقط وحصريًا على كتاب صوتي]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arabic-alwzyr-almrafq-by-ghazy-alqsby--65185802https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572062 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - الوزير المرافق Author: غازي القصبي Narrator: عبد الرحمن زغلول Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 21, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: يدون فيه الكاتب والوزير السابق غازي القصبي فترة عمله وزيراً للصناعة ووزيراً للصحة في حكومة المملكة العربية السعودية؛ وقيامه بدور الوزير المرافق لرؤساء وملوك زاروا المملكة وكذلك مرافقة ولي العهد أو الملك السعودي في فترة السبعينات وحتى منتصف الثمانينات، يقف المؤلف على دقائق الأمور لجلسات القمة العربية المغلقة والمشادات بين الرؤساء مع المواقف المدهشة والمحرجة لبعض الملوك والأمراء وكذلك رؤساء الدول الغربية والأفريقية. استمع إليه الآن فقط وحصريًا على تطبيق كتاب صوتي]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572062Fri, 21 May 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572062 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - الوزير المرافق Author: غازي القصبي Narrator: عبد الرحمن زغلول Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 21,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572062 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - الوزير المرافق Author: غازي القصبي Narrator: عبد الرحمن زغلول Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 21, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: يدون فيه الكاتب والوزير السابق غازي القصبي فترة عمله وزيراً للصناعة ووزيراً للصحة في حكومة المملكة العربية السعودية؛ وقيامه بدور الوزير المرافق لرؤساء وملوك زاروا المملكة وكذلك مرافقة ولي العهد أو الملك السعودي في فترة السبعينات وحتى منتصف الثمانينات، يقف المؤلف على دقائق الأمور لجلسات القمة العربية المغلقة والمشادات بين الرؤساء مع المواقف المدهشة والمحرجة لبعض الملوك والأمراء وكذلك رؤساء الدول الغربية والأفريقية. استمع إليه الآن فقط وحصريًا على تطبيق كتاب صوتي]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arabic-qss-11-sbtmbr-by-bdalkrym-alfalh--65185807https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - قصص ١١ سبتمبر Author: عبدالكريم الفالح Narrator: محمد الشموتي Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 20, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'لا شك أن أحداث 11 سبتمبر عام 2001، هزت العالم بأكمله، وألقت بظلالها على ما تلاها من أحداث. خرج الخبراء السياسيين والعسكريين بالعديد من التحليلات والاستنتاجات، وبعدها تأججت مشاعر الكراهية تجاه المسلمين، خاصةً في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية. يتناول الكتاب أحداثًا واقعية عايشها الكاتب السعودي عبد الكريم الفالح، أثناء فترة دراسته وعمله كصحفي في الولايات المتحدة، ويصور قصصًا شهدها بنفسه، على أثر أحداث 11 سبتمبر عام 2001 في برج التجارة العالمي. ويصوّر حالة التوتر والقلق في خضم هذه الأحداث العنيفة؛ «عشت بين النار في أمريكا: نار الدراسة والخوف والمرض، نار الحنين، ونار الحب»، ويتساءل بصوتٍ مخنوقٍ عن حقيقة اختفاء بعض أصدقائه بعدما قرروا الهرب من نار جحيم الأزمة على حد قوله «الأصدقاء يهربون من جحيم الأزمة إلى دولٍ أخرى، واحد منهم اختفى، بحثنا عنه، أفكارنا دارت حول مقتله انتقامًا من 11 سبتمبر هل قتلوه؟». يحكي الفالح عن تجربة خضوعه للتحقيق من قبل المخابرات الأمريكية لأكثر من عشر مراتٍ بعد وقوع الحادث، وحقائق التهديد الذي وجه له! يكشف أيضًا سبب احتجاز مجموعة من السعوديين لأكثر من ثمان ساعاتٍ على الحدود المكسيكية، وقصة سجن أب سعودي من دون الاعتبار لأطفاله الذين تركوا لوحدهم. قصص مثيرة وغامضة تنشر للمرة الأولى، تكشف جزءًا مما واجهه العرب والمسلمون جراء هذه الأحداث الشهيرة. يخضع الكتاب لعدة تصنيفات، مثل أدب الرحلات والمذكرات والرواية الواقعية؛ حيث تتسع جغرافيا الأحداث في الكتاب لأكثر من دولة، وتتعدد شخصياته، وتتشابك أحداثه الواقعية، التي تذهب وتعود للإشارة لأحد أهم الأحداث العالمية في العصر الحالي. استمع الآن. ']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572775Thu, 20 May 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - قصص ١١ سبتمبر Author: عبدالكريم الفالح Narrator: محمد الشموتي Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 20,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - قصص ١١ سبتمبر Author: عبدالكريم الفالح Narrator: محمد الشموتي Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 20, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'لا شك أن أحداث 11 سبتمبر عام 2001، هزت العالم بأكمله، وألقت بظلالها على ما تلاها من أحداث. خرج الخبراء السياسيين والعسكريين بالعديد من التحليلات والاستنتاجات، وبعدها تأججت مشاعر الكراهية تجاه المسلمين، خاصةً في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية. يتناول الكتاب أحداثًا واقعية عايشها الكاتب السعودي عبد الكريم الفالح، أثناء فترة دراسته وعمله كصحفي في الولايات المتحدة، ويصور قصصًا شهدها بنفسه، على أثر أحداث 11 سبتمبر عام 2001 في برج التجارة العالمي. ويصوّر حالة التوتر والقلق في خضم هذه الأحداث العنيفة؛ «عشت بين النار في أمريكا: نار الدراسة والخوف والمرض، نار الحنين، ونار الحب»، ويتساءل بصوتٍ مخنوقٍ عن حقيقة اختفاء بعض أصدقائه بعدما قرروا الهرب من نار جحيم الأزمة على حد قوله «الأصدقاء يهربون من جحيم الأزمة إلى دولٍ أخرى، واحد منهم اختفى، بحثنا عنه، أفكارنا دارت حول مقتله انتقامًا من 11 سبتمبر هل قتلوه؟». يحكي الفالح عن تجربة خضوعه للتحقيق من قبل المخابرات الأمريكية لأكثر من عشر مراتٍ بعد وقوع الحادث، وحقائق التهديد الذي وجه له! يكشف أيضًا سبب احتجاز مجموعة من السعوديين لأكثر من ثمان ساعاتٍ على الحدود المكسيكية، وقصة سجن أب سعودي من دون الاعتبار لأطفاله الذين تركوا لوحدهم. قصص مثيرة وغامضة تنشر للمرة الأولى، تكشف جزءًا مما واجهه العرب والمسلمون جراء هذه الأحداث الشهيرة. يخضع الكتاب لعدة تصنيفات، مثل أدب الرحلات والمذكرات والرواية الواقعية؛ حيث تتسع جغرافيا الأحداث في الكتاب لأكثر من دولة، وتتعدد شخصياته، وتتشابك أحداثه الواقعية، التي تذهب وتعود للإشارة لأحد أهم الأحداث العالمية في العصر الحالي. استمع الآن. ']]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arabic-klam-fady-by-rhab-hany--65185836https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - كلام فاضي Author: رحاب هاني Narrator: رحاب هاني Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 51 minutes Release date: May 19, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'اتعلمت ان ربنا ليه حكمه فى أى حاجة تحصلك سواء كانت كويسة او وحشة... وإن مهما كان ضيقك دلوقتى من الحاجة دى؛ انت بعدين قدام هتعرف إنها حصلت لسبب ما والسبب ده هو اللى خلاك دلوقتى أحسن، خلاك كويس، خلاك أقوى ... أشجع ... أقدر إنك تواجه الدنيا بقلب جامد. كتاب ''كلام فاضى'' هو كتاب يعرض المواقف الحياتية بطريقة ساخرة كوميدية، وينقسم إلى ثلاثة أقسام مع وجود أجزاء فرعية داخل كل قسم منهم. ويتميز الكتاب بأسلوب الأدب الساخر، ويعبرعن كثير من المواقف التي يتعرض لها الأشخاص مع تغير بعض الظروف المحيطة.']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573863Wed, 19 May 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - كلام فاضي Author: رحاب هاني Narrator: رحاب هاني Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 51 minutes Release date: May 19, 2021 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573863 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - كلام فاضي Author: رحاب هاني Narrator: رحاب هاني Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 51 minutes Release date: May 19, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'اتعلمت ان ربنا ليه حكمه فى أى حاجة تحصلك سواء كانت كويسة او وحشة... وإن مهما كان ضيقك دلوقتى من الحاجة دى؛ انت بعدين قدام هتعرف إنها حصلت لسبب ما والسبب ده هو اللى خلاك دلوقتى أحسن، خلاك كويس، خلاك أقوى ... أشجع ... أقدر إنك تواجه الدنيا بقلب جامد. كتاب ''كلام فاضى'' هو كتاب يعرض المواقف الحياتية بطريقة ساخرة كوميدية، وينقسم إلى ثلاثة أقسام مع وجود أجزاء فرعية داخل كل قسم منهم. ويتميز الكتاب بأسلوب الأدب الساخر، ويعبرعن كثير من المواقف التي يتعرض لها الأشخاص مع تغير بعض الظروف المحيطة.']]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arabic-alghta-walhlt-by-rhab-hany--65185808https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - الغطا والحلة Author: رحاب هاني Narrator: رحاب هاني Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 19 minutes Release date: May 19, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'قد تتساءل، يعنى ينفع بعد العمر ده كله أجيب كتاب اسمه '' الغطا و الحلة ''؟ طبعا سؤال محترم ويحتر .. لكن فكر فيها كده بعيد عن مشاعرك الشخصية تجاه الغطا والحلة، هتلاقى ان علاقتك انت وصاحبك زى علاقة الغطا بالحلة ، ازاى بيفهمك من نظرة ؟ ازاى أنت بتحب الزبيب فى الرز أبو خلطة وهو بيحب البندق. العلاقة التكاملية المدهشة بين الزبيب والبندق، علاقتك بالشخص اللى انت مرتبط بيه - بتحبه - زى الغطا والحلة - لو مش مرتبط أسفة انى فكرتك بس أحسن بناقص لان الحلال اجمل سأنتظر عادى جدا! علاقتك بحاجات كتير فى حياتك عاملة بالظبط زى ''الغطا والحلة. كل شخص محتاج غطا لحلته أو حلة لغطاه ..- حسب انت عايز تكون ايه فى التشبيه ده -! وعشان كده اعتقد انه شئ صحى جدا يبقى فى مكتبتك كتاب اسمه ''الغطا والحلة''']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573864Wed, 19 May 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - الغطا والحلة Author: رحاب هاني Narrator: رحاب هاني Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 19 minutes Release date: May 19, 2021 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573864 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - الغطا والحلة Author: رحاب هاني Narrator: رحاب هاني Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 19 minutes Release date: May 19, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'قد تتساءل، يعنى ينفع بعد العمر ده كله أجيب كتاب اسمه '' الغطا و الحلة ''؟ طبعا سؤال محترم ويحتر .. لكن فكر فيها كده بعيد عن مشاعرك الشخصية تجاه الغطا والحلة، هتلاقى ان علاقتك انت وصاحبك زى علاقة الغطا بالحلة ، ازاى بيفهمك من نظرة ؟ ازاى أنت بتحب الزبيب فى الرز أبو خلطة وهو بيحب البندق. العلاقة التكاملية المدهشة بين الزبيب والبندق، علاقتك بالشخص اللى انت مرتبط بيه - بتحبه - زى الغطا والحلة - لو مش مرتبط أسفة انى فكرتك بس أحسن بناقص لان الحلال اجمل سأنتظر عادى جدا! علاقتك بحاجات كتير فى حياتك عاملة بالظبط زى ''الغطا والحلة. كل شخص محتاج غطا لحلته أو حلة لغطاه ..- حسب انت عايز تكون ايه فى التشبيه ده -! وعشان كده اعتقد انه شئ صحى جدا يبقى فى مكتبتك كتاب اسمه ''الغطا والحلة''']]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arabic-msar-alazrq-alhzyn-by-la-khald--65185800https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571972 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - مسار الأزرق الحزين Author: علاء خالد Narrator: محمود ربيعي Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 19, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: عندما دخل علاء خالد المستشفى لإجراء عملية جراحية بسيطة، لم يكن يتوقع أنه سيتعرض لتجربة مرض صعبة وخطيرة. فقد ساءت حالته الصحية فجأة بسبب خطأ طبي، وخضع لعملية ثانية وأُدخل قسم العناية المركزة وهو بين الحياة والموت. يبوح لنا أحد أهم شعرائنا المعاصرين بما راوده من أفكار ومخاوف وأحاسيس، في نص استثنائي وخاص جدًّا يعيد النظر في عديد من المسائل، من فقدان الخصوصية، والصراع مع الموت، إلى الحب والحياة ومكان الإنسان في الكون.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571972Wed, 19 May 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571972 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - مسار الأزرق الحزين Author: علاء خالد Narrator: محمود ربيعي Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 19,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571972 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - مسار الأزرق الحزين Author: علاء خالد Narrator: محمود ربيعي Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 19, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: عندما دخل علاء خالد المستشفى لإجراء عملية جراحية بسيطة، لم يكن يتوقع أنه سيتعرض لتجربة مرض صعبة وخطيرة. فقد ساءت حالته الصحية فجأة بسبب خطأ طبي، وخضع لعملية ثانية وأُدخل قسم العناية المركزة وهو بين الحياة والموت. يبوح لنا أحد أهم شعرائنا المعاصرين بما راوده من أفكار ومخاوف وأحاسيس، في نص استثنائي وخاص جدًّا يعيد النظر في عديد من المسائل، من فقدان الخصوصية، والصراع مع الموت، إلى الحب والحياة ومكان الإنسان في الكون.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-beautiful-things-meine-wahre-geschichte-by-hunter-biden--65185783https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Beautiful Things - Meine wahre Geschichte Author: Hunter Biden Narrator: Matthias Hinz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 6, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hunter Biden, der Sohn des US-Präsidenten, enthüllt die Wahrheit über sein Leben: Er erzählt von der bedingungslosen Liebe zwischen zwei Brüdern, die ein viel zu früher Tod trennte; von seinem Sturz in eine Hölle aus Drogen und Alkohol – und von der rettenden Kraft einer Liebe in letzter Sekunde.Beautiful Things ist der radikal ehrliche Bericht eines Mannes aus höchsten Kreisen, der immer tiefer in die Fänge seiner eigenen Dämonen gerät. Ungeschönt und schonungslos gegenüber sich selbst erzählt Hunter Biden von seinem Leben am Abgrund, während sein Vater aufbricht, Präsident der USA zu werden. Hunter Bidens Buch ist das bestürzende Dokument seiner unentrinnbaren Sucht, eine unvergessliche Liebeserklärung an seinen verstorbenen Bruder und eine Feier der Hoffnung, dass es auch dann noch Rettung gibt, wenn alles verloren scheint.'Dieses Buch ist derart zwingend, unerschrocken und packend, dass ich beim Lesen von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite völlig erstarrt bin – wenn man davon absieht, dass mir immer wieder der Unterkiefer runtergeklappt ist.' - Stephen King-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579247Thu, 06 May 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Beautiful Things - Meine wahre Geschichte Author: Hunter Biden Narrator: Matthias Hinz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Beautiful Things - Meine wahre Geschichte Author: Hunter Biden Narrator: Matthias Hinz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 6, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Hunter Biden, der Sohn des US-Präsidenten, enthüllt die Wahrheit über sein Leben: Er erzählt von der bedingungslosen Liebe zwischen zwei Brüdern, die ein viel zu früher Tod trennte; von seinem Sturz in eine Hölle aus Drogen und Alkohol – und von der rettenden Kraft einer Liebe in letzter Sekunde.Beautiful Things ist der radikal ehrliche Bericht eines Mannes aus höchsten Kreisen, der immer tiefer in die Fänge seiner eigenen Dämonen gerät. Ungeschönt und schonungslos gegenüber sich selbst erzählt Hunter Biden von seinem Leben am Abgrund, während sein Vater aufbricht, Präsident der USA zu werden. Hunter Bidens Buch ist das bestürzende Dokument seiner unentrinnbaren Sucht, eine unvergessliche Liebeserklärung an seinen verstorbenen Bruder und eine Feier der Hoffnung, dass es auch dann noch Rettung gibt, wenn alles verloren scheint.'Dieses Buch ist derart zwingend, unerschrocken und packend, dass ich beim Lesen von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite völlig erstarrt bin – wenn man davon absieht, dass mir immer wieder der Unterkiefer runtergeklappt ist.' - Stephen King-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arabic-wldn-by-dyfyd-hnry-thwrw--65185837https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - ولدن Author: ديفيد هنري ثورو Narrator: كريم مسعد Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 5, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: صدر حديثا عن دار العين للنشر كتاب 'ولدن' تأليف ديفيد هنرى ثورو، وترجمة هالة صلاح الدين، ويتناول الكتاب رؤية فلسفية عن كيف يقضى الإنسان حياته ما بين الواقع والحلم. ويقول ديفيد هنرى، في كتابه: 'إلى متى سنجلس في أروقتنا المُعَمَّدة، نمارس فضائل بالية عديمة الجدوى، أي عمل سيجعل لا صلة لها بالموضوع المتناول؟ وكأن المرء سيستهل يومه بالصبر على احتمال الأذى ويوظف رجلًا لعزق بطاطسه، وفي الظهيرة يذهب لممارسة الحِلْم والإحسان المسيحيين على حين ينتوي تعمد الخير! تفكَّر في الفخر الصيني ورضا البشرية الراكد عن ذاتها، يتكئ هذا الجيل قليلًا ليهنئ نفسه على أنه آخر سلالة شهيرة، وفي بوسطن ولندن وباريس وروما يفكر في نَسَبه المديد، ويتحدث عن تطوره في الفن والعلم والأدب بلهجة متقدة الحماسة. هناك 'سجلات المجتمعات الفلسفية' والمديح العام لرجال عظماء، آدم الطيب يتأمل فضيلته، 'أجل، لقد أنجزنا مآثر عظيمة، وغنينا أغانٍ في منتهى الروعة، لن تموت قط طالما يسعنا تذكرها. المجتمعات المثقفة ورجال آشورية العظماء أين هم؟ أي فلاسفة وتجريبيين شبان نحن! لا يوجد واحد من قرائي عاش حياة إنسانية كاملة بعد، علها ليست إلا شهور الربيع في حياة الجنس البشري. لو أصابتنا حكة السنة السابعة، فنحن لم نر جراد السنة السابعة عشرة بعد في كونكورد، لسنا مطلعين إلا على غشاء الكون الرقيق الذي نعيش عليه، لم ينقب أغلب الناس ست أقدام أسفل السطح، ولا قفزوا ست أقدام عليه، نجهل موقعنا، بالإضافة إلى أننا نغط في النوم نصف حياتنا تقريبًا، ومع ذلك نعتبر أنفسنا حكماء، ولدينا نظام راسخ على السطح، إننا حقًا مفكرون عميقون إننا أرواح طموح!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572235Mon, 05 Apr 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - ولدن Author: ديفيد هنري ثورو Narrator: كريم مسعد Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 5, 2021...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572235 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - ولدن Author: ديفيد هنري ثورو Narrator: كريم مسعد Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 5, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: صدر حديثا عن دار العين للنشر كتاب 'ولدن' تأليف ديفيد هنرى ثورو، وترجمة هالة صلاح الدين، ويتناول الكتاب رؤية فلسفية عن كيف يقضى الإنسان حياته ما بين الواقع والحلم. ويقول ديفيد هنرى، في كتابه: 'إلى متى سنجلس في أروقتنا المُعَمَّدة، نمارس فضائل بالية عديمة الجدوى، أي عمل سيجعل لا صلة لها بالموضوع المتناول؟ وكأن المرء سيستهل يومه بالصبر على احتمال الأذى ويوظف رجلًا لعزق بطاطسه، وفي الظهيرة يذهب لممارسة الحِلْم والإحسان المسيحيين على حين ينتوي تعمد الخير! تفكَّر في الفخر الصيني ورضا البشرية الراكد عن ذاتها، يتكئ هذا الجيل قليلًا ليهنئ نفسه على أنه آخر سلالة شهيرة، وفي بوسطن ولندن وباريس وروما يفكر في نَسَبه المديد، ويتحدث عن تطوره في الفن والعلم والأدب بلهجة متقدة الحماسة. هناك 'سجلات المجتمعات الفلسفية' والمديح العام لرجال عظماء، آدم الطيب يتأمل فضيلته، 'أجل، لقد أنجزنا مآثر عظيمة، وغنينا أغانٍ في منتهى الروعة، لن تموت قط طالما يسعنا تذكرها. المجتمعات المثقفة ورجال آشورية العظماء أين هم؟ أي فلاسفة وتجريبيين شبان نحن! لا يوجد واحد من قرائي عاش حياة إنسانية كاملة بعد، علها ليست إلا شهور الربيع في حياة الجنس البشري. لو أصابتنا حكة السنة السابعة، فنحن لم نر جراد السنة السابعة عشرة بعد في كونكورد، لسنا مطلعين إلا على غشاء الكون الرقيق الذي نعيش عليه، لم ينقب أغلب الناس ست أقدام أسفل السطح، ولا قفزوا ست أقدام عليه، نجهل موقعنا، بالإضافة إلى أننا نغط في النوم نصف حياتنا تقريبًا، ومع ذلك نعتبر أنفسنا حكماء، ولدينا نظام راسخ على السطح، إننا حقًا مفكرون عميقون إننا أرواح طموح!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arabic-fy-albrary-by-shyryl-strayd--65185798https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - في البراري Author: شيريل سترايد Narrator: سناء شومر Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 5, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: نقطة تحول غيّرت حياة شيريل بشكل جذري؛ وفاة أمها بعد فترة قصيرة من إصابتها بمرض عضال. لقد عاشت شيريل طفولة قاسية، إلا أنها لم تؤهلها لمواجهة صدمة فراق غير متوقعة، فقد كانت أمها كل شيء في حياتها. بعد وفاة والدتها، عكست شيريل كل القيم التي تتمسك بها؛ فكان الفراق مع زوجها ورفيق دربها، وانقلبت المرأة الصالحة العطوف إلى النقيض، فقد طوت صفحة العائلة هاجرة أخاها وأختها وزوج أمها الذي اعتنى بهم منذ الصغر كما لو أنهم أولاده، فتفككت العائلة، وذهب كل منهم في دربه. وكانت النتيجة حياة من الضياع، إلى أن رأت ذات يوم في أحد المتاجر كتاباً على أحد الرفوف يحمل عنوان 'طريق جبال المحيط الهادي' ؛ فقررت سلوك ذلك الدرب بمفردها. وخلال رحلتها، تعرفت شيريل على الكثير من الأشخاص الذين كانوا يخوضون التجربة نفسها، وتمكنت من تخطي الصعوبات وبلوغ مقصدها بعزم وإرادة لا تلين. ومع تقدمها على ذلك الدرب، تعرفت على نفسها أكثر، وتخلصت من مخاوفها وآلامها. هذا الكتاب رحلة على دروب الجبال تتوازى مع رحلة مصالحة مع النفس المتألمة. من أجواء الرواية نقرأ: '... كنت وحيدة وحافية القدمين في السادسة والعشرين من العمر ويتيمة أيضاً... مشردة... كان أبي قد غادر حياتي حين كنت في السادسة من العمر، وتوفيت أمي حين كنت في الثانية والعشرين، وبعد وفاتها تحول زوج أمي من الشخص الذي كنت اعتبره أبي إلى رجل بالكاد أعرفه، في حين تاه أخواي في حزنهما – على الرغم من جهودي لكي نبقى مع بعضنا – حتى استسلمت ورحلت أيضاً. خلال السنوات الماضية، رميت حذائي من جرف جبلي، وكدت أرمي بنفسي أيضاً. فقد طفتُ وجلتُ ومشيتُ من مينيسوتا إلى نيويورك إلى أوريغون وعبر الغرب حتى وجدت نفسي في النهاية حافية القدمين في صيف عام 1995 ولا تربطني بالعالم روابط قوية. لقد كان عالماً لم أدخله قط، لكنني كنت هناك طوال الوقت؛ حيث ترنحت بأسف وارتباك وخوف وأمل... إنه عالم ظننت أنه سيجعلني المرأة التي كنت أعلم عرضه قدمان وطوله 2663 ميلاً. عالم يدعى طريق جبال المحيط الهادي...']]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573882Mon, 05 Apr 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - في البراري Author: شيريل سترايد Narrator: سناء شومر Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 5, 2021...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - في البراري Author: شيريل سترايد Narrator: سناء شومر Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 23 minutes Release date: April 5, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: نقطة تحول غيّرت حياة شيريل بشكل جذري؛ وفاة أمها بعد فترة قصيرة من إصابتها بمرض عضال. لقد عاشت شيريل طفولة قاسية، إلا أنها لم تؤهلها لمواجهة صدمة فراق غير متوقعة، فقد كانت أمها كل شيء في حياتها. بعد وفاة والدتها، عكست شيريل كل القيم التي تتمسك بها؛ فكان الفراق مع زوجها ورفيق دربها، وانقلبت المرأة الصالحة العطوف إلى النقيض، فقد طوت صفحة العائلة هاجرة أخاها وأختها وزوج أمها الذي اعتنى بهم منذ الصغر كما لو أنهم أولاده، فتفككت العائلة، وذهب كل منهم في دربه. وكانت النتيجة حياة من الضياع، إلى أن رأت ذات يوم في أحد المتاجر كتاباً على أحد الرفوف يحمل عنوان 'طريق جبال المحيط الهادي' ؛ فقررت سلوك ذلك الدرب بمفردها. وخلال رحلتها، تعرفت شيريل على الكثير من الأشخاص الذين كانوا يخوضون التجربة نفسها، وتمكنت من تخطي الصعوبات وبلوغ مقصدها بعزم وإرادة لا تلين. ومع تقدمها على ذلك الدرب، تعرفت على نفسها أكثر، وتخلصت من مخاوفها وآلامها. هذا الكتاب رحلة على دروب الجبال تتوازى مع رحلة مصالحة مع النفس المتألمة. من أجواء الرواية نقرأ: '... كنت وحيدة وحافية القدمين في السادسة والعشرين من العمر ويتيمة أيضاً... مشردة... كان أبي قد غادر حياتي حين كنت في السادسة من العمر، وتوفيت أمي حين كنت في الثانية والعشرين، وبعد وفاتها تحول زوج أمي من الشخص الذي كنت اعتبره أبي إلى رجل بالكاد أعرفه، في حين تاه أخواي في حزنهما – على الرغم من جهودي لكي نبقى مع بعضنا – حتى استسلمت ورحلت أيضاً. خلال السنوات الماضية، رميت حذائي من جرف جبلي، وكدت أرمي بنفسي أيضاً. فقد طفتُ وجلتُ ومشيتُ من مينيسوتا إلى نيويورك إلى أوريغون وعبر الغرب حتى وجدت نفسي في النهاية حافية القدمين في صيف عام 1995 ولا تربطني بالعالم روابط قوية. لقد كان عالماً لم أدخله قط، لكنني كنت هناك طوال الوقت؛ حيث ترنحت بأسف وارتباك وخوف وأمل... إنه عالم ظننت أنه سيجعلني المرأة التي كنت أعلم عرضه قدمان وطوله 2663 ميلاً. عالم يدعى طريق جبال المحيط الهادي...']]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arabic-jwaz-sfr-mst-ml-jda-a-by-wdyan-smhan-aln-ymy--65185822https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - جواز سفر مستعمل جدًا Author: وديان سمحان النعيمي Narrator: صفا زياني Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: اسمي في الجواز وديان ارتبط بي وبعائلتي السفر حتى قبل أن أولد فعمل أبي مبني عليه ومسماه الوظيفي مرتبط به أحببت أن أزيد أفراد عائلتي بضمكم إليها سآخذكم معي في رحلات بين شرق الكرة الأرضية وغربها]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572066Thu, 01 Apr 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - جواز سفر مستعمل جدًا Author: وديان سمحان النعيمي Narrator: صفا زياني Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 54 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572066 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - جواز سفر مستعمل جدًا Author: وديان سمحان النعيمي Narrator: صفا زياني Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: اسمي في الجواز وديان ارتبط بي وبعائلتي السفر حتى قبل أن أولد فعمل أبي مبني عليه ومسماه الوظيفي مرتبط به أحببت أن أزيد أفراد عائلتي بضمكم إليها سآخذكم معي في رحلات بين شرق الكرة الأرضية وغربها]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-m-in-seattle-where-are-you-a-memoir-by-mortada-gzar--65185720https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580912 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?: A Memoir Author: Mortada Gzar Narrator: Haaz Sleiman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize. An award-winning Iraqi writer creates a new world for himself in Seattle in search of lost love. As the US occupation of Iraq rages, novelist Mortada Gzar, a student at the University of Baghdad, has a chance encounter with Morise, an African American soldier. It’s love at first sight, a threat to them both, and a moment of self-discovery. Challenged by society’s rejection and Morise’s return to the US, Mortada takes to the page to understand himself. In his deeply affecting memoir, Mortada interweaves tales of his childhood work as a scrap-metal collector in a war zone and the indignities faced by openly gay artists in Iraq with his impossible love story and journey to the US. Marginalized by his own society, he is surprised to discover the racism he finds in a new one. At its heart, I’m in Seattle, Where Are You? is a moving tale of love and resilience.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580912Thu, 01 Apr 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580912 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?: A Memoir Author: Mortada Gzar Narrator: Haaz Sleiman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580912 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I'm in Seattle, Where Are You?: A Memoir Author: Mortada Gzar Narrator: Haaz Sleiman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize. An award-winning Iraqi writer creates a new world for himself in Seattle in search of lost love. As the US occupation of Iraq rages, novelist Mortada Gzar, a student at the University of Baghdad, has a chance encounter with Morise, an African American soldier. It’s love at first sight, a threat to them both, and a moment of self-discovery. Challenged by society’s rejection and Morise’s return to the US, Mortada takes to the page to understand himself. In his deeply affecting memoir, Mortada interweaves tales of his childhood work as a scrap-metal collector in a war zone and the indignities faced by openly gay artists in Iraq with his impossible love story and journey to the US. Marginalized by his own society, he is surprised to discover the racism he finds in a new one. At its heart, I’m in Seattle, Where Are You? is a moving tale of love and resilience.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arabic-qst-snghafwrt-mdhkrat-ly-kwan-yw-by-ly-kwan-yw--65185851https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - قصة سنغافورة - مذكرات لي كوان يو Author: لي كوان يو Narrator: محمد العبار Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: عند استقلال سنغافورة، كانت عائدات القاعدة العسكرية البريطانية تمثل ثلاثة أرباع دخلها القومي، مما عزز بعض التشاؤم حول قدرة الدولة الصغيرة على النمو بمفردها. لكن الجزيرة المعزولة جغرافيا عن أسواق الدول المتقدمة، حققت اكبر معجزة اقتصادية خلال العقود الخمسة الماضية، حيث يفوق معدل دخل الفرد 23 ألف دولار، أي قرابة ضعف معدل الدخل بكوريا الجنوبية. و تحققت المعجزة في ظل حكم الزعيم الواحد 'لي كوان يو' باني النهضة السنغافورية الحديثة، الذي حكم البلد على مدى 31 سنة، وفي ظل نظام الحزب الواحد (حزب العمل الشعبي) الذي هيمن على البرلمان في انتخابات 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984. 1988. ثم وبعد 14 سنة من تولي 'جوه شوك تونج' الوزارة الأولى تم تعيين ابن الزعيم التاريخي 'لي كوان يو' السيد 'لي هسيان لونج' على راس الحكومة، السؤال المطروح إذن كيف استطاعت سنغافورة تحقيق كل هذه الإنجازات في ظل حكم غير ديمقراطي؟ ولماذا لم يحل اعتمادها النظام 'الجملكي' مؤخرا دون المزيد من التقدم؟]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572281Tue, 30 Mar 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - قصة سنغافورة - مذكرات لي كوان يو Author: لي كوان يو Narrator: محمد العبار Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 56 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - قصة سنغافورة - مذكرات لي كوان يو Author: لي كوان يو Narrator: محمد العبار Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 30, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: عند استقلال سنغافورة، كانت عائدات القاعدة العسكرية البريطانية تمثل ثلاثة أرباع دخلها القومي، مما عزز بعض التشاؤم حول قدرة الدولة الصغيرة على النمو بمفردها. لكن الجزيرة المعزولة جغرافيا عن أسواق الدول المتقدمة، حققت اكبر معجزة اقتصادية خلال العقود الخمسة الماضية، حيث يفوق معدل دخل الفرد 23 ألف دولار، أي قرابة ضعف معدل الدخل بكوريا الجنوبية. و تحققت المعجزة في ظل حكم الزعيم الواحد 'لي كوان يو' باني النهضة السنغافورية الحديثة، الذي حكم البلد على مدى 31 سنة، وفي ظل نظام الحزب الواحد (حزب العمل الشعبي) الذي هيمن على البرلمان في انتخابات 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984. 1988. ثم وبعد 14 سنة من تولي 'جوه شوك تونج' الوزارة الأولى تم تعيين ابن الزعيم التاريخي 'لي كوان يو' السيد 'لي هسيان لونج' على راس الحكومة، السؤال المطروح إذن كيف استطاعت سنغافورة تحقيق كل هذه الإنجازات في ظل حكم غير ديمقراطي؟ ولماذا لم يحل اعتمادها النظام 'الجملكي' مؤخرا دون المزيد من التقدم؟]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/minor-characters-a-beat-memoir-by-joyce-johnson--65185772https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir Author: Joyce Johnson Narrator: Samara Naeymi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Named one of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years by The New York Times Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award “Among the great American literary memoirs of the past century . . . a riveting portrait of an era . . . Johnson captures this period with deep clarity and moving insight.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times In 1954, Joyce Johnson’s Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were not at all unusual at a time when “good” women didn’t leave home or have sex before they married; even those who broke the rules could merely expect to be minor characters in the dramas played by men. But secret rebels, like Joyce and her classmate Elise Cowen, refused to accept things as they were. As a teenager, Johnson stole down to Greenwich Village to sing folksongs in Washington Square. She was 21 and had started her first novel when Allen Ginsberg introduced her to Jack Kerouac; nine months later she was with Kerouac when the publication of On the Road made him famous overnight. Joyce had longed to go on the road with him; instead she got a front seat at a cultural revolution under attack from all sides; made new friends like Hettie and LeRoi Jones, and found herself fighting to keep the shy, charismatic, tormented Kerouac from destroying himself. It was a woman’s adventure and a fast education in life. What Johnson and other Beat Generation women would discover were the risks, the heartache and the heady excitement of trying to live as freely as the rebels they loved.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576489Tue, 16 Mar 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir Author: Joyce Johnson Narrator: Samara Naeymi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576489 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir Author: Joyce Johnson Narrator: Samara Naeymi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Named one of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years by The New York Times Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award “Among the great American literary memoirs of the past century . . . a riveting portrait of an era . . . Johnson captures this period with deep clarity and moving insight.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times In 1954, Joyce Johnson’s Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were not at all unusual at a time when “good” women didn’t leave home or have sex before they married; even those who broke the rules could merely expect to be minor characters in the dramas played by men. But secret rebels, like Joyce and her classmate Elise Cowen, refused to accept things as they were. As a teenager, Johnson stole down to Greenwich Village to sing folksongs in Washington Square. She was 21 and had started her first novel when Allen Ginsberg introduced her to Jack Kerouac; nine months later she was with Kerouac when the publication of On the Road made him famous overnight. Joyce had longed to go on the road with him; instead she got a front seat at a cultural revolution under attack from all sides; made new friends like Hettie and LeRoi Jones, and found herself fighting to keep the shy, charismatic, tormented Kerouac from destroying himself. It was a woman’s adventure and a fast education in life. What Johnson and other Beat Generation women would discover were the risks, the heartache and the heady excitement of trying to live as freely as the rebels they loved.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arabic-hkayty-shrh-ytwl-by-hnan-alshykh--65185854https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - حكايتي شرح يطول Author: حنان الشيخ Narrator: فاطمة جيرودية Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 14, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ها هي حكايتي كتبتها لي ابنتي حنان... حتى إذا رويتها لها توقفت عن لوم نفسي. كنا نجلس معاً من غير آلة تسجيل تخط في دفاترها الصغيرة التي تشبه المفكرات التي ألصقت عليها الصور: ومنها صورتي وأنا أتسلم كأساً فضية عندما توجت إحدى بناتي ملكة الرقص، لأهرع إلى أحدهم في لجنة الحكم طالبة إليه أن يتظاهر بتقديم الكأس لي. ومنها أيضاً صورة امرأة عارية الصدر، وصورة نساء فوق دراجة ملتفات بالعباءات السوداء، يقودها شاب. كنت أستهل حديثنا قائلة: 'حكايتي شرح يطول، لوما الجرادة ما علق عصفور'. ولم تسألني حنان قط ما معنى هذه الكلمة إذ أيقنت أن عصفوراً لحق بجرادة، لذلك وقع في الفخ. ما إن أصابني المرض حتى توقفت حنان عن كتابة حكايتي، خبأت كل الأوراق في كيس، وأخفته في ما في إحدى خزائنها، ثم تعود إلى أوراقي وتكمل حكايتي بعد مرور عامين من وفاتي. تخبر حنان أعز صديقاتها عن عنوان الكتاب، فتستغرب لأنها لم تسألني قط ما تعني هذه الكلمة. فتقص صديقاتها القصة مبتدئة: 'حكايا بكايا، شرح يطول، لو ما جرادة ما علق عصفور'، عن ملك كان يتمشى في البساتين عندما دخلت جرادة بكم ثوبه الفضفاض، وإذا بعصفور يلحق بها داخل الكم، يخيط الملك الفتحة ويجلس على العرش سائلاً رعيته: 'ماذا في كمي؟'. ولم يعرف أحد ما في كم الملك، إلى أن وقف بين يدي الملك رجل يدعى عصفور، كان قد تلوع من حب امرأة اسمها جرادة، ولم يكن على باله إلا صورة حبيبته، فاستهل حديثه قائلاً: 'حكايا بكايا، شرح يطول، لو ما جرادة ما علق عصفور'. تكمل 'حنان الشيخ' في حكايتي شرح يطول مسيرتها الأدبية الشاهدة، المحرضة والكاشفة لمجتمعنا. تدخل كالأشعة السينية في ظلام أنفسنا وتقاليدنا وحقيقتنا المرة بكل إصرار ومثابرة، غير مبالية إن كان هذا البوح -الذي لا مكان له سوى الصدق- سيسبب الحرج والاستنكار. حكايتي شرح يطول هو سيرة حياة أمها (كاملة) الذي قرر الجرذ مصيرها. تجبر على الزواج والإنجاب وهي ما تزال تحلم بالحلوى وأساور الشمع الملونة. ومنذ ذاك الحين وهي تتأرجح بين أمواج الحياة، تعلو مع الموجة السعيدة وتهبط مع الموجة المؤلمة، فيصبح عالمها أكثر غرابة من عوالم القصص والروايات. تؤكد حنان الشيخ من جديد موهبتها في القص المميز ورصد الأحداث بكل زخم وشفافية، محولة بذلك أمها إلى بطلة من بطلات رواياتها. حكايتي شرح يطول احتفال بالحياة وبالموت، وشرح للنفس ولطبيعتها.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572204Sun, 14 Mar 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - حكايتي شرح يطول Author: حنان الشيخ Narrator: فاطمة جيرودية Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 14,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Arabic] - حكايتي شرح يطول Author: حنان الشيخ Narrator: فاطمة جيرودية Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 46 minutes Release date: March 14, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: ها هي حكايتي كتبتها لي ابنتي حنان... حتى إذا رويتها لها توقفت عن لوم نفسي. كنا نجلس معاً من غير آلة تسجيل تخط في دفاترها الصغيرة التي تشبه المفكرات التي ألصقت عليها الصور: ومنها صورتي وأنا أتسلم كأساً فضية عندما توجت إحدى بناتي ملكة الرقص، لأهرع إلى أحدهم في لجنة الحكم طالبة إليه أن يتظاهر بتقديم الكأس لي. ومنها أيضاً صورة امرأة عارية الصدر، وصورة نساء فوق دراجة ملتفات بالعباءات السوداء، يقودها شاب. كنت أستهل حديثنا قائلة: 'حكايتي شرح يطول، لوما الجرادة ما علق عصفور'. ولم تسألني حنان قط ما معنى هذه الكلمة إذ أيقنت أن عصفوراً لحق بجرادة، لذلك وقع في الفخ. ما إن أصابني المرض حتى توقفت حنان عن كتابة حكايتي، خبأت كل الأوراق في كيس، وأخفته في ما في إحدى خزائنها، ثم تعود إلى أوراقي وتكمل حكايتي بعد مرور عامين من وفاتي. تخبر حنان أعز صديقاتها عن عنوان الكتاب، فتستغرب لأنها لم تسألني قط ما تعني هذه الكلمة. فتقص صديقاتها القصة مبتدئة: 'حكايا بكايا، شرح يطول، لو ما جرادة ما علق عصفور'، عن ملك كان يتمشى في البساتين عندما دخلت جرادة بكم ثوبه الفضفاض، وإذا بعصفور يلحق بها داخل الكم، يخيط الملك الفتحة ويجلس على العرش سائلاً رعيته: 'ماذا في كمي؟'. ولم يعرف أحد ما في كم الملك، إلى أن وقف بين يدي الملك رجل يدعى عصفور، كان قد تلوع من حب امرأة اسمها جرادة، ولم يكن على باله إلا صورة حبيبته، فاستهل حديثه قائلاً: 'حكايا بكايا، شرح يطول، لو ما جرادة ما علق عصفور'. تكمل 'حنان الشيخ' في حكايتي شرح يطول مسيرتها الأدبية الشاهدة، المحرضة والكاشفة لمجتمعنا. تدخل كالأشعة السينية في ظلام أنفسنا وتقاليدنا وحقيقتنا المرة بكل إصرار ومثابرة، غير مبالية إن كان هذا البوح -الذي لا مكان له سوى الصدق- سيسبب الحرج والاستنكار. حكايتي شرح يطول هو سيرة حياة أمها (كاملة) الذي قرر الجرذ مصيرها. تجبر على الزواج والإنجاب وهي ما تزال تحلم بالحلوى وأساور الشمع الملونة. ومنذ ذاك الحين وهي تتأرجح بين أمواج الحياة، تعلو مع الموجة السعيدة وتهبط مع الموجة المؤلمة، فيصبح عالمها أكثر غرابة من عوالم القصص والروايات. تؤكد حنان الشيخ من جديد موهبتها في القص المميز ورصد الأحداث بكل زخم وشفافية، محولة بذلك أمها إلى بطلة من بطلات رواياتها. حكايتي شرح يطول احتفال بالحياة وبالموت، وشرح للنفس ولطبيعتها.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-psychopath-a-true-story-by-mary-turner-thomson--65185827https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576486 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Psychopath: A True Story Author: Mary Turner Thomson Narrator: Mary Turner Thomson, Leon Nixon, Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Now airing as the three-part documentary series The Other Mrs Jordan on ITVX. In 2006, Mary Turner Thomson’s world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man and convicted sex offender. Unbeknownst to her, this would be the start of a bold new chapter in her life, fighting to protect other women from his heartless gaslighting campaigns—and putting a stop to his endless deception. Mary thought her story would end with the revelation that Will in fact had several families—and numerous children. But when she discovered that he had continued to prey on new victims, she vowed to turn his betrayal into a force for good. On her mission to protect these women and others, Mary also learned more about the psychopathy behind Will’s duplicitous behaviour. Teaming up with his newest fiancée in the US, Mary attempts to put an end to Will’s devastating activities. But will she and her fellow victims succeed in their ultimate goal: to bring down Will Jordan forever? Mary Turner Thomson began telling her story in her first book, The Bigamist. Now, in The Psychopath, she delves deeper into Will's betrayal, telling an entirely new story of how she moved on, and helped others do the same.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576486Mon, 01 Mar 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576486 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Psychopath: A True Story Author: Mary Turner Thomson Narrator: Mary Turner Thomson, Leon Nixon, Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576486 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Psychopath: A True Story Author: Mary Turner Thomson Narrator: Mary Turner Thomson, Leon Nixon, Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Now airing as the three-part documentary series The Other Mrs Jordan on ITVX. In 2006, Mary Turner Thomson’s world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man and convicted sex offender. Unbeknownst to her, this would be the start of a bold new chapter in her life, fighting to protect other women from his heartless gaslighting campaigns—and putting a stop to his endless deception. Mary thought her story would end with the revelation that Will in fact had several families—and numerous children. But when she discovered that he had continued to prey on new victims, she vowed to turn his betrayal into a force for good. On her mission to protect these women and others, Mary also learned more about the psychopathy behind Will’s duplicitous behaviour. Teaming up with his newest fiancée in the US, Mary attempts to put an end to Will’s devastating activities. But will she and her fellow victims succeed in their ultimate goal: to bring down Will Jordan forever? Mary Turner Thomson began telling her story in her first book, The Bigamist. Now, in The Psychopath, she delves deeper into Will's betrayal, telling an entirely new story of how she moved on, and helped others do the same.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-boy-out-of-time-a-memoir-by-hari-ziyad--65185779https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir Author: Hari Ziyad Narrator: Desean Terry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America, reuniting with the past, and coming of age their own way. One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes readers on a powerful journey of growing up queer and Black in Cleveland, Ohio, and of navigating the equally complex path toward finding their true self in New York City. Exploring childhood, gender, race, and the trust that is built, broken, and repaired through generations, Ziyad investigates what it means to live beyond the limited narratives Black children are given and challenges the irreconcilable binaries that restrict them. Heartwarming and heart-wrenching, radical and reflective, Hari Ziyad’s vital memoir is for the outcast, the unheard, the unborn, and the dead. It offers us a new way to think about survival and the necessary disruption of social norms. It looks back in tenderness as well as justified rage, forces us to address where we are now, and, born out of hope, illuminates the possibilities for the future.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576498Mon, 01 Mar 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir Author: Hari Ziyad Narrator: Desean Terry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: March...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576498 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir Author: Hari Ziyad Narrator: Desean Terry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America, reuniting with the past, and coming of age their own way. One of nineteen children in a blended family, Hari Ziyad was raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father. Through reframing their own coming-of-age story, Ziyad takes readers on a powerful journey of growing up queer and Black in Cleveland, Ohio, and of navigating the equally complex path toward finding their true self in New York City. Exploring childhood, gender, race, and the trust that is built, broken, and repaired through generations, Ziyad investigates what it means to live beyond the limited narratives Black children are given and challenges the irreconcilable binaries that restrict them. Heartwarming and heart-wrenching, radical and reflective, Hari Ziyad’s vital memoir is for the outcast, the unheard, the unborn, and the dead. It offers us a new way to think about survival and the necessary disruption of social norms. It looks back in tenderness as well as justified rage, forces us to address where we are now, and, born out of hope, illuminates the possibilities for the future.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/widowish-a-memoir-by-melissa-gould--65185849https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Widowish: A Memoir Author: Melissa Gould Narrator: Rachel Botchan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Melissa Gould’s hopeful memoir of grieving outside the box and the surprising nature of love. When Melissa Gould’s husband, Joel, was unexpectedly hospitalized, she could not imagine how her life was about to change. Overwhelmed with uncertainty as Joel’s condition tragically worsened, she offered him the only thing she could: her love and devotion. Her dedication didn’t end with his death. Left to resume life without her beloved husband and raise their young daughter on her own, Melissa soon realized that her and Joel’s love lived on. Melissa found she didn’t fit the typical mold of widowhood or meet the expectations of mourning. She didn’t look like a widow or act like a widow, but she felt like one. Melissa was widowish. Melissa’s personal journey through grief and beyond includes unlikely inspiration from an evangelical preacher, the calming presence of some Real Housewives, and the unexpected attention of a charming musician. A modern take on loss, Widowish illuminates the twists of fate that break our world, the determination that keeps us moving forward, and the surprises in life we never see coming.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572923Mon, 01 Feb 2021 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Widowish: A Memoir Author: Melissa Gould Narrator: Rachel Botchan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Widowish: A Memoir Author: Melissa Gould Narrator: Rachel Botchan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 1, 2021 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Melissa Gould’s hopeful memoir of grieving outside the box and the surprising nature of love. When Melissa Gould’s husband, Joel, was unexpectedly hospitalized, she could not imagine how her life was about to change. Overwhelmed with uncertainty as Joel’s condition tragically worsened, she offered him the only thing she could: her love and devotion. Her dedication didn’t end with his death. Left to resume life without her beloved husband and raise their young daughter on her own, Melissa soon realized that her and Joel’s love lived on. Melissa found she didn’t fit the typical mold of widowhood or meet the expectations of mourning. She didn’t look like a widow or act like a widow, but she felt like one. Melissa was widowish. Melissa’s personal journey through grief and beyond includes unlikely inspiration from an evangelical preacher, the calming presence of some Real Housewives, and the unexpected attention of a charming musician. A modern take on loss, Widowish illuminates the twists of fate that break our world, the determination that keeps us moving forward, and the surprises in life we never see coming.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-das-jahr-ohne-worte-eine-wahre-liebesgeschichte-by-syd-atlas--65185707https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das Jahr ohne Worte - Eine wahre Liebesgeschichte Author: Syd Atlas Narrator: Hannah Baus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Fünf Jahreszeiten einer Liebe. Eine überwältigende Geschichte. Eine unglaubliche Geschichte. Und doch eine wahre Geschichte.Alles beginnt mit einer großen Liebe. 'Sowohl als auch' heißt das Café in Prenzlauer Berg, in dem Syd Theo kennenlernt. Theo ist Filmemacher, alleinstehend, charismatisch. Syd weiß sofort, dass es die Art von Liebe ist, die sie vermutlich nur einmal erleben wird. Die beiden bekommen ein Kind, ziehen zusammen, erleben großes Glück und überstehen kleine Krisen. Doch dann erhält Theo eine niederschmetternde Diagnose: ALS. Die Krankheit, an der auch Stephen Hawking litt. Von dem Mann, in den Syd sich einst verliebt hat, ist Tag für Tag weniger übrig. Und doch kämpft sie um ihn. Sie will das, was von ihrem Glück noch übrig ist, unbedingt bewahren. Bis sie eines Tages eine ungeheuerliche Entdeckung macht.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579560Tue, 15 Sep 2020 06:02:10 +0000Travon CollinsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das Jahr ohne Worte - Eine wahre Liebesgeschichte Author: Syd Atlas Narrator: Hannah Baus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das Jahr ohne Worte - Eine wahre Liebesgeschichte Author: Syd Atlas Narrator: Hannah Baus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 15, 2020 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Fünf Jahreszeiten einer Liebe. Eine überwältigende Geschichte. Eine unglaubliche Geschichte. Und doch eine wahre Geschichte.Alles beginnt mit einer großen Liebe. 'Sowohl als auch' heißt das Café in Prenzlauer Berg, in dem Syd Theo kennenlernt. Theo ist Filmemacher, alleinstehend, charismatisch. Syd weiß sofort, dass es die Art von Liebe ist, die sie vermutlich nur einmal erleben wird. Die beiden bekommen ein Kind, ziehen zusammen, erleben großes Glück und überstehen kleine Krisen. Doch dann erhält Theo eine niederschmetternde Diagnose: ALS. Die Krankheit, an der auch Stephen Hawking litt. Von dem Mann, in den Syd sich einst verliebt hat, ist Tag für Tag weniger übrig. Und doch kämpft sie um ihn. Sie will das, was von ihrem Glück noch übrig ist, unbedingt bewahren. Bis sie eines Tages eine ungeheuerliche Entdeckung macht.]]>305cleanfull